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in 1786 a sudden rash of robberies broke
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out in a city event the offender was no
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gun of the middle cat burglar
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[Music]
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William deacon Brodie was a legendary
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sociopath a remorseless liar living a
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secret life by night Brody was a
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compulsive gambler sex addict
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[Music]
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by day he was a gentleman a respectable
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citizen with wealth and power a hundred
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years later
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Brodie's double life inspired a young
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author with demons of his own in 1886
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Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a
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best-selling book
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a terrifying story of the power of
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addiction and the monsters that lurk
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within us all this is the true story of
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dr. Jekyll
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and mr. Hyde
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in 1886 robert louis stevenson's
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jekyll-and-hyde changed the face of
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horror
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the whole tradition of horror literature
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up till that time embodied the evil in
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an objective character a vampire a
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monster a creature but this was much
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much more sinister the evil was hidden
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inside someone
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Henry Jekyll a respected doctor concoct
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a potion to release his inner evil
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and becomes mr. Hyde a ruthless monster
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it appeared to be suggesting that if you
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remove all constraints inevitably evil
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will not only emerge but will be
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victorious that in a straight fight
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between good and evil evil will always
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win it is a book surrounded in mystery
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Jekyll and Hyde was penned by Robert
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Louis Stevenson charming author have
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beloved children's stories
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what could this mild-mannered man know
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about the power of evil
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since childhood he was obsessed at one
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of Scotland's most notorious Psychopaths
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William Brody
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1784 editor William Brody was heir to a
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family fortune and ran a lucrative
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business his firm fashioned everything
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from Edinburgh struggied prison gallows
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to the most delicate cabinetry the Brody
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was known to all as the Deakin admira's
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head tradesman and a powerful City
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politician Cody's life of prestige merit
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the character he inspired in the words
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of dr. Jekyll I was born to a large
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fortune fond of the respect of the wise
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and good and thus with every guarantee
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of a distinguished future
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the deacon had the social standing in
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dr. Jekyll but he had the appearance of
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mr. Hyde
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Brodie was a very very slender
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individual he's quite odd in appearance
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he had a scar across his nose he was
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very short in stature he was only five
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feet four although he just very very
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splendid he kind of looked someone like
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a chicken with his skinny legs and he
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would strut along on the streets and I'm
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sure behind his back if not to his face
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people would be mocking someone like
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that behind his public facade Brody's
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inner evil was screaming to get out
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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by night Brody disappeared into flesh
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markets clothes to indulge enough of
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bidden pleasure
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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their roadie rebel his dark side
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I suspect that he was probably that
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ridiculed by friends maybe criticized by
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parents who's to know but he had a sense
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of being less than and when he acted out
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gambling or with drinking that sense of
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inferiority have not been good enough I
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suspect disappeared form his gambling
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instincts was not for the gain of money
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because he had lots of money it was for
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the mere pleasure of discovering this
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other personality to find his real self
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the noise people shouting the violence
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blood bright colors all would be very
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powerful triggers to his brain to this
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rise in adrenaline that the junkie would
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be looking for like dr. Jekyll Brody had
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found a potion that made him brash and
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powerful
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[Music]
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during a fight adrenaline rushes into
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the blood stream leaving Brodie
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energized and ecstatic
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[Music]
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then euphoria as blood cells released
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serotonin a soothing neurotransmitter
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[Music]
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each night after the blood and booze at
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the cockfight
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Brody slipped into his upper class home
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through the back door of his workshop
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his secret comings and goings are echoed
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in the Boogie inspired in Jekyll and
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Hyde the house is actually divided into
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a rather beautiful front entrance where
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society dr. Jekyll goes in and a very
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shabby back entrance where Mr Hyde goes
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in and that's an outward and visible
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sign of the dark secret which is mr.
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Hyde which he hides from everybody
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[Music]
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nearly a hundred years later a cabinet
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built in Brody's workshop stood in the
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bedroom of seven-year-old Robert Louis
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Stevenson
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[Music]
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Simenson grew up in an upper room in
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Edinburgh which had a cupboard designed
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by William Brodie and he wove as a child
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all sorts of fantasies about the man
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that made this cabinet because there
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were all sorts of urban myths and
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legends about Deakin Brody
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Stevenson was intelligent and precocious
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born into a wealthy Victorian family but
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he was a sensitive and sickly child
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plagued by nightmares and lung disease
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he was raised by his nurse a god-fearing
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spinster Allison Cunningham known
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affectionately to all as [ __ ]
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[Music]
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she administered what became a lifelong
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regime of drugs to help young Stevenson
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[Music]
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but kami also attended to the boys
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spiritual health staunchly Calvinist she
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regaled him with stories about what
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happened to naughty little boys and
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petrified him as a small boy become II
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William Brody's life was a cautionary
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tale
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these stories nourished his tendency for
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feverish nightmares
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I suspect it's quite likely that Brody
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himself walked in Stevenson's dreams
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when he was a small boy Kamiya story is
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about the deacon
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planted the seeds of a dark obsession
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as a teenager
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the obsession grew in his first year of
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classes at the University of Edinburgh
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Stevenson set out to learn more about
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the life of Deakin Brody
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we've spent a great deal of this time
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attending of what we were these days
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described as the university of life on
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the doorstep of the university was this
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whole Edinburgh underworld which he was
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fascinated by because of all these
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stories that he grew up with dressed up
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like Brody in a velvet vest and a long
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tail coat Stevenson inched his way
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closer to creating dr. Jekyll and mr.
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Hyde
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at 17 he headed out on the town to live
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the life of deacon Brodie Stevenson was
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exploring the old haunts of deacon
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Brodie
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Illume that almost a century before the
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deacon came to these pumps to indulge in
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yet another vice
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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rody was a regular client of a Edinburgh
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brothels in a number of relationships to
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hear a continuing compulsion to act out
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this behavior and three he continued the
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behavior despite negative consequences
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personal and financial and east of the
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Cardinal diagnostic features of
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addiction he was a sex addict
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sexual activity changes the electrical
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circuitry deep in produce brain
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arousal causes the release of dopamine a
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neurotransmitter that helps electrical
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signals jump from one nerve cell to the
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next
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soon the brain is supercharged blood
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pressure spikes body temperature
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increases and nerve endings become more
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sensitive it's a sensation Brody chased
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the gain at the game
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besides haunting the old town brothels
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Brody kept three mistresses and fathered
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four illegitimate children Brody had
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multiple relationships none of whom knew
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boteler's and the secrets lies the
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sickness he must have had to keep secret
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the fact he was having a relationship
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with another woman from the moment he
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was worth right now and that again is
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classical of addictive behavior he was
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keeping secrets
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a century later in the very taverns
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Brody haunted Stevenson was keeping
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secrets of his owner he had what they
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called then bohemian way of life long
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hair long coats getting drunk a lot
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taking opium to help himself sleep at
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night and generally throwing off the
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shackles of his rather oppressive
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childhood roaming the dank wines of the
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old town Stevenson discovered that like
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the Deakin Edinboro had a split
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personality Robert Louis Stevenson grew
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up in a city that was in two halves
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there was the old town the medieval town
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when its recurrence and it spooky alleys
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and that's where the lower-class is
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lived and the other side of the tracks
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there was uptown where the middle
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classes lived the professional classes
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Stevenson's family but engineers clerics
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teachers lawyers he called it this city
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has two personalities
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Stevenson was haunted by the memory of
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deacon protein the one man daring enough
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to walk in both worlds I think one of
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the things that Stevenson admired and
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Brodie was his sheer spirit of
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responding to a challenge of knowing
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that he could do something and get away
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with it there's something about that
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that challenge to authority that
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subversiveness that appeals to to
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Stevenson it Stevenson did more than
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admire the Deacons rebellious streak he
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followed Brody's lead and wound up in
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the same hometown brothels
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this is the era that some middle-class
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households actually put little coverings
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on piano legs because they didn't want
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their legs in their living room I mean
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we're talking about a repressed Society
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and one of the great I'm actually laws
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was sex unmentionable art Stevenson
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boasted about his sexual prowess he
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claimed that he never had to pay him for
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sex
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he does the impression that the
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prostitutes that he encountered took
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almost a kind of mataró
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interest in this young man Stevenson was
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living the life of deacon Brodie but he
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refused to live in secrecy
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his feeling was that he was being driven
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into a life of hypocrisy and he
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expresses a desire to escape from it
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Stevenson rebelled against his parents
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[Music]
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William Brodie was his battle cry
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abandoned his studies rejected God and
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decried the hypocrisy of Victorian life
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[Music]
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1872 Stevenson suffered a severe relapse
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of respiratory illness almost overnight
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is bohemian days were over if you're
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feverish and spitting blood and unable
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to eat then you can't really run around
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and visit prostitutes or hang about with
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the boys and just physically it's it's
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not possible Stevenson spent months
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confined to his bedroom dependent on his
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father's money and an addictive cocktail
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of drugs to keep him alive he could only
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dream of living the Deacons life of
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adventure
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in 1785 Brody's life of adventure took a
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new turn sex booze and gambling were no
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longer enough Dory was turned on by
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excitement he probably felt he never had
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enough for the addict the drug of choice
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is more crime inevitably was his next
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step
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one evening he broke into the home of a
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neighbor where more than once the deacon
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had been a trusted guest
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[Music]
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he would go into a home and he's smiling
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and he's very very disarming too you
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know to someone they may even tell him
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where things are or talk about their
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possessions and very freely because he
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he's not what people expect criminals
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should look like then cloaked and
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incognito he betrayed the trust of an
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old friend
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[Music]
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the ease of Brody's double life echoes
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in Stevenson's book the safety was
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complete think of it I did not even
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exist whatever he had done Edward Hyde
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would pass away like the stain of breath
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upon a mirror and there and instead
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would be Henry Jekyll
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[Music]
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by day Brodie resumed the life of the
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gentlemen the Brody's double life came
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at a cost you keep secrets she remains
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SEC the whole idea of sharing secrets
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with a human being is so that you begin
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to feel better about yourself Brody had
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none of the Deacons friends had no idea
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there was a war raging inside him like
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dr. Jekyll it was only a matter of time
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before Brody succumbed completely to his
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evil laugh
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[Music]
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once Stevenson lived the Defiant light
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for deacon Brodie but his wild days
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appeared to be over at the age of 30 he
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married Fanny Haws born an American
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divorcee nine years his senior in spite
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of chronic anxiety and lung disease
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Stevenson had become an acclaimed author
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he penned some of the most delightful
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children's stories of all time beneath
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his respectable image darkness still
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lurked inside him
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at the age of 35 the deccan burst out of
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stevenson subconscious
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[Music]
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[Music]
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Louis wake up God's sake why did you
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wake me
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I was dreaming a fighting bogey tail in
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his journals Stevenson described the
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dream that made literary history I
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dreamed that one man pursued for some
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crime was being pressed into a cabinet
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when he swallowed a drug and changed
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into another being
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[Music]
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in the room which I slept on a child in
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Edna there was a cabinet from the hands
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of the original he can broaden Evensen
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mentions body as a genuine source of
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inspiration for his novel his nightmare
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inspired the most popular horror story
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of all time
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it was an instant success published in
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dozens of languages the story soon
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became known around the world
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[Music]
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in the confines of his basement lab dr.
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jeckyl experiments with a potion that
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releases his evil half mr. Hyde
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before long he is dangerously hooked you
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can plot Jekyll's decline as the decline
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of an addict he starts getting addicted
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to the transformation then the
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transformation takes over he doesn't
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need to take the drugs anymore he's a
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completely dependent personality by them
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and in a way that can be taken as an
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allegory of addiction that it starts off
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with him in control he gets less in
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control and suddenly the thing itself
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takes him over
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[Music]
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like dr. Jekyll Brody had lost him from
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crime was his drugs and now he too
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needed a stronger dose he began lose
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interest in just being a loan thief
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would go into its friends houses and
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steal their their money he decided to go
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in with three Rascals who nothing to
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lose Smith grossa Tremont and [ __ ]
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Andrew Ainsley shoemaker simpleton and
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John Brown murderer thief and convict on
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the run
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Brody elected himself as gang leader he
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was a man of power and privilege and a
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criminal with a special talent Bernie
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had the technical skills he was able to
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make these keys he was a locksmith so it
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was a perfect setup it was an age of
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innocence when shopkeepers hung their
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keys in plain sight he can't snatch the
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keys he'll be missing the keys the
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elderly woman is not not looking he can
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easily make an impression of this key
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and no one was the wiser in the privacy
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of his workshop an imprint soon became a
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duplicate key Brodie passed through
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doorways like a ghost Edinboro was his
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but the taking in 1784 he led his band
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of thieves on a crime spree they pulled
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off 12 robberies
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[Music]
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what happens to them psychologically all
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of them is that they really feel
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invincible law enforcement police
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they're incapable of catching that
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because they are so adept and skilled in
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their in their trade and as a result
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they they don't slow down dr. Jekyll to
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me is a more courageous man in the guise
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of mr. Hyde we know that when we have
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the adrenaline going we are more
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vigilant we are more receptive to
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stimuli we do feel stronger and more
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powerful
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[Music]
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but with each robbery
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Brody's behavior became more bizarre
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[Music]
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drunk on a potent makes of portent power
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he become a danger to his men and to
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himself after a silk shop was robbed of
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a small fortune in rare fabrics a pardon
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and a reward was offered to the crook
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who ratted on his partners in crime the
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Deacon was walking a thin line
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[Music]
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the Stevenson Brody's dangerous double
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life was the basis of his novel
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[Music]
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it is still relevant to people today
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because we have a large population
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Society or living secret lives we have
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men having affairs we have we have women
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drinking sherry in the kitchen before
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the family come home we have a whole
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bunch of folks that are doing behaviors
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that the intuitive Leonor might but they
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can't share and they can't change the
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success of jekyll-and-hyde thrust Robert
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Louis Stevenson into the limelight and
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people started asked Jones was Stevenson
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the wholesome nice writer of the child's
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garden of verses and Treasure Island
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wholesome children's book author or was
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he the dark tortured gothic writer of
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Jekyll and Hyde Stevenson's dr. Jekyll
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describes his experiments and graphic
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detail the most rocking pangs succeeded
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a graining in the bones deadly nausea
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and horror of the spirit that cannot be
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exceeded at the hour of birth or death
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and something strange in my sensations a
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heady recklessness a solution of the
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bonds of obligation an unknown freedom
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of the soul
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[Music]
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how did this respectable author of
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children's stories know so much about
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the agony and ecstasy of drug addiction
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since childhood drugs were a part of
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Stevenson's life as a student at
00:30:09
Edinburgh University Stevenson admitted
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to taking opium to blast his mind
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because he had such bad dreams
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subsequently he was on a whole cocktail
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of you know his bathroom is there's like
00:30:19
a distillery and all these drugs because
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he had these long complains he didn't
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sleep well he kept having coughing
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attack so he took all sorts of things
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[Music]
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ether morphine chloroform Stevenson had
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access to them all but his drug of
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choice was laudanum a cocktail of opium
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and alcohol still manufactured for
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medical use today
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opium particles pass through the stomach
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lining into the bloodstream and enter
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the brain producing a rush of euphoria
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and a blissful calm
00:31:00
but during drug withdrawal spikes in
00:31:03
blood pressure take their toll on the
00:31:05
fragile vessels in the brain
00:31:10
opium use was putting stephenson at risk
00:31:13
of a deadly stroke
00:31:20
Stephenson's first-hand knowledge of
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drugs is woven into the torturous life
00:31:25
of dr. Jekyll there's a huge part of
00:31:29
himself in that story and one can
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speculate the Stevenson was writing
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Jekyll and Hyde in a way of cathartic
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and a way of of baring his own soul
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remember in the secret lies a sickness
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he felt the need to tell the story so as
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fast and even to speculate that Jaclyn
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Hyde indeed was a a confessional for
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Stevenson's own drug use
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Stevenson continued living the reclusive
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life of a writer trying to keep his dark
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side and his addiction under control but
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in 1788 the Deacon was showing no sign
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of slowing down
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he was planning a crime that would place
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his name firmly in the history books
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Brody had his sights set on the National
00:32:16
excise office a holding place for every
00:32:19
penny of tax money collected in
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Edinburgh for two hours every night
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the building lay quiet had unguarded it
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was all the time Brody needed to relieve
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the government of thousands of pounds in
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cash and the youngins for the cabinets
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in the cashier
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Aynsley will sit here and drink his
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eagle eye on the 4th and entry from the
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kolosov Inslee I hear your whistle blows
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thrice I'm gonna welcome our guests with
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a tight embrace clear then hey buddy
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cletus hogg lumen I the excess office
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well it's like all being the Bank of
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England I'm in it was high risk because
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of the punishment I mean you could be
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put to death for stealing 12 pounds
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[Music]
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on a cold spring night Brody set in
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motion one of the most daring robberies
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in Scottish history
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[Music]
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Brodie's planned to rob the Scottish
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excise office got off to a bad start he
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showed up late and drunk Brodie took his
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watch position inside the outer door
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Smith and Brown could find nothing at a
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few poultry hands
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[Music]
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then an uninvited guest an employee had
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returned unexpectedly for some papers
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[Music]
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Ainsley had no time to sound the alarm
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caught by surprise Brody showed his true
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colors when Brody fled his flame to save
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himself he has no loyalty to his
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accomplices so typically as a psychopath
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it's it's a big eye and a little wee and
00:35:08
meaning that it's all me and forget
00:35:10
about you Brody's selfish behavior Mira
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dr. Jekyll's addicted to his potion and
00:35:20
obsessed with his experiments Jekyll is
00:35:22
a secretive and solitary Selene I think
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things just trying to tell us that a
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certain kind of single-mindedness a
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certain kind of obsession if you like is
00:35:38
more likely to flourish in a situation
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where the normal social controls and
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social relationships aren't in existence
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[Music]
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Mike Jekyll Brody was accountable to no
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one not even his partners in crime at
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the excise office the official collected
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his papers and left suspecting nothing
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[Music]
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[Music]
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they aborted their mission missing 600
00:36:23
pounds that lay hidden in a desk drawer
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the next day Brody and his band of
00:36:34
thieves met to parcel out their earnings
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a meager 16 pounds you run away scared
00:36:42
it did me as the true of the 7 subsonic
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force a little whistle I remember
00:36:51
exactly tears neither here nor there
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lives
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shall we divide up the riches you're mad
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a good deacon you place me in harm's way
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again
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[Music]
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[Music]
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Brown rats on his mates swapping his
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partners freedom for a pardon and a
00:37:28
reward Ainsley and Smith were arrested
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that afternoon doesn't mention Brody's
00:37:37
name hoping he can bribe the deacon word
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of the Excise heist spread through
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Edinburgh like wildfire
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Brody knew his days were numbered and
00:37:52
fled town after the Deacons
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disappearance Ainsley named Brody as
00:38:01
gang leader
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police searched Brody's workshop and
00:38:08
found incriminating evidence pistols and
00:38:18
dark lamps were hardly the tools of a
00:38:20
master cabinet maker by leaving the area
00:38:25
it aroused too much suspicion and it
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really it indicted in him but there was
00:38:30
no need for him to leave unless he was
00:38:32
responsible for the crime Brody was now
00:38:36
a wanted man
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[Music]
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his fate echo dr. Jekyll's the moment de
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Fora had been safe of all men's respect
00:38:50
wealthy beloved and now I was common
00:38:53
quarry of mankind hunted houseless
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thrall to the gobbles
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[Music]
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two months later police followed Brody's
00:39:04
tracks overseas and arrested him in an
00:39:06
Amsterdam hotel room on July the 17th
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Brody was back in Edinburgh there he
00:39:26
took up a new residence as an inmate at
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the toll booth prison
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Brody's sentencing was Swift you William
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Brody cannot but know that your advices
00:39:42
have been a source of your room the
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Lords of the judiciary hereby rule that
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you shall be hanged by the neck on a jib
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it until you are dead
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[Music]
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October the first 1788 this Brodie's day
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of judgment
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[Applause]
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at 8:00 a.m. he was led to a gallons he
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remembered of me tomorrow the Deacon was
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the first Scott to design and craft a
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drop hatch gibbet he was hanged on a
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gallows of his own design is the only
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craftsman in history he was actually
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literally hoist by his own petard
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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but Brodie had cooked up an elaborate
00:40:52
scheme to beat the very machine he built
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because of his influence because of the
00:40:59
money that he has he can pay off people
00:41:01
and so even though he's going to face
00:41:03
the gallows he had a little side deals
00:41:06
working he's even to the very end
00:41:11
Brodie had the hangman on his payroll
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[Music]
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while he waited for his hanging Brody
00:41:27
received a special guest dr. Dogra ver
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was a French surgeon from Paris he was a
00:41:39
man with a special talent saving victims
00:41:43
from the gallows the grabber fitted
00:41:47
Brody with a special collar lined with
00:41:49
hooks to catch the noose the collar was
00:41:54
connected to steel chains running down
00:41:56
the length of Brody's body
00:42:01
with a hangman's help the rope was
00:42:04
fastened under the hooks inside Brody's
00:42:06
color everything has been set up here
00:42:08
his hands are free which is a little bit
00:42:11
unusual to the allows hands to be free
00:42:12
so when they put the noose around his
00:42:14
neck he's able to adjust that and write
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the right position when the deccan
00:42:19
dropped through the platform and hit the
00:42:21
end of his tether the impact will be
00:42:24
distributed through the chains away from
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his neck Brody was still playing the
00:42:36
odds
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[Music]
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at half-past eight William Brodie made
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his final gamble
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[Applause]
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before his execution Brody was granted
00:43:23
an unusual request the Chief Justice
00:43:27
allowed his body to be released directly
00:43:30
after the hanging Brody knew he would
00:43:33
need immediate medical attention
00:43:38
bloodletting appeared to be having no
00:43:40
effect it looked like Brody had lost his
00:43:48
biggest gamble a disgrace to his family
00:43:54
he was buried in unmarked grave 22 in
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patlu Parish churchyard Edinburgh add
00:44:03
years later churchyard repairs forced
00:44:06
officials to open Brody's grave someone
00:44:11
dug up the tomb they found nothing they
00:44:17
said well this man was never really
00:44:19
buried there witnesses reported seeing
00:44:23
Brody in New York and Pennsylvania
00:44:26
others claimed to see him strolling the
00:44:28
streets of Paris the Deacons story
00:44:35
became a legend did william Brody's
00:44:40
sidestepped justice
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it evil prevail over good
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[Music]
00:44:54
quoting evil only Jekyll pays the
00:44:58
ultimate price
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I said shuddering and weeping in my
00:45:02
chair
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no one has suffered such torment here
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then I bring the life of that unhappy
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Jekyll to an end
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[Music]
00:45:16
the whole notion to subvert Authority
00:45:20
which was what Brody was up to it's very
00:45:24
appealing the public always likes to
00:45:26
believe that you can get away with it
00:45:29
but Stevenson was very deliberately
00:45:31
telling us what actually it's not really
00:45:33
like that
00:45:34
and that inevitably if you release evil
00:45:37
it's going to it's going to destroy
00:45:40
itself Jekyll and Hyde made Stevenson
00:45:46
fabulously rich two years after his book
00:45:50
was published he moved to a tropical
00:45:53
island in the South Pacific
00:45:57
he built a mansion and led a quiet life
00:46:00
of rest and writing in a strange twist
00:46:05
of fate Stevenson mimicked dr. Jekyll
00:46:09
and succumbed to drug addiction on a
00:46:13
peaceful day in his Samoan kitchen
00:46:15
tragedy struck
00:46:17
[Music]
00:46:31
luis decades of drug use had taken its
00:46:37
toll on Stevenson like many long-term
00:46:41
opium users a vital vessel in
00:46:44
Stevenson's brain finally ruptured he
00:46:47
had a sudden violent stroke
00:46:49
[Music]
00:46:54
within a matter of hours Stevenson was
00:46:57
dead he was 44 years old Stevenson
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misusing laudanum on opiate during most
00:47:07
of his life and saw his stroke I'm sure
00:47:09
was contributed to my uncontrolled high
00:47:11
blood pressure which may well have been
00:47:13
contributed to by the use of laudanum in
00:47:18
1891 Robert Louis Stevenson was buried
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in his tranquil Samoan garden
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[Music]
00:47:31
he was a brilliant man and a tortured
00:47:33
soul whose greatest work was inspired by
00:47:37
a reckless Scot in love with the
00:47:40
wildlife
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[Music]
00:47:43
and whether Brody lived or died that day
00:47:46
on the scaffold he lives on in the pages
00:47:50
of dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde
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[Music]
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you
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[Music]
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you
