Death in the family: Frankenstein episode 3

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Frankenstein. Episode three. Viktor Frankenstein's brother is murdered, and a suspect is on trial.
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Hello, I'm scientist Viktor Frankenstein  – well, I used to be a scientist,  
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but I came to hate everything about my job. I was back in the town where I was born, Geneva,  
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after six years at university in Germany. I was brought back by bad news in my father's letter.
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I found him, and my sweet Elizabeth,  very upset. My young brother William had been  
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killed! How? By whom? The police were there too.
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We're doing everything we can to find who killed your son, Mr Alphonse Frankenstein.
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Thank you, detective. 
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Miss Elizabeth, we're sorry about what happened to the boy: we know you're very close to the family. 
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Yes.
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The marks of the killer's fingers that we found on the boy's neck were still fresh. The body was in the woods. 
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That's horrible!
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Calm down, my dear Elizabeth. Sir, we were having a family day out and my son William disappeared.
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Very unfortunate, Mr Frankenstein. But we've just arrested a suspect.
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A suspect?! Who killed my boy? 
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Well, we found a valuable locket with the boy's mother's picture in the pocket of one of the nanny's dresses.
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Justine?! It's not possible! 
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I'm sorry, Miss Elizabeth. Justine hasn't  explained yet how it got there! Was it stolen? 
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But I know she's innocent!
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Elizabeth my dear, I want to  believe that she's innocent, but what about the locket?
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Everyone believes Justine is  guilty. I don't. She loved William very much.
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Yes, everyone believed Justine had killed  William - everyone except Elizabeth and I. 
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Why? Because I knew who the murderer was.  
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On my journey back to Geneva, I saw a very large figure run over the hills and disappear. It was  
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the Creature! It was the murderer! And now, what would happen to poor Justine? She went to trial. 
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Justine, you were out the whole night in which the child was killed, weren't you?
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I've already told the police and everybody else. I paid a visit to my auntie in the village. On my way back I heard  
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people talking about a boy who went missing. It was William. I spent hours looking for him. 
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A woman from the market saw you near the place where the child's body was  
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found. What were you doing there?
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I didn't know I was near the place. 
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The woman asked you what you were doing there. She said you sounded confused. 
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Yes. I was tired and worried about William.
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You went back to the Frankenstein family home in the morning and asked to be told any news about the boy. 
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Yes! I've just told you, I was worried about him!
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Or maybe you felt guilty. When shown the body you started to scream!
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Yes. It was horrible! Horrible! 
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And you stayed in your bed for several  days. That's when someone found this:  
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the boy's locket with a picture of his  mother - yes, this very locket - in your  
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dress pocket. How do you explain that?
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I... I... I can't explain! 
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Poor Justine! But I knew the monster  had done something to make her look  
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guilty... Our family was very rich and  powerful. The crime was shocking. They  
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had to find someone to blame, quickly.
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Silence! For the murder of the child, William Frankenstein, on May the seventh, I sentence Justine Moritz to death! 
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Justine was innocent, but she was executed anyway. I felt that I was guilty of two  
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deaths because I had created the  monster! I couldn't eat. I couldn't  
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sleep. So I decided to take long walks  in the mountains. That's when I had an  
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unexpected meeting. I'm going to  tell you all about it next time.
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