The Crucible Page #3

My babies' blood!

You murdered my babies, Tituba!

I want their names!

Who are they?

Why can the girls not wake?

Did you send your spirit

out to silence them?

- I love me Betty.

- Let's hang her!

- Hang up the witch!

- No! No, not Tituba!

You've conjured her to be silent,

have you not?

She... She begged me conjure.

She begged me make charm.

She lies!

She sends her spirit into me in church.

- She makes me laugh at prayer.

- She have often laughed at prayer.

She comes into me when I sleep.

She makes me dream corruptions.

Why you say bad thing, Abby?

Some nights I wake...

and I find myself standing

naked in the open doorway...

without a stitch on my body,

and she makes me do that...

singing her damn Barbados songs,

tempting me!

Tituba, when did you compact with

the devil?

- Tell me!

- I don't.

I don't compact with the devil.

Either you must stop...

or I will beat you to your death!

No! No! No! No!

I did! I tell him!

I tell him.

I tell him.

I- I don't desire...

I don't desire to work for him!

Then you saw him?

You poor woman.

He has you by the throat

this very moment, doesn't he?

Now, Tituba, I'm going to break

his grip on both of you.

I'm going to pry open the hands

of Lucifer!

You would be a good Christian

woman once again, would you not?

- Aye, sir, a good Christian woman.

- You do still love God?

I love Him with all my being.

Now, in God's Holy

Name, and to His Glory...

- Glory, my dear, sweet Jesus.

- Open yourself.

Receive his cleansing light

within you. Do you want that?

I want that light.

Save me, Mr. Hale.

I will... if you open your heart to me.

Now, when the devil comes to you,

does he bring other people?

- Sarah Good. Does he bring Goody Good?

- Are they men or women?

Uh... I couldn't see.

- It was black dark.

- You saw him. Why couldn't you see others?

They was always talking and running

around and carrying on, sir.

- Out of Salem? Salem witches?

- Aye, I believe so! Yes, sir!

I will protect you.

You know the devil can never overcome

a minister, do you not?

I know that, sir.

Tituba, God put you in our hands

to help cleanse this village.

You are God's eyes.

Now, face God and speak utterly.

Who came to you with the devil?

Two? Three? Four?

Was Sarah Good with him...

or Osborne?

Their names!

Their names!

How many time he bid me kill you,

Mr. Parris!

- Kill me?

- "Rise up, Tituba, and cut that man throat. "

That's what him tell me!

I said, "No, devil.

I don't hate that man. "

Him say, "Tituba, you work for me.

"I make you free.

"I give you pretty dress to wear.

"And I put you way up high in the air...

and you go flying back home to

Barbados. "

And I say, "No, devil. You lie. "

And then...

him come to me...

one stormy night...

and him say, "Tituba, look.

I has... white people belong to me. "

And I look...

I look...

and there was Sarah Good.

I knew it!

Oh, bless you, Tituba.

Aye.

And Goody Osborne.

- I knew it!

- Oh.

They were midwives to me three times...

and my babies shriveled in their hands!

I want to open my soul!

I want the light of God.

I want the sweet love of Jesus.

I did dance with the devil!

I saw him!

I wrote in his book!

I go back to Jesus.

I kiss His hand.

I saw Sarah Good with the devil!

I saw Goody Osborne with the devil!

I saw Bridget Bishop with the devil!

I saw Goody Howe with the devil!

I saw Goody Barrow with the devil!

I saw Goody Good with the devil!

I saw Goody Osborne with the devil!

Hallelujah!

Glory be to God!

It is broken! They are free!

Where's the Marshal?

Arrest Sarah Osborne!

Sarah Good in the jail.

Would you believe a court would ever

bother to jail that silly old turtle?

John! Giles! News from the village!

There were six more accused today!

More mischief here, Giles.

The town's gone wild, I think.

And now they've sent to Boston...

for the Deputy Governor

to come and take charge.

Ah, that's Danforth.

He'll bring some sense to it.

That's good news.

- Judge Hathorne condemned 14 more people to the jail last night.

- Fourteen?

And promised hanging if they don't

confess.

- Confess? To what?

- Bewitching the children.

Abigail Williams suffers most of all,

he says.

Save my cider.

I'll go home now, tell Martha.

I'm thinking if the crop comes good...

I'll buy Joseph Ward's heifer.

How would that please you?

Fine. It would.

I mean to please you, Elizabeth.

It would be well if you went to Salem.

Abigail told you it had not to do

with witchcraft.

Did she not?

They say Ezekiel Cheever is clerk

of the court now.

Can you not tell him?

God forbid you keep that from

the court, John.

It's a wonder they do believe her.

But they do.

Mary Warren says that

where Abigail walks...

the crowds part like the sea for Israel.

I think you must go at once.

I would go tonight, John.

- Will you?

- I will think on it.

You cannot...

I said, I will think on it.

How will I prove

what she told me, Elizabeth?

We were alone together.

I have no proof of what she said.

You were alone with her?

For a moment, alone, aye.

Then it is not as you told me.

For a moment is all.

There were others close by.

- Do as you wish then.

- Woman!

I'll not have

your suspicion anymore!

Now, John, if it were not Abigail

that you must go to hurt...

would you falter now?

I think not.

You will not judge me more, Elizabeth.

I forgot Abigail.

And I.

Spare me. You forget nothing

and forgive nothing.

In the seven months since she has gone...

I have not moved from there to there

without I think to please you...

but an everlasting funeral

still marches around your heart.

John, you are not open with me.

- You saw her with a crowd, you said.

- I plead my honesty no more.

- John, I am only...

- No more!

I should have rode you down when first

you told me your suspicion...

but I wilted, and like a Christian,

I confessed.

But you're not God, Elizabeth!

Let you look

for some goodness in me.

And judge me not.

The magistrate sits in your heart

that judges you.

I never thought you but a good man,

John...

only somewhat bewildered.

Oh, Elizabeth.

Your justice would freeze beer.

- Judge Hathorne.

- Judge Danforth.

- Judge Sewall.

- Sir.

- Mr. Parris. - Your

Honor. - Mr. Parris.

- Mr. Hale. -

Judge. - Mr. Hale.

The selectmen.

Thomas Putnam.

The afflicted girls, sir.

I assure you, gentlemen...

that His Majesty's government

is now determined...

that the devil shall not rule...

over one single inch of Massachusetts.

And if, indeed, he has come, here...

in Salem,

is where we shall dig him out.

Provided every precaution be taken

to guard against...

the testimony of distracted persons...

and, of course, the mad.

Indeed, Judge Sewall.

Bring in Sarah Osborne!

Now,

Sarah Osborne, here is Sarah Good...

who has confessed to witchcraft and

therefore will not hang.

I bid you, follow her example.

She testifies that when the devil came

to her, you were in his company.

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