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A large green lawn appears at Tony’s back. A castle appears at a distance. It has a red brick façade with
two hexagonal towers crowned by turrets, one at each side of the main entrance.
(music plays)
The camera zooms out and shows Tony standing high above the ground, on a machine platform. Tony
looks scared.
Theme music plays. Fast sepia-tone clips show men digging out hidden objects from the soil such as a
vase, a ring, and a skull. Then, the opening sequence of the hand grabbing the rock plays again.
A fast clip shows the team setting up the equipment to work on the excavation.
Mary Ann and Paul Whight arrive at a state in a red convertible car. She’s in her thirties, with long brown
wavy hair in a low ponytail. She wears a gray V-necked T-shirt. He’s in his fifties, clean-shaven, with
short white hair. He wears an open-necked black shirt.
A map of the British Isles shows the area of Essex. Two white dots signal Earls Colne and Colchester.
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Phil and John stand on the ground watching at a map. Phil is in his sixties with long blond hair. He wears
a beige open-necked shirt. John is in his fifties with short receding grey hair and a beard. He wears a
light blue shirt. They loot a lidar picture of the Earls Colne area in blue, red and yellow.
(laughter)
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Paul is in his fifties, clean-shaven and bald. He wears red T-shirt, and a blue safety helmet.
A caption reads “Paul Blinkhorn. Pottery Expert.”
(music plays)
Tony meets Phil and Mick, and says OI, YOU TWO.
IT'S A BIT EARLY TO START
CHUCKING A TRENCH IN WITH SUCH
GAY ABANDON, ISN'T IT?
Mick is in his sixties with long receding wavy grey hair and a goatee. He wears an open blue jacket and a
colourful stripped sweater. He also wears glasses.
Phil shows a big yellowish stone with a flat surface and flutings.
A close-up shows a rip in Phil’s shirt, near the buttons on the chest.
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As Tony speaks, fast clips show the team digging the ground.
Now, Mary Ann sits with a woman in an arbour in a pond. The woman is in her forties, with long curtly
blond hair. She wears a blue sweater.
A caption appears on screen. It reads “Doctor Anna Whitelock. Royal Holloway, University of London.”
(music plays)
Tony gets into the trench and says WOW, WHAT'S GOING ON
HERE?
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Phil signals with his small shovel the square boarders of what seems to be a box.
Jackie is in her fifties, with short brown hair. She wears a fuchsia shirt and purple trousers. She holds the
fragment of human skull.
Jackie garbs two more bone fragments and says AND THEN LOOKING AT THESE,
THEY SHOULD HOPEFULLY GO
TOGETHER.
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Jackie put the three fragments of skull together and reconstructs part a skull.
John and part of the team sits in a gallery and watch 3D images on a computer. It’s a 3D rectangular with
areas coloured on blue, green and yellow.
A caption appears on screen. It reads “John Gater. Geophysicist.”
John points at one angle of the rectangle and says YOU CAN SEE AT THIS
END, WE'RE ACTUALLY STARTING
TO SEE THE WALL LINES AND THE
FOOTINGS REALLY CLEARLY.
SO AS THE SURVEY EXPANDS WE
SHOULD GET A CLEARER PICTURE.
(music plays)
Mary Ann sits at a table with Anna and a man. He’s in his thirties, clean-shaven, with short brown hair.
He wears a beige short-sleeved shirt and a brown beret. They look at some papers scattered on the table.
Alex shows a small drawing of a huge house, with tall walls and red roof tiles.
(laughter)
Now, Alex and Whight appear on the cellar of the building with lanterns.
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Alex touches the white wall and says WELL, FIRST OFF, WE'VE
GOT OBVIOUSLY REUSED BRICKS
HERE.
YOU KNOW THESE BRICKS HAVE COME
FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE.
I THINK THESE HAVE BEEN
RE-SOURCED.
BECAUSE THEY'RE LINED IN THAT
HERRING BONE FASHION.
Now Alex looks at a abeam and says THAT MAIN CROSS BEAM, THAT
DEFINITELY IS AN OLDER PIECE OF
TIMBER.
Paul Blinkhorn washes a stone with a teeth brush. Mary Ann arrives.
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Alex and Whight stand near the gateway examining a small sculpture of a saint on the column of the
gateway.
Now, Tony meets the whole team at the entrance of the house.
John holds a lidar picture of the area with brown lines that marks rests of walls buried underground.
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Mick points at a brown square in the picture. It’s a room north of the central cloister.
[laughter]
(music plays)
Mick moves his arms loosely and says THAT'S RIGHT, WHAT
WE'RE DOING HERE IS EXTENDING
THIS WAY, AND WE'RE PROBABLY
GOING TO EXTEND IT THAT WAY
BECAUSE OF WHAT JOHN'S FINDING.
THIS IS ACTUALLY A
POST-DISSOLUTION CHAPEL FOR THE
DE VERE BURIALS.
Tracey and Jackie look at a few fragments of bones in a trench. Tracey is in her thirties, with long red
hair combed in two braids. She wears a brown shirt and jeans. A caption reads “Tracey Smith.”
Now, Mary Ann and Anna sit on a bench. They look at a document with the title “The De Vere Family.”
A portrait of a man appears on screen. He is in his thirties, with a thin moustache. He wears a white ruff
and a hat with a feather.
(music plays)
Now, Mary Ann and Whight sit on a fence. They look at black and white pictures of tombs.
(music plays)
Alex and Lucy enter into an old church. She is in her forties, with short brown curly hair. She wears a
black t-shirt and jeans.
A tomb rises in a room of the church. It’s an big alabaster rectangle with two statues lying on it.
Cassie is in her forties, with short brown hair in a bob cut. She wears a pink T-shirt and jeans. She sits
over the edge of a trench with Tony and looks at what she found.
HERE, CASSIE?
Cassie gives Tony a transparent recipient with water and a piece of glass inside.
Alex and Lucy stands next to a table with a piece of alabaster on it.
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A woman appears on screen. She’s in her late thirties, with dark hair combed up in a bow. She wears a
black T-shirt and jeans. A caption reads “Raksha Dave.”
John takes a small shovel and starts scratching the ground in the trench.
[laughter]
An animation reconstructs the chapel. It has high stone walls and pointed windows with lancets. Two
double tombs rises in the interior of the chapel.
A man pushes a trolley across the ground to measure it. He’s in his thirties, clean-shaven and ball. He
wears a gray T-shirt and beige trousers.
GEOPHYSICAL PERFECTION.
IT'S BECOMING EVER CLEARER THAT
THIS WAS A SIZEABLE PRIORY --
HOME TO 12 MONKS WHOSE
BENEDICTINE LIFESTYLE WAS IN
STARK CONTRAST TO THAT OF THEIR
FLAMBOYANT PATRONS.
Fast clips show the excavation sites and Earls Colne state.
John holds another lidar picture with red and yellow areas. He points around the picture and says YEAH,
BUT
THAT
LINE
THERE IS WALL REMAINS THAT DON'T
APPEAR AS CLEAR.
WHAT I THINK WE MIGHT BE
LOOKING AT HERE IS BRICK.
WE COULD BE TALKING ABOUT A
BUILDING THAT APPEARS TO HAVE,
WELL, I CAN ONLY DESCRIBE THEM
AS BAY WINDOWS.
(music plays)
Jackie bends down and removes the dust of a human femur with a brush.
Tracey and John stand in Tracey’s trench, looking at what she found: a piece of wall that has carved on it
what looks like a bay window.
EXPLAIN.
WE STARTED DIGGING IT YESTERDAY
AND, RAKSHA, YOU'VE JUST ABOUT
FINISHED NOW, HAVEN'T YOU?
A drawing appears on screen. It shows a tall tower with a small window at the top. The face of an old man
pops out of the window. He has a vision: Jesus Christ carrying the cross.
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Now Tony sits at a table inside the house with Whight, Anna, and Mary Ann.
Mary Ann puts two pictures on the table: one is Shakespeare’s and the other one is Edward De Vere’s.
Now, a black and white picture of the old house appears on screen.
Now, Tony and Blinkhorn sit on the ground. They look at the pieces of wall Blinkhorn found.
Blinkhorn shows the piece. Then, an animation completes it showing a coat of arms carved on a stone.
Now, Anna, Marry Ann and Whight sit on the steps on a big door.
Anna holds a piece of paper. The title reads “The Death of Edward De Vere.”
Now, Alex and Ann meet Lucy. She has finished carving the boar.
Alex lie on a couch in the same position that the alabaster statues of the tombs. A man passes a laser
device over Alex’s body, while a computer screens shows a 3D recreation of the body.
John sits along Jimmy. He shows John a 3D lidar picture in the computer.
A caption reads “Jimmy Adcock. Geophysics.”
(music plays)
An animation reconstructs the priory. It has huge stone walls, pointed-arched windows and hip roofs
with black tiles.
Mick and Tony stand high on a machine platform where they have a panoramic view of the tranches.
Alex still lies on the couch. A man keeps on working on him with the laser.
Now, the recreation of the tomb appears on screen with the shape of Alex body.
MANOR HOUSE.
AS FOR WHETHER EDWARD DE VERE
WAS REALLY SHAKESPEARE...
THAT DEBATE WILL ROLL ON.
BUT BEFORE WE LEAVE ESSEX
THERE'S JUST ENOUGH TIME TO
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PAUL'S
HOSPITALITY ONCE MORE.
Now, all the team sits on a Jacuzzi on the open air. They hold a glass of champagne.
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