- In the first of these re-imagined, inter-connected Charles Dickens tales ruthless debt collector Jacob Marley (Peter Firth) makes himself an enemy.
- In Victorian London Amelia Havisham inherits her late father's brewery, to the disgust of covetous brother Arthur, who attacks her in the street. She is rescued by Meriwether Compeyson, unaware that he may not be all he seems. Money lender Jacob Marley bullies his clerk Bob Cratchit and demands debts from the ailing Nell Trent's grandfather and Edward Barbary, father of Amelia's friend Honoria, who is engaged to captain James Hawdon. Marley also has dealings with criminal fence Fagin, who pimps prostitute Nancy to him, to the annoyance of her lover, burglar Bill Sikes. Then Marley is found murdered.—don @ minifie-1
- Arthur Havisham insists on the urgent reading, on Christmas Eve, of his and half-sister Amelia's last will, only to learn he only gets 10% of the brewery, she he gets 90% and the home. Greedy debt collectors Ebeneezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley instruct clerk Bob Cratchit, whose pay is docked from 15 to 13 shillings for 'sloth and errors', to collect debt from a man whose granddaughter is dying, the the partnership breaks up. Meriwether Compeyson physically protects Amelia when now homeless Arthur lashes out on the street having demanded in vain that she refuses the inheritance, but that was a set-up. Marley is murdered after street kids crime master Fagin pimped prostitute Nancy to him.—KGF Vissers
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