The Door Is Broken: Hyde Dead, Jekyll Gone

1 On a cold March evening, dark roofs and empty streets reach the horizon under a pale moon

2 Utterson is sitting alone by his fire after dinner.

3 White-faced, sweating Poole stands by Utterson's fire and tells him something is wrong

4 Poole sits stiffly across the fire from Utterson, wine untouched, and admits he is afraid

5 Poole sits stiff in the firelit wing chair by Mr. Utterson's hearth.

6 The lawyer jerks upright in his fireside wing chair and cries "Foul play!"

7 A glass of wine, still full to the brim, stands on the small round table by the fire.

8 Utterson and Poole hurry across an empty Georgian square at night.

9 In the empty, windswept square, Poole mops his white brow with a red handkerchief

10 On a windy March night, Poole knocks softly at his master's front door.

11 Utterson finds Jekyll's household packed round the hall fire like frightened sheep

12 In Jekyll's hall, Utterson's rebuke meets silence from servants packed round the fire

13 The maid's wail makes Poole snap "Hold your tongue!"

14 At the dark surgical theatre, Poole turns back and whispers a warning to Utterson

15 Utterson listens against the wall below as Poole climbs alone to the red baize door

16 Poole knocks on the red baize door and calls his master, signalling Utterson to listen

17 Utterson stands alone at the foot of the cabinet stair, lit from below by Poole's candle.

18 Poole leads Utterson into Jekyll's great kitchen, where the fire is out and beetles leap

19 Across a single candle, Poole asks Utterson whether that was his master's voice

20 By one candle in the cold kitchen, Poole slaps the table: his master was made away with

21 Utterson bites his finger as Poole counts off a week of orders and trips to every chemist

22 In the cold kitchen, Utterson bends to Poole's candle to study the crumpled note

23 By candlelight, Utterson holds Jekyll's crumpled order to the chemists flat on the kitchen table.

24 By one candle in the cold kitchen, Utterson looks up sharply from Jekyll's desperate note

25 In the dark kitchen, the old butler stops in the middle of his story and drags a hand down his face.

26 Utterson explains his theory of a disfiguring illness while Poole stands unconvinced

27 Poole goes pale and whispers that the thing in the cabinet was more of a dwarf

28 Utterson straightens by the candle and declares it his duty to break in the cabinet door

29 In the cold kitchen, the butler points to the poker by the dead grate as the lawyer looks

30 Mr. Utterson weighs the heavy kitchen poker in the cold, dark kitchen and looks up at Poole.

31 In the kitchen, the frightened butler looks Utterson in the eye and says the name

32 By one candle, Utterson bows his head and admits he felt the same cold dread as Poole

33 Utterson grips the iron poker against his shoulder and looks Poole in the eye

34 Poker under his arm, Utterson calmly gives the pale, frightened footman his post

35 Utterson and Poole sit silently on the lowest tier of the dark dissecting theatre

36 In the dark theatre, Utterson and Poole look up toward footsteps pacing the cabinet floor

37 The stair is black and empty.

38 Utterson turns to the butler at the dark stair, chilled by "Once I heard it weeping"

39 In the dark dissecting theatre, Poole drags a heavy axe out of a crate's packing straw

40 Before the shut red baize door, Utterson raises his voice and demands to see Jekyll

41 Utterson has just recognised Hyde's voice behind the red baize door.

42 Poole brings the axe down on the red baize door for the first time, and the whole building shakes.

44 Behind the broken red baize door, the cabinet looks peaceful.

45 Utterson and Poole kneel over the small, twisted body and see the face of Edward Hyde

46 A small, hairy dead hand, lost in the doctor's huge coat sleeve, clutches a crushed phial

47 Utterson stands over Hyde's body in the firelit cabinet and says, "We have come too late."

48 Utterson opens dusty closets in the corridor as Poole turns toward the arched cellar door

49 Utterson and Poole stand at the top of the cellar steps as a mat of old cobweb falls from the arch.

50 In the dusty corridor, Poole stamps on the flags and listens for a hollow sound

51 A rusty key lies snapped in two on the stone flags by the locked door to the by-street.

52 By the locked by-street door, Utterson holds out the two rusted halves of the broken key.

53 Utterson bends over the white salt on Jekyll's table as Poole glances back at Hyde's body

54 As Poole names the white salt as the drug he kept fetching, the kettle boils over

55 Utterson finds a pious book's margins filled with blasphemies in Jekyll's own hand

56 Utterson and Poole bend towards the cheval-glass in Jekyll's cabinet, expecting horror

57 At the cheval-glass, Utterson stops short at his friend's name but stays composed

58 In Jekyll's wrecked cabinet, Utterson tears open his envelope and its enclosures fall out

59 Utterson's thumb stops on a line of Jekyll's new will: instead of Hyde's name, his own

60 Utterson lowers the will bearing his own name and looks down toward the dead man

61 Utterson holds Jekyll's dated note unread to his chest as Poole urges him to read it

62 By lamplight in the wrecked cabinet, Utterson reads his friend's last short note.

63 Poole passes Jekyll's thick, many-sealed packet into Utterson's cupped hands

64 Utterson pockets Jekyll's sealed packet and raises a finger to swear Poole to silence

65 The servants huddle at the hall fire as Utterson, packet in pocket, trudges to the door