The master's right hand man hires someone to make the most expensive garden for the master of the house
The master, Thomas, wants to make an expensive garden for himself and his wife Juliana. Thomas hires whom he thinks is Meneer to make the garden. Thomas' right hand man is the ironmaster Pritchard, and Pritchard's completely against the idea, because Thomas' smithy and coal businesses are going broke. Pritchard spends his time attempting to coerce Thomas into abandoning the project.
James Fitzmaurice, Juliana's cousin and ex-lover, is the man who plots to drain Thomas of all his money. Fitzmaurice also mixes poison in Meneer's snuff, to kill Meneer. Fitzmaurice wants to prevent the truth about the fraud from being revealed. Thomas hates Fitzmaurice, and only puts up with him because he's related to his wife.
There's also Mr. Galmoy, the groundskeeper, who warns Meneer about the wind and Thea/Anna, and he later spikes a bottle of wine with poison, to kill Meneer. He wants Meneer dead, to stop the entire garden fiasco, which is wrecking all their lives.
He falls in love with the masters daughter but has sex with the mother.
Meneer never had sex with her mother (Juliana). Fitzmaurice lied about what he saw in the greenhouse intentionally, to make Thomas doubt his wife. Meneer made it perfectly clear to Juliana that he was not interested in her, and Juliana acknowledged his rejection.
Then the right hand man poisions someone.....THE END
Both Galmoy and Fitzmaurice use poison to try to kill Meneer, but it's Fitzmaurice (The Serpent) who consumes the poison and dies. The right hand man, Pritchard, isn't involved in the poisoning.
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maudelynn13
18 years ago
galmoy never tries to kill meneer. he mixes up a concoction to kill garden pests.
in fitzmaurice's haste to drink something to wash the poisoned snuff out of his mouth he grabs the garden poison...
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gypsyflypms
17 years ago
Actually Galmoy does try to kill Meneer. If you remember as he's shaking it up he says, "This will give you a Protestant wind up your parterre, Manure Chrome. Remove all unwanted garden pests(As in Meneer Chrome). Add this little concetrate of belladonna, and even the white fly(could also be referring to Meneer)will turn blue."
Also, there's a part in the movie after Chrome finishes reading the letter he's faked to everyone and he's sitting in the kitchen eating and drinking. The Smither's daughter warns him to watch whatever he eats or drinks from now on: "From now on, be very careful what you eat and drink," is what she says exactly.
I believe Fitzmaurice dies from the snuff he took mixed with the Mandrake root (part of the nightshade family of plants like the Bella Donna or Deadly Nightshade) he intended for Chrome as well as the drink he took. Remember Chrome spills his snuff, a "gift" from Fitzmaurice, in Thomas' office. Later on the maid mixes the Mandrake root with Fitzmaurice' snuff that he leaves in the office and gives it back to him. He puts it in his pipe and smokes it. Then he starts to feel odd and tries to get a hold of the maid for a drink, he grabs his throat. He walks into another room and takes a drink of something then he really begins to choke. And visibly starts to turn blue. So basically both the the mixture and the drink cause his death. LoL, and good he deserved it.
LoL, I have the movie and have seen it over 20 times. So forgive the long post.
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