Effie has just called Sister Helga, back onto the stand, but a few minutes before that, when they were taking the Father away to jail, Henry had walked into the courtroom tapped George's shoulder, and whispers, "here's the evidence, we have been looking for" and hands a file to him, which George passes to Effie.
Effie looks through the evidence, as she approaches the stand, "Sister Helga, do you know the name of Bernard Robbins?"
Helga clutches her cross in her hand, "no never heard."
"He's a cult leader, who believes he's the messiah"
Helga stays silent
"And here is evidence" she holds up, "a photograph here of you, and him, along with a group of people performing the most horrible cult ritual."
The courtroom gasps.
"You may ask what is the cult ritual? Well, Robbins believes, a person who is born between January-April, and has the features of blonde hair, and fair skin, are all sinful and should be punished and put to death."
"Ok, I may have heard of him…" Helga says nervously and clutches her cross even tighter
"So, the constabulary looked to see if these things linked to all the children, which they do. All the children of the names we so far, confirmed all were born between January and April. And before you ask yes, all fair skin and blonde hair. Like Susannah and Timothy."
"He made me kill my babies!" Helga shouted as she slammed down her hands, "he would sleep with the women of the cult and if the children came out olive skin, and brown hair, they would live! But if they were fair skin and blonde hair, they were immediately put to death! He got me pregnant, 6 times, and all babies came out the same blonde hair, fair skin! He told me to redeem myself and to go to Heaven, whenever I saw a sinful child to punish them and I don't regret it!
"Monster!"
"Bitch!"
"Witch!"
"Burn in hell"
Said the courtroom, "order, order, order!" As the judge bang the gavel, "this evidence has taken quite a turn. The jury will decide, while we take a 10 minute recess" and banged the gavel again
Julia had to leave the room to use the water closet.
William followed her, and waited outside, as she came out, "I heard about this Robbins man, William, but I didn't know about these rituals."
He grabs her waist and pulls her into a kiss, when she puts a finger to his lip, "I just threw up" and kissed her forehead instead.
George comes to find them, "sir, doctor, the jury has come to a decision."
They walked back to the courtroom and sat down, as the judge came back out, "all rise" the courtroom rises, "you may sit" as they sit back down.
"Jury, have you come to a decision?"
One of the jurors, stood up, "we have your honor. We find the Sister Helga, guilty on all counts and the sentence be hanging."
William and Julia are so relieved.
"Sister Helga, please stand," as she stands
"after all the evidence given, you have been found guilty of numerous charges, and you will be sentenced to hang by the neck, until your dead, and have God mercy on your soul! Case dismissed!" As he bangs the gavel
"No! I'm innocent. I was doing God's work!"
"Enough! Guard, take Sister Helga, away!"
She backs away, "NO! NO! I'm innocent!" As she continued to back away and sees Julia, and grabs her from behind and chokes her, "you're dead! Dead, you're evil and so is your daughter!"
"Get her off!" William shouts as he pulls her off Julia and throws her back towards the guard, "take her out of my sight!" As the guard nodded and took her to the chambers
"Julia?" William asks
"I'm ok. Let's go home to our daughter."
As they were leaving the courthouse, to outside of the crowd, there was no longer protesting from either side. They were cheering and getting along.
"You got justice!" One lady said as Julia smiled
"Please, come back to our church, Detective Murdoch! Please forgive us!" Said that one lady who was on Helga's side before
William turned to her, and just smiled as well.
It was few minutes later, as they arrived home, and saw Susannah and Bethany coloring at the table, "mama, daddy!" As she grabbed her crutches and moved to them to give them a hug.
Julia gave her a tight squeeze, and looked at her, "she won't bother you ever again"
"We won?" Asked Bethany
"We won. She has been sentenced," and saw the hang sign to, "tomorrow"
"So where will I go to school, then?" Susannah asked
William hunches for to her height, "well, your mother and I had a talk and decided you can go to the same school as Georgie. You will be starting next week"
Susannah gasps with a smile and gives them a hug, "can we celebrate?"
Julia nodded, "yes, we can celebrate. What do you want to do?"
"Can Bethany celebrate with us, too?"
"Yes, she can." William said
"I want to go a talking, the Alice in Wonderland one and afterwards get ice cream."
Julia smiled at William, "I think we can manage that"
The next day at 9:00 in the morning, by their choice, William and Julia, and Timothy's father witnessed the hanging.
As Helga moved was pushed to the gallows, and the rope placed around her neck the judge asked her, "have any last words?"
"Go to hell, all of you!"
The judge nodded and the guard pulled the handle and she fell through the door and they heard a snap, and gagging, for 3 minutes and then it stopped.
William couldn't do the sign of the cross, because that woman deserved it.
As they were heading home, Julia smiled, "the rope was short, she suffered."
"She did and I'm glad…which I shouldn't be" he said as he rubbed his forehead
Julia grabbed his hand, "you should be, she indeed deserved it"
He smiled and clutched her hand in his as he gave her a kiss, "your right"
It was a week later, as everyone including the constabulary attended, the funeral for all the children who was murdered by Helga, including Timothy and Lizzie.
Timothy's father was so grateful to the station house for helping him with the funeral and giving Timothy justice.
As him and William walked, Timothy's father, said, "I don't know what to do with my life Detective."
"You did do well, with your police skills, and we have an opening at the station for a new constable…if you want to apply"
"Yes, I would love to." And shook William's hand
Meanwhile, as Bethany walked with Susannah in front of them, Julia, walking along with Fiona, asked her, "so what are you going to do now?"
"I found a job, in Ottawa for a Private Investigating Agency."
"Really, that's very fascinating"
"Yes, I was skeptic of it, but the after I went for an interview. I found out the agency is all female."
"You will do well. I wish you all the best"
"Thank you, so three as well. Take good care of your daughter. She is a special little girl."
Julia smiled, "you have no idea"
Back to Bethany and Susannah, as they walked up front, Susannah noticed the gardener who saved them, "is that Mr. Greer, Bethany?"
Bethany looked up, and saw him, "Bethany, Susannah, how are you, doing?"
Susannah smiled at him, "getting much stronger each day."
"Glad to hear" as he looked up, at Bethany and smiled, "dinner tonight?"
Bethany smiled and nodded
"I'll pick you up at 7:00" as he smiled and walked away
Later that night, Bethany was on her date, Susannah was fast asleep in her bed. While, William and Julia were making love, trying not to wake her up by their moaning, as they both reached a climax together with a kiss.
The End
(Talking is what they called movies back then. Also there really was a movie, based on the Alice in Wonderland book, that came out in 1916.)
