john wilkes booth: i cannot carry a carbine. this little bitch fell on me. stumbled while jumping. i broke my damned leg. i need a surgeon. we ll go to sam mudd s. david herold: but, no. hadn t we oughta get down south, cross to the river, cross into virginia. john wilkes booth: i cannot go on without a doctor. lloyd? lloyd? john lloyd: huh? john wilkes booth: i am fairly certain we have assassinated the president and secretary seward. mind your damn horse, davey. let s go. tom hanks: meanwhile at the petersen boarding house, corporal james tanner, who has lost both legs at the second battle of bull run and is just 10 days past his 21st birthday, is about to take the first eyewitness testimony in the assassination of abraham lincoln. mary todd lincoln: [sobbing].
desire was for newspapers. so it is here, in the pine thicket, that booth reads the horrific accounts, the lurid details, and bloody result of lewis powell s attack on secretary of state william seward. fanny seward: [screams]. murder! he s killing my father! murder! help! [screams]. [sobbing].
[audience laughter]. mrs. mountchessington: mr. trenchard, you will please recollect you are addressing my daughter. asa trenchard: i m offering her my heart and hand, just as she wants them, with nothing in em. [audience laughter]. fanny seward: [screams, crying]. augusta: the nasty beast! [audience laughter]. mrs. mountchessington: i am aware, mr. trenchard. [audience laughter]. mrs. mountchessington: you are not used to the manners of good society and that, alone, will excuse the impertinence of which you have been guilty.
tom hanks: minutes after john wilkes booth crosses the navy yard bridge, sergeant cobb stops david herold, riding a gray roan horse. herold asks if a rider has passed here and cobb tells him, yes, and lets him pass. david herold s job on april 14th is to guide lewis powell out of washington after killing secretary of state seward. but hearing the cries of murder from seward s house. fanny seward: murder! he s killing my father! tom hanks: herold flees the scene, not waiting for powell. he catches up with booth at soper s hill, eight miles from washington. and it s a little after midnight when they arrive at a safe house for confederate spies. [banging on door] david herold: for god s sake, lloyd, make haste and get the things! tom hanks: a tavern where weapons have been stored. david herold: lloyd, the things! tom hanks: a tavern owned by the mother of confederate courier john surratt.
[door creaks]. abraham lincoln: william? william bell: mr. president. frederick seward: mr. lincoln, sir. abraham lincoln: frederick! is your father able to tolerate a friend? frederick seward: this way. tom hanks: seward s jaw is broken in two places and his right arm is fractured. so on april 9th, unaware of lee s surrender, lincoln returns to washington to visit his injured secretary of state. abraham lincoln: i think we near the end at last. richmond is back in the arms of the union. i walked her streets. i sat in jeff davis own chair. [laughs]