Our adaption takes place in Oxford, England, in the year 1888. Focussing on the Kaylock family and a murder that has taken place within it, siblings are feuding with each other over whether the killing of their brother was morally right. Jefferson, the oldest child in the family, had just turned the proud age of 21 when he was attacked and killed by his twin brothers Clarence and Benedict when the family was practicing their hunting. After convincing Jefferson to join them, the twins proceeded to bring him just off the family’s property and shoot him. The boys’ sister Amelia had been left at home for the trip, and only gained knowledge of her brother’s death when the hunting party returned, dragging Jefferson’s body back with them on the …show more content…
Coming home after the Third Anglo-Burmese War in 1887, Jefferson was greeted with the heartbreaking news of his father’s passing, and the large fortune he suddenly possessed. Confused about the path he wished to pursue, young Jefferson turned to his sister Amelia for guidance and suggestions on for what was to be done next. Not wanting to be just the young man who gained wealth from his family and didn’t have to work a day, Jefferson set out to Oxford University to become a doctor, and make his own income to be proud of. Throughout his quest to get an education, Jefferson’s brothers continued to grow increasingly more uneasy with the power and wealth their sibling possessed. After overhearing a conversation late at night between Amelia, her husband, and Jefferson regarding the student’s future and career outlook, Clarence and Benedict came to the conclusion that their brother was not to be trusted with the amount of money he had. Fearing greed and the theft of wealth that was soon to be theirs, the twins laid out a plan to prevent their brother from gaining more power and money than he rightfully should, with the intent to stop the greed that they predicted was going to happen. With a plot to kill him at daybreak in a nearby field, they invited him to go hunting, and eventually to meet his