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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first time the viewer and Margaret meet Thornton in the 2004 adaptation, he's violently chasing down, beating up and firing Stephens, one of his employees, for smoking a pipe on the mill floor. [[{{Understatement}} Not the best first impression.]] It isn't until later that we learn Thornton reacted so harshly because he knows all too well what ''one'' little spark can do in a building full of cotton dust and fibres; plus Stephens had already had a previous warning for smoking in the mill, and even Mr. Higgins (who otherwise deeply dislikes Thornton) agrees that Stephens was an idiot and Thornton was justified.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first time the viewer and Margaret meet Thornton in the 2004 adaptation, he's violently chasing down, beating up and firing Stephens, one of his employees, for smoking a pipe on the mill floor. [[{{Understatement}} Not the best first impression.]] It isn't until later that we learn Thornton reacted so harshly because he knows all too well what ''one'' little spark can do in a building full of [[MadeOfIncendium cotton dust and fibres; fibres]]; plus Stephens had already had a previous warning for smoking in the mill, and even Mr. Higgins (who otherwise deeply dislikes Thornton) agrees that Stephens was an idiot and Thornton was justified.

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