1 00:00:11,198 --> 00:00:12,617 Something came. 2 00:00:14,243 --> 00:00:16,954 It-it's from... I know who it's from. 3 00:00:18,039 --> 00:00:20,416 What's it made of? Butter? 4 00:00:21,125 --> 00:00:22,811 Mm. "Because you melt in my... ". 5 00:00:22,835 --> 00:00:24,962 Enough. Thank you. 6 00:00:26,714 --> 00:00:28,173 Is it supposed to look like you? 7 00:00:28,883 --> 00:00:30,259 Shit. 8 00:00:40,519 --> 00:00:41,788 Pineapple. 9 00:00:41,812 --> 00:00:44,499 At first lick, that sweet sharp taste, 10 00:00:44,523 --> 00:00:48,527 and then the longer it went, it grew into a sherbet of pine and raspberry. 11 00:00:48,945 --> 00:00:51,882 I've heard I taste of cherries and custard. 12 00:00:51,906 --> 00:00:53,175 What do you mean you've heard? 13 00:00:53,199 --> 00:00:54,801 Well, didn't you tell me that? 14 00:00:54,825 --> 00:00:57,304 - No. - I felt a bit strange doing it. 15 00:00:57,328 --> 00:01:00,057 I thought Paul might be worried by her agitation 16 00:01:00,081 --> 00:01:01,850 so was whispering as I licked, 17 00:01:01,874 --> 00:01:04,502 "It's okay, Paul, it's okay, Paul." Yeah. 18 00:01:05,086 --> 00:01:07,731 We must still un-throne her, my point. 19 00:01:07,755 --> 00:01:09,733 Uh, the great love story aside. 20 00:01:09,757 --> 00:01:12,009 She may sit on your face but not on your throne. 21 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:14,279 Uggh! 22 00:01:14,303 --> 00:01:15,656 It was a joke. 23 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:17,658 And once it was an acceptable jape, 24 00:01:17,682 --> 00:01:21,328 but my love is strong and my instinct to protect clearly sharp. 25 00:01:21,352 --> 00:01:22,728 Apologies. Hm. 26 00:01:23,187 --> 00:01:25,791 Arkady and I have been strategizing. 27 00:01:25,815 --> 00:01:27,566 - He has made a board. - Oh. 28 00:01:36,325 --> 00:01:37,761 It works better on a wall. 29 00:01:37,785 --> 00:01:39,763 We've made a list of factions for you to win over. 30 00:01:39,787 --> 00:01:42,432 The nobles, the military, the Church, rich merchants. 31 00:01:42,456 --> 00:01:43,874 Cherries and custard. 32 00:01:44,375 --> 00:01:47,187 Maybe the Emperor said it to me when we were young. 33 00:01:47,211 --> 00:01:50,315 You did feast on me like a starving man. 34 00:01:50,339 --> 00:01:52,943 Oh, and Catherine's aura after the moment, 35 00:01:52,967 --> 00:01:55,362 a sunlit haze seemed to hang around her. 36 00:01:55,386 --> 00:01:57,698 - Oh, did something happen between you? I hadn't heard about that. 37 00:01:57,722 --> 00:01:59,116 Oh, rabbit! 38 00:01:59,140 --> 00:02:03,078 Not to be critical, but can you actually focus on the "unseating her" plan? 39 00:02:03,102 --> 00:02:06,039 I did not leave George to be trapped in your rooms the rest of my life. 40 00:02:06,063 --> 00:02:08,584 Relax, Grigor. I'm on it. 41 00:02:08,608 --> 00:02:12,087 Actually, should we not be worried about being out here? 42 00:02:12,111 --> 00:02:13,630 You are technically escaped. 43 00:02:13,654 --> 00:02:15,281 Ah. It is in hand. 44 00:02:16,866 --> 00:02:18,594 Mm. 45 00:02:18,618 --> 00:02:19,636 Marvelous. 46 00:02:19,660 --> 00:02:23,140 You may go with my many, many imperial blessings. 47 00:02:23,164 --> 00:02:25,082 And your arse is a credit to our country. 48 00:02:36,636 --> 00:02:39,156 Pugachev, do not steal from us. 49 00:02:39,180 --> 00:02:41,783 An opportunity presents, I take it, that is just common sense. 50 00:02:41,807 --> 00:02:45,621 To not would mean I'm a fucking moron, and I is not that, dear Aunty Aunt. 51 00:02:45,645 --> 00:02:47,605 - Where is he? - Hunting. 52 00:02:48,522 --> 00:02:51,126 He'll be gone awhile if you'd like me to fuck you. 53 00:02:51,150 --> 00:02:52,586 Once was enough. 54 00:02:52,610 --> 00:02:56,548 I thought it would be interesting, but it was too weird even for me. 55 00:02:56,572 --> 00:02:59,885 Might I suggest, just to be helpful, I do you from behind, 56 00:02:59,909 --> 00:03:02,763 so you don't see my face, you merely register my sensual power 57 00:03:02,787 --> 00:03:06,725 while I whisper filthy Cossack oaths in your delicate ears? 58 00:03:06,749 --> 00:03:08,501 Oh, you're incorrigible. 59 00:03:09,335 --> 00:03:10,753 But no. 60 00:03:12,046 --> 00:03:13,315 Are the guards fooled by you? 61 00:03:13,339 --> 00:03:15,275 I made the tall one give me a hand job so it seems so. 62 00:03:15,299 --> 00:03:17,343 Ah. 63 00:03:17,677 --> 00:03:19,237 Ah! Aunt! 64 00:03:19,261 --> 00:03:20,697 Look at this. 65 00:03:20,721 --> 00:03:24,743 A partridge which I shot as it was sitting in a pear tree. 66 00:03:24,767 --> 00:03:26,102 What are the chances of that? 67 00:03:26,769 --> 00:03:28,771 Ah, Pugachev, you can fuck off. 68 00:03:30,189 --> 00:03:32,024 Empty your pockets as you go. 69 00:03:37,863 --> 00:03:39,258 Fucker. 70 00:03:39,282 --> 00:03:41,260 Still, the only good one I have. 71 00:03:41,284 --> 00:03:42,678 Has she been back for more yet? 72 00:03:42,702 --> 00:03:44,346 She has not, but when she comes, 73 00:03:44,370 --> 00:03:47,432 I am ready with a wave of love that will bring her to her knees. 74 00:03:47,456 --> 00:03:48,456 Look. 75 00:03:49,875 --> 00:03:51,669 A heart made out of rubies. 76 00:03:52,378 --> 00:03:55,418 I also had some pineapple-based floral arrangements sent to her this morning. 77 00:03:55,631 --> 00:03:59,569 I am now toying with love sonnets, but trying to get anything to rhyme 78 00:03:59,593 --> 00:04:02,972 with "indescribable lust," other than "dust," is immensely difficult. 79 00:04:04,765 --> 00:04:08,436 Her body is saying yes, now her mind must follow. 80 00:04:09,020 --> 00:04:10,038 Say more. 81 00:04:10,062 --> 00:04:14,792 This is a brilliant woman whose mind is always seeking answers. 82 00:04:14,816 --> 00:04:17,629 You must create a question mark. 83 00:04:17,653 --> 00:04:19,030 A mystery. 84 00:04:19,572 --> 00:04:22,533 She has an idea of you, and that idea must evolve. 85 00:04:23,618 --> 00:04:27,306 - You are a befuddling, strange creature. Everything you are saying is ridiculous. 86 00:04:27,330 --> 00:04:30,934 At the moment you're playing hard to want when you should be playing hard to get. 87 00:04:30,958 --> 00:04:33,228 - Seems a bit strong. She came to me unbidden. 88 00:04:33,252 --> 00:04:36,339 And that is a battle won, but not the war. 89 00:04:37,423 --> 00:04:39,276 Did I capture your father? 90 00:04:39,300 --> 00:04:40,153 Oh. 91 00:04:40,177 --> 00:04:42,446 - How, you ask? - No, I did not ask that and I never... 92 00:04:42,470 --> 00:04:43,905 I knew my body had caught his eye... 93 00:04:43,929 --> 00:04:47,951 Is this some annoying story where he ends up sodomizing you in a boat or some such? 94 00:04:47,975 --> 00:04:49,143 I will not listen to it. 95 00:04:49,769 --> 00:04:51,687 It is an illuminating story. 96 00:04:52,229 --> 00:04:54,666 He wanted to fuck me, I knew that, 97 00:04:54,690 --> 00:04:58,045 but I also knew that would be nine minutes of a busy day for him, 98 00:04:58,069 --> 00:04:59,546 quickly forgotten. 99 00:04:59,570 --> 00:05:03,407 I wanted him to want to know me and feel like he never could. 100 00:05:04,408 --> 00:05:05,303 What did you do? 101 00:05:05,327 --> 00:05:10,390 At dinner one night as he regaled the rapt room with tales of his derring-do, 102 00:05:10,414 --> 00:05:12,684 I plucked a moth from the air. 103 00:05:12,708 --> 00:05:14,645 He kept talking, and as he did, 104 00:05:14,669 --> 00:05:19,232 I smiled bemused and then slowly picked the moth apart 105 00:05:19,256 --> 00:05:21,276 and ate the pieces, 106 00:05:21,300 --> 00:05:23,904 - bewildering and beguiling him. - A moth? 107 00:05:23,928 --> 00:05:26,073 Then later that night, he sodomized me in a boat. 108 00:05:26,097 --> 00:05:29,242 - Oh, Jesus! - It is a jest. 109 00:05:29,266 --> 00:05:30,452 He did not. 110 00:05:30,476 --> 00:05:35,207 Point is, you must make her believe there is more to you than there is. 111 00:05:35,231 --> 00:05:38,484 More? Fuck me. I'm the full buffet, what do you mean more? 112 00:05:39,151 --> 00:05:42,405 I mean, let her into the new man you're becoming. 113 00:05:43,155 --> 00:05:45,342 Uh, demonstrate kung fu, for instance? 114 00:05:45,366 --> 00:05:49,328 She values ideas, so show her so do you. 115 00:05:52,039 --> 00:05:53,374 Hm. 116 00:05:58,963 --> 00:06:00,256 Shoo! 117 00:06:01,674 --> 00:06:03,026 Sh-Shoo! 118 00:06:04,427 --> 00:06:06,429 Shoo! 119 00:06:09,515 --> 00:06:12,184 I have been asked to speak to you by the Empress. 120 00:06:12,685 --> 00:06:15,914 I know some of you now, have made love to many of you. 121 00:06:15,938 --> 00:06:19,400 Some softly, some savagely. 122 00:06:20,693 --> 00:06:21,795 This marvelous... 123 00:06:21,819 --> 00:06:23,463 Are they the scientists you bribed to come back? 124 00:06:23,487 --> 00:06:26,091 ...dreams of your Russia... They were excited to join the new Russia. 125 00:06:26,115 --> 00:06:29,261 - ...leading the world in science and reason. - And yes, to be paid well for it. 126 00:06:29,285 --> 00:06:31,513 A dreamer perhaps, perhaps not. 127 00:06:31,537 --> 00:06:32,681 Probably so. 128 00:06:32,705 --> 00:06:34,123 But dream we must. 129 00:06:34,790 --> 00:06:37,752 The enlightenment is warming nations across Europe. 130 00:06:38,461 --> 00:06:40,630 Reason has opened a new world to us. 131 00:06:41,339 --> 00:06:45,485 Who knows what marvels that change the world will erupt 132 00:06:45,509 --> 00:06:47,845 from the inside of these people's brains? 133 00:06:48,888 --> 00:06:51,098 A cure for syphilis perhaps. 134 00:06:52,183 --> 00:06:53,851 I for one hope so. 135 00:06:58,773 --> 00:07:00,876 How exciting were Voltaire's words? 136 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:04,630 And that Olga's explanation of wind power uses in the Netherlands? 137 00:07:04,654 --> 00:07:08,133 Mm. My face was literally numb with boredom. 138 00:07:08,157 --> 00:07:10,344 Marial, if we are to change this country, 139 00:07:10,368 --> 00:07:12,512 we must change the way people here think. 140 00:07:12,536 --> 00:07:15,176 You could just tell them what to do and shoot them if they don't. 141 00:07:15,873 --> 00:07:18,644 Well, just saying. That is the way we've always done it. 142 00:07:18,668 --> 00:07:20,687 Which is why we need Voltaire. 143 00:07:20,711 --> 00:07:24,066 I cannot free the serfs and give women rights and education 144 00:07:24,090 --> 00:07:27,402 if people do not believe in the inalienable rights of all, for instance, 145 00:07:27,426 --> 00:07:30,656 and that reason overrides greed and tradition. 146 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:34,976 And... I have a more personal issue to discuss. 147 00:07:35,977 --> 00:07:38,914 Or no, I will just act. 148 00:07:38,938 --> 00:07:41,500 Apparently, the girls' school saw a big lizard. 149 00:07:41,524 --> 00:07:42,626 A lizard? Great. 150 00:07:42,650 --> 00:07:45,420 - I heard it might have had wings. - What are you both talking about? 151 00:07:45,444 --> 00:07:46,546 The lizard. 152 00:07:46,570 --> 00:07:48,656 I shall leave you, I must go riding. 153 00:07:56,122 --> 00:07:57,599 We have a problem. 154 00:07:57,623 --> 00:08:01,770 Apparently, Ambassador Sunduk arrived home, but without his head. 155 00:08:01,794 --> 00:08:03,480 What do you mean without his head? 156 00:08:03,504 --> 00:08:06,674 I mean he had it, but it was no longer attached to his body. 157 00:08:08,009 --> 00:08:11,154 Our treaty proposal stuffed in his neck hole. 158 00:08:11,178 --> 00:08:15,534 - What? - They have unsurprisingly taken this as an affront and a fuck you. 159 00:08:15,558 --> 00:08:16,702 We didn't do it! 160 00:08:16,726 --> 00:08:18,912 I will send our ambassador to make that point. 161 00:08:18,936 --> 00:08:21,748 Bandits, I assume. Those roads are a nightmare. 162 00:08:21,772 --> 00:08:24,376 But they already had a dim view of you, so this does not help. 163 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,837 - They will be making plans to war. We should attack them. 164 00:08:26,861 --> 00:08:28,462 Soon as possible. 165 00:08:28,486 --> 00:08:31,341 No. I will not be dragged into a war that makes no sense. 166 00:08:31,365 --> 00:08:33,093 Let me run this. 167 00:08:33,117 --> 00:08:38,514 Your war is my business, and you agreed I could run it as my business, 168 00:08:38,538 --> 00:08:40,726 "all guns blazing," you said to me. 169 00:08:40,750 --> 00:08:43,729 And when we are at war, you shall have your way with our blazing guns, 170 00:08:43,753 --> 00:08:45,188 but we are not. 171 00:08:45,212 --> 00:08:48,817 Uh, send the Sultan a carriage full of gold bullion and ask for an audience with me. 172 00:08:48,841 --> 00:08:50,092 I will meet him. 173 00:08:51,260 --> 00:08:53,929 Well... why not just tell him you fear a fight? 174 00:08:55,014 --> 00:08:58,368 Let him take Orlo back to Constantinople to eat in a salad? 175 00:08:58,392 --> 00:09:00,537 You have made your feelings known, Velementov. 176 00:09:00,561 --> 00:09:02,456 No, I feel I have barely started. 177 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,042 And I feel you have finished, so you have. 178 00:09:05,066 --> 00:09:07,294 Orlo, I have something to do. 179 00:09:07,318 --> 00:09:09,820 Do you want to talk to the parents about the lizard? 180 00:09:10,988 --> 00:09:13,425 Am I the Empress of Russia or a gamekeeper? 181 00:09:13,449 --> 00:09:14,927 I have something to do. 182 00:09:14,951 --> 00:09:17,596 Which I must do. I just must. 183 00:09:17,620 --> 00:09:19,288 - And so I will. - What? 184 00:09:22,166 --> 00:09:23,334 You... 185 00:09:26,712 --> 00:09:28,297 This is, this is madness. 186 00:09:29,006 --> 00:09:30,943 No, it's, it's clear who did it. 187 00:09:30,967 --> 00:09:32,134 What? 188 00:09:32,593 --> 00:09:34,529 They did it themselves. 189 00:09:34,553 --> 00:09:37,014 To justify a war and rile their people up. 190 00:09:38,683 --> 00:09:40,476 Open your eyes, Orlo. 191 00:09:42,019 --> 00:09:43,145 General! 192 00:09:50,904 --> 00:09:52,381 Good morning. 193 00:09:52,405 --> 00:09:53,531 Morning. 194 00:09:55,491 --> 00:09:57,785 I wanted to talk to you about the party last week. 195 00:10:00,746 --> 00:10:01,872 Hm. 196 00:10:02,248 --> 00:10:03,248 Sorry? 197 00:10:03,916 --> 00:10:04,917 The, um... 198 00:10:06,585 --> 00:10:08,504 - Are you reading? - Galileo. 199 00:10:09,005 --> 00:10:11,608 - It's interesting. - Hm, right. 200 00:10:11,632 --> 00:10:13,634 What is your topic of concern? 201 00:10:14,885 --> 00:10:16,363 The events following the party. 202 00:10:16,387 --> 00:10:20,016 Hm. The fight between Bulkov and Yakov where Yakov bit Bulkov's nut sack off? 203 00:10:21,225 --> 00:10:22,744 No. 204 00:10:22,768 --> 00:10:24,353 Your tongue on my bud. 205 00:10:24,937 --> 00:10:27,165 Huh. I recall it. Yes. 206 00:10:27,189 --> 00:10:28,208 What of it? 207 00:10:28,232 --> 00:10:30,460 I just don't want you to get the wrong idea. 208 00:10:30,484 --> 00:10:31,712 In what way? 209 00:10:31,736 --> 00:10:33,321 In what it meant. 210 00:10:33,904 --> 00:10:36,800 I am a busy Empress with few activities beyond my work 211 00:10:36,824 --> 00:10:41,013 and a line between me and the court that must be preserved to maintain my power, 212 00:10:41,037 --> 00:10:43,974 and I was also very hung over with a terrible headache, 213 00:10:43,998 --> 00:10:48,419 so you seemed the most efficient way to get my needs met. 214 00:10:50,588 --> 00:10:53,275 Seems ruthless and clever, so very you. 215 00:10:53,299 --> 00:10:55,527 - It was in no way personal. - Disagree. 216 00:10:55,551 --> 00:10:57,237 I'm sure you fucked a hundred women 217 00:10:57,261 --> 00:10:59,406 who meant nothing but the sating of longing. 218 00:10:59,430 --> 00:11:01,724 As we are in love, it is not an apt analogy. 219 00:11:02,725 --> 00:11:04,369 We are not in love. 220 00:11:04,393 --> 00:11:05,537 You are my prisoner, 221 00:11:05,561 --> 00:11:08,230 and I perhaps overstepped the boundaries of our relationship. 222 00:11:09,273 --> 00:11:10,524 Apologies. 223 00:11:14,695 --> 00:11:16,113 This is what will one day happen. 224 00:11:17,949 --> 00:11:21,136 You will walk in here, weeping, fall to your knees, 225 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:23,972 broken by your noble failure to change Russia. 226 00:11:23,996 --> 00:11:28,769 I will lift you from the ground, look you in the eye, tell you I love you, 227 00:11:28,793 --> 00:11:30,437 kiss you softly on the mouth, 228 00:11:30,461 --> 00:11:33,106 feel you press your lips back against mine, 229 00:11:33,130 --> 00:11:35,776 our bodies will harden against each other 230 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:38,320 as we feel passion break free within us. 231 00:11:38,344 --> 00:11:41,740 And we will rip at each other's clothes like time itself is about to end 232 00:11:41,764 --> 00:11:43,742 and we cannot get to each other before it does. 233 00:11:43,766 --> 00:11:47,537 Then, I will lift you on to the table 234 00:11:47,561 --> 00:11:50,749 and for a moment we will just stop 235 00:11:50,773 --> 00:11:54,294 and feel our hearts beat and the air around us still. 236 00:11:54,318 --> 00:11:57,422 Then, as I enter you, we will feel a rush, 237 00:11:57,446 --> 00:12:01,551 that of ecstasy, that of being home. 238 00:12:01,575 --> 00:12:04,120 For that is what we are to each other, and you will know it. 239 00:12:05,079 --> 00:12:06,414 As I already do. 240 00:12:17,216 --> 00:12:18,610 You are the funniest. 241 00:12:18,634 --> 00:12:20,344 Mm. You have cheered me. 242 00:12:20,886 --> 00:12:24,866 My point, it was a one-time thing fueled by practicality 243 00:12:24,890 --> 00:12:27,435 and confusing pregnancy fluids unbalancing me. 244 00:12:28,227 --> 00:12:30,247 I hope you understand, I don't mean to... 245 00:12:30,271 --> 00:12:31,272 Shh! 246 00:12:32,481 --> 00:12:33,608 Reading. 247 00:12:51,959 --> 00:12:53,711 I have no idea how that went. 248 00:12:57,506 --> 00:12:59,776 - Yes? - I just wanted to look at you 249 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:02,219 and remember all the terrible things you have done. 250 00:13:02,928 --> 00:13:04,573 Remember when you nearly drowned me? 251 00:13:04,597 --> 00:13:06,783 Ha. Nostalgia indeed. 252 00:13:06,807 --> 00:13:08,201 And yet look at us now. 253 00:13:08,225 --> 00:13:10,787 Happily at table together, our baby resting in your belly, 254 00:13:10,811 --> 00:13:14,249 an orgasm in your throat ready to unleash at the flick of my tongue. 255 00:13:14,273 --> 00:13:16,335 I don't want that, thank you. 256 00:13:16,359 --> 00:13:18,462 That was my fucking point earlier 257 00:13:18,486 --> 00:13:21,214 if words could actually penetrate your delusions. 258 00:13:21,238 --> 00:13:23,425 Of course, but know that I am at your whim. 259 00:13:23,449 --> 00:13:27,137 - I have no whim. I am a creature of reason not whim. 260 00:13:27,161 --> 00:13:29,914 Just to say, if it makes you happy, I'm all for it. 261 00:13:30,831 --> 00:13:31,916 Good day! 262 00:13:37,922 --> 00:13:40,108 - How big though? - Ten feet. 263 00:13:40,132 --> 00:13:42,361 And it just stared at me. 264 00:13:42,385 --> 00:13:43,594 Can't blame me for that. 265 00:13:44,387 --> 00:13:45,638 Are you flirting with me? 266 00:13:46,472 --> 00:13:48,265 I-I don't know, I've never done it. 267 00:13:49,141 --> 00:13:50,285 Am I? 268 00:13:50,309 --> 00:13:52,270 - It's a weird time to do it. - Sorry. 269 00:13:53,187 --> 00:13:55,815 Distracting though, in a good way. 270 00:13:56,774 --> 00:13:57,817 Miss? 271 00:14:03,447 --> 00:14:06,867 It had wings and I shot at it, point blank, and nothing. 272 00:14:07,910 --> 00:14:10,597 Its hide like a, a, a dragon. 273 00:14:10,621 --> 00:14:11,932 That's what he said when I found him. 274 00:14:11,956 --> 00:14:13,809 What the fuck are you talking about? 275 00:14:13,833 --> 00:14:16,770 - There is a dragon in court. - There's an idiot too. I'm looking at him. 276 00:14:16,794 --> 00:14:18,146 I saw it! 277 00:14:18,170 --> 00:14:21,400 Its eyes, dead and staring but somehow speaking. 278 00:14:21,424 --> 00:14:22,526 Speaking eyes. 279 00:14:22,550 --> 00:14:24,051 - But not. - Mm. 280 00:14:26,512 --> 00:14:28,115 He has the DTs. 281 00:14:28,139 --> 00:14:29,908 I have seen monsters many times. 282 00:14:29,932 --> 00:14:32,327 He needs four shots of vodka and a light pounding. 283 00:14:32,351 --> 00:14:34,997 - I know what I saw. - Mm. 284 00:14:35,021 --> 00:14:36,105 Drink. 285 00:14:47,533 --> 00:14:48,844 I know what I saw... 286 00:14:48,868 --> 00:14:50,119 Uggh! 287 00:14:54,624 --> 00:14:56,852 - You with us? - It was a winged monster! 288 00:14:56,876 --> 00:14:59,396 A fucking demon from scriptures! 289 00:14:59,420 --> 00:15:01,231 - The girls saw it too. - Father. 290 00:15:01,255 --> 00:15:03,025 - Have you heard? - I have. 291 00:15:03,049 --> 00:15:05,134 - A lizard? - It's a demon. 292 00:15:05,801 --> 00:15:08,179 It looks like demons you see in books. 293 00:15:11,349 --> 00:15:12,850 Tell me what it looked like. 294 00:15:14,810 --> 00:15:18,272 Lady Marial! A delight to have you ride with us again. 295 00:15:21,025 --> 00:15:22,276 Oh! 296 00:15:25,196 --> 00:15:26,197 Shakey? 297 00:15:27,198 --> 00:15:28,198 Marial? 298 00:15:28,783 --> 00:15:30,344 Lady Marial. 299 00:15:30,368 --> 00:15:31,803 You made it back. 300 00:15:31,827 --> 00:15:32,971 I did. 301 00:15:32,995 --> 00:15:34,264 It's good to see you. 302 00:15:34,288 --> 00:15:37,291 Is your hair supposed to be a humorous talking point? 303 00:15:38,125 --> 00:15:40,419 Don't throw stones when you look like a tiny turnip. 304 00:15:41,796 --> 00:15:44,090 Want your fucking horse or what? 305 00:15:48,719 --> 00:15:51,365 My apologies. She is a useless cunt. 306 00:15:51,389 --> 00:15:52,473 I know. 307 00:15:53,265 --> 00:15:54,934 I used to bunk with her. 308 00:15:55,351 --> 00:15:58,104 None of the ladies will have her, so they're stuck with her. 309 00:16:20,042 --> 00:16:22,020 Orlo, what is going on? 310 00:16:22,044 --> 00:16:25,857 The lizard. People think it might be an omen as well, so bit of panic. 311 00:16:25,881 --> 00:16:28,568 - An omen? What the fuck are you talking about? 312 00:16:28,592 --> 00:16:30,946 - It's a winged demon, Orlo. Why are you deluding yourself? 313 00:16:30,970 --> 00:16:32,948 - What? - Empress, we have a problem. 314 00:16:32,972 --> 00:16:36,142 I believe this, or something like this, is what they have seen. 315 00:16:36,726 --> 00:16:38,579 - The lizard? - It looked like that! 316 00:16:38,603 --> 00:16:40,122 This is what the girls drew. 317 00:16:40,146 --> 00:16:42,082 I believe it is an omen. It is written. 318 00:16:42,106 --> 00:16:44,609 I need prayer groups all over the palace in clusters of ten. 319 00:16:44,650 --> 00:16:46,628 They need to be burning sage and chanting. 320 00:16:46,652 --> 00:16:48,714 - An omen? - Or it is straight devilry. 321 00:16:48,738 --> 00:16:49,965 It may just be the devil. 322 00:16:49,989 --> 00:16:52,050 - This is fucking ridiculous. We just hunt it! 323 00:16:52,074 --> 00:16:54,928 The first to kill it should be gifted a thousand rubles and its head. 324 00:16:54,952 --> 00:16:56,471 Empress, what say you? 325 00:16:56,495 --> 00:16:58,599 I say everyone calm down! 326 00:16:58,623 --> 00:17:00,123 Calm down. 327 00:17:01,375 --> 00:17:03,854 An animal of some sort is loose. 328 00:17:03,878 --> 00:17:05,606 What do we know? 329 00:17:05,630 --> 00:17:07,399 It has not attacked anyone. 330 00:17:07,423 --> 00:17:09,860 It is unknown to those who have seen it. 331 00:17:09,884 --> 00:17:13,905 Let us apply science and reason to the situation. 332 00:17:13,929 --> 00:17:17,451 I will get the scientists from the academy to interview all who have seen it 333 00:17:17,475 --> 00:17:21,078 and try to ascertain what this animal is and how to deal with it. 334 00:17:21,102 --> 00:17:23,957 The lizard, if that is what it is, 335 00:17:23,981 --> 00:17:26,710 will be found and dealt with, rest assured. 336 00:17:26,734 --> 00:17:30,422 Velementov, get your men to go through the palace and find it. 337 00:17:30,446 --> 00:17:35,159 Yeah, um, half of my men won't go after it in case it is an omen. 338 00:17:35,785 --> 00:17:37,220 This is insane. 339 00:17:37,244 --> 00:17:39,723 - Not really. I have had many omens on the battlefield. 340 00:17:39,747 --> 00:17:43,143 My first victory, I was on my way to attack through a ravine. 341 00:17:43,167 --> 00:17:44,853 Straight down the middle. 342 00:17:44,877 --> 00:17:47,564 That night, I awoke to a sound... 343 00:17:51,509 --> 00:17:53,070 I went out into the night... 344 00:17:55,012 --> 00:17:57,890 ...a donkey was throwing up blood. 345 00:17:59,225 --> 00:18:00,494 I sent a forward scout. 346 00:18:00,518 --> 00:18:03,646 He discovered that they were ready for an attack from that direction. 347 00:18:05,439 --> 00:18:08,359 We rerouted, pincered them. 348 00:18:09,610 --> 00:18:11,129 That is not an omen. 349 00:18:11,153 --> 00:18:14,282 If a donkey vomiting blood is not an omen, what is it? 350 00:18:14,865 --> 00:18:16,718 A very sick donkey. 351 00:18:16,742 --> 00:18:19,263 My mother told me that in the week before I was born, 352 00:18:19,287 --> 00:18:21,348 a dozen white doves landed outside our house 353 00:18:21,372 --> 00:18:23,350 and stayed there until the day I was born. 354 00:18:23,374 --> 00:18:25,560 - The whole village still talks of it. - Orlo? 355 00:18:25,584 --> 00:18:27,938 I don't think it was an omen, but I mean some villagers did. 356 00:18:27,962 --> 00:18:29,439 Like I was special. 357 00:18:29,463 --> 00:18:32,693 But we had a pecan tree so sometimes in season, birds would often... 358 00:18:32,717 --> 00:18:35,279 Velementov, go find it and kill it. 359 00:18:35,303 --> 00:18:37,847 Attack the lizard, ignore the Ottomans. 360 00:18:38,764 --> 00:18:40,182 Understood. 361 00:18:43,644 --> 00:18:47,499 I'm worried his love for Catherine is a brake on our plans. 362 00:18:47,523 --> 00:18:50,168 And we cut a man's head off for nothing if we do not win. 363 00:18:50,192 --> 00:18:52,170 And that was so much harder than you would think. 364 00:18:52,194 --> 00:18:55,007 - It was the bone. - Uh! Nightmare neck bones. 365 00:18:55,031 --> 00:18:57,259 He needs to be got off Catherine and back on plan. 366 00:18:57,283 --> 00:18:58,659 He needs a distraction. 367 00:18:59,368 --> 00:19:00,929 A lover maybe. 368 00:19:00,953 --> 00:19:03,140 Could we not just have our own plans? 369 00:19:03,164 --> 00:19:06,351 Like find him a lover, someone we trusted, 370 00:19:06,375 --> 00:19:09,313 that was almost one of us. 371 00:19:09,337 --> 00:19:10,337 Hm? 372 00:19:11,547 --> 00:19:15,986 If we just kill her, he has some grief, cries about it for a bit. 373 00:19:16,010 --> 00:19:17,738 You kill her, you'll have some grief, 374 00:19:17,762 --> 00:19:20,198 from him stuffing your eyeballs up your arse. 375 00:19:20,222 --> 00:19:22,516 We just look for opportunity. 376 00:19:24,060 --> 00:19:26,204 - Seen a lizard? - A what? 377 00:19:29,190 --> 00:19:33,444 Now, Manchego or brie? 378 00:19:34,820 --> 00:19:36,530 Well, you decide. 379 00:19:37,990 --> 00:19:39,367 Oh. 380 00:19:44,538 --> 00:19:46,516 Oh! Hello. 381 00:19:46,540 --> 00:19:47,583 Who are you? 382 00:19:48,793 --> 00:19:50,896 What are you? Uh... 383 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:52,648 Oh, I don't like that look. 384 00:19:52,672 --> 00:19:54,566 Is that for me or the mouse? 385 00:19:56,342 --> 00:19:58,779 So many ideas we must unpick in this country. 386 00:19:58,803 --> 00:20:00,113 I mean omens, really? 387 00:20:00,137 --> 00:20:03,158 - Crazy. Usually, they're much more specific. 388 00:20:03,182 --> 00:20:08,413 But before my mother got smallpox, I saw a chicken covered in bees. 389 00:20:08,437 --> 00:20:10,356 And I knew someone I loved was in trouble. 390 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:12,692 Right. 391 00:20:16,279 --> 00:20:20,700 Uh, here's a small thing I may have inadvertently not mentioned. 392 00:20:21,617 --> 00:20:25,722 After the party last week, I did something. 393 00:20:25,746 --> 00:20:29,559 Well, had something done to me, but at my behest, an order really, 394 00:20:29,583 --> 00:20:32,479 and obviously very hung over, most likely still drunk actually, 395 00:20:32,503 --> 00:20:36,048 and also, I am pregnant and apparently that does things to your bile and blood. 396 00:20:36,590 --> 00:20:38,217 Oh, is that a rose? 397 00:20:39,593 --> 00:20:41,137 Mm, mm. 398 00:20:43,014 --> 00:20:44,491 Cravings. 399 00:20:44,515 --> 00:20:46,267 What did, what did all that mean? 400 00:20:59,780 --> 00:21:01,449 I got gone down on. 401 00:21:02,617 --> 00:21:04,970 - By Peter. - What? 402 00:21:04,994 --> 00:21:08,473 It was a one-off thing driven by a number of the aforementioned factors. 403 00:21:08,497 --> 00:21:10,559 I have spoken to him of its one-off nature. 404 00:21:10,583 --> 00:21:12,436 - Nipped it in the bud. - So to speak. 405 00:21:12,460 --> 00:21:13,461 Funny. 406 00:21:14,837 --> 00:21:17,065 There was only one problem with the whole thing. 407 00:21:17,089 --> 00:21:18,233 Only one? 408 00:21:18,257 --> 00:21:20,569 My desperate desire for him to do it again. 409 00:21:20,593 --> 00:21:23,155 Oh, he's a fucking monster. 410 00:21:23,179 --> 00:21:24,221 Marial... 411 00:21:26,307 --> 00:21:30,162 It is like being shot from a cannon into the darkest sky 412 00:21:30,186 --> 00:21:33,415 and watching stars blink on in their thousands around you. 413 00:21:33,439 --> 00:21:34,482 Oh. 414 00:21:35,274 --> 00:21:37,777 A very lot of unexpected revelations going on. 415 00:21:38,527 --> 00:21:40,297 I'm stunned. 416 00:21:40,321 --> 00:21:41,882 You hate him. 417 00:21:41,906 --> 00:21:44,718 I'd say he's evil except he's too stupid. 418 00:21:46,869 --> 00:21:48,347 Find it? 419 00:21:48,371 --> 00:21:49,664 It found us. 420 00:21:52,667 --> 00:21:54,937 Oh, Elizabeth. Are you all right? 421 00:21:54,961 --> 00:21:56,313 I am fine. 422 00:21:56,337 --> 00:21:58,231 Took a chunk. 423 00:21:58,255 --> 00:22:00,484 - Opium. - Opium? 424 00:22:00,508 --> 00:22:03,195 Oh, haven't had that in a few years. 425 00:22:03,219 --> 00:22:06,782 That is a deliciously dreamy sedation. 426 00:22:06,806 --> 00:22:11,954 Take some and then three lovers and it is quite the experience. 427 00:22:11,978 --> 00:22:16,625 Who is on me, in me, oh, am I at sea, 428 00:22:16,649 --> 00:22:19,044 oh, in a tub, wearing fur. 429 00:22:19,068 --> 00:22:20,337 What did it look like? 430 00:22:20,361 --> 00:22:22,881 It is a beautiful beast to behold. 431 00:22:22,905 --> 00:22:25,384 I have my scientists working on what it is. 432 00:22:25,408 --> 00:22:26,843 Oh, it's a crocodile. 433 00:22:26,867 --> 00:22:28,428 What? How do you know? 434 00:22:28,452 --> 00:22:32,140 Well, at first, I was so shocked, I didn't know what it was. 435 00:22:32,164 --> 00:22:36,853 And then I realized I have seen them in books of the Americas. 436 00:22:36,877 --> 00:22:38,730 Fascinating. 437 00:22:38,754 --> 00:22:40,715 There's a book on the table. 438 00:22:46,929 --> 00:22:48,740 - Oh! - A crocodile. 439 00:22:48,764 --> 00:22:51,159 Oh, thank God it did not kill you. 440 00:22:51,183 --> 00:22:54,830 I thought he would, but it seemed he preferred my mouse. 441 00:22:54,854 --> 00:22:59,251 Alas, little Orestes, swallowed in a snap. 442 00:22:59,275 --> 00:23:00,318 Then off he went. 443 00:23:01,944 --> 00:23:04,172 - Orlo, gather the court. - Why? 444 00:23:04,196 --> 00:23:07,593 We know what it is, so we must go tell the court we know what it is 445 00:23:07,617 --> 00:23:09,636 and put this omen business back in its box 446 00:23:09,660 --> 00:23:11,471 with everything else from the 15th century. 447 00:23:11,495 --> 00:23:13,765 They may feel safer to gather outside. 448 00:23:13,789 --> 00:23:15,225 However. 449 00:23:15,249 --> 00:23:17,311 Basil, stand with me. 450 00:23:17,335 --> 00:23:18,753 Of course, Empress. 451 00:23:29,305 --> 00:23:34,411 The scientists at the academy have identified this lizard as a crocodile, 452 00:23:34,435 --> 00:23:37,205 a species of North American river animal. 453 00:23:37,229 --> 00:23:41,084 It eats small creatures and can only be killed by stabbing it in the eyes. 454 00:23:41,108 --> 00:23:42,127 Ooh! 455 00:23:42,151 --> 00:23:44,129 Velementov is searching for this lost creature, 456 00:23:44,153 --> 00:23:46,214 and I assure you he will find it. 457 00:23:46,238 --> 00:23:50,552 But above all, know it is a real creature 458 00:23:50,576 --> 00:23:52,971 and not an omen or a sign. 459 00:23:52,995 --> 00:23:54,932 Father Basil, don't you agree? 460 00:23:54,956 --> 00:23:59,710 It seems it is real and that we know it is a crocodile. 461 00:24:01,295 --> 00:24:03,965 That doesn't mean it's not an omen, of course. 462 00:24:06,217 --> 00:24:08,654 That is in fact exactly what it means. 463 00:24:08,678 --> 00:24:10,948 - How did it get here? - And why is it here? 464 00:24:10,972 --> 00:24:13,158 This is why it suggests omen. 465 00:24:13,182 --> 00:24:15,160 Let us just deal with the fact it is. 466 00:24:15,184 --> 00:24:17,496 That is the only actual fact here. 467 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:20,958 God sends signs that will make us sit up and take notice. 468 00:24:20,982 --> 00:24:23,252 He is speaking to us, and we must listen. 469 00:24:23,276 --> 00:24:28,382 No, we must be rational people, not driven by superstition and foolish ideas. 470 00:24:28,406 --> 00:24:31,176 We must be led by science and reason. 471 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:33,095 Could it be to do with the Empress? 472 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:34,263 She is new. 473 00:24:34,287 --> 00:24:37,349 The omen has appeared shortly after her reign begins. 474 00:24:37,373 --> 00:24:38,558 It's not an omen! 475 00:24:38,582 --> 00:24:41,752 The new archbishop says it might be, and he speaks for God. 476 00:24:42,378 --> 00:24:43,879 No, he doesn't. 477 00:24:45,339 --> 00:24:48,610 Let us all calm down. 478 00:24:48,634 --> 00:24:50,094 Exactly! 479 00:24:52,221 --> 00:24:54,574 Let me speak to this a moment. 480 00:24:54,598 --> 00:24:59,371 There are such things as omens, and there are such things as crocodiles. 481 00:24:59,395 --> 00:25:03,000 And sometimes a crocodile is just a crocodile. 482 00:25:03,024 --> 00:25:05,359 I believe this is what you are saying, Patriarch. 483 00:25:06,485 --> 00:25:09,131 Which is this? Who is to say? 484 00:25:09,155 --> 00:25:10,716 Only God. 485 00:25:10,740 --> 00:25:15,387 And as Patriarch, the only one among us who has a direct relationship with God, 486 00:25:15,411 --> 00:25:18,456 I will go find out if it is an omen. 487 00:25:19,457 --> 00:25:22,894 Perhaps relating to our new Empress' rule 488 00:25:22,918 --> 00:25:26,398 and the fact that she is an interloper from elsewhere 489 00:25:26,422 --> 00:25:28,692 come to wreak havoc on Russia... 490 00:25:30,718 --> 00:25:32,887 Which is one possible interpretation. 491 00:25:34,430 --> 00:25:36,491 Or perhaps it is something else. 492 00:25:36,515 --> 00:25:40,829 Merely a lost creature who was lost on a boat from the Americas 493 00:25:40,853 --> 00:25:45,316 and somehow, illogically, ended up lost in our court. 494 00:25:46,233 --> 00:25:50,863 I will go and commune with God and let you know when God has spoken. 495 00:25:52,406 --> 00:25:55,135 Calm yourselves, lock your children away, 496 00:25:55,159 --> 00:26:00,891 and pray relentlessly, as that is the only real protection from His wrath, 497 00:26:00,915 --> 00:26:04,168 and I will reveal all soon. 498 00:26:08,047 --> 00:26:09,274 Amen. 499 00:26:09,298 --> 00:26:10,591 Amen. 500 00:26:17,556 --> 00:26:18,951 You! 501 00:26:18,975 --> 00:26:20,559 Oh, hello. 502 00:26:21,310 --> 00:26:22,913 I thought that went well. 503 00:26:22,937 --> 00:26:26,250 Basil did a good impression of Judas, didn't you think? 504 00:26:26,274 --> 00:26:29,544 A simple backwoods priest out of his depth. 505 00:26:29,568 --> 00:26:31,588 - You brought it in here! - A crocodile? 506 00:26:31,612 --> 00:26:33,340 Where would I get a crocodile? 507 00:26:33,364 --> 00:26:35,241 Put it in a carriage from America? 508 00:26:36,367 --> 00:26:38,244 I imagine it wasn't always that size. 509 00:26:39,996 --> 00:26:42,182 It's a shame we're always trying to destroy each other 510 00:26:42,206 --> 00:26:45,018 when we're really the only truly brilliant people here. 511 00:26:45,042 --> 00:26:46,019 Bastard. 512 00:26:46,043 --> 00:26:49,189 Mother never used that exact term, but not inaccurate. 513 00:26:49,213 --> 00:26:51,608 - How? - It's a funny story. 514 00:26:51,632 --> 00:26:55,529 Years and years ago, a monk missionary brought it back as a baby, 515 00:26:55,553 --> 00:26:57,906 lives in a hermit order up in the Caucasus. 516 00:26:57,930 --> 00:27:00,284 Raised it. Fed it mice and rabbits. 517 00:27:00,308 --> 00:27:02,411 Lived happily together apparently. 518 00:27:02,435 --> 00:27:04,663 Power of love and all that, I suppose. 519 00:27:04,687 --> 00:27:06,331 Touching when you think about it. 520 00:27:06,355 --> 00:27:10,252 I'd forgotten all about it, but I was thinking how I could deal with you, 521 00:27:10,276 --> 00:27:14,363 and it popped into my head, a vision from God. 522 00:27:15,114 --> 00:27:16,216 What do you want? 523 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:18,176 It's not me. What does God want? 524 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,095 Fine, what does God want? 525 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:21,763 Three things. 526 00:27:21,787 --> 00:27:25,392 One, you get rid of Basil and agree never to kill me. 527 00:27:25,416 --> 00:27:30,355 Two, you make the Russian church the only church in Russia again. 528 00:27:30,379 --> 00:27:33,466 And three, you come and meet God. 529 00:27:34,884 --> 00:27:37,321 Repeat three because it seemed mad. 530 00:27:37,345 --> 00:27:41,366 Everything you say seems mad, but this had another level on it. 531 00:27:41,390 --> 00:27:46,496 If we are to live in uneasy harmony, I would like you to know God. 532 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,373 And He's coming for tea soon, is He? 533 00:27:48,397 --> 00:27:50,626 - We will go to Him. - Of course we will. 534 00:27:50,650 --> 00:27:51,984 How rude of me. 535 00:27:52,860 --> 00:27:56,924 Or, I come in here tomorrow having communed with Him 536 00:27:56,948 --> 00:27:59,992 and destroy you in the eyes of half the court 537 00:28:00,576 --> 00:28:03,180 and let the word filter out to the regions. 538 00:28:03,204 --> 00:28:05,015 It will not unseat you, 539 00:28:05,039 --> 00:28:08,852 but no one will follow your agenda as it will be the Devil's agenda. 540 00:28:08,876 --> 00:28:14,215 And it will erode you until you are pretty dust on the wind. 541 00:28:19,512 --> 00:28:22,699 Archie... always does love the extreme. 542 00:28:22,723 --> 00:28:24,576 He's showing you his strength. 543 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:28,413 The Church has power in that it holds the people's minds. 544 00:28:28,437 --> 00:28:30,874 But he doesn't seem to want to destroy me. 545 00:28:30,898 --> 00:28:32,960 Just push me back. 546 00:28:32,984 --> 00:28:35,611 He did try to make peace, I suppose. 547 00:28:37,029 --> 00:28:38,090 Cute. 548 00:28:38,114 --> 00:28:40,114 It's pretty simple how we deal with it, isn't it? 549 00:28:40,950 --> 00:28:42,386 We kill him. 550 00:28:42,410 --> 00:28:45,722 Let's kill Basil too because he threw you under the carriage out there. 551 00:28:45,746 --> 00:28:47,099 I cannot kill Archie. 552 00:28:47,123 --> 00:28:50,811 It will look like the omen was right and I was trying to stop him revealing it. 553 00:28:50,835 --> 00:28:52,896 I cannot kill Basil as it will look the same. 554 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,649 He has us in a pincer movement. 555 00:28:55,673 --> 00:28:59,093 We can wriggle, but how do we break free? 556 00:29:01,345 --> 00:29:04,157 - I thought the answer was next. - More a summation of the position. 557 00:29:04,181 --> 00:29:05,409 - Helpful. - Thanks. 558 00:29:05,433 --> 00:29:06,952 - Sarcasm. - Understood. 559 00:29:06,976 --> 00:29:09,228 We need to find and kill the crocodile. 560 00:29:11,022 --> 00:29:12,541 Velementov. 561 00:29:12,565 --> 00:29:13,774 On my way. 562 00:29:22,575 --> 00:29:27,639 Elizabeth, can you teach someone else the tongue trick for me? 563 00:29:27,663 --> 00:29:30,082 - Why? - I let him do it to me. 564 00:29:31,417 --> 00:29:32,686 Gosh. 565 00:29:32,710 --> 00:29:35,856 What exhilarating and surprising news. 566 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,943 Now I am reacquainted with the taste, I long for more. 567 00:29:39,967 --> 00:29:41,528 Marvelous. 568 00:29:41,552 --> 00:29:43,739 - Good for you. - But not from him. 569 00:29:43,763 --> 00:29:46,241 - Why not from him? He is the safe choice. 570 00:29:46,265 --> 00:29:48,702 He has unnerving ideas of our love. 571 00:29:48,726 --> 00:29:50,728 But you are not in love with him. 572 00:29:51,354 --> 00:29:54,917 A woman should know how to let a man suffer his delusions 573 00:29:54,941 --> 00:29:57,693 whilst harvesting the fruit she needs from his farm. 574 00:29:58,611 --> 00:30:00,213 Give in to your body. 575 00:30:00,237 --> 00:30:03,050 Your mind is safe, your heart impregnable. 576 00:30:03,074 --> 00:30:04,325 So why not? 577 00:30:07,828 --> 00:30:09,848 You are up? 578 00:30:09,872 --> 00:30:11,058 Yes. 579 00:30:11,082 --> 00:30:14,561 I am making Galileo planets out of boiled eggs for Paul. 580 00:30:14,585 --> 00:30:17,147 Chicken egg for Mars, ostrich egg for Jupiter. 581 00:30:17,171 --> 00:30:18,357 We can hang them up. 582 00:30:18,381 --> 00:30:20,901 Then when he is sick of them, make a sauce gribiche. 583 00:30:20,925 --> 00:30:21,925 Cute. 584 00:30:22,718 --> 00:30:24,363 What brings you here so late? 585 00:30:24,387 --> 00:30:25,906 Ah. I could not sleep. 586 00:30:25,930 --> 00:30:29,534 And wished to tell you, in case you had not heard, it's not a big thing, 587 00:30:29,558 --> 00:30:31,203 but there's a crocodile loose in court. 588 00:30:31,227 --> 00:30:34,581 - Oh, I heard about that. Probably an omen from God. 589 00:30:34,605 --> 00:30:36,583 It is not an omen from God! 590 00:30:36,607 --> 00:30:39,002 He might be mad His chosen one is not in charge. 591 00:30:39,026 --> 00:30:42,089 Why are so few people in this court led by reason? 592 00:30:42,113 --> 00:30:44,591 You seem tense, verging on overwrought. 593 00:30:44,615 --> 00:30:45,992 Heavy is the crown. 594 00:30:46,826 --> 00:30:48,553 You mean uneasy. 595 00:30:48,577 --> 00:30:49,620 I do? 596 00:30:50,037 --> 00:30:54,417 "Uneasy is the head that wears the crown," it is a piece of Shakespeare. 597 00:30:54,834 --> 00:30:56,853 No, I actually mean heavy. 598 00:30:56,877 --> 00:30:59,273 Often if I wore the crown, it would hurt my neck and back 599 00:30:59,297 --> 00:31:01,966 and give me shooting pains all night, wondered if that was it. 600 00:31:02,675 --> 00:31:04,361 - It is not. - Hm. 601 00:31:13,603 --> 00:31:15,521 It should not be so hard. 602 00:31:17,815 --> 00:31:20,335 I'm just trying to get people to... 603 00:31:20,359 --> 00:31:21,587 Think like you? 604 00:31:21,611 --> 00:31:22,695 Yes! 605 00:31:23,404 --> 00:31:24,756 Your arrogance is breathtaking. 606 00:31:24,780 --> 00:31:26,633 My ambition is breathtaking. 607 00:31:26,657 --> 00:31:29,511 You could just shoot a few people, then the others tend to follow. 608 00:31:29,535 --> 00:31:32,389 Thanks for the advice, clearly served you well. 609 00:31:32,413 --> 00:31:35,058 Father used to say you must lead by instinct. 610 00:31:35,082 --> 00:31:37,769 Ah, but what is instinct? It is heart and head. 611 00:31:37,793 --> 00:31:41,547 Neither should ever lead, they must be fused like a two-headed turtle. 612 00:31:42,632 --> 00:31:44,192 I however led by cock and sword. 613 00:31:44,216 --> 00:31:45,319 Which is why you failed. 614 00:31:45,343 --> 00:31:46,528 Indeed. 615 00:31:46,552 --> 00:31:49,013 An interesting insight. I will note it down. 616 00:31:53,392 --> 00:31:55,269 Are you actually noting it down? 617 00:31:55,728 --> 00:31:56,728 I am. 618 00:32:02,068 --> 00:32:03,319 Anything else? 619 00:32:09,116 --> 00:32:11,470 It would be for the good of Russia. 620 00:32:11,494 --> 00:32:15,706 Calm me for the decision-making process to be as well thought through as possible. 621 00:32:16,958 --> 00:32:18,250 What would? 622 00:32:18,876 --> 00:32:23,023 I need exact words as I am not a smart man, as oft pointed out by you. 623 00:32:23,047 --> 00:32:27,110 You understand it would be a purely physical action of cause and effect, 624 00:32:27,134 --> 00:32:29,488 not to be misread as anything else. 625 00:32:29,512 --> 00:32:34,743 Well, as soon as I know exactly what it is you're saying, I am at your whim. 626 00:32:34,767 --> 00:32:39,957 It is not a whim, it is a rational response to a confluence of circumstances. 627 00:32:39,981 --> 00:32:43,192 And by that you mean... 628 00:32:45,111 --> 00:32:46,279 Lick me. 629 00:33:17,226 --> 00:33:18,603 Needed a cherry. 630 00:33:19,478 --> 00:33:20,730 Ah. 631 00:33:21,897 --> 00:33:24,150 You're not scared to walk the halls? 632 00:33:24,650 --> 00:33:26,295 Danger lurks apparently. 633 00:33:26,319 --> 00:33:27,528 Not afraid of danger. 634 00:33:28,154 --> 00:33:29,154 Really? 635 00:33:40,916 --> 00:33:42,060 Going to kill it, Smolny? 636 00:33:42,084 --> 00:33:44,545 - It's a prize. Just fuck knows where it is. 637 00:34:27,462 --> 00:34:28,857 It's peaches. 638 00:34:28,881 --> 00:34:30,275 Remarkable. 639 00:34:30,299 --> 00:34:31,592 No need to talk. 640 00:34:32,593 --> 00:34:33,678 Must go. 641 00:34:40,183 --> 00:34:41,869 Could you kill it? 642 00:34:41,893 --> 00:34:43,371 What? The crocodile? 643 00:34:43,395 --> 00:34:48,252 Yes. If it is just gone, disappeared from court, the idea disappears too. 644 00:34:48,276 --> 00:34:49,753 Who kills better than me? 645 00:34:49,777 --> 00:34:51,295 Exactly my thought. 646 00:34:51,319 --> 00:34:53,548 And the irony of suddenly wanting that talent? 647 00:34:53,572 --> 00:34:55,241 Swallowed whole for expedience. 648 00:34:57,285 --> 00:34:59,596 The scientists say you must stab it in the eyes. 649 00:34:59,620 --> 00:35:00,955 Fun. 650 00:35:01,664 --> 00:35:03,850 I can just come find you when I've done it. 651 00:35:03,874 --> 00:35:07,044 I would like to see it and not have you roaming the palace alone. 652 00:35:08,504 --> 00:35:10,023 Hold my hand. 653 00:35:10,047 --> 00:35:11,608 I'm not scared. 654 00:35:11,632 --> 00:35:14,194 And I'm not holding your hand. 655 00:35:14,218 --> 00:35:17,155 Well, if we see it, I will have a split second to act. 656 00:35:17,179 --> 00:35:20,200 If I'm not sure where you and Paul are, I will spend that split second 657 00:35:20,224 --> 00:35:22,995 making sure you're all right and will be killed. 658 00:35:23,019 --> 00:35:25,872 If I have your hand, I will know. 659 00:35:25,896 --> 00:35:27,857 I will act on instinct. 660 00:35:36,824 --> 00:35:38,844 Soft hands. 661 00:35:38,868 --> 00:35:40,762 I remember that from when we first danced. 662 00:35:40,786 --> 00:35:44,433 I remember how much I hated you, and yet you could dance. 663 00:35:44,457 --> 00:35:48,628 Mm. Killing, dancing, eating: My many talents. 664 00:35:50,004 --> 00:35:51,732 I meant pussy, by the way, eating. 665 00:35:51,756 --> 00:35:53,108 I know you did. 666 00:36:08,648 --> 00:36:09,875 Patriarch. 667 00:36:09,899 --> 00:36:11,209 Father Basil. 668 00:36:11,233 --> 00:36:13,962 Shouldn't you be outside, 669 00:36:13,986 --> 00:36:16,882 burning sage and reading scripture? 670 00:36:16,906 --> 00:36:18,759 I have several vigils running all night. 671 00:36:18,783 --> 00:36:20,802 Good to know. Very reassuring. 672 00:36:20,826 --> 00:36:23,430 I feared I angered the Empress today. 673 00:36:23,454 --> 00:36:26,141 Oh, merely wrong footed her with the truth. 674 00:36:26,165 --> 00:36:27,517 What else are you here for? 675 00:36:27,541 --> 00:36:29,377 Should I apologize to her? 676 00:36:30,753 --> 00:36:32,922 Personally, I wouldn't. 677 00:36:33,547 --> 00:36:35,108 Your truth is everything. 678 00:36:35,132 --> 00:36:38,552 I was not backing down, just seeking peace between us. 679 00:36:39,345 --> 00:36:41,430 Would you like to pray together? 680 00:36:42,932 --> 00:36:44,392 Not really. 681 00:36:45,017 --> 00:36:47,728 You should go tend the sage burning vigils. 682 00:36:48,521 --> 00:36:50,773 Those fires can get out of hand. 683 00:37:14,088 --> 00:37:17,633 - I am happy to roam around all night. I'll eventually find the fucker. 684 00:37:18,342 --> 00:37:20,654 No, you tried. Archie has me. 685 00:37:20,678 --> 00:37:22,281 Mm. It's like the raven. 686 00:37:22,305 --> 00:37:23,865 Exactly. 687 00:37:23,889 --> 00:37:25,784 You saw that all the time, didn't you? 688 00:37:25,808 --> 00:37:28,870 Of course. I think like an Emperor. Strategy. 689 00:37:28,894 --> 00:37:31,772 Surprising, but seemingly true. 690 00:37:32,898 --> 00:37:33,898 What would you do? 691 00:37:35,151 --> 00:37:37,278 - You want my advice? - So, I can do the opposite. 692 00:37:38,362 --> 00:37:40,424 I would kick the shit out of Archie, 693 00:37:40,448 --> 00:37:43,885 burn down the entire palace with him and the crocodile still in it, 694 00:37:43,909 --> 00:37:46,138 thereby letting everyone know not to fuck with me 695 00:37:46,162 --> 00:37:48,140 and there are no limits to my fucking rage. 696 00:37:48,164 --> 00:37:50,767 And then rebuild the palace with less gold and bigger rooms 697 00:37:50,791 --> 00:37:51,977 so we could ride horses inside. 698 00:37:52,001 --> 00:37:54,837 Love it. 699 00:37:56,422 --> 00:37:59,216 - I'm always here for you and Paul. Know that. 700 00:38:00,509 --> 00:38:03,864 Strangely enough, I believe you. 701 00:38:20,655 --> 00:38:22,031 Okay. 702 00:38:23,366 --> 00:38:24,742 I'll go meet God. 703 00:38:35,503 --> 00:38:36,772 Velementov. 704 00:38:36,796 --> 00:38:38,631 Last truffle of the season. 705 00:38:39,090 --> 00:38:40,275 I thought you'd enjoy it. 706 00:38:40,299 --> 00:38:41,777 - In fucking deed. - Mm. 707 00:38:41,801 --> 00:38:42,986 Fine fellow you are. 708 00:38:43,010 --> 00:38:45,155 If I gave out medals anymore, you would have one. 709 00:38:45,179 --> 00:38:48,408 I think, I think I'm hallucinating. 710 00:38:48,432 --> 00:38:53,872 Before, I thought I saw you walking the hall with the Empress. 711 00:38:53,896 --> 00:38:57,417 Ah, yes, the wife and I enjoy a nighttime stroll. 712 00:38:57,441 --> 00:39:00,796 She needs my sage advice, matters of state and whatnot. 713 00:39:00,820 --> 00:39:02,005 Bullshit. 714 00:39:02,029 --> 00:39:05,842 She... she doesn't listen to anyone. 715 00:39:05,866 --> 00:39:07,552 I jest, of course. 716 00:39:07,576 --> 00:39:10,097 She came to me to get me to kill the crocodile, 717 00:39:10,121 --> 00:39:13,040 as I'm well known as the best strategic killer in the land. 718 00:39:14,041 --> 00:39:15,418 I'm a killer. 719 00:39:16,210 --> 00:39:18,814 I'll kill the fucking crocodile! 720 00:39:18,838 --> 00:39:22,276 She doesn't... does she not think I can do it? 721 00:39:22,300 --> 00:39:25,654 You are blusteringly drunk and smell monstrous. 722 00:39:25,678 --> 00:39:27,555 Huzzah! Uh, eat a fig. 723 00:39:27,930 --> 00:39:29,140 Che... 724 00:39:30,558 --> 00:39:33,370 Any word on how Sunduk spoke to the Sultan of her? 725 00:39:33,394 --> 00:39:36,582 H-He didn't speak of her 'cause they cut his fucking head off. 726 00:39:36,606 --> 00:39:39,876 They cut his head off? 727 00:39:39,900 --> 00:39:42,296 Aw, poor Sunduk, lovely guy. 728 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:43,529 Fucking hell. 729 00:39:44,238 --> 00:39:45,591 So, they will war with us. 730 00:39:45,615 --> 00:39:47,509 Are you planning an attack before they do? 731 00:39:47,533 --> 00:39:48,677 We should be. 732 00:39:48,701 --> 00:39:50,846 Ah, my father always said, 733 00:39:50,870 --> 00:39:54,057 as the other man gets the first inkling there is a fight in the offing, 734 00:39:54,081 --> 00:39:57,436 you should have your knife in his liver and your knee in his balls. 735 00:39:57,460 --> 00:39:59,646 Ha! Peter the Great. 736 00:39:59,670 --> 00:40:03,049 Great by name. Great by fucking name. 737 00:40:04,050 --> 00:40:06,695 - To Father. - To Father. 738 00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:08,095 To Peter the... 739 00:40:11,015 --> 00:40:12,200 Ooh! 740 00:40:12,224 --> 00:40:13,643 I... 741 00:40:14,852 --> 00:40:15,996 I may... 742 00:40:16,020 --> 00:40:17,748 I may lie down... 743 00:40:17,772 --> 00:40:21,442 just a little lie... 744 00:40:21,943 --> 00:40:23,194 Thank you. 745 00:40:26,155 --> 00:40:27,925 Unhappy, you say? 746 00:40:27,949 --> 00:40:29,718 Generals need to be fighting someone. 747 00:40:29,742 --> 00:40:32,554 You do not give them someone to fight, they'll fight you. 748 00:40:32,578 --> 00:40:33,847 That's very pithy. 749 00:40:33,871 --> 00:40:36,350 Mm. I'm writing new sayings down all the time. 750 00:40:36,374 --> 00:40:38,435 And you thought I wasn't on my game, Grigor. 751 00:40:38,459 --> 00:40:39,770 I was wrong to doubt you. 752 00:40:39,794 --> 00:40:40,647 Fucking wrong. 753 00:40:40,671 --> 00:40:42,522 I am in inspired form. 754 00:40:42,546 --> 00:40:45,633 We will shake her from her pedestal, and she will fall into my arms. 755 00:40:47,009 --> 00:40:50,012 Did I tell you how soft her hand is? 756 00:41:29,844 --> 00:41:31,613 You. Come with me. 757 00:41:31,637 --> 00:41:34,032 Marial. Perfume stinks. 758 00:41:34,056 --> 00:41:35,558 As does yours. 759 00:41:37,310 --> 00:41:39,630 Don't play dumb with me, Shakey. You know what you've done. 760 00:41:40,730 --> 00:41:42,124 Your little bit with the limping. 761 00:41:42,148 --> 00:41:46,086 Walking out into the middle of the courtyard to eat crotch bread in front of me. 762 00:41:46,110 --> 00:41:49,006 - A good summation of my day. But your point is? 763 00:41:50,990 --> 00:41:52,575 You're annoying me. 764 00:41:53,743 --> 00:41:55,578 You used to eat crotch bread yourself. 765 00:41:56,704 --> 00:41:57,872 I know. 766 00:42:01,292 --> 00:42:03,353 So, we go to meet God? 767 00:42:03,377 --> 00:42:04,563 Indeed. 768 00:42:04,587 --> 00:42:07,566 I am actually excited for you. 769 00:42:07,590 --> 00:42:12,362 The idea of God at work is what has grabbed our people, 770 00:42:12,386 --> 00:42:15,824 and it did not grab them, they grabbed it, for it is in them and they know it. 771 00:42:15,848 --> 00:42:21,103 The crocodile is merely an idea that there is something beyond ourselves. 772 00:42:22,355 --> 00:42:25,876 Okay, where's God? Or am I to be lured somewhere and attacked? 773 00:42:25,900 --> 00:42:27,961 - Let me tell you a story. - Must you? 774 00:42:27,985 --> 00:42:32,424 My mother was extremely, extremely fat. 775 00:42:32,448 --> 00:42:33,884 Huge. 776 00:42:33,908 --> 00:42:35,510 Enormous woman. 777 00:42:35,534 --> 00:42:38,931 Special furniture had to be built, our carriages braced, 778 00:42:38,955 --> 00:42:42,559 and to see maids wrestle her into a gown the size of a tent 779 00:42:42,583 --> 00:42:44,394 was like being at a French farce. 780 00:42:44,418 --> 00:42:49,566 Her hands never touched me that I did not walk away smeared in chocolate or pâté. 781 00:42:49,590 --> 00:42:50,841 Picture painted. 782 00:42:51,759 --> 00:42:56,698 See, she couldn't feel full, ever, no matter what she ate, how much. 783 00:42:56,722 --> 00:42:59,100 Always she felt empty, and sad. 784 00:43:00,059 --> 00:43:03,538 But I would look at her knowing I had a love she could not see 785 00:43:03,562 --> 00:43:07,441 that would fill her in an instant if she could've seen it. 786 00:43:09,402 --> 00:43:13,215 And then I was a man at court in a rabid whirl 787 00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:18,136 of sick and savage consumption: Alcohol, women, men. 788 00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:21,682 Desperately filling my nights and waking each morning 789 00:43:21,706 --> 00:43:26,728 untangling myself from someone and feeling the emptiness, 790 00:43:26,752 --> 00:43:29,422 like a cold shadow breaking through me. 791 00:43:31,340 --> 00:43:34,760 And I heard a voice telling me to come home. 792 00:43:36,137 --> 00:43:37,430 God. 793 00:43:38,389 --> 00:43:42,935 And I realized God would fill me, and I would never have to search again. 794 00:43:46,439 --> 00:43:49,942 I only wish my mother were alive to share that feeling. 795 00:43:51,819 --> 00:43:52,987 Shall we? 796 00:43:58,909 --> 00:43:59,886 Here? 797 00:43:59,910 --> 00:44:01,829 Here will be fine. 798 00:44:04,832 --> 00:44:07,376 Eat the key to the doorway. 799 00:44:27,104 --> 00:44:29,106 - Now what? - Now we wait. 800 00:44:30,942 --> 00:44:32,544 Are you actually excited for me? 801 00:44:32,568 --> 00:44:34,004 I am. 802 00:44:34,028 --> 00:44:35,321 You are the strangest of men. 803 00:44:36,030 --> 00:44:38,282 You don't even know the half of it. 804 00:44:40,701 --> 00:44:42,304 Did you see him? 805 00:44:42,328 --> 00:44:44,598 I saw a oneness. 806 00:44:44,622 --> 00:44:46,767 A unity of things. 807 00:44:46,791 --> 00:44:49,519 I was a plant and an ant... 808 00:44:49,543 --> 00:44:51,504 No, but did you see Him? 809 00:44:52,964 --> 00:44:56,735 I saw that there is love and we are all a part of that love. 810 00:44:56,759 --> 00:44:59,279 - Like that, you mean? - No! 811 00:44:59,303 --> 00:45:01,823 An old man with a beard, 812 00:45:01,847 --> 00:45:04,326 and he, he shimmers, 813 00:45:04,350 --> 00:45:08,413 and when he speaks, his voice booms like thunder. 814 00:45:08,437 --> 00:45:10,273 I didn't see that. 815 00:45:10,856 --> 00:45:12,334 I saw a shining light. 816 00:45:12,358 --> 00:45:16,445 Yes! An old man and his heart pours forth light! 817 00:45:17,321 --> 00:45:18,840 Ah. 818 00:45:18,864 --> 00:45:20,741 No. Just light. 819 00:45:25,246 --> 00:45:26,998 But I saw love. 820 00:45:29,333 --> 00:45:34,005 And I see your love for God and for me... 821 00:45:34,797 --> 00:45:36,507 which I never saw before. 822 00:45:37,883 --> 00:45:39,611 And I have disrespected it. 823 00:45:39,635 --> 00:45:42,614 Perhaps we are each guilty of that. 824 00:45:42,638 --> 00:45:43,991 We are fighters. 825 00:45:44,015 --> 00:45:47,393 Perhaps that hides the truth of us both at times. 826 00:45:51,522 --> 00:45:54,191 They love God, my people. 827 00:45:56,819 --> 00:45:58,237 You showed me that. 828 00:45:59,655 --> 00:46:01,073 Thank you. 829 00:46:01,782 --> 00:46:05,328 But their thinking should not be controlled by these ancient terrors. 830 00:46:05,953 --> 00:46:07,806 There's a modern world, Archie. 831 00:46:07,830 --> 00:46:09,725 Your church could be part of it. 832 00:46:09,749 --> 00:46:12,227 God wants me to serve you. 833 00:46:12,251 --> 00:46:15,439 I-It's strange and at times inexplicable. 834 00:46:15,463 --> 00:46:17,024 Together we would be formidable. 835 00:46:17,048 --> 00:46:20,217 We could be the grit that makes the pearl for each other. 836 00:46:21,427 --> 00:46:22,803 And I need you. 837 00:46:23,721 --> 00:46:27,516 You know them, and you truly love them. 838 00:46:30,227 --> 00:46:32,229 I will not kill you. 839 00:46:33,606 --> 00:46:35,500 You have seen the light. 840 00:46:35,524 --> 00:46:37,777 - Mm. - Even if not God. 841 00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:42,865 Now, how do we get rid of this crocodile? 842 00:46:45,076 --> 00:46:46,511 You must have had a plan! 843 00:46:46,535 --> 00:46:50,140 Well, I had faith God would provide one when the time came. 844 00:46:50,164 --> 00:46:52,583 Not really a plan though, is it? 845 00:46:54,669 --> 00:46:57,105 So, that was 11 dead patients in a day, 846 00:46:57,129 --> 00:46:59,149 which was definitely a blow to the confidence. 847 00:46:59,173 --> 00:47:01,526 But it sounds like only six were your fault. 848 00:47:01,550 --> 00:47:02,736 True. 849 00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,238 Well, it's good of you to feel bad about it. 850 00:47:05,262 --> 00:47:08,599 - Foolish really. Everyone dies. I can just stave it off for a bit. 851 00:47:09,392 --> 00:47:12,232 The whole doctoring thing is actually fucking up people's view of death. 852 00:47:12,687 --> 00:47:15,624 People are starting to get this attitude that death's a tragedy. 853 00:47:15,648 --> 00:47:17,692 - Childish. - Indeed. 854 00:47:18,442 --> 00:47:20,837 In light of the inevitability of our deaths, 855 00:47:20,861 --> 00:47:24,907 shall we take some opium and indulge in a little light bondage? 856 00:47:25,783 --> 00:47:26,867 Why not? 857 00:47:28,577 --> 00:47:31,556 Elizabeth, I was walking back and realized something. 858 00:47:31,580 --> 00:47:33,976 It chose the mouse and not you, did it not? 859 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:35,143 It did. 860 00:47:35,167 --> 00:47:37,646 Vinodel, I need some of that opium. 861 00:47:45,261 --> 00:47:49,741 Sorry for my curt response to your reluctance to go to war. 862 00:47:49,765 --> 00:47:51,201 Apology accepted. 863 00:47:51,225 --> 00:47:52,661 It is not a lust for blood. 864 00:47:52,685 --> 00:47:55,730 You know, I, I feel for the soldiers lost, 865 00:47:55,771 --> 00:47:58,858 but I also understand war is a place where men are found. 866 00:47:59,442 --> 00:48:03,505 They look at death, they understand life deep in their marrow. 867 00:48:03,529 --> 00:48:06,466 They, they are asked questions 868 00:48:06,490 --> 00:48:10,369 with impossible answers and yet find them. 869 00:48:11,662 --> 00:48:15,309 They embrace the, the dark in themselves, 870 00:48:15,333 --> 00:48:18,502 and so, so understand the light. 871 00:48:19,253 --> 00:48:23,257 And a country, well, it's, it's the same for it. 872 00:48:25,217 --> 00:48:27,053 It will define us. 873 00:48:28,179 --> 00:48:30,407 Not going also defines us. 874 00:48:30,431 --> 00:48:33,392 I just know it is my fate, that battle. 875 00:48:35,519 --> 00:48:37,063 I've known it forever. 876 00:48:38,648 --> 00:48:40,876 Perhaps I will bring you a new fate. 877 00:48:40,900 --> 00:48:42,628 Wouldn't call it fate if there were new ones. 878 00:48:58,459 --> 00:48:59,585 Now we kill it? 879 00:49:00,336 --> 00:49:02,505 No. Not the animal. 880 00:49:03,214 --> 00:49:05,466 But we do kill the idea. 881 00:49:06,676 --> 00:49:11,430 Court, I have communed with the Lord our God. 882 00:49:12,932 --> 00:49:16,245 And the crocodile is indeed an omen. 883 00:49:18,896 --> 00:49:22,960 It is an omen of what we face to change Russia, 884 00:49:22,984 --> 00:49:28,882 a prehistoric creature, all anger and thoughtless disregard for life, 885 00:49:28,906 --> 00:49:31,867 anarchic and selfish, lacking reason. 886 00:49:32,785 --> 00:49:38,058 These are the things we must face down metaphorically. 887 00:49:38,082 --> 00:49:41,311 And I have the crocodile! 888 00:49:51,220 --> 00:49:54,658 This is a victory for reason and science. 889 00:49:54,682 --> 00:49:57,619 The crocodile bit Duchess Elizabeth 890 00:49:57,643 --> 00:49:59,246 but preferred her mouse. 891 00:49:59,270 --> 00:50:02,749 We cannot get close enough to stab its eyes, 892 00:50:02,773 --> 00:50:05,109 and it is otherwise virtually impregnable. 893 00:50:05,901 --> 00:50:09,840 Unless it has eaten 34 opium-laced mice! 894 00:50:09,864 --> 00:50:12,384 Then it is sleeping like a baby. 895 00:50:12,408 --> 00:50:14,118 Huzzah! 896 00:50:16,746 --> 00:50:18,890 This is the Russia we create. 897 00:50:18,914 --> 00:50:22,519 It will be taken back to its home. We will go about our li... 898 00:50:22,543 --> 00:50:23,979 Its eyes are open! 899 00:50:39,352 --> 00:50:40,495 Kill it! 900 00:50:40,519 --> 00:50:41,896 Kill it! 901 00:51:08,089 --> 00:51:10,525 Huzzah! Catherine the Great! 902 00:51:10,549 --> 00:51:12,611 Huzzah! 903 00:51:12,635 --> 00:51:14,053 Huzzah. 904 00:51:25,690 --> 00:51:27,441 - Are you sure about this? - Of course. 905 00:51:28,192 --> 00:51:29,962 Really? Just because you feel bad? 906 00:51:29,986 --> 00:51:31,421 It's crazy, I agree. 907 00:51:37,493 --> 00:51:38,804 Call if you need. 908 00:51:38,828 --> 00:51:40,264 Which you will. 909 00:51:40,288 --> 00:51:42,641 Thank you, Shakey. 910 00:51:42,665 --> 00:51:46,728 We will have to work on those tea pouring skills. 911 00:51:46,752 --> 00:51:49,755 I can safely say they're not going to get better. 912 00:51:52,341 --> 00:51:54,069 I like cakes and cream for breakfast. 913 00:51:54,093 --> 00:51:56,321 And men like thin women. 914 00:51:56,345 --> 00:51:58,139 So, rethink that. 915 00:52:07,398 --> 00:52:09,293 I thought you'd want to know we got the crocodile. 916 00:52:09,317 --> 00:52:11,503 I heard. It was God's plan. 917 00:52:11,527 --> 00:52:13,362 Mm. Perhaps. 918 00:52:17,783 --> 00:52:18,784 Oh. 919 00:52:30,546 --> 00:52:32,024 Can I ask a favor after? 920 00:52:32,048 --> 00:52:35,068 - I am not returning the favor. It is clear accommodation. 921 00:52:35,092 --> 00:52:38,071 No. I, I just miss some things by being in here. 922 00:52:38,095 --> 00:52:40,782 As you know, I am a powerfully brilliant dancer 923 00:52:40,806 --> 00:52:43,100 and am unused to not exercising this brilliance. 924 00:52:43,976 --> 00:52:45,078 You wish to dance? 925 00:52:45,102 --> 00:52:48,189 If it pleases you, and sort of even if it doesn't. 926 00:52:49,315 --> 00:52:50,500 We would need music. 927 00:52:50,524 --> 00:52:51,919 I have music in my head. 928 00:52:51,943 --> 00:52:53,170 That does not help. 929 00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:59,051 You are... You don't like it? 930 00:52:59,075 --> 00:53:01,994 I have different pieces, but I felt like something lively. 931 00:53:02,828 --> 00:53:04,181 It is fine. 932 00:53:04,205 --> 00:53:06,082 Something lively is good. 933 00:53:07,249 --> 00:53:08,709 Shall we do that first? 934 00:53:10,002 --> 00:53:11,045 Brilliant. 935 00:54:04,432 --> 00:54:05,933 Enough.