1 00:00:23,919 --> 00:00:25,272 Why are you stopping? 2 00:00:25,296 --> 00:00:27,089 What are you doing? I am close. 3 00:00:28,215 --> 00:00:30,986 Uh... I have been thinking. 4 00:00:31,010 --> 00:00:33,471 Well, unexpected, and ill timed. 5 00:00:35,514 --> 00:00:37,350 I have a few issues to table. 6 00:00:38,225 --> 00:00:41,270 The only issue is between my legs on this table. 7 00:00:41,896 --> 00:00:45,083 Witty, but I was thinking before you came in, 8 00:00:45,107 --> 00:00:49,129 all week you have arrived for a good tongue lashing and I have provided one. 9 00:00:49,153 --> 00:00:51,715 But you've also avoided me personally. 10 00:00:51,739 --> 00:00:54,092 I have not thought that is so. 11 00:00:54,116 --> 00:00:55,302 Mm. 12 00:00:55,326 --> 00:00:56,970 Where is our marriage heading? 13 00:00:56,994 --> 00:00:58,931 - Our what? - Our marriage. 14 00:00:58,955 --> 00:01:01,082 Am I to remain locked in this room? 15 00:01:01,749 --> 00:01:03,060 - Yes! - Yes? 16 00:01:03,084 --> 00:01:04,669 Asked and answered. 17 00:01:05,044 --> 00:01:07,588 I have enjoyed our talk. Let us begin again. 18 00:01:08,631 --> 00:01:10,609 I enjoy your exquisite timing. 19 00:01:10,633 --> 00:01:13,028 Um, but, for instance, when Paul comes? 20 00:01:13,052 --> 00:01:16,365 I cannot be a prisoner while my child is wandering court free, 21 00:01:16,389 --> 00:01:18,075 how do we explain that to Paul? 22 00:01:18,099 --> 00:01:20,118 I have not really thought that through to its conclusion. 23 00:01:20,142 --> 00:01:23,247 I will no doubt come up with a brilliant and cunning answer. 24 00:01:23,271 --> 00:01:25,582 Often, I think best during cunnilingus, 25 00:01:25,606 --> 00:01:27,793 hence I suppose the word "cunning" within the word. 26 00:01:27,817 --> 00:01:28,817 Mm. 27 00:01:29,860 --> 00:01:30,963 I am not satisfied. 28 00:01:30,987 --> 00:01:32,422 Nor am I. 29 00:01:32,446 --> 00:01:33,966 But I could be. 30 00:01:33,990 --> 00:01:37,177 Would we not be happier if you just gave in to your savage longing 31 00:01:37,201 --> 00:01:41,080 and admitted your love for me wholeheartedly instead of clitty bitty? 32 00:01:42,290 --> 00:01:43,600 Clitty bitty? 33 00:01:43,624 --> 00:01:44,768 Indeed. 34 00:01:44,792 --> 00:01:48,272 I love you, you love me. I suggest you admit your love for me. 35 00:01:48,296 --> 00:01:49,755 Uh... 36 00:01:50,464 --> 00:01:53,235 Peter, I am fond of you. 37 00:01:53,259 --> 00:01:56,029 I see, you are to toy with me longer. 38 00:01:56,053 --> 00:01:59,741 It is a mean streak I do not appreciate, even though I appreciate them generally, 39 00:01:59,765 --> 00:02:02,077 and it is dull, as we could be having more fun, 40 00:02:02,101 --> 00:02:04,704 and much varied fornication and good times 41 00:02:04,728 --> 00:02:07,773 eating chocolate-dipped grapes while we bathe together and I toe-fuck you. 42 00:02:08,649 --> 00:02:10,877 Are you really to continue this pretense? 43 00:02:10,901 --> 00:02:12,296 Maybe this was a mistake. 44 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:16,258 It is what you and your body want so how can it be a mistake? 45 00:02:16,282 --> 00:02:17,801 Your head is the impediment. 46 00:02:17,825 --> 00:02:22,472 I do not wish to quarrel but merely to have you give in to yourself. 47 00:02:22,496 --> 00:02:23,706 Tell me the truth. 48 00:02:25,875 --> 00:02:27,436 You do not love me. 49 00:02:27,460 --> 00:02:29,396 You think you do, but you do not. 50 00:02:29,420 --> 00:02:31,690 I know my heart. I love you. 51 00:02:31,714 --> 00:02:33,525 Stop saying it! 52 00:02:33,549 --> 00:02:35,402 Yours is not a normal heart. 53 00:02:35,426 --> 00:02:36,945 You are not capable of love. 54 00:02:36,969 --> 00:02:38,488 Not real love. 55 00:02:38,512 --> 00:02:43,243 Selflessness for another, tenderness, curiosity, intimacy. 56 00:02:43,267 --> 00:02:46,413 - You fucking love me and I love you! That is the fucking truth! 57 00:02:46,437 --> 00:02:47,831 I don't love you. 58 00:02:47,855 --> 00:02:49,791 I will never love you in the way you hope. 59 00:02:49,815 --> 00:02:51,084 You killed Leo. 60 00:02:51,108 --> 00:02:53,837 You are a violent person with a terrible French accent 61 00:02:53,861 --> 00:02:56,381 who, while he eats pussy well and cares for his unborn child, 62 00:02:56,405 --> 00:02:58,133 is still a mercurial maniac. 63 00:02:58,157 --> 00:03:00,969 I am fond of you and that is why you still walk the earth. 64 00:03:00,993 --> 00:03:03,537 Do not push me into a corner I do not wish to be in. 65 00:03:04,830 --> 00:03:07,100 I am sorry to speak harshly. 66 00:03:07,124 --> 00:03:09,853 Let us put it behind us, agree to our accommodations 67 00:03:09,877 --> 00:03:12,713 as pleasing for all and finish me off! 68 00:03:14,966 --> 00:03:19,303 I knew you were ruthless, which I like, but I did not realize you were heartless. 69 00:03:20,012 --> 00:03:22,765 - I have a busy day. Will you finish me or not? 70 00:03:23,641 --> 00:03:24,701 I will not. 71 00:03:24,725 --> 00:03:25,827 Then you may go. 72 00:03:25,851 --> 00:03:28,205 I will no longer be needing your services. 73 00:03:28,229 --> 00:03:32,542 - And I will no longer be giving them. Get the fuck out of my prison. - It is my palace! 74 00:03:32,566 --> 00:03:35,629 And I wish to finish myself off before I leave here. 75 00:03:35,653 --> 00:03:38,507 Leave the room, or I will have you dragged from it. 76 00:03:38,531 --> 00:03:41,826 Well, I fear for Paul having a mother so heartless. 77 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,354 Unbelievable. You're actually doing it. 78 00:04:11,022 --> 00:04:12,624 Amazing! 79 00:04:36,505 --> 00:04:39,318 Sorry, you're very distracting. 80 00:04:39,342 --> 00:04:41,344 - That right? - Always were. 81 00:04:42,136 --> 00:04:45,365 And yet I often walked into a room, and you did not see me. 82 00:04:45,389 --> 00:04:46,742 You were a serf. 83 00:04:46,766 --> 00:04:49,578 I did not wish to embarrass you by bringing attention on it, 84 00:04:49,602 --> 00:04:53,022 but trust me, I saw you. 85 00:04:53,731 --> 00:04:55,066 I saw you every time. 86 00:04:56,651 --> 00:04:57,985 Can I have my ball back, please? 87 00:05:00,196 --> 00:05:01,340 Seems cruel. 88 00:05:01,364 --> 00:05:04,384 Unless it just means that's not the game you should be playing. 89 00:05:04,408 --> 00:05:07,203 It's just the game I was playing until the real game walked by. 90 00:05:08,829 --> 00:05:11,808 Don't follow me to my apartments, for I have no lock on the door 91 00:05:11,832 --> 00:05:14,019 and am about to go lie naked on my bed. 92 00:05:14,043 --> 00:05:15,795 Right. 93 00:05:23,094 --> 00:05:24,345 Oh! 94 00:05:39,026 --> 00:05:40,420 Tea? 95 00:05:40,444 --> 00:05:43,781 Clearly not fucking tea. Thank you. 96 00:05:47,702 --> 00:05:49,870 Is that an eye patch? 97 00:05:52,415 --> 00:05:53,749 Sorry. 98 00:05:54,834 --> 00:05:56,311 Mood's broken. 99 00:05:56,335 --> 00:05:57,562 Right. 100 00:05:57,586 --> 00:05:59,314 Sure? 101 00:05:59,338 --> 00:06:01,650 I could do some seductive talk or... 102 00:06:01,674 --> 00:06:06,679 No, I just... I... I have to do something I just remembered. 103 00:06:07,805 --> 00:06:09,307 Yeah. 104 00:06:14,687 --> 00:06:17,481 - Another time. - Yeah. 105 00:06:27,783 --> 00:06:29,827 Seriously. Another time. 106 00:06:39,754 --> 00:06:41,148 That was quick. 107 00:06:42,506 --> 00:06:44,383 I expected more from him. 108 00:06:45,509 --> 00:06:47,094 I need a walk. 109 00:07:07,365 --> 00:07:08,759 Gosh. 110 00:07:08,783 --> 00:07:10,385 That seems a kind assessment. 111 00:07:10,409 --> 00:07:12,995 Distressing is mine. 112 00:07:14,622 --> 00:07:17,476 Best look away before they shit in their hands 113 00:07:17,500 --> 00:07:21,146 and then spend minutes perusing it for worms. 114 00:07:21,170 --> 00:07:23,190 And we make them nobles? 115 00:07:23,214 --> 00:07:26,652 Yes. Peter the Great instituted the idea. 116 00:07:26,676 --> 00:07:29,404 He was worried the rise of the merchant class 117 00:07:29,428 --> 00:07:31,823 and their pockets full of gold would start causing trouble. 118 00:07:31,847 --> 00:07:33,116 Seems a clever move. 119 00:07:33,140 --> 00:07:35,035 And lucrative to the state. 120 00:07:35,059 --> 00:07:38,705 They pay five million rubles to be made noble. 121 00:07:38,729 --> 00:07:42,542 You can pin a crown on a donkey, it is still a donkey. 122 00:07:42,566 --> 00:07:44,044 Are you a snob, Elizabeth? 123 00:07:44,068 --> 00:07:46,463 Of course all men are equal, 124 00:07:46,487 --> 00:07:51,033 but that does not mean I have to retire my discernment about the individual men. 125 00:07:53,119 --> 00:07:54,846 - Oh! - Girls! 126 00:07:54,870 --> 00:07:57,516 I'm so sorry. 127 00:07:57,540 --> 00:07:59,851 They have had too many marzipan cakes, 128 00:07:59,875 --> 00:08:04,356 and also I suppose they have some issues around you. 129 00:08:04,380 --> 00:08:05,983 What? 130 00:08:06,007 --> 00:08:08,777 Uh, girls, speak your truth. 131 00:08:08,801 --> 00:08:10,237 Will we be beaten? 132 00:08:10,261 --> 00:08:13,824 - No. You won't be beaten. Or shot. Or tortured. 133 00:08:13,848 --> 00:08:15,701 W-When will people understand that? 134 00:08:15,725 --> 00:08:18,495 Rousseau says that there is a perfectness in nature 135 00:08:18,519 --> 00:08:20,330 and that is our natural state 136 00:08:20,354 --> 00:08:24,585 and instead we've created a society of repression and evil. 137 00:08:24,609 --> 00:08:27,403 You were to fix Russia in line with Rousseau's vision, were you not? 138 00:08:28,111 --> 00:08:29,339 I am. 139 00:08:29,363 --> 00:08:31,133 Does not seem real. 140 00:08:31,157 --> 00:08:33,009 You do not seem to be doing it. 141 00:08:33,033 --> 00:08:34,385 Nadia! 142 00:08:34,409 --> 00:08:37,806 Um, let her speak freely, for that is what this school is about. 143 00:08:37,830 --> 00:08:40,851 - Speaking freely? The espousal of ideas? 144 00:08:40,875 --> 00:08:42,668 - Yes. - But not the acting of them. 145 00:08:44,045 --> 00:08:46,648 Are you not like a drunken father at a dining party 146 00:08:46,672 --> 00:08:49,276 telling the world how it should change but doing nothing 147 00:08:49,300 --> 00:08:53,530 but falling over at the end of the night in your own vomited and useless ideas? 148 00:08:53,554 --> 00:08:56,575 - Oh, dear me. - Gosh, you have a turn of phrase. 149 00:08:56,599 --> 00:08:59,810 As do you, Empress, but we're thinking that's all you have. 150 00:09:01,562 --> 00:09:02,855 Right. 151 00:09:03,773 --> 00:09:05,500 - Oh! - Girls! 152 00:09:05,524 --> 00:09:07,902 Go and stand over there and stare at art. 153 00:09:11,489 --> 00:09:12,549 Sorry. 154 00:09:12,573 --> 00:09:14,492 Ow. The baby kicked. 155 00:09:15,242 --> 00:09:16,887 Kick back. 156 00:09:16,911 --> 00:09:18,263 Bad joke. 157 00:09:18,287 --> 00:09:20,998 I am being attacked from all angles today. 158 00:09:23,292 --> 00:09:24,269 Ah! 159 00:09:24,293 --> 00:09:26,462 Ah! I was just hoping to see you. 160 00:09:27,129 --> 00:09:30,025 I have the proposal for the tariff reductions with Denmark. 161 00:09:30,049 --> 00:09:33,028 No time for the fascinating world of tariff reduction, 162 00:09:33,052 --> 00:09:36,448 let us save it for when we are dead, which could be sooner than we realize. 163 00:09:36,472 --> 00:09:38,325 They were in order but not numbered, so... 164 00:09:38,349 --> 00:09:39,934 Today! 165 00:09:41,894 --> 00:09:43,413 What did I say? 166 00:09:43,437 --> 00:09:45,707 You yelled "today," even though I'm right here. 167 00:09:45,731 --> 00:09:47,042 And y-you have some cake... 168 00:09:47,066 --> 00:09:50,736 Today! We do something meaningful today. 169 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:52,881 Look at our list, Orlo. 170 00:09:52,905 --> 00:09:54,800 Our grand aims. 171 00:09:54,824 --> 00:09:58,661 We took this country for a reason, so we must do something. 172 00:10:00,246 --> 00:10:02,039 You would like to make a splash. 173 00:10:04,709 --> 00:10:06,085 Free the serfs. 174 00:10:06,752 --> 00:10:09,815 Whoa. T-The longest of, of long games. 175 00:10:09,839 --> 00:10:13,402 - We free the serfs of the Russian Empire. In one stroke. 176 00:10:13,426 --> 00:10:18,991 In one moment, 58 million people are freed from ownership and servitude. 177 00:10:19,015 --> 00:10:21,577 Oh. That's a big morning. 178 00:10:21,601 --> 00:10:23,203 So is the civil war that follows. 179 00:10:23,227 --> 00:10:24,538 You exaggerate. 180 00:10:24,562 --> 00:10:27,124 It is unpicking the economic system of Russia. 181 00:10:27,148 --> 00:10:29,626 Usually not done on the fly in a morning. 182 00:10:29,650 --> 00:10:31,694 But how electrifying if it was? 183 00:10:32,403 --> 00:10:35,882 Your passion and vision coupled with my caution and knowledge of Russia 184 00:10:35,906 --> 00:10:37,301 got us into this room. 185 00:10:37,325 --> 00:10:38,885 It can take us all the way. 186 00:10:38,909 --> 00:10:44,016 I did not do this to creep inch by inch, Orlo, and die after two inches. 187 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:47,352 Nor to seek the permission of all to enact fundamental reform. 188 00:10:47,376 --> 00:10:51,315 Let me finish our plans. I beg you. 189 00:10:51,339 --> 00:10:54,800 You must till the soil before you can plant new crops. 190 00:10:56,010 --> 00:10:57,428 All right, fine. 191 00:11:07,063 --> 00:11:08,415 You summoned me? 192 00:11:08,439 --> 00:11:10,626 I have been a fucking fool. 193 00:11:10,650 --> 00:11:11,627 How so? 194 00:11:11,651 --> 00:11:14,713 She does not love me, will never love me, and the most head cracking revelation, 195 00:11:14,737 --> 00:11:16,381 I do not fucking love her. 196 00:11:16,405 --> 00:11:19,134 - Huzzah! - I have been trying to change myself. 197 00:11:19,158 --> 00:11:20,969 - When you are flawless. - Exactly! 198 00:11:20,993 --> 00:11:24,389 If it is love, why should I change? I should be loved for who I am. 199 00:11:24,413 --> 00:11:26,350 She's like your mother, mean to you, 200 00:11:26,374 --> 00:11:29,436 and you throw your love into a dark empty hole. 201 00:11:29,460 --> 00:11:33,023 Well, fuck her, it is time to destroy her and move on with our lives. 202 00:11:33,047 --> 00:11:34,399 I love what I'm hearing. 203 00:11:34,423 --> 00:11:36,985 What have you been doing while you've rightfully left me alone to come to my senses? 204 00:11:37,009 --> 00:11:39,095 Ah, not much. 205 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:41,013 Guards! 206 00:11:41,847 --> 00:11:45,351 I want some crepes! And... something sweet. 207 00:11:48,354 --> 00:11:49,915 Good day. 208 00:11:49,939 --> 00:11:51,291 You all right? 209 00:11:51,315 --> 00:11:52,584 Frustrated. 210 00:11:52,608 --> 00:11:56,362 My reign is underwhelming, apparently. 211 00:11:56,988 --> 00:12:00,133 And Peter is... hm, I hit him hard so... 212 00:12:00,157 --> 00:12:03,178 - In the face with a knife, I hope. - Not quite. 213 00:12:03,202 --> 00:12:04,805 Perhaps too hard though. 214 00:12:04,829 --> 00:12:06,372 Oh, not possible. 215 00:12:07,415 --> 00:12:09,726 I still don't understand, you have your pick of men at court. 216 00:12:09,750 --> 00:12:11,812 In the moment, it seems genius. 217 00:12:11,836 --> 00:12:15,524 I have these moments where I just know what to do. 218 00:12:15,548 --> 00:12:17,526 Or feel I do. 219 00:12:17,550 --> 00:12:19,903 Next time... 220 00:12:19,927 --> 00:12:20,927 ...resist. 221 00:12:39,614 --> 00:12:41,550 Why does your maid now have an eye patch? 222 00:12:41,574 --> 00:12:43,760 I don't know. 223 00:12:43,784 --> 00:12:47,097 I couldn't ask because it will not be a happy story, will it? 224 00:12:47,121 --> 00:12:50,309 There's no happy story involving the sudden appearance of an eye patch 225 00:12:50,333 --> 00:12:52,603 and I do not wish to hear it. 226 00:12:52,627 --> 00:12:54,479 She is a terrible maid. 227 00:12:55,921 --> 00:12:57,757 - Well, where is Yula? - Gone. 228 00:13:00,718 --> 00:13:05,490 Shakey was in my room downstairs, and she... she drives me crazy, 229 00:13:05,514 --> 00:13:07,951 but she's been moved from the house to the stables 230 00:13:07,975 --> 00:13:10,746 and the next move will be a kick in the arse into the forest 231 00:13:10,770 --> 00:13:14,666 to hunt for berries and squirrels to eat before being eaten by a fucking wolf. 232 00:13:14,690 --> 00:13:16,335 You feel for her plight. 233 00:13:16,359 --> 00:13:18,921 Exactly! And one should not. 234 00:13:18,945 --> 00:13:22,925 I should be eating gold flecked raspberry cakes, gargling champagne, 235 00:13:22,949 --> 00:13:27,804 and... being fucked hard on my impossibly soft bed. 236 00:13:27,828 --> 00:13:30,641 Do not be angry at yourself for feeling. 237 00:13:30,665 --> 00:13:33,518 You lived their life. It has changed you. 238 00:13:33,542 --> 00:13:34,770 I do not want it to. 239 00:13:34,794 --> 00:13:36,754 It's what everyone should feel. 240 00:13:41,092 --> 00:13:42,635 Shakey! 241 00:13:44,095 --> 00:13:45,096 Empress. 242 00:13:46,180 --> 00:13:48,283 How would you like to go to a banquet? 243 00:13:48,307 --> 00:13:50,518 - What are you doing? - Changing the world. 244 00:13:54,981 --> 00:13:56,899 I'm a bit nervous. 245 00:13:57,692 --> 00:14:00,045 I look like a crazy person. 246 00:14:00,069 --> 00:14:01,904 You look like one of us. 247 00:14:05,408 --> 00:14:06,742 What happened to your eye? 248 00:14:09,036 --> 00:14:12,873 I saw the Prussian ambassador's wife had one last year. 249 00:14:13,833 --> 00:14:15,352 I liked it. 250 00:14:15,376 --> 00:14:16,585 So I stole it. 251 00:14:17,461 --> 00:14:21,233 It's an affectation I suppose, but harmless. 252 00:14:21,257 --> 00:14:22,466 Fashion. 253 00:14:23,384 --> 00:14:26,530 Would you believe this bitch has an artistic temperament? 254 00:14:26,554 --> 00:14:29,265 Everyone talks about her paintings. You should see. 255 00:14:29,890 --> 00:14:31,058 I would love to. 256 00:14:41,068 --> 00:14:42,337 Where have you been? 257 00:14:42,361 --> 00:14:44,381 I was greeting my guest. 258 00:14:44,405 --> 00:14:48,677 Orlo, Velementov, meet Lady Anastasia. 259 00:14:48,701 --> 00:14:50,095 Have we met before? 260 00:14:50,119 --> 00:14:52,097 Oh, perhaps in your dreams? 261 00:14:52,121 --> 00:14:53,765 Uh, it is unlikely. 262 00:14:53,789 --> 00:14:57,477 Lady Anastasia abhors carriage rides and has never made the journey here. 263 00:14:57,501 --> 00:14:59,855 Now, where are these soon-to-be nobles? 264 00:14:59,879 --> 00:15:01,422 This way. 265 00:15:04,425 --> 00:15:05,676 Marial. 266 00:15:06,552 --> 00:15:08,739 You must introduce us to the Empress's guest. 267 00:15:08,763 --> 00:15:10,449 This is Lady Anastasia. 268 00:15:10,473 --> 00:15:13,076 - She has been in Lisbon for years. - Ooh. 269 00:15:13,100 --> 00:15:17,396 Wonderful. They have a port full of the most massive ships, I've heard. 270 00:15:18,481 --> 00:15:19,565 Indeed. 271 00:15:20,524 --> 00:15:23,503 - Are they wonderful? - Oh, indeed. 272 00:15:23,527 --> 00:15:25,213 Beautiful. 273 00:15:25,237 --> 00:15:28,091 As you are beautiful, madam. 274 00:15:28,115 --> 00:15:30,218 Perhaps the prettiest at court. 275 00:15:30,242 --> 00:15:31,428 I agree. 276 00:15:31,452 --> 00:15:33,347 The rest of us are such trolls. 277 00:15:33,371 --> 00:15:36,475 Well, hello, new friend Lady Anastasia. 278 00:15:36,499 --> 00:15:37,625 Sit by me. 279 00:15:40,252 --> 00:15:41,712 She seems half blind. 280 00:15:47,301 --> 00:15:49,261 How do you like Lady Anastasia? 281 00:15:50,137 --> 00:15:51,907 Um, she seems old. 282 00:15:51,931 --> 00:15:53,641 Good, I suppose. 283 00:15:55,059 --> 00:15:57,704 - She's Marial's maid. - What? 284 00:15:59,730 --> 00:16:02,024 Look at them, loving her. 285 00:16:02,566 --> 00:16:03,961 She seems to be enjoying herself. 286 00:16:03,985 --> 00:16:05,403 What the fuck are you doing? 287 00:16:06,195 --> 00:16:07,905 Tilling the soil. 288 00:16:10,825 --> 00:16:13,011 What are you doing with Karine? 289 00:16:13,035 --> 00:16:15,472 - Who? - She also goes by Shakey. 290 00:16:15,496 --> 00:16:16,807 That is recent naming though. 291 00:16:16,831 --> 00:16:19,309 Oh. You recognized her? 292 00:16:19,333 --> 00:16:21,895 One never forgets one's wet nurse. 293 00:16:21,919 --> 00:16:24,189 Half the people in this room have drunk her milk. 294 00:16:24,213 --> 00:16:26,090 It is just a jape. 295 00:16:27,049 --> 00:16:31,804 My dear, I know you well enough that nothing is just a jape. 296 00:16:32,596 --> 00:16:35,033 It is a small jape to make a large point. 297 00:16:35,057 --> 00:16:37,518 What makes us more noble than them? 298 00:16:39,353 --> 00:16:41,164 I love it. 299 00:16:41,188 --> 00:16:45,294 Oh, look, she is making out with Doctor Smirnov. 300 00:16:50,156 --> 00:16:52,366 Ease up, you fucking whore. 301 00:16:53,034 --> 00:16:55,053 This is what you people do. 302 00:16:55,077 --> 00:16:56,763 You're loose. 303 00:16:56,787 --> 00:16:58,414 Just fitting in. 304 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:28,545 Ladies and gentlemen. 305 00:17:28,569 --> 00:17:30,464 I am new to these ceremonies, 306 00:17:30,488 --> 00:17:34,551 but it has struck me as a wonderful way to gain new gifts and talents 307 00:17:34,575 --> 00:17:37,137 to elevate our beautiful country. 308 00:17:37,161 --> 00:17:40,432 As nobles we create ideas, 309 00:17:40,456 --> 00:17:43,626 commerce, art, thought, politics. 310 00:17:44,418 --> 00:17:46,146 But what of the human potential 311 00:17:46,170 --> 00:17:49,066 that remains buried in the rest of our people? 312 00:17:49,090 --> 00:17:52,444 The millions cast aside because of silly titles 313 00:17:52,468 --> 00:17:55,530 that can so easily be changed? 314 00:17:55,554 --> 00:17:58,700 What potential has gone unfulfilled here? 315 00:17:58,724 --> 00:18:01,018 What could they gift to Russia? 316 00:18:02,019 --> 00:18:03,479 For instance... 317 00:18:04,605 --> 00:18:06,333 Lady Anastasia. 318 00:18:06,357 --> 00:18:08,567 Rise please, Lady Anastasia. 319 00:18:09,944 --> 00:18:14,031 She is a noble for today, dressed by me. 320 00:18:15,783 --> 00:18:19,596 But she has spent her life as a serf. 321 00:18:21,455 --> 00:18:23,958 Some of you know her as Shakey. 322 00:18:24,542 --> 00:18:28,981 She has nursed, fed, cleaned for you for years. 323 00:18:29,005 --> 00:18:31,316 But, ah, was that the best use of her talents? 324 00:18:31,340 --> 00:18:33,819 - What could she have brought to Russia? - Fuck! 325 00:18:33,843 --> 00:18:36,721 What riches could she have added to us? 326 00:18:38,014 --> 00:18:41,868 It is an interesting question and a fun jape. 327 00:18:41,892 --> 00:18:43,853 I love you all. Good day. 328 00:18:59,744 --> 00:19:02,538 Look at them, Marial. They are amazed. 329 00:19:03,205 --> 00:19:04,683 Some seem that way. 330 00:19:04,707 --> 00:19:07,019 Others look more like you've just punched them in the face. 331 00:19:07,043 --> 00:19:08,770 Well, in many ways I have. 332 00:19:08,794 --> 00:19:10,272 The amazement will come later. 333 00:19:10,296 --> 00:19:11,232 Brilliant. 334 00:19:11,256 --> 00:19:12,941 I know. 335 00:19:18,179 --> 00:19:19,472 Shh. 336 00:19:23,225 --> 00:19:26,455 Svenska, shall we call for tea later? 337 00:19:26,479 --> 00:19:27,956 Oh, I would love that. 338 00:19:27,980 --> 00:19:32,044 But I will be busy hacking my fucking arm off because your serf touched it. 339 00:19:32,068 --> 00:19:33,653 A shame she didn't hug you, then. 340 00:19:34,737 --> 00:19:35,964 Hurry up, Yula. 341 00:19:35,988 --> 00:19:38,407 Or shall I throw a stick ahead so you move a little faster? 342 00:19:40,409 --> 00:19:42,054 A fun jape, my arse. 343 00:19:42,078 --> 00:19:45,015 That speech didn't sound like the end of an experiment, 344 00:19:45,039 --> 00:19:46,558 it sounded like the beginning. 345 00:19:46,582 --> 00:19:48,417 An opportunity perhaps. 346 00:19:49,126 --> 00:19:50,354 What's stronger? 347 00:19:50,378 --> 00:19:54,733 The plans we don't know or the plans we can make up to scare people with? 348 00:19:54,757 --> 00:19:56,133 Second one. 349 00:19:57,927 --> 00:20:00,888 Then again, what if we had both? 350 00:20:05,393 --> 00:20:08,247 "There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge: 351 00:20:08,271 --> 00:20:10,773 Observation of nature, reflection..." 352 00:20:11,565 --> 00:20:12,626 This all right? 353 00:20:12,650 --> 00:20:16,129 I always found him a bit dry to be honest, but this is definitely more engaging. 354 00:20:16,153 --> 00:20:18,006 The intercourse or the discourse? 355 00:20:18,030 --> 00:20:22,052 Ah, coupled together and you, it is a different, somewhat heady experience. 356 00:20:28,374 --> 00:20:30,269 Sorry to interrupt. 357 00:20:30,293 --> 00:20:32,187 We're here for your plans, Orlo. 358 00:20:32,211 --> 00:20:33,272 I-I'm sorry? 359 00:20:33,296 --> 00:20:37,317 - The Empress's plans for the serfs. - She doesn't have any. 360 00:20:37,341 --> 00:20:40,070 Then what did you just side eye on your desk? 361 00:20:40,094 --> 00:20:41,905 We're very happy to shoot you. 362 00:20:41,929 --> 00:20:46,642 Though it seems a sad end to this strange, bookish love fest. 363 00:20:47,226 --> 00:20:48,978 I told her. 364 00:21:03,284 --> 00:21:04,452 Thanks. 365 00:21:05,077 --> 00:21:06,930 Now put some pants on and come with us. 366 00:21:09,957 --> 00:21:11,435 Father Basil. 367 00:21:11,459 --> 00:21:15,147 You have seemingly gone missing since publicly suggesting 368 00:21:15,171 --> 00:21:18,442 the Empress was a demon woman sent to destroy Russia. 369 00:21:18,466 --> 00:21:21,153 It seems it has led to my undoing. 370 00:21:21,177 --> 00:21:23,280 I have been relieved of my commission. 371 00:21:23,304 --> 00:21:24,823 So sad. 372 00:21:24,847 --> 00:21:26,307 I think I'm tearing up. 373 00:21:27,808 --> 00:21:31,121 I feel I may have been played as a pawn by her. 374 00:21:31,145 --> 00:21:34,082 And perhaps by you, as well. 375 00:21:34,106 --> 00:21:35,626 Basil. 376 00:21:35,650 --> 00:21:37,711 You are a good man. 377 00:21:37,735 --> 00:21:39,338 Your heart is pure. 378 00:21:39,362 --> 00:21:41,530 That is the aim, is it not? 379 00:21:42,365 --> 00:21:43,967 I suppose it is. 380 00:21:43,991 --> 00:21:47,387 I have enjoyed my time observing you, a brilliant man, 381 00:21:47,411 --> 00:21:49,830 God's voice whispers in his ear, and yet... 382 00:21:51,457 --> 00:21:53,685 something dark. 383 00:21:53,709 --> 00:21:57,088 Is that just in you, or does the politics of court bring that out? 384 00:21:58,798 --> 00:22:00,317 Perhaps. 385 00:22:00,341 --> 00:22:02,319 Why should you serve them? 386 00:22:02,343 --> 00:22:05,530 God is all and they should serve Him, 387 00:22:05,554 --> 00:22:07,115 and yet your brilliance is spent 388 00:22:07,139 --> 00:22:09,034 on finding a way to bring God to these fuckers. 389 00:22:09,058 --> 00:22:11,477 - Indeed. - You agree? 390 00:22:12,311 --> 00:22:14,331 With a laugh. A joke. 391 00:22:14,355 --> 00:22:16,941 I do agree, but... 392 00:22:17,525 --> 00:22:19,902 it is... 393 00:22:21,279 --> 00:22:22,422 complex. 394 00:22:22,446 --> 00:22:27,618 You believe or don't, you are in truth or not? 395 00:22:28,828 --> 00:22:30,806 In some ways, perhaps, 396 00:22:30,830 --> 00:22:34,834 your simple goodness has been a lesson to me. 397 00:22:35,876 --> 00:22:37,712 I will... And what have you learnt? 398 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:41,299 I don't like your tone. 399 00:22:42,091 --> 00:22:46,512 Are you a good man worthy of us? 400 00:22:58,524 --> 00:23:00,901 That did not feel pure, Father. 401 00:23:03,779 --> 00:23:05,424 Pray on that. 402 00:23:05,448 --> 00:23:06,592 Pure love. 403 00:23:06,616 --> 00:23:08,326 That is God. 404 00:23:10,786 --> 00:23:12,204 Who are you? 405 00:23:16,500 --> 00:23:18,294 Goodbye, Patriarch. 406 00:23:19,128 --> 00:23:20,880 It is difficult here. 407 00:23:28,346 --> 00:23:30,765 Remember God's love always. 408 00:23:59,293 --> 00:24:00,962 Why have we stopped? 409 00:24:01,796 --> 00:24:03,607 This one is yours. 410 00:24:03,631 --> 00:24:05,150 To clean? 411 00:24:05,174 --> 00:24:06,717 To have. 412 00:24:08,177 --> 00:24:11,722 A gift from the Empress as thanks for the jape. 413 00:24:27,321 --> 00:24:28,990 My paintings! 414 00:24:30,408 --> 00:24:31,885 Are you crying? 415 00:24:31,909 --> 00:24:34,036 Fuck off. 416 00:24:35,454 --> 00:24:36,664 Will do. 417 00:24:37,623 --> 00:24:38,976 I am the happiest of men. 418 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:40,227 It has been too long. 419 00:24:40,251 --> 00:24:42,378 Agreed. I feel like my old self. 420 00:24:43,004 --> 00:24:44,338 Oh! 421 00:24:45,631 --> 00:24:47,133 Oh. 422 00:24:54,807 --> 00:24:56,118 Oh. 423 00:24:56,142 --> 00:24:59,454 Empress! You no doubt have come for a tongue lashing. 424 00:24:59,478 --> 00:25:02,791 Well, alas, my tongue is well lashed out. Is it not, Zasha and Vicki? 425 00:25:04,525 --> 00:25:06,420 - Right. - Ladies, have a crepe. 426 00:25:06,444 --> 00:25:09,756 We will resume action once the Empress has said whatever incredibly dull, 427 00:25:09,780 --> 00:25:13,010 self-serving, heartless thing she has to say and then leaves. 428 00:25:13,034 --> 00:25:18,098 Mm. Well, it did not take you long to let go of your so intense love. 429 00:25:18,122 --> 00:25:20,475 How deep and real it must have been. 430 00:25:20,499 --> 00:25:24,062 It was as real as a dog who is starved and beaten 431 00:25:24,086 --> 00:25:26,648 and eventually dies of neglect. 432 00:25:26,672 --> 00:25:29,860 Or perhaps it was a delusion, as you often suggested, 433 00:25:29,884 --> 00:25:31,820 and as always, you were right. 434 00:25:31,844 --> 00:25:33,638 So put that in your arrogant crown. 435 00:25:34,388 --> 00:25:35,949 Did he force you to fuck? 436 00:25:35,973 --> 00:25:39,036 - I did not. They're not sex serfs. 437 00:25:39,060 --> 00:25:41,038 I know you are hurt that you have lost yours. 438 00:25:41,062 --> 00:25:43,498 Oh, you are not my sex serf! 439 00:25:43,522 --> 00:25:45,959 Serfs do not get entire rooms to themselves. 440 00:25:45,983 --> 00:25:49,546 Or suckling pigs and French chefs cooking them fucking crepes. 441 00:25:49,570 --> 00:25:50,881 You know what is an ironie. 442 00:25:50,905 --> 00:25:53,699 - Enough with the mangled French. It is unbearable. 443 00:25:54,283 --> 00:25:56,553 What is an ironie? 444 00:25:56,577 --> 00:25:59,932 It is a fucking irony that you profess love for all humanity, 445 00:25:59,956 --> 00:26:01,308 and serfs weirdly included, 446 00:26:01,332 --> 00:26:05,604 as my maids did tell me of your fun jape at the lunch today. 447 00:26:05,628 --> 00:26:09,483 I am shifting the consciousness of the court to make a better Russia. 448 00:26:09,507 --> 00:26:13,487 By dressing Karine up like a puppet and mocking her and the nobles? 449 00:26:13,511 --> 00:26:15,530 I mean what the fuck was that all about? 450 00:26:15,554 --> 00:26:17,824 It is fucking brilliant, is what it is. 451 00:26:17,848 --> 00:26:20,244 It is to make us all think on the way we treat serfs, 452 00:26:20,268 --> 00:26:22,103 and their position in our society. 453 00:26:23,104 --> 00:26:24,623 Am I actually explaining this to you? 454 00:26:24,647 --> 00:26:25,916 Pointlessly I agree. 455 00:26:25,940 --> 00:26:27,793 As there's nothing wrong with how we treat them. 456 00:26:27,817 --> 00:26:29,235 They love it here. 457 00:26:32,697 --> 00:26:34,258 You. Serf. 458 00:26:34,282 --> 00:26:36,826 Do you love having him shoot fruit off the top of your head? 459 00:26:37,535 --> 00:26:40,180 Oh, I'm not a serf, I'm a soldier. 460 00:26:40,204 --> 00:26:42,224 Mm. Right. Of course. 461 00:26:42,248 --> 00:26:44,166 You know us so well. 462 00:26:44,834 --> 00:26:46,895 Jean-Pierre, do you love it 463 00:26:46,919 --> 00:26:49,547 when he spits the food you have prepared back in your face? 464 00:26:50,548 --> 00:26:51,674 Oui. 465 00:26:52,883 --> 00:26:54,736 How else will I know it needs work? 466 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,155 Mm. Got to give feedback. 467 00:26:57,179 --> 00:26:58,782 Communication is key. 468 00:26:58,806 --> 00:27:01,577 Perhaps, as an outsider, you do not understand how it works. 469 00:27:01,601 --> 00:27:03,495 They're like family to us. 470 00:27:03,519 --> 00:27:05,080 I do not spit at family. 471 00:27:05,104 --> 00:27:06,999 'Cause you do not care for them. 472 00:27:07,023 --> 00:27:09,001 If I did not care for Jean-Pierre 473 00:27:09,025 --> 00:27:12,737 and know that my happiness is his happiness and gave him nothing, 474 00:27:13,154 --> 00:27:15,299 well, what a heartless insult. 475 00:27:15,323 --> 00:27:16,490 Oui? 476 00:27:16,949 --> 00:27:17,885 Oui. 477 00:27:17,909 --> 00:27:19,344 Oh, fuck off. 478 00:27:19,368 --> 00:27:22,764 I am changing this country, and the fact that you cannot even see what is wrong with it 479 00:27:22,788 --> 00:27:25,541 is, of course, de rigueur. 480 00:27:26,459 --> 00:27:27,853 De rigu...? 481 00:27:27,877 --> 00:27:30,338 As completely fucking expected. 482 00:27:35,468 --> 00:27:37,529 Catherine? Two things. 483 00:27:37,553 --> 00:27:40,157 Bravo on whatever was going on in there. 484 00:27:40,181 --> 00:27:41,199 Oh. It is not... 485 00:27:41,223 --> 00:27:44,411 It is whatever your heart desires and none of my business. 486 00:27:44,435 --> 00:27:46,496 I will let the fates play their hand. 487 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:50,250 Second, I think you'd best come to the state room with me. 488 00:27:50,274 --> 00:27:54,153 The lunch seems to not sit well in some people's stomachs. 489 00:27:56,614 --> 00:27:57,674 What do they want? 490 00:27:57,698 --> 00:27:58,759 I don't know. 491 00:27:58,783 --> 00:28:01,386 Any time one of them talks, the others start yelling. 492 00:28:01,410 --> 00:28:04,056 I made them put their pistols in a bucket. 493 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:07,476 It's times like these I am so glad you are my key military strategist. 494 00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:08,936 Tread lightly, my dear. 495 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:10,920 We will be here if you need us. 496 00:28:14,423 --> 00:28:15,692 Gentlemen! 497 00:28:21,055 --> 00:28:22,908 Do you have a representative? 498 00:28:22,932 --> 00:28:25,160 Empress. Empress. Forgive the mob. 499 00:28:25,184 --> 00:28:27,996 We are here to object to your plans to free the serfs. 500 00:28:29,105 --> 00:28:31,333 Well, there's been a misunderstanding, then. 501 00:28:31,357 --> 00:28:34,503 - Lying German bitch! - You're going to break this country. 502 00:28:34,527 --> 00:28:36,338 We have no concrete plans. 503 00:28:36,362 --> 00:28:38,882 Only an innocent jape that I hope you all enjoyed. 504 00:28:38,906 --> 00:28:42,094 - So, you are telling us you have not thought any further than that? - Indeed. 505 00:28:42,118 --> 00:28:46,515 You haven't written down, say, a 109-page masterplan? 506 00:28:46,539 --> 00:28:49,059 Oddly specific, but no. 507 00:28:49,083 --> 00:28:52,479 Would you mind explaining these documents Orlo's given us, then? 508 00:28:57,008 --> 00:28:59,093 They forced it out of me at fucking gunpoint! 509 00:29:01,387 --> 00:29:02,656 You set me up. 510 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:03,907 Nothing personal. 511 00:29:03,931 --> 00:29:06,243 Actually, that's probably a tiny bit untrue. 512 00:29:06,267 --> 00:29:09,186 A moment, gentlemen! 513 00:29:09,812 --> 00:29:11,707 Are you all right? You seem a little red. 514 00:29:11,731 --> 00:29:13,441 I feel a little red. 515 00:29:14,275 --> 00:29:15,419 Ow! 516 00:29:15,443 --> 00:29:17,462 Everyone wants to kick me right now. 517 00:29:17,486 --> 00:29:20,257 - Ponder that later. Act on this now. 518 00:29:20,281 --> 00:29:24,052 You must explain that this is another of your experiments, 519 00:29:24,076 --> 00:29:27,347 barely sketched out and open to change. 520 00:29:27,371 --> 00:29:29,474 Forgive them their panic, 521 00:29:29,498 --> 00:29:33,044 for it seems you wish to unpick the basis of everything they know. 522 00:29:33,628 --> 00:29:35,087 You don't. 523 00:29:37,965 --> 00:29:40,861 If you could be quiet, I would like to explain. 524 00:29:40,885 --> 00:29:43,864 If you expect them to work for us, then someone's going to have to pay them. 525 00:29:43,888 --> 00:29:47,576 Labor costs, the impact of which no one knows 526 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,287 other than to make our exports uncompetitive. 527 00:29:50,311 --> 00:29:51,997 The Turks will crush us on coal. 528 00:29:52,021 --> 00:29:54,333 We would figure all that out. 529 00:29:54,357 --> 00:29:58,629 If we open our minds to it, I know we have the solution in this very room. 530 00:29:58,653 --> 00:30:00,797 We will be at the whim of those in-breds. 531 00:30:02,448 --> 00:30:04,259 Who have rights. 532 00:30:04,283 --> 00:30:06,303 Who are human souls with much to give. 533 00:30:06,327 --> 00:30:08,639 Oh! We run their lives! 534 00:30:08,663 --> 00:30:11,141 Feed, house, instruct them, care for them, 535 00:30:11,165 --> 00:30:13,727 and you think they want to do all of that for themselves 536 00:30:13,751 --> 00:30:17,856 and in their down time, fucking contribute ideas of genius to Russia? 537 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,777 No offense, but it does sound like fucking madness when you add it all up. 538 00:30:21,801 --> 00:30:23,445 Yes! 539 00:30:23,469 --> 00:30:26,406 Gentlemen, these papers... 540 00:30:26,430 --> 00:30:27,848 These ones? 541 00:30:35,439 --> 00:30:37,876 Give us your word this will never happen, Empress, 542 00:30:37,900 --> 00:30:41,755 and we will, of course, go back to honoring and supporting you. 543 00:30:43,072 --> 00:30:45,324 Gentlemen. Gentlemen. 544 00:30:51,205 --> 00:30:55,352 Gentlemen! Listen or I'll fucking shoot you all. 545 00:30:59,297 --> 00:31:02,341 I understand what you have read this evening seems alarming... 546 00:31:04,343 --> 00:31:06,178 and upon reflection... 547 00:31:08,014 --> 00:31:09,849 you are probably right. 548 00:31:11,809 --> 00:31:14,395 I have been a lying German bitch. 549 00:31:15,938 --> 00:31:18,750 Because I will be freeing the serfs. 550 00:31:18,774 --> 00:31:20,627 Today! 551 00:31:20,651 --> 00:31:23,297 And yes, I yelled that bit for effect. 552 00:31:23,321 --> 00:31:28,051 And yes, you will pay them a wage, and they will buy goods and services 553 00:31:28,075 --> 00:31:29,720 and create another economy 554 00:31:29,744 --> 00:31:32,931 and they will strive for more and invest themselves in Russia 555 00:31:32,955 --> 00:31:36,059 and the filthy stain of serfdom will be off your hearts 556 00:31:36,083 --> 00:31:38,729 and unfortunately, you may actually end up richer. 557 00:31:38,753 --> 00:31:42,399 But I actually don't care whether it costs you, it will be done! 558 00:31:42,423 --> 00:31:46,111 And there's no amount of threat or spittle that you can aim at me 559 00:31:46,135 --> 00:31:47,863 that will change my mind on that. 560 00:31:47,887 --> 00:31:50,407 Get used to the future, gentlemen. 561 00:31:50,431 --> 00:31:52,433 Because it's coming. 562 00:31:53,643 --> 00:31:55,478 Ow! Who threw that? 563 00:31:56,562 --> 00:31:58,564 Oh, God! Why are they throwing shoes? 564 00:31:59,106 --> 00:32:01,585 They hate you and I took their guns. 565 00:32:06,656 --> 00:32:08,008 Did that just happen? 566 00:32:08,032 --> 00:32:10,010 Did you actually just free the serfs? 567 00:32:10,034 --> 00:32:11,970 I did. 568 00:32:11,994 --> 00:32:14,598 I felt it was meant to happen today, and it has. 569 00:32:14,622 --> 00:32:17,059 - What do we do? W-What the fuck does freedom mean? 570 00:32:17,083 --> 00:32:18,977 - We will discuss it. - When? It's already been announced. 571 00:32:19,001 --> 00:32:20,562 Can I just make a comment? 572 00:32:20,586 --> 00:32:23,273 We have the Ottomans on our doorstep 573 00:32:23,297 --> 00:32:25,984 and instead of dealing with that, we're suddenly freeing serfs? 574 00:32:26,008 --> 00:32:28,236 - It is why I am here. It's what I came to do. 575 00:32:28,260 --> 00:32:29,613 Why else did we coup Peter? 576 00:32:29,637 --> 00:32:31,782 - To get rid of him! He was a fucking disaster, 577 00:32:31,806 --> 00:32:34,201 but at least Russia was a unified country. 578 00:32:34,225 --> 00:32:35,744 Velementov. Ease up. 579 00:32:35,768 --> 00:32:37,663 You cannot agree with this madness. 580 00:32:37,687 --> 00:32:40,082 Philosophically, I very much agree. 581 00:32:40,106 --> 00:32:42,125 Obviously, the situation is not ideal. 582 00:32:42,149 --> 00:32:44,628 You knew my plans when we launched this coup. 583 00:32:44,652 --> 00:32:46,004 - I... - You what? 584 00:32:46,028 --> 00:32:47,947 You believed I would not achieve my aims? 585 00:32:50,658 --> 00:32:54,078 I thought you would do more than most, which is... 586 00:32:55,037 --> 00:32:56,390 It's... 587 00:32:56,414 --> 00:32:57,891 not much, but... 588 00:32:57,915 --> 00:33:01,061 you're better, I... 589 00:33:01,085 --> 00:33:04,064 I've been drinking barleyed bourbon, it-it affects me badly. 590 00:33:04,088 --> 00:33:05,506 I... 591 00:33:08,926 --> 00:33:11,196 M-maybe I have overspilled my words. 592 00:33:11,220 --> 00:33:13,931 - Your truth, you mean. - Calmness is now called for. 593 00:33:14,807 --> 00:33:17,869 Catherine, you have made your point, now it is time to draw breath. 594 00:33:17,893 --> 00:33:20,622 Agreed. The court has had a ripple of ideas sent through it. 595 00:33:20,646 --> 00:33:22,708 Now best settle and think this through. 596 00:33:22,732 --> 00:33:27,069 The nobles will tear you to shreds if you do this. 597 00:33:28,696 --> 00:33:30,882 I have faith in people's hearts to be good. 598 00:33:30,906 --> 00:33:33,302 I have seen too much, as have all of us in this room, 599 00:33:33,326 --> 00:33:35,178 bar one, to believe that. 600 00:33:35,202 --> 00:33:37,389 I'm asking you to trust me. 601 00:33:37,413 --> 00:33:39,850 There is no such thing as comfortable progress. 602 00:33:39,874 --> 00:33:42,269 These fuckers are too greedy not to make a deal. 603 00:33:42,293 --> 00:33:46,922 Everyone will calm, I promise you, and in the morning, a new dawn. 604 00:33:50,134 --> 00:33:51,552 Oh, dear. 605 00:33:52,888 --> 00:33:54,364 Fucking understatement. 606 00:33:54,388 --> 00:33:56,241 Perhaps we should trust her. 607 00:33:56,265 --> 00:33:57,934 She's had good instincts before. 608 00:33:59,101 --> 00:34:02,104 There's always a first time for a fuck-up. 609 00:34:04,190 --> 00:34:06,960 She is mad and has played into my clever hands. 610 00:34:06,984 --> 00:34:10,988 - We need to throw some logs on this fire. - And then her, Orlo, and Velementov. 611 00:34:13,366 --> 00:34:15,743 - Pugachev. - The one and only. 612 00:34:17,370 --> 00:34:19,163 Lie in the bed as if you're sleeping. 613 00:34:19,663 --> 00:34:20,706 I shall. 614 00:34:22,208 --> 00:34:24,101 Naked all right? 615 00:34:24,125 --> 00:34:26,228 No. Fuck me. 616 00:34:26,252 --> 00:34:27,313 Animal. 617 00:34:27,337 --> 00:34:28,672 Ah. 618 00:34:31,092 --> 00:34:32,985 People are fucking angry. 619 00:34:33,009 --> 00:34:34,696 A serf as a noble? 620 00:34:34,720 --> 00:34:38,407 It's just... I mean, what a mockery that makes of breeding. 621 00:34:38,431 --> 00:34:39,826 Exactly. 622 00:34:39,850 --> 00:34:42,788 Speaking of which, Count Millertil has married his sister, 623 00:34:42,812 --> 00:34:44,748 but we're all to pretend they were actually cousins. 624 00:34:44,772 --> 00:34:46,315 Ah. Understood. 625 00:34:46,649 --> 00:34:48,293 Oh, here he comes. 626 00:34:48,317 --> 00:34:52,714 She wants to change Russia, let us show her what a changed Russia looks like. 627 00:34:52,738 --> 00:34:58,303 Gentlemen, ladies, I give to you our one true Emperor. 628 00:34:58,327 --> 00:35:00,305 At large, in the flesh. 629 00:35:00,329 --> 00:35:02,891 Coming to our aid in our time of need. 630 00:35:05,167 --> 00:35:06,853 I have escaped! 631 00:35:06,877 --> 00:35:08,355 Huzzah! 632 00:35:08,379 --> 00:35:13,902 And I have escaped because as the Emperor of Russia, chosen by God, 633 00:35:13,926 --> 00:35:17,114 I must act when our Russia is threatened, 634 00:35:17,138 --> 00:35:21,368 and when God sends an omen to me as well. 635 00:35:21,392 --> 00:35:24,746 Yes, God's omen she killed, 636 00:35:24,770 --> 00:35:27,082 basically kicking God in the balls 637 00:35:27,106 --> 00:35:30,961 and proving herself an agent of evil bent on bringing our sunny, 638 00:35:30,985 --> 00:35:34,131 fun Russia into a dark and boring era. 639 00:35:35,448 --> 00:35:37,843 Fuck, haven't spoken publicly in a while. 640 00:35:37,867 --> 00:35:40,995 Feels good, comes natural, but thirst making. 641 00:35:41,621 --> 00:35:44,683 Oh. Always there, Josep. Good to see you. 642 00:35:44,707 --> 00:35:45,791 Emperor. 643 00:35:49,962 --> 00:35:55,235 Let us talk about this fucking madness of bringing serfs into nobledom. 644 00:35:55,259 --> 00:35:58,488 I mean, fuck me, apart from the sort of scattered, 645 00:35:58,512 --> 00:36:01,783 illogical thinking only a pregnant devil could do, 646 00:36:01,807 --> 00:36:07,331 and yes, I do now think she has a small crocodile in her and not a child. 647 00:36:07,355 --> 00:36:10,191 So, let's put that "heir to the throne" shit to bed. 648 00:36:10,816 --> 00:36:14,546 She is taking a squat on years of tradition. 649 00:36:14,570 --> 00:36:18,926 The fucking serfs are as beloved as the most beloved of our pets. 650 00:36:18,950 --> 00:36:22,804 And she would have them thrown into the world without us to care for them. 651 00:36:22,828 --> 00:36:24,890 We feed and house them, 652 00:36:24,914 --> 00:36:28,352 and when they need instruction, we use up our precious energies 653 00:36:28,376 --> 00:36:31,021 to beat them into line so that they can serve us better 654 00:36:31,045 --> 00:36:33,631 and be proud of their job and us. 655 00:36:34,382 --> 00:36:37,694 Now, I see some who couped against me, 656 00:36:37,718 --> 00:36:41,490 and I hope your eyes are open to your fucked-up decision. 657 00:36:41,514 --> 00:36:43,492 Now, do not beat yourselves on it. 658 00:36:43,516 --> 00:36:46,328 She tricked me into loving her as she tricked you, 659 00:36:46,352 --> 00:36:50,666 but our eyelids have been torn off and now we can all see. 660 00:36:50,690 --> 00:36:52,525 So all is forgiven. 661 00:36:53,818 --> 00:36:55,337 Except for you, Dimitri. 662 00:36:56,946 --> 00:37:01,510 Don't show your cock to me and wank at me every time you pass my window, dickhead. 663 00:37:01,534 --> 00:37:02,844 Now, where were we? 664 00:37:02,868 --> 00:37:04,188 Josep, do we have hors d'oeuvres? 665 00:37:05,079 --> 00:37:06,080 Merci. 666 00:37:07,999 --> 00:37:12,521 Tomorrow morning, assemble in the halls protesting her rule. 667 00:37:12,545 --> 00:37:14,606 Let her hear your voice. 668 00:37:14,630 --> 00:37:17,776 Scream for her to abdicate and me to retake. 669 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,696 Dress nicely because we will have a party after, 670 00:37:20,720 --> 00:37:24,658 where I will fuck any woman at court who demands it. 671 00:37:24,682 --> 00:37:27,351 - Huzzah! - Huzzah! 672 00:37:28,811 --> 00:37:31,897 - Feels good, doesn't it? - Mm. Forgot his power. 673 00:37:32,648 --> 00:37:33,691 Mm! 674 00:37:37,486 --> 00:37:40,048 Did he just say we will scream in the halls? 675 00:37:40,072 --> 00:37:43,200 Indeed. And he will fuck any woman that demands it. 676 00:37:44,035 --> 00:37:47,097 It seems an underwhelming plan given what she has put us through. 677 00:37:47,121 --> 00:37:49,832 - I don't know. Seems all right to me. 678 00:37:57,798 --> 00:38:00,635 - Madame Svenska? - Serf. Stand, for God's sake. 679 00:38:01,344 --> 00:38:02,696 Ah. 680 00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:04,573 - I am so sorry, I... - Do not argue. 681 00:38:04,597 --> 00:38:08,493 For that is what you are, a dirty, old, rude serf 682 00:38:08,517 --> 00:38:10,537 I recognized from the beginning. 683 00:38:10,561 --> 00:38:14,565 If this is the Empress's message to us, then it is important we send one back. 684 00:38:16,108 --> 00:38:17,318 Stab her. 685 00:38:18,486 --> 00:38:19,880 What? 686 00:38:19,904 --> 00:38:22,073 Am I unclear or are you dim? Stab her. 687 00:38:24,283 --> 00:38:27,137 You are my serf, you will obey me. That is how it works. 688 00:38:27,161 --> 00:38:28,621 Why have we all forgotten? 689 00:38:30,915 --> 00:38:32,416 I cannot do that. 690 00:38:34,210 --> 00:38:35,312 Fine then. 691 00:38:35,336 --> 00:38:39,006 So lazy and so boring. I will do it myself. 692 00:38:45,930 --> 00:38:48,867 Come now, Yula. I will need a bath. 693 00:38:48,891 --> 00:38:52,603 For an old woman, there has been surprisingly much blood spray. 694 00:39:04,740 --> 00:39:05,968 Hello? 695 00:39:05,992 --> 00:39:07,868 Somebody help me! 696 00:39:09,620 --> 00:39:11,122 You! 697 00:39:11,747 --> 00:39:13,541 Take my shit! 698 00:39:14,333 --> 00:39:16,520 - What? - I cannot find my serf. 699 00:39:16,544 --> 00:39:18,462 Take it. Now. 700 00:39:22,133 --> 00:39:23,634 Wait! 701 00:39:25,011 --> 00:39:26,595 Where are you going? 702 00:39:28,139 --> 00:39:29,640 Lada? 703 00:39:30,725 --> 00:39:32,226 Lada? 704 00:39:35,062 --> 00:39:36,606 Lada? 705 00:39:37,481 --> 00:39:39,585 The serfs are on strike. 706 00:39:39,609 --> 00:39:41,295 Un-fucking-acceptable. 707 00:39:41,319 --> 00:39:43,195 Arkady! Shit. 708 00:39:44,071 --> 00:39:45,573 Come back! 709 00:40:17,355 --> 00:40:19,458 - Come quickly. - What is it? 710 00:40:19,482 --> 00:40:20,650 The serfs are on strike. 711 00:40:23,694 --> 00:40:26,715 We wait until we hear frenzied chanting and protest, 712 00:40:26,739 --> 00:40:29,635 and then ideally, Arkady gets a mob to break down the doors 713 00:40:29,659 --> 00:40:32,095 and bear me into the palace, and in a wave, we move through, 714 00:40:32,119 --> 00:40:34,181 gathering force, killing if we must, 715 00:40:34,205 --> 00:40:37,041 and finally, she will see she needs to acquiesce. 716 00:40:37,792 --> 00:40:40,520 - And then you kill her. - Imprisoned until Paul is born. 717 00:40:40,544 --> 00:40:41,963 You're a good dad. 718 00:40:43,464 --> 00:40:47,027 - Ah. - I'm starving. Where's breakfast? 719 00:40:47,051 --> 00:40:49,279 We're on strike, so I have the whole day to fuck. 720 00:40:49,303 --> 00:40:51,615 - On strike? - No breakfast? 721 00:40:51,639 --> 00:40:53,432 Brought you a blood orange. 722 00:40:55,518 --> 00:40:58,580 - They've just stopped working. Or they're free, or fuck knows what. 723 00:40:58,604 --> 00:40:59,623 Lada? 724 00:40:59,647 --> 00:41:01,500 I didn't announce anything officially. 725 00:41:01,524 --> 00:41:03,502 That's the thing about freedom, it lacks parameters. 726 00:41:03,526 --> 00:41:05,695 Ah! Don't look at me. 727 00:41:07,446 --> 00:41:09,132 What is the worst that can happen? 728 00:41:09,156 --> 00:41:12,344 They have to butter their own bread and suck their own cocks for a day? 729 00:41:12,368 --> 00:41:14,928 They can cry me a river and wash their own fucking clothes in it. 730 00:41:19,542 --> 00:41:20,835 Marial, what is it? 731 00:41:26,007 --> 00:41:27,633 This is my fault. 732 00:41:28,384 --> 00:41:30,303 You didn't cut her throat. 733 00:41:33,055 --> 00:41:35,599 I keep expecting her to sit up and yell... 734 00:41:36,767 --> 00:41:37,852 and yell at me. 735 00:41:43,774 --> 00:41:45,735 I thought we were better than this. 736 00:41:48,904 --> 00:41:50,781 For a moment, so did I. 737 00:42:02,335 --> 00:42:03,377 Marial. 738 00:42:12,094 --> 00:42:13,179 Come here! 739 00:42:15,014 --> 00:42:16,349 Stop! Stop that! 740 00:42:18,768 --> 00:42:19,786 Oi! 741 00:42:19,810 --> 00:42:22,456 Look at their fucking contribution now, bitch! 742 00:42:25,316 --> 00:42:27,002 Back in the state room. Come. 743 00:42:27,026 --> 00:42:28,778 Fucking rude. 744 00:42:34,700 --> 00:42:37,220 I have called up a battalion to put down the unrest. 745 00:42:37,244 --> 00:42:39,389 - What do you mean "put down"? - Are you all right? 746 00:42:39,413 --> 00:42:42,434 - Shakey is dead. They fucking killed her. 747 00:42:42,458 --> 00:42:43,751 I heard. 748 00:42:44,919 --> 00:42:47,189 Velementov, you will find who killed Shakey, 749 00:42:47,213 --> 00:42:49,608 and you will tear them limb from fucking limb. 750 00:42:49,632 --> 00:42:53,153 You threw her on the board, do not be angry when someone takes your pawn. 751 00:42:53,177 --> 00:42:54,613 Fuck you. 752 00:42:54,637 --> 00:42:56,013 It is done. 753 00:42:56,681 --> 00:42:59,826 Now what is to be done next is your question of the moment. 754 00:42:59,850 --> 00:43:02,955 It's fucking clear what should be done next. 755 00:43:02,979 --> 00:43:06,190 We must act to restore order. Now! 756 00:43:06,899 --> 00:43:09,211 I will not turn my guns on them. 757 00:43:09,235 --> 00:43:11,880 - They are running amok. As are the nobles. 758 00:43:11,904 --> 00:43:14,615 Catherine, if you do not put a stop to it, what happens then? 759 00:43:15,574 --> 00:43:19,036 I shall answer if it makes it easier. They kill us all, and you. 760 00:43:20,621 --> 00:43:21,956 Perhaps not. 761 00:43:23,165 --> 00:43:26,085 P-perhaps they vent rage until it's spent 762 00:43:26,752 --> 00:43:31,358 and then we all get to look at each other and understand change must happen. 763 00:43:31,382 --> 00:43:34,903 I lit the fuse and cannot back down. 764 00:43:34,927 --> 00:43:37,072 Maybe chaos burns it down 765 00:43:37,096 --> 00:43:40,117 and the new ground can have better built on it. 766 00:43:40,141 --> 00:43:43,120 The rebuilding will be on our graves. 767 00:43:43,144 --> 00:43:44,746 It's not ideal, is it? 768 00:43:44,770 --> 00:43:46,248 I am with them. 769 00:43:46,272 --> 00:43:48,083 Everyone sees what must happen. 770 00:43:48,107 --> 00:43:50,443 You are a noble, know that. They do. 771 00:43:51,110 --> 00:43:54,006 - I am a human first. And I hoped you all were too! 772 00:43:54,030 --> 00:43:58,802 We must think our way to a new answer. 773 00:43:58,826 --> 00:44:01,138 We were trying until your jape. 774 00:44:01,162 --> 00:44:02,514 Chaos is unleashed, 775 00:44:02,538 --> 00:44:05,225 and chaos is an uncontrolled storm with unintended consequence 776 00:44:05,249 --> 00:44:06,643 and unimaginable damage. 777 00:44:06,667 --> 00:44:08,103 We cannot be afraid. 778 00:44:08,127 --> 00:44:10,689 We have given them nothing to hang change on, there is no structure. 779 00:44:10,713 --> 00:44:12,316 We can't let this happen. 780 00:44:12,340 --> 00:44:15,736 Catherine, you tried, but it is clearly not the time for this. 781 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:17,362 You must back away now. 782 00:44:17,386 --> 00:44:19,722 You must side with the nobles and be seen to. 783 00:44:22,141 --> 00:44:23,243 I cannot. 784 00:44:23,267 --> 00:44:26,455 I heard chants of "Peter!" 785 00:44:26,479 --> 00:44:28,814 Catherine. Know when to step back. 786 00:44:31,901 --> 00:44:34,028 Am I being asked or told? 787 00:44:35,780 --> 00:44:37,799 You do not want to think on that question. 788 00:44:37,823 --> 00:44:39,843 Just on the question at hand. 789 00:44:39,867 --> 00:44:41,637 And on what you wanted to achieve 790 00:44:41,661 --> 00:44:44,556 and if you die today, whether you will have achieved it. 791 00:44:48,125 --> 00:44:51,021 - Everyone out a minute. W-Wait outside the door. 792 00:44:51,045 --> 00:44:52,505 - Time is of the... - Go! 793 00:45:55,318 --> 00:45:56,962 All right, Josep? 794 00:45:56,986 --> 00:45:58,422 Emperor. 795 00:45:58,446 --> 00:46:00,549 Back to work, fucker! 796 00:46:03,826 --> 00:46:06,179 - The moment is here. Back room, to the state room. 797 00:46:06,203 --> 00:46:07,330 Go take her. 798 00:46:30,269 --> 00:46:33,290 It's all gone horribly wrong. 799 00:46:33,314 --> 00:46:34,774 I know. 800 00:46:35,900 --> 00:46:38,277 Shakey is dead. 801 00:46:38,861 --> 00:46:41,948 Fuck. Nice woman. 802 00:46:45,201 --> 00:46:46,661 Fuck off, Arkady. 803 00:46:53,626 --> 00:46:55,878 Have you come to take it off me? 804 00:46:57,088 --> 00:46:58,631 Not today. 805 00:47:00,299 --> 00:47:02,551 Oh. Ah. 806 00:47:04,261 --> 00:47:06,013 It's Paul kicking. 807 00:47:24,991 --> 00:47:26,158 Velementov. 808 00:47:27,201 --> 00:47:28,303 Do it. 809 00:47:51,058 --> 00:47:52,351 Lock me in. 810 00:47:54,937 --> 00:47:56,397 What the fuck happened? 811 00:48:04,196 --> 00:48:05,948 It's hard to explain. 812 00:48:30,348 --> 00:48:33,309 Will you be needing tea, Empress? 813 00:48:45,821 --> 00:48:48,240 Hello. May I borrow that? 814 00:48:54,830 --> 00:48:56,308 Is that you, Yula? 815 00:48:56,332 --> 00:48:59,502 I asked for tea. I am a famously patient woman, but...