1 00:00:05,026 --> 00:00:07,421 I inaugurate this new salon 2 00:00:07,445 --> 00:00:10,615 with the revelation that is Shakey's paintings. 3 00:00:11,657 --> 00:00:16,221 It is an act of love, for when you look at each painting, 4 00:00:16,245 --> 00:00:17,764 they shimmer with humanity. 5 00:00:17,788 --> 00:00:20,750 They are a gift to us from one we lost. 6 00:00:23,419 --> 00:00:25,171 Lovely speech, darling. 7 00:00:26,047 --> 00:00:29,568 To remind everyone of your greatest failure is bold. 8 00:00:35,848 --> 00:00:37,242 Don't play that! 9 00:00:38,559 --> 00:00:41,038 We abhor Beethoven. Hm. 10 00:00:41,062 --> 00:00:44,917 Abhor, not adore. Please don't be confused. 11 00:00:48,778 --> 00:00:49,796 Something else. 12 00:00:49,820 --> 00:00:53,449 Berezovsky is always good. 13 00:01:00,372 --> 00:01:01,642 Mm. 14 00:01:01,666 --> 00:01:02,875 Marvelous. 15 00:01:03,876 --> 00:01:06,712 Thank God you're here to guide these wayward souls. 16 00:01:08,255 --> 00:01:10,901 Berezovsky. Brilliant. 17 00:01:10,925 --> 00:01:12,051 How's your schnitzel? 18 00:01:14,136 --> 00:01:15,429 Odd? 19 00:01:17,098 --> 00:01:19,284 It's venison, not veal. 20 00:01:19,308 --> 00:01:22,204 I found it odd at first, but it grows on you. 21 00:01:22,228 --> 00:01:24,772 We lose our refinements one bad bite at a time. 22 00:01:25,231 --> 00:01:27,733 Epicurus. 23 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:32,822 Is she sweating? 24 00:01:33,948 --> 00:01:35,050 Ah. 25 00:01:35,074 --> 00:01:37,469 - I believe so. - Hmm. 26 00:01:37,493 --> 00:01:40,764 Look at you, Marial, whisper, whisper. 27 00:01:41,872 --> 00:01:44,166 Such a curious creature you are. 28 00:01:45,334 --> 00:01:48,772 Judas, who got to sit at the table for dessert. 29 00:01:48,796 --> 00:01:51,191 Oh, Mother. That's not... 30 00:01:51,215 --> 00:01:54,069 Anyone else would've cut your throat. 31 00:01:54,093 --> 00:01:56,363 And yet here you are. 32 00:01:56,387 --> 00:01:58,282 I think you've misconstrued the story. 33 00:01:58,306 --> 00:02:00,826 - Do not prod the lioness. - Really? 34 00:02:00,850 --> 00:02:05,414 So, you helped push my naive daughter into a coup attempt, 35 00:02:05,438 --> 00:02:08,917 and then at the climactic moment, just as all the plans were rolling out, 36 00:02:08,941 --> 00:02:11,712 you told the Emperor, thereby scuppering all the plans 37 00:02:11,736 --> 00:02:15,573 in order to save your own neck and be reinstated as a lady. 38 00:02:17,241 --> 00:02:18,594 What did I get wrong? 39 00:02:18,618 --> 00:02:20,512 Actually, a pretty good summation. 40 00:02:20,536 --> 00:02:22,347 Thank you, Orlo. 41 00:02:22,371 --> 00:02:25,809 And yet somehow here she sits, 42 00:02:25,833 --> 00:02:28,270 with a mouthful of potato Dauphinois, 43 00:02:28,294 --> 00:02:31,756 diamonds round her neck and a whisper in her throat. 44 00:02:32,423 --> 00:02:34,484 What other secrets do you carry? 45 00:02:34,508 --> 00:02:36,320 None. 46 00:02:36,344 --> 00:02:39,656 Everyone does their best in times of war. 47 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,850 Mm, you did well not to have your head rolling down a hill, Elizabeth. 48 00:02:45,645 --> 00:02:47,623 Ah, Mother is just teasing. 49 00:02:47,647 --> 00:02:50,876 Please don't explain me, darling, it ruins the mystery. 50 00:02:50,900 --> 00:02:52,252 Impossible. 51 00:02:52,276 --> 00:02:56,048 Your beauty is a mystery man can never solve, 52 00:02:56,072 --> 00:03:00,451 only gaze upon it in hopes of more revealing clues. 53 00:03:02,495 --> 00:03:05,122 Oh, men are funny, aren't they? 54 00:03:05,581 --> 00:03:08,518 They imagine themselves still young, attractive, and virile 55 00:03:08,542 --> 00:03:10,127 no matter what the age. 56 00:03:12,546 --> 00:03:15,984 Ah! A special treat from the Americas. 57 00:03:16,008 --> 00:03:17,903 Mm. CATHERINE: A trader just brought them back. 58 00:03:17,927 --> 00:03:20,096 They are called peanuts. 59 00:03:21,347 --> 00:03:23,367 Mm. Marvelous. 60 00:03:23,391 --> 00:03:24,892 Ah, aren't they? 61 00:03:25,309 --> 00:03:26,870 I cannot stop eating them, 62 00:03:26,894 --> 00:03:30,249 but then I eat dirt, flowers, 63 00:03:30,273 --> 00:03:33,418 the occasional pickle wrapped in skate wing. 64 00:03:33,442 --> 00:03:36,505 Do not mind my Epicurus strangeness. 65 00:03:36,529 --> 00:03:38,924 - Mm. - But are they not great? 66 00:03:38,948 --> 00:03:40,550 Mm. Indeed. 67 00:03:40,574 --> 00:03:41,993 Indeed! 68 00:03:42,410 --> 00:03:43,887 Huzzah! 69 00:03:43,911 --> 00:03:44,888 Peanuts! 70 00:03:44,912 --> 00:03:47,015 - Peanuts! - To my mother! 71 00:03:47,039 --> 00:03:48,892 Huzzah. 72 00:03:48,916 --> 00:03:51,919 And how long will we have the pleasure of your company, Joanna? 73 00:03:53,212 --> 00:03:54,839 For as long as I nee... 74 00:03:55,506 --> 00:03:56,590 For... 75 00:03:58,759 --> 00:04:00,052 I... 76 00:04:03,597 --> 00:04:05,057 Mother! 77 00:04:16,110 --> 00:04:17,005 Take these. 78 00:04:17,029 --> 00:04:18,589 What are they? 79 00:04:18,613 --> 00:04:20,841 I can't remember but they seem to cure almost everything. 80 00:04:20,865 --> 00:04:22,199 Mm. 81 00:04:25,953 --> 00:04:28,122 - Oh, Mother, are you all right? I'm mortified. 82 00:04:29,665 --> 00:04:31,435 I thought that was it for a moment. 83 00:04:31,459 --> 00:04:33,061 I thought you'd killed me. 84 00:04:33,085 --> 00:04:34,104 Don't say that. 85 00:04:34,128 --> 00:04:35,463 I'm sorry. 86 00:04:36,172 --> 00:04:37,632 I need to rest, darling. 87 00:04:38,382 --> 00:04:41,302 But there's a list... 88 00:04:42,386 --> 00:04:44,221 of everyone you should kill. 89 00:04:45,973 --> 00:04:48,285 Mother, they fought for me. 90 00:04:48,309 --> 00:04:50,311 You don't know what they fought for. 91 00:04:52,271 --> 00:04:54,398 All right, go now. Go, go. 92 00:04:56,651 --> 00:04:58,194 Fuck! 93 00:04:58,694 --> 00:05:00,172 Do not stare at me! 94 00:05:00,196 --> 00:05:04,742 Let us go to work. We will start with banning peanuts! 95 00:05:07,662 --> 00:05:09,264 She makes me nervous. 96 00:05:09,288 --> 00:05:10,390 Hmm. 97 00:05:10,414 --> 00:05:13,185 She does send the Empress into an unravel. 98 00:05:13,209 --> 00:05:14,519 Mothers. 99 00:05:14,543 --> 00:05:16,939 Well, thank God mine fucking died if that is what it is. 100 00:05:16,963 --> 00:05:19,942 Be wary, Marial, of getting inside that bubble. 101 00:05:19,966 --> 00:05:21,777 Remember Count Lasky. 102 00:05:21,801 --> 00:05:23,779 You fucked that guy up. 103 00:05:23,803 --> 00:05:26,931 I would walk in, and he'd be fucking Mother in the face. 104 00:05:28,015 --> 00:05:33,038 Later, I'd hear him working on her... money, send Samsa away, lose weight. 105 00:05:33,062 --> 00:05:34,373 I had to do something. 106 00:05:34,397 --> 00:05:37,376 A boy should not see his mother fucked in the face. 107 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:39,795 Indeed. It is scarring. 108 00:05:39,819 --> 00:05:41,779 As were the 30 holes you put in him. 109 00:05:42,738 --> 00:05:45,259 Unfortunately, I was all rage and fire then. 110 00:05:45,283 --> 00:05:47,052 Now, I'm fine though. 111 00:05:47,076 --> 00:05:48,911 She's not herself around her mother. 112 00:05:49,537 --> 00:05:51,556 She has it in for all of us. 113 00:05:51,580 --> 00:05:53,725 We just need to ride her out. 114 00:05:53,749 --> 00:05:57,604 She will get bored of venison schnitzel and leave. 115 00:05:57,628 --> 00:06:00,774 She is troubling, and she has a game, 116 00:06:00,798 --> 00:06:04,653 more than "mother tortures daughter," but I cannot quite see it. 117 00:06:04,677 --> 00:06:08,490 And she is turning Catherine against us, inch by fucking inch, while we wait. 118 00:06:08,514 --> 00:06:12,244 Patience, it's an underrated strategy. 119 00:06:12,268 --> 00:06:15,706 So is a handful of peanuts squashed into her big fat mouth. 120 00:06:15,730 --> 00:06:17,207 I need to measure you. 121 00:06:17,231 --> 00:06:20,109 - My stomach? - Your opening. 122 00:06:30,620 --> 00:06:33,765 You know it's, it's, it's, it's funny, I was just thinking. 123 00:06:33,789 --> 00:06:36,977 Sometimes I miss my mother. 124 00:06:37,001 --> 00:06:38,312 Hmm. 125 00:06:38,336 --> 00:06:39,813 Her being dead at an early age, 126 00:06:39,837 --> 00:06:42,316 and sometimes I'm glad she's dead 127 00:06:42,340 --> 00:06:46,177 as I have lived my own life on my own terms. 128 00:06:46,886 --> 00:06:48,030 Subtle. 129 00:06:48,054 --> 00:06:49,197 What are you...? 130 00:06:49,221 --> 00:06:51,283 We have some concerns. 131 00:06:51,307 --> 00:06:55,120 Uh, seeing you with your mother, you are not quite yourself. 132 00:06:55,144 --> 00:06:56,872 We worry what she does to you. 133 00:06:56,896 --> 00:07:00,459 You mean beside love me beyond any human on this Earth, 134 00:07:00,483 --> 00:07:03,587 care for me and my sisters like we are precious fucking gems, 135 00:07:03,611 --> 00:07:07,615 make a home for us and ignite a fire in us to be the special ones we are? 136 00:07:08,950 --> 00:07:12,846 Uh, she, she perhaps does not understand us, is our point. 137 00:07:12,870 --> 00:07:14,848 We worry she wants us dead. 138 00:07:14,872 --> 00:07:17,708 Oh, she did give me a list and you were on it. 139 00:07:20,336 --> 00:07:23,273 - Oh, I'm first. - Oh. 140 00:07:23,297 --> 00:07:26,693 - Hm. Relax. She has always wanted people dead. 141 00:07:26,717 --> 00:07:29,321 For months once, she plotted the death of our neighbor Hess, 142 00:07:29,345 --> 00:07:32,199 as he had eyed Donna in a way she found disturbing. 143 00:07:32,223 --> 00:07:35,619 We would gather round with tea and kugelhopf 144 00:07:35,643 --> 00:07:39,373 and we would all have to think of ways we could kill him and get away with it. 145 00:07:39,397 --> 00:07:40,749 Fun game. 146 00:07:40,773 --> 00:07:42,501 We just played chess. 147 00:07:42,525 --> 00:07:44,628 She is protective of me. 148 00:07:44,652 --> 00:07:46,279 Don't trouble yourselves. 149 00:07:48,155 --> 00:07:50,092 Oh, Mother, are you feeling all right? 150 00:07:50,116 --> 00:07:51,760 Quite fine. 151 00:07:51,784 --> 00:07:53,345 I would not miss your checkup. 152 00:07:53,369 --> 00:07:57,081 - Your rash is worse. - That's interesting... 153 00:07:59,083 --> 00:08:01,478 We have a small opening of some six centimeters. 154 00:08:01,502 --> 00:08:04,314 Oh, a frog? 155 00:08:04,338 --> 00:08:05,899 It is well known here. 156 00:08:05,923 --> 00:08:08,193 Ah, I'm so reassured. 157 00:08:08,217 --> 00:08:12,471 Maybe it seems strange, but I have become used to it. 158 00:08:12,930 --> 00:08:14,408 Oh, gosh. 159 00:08:14,432 --> 00:08:16,159 It's dead. 160 00:08:16,183 --> 00:08:17,310 Shit! 161 00:08:18,102 --> 00:08:20,080 What does that mean? Is the baby all right? 162 00:08:20,104 --> 00:08:22,815 It means you will give birth in seven days. 163 00:08:23,983 --> 00:08:25,669 I was about to say the same. 164 00:08:36,954 --> 00:08:38,413 Oh, I love how you eat that. 165 00:08:38,873 --> 00:08:41,560 - Oh. I... - With sensual relish. 166 00:08:41,584 --> 00:08:44,253 - Oh, just a fig. Don't even like it actually. 167 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:46,273 Did you want something? 168 00:08:46,297 --> 00:08:47,899 Yes, I did. 169 00:08:47,923 --> 00:08:49,359 I was hungry. 170 00:08:49,383 --> 00:08:50,635 Oh. 171 00:08:56,015 --> 00:08:57,451 You have to tongue it. 172 00:08:57,475 --> 00:08:59,226 Oh, uh... 173 00:09:01,062 --> 00:09:02,271 Slowly. 174 00:09:03,898 --> 00:09:07,109 To really release its perfumed juices. 175 00:09:08,986 --> 00:09:10,839 Jesus Christ. 176 00:09:10,863 --> 00:09:11,948 Ha! 177 00:09:13,449 --> 00:09:14,867 Why fight it? 178 00:09:15,826 --> 00:09:16,887 Your daughter? 179 00:09:16,911 --> 00:09:20,807 I think you have a large appetite 180 00:09:20,831 --> 00:09:23,626 that is not constrained by morality. 181 00:09:24,543 --> 00:09:27,189 Moderation in all things, I always say. 182 00:09:27,213 --> 00:09:28,690 You always say that? 183 00:09:28,714 --> 00:09:30,383 No, first time actually. 184 00:09:33,052 --> 00:09:37,366 I think we could have a very happy family together. 185 00:09:37,390 --> 00:09:38,575 Right. 186 00:09:38,599 --> 00:09:41,578 A complicated version of family, but... 187 00:09:41,602 --> 00:09:45,648 Well, a version where everyone is happy and gets what they want. 188 00:09:48,526 --> 00:09:51,612 Oh! There it is. 189 00:09:54,323 --> 00:09:56,158 It will be intense, won't it? 190 00:09:57,159 --> 00:09:58,929 You should go, I have... 191 00:09:58,953 --> 00:10:00,722 soufflé class. 192 00:10:00,746 --> 00:10:02,540 So handsome. 193 00:10:04,250 --> 00:10:06,836 Peter the Great visited Germany once. 194 00:10:08,129 --> 00:10:09,505 What a man. 195 00:10:10,464 --> 00:10:11,650 You remind me of him. 196 00:10:11,674 --> 00:10:12,985 Really? 197 00:10:13,009 --> 00:10:14,611 Mm. 198 00:10:14,635 --> 00:10:19,307 Women were weak-kneed, and often splay-kneed. 199 00:10:20,308 --> 00:10:22,911 No one has ever told me I reminded them of him. 200 00:10:22,935 --> 00:10:24,562 And Catherine likes you. 201 00:10:25,605 --> 00:10:28,458 She could be a real asset to you. 202 00:10:28,482 --> 00:10:30,568 You were born to rule. 203 00:10:35,364 --> 00:10:36,842 I'm betting on part horse. 204 00:10:36,866 --> 00:10:38,385 I'm betting on her dying. 205 00:10:38,409 --> 00:10:40,411 Well, that's your heart, not your head, Arkady. 206 00:10:41,203 --> 00:10:42,598 But if she does... 207 00:10:42,622 --> 00:10:45,267 Peter's on the throne, I kill Grigor. 208 00:10:45,291 --> 00:10:46,709 I'm his number one. 209 00:10:47,543 --> 00:10:48,895 And I kill Marial. 210 00:10:48,919 --> 00:10:50,230 What? Why? 211 00:10:50,254 --> 00:10:51,690 She's so fucking rude. 212 00:10:51,714 --> 00:10:54,151 Two-to-one, the Empress dies in childbirth. 213 00:10:54,175 --> 00:10:56,236 Four-to-one, kid is part horse. 214 00:10:56,260 --> 00:10:58,155 Eight-to-one, Vinodel kills him. 215 00:10:58,179 --> 00:10:59,781 Possibly accidentally. 216 00:10:59,805 --> 00:11:03,410 - So here it comes. Do you think they'll make us godparents? 217 00:11:03,434 --> 00:11:04,870 Us? 218 00:11:04,894 --> 00:11:06,246 There is no us. 219 00:11:06,270 --> 00:11:09,166 Ah, I keep forgetting we're a figment of our imagination. 220 00:11:09,190 --> 00:11:10,292 Exactly. 221 00:11:10,316 --> 00:11:12,210 - Fuck me later? - Love to. 222 00:11:12,234 --> 00:11:14,296 Ten-to-one, baby is tragically born with a vagina. 223 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:16,965 Four-to-one, a boy. Twenty-to-one, part crocodile. 224 00:11:16,989 --> 00:11:19,009 - Fucking hell. - Yeah. 225 00:11:19,033 --> 00:11:21,178 Avoided thinking about it, this day. 226 00:11:21,202 --> 00:11:24,848 I have been trying to game it out for weeks, every time I looked at her stomach. 227 00:11:24,872 --> 00:11:28,060 Nineteen percent of women die in childbirth. 228 00:11:28,084 --> 00:11:29,853 Two-to-one seems quite good then. 229 00:11:29,877 --> 00:11:34,816 Point is, if she dies, he comes back, or Archie has some plan in the wings, 230 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:38,528 or other option, someone kills her and Peter and tries to coup with the baby. 231 00:11:38,552 --> 00:11:40,388 - The Portugal plan. - Exactly. 232 00:11:41,722 --> 00:11:46,161 Well, whoever ends up in power, they still need an army. 233 00:11:46,185 --> 00:11:48,205 But do they need you? 234 00:11:48,229 --> 00:11:49,331 And what of me? 235 00:11:49,355 --> 00:11:51,250 Oh, you're completely expendable. 236 00:11:51,274 --> 00:11:52,918 So, every man for himself? 237 00:11:52,942 --> 00:11:55,337 - Of course. It's still Russia. 238 00:11:55,361 --> 00:11:58,656 Vinodel loses tool inside Empress, five-to-one. 239 00:12:02,952 --> 00:12:05,013 For you, from Vinodel. 240 00:12:05,037 --> 00:12:07,373 Take it when you wish to quieten your libido. 241 00:12:08,332 --> 00:12:10,334 Which is whenever Joanna is around. 242 00:12:10,918 --> 00:12:15,148 Uh, it will have to be powerful stuff as my libido is a fucking orchestra. 243 00:12:15,172 --> 00:12:16,340 Take much then. 244 00:12:17,591 --> 00:12:19,444 Do not touch that flame. 245 00:12:19,468 --> 00:12:21,071 Mm. 246 00:12:21,095 --> 00:12:24,449 Ah, my ears don't look like that, fuckhead. 247 00:12:24,473 --> 00:12:27,452 Hey, you ready? 248 00:12:27,476 --> 00:12:29,204 Seven days, Grigor! 249 00:12:29,228 --> 00:12:31,623 Seven days, I am to be a father! 250 00:12:31,647 --> 00:12:34,376 I have not been this excited ever! 251 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:37,588 Ha! And I have killed many, eaten fugu fish blindfolded, 252 00:12:37,612 --> 00:12:39,464 and fucked every which way, 253 00:12:39,488 --> 00:12:43,927 including once with George where I packed my cock in ice until it was frozen and rock hard 254 00:12:43,951 --> 00:12:47,431 and when I thrust it into her wet warmth, we both came instantly, 255 00:12:47,455 --> 00:12:51,500 and both agreed we saw some kind of starburst behind our eyes in that instant. 256 00:12:52,877 --> 00:12:55,188 - That's weird. - Hm. What is? 257 00:12:55,212 --> 00:12:57,232 Story didn't bother me. 258 00:12:57,256 --> 00:12:58,650 Hm. 259 00:12:58,674 --> 00:13:00,485 Fuck me, look at that fireplace. 260 00:13:00,509 --> 00:13:01,945 Brilliant, isn't it? 261 00:13:01,969 --> 00:13:05,866 - Slightly terrifying. You don't think too much for a little kid? 262 00:13:05,890 --> 00:13:09,870 For most kids certainly, but for Paul, he will love it. 263 00:13:09,894 --> 00:13:12,164 We will grill animal parts over the open fire together 264 00:13:12,188 --> 00:13:16,001 and then pull them out pretending we are stealing them from an angry bear, 265 00:13:16,025 --> 00:13:19,338 giving him an appreciation for courage and open fire grilling. 266 00:13:19,362 --> 00:13:20,756 - Huh. - Mm. 267 00:13:20,780 --> 00:13:23,675 I tell you what, Grigor, I was born to be a father. 268 00:13:23,699 --> 00:13:24,909 I feel it. 269 00:13:25,660 --> 00:13:27,220 Let's go dig. It's time. 270 00:13:27,244 --> 00:13:28,639 I don't want to do that. 271 00:13:28,663 --> 00:13:30,265 You have to do that. 272 00:13:30,289 --> 00:13:31,767 - I don't want to. It seems fucking weird. 273 00:13:31,791 --> 00:13:34,251 - Everyone does it. Your father did it. 274 00:13:35,544 --> 00:13:36,837 It's bad luck not to do it. 275 00:13:37,672 --> 00:13:39,650 - Fuck! - That's a yes! 276 00:13:39,674 --> 00:13:41,008 Let's go! 277 00:13:47,890 --> 00:13:50,518 So, you will be there. 278 00:13:51,352 --> 00:13:52,687 I absolutely will not be. 279 00:13:54,814 --> 00:13:56,875 - Is that...? - Spectator seating. 280 00:13:56,899 --> 00:14:00,003 Apparently front rows are going for 2,000 rubles. 281 00:14:00,027 --> 00:14:02,547 I'm not giving birth while people watch on. 282 00:14:02,571 --> 00:14:06,093 I know what your concern is, but I assure you when you shit yourself, 283 00:14:06,117 --> 00:14:09,870 an attendant will be standing by to whisk it away, effortlessly, and elegantly. 284 00:14:10,621 --> 00:14:11,706 Elizabeth. 285 00:14:13,457 --> 00:14:14,768 Help me. 286 00:14:14,792 --> 00:14:16,186 I wish I could. 287 00:14:16,210 --> 00:14:17,253 It's a horror. 288 00:14:18,045 --> 00:14:20,732 You must do this, after what happened in Denmark. 289 00:14:20,756 --> 00:14:21,817 Denmark? 290 00:14:21,841 --> 00:14:25,011 The baby died, another was procured. 291 00:14:25,594 --> 00:14:27,197 What do you mean procured? 292 00:14:27,221 --> 00:14:30,367 Bought, stolen, or perhaps rented. 293 00:14:30,391 --> 00:14:31,410 But the point is... 294 00:14:31,434 --> 00:14:33,102 It wasn't the true heir. 295 00:14:33,644 --> 00:14:38,458 Ever since then, public birth. I'm sorry, that's the reality. 296 00:14:38,482 --> 00:14:44,047 Rumors come out it's not yours, they are hard to refute, and that catches on, and... 297 00:14:44,071 --> 00:14:48,093 Opposition forces coalesce round the idea of a fake heir. 298 00:14:48,117 --> 00:14:52,705 However, the indelible imprint of the royal cunt cannot be faked. 299 00:14:53,331 --> 00:14:56,435 You will not even notice the spectators. The pain will be blinding. 300 00:14:56,459 --> 00:14:58,604 I feel better. Thank you, Vinodel. 301 00:14:58,628 --> 00:15:00,379 We must have witnesses. 302 00:15:01,213 --> 00:15:03,174 It will be delicately handled. 303 00:15:05,843 --> 00:15:08,429 I am selling the placenta, if anyone's interested. 304 00:15:10,890 --> 00:15:13,619 Catherine, darling, what are you doing? 305 00:15:13,643 --> 00:15:14,703 Working. 306 00:15:14,727 --> 00:15:18,290 Oh, you should be in confinement, resting, 307 00:15:18,314 --> 00:15:21,752 directing all your focus and energy on the baby. 308 00:15:21,776 --> 00:15:24,171 That is the way our family has done it. 309 00:15:24,195 --> 00:15:26,673 It is actually our ritual too. 310 00:15:26,697 --> 00:15:27,865 Helpful, Orlo. 311 00:15:29,033 --> 00:15:31,011 I have so much to do, Mother. 312 00:15:31,035 --> 00:15:34,514 I rested for two weeks before you came, 313 00:15:34,538 --> 00:15:39,603 and when you came, of course, it being you, it was a torrid affair, 314 00:15:39,627 --> 00:15:41,980 trying to get you to come into the world, 315 00:15:42,004 --> 00:15:46,860 but finally you slid forth, and I was spent, 316 00:15:46,884 --> 00:15:48,737 slathered in sweat, 317 00:15:48,761 --> 00:15:52,324 bleeding horribly, dizzy with pain, 318 00:15:52,348 --> 00:15:55,077 my eyes flickering... 319 00:15:55,101 --> 00:15:58,830 And you came out all twisted and blue... 320 00:15:58,854 --> 00:16:04,419 a cord wrapped tight round your throat, no breath. 321 00:16:04,443 --> 00:16:06,129 Doctors are screaming. 322 00:16:06,153 --> 00:16:10,217 I heard someone say, "They're both going!" 323 00:16:10,241 --> 00:16:15,222 And I stared at you, and we locked eyes, 324 00:16:15,246 --> 00:16:19,125 and I willed you not to die with everything I had. 325 00:16:20,293 --> 00:16:23,921 Your eyes closed, your head flicked back, 326 00:16:25,256 --> 00:16:27,967 and I thought for a second that was it. 327 00:16:29,593 --> 00:16:32,030 And then you barked out a cough, 328 00:16:32,054 --> 00:16:33,865 almost a laugh, 329 00:16:33,889 --> 00:16:36,618 black stuff spewed out of your mouth, 330 00:16:36,642 --> 00:16:39,162 and you burst out crying... 331 00:16:39,186 --> 00:16:41,832 no, not crying, roaring. 332 00:16:41,856 --> 00:16:44,084 You would live, 333 00:16:44,108 --> 00:16:48,630 and I knew then that I would too, 334 00:16:48,654 --> 00:16:50,615 for I could not leave you. 335 00:16:52,033 --> 00:16:54,660 I would carry you on this journey, 336 00:16:55,620 --> 00:16:58,473 and I swear you smiled at me, 337 00:16:58,497 --> 00:17:03,044 and I wept, and I could not stop. 338 00:17:04,962 --> 00:17:06,296 Gosh. 339 00:17:08,632 --> 00:17:09,901 Friends... 340 00:17:09,925 --> 00:17:12,904 We welcome you to the digging of the graves. 341 00:17:12,928 --> 00:17:18,660 When a man's wife is birthing, death may come to one, or to both. 342 00:17:18,684 --> 00:17:20,144 A man must prepare. 343 00:17:20,811 --> 00:17:25,375 Dig their graves and sit three days and nights pondering their possible death. 344 00:17:25,399 --> 00:17:29,129 In this way, he prepares his heart for tragedy 345 00:17:29,153 --> 00:17:31,506 or to have his joy sweetened. 346 00:17:31,530 --> 00:17:34,158 I bless this ground. 347 00:17:35,284 --> 00:17:37,512 May it be left empty 348 00:17:37,536 --> 00:17:40,140 and the sounds we hear in a few days' time 349 00:17:40,164 --> 00:17:43,977 are the insane pained shrieks of woman giving birth 350 00:17:44,001 --> 00:17:46,813 to a wailing, shitting child, 351 00:17:46,837 --> 00:17:50,383 gifted by God with health and wealth... 352 00:17:51,300 --> 00:17:56,138 rather than the images of the dead grey carcasses of your beloved. 353 00:17:57,014 --> 00:17:59,117 Jesus. Uh, do we have to... 354 00:17:59,141 --> 00:18:01,411 - Amen. - Amen. 355 00:18:01,435 --> 00:18:03,271 Begin the digging. 356 00:18:04,021 --> 00:18:05,666 Uh, this whole thing is fucking macabre. 357 00:18:05,690 --> 00:18:08,543 It is a time of celebration, not depressing Russian shit like... 358 00:18:13,572 --> 00:18:15,741 Okay. Fuck me. 359 00:18:18,244 --> 00:18:19,996 At least sing something upbeat. 360 00:18:28,671 --> 00:18:33,694 Oh, Sylvana, she needs tea hourly, only women may visit. 361 00:18:33,718 --> 00:18:37,447 A 15-minute stroll in the fresh air once a day. 362 00:18:37,471 --> 00:18:40,993 And no vexatious thoughts or excitements. 363 00:18:41,017 --> 00:18:42,143 Yes, ma'am. 364 00:18:43,811 --> 00:18:46,164 Rest your child, my child. 365 00:18:46,188 --> 00:18:48,625 Mm. Funny. 366 00:18:48,649 --> 00:18:50,318 That's me. 367 00:18:51,360 --> 00:18:55,465 Oh, and also, you'll probably tear. 368 00:18:55,489 --> 00:18:57,217 So, you need to be prepared for that. 369 00:18:57,241 --> 00:18:59,094 Tear? What will tear? 370 00:18:59,118 --> 00:19:01,912 Shhh! Rest. 371 00:19:16,302 --> 00:19:18,780 Are you really not ever going to stop singing? 372 00:19:18,804 --> 00:19:20,056 It's bad luck. 373 00:19:22,725 --> 00:19:24,328 He looks funny. 374 00:19:24,352 --> 00:19:26,062 Shh! Alyosha, sing. 375 00:19:27,688 --> 00:19:29,499 The ground is like rock! 376 00:19:29,523 --> 00:19:31,251 Ohh! 377 00:19:33,611 --> 00:19:34,904 Oh, fuck. 378 00:19:35,863 --> 00:19:37,573 Shut the fuck up, you little shit! 379 00:19:39,784 --> 00:19:40,969 Fuck you. 380 00:19:42,328 --> 00:19:43,454 Crownless eunuch. 381 00:19:45,873 --> 00:19:47,583 Oh, shit. Peter, no. 382 00:19:48,209 --> 00:19:50,044 Ignore him. He's just going through a phase. 383 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:54,274 Lobcocked fuckhead. 384 00:19:54,298 --> 00:19:57,110 I will dig you a new arsehole, you little shit! 385 00:19:57,134 --> 00:19:59,196 Alyosha, go back to the palace! 386 00:19:59,220 --> 00:20:00,888 Come here, you little... 387 00:20:05,142 --> 00:20:06,352 Stop! 388 00:20:08,187 --> 00:20:09,456 Please. 389 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:11,208 Are you going to shoot me? 390 00:20:11,232 --> 00:20:14,419 - I'm not sure what's going to happen. It's a confusing situation. 391 00:20:14,443 --> 00:20:20,074 But you hit him, I think I might, so everyone just stop, please. 392 00:20:32,878 --> 00:20:35,357 Alyosha, go home. 393 00:20:35,381 --> 00:20:36,632 Okay. 394 00:20:40,886 --> 00:20:42,513 - Have a drink. - Yeah. 395 00:20:44,890 --> 00:20:47,244 Oh, for fuck sakes, must you? 396 00:20:47,268 --> 00:20:49,788 I have no shovel now. We should probably call it a day. 397 00:20:49,812 --> 00:20:51,272 We have many shovels. 398 00:21:08,748 --> 00:21:10,475 This is interminable. 399 00:21:10,499 --> 00:21:12,936 I enjoy your company also. 400 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:14,771 I cannot just sit here. 401 00:21:14,795 --> 00:21:18,108 I understand Mother's point, but I must run Russia. 402 00:21:18,132 --> 00:21:20,068 She just doesn't understand you. 403 00:21:20,092 --> 00:21:21,945 In the way, say, I do. 404 00:21:21,969 --> 00:21:24,722 Do not speak ill of her or you will be dead. 405 00:21:26,182 --> 00:21:27,910 I am joking. 406 00:21:27,934 --> 00:21:29,202 Right. 407 00:21:29,226 --> 00:21:32,998 Your mother is here with ladies to entertain you. 408 00:21:37,443 --> 00:21:42,132 I was raised in love and joy, that is how all children should be raised. 409 00:21:42,156 --> 00:21:43,300 Indeed. 410 00:21:43,324 --> 00:21:48,347 And high expectations, of course, are also important. 411 00:21:48,371 --> 00:21:51,642 My mother cultivated a dream in us and for us. 412 00:21:51,666 --> 00:21:53,769 Your mother is a legend. 413 00:21:53,793 --> 00:21:56,355 No one has married daughters more well. 414 00:21:56,379 --> 00:21:59,733 And soon Louis of France for your youngest is the rumor. 415 00:21:59,757 --> 00:22:02,194 - Oh, no, unfo... - Indeed. 416 00:22:02,218 --> 00:22:03,946 It is exciting. 417 00:22:12,186 --> 00:22:14,498 Oh, hello. 418 00:22:14,522 --> 00:22:16,541 I heard you'd banished everyone. 419 00:22:16,565 --> 00:22:18,126 They were fucking annoying. 420 00:22:21,821 --> 00:22:22,989 That's funny. 421 00:22:24,949 --> 00:22:29,513 I keep wanting to give up, but Peter the Great did it for me. 422 00:22:29,537 --> 00:22:31,598 I know. I helped him. 423 00:22:31,622 --> 00:22:33,392 You did? 424 00:22:33,416 --> 00:22:34,542 I did. 425 00:22:44,802 --> 00:22:46,905 Yeah, that's enough. That's... 426 00:22:46,929 --> 00:22:49,974 The secret is... not to overdo it. 427 00:22:53,561 --> 00:22:56,480 It seems fucked up, this, depressing at a time of joy. 428 00:22:57,189 --> 00:23:01,611 Yeah, I thought so too when I did it, but then I had to use them. 429 00:23:03,154 --> 00:23:04,905 Right. Shit. 430 00:23:07,366 --> 00:23:10,411 - Just the thought of her and Paul. - Yeah. 431 00:23:14,624 --> 00:23:15,958 Anything can happen. 432 00:23:16,959 --> 00:23:20,480 - Yeah. - I was very sure I was going to be a great dad, 433 00:23:20,504 --> 00:23:23,900 and then earlier today I was going to beat a kid to death with a shovel. 434 00:23:23,924 --> 00:23:25,635 Kids are annoying. 435 00:23:27,053 --> 00:23:28,780 Are you close to your kids? 436 00:23:28,804 --> 00:23:30,014 I was away a lot. 437 00:23:31,390 --> 00:23:33,059 Maybe I should apologize to Alyosha. 438 00:23:34,018 --> 00:23:35,871 Alyosha. 439 00:23:35,895 --> 00:23:37,706 That kid's a fucking monster. 440 00:23:37,730 --> 00:23:41,126 Still, it would be a different thing. 441 00:23:41,150 --> 00:23:43,378 No one ever apologized to me, 442 00:23:43,402 --> 00:23:46,447 and as I'm writing a new chapter, perhaps apologizing should be in it. 443 00:23:48,699 --> 00:23:50,076 Back to work. 444 00:23:55,831 --> 00:23:58,185 Children are such a solace. 445 00:23:58,209 --> 00:23:59,269 So true. 446 00:23:59,293 --> 00:24:01,438 When you look at your husband and you hate him, 447 00:24:01,462 --> 00:24:03,982 you remind yourself he gave you your child. 448 00:24:04,006 --> 00:24:06,902 And try to forget he also gave you syphilis, ran your fortune down, 449 00:24:06,926 --> 00:24:08,719 and smells like cheese-covered wet dog. 450 00:24:09,553 --> 00:24:11,615 Why do you stay if you're unhappy? 451 00:24:11,639 --> 00:24:15,077 - Married is for life in Russia. We cannot leave, or we leave with nothing. 452 00:24:15,101 --> 00:24:17,061 Which is why I've always avoided marriage. 453 00:24:17,853 --> 00:24:20,815 - Your father dies though? What then? You're fucked. 454 00:24:22,483 --> 00:24:26,213 Ladies, you may all go, but I thank you for the insight into your lives. 455 00:24:26,237 --> 00:24:28,131 It has inspired me. 456 00:24:28,155 --> 00:24:30,342 - Why are you getting up? - I need paper. 457 00:24:30,366 --> 00:24:32,702 Darling, what are you doing? 458 00:24:33,244 --> 00:24:36,348 - She has that look. What do you need? 459 00:24:36,372 --> 00:24:37,808 I will set up in here. 460 00:24:37,832 --> 00:24:41,395 Marial, get me the current legal codes regarding women and... 461 00:24:41,419 --> 00:24:42,688 What are you talking about? 462 00:24:42,712 --> 00:24:47,234 - Think of it! A woman with the right to divorce a man. 463 00:24:47,258 --> 00:24:51,697 Think of the freedom that would give women who suffer violence, drunkenness, 464 00:24:51,721 --> 00:24:55,826 men rutting on them while sweating and smelling of cheese. 465 00:24:55,850 --> 00:24:59,204 It would change the very dynamics between men and women. 466 00:24:59,228 --> 00:25:01,665 Also, women as property, that must stop. 467 00:25:01,689 --> 00:25:04,042 - Oh! - You must stop this. 468 00:25:04,066 --> 00:25:05,627 It is a delirium. 469 00:25:05,651 --> 00:25:07,629 Is that not exciting? 470 00:25:07,653 --> 00:25:12,050 To change the systems women live by, take power from men, and give it to us. 471 00:25:12,074 --> 00:25:16,346 It is easy to take power from men, and sometimes they even enjoy it, 472 00:25:16,370 --> 00:25:21,893 but what you must not do is advertise about it, for then their fists come out. 473 00:25:21,917 --> 00:25:24,855 Must you always bite off more than you can chew? 474 00:25:24,879 --> 00:25:27,774 Wouldn't you have liked to be freer in your life? 475 00:25:27,798 --> 00:25:29,634 No. 476 00:25:29,925 --> 00:25:31,945 Oh, what now? 477 00:25:31,969 --> 00:25:33,780 The Ottomans have sent a message. 478 00:25:33,804 --> 00:25:36,283 Stand back. 479 00:25:36,307 --> 00:25:38,785 I suspect it's full of poisonous bees. 480 00:25:38,809 --> 00:25:39,953 We should all be wearing hoods. 481 00:25:39,977 --> 00:25:42,831 - Is this really necessary? - Well, at least stand back. 482 00:25:42,855 --> 00:25:45,775 Candles! How beautiful. 483 00:25:46,984 --> 00:25:48,670 "Empress Catherine", 484 00:25:48,694 --> 00:25:52,591 "I accept your invitation to discuss the way forward." 485 00:25:52,615 --> 00:25:57,095 "These candles are a token of our esteem and that when our differences are melted 486 00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:01,767 by the warmth of discourse, we will be left with nothing but precious jewels." 487 00:26:01,791 --> 00:26:04,394 Oh, that is poetic. 488 00:26:04,418 --> 00:26:06,897 It worked, your way. 489 00:26:06,921 --> 00:26:10,776 Anyone in the room may congratulate me on my diplomatic victory! 490 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:12,677 Huzzah! 491 00:26:13,302 --> 00:26:16,823 Now, let us fashion a response and find ourselves a meeting ground. 492 00:26:16,847 --> 00:26:20,101 Also, Orlo, I'm writing a new legal code for women in Russia. 493 00:26:20,559 --> 00:26:21,894 Oh, okay. 494 00:26:24,605 --> 00:26:28,418 Mother, I have had a massive diplomatic victory. 495 00:26:28,442 --> 00:26:29,920 I'm thrilled. 496 00:26:29,944 --> 00:26:33,155 Bring me my dead grandchild when it falls out of you. 497 00:26:38,077 --> 00:26:39,412 Let me talk to her. 498 00:26:41,372 --> 00:26:42,873 So, you know, it's a tense time. 499 00:26:42,915 --> 00:26:44,434 I have a child coming, 500 00:26:44,458 --> 00:26:47,562 this grave digging is fucked up, and I lashed out at you 501 00:26:47,586 --> 00:26:49,922 when you were a prick. For that I'm sorry. 502 00:26:50,673 --> 00:26:51,775 That's okay. 503 00:26:51,799 --> 00:26:54,385 Dad always says, "Alyosha, you can be a real prick." 504 00:26:55,219 --> 00:26:57,072 Well, you can. 505 00:26:57,096 --> 00:26:58,991 The Prince and I are talking. 506 00:26:59,015 --> 00:27:00,325 Jesus Christ. 507 00:27:00,349 --> 00:27:02,369 So, apology accepted? 508 00:27:02,393 --> 00:27:03,996 Sure. 509 00:27:04,020 --> 00:27:05,730 You're a bad man and I respect that. 510 00:27:06,814 --> 00:27:08,899 - I'm not a bad... - I'm bored now. 511 00:27:09,442 --> 00:27:11,444 Okay, just fuck off. 512 00:27:13,613 --> 00:27:14,965 That went great. 513 00:27:14,989 --> 00:27:15,966 You think? 514 00:27:15,990 --> 00:27:17,009 Very moving. 515 00:27:17,033 --> 00:27:18,576 It works, you know. 516 00:27:19,702 --> 00:27:21,954 You look at this and you can't but think of them dying. 517 00:27:24,332 --> 00:27:25,892 I can't lose them. 518 00:27:25,916 --> 00:27:27,102 You won't. 519 00:27:27,126 --> 00:27:29,021 And even if you do... 520 00:27:29,045 --> 00:27:31,815 You have a ball sack full of prospective children. 521 00:27:31,839 --> 00:27:32,775 Exactly. 522 00:27:32,799 --> 00:27:36,903 And if she dies, you just start again, clean slate. 523 00:27:36,927 --> 00:27:39,489 In some ways, that's the best option. 524 00:27:39,513 --> 00:27:41,599 You come back to being Emperor. 525 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:46,538 Get that Spanish princess who gave you a hand job under the table at the winter ball. 526 00:27:46,562 --> 00:27:48,206 - She was nice! - So nice. 527 00:27:48,230 --> 00:27:50,125 I want them! 528 00:27:50,149 --> 00:27:51,585 Oooh! 529 00:27:51,609 --> 00:27:56,131 I don't want anything else, you barren-hearted fuckheads. 530 00:27:56,155 --> 00:27:58,658 - Just trying to... - Fuck off, both of you! 531 00:28:03,245 --> 00:28:05,247 And sorry, I shouldn't have... 532 00:28:06,749 --> 00:28:08,334 Fuck! 533 00:28:15,257 --> 00:28:16,342 For you. 534 00:28:24,266 --> 00:28:26,203 Oh. 535 00:28:26,227 --> 00:28:29,146 Tacky but amusing. 536 00:28:30,690 --> 00:28:32,024 You have come to game me. 537 00:28:32,858 --> 00:28:36,463 Please begin, I'm fascinated with how you go about it. 538 00:28:36,487 --> 00:28:38,507 There is no game here. 539 00:28:38,531 --> 00:28:41,927 I love and believe in your daughter, that is all. 540 00:28:41,951 --> 00:28:43,929 She is the best thing to happen to Russia. 541 00:28:43,953 --> 00:28:45,764 Well, that makes us enemies, 542 00:28:45,788 --> 00:28:48,850 because Russia is the worst thing to happen to her. 543 00:28:48,874 --> 00:28:53,188 - You are protective, you worry on her. I understand, but you do not need to. 544 00:28:53,212 --> 00:28:55,214 - Are you a mother? - I am. 545 00:28:56,382 --> 00:28:58,360 Was. I... He died. 546 00:28:58,384 --> 00:29:01,929 Oh, so, technically not. 547 00:29:02,430 --> 00:29:03,681 I suppose not. 548 00:29:04,682 --> 00:29:07,494 But once you are, you are forever. 549 00:29:07,518 --> 00:29:09,246 How did he die? 550 00:29:09,270 --> 00:29:10,688 He drowned at six. 551 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,692 Careless to lose one when you only have one. 552 00:29:16,444 --> 00:29:18,362 I did feel like that after. 553 00:29:20,615 --> 00:29:22,366 How free I'd let him run. 554 00:29:25,077 --> 00:29:27,204 You have kept your four daughters safe... 555 00:29:28,581 --> 00:29:31,351 and mostly married. 556 00:29:31,375 --> 00:29:36,440 Who a woman marries defines her life, only kings for mine. 557 00:29:36,464 --> 00:29:38,174 I decided on that early. 558 00:29:39,425 --> 00:29:41,653 But I will never believe you wish to help my daughter 559 00:29:41,677 --> 00:29:45,657 because you helped her to the throne and put her under threat. 560 00:29:45,681 --> 00:29:50,853 Even now, could Peter not make some of these decisions while she births? 561 00:29:52,063 --> 00:29:57,002 You say you care for her and yet you enable her delusional nature. 562 00:29:57,026 --> 00:30:00,571 Men will crush her if she takes their power. 563 00:30:00,613 --> 00:30:02,740 I understand you are upset. 564 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:04,593 As a mother, 565 00:30:04,617 --> 00:30:08,746 when you see your child is heading down the path to ruin, 566 00:30:10,122 --> 00:30:13,209 and perhaps you feel you cannot stop them, 567 00:30:14,377 --> 00:30:16,629 that is a horror. 568 00:30:22,009 --> 00:30:23,260 Are you all right? 569 00:30:24,637 --> 00:30:26,013 Yes. I... 570 00:30:27,431 --> 00:30:30,744 I just had a, uh, sudden flash of my son 571 00:30:30,768 --> 00:30:35,690 running down the path to the lake and disappearing amongst the trees. 572 00:30:38,484 --> 00:30:39,819 Gosh. 573 00:30:41,153 --> 00:30:43,698 - My dear woman. - I'm sorry. 574 00:30:46,492 --> 00:30:48,369 I'm fine, I... 575 00:30:48,953 --> 00:30:51,431 I might just go lie down for a minute. 576 00:31:12,643 --> 00:31:15,455 - You okay? - I am working. 577 00:31:15,479 --> 00:31:16,416 I have to. 578 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,042 I know you do. You are you. 579 00:31:19,066 --> 00:31:21,652 There's something inevitable about me even to myself. 580 00:31:23,070 --> 00:31:24,381 Is Mother all right? 581 00:31:24,405 --> 00:31:25,799 Your mother loves you. 582 00:31:25,823 --> 00:31:27,259 As do I. 583 00:31:27,283 --> 00:31:31,203 But I see the woman, and your mother can't help but see the child. 584 00:31:32,163 --> 00:31:34,224 She worries you can't do this. 585 00:31:34,248 --> 00:31:35,976 No, not at all. 586 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:40,188 She worries I will be killed in the process, or Russia cannot change. 587 00:31:40,212 --> 00:31:43,066 She has told me of my brilliance from the day I was born. 588 00:31:43,090 --> 00:31:45,426 Oh, I must have misheard her. 589 00:31:46,677 --> 00:31:48,155 Ah, here you are. 590 00:31:48,179 --> 00:31:49,531 What can we do? 591 00:31:49,555 --> 00:31:53,493 You need to rest, but you need to be you too. 592 00:31:53,517 --> 00:31:55,019 Thank you. 593 00:32:19,335 --> 00:32:21,229 Eh... 594 00:32:21,253 --> 00:32:22,630 I do love hunting. 595 00:32:24,548 --> 00:32:25,984 Indeed. Me too. 596 00:32:26,008 --> 00:32:27,176 The stalking of prey, 597 00:32:28,094 --> 00:32:31,198 the thrilling anxiety as you see what it is that you want 598 00:32:31,222 --> 00:32:32,640 and you move in for it, 599 00:32:33,432 --> 00:32:37,520 and the dizzying rush at the inescapable takedown. 600 00:32:39,897 --> 00:32:41,041 Indeed. 601 00:32:41,065 --> 00:32:43,109 An apt description. Well, ma... 602 00:32:44,110 --> 00:32:45,569 Bang. 603 00:32:49,657 --> 00:32:50,866 Fucking hell. 604 00:32:54,996 --> 00:32:57,099 What tree are you imagining us against? 605 00:32:57,123 --> 00:32:58,308 Oh, uh, the birch. 606 00:32:58,332 --> 00:32:59,458 Yeah. 607 00:33:00,835 --> 00:33:02,044 Hmm. 608 00:33:03,045 --> 00:33:05,649 But I have the graves to dig. 609 00:33:05,673 --> 00:33:07,276 Responsibilities. 610 00:33:07,300 --> 00:33:09,278 So weird, you Russians. 611 00:33:09,302 --> 00:33:11,029 Hm. 612 00:33:11,053 --> 00:33:12,930 Well, I'll be waiting. 613 00:33:36,245 --> 00:33:37,288 Thank you. 614 00:34:06,442 --> 00:34:08,069 Hello, Paul. 615 00:35:02,540 --> 00:35:04,041 Mama. 616 00:35:05,001 --> 00:35:06,294 Darling. 617 00:35:07,211 --> 00:35:08,814 I'm scared. 618 00:35:08,838 --> 00:35:10,565 Oh. 619 00:35:10,589 --> 00:35:12,008 I know. 620 00:35:13,426 --> 00:35:15,303 And you should be. 621 00:35:21,684 --> 00:35:23,603 I haven't thought about being a mother. 622 00:35:24,478 --> 00:35:25,664 This child. 623 00:35:25,688 --> 00:35:28,816 I have my country, how will I? 624 00:35:30,651 --> 00:35:33,672 And they have odds on me dying in the hall. 625 00:35:33,696 --> 00:35:35,031 It's okay. 626 00:35:36,073 --> 00:35:37,593 It's okay. 627 00:35:37,617 --> 00:35:39,636 Can I sleep with you? 628 00:35:39,660 --> 00:35:41,388 Of course. 629 00:35:41,412 --> 00:35:42,580 Mm. 630 00:35:45,583 --> 00:35:48,604 Think about our home, hm? 631 00:35:48,628 --> 00:35:51,356 And our lovely house. 632 00:35:51,380 --> 00:35:53,549 I miss my room some days. 633 00:35:55,134 --> 00:35:59,323 How it looks over the orchard, and when it would blossom. 634 00:35:59,347 --> 00:36:01,599 When the blossoms came this year, 635 00:36:02,975 --> 00:36:04,953 I stood in your room, 636 00:36:04,977 --> 00:36:06,979 holding one of your teddies 637 00:36:07,730 --> 00:36:10,942 and cried like a baby at how I missed you. 638 00:36:14,111 --> 00:36:15,422 Don't leave. 639 00:36:15,446 --> 00:36:16,781 I won't. 640 00:36:17,823 --> 00:36:19,909 Not until you are safe. 641 00:36:21,786 --> 00:36:24,097 I will never be safe. 642 00:36:24,121 --> 00:36:25,599 Not really. 643 00:36:25,623 --> 00:36:29,394 Well, I am thinking of a way that you can be. 644 00:36:29,418 --> 00:36:31,313 Is it kill all my friends? 645 00:36:31,337 --> 00:36:32,964 Shh! 646 00:36:33,756 --> 00:36:35,841 Sleep now. 647 00:37:17,717 --> 00:37:19,010 Daddy? 648 00:37:19,802 --> 00:37:22,138 Oh, it's you. 649 00:37:23,431 --> 00:37:24,598 Hello. 650 00:37:25,975 --> 00:37:26,976 Huh. 651 00:37:31,105 --> 00:37:32,607 I missed you. 652 00:37:33,566 --> 00:37:35,126 Huh, that's very sweet of you to say. 653 00:37:36,652 --> 00:37:37,945 Did you miss me? 654 00:37:38,654 --> 00:37:41,449 It's not really me to do that sort of thing. 655 00:37:41,490 --> 00:37:43,343 I'm in-the-moment kind of man. 656 00:37:43,367 --> 00:37:46,221 Don't look back, don't look forward, kill the man in front of me, 657 00:37:46,245 --> 00:37:49,683 eat the pussy in front of me, smell the flowers in front of me. 658 00:37:49,707 --> 00:37:50,875 Right. 659 00:37:51,626 --> 00:37:52,960 Fair enough. 660 00:37:53,961 --> 00:37:56,815 Hurtful but... A man can only be so many things. 661 00:37:56,839 --> 00:37:59,550 I was a poor father but I was a great leader. 662 00:38:00,551 --> 00:38:02,779 I wasn't a great husband, but my wife was a bitch. 663 00:38:02,803 --> 00:38:05,657 We cannot be everything and we shouldn't try to be. 664 00:38:05,681 --> 00:38:07,534 Wise words, Daddy. 665 00:38:07,558 --> 00:38:10,704 It's effete to call your father "daddy" at your age. 666 00:38:10,728 --> 00:38:12,456 Always a problem with me, isn't there? 667 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:14,541 I thought you said we are who we are. 668 00:38:14,565 --> 00:38:18,045 Maybe I'm a person who calls their father "daddy." 669 00:38:18,069 --> 00:38:20,488 Huh, and loses Russia. 670 00:38:22,865 --> 00:38:24,217 I don't want Russia! 671 00:38:24,241 --> 00:38:25,677 I don't think I ever did. 672 00:38:25,701 --> 00:38:26,994 Bullshit. 673 00:38:28,621 --> 00:38:32,750 Don't explain away your failure like a 12-year-old explains a broken toy. 674 00:38:33,417 --> 00:38:35,270 If I have to come up there, you'll be sorry. 675 00:38:35,294 --> 00:38:36,521 Fuck you. 676 00:38:36,545 --> 00:38:41,026 I want to be a good father unlike you, a good husband unlike you. 677 00:38:43,761 --> 00:38:45,572 I may not have been a good father to you. 678 00:38:45,596 --> 00:38:51,536 Oh, oh, I did make that fucking lion out of rubles once, that was nice of me. 679 00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:52,955 I loved that. 680 00:38:52,979 --> 00:38:55,624 But I built cities. 681 00:38:55,648 --> 00:39:00,337 I reimagined the world and shaped it to my imaginings 682 00:39:00,361 --> 00:39:03,572 through sheer will and power. 683 00:39:06,659 --> 00:39:08,911 I just don't know that I'm cut out. 684 00:39:08,953 --> 00:39:11,580 Don't interrupt Daddy when he's talking. 685 00:39:12,415 --> 00:39:13,433 I thought you were done. 686 00:39:13,457 --> 00:39:15,644 I was pausing like the great orators do. 687 00:39:15,668 --> 00:39:17,003 Note that down. 688 00:39:18,421 --> 00:39:20,107 I know you, son. 689 00:39:20,131 --> 00:39:23,426 I watched you grow up, I know who you are. 690 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,054 You're a fucking primal beast. 691 00:39:28,055 --> 00:39:29,640 You love fucking, hm? 692 00:39:30,057 --> 00:39:35,146 And blood sport, and friends, japes. 693 00:39:36,647 --> 00:39:41,068 And in your blood lurks the greatness of our line. 694 00:39:41,652 --> 00:39:42,862 You think? 695 00:39:43,321 --> 00:39:45,321 Are you ever going to tap into it? 696 00:39:45,906 --> 00:39:50,387 Let the animal in your soul have what it wants, 697 00:39:50,411 --> 00:39:52,889 for in those wants are the truth of who you are. 698 00:39:52,913 --> 00:39:55,350 The rest is a spinning top of bullshit in your brain 699 00:39:55,374 --> 00:39:58,711 that lies to you and sprays shit everywhere. 700 00:39:59,629 --> 00:40:00,755 I disagree. 701 00:40:01,130 --> 00:40:03,358 You do, do you? Right. 702 00:40:04,717 --> 00:40:06,862 Then I'm coming up there... 703 00:40:06,886 --> 00:40:09,472 and then I'm going to beat you until you agree. 704 00:40:10,848 --> 00:40:11,891 You think I'm afraid? 705 00:40:11,932 --> 00:40:14,769 Oh, I think you're pissing in your silk pants, 706 00:40:15,645 --> 00:40:18,165 you fucking foppish-faced, 707 00:40:18,189 --> 00:40:22,711 lobcocked, bile duct-laden, roach-festering, shit whore cunted fuckhead. 708 00:40:26,155 --> 00:40:28,926 Yes! There he is! There's my boy! 709 00:40:54,141 --> 00:40:55,768 Fucking Ottomans... 710 00:40:58,729 --> 00:41:00,481 This would've worked. 711 00:41:23,462 --> 00:41:24,839 I saw Dad. 712 00:41:26,841 --> 00:41:29,260 It was fucking Vinodel's potion. 713 00:41:30,052 --> 00:41:31,429 Oh. How is he? 714 00:41:31,887 --> 00:41:33,306 Seemed about the same. 715 00:41:34,098 --> 00:41:37,703 He doesn't want me like this, no one does. 716 00:41:37,727 --> 00:41:38,954 And she came to me again. 717 00:41:38,978 --> 00:41:42,148 I wanted to take her in a whirl against a tree. 718 00:41:43,149 --> 00:41:44,918 That's just me, Aunt. 719 00:41:44,942 --> 00:41:46,461 What can I do? 720 00:41:46,485 --> 00:41:47,838 She is a worry. 721 00:41:47,862 --> 00:41:49,590 Ah, a strange one. 722 00:41:49,614 --> 00:41:52,634 Her own daughter's husband, and she wants us to be a family. 723 00:41:52,658 --> 00:41:57,931 We can be happy together, all of us, and I am an Emperor, born to be it. 724 00:41:57,955 --> 00:42:02,019 "Take what you want," but it is the want that kills me. 725 00:42:02,043 --> 00:42:06,356 I don't know what want to obey and what to fucking deny. 726 00:42:06,380 --> 00:42:08,424 She said, "We could be a happy family"? 727 00:42:09,133 --> 00:42:12,511 And licked a fig in a way that... 728 00:42:15,723 --> 00:42:17,492 Well... 729 00:42:17,516 --> 00:42:19,143 I need to lie down for a bit. 730 00:42:51,634 --> 00:42:54,696 Men should not be able to put knives near our faces. 731 00:42:54,720 --> 00:42:56,823 Oddly specific, but don't disagree. 732 00:42:59,266 --> 00:43:00,369 Write it. 733 00:43:00,393 --> 00:43:02,329 Sylvana, breakfast, I think. 734 00:43:02,353 --> 00:43:04,039 Oooh! 735 00:43:28,462 --> 00:43:31,692 You have the most beautiful skin. 736 00:43:31,716 --> 00:43:35,654 Sitting here, I was overwhelmed by a desire to razor it off 737 00:43:35,678 --> 00:43:37,638 and make wallpaper from it. 738 00:43:38,431 --> 00:43:39,491 Tea? 739 00:43:39,515 --> 00:43:41,577 What're you doing here? 740 00:43:41,601 --> 00:43:42,869 And where's Catherine? 741 00:43:42,893 --> 00:43:45,497 Well, I was so excited to speak to you, I could not wait. 742 00:43:45,521 --> 00:43:50,085 - Well, you will wait until I dress. I do not take guests in my bed. 743 00:43:50,109 --> 00:43:54,381 Well, you do, or hope to, as we both know, 744 00:43:54,405 --> 00:43:56,425 but that is not why I'm here. 745 00:43:56,449 --> 00:43:58,677 Although we could talk on that later, 746 00:43:58,701 --> 00:44:00,786 as your body is Raphaelite good. 747 00:44:02,204 --> 00:44:04,123 I realized what you're doing. 748 00:44:05,333 --> 00:44:06,709 And what is that? 749 00:44:07,585 --> 00:44:10,022 You want to transition Catherine out and Peter in 750 00:44:10,046 --> 00:44:14,693 and put your deal to get your daughter married to Louis XIV back together, 751 00:44:14,717 --> 00:44:17,029 keeping Catherine safe at the same time. 752 00:44:17,053 --> 00:44:18,572 Right. 753 00:44:18,596 --> 00:44:19,930 So you know. 754 00:44:20,806 --> 00:44:22,409 And? 755 00:44:22,433 --> 00:44:24,328 And nothing. 756 00:44:24,352 --> 00:44:27,414 I will just enjoy your futile railing. 757 00:44:27,438 --> 00:44:30,107 I am saving her from herself. 758 00:44:30,691 --> 00:44:32,878 Someone will cut her throat! 759 00:44:32,902 --> 00:44:34,153 Probably. 760 00:44:34,904 --> 00:44:37,883 But she may do much before that happens. 761 00:44:37,907 --> 00:44:39,551 This is Russia. 762 00:44:39,575 --> 00:44:41,511 We hope for the best, expect the worst, 763 00:44:41,535 --> 00:44:44,830 and don't get too exercised about either eventuality. 764 00:44:46,248 --> 00:44:48,143 Ah, hello. 765 00:44:48,167 --> 00:44:50,145 I was thinking I should talk to you. 766 00:44:50,169 --> 00:44:51,730 I was just leaving. 767 00:44:51,754 --> 00:44:54,191 Why does everyone think they can just walk in here? 768 00:44:54,215 --> 00:44:55,484 Apologies. 769 00:44:55,508 --> 00:44:59,196 Uh, clearly with this morning's attempt on the Empress's life... 770 00:44:59,220 --> 00:45:00,238 What? 771 00:45:00,262 --> 00:45:05,518 ...we should start thinking about what psalms you'd like in the inevitable possibility of her demise. 772 00:45:06,686 --> 00:45:09,706 Although they will likely take her head. 773 00:45:09,730 --> 00:45:10,773 Oh. 774 00:45:13,526 --> 00:45:15,194 It's a thing here. 775 00:45:17,738 --> 00:45:19,299 Fucking candles. 776 00:45:19,323 --> 00:45:20,425 Poison. 777 00:45:20,449 --> 00:45:22,034 Poor Sylvana. 778 00:45:22,743 --> 00:45:24,596 I will hold my tongue as to what we should do, 779 00:45:24,620 --> 00:45:27,349 as we all know what I think we should do. 780 00:45:27,373 --> 00:45:29,268 It is an act of war. 781 00:45:29,292 --> 00:45:30,310 Fuck. 782 00:45:30,334 --> 00:45:32,896 Exactly! Fuckers. 783 00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:35,691 They are not our friend and have no intention to be our friend. 784 00:45:35,715 --> 00:45:37,317 I don't want this. 785 00:45:37,341 --> 00:45:40,445 They are still skirmishing in and out of our territory in Reograditch. 786 00:45:40,469 --> 00:45:41,281 It's brutal. 787 00:45:41,305 --> 00:45:42,864 Killing, pillaging, 788 00:45:42,888 --> 00:45:47,494 and they will eventually take it if we do not respond. 789 00:45:47,518 --> 00:45:50,205 It-it-it's like a pie. 790 00:45:50,229 --> 00:45:53,482 You take a bite, you want to keep taking another. 791 00:45:55,151 --> 00:45:57,236 Well, the pie analogy is quite telling. 792 00:46:02,450 --> 00:46:06,912 I will talk their language until they beg to learn a new one. 793 00:46:08,581 --> 00:46:10,142 Let's go fuck them up. 794 00:46:10,166 --> 00:46:13,461 - War? - I will find it unseemly if you are too happy about this. 795 00:46:13,919 --> 00:46:18,132 - No. - Velementov, these famed war plans of yours, on my desk tomorrow morning. 796 00:46:19,300 --> 00:46:20,986 Plans? Right. 797 00:46:21,010 --> 00:46:22,654 Hello. 798 00:46:22,678 --> 00:46:25,073 Mother, I am busy, we are at war. 799 00:46:25,097 --> 00:46:27,826 - How sweet. Because you know a lot about war. 800 00:46:27,850 --> 00:46:30,329 - The... - Leave, gentlemen. 801 00:46:30,353 --> 00:46:31,646 We have much to discuss. 802 00:46:35,858 --> 00:46:38,337 Mother! I have a job to do! 803 00:46:38,361 --> 00:46:40,297 - Are you yelling at me? - No. 804 00:46:40,321 --> 00:46:42,132 Factually incorrect. 805 00:46:42,156 --> 00:46:44,885 "Yes" is the answer to my rhetorical question. 806 00:46:44,909 --> 00:46:46,678 You are undermining me in front of my people. 807 00:46:46,702 --> 00:46:49,890 You are doing that with every decision you make, from my observation. 808 00:46:49,914 --> 00:46:53,060 Taking power from men and expecting applause. 809 00:46:53,084 --> 00:46:56,688 Cluelessly heading off into war when you wouldn't even step on an ant as a child. 810 00:46:56,712 --> 00:46:59,524 - Are you yelling at me? I mean it rhetorically... 811 00:46:59,548 --> 00:47:01,300 Don't be smart with me. 812 00:47:01,842 --> 00:47:04,029 I love that you took this country. 813 00:47:04,053 --> 00:47:07,473 It makes me laugh when it doesn't terrify me. 814 00:47:09,225 --> 00:47:11,328 Someone tried to kill you, darling. 815 00:47:11,352 --> 00:47:12,645 I'm dealing with it. 816 00:47:13,771 --> 00:47:15,165 It's part of the job. 817 00:47:15,189 --> 00:47:19,110 And you will die if we don't change the game. 818 00:47:19,986 --> 00:47:21,153 And we can. 819 00:47:21,779 --> 00:47:26,200 - What? - In three days' time, you will have this baby. 820 00:47:28,077 --> 00:47:30,538 And there is a natural pause. 821 00:47:31,414 --> 00:47:36,520 You transition out of power and into motherhood 822 00:47:36,544 --> 00:47:39,898 and Peter transitions back in. 823 00:47:39,922 --> 00:47:44,010 And it can be addressed through Europe as some strange rumor, 824 00:47:45,011 --> 00:47:48,055 and I can get your sister the French job back. 825 00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:50,742 What? 826 00:47:50,766 --> 00:47:54,329 It can all be just as I planned, 827 00:47:54,353 --> 00:47:56,772 and you can be safe. 828 00:47:58,441 --> 00:47:59,650 Darling? 829 00:48:00,818 --> 00:48:04,840 You can play that boy, we both can. 830 00:48:04,864 --> 00:48:06,157 Trust me. 831 00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:11,120 You are staring at me blankly. 832 00:48:12,163 --> 00:48:15,499 I'm just a piece in your perfect tableau. 833 00:48:16,876 --> 00:48:18,794 The maestro of marriage. 834 00:48:19,587 --> 00:48:22,632 You were born to be a royal wife. 835 00:48:23,799 --> 00:48:27,053 You were trained to be a royal wife. 836 00:48:28,512 --> 00:48:34,202 Be one and stop this, and live. 837 00:48:34,226 --> 00:48:37,623 Darling, your sisters can do it, why can't you? 838 00:48:37,647 --> 00:48:39,249 Because I am not them! 839 00:48:39,273 --> 00:48:40,667 I'm better! 840 00:48:40,691 --> 00:48:42,109 Oh! 841 00:48:43,152 --> 00:48:44,088 Oh. 842 00:48:44,112 --> 00:48:45,446 Darling. 843 00:48:46,948 --> 00:48:48,967 Let's calm down. 844 00:48:48,991 --> 00:48:50,802 I can see a happy ending. 845 00:48:50,826 --> 00:48:52,763 You are fond of Peter. 846 00:48:52,787 --> 00:48:55,682 And why not? Handsome as hell. 847 00:48:55,706 --> 00:48:58,793 He's a taste one wants in one's mouth. 848 00:49:00,252 --> 00:49:02,463 We can work this out, darling. 849 00:49:03,673 --> 00:49:05,549 I see a happy ending. 850 00:49:06,509 --> 00:49:12,348 Now, I've raised it with Peter, and I can see a way there. 851 00:49:14,183 --> 00:49:19,164 You have gone behind my back in my own court... 852 00:49:19,188 --> 00:49:20,332 to unseat me? 853 00:49:20,356 --> 00:49:22,566 To save you from yourself. 854 00:49:25,987 --> 00:49:30,676 You are always seeking for me to look at reality. 855 00:49:30,700 --> 00:49:32,368 Well, suddenly I am, 856 00:49:33,577 --> 00:49:35,288 and it is horrifying. 857 00:49:38,916 --> 00:49:40,501 You don't believe in me. 858 00:49:41,919 --> 00:49:44,171 I've spent my life trying to get you to... 859 00:49:46,549 --> 00:49:48,819 and you just don't. 860 00:49:48,843 --> 00:49:50,428 Darling, trust me. 861 00:49:51,846 --> 00:49:57,661 Your child will become your empire as mine did me. 862 00:49:57,685 --> 00:49:58,978 It won't. 863 00:49:59,937 --> 00:50:01,665 - Russia is my child. - Oh. 864 00:50:01,689 --> 00:50:03,834 See? It's crazy statements like that 865 00:50:03,858 --> 00:50:06,902 that make me worry about your mental state. 866 00:50:07,987 --> 00:50:10,841 Recognize who and what I am or leave. 867 00:50:10,865 --> 00:50:15,887 I recognize that you are mad, and you need help, 868 00:50:15,911 --> 00:50:18,765 and I am here to give it. 869 00:50:18,789 --> 00:50:20,559 Get out of my palace. 870 00:50:20,583 --> 00:50:21,685 Catherine. 871 00:50:21,709 --> 00:50:23,377 Get out of my country. 872 00:50:25,463 --> 00:50:26,756 Go! 873 00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,277 Chew, little cat. 874 00:50:30,301 --> 00:50:32,779 Chew, chew, chew. 875 00:50:32,803 --> 00:50:36,658 But I will not stick around while you choke. 876 00:50:58,454 --> 00:51:01,183 Hello. 877 00:51:01,207 --> 00:51:03,167 Fine, fine. 878 00:51:04,961 --> 00:51:07,230 - I give in. - I like that in a man. 879 00:51:07,254 --> 00:51:08,464 Oh! 880 00:51:16,305 --> 00:51:17,348 Ah! 881 00:51:24,563 --> 00:51:26,357 Ah, ah! 882 00:51:29,902 --> 00:51:30,945 Ah! 883 00:51:54,969 --> 00:51:56,679 Oh! 884 00:52:09,859 --> 00:52:11,086 I know. Sorry, I... 885 00:52:11,110 --> 00:52:12,320 Oh. 886 00:52:13,487 --> 00:52:15,239 Don't worry, darling. 887 00:52:15,740 --> 00:52:17,718 I'll take care of it. 888 00:52:17,742 --> 00:52:19,035 Oh, fuck. 889 00:52:27,001 --> 00:52:29,896 So, good news: Joanna's gone. 890 00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,274 Gone? Left? 891 00:52:32,298 --> 00:52:34,943 - Yes. But not in a carriage. 892 00:52:34,967 --> 00:52:36,302 Oh, I see. 893 00:52:37,303 --> 00:52:38,447 Shame. 894 00:52:38,471 --> 00:52:39,656 Mm. 895 00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:40,991 What happened? 896 00:52:41,015 --> 00:52:43,309 - Do you really want the details? - Not really. 897 00:52:44,268 --> 00:52:45,704 What do you need me to do? 898 00:52:45,728 --> 00:52:48,290 Clean her room into an abrupt departure. 899 00:53:57,883 --> 00:53:58,968 Hi. 900 00:54:07,977 --> 00:54:09,663 I love that portrait. 901 00:54:09,687 --> 00:54:13,333 Ah, yeah, we just need to put his face in. 902 00:54:13,357 --> 00:54:14,900 My mother left. 903 00:54:15,985 --> 00:54:18,154 We fought, in the night she left. 904 00:54:19,030 --> 00:54:20,406 I'm sorry. 905 00:54:22,283 --> 00:54:25,036 I suddenly saw who she truly was. 906 00:54:33,753 --> 00:54:35,463 We will be good parents. 907 00:54:36,714 --> 00:54:38,257 Indeed. 908 00:54:38,883 --> 00:54:40,509 Better than them, that's the main thing. 909 00:54:41,636 --> 00:54:43,137 These are our graves? 910 00:54:49,101 --> 00:54:52,229 - I buried my mother. Seemed a wasted hole otherwise. 911 00:54:53,397 --> 00:54:55,316 Right. You okay? 912 00:54:57,526 --> 00:54:58,819 I don't need her anymore. 913 00:54:59,695 --> 00:55:01,364 Exactly how I feel. 914 00:55:04,325 --> 00:55:06,369 This next bit will be alarming. 915 00:55:07,244 --> 00:55:09,080 It is to me, but... 916 00:55:18,839 --> 00:55:20,341 Oh. 917 00:55:22,009 --> 00:55:23,695 Oh. 918 00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:25,656 Shit. 919 00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:26,889 Paul?