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00:00It's been three months since Ginny and I left England, and in that time we've become acquainted with an entirely new life.
00:22Everything has changed, except the way I feel.
00:26I'm still dazed by the speed of our escape, still haunted by the million words left unsaid.
00:39Having word of Nan simply through newspapers is agony, and I refuse to believe the headlines which proclaim her constant joy.
00:51The bliss of their honeymoon tour.
00:56Is Nan's happiness real?
00:57I know the huge burden this letter puts at your door, but Nan has no truer or more loyal friend.
01:25I'm well aware that what I'm asking will shatter the Tintagel marriage, and yet, Lizzie, I must ask for your help.
01:35Every fiber of me longs to run to Nan, but this letter gives her the means to come to me, to be with me.
01:42My world is here now, but it can be our world.
01:49So, Lizzie, please, find a way to give Nan this letter.
01:54Do what's right for Nan, with endless gratitude.
02:00Guy.
02:00Shake, shake, shake, shake.
02:13Oh, I don't know, I don't know where to begin.
02:17We are North Americans, and those of you who still think we're from England, we're not.
02:25No, you see, I love this place that I have grown to know.
02:31All right, North America.
02:34And yeah, I know you wouldn't touch us with a ten-foot pole.
02:38Cause we're North American.
02:45We are North America's come.
02:48Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:51We are North America's come.
02:58Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:10Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
03:15Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
03:19do I gather the Duke and Duchess are a sensation an exhausted sensation delighted to be home oh
03:27oh you have three months worth of correspondence in a lifetime to answer it a triumphant tour
03:35and best behavior eventually well done
03:49delighted to meet you I trust that your journey wasn't too arduous are we happy with arduous
04:07good for difficult to be safe she practically curtsies in her sleep
04:12Cora Sheldon oh yes mother and she walks like she's on wheels
04:21it's very good now do you know your conversation topics yes the weather the scenery the generosity
04:31of the hostess and you've learned your list of lords and in which county they reside I believe
04:35I could guess what they all have for breakfast well I believe you're ready so this is it
04:42I've got butterflies you'll look after my precious girl
04:46Mrs. Merrigan we're merely polishing your jewels to be presented to the world for admiration
04:50shall they all be there at this tentatural feast every year before parliament opens
04:58the Duke invites all the most influential lords and your special invitations from the Duchess
05:04you know what your wedding I shall wear ostrich plumes that brush the ceiling
05:08so will I oh Cora tonight your life begins
05:14how was that
05:18good
05:20good
05:32good
05:34good
05:36good
05:38good
05:40good
05:42good
05:46good
06:08good
06:10good
06:12good
06:14good
06:15good
06:45good
07:15good
07:16good
07:21good
07:23good
07:25great
07:26last
07:27good
07:27great
07:28good
07:30good
07:35good
07:35both there is someone else you might be pleased to see I am I am very pleased to
07:49see him but Nan I want to hear how you are just be right back man I need to
08:01talk to you so how are you truly all right I am we've been so occupied everywhere we go is very
08:22fascinating and people have been incredibly generous and we've just spent the whole time
08:26I'm asking about I know what you're asking about and Theo and I are happy we are he's kind he makes
08:33me laugh he looks after me and we really enjoy each other's company I'm sure but darling what
08:42about Guy I think of him of course but we're here now and the Dowager's promised Ginny's safe and I'm
08:50doing all I can to keep her out of the papers so I'm going to be all right so what was it that was
08:57so important just that I missed you I miss you and I've been really hoping that you're happy and I'm
09:09really glad to hear that you are
09:11love you
09:19good afternoon
09:37you following me miss Elmside no I'm not really not following you but
10:07on this occasion I came to see Nan well I'd have looked forward a lot more to today if I had
10:13expected you me too a castle full of lords and noise was not exactly my dream today
10:19my lords and ladies the warmest of welcomes to Tintagel may I present the Duke
10:36contrary to popular opinion our spring gala is not only an excuse for fresh air and drinking shame
10:42though my mother will ensure we're fed and watered
10:47obscenely so
10:52but before next week's state opening of Parliament we gladly open up our home Tintagel birthplace of
10:58King Arthur whose round table symbolized the chivalry and democracy we've prized so
11:03highly and which you all represent so
11:09so
11:17and which you all represent so
11:21Lord Sidon
11:34I hope this year you'll manage to avoid twisting any ankles down any rabbit holes
11:40I always do my best to remain upstanding your grace
11:43brave man Sidon
11:45you'll bring her back we're all with you thank you
11:49our quest then
11:54as always the holy grail has been hidden so we must search
11:59your clues await
12:00and if your glasses are charged and your walking boots laced
12:04Tintagel is at your disposal
12:06good luck
12:09the purpose of today is to thank the lords for their service and for the Duke to maintain
12:20with them cordial and uncontroversial relations
12:24the Duchess must do the same
12:39everything
12:44everybody knows you
12:49everybody knows you
12:54everybody knows you
12:57everybody knows you
13:02can you keep it on your secret
13:07Oh
13:35Hello
13:36Hello, I'm glad it's you. I, um, don't honestly know what I'm even looking for.
13:47So we're searching for a silver chalice that Jesus drank from?
13:52Supposedly. At the Last Supper.
13:55And in real life?
13:58It's the bowl we keep the nuts in at Christmas.
14:03King Arthur's quest was to bring it home to Camelot.
14:07Though I imagine it had a lot to do with beating Lancelot.
14:10Hmm?
14:12Arthur's great friend and rival, Guinevere, Arthur's wife, she and Lancelot were...
14:22even greater friends.
14:24I see.
14:25Mm-hmm.
14:26Hard to imagine how that must be, isn't it?
14:30Married to someone but in love with another.
14:31Well, it's regarded as a legendary love story, but I'm never sure.
14:37How did it end?
14:39Not well for Arthur.
14:41Spear through the head.
14:44And for Guinevere?
14:46Lancelot came back for her.
14:48After Arthur died.
14:49And found her in a nunnery.
14:51Well, three meals a day.
14:54A comfortable frock.
14:56What more could a woman want?
15:06Carry on this discussion.
15:15Your Grace.
15:17You don't seem to be doing much searching.
15:23Ah.
15:24While they search, I gather.
15:26Signatures, promises of support.
15:28When those with influence meet, that's when their guards are down.
15:32And they're open to business.
15:33And you're unconcerned who you do business with.
15:37Can't look at him, never mind smile.
15:40Your Grace.
15:42Lord Seedon has no sympathy for me.
15:46Not a shred.
15:48But each promise of support gets my bill closer to being passed.
15:53Now, I'm petitioning to give a voice to working men.
15:56Now, these are people who deserve to own land.
15:59And if that improves lives for thousands of working families,
16:04then I will shake the odd and palatable hand.
16:06I gather you're not adverse to ruffling establishment feathers?
16:13I wore a red dress to a black and white ball.
16:15Just so for a few days the headlines wouldn't be about my sister.
16:19As women, we may not be heard, but we can rely on being looked at.
16:26But you ought to go back and talk to the people with influence.
16:30Your Grace.
16:32I'm talking to someone with more influence than any lord in the land
16:35should she choose to use it.
16:39Imagine if one might turn being looked at
16:41into being listened to.
16:43Jenny?
17:06Ah!
17:06Ah!
17:06Ah!
17:06Ah!
17:07Ah!
17:07Ah!
17:07Ah!
17:08Ah!
17:09Ah!
17:10Ah!
17:10I know you have a husband but laughing with women nights of laughing it it's the best no apart from
17:32nights of under the sheets oh I never really enjoy any of that what what I I've ever had
17:40I've wanted to I want to don't you just lie there and wait for it to be over no jeannie
17:46oh no but you know sometimes yes but in that case I'll give you a tip encouraging noises
17:55it speeds it up a little bit jeannie did you run hmm did you and guy lope was it that kind of running
18:07and jeannie was the running not all you hoped
18:12I think running might have been the biggest mistake I ever made
18:21ah here he comes mister under the sheets
18:35time to come home I didn't mean I'm taking you home to bed
18:40hey jeannie remember encouraging noises
18:42are you trying to make me panic I was trying to get out of that house of that room
18:51I'm just always there you know freddy needs you yes every second well you know it every second
18:57or he needs you every second both you wouldn't understand you know I've given up a life for
19:02this and I've given up I shouldn't be here Nan should you and Nan should be wherever you want in
19:06the world do you resent me sometimes so do I I think Freddie does too my own baby resents me
19:24I'm going home yes good no I'm going home I thought I could do this but I can't
19:35and I should have never dragged you into it we'd both be better off at home
19:41I need to show you something
19:43I don't want to have to tell you
19:56they're making me out to be mad
19:58they think I'm a kidnapper
20:01well you've taken Seedon's property
20:04I carried that baby
20:08he came out of my body I still feel it
20:11I'm not good at this I'm not but I feel I feel desperate every second and I'm failing him
20:19and he needs me all the time and I'm scared to even pick him up and you're so good with him
20:26Ginny I know I'm not Nan I know I'm not one of the other girls I'm not your mother but I love this boy
20:34look at him
20:44he's doing so well
20:51with his noises
20:55I promise you both of you I will do my very best to be in love
21:05when you imagine traveling the world did you picture this
21:11stuck here with some mad woman that you hardly know
21:16a loud baby
21:17yeah it wasn't a dream
21:18maybe it should have been
21:23mother
21:24well don't you stand there gawping Richard
21:42let joy be unconfined
21:44your mother is moving in
21:47your late father was many things Richard
21:54thrifty it turns out he was not
21:57bailiffs came for the lot
21:58the house
21:59both houses
22:00and all the furniture
22:02every stick
22:03gone
22:04we may need to establish some rules with regard to
22:07florals
22:09with all of us here together it might feel like Christmas
22:12that's exactly what we're afraid of
22:14mother you can't just barge into our lives like this
22:17this is our house
22:19now we all live in it
22:20stop feeling sorry for yourself Richard
22:23if you think things are bad for you pity your poor sister
22:25honoria will have to share a room
22:27with Mabel
22:29yeah one year they hid the grout in the water
22:47sneaky
22:48not today though I hope
22:49I don't fancy getting wet
22:51isn't that it there
22:52I'm sorry
23:01so that's the game is it
23:03what are you doing
23:07Theo
23:08don't
23:10don't stop
23:12what is it
23:15my bracelet
23:17your bracelet
23:18it's gone
23:18I see it
23:19I see it
23:19thank you
23:24well that'll teach me to splash dukes
23:27here
23:28well it's a beautiful spot
23:44you're a good friend
23:46it's a name
23:48that's me
23:51I'm a good friend to everybody
23:56well if I was hiding a glare
24:12the main event's downstairs
24:35burial chambers
24:38I hear her
24:45I hear Nan crying
24:48when she's alone she cries
24:52it's not as though I didn't suspect how she felt
24:58about Guy
25:01I think my wife has a broken heart
25:12found
25:20when he's panicked
25:22the grail is found
25:23you found it
25:25here we are
25:26what is this place
25:32is King Arthur buried here
25:35so they say
25:37and Guinevere
25:39my uncle
25:50my father
25:54mother
25:57mother will be next to him
25:58and one day
26:00you
26:02and also
26:06me
26:09there'll be a ring on that finger in no time
26:28I assume you must be
26:32Richard and Contita's
26:34project
26:35all set to meet them all over my life
26:39oh I
26:40I must have misunderstood
26:42I thought the goal was marriage
26:43that's right
26:44for God's sake
26:46no beyond any illusion
26:47love comes into it
26:49leave sentimentality to the weak
26:53or the French
26:55or the French
26:55these transatlantic unions
26:58are hardly love matches
26:59their purpose is to pay the bills
27:02um
27:05but what about Contita and Richard
27:08when Richard
27:13needed to find a wealthy bride
27:15he had to sail all the way to New York
27:19to pick one up
27:20this new season of hard-up lords
27:23don't even have to get on a boat
27:24and the good news for you is that
27:27none of them will care
27:28how bad you are at balancing books on your head
27:31you'll be balancing the books in a different way
27:34I hear your father's a veritable gold mine
27:37this little piggy went to market
27:40Cora
27:41Richard's bringing the carriage around
27:44are you ready?
27:46yes ready
27:47quite ready
27:48you look perfect
27:49I'll meet you outside
27:51thank you
27:56thank you
28:10thank you
28:16he hears you
28:35Theo hears you crying when you're alone
28:40it's killing him
28:42I think he knows about Guy
28:43he knows he was here the night before the went out
28:48not that
28:50he's just
28:54he's
28:54he's trying to understand
28:56and he's worried about you
28:57we both are
28:57well no one asked you to worry
28:59why can't everyone just mind their own business
29:01Nan I came here to see you
29:03and I've been trying to figure out
29:04if you're happy or not
29:05why
29:06I was happy before you started asking me
29:09and what does
29:10happy mean
29:11oh I would love to know
29:13but I just
29:15I don't think it means crying in secret whenever you get the chance
29:20and what do you know about marriage
29:24you saw that place earlier
29:26we'll be buried together
29:28this marriage is forever
29:29I'm trying
29:32every day
29:33to be a good wife
29:34and we were all in on the plan
29:35all of us
29:35but I am the one who has to live it
29:37every single day
29:38so excuse me
29:38if every once in a while
29:39I think about Guy
29:40and I can't bear it
29:41well then just listen
29:42you listen to me
29:42this is my marriage
29:43and I'm trying to make it work
29:45I'm just trying to understand it
29:50why
29:51no one asked you to
29:53Nan
30:13oh it's so good to see you
30:16me too
30:17how are you
30:18I'm good how are you
30:19this is Cora
30:20hello Cora
30:22how are you
30:23I was just coming in
30:44to join the party
30:44oh let's not
30:45I mean not quite yet
30:48ta-da
30:51no country
30:53I mean let's not go down
30:55and face everyone yet
30:56go on
30:58Miss Merrigan
31:01have you been able to do much
31:02sightseeing
31:03in England
31:04I've walked
31:06a lot
31:07I like to walk
31:10calmly but with purpose
31:11there are some beautiful parks
31:14and museums
31:15you must see while you're here
31:16oh I don't like museums
31:17I don't like parks much either
31:19or England
31:19oh
31:21Lord Harris
31:22Miss Merrigan's father
31:23is a distinguished businessman
31:25he owns a shop
31:26it is
31:28a very big shop
31:29very big
31:30and Miss Merrigan
31:32has a substantial dowry
31:33a generous allowance
31:35and an iguana
31:36I see
31:40and would your
31:43iguana
31:44come with you
31:45to England
31:45oh
31:46oh
31:47I plan to have
31:48six iguanas
31:49well you're not too
31:50attached to him though
31:51are you
31:52no
31:54not attached at all
31:56what's your iguana's name
31:57darling
31:59right
32:05hello
32:25two of us
32:28in a bedroom
32:30what
32:31might
32:32possibly
32:34happen next
32:36I've missed you
32:53me too
32:58so do we
33:04live
33:06together now
33:08I think we might be living in sin
33:11oh that's absolutely my favorite way to live
33:14sexy to somebody
33:21it would
33:21up me up
33:23oh I need a reason
33:26to get out of your house
33:28and it's just
33:30other things
33:31I can't
33:32breathe
33:32through
33:32sexy to somebody
33:40oh I need a reason
33:44oh I need a reason
33:45to get out of your house
33:46don't worry
33:47sorry
33:51sorry
33:51sorry mother
33:52I'm just
33:52I'm just getting dressed
33:54they don't seem to have backgammon
33:56what do they do here
33:58I don't know
33:59just go downstairs
34:00mother
34:01I'll
34:02I'll be there in just a second
34:04don't be long
34:05I won't
34:05I won't
34:05I think she's gone
34:10come
34:15I can't
34:20I'm all she has
34:22sorry
34:24one minute she won't speak
34:36next she's telling the Earl of Derby
34:37to trim his bloody moustache
34:39girl's a menace
34:40Cora
34:44what are you playing at
34:46he's not here
34:48there are some stuffed shirts in here
34:50of course there are
34:51this is England
34:52but there are some excellent options
34:55you think the Lord's uninterested
34:57in my iguana
34:57nor your snoring
34:59nor your itchy head
35:00nor your fear of children
35:01Cora
35:01why the sabotage
35:02there were no thunderbolts
35:04not one
35:05and I won't just marry
35:07any hard-up Lord
35:08who needs my father's cash
35:09unlike some
35:10you little
35:11lady Brutelcy
35:12I hope I don't have to tell my mother
35:14who's paying you good money
35:16that you just took that tone with me
35:19that girl's complicated
35:31I fell in love with the queen of complicated
35:38do you know what
35:45did I fall in love with the first man
35:47who looked at me
35:48hardly
35:49Cora's going to be trouble
35:52but I like trouble
35:54I must make most of tonight your grace
36:23I won't be in the country long
36:25news arrives every day
36:27and I'm afraid your poor sister's not in her right mind
36:31but when I brought her
36:33and our baby
36:35safely back to where she belongs
36:37you can be sure she'll get the medical attention she needs
36:39I won't be in the country long
36:53I won't be in the country long
36:54I won't be in the country long
36:55dinner is served
36:57wine yes please
37:21thank you
37:31thank you
37:31thank you
37:32ready
37:36ladies and gentlemen
37:42may I present
37:43the
37:43may I actually speak
37:49because believe it
37:53or not
37:54I have
37:58I have plenty to say
38:02Mr. Hector Robinson
38:06is fighting to give
38:08a voice to all working men
38:10yet
38:11what a novelty
38:14how staggering
38:15for even one woman
38:16to be allowed
38:17to have a voice
38:18a working man
38:23should be able
38:23to own his own land
38:24true
38:25but no man
38:29should be allowed
38:30to own his wife
38:32to choose her like an ornament
38:38or to gradually erase her
38:40like she's some mistake
38:41in a world where a woman's safety
38:47is far from guaranteed
38:48even
38:50in her own home
38:52it is my fight
38:56to make sure
38:56that she's at least believed
38:57and heard
38:58and that any man
38:59who threatens
39:00that safety
39:01will feel the full force
39:03of what he deserves
39:04I seem to have
39:08an audience
39:09I seem to have
39:11a voice
39:11and I will
39:13use it
39:15Theodore
39:31I believe my wife
39:44has spoken for us both
39:45Thank you
39:47Excuse me
40:07Excuse me
40:11Tio!
40:12Tio!
40:13Tio!
40:14Tio!
40:15Tio!
40:18Tio!
40:23Tio!
40:25Tio!
40:32Tio!
40:42Tio?
40:48Humiliation, is that your game?
41:12I'm not playing any games.
41:15Nor am I.
41:16You'll regret that little performance.
41:23Stay away from my wife.
41:28Are you alright?
41:29Yes, I'm fine. I'm fine, thank you.
41:36I'm so sorry.
41:39I've been finding this marriage way harder than I've been able to admit.
41:43None of it's your fault, and I'm so sorry.
41:47I really want to make this work.
41:53I do.
41:54I don't know.
41:55I don't know.
41:56I don't know.
41:57I don't know.
41:58I don't know.
41:59I don't know.
42:00I don't know.
42:01I don't know.
42:02I don't know.
42:03I don't know.
42:04I don't know.
42:05I don't know.
42:06I don't know.
42:07I don't know.
42:08I don't know.
42:09I don't know.
42:10I don't know.
42:11I don't know.
42:12I don't know.
42:13I don't know.
42:14I don't know.
42:15I don't know.
42:16I don't know.
42:17I don't know.
42:18I don't know.
42:19I don't know.
42:20I don't know.
42:21I don't know.
42:22I don't know.
42:23I don't know.
42:24I don't know.
42:25I don't know.
42:26I don't know.
42:27With his father...
42:28I believe we all miss father.
42:31Who does?
42:33Both your brothers are wasting lives running around after Americans.
42:38I'm entirely on my own.
42:44You know, I'm virtually New York's backgammon champion.
42:55Anoria, why don't you go to bed?
42:59Your mother and I will be all right.
43:03You're not leaving me.
43:10Mother?
43:20You're sticking with that dressing gown, are you?
43:22If you're sticking with that face.
43:25On your face.
43:26Yeah, let me see.
43:27Covid-19.
43:28It's back.
43:29Why don't you go to bed?
43:30Right?
43:31Yes, I could take the kitchen.
43:32We don't even go to bed.
43:33I haven't even gone to bed yet.
43:34On your family home.
43:35Did you go to bed?
43:36The island is in bed?
43:37I could take the bedroom in bed.
43:38I can't even go to bed.
43:39I'm with a cell phone.
43:40I'm a person.
43:41I could take the bedroom.
43:42I said no.
43:43He could take the bedroom in bed.
43:44I could take the bedroom in bed.
43:45It's better.
43:46I looked like a dog.
43:47I thought.
43:48So I was perfectly dressed.
43:49This is the bedroom in bed.
43:50It's better.
43:51It's better.
43:52But I didn't even go to bed.
43:53I have to let Geico.
44:19I'm really sorry.
44:23I kept telling myself that I could live a whole life thinking that Guy would eventually
44:35come back because Guy was everything, but he's gone.
44:40I told him to go.
44:43So I have to let go of the grief of Guy.
44:46I have to.
44:47And also I think Theo and I have a chance.
44:50And I really want to make this version of my life work for Theo, for me, for Ginny.
44:59And also this life is, it might be important.
45:04And you've always been important.
45:10Now that you have influence, imagine what you might do.
45:19I feel like I can breathe again.
45:26Same.
45:28I'm done crying because it does no good Loving you don't feel like it should
45:50So I could forget it all It reminds me not to fall
46:00Under the weight of your love I was drowning like a stone in the ocean
46:12No point wishing that we never met It hurts but there's no regrets
46:24Move on though it hasn't happened yet I can't forgive, can't forget
46:34Never at the time understand I would grow right out of your hands It hurt for so long
46:50And it's so fast You cut the tie and never look back
46:59Even blood can turn to save Even blood can turn to save
47:05I was drowning like a stone in the ocean No point wishing we never met
47:16It hurts but there's no regrets Move on though it hasn't happened yet
47:26I can't forgive, can't forget Never got anything I needed from you
47:38There wasn't anything I could lose I was waiting but you couldn't give
47:50When you left there wasn't much to miss No point wishing that we never met
48:05It hurts but there's no regrets Move on though it hasn't happened yet
48:16I can't forgive, can't forget I can't forgive, can't forget
48:27I can't forgive, can't forget
48:52Yesterday I was uncontrolled
48:54I can't forgive, can't forgive, can't forgive, can't forgive
48:58Self-restraint is a difficult skill to master
49:10I've lost my father And I may already be a father
49:17I must ask your help I can't help you, Sidon
49:20Nan has no idea where Ginny is
49:23I know, I've established that but I don't believe you haven't heard from Guy
49:30What's Guy got to do with it?
49:33Surely he told you about his plans
49:35He and Ginny left together so he must have some information
49:38Guy left weeks before Ginny, he wasn't at the castle on our wedding day
49:42No, actually
49:52Guy was seen by several of your servants on the morning of your wedding
49:57Leaving in a carriage with my wife
49:59Witnesses also saw him the night before
50:05Running round the castle grounds with Nan
50:09So if he was there the night before
50:14And at first light
50:16But he must have stayed the night
50:19But he must have stayed the night
50:46Allurs
50:48They were dead
50:51Before that
50:53Andendra
50:54French
50:56The
50:57syllable
50:58Kind of
50:59Technical
51:01Sick
51:03For
51:05Gonna
51:06Square
51:08Quote
51:09Quote
51:10To
51:12To
51:13L
51:16Oh
51:46Oh