1 00:00:06,267 --> 00:00:07,572 [moans softly] 2 00:00:11,185 --> 00:00:12,838 -Something came. 3 00:00:14,144 --> 00:00:17,104 It-it'’s from-- -I know who it'’s from. 4 00:00:17,974 --> 00:00:20,933 What'’s it made of? Butter? 5 00:00:21,108 --> 00:00:22,761 -Mm. "Because you melt in my--" 6 00:00:22,935 --> 00:00:24,894 -Enough. Thank you. 7 00:00:26,678 --> 00:00:28,767 -Is it supposed to look like you? 8 00:00:28,941 --> 00:00:30,117 -Shit. 9 00:00:31,466 --> 00:00:34,556 [playful orchestral theme playing] 10 00:00:40,431 --> 00:00:41,650 -Pineapple. 11 00:00:41,824 --> 00:00:44,348 At first lick, that sweet sharp taste, 12 00:00:44,522 --> 00:00:45,958 and then the longer it went, 13 00:00:46,133 --> 00:00:48,526 it grew into a sherbet of pine and raspberry. 14 00:00:48,700 --> 00:00:51,747 -I'’ve heard Itaste of cherries and custard. 15 00:00:51,921 --> 00:00:53,183 -What do you mean you'’ve heard? 16 00:00:53,357 --> 00:00:55,142 -Well, didn'’t you tell me that? -No. 17 00:00:55,316 --> 00:00:57,100 PETER: I felt a bit strange doing it. 18 00:00:57,274 --> 00:00:59,929 I thought Paul might be worried by her agitation 19 00:01:00,103 --> 00:01:01,670 so was whispering as I licked, 20 00:01:01,844 --> 00:01:04,716 "It'’s okay, Paul, it'’s okay, Paul." Yeah. 21 00:01:04,890 --> 00:01:07,415 -We must still un-throne her, my point. 22 00:01:07,589 --> 00:01:09,504 Uh, the great love story aside. 23 00:01:09,678 --> 00:01:12,507 -She may sit on your face but not on your throne. 24 00:01:12,681 --> 00:01:15,510 Uggh! It was a joke. 25 00:01:15,684 --> 00:01:17,555 -And once it was an acceptable jape, 26 00:01:17,729 --> 00:01:19,079 but my love is strong 27 00:01:19,253 --> 00:01:21,255 and my instinct to protect clearly sharp. 28 00:01:21,429 --> 00:01:22,995 Apologies. Hm. 29 00:01:23,170 --> 00:01:25,650 -Arkady and I have been strategizing. 30 00:01:25,824 --> 00:01:27,783 He has made a board. -Oh. 31 00:01:36,487 --> 00:01:38,185 -It works better on a wall. 32 00:01:38,359 --> 00:01:39,969 -We'’ve made a list of factions for you to win over. 33 00:01:40,143 --> 00:01:42,276 The nobles, the military, the Church, rich merchants. 34 00:01:42,450 --> 00:01:44,104 TATYANA: Cherries and custard. 35 00:01:44,278 --> 00:01:47,019 Maybe the emperor said it to me when we were young. 36 00:01:47,194 --> 00:01:50,110 You did feast on me like a starving man. 37 00:01:50,284 --> 00:01:52,764 -Oh, and Catherine'’s aura after the moment, 38 00:01:52,938 --> 00:01:55,202 a sunlit haze seemed to hang around her. 39 00:01:55,376 --> 00:01:56,986 -Oh, did something happen between you? 40 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:58,988 I hadn'’t heard about that. -Oh, rabbit! 41 00:01:59,162 --> 00:02:01,033 -Not to be critical, but can you actually focus 42 00:02:01,208 --> 00:02:02,861 on the "unseating her" plan? 43 00:02:03,035 --> 00:02:04,602 I did not leave George 44 00:02:04,776 --> 00:02:05,908 to be trapped in your rooms the rest of my life. 45 00:02:06,082 --> 00:02:08,345 -Relax, Grigor. I'’m on it. 46 00:02:08,519 --> 00:02:11,957 -Actually, should we not be worried about being out here? 47 00:02:12,132 --> 00:02:13,524 You are technically escaped. 48 00:02:13,698 --> 00:02:15,700 -Ah. It is in hand. 49 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,443 PUGACHEV: Mm. Marvelous. 50 00:02:19,617 --> 00:02:22,925 You may go with my many, many imperial blessings. 51 00:02:23,099 --> 00:02:25,275 And your arse is a credit to our country. 52 00:02:26,581 --> 00:02:28,800 ♪ 53 00:02:30,454 --> 00:02:31,934 [door closes] 54 00:02:33,762 --> 00:02:35,155 [door opens] 55 00:02:36,547 --> 00:02:38,897 -Pugachev, do not steal from us. 56 00:02:39,071 --> 00:02:41,596 -An opportunity presents, I take it, that is just common sense. 57 00:02:41,770 --> 00:02:43,467 To not would mean I'’m a fucking moron, 58 00:02:43,641 --> 00:02:45,426 and I is not that, dear Aunty Aunt. 59 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,298 -Where is he? -Hunting. 60 00:02:48,472 --> 00:02:50,996 He'’ll be gone awhile if you'’d like me to fuck you. 61 00:02:51,171 --> 00:02:52,389 -Once was enough. 62 00:02:52,563 --> 00:02:53,956 I thought it would be interesting, 63 00:02:54,130 --> 00:02:56,524 but it was too weird even for me. 64 00:02:56,698 --> 00:02:58,308 -Might I suggest, just to be helpful, 65 00:02:58,482 --> 00:03:00,397 I do you from behind, so you don'’t see my face, 66 00:03:00,571 --> 00:03:02,530 you merely register my sensual power 67 00:03:02,704 --> 00:03:06,708 while I whisper filthy Cossack oaths in your delicate ears? 68 00:03:06,882 --> 00:03:08,710 -Oh, you'’re incorrigible. 69 00:03:09,406 --> 00:03:11,539 But no. 70 00:03:11,713 --> 00:03:13,367 -Are the guards fooled by you? 71 00:03:13,541 --> 00:03:15,151 -I made the tall one give me a hand job so it seems so. 72 00:03:15,325 --> 00:03:17,284 [door clatters] -Ah. 73 00:03:17,458 --> 00:03:19,155 Ah! Aunt! 74 00:03:19,329 --> 00:03:20,591 Look at this. 75 00:03:20,765 --> 00:03:22,289 A partridge which I shot 76 00:03:22,463 --> 00:03:24,595 as it was sitting in a pear tree. 77 00:03:24,769 --> 00:03:26,510 What are the chances of that? 78 00:03:26,684 --> 00:03:28,991 Ah, Pugachev, you can fuck off. 79 00:03:30,210 --> 00:03:31,950 -Empty your pockets as you go. 80 00:03:37,913 --> 00:03:39,088 -Fucker. 81 00:03:39,262 --> 00:03:41,090 Still, the only good one I have. 82 00:03:41,264 --> 00:03:42,613 -Has she been back for more yet? 83 00:03:42,787 --> 00:03:44,180 -She has not, but when she comes, 84 00:03:44,354 --> 00:03:45,573 I am ready with a wave of love 85 00:03:45,747 --> 00:03:47,357 that will bring her to her knees. 86 00:03:47,531 --> 00:03:48,706 Look. 87 00:03:49,881 --> 00:03:52,144 A heart made out of rubies. 88 00:03:52,319 --> 00:03:53,972 I also had some pineapple-based floral arrangements 89 00:03:54,146 --> 00:03:55,409 sent to her this morning. 90 00:03:55,583 --> 00:03:57,280 I am now toying with love sonnets, 91 00:03:57,454 --> 00:03:59,369 but trying to get anything to rhyme 92 00:03:59,543 --> 00:04:01,545 with "indescribable lust," other than "dust," 93 00:04:01,719 --> 00:04:03,373 is immensely difficult. 94 00:04:04,722 --> 00:04:08,900 -Her body is saying yes, now her mind must follow. 95 00:04:09,074 --> 00:04:09,988 -Say more. 96 00:04:10,162 --> 00:04:11,816 -This is a brilliant woman 97 00:04:11,990 --> 00:04:14,645 whose mind is always seeking answers. 98 00:04:14,819 --> 00:04:17,561 You must create a question mark. 99 00:04:17,735 --> 00:04:19,346 A mystery. 100 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:23,437 She has an idea of you, and that idea must evolve. 101 00:04:23,611 --> 00:04:25,134 -You are a befuddling, strange creature. 102 00:04:25,308 --> 00:04:27,179 Everything you are saying is ridiculous. 103 00:04:27,354 --> 00:04:28,746 -At the moment you'’re playing hard to want 104 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:30,705 when you should be playing hard to get. 105 00:04:30,879 --> 00:04:33,098 -Seems a bit strong. She came to me unbidden. 106 00:04:33,273 --> 00:04:36,493 -And that is a battle won, but not the war. 107 00:04:37,407 --> 00:04:39,148 Did I capture your father? 108 00:04:39,322 --> 00:04:40,541 -Oh. -How, you ask? 109 00:04:40,715 --> 00:04:42,412 -No, I did not ask that and I never-- 110 00:04:42,586 --> 00:04:44,240 -I knew my body had caught his eye-- 111 00:04:44,414 --> 00:04:46,503 -Is this some annoying story where he ends up sodomizing you 112 00:04:46,677 --> 00:04:47,852 in a boat or some such? 113 00:04:48,026 --> 00:04:49,593 I will not listen to it. 114 00:04:49,767 --> 00:04:52,030 -It is an illuminating story. 115 00:04:52,204 --> 00:04:54,511 He wanted to fuck me, I knew that, 116 00:04:54,685 --> 00:04:56,121 but I also knew that would be 117 00:04:56,296 --> 00:04:57,949 nine minutes of a busy day for him, 118 00:04:58,123 --> 00:04:59,386 quickly forgotten. 119 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:01,301 I wanted him to want to know me 120 00:05:01,475 --> 00:05:04,216 and feel like he never could. 121 00:05:04,391 --> 00:05:06,436 -What did you do? -At dinner one night 122 00:05:06,610 --> 00:05:10,222 as he regaled the rapt room with tales of his derring-do, 123 00:05:10,397 --> 00:05:12,529 I plucked a moth from the air. 124 00:05:12,703 --> 00:05:14,531 He kept talking, and as he did, 125 00:05:14,705 --> 00:05:19,101 I smiled bemused and then slowly picked the moth apart 126 00:05:19,275 --> 00:05:21,103 and ate the pieces, 127 00:05:21,277 --> 00:05:23,714 bewildering and beguiling him. -A moth? 128 00:05:23,888 --> 00:05:25,934 -Then later that night, he sodomized me in a boat. 129 00:05:26,108 --> 00:05:29,154 -Oh, Jesus! -[laughs] It is a jest. 130 00:05:29,329 --> 00:05:30,460 He did not. 131 00:05:30,634 --> 00:05:33,202 Point is, you must make her believe 132 00:05:33,376 --> 00:05:34,943 there is more to you than there is. 133 00:05:35,117 --> 00:05:36,988 -More? Fuck me, I'’m the full buffet. 134 00:05:37,162 --> 00:05:38,903 What do you mean more? 135 00:05:39,077 --> 00:05:42,951 -I mean, let her into the new man you'’re becoming. 136 00:05:43,125 --> 00:05:45,170 -Uh, demonstrate kung fu, for instance? 137 00:05:45,345 --> 00:05:49,523 -She values ideas, so show her so do you. 138 00:05:52,047 --> 00:05:53,309 -Hm. 139 00:05:57,139 --> 00:05:58,836 [students gasping] 140 00:05:59,010 --> 00:06:00,185 -Shoo! 141 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:01,448 [low growling] 142 00:06:01,622 --> 00:06:02,927 Sh-Shoo! 143 00:06:03,101 --> 00:06:04,364 [creature snorts] 144 00:06:04,538 --> 00:06:06,627 -[girls whimpering] -Shoo! 145 00:06:09,194 --> 00:06:12,154 -I have been asked to speak to you by the empress. 146 00:06:12,328 --> 00:06:15,505 I know some of you now, have made love to many of you. 147 00:06:15,679 --> 00:06:19,379 Some softly, some savagely. 148 00:06:20,249 --> 00:06:21,642 This marvelous... 149 00:06:21,816 --> 00:06:23,295 -Are they the scientists you bribed to come back? 150 00:06:23,470 --> 00:06:25,950 CATHERINE: They were excited to join the new Russia. 151 00:06:26,124 --> 00:06:29,040 And yes, to be paid well for it. 152 00:06:29,214 --> 00:06:31,303 -A dreamer perhaps, perhaps not. 153 00:06:31,478 --> 00:06:34,481 Probably so. But dream we must. 154 00:06:34,655 --> 00:06:38,180 The enlightenment is warming nations across Europe. 155 00:06:38,354 --> 00:06:40,965 Reason has opened a new world to us. 156 00:06:41,139 --> 00:06:45,361 Who knows what marvels that change the world will erupt 157 00:06:45,535 --> 00:06:47,929 from the inside of these people'’s brains? 158 00:06:48,799 --> 00:06:51,236 A cure for syphilis perhaps. 159 00:06:52,150 --> 00:06:53,978 I for one hope so. 160 00:06:58,722 --> 00:07:00,637 -How exciting were Voltaire'’s words? 161 00:07:00,811 --> 00:07:02,117 And that Olga'’s explanation 162 00:07:02,291 --> 00:07:04,336 of wind power uses in the Netherlands? 163 00:07:04,511 --> 00:07:07,818 -Mm. My face was literally numb with boredom. 164 00:07:07,992 --> 00:07:10,081 -Marial, if we are to change this country, 165 00:07:10,255 --> 00:07:11,953 we must change the way people here think. 166 00:07:12,127 --> 00:07:13,433 -You could just tell them what to do 167 00:07:13,607 --> 00:07:15,652 and shoot them if they don'’t. 168 00:07:15,826 --> 00:07:18,394 Well, just saying. That is the way we'’ve always done it. 169 00:07:18,568 --> 00:07:20,352 -Which is why we need Voltaire. 170 00:07:20,527 --> 00:07:23,660 I cannot free the serfs and give women rights and education 171 00:07:23,834 --> 00:07:27,098 if people do not believe in the inalienable rights of all, for instance, 172 00:07:27,272 --> 00:07:30,362 and that reason overrides greed and tradition. 173 00:07:30,537 --> 00:07:35,106 And... I have a more personal issue to discuss. 174 00:07:35,803 --> 00:07:38,632 Or no, I will just act. 175 00:07:38,806 --> 00:07:41,199 -Apparently, the girls'’ school saw a big lizard. 176 00:07:41,373 --> 00:07:42,549 -A lizard? Great. 177 00:07:42,723 --> 00:07:43,898 -I heard it might have had wings. 178 00:07:44,072 --> 00:07:45,160 -What are you both talking about? 179 00:07:45,334 --> 00:07:46,683 -The lizard. 180 00:07:46,857 --> 00:07:48,772 -I shall leave you, I must go riding. 181 00:07:51,732 --> 00:07:53,951 [humming softly] 182 00:07:54,125 --> 00:07:55,866 [door opens] 183 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:57,477 VELEMENTOV: We have a problem. 184 00:07:57,651 --> 00:07:59,957 Apparently, Ambassador Sunduk arrived home, 185 00:08:00,131 --> 00:08:01,524 but without his head. 186 00:08:01,698 --> 00:08:03,395 -What do you mean without his head? 187 00:08:03,570 --> 00:08:07,704 -I mean he had it, but it was no longer attached to his body. 188 00:08:07,878 --> 00:08:10,925 Our treaty proposal stuffed in his neck hole. 189 00:08:11,099 --> 00:08:13,014 -What? -They have unsurprisingly 190 00:08:13,188 --> 00:08:15,233 taken this as an affront and a fuck you. 191 00:08:15,407 --> 00:08:16,974 -We didn'’t do it! 192 00:08:17,148 --> 00:08:18,628 -I will send our ambassador to make that point. 193 00:08:18,802 --> 00:08:21,370 Bandits, I assume. Those roads are a nightmare. 194 00:08:21,544 --> 00:08:24,155 But they already had a dim view of you, so this does not help. 195 00:08:24,329 --> 00:08:26,462 -They will be making plans to war. We should attack them. 196 00:08:26,636 --> 00:08:28,508 Soon as possible. 197 00:08:28,682 --> 00:08:31,162 -No. I will not be dragged into a war that makes no sense. 198 00:08:31,336 --> 00:08:32,903 -Let me run this. 199 00:08:33,077 --> 00:08:35,036 Your war is my business, 200 00:08:35,210 --> 00:08:38,256 and you agreed I could run it as my business, 201 00:08:38,430 --> 00:08:40,520 "all guns blazing," you said to me. 202 00:08:40,694 --> 00:08:42,086 -And when we are at war, you shall have your way 203 00:08:42,260 --> 00:08:44,915 with our blazing guns, but we are not. 204 00:08:45,089 --> 00:08:46,917 Uh, send the sultan a carriage full of gold bullion 205 00:08:47,091 --> 00:08:48,658 and ask for an audience with me. 206 00:08:48,832 --> 00:08:50,965 I will meet him. 207 00:08:51,139 --> 00:08:54,621 -Well... why not just tell him you fear a fight? 208 00:08:54,795 --> 00:08:58,146 Let him take Orlo back to Constantinople to eat in a salad? 209 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:00,322 -You have made your feelings known, Velementov. 210 00:09:00,496 --> 00:09:02,237 -No, I feel I have barely started. 211 00:09:02,411 --> 00:09:04,805 -And I feel you have finished, so you have. 212 00:09:04,979 --> 00:09:07,068 Orlo, I have something to do. 213 00:09:07,242 --> 00:09:10,680 -Do you want to talk to the parents about the lizard? 214 00:09:10,854 --> 00:09:13,204 -Am I the empress of Russia or a gamekeeper? 215 00:09:13,378 --> 00:09:14,684 I have something to do. 216 00:09:14,858 --> 00:09:17,339 Which I must do. I just must. 217 00:09:17,513 --> 00:09:19,428 And so I will. VELEMENTOV: What? 218 00:09:22,126 --> 00:09:23,475 [stammering] You-- 219 00:09:25,173 --> 00:09:26,435 -[chuckles in disbelief] -[door closes] 220 00:09:26,609 --> 00:09:28,742 This is, this is madness. 221 00:09:28,916 --> 00:09:30,787 No, it'’s, it'’s clear who did it. 222 00:09:30,961 --> 00:09:32,354 ORLO: What? 223 00:09:32,528 --> 00:09:34,269 -They did it themselves. 224 00:09:34,443 --> 00:09:37,141 To justify a war and rile their people up. 225 00:09:38,621 --> 00:09:40,580 Open your eyes, Orlo. 226 00:09:42,016 --> 00:09:43,278 -General! 227 00:09:46,977 --> 00:09:48,413 [inhales deeply] 228 00:09:49,980 --> 00:09:52,113 -[sighs] Good morning. 229 00:09:52,287 --> 00:09:53,636 -Morning. 230 00:09:55,333 --> 00:09:57,901 -I wanted to talk to you about the party last week. 231 00:10:00,774 --> 00:10:02,036 -Hm. 232 00:10:02,210 --> 00:10:03,211 Sorry? 233 00:10:03,907 --> 00:10:05,039 -The, um... 234 00:10:06,518 --> 00:10:08,782 Are you reading? -Galileo. 235 00:10:08,956 --> 00:10:11,393 It'’s interesting. -Hm, right. 236 00:10:11,567 --> 00:10:13,569 -What is your topic of concern? 237 00:10:14,788 --> 00:10:16,137 -The events following the party. 238 00:10:16,311 --> 00:10:17,747 -Hm. The fight between Bulkov and Yakov 239 00:10:17,921 --> 00:10:20,184 where Yakov bit Bulkov'’s nut sack off? 240 00:10:21,229 --> 00:10:22,534 -No. 241 00:10:22,709 --> 00:10:24,711 Your tongue on my bud. 242 00:10:24,885 --> 00:10:28,018 -Huh. I recall it. Yes. What of it? 243 00:10:28,192 --> 00:10:30,194 -I just don'’t want you to get the wrong idea. 244 00:10:30,368 --> 00:10:31,456 -In what way? 245 00:10:31,631 --> 00:10:33,545 -In what it meant. 246 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:36,244 I am a busy empress with few activities beyond my work 247 00:10:36,418 --> 00:10:39,377 and a line between me and the court that must be preserved 248 00:10:39,551 --> 00:10:41,249 to maintain my power, 249 00:10:41,423 --> 00:10:43,643 and I was also very hungover with a terrible headache, 250 00:10:43,817 --> 00:10:48,648 so you seemed the most efficient way to get my needs met. 251 00:10:50,388 --> 00:10:53,043 -Seems ruthless and clever, so very you. 252 00:10:53,217 --> 00:10:55,306 -It was in no way personal. -Disagree. 253 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:56,917 -I'’m sure you fucked a hundred women 254 00:10:57,091 --> 00:10:59,180 who meant nothing but the sating of longing. 255 00:10:59,354 --> 00:11:02,139 -As we are in love, it is not an apt analogy. 256 00:11:02,313 --> 00:11:05,360 -We are not in love. You are my prisoner. 257 00:11:05,534 --> 00:11:08,363 And I perhaps overstepped the boundaries of our relationship. 258 00:11:09,190 --> 00:11:10,582 Apologies. 259 00:11:14,499 --> 00:11:16,414 -This is what will one day happen. 260 00:11:17,894 --> 00:11:20,767 You will walk in here, weeping, fall to your knees, 261 00:11:20,941 --> 00:11:23,595 broken by your noble failure to change Russia. 262 00:11:23,770 --> 00:11:26,163 I will lift you from the ground, look you in the eye, 263 00:11:26,337 --> 00:11:28,470 tell you I love you, 264 00:11:28,644 --> 00:11:30,080 kiss you softly on the mouth, 265 00:11:30,254 --> 00:11:32,909 feel you press your lips back against mine, 266 00:11:33,083 --> 00:11:35,433 our bodies will harden against each other 267 00:11:35,607 --> 00:11:38,132 as we feel passion break free within us. 268 00:11:38,306 --> 00:11:41,352 And we will rip at each other'’s clothes like time itself is about to end 269 00:11:41,526 --> 00:11:43,398 and we cannot get to each other before it does. 270 00:11:43,572 --> 00:11:47,184 Then, I will lift you on to the table 271 00:11:47,358 --> 00:11:50,535 and for a moment we will just stop 272 00:11:50,710 --> 00:11:53,930 and feel our hearts beat and the air around us still. 273 00:11:54,104 --> 00:11:57,064 Then, as I enter you, we will feel a rush, 274 00:11:57,238 --> 00:12:01,155 that of ecstasy, that of being home. 275 00:12:01,329 --> 00:12:04,811 For that is what we are to each other, and you will know it. 276 00:12:04,985 --> 00:12:06,464 As I already do. 277 00:12:08,510 --> 00:12:11,818 [chuckles nervously] 278 00:12:16,997 --> 00:12:20,435 -You are the funniest. Mm. You have cheered me. 279 00:12:20,609 --> 00:12:24,482 My point, it was a one-time thing fueled by practicality 280 00:12:24,656 --> 00:12:27,877 and confusing pregnancy fluids unbalancing me. 281 00:12:28,051 --> 00:12:30,010 I hope you understand, I don'’t mean to-- 282 00:12:30,184 --> 00:12:31,315 -Shh! 283 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:33,535 Reading. 284 00:12:46,591 --> 00:12:47,767 [door closes] 285 00:12:51,814 --> 00:12:53,947 I have no idea how that went. 286 00:12:57,298 --> 00:12:59,343 Yes? -I just wanted to look at you 287 00:12:59,517 --> 00:13:02,564 and remember all the terrible things you have done. 288 00:13:02,738 --> 00:13:04,348 Remember when you nearly drowned me? 289 00:13:04,522 --> 00:13:06,394 -Ha. Nostalgia indeed. 290 00:13:06,568 --> 00:13:08,222 And yet look at us now. 291 00:13:08,396 --> 00:13:10,354 Happily at table together, our baby resting in your belly, 292 00:13:10,528 --> 00:13:14,010 an orgasm in your throat ready to unleash at the flick of my tongue. 293 00:13:14,184 --> 00:13:15,969 -I don'’t want that, thank you. 294 00:13:16,143 --> 00:13:18,101 That was my fucking point earlier 295 00:13:18,275 --> 00:13:20,843 if words could actually penetrate your delusions. 296 00:13:21,017 --> 00:13:23,237 -Of course, but know that I am at your whim. 297 00:13:23,411 --> 00:13:27,110 -I have no whim. I am a creature of reason not whim. 298 00:13:27,284 --> 00:13:29,809 -Just to say, if it makes you happy, I'’m all for it. 299 00:13:30,722 --> 00:13:31,941 -Good day! 300 00:13:33,551 --> 00:13:35,292 -[door slams] -[scoffs] 301 00:13:37,860 --> 00:13:39,862 -How big though? -Ten feet. 302 00:13:40,036 --> 00:13:42,125 And it just stared at me. 303 00:13:42,299 --> 00:13:44,040 -Can'’t blame me for that. 304 00:13:44,214 --> 00:13:46,129 -Are you flirting with me? 305 00:13:46,303 --> 00:13:48,305 -I-I don'’t know, I'’ve never done it. 306 00:13:49,045 --> 00:13:50,307 Am I? 307 00:13:50,481 --> 00:13:52,527 -It'’s a weird time to do it. -Sorry. 308 00:13:52,701 --> 00:13:55,747 -Distracting though, in a good way. 309 00:13:56,661 --> 00:13:57,837 SERVANT: Miss? 310 00:14:03,190 --> 00:14:07,585 -It had wings and I shot at it, point blank, and nothing. 311 00:14:07,759 --> 00:14:10,371 Its hide like a, a, a dragon. 312 00:14:10,545 --> 00:14:11,807 -That'’s what he said when I found him. 313 00:14:11,981 --> 00:14:14,331 -What the fuck are you talking about? 314 00:14:14,505 --> 00:14:16,420 -There is a dragon in court. -There'’s an idiot too. I'’m looking at him. 315 00:14:16,594 --> 00:14:18,161 -I saw it! 316 00:14:18,335 --> 00:14:21,164 Its eyes, dead and staring but somehow speaking. 317 00:14:21,338 --> 00:14:22,296 -Speaking eyes. 318 00:14:22,470 --> 00:14:24,080 -But not. -Mm. 319 00:14:26,430 --> 00:14:27,779 He has the DTs. 320 00:14:27,954 --> 00:14:29,520 I have seen monsters many times. 321 00:14:29,694 --> 00:14:32,088 He needs four shots of vodka and a light pounding. 322 00:14:32,262 --> 00:14:34,743 -I know what I saw. VELEMENTOV: Mm. 323 00:14:34,917 --> 00:14:36,440 Drink. 324 00:14:47,321 --> 00:14:50,150 -I know what I saw... Uggh! 325 00:14:54,545 --> 00:14:56,460 -You with us? -It was a winged monster! 326 00:14:56,634 --> 00:14:59,072 -[crowd gasping] -A fucking demon from scriptures! 327 00:14:59,246 --> 00:15:00,987 -The girls saw it too. -Father. 328 00:15:01,161 --> 00:15:02,727 Have you heard? -I have. 329 00:15:02,902 --> 00:15:05,426 A lizard? -It'’s a demon. 330 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:08,211 It looks like demons you see in books. 331 00:15:11,171 --> 00:15:12,999 -Tell me what it looked like. 332 00:15:14,696 --> 00:15:16,089 OLEG: Lady Marial! 333 00:15:16,263 --> 00:15:18,308 A delight to have you ride with us again. 334 00:15:20,963 --> 00:15:22,312 -Oh! 335 00:15:25,098 --> 00:15:26,229 Shakey? 336 00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:28,492 -Marial? 337 00:15:28,666 --> 00:15:30,059 Lady Marial. 338 00:15:30,233 --> 00:15:31,495 You made it back. 339 00:15:31,669 --> 00:15:33,845 -I did. It'’s good to see you. 340 00:15:34,020 --> 00:15:37,719 -Is your hair supposed to be a humorous talking point? 341 00:15:37,893 --> 00:15:40,678 -Don'’t throw stones when you look like a tiny turnip. 342 00:15:41,723 --> 00:15:44,117 -Want your fucking horse or what? 343 00:15:48,512 --> 00:15:51,124 -My apologies. She is a useless cunt. 344 00:15:51,298 --> 00:15:52,821 -I know. 345 00:15:52,995 --> 00:15:55,041 I used to bunk with her. 346 00:15:55,215 --> 00:15:58,131 OLEG: None of the ladies will have her so they'’re stuck with her. 347 00:16:13,059 --> 00:16:15,496 [courtiers chatting softly] 348 00:16:19,891 --> 00:16:21,676 -Orlo, what is going on? 349 00:16:21,850 --> 00:16:23,460 -The lizard. People think it might be 350 00:16:23,634 --> 00:16:25,462 an omen as well, so bit of panic. 351 00:16:25,636 --> 00:16:28,161 -An omen? What the fuck are you talking about? 352 00:16:28,335 --> 00:16:30,728 -It'’s a winged demon, Orlo. Why are you deluding yourself? 353 00:16:30,902 --> 00:16:32,730 -What? BASIL: Empress, we have a problem. 354 00:16:32,904 --> 00:16:34,776 I believe this, or something like this, 355 00:16:34,950 --> 00:16:36,473 is what they have seen. 356 00:16:36,647 --> 00:16:38,345 -The lizard? -It looked like that! 357 00:16:38,519 --> 00:16:39,781 BASIL: This is what the girls drew. 358 00:16:39,955 --> 00:16:41,739 I believe it is an omen. It is written. 359 00:16:41,913 --> 00:16:44,394 I need prayer groups all over the palace in clusters of ten. 360 00:16:44,568 --> 00:16:46,266 They need to be burning sage and chanting. 361 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:48,398 -An omen? -Or it is straight devilry. 362 00:16:48,572 --> 00:16:49,921 It may just be the devil. 363 00:16:50,096 --> 00:16:52,185 -This is fucking ridiculous. We just hunt it! 364 00:16:52,359 --> 00:16:54,578 The first to kill it should be gifted a thousand rubles and its head. 365 00:16:54,752 --> 00:16:56,145 Empress, what say you? -[crowd murmuring] 366 00:16:56,319 --> 00:16:58,365 -I say everyone calm down! 367 00:16:58,539 --> 00:17:00,149 Calm down. 368 00:17:01,194 --> 00:17:03,587 An animal of some sort is loose. 369 00:17:03,761 --> 00:17:05,285 What do we know? 370 00:17:05,459 --> 00:17:07,069 It has not attacked anyone. 371 00:17:07,243 --> 00:17:09,506 It is unknown to those who have seen it. 372 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:13,554 Let us apply science and reason to the situation. 373 00:17:13,728 --> 00:17:15,425 I will get the scientists from the academy 374 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:17,993 to interview all who have seen it and try to ascertain 375 00:17:18,167 --> 00:17:20,735 what this animal is and how to deal with it. 376 00:17:20,909 --> 00:17:23,564 The lizard, if that is what it is, 377 00:17:23,738 --> 00:17:26,306 will be found and dealt with, rest assured. 378 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:30,092 Velementov, get your men to go through the palace and find it. 379 00:17:30,266 --> 00:17:32,660 -Yeah, um, half of my men 380 00:17:32,834 --> 00:17:35,532 won'’t go after it in case it is an omen. 381 00:17:35,706 --> 00:17:37,273 -This is insane. 382 00:17:37,447 --> 00:17:39,319 -Not really. I have had many omens on the battlefield. 383 00:17:39,493 --> 00:17:42,887 My first victory, I was on my way to attack through a ravine. 384 00:17:43,062 --> 00:17:44,628 Straight down the middle. 385 00:17:44,802 --> 00:17:47,240 That night, I awoke to a sound... 386 00:17:47,414 --> 00:17:51,157 [braying like sick donkey] 387 00:17:51,331 --> 00:17:52,723 I went out into the night... 388 00:17:52,897 --> 00:17:54,638 [braying] 389 00:17:54,812 --> 00:17:58,860 ...a donkey was throwing up blood. 390 00:17:59,034 --> 00:18:00,905 I sent a forward scout. He discovered that 391 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:03,691 they were ready for an attack from that direction. 392 00:18:05,258 --> 00:18:08,391 We rerouted, pincered them. 393 00:18:09,523 --> 00:18:11,220 -That is not an omen. 394 00:18:11,394 --> 00:18:14,571 -If a donkey vomiting blood is not an omen, what is it? 395 00:18:14,745 --> 00:18:16,312 -A very sick donkey. 396 00:18:16,486 --> 00:18:18,880 -My mother told me that in the week before I was born, 397 00:18:19,054 --> 00:18:21,012 a dozen white doves landed outside our house 398 00:18:21,187 --> 00:18:22,971 and stayed there until the day I was born. 399 00:18:23,145 --> 00:18:25,147 The whole village still talks of it. -Orlo? 400 00:18:25,321 --> 00:18:27,671 -I don'’t think it was an omen, but I mean some villagers did. 401 00:18:27,845 --> 00:18:29,195 Like I was special. 402 00:18:29,369 --> 00:18:31,458 But we had a pecan tree so sometimes in season, 403 00:18:31,632 --> 00:18:35,070 birds would often-- -Velementov, go find it and kill it. 404 00:18:35,244 --> 00:18:37,899 -Attack the lizard, ignore the Ottomans. 405 00:18:38,682 --> 00:18:40,206 Understood. 406 00:18:43,339 --> 00:18:45,341 -I'’m worried his love for Catherine 407 00:18:45,515 --> 00:18:47,343 is a brake on our plans. 408 00:18:47,517 --> 00:18:49,954 -And we cut a man'’s head off for nothing if we do not win. 409 00:18:50,129 --> 00:18:51,956 -And that was so much harder than you would think. 410 00:18:52,131 --> 00:18:54,785 -It was the bone. -Uh! Nightmare neck bones. 411 00:18:54,959 --> 00:18:57,005 -He needs to be got off Catherine and back on plan. 412 00:18:57,179 --> 00:18:59,094 -He needs a distraction. 413 00:18:59,268 --> 00:19:00,704 A lover maybe. 414 00:19:00,878 --> 00:19:03,185 -Could we not just have our own plans? 415 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:06,014 -Like find him a lover, someone we trusted, 416 00:19:06,188 --> 00:19:09,017 that was almost one of us. 417 00:19:09,191 --> 00:19:10,192 Hm? 418 00:19:11,411 --> 00:19:13,413 -If we just kill her, 419 00:19:13,587 --> 00:19:15,632 he has some grief, cries about it for a bit. 420 00:19:15,806 --> 00:19:17,373 -You kill her, you'’llhave some grief, 421 00:19:17,547 --> 00:19:19,897 from him stuffing your eyeballs up your arse. 422 00:19:20,071 --> 00:19:22,552 We just look for opportunity. 423 00:19:23,945 --> 00:19:25,903 -Seen a lizard? -A what? 424 00:19:26,077 --> 00:19:28,210 -[Velementov groans] -[scoffs] 425 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:33,476 -Now, Manchego or brie? 426 00:19:34,695 --> 00:19:36,566 Well, you decide. 427 00:19:37,915 --> 00:19:39,352 Oh. 428 00:19:40,091 --> 00:19:41,832 [low growling] 429 00:19:44,444 --> 00:19:46,272 Oh! Hello. 430 00:19:46,446 --> 00:19:47,621 Who are you? 431 00:19:48,665 --> 00:19:50,580 What are you? Uh... 432 00:19:50,754 --> 00:19:52,321 Oh, I don'’t like that look. 433 00:19:52,495 --> 00:19:53,670 Is that for me or the mouse? -[snarling] 434 00:19:53,844 --> 00:19:55,281 [gasps] 435 00:19:55,455 --> 00:19:58,153 -So many ideas we must unpick in this country. 436 00:19:58,327 --> 00:19:59,850 I mean omens, really? 437 00:20:00,024 --> 00:20:02,810 -Crazy. Usually, they'’re much more specific. 438 00:20:02,984 --> 00:20:05,160 But before my mother got smallpox, 439 00:20:05,334 --> 00:20:08,076 I saw a chicken covered in bees. 440 00:20:08,250 --> 00:20:10,252 And I knew someone I loved was in trouble. 441 00:20:11,340 --> 00:20:12,733 -Right. 442 00:20:16,171 --> 00:20:18,347 Uh, here'’s a small thing 443 00:20:18,521 --> 00:20:21,263 I may have inadvertently not mentioned. 444 00:20:21,437 --> 00:20:25,398 After the party last week, I did something. 445 00:20:25,572 --> 00:20:27,226 Well, had something done to me, 446 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,140 but at my behest, an order really, 447 00:20:29,315 --> 00:20:32,056 and obviously very hungover, most likely still drunk actually 448 00:20:32,231 --> 00:20:33,797 and also, I am pregnant 449 00:20:33,971 --> 00:20:36,278 and apparently that does things to your bile and blood. 450 00:20:36,452 --> 00:20:38,149 Oh, is that a rose? 451 00:20:39,499 --> 00:20:41,196 Mm, mm. 452 00:20:42,893 --> 00:20:44,286 Cravings. 453 00:20:44,460 --> 00:20:46,027 -What did, what did all that mean? 454 00:20:59,649 --> 00:21:01,477 -I got gone down on. 455 00:21:02,522 --> 00:21:04,741 By Peter. -What? 456 00:21:04,915 --> 00:21:06,221 -It was a one-off thing driven by a number 457 00:21:06,395 --> 00:21:08,092 of the aforementioned factors. 458 00:21:08,267 --> 00:21:10,225 I have spoken to him of its one-off nature. 459 00:21:10,399 --> 00:21:12,183 Nipped it in the bud. -So to speak. 460 00:21:12,358 --> 00:21:14,447 -Funny. 461 00:21:14,621 --> 00:21:16,797 There was only one problem with the whole thing. 462 00:21:16,971 --> 00:21:18,364 -Only one? 463 00:21:18,538 --> 00:21:20,235 -My desperate desire for him to do it again. 464 00:21:20,409 --> 00:21:22,890 -Oh, he'’s a fucking monster. 465 00:21:23,064 --> 00:21:24,239 -Marial... 466 00:21:26,067 --> 00:21:29,766 It is like being shot from a cannon into the darkest sky 467 00:21:29,940 --> 00:21:33,161 and watching stars blink on in their thousands around you. 468 00:21:33,335 --> 00:21:34,858 -Oh. 469 00:21:35,032 --> 00:21:37,818 A very lot of unexpected revelations going on. 470 00:21:38,427 --> 00:21:40,037 I'’m stunned. 471 00:21:40,211 --> 00:21:41,822 You hate him. 472 00:21:41,996 --> 00:21:44,477 I'’d say he'’s evil except he'’s too stupid. 473 00:21:44,651 --> 00:21:46,609 [footsteps approaching] 474 00:21:46,783 --> 00:21:48,089 CATHERINE: Find it? 475 00:21:48,263 --> 00:21:49,699 -It found us. 476 00:21:52,485 --> 00:21:54,704 -Oh, Elizabeth. Are you all right? 477 00:21:54,878 --> 00:21:56,053 -I am fine. 478 00:21:56,227 --> 00:21:57,968 -Took a chunk. 479 00:21:58,142 --> 00:22:00,144 Opium. -Opium? 480 00:22:00,319 --> 00:22:02,973 Oh, haven'’t had that in a few years. 481 00:22:03,147 --> 00:22:06,586 That is a deliciously dreamy sedation. 482 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:11,591 Take some and then three lovers and it is quite the experience. 483 00:22:11,765 --> 00:22:16,291 Who is on me, in me, oh, am I at sea, 484 00:22:16,465 --> 00:22:18,815 oh, in a tub, wearing fur. 485 00:22:18,989 --> 00:22:20,121 -What did it look like? 486 00:22:20,295 --> 00:22:22,689 -It is a beautiful beast to behold. 487 00:22:22,863 --> 00:22:25,169 -I have my scientists working on what it is. 488 00:22:25,344 --> 00:22:26,606 -Oh, it'’s a crocodile. 489 00:22:26,780 --> 00:22:28,216 -What? How do you know? 490 00:22:28,390 --> 00:22:30,305 -Well, at first, I was so shocked, 491 00:22:30,479 --> 00:22:31,785 I didn'’t know what it was. 492 00:22:31,959 --> 00:22:34,178 And then I realized I have seen them 493 00:22:34,353 --> 00:22:36,616 in books of the Americas. 494 00:22:36,790 --> 00:22:38,400 Fascinating. 495 00:22:38,574 --> 00:22:40,750 There'’s a book on the table. 496 00:22:46,713 --> 00:22:48,367 CATHERINE: Oh! BASIL: A crocodile. 497 00:22:48,541 --> 00:22:50,891 CATHERINE: Oh, thank God it did not kill you. 498 00:22:51,065 --> 00:22:52,327 -I thought he would, 499 00:22:52,501 --> 00:22:54,460 but it seemed he preferred my mouse. 500 00:22:54,634 --> 00:22:58,986 Alas, little Orestes, swallowed in a snap. 501 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:00,640 Then off he went. 502 00:23:01,902 --> 00:23:03,860 -Orlo, gather the court. -Why? 503 00:23:04,034 --> 00:23:05,427 -We know what it is, so we must 504 00:23:05,601 --> 00:23:07,255 go tell the court we know what it is 505 00:23:07,429 --> 00:23:09,257 and put this omen business back in its box 506 00:23:09,431 --> 00:23:11,128 with everything else from the 15th century. 507 00:23:11,302 --> 00:23:13,522 -They may feel safer to gather outside. 508 00:23:13,696 --> 00:23:14,958 -However. 509 00:23:15,132 --> 00:23:17,047 Basil, stand with me. 510 00:23:17,221 --> 00:23:18,788 -Of course, Empress. 511 00:23:21,182 --> 00:23:23,402 [crowd murmuring] 512 00:23:29,146 --> 00:23:30,887 -The scientists at the academy 513 00:23:31,061 --> 00:23:34,195 have identified this lizard as a crocodile, 514 00:23:34,369 --> 00:23:36,806 a species of North American river animal. 515 00:23:36,980 --> 00:23:39,200 It eats small creatures and can only be killed 516 00:23:39,374 --> 00:23:41,463 by stabbing it in the eyes. WOMAN: Ooh! 517 00:23:41,637 --> 00:23:43,813 CATHERINE: Velementov is searching for this lost creature 518 00:23:43,987 --> 00:23:45,859 and I assure you he will find it. 519 00:23:46,033 --> 00:23:50,254 But above all, know it is a real creature 520 00:23:50,429 --> 00:23:52,605 and not an omen or a sign. 521 00:23:52,779 --> 00:23:54,433 Father Basil, don'’t you agree? -[crowd clamoring] 522 00:23:54,607 --> 00:23:59,655 -It seems it is real and that we know it is a crocodile. 523 00:24:01,091 --> 00:24:04,007 That doesn'’t mean it'’s not an omen, of course. 524 00:24:06,009 --> 00:24:08,447 -That is in fact exactly what it means. 525 00:24:08,621 --> 00:24:10,710 -How did it get here? -And why is it here? 526 00:24:10,884 --> 00:24:12,799 This is why it suggests omen. 527 00:24:12,973 --> 00:24:14,801 -Let us just deal with the fact it is. 528 00:24:14,975 --> 00:24:17,281 That is the only actual fact here. 529 00:24:17,456 --> 00:24:20,763 -God sends signs that will make us sit up and take notice. 530 00:24:20,937 --> 00:24:22,939 He is speaking to us, and we must listen. 531 00:24:23,113 --> 00:24:25,507 -No, we must be rational people, 532 00:24:25,681 --> 00:24:28,031 not driven by superstition and foolish ideas. 533 00:24:28,205 --> 00:24:30,947 We must be led by science and reason. 534 00:24:31,121 --> 00:24:32,862 -Could it be to do with the empress? 535 00:24:33,036 --> 00:24:34,603 She is new. 536 00:24:34,777 --> 00:24:37,127 The omen has appeared shortly after her reign begins. 537 00:24:37,301 --> 00:24:38,607 -It'’s not an omen! 538 00:24:38,781 --> 00:24:40,130 -The new archbishop says it might be, 539 00:24:40,304 --> 00:24:42,089 and he speaks for God. 540 00:24:42,263 --> 00:24:44,004 ARCHIE: No, he doesn'’t. 541 00:24:45,222 --> 00:24:48,356 Let us all calm down. 542 00:24:48,530 --> 00:24:50,140 -Exactly! 543 00:24:52,012 --> 00:24:54,362 ARCHIE: Let me speak to this a moment. 544 00:24:54,536 --> 00:24:56,538 There are such things as omens, 545 00:24:56,712 --> 00:24:59,149 and there are such things as crocodiles. 546 00:24:59,323 --> 00:25:02,631 -And sometimes a crocodile is just a crocodile. 547 00:25:02,805 --> 00:25:05,416 I believe this is what you are saying, Patriarch. 548 00:25:06,330 --> 00:25:08,898 -Which is this? Who is to say? 549 00:25:09,072 --> 00:25:10,421 Only God. 550 00:25:10,596 --> 00:25:12,554 And as patriarch, the only one among us 551 00:25:12,728 --> 00:25:15,165 who has a direct relationship with God, 552 00:25:15,339 --> 00:25:19,082 I will go find out if it is an omen. 553 00:25:19,256 --> 00:25:22,695 Perhaps relating to our new empress'’ rule 554 00:25:22,869 --> 00:25:26,089 and the fact that she is an interloper from elsewhere 555 00:25:26,263 --> 00:25:28,439 come to wreak havoc on Russia... 556 00:25:28,614 --> 00:25:30,354 [crowd clamoring] 557 00:25:30,529 --> 00:25:33,227 which is one possible interpretation. 558 00:25:34,271 --> 00:25:36,273 Or perhaps it is something else. 559 00:25:36,447 --> 00:25:37,840 Merely a lost creature 560 00:25:38,014 --> 00:25:40,408 who was lost on a boat from the Americas 561 00:25:40,582 --> 00:25:45,892 and somehow, illogically, ended up lost in our court. 562 00:25:46,066 --> 00:25:47,850 I will go and commune with God 563 00:25:48,024 --> 00:25:50,897 and let you know when God has spoken. 564 00:25:52,202 --> 00:25:54,857 Calm yourselves, lock your children away, 565 00:25:55,031 --> 00:25:56,772 and pray relentlessly, 566 00:25:56,946 --> 00:26:00,646 as that is the only real protection from His wrath, 567 00:26:00,820 --> 00:26:04,214 and I will reveal all soon. 568 00:26:07,957 --> 00:26:09,002 -Amen. 569 00:26:09,176 --> 00:26:10,612 CROWD: Amen. 570 00:26:17,750 --> 00:26:20,883 -You! -Oh, hello. 571 00:26:21,057 --> 00:26:22,842 I thought that went well. 572 00:26:23,016 --> 00:26:25,888 Basil did a good impression of Judas, didn'’t you think? 573 00:26:26,062 --> 00:26:29,326 A simple backwoods priest out of his depth. 574 00:26:29,500 --> 00:26:31,285 -You brought it in here! -A crocodile? 575 00:26:31,459 --> 00:26:32,982 Where would I get a crocodile? 576 00:26:33,156 --> 00:26:35,985 Put it in a carriage from America? 577 00:26:36,159 --> 00:26:38,161 -I imagine it wasn'’t always that size. 578 00:26:39,728 --> 00:26:41,774 -It'’s a shame we'’re always trying to destroy each other 579 00:26:41,948 --> 00:26:44,777 when we'’re really the only truly brilliant people here. 580 00:26:44,951 --> 00:26:46,082 -Bastard. 581 00:26:46,256 --> 00:26:47,693 -Mother never used that exact term, 582 00:26:47,867 --> 00:26:48,998 but not inaccurate. 583 00:26:49,172 --> 00:26:51,610 -How? -It'’s a funny story. 584 00:26:51,784 --> 00:26:53,220 Years and years ago, 585 00:26:53,394 --> 00:26:55,178 a monk missionary brought it back as a baby, 586 00:26:55,352 --> 00:26:57,572 lives in a hermit order up in the Caucasus. 587 00:26:57,746 --> 00:26:59,922 Raised it. Fed it mice and rabbits. 588 00:27:00,096 --> 00:27:02,055 Lived happily together apparently. 589 00:27:02,229 --> 00:27:04,318 Power of love and all that, I suppose. 590 00:27:04,492 --> 00:27:06,015 Touching when you think about it. 591 00:27:06,189 --> 00:27:07,626 I'’d forgotten all about it, 592 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:09,889 but I was thinking how I could deal with you, 593 00:27:10,063 --> 00:27:14,720 and it popped into my head, a vision from God. 594 00:27:14,894 --> 00:27:16,199 -What do you want? 595 00:27:16,373 --> 00:27:17,940 -It'’s not me. What does God want? 596 00:27:18,114 --> 00:27:19,855 -Fine, what does God want? 597 00:27:20,029 --> 00:27:21,683 -Three things. 598 00:27:21,857 --> 00:27:24,686 One, you get rid of Basil and agree never to kill me. 599 00:27:24,860 --> 00:27:29,996 Two, you make the Russian church the only church in Russia again. 600 00:27:30,170 --> 00:27:33,390 And three, you come and meet God. 601 00:27:34,696 --> 00:27:37,003 -Repeat three because it seemed mad. 602 00:27:37,177 --> 00:27:38,874 Everything you say seems mad, 603 00:27:39,048 --> 00:27:41,007 but this had another level on it. 604 00:27:41,181 --> 00:27:44,271 -If we are to live in uneasy harmony, 605 00:27:44,445 --> 00:27:46,273 I would like you to know God. 606 00:27:46,447 --> 00:27:48,144 -And He'’s coming for tea soon, is He? 607 00:27:48,318 --> 00:27:50,364 -We will go to Him. -Of course we will. 608 00:27:50,538 --> 00:27:52,453 How rude of me. 609 00:27:52,627 --> 00:27:56,544 -Or, I come in here tomorrow having communed with Him 610 00:27:56,718 --> 00:27:59,852 and destroy you in the eyes of half the court 611 00:28:00,026 --> 00:28:02,898 and let the word filter out to the regions. 612 00:28:03,072 --> 00:28:04,770 It will not unseat you, 613 00:28:04,944 --> 00:28:06,249 but no one will follow your agenda 614 00:28:06,423 --> 00:28:08,425 as it will be the devil'’s agenda. 615 00:28:08,599 --> 00:28:14,257 And it will erode you until you are pretty dust on the wind. 616 00:28:19,436 --> 00:28:22,396 -Archie... always does love the extreme. 617 00:28:22,570 --> 00:28:24,354 He'’s showing you his strength. 618 00:28:24,528 --> 00:28:28,184 The Church has power in that it holds the people'’s minds. 619 00:28:28,358 --> 00:28:30,578 -But he doesn'’t seem to want to destroy me. 620 00:28:30,752 --> 00:28:32,623 Just push me back. 621 00:28:32,798 --> 00:28:35,626 -He did try to make peace, I suppose. 622 00:28:36,889 --> 00:28:38,412 -Cute. -It'’s pretty simple 623 00:28:38,586 --> 00:28:40,719 how we deal with it, isn'’t it? 624 00:28:40,893 --> 00:28:43,243 We kill him. Let'’s kill Basil too 625 00:28:43,417 --> 00:28:45,462 because he threw you under the carriage out there. 626 00:28:45,636 --> 00:28:46,899 -I cannot kill Archie. 627 00:28:47,073 --> 00:28:48,335 It will look like the omen was right 628 00:28:48,509 --> 00:28:50,424 and I was trying to stop him revealing it. 629 00:28:50,598 --> 00:28:52,643 I cannot kill Basil as it will look the same. 630 00:28:52,818 --> 00:28:55,298 -He has us in a pincer movement. 631 00:28:55,472 --> 00:28:59,128 We can wriggle, but how do we break free? 632 00:29:00,956 --> 00:29:02,218 -I thought the answer was next. 633 00:29:02,392 --> 00:29:03,916 -More a summation of the position. 634 00:29:04,090 --> 00:29:05,178 -Helpful. -Thanks. 635 00:29:05,352 --> 00:29:06,614 -Sarcasm. -Understood. 636 00:29:06,788 --> 00:29:09,051 -We need to find and kill the crocodile. 637 00:29:10,879 --> 00:29:13,795 Velementov. -On my way. 638 00:29:19,801 --> 00:29:21,107 [door closes] 639 00:29:22,369 --> 00:29:25,807 -Elizabeth, can you teach someone else 640 00:29:25,981 --> 00:29:27,417 the tongue trick for me? 641 00:29:27,591 --> 00:29:30,420 -Why? -I let him do it to me. 642 00:29:31,334 --> 00:29:32,640 -Gosh. 643 00:29:32,814 --> 00:29:35,295 What exhilarating and surprising news. 644 00:29:35,469 --> 00:29:39,690 -Now I am reacquainted with the taste, I long for more. 645 00:29:39,865 --> 00:29:41,170 -Marvelous. 646 00:29:41,344 --> 00:29:43,520 Good for you. -But not from him. 647 00:29:43,694 --> 00:29:46,001 -Why not from him? He is the safe choice. 648 00:29:46,175 --> 00:29:48,482 -He has unnerving ideas of our love. 649 00:29:48,656 --> 00:29:50,919 -But you are not in love with him. 650 00:29:51,093 --> 00:29:54,531 A woman should know how to let a man suffer his delusions 651 00:29:54,705 --> 00:29:58,318 whilst harvesting the fruit she needs from his farm. 652 00:29:58,492 --> 00:30:00,015 Give in to your body. 653 00:30:00,189 --> 00:30:02,801 Your mind is safe, your heart impregnable. 654 00:30:02,975 --> 00:30:04,585 So why not? 655 00:30:07,675 --> 00:30:09,590 -[door opens] -You are up? 656 00:30:09,764 --> 00:30:10,721 -Yes. 657 00:30:10,896 --> 00:30:12,245 I am making Galileo planets 658 00:30:12,419 --> 00:30:14,160 out of boiled eggs for Paul. 659 00:30:14,334 --> 00:30:16,510 Chicken egg for Mars, ostrich egg for Jupiter. 660 00:30:16,684 --> 00:30:18,338 We can hang them up. 661 00:30:18,512 --> 00:30:20,644 Then when he is sick of them, make a sauce gribiche. 662 00:30:20,819 --> 00:30:22,385 -Cute. 663 00:30:22,559 --> 00:30:24,083 -What brings you here so late? 664 00:30:24,257 --> 00:30:25,606 -Ah. I could not sleep. 665 00:30:25,780 --> 00:30:27,390 And wished to tell you, 666 00:30:27,564 --> 00:30:29,218 in case you had not heard, it'’s not a big thing, 667 00:30:29,392 --> 00:30:31,003 but there'’s a crocodile loose in court. 668 00:30:31,177 --> 00:30:34,354 -Oh, I heard about that. Probably an omen from God. 669 00:30:34,528 --> 00:30:36,356 -It is not an omen from God! 670 00:30:36,530 --> 00:30:38,793 -He might be mad His chosen one is not in charge. 671 00:30:38,967 --> 00:30:41,883 -Why are so few people in this court led by reason? 672 00:30:42,057 --> 00:30:44,320 -You seem tense, verging on overwrought. 673 00:30:44,494 --> 00:30:45,800 Heavy is the crown. 674 00:30:45,974 --> 00:30:48,281 -You mean uneasy. 675 00:30:48,455 --> 00:30:49,891 -I do? 676 00:30:50,065 --> 00:30:52,285 -"Uneasy is the head that wears the crown." 677 00:30:52,459 --> 00:30:54,504 It is a piece of Shakespeare. 678 00:30:54,678 --> 00:30:56,463 -No, I actually mean heavy. 679 00:30:56,637 --> 00:30:58,813 Often if I wore the crown, it would hurt my neck and back 680 00:30:58,987 --> 00:31:02,338 and give me shooting pains all night, wondered if that was it. 681 00:31:02,512 --> 00:31:04,166 -It is not. PETER: Hm. 682 00:31:04,340 --> 00:31:06,647 ♪ 683 00:31:13,436 --> 00:31:15,569 -It should not be so hard. 684 00:31:17,614 --> 00:31:20,052 I'’m just trying to get people to-- 685 00:31:20,226 --> 00:31:22,532 -Think like you? -Yes! 686 00:31:22,706 --> 00:31:24,534 -Your arrogance is breathtaking. 687 00:31:24,708 --> 00:31:26,275 -My ambition is breathtaking. 688 00:31:26,449 --> 00:31:27,755 -You could just shoot a few people, 689 00:31:27,929 --> 00:31:29,278 then the others tend to follow. 690 00:31:29,452 --> 00:31:32,194 -Thanks for the advice. Clearly served you well. 691 00:31:32,368 --> 00:31:34,675 -Father used to say you must lead by instinct. 692 00:31:34,849 --> 00:31:37,417 Ah, but what is instinct? It is heart and head. 693 00:31:37,591 --> 00:31:39,201 Neither should ever lead, they must be 694 00:31:39,375 --> 00:31:41,595 fused like a two-headed turtle. 695 00:31:42,465 --> 00:31:43,989 I however led by cock and sword. 696 00:31:44,163 --> 00:31:46,165 -Which is why you failed. -Indeed. 697 00:31:46,339 --> 00:31:49,037 An interesting insight. I will note it down. 698 00:31:53,172 --> 00:31:55,087 -Are you actually noting it down? 699 00:31:55,261 --> 00:31:56,566 -I am. 700 00:31:59,482 --> 00:32:00,788 [sighs] 701 00:32:01,963 --> 00:32:03,443 Anything else? 702 00:32:08,927 --> 00:32:11,146 -It would be for the good of Russia. 703 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,670 Calm me for the decision-making process 704 00:32:13,844 --> 00:32:15,542 to be as well thought through as possible. 705 00:32:16,847 --> 00:32:18,501 -What would? 706 00:32:18,675 --> 00:32:20,764 I need exact words as I am not a smart man, 707 00:32:20,939 --> 00:32:22,679 as oft pointed out by you. 708 00:32:22,853 --> 00:32:24,812 -You understand it would be a purely 709 00:32:24,986 --> 00:32:26,770 physical action of cause and effect, 710 00:32:26,945 --> 00:32:29,077 not to be misread as anything else. 711 00:32:29,251 --> 00:32:32,776 -Well, as soon as I know exactly what it is you'’re saying, 712 00:32:32,951 --> 00:32:36,302 I am at your whim. -It is not a whim. 713 00:32:36,476 --> 00:32:39,653 It is a rational response to a confluence of circumstances. 714 00:32:39,827 --> 00:32:43,222 -And by that you mean... 715 00:32:45,006 --> 00:32:46,268 -Lick me. 716 00:32:48,836 --> 00:32:52,274 ♪ 717 00:33:17,082 --> 00:33:18,518 -Needed a cherry. 718 00:33:19,432 --> 00:33:21,521 -Ah. 719 00:33:21,695 --> 00:33:24,350 You'’re not scared to walk the halls? 720 00:33:24,524 --> 00:33:26,047 Danger lurks apparently. 721 00:33:26,221 --> 00:33:27,440 -Not afraid of danger. 722 00:33:28,049 --> 00:33:29,137 -Really? 723 00:33:32,445 --> 00:33:34,708 ♪ 724 00:33:40,844 --> 00:33:42,324 Going to kill it, Smolny? 725 00:33:42,498 --> 00:33:44,587 -It'’s a prize. Just fuck knows where it is. 726 00:34:01,778 --> 00:34:03,650 [crocodile growls] 727 00:34:06,479 --> 00:34:08,742 -[crocodile snarls] -[Smolny screams] 728 00:34:08,916 --> 00:34:11,136 [Catherine moaning] 729 00:34:18,882 --> 00:34:20,884 [panting] 730 00:34:25,106 --> 00:34:26,368 [sighs] 731 00:34:27,326 --> 00:34:30,024 -It'’s peaches. Remarkable. 732 00:34:30,198 --> 00:34:31,373 -No need to talk. 733 00:34:32,418 --> 00:34:33,593 Must go. 734 00:34:40,078 --> 00:34:41,601 Could youkill it? 735 00:34:41,775 --> 00:34:43,124 -What? The crocodile? 736 00:34:43,298 --> 00:34:45,083 -Yes. If it is just gone, 737 00:34:45,257 --> 00:34:47,998 disappeared from court, the idea disappears too. 738 00:34:48,173 --> 00:34:49,522 -Who kills better than me? 739 00:34:49,696 --> 00:34:51,176 -Exactly my thought. 740 00:34:51,350 --> 00:34:53,308 -And the irony of suddenly wanting that talent? 741 00:34:53,482 --> 00:34:55,615 -Swallowed whole for expedience. 742 00:34:55,789 --> 00:34:57,356 [Peter chuckles] 743 00:34:57,530 --> 00:34:59,358 The scientists say you must stab it in the eyes. 744 00:34:59,532 --> 00:35:01,316 -Fun. 745 00:35:01,490 --> 00:35:03,579 I can just come find you when I'’ve done it. 746 00:35:03,753 --> 00:35:05,059 -I would like to see it 747 00:35:05,233 --> 00:35:07,061 and not have you roaming the palace alone. 748 00:35:08,367 --> 00:35:11,283 -Hold my hand. -I'’m not scared. 749 00:35:11,457 --> 00:35:13,981 And I'’m not holding your hand. 750 00:35:14,155 --> 00:35:16,723 -Well, if we see it, I will have a split second to act. 751 00:35:16,897 --> 00:35:19,813 If I'’m not sure where you and Paul are, I will spend that split second 752 00:35:19,987 --> 00:35:22,772 making sure you'’re all right and will be killed. 753 00:35:22,946 --> 00:35:25,601 If I have your hand, I will know. 754 00:35:25,775 --> 00:35:27,908 I will act on instinct. 755 00:35:36,743 --> 00:35:38,614 Soft hands. 756 00:35:38,788 --> 00:35:40,573 I remember that from when we first danced. 757 00:35:40,747 --> 00:35:44,229 -I remember how much I hated you and yet you could dance. 758 00:35:44,403 --> 00:35:48,624 -Mm. Killing, dancing, eating: my many talents. 759 00:35:49,799 --> 00:35:51,497 I meant pussy, by the way, eating. 760 00:35:51,671 --> 00:35:52,802 -I know you did. 761 00:35:52,976 --> 00:35:55,501 [Velementov groaning softly] 762 00:35:55,675 --> 00:35:58,547 ♪ 763 00:36:01,681 --> 00:36:03,248 [knock on door] 764 00:36:08,470 --> 00:36:10,907 -Patriarch. -Father Basil. 765 00:36:11,081 --> 00:36:13,606 Shouldn'’t you be outside, 766 00:36:13,780 --> 00:36:16,652 burning sage and reading scripture? 767 00:36:16,826 --> 00:36:18,437 -I have several vigils running all night. 768 00:36:18,611 --> 00:36:20,439 -Good to know. Very reassuring. 769 00:36:20,613 --> 00:36:23,224 -I feared I angered the empress today. 770 00:36:23,398 --> 00:36:25,835 -Oh, merely wrong footed her with the truth. 771 00:36:26,009 --> 00:36:27,185 What else are you here for? 772 00:36:27,359 --> 00:36:29,404 -Should I apologize to her? 773 00:36:30,623 --> 00:36:33,103 -Personally, I wouldn'’t. 774 00:36:33,278 --> 00:36:34,888 Your truth is everything. 775 00:36:35,062 --> 00:36:39,022 -I was not backing down, just seeking peace between us. 776 00:36:39,197 --> 00:36:41,329 Would you like to pray together? 777 00:36:42,852 --> 00:36:44,637 -Not really. 778 00:36:44,811 --> 00:36:48,162 You should go tend the sage burning vigils. 779 00:36:48,336 --> 00:36:50,686 Those fires can get out of hand. 780 00:36:54,037 --> 00:36:56,170 ♪ 781 00:37:06,528 --> 00:37:07,747 [low growling] 782 00:37:13,883 --> 00:37:15,581 -I am happy to roam around all night. 783 00:37:15,755 --> 00:37:18,018 I'’ll eventually find the fucker. 784 00:37:18,192 --> 00:37:20,412 -No, you tried. Archie has me. 785 00:37:20,586 --> 00:37:22,022 -Mm. It'’s like the raven. 786 00:37:22,196 --> 00:37:23,589 -Exactly. 787 00:37:23,763 --> 00:37:25,591 You saw that all the time, didn'’t you? 788 00:37:25,765 --> 00:37:28,637 -Of course. I think like an emperor. Strategy. 789 00:37:28,811 --> 00:37:31,814 -Surprising, but seemingly true. 790 00:37:32,772 --> 00:37:34,730 What would you do? 791 00:37:34,904 --> 00:37:37,429 -You want my advice? -So, I can do the opposite. 792 00:37:37,603 --> 00:37:40,127 -I would kick the shit out of Archie, 793 00:37:40,301 --> 00:37:41,563 burn down the entire palace 794 00:37:41,737 --> 00:37:43,522 with him and the crocodile still in it, 795 00:37:43,696 --> 00:37:45,741 thereby letting everyone know not to fuck with me 796 00:37:45,915 --> 00:37:47,743 and there are no limits to my fucking rage. 797 00:37:47,917 --> 00:37:50,442 And then rebuild the palace with less gold and bigger rooms 798 00:37:50,616 --> 00:37:51,747 so we could ride horses inside. 799 00:37:51,921 --> 00:37:54,881 -[laughs] Love it. 800 00:37:56,186 --> 00:37:59,102 -I'’m always here for you and Paul. Know that. 801 00:38:00,321 --> 00:38:03,629 -Strangely enough, I believe you. 802 00:38:03,803 --> 00:38:06,806 ♪ 803 00:38:12,594 --> 00:38:14,640 [knock on door] 804 00:38:20,559 --> 00:38:22,082 -Okay. 805 00:38:23,213 --> 00:38:24,911 I'’ll go meet God. 806 00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,220 [door bangs] 807 00:38:35,269 --> 00:38:36,575 -Velementov. 808 00:38:36,749 --> 00:38:38,838 -Last truffle of the season. 809 00:38:39,012 --> 00:38:39,969 I thought you'’d enjoy it. 810 00:38:40,143 --> 00:38:41,406 -In-fucking-deed. -Mm. 811 00:38:41,580 --> 00:38:43,146 -Fine fellow you are. 812 00:38:43,321 --> 00:38:44,800 If I gave out medals anymore, you would have one. 813 00:38:44,974 --> 00:38:48,195 -I think, I think I'’m hallucinating. 814 00:38:48,369 --> 00:38:51,503 Before, I thought I saw you 815 00:38:51,677 --> 00:38:53,287 walking the hall with the empress. 816 00:38:53,461 --> 00:38:56,986 -Ah, yes, the wife and I enjoy a nighttime stroll. 817 00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,555 She needs my sage advice, matters of state and whatnot. 818 00:39:00,729 --> 00:39:02,122 -Bullshit. 819 00:39:02,296 --> 00:39:05,560 She... she doesn'’t listen to anyone. 820 00:39:05,734 --> 00:39:07,170 -I jest, of course. 821 00:39:07,345 --> 00:39:09,695 She came to me to get me to kill the crocodile, 822 00:39:09,869 --> 00:39:12,959 as I'’m well known as the best strategic killer in the land. 823 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:15,788 -I'’m a killer. 824 00:39:15,962 --> 00:39:18,443 [slurring]: I'’ll kill the fucking crocodile! 825 00:39:18,617 --> 00:39:22,055 She doesn'’t... does she not think I can do it? 826 00:39:22,229 --> 00:39:25,363 -You are blusteringly drunk and smell monstrous. 827 00:39:25,537 --> 00:39:27,669 Huzzah! Uh, eat a fig. 828 00:39:27,843 --> 00:39:30,150 -Che... 829 00:39:30,324 --> 00:39:33,458 -Any word on how Sunduk spoke to the sultan of her? 830 00:39:33,632 --> 00:39:36,374 -He didn'’t speak of her '’cause they cut his fucking head off. 831 00:39:36,548 --> 00:39:39,551 -They cut his head off? [chuckles] 832 00:39:39,725 --> 00:39:42,031 Aw, poor Sunduk, lovely guy. 833 00:39:42,205 --> 00:39:43,903 Fucking hell. 834 00:39:44,077 --> 00:39:45,383 So, they will war with us. 835 00:39:45,557 --> 00:39:47,254 Are you planning an attack before they do? 836 00:39:47,428 --> 00:39:48,342 -We should be. 837 00:39:48,516 --> 00:39:50,518 -Ah, my father always said, 838 00:39:50,692 --> 00:39:51,998 as the other man gets the first inkling 839 00:39:52,172 --> 00:39:53,695 there is a fight in the offing, 840 00:39:53,869 --> 00:39:55,784 you should have your knife in his liver 841 00:39:55,958 --> 00:39:57,133 and your knee in his balls. 842 00:39:57,307 --> 00:39:59,309 -Ha! Peter the Great. 843 00:39:59,484 --> 00:40:03,705 Great by name. Great by fucking name. 844 00:40:03,879 --> 00:40:06,447 -To Father. -To Father. 845 00:40:06,621 --> 00:40:08,144 To Peter the... 846 00:40:10,930 --> 00:40:11,974 Ooh! 847 00:40:12,148 --> 00:40:13,672 I... 848 00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:15,717 I may... 849 00:40:15,891 --> 00:40:17,458 I may lie down... 850 00:40:17,632 --> 00:40:21,680 just a little lie... 851 00:40:21,854 --> 00:40:23,246 Thank you. 852 00:40:23,856 --> 00:40:25,901 [sighs] 853 00:40:26,075 --> 00:40:27,599 -Unhappy, you say? -[snoring] 854 00:40:27,773 --> 00:40:29,601 -Generals need to be fighting someone. 855 00:40:29,775 --> 00:40:32,299 You do not give them someone to fight, they'’ll fight you. 856 00:40:32,473 --> 00:40:34,083 -That'’s very pithy. 857 00:40:34,257 --> 00:40:35,955 -Mm. I'’m writing new sayings down all the time. 858 00:40:36,129 --> 00:40:38,218 And you thought I wasn'’t on my game, Grigor. 859 00:40:38,392 --> 00:40:40,350 -I was wrong to doubt you. -Fucking wrong. 860 00:40:40,525 --> 00:40:42,178 I am in inspired form. 861 00:40:42,352 --> 00:40:43,615 We will shake her from her pedestal, 862 00:40:43,789 --> 00:40:45,530 and she will fall into my arms. 863 00:40:46,835 --> 00:40:50,056 Did I tell you how soft her hand is? 864 00:40:53,189 --> 00:40:55,627 [snoring continues] 865 00:40:55,801 --> 00:40:58,456 ♪ 866 00:41:14,820 --> 00:41:16,561 [Shakey groans] 867 00:41:29,704 --> 00:41:31,358 -You. Come with me. 868 00:41:31,532 --> 00:41:33,795 -Marial. Perfume stinks. 869 00:41:33,969 --> 00:41:35,623 -As does yours. 870 00:41:37,059 --> 00:41:39,453 Don'’t play dumb with me, Shakey. You know what you'’ve done. 871 00:41:40,628 --> 00:41:41,934 Your little bit with the limping. 872 00:41:42,108 --> 00:41:43,501 Walking out into the middle of the courtyard 873 00:41:43,675 --> 00:41:45,894 to eat crotch bread in front of me. 874 00:41:46,068 --> 00:41:48,767 -A good summation of my day. But your point is? 875 00:41:48,941 --> 00:41:50,682 -[exhales sharply] 876 00:41:50,856 --> 00:41:53,380 You'’re annoying me. 877 00:41:53,554 --> 00:41:55,513 -You used to eat crotch bread yourself. 878 00:41:56,601 --> 00:41:57,906 -I know. 879 00:42:01,170 --> 00:42:03,085 -So, we go to meet God? 880 00:42:03,259 --> 00:42:04,260 -Indeed. 881 00:42:04,434 --> 00:42:07,350 I am actually excited for you. 882 00:42:07,525 --> 00:42:12,138 The idea of God at work is what has grabbed our people, 883 00:42:12,312 --> 00:42:13,618 and it did not grab them, they grabbed it, 884 00:42:13,792 --> 00:42:15,489 for it is in them and they know it. 885 00:42:15,663 --> 00:42:17,752 The crocodile is merely an idea 886 00:42:17,926 --> 00:42:21,277 that there is something beyond ourselves. 887 00:42:22,235 --> 00:42:23,802 -Okay, where'’s God? 888 00:42:23,976 --> 00:42:25,673 Or am I to be lured somewhere and attacked? 889 00:42:25,847 --> 00:42:27,762 -Let me tell you a story. -Must you? 890 00:42:27,936 --> 00:42:32,158 -My mother was extremely, extremely fat. 891 00:42:32,332 --> 00:42:33,638 Huge. 892 00:42:33,812 --> 00:42:35,161 Enormous woman. 893 00:42:35,335 --> 00:42:36,728 Special furniture had to be built, 894 00:42:36,902 --> 00:42:38,643 our carriages braced, 895 00:42:38,817 --> 00:42:42,211 and to see maids wrestle her into a gown the size of a tent 896 00:42:42,385 --> 00:42:44,170 was like being at a French farce. 897 00:42:44,344 --> 00:42:45,998 Her hands never touched me 898 00:42:46,172 --> 00:42:49,305 that I did not walk away smeared in chocolate or pâté. 899 00:42:49,479 --> 00:42:51,264 -Picture painted. 900 00:42:51,438 --> 00:42:53,658 -See, she couldn'’t feel full, ever, 901 00:42:53,832 --> 00:42:56,399 no matter what she ate, how much. 902 00:42:56,574 --> 00:42:59,620 Always she felt empty, and sad. 903 00:42:59,794 --> 00:43:03,189 But I would look at her knowing I had a love she could not see 904 00:43:03,363 --> 00:43:05,234 that would fill her in an instant 905 00:43:05,408 --> 00:43:07,497 if she could'’ve seen it. 906 00:43:09,151 --> 00:43:12,851 And then I was a man at court in a rabid whirl 907 00:43:13,025 --> 00:43:17,725 of sick and savage consumption: alcohol, women, men. 908 00:43:17,899 --> 00:43:21,250 Desperately filling my nights and waking each morning 909 00:43:21,424 --> 00:43:26,386 untangling myself from someone and feeling the emptiness, 910 00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:29,476 like a cold shadow breaking through me. 911 00:43:31,086 --> 00:43:34,786 And I heard a voice telling me to come home. 912 00:43:36,091 --> 00:43:37,266 God. 913 00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,182 And I realized God would fill me, 914 00:43:40,356 --> 00:43:42,837 and I would never have to search again. 915 00:43:46,188 --> 00:43:49,975 I only wish my mother were alive to share that feeling. 916 00:43:51,716 --> 00:43:53,021 Shall we? 917 00:43:58,766 --> 00:44:01,856 -Here? -Here will be fine. 918 00:44:04,685 --> 00:44:07,296 Eat the key to the doorway. 919 00:44:26,925 --> 00:44:29,144 -Now what? -Now we wait. 920 00:44:30,885 --> 00:44:32,278 -Are you actually excited for me? 921 00:44:32,452 --> 00:44:33,671 -I am. 922 00:44:33,845 --> 00:44:35,150 -You are the strangest of men. 923 00:44:35,324 --> 00:44:38,327 -You don'’t even know the half of it. 924 00:44:40,590 --> 00:44:42,070 Did you see him? 925 00:44:42,244 --> 00:44:44,333 -I saw a oneness. 926 00:44:44,507 --> 00:44:46,466 A unity of things. 927 00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,208 I was a plant and an ant-- 928 00:44:49,382 --> 00:44:52,515 -No, but did you see Him? 929 00:44:52,690 --> 00:44:56,432 -I saw that there is love and we are all a part of that love. 930 00:44:56,606 --> 00:44:59,000 Like that, you mean? -No! 931 00:44:59,174 --> 00:45:01,524 An old man with a beard, 932 00:45:01,699 --> 00:45:03,962 and he, he shimmers, 933 00:45:04,136 --> 00:45:08,183 and when he speaks, his voice booms like thunder. 934 00:45:08,357 --> 00:45:10,533 -I didn'’t see that. 935 00:45:10,708 --> 00:45:12,100 I saw a shining light. 936 00:45:12,274 --> 00:45:17,018 -Yes! An old man and his heart pours forth light! 937 00:45:17,192 --> 00:45:20,674 -Ah. No. Just light. 938 00:45:25,157 --> 00:45:27,028 But I saw love. 939 00:45:29,117 --> 00:45:34,470 And I see your love for God and for me... 940 00:45:34,644 --> 00:45:36,559 which I never saw before. 941 00:45:37,735 --> 00:45:39,388 And I have disrespected it. 942 00:45:39,562 --> 00:45:42,391 -Perhaps we are each guilty of that. 943 00:45:42,565 --> 00:45:44,132 -We are fighters. 944 00:45:44,306 --> 00:45:47,222 -Perhaps that hides the truth of us both at times. 945 00:45:51,357 --> 00:45:54,229 -They love God, my people. 946 00:45:56,666 --> 00:45:58,277 You showed me that. 947 00:45:59,539 --> 00:46:01,628 Thank you. 948 00:46:01,802 --> 00:46:05,632 But their thinking should not be controlled by these ancient terrors. 949 00:46:05,806 --> 00:46:07,503 There'’s a modern world, Archie. 950 00:46:07,677 --> 00:46:09,505 Your church could be part of it. 951 00:46:09,679 --> 00:46:11,899 -God wants me to serve you. 952 00:46:12,073 --> 00:46:14,728 It-It'’s strange and at times inexplicable. 953 00:46:14,902 --> 00:46:16,817 -Together we would be formidable. 954 00:46:16,991 --> 00:46:20,473 We could be the grit that makes the pearl for each other. 955 00:46:21,343 --> 00:46:23,345 And I need you. 956 00:46:23,519 --> 00:46:27,567 You know them, and you truly love them. 957 00:46:30,091 --> 00:46:32,137 I will not kill you. 958 00:46:33,442 --> 00:46:35,183 -You have seen the light. 959 00:46:35,357 --> 00:46:37,707 -Mm. -Even if not God. 960 00:46:39,144 --> 00:46:42,800 -Now, how do we get rid of this crocodile? 961 00:46:44,889 --> 00:46:46,281 You must have had a plan! 962 00:46:46,455 --> 00:46:47,761 -Well, I had faith God 963 00:46:47,935 --> 00:46:49,807 would provide one when the time came. 964 00:46:49,981 --> 00:46:52,026 -Not really a plan though, is it? 965 00:46:54,594 --> 00:46:56,726 -So, that was 11 dead patients in a day, 966 00:46:56,901 --> 00:46:58,946 which was definitely a blow to the confidence. 967 00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:01,079 -But it sounds like only six were your fault. 968 00:47:01,253 --> 00:47:02,732 -True. 969 00:47:02,907 --> 00:47:04,996 -Well, it'’s good of you to feel bad about it. 970 00:47:05,170 --> 00:47:06,562 -Foolish really. Everyone dies. 971 00:47:06,736 --> 00:47:09,043 I can just stave it off for a bit. 972 00:47:09,217 --> 00:47:10,697 The whole doctoring thing 973 00:47:10,871 --> 00:47:12,612 is actually fucking up people'’s view of death. 974 00:47:12,786 --> 00:47:15,397 People are starting to get this attitude that death'’s a tragedy. 975 00:47:15,571 --> 00:47:18,052 -Childish. -Indeed. 976 00:47:18,226 --> 00:47:20,533 -In light of the inevitability of our deaths, 977 00:47:20,707 --> 00:47:22,143 shall we take some opium 978 00:47:22,317 --> 00:47:24,711 and indulge in a little light bondage? 979 00:47:24,885 --> 00:47:26,800 -Why not? 980 00:47:28,323 --> 00:47:31,196 -Elizabeth, I was walking back and realized something. 981 00:47:31,370 --> 00:47:33,720 It chose the mouse and not you, did it not? 982 00:47:33,894 --> 00:47:35,156 -It did. 983 00:47:35,330 --> 00:47:37,463 -Vinodel, I need some of that opium. 984 00:47:37,637 --> 00:47:40,596 ♪ 985 00:47:44,992 --> 00:47:49,518 -Sorry for my curt response to your reluctance to go to war. 986 00:47:49,692 --> 00:47:50,955 -Apology accepted. 987 00:47:51,129 --> 00:47:52,521 -It is not a lust for blood. 988 00:47:52,695 --> 00:47:55,350 You know, I, I feel for the soldiers lost, 989 00:47:55,524 --> 00:47:59,137 but I also understand war is a place where men are found. 990 00:47:59,311 --> 00:48:00,703 They look at death, 991 00:48:00,878 --> 00:48:03,184 they understand life deep in their marrow. 992 00:48:03,358 --> 00:48:06,144 They, they are asked questions 993 00:48:06,318 --> 00:48:11,279 with impossible answers and yet find them. 994 00:48:11,453 --> 00:48:14,979 They embrace the, the dark in themselves, 995 00:48:15,153 --> 00:48:18,852 and so, so understand the light. 996 00:48:19,026 --> 00:48:23,291 And a country, well, it'’s, it'’s the same for it. 997 00:48:25,076 --> 00:48:26,947 It will define us. 998 00:48:28,079 --> 00:48:30,211 -Not going also defines us. 999 00:48:30,385 --> 00:48:33,432 -I just know it is my fate, that battle. 1000 00:48:35,390 --> 00:48:37,523 I'’ve known it forever. 1001 00:48:38,698 --> 00:48:40,656 -Perhaps I will bring you a new fate. 1002 00:48:40,830 --> 00:48:42,354 -Wouldn'’t call it fate if there were new ones. 1003 00:48:42,528 --> 00:48:45,096 [crocodile hissing] 1004 00:48:45,270 --> 00:48:47,881 ♪ 1005 00:48:58,370 --> 00:49:00,024 -Now we kill it? 1006 00:49:00,198 --> 00:49:02,940 -No. Not the animal. 1007 00:49:03,114 --> 00:49:05,768 But we do kill the idea. 1008 00:49:05,943 --> 00:49:11,426 -Court, I have communed with the Lord our God. 1009 00:49:12,732 --> 00:49:15,996 And the crocodile is indeed an omen. 1010 00:49:16,170 --> 00:49:18,477 [courtiers murmuring] 1011 00:49:18,651 --> 00:49:22,655 It is an omen of what we face to change Russia, 1012 00:49:22,829 --> 00:49:24,700 a prehistoric creature, 1013 00:49:24,874 --> 00:49:28,530 all anger and thoughtless disregard for life, 1014 00:49:28,704 --> 00:49:32,360 anarchic and selfish, lacking reason. 1015 00:49:32,534 --> 00:49:37,800 These are the things we must face down metaphorically. 1016 00:49:37,975 --> 00:49:41,152 -And I have the crocodile! 1017 00:49:41,326 --> 00:49:43,154 [crowd gasping] 1018 00:49:51,031 --> 00:49:54,426 This is a victory for reason and science. 1019 00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:57,342 Reason: the crocodile bit Duchess Elizabeth 1020 00:49:57,516 --> 00:49:59,126 but preferred her mouse. 1021 00:49:59,300 --> 00:50:02,347 Science: we cannot get close enough to stab its eyes, 1022 00:50:02,521 --> 00:50:05,524 and it is otherwise virtually impregnable. 1023 00:50:05,698 --> 00:50:09,615 Unless it has eaten 34 opium-laced mice! 1024 00:50:09,789 --> 00:50:12,139 Then it is sleeping like a baby. 1025 00:50:12,313 --> 00:50:14,011 ALL: Huzzah! 1026 00:50:16,578 --> 00:50:18,667 -This is the Russia we create. 1027 00:50:18,841 --> 00:50:20,626 It will be taken back to its home. 1028 00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:22,236 We will go about our li-- 1029 00:50:22,410 --> 00:50:23,716 -Its eyes are open! 1030 00:50:23,890 --> 00:50:26,327 [courtiers screaming] 1031 00:50:39,297 --> 00:50:41,951 MAN: Kill it! Kill it! 1032 00:50:45,651 --> 00:50:47,348 [screaming continues] 1033 00:51:04,626 --> 00:51:06,237 -[gunshot] -[crowd gasps] 1034 00:51:07,890 --> 00:51:10,284 ALL: Huzzah! Catherine the Great! 1035 00:51:10,458 --> 00:51:12,373 Huzzah! 1036 00:51:12,547 --> 00:51:14,071 -Huzzah. 1037 00:51:16,377 --> 00:51:18,901 [tray rattling] 1038 00:51:25,517 --> 00:51:27,823 -Are you sure about this? -Of course. 1039 00:51:27,997 --> 00:51:29,695 -Really? Just because you feel bad? 1040 00:51:29,869 --> 00:51:31,175 -It'’s crazy, I agree. 1041 00:51:31,349 --> 00:51:32,741 [tray clatters] 1042 00:51:37,398 --> 00:51:40,053 -Call if you need. Which you will. 1043 00:51:40,227 --> 00:51:42,447 -[tray clattering] -Thank you, Shakey. 1044 00:51:42,621 --> 00:51:46,538 We will have to work on those tea pouring skills. 1045 00:51:46,712 --> 00:51:49,671 -I can safely say they'’re not going to get better. 1046 00:51:52,152 --> 00:51:53,849 -I like cakes and cream for breakfast. 1047 00:51:54,023 --> 00:51:56,025 -And men like thin women. 1048 00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:58,419 So, rethink that. 1049 00:52:01,118 --> 00:52:04,512 [door opens, closes] 1050 00:52:07,124 --> 00:52:09,082 -I thought you'’d want to know we got the crocodile. 1051 00:52:09,256 --> 00:52:11,258 -I heard. It was God'’s plan. 1052 00:52:11,432 --> 00:52:13,391 -Mm. Perhaps. 1053 00:52:17,699 --> 00:52:18,831 -Oh. 1054 00:52:30,408 --> 00:52:32,105 Can I ask a favor after? 1055 00:52:32,279 --> 00:52:34,847 -I am not returning the favor. It is clear accommodation. 1056 00:52:35,021 --> 00:52:37,676 -No. I, I just miss some things by being in here. 1057 00:52:37,850 --> 00:52:40,418 As you know, I am a powerfully brilliant dancer 1058 00:52:40,592 --> 00:52:42,898 and am unused to not exercising this brilliance. 1059 00:52:43,072 --> 00:52:44,857 -You wish to dance? 1060 00:52:45,031 --> 00:52:48,034 -If it pleases you, and sort of even if it doesn'’t. 1061 00:52:48,208 --> 00:52:51,690 -We would need music. -I have music in my head. 1062 00:52:51,864 --> 00:52:53,213 -That does not help. 1063 00:52:53,387 --> 00:52:55,824 -[humming simple melody] -[Catherine laughs] 1064 00:52:57,086 --> 00:52:58,827 You are-- -You don'’t like it? 1065 00:52:59,001 --> 00:53:02,048 I have different pieces, but I felt like something lively. 1066 00:53:02,744 --> 00:53:03,876 -It is fine. 1067 00:53:04,050 --> 00:53:06,139 Something lively is good. 1068 00:53:07,096 --> 00:53:08,750 Shall we do that first? 1069 00:53:09,882 --> 00:53:11,100 -Brilliant. 1070 00:53:12,014 --> 00:53:13,929 [Peter hums simple waltz] 1071 00:53:14,103 --> 00:53:18,020 ♪ 1072 00:53:33,819 --> 00:53:38,476 ♪ 1073 00:54:04,284 --> 00:54:05,851 -[music stops] -Enough. 1074 00:54:09,898 --> 00:54:14,903 ♪ 1075 00:54:33,487 --> 00:54:38,057 ["Shut Up and Kiss Me" by Angel Olson playing] 1076 00:54:38,231 --> 00:54:41,887 ♪ I ain'’t giving up tonight ♪ 1077 00:54:42,061 --> 00:54:47,022 ♪ Even if you walk around as though you think you'’re right ♪ 1078 00:54:47,196 --> 00:54:50,983 ♪ At your worst I still believe it'’s worth the fight ♪ 1079 00:54:51,157 --> 00:54:56,205 ♪ I could make it all go away ♪ 1080 00:54:56,380 --> 00:55:00,079 ♪ Tell me what you'’re think and don'’t delay ♪ 1081 00:55:00,253 --> 00:55:04,866 ♪ We could still be having some sweet memories ♪ 1082 00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:07,086 ♪ This heart still beats for you ♪ 1083 00:55:07,260 --> 00:55:09,436 ♪ Why can'’t you see it? ♪ 1084 00:55:09,610 --> 00:55:12,047 ♪ Shut up, kiss me, hold me tight ♪ 1085 00:55:13,701 --> 00:55:16,443 ♪ Shut up, kiss me, hold me tight ♪ 1086 00:55:17,792 --> 00:55:20,665 ♪ Stop your crying, it'’s all right ♪ 1087 00:55:21,970 --> 00:55:24,799 ♪ Shut up, kiss me, hold me tight ♪ 1088 00:55:26,061 --> 00:55:29,543 ♪ Stop pretending I'’m not there ♪ 1089 00:55:29,717 --> 00:55:33,678 ♪ When it'’s clear I'’m not going anywhere ♪ 1090 00:55:33,852 --> 00:55:38,073 ♪ If I'’m out of sight then take another look around ♪ 1091 00:55:38,247 --> 00:55:42,208 ♪ I'’m still out there hoping to be found ♪ 1092 00:55:42,382 --> 00:55:45,080 ♪ Shut up, kiss me, hold me tight ♪ 1093 00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:49,215 ♪ Shut up, kiss me, hold me tight ♪ 1094 00:55:50,564 --> 00:55:53,045 ♪ Stop your crying, it'’s all right ♪ 1095 00:55:54,612 --> 00:55:56,309 ♪ Shut up, kiss me, hold me tight ♪ 1096 00:55:56,483 --> 00:55:59,181 ♪ Shut up, kiss me, hold me tight ♪