1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:08,519 Peter! Peter! Peter! Peter! 2 00:00:11,679 --> 00:00:13,160 Did you see that out there? 3 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:17,079 - We need to negotiate a surrender. - We do. 4 00:00:18,199 --> 00:00:20,600 You to me. 5 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:24,440 Because that's what I'm seeing. 6 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:26,519 I mean, think about it. 7 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:30,440 You, the church, me, fucking whipping 'em up. 8 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:33,640 You join me, bring the church 9 00:00:33,719 --> 00:00:36,359 and it is ours. 10 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:39,079 I... 11 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:42,960 Are you listening or just watching my lips, wondering how they taste? 12 00:00:45,119 --> 00:00:46,880 You wouldn't be good for me. 13 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:49,320 I would. 14 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,000 Very good. 15 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:55,880 I think I'd lose myself. 16 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:00,240 You really fucking would. 17 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:17,959 Fuck God. It's me you need. 18 00:01:21,359 --> 00:01:22,439 No. 19 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:24,680 No! Fucking no! 20 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:31,000 Then you'll die with the rest of them, Patriarch. 21 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:36,319 Fucker! 22 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:42,319 These fucking people. 23 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:47,840 Hello. I have a carriage waiting. 24 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:51,879 - No, I'd rather you shoot me. - I doubt that. 25 00:01:51,959 --> 00:01:53,359 That seems just pugnacious talk 26 00:01:53,439 --> 00:01:56,079 to preserve one's dignity in the face of defeat. 27 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:59,079 That sounds like you're not allowed to shoot me. 28 00:02:04,959 --> 00:02:05,879 Annoying. 29 00:02:11,319 --> 00:02:12,319 Good day, sir. 30 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:14,639 You again. 31 00:02:17,159 --> 00:02:18,840 Shouldn't you be in school? 32 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:29,319 Outrageous. 33 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:35,759 Hello. 34 00:02:36,719 --> 00:02:37,639 Wife. 35 00:02:38,719 --> 00:02:40,039 You're a fucking liar. 36 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:42,680 Look-alike is a lie, so occupational hazard. 37 00:02:43,479 --> 00:02:45,400 The things you said to the people. 38 00:02:46,479 --> 00:02:47,479 You were there? 39 00:02:48,719 --> 00:02:50,439 Must have been hard on you. 40 00:02:51,599 --> 00:02:53,400 Can I have some figs and ricotta? 41 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:57,080 No. 42 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:59,520 You could have a deal that saves your life instead. 43 00:03:00,199 --> 00:03:03,759 Is it come home and we live happily ever after like a partridge in a pear tree? 44 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,360 Have a fuck, pretend it was a mere lovers' tiff? 45 00:03:06,439 --> 00:03:10,080 Stop doing that, or they will come in and cut your head from your body. 46 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:13,400 - Toosh! - Don't do that! 47 00:03:15,759 --> 00:03:19,719 You lied about me. About him. Raised a land of hate. 48 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,840 I didn't have to do much. They just don't fucking like you, to be honest. 49 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:24,800 Even in your own court people don't love you. 50 00:03:24,879 --> 00:03:27,560 You are going back to Moscow with my men, 51 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:30,479 and you will reveal yourself and surrender 52 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:33,000 as Pugachev, the bad-breathed Cossack. 53 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:35,759 That's harsh. I mean, they brought me tuna. What could I do? 54 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:39,000 You will then be caged and taken from village to village to tell your story 55 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:42,560 and make them embarrassed they followed you. 56 00:03:42,639 --> 00:03:44,800 My husband will have his name back. 57 00:03:45,879 --> 00:03:49,159 Or I could choose to die. That would fuck you up. 58 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:52,360 I don't think you'd choose that. 59 00:03:52,439 --> 00:03:54,319 That's the difference between you and me. 60 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,479 I'm gonna die by the knife sometime. That's how it is for people like me. 61 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,159 So why not die at the height of my infamy, 62 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:01,840 having fucked up the empress 63 00:04:01,919 --> 00:04:04,639 and trashed the good name of a fucking arsehole? 64 00:04:04,719 --> 00:04:07,080 Because you both would've killed me and thrown my body to the pigs 65 00:04:07,159 --> 00:04:08,960 while you kissed and made up that night. 66 00:04:09,479 --> 00:04:11,159 I was sorry about that. 67 00:04:11,759 --> 00:04:15,599 The thing is, kill me or don't, they'll still come for you. 68 00:04:16,199 --> 00:04:17,839 They do love me. 69 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:20,480 The walls fucking shook with my hold on them. 70 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:22,319 You felt their love for me. 71 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:26,399 Maybe running this country's my destiny. 72 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,000 He really planned all these breakfasts in advance? 73 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:22,720 Crazy. 74 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,879 - So annoyed they didn't let me kill him. - Shut up, Maxim! 75 00:05:28,519 --> 00:05:31,319 Poor fucking guy. He just wanted a chance at a new life. 76 00:05:31,399 --> 00:05:33,560 Who wouldn't want a chance at a new life? 77 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:36,600 What if he talks, Marial? About you. 78 00:05:37,639 --> 00:05:38,800 Then you'll have a different life. 79 00:05:38,879 --> 00:05:41,000 Then he talks. I'm not going to be scared anymore. 80 00:05:41,079 --> 00:05:45,040 He's a troublesome, mouthy peasant who someone else now gets to kill. 81 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:51,480 Could you finish my shoes? I'm upset and I don't trust the staff. 82 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:01,480 - Hugo's still there. - Fucker. 83 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:03,879 Gonna follow me to Grigor. 84 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:05,879 Me! Can we chat? 85 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:14,040 Out, needy dormouse. 86 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,079 - Actually, go get my gun, Petra. - Just where I was going. 87 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:19,399 Look, been waiting out there all night. 88 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:22,680 A few thoughts. 89 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:28,319 You're a stunning, beautiful, scheming liar 90 00:06:28,399 --> 00:06:30,279 who hasn't been fucked in a while, 91 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:32,800 and so has a little edge that is even more attractive. 92 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:34,600 I wanna work with you. 93 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:36,360 I want to watch blood spurt from your eye. 94 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:39,040 The way you say it, so do I. 95 00:06:43,319 --> 00:06:44,319 Fuck. 96 00:06:46,759 --> 00:06:48,120 Can we get some tea, Petra? 97 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,560 This is what I've seen, because I have been watching. 98 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:57,800 You're an opportunist. 99 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:01,120 You hate her and try to cause her problems. 100 00:07:01,519 --> 00:07:03,040 But don't you want more? 101 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:05,639 All of it, I say. 102 00:07:06,319 --> 00:07:07,920 And you can help me, can you? 103 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,199 There are only two people in this country with king experience, 104 00:07:10,279 --> 00:07:12,040 and you're looking at one of them. 105 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:14,040 So do you wanna bring her down or not? 106 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:17,279 Of course I don't. I love her, treasonous Swedish prick. 107 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:18,639 Great. So you do. 108 00:07:22,079 --> 00:07:23,000 Pugachev... 109 00:07:23,439 --> 00:07:26,040 Her choices being, tell everyone she killed Peter, 110 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:28,920 or try and explain who the fuck Pugachev was, 111 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,279 or kill him, creating a martyr and a vacuum at the top of an uprising. 112 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:33,519 All bad. 113 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:38,040 We add in the general sense that she's in some kind of suicidal malaise, 114 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:40,040 and we have a chance. 115 00:07:41,439 --> 00:07:42,839 Grigor has Paul. 116 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:45,879 And I think you know where he is and don't want me following you there. 117 00:07:45,959 --> 00:07:48,920 You're really taking a big risk here, saying this. 118 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,519 I know, but it's that kind of day, where lives change. 119 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:58,279 You know it's mine and Agnes' wedding anniversary today? 120 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:00,360 - Who cares? - 36 years. 121 00:08:00,439 --> 00:08:04,879 - What? You only look-- - 37? I am 37. 122 00:08:05,399 --> 00:08:07,680 Royal marriage. We married at one. 123 00:08:08,879 --> 00:08:11,560 - I can see you as a queen. - What are you saying? 124 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:17,560 Get Paul, ordain Paul, and you marry Paul. 125 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:21,199 I know! It's amazing! 126 00:08:24,319 --> 00:08:25,879 There is an uprising sitting in Moscow, 127 00:08:25,959 --> 00:08:28,920 and in a while they will realize they do not have a leader, but they need one. 128 00:08:30,079 --> 00:08:33,720 We can take the whole country... 129 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:34,720 Fuck. 130 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:38,919 I've... I've been a king. We'd love it. 131 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,240 Oh, God. Fuck. You sedated the tea. 132 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:43,399 Of course I did, genius. 133 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:46,399 Fuck. Fuck. 134 00:08:48,519 --> 00:08:50,960 Good night, translucent Swedish idiot. 135 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:54,879 Great idea though. 136 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:56,840 The important thing, Maxim, 137 00:08:56,919 --> 00:09:00,440 is to ask yourself what will bring peace to your heart. 138 00:09:00,519 --> 00:09:03,639 Would you suggest prayer? Or I do enjoy tennis. Maybe that. 139 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:05,440 Well, tennis never hurt. 140 00:09:05,519 --> 00:09:08,279 I just become enraged when I don't get what I want. 141 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:11,200 You have to float out of your body, float above yourself, 142 00:09:11,279 --> 00:09:14,720 and add in the context of a world beyond yourself. 143 00:09:14,799 --> 00:09:18,759 However, there are moments in a man's life he knows when to pray, 144 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:20,120 when to play tennis, 145 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:24,320 and when to act to preserve one's life. 146 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:26,639 Good advice. 147 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:35,840 What is it with you, kid? 148 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:43,960 Call me Maxim. 149 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:50,879 - Morning. - I want a job. 150 00:09:52,279 --> 00:09:55,600 A job? Doing what? You're not a political person. 151 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:59,440 Oh, really? I gave you the idea for the coup which got you on the throne. 152 00:09:59,919 --> 00:10:02,639 Seems political. What about chief adviser? 153 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:05,279 Seems vague and probably doesn't involve reading? 154 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:06,480 Do you remember, 155 00:10:07,519 --> 00:10:11,279 did I have a sense of destiny before or after you had the coup idea? 156 00:10:11,919 --> 00:10:15,559 Because I feel like maybe I made it up after to kind of make me believe in it. 157 00:10:15,639 --> 00:10:18,519 You arrived delusional about almost everything. 158 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:19,759 But when did I say it? 159 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:26,080 I suggested, "Kill him," and you said, "I knew I had a destiny here. 160 00:10:26,159 --> 00:10:28,639 I thought it was love. Maybe it's Russia itself." 161 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:29,759 I said "maybe"? 162 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:34,240 Who the fuck knows? Let's focus on my job. I need something. 163 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:37,360 Cannot just be married to an 11-year-old and arrange his shoes. 164 00:10:38,039 --> 00:10:39,720 After last night I've never felt more-- 165 00:10:39,799 --> 00:10:41,840 - Hated? - And German. 166 00:10:41,919 --> 00:10:42,919 A foreigner. 167 00:10:43,759 --> 00:10:44,799 So many lies. 168 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:46,960 We're not gonna talk about my job, are we? 169 00:10:47,039 --> 00:10:49,000 At least I will reclaim Peter for Paul. 170 00:10:50,279 --> 00:10:52,360 I need Pugachev to make this deal. 171 00:10:54,639 --> 00:10:57,440 - Pugachev's a massive liar, by the way. - I just said that. 172 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:02,240 Buongiorno 173 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:05,240 - Who's that? - A castrati. Famously great fuck. 174 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:06,519 Seedless, too. 175 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:09,080 Forget all that. You know what? This is a great day. 176 00:11:09,159 --> 00:11:11,039 You have never led, as you, 177 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:13,159 without Peter on your back, in your head or up your bum. 178 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:17,600 - Marial. - The point is, the coup is finally done. 179 00:11:18,879 --> 00:11:20,039 Pretend for me. 180 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,320 - It's day one. - Marial. 181 00:11:23,399 --> 00:11:24,399 Just do it! 182 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:28,399 For what would it have been like without him, if he had been dead that first day? 183 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:30,720 Other than I would've missed the great love of my life? 184 00:11:30,799 --> 00:11:33,279 Who perverted your rule? Yes. Other than that. 185 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:39,000 Morning, Empress. What a day! 186 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:40,519 Boy, are the people excited! 187 00:11:41,639 --> 00:11:44,279 You look excited too. What joy you will bring. 188 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,159 Day one! Here we go! 189 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:50,039 As your chief adviser and founding member of the coup, 190 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:52,960 I, for one, am pretty upbeat about the day. 191 00:11:55,279 --> 00:11:56,679 Exactly. Such happiness. 192 00:11:57,080 --> 00:11:59,519 How will you lead? Go forth. Let us discover. 193 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:05,879 I will lead with a lightness of heart and joy for the task, 194 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:08,879 bringing naivete and delusion to all that I do. 195 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:18,720 Your seat, Empress. 196 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:23,519 Well, gosh, I'm overwhelmed. I'm sure it will go, oh, so well though. 197 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:40,679 - Yours? - Yes, Empress. 198 00:12:40,759 --> 00:12:43,320 May I? I am Nikolai Shostakich, the royal astronomer. 199 00:12:43,399 --> 00:12:44,600 I have a royal astronomer? 200 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:47,879 You hired me in the big science hire at the start of your reign, remember? 201 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:50,960 Seems so long ago. Yes. 202 00:12:51,279 --> 00:12:52,279 We have never met. 203 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:55,480 I will talk fast and to the point, in case I am to be ejected by guards, 204 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:58,679 as sometimes happens to me for a variety of reasons not worth going into. 205 00:12:58,759 --> 00:13:00,399 There is a comet coming. 206 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:04,159 A comet is a disturbance, 207 00:13:04,919 --> 00:13:09,519 a hole that tears in the sky, leaving a stream of light behind it. 208 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:12,120 Beyond the moon, a form of dust and ice compact together 209 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:14,840 to make a... a ball! 210 00:13:14,919 --> 00:13:16,600 No, not a ball. A fist! 211 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:20,240 A fist of power and light that shoots through the solar system 212 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:22,120 and passes us by. 213 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:25,639 Every fucking 75 years, this comet, the same one, 214 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:28,639 swings round and races through the sky again on a loop. 215 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:31,279 And it's the only one, the only one, we can see without a telescope, 216 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:34,000 and it passes by the Earth just enough so we can see it. 217 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:36,960 And in a few days, it passes over, wait for it... 218 00:13:37,039 --> 00:13:38,200 Russia! 219 00:13:38,279 --> 00:13:40,279 - Amazing. - Yeah, and an opportunity. 220 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:41,320 I suddenly thought... 221 00:13:42,279 --> 00:13:44,840 Thought last night... Should've thought earlier. 222 00:13:44,919 --> 00:13:46,279 "I could kick you, Nikolai!" 223 00:13:46,919 --> 00:13:48,440 - Loving this day. - Fascinating. 224 00:13:48,519 --> 00:13:49,919 But I digress. 225 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:54,080 The people have always viewed the heavens as just that, God's domain. 226 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:58,840 The unknowable. A mystery. And the church have used that fear and awe. 227 00:13:58,919 --> 00:14:03,240 But if we tell the people in advance, send charts and telescopes, 228 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:07,919 and show that by way of science and reason the heavens are knowable, 229 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:12,200 man and woman can know them, track them, and explain them! 230 00:14:12,279 --> 00:14:16,440 And also maybe send up a balloon with cannons and just blow it out of the sky! 231 00:14:16,519 --> 00:14:18,159 Or at least change its orbit. 232 00:14:19,759 --> 00:14:22,919 No, forget the last part, as it's possibly not true and unfeasible, 233 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,639 and I shouldn't have said it. I even said to myself walking here, 234 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:27,600 "Don't say the balloon cannon thing, Nikolai." 235 00:14:27,679 --> 00:14:29,519 - But couldn't help yourself? - Exactly. 236 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:32,000 So, can we do this? Can we-- 237 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:36,879 What? 238 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:39,360 Clear breach of security, leading to a clear breach in his skull. 239 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:40,679 No! 240 00:14:40,759 --> 00:14:41,799 Fuck! 241 00:14:45,799 --> 00:14:47,039 - You! - Shit. 242 00:14:49,399 --> 00:14:51,279 - A duel, sir. - What is going on? 243 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,519 - Private matter. - Dueling's illegal, is that right? 244 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:54,720 Yes, it is. 245 00:14:54,799 --> 00:14:57,120 - And who fucking shot Pugachev? - We're dueling! 246 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,919 Greatest respect, Empress, even though the statement seemed not to contain any. 247 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,159 - Who shot him, I said. - Maxim has claimed credit. 248 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,600 - What? - I will beat him like a drum that bleeds. 249 00:15:04,679 --> 00:15:07,320 - Empress, we are agreed, the comet? - There's a comet coming? 250 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,080 - I should probably go. - What's the "probably" part? 251 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:12,039 See you on the field. 252 00:15:12,799 --> 00:15:14,559 Who shot him? What happened? 253 00:15:14,879 --> 00:15:17,879 - I had a plan. - Maxim. And now we need a new plan. 254 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:21,519 I just heard. 255 00:15:23,879 --> 00:15:26,159 Shit! What do we do now? 256 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:29,639 To think I once rode him, 257 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:33,840 and he uttered desperately foul oaths in my ear as I came. 258 00:15:33,919 --> 00:15:35,759 From memory, it was something like, 259 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:39,120 "I'll rip open your rib cage with my bare hands 260 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:42,799 "and fuck you in your windpipe as I give your foie gras liver a hand job." 261 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,480 I mean, out of context, bizarre, and yet, in the moment... 262 00:15:46,559 --> 00:15:48,399 I mean, I came like a sudden blizzard. 263 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:50,679 But enough reminiscing. 264 00:15:50,759 --> 00:15:53,960 Let's focus on what now. We're in a very dangerous place. 265 00:15:59,039 --> 00:16:00,360 Catherine? 266 00:16:01,559 --> 00:16:04,039 So, I guess the surrender tour with Pugachev is done with. 267 00:16:04,759 --> 00:16:07,200 He's dead. It's over now, isn't it? 268 00:16:07,279 --> 00:16:09,360 No! Quite the opposite. 269 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:11,360 You've thousands massed and a vacuum at the top. 270 00:16:11,679 --> 00:16:14,120 One group massed behind one man, easy to fight. 271 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:16,720 They splinter into disparate, random groups, 272 00:16:16,799 --> 00:16:18,759 you're fighting chaos, or someone else rises. 273 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:21,759 - That's very pessimistic, Petrov. - And yet accurate. 274 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:24,360 We need to decide what to do before they do. 275 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:26,559 Even word of his death will light a wick on something. 276 00:16:26,639 --> 00:16:29,279 They don't know he's dead at this point. That gives us the upper hand. 277 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:32,120 My opinion, we need to mass troops, bring the body-- 278 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:34,440 Interesting. Empress, you need to own his death. 279 00:16:34,519 --> 00:16:37,720 He being Peter the Third. You need to come out and say you killed Peter. 280 00:16:37,799 --> 00:16:40,480 Ideally with the body, and then probably say something along the lines of, 281 00:16:40,799 --> 00:16:44,879 "Peter is vanquished by my own hand." And then just let it rain cannonballs. 282 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:47,720 And then you've taken it out, you've also ended Peter the Great's line, 283 00:16:47,799 --> 00:16:49,000 and now you have the country. 284 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:52,200 Ended Peter the Great's line? How dare you, Archie! There is Paul! 285 00:16:52,279 --> 00:16:54,240 Is there? Hasn't been at the buffet lately. 286 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:55,600 We're not doing any of that! 287 00:16:55,679 --> 00:16:58,600 Then what are we doing? Because we fucking need to do something. 288 00:16:58,679 --> 00:17:01,200 Fuck! Fuck! This place! 289 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:03,240 Catherine! 290 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:07,880 I call that inconclusive. 291 00:17:08,559 --> 00:17:11,640 I call it a petulant response to a massive challenge 292 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:13,960 that brings into question her competency. 293 00:17:14,039 --> 00:17:15,440 And I call that treason. 294 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:17,720 Would you call it inaccurate? 295 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:20,920 No, didn't think so. 296 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:27,200 We need to hold our nerve and hold together! 297 00:17:27,279 --> 00:17:29,599 - Yeah! - He will be back. 298 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:32,480 And not only that, I can tell you this. 299 00:17:32,559 --> 00:17:37,599 We will retake the palace and restore Peter the Third as the head of Russia! 300 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:40,119 Huzzah! 301 00:17:52,559 --> 00:17:53,920 You're waiting for him? 302 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:55,359 Fucking hell, Tatyana. 303 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:57,880 He told me he wanted to rip the dress from my body. 304 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:00,039 But we left in a hurry, so I don't have many dresses. 305 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:01,160 I thought this was easier. 306 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:04,279 Well, he hasn't come back, so stand down and put some clothes on. 307 00:18:04,359 --> 00:18:08,240 I don't know where he is, but that hall is full of maniacs who are ready to go. 308 00:18:08,319 --> 00:18:10,519 - Where is he? - With someone else, probably. 309 00:18:11,079 --> 00:18:12,079 Hurtful. 310 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:14,839 You lying here naked for another man, however, is fine. 311 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:19,039 We always said we'd let each other evolve as we needed to as humans. 312 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:22,160 Or would you like our marriage to literally choke off our personal growth? 313 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:23,519 Seems a difficult either-or. 314 00:18:23,599 --> 00:18:27,119 You need to keep those madmen out there under control until he gets back. 315 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,799 They do keep looking at me like, "You're his best friend. You should know." 316 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:32,279 People are riled up. 317 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:37,799 - You just gonna lay here? - He's got to come back at some point. 318 00:18:38,839 --> 00:18:41,000 - Want anything? - I could use an apple. 319 00:18:59,079 --> 00:19:01,839 Hi. Sorry. Inappropriate entry to your private quarters. 320 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:04,440 But we have some time issues. The comet, may I do it? 321 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:09,480 A brilliant idea and a good distraction for the country from your troubles. 322 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:13,519 Also, sorry about the duel. I know it's illegal, but I'm kind of in it. 323 00:19:13,839 --> 00:19:16,359 My power over my own court is clearly waning. 324 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:19,559 You slept with Petrov's fiancé? 325 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,559 I have this thing that happens to me and women when I talk to them, 326 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:23,680 and we end up fucking. 327 00:19:25,559 --> 00:19:27,279 I feel exactly the same way about it. 328 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:29,759 It is laughable, not how I see myself, and yet-- 329 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:32,079 You are an accidental womanizer. 330 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:33,839 That's a good way of putting it. 331 00:19:35,839 --> 00:19:37,279 What's it like to run Russia? 332 00:19:38,319 --> 00:19:40,440 I mean, that's crazy. I run an office with three people, 333 00:19:40,519 --> 00:19:44,279 and it is a wrangling of drunk, insane cats 334 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:47,920 who spit poison and speak in whiny hieroglyphic codes. 335 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:52,000 Not that we're not doing a great job. We are, so don't cut our funding. 336 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:54,880 But it's just complicated. 337 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:57,640 These humans. "I don't get paid enough!" "There are no biscuits!" 338 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:00,480 "Why's Anatole got the window with sun?" Russia must be... 339 00:20:02,039 --> 00:20:04,960 I digress. Bad habit, along with overreach. 340 00:20:05,039 --> 00:20:07,200 But an office with 80 million humans. 341 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:10,039 Insane. Your head must explode. 342 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:12,599 My head, my heart, everything has. 343 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:14,440 How do you do it? 344 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:18,519 I'll tell you a secret. 345 00:20:20,759 --> 00:20:21,680 I don't know. 346 00:20:23,279 --> 00:20:27,240 I try to be mean, be nice, be friends, be a tyrant. Still, everyone's at me. 347 00:20:27,319 --> 00:20:30,319 Probably why I spend all my time looking at the sky. 348 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:36,440 - It's happening, as you said. - What? 349 00:20:39,319 --> 00:20:40,240 Fuck me. 350 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:43,000 - What? - You heard. 351 00:20:43,079 --> 00:20:44,839 - I did. I just-- - Want to hear it again? 352 00:20:45,559 --> 00:20:47,079 I'd love to hear it again. 353 00:20:47,519 --> 00:20:51,880 Walk over here, pin me to the wall, lift up my skirt and fuck me. 354 00:20:52,599 --> 00:20:53,640 On my way. 355 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:12,720 Huzzah! 356 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:14,400 Stop doing that! 357 00:21:15,319 --> 00:21:17,039 Walking in on me! On us! 358 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,640 On Peter and me to see if we would make a baby! 359 00:21:21,319 --> 00:21:22,599 You can go, young man. 360 00:21:24,319 --> 00:21:26,400 The empress, assuming no lemon top, 361 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:29,400 needs a douche bath of nettle and snake venom immediately. 362 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:37,079 I walk in unannounced as it is the best way to see where people are, 363 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:38,759 to catch them as they are. 364 00:21:38,839 --> 00:21:43,160 Like seeing a squirrel startled suddenly as it sucks on a nut. 365 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:47,519 And whilst it is, on a personal level, thrilling to see you back fucking, 366 00:21:47,599 --> 00:21:52,559 on a "we're mired in a national crisis," I do begin to question your priorities. 367 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,839 Maybe start fucking people after you save the country from the uprising. 368 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:57,440 I had saved it! 369 00:21:57,519 --> 00:21:59,880 And solved it. Peter's name, everything. 370 00:21:59,960 --> 00:22:04,279 - And things changed. - And I will work out what to do alone! 371 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:05,920 - When? - Stop talking to me. 372 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,519 When I know what to do, that's when! 373 00:22:07,599 --> 00:22:10,160 Not good enough. Enough tears and weakness. 374 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,519 No, not enough, because if you wring me wet, 375 00:22:12,599 --> 00:22:15,319 nothing will come out but tears and weakness. 376 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:21,079 It is just grief. 377 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:25,240 - Can you just go? - No, I can't. 378 00:22:26,079 --> 00:22:27,160 - Elizabeth! - Catherine. 379 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:28,359 - Guards! - Guards! 380 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:33,680 - Remove her! - Dimitri and Alexei... 381 00:22:33,759 --> 00:22:36,079 You touch me now, you will never touch me again. 382 00:22:39,599 --> 00:22:43,000 - Oh, my God. - You may go. But later... 383 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:51,079 I have no grip on anyone. 384 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:56,400 My own head of the army is doing an illegal duel, oblivious to my wishes. 385 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,319 They are burning effigies all over the country. 386 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:02,079 My name inspires hate, not change. 387 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,880 And I am rotten with grief throughout my being. 388 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:13,480 And I am becoming sure that I have told myself, and others, 389 00:23:13,559 --> 00:23:18,240 a delusional story that has brought Russia to its knees. 390 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:21,599 I know it feels like you are broken. 391 00:23:23,279 --> 00:23:24,440 I am broken. 392 00:23:25,079 --> 00:23:26,440 Not all the way through. 393 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,359 - You just fucked a boy against the wall. - That was strange. 394 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:34,000 Suddenly, I just thought, "I want to fuck him." Nothing else. 395 00:23:34,079 --> 00:23:36,279 I was just present and wanted fucking. 396 00:23:38,519 --> 00:23:42,200 - Oh, no. Now I feel terrible. - Like you took a step away from Peter? 397 00:23:42,279 --> 00:23:43,880 Yes, and I don't want to. 398 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:46,480 - You need to. - And if I can't? 399 00:23:46,559 --> 00:23:50,119 I know you're in pain and clouds of confusion fill your head, 400 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,079 but you now need to stand up. 401 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:55,839 Or? 402 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,039 You know the "or." 403 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:03,039 Someone else will. 404 00:24:04,279 --> 00:24:05,200 You? 405 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:08,640 Yes. Me. 406 00:24:09,799 --> 00:24:12,480 Perhaps it is, as you said, my destiny and not yours. 407 00:24:13,519 --> 00:24:16,200 Perhaps you weren't it. I was wrong. 408 00:24:16,279 --> 00:24:19,279 I am it, and you were merely a pretty stepping-stone 409 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:21,160 for me to wake up and see that. 410 00:24:22,319 --> 00:24:23,480 Jesus. 411 00:24:23,559 --> 00:24:26,480 Because the world burns a person down many times, 412 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,559 and you shake off the ashes, and you walk into the next fire knowing 413 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,559 that the fire never gets to the core of you. 414 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:39,240 That is me, and that is who is needed now. 415 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,480 Tomorrow, if I sit down in that seat, I don't get up. 416 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:46,319 For anyone. 417 00:24:50,079 --> 00:24:51,160 I love you. 418 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,039 And I you. 419 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,200 Where is she? 420 00:25:12,279 --> 00:25:14,000 Weren't you going to follow her to Grigor? 421 00:25:14,079 --> 00:25:16,240 I might've made a small misjudgment. 422 00:25:16,839 --> 00:25:19,079 Or not. We'll see how it plays out. 423 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:22,559 I'm hoping the idea sets in her head and she sees she needs us. 424 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,279 - You decided something without me? - I added Georgina to the plan. 425 00:25:26,079 --> 00:25:28,839 A disappointing and, I suspect, idiotic betrayal. 426 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:32,519 Let's assume George gets the baby and realizes we're the next step. 427 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,759 Well, let's have the next step after the next step's ready. 428 00:25:43,759 --> 00:25:45,000 I knew you'd come here. 429 00:25:45,839 --> 00:25:48,279 The three of us always came here. No one can find you. 430 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:52,119 Where's Paul? 431 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,559 - Grigor! - Safest place. No one looks up. 432 00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:58,759 Get him down. 433 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:03,960 Birds have been a hassle. 434 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:06,039 - And there was a bear. - A bear? 435 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,799 "Furry." He said "furry" after we shot the bear. 436 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:09,839 What a kid. 437 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:14,640 Hey. 438 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:21,440 - Squirrel coats. Matching. - Are you mad? 439 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:23,640 You clearly are. 440 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:27,319 It's fine. I'm here to look after you as always, my darling. 441 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:28,640 Let's take him back. 442 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,599 He is not safe in court. They're coming for him and all of us. 443 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:34,839 He's not safe here either in a fucking box in a tree, Grigor. 444 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,240 We can do this together. We always wanted a child. 445 00:26:39,319 --> 00:26:41,079 No, we didn't. We said it would distract us from Peter. 446 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:42,440 It would re-energize our marriage. 447 00:26:42,519 --> 00:26:44,079 - I love Marial. - You don't! 448 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:45,880 And it's very annoying that you keep saying it! 449 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,720 I do. I... She hates Peter, so it's hard and confusing, 450 00:26:49,799 --> 00:26:53,440 because I feel pain at her absence in my rib cage area. 451 00:26:53,519 --> 00:26:55,720 My head cries much at the loss of her. 452 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,799 And then Peter... 453 00:27:00,759 --> 00:27:02,440 I can't even feel anything. 454 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,279 But Paul is all. That's my new motto. 455 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,920 We say it all the time, don't we, Paul? Paul is all. 456 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,119 I agree. Paul is all. 457 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,799 He should be emperor, and we can make it so. 458 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,119 - What? - I'm good at this. 459 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:19,920 - At what? I'm not following. - Politics. 460 00:27:20,839 --> 00:27:23,680 I think by pretending to change, I actually did. 461 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:29,000 If this goes the way it's clearly going, we might need a new leader behind Paul. 462 00:27:30,599 --> 00:27:31,920 And that's you? 463 00:27:33,279 --> 00:27:34,640 - What the fuck? - You? 464 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:37,400 Why not me? 465 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,400 - You're not them. - They're not them. 466 00:27:41,079 --> 00:27:45,000 No one's fucking "them" until they decide they're fucking "them." 467 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,319 This country can be changed for the better. 468 00:27:48,839 --> 00:27:49,920 For Peter. 469 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,319 For our dearest friend, to keep his line alive. 470 00:27:54,519 --> 00:27:56,519 I'm not helping you kill her. He loved her. 471 00:27:56,599 --> 00:27:58,599 He loved us, too. For longer. 472 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:01,559 Do it for him. 473 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,319 Hey. She's fine, Paul. 474 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,720 See? Look at her up-and-down chest. That's called breathing. 475 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:34,440 But always be listening for footsteps behind you in the forest. 476 00:28:43,359 --> 00:28:44,880 I remember these. 477 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:47,400 We did all of them, didn't we? 478 00:28:47,799 --> 00:28:48,839 That one. 479 00:28:49,559 --> 00:28:51,799 The wheelbarrow with fruit! 480 00:28:53,599 --> 00:28:57,079 - I loved it. - You handsome savage. 481 00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,200 You delectable sexual hooligan. 482 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,680 You look unsure. You know I can't stand that. 483 00:29:04,759 --> 00:29:07,319 - I'm pondering. - Not you. You're all instinct. 484 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,559 Kill her! Impale her on a large pole and ride her round Moscow. 485 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,480 Take this fucking place, Paul on your knee. 486 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:15,759 I seem to recall 487 00:29:15,839 --> 00:29:20,000 that you looked into my dying but beautiful-as-the-deep-blue-sea eyes 488 00:29:20,079 --> 00:29:22,759 and promised to protect my line. 489 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,920 - Things change. I have evolved. - Our love is eternal. 490 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,279 You're dead. Everything's eternal for you. 491 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,240 - I love her. - You love me more. 492 00:29:37,519 --> 00:29:40,079 Now you're needling me! I remember it. 493 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,119 Then torrid sex ensues. 494 00:29:42,839 --> 00:29:46,920 Just remove her before you're trampled into black-and-blue paste 495 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:52,559 by rampaging ex-Cossacks, cross-eyed with liquor, buzzing with rage, 496 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:56,000 and with a need to feel blood spray in their eyes to make them happy. 497 00:29:56,079 --> 00:29:57,079 Jesus. 498 00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:01,759 I know. Powerful word pictures that can transform moments. 499 00:30:01,839 --> 00:30:03,720 One of my many gifts, you'll recall. 500 00:30:04,079 --> 00:30:05,039 I do. 501 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:09,240 And having no empathy for anyone. Another gift. 502 00:30:09,319 --> 00:30:13,559 - Like you were with Peter. - Who drowns on their fucking horse? 503 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:14,720 That kid. 504 00:30:15,119 --> 00:30:16,759 You heartless monster. 505 00:30:17,359 --> 00:30:19,400 You sassy enchantress. 506 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:23,160 I'm not doing that. I'm calling you a fucking heartless monster. 507 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:29,559 You know you have to take the throne. Or you'll fucking die and lose everything. 508 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,759 Did you just shush Peter the Great? 509 00:30:36,559 --> 00:30:38,319 You're not choosing her. 510 00:30:39,839 --> 00:30:41,799 Maybe I'm choosing something else. 511 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,519 What I want instead of what you want. 512 00:30:45,599 --> 00:30:48,880 You contrary, argumentative strumpet. 513 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,359 You deaf, blind oaf. 514 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,759 God, I could tear all your clothes off with my teeth. 515 00:30:57,519 --> 00:30:58,880 Except you can't. 516 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:00,880 You can just... 517 00:31:02,839 --> 00:31:03,839 go. 518 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,480 This duel. I probably shouldn't do it. 519 00:31:09,839 --> 00:31:12,240 Undermines the empress at this delicate point. 520 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:14,599 She seems like a drunk on the end of a jetty. 521 00:31:15,079 --> 00:31:18,640 As humans sometimes are when they have their hearts crushed by fate. 522 00:31:19,319 --> 00:31:21,000 - I'll call it off. - No. 523 00:31:22,599 --> 00:31:23,519 Do it. 524 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:25,960 She must stand up and lead. 525 00:31:27,359 --> 00:31:29,519 Or not, if she can't. 526 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,240 It's a bit like when I was a boy. 527 00:31:33,319 --> 00:31:38,079 Had all these apples, and I wouldn't give 'em away or eat them or make cider. 528 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:40,319 For the life of me, I couldn't decide, 529 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:44,200 and then they just rotted, and I looked like the fucking idiot I was. 530 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,599 I think it's more like a young woman lost at sea, 531 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:55,240 throwing up into the ocean due to prevailing winds and insect bites, 532 00:31:56,279 --> 00:31:59,119 hoping some friendly sharks will guide her home. 533 00:32:00,519 --> 00:32:04,119 She must find her compass, but she's been blinded by a raven. 534 00:32:05,279 --> 00:32:07,160 And if she eventually falls in, 535 00:32:08,119 --> 00:32:10,200 the sharks will just have to... 536 00:32:11,839 --> 00:32:12,960 Be sharks? 537 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:14,599 Yes. 538 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,279 And the army and I will need to be marching 539 00:32:18,359 --> 00:32:20,519 in figure eights and hexagons as one. 540 00:32:22,079 --> 00:32:23,000 Right. 541 00:32:24,039 --> 00:32:24,960 Got it. 542 00:32:31,039 --> 00:32:34,000 Hi. Sorry, but it's a bit urgent. 543 00:32:34,599 --> 00:32:36,839 - Hugo, what are you-- - You know what I smell out there? 544 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,039 I smell what I smelt in Sweden. 545 00:32:40,319 --> 00:32:41,240 Implosion. 546 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,519 And I do feel bad about Peter and stealing the army. 547 00:32:48,279 --> 00:32:49,960 And as you're about to be gargling on your own blood, 548 00:32:50,039 --> 00:32:52,079 I thought I'd give you some advice. 549 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,079 You need to run. 550 00:32:56,839 --> 00:32:59,599 - I can't run. - That's what I thought. 551 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:03,400 Out of some misguided sense of obligation. Destiny. 552 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,519 "It's my favorite desk. I don't wanna leave it." 553 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,480 But Paris, Rome. 554 00:33:09,359 --> 00:33:12,880 You tell me ex-kings and queens aren't gonna be feted there. 555 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:14,920 And the food and the art. 556 00:33:16,039 --> 00:33:17,559 I see a new life. 557 00:33:19,039 --> 00:33:21,400 We'll have a carriage ready at 9:00 in the courtyard. 558 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,839 Get Paul, or tell me where he is and I'll get him, 559 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:26,559 we get in, and we go. 560 00:33:28,079 --> 00:33:29,799 I'll leave that with you. 561 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,960 Make the right decision, or don't and die. 562 00:33:57,839 --> 00:33:58,880 Die, bitch! 563 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,400 Grigor. What are you doing? 564 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,199 You're a sight. A sight I need in my eyes. 565 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:36,679 What do you want? Other than clearly, and also logically, my body. 566 00:34:37,119 --> 00:34:38,039 Marry me. 567 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:42,800 You hated me, as I hate Peter. 568 00:34:43,519 --> 00:34:46,880 - Know that I always will. - I do know. But I need you. 569 00:34:47,599 --> 00:34:49,599 In the forest, so quiet, 570 00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:52,199 I felt this empty space in me, 571 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,719 the sounds of the forest reverberating through it... 572 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,639 bears and birds and bees. 573 00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:00,280 And you are what I need in that space. 574 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,360 - You're the piece I miss. - Right. 575 00:35:04,639 --> 00:35:07,360 - Really? - I want a new life. You and me. 576 00:35:08,039 --> 00:35:10,119 - I want a new life too. - Great! 577 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:12,760 We go to my estate, we hole up there, 578 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,480 we put in defenses, and we just be together. 579 00:35:16,119 --> 00:35:19,039 - You, me and Paul. - What do you mean Paul? 580 00:35:19,119 --> 00:35:21,400 I have to bring him up for Peter. I realize that now. 581 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:22,679 We can do it together. 582 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:25,320 Maybe have our own kids. Be good for him to have a brother. 583 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,679 I'm not bringing up his fucking son. Are you mad? 584 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,400 I know you hate him, but it's actually good. 585 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,000 Paul will learn the complexity of human life. 586 00:35:33,079 --> 00:35:35,320 And we will raise him to take back his throne. 587 00:35:36,679 --> 00:35:39,719 Or not. Peter didn't want that, so maybe we'll let that play out. 588 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,559 Don't have to decide now. Marial, get dressed. We should go. 589 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:45,599 I could do with a bath actually. 590 00:35:45,679 --> 00:35:47,920 My teeth are fucking blueberry fuzz as well. 591 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,880 Fuck. You sad man. 592 00:35:59,159 --> 00:36:01,119 You beautiful, sad man. 593 00:36:03,119 --> 00:36:06,800 But why is Grigor in my bath? I thought this sick liaison was done. 594 00:36:08,079 --> 00:36:11,360 - Hi, Maxim. Just resting a minute. - You're rending my garments! 595 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:13,119 You fucking killed Pugachev! 596 00:36:13,199 --> 00:36:16,480 Now all hell has broken loose, you foppy little monster. 597 00:36:16,559 --> 00:36:19,639 Archie and I have it in hand. Relax. 598 00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:23,000 We will be safe as others die. We have the touch. 599 00:36:24,039 --> 00:36:25,079 No. 600 00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,800 No you and Archie. 601 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:29,360 No. 602 00:36:30,559 --> 00:36:31,599 Enough! 603 00:36:33,159 --> 00:36:35,639 In terms of the fact that you were about to marry her, 604 00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:37,679 you could look at it as you dodged a bullet. 605 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,320 You could look at trying to dodge a bullet but failing in about one minute. 606 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:42,119 She wasn't right for you. 607 00:36:42,199 --> 00:36:44,800 Disloyal, for a start, and was definitely the aggressor. 608 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,880 - We were friends. - Yeah, and I felt terrible. 609 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,840 Every thrust was like a dagger in my own heart. 610 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:54,480 - Jesus Christ! Really? - I just want you to know how bad I felt. 611 00:36:54,559 --> 00:36:56,679 At one point, she took me in her mouth, 612 00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,639 and I was staring at your portrait on the other side of the room. 613 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:01,679 - You know the one with the red setter? - I love that picture. 614 00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:06,360 Yeah. And I was like, "This is really bad. He shouldn't be marrying her." 615 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,079 Can we hurry this along before I shoot him at point-blank range? 616 00:37:09,159 --> 00:37:11,480 - All right, let's go! - Huzzah! 617 00:37:12,519 --> 00:37:15,960 - Wonderful. I'm not too late. - Empress, this is between us. 618 00:37:16,039 --> 00:37:17,519 Also made illegal by me. 619 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,760 But these are Russian rules, and you seem to want to live this way, yes? 620 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:22,840 Yeah! 621 00:37:23,679 --> 00:37:25,800 In fact, I would like to second for Nikolai. 622 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:26,880 - You what? - That's ridiculous. 623 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,199 - And yet within the rules? - It is. 624 00:37:29,559 --> 00:37:31,719 Great. Nikolai, go stand over there. 625 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,239 I'd like to argue with you, but-- 626 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,639 I'm the empress, and you're also a coward who does not want to die? 627 00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:38,679 Well expressed. 628 00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,039 - Begin. Explain to me how-- - I can't shoot you. 629 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,280 Not my problem. I can shoot you. 630 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:47,000 - Great. - And begin. 631 00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,920 Ten paces, turn and then shoot. 632 00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,840 One. Two. Three. 633 00:38:00,079 --> 00:38:02,480 You all live by Catherine the Great's rules. 634 00:38:02,559 --> 00:38:05,039 Understand that or leave court. 635 00:38:06,079 --> 00:38:08,639 Petrov, State Room, in an hour. We need to plan. 636 00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:09,840 I'll be there! 637 00:38:26,599 --> 00:38:28,079 That's my nose. Yes. 638 00:38:29,519 --> 00:38:32,039 - Give him here. - You need to go home, Grigor. 639 00:38:32,119 --> 00:38:33,519 He needs me. 640 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:36,840 No, he doesn't. 641 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:38,679 You need him. 642 00:38:39,519 --> 00:38:41,119 But she needs him more. 643 00:38:41,199 --> 00:38:44,840 You take Paul from me, then I will one day come and find you and kill you 644 00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,360 in a very weird way. 645 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:49,000 Go home, Grigor. 646 00:38:51,119 --> 00:38:53,960 - I don't really have one. - I don't really care. 647 00:38:58,199 --> 00:39:01,920 You will be emperor, as your grandfather intended. 648 00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:06,280 And I will live by your side, 649 00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:10,239 a benevolent shadow and guide through this court. 650 00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:20,000 He's all right, Paul. 651 00:39:20,679 --> 00:39:22,400 See his chest moving up and down? 652 00:39:25,159 --> 00:39:26,760 Let's go find Uncle Archie. 653 00:39:35,159 --> 00:39:36,320 Look who I found. 654 00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:43,159 How marvelous. 655 00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:49,559 - Tatyana? - Yes? 656 00:39:49,639 --> 00:39:52,440 Oh, it's you. Can you get me another apple? 657 00:39:54,039 --> 00:39:57,559 And is it more alluring if I'm on my front so he can just take me from behind? 658 00:39:57,639 --> 00:40:00,039 Paul's coming with George. And I'd say Grigor as well. 659 00:40:00,119 --> 00:40:02,920 - And Pugachev? - No sign. But I'm thinking, so what? 660 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,800 We have the rest of us working in Peter's name, and Paul. 661 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:07,960 I have them eating out of my fucking hands. 662 00:40:08,039 --> 00:40:10,800 We just pretend he's sending me orders. They don't know. 663 00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:13,840 Look at you. You're fizzing. 664 00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,239 And you got me an apple. Come here. 665 00:40:21,039 --> 00:40:22,119 I was looking for you. 666 00:40:23,079 --> 00:40:25,880 To tell me what? How horrible he was again? 667 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,000 I know what he did to me, 668 00:40:29,079 --> 00:40:32,960 that in some ways he was a terrible person, terrible leader, all of it. 669 00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:37,800 How he thwarted me. How I contorted myself to fit with him. 670 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:43,039 But I loved him, and the two are carried here in my heart. 671 00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:45,039 Understand that. 672 00:40:45,119 --> 00:40:47,800 I do. You understand this though. 673 00:40:48,599 --> 00:40:50,440 I have something to offer. 674 00:40:50,519 --> 00:40:52,199 I have to have my hands on something that matters. 675 00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,000 And I am someone you need. 676 00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:57,719 What's that? 677 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,519 Letters between Archie and Pugachev. 678 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,760 He lit this fire, and he got Maxim to kill him. 679 00:41:07,079 --> 00:41:09,280 I've been given a dark view of humanity. 680 00:41:09,599 --> 00:41:10,880 You know why? 681 00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,719 Because bad shit happens to me all the time, 682 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:16,880 and people are pricks, and that's why you need me! 683 00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:23,119 Archie. 684 00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:31,800 Let's go. 685 00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:40,079 And so by the powers vested in me by our Lord God, 686 00:41:40,159 --> 00:41:43,559 I channel his powers into this child to do God's work 687 00:41:43,639 --> 00:41:45,719 as he one day becomes Russia's leader. 688 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,239 This is very long. Hurry through this, Archie. Let's get to the wedding. 689 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,360 - God has touched and-- - Good doggie! 690 00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:55,000 - In the middle of it. Sorry we're late. - Fuck. Ignore them. 691 00:41:55,079 --> 00:41:57,519 And yet let's all accept we're part of this. 692 00:41:58,159 --> 00:41:59,199 - Fine. - Fine! 693 00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:01,039 God has touched and chosen you, 694 00:42:01,119 --> 00:42:05,199 Paul Petrovich Illyich Vasilyev Alekseyvich Romanov. 695 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,079 - Also very long. - Can you just-- 696 00:42:07,159 --> 00:42:09,519 - Just say amen! - You say amen, I put a hole in you! 697 00:42:09,599 --> 00:42:11,360 - Oh, shit. - Hugo, don't fucking move! 698 00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:13,480 You're about to die. Put him down, Archie. 699 00:42:13,559 --> 00:42:15,159 He won't shoot you. Say it. 700 00:42:16,079 --> 00:42:17,800 I don't like the look in his eye, to be honest. 701 00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:21,239 Good analysis. Put the baby down and walk away. 702 00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:24,440 Fucker! 703 00:42:24,519 --> 00:42:26,840 You are the leader. The one God has chosen. 704 00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:28,280 - Amen. - Amen! Yes! 705 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:29,360 Archie! 706 00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:32,519 The empress has requested the patriarch's presence immediately. 707 00:42:32,599 --> 00:42:33,719 - Hey. - Must dash. 708 00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:42,119 Well, half done. It's all for Peter and Paul, darling. 709 00:42:42,199 --> 00:42:43,719 We're done, you and I. 710 00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:48,360 Well, full disclosure, I am actually interested in someone else long-term, 711 00:42:49,639 --> 00:42:50,559 so agreed. 712 00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:15,639 Feels strangely right. 713 00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:23,760 You sat. 714 00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:25,280 I did. 715 00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:32,559 Empress, I would like to apologize. 716 00:43:32,639 --> 00:43:35,280 My blood's loyalty to you overheats at times, 717 00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:38,719 and I act for your best interests out of my love for you. 718 00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,920 And also, I'm a killer. That's Maxim. 719 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:44,000 Sit, Maxim. 720 00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:47,320 Empress. 721 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:50,639 Archie. Hello. 722 00:43:52,039 --> 00:43:53,960 I'd like to thank you for Pugachev. 723 00:43:55,159 --> 00:43:56,400 I'm not sure I-- 724 00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:59,840 Archie, don't insult me with faux denials 725 00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:03,199 and the teary clutching of rosary beads and bleatings of innocence. 726 00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,039 I was in a haze of grief that didn't allow me to see it, 727 00:44:07,119 --> 00:44:10,480 but you were always the one coming to me with a solution. 728 00:44:12,119 --> 00:44:15,639 I recently shot a man in the head instead of myself, 729 00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:18,239 and it seems to have cleared something for me. 730 00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,079 I see with a blazing clarity. 731 00:44:23,079 --> 00:44:24,000 Right. 732 00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:25,880 So? 733 00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,800 I asked you to school me in savvy political dealings, did I not? 734 00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:30,239 You did. 735 00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:32,800 It has been a good lesson, and I'm grateful. 736 00:44:34,199 --> 00:44:36,480 All your own work, or others involved? 737 00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:42,880 The gratitude belongs all to me. 738 00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:46,440 Out of love for you. I never meant it to get out of hand like this, 739 00:44:46,519 --> 00:44:50,840 but let's clean the rest and show Russia your immense power. 740 00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:51,840 Let's. 741 00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:55,119 The church will come out across the country 742 00:44:55,199 --> 00:44:57,840 and say they have asked God for a sign 743 00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:00,039 that Catherine the Great is Russia's destiny. 744 00:45:00,679 --> 00:45:05,199 You will tell them the day and the time to look into the sky to see it. 745 00:45:06,079 --> 00:45:07,320 - The comet? - Exactly. 746 00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,239 - Love it! - They need a story. 747 00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:13,280 This will be one piece of it. Marial has the proclamation for you to issue. 748 00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:19,920 - What happened to you? - The empress shot me. 749 00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:23,480 - Huzzah. - Maxim, I need a general. 750 00:45:23,559 --> 00:45:25,320 - I'm sorry, what? - I'm ready. 751 00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:26,679 Oh, come on. He's four. 752 00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,280 I want you to get the credit for the killing of Pugachev. 753 00:45:29,639 --> 00:45:31,239 So you will go on a speaking tour 754 00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:34,079 and tell the tale of the Cossack Pugachev's death. 755 00:45:34,159 --> 00:45:37,239 After that, there is a military academy in Vladivostok. 756 00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:40,360 You will go there, learn the craft, and return to me. 757 00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:41,440 Vladivostok? 758 00:45:41,519 --> 00:45:43,960 Also where the finest tailors in Russia reside. 759 00:45:44,519 --> 00:45:49,840 - Interesting. But, Marial-- - For the good of Russia, I have agreed. 760 00:45:50,159 --> 00:45:52,159 - I will visit often. - Yearly seems enough. 761 00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:57,039 And, Velementov, you will go south to tell the tale of the death through the ice. 762 00:45:57,599 --> 00:45:59,320 Petrov, you will go to Moscow 763 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,760 and claim the death of Peter the Third, and unleash-- 764 00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:03,199 Please say a wave of cannonballs. 765 00:46:04,079 --> 00:46:05,360 - Cannonballs. - Brilliant. 766 00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,280 Of course he gets fucking cannonballs. 767 00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:09,280 Marial, you will prepare a statement 768 00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:11,320 that Peter the Third is dead by hemorrhoids, 769 00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:13,400 also a different one saying smallpox, 770 00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,639 also a different one saying he was killed while fighting the uprising. 771 00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:18,719 Also that I am Peter the Great's daughter. 772 00:46:19,039 --> 00:46:20,719 Love my new job. 773 00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:22,480 Everyone will get a story they want. 774 00:46:22,559 --> 00:46:25,199 And I will get whichever I need whenever I need it. 775 00:46:26,559 --> 00:46:29,320 Archie, one more thing. Guards! 776 00:46:31,079 --> 00:46:35,079 Take him, tear his cassock from his body, rip his beard from his face, 777 00:46:35,159 --> 00:46:36,559 and bury him alive. 778 00:46:37,079 --> 00:46:38,880 And then, in a semicircle, 779 00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:41,320 piss on the grave. 780 00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:43,159 - What? - Now! 781 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,280 I thought you understood! 782 00:46:49,199 --> 00:46:50,119 Wait! 783 00:46:51,679 --> 00:46:54,760 The church has half a million serfs it owns. 784 00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:57,920 You're going to sign this and free them. 785 00:46:58,320 --> 00:46:59,559 The fuck I will. 786 00:46:59,639 --> 00:47:04,920 Also, 10 million acres, 25 acres per serf, which they will be awarded. 787 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:06,719 The country can watch a grand experiment 788 00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,519 without the nobles wanting to bathe in my blood. 789 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:12,559 I hope to shame them into freeing the serfs. 790 00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:14,639 Sign it or die. 791 00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:18,000 Right. 792 00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:21,039 - Fine. - Thanks. 793 00:47:26,199 --> 00:47:27,679 Fucking let go of me! 794 00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,159 You thought they were going to release you? Sweet. 795 00:47:30,519 --> 00:47:31,719 Take him now. 796 00:47:33,079 --> 00:47:35,880 - Catherine. - You fucking played me! 797 00:47:37,519 --> 00:47:39,000 Consider me schooled. 798 00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:45,639 - Cut his head off and bring it to me. - Head off? Will do. 799 00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:52,159 That was all very thrilling. 800 00:47:56,159 --> 00:47:57,480 Your seat. 801 00:47:59,519 --> 00:48:00,960 I thought you weren't getting up. 802 00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:03,880 It was an ultimatum. 803 00:48:04,599 --> 00:48:07,599 Had to sound dramatic or it's not a good ultimatum. 804 00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:48,440 You may go. 805 00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:03,000 Husband. 806 00:49:53,199 --> 00:49:54,920 It's a good day to kill an empress. 807 00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:02,840 Let it rip. 808 00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:13,760 Oh, fuck. 809 00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:30,039 Fucker! 810 00:51:03,599 --> 00:51:05,960 Destiny didn't do it. I did it. 811 00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:10,920 Revised and Synchronized by FAST TITLES MEDIA