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Sisters, welcome home.

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Safely returned.

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It's good to be back, Mother.

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We have been praying for you.

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Come. What news?

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We found the King and we found war.

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I can only imagine.

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I pray that you can't.

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It was worse than anything my mind
could conjure.

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God is testing us all, it seems.

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Whilst you were away Prior Godwyn
has begun work on his palace.

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- With our gold?
- With our gold, yes.

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Then our journey wasn't without purpose.
This'll stop him.

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It's mere scribble on the back of an old map.

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Hastily written on the battlefield.

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It orders you to return our stolen money
so that we can build our hospice.

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Don't see the royal seal.

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That's because it's kept in England.

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If you doubt its authenticity,
the King will give his word.

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In person?

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Even if it is authentic,
which I doubt very much,

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he won't come to Kingsbridge to enforce it.

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Oh, but he suggests that he will.

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And you will lose your position,
cousin, and with any luck, your head.

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He's a king and you're a nun.

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What could you have possibly done
to make him give you this?

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I'm sure you'll think of something, Prior.

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Thank you, Sister Caris.

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Stop construction now.

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I've just had my eyes opened to the way
the world works.

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That was war.

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Men killing each other for power or land.

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Not only each other.
Women, children, animals.

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I can't even pretend to believe anymore.

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In what?

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I used to have doubts about
God's presence in this world.

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And now I know for sure
that he is not among us.

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You still need rest. This will pass.

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No. It'll never pass.

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Congratulations, Sir Ralph.

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The King rewards criminals well.

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The King shows gratitude for loyalty
and courage, Sir Roland.

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By making some of us peers.

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What?
By restoring your property at Wigleigh?

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'Tis but a fraction the size of my sovereignty.

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He's also bestowed upon me
the Tench estate,

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a property nearly as extensive as Shiring's.

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The Earldom of Tench?

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Yes.

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Sorry we're late. Odila insisted we...

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Lady Philippa.

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It's been some long while.

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Yes.

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You've not changed.

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Is this your daughter?

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- Yes.
- I'm Lord Ralph.

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- What's your name?
- Odila.

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Odila.

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Come along, Odila.
Your nurse is waiting for us.

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The orange in your dress
was pulled from mine.

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- Do you like it?
- Yes.

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Lady Philippa? May I have a word?

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Go, I'll catch up.

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What do you want, Sir Ralph?

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I want your hand in marriage.

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I've been waiting for this moment
for such a long time.

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Ever since I saw you that day
in the market as a young man,

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and now that I'm a peer...

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You must know that I adore you.

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I would lay down my life for you.
I would share my good fortune with you.

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And I know that you care for me, too. So...

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I never cared for you.

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I pitied you as a young man
deprived of his inheritance.

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But you have since become
a rapist and a murderer.

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I'd sooner die than marry you.

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The war has taken the lives
of many Englishmen

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and far too many land owners of Wigleigh.

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Their lands have lain fallow for years,

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and it's time we distributed
the property to those who can farm it.

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We've decided, therefore,
to award these land holdings to

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George Perkin.

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Thank you.

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Why?

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Why him?

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Why not us?

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He's a land owner and you're a laborer.

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So? He can't pay the laborers he's got now.

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I pay you what I can.

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Food! You pay us food!
And we're still starving!

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Give the land to the peasants. We'll farm it.

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Can you pay the tenant's fee?

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We'll pay it bit by bit.

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We'll work all the harder if the land is ours!

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Your purpose as peasants is to feed
and support the bishops and lords.

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Yeah. Who tax us and rob us
to keep us in our place!

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My decision stands.

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You said nothing.

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It's dangerous to speak your mind like that.

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You'd rather be robbed?

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I'd rather go poor than be hanged a traitor.

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Well, somebody's got to defend
what is rightfully ours.

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- Not you!
- Well, why not?

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You're a woman! You make me look like
a gelding when you speak like that!

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Why don't you stand up for yourself
and your sons and your woman?

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No one can stand up for you!

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You've got a bigger cock
than any man in Wigleigh.

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- Mama!
- Papa, stop.

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- Mama.
- Stop.

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- Don't fight.
- Please, Ma, no!

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Come on!

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Dad, no!

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Ma!

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Go!

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Just get out of my life!

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Mama? Are you all right?

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Mama, where is Da going?

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How's life as a Kingsbridge builder?

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Merthin!

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You're back!

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I'm Elfric's chief competition,
which isn't saying much.

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He runs the Guild now, and I only get
the work he hasn't time to take on.

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- And my mother? Is she well?
- Yeah, she's well.

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She'll be delighted to see you.

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And Caris?

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Is she still a nun?

126
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Mother Cecilia just told me
you are writing a book.

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Did you get my letter?

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I didn't think you'd ever come back.

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Are you with your family?

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The Mortality visited us.
And my wife and child died.

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And I caught it, too, but God was cruel
and he let me live.

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I'm so sorry.

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And you?

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I practice the arts of healing.

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I'm still learning.

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And now a return or just a stop
on your journey?

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That depends on you.

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- Caris, listen to me.
- No.

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- Please, I have thought about you...
- If I leave the convent, I'll be hanged.

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Well, no one can still believe
that you're a witch.

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Godwyn does.

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Well, then we'll steal away.
We'll go back to Italy.

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To replace what you've lost?

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My feelings are worthy.
Why do you sully them?

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You can't neglect a crop for years
and then expect to come back to a harvest.

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You know?
I'm changed and I'm sure that you are, too.

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I loved you from the moment I saw you,

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and I've never stopped loving you since.

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Pray for me, but don't love me.

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Go, please.

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I'm beginning to wonder
whether we should be at war at all.

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The news from France is that they have
been decimated by the Great Mortality.

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This pestilence has fought your war for you.

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Now is the perfect time to attack, not retreat.

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Oh, and who shall I send to fight them,
Mother? You?

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God gave you a sign
saying this war was just.

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Why should he fail you now?

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Was it really a sign from God
or the trick of a greedier messenger?

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A civil uprising deposed my father.
A secret order commanded his death.

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A foreign war was declared.
And all to what purpose?

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To put you in power, Mother.

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And now comes the Great Mortality,

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which truly is a sign that God is not happy.

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Checkmate.

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I think you better leave.

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<i>Mon cher,</i> these are my rooms.

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I mean London.

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I don't want to see you in my court again.

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Edward.

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Edward! Listen to me!

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Edward!

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Edward!

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I stood by your son on the battlefield,
Your Majesty.

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But this time he's mistaken.
You deserve praise, not exile.

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It only becomes exile if I don't return.

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Merthin, lad. Genius lad.

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The Italian loom design you gave me
works wonders.

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The speed, the quality.

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Leave Merthin alone, husband. Come sit.

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- I'd rather do more than sit.
- Oh, behave yourself!

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Petranilla. The lovely Petranilla.

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- Would you care to dance?
- Dance?

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You must not resist.

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I am your lord and you are
the most beautiful woman in Kingsbridge.

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You know, I've often thought
how very foolish I was to give you up.

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Do you think there's still a chance
for you and I?

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After all these years?

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It would be my most fervent wish.

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Wonderful! Marvelous!

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00:17:29,460 --> 00:17:33,010
Of all the fucks I ever had,
you were the sweetest.

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My Lord, I...

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Let's go outside now.

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We can have a quick fuck,
save the dance for later.

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My Lord, I am an honorable woman.

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I'm not asking you to marry me.
I am the Earl of Shiring!

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- Come on!
- No, My Lord!

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Too good for me now?

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There was a time

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when you would have done anything I asked.

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There was a time
you would not have asked it like this.

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You'd be lucky to get a fuck from anyone
at your age.

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What do you want?

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A gift of land.

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Permission to be a tenant
and not just a serf on your property.

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00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:06,850
You've asked that before.
Groveling won't help.

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Then give it to my son.

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My oldest.

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And why would I do that?

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Because he's yours.

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Fuck off.

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I want to propose a toast!

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May winter soon be over,
may spring come soon,

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may our crops return,
and may my wife's teats never sag!

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00:20:10,870 --> 00:20:14,080
- What is it?
- I'm not certain yet.

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What are those?

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Keep him calm and I'll be back in a moment.

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Sister Katrina.

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I need to talk to you.

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- Is it what I think it is?
- Yes.

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What do we do?

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Isolation is the only thing that might stop it.

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- Some even say it's contagious by sight.
- Impossible.

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00:20:51,790 --> 00:20:53,370
By wind perhaps, that's what Galen says.

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They wore linen face masks in Florence.

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- But I can't promise that it helped.
- Thank you.

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- Sister Mair?
- Yes?

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I want everyone to wear masks of linen
over their nose and mouth.

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Whatever for?

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In hope of protecting us whilst we nurse.

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The Great Mortality has come to Kingsbridge.

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You are sinners!

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The wrath of God
has descended upon you all!

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Sinners, all of you!
God has no mercy with sinners like you!

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Sinners, all of you!

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00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:33,710
- Sister, please help.
- We're trying.

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- What shall I do?
- Nurse, get this lady some water.

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- Sister, are you all right?
- Yes.

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We need to find some more room
to isolate the sick.

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Maybe we should convert an out-building
into a plague-house.

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Absolutely not.

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Giving people more room
to die won't help anyone.

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Not to mention how much it will cost.

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It will make them more comfortable.
It might even stop the spread of the disease.

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00:22:17,210 --> 00:22:20,670
The disease is God's punishment
on a wicked world.

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00:22:20,750 --> 00:22:24,340
We need more death to rid us
of this carnal sin.

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00:22:24,420 --> 00:22:27,680
It's a crime to intervene in God's will...

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00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:31,180
Godwyn! You are no physician.

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00:22:31,260 --> 00:22:35,680
What you know of these matters
is next to nothing.

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And worse, as a trained theologian,

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00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:44,440
your beliefs are fetid and malevolent
as the Mortality itself!

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God's punishment? We are burying children.

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00:22:51,950 --> 00:22:56,120
What sort of God do you worship
who would let innocent...

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Get out.

254
00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:13,260
Get out at once.

255
00:23:18,980 --> 00:23:20,400
Disgusting!

256
00:23:23,820 --> 00:23:28,030
Well, it seems we got our point across
about the masks.

257
00:23:28,110 --> 00:23:30,070
Did you see how he covered his face?

258
00:23:34,830 --> 00:23:37,500
Brother Thomas, please.
Please, come quickly.

259
00:23:37,580 --> 00:23:39,660
Sister, could you get this man some water?

260
00:23:39,750 --> 00:23:41,710
Brother Thomas, please.
This woman needs your help.

261
00:23:41,790 --> 00:23:44,420
I don't know what to do next. Please.

262
00:23:47,130 --> 00:23:50,970
Sir? Here, this will help.

263
00:23:54,220 --> 00:23:55,760
I'm not frightened,

264
00:23:57,350 --> 00:23:58,730
I'm curious.

265
00:24:01,690 --> 00:24:07,860
I hope he's merciful,
and I haven't got it all wrong.

266
00:24:08,190 --> 00:24:10,900
Mostly right, I should think.

267
00:24:12,450 --> 00:24:15,410
- Where's your mask?
- I don't want...

268
00:24:15,530 --> 00:24:16,870
Put it on.

269
00:24:23,250 --> 00:24:26,040
You must take my place, of course.

270
00:24:28,510 --> 00:24:33,890
I told Sister Mair to insist on it.

271
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:37,760
I can't take your place.

272
00:24:37,850 --> 00:24:39,980
You're the only one who can.

273
00:24:42,230 --> 00:24:44,940
Mother, you're forgetting that I...

274
00:24:45,020 --> 00:24:47,020
That you lost your faith?

275
00:24:50,900 --> 00:24:57,620
There isn't one true believer
who hasn't been in that long dark night.

276
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,580
You are in that crucible now, child.

277
00:25:05,710 --> 00:25:08,250
Let God continue to work through you

278
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:11,840
building your hospice,

279
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:15,640
writing your book.

280
00:26:18,490 --> 00:26:23,450
It would seem most of the nuns want
Sister Caris as our next Prioress.

281
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,210
And how do we prevent that?

282
00:26:26,290 --> 00:26:29,750
I would be willing to run against her.

283
00:26:31,250 --> 00:26:35,470
My dear Sister Elizabeth,
as much as I despise my cousin Caris,

284
00:26:36,930 --> 00:26:40,390
even I have to admit her popularity.

285
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:45,680
If you hope to win,
we must exploit her unpopular side.

286
00:26:48,650 --> 00:26:52,400
The use of masks, for example,
is pagan superstition.

287
00:26:55,110 --> 00:26:56,900
Forego the use of one yourself.

288
00:26:59,780 --> 00:27:02,870
We know the plague is the Devil's work

289
00:27:04,370 --> 00:27:06,500
and God will protect us

290
00:27:08,210 --> 00:27:10,460
and sicken her.

291
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,720
Sister, where's your mask?

292
00:27:18,380 --> 00:27:21,140
Masks are the Devil's nonsense.

293
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:08,770
Mother?

294
00:28:11,270 --> 00:28:13,690
What is the meaning of this,
calling for me at this hour?

295
00:28:13,770 --> 00:28:16,440
Why couldn't it wait until the morning?

296
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,950
What kind of mother are you
putting me in danger?

297
00:28:30,370 --> 00:28:34,630
She still reads heretic philosophy.
I've seen the books myself.

298
00:28:34,710 --> 00:28:38,090
Written by Arab infidels
who would like nothing better

299
00:28:38,170 --> 00:28:42,300
than to wipe Christianity
off the face of the Earth.

300
00:28:42,380 --> 00:28:47,310
Therefore I humbly suggest
another of our sisters.

301
00:28:47,390 --> 00:28:52,310
Myself, or someone worthier,
should be our next Prioress.

302
00:29:22,590 --> 00:29:26,930
We need to collect all the Priory's
relics and possessions immediately.

303
00:29:27,010 --> 00:29:29,430
We're leaving Kingsbridge
and this terrible plague behind.

304
00:29:30,310 --> 00:29:32,930
Is this an order, Prior?

305
00:29:33,020 --> 00:29:34,350
Why do you ask?

306
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:39,070
Because if it is,

307
00:29:39,150 --> 00:29:41,230
I will not obey.

308
00:29:42,990 --> 00:29:46,950
We are needed here
to nurse the sick and bury the dead.

309
00:29:47,030 --> 00:29:52,620
And if the Mortality takes our lives,
that's God's business, not ours.

310
00:29:54,870 --> 00:29:57,210
Anyone who wishes to stay with me
is welcome.

311
00:29:57,290 --> 00:30:02,300
And anyone who disobeys me
will risk his immortal soul!

312
00:30:04,220 --> 00:30:06,890
And that's God's business, too.

313
00:30:11,260 --> 00:30:13,140
Not yours.

314
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,900
We leave within the hour.

315
00:30:47,010 --> 00:30:48,550
What do you want?

316
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:50,800
I must speak to Earl Roland.

317
00:30:50,890 --> 00:30:54,970
The castle is closed to all visitors
because of the pestilence.

318
00:30:55,060 --> 00:30:57,690
Tell him I have news of his son.

319
00:30:59,230 --> 00:31:00,690
His sons are dead.

320
00:31:00,770 --> 00:31:02,860
One poisoned, one fallen in France.

321
00:31:02,940 --> 00:31:07,110
Not all of them are dead. Tell him that.

322
00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:09,950
Please!

323
00:31:10,820 --> 00:31:12,410
Wait here.

324
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:24,630
What do you want?

325
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:28,420
It's Petranilla, My Lord.

326
00:31:29,510 --> 00:31:33,760
You? I rose from my bed for you?

327
00:31:33,850 --> 00:31:36,390
What's this about my sons?

328
00:31:36,470 --> 00:31:39,520
Your son, My Lord, he lives.

329
00:31:41,150 --> 00:31:43,650
You're daft, woman. Which one?

330
00:31:44,230 --> 00:31:46,530
The son you never knew of.

331
00:31:46,650 --> 00:31:49,650
The son I bore you out of our love.

332
00:31:50,610 --> 00:31:52,490
And he lives.

333
00:31:55,660 --> 00:31:58,750
The pestilence has taken your mind.

334
00:31:58,830 --> 00:32:01,000
I never loved you.

335
00:32:02,290 --> 00:32:05,380
Go home and die.

336
00:32:05,460 --> 00:32:07,210
My Lord!

337
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:11,470
My Lord!

338
00:32:53,220 --> 00:32:54,930
I've been looking for you.

339
00:32:55,010 --> 00:32:57,890
Godwyn's gone. Left during the night.

340
00:32:57,970 --> 00:32:59,810
Of course he has.

341
00:32:59,890 --> 00:33:02,440
You know, he's the one person I feared
telling of my election.

342
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,400
Yes, congratulations, Mother Caris.

343
00:33:10,780 --> 00:33:13,030
Do you believe in God, Thomas?

344
00:33:16,070 --> 00:33:17,910
Yes, I think I do.

345
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,540
Then where is he?

346
00:33:21,620 --> 00:33:23,750
I see no God here.

347
00:33:23,830 --> 00:33:28,500
- They say his presence is often hidden.
- And his ways mysterious, I know.

348
00:33:28,590 --> 00:33:32,630
So mysterious he's chosen a non-believer
to run his convent.

349
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:37,300
Well, his only son chose
for his closest friends fishermen, peasants,

350
00:33:37,430 --> 00:33:40,680
a tax collector, and several whores.

351
00:33:42,180 --> 00:33:44,520
I'd say you are an improvement.

352
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,860
Oh, I have other news.

353
00:33:50,940 --> 00:33:53,900
Godwyn took everything of value.

354
00:33:53,990 --> 00:33:55,860
Including our money?

355
00:33:55,950 --> 00:33:58,030
I'm afraid so.

356
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,080
What on earth does he think it will buy him?

357
00:34:08,710 --> 00:34:10,500
Just stop.

358
00:34:10,590 --> 00:34:13,130
I beg you. A princess does not cry.

359
00:34:13,210 --> 00:34:14,340
Don't make me go.

360
00:34:14,420 --> 00:34:17,590
The Prince of Castile is a wealthy man, Joan.

361
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:19,930
Why can't I marry an Englishman?

362
00:34:20,010 --> 00:34:24,680
Because Spain will give you a crown
and us an ally against France.

363
00:34:24,770 --> 00:34:28,230
- I'll never see you again.
- Of course you will.

364
00:34:28,980 --> 00:34:32,530
And you will return a queen,
which is what you deserve.

365
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:35,860
Now look at me.

366
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:44,660
Of all my children, Joan, you are my favorite.

367
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:56,510
I want only the best for you. Now go.

368
00:35:02,390 --> 00:35:03,850
Sire.

369
00:35:07,770 --> 00:35:09,310
- I'll miss you.
- I know.

370
00:35:53,150 --> 00:35:54,690
Brother Godwyn?

371
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,820
No, Prior Godwyn, Brother Saul.

372
00:35:58,900 --> 00:36:02,070
Prior Saul, Prior Godwyn.

373
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:11,580
Thank you, Brother.

374
00:36:12,710 --> 00:36:18,050
There's but half-a-dozen of us here,
which is all this monastery will hold.

375
00:36:19,220 --> 00:36:22,840
You would turn us away? We bring gold!

376
00:36:22,930 --> 00:36:27,060
Which will buy you nothing.
Not food, we haven't enough as it is.

377
00:36:27,140 --> 00:36:28,850
Not shelter.

378
00:36:28,930 --> 00:36:31,440
And it's what else you might be bringing
that frightens me.

379
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:32,650
But we are brothers in Christ.

380
00:36:32,730 --> 00:36:35,400
I brought only the purest of heart!
Pestilence does not walk with us!

381
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:36,860
How can you be certain none of you are ill?

382
00:36:36,940 --> 00:36:40,030
Did you not hear me? We are godly.

383
00:36:40,110 --> 00:36:42,030
You must sleep in the barn for a week.

384
00:36:42,110 --> 00:36:43,870
And then if there are still no signs
of disease...

385
00:36:43,950 --> 00:36:45,320
We'll freeze out there!

386
00:36:46,830 --> 00:36:48,660
You should have stayed in Kingsbridge
where it's warmer

387
00:36:48,790 --> 00:36:52,460
and the supplies are plentiful
and where the people needed you.

388
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,170
How dare you say that we are ungodly?

389
00:37:39,130 --> 00:37:42,050
How dare you say we are ungodly?

390
00:38:02,990 --> 00:38:04,610
Now, Brothers,

391
00:38:07,780 --> 00:38:11,290
Prior Saul, I'm sorry to say,
has discovered black boils on his neck.

392
00:38:11,370 --> 00:38:15,580
And so he's voluntarily isolated himself
in the barn.

393
00:38:17,710 --> 00:38:23,210
God has vouchsafed to protect me
from this terrible plague.

394
00:38:24,380 --> 00:38:28,390
And so I will be
the Prior's sole attending physician.

395
00:38:28,470 --> 00:38:32,890
The rest of you will remain isolated here
until the disease passes.

396
00:38:33,890 --> 00:38:35,480
Now let us pray.

397
00:38:47,610 --> 00:38:51,660
Prior Godwyn has disappeared
leaving no one in charge of Kingsbridge

398
00:38:51,740 --> 00:38:54,620
but myself and Mother Caris.

399
00:38:55,910 --> 00:38:59,880
Many of our citizens are afraid to leave
their houses, which is understandable.

400
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,210
But we ask that you go to them

401
00:39:02,290 --> 00:39:06,630
and bring them word of our new rules
concerning the disease.

402
00:39:06,720 --> 00:39:11,010
First of all, everyone must wear masks.

403
00:39:11,100 --> 00:39:14,520
The good sisters have made linen ones,
which Sister Mair will distribute.

404
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,890
Please take them to your neighbors
and leave them on their doorsteps.

405
00:39:17,980 --> 00:39:21,190
Also, we need volunteers to bury the dead.

406
00:39:22,110 --> 00:39:25,940
<i>Bodies must be cleared
from the streets and the river, covered in lime</i>

407
00:39:26,860 --> 00:39:28,740
<i>and buried in communal graves.</i>

408
00:39:31,780 --> 00:39:35,490
<i>In order to contain the disease,
Kingsbridge must be sealed off,</i>

409
00:39:35,580 --> 00:39:37,540
<i>the town wall made impregnable,</i>

410
00:39:37,620 --> 00:39:40,540
<i>and a sentry posted on the bridge
to guard against intruders.</i>

411
00:39:40,620 --> 00:39:45,000
<i>And most importantly, we must take care
of the children who have lost their parents.</i>

412
00:39:45,090 --> 00:39:49,720
<i>Anyone who has any room at all, please...
Please take them in.</i>

413
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:53,800
And lastly, I have not yet been ratified
as Prioress by the new bishop,

414
00:39:55,510 --> 00:40:00,060
<i>who refuses to come to Kingsbridge
until after the disease has left.</i>

415
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:03,400
<i>So, in order to affirm my position,</i>

416
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:07,990
<i>and make these rules irrevocable law
I must go to him.</i>

417
00:40:11,990 --> 00:40:13,160
Caris.

418
00:40:14,450 --> 00:40:16,910
- What are you doing?
- I've come to escort you.

419
00:40:16,990 --> 00:40:20,710
- I don't need escorting.
- I don't need a lecture.

420
00:40:20,790 --> 00:40:22,750
Just a thank you will do.

421
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:27,840
Thank you.

422
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:29,630
You're welcome.

423
00:40:44,980 --> 00:40:46,770
Come no further!

424
00:40:48,030 --> 00:40:49,400
State your purpose and leave.

425
00:40:49,490 --> 00:40:53,740
Mother Caris of Kingsbridge,
come to be ratified as Prioress.

426
00:40:53,820 --> 00:40:56,080
Prior Godwyn didn't write to me about this.

427
00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:59,750
Prior Godwyn fled when the Mortality struck,

428
00:40:59,830 --> 00:41:01,870
taking with him the relics
and all of our money.

429
00:41:02,670 --> 00:41:04,460
So who's running Kingsbridge then?

430
00:41:04,540 --> 00:41:06,790
No one officially, Eminence.

431
00:41:07,420 --> 00:41:09,880
My clergy is decimated.

432
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,470
You were not the first with this problem.

433
00:41:12,550 --> 00:41:15,260
To help, the Holy Father
has issued an emergency decree.

434
00:41:15,340 --> 00:41:19,140
Nuns may hear confessions
and bury the many dead.

435
00:41:19,220 --> 00:41:22,230
You may not say Mass
but other than that you're the new Prior.

436
00:41:23,390 --> 00:41:26,980
Eminence, I am Prior? I don't...

437
00:41:29,900 --> 00:41:31,610
- Amen.
- Amen.

438
00:41:31,690 --> 00:41:34,160
- Eminence...
- Now leave.

439
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,010
Well,

440
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:56,590
I'll leave you here.

441
00:41:58,010 --> 00:41:59,310
Congratulations, Prior.

442
00:42:00,260 --> 00:42:03,060
Write your book, heal the sick,
and build your hospice.

443
00:42:03,140 --> 00:42:05,270
It's all in your power now.

444
00:42:21,990 --> 00:42:25,460
When this is over, you are mine.

445
00:42:52,820 --> 00:42:54,150
Mother?

446
00:42:58,990 --> 00:43:00,200
No.

447
00:43:17,720 --> 00:43:20,680
Should I send for Ralph, Mother?

448
00:43:21,350 --> 00:43:23,310
He could be here by morning.

449
00:43:27,850 --> 00:43:29,100
I won't be long.

450
00:43:33,070 --> 00:43:34,940
Can I share a secret with you?

451
00:43:35,030 --> 00:43:37,360
Of course, My Lady.

452
00:43:43,530 --> 00:43:48,040
For many years I was barren.

453
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:58,170
When I finally gave birth,
the child was stillborn.

454
00:44:00,340 --> 00:44:04,310
I was heartbroken until my husband,

455
00:44:04,390 --> 00:44:08,930
Sir Gerald, brought me
another child to take his place.

456
00:44:12,770 --> 00:44:16,940
He told me that its mother died.

457
00:44:18,570 --> 00:44:22,870
I loved this orphan as if he was my own.

458
00:44:23,660 --> 00:44:28,290
I soon gave birth to a second son,
the legitimate heir

459
00:44:31,250 --> 00:44:33,630
to Shiring Castle.

460
00:44:33,750 --> 00:44:37,340
His father and I hid this truth,

461
00:44:37,420 --> 00:44:41,930
rather than name his brother a bastard.

462
00:45:42,240 --> 00:45:43,990
A message, My Lord.

463
00:46:42,550 --> 00:46:43,550
Brother Joseph!

464
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:49,890
Forgive me, Brother. We took it with us.

465
00:46:49,970 --> 00:46:52,600
To St. John-in-the-Forest.

466
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:54,100
Took what?