Original subtitles

ELIZA: Previously on The Grey House...

Ole Virginny�s free!

There are rebel-rousers saying that Union loyalists

are traitors.

I'm no traitor.

I have been chosen to be

the provisional president of the Confederacy.

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That's every last dollar I took.

Good. Now, get out.

Laurette, please.

You'll not take the girls. (Grunting)

We-- we don't want no trouble.

- (Grunting) - Get off of her!

- Ah! - Get them!

Don't let them get away!

- (Grunting) - Ah!

- (Woman screaming) - Ah!

(Isham sobbing in distance)

(Isham screaming)

First, we bury that sweet, beautiful boy.

Then we fight.

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? Dig down ?

? Dig down deep ?

? Lord, I'm tired and oh so weak ?

? Dig down ?

? Dig down deep ?

? Dig me a grave that's six feet deep ?

? There's blood ?

? In the river ?

? There's blood ?

? In the river ?

? There's blood ?

? In the river ?

? Who's gonna save us now? ?

? Who's gonna save us now? ?

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? Blood in the river ?

? Oh! ?

? There's blood ?

? In the river ?

? There's blood in the river ?

? There's blood ?

? In the river ?

? Who's gonna save us now? ?

? Who's gonna save us now? ?

? Nobody's gonna save us ?

? Now ?

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(Shouting, guns firing, horses neighing)

(Exploding)

? Fare thee well ?

? Fare thee well ?

? If I never ever ?

? See you anymore ?

? Fare thee well ?

? Fare thee well ?

? Fare thee well ?

? Fare thee well ?

? If I never ?

Stop! Stop! Enough singing!

(Singers trailing off)

How many more Tadpoles we gonna find in ditches

or-- or hanging from trees before we do something?

Our lives are precious.

We are not property.

Why does a child have to die to be free?

We don't have to die to be free!

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MARY JANE: Tadpole saved my life.

ELIZA: My heart aches you had to come home to this.

We're so sorry for all you've endured.

We had hoped you'd be free of all this in Africa,

- with your own kind. - My kind?

Look. We genuinely thought that the Society's plan

to send your people back to their native land

would be a better life.

I'm born here same as you all.

Three years in Liberia showed me

that I'm not meant to be there!

Look. I know you all were doing your very best,

but Frederick Douglass even says

that that whole American Colonization Society

is just a tricky little way

of ridding America of free Blacks!

And that's why I've come back.

(Horse snorting)

Well, we try our best.

We can't know what'll happen.

You have no idea what's to befall me.

Only God knows what will befall any of us.

I don't know if I believe in God anymore.

You mustn't lose faith.

It's what keeps us going.

Rage... keeps me going.

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(Fire crackling, water bubbling, insects chirping)

(Dog barking distantly)

(Dog barking distantly)

If we leave evil alone,

are we responsible for it growing?

What are you proposing?

Something that will put us all in danger.

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(Horse neighing, snorting)

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(Birds, insects chirping)

I wasn't certain you would come.

I'm being watched.

I feel it, too.

Every suspicious eye turns my way.

I'm... sorry about the boy.

I am determined

that Tadpole will not have died in vain.

This way of life must end.

That's why we have the Underground.

No. We must do more.

More? What more is there,

short of overthrowing the Confederate government?

- Precisely. - How?

Reassembling our Railroad.

- Reassembling our Railroad? - Mm.

For what?

The dissemination of information.

You intend to turn our Underground into a spy network?

Instead of runaways,

we shuttle messages up North.

We position loyal patriots

to pass information at strategic points--

uh, Confederate headquarters,

uh, uh, brothels, camps, hospitals.

Well, why not infiltrate the Gray House?

Once President Davis arrives,

I assure you, we will know what he is having for breakfast.

(Laughing)

Now, that is one ambitious undertaking.

Mother and I have the access,

resources, and ability

to move through this city's corridors of power.

Richmond simmers with treachery.

Whom can you trust?

That is the risk I take.

That is the risk we all take.

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I am dubious of your proposal.

(Knocking) I shall let you know.

- (Horse neighing) - Wait!

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BULLY LUMPKIN: One hundred! Going once!

Going twice!

Whoa.

Sold! Got yourself a good bargain there, Zeke.

- (Chattering) - Move it along. Move it along.

Come on. Oh-ho-ho!

Oh, we got a prime young buck here, folks.

Goes by the tag of Jeremiah. Experienced farm hand.

Obie.

BULLY: Healthy as a mule.

He'll run you about two dollar a pound.

That's all muscle, folks, all muscle.

(Chattering)

And you know what? A few dollar more,

I'm going to throw in the missy.

Turn. Turn around.

And you know what? The little pickaninny, too.

MAN: Yeah, you look pretty strong!

That's a real good bargain, folks.

Martin, you son of a bitch.

You've been keeping your mouth shut all morning.

You're going to start the bidding at 100!

One hundred! Give me 125!

(Men chattering)

Two hundred, 225, 225, 300, 300, 400.

- MAN: Three-fifty here. - BULLY We got 350,

- but that ain't going to do it. - MAN: Too rich.

Not going to do it. Do I hear 400... 400?

MAN: That's too rich for my blood.

No? Ah! Gentlemen, gentlemen,

this here's a genuine Virginia-born,

Virginia-bred darky.

One hundred dollars.

(Chattering, laughing)

(Laughing) That's-- that's a good one, Mr. Wise.

I was about ready to have my boys toss you out.

(Baby crying, onlookers chuckling)

- A hundred for the girl. - (Baby crying)

Sell the buck. We don't need him or the pickaninny.

No, no, no. Please, Mass'a, sir, take us all!

- Shut your gob, boy. - We work hard for you!

BULLY: Oh, yeah. Give him the-- Take the baby.

Take the baby! Come on!

(Baby crying)

It'd be better if you just take the whole lot, you know.

I ain't being mawkish or nothing,

but, uh, they-- they work longer and harder

if you can just, uh, keep them all together, you know?

(Baby crying)

OBIE: Just the gal. She'll do fine.

Five hundred dollars.

That's good.

For the whole family.

- That's even better. - (Onlookers chattering)

Five hundred spondoolicks.

Do I hear 600?

Five hundred five?

I got 500 going once.

Going twice.

Sold to Mr. Van Lew.

(Onlookers chattering, baby crying)

Five hundred.

(Onlookers chattering, baby crying)

BULLY: Do I hear 500? (Bully continuing auction)

MAN: Why God made us Black?

She say because that's-- that's the way it is.

(Bully speaking indistinctly)

(Pounding) Joseph! Next bid!

That one, that one, and that one.

- Hurry! - Joseph: Yes, sir.

Can't let that slave-master see us,

not after we stood up to him that day.

That man swore he'll kill us both.

Aw, he can't tell one darkie from another!

BULLY: ...he's worth it that he'll give you that

and more, boys! Nine hundred.

If'n you say so.

We's all the same to white folk.

I am forever grateful for you saving me and my Eula.

I am awful sorry I wasn't there sooner to help Tadpole.

Sorry, Father.

Jericho!

BULLY: Going once! Going twice!

Sold!

(Bell clanging)

Goddamn it, Caphart!

Quit your lollygagging!

We got n***** to sell!

(People chattering)

(Bully speaking indistinctly)

See these papers?

- Yes, sir. - Yes, sir.

If I sign them, it's called manumission,

your legal release.

You can never be enslaved again.

You going to free us?

If I sign them.

(Baby fussing)

But where we going to go, sir?

We ain't gots no place to be.

What we going to do?

JOHN: That's up to you.

Being free means you're on your own.

Or you can work for me and my family at a fair wage.

Your choice.

Yes, sir.

JOHN: Get in.

(Baby fussing)

Uh, William, what are you doing back there?

You trying to hide or something?

(Baby fussing)

(Horse neighing)

Alright. Let's seem them teeth.

(Chattering)

You. Move it. Let's go.

HENRY: You ain't fooling nobody, Junior,

except your old maid sister!

- BULLY: Caphart! - WILLIAM: Yah!

- BULLY: Get your ass back here! - (Whip cracking)

- Yah! - (Horse neighing)

Damn it, William! What's going on?

You acting like you've seen a ghost!

WILLIAM: Yes, sir. Sorry, sir.

You know how Mrs. Eliza be if we be late, sir.

JOHN: She'll be more upset if you kill her only son.

Now, slow down.

WILLIAM: Mary Jane!

(Chicken clucking)

Bully Lumpkin's slave-hunter saw me!

He recognized me.

How you know he recognized you?

I just know!

I'll tell Miss Lizzy!

I need your old garden clothes.

What-- Whatever for?

William says Lumpkin's slave-hunter recognized him

and are coming for him and Eula.

Is he certain of that?

(Cat meowing)

William's been all over town since that day.

We can't risk it.

I need to get them out as soon as possible.

You? You can't.

There-- there's a war commencing at any moment, El--

I'm taking them!

After Tadpole,

anything happens, I couldn't live with myself.

Mary Jane, have Isham get the special wagon ready.

(Horse hoofs walking, wagon rattling)

William, Eula,

I'm taking the trail.

It's too risky on the road.

You alright in there?

WILLIAM: Yes'm, Miss Lizzy.

When we get to the farm,

you must proceed on foot to the Rowleys'.

Look for a green kerchief hanging on a plow by the barn,

but if you see a red one--

Turn back and run.

No. Hide and survive.

(Crow cawing)

MAN: I bet they don't even know we're gone.

Hey, look what's coming here.

Whoa! Whoa!

(Horse neighing)

What are you doing out here, ma'am?

Going-- (Clearing throat)

(With exaggerated accent) Going on back out to my farm.

Trying to get a fair piece down the road a ways

from all this racket.

War's started, lady.

You got a pass?

Ain't nobody say I need one.

So says Deputy Marshal Reeves.

Is that right?

- Check the wagon. - Wagon's empty,

exceptin' for a few taters and turnips and such.

I said check the wagon.

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(Grunting)

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(Knocking)

SECOND MAN: Ain't nothing back here.

(Knocking)

(Knocking with deeper resonance)

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(Quiet grunting)

Abol-ution-ist smugglers!

- Eula! - (Eula screaming)

- Eula, no! - (Firing)

(Both grunting)

(Grunting)

(Firing)

(Both shouting)

(Both grunting)

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(Panting)

(Grunting)

(Grunting, panting)

(Horse neighing)

(Horses snorting)

(Sobbing)

(Elizabeth sobbing)

(Chattering, birds chirping)

(Horse neighing)

Get the appropriate exposure.

Trying to figure out which aperture.

(Child laughing)

WOMEN: Come, children. Get a good seat.

- (Bugle call playing) - Look. In the center there.

Good. Ah, good...

(Men shouting, bugle call continuing)

MAN: Dumb rebels gonna get whipped.

They hardly even have a real army.

MAN 2: That's Montgomery there, yeah?

(Guns and cannons firing, crowd chattering)

(Men shouting, guns firing, bugle call continuing)

(Shouting, firing continuing)

(Shouting, firing continuing)

Hold your ground!

For God and country, stand fast!

- (Guns firing) - (Yelping)

(Shouting, firing continuing)

Hold the line!

(Horse neighing)

Hold the line!

(Men shouting, guns firing, bugle call playing)

(Yelping)

- (Shouting) - (Grunting)

(Shouting, firing continuing)

(Horse neighing)

(High-pitched tinnitus, shouting going muffled)

(Muffled shouting continuing)

(Shouting returning to full volume)

- Fall back! - (Guns firing)

Fall back!

Take cover where you can!

We got 'em running, boys!

MAN: Yeah! Yeah, boy!

Cut them off!

Circle around and flank them!

(Horse neighing, bugle call playing)

Got 'em running, boys!

(Shouting, firing continuing)

(People screaming)

(Shouting, firing continuing)

Major!

(Grunting)

Major!

(Both grunting)

Get up!

(Cannon fire thudding and showering debris)

(Horse neighing)

(Shouting, firing continuing)

- (Grunting) Ah! - (Horse neighing)

MAN: Come on out here!

(Exploding)

We've got you surrounded!

(Horse neighing)

You and the major come on out,

hands empty!

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Welcome to the Old Dominion, Captain.

We've been waiting for you.

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I think we have the advantage here.

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(Chattering)

What's the message, General?

Mr. President,

General Jackson says

that the Yanks ran like dogs.

(Men laughing)

Perhaps now, the North will lose heart and negotiate for peace.

They have no choice, sir. Yes. Yes.

(Men cheering)

No choice, sir.

(Cheering continuing)

That's a naive assessment.

Our troops have proven only slightly less green

and disorganized than Mr. Lincoln's.

The generals and I believe we must press the attack,

parry the enemy all the way to Washington.

We will lose the advantage of fighting on our own ground

and have to face their entrenched artillery.

If we take their capital, they'd have to sue for peace.

We'd make quick work of this war.

Mr. President, we cannot confuse the fantasies

of our penny-a-line press with hard realities.

You think I don't know that?

We did win the day.

Our first clash with the enemy, we've emerged victorious!

(Onlookers cheering)

(Cheering, band playing)

(Cheering, music continuing)

Welcome home!

(Cheering, music continuing)

(Crowd booing)

(Booing continuing)

MAN: Boo! Dirty Yanks!

(Booing continuing)

WOMAN: We gonna kill y'all!

Horseshit for Yankee shit heels!

CHILD: Shit for your Negro face!

JOHN: Hey, look at that. Now, I think we're going to have to--

This-- That doll there's a whole dollar.

Ooh. Yes.

I don't know that we're going to--

- There you go. - You prefer that one?

Take this. Take this. Take this. Take this.

SHOPKEEPER: Thank you.

(Crowd booing)

(Boys laughing, jeering)

Now, stop that, Jasper!

All of you, stop!

- That's my son! - I know that, Amanda,

and I'd do the same if he were mine.

We are Southern gentlemen, Jasper.

That is not how we behave.

(Booing continuing)

Oh, would you stop with that?

I am a proud Virginian through and through!

As such, it is incumbent upon all of us

to act accordingly!

(Booing continuing)

Those men are soldiers, too.

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(Crowd quietens)

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(Laughing, chattering)

(Distant shouting, fires crackling)

(Laughing)

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I see a chain. Yeah. Yeah.

A new silver pocket watch.

- What are you doing? - Hey, hey.

What are you doing? What--

(Firing)

(Men cheering)

(Playing jaunty song on the piano)

(Men cheering)

(Music continuing)

? Why won't the men propose Mama? ?

? Why won't the men propose? ?

(Men cheering)

? He seems to be coming to the point ?

? But then away he goes ?

(Men cheering and laughing)

? It is no fault of yours Mama ?

? That everybody knows ?

? You fete the finest men in town ?

? But oh he won't propose ?

? He won't, he won't ?

? He won't, he won't propose Mama ?

? He won't, he won't, he won't propose ?

(Men cheering)

(Laughing)

(Men cheering)

? I'm sure I've done my best Mama ?

? To make a proper match ?

(Men cheering)

? For coronets and eldest sons ?

? I'm always on the watch ?

? I've hopes when some distingue beau ?

? A glance upon me throws ?

Ah!

(Men cheering)

? Oh he'll smile and flirt and dance ?

? But oh he won't propose ?

- (Cheering) - ? He won't ?

? He won't, he won't propose Mama ?

? He won't, he won't, he won't propose ?

(Men laughing, cheering)

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? I try to win by languishing ?

? And dressing like a blue ?

? I've bought big books and talked of them ?

? As if I've read them through ?

(Men cheering)

? Then I throw away the books ?

? Thought ignorance was bliss ?

? And felt convinced that men preferred ?

? A simpler sort of miss ?

(Men cheering)

? But oh ?

? He can't ?

? He can't, he can't propose Mama ?

? He won't ?

? He won't, he won't propose ?

(Men cheering)

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(Men cheering, clapping along)

? And what is to be done Mama? ?

? Oh what is to be done? ?

(Men cheering)

? I have no time to lose Mama ?

? For I am 31 ?

(Men cheering)

? At balls I am too often left ?

? Where spinsters sit in rows ?

? Why won't the men propose Mama? ?

? Why won't the men propose? ?

? They won't, they won't ?

? They won't, they won't propose Mama ?

? They won't, they won't ?

? They won't ?

? Propose ?

(Men cheering, applauding)

(Song ending with piano flourish)

Whoo!

(Men cheering, applauding)

(Cheering, applauding continuing)

To our glorious new Confederacy!

A hard rain's going to fall

on them Yankee doodles! Whoo!

(Piano playing "Yankee Doodle Dandy")

Yee-haw!

- (Men shouting) - (Piano stopping)

Pity... I can only accommodate one of yous,

unless y'all's real good friends.

You know what I'm saying?

Seems you fellas understand the value of an auction!

Two bits!

Two bits? Well, I'm worth at least twice that!

I mean, I'm a girl of many tricks and trades!

I can bake a pie, I can make a grown man cry!

Can I get three dollars?

- (Katey shouting indistinctly) - (Piano playing)

Well, I didn't expect to see you in such low company

now that you're our big and important secretary of war.

Never too big to find you.

A curious appointment.

A Louisiana bayou lawyer

with all the prudence of a whoremonger.

And a Jew.

Pay him no mind.

I require all of your attention.

Any of you fine men over here in the corner going to gimme

more than three bits? Can I get a dollar?

- Two bits. - (Men laughing)

Keep it.

You're too old and dirty for me, anyway!

So, come on, boys!

Can I hear three dollars?

(Shoes tapping)

(Birds and insects chirping)

- (Horse neighing) - (Chickens clucking)

Mrs. Van Lew, I have a delivery for you and your daughter.

Oh, well, thank you.

She's not receiving any visitors at the moment.

Baked especially for this household.

- (Bell ringing) - Well, I'll be sure

and pass that along to her.

Uh, from our mutual friend.

(Footsteps approaching)

Shadow Man is ready to proceed.

Well, he took his time.

After Bull Run, he's prepared to try anything

that might hasten the end of the war.

(Dog barking distantly)

Well, you can tell your Shadow Man

that I will respond to him.

Ladies.

(door opening, closing)

Sometimes, I don't know

where we get the strength to keep going.

As Mary Jane would say...

rage.

(Footsteps approaching)

Miss Lizzy, a caller here to see you.

(Sighing)

(Horse neighing distantly)

Elizabeth, you alright?

Although I suffer as my beloved country suffers,

I am of sound body and mind,

in fine fettle, as they say.

That night at the theatre,

I didn't get a chance to explain.

It's not necessary.

Elizabeth...

I have never met a woman of greater beauty,

integrity, or spirit,

a woman who has opened my heart like never before, but--

We're not on the same side.

No. We are not,

and it breaks my heart.

But not enough to change your mind.

Tragically...

I cannot abandon friends made over a lifetime

or my home in its hour of need.

No, Hampton.

War is tragic.

Clinging to the past is tragic.

Allowing the bonds of friendship to trump justice is tragic.

Seeing men of courage make wrongful decisions,

that is tragic.

Elizabeth, there's word

the Union army is preparing a counter-move.

You must at least allow me to take you away to someplace safe.

I brought Antoine.

Now, he's outside. You can ride him now.

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My place is here,

with my family in Richmond,

where it's always been and will always be.

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(Horse snorting)

(Snapping)

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(Band playing "Dixie")

(Train whistle blowing)

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(Laughing)

(Music continuing)

TIMOTHY: Oh, you need to let that go, my friend.

(Music, cheering continuing)

Now, look here. Look who's looking at you.

Good God, man. She's a married woman.

Who recently moved into the Exchange Hotel.

A marvelous scandal.

Oh. Hey, better go easy on that, John.

Don't tell me what to do.

(Chattering)

(Chattering)

(Music continuing distantly)

(Crowd cheering)

(Cheering increasing)

WOMAN: Welcome home, President Davis!

MAN: Good to see you, sir, President Davis!

Long live the Confederacy!

Mr. President, welcome to Richmond.

Thank you. Thank you.

Listen. My nephew has perished, unfortunately.

I need to send condolences to his mother.

Hello there. How are you, son?

Nice to see you. Thank you for coming out.

Nice to see you.

- (Cheering continuing) - Thank you.

MAN: Mr. President! Mr. President!

- JEFFERSON: Nice to see you. - WOMAN: Mr. President.

MAN: Booth.

Why, it's Chase Morton,

returned from Washington.

So, how is your baboon chum,

Dishonest Abe?

A word. Please.

Inasmuch as your theatrical peregrinations

take you deep into Northern territory,

affording you unique access,

President Davis asked me to inquire,

should the occasional message or document

- need to be passed on-- - Anything for the South,

dear boy.

- (Band continuing) - (Cheering)

MABEL: Look at that.

Peddling her wares right out here in public.

(Cheering increasing in volume)

It'll be alright.

I know.

(Band finishing song)

(Crowd cheering)

Friends! Friends and fellow citizens,

we have decisively won our first major battle

against the Northern invasion,

driving back the enemy

to preserve the sacred soil of Virginia!

(Crowd cheering, applauding)

- Yep. Yep. - Whoo!

(Crowd cheering)

I do believe we may have broken the backbone of the invasion

and the spirit of the North!

(Crowd cheering)

- If, God forbid... - Argus, looky here.

JEFFERSON: ...the Yankee nation should be so foolish

as to continue this war against our citizenry,

every inch of our Southern soil

will be bitterly contested with bullets, blood, and fire!

(Crowd cheering)

LUCIOUS: I know that baker man.

Yeah. You filched his money sack.

Nah, from a time ago, some other place.

It's been a-nagging at me.

(Jefferson speaking indistinctly)

That's for you.

(Jefferson speaking indistinctly, crowd cheering)

LUCIOUS: From Baltimore!

He's that Pinkerton!

Son of a bitch baker.

- Lucious. - It's him.

He's a God damn spy.

(Grunting)

JEFFERSON: Mr. Lincoln states

that a house divided cannot stand,

and for once, we in the South agreed with him!

We built our own house, right?

(Crowd chattering, applauding)

Our victory has come with a dire cost.

Too much praise cannot be bestowed

upon our honored dead.

Let us take a moment to honor...

LUCIOUS: Hey, Pinkerton!

JEFFERSON: ...and pay tribute to these brave men.

Ready!

Aim!

- Fire! - (Guns firing)

(Grunting)

JEFFERSON: The issue now

is whether these two separate, proud houses

can not only stand but prosper.

(Grunting)

(Grunting)

I say yes! Yes, we can!

(People applauding)

(Panting)

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(Grunting)

Long live our proud Confederacy!

(Crowd cheering, applauding)

(Jefferson speaking indistinctly)

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(Grunting)

(Grunting)

(Jefferson speaking indistinctly)

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(Creaking)

(Firing)

(Yelping, glass shattering)

(Both grunting)

(Both grunting)

(Grunting)

(Yelping)

(Grunting)

(Thudding)

SHADOW MAN: Who are they?

Plug uglies from Baltimore.

Tried to assassinate Lincoln.

SHADOW MAN: How did they recognize you?

I'm the one that arrested them.

SHADOW MAN: Baltimore?

I thought only people down here wanted to kill you.

(Jefferson speaking indistinctly)

(Crowd cheering, applauding distantly)

JEFFERSON: I hereby pledge

our enemies will never conquer this sacred land!

Never! Never! Never!

(Crowd cheering)

They will not live to hear the South whimpering,

"Yield, yield!" Nay!

They will be daunted by the thunder of the rebel yell!

(Crowd cheering, whooping)

- Whoo! - (Crowd cheering, whooping)

Dear sweet Lord,

however can we combat these traitors?

ELIZA: We shall...

host a lavish soiree

welcoming the Davises to their new home.

(Crowd cheering, whooping)

Whoo!

(Band playing upbeat music)

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(Crowd applauding, chattering)

To our first president...

- (Crowd murmuring) - ...and his First Lady...

- MAN: Hear, hear. - ...we formally welcome you

to the proud first capital of the Confederacy!

(Crowd cheering and applauding)

? Come all ye sons of freedom ?

? And join our Southern band ?

? We're gonna fight the Yankees ?

? And drive them from our land ?

? Wait for the wagon ?

? The dissolution wagon ?

? The South is the wagon ?

? And we'll all take a ride ?

(Crowd cheering)

? Jeff Davis is our president ?

? With Judah by his side ?

? Brave Winder our general ?

? Will join us on the ride ?

? Wait for the wagon ?

? The dissolution wagon ?

? The South is the wagon ?

? And we'll all take a ride ?

Long live Dixie!

(Crowd cheering)

(Man whistling)

Let the whole world know,

to spite the dogs of war,

Richmond danced!

(Crowd cheering)

(Cheering continuing)

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I do worry about John's reputation.

His absence will be the talk of Richmond.

Better that he drinks in private

than make a public spectacle of himself.

Elizabeth.

Well, despite these turbulent times,

I always feel that life is the sweeter

for having you in it.

(Chuckling)

Perhaps, if we are to trust in our president's bold assurances,

my war duty'll be a short-term engagement.

Then perhaps we can--

Still battle with our divergent beliefs.

?

Stay safe, old friend.

?

(Insects chirping, clock ticking)

(Clattering)

(People chattering, music playing)

General, I feel we are living in a very disloyal environment.

Given the frankly very close margin

of the secession vote, what was once spirited debate

could turn into dangerous sedition.

And sabotage.

That's a correct assumption.

Do you have any particular apostates in mind?

Congressman Clemens, for one.

That old windbag.

Put him under observation.

As well as known insurgents

such as, uh, Duncan Broadnaxe at the Chronicle.

And what about the opinionated Van Lews?

WINDER: They have embraced our cause.

Besides, what possible harm could a woman do?

Tell us, General, how should we deal with Union sympathizers?

(Chuckling)

Treason, General,

ends on the gallows. (Clicking)

(Stokely chuckling)

Enjoy your evening.

?

Mary Jane,

if you're having any doubts,

you don't have to go through with this.

No. This is why I came back.

My death in Philadelphia, Africa,

or anywhere else, it would have been a waste,

but my death here might could be of some use.

Go.

VARINA: Mrs. Van Lew,

Jeff and I want to thank you so kindly

for organizing this delightful gathering.

ELIZA: Oh. Really, all the ladies contributed.

ELIZABETH: It was the least we could do.

(Heart pounding)

AMANDA: This is such a surprise, Elizabeth.

You were so outspoken against secession.

- CHARMAINE: That's right. - At first, I, too,

was obliged to counsel my fellow Southerners

against this great divide.

No conscientious citizen wants war.

Hmm. Mrs. Davis, Varina,

we'd like to present a token of our appreciation

for your service and sacrifice.

This is Mary Jane.

We raised her from birth.

We trust you'll find her most amenable.

I am most pleased to make your acquaintance, ma'am.

So... articulate.

We've been practicing our diction all week.

Superb, Mary Jane. Your best effort yet.

Thank you, Missus, e'en though it still don't feels right

coming off my tongue.

(Laughing)

Oh, darling, isn't that marvelous?

- JEFFERSON: Yes. - HENRY: Uh, Mr. President,

I beg to offer you a token of my appreciation as well.

It's well known your coachman has run off.

Accept mine.

He'll do you proud.

That's most generous of you. Thank you.

It's so kind of all of you.

Appreciate it.

GIRL: Mommy! Mommy! Read to us!

- Read us a bedtime story! - Caroline.

- Mommy! - Please?

You do it. I have a headache.

You know I can't read, Miss Laurette.

Then talk about the pictures!

- Come on, girls. - (Girls laughing)

(Whispering) Lord, have mercy.

(Horse neighing outside)

? I seek no more the fine and gay ?

? For each just doth remind me ?

Well, Mr. Arsenault!

Up here!

Who is that?

Identify yourself.

You're not attending the president's gala?

Ah.

Given your sister-in-law's presence there,

I chose to enjoy the company of John Barleycorn.

LAURETTE: Oh. (Chuckling)

? Dishonor's breath can never stain ?

- (Horse neighing) - (Chuckling)

? The girl I left behind me ?

I'm uncertain whether to alert the authorities.

Oh.

Don't.

Or I could pour you a glass of this exquisite brandy.

Well, I-- I do enjoy the taste of a stout brandy.

(Horse hooves clopping)

(Dog barking distantly)

(Music playing, people chattering)

?

Thank you.

(People chattering)

Sir.

Excuse me.

Whew.

(People chattering)

Mr. Webster.

Excuse me.

Mr. Secretary.

I understand you would like to volunteer

to be a courier for us.

That is correct, sir.

JUDAH: Mr. Stokely Reeves vouched for you.

Oh, good.

How will you be able to traverse freely

between the North and the South?

Well, I hail from Baltimore.

late of the Sons Of Liberty secessionists.

I have worked toward the cause for a very long time, sir.

I shall introduce you to the president.

- Thank you, sir. - Tell me a little more

about yourself.

Well, Baltimore took some time to join us,

but now, it's part of the secessionist movement.

?

Oh. If we, um, seal the doors and set this place afire,

we could topple the entire Confederacy in one blow.

I don't want my beautiful Richmond

burned down in the process.

Someone I can trust would be invaluable to me.

You may count on me.

I have every confidence in you.

Ah.

Goodnight, Erasmus.

Mr. Reeves,

I haven't congratulated you on your appointment

as our new deputy provost marshal.

STOKELY: Why, thank you, ma'am.

Mm.

Miss Elizabeth.

I shall be the eyes and the ears of our fair city,

making sure those in the act of iniquity

will have me to fear.

We shall all sleep better with you watching over us,

Mr. Reeves.

We bid you adieu.

(People laughing)

(Dog barking)

(People laughing, shouting)

Hampton! Goodnight.

HAMPTON: Goodnight.

(Horse hooves clopping, people shouting distantly)

(Cocking gun)

(Dog barking distantly)

(Smacking)

(Man shouting distantly)

(Horse neighing outside)

(Door opening, slamming shut)

(Banging)

- (Cocking gun) - (Laurette gasping)

TALULAH: Don't know what you mean, why you going to--

JERICHO: I have to go to the Gray House.

TALULAH: How can they just say that now and then you--

What, you're just expected to go?

- You're taken away from me. - JERICHO: I have to go to--

TALULAH: Why do you have to go? (Sobbing)

God, we is cursed like Cain! (Sobbing)

So you going to live at the president house.

Governor Wise says so.

(Thumping) Oh!

These white devils, they just giving us away

like we's nothing but animals!

Days, I work my fingers to the bone,

and the nights...

I spread my legs,

and then I breed more field hands.

(Sobbing)

What-- what are you-- what are you saying, Talulah?

Hey, what are-- what are you saying, Talulah?

Three months my bloods don't flow.

(Dog barking distantly)

What, you-- you having my baby?

If'n it come out dark.

It don't matter which way.

He Master Wise's property.

- Hey, hey, hey-- - No! No! No! No! No!

(Talulah sobbing)

(Fire crackling, insects chirping)

Oh, my.

Our babies are back?

Laurette's letting them visit?

They're home where they belong.

(Chuckling)

Gentle dreamers.

GIRLS: Grandma!

ELIZA: My little dreamers.

ELIZABETH: Welcome home, girls.

Have you been good girls?

(Snorting)

(Panting)

I saw what you did tonight,

embedding your servant inside the Gray House.

Very clever.

You did?

You were at the party?

SHADOW MAN: I was in queue for your last dance.

How intriguing.

SHADOW MAN: Mm-hmm.

Now, I assume you have other placements

in government and army headquarters.

In process.

However, there is one corridor of information

in which Mother and I do not have entry--

brothels frequented by inebriated,

loose-lipped Rebel officers.

SHADOW MAN: Oh, you expect me to bed every whore in town

until I find us a sympathizer.

Well, there's service,

and then there's duty.

You discern the difference.

SHADOW MAN: Well...

I'll have the baker do the necessary reconnaissance.

He is more comfortable with life on the street than I.

I do look forward to a proper introduction someday.

As do I.

Perhaps then you'll save me a spot on your dance card.

(Horse neighing)

(Rooster crowing)

They find you out, they gonna lynch you.

You know that, don't you?

I expect so.

ISHAM: They took Tadpole from me.

I don't know what I'm going to do

if something happens to you.

Van Lews sure got some big ideas.

No. This was my idea,

my grandiose scheme to bring down the South,

but what exactly can one Negro girl do

against the whole of the Confederate government?

ISHAM: A Negro girl as smart as you,

she could do about anything she wants to do.

I'm no Nat Turner.

SOOKIE: Who's he?

ISHAM: Black man, a slave, just like us.

Rose up to free his people, right here in Virginia.

Well, what happened to him?

They hanged him, cut off his head, dissected his body,

and then filleted the skin off him.

And they'll do the same thing to you if they catch you.

SOOKIE: Where on Earth y'all hear about such things?

(Sighing) I read about them.

I'm not sure I'd like this reading

if it fill your head with such awfulness.

(Rooster crowing)

What's this?

My nightmares.

You know, when I hit Lumpkin,

it felt good.

ISHAM: (Laughing) Yeah, it felt good to me.

I wish I'd have snapped him upside the head.

(Laughing)

I've been running from that rage ever since I can remember.

ISHAM: Yeah.

And you know...

...I can't even remember what my mother looks like,

only just the touch of her lips when kissed me goodbye.

I's took from my mammy right as I was born.

You lucky.

At least the Van Lews treat you like family.

No. No matter how good the Van Lews treat me,

this world still belongs to them and not us.

I went to the other side of the world

to realize what I already knew.

There will be no place for us unless we make a stand.

ISHAM: God don't give us no more than we can bear.

And you can bear this.

Reverend Garnet did said that the Lord has a plan for me.

ISHAM: That's right.

Although if I do meet God,

I'd like to ask him about his methods.

(Laughing)

ISHAM: Oh, girl. (Laughing)

I'm going to miss you, Uncle Isham.

When times get really hard,

you going to be right here in my heart to get me through.

That's where I'll always be, right there.

Wait.

How can I help?

Learn to read.

? If this day was the last day ?

? Would you have said all you needed to say? ?

? Did you tell the ones you love you love them? ?

? Did you tell the ones you love you love them? ?

? If this night was the last night ?

? Would you have done you all you should with all your time? ?

? If this day was the last day ?

? Of your life ?

? If this day was the one day ?

? You could make up for all of your mistakes ?

? Would you tell the ones you hurt you're sorry? ?

? Would you tell the ones you hurt you're sorry? ?

? If this chance was your last chance ?

? Would you make sure that you gave enough love back? ?

? If this day was the last day ?

? Of your life ?

? Did you give forgiveness? ?

? Did you take the time to listen? ?

? Did you make the time for living ?

? And give your best ?

? Give your best ?

? No regrets? ?

? If this day was the last day ?

? What would it be that you wanted to change? ?

? Was there something you want to do over? ?

? What's the one thing you might not do over? ?

? If this time ?

? Was the last time ?

? Would you be proud ?

? Of what you left behind? ?

? If this day was the last day ?

? You would see ?

? Would you know ?

? Your life was complete? ?

? Oh ?

? Did you give forgiveness? ?

? Did you take the time ?

? To listen? ?

? Did you make the time ?

? For living ?

? And give your best ?

? No regrets? ?

? If this day was the last day ?

? Would you have said all you needed to say? ?

? Did you tell the ones you loved you love them? ?

? Did you tell the ones you loved you love them? ?

? Yeah ?

? If this night ?

? Was the last night ?

? Would you have done all you could with all your time? ?

? Oh if this day ?

? Was the last day of your life ?

? Would you know that you got it right? ?

? How would you look ?

? At your life? ?

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