All language subtitles for The White House s01e05 This Gilded Cage.eng

(audience applauding)

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- Captain lewis.

- Mr. Jefferson.

- You look like you just
ridden through hell.

- Just washington.

- Same number of politicians,
more mud perhaps.

The louisiana purchase
will go ahead.

There are no more
obstacles in our way.

I have another task for you.

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- Want me to read a book?

- It's a guide.

That's a record of the first
crossing of north america,

All the way to the pacific.

Lands we will soon
liberate from napoleon.

You will lead a team to explore
and map those territories.

Go where he did not.

Stake our claim.

- Sounds dangerous.

- Given all the recent dramas,
I think it's good for you,

Us, if you take an
extended leave of absence.

Exchange the foul stench of
the city for something cleaner.

You will be gone a while.

Should you return, you
will return in glory.

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(upbeat music)

- Ah.

- Are you sure it's safe, sir?

- I don't see any air holes.

Captain lewis would
surely inform me

If he was sending me
something hostile.

(jefferson knocking)

Hello?

Anyone in there?

I think we're safe.

Break it open.

(dramatic music)

- Ooh, smells like the
outhouse behind the tavern.

What do you think it is?

- Well, I'm hoping it's proof
of a theory I've long held.

Do you know what a
mammoth is, freeman?

- No sir.

- Imagine an elephant
but twice the size

Covered in thick hair
and tusks 16 feet long.

Scientists have
discovered their skeletons

All over the world.

And it is my hope that lewis
and clark will find them alive

Somewhere in these vast
new lands of the west.

- Not sure that's an
animal I ever wanna meet.

- Oh my.

What are you?

- [freeman] is that
one of your mammoths?

- No, no, much too small.

Ah, from lewis.

Hold this

Good god man, it won't bite.

Meriwether says this is
a new species of bear.

Larger, more aggressive
than the bears we get here

On the east coast.

No news of mammoths.

There's still time.

- After they signed the
louisiana purchase treaty.

Jefferson wants to
learn as much as he can

About this new territory.

So this becomes known as the
lewis and clark expedition.

- Can I ask you a question, sir?

- What is it?
- Why spend all that money

On louisiana?

Seems to me like those
lands are full of things

We don't need, including
angry bears and beasts

With tusks taller than a house.

- Those new lands are the
future of this nation, freeman.

Space for people to live,

Own land, plant crops.

The new eden, that'll make
america the greatest nation

The world has ever seen.

The west will be my legacy.

It shall be tamed.

- Might be that some other folk

Have something to
say about that.

- You may leave me now, freeman.

- Even though lewis
and clark come back

With all these treasures,

What they really do is
spark america's imagination.

- Still so much to do, dick.

So much to learn.

- Jefferson's greatest
contribution to the united states

As president was the
louisiana purchase.

- Every minute of every
hour must be seized.

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- [patrick] that territory
became the economic engine

That established the united
states as a global superpower.

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- Though I walk through the
shadow of the valley of death,

I'll have no fear
for thou art with me.

Amen.

- It's just too sad, jimmy.

I can remember polly
running around these lawns

With her dolls.

Such a pretty child.

Now she's gone, and three
small children of her own

Left behind.

Oh, look at me.

I should be thinking
about poor thomas.

He's already lost a
wife, now a daughter.

- Jefferson's life is
often wrapped by death.

Polly jefferson, who is
very close to her father,

She dies soon after giving birth

To one of jefferson's
grandchildren.

- One person dies,
another is born.

- Another.

You think he'd show a
little more discretion.

- At the same time, sally
hemings was pregnant

With thomas jefferson's son.

But jefferson wouldn't
acknowledge it.

- Look at him.

You think there was
this kind of hoopla

When two of our children died?

No, there was not.

I know what you two want,
but it ain't gonna happen.

He's not gonna be in any mood
to grant favors anytime soon.

- Melinda was to be the body
servant, to be the companion

Of thomas jefferson's daughter.

Her death changed
everything for melinda.

Now there's a possibility
that she could be sold

Or she could be sent
out to work the fields.

- Please, sally.

I'm begging you.

You're the only one the
president might listen to.

John and my's future
is resting on it.

- All right, I'll ask him.

But don't expect any miracles.

(thunder crashes)

- Its late, thomas.

Would you like me to leave you?

- No, no, stay.

I need company.

I'm running out of time, sally.

- Don't be foolish.

You got more life in you
than a hundred young bucks.

You're just hurting 'cause
you lost something precious.

And that kind of wound
takes time to heal.

- [leigh] even though she is in

This incredibly subordinate
position to jefferson,

She is in this very intimate
relationship with him.

She has this kind of
close access to him.

That's her influence.

- I know it's the wrong time.

I've got to ask
you for something.

- Go on.
- Freeman and melinda

Wanna get married.

John was supposed to ask
polly for permission,

But he didn't get
round to it in time.

- I'll think about it.

- Think of yourself as dead.

You have lived your life.

Now take what's left
and live it properly.

What doesn't transmit light
creates its own darkness.

Dwell on the beauty of life.

Watch the stars and see
yourself running with them.

What is it?

I don't just need

A favor for melinda.

I need one for me.

I've already buried
two children,

And now we going
to have another.

I wanna know that they are
going to be emancipated, thomas.

And when you die, I
want my own freedom too.

- We've spoken
about this, sally.

- I know we have, but you
never put anything in writing.

Make us free.

What doesn't transmit light
creates its own darkness.

- Even in his will, sally
hemings isn't left anything,

But jefferson ensures his
children with sally hemings

Are eventually able to pass
into society as free men

And free women.

- When thomas jefferson
died, they just went free

At that point, and they
took their mother with them

To go live in charlottesville.

(bird chirping)

- The presidency has really
worn on thomas jefferson.

It's affected him personally,
psychologically, physically.

He begins to suffer headaches.

The stress, the pressure
really is getting to him.

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- What now?

- It's burr.

- And what has the vice
president done now?

Stolen the crown jewels,
married a mattaponi squaw,

Taken up living in a teepee?

- He's killed
alexander hamilton.

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- Let's get this over with.

- Hamilton, who is often not
a good judge of character,

Nails burr perfectly.

He says burr is a weasel.

Doesn't like him, doesn't
respect him, doesn't trust him.

- This arrogant bastard
thinks I won't shoot him.

I'm the vice
president after all.

I'm gonna shoot that smile
clean off your god damn face.

- It goes clear back to
when alexander hamilton

Endorsed thomas jefferson
rather than aaron burr

For the presidency
after their tie.

But the more immediate causes

Go to the governor's
race in new york.

- 20 paces.

- Hamilton assumes everybody
will shoot into the air,

As gentlemen should,
and then they'll say

The question of honor
has been resolved.

(guns firing)

Dirty bastard aaron
burr shot him.

- Not smiling now, are you?

- What happened?

- You know, for a war hero,

You are a surprisingly
poor shot hamilton.

- Deliberate.
(hamilton groaning)

- Hamilton is gut shot,

And he dies the next day
in excruciating pain.

- Dueling is illegal
in every state

In the union at the time.

So aaron burr is
indicted for murder

In both new york and new jersey.

So he has to flee
to south carolina.

He's still vice president, and
he's on the run for murder.

- I can see the headlines now.

Vice president of the united
states shoots war hero dead.

Burr has single handedly
made my presidency,

The reputation of this
nation, into a joke.

- He will be arrested, tried,

And justice will be served.

- Maybe, but the
damage has been done.

He has made me look weak.

And weakness in politics
is a short step to defeat.

(animal growling)

- Jefferson finds himself being
criticized, and he hates it.

He's a sick man.

He has migraines.

I mean, bad migraines.

(spooky sounds)

- Thomas.
- What is it?

- Are you all right, thomas?

Is it too much to ask
for some good news?

Anything.

- Look, I'm sorry.

There is something else that
I need to share with you.

- The pasha of tripoli
wishes to declare war on us.

Of course he does.

- The muslim countries
of north africa

Ran a extortion racket.

They would capture ships
and enslave the crews.

Your options are to
try and make a deal

Or try and use military force

To get these
countries to back off.

And jefferson tries
both of those.

- The tunisians are sending
an ambassador to negotiate.

- The ambassador's name?

- Melli meli.

His people have sent
a list of requests

For his stay in washington.

He wants us to provide
him with concubines.

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- So first they
kidnap our sailors,

Now they wanna steal our women.

Well, good luck, james.

- Sir?

- As secretary of state, I'd
say this melli meli business

Is very much your concern.

- Thomas, you surely
can't expect me to purchase prostitutes

For state dignitary.

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Oh, you do.

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- Hello.
- Hello.

- What's your name?

- Georgia.

- Oh.

Where are you from?

- Greece.
- Oh.

And how long have you
been doing what you do?

- Eight years.
- It's very hard on knees.

- Oh, well good for you
for sticking it out.

- And in.

- Quite so, quite so.

(patriotic music)

- Mr. Ambassador, I trust your
journey was not too arduous.

- Melli meli really
created an incredible stir

Within washington

'cause here was the first
ambassador from a muslim nation

Arriving in the united states.

- He says america is too cold.

- His excellency asks if this
woman is to be his concubine.

- What on earth does he mean?

- Oh, it's a
mistranslation, I'm sure.

If you can come
with me, ambassador,

We can discuss all the
arrangements for your visit.

(upbeat music)

- A toast to our honored guest.

Trust and friendship.

- [all] trust and friendship.

(upbeat music)

- My very own sword,

And so beautiful.

Thank you, mr. Ambassador.

Against whom shall I wield it?

- His excellency says,

You will need to defend yourself
against the armies of men

Overcome by your beauty.

- Oh my.

Seems to me our american men

Could learn a thing
or two about flattery

From our tunisian friends.

Mr. Melli meli, please,
will you join me?

Thank you very much.

Please.

- Later he learned that
dolle y and james madison

Had not had children together,

And he decided to use what
he called his magical cloak

To help with their fertility.

- Thank you very much.

- That would be a little odd

Because she did have children
from a previous marriage.

So if there was anybody who
needed a cloak thrown over them,

It would be james.

- James.
- Yes.

- I'm curious.

How'd it go with the concubine?

- Fine, good.

Everything's in hand.

Oh god, thomas,
no, not like that.

- And is she experienced?

- Oh, very.

She's greek.
- Oh, well, greek.

They practically invented it.

And how will you
explain the expensing

Of this greek goddess to
our friends in congress?

I have charged her bill
to the state department

Listing her fee under
appropriations to foreign intercourse.

(jefferson chuckling)

- Your wife is a
political genius.

That man would throw
himself onto her new sword

If she asked.

- Well, she certainly
enjoys the limelight,

And she's a lot better at
dealing with people than I am.

- I want you to do something
very important for me, james.

- Name it.

- I'm tired.

Constantly tired.

This job's a giant weight.

Bearing it alone,
well, it crushes you.

But you and dolley,
when I look at you,

I see a team,

Two people who've
become so much more

Than one man can ever be.

I have decided I will
not stand for reelection.

- What?

No.
- My mind's made up.

I shall follow the
example of washington.

Two terms are
enough for any man.

If I were to win a third
term, that would be 12 years.

12 years is a reign

Of a king, queen,

And I refuse to become what
we set out to overthrow

- I'm still unsure what it is

You want me to do
for you, thomas.

James.

I want you to take over from me.

I want you to run for president.

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- How long you gonna be gone?
- Forever.

- What?
- We must prepare for battle

On the seas and in congress.

Utter, utter bastards.

- Jimmy.
- War is upon us.

Do you even have the
energy to guide this nation

Through these troubled waters?

- Ambassador.

If you're the best
France can offer,

Then napoleon's in trouble.

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