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Seeking Persephone Ep 4 (2026)
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00:25John, please have Atlas saddled, I wish to ride to the vicarage.
00:30First ride outside the castle gates.
00:32I'm ready.
00:33Very good, Ugris.
01:14Oh, this is getting cold.
01:19Zeus, steady Zeus.
01:24Oh, have you found her?
01:26Oh, Ugris, we're riding to the vicarage and Atlas bolted without warning.
01:32She's not that good a rider yet, and I'm afraid she might have become unseated.
01:36And what with that pack sound so close and angry?
01:39Missephanie!
01:39She's not answering.
01:43Missephanie!
02:04We need to find the pack.
02:06Now, stick it on myself, Ugris.
02:24I heard that to you, Ugris.
02:27We're getting closer.
02:57I heard that to you, Ugris.
03:01I heard that to you, Ugris.
03:04I heard that to you, Ugris.
03:10I heard that to you, Ugris.
03:10I heard that to you, Ugris.
03:12I heard that to you, Ugris.
03:14I heard that to you, Ugris.
03:15I heard that to you, Ugris.
03:16I heard that to you, Ugris.
03:16I heard that to you, Ugris.
03:18I heard that to you, Ugris.
03:18I heard that to you, Ugris.
03:19I heard that to you, Ugris.
03:19I heard that to you, Ugris.
03:20I heard that to you, Ugris.
03:21I heard that to you, Ugris.
03:23I heard that to you, Ugris.
03:42To me, Persephone!
03:44Adam!
03:45Stay next to me, stay next to me.
03:53John, interrupt me.
03:56Take Atlas back if you can.
03:58We'll be quick about it.
03:59The pack wants to spook for long.
04:02Seven, arms around me.
04:04Hold fast.
04:04When we reach the road, we are going to run.
04:27Everyone is to beyond the packs in the yards of the castles.
04:30But John Hanley is through that gate.
04:32They have to be closed immediately.
04:33Yes, you're right.
04:34I'm so dizzy.
04:35Can you walk?
04:36I think so.
04:43She was thrown from a horse out in the forest.
04:45There's a possibility she's broken her ankle.
04:47Should I have a surgeon sent for?
04:48No.
04:49The wolves are prowling just outside the gate.
04:50It isn't safe for anyone to go in a route.
04:52They've never done that before.
04:53Persephone?
04:55Yes.
04:55Where is mother?
04:57Drawing room.
04:57Okay.
04:58Send her up to Persephone's room.
05:11Are we safe now?
05:13Yes.
05:15I was afraid no one would find me.
05:21That's what happens.
05:22Mother, I need your help.
05:23There's blood on her, hiding her bed.
05:26Mother?
05:28Help her to a seat, Harry.
05:32Adam?
05:35Can you take my boot off?
05:38It's too tight.
05:47Adam, she needs a surgeon.
05:49I know.
05:51Bring me boiling water and the strongest brandy Barton can find.
05:55Go.
05:56Help me, Harry.
06:00You'll have to cut it.
06:02Mother, could you find me some scissors?
06:04Look.
06:12Hold her still.
06:13I don't want to accidentally cut her.
06:29Here.
06:34I'm sorry, I'm trying to be gentle.
06:46I'm sorry.
06:51I don't know.
06:52I don't know.
06:53I don't know.
07:37I don't know.
07:42I don't know.
07:51Yes, dear.
07:54Please stay with me.
08:02If you stay with me...
08:15Barton said you wanted to speak with me.
08:19How is it, Grace?
08:21Sleeping.
08:23I know it ain't seemly me talking to you in here, but...
08:28Well, I think I know...
08:31I have an idea why the pack attacked Atlas.
08:34And I thought you might want to know sooner than later, even if telling you means overstepping yourself a bit.
08:39You aren't overstepping.
08:41What have you discovered?
08:43While we were cleaning Atlas' wounds, we couldn't help but notice that she smelled strongly of bacon.
08:50Of bacon?
08:51It might be why the wolves attacked Atlas, but weren't so intent on getting the meat on my horse or
08:56at Ewan's house.
08:59Grace might have picked up some of that smell.
09:02That'd be why they were hunting her.
09:06Talk with your staff.
09:08See where you can find out.
09:10If it played any role in this attack, any...
09:14I do not want the same mistake to occur again.
09:16Yes, you could.
09:19John?
09:37Adam.
09:40May I speak with you, please?
09:45Perhaps you should sit down.
09:47I'm so sorry, Adam.
09:50I know you wished me to help with Persephone.
09:53You must be so disappointed.
09:54Sit down, Mother.
09:59Sometimes you're so like your father.
10:02Dear man.
10:04Are you unwell?
10:07I'm so mortified.
10:10You see, I've always been hopeless in a sick room.
10:14Even as a child, when anyone in the household would get so much as a cold, I would...
10:18fret our dear nurse into a fit of nerves.
10:22And my mother always told me it would be different when I was a mother.
10:30You must be so ashamed of me.
10:35Being so utterly useless when you were depending on me.
10:37There was a great deal of blood earlier with Persephone.
10:40I do not blame you for not being up to the task.
10:45Well, I'm certain I only made the situation worse.
10:50I always did.
10:53The second surgeon actually sent me to the vicarage for two days.
10:58Banished from my own home.
11:02From my poor boy.
11:03You banished the second surgeon.
11:06I'm certain I made it worse.
11:08I was so nervous, so concerned through the first one.
11:13The first surgery.
11:14And I didn't get better.
11:16Worse, in fact.
11:19The next few surgeons insisted I be gone before they even arrived.
11:22You are referring to the surgeons who did this.
11:27And I was grateful to go.
11:31Happy to.
11:34What kind of an unnatural mother wishes to leave her child at such a time?
11:51Persephone is asking for you.
11:52She seems anxious.
12:15What is it, Persephone?
12:18I've been thinking back on my ride.
12:20Surely that can wait until you're more fully rested.
12:23What happened today,
12:26I don't believe was an accident.
12:30What has led you to that suspicion?
12:34John didn't help me mount.
12:37Usually the stable hand waits for him,
12:39but this time he didn't.
12:41And the stable hand who helped me smelled like...
12:45Bacon?
12:46How did you know?
12:49Was it a faint aroma?
12:51No.
12:52At first I thought perhaps he'd been helping in the curing house,
12:56or had slipped in a lard spiel in the kitchen.
12:58The scent was so strong I could still smell it.
13:01While you were riding.
13:04Exactly.
13:07The groom who helped you mount.
13:08Does he assist you often?
13:10Occasionally.
13:11Do you know his name?
13:14He wears a green handkerchief round his neck.
13:16None of the others do.
13:19John Henley will know who it is.
13:21You're going to talk to him?
13:22That groom, I mean?
13:24If he had any hand in this,
13:26I plan to do far more than just talk.
13:30What's the name of the groom
13:31who wears a green handkerchief round his neck?
13:33Jimmy.
13:34He's a newer one.
13:35A quiet bike.
13:36Keeps to himself.
13:37Any idea where I might find this Jimmy?
13:38Last I saw of him,
13:40he was at the back of the stable.
13:41He helped to craze him out this morning.
13:43He said he reeked of bacon
13:44more than could have been accidental.
13:45What on purpose then?
13:46That's what I mean to find out.
13:48There he is.
13:49Jimmy!
13:52Do not let him get past the gate!
13:54Stop it!
14:20This woman is Mr. Smith,
14:23who tried to kill my wife!
14:26You took the only thing that mattered to me.
14:29Just trying to repay the favor, Gav.
14:32You'll answer this?
14:33Oh, no.
14:34I have a better idea.
14:38Put him in the gibbet.
14:40What?
14:41What?
14:42You can't do that!
14:43You have to consult the law!
14:45I am the duke of Kilda.
14:48I am the law!
14:50I am the law!
14:55I am the law!
15:34Dukes aren't supposed to need people
15:36for suffering.
16:02I am the law!
16:28I am the law!
16:30So do I, Linus.
16:33Then, why don't you look happy?
16:36Probably because I'm in pain.
16:39I had no idea how long a few simple cuts
16:41could take to heal.
16:42I understand,
16:43They weren't simple at all.
16:46Considering it might have befallen me,
16:48I think of my injuries as comparatively simple.
16:54It is so good to have you here.
16:59I am happy to see you again.
17:02Don't...
17:03I already missed a C.
17:07If I don't...
17:08I never missed home.
17:15I believe he is home now.
17:18And he is within a while.
17:29Midshipman Lancaster,
17:30if I had known that your intention in visiting here
17:33was to make your sister cry,
17:34I would not have invited you.
17:36You guessed why devious flocked with alarming precision, Your Grace.
17:40Every young navy man wishes to bring their female relatives
17:43into varying states of hysteria on every possible occasion.
17:47And apparently, you are also intent on bringing Persephone down to her deathbed.
17:52Alas, it is true.
17:53Though I have momentarily forgotten how I intend to do this.
17:57By keeping her out of doors and in the cold,
18:00instead of inside, warm and off her feet.
18:03Oh, yes, I remember now.
18:05Well, I suppose, since you have guessed my plot,
18:08I shall have to abandon my ill-fated scheme.
18:10It was inevitable.
18:19Oh, thank you.
18:28I will see you inside, Linus.
18:34You seem pleased.
18:36I've missed my brother.
18:39He's not at all what I expected.
18:42Your description was of an infant.
18:44Imagine my shock when he walked out of a carriage.
18:47No leading strings on nursemaids in sight.
18:50Adam Boyce, are you teasing me?
18:53I never tease.
18:54You also, apparently, never host walls.
18:58Yet you are doing exactly that tomorrow.
19:01Clearly, I have begun a descent into senulity.
19:05You are in the oddest mood this evening.
19:10You have no idea.
19:49It's definitely seems to be wondering where you are.
19:51Has she asked after me?
19:53Oh!
19:55just a look on her face
19:57we could always tell growing up when she was
19:58worrying about one of us
20:02she must have worried a lot
20:05Persephone held the family together
20:06after my mom died
20:09how old was she?
20:1112
20:13she very suddenly
20:15lost what was left of her childhood
20:17you did as well
20:19her life these past
20:208 years has been one
20:22unending sacrifice for the sake of the family
20:26including her marriage?
20:31do you know
20:32why my papa named Persephone
20:34as he did?
20:35obsession with all things Greek
20:37I remember that
20:39the story of Persephone
20:41is his favourite
20:44seems an odd favourite to me
20:46not when you look at it as he does
20:48papa counts himself amongst the scholars
20:50of the classics who believe that
20:52Hades didn't trick
20:53Persephone at all
20:54and that they both decided together
20:56that she'd eat the pomegranate seeds
20:58because it meant that
20:59nothing could prevent
21:01Persephone from returning to him
21:04but why would she return?
21:06it was the reason for her return
21:07that indeed the goddess of my father
21:11the seeds
21:12the seeds are symbolic
21:14symbolic of what?
21:28I know disappearing balls
21:29is one of your particular talents
21:33but it does not reflect well on your wife
21:35you really ought to kind of sit beside her
21:37what I really ought to do
21:38is hang you out your bedchamber windows
21:39by a bedsheet wrapped around your ankles
21:43welcome back old friend
21:46you've been shockingly softening
21:48oh shut up
21:49Harry
22:18what's your the pomegranate
22:19what do they symbolize?
22:21what?
22:22in the Persephone myth
22:24Linus said the seeds are symbols
22:26has he been waxing philosophical?
22:29that is the one trait he inherited from Papa
22:34what do they symbolize?
22:37according to Papa
22:38the seeds are symbolic of love
22:41Hades' love for Persephone
22:42her love for him
22:45how could she love someone
22:46who kept her prisoner?
22:49Papa always believed she came to know him
22:51beyond his fearsome demeanor
22:52and came to love him
22:54Hades fell in love with Persephone as well
22:56she was his match
23:00but if they were so in love
23:02then why did she leave at all?
23:05if she had eaten all the seeds
23:06she would have stayed forever
23:09Hades did not force her to remain
23:10because her family needed her
23:13Hades never let anyone leave his realm
23:17Hades loved Persephone
23:23he let her go
23:25because he loved her
23:27she returned because she loved him
23:53Hades never let her go
24:10thank you for the ball Adam
24:14it was wonderful
24:17you were happy
24:20you weren't disappointed
24:24what?
24:27what more were you hoping for?
24:32I've never danced at a ball
24:36very often imagined doing so
24:39I had no intention
24:40of asking you to do yet another unpleasant thing today
24:43and yet
24:44I would enjoy dancing with you
24:51you would endure it
24:52I'm certain
25:05I want to dance with you
25:09the musicians
25:10have all left
25:11we don't need them
25:19my leg
25:19is
25:22still too weak
25:23to hold me for long
25:26then allow me
25:27to hold you
25:33I'm so happy
25:34I'm so glad I could do it
25:34I'm so glad we got it
25:34I'm so glad we got it
25:38I'm so glad you were
26:07Linus leaves for structure in the morning to visit your family.
26:13Yes, I know.
26:15You will be leaving with him.
26:17That was not the plan.
26:18It should have been.
26:20It should always have been.
26:23The two of you can depart immediately following breakfast in the morning.
26:29Will you be journeying with us?
26:33I belong at Fawston Castle.
26:40And where do I belong?
26:51Your family needs you.
26:54And what about you, Adam?
27:01Do you still need people?
27:07I don't know.
27:09I don't know.
27:20I don't know.
27:22I don't know.
27:27I don't know.
27:41You'd best not keep the horses standing, Mother.
27:43It'll only take a moment.
27:45And it is more important than me making a timely departure.
27:51Your father and I had an arranged marriage.
27:55No accounting was made for the differences in our dispositions.
28:00I was raised in town.
28:03Among society.
28:06London.
28:07Baton.
28:08It's what I knew and needed.
28:11Your father was raised here.
28:14In quiet and solitude.
28:18We wanted very different things in life.
28:24We tried to compromise.
28:27To blend our preferences.
28:31But he begrudged the balls and gatherings held here.
28:34And came to rather despise my need for company.
28:39He wouldn't have-
28:40I will admit, I likewise began to view my relationship to Halsternan, by extension him, through a lens of bitterness.
28:52I do not wish to hear this.
28:54Resentment grows quickly, Adam.
28:59Your father was a good man, despite his implacableness.
29:05I held out hope for so long, in my foolishly romantic heart, that he would come for me while I
29:13was away.
29:15He never did.
29:18Did you tell him that that was what you were hoping for?
29:23I was so young.
29:25Only seventeen when we married.
29:27In my naivete, I believed that if he truly cared, he would meet me part way.
29:38You are more willing to compromise than your father ever was.
29:43And Persephone is more suited to quiet and solitude than I ever will be.
29:50She is your match, Adam.
29:53Do not throw away this chance by making her guess at your feelings.
30:22She has a point, you know.
30:27Every other guest has left the castle, Harry.
30:30Why haven't you?
30:33I am here to be your conscience.
30:36To save you from yourself.
30:43She will come back.
30:47When Linus returns to his ship, Persephone will return to Foster.
30:52And I know you well enough to predict that you will act as though you couldn't care less whether she
30:56is here or not.
30:59Do you really want her to wonder about that?
31:02This is none of your concern, Harry.
31:10You miss her.
31:12And she deserves to know that.
31:16She is happy with her family.
31:18I think I'll be part of her family.
31:21Who disrupts that?
31:22That isn't how it works.
31:24How it works.
31:28Persephone receives her reprieve.
31:31And Hades stays in the underworld waiting to see if the seeds work.
31:36Obviously you were sleeping during that lecture at Harrow.
31:42Hades does not sit back and wait for Persephone.
31:45When the time came, Hades slipped past the hellhounds and ventured into the realm of the living to reclaim his
31:52bride.
31:54I do not remember that.
31:58Hades was no Pamsey Fribble, Adam.
32:02And I'd bet if only his Persephone knew exactly how her husband felt about her.
32:47I'm sure you're warm enough.
32:49I'm dressed as warmly as I am at home.
32:51It is far colder there.
32:54You speak very fondly of Fullstone Castle.
32:56I've come to love it, Athena.
32:59More than just the castle.
33:02I hope I'm not out of lying in saying that you seem to miss the castle.
33:11I do.
33:13Then why do you seem so sad whenever anyone mentions you going back?
33:16I do not really think it is because you'll miss us.
33:20Probably because I'm not entirely certain what I will find when I return.
33:26You could always just stay here.
33:30My heart is there.
33:34I hope the castle knows how fortunate he is.
33:58Adam.
34:03How have you come to take me home?
34:05When you're ready.
34:09But I...
34:10I wanted to see Shropshire.
34:14To see where you grew up.
34:16You did.
34:19And...
34:21And get to know your family.
34:25And I...
34:26I...
34:30Hades always went after Persephone.
34:34Yes.
34:35He did.
34:39He waited as long as he had to.
34:43And then he left his kingdom and he did not come back until he found her.
34:48I think Hades must have missed his wife.
34:52I think he knew to the very minute how long she'd been gone.
34:57But was Persephone as anxious to return as he was to have her with him again?
35:02Yes.
35:03She was.
35:17Why did Hades go after her?
35:23He must have loved her.
35:24No.
35:25He did.
35:27He did more than he could even express.
35:34But...
35:37But did Persephone love him?
35:39In spite of his flaws?
35:42In spite of deserving so much better than he could ever offer?
35:46Oh, Adam.
35:48Am I too late?
35:50Is there nothing that I can...
35:51You said you belong at Fauston.
35:55Only at Fauston.
35:58I belong with you.
36:20I do love you, Adam.
36:21I do love you, Adam.
36:30No.
36:32They don't want to believe it, even if they heard you say that.
36:36We shall have to convince them.
36:39I may enjoy La Nina.
36:42Does this mean I can come to your castle?
36:46Our castle is in need of a good exploration.
36:52Perhaps if you have no other plans for Christmas,
36:55you could undertake one then.
36:58Athena!
36:59Daphne!
37:01You realise she will bring the rest of the family,
37:04and Fauston will be overrun with people?
37:10Well,
37:11there is probably a chance I will be in a foul mood
37:15of time.
37:18You may once again have to save me from myself.
37:24You have done that, do you know?
37:27Saved you?
37:31Oh, my Persephone.
37:35Do you know that I would have come for you,
37:38no matter how far you had gone?
37:42Hades always came for Placephanie.
37:49And she always returned home.
37:53Always.
37:56Always.
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