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Seeking Persephone S01E01 (2026) [Full Movie] [Official Release]Full EP - Full
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00:21We're with Anna, Artemis.
00:23I don't know why we have to do this.
00:26Because we like to eat.
00:27But we only pay pennies.
00:29Things that keep our family from dire straits.
00:31I do not enjoy washing the neighbourhood's laundry any more than you do, but being upset
00:35about it won't change our situation.
00:51Open the door, sweetheart.
00:52I have had an atrocious day, now I have to open the door.
00:56I'm sorry you've suffered so much.
00:58I fear you'll simply have to continue in your wretched state a bit longer.
01:02I will open the door, but do not be surprised if I lie in the floor and die.
01:06I will be many things if that happens, my sweet little Artemis.
01:09But above all, I will not be surprised.
01:13She has died far less than this in the past.
01:20Yes.
01:24Yes.
01:29Yes.
01:34Yes.
01:43I was father wondering again.
01:46I was father wondering again.
02:00Until a letter came.
02:02Until a letter came.
02:33You did say this might happen.
02:35Yes I did.
02:36And what has brought you to such a horrible end this time?
02:38My suffering is too great.
02:40No words can possibly describe it.
02:42Is this because I could not buy you a sweet from the confectionery shop?
02:45That was tragic.
02:46But not the reason you're expiring on the floor.
02:48I didn't see my friend.
02:50I watched for him and he didn't come.
02:53He hasn't ever so long and it's deeply devastating.
02:57Is this the friend I can't see?
02:58The friend you don't see.
03:00Ah.
03:01Do you think your friend would visit you again if we had bread pudding tonight?
03:06Bread pudding?
03:07I have a bit of stale bread and Mrs. Sanford gave me some cream.
03:11I think we should have bread pudding tonight.
03:13It's not even my birthday.
03:14Bread pudding is quite possibly my favourite thing in all the world.
03:19Of course if you are dead on the floor you won't be able to have any.
03:22I'm all better.
03:24It is a miracle.
03:26Thank you, thank you, thank you.
03:29You're very welcome my darling little arduous.
03:36How do you like the latest fashions?
03:38These are not the latest.
03:40Mrs. Upton gave me these because she received the most recent version,
03:43but they are very nearly the latest.
03:47That is gorgeous.
03:48Isn't it?
03:49I've added it to my list of dreams.
03:51That must be quite the list by now.
03:53Isn't that what dreaming is for?
03:55Believing in those things you fear you'll never have
03:57but want to continue hoping are possible.
03:59like having money enough and happiness, falling in love.
04:04I want you to have all of those things Athena.
04:07You must have dreams too.
04:08Certainly I do.
04:11Artemis' spirits not being dampened by the heaviness of life.
04:14Daphne finding a friend who helps to feel seen and cared about.
04:18Evander and Linus returning home to us whole.
04:22Far from guarantee for too much shipment in the Navy during all time.
04:26I should have done more to keep them home and safe.
04:28There's nothing more you could have done.
04:30I could have taken in more laundry or reduced my portions at mealtimes.
04:33I could have gone without fires in my room.
04:34And it likely still would not have been enough.
04:38I suppose that is my version of hoping for impossible things.
04:43None of the hopes that you've mentioned have been a dream for yourself.
04:47Seeing this family happy is dream enough for me.
04:52Fetch Daphne and Artemis and take them to the kitchen.
04:55I do not know how frustrating he might be this time.
05:02Have you received a letter?
05:07We...
05:08Have a very significant problem.
05:11What has happened, Papa?
05:13Evander? Linus?
05:15Oh no, I haven't heard anything about your brothers.
05:21I have, however, received the most befuddling letter.
05:31You, my dear, have received an offer of marriage.
05:35A what?
05:36An offer from an incredibly wealthy gentleman with an old and prestigious title.
05:52Good heavens!
05:54Ah.
05:57What I cannot fathom is why the Duke is settled on you.
06:02That he cannot even be remotely acquainted with our family.
06:06The Duke?
06:07Of course, dear.
06:08The Duke of Kilda.
06:10The Duke of Kilda has asked for my hand in marriage.
06:14Quite specifically.
06:18I do not believe a word of it.
06:20After all, I do not know his grace.
06:22Or any grace for that matter.
06:33Mr. Lancaster, I am requesting the hand of your eldest daughter in marriage.
06:39I am prepared to settle upon your three remaining daughters, twenty thousand each for their dowries, and fifty thousand upon
06:47yourself for the sake of your sons.
06:48Yes.
06:49The ceremony will take place October the first at the Fulston Chapel.
06:53Please reply as to your intentions.
06:56Yours.
06:57Et cetera.
07:00Kilda.
07:02It is certainly not the most romantic nor flattering of proposals, to be sure.
07:07The ceremony will take place.
07:09There is not the slightest acknowledgment that the unforeseen offer might be declined.
07:15This offer amounts to more than a hundred thousand pounds.
07:28What is the Duke of Kilda like?
07:31Like?
07:34Well...
07:35Couldn't say I have not met the current Duke.
07:38What was his father like?
07:41Huh?
07:43Dull as dishwater.
07:47His mother.
07:47But his mother is elected so.
08:06One hundred thousand pounds!
08:08I can hardly comprehend such a son.
08:12It is more than five hundred years worth our current income.
08:15It is more than five times the income of the Duke of Sussex and he is son of the King.
08:20Good heavens!
08:21We would have food enough to eat.
08:23We would not need to wash laundry for pennies.
08:27The boys could soon leave the Navy and return home.
08:31All of your impossible dreams would suddenly be entirely possible.
08:35This would not merely save our family, it would save generations of our family.
08:39The Duke of Kilda might be prone to anger or unkindness.
08:44What if he mistreats you?
08:45What if being married to him makes you miserable for the rest of your life?
08:48It is also possible he will be kind and considerate.
08:52You don't know anything about him?
08:55Only that he clearly has a tremendous amount of money and wishes to marry me.
08:59He gave no indication why.
09:00You needn't simply accept this offer.
09:02One may yet come from someone that you at least know won't treat you abominably.
09:06There will be no other offers.
09:08If I do not accept this one, our family will sink further.
09:12Even the simple hopes we currently have will be out of reach.
09:15Then all of your hopes will be snatched away.
09:17This family's happiness is worth every sacrifice.
09:20Isn't your happiness worth something as well?
09:22No, no.
09:23Artemis has always told the tale of Hades and Persephone quite accurately.
09:27Persephone doesn't get to be happy.
09:30What do you mean to accept the Duke's offer?
09:52Who invited all of these people?
09:56I did.
09:57It is not every day my poor boy takes a bride.
10:00This was supposed to be a quiet ceremony.
10:04I do not believe Miss Lancaster has invited anyone beyond her own immediate family.
10:09I did not intend to cause awkwardness, Adam.
10:12I only wish to celebrate.
10:27I wonder if the chit will actually turn off.
10:29Try to resist the urge to run through any of the wedding guests.
10:39The devil is she.
10:41Another five minutes and I'll go retrieve for myself.
10:57When is this going to start? I'm hungry.
11:01Artemis.
11:02It's okay, you'll be fine.
11:11It's time to come after all.
11:12It's time to come after all.
11:13It's okay, I'm hungry.
11:20I won't leave too.
11:22It's a senzarigal.
11:28I'm hungry!
11:42It's actually the most unhealthy.
11:52Dearly beloved, we are gathered here together in the sight of God and the face of this congregation
11:58to join together this man and this woman in holy matrimony,
12:04an honorable estate instituted of God in the time of man's innocence,
12:08to signifying unto us the mystical union betwixt Christ and his church.
12:14Therefore, if any man can show any just cause why they should not lawfully be joined together,
12:21let him speak, or else hereafter forever hold his peace.
12:28Do you ship lost in my kingdom?
12:33Go on.
12:36Who giveth this woman to be married to this man?
12:49Apparently I giveth myself.
12:55Take her right hand in yours.
13:04I, Adam Richard Boyce, Duke of Kilda, Marquess of Faustin, Earl of Faustin, Vicampinus, Baron Faustin, Baron Whiteley,
13:09take thee to be my wedded wife,
13:10to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer,
13:14in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish till death do us part according to God's holy ordinance,
13:18and thereto I plight thee my troth.
13:27I, Persephone...
13:28Ridiculous.
13:35Lancaster, do you take thee to be my wedded husband,
13:44to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse,
13:48for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health,
13:52to love and to cherish till death do us part according to God's holy ordinance,
13:59and thereto I give thee my truth.
14:02Is that everything?
14:03Not usually.
14:05Can it be?
14:06I suppose all the truly essential bits have been seen to.
14:11Those whom God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.
14:17To the castle, then.
15:08Is your name really Persephone?
15:12It is.
15:14Did you not think to ask?
15:18What were your parents thinking, choosing a name like that?
15:23My father is a scholar.
15:24He's particularly fond of Greek mythology.
15:27Entirely too fond, it doesn't seem.
15:30Are the rest of your siblings similarly afflicted?
15:32In what way afflicted?
15:34What absurd names did your parents assign the other members of your family?
15:38Athena is just younger than I.
15:40Founder is 14, Linus 13.
15:43Daphne will be 12 toward the end of the year.
15:45The youngest is Artemis.
15:47Fate save us from short-sighted scholars.
15:50Do you have a middle name?
15:52I do.
15:53I suppose it is entirely too much to hope that it is something common.
15:58Iphigenia.
16:01Persephone Iphigenia.
16:03Did no one ever call you anything else?
16:06Only Miss Lancaster.
16:08I cannot call you that.
16:10I suppose I will have to consign myself to Persephone.
16:14It would seem so.
16:18You, of course, will call me Kilda.
16:20I will not call you Kilda.
16:21Everyone calls me Kilda.
16:22Kilda?
16:23It sounds as though I am accusing you of a crime.
16:28You would no doubt prefer Agamemnon, or Apollo, or something along that vein.
16:34Magvapar certainly would.
16:36Would you propose to call me then?
16:38Adam?
16:39No one calls me Adam.
16:41No one?
16:42Certainly your family and closest friends would.
16:47Harry does.
16:48Who is Harry?
16:49A friend.
16:51One who allows himself far too much freedom.
16:56Love's Will.
17:24Love's Will.
17:25Love's Will.
17:57Calling me Adam will be fine, but Stephanie?
18:14Mrs. Barton, the butler, Mrs. Smithson, the housekeeper, Duchess of Kilden.
18:41Mr. Smithson, we'll see to whatever you need.
19:05I'm likely meant to be shown all of the castle.
19:08But I would very much like to rest.
19:11Perhaps you could simply point out the rooms I need to know today and save the rest for tomorrow.
19:15Of course, your Grace.
19:24The Drawn Room.
19:25A favourite of Queen Elizabeth, when she stayed at Fauston Castle in 1580.
19:34Do members of the royal family still visit Fauston?
19:38Heavens no!
19:39They wouldn't dare!
19:42This is the Grand Banquet Hall, which has hosted feasts for some of the most significant and influential people in
19:50the kingdom over the past 500 years.
19:54I believe your family will be dining in here this evening.
20:00Is that a gibbet?
20:03Unstocks.
20:04Was there no room in the Dark Forboding Dungeon?
20:07There's ample room, your Grace, but the Duke says display in weapons makes them more effective.
20:19All of the family bedchambers are on this floor.
20:23This is your bedchamber, your Grace.
20:27Is there anything else you wish for me to do, your Grace?
20:30Not for a moment.
20:31The bell pull is beside the fireplace, should you require anything.
21:10The bell pull is beside the fireplace, should you require anything to do, your Grace?
21:24This is never going to work.
21:33This is never going to work.
21:42I just saw your man of business leaving the castle.
21:46What did you do to him?
21:48I fired him.
21:50Again?
21:52How many times have you fired poor man?
21:54Six.
21:56Seven.
21:57Every time he sulks away like a lily-livered coward.
22:03You didn't pull your pistol on him this time, did you?
22:06I have never pulled a pistol on Josiah Jones.
22:09I may have held an ebbe to his throat once or twice, but he's never in any real danger.
22:15Well, perhaps his fear has something to do with your less than pristine reputation, Adam.
22:19Rumor has it, you've run through a few men in your time.
22:22Rumor has it, I've done quite a few things.
22:25And you wonder why Jones thinks the worst whenever you're angry with him?
22:28I always reinstate his employment, and he never makes the same mistake twice.
22:40Sir, what was his transgression this time?
22:43No, no, don't tell me.
22:45Smiled too much while discussing the estate investments.
22:49No.
22:51Did not include enough threats in the business correspondence he sent on your behalf.
22:55He recommended a means of preventing my distant cousin from one day inheriting Faustin.
23:01Ah.
23:02Jones was the one who suggested you marry.
23:05He knew of a penniless family in Shropshire with an eldest daughter of the appropriate age who had no other
23:12prospects.
23:13His enthusiastic recommendation has proven intolerably stupid.
23:18The stupidest sitting in one's bookroom with one's friend on one's wedding night.
23:24Because that, Adam, is a level of idiocy far and above ordinary stupidity.
23:29I stood through the wedding and just spent an interminable dinner with my flock of new sisters-in-law.
23:37Did they stare at you?
23:41It would have been understandable, you know, having not been warned.
23:43I ought to have written then.
23:44Hmm?
23:45Perhaps I could have included a postscript with the proposal.
23:48By the way, I have a mutilated face you'll be forced to look at day in and day out for
23:54the rest of your life.
23:55Hope that's not a problem.
23:59Hmm.
24:01Perhaps not those precise words.
24:03She wasn't exactly forthcoming either.
24:06I will have you know.
24:07I forgot to mention something important.
24:09Another husband, perhaps.
24:12Extraneous limb.
24:14Her name is Persephone.
24:17A man ought to know a thing like that about his future wife.
24:22Persephone Iphigenia.
24:24Oh, what an inexcusably ridiculous thing to call a child.
24:37I had the chance to speak briefly with your new bride, Adam.
24:41She was...
24:44delightful.
24:46Perhaps a little quiet, but that is to be expected considering the upheaval in her life.
24:52I'll confess.
24:53Perhaps I had expected someone rather long in the tooth.
24:58Rather long in the face.
25:01In all honesty.
25:03So had I.
25:04But she's a fetching thing.
25:07Young and...
25:09quite pretty.
25:14Oh.
25:18You expected someone desperate.
25:22And ugly.
25:24And undesirable.
25:26Instead, your bride turned out to be a vast deal more than possible.
25:32Not quite what you'd bargain for, I guess.
25:35A lady who was too intolerable to have any other options would be content with a curmudgeon
25:41in a drafty castle in the wilds of Northumberland.
25:44And now,
25:45because she is young
25:46and fine-looking,
25:48seems to be good-natured
25:50and potentially
25:50enjoyable company,
25:53the poor girl is upstairs.
25:56Alone.
25:57Probably wondering what she's done wrong.
25:59While you
26:00are down here brooding.
26:04Adam,
26:05you are completely bacon-brained.
26:07I should call you out for that.
26:10You.
26:12Come out tonight.
26:13I'm tired.
26:18Call me out tomorrow, would you?
26:20I ought to lock you in the dungeon.
26:21You should.
26:23No point having a dungeon
26:24if no one's ever consigned to suffer in it.
26:28Good night, Adam.
26:29Good night.
26:30Your song shows loud.
26:35And Adam.
26:36What?
26:38Give the poor girl a chance.
26:40It's not her fault
26:41you've ended up with every man's idea
26:43of a perfect wife.
26:45Give the poor girl a chance.
26:52It's not her fault.
26:55It's not her fault.
26:59It's not her fault.
27:35Are you going to be lonely
27:36without us, Persephone?
27:38I will miss you terribly.
27:42But you will have each other.
27:44So you are unlikely to be lonely.
27:46I do not know that anyone will remember
27:49to talk to you when you're not here.
27:52I'm certain everything will be fine.
27:54You don't need to worry about us.
27:59Write and tell me about all the things you're reading.
28:09I love you.
28:10I love you too.
28:13My case.
28:15I do not want to go.
28:17Let me speak with her.
28:23Oh, my dear girl, you're crying.
28:26He can not make you stay here.
28:28No one is making me stay here, dearest.
28:31Folsom Castle is my home now.
28:33I will send you letters, perhaps with the guinea under the seal.
28:37You could come here.
28:39We could explore the castle together.
28:41You won't let me.
28:43Of course, you know.
28:44We will have grand adventures.
28:48Perhaps there is a tower room where we can imagine all sorts of wonderful stories,
28:53the way we always did at home.
28:55Do you promise?
28:55I promise.
28:58Who will take care of me when you're gone?
29:01Papa will engage a governess for both you and Daphne.
29:05A companion for Athena when you're all in town.
29:09Will you visit us there?
29:11Of course.
29:12Stephanie.
29:13Yes, my dear?
29:15We will take care of you.
29:16We will be happy even though we're gone.
29:24I will.
29:28When have you known me to be unhappy?
29:30Then I will be happy too, but if I don't leave now, I will cry again and I do not
29:35want to cry anymore.
29:36Then let us promise each other not to cry.
29:41Yes.
29:43Good.
29:43I will see you soon.
29:45Be good for Papa.
29:46I will.
29:47I love you, dearest.
29:49I love you too, Persephone.
29:51You're the best mama I've ever had.
30:29I thought you weren't supposed to cry.
30:33Artemis is crying as well.
30:34I'm certain of it.
30:36Then why make the promise?
30:38To lessen her pain.
30:42If my sister knew I was crying, it would break her heart.
30:46But you know she is crying.
30:51I know her better than she knows me.
31:00Best mama she ever had.
31:03I know her better than she knows me.
31:14I know her better than she knows me.
31:19I know her better than she knows me.
31:19I know her better than she knows me.
31:19I know her better than she knows me.
31:19I know her better than she knows me.
31:19I know her better than she knows me.
31:20I know her better than she knows me.
31:21I know her better than she knows me.
31:22I know her better than she knows me.
31:24I know her better than she knows me.
31:32Oh, my God.
32:09Twenty-four hours into this ill-conceived marriage, and my wife is already in the back of a guard and
32:16sobbing.
32:27How long into your marriage did Mother start crying?
32:37And when did that stop making you feel like a monster?
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33:47dinner, dear. I'll have a tray sent to your room. You rest. Thank you.
34:38You told me you'd call me out today. Never did. I've decided to shoot you first thing in the morning.
34:45I'll go to sleep so I can load my pistols in peace. Your mother said the new Duchess was
34:53indisposed. Any idea what you meant by that? As mother said, she was indisposed. She wouldn't
35:00be the first person to hide from you. She? You mean Persephone? Well, I certainly don't
35:04mean your mother. You could shoot a man dead in the drawing room and she'd just smile indulgently
35:08and say my poor boy. Yes, and the woman will still be calling me that when I'm 80. When
35:12you're 80, she'll be dead. Oh, shut up, Harry. Is there any chance Persephone's locked in
35:20the dungeon? I am not a monster and she chose to accept me. Ah, yes, but without the benefit
35:27of the rather ingenious postscript you composed last night. I don't think she realized...
35:31made her miserable already. She took this morning's farewells particularly hard. You ought to have
35:39insisted her family stay longer. So I'm the villain, am I? I wouldn't be surprised if you
35:45never saw the poor woman again as long as you lived in a place as enormous as this pile of
35:50rock. She could avoid you for years. Where are you going? My wife is indisposed. I'm going
36:03to see for myself that she is well. Adam? I am not going to hurt the blasted woman. You
36:11know me better than that.
36:59you got a five or sixdigitized woman who died because he did my children. But her
37:11died. If she died, she died. She ruins my illness. The way left her life, the mouse
37:11would result a little more. Oh, this is a little bit funny. I don't think you'd see me this, I'll
37:30oh forgive me your grace i'm attempting to find the breakfast room please tell me you know how
37:36to reach it from here i got lost a few times when i first started working here
37:40faustin castle is quite a big place enormous new rivals really ought to be provided with a map
37:48this way your grace and i'll not tell anyone you were lost thank you mother explain to her that
37:54you're not leaving faustin castle because i forced you to do so it seems to think that i drive every
37:59person whoever comes here away with a scythe in one hand and a flaming torch in the other a regular
38:05one person blood dusty mob that's what you are you really want to think about employing pitchforks
38:11when you
38:14persephone come break your fast yeah kidneys eggs yes please harry will you please i will prepare
38:23a plate for her mother you need an inconvenience yourself please thank you
38:53should i sit somewhere else no you can stay where you are
38:59will you be coming to town at christmas time i never go to town until absolutely necessary
39:04you must convince my poor boy of the delights of london
39:08i have never been to london well then you absolutely must come as soon as possible
39:15i should positively love taking you around town and introducing you to just everyone
39:22i'm certain you can pack quickly adam and i could delay my departure by a day or so and we
39:26could all
39:27i shall be forced to take from the spring as it is forced the season is such fun how can
39:34you say
39:34forced i despise london but the queen will be vexed if persephone is not presented and that is one
39:41bother i could do without thus i shall be forced to town do not let him burden you with even
39:47the
39:47tiniest amount of guilt your grace by spring he will have gone months without insulting members of
39:52the cabinet or any of the royal family and will be itching for the opportunity
39:58that is good to know i suppose as a good friend of the family i ought to remain here indefinitely
40:03and offer my insights into your grumbly husband that is simply the sort of selfless person i am
40:11even selfless people can be thrown from the south parapet
40:17i am beginning to suspect adam that you do not like me very much
40:21i will simply have to ponder the sorrow of this realization your grace your grace
40:33your grace
40:38this could get confusing you really ought to think of names for the three of you
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