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Seeking Persephone - Season 1 - Episode 04: Part 4
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00:00This gentleman is clearly ill.
00:03I run in a charity, Guff.
00:05Here's hoping we can do business again in the future.
00:08We will.
00:09Adam, why did you decide to get married?
00:12At the time, it seemed like a good idea.
00:15I just kissed Persephone.
00:17I noticed.
00:18She is lonely in this empty castle.
00:22I heard them, Adam! The walls! They're inside Falston!
00:24They are not inside the castle walls, Persephone.
00:27I want to know why you've stayed around all these years.
00:31We're friends, Adam.
00:32All of the balls you held for Mother weren't enough to keep her here,
00:35so why the blasted blazes am I trying the same approach?
00:39I have promised you that your brother will visit you here,
00:42and that Falston Castle will host a ball,
00:44and no one, not Harry, not anyone else,
00:47will browbeat me into going back on that promise to you.
00:50I want to believe that.
00:57John?
00:57What do you want to do with your brother?
00:58What do you want to do with your brother?
00:58What do you want to do with your brother?
01:13I'm sorry.
01:14Thank you, dear.
01:14I am the asshole.
01:18I'm sorry, dear.
01:19You are you.
01:20You're happy with me.
01:24You're the only one you are.
01:25John?
01:26John, please have Atlas saddled. I wish to ride to the vicarage.
01:30First ride outside the castle gates.
01:32I'm ready.
01:34Very good, Your Grace.
02:17Oh, it means it's getting cold.
02:23Zeus, steady Zeus.
02:27Oh, have you found her?
02:30Her?
02:31Her Grace.
02:32We were riding to the vicarage and Atlas bolted without warning.
02:36She's not that good a rider yet and I'm afraid she might have become unseated.
02:40And what with that pack sound as so close and angry?
02:43Missephanie!
02:43She's not answering.
02:47Missephanie!
02:48Yeah, yeah!
03:10We need to find the pack!
03:11Now, figure that myself, Your Grace!
03:25Whoa!
03:27Steady, steady.
03:28Steady.
03:29Steady.
03:30I heard that too, Your Grace.
03:33We're getting closer
04:11We're getting closer
04:52To me, Persephone
04:55Adam
04:55Stay next to me
04:57Stay next to me
05:05John, interrupt to me
05:07Take Atlas back if you can
05:08We'll be quick about it
05:09The pack won't stay spooked for long
05:13Is that me?
05:14Arms around me
05:15Hold fast
05:16When we reach the road
05:17We are going to run
05:39Everyone has to be armed
05:40The pack's within the eyes of the castle
05:42When John Hanley is through that gate
05:45They have to be closed immediately
05:46Yes, you can
05:46I'm so dizzy
05:47Can you walk?
05:48I think so
05:56She was thrown from a horse out in the forest
05:58It's a possibility
05:59She's broken her ankle
06:00Should I have a surgeon sent for?
06:01No, the wolves are prowling just outside the gate
06:04It isn't safe for anyone to go in or out
06:05They've never done that before
06:07Persephone?
06:09Where is mother?
06:10Drawing room, I think
06:11Send her up to Persephone's room
06:26Are we safe now?
06:27Yes
06:30I was afraid no one would find me
06:36That's what happens
06:37Mother, I need your help
06:38There's blood on her
06:39Riding habit
06:41Mother?
06:44Help her to a seat, Harry
06:48Adam
06:48Can you take my boot off?
06:53It's too tight
07:04Adam, she needs a surgeon
07:05I know
07:08Bring me boiling water
07:09And the strongest brandy Barton can find
07:11Go
07:13Help me, Harry
07:17You'll have to cut it
07:18Mother, could you find me some scissors?
07:30Hold her still
07:30I don't want to accidentally cut her
07:48Yes
07:53I'm sorry, Persephone
07:54I'm trying to be gentle
08:03No
08:27Dad.
09:01Adam?
09:14Yes, dear?
09:17Please stay with me.
09:26If you will stay with me.
09:39Barton said you wanted to speak with me.
09:43How is it, Grace?
09:45Sleeping.
09:48I know it ain't seemly me talking to you in here, but...
09:53Well, I think I know...
09:56I have an idea why the pack attacked Atlas.
09:59And I thought you might want to know sooner than later, even if telling you means overstepping yourself a bit.
10:04You aren't overstepping.
10:06What have you discovered?
10:08While we were cleaning Atlas' wounds, we couldn't help but notice that she smelled strongly of bacon.
10:16Of bacon?
10:17That might be why the wolves attacked Atlas, but weren't so intent on getting her meat on my horse or
10:22at Ewan's house.
10:24Her grace might have picked up some of that smell.
10:28That'd be why they were hunting her.
10:33Talk with your staff.
10:35See what you can find out.
10:37If it played any role in this attack, any, I do not want the same mistake to occur again.
10:42Yes, you're Chris.
10:46John?
11:04Adam?
11:08May I speak with you?
11:09Please.
11:14Perhaps you should sit down.
11:16I'm so sorry, Adam.
11:19I know you wished me to help with Persephone. You must be so disappointed.
11:23Sit down, Mother.
11:28Sometimes you're so like your father.
11:31Dear man.
11:33Are you unwell?
11:36I'm so mortified.
11:40You see, I've always been hopeless in a sick room.
11:43Even as a child, when anyone in the household would get so much as a cold, I would fret our
11:49dear nurse into a fit of nerves.
11:52And my mother always told me it would be different when I was a mother.
12:01You must be so ashamed of me.
12:05Being so utterly useless when you were depending on me.
12:09There was a great deal of blood earlier with Persephone.
12:11I do not blame you for not being up to the task.
12:17Well, I'm certain I only made the situation worse.
12:21I always did.
12:25The second surgeon actually sent me to the vicarage for two days.
12:30Banished.
12:31From my own home.
12:34From my poor boy.
12:35Banished.
12:36The second surgeon.
12:38I'm certain I made it worse.
12:41I was so nervous, so concerned through the first one.
12:45The first surgery.
12:46And I didn't get better.
12:49Worse, in fact.
12:52The next few surgeons insisted I be gone before they even arrived.
12:55You are referring to the surgeons who did this.
13:00And I was grateful to go.
13:04Happy to.
13:08What kind of an unnatural mother wishes to leave her child at such a time?
13:25Persephone is asking for you.
13:27She seems anxious.
13:50What is it, Persephone?
13:54I've been thinking back on my ride.
13:57Surely that can wait until you're more fully rested.
14:00What happened today...
14:02I don't believe was an accident.
14:07What has led you to that suspicion?
14:10John didn't help me mount.
14:14Usually the stable hand waits for him, but this time he didn't.
14:18And...
14:19This stable hand who helped me smelled like...
14:22Bacon?
14:24How did you know?
14:26Was it a faint aroma?
14:28No.
14:29At...
14:29At first I thought perhaps he'd been helping in the curing house or...
14:35Had slipped in a lard spiel in the kitchen.
14:36The scent was so strong I could still smell it.
14:39While you were riding.
14:43Exactly.
14:45The groom who helped you mount, does he assist you often?
14:49Occasionally.
14:50Do you know his name?
14:52Um...
14:52He wears a green handkerchief round his neck.
14:55None of the others do.
14:58John Henley will know who it is.
15:00You're going to talk to him?
15:02That groom, I mean?
15:03If he had any hand in this.
15:05I plan to do far more than just talk.
15:10What's the name of the groom who has a green handkerchief round his neck?
15:13Uh, Jimmy.
15:13He's a newer one.
15:15Quiet like.
15:15Keeps to himself.
15:16Any idea where I might find this Jimmy?
15:18Last I saw out of him, he was at the back of the stable.
15:21Where he helped to craze him out this morning.
15:23And she said he reeked of bacon more than could have been accidental.
15:25What on purpose then?
15:26That's what I mean to find out.
15:28Oh, there he is.
15:29Jimmy!
15:32Smith!
15:33Do not let him get past the gate!
15:35Stop it!
16:02This vermin is Mr. Smith.
16:05Who tried to kill my wife.
16:09You took the only thing that mattered to me.
16:12Just trying to repay the favour, Gav.
16:14You'll end for this.
16:16Oh no.
16:17I have a better idea.
16:21Put him in the gibbet.
16:23What?
16:24What?
16:25What?
16:25You can't do that!
16:26You have to consult the law!
16:28I am the Duke of Kilda!
16:31I am the law!
16:32No!
16:34No!
16:35No!
17:02No!
17:09Do not let him do that!
17:10We are the king!
17:10Why did he do, Heidi?
17:18I am the king!
17:18I am the king!
17:19I am the king!
17:20Dukes are not supposed to need people please.
17:23of me.
18:17I like Boston.
18:19So do I, Linus.
18:22Then why don't you look happy?
18:25Probably because I'm in pain.
18:28I had no idea how long a few simple cuts could take to heal.
18:32I understand they weren't simple at all.
18:35Considering it might have befallen me, I think of my injuries as comparatively simple.
18:43It is so good to have you here.
18:49I am happy to see you again, though I already missed a C. Evander only ever missed home.
19:06I believe he is home now.
19:19Midshipman Lancaster.
19:22If I had known that your intention in visiting here was to make your sister cry, I would
19:27not have invited you.
19:28You guessed why Divus flocked with alarming precision, Your Grace.
19:32Every young navy man wishes to bring their female relatives into varying states of hysteria
19:37on every possible occasion.
19:38And apparently you are also intent on bringing Persephone down to her deathbed.
19:44Alas, it is true.
19:46Though I have momentarily forgotten how I intend to do this.
19:50By keeping her out of doors and in the cold, instead of inside, warm and off her feet.
19:56Ah yes, I remember now.
19:58But I suppose, since you have guessed my plot, I shall have to abandon my ill-fated scheme.
20:04It was inevitable.
20:13Oh, thank you.
20:23I will see you inside, Linus.
20:29You seem pleased.
20:31I've missed my brother.
20:34He's not at all what I expected.
20:37Your description was of an infant.
20:40Imagine my shock when he walked out of the carriage.
20:42No leading strings or nursemaids in sight.
20:46Adam Boyce, are you teasing me?
20:48I never tease.
20:50You also, apparently, never host balls.
20:54Yet you are doing exactly that tomorrow.
20:57Clearly I have begun a descent into senility.
21:01You are in the oddest mood this evening.
21:06You have no idea.
21:19You are in the oddest mood.
21:48Wondering where you are.
21:50Has she asked after me?
21:54Just the look on her face.
21:56We could always tell growing up when she was worrying about one of us.
22:01She must have worried a lot.
22:04Persephone held the family together after my mom died.
22:08How old was she?
22:11Twelve.
22:13She very suddenly lost what was left of her childhood.
22:17You did as well.
22:19Her life these past eight years has been one unending sacrifice for the sake of the family.
22:27Including her marriage?
22:32Do you know what?
22:33My papa named Persephone as he did.
22:36Obsession with all things Greek.
22:38Other than that, the story of Persephone is his favourite.
22:45Seems an odd favourite to me.
22:48Not when you look at it as he does.
22:50Mark counts himself amongst the scholars of the classics who believe that Hades didn't trick Persephone at all.
22:56And that they both decided together that she'd eat the pomegranate seeds.
23:00Because it meant that nothing could prevent Persephone from returning to him.
23:06But why would she return?
23:08It was the reason for her return.
23:10That indeed the goddess of my father.
23:13The seeds?
23:15The seeds are symbolic.
23:16Symbolic of what?
23:31I know disappearing balls is one of your particular talents.
23:36But it does not reflect well on your wife.
23:39You really ought to go and sit beside her.
23:40What I really ought to do is hang you out your bedchamber windows by a bedsheet wrapped around your ankles.
23:48Welcome back, old friend.
23:50You've been shockingly soft lately.
23:52Oh, shut up, Harry.
23:54Harry.
23:56Harry.
23:59Harry.
24:01Harry.
24:24What do the pomegranate seeds symbolise?
24:27What?
24:28In the Persephone myth, Linus said the seeds are symbols.
24:33Has he been waxing philosophical?
24:36That is the one trait he inherited from Papa.
24:38Papa.
24:41What do they symbolise?
24:44According to Papa, the seeds are symbolic of love.
24:48Hades' love for Persephone, her love for him.
24:52How could she love someone who kept her prisoner?
24:57Papa always believed she came to know him beyond his fearsome demeanour and came to love him.
25:02Hades fell in love with Persephone as well.
25:04She was his match.
25:08But if they were so in love,
25:10then why did she leave at all?
25:13If she had eaten all the seeds, she would have stayed forever.
25:17Hades did not force her to remain because her family needed her.
25:22Hades never let anyone leave his realm.
25:26Hades loved Persephone.
25:33He let her go because he loved her.
25:37She returned because she loved him.
25:53While she gave her home, there she was.
25:54Hades never let me go without her.
25:54We'd be the first to forgive her.
26:09Hades never even knew he dads or she was comfortable.
26:22Thank you for the ball, Adam.
26:26It was wonderful.
26:29You were happy.
26:32You weren't disappointed.
26:36What?
26:40What more were you hoping for?
26:45I've never danced at a ball, though I've often imagined doing so.
26:52I had no intention of asking you to do yet another unpleasant thing today, and yet...
27:00I would enjoy dancing with you.
27:04You would endure it, I'm certain.
27:19I want to dance with you.
27:23The musicians have all left.
27:26We don't need them.
27:34My leg is still too weak to hold me for long.
27:41Then allow me to hold you?
27:44I don't know.
27:56You're OK.
27:56You're right.
28:03But you are right.
28:04Bye.
28:05Bye.
28:25Linus leaves for Shropshire in the morning to visit your family.
28:31Yes I know. You will be leaving with him. That was not the plan. It should have been. It should
28:39always have been. The two of you can depart immediately following breakfast in the morning. Will you be journeying with
28:49us? I belong at Fauston Castle.
29:00And where do I belong?
29:11Your family needs you.
29:14And what about you, Adam?
29:21Dukes don't need people.
29:27I'm sorry.
29:43I'm sorry.
29:45I'm sorry.
30:03You'd best not keep the horses standing mother.
30:06It'll only take a moment. And it is more important than me making a timely departure.
30:14Your father and I had an arranged marriage. No accounting was made for the differences in our dispositions.
30:22I was raised in town. Among society. London. Baton. It's what I knew and needed. Your father was raised here.
30:38In quiet and solitude.
30:42We wanted very different things in life. We tried to compromise. To blend our preferences. But he begrudged the balls
30:58and gatherings held here and came to rather despise my need for company.
31:04He wouldn't have-
31:05I will admit, I likewise began to view my relationship to Fauston and, by extension him, through a lens of
31:17bitterness.
31:18I do not wish to hear this.
31:19Resentment grows quickly, Adam. Your father was a good man, despite his implacableness. I held out hope for so long,
31:33in my foolishly romantic heart, that he would come for me while I was away. He never did.
31:45Did you tell him that that was what you were hoping for?
31:50I was so young. Only seventeen when we married. In my naivete, I believed that if he truly cared, he
32:00would meet me part way.
32:06You are more willing to compromise than your father ever was.
32:11And Persephone is more suited to quiet and solitude than I ever will be.
32:18She is your match, Adam.
32:22Do not throw away this chance by making her guess at your feelings.
32:52She has a point, you know.
32:57Every other guest has left the castle, Harry
33:00Why haven't you?
33:04I'm here to be your conscience
33:07To save you
33:09From yourself
33:14She will come back
33:18When Linus returns to his ship
33:21Persephone will return to Fauston
33:24And I know you well enough to predict
33:25That you will act as though you couldn't care less
33:27Whether she is here or not
33:31Do you really want her to wonder about that?
33:34This is none of your concern, Harry
33:43You miss her
33:45And she deserves to know that
33:49She is happy with her family
33:51Then go be part of her family
33:53Go to Shropshire
33:55That isn't how it works
33:57How it works
34:02Persephone receives her reprieve
34:05And Hades stays in the underworld
34:07Waiting to see if the seeds work
34:10Obviously you were sleeping
34:12During that lecture at Harrow
34:16Hades did not sit back and wait for Persephone
34:20When the time came
34:22Hades slipped past the hellhounds
34:24And ventured into the realm of the living
34:26To reclaim his bride
34:29I did not remember that
34:32I did not remember that
34:34Hades was no Pamsey Fribble, Adam
34:37And I'd bet a pony his Persephone
34:41Knew exactly how her husband
34:43Felt about her
34:51Feminacy
34:52Feminacy
34:54Feminacy
35:13Do just
35:24Are you sure you're warm enough?
35:27I'm dressed as warmly as I am at home.
35:29It is far colder there.
35:31You speak very fondly of Fullstone Castle.
35:34I've come to love it, Athena.
35:37More than just the castle.
35:40I hope I'm not out of lying and saying that
35:44you seem to miss the castle.
35:50I do.
35:52Then why do you seem so sad whenever anyone mentions you going back?
35:55I do not merely think it is because you'll miss us.
35:59Probably because I'm not entirely certain what I will find when I return.
36:06You could always just stay here.
36:09My heart is there.
36:13I hope the castle knows how fortunate he is.
36:38Adam.
36:44Have you come to take me home?
36:47When you're ready.
36:50But I...
36:51I wanted to see Shropshire.
36:56To see where you grew up.
36:58You did?
36:59And...
37:02And get to know your family.
37:07And I...
37:08I...
37:11Hades always went after Persephone.
37:16Yes.
37:18He did.
37:22He waited as long as he had to.
37:26And then he left his kingdom and he did not come back until he found her.
37:31I think Hades must have missed his wife.
37:36I think he knew to the very minute how long she'd been gone.
37:41But was Persephone as anxious to return as he was to have her with him again?
37:46Yes.
37:47She was.
38:02Why did Hades go after her?
38:08He must have loved her.
38:09Oh, he did.
38:12He did more than he could even express.
38:15Yes.
38:16Yes.
38:17Yes.
38:18Yes.
38:20But...
38:23But did Persephone love him?
38:25In spite of his flaws.
38:28In spite of deserving so much better than he could ever offer.
38:33Oh, Adam.
38:34Am I too late?
38:36Is there nothing that I can...
38:38You said you belong at Fauston.
38:42Only at Fauston.
38:44I belong with you.
39:08I do love you, Adam.
39:09No.
39:20The tall would not believe it, even if they heard you say that.
39:25We shall have to convince them.
39:28I may enjoy London, yeah.
39:31Does this mean I can come to your castle?
39:35Our castle is in need of a good exploration.
39:41Perhaps if you have no other plans for Christmas, you could undertake one then.
39:48Athena!
39:49Daphne!
39:51You realise you will bring the rest of the family and Fauston will be overrun with people?
40:01Well, then there is probably a chance I will be in a foul mood from time to time.
40:09You may once again have to save me from myself.
40:15You have done that, do you know?
40:18Saved you?
40:23Oh, my Persephone.
40:26Do you know that I would have come for you, no matter how far you'd gone?
40:34Hades always came for Persephone.
40:41And she always returned home.
40:47Always.
40:53...
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