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00:15You
00:16Did you see that out there? We need to negotiate a surrender. Oh we do
00:23You to me
00:26Because that's what I'm seeing
00:30I think about it
00:32You the church me fucking whipping them up
00:36You join me bring the church and it is ours
00:42I
00:44Listen or just watching my lips wondering how they taste
00:50You wouldn't be good for me
00:56Very good
01:00Think I'd lose myself
01:03You really fucking would
01:21Come on
01:22Fuck God
01:23It's me you need
01:24Hmm no fucking no
01:34Then you'll die with the rest of them Patriarch
01:48Hello
01:55I have a carriage waiting
01:57I'd rather you shoot me. I doubt that that seems just pugnacious talk to preserve one's dignity in the face
02:03of defeat
02:04That sounds like you're not allowed to shoot me
02:15Annoying
02:20Good day, sir you again
02:26Shouldn't you have been in school?
02:46You're a fucking liar
02:50Lookalike is, Elias, an occupational hazard.
02:54The things you said to the people.
02:57You were there.
02:58Oh, must have been hard on you.
03:02Can I have some figs and ricotta?
03:07No.
03:08You can have a deal that saves your life instead.
03:11Does it come home?
03:12And we live happily ever after like a partridge in a pear tree.
03:15Have a fuck.
03:16Pretend it was a mere lover's tiff.
03:18Stop doing that.
03:20Or they will come in and cut your head from your body.
03:22Douche.
03:24Don't do that!
03:27You lied about me.
03:29About him.
03:30Raised a land of hate.
03:32I didn't have to do much.
03:33They just don't fucking like you, to be honest.
03:35Even your own court people don't love you.
03:37You are going back to Moscow with my men.
03:40And you will reveal yourself and surrender.
03:43As Pugachev, the bad-breathed Cossack.
03:46Oh, Sarge.
03:47I mean, they brought me tuna.
03:48What could I do?
03:48You will then be caged and taken from village to village to tell your story.
03:52And make them embarrassed they followed you.
03:55My husband will have his name back.
03:57Hmm.
04:00Or I could choose to die.
04:01That would fuck you up.
04:04I don't think you'd choose that.
04:06That's the difference between you and me.
04:08I'm going to die by the knife sometime.
04:09That's how it is for people like me.
04:11So why not die at the height of my infamy, having fucked up the Empress and trashed the good
04:17name of a fucking asshole, because you both would have killed me and thrown my body to the pigs
04:21while you kissed and made up that night.
04:23I was sorry about that.
04:26Thing is, kill me or don't, they'll still come for you.
04:30They do love me.
04:33The walls fucking shook with my hold on them.
04:35You felt their love for me.
04:37Hmm?
04:39Maybe running this country is my destiny.
04:46Hmm.
04:47Hmm.
04:51Hmm.
05:01Hmm.
05:04Hmm.
05:05Hmm.
05:07Hmm.
05:12Hmm.
05:32You really planned all these breakfasts in advance?
05:39Crazy.
05:41So annoyed they didn't let me kill him.
05:43Shut up, Maxim.
05:46Oh, fucking guy.
05:47He just wanted a chance at a new life.
05:49Who wouldn't want a chance at a new life?
05:51What if he talks, Mario, about you?
05:55Then you'll have a different life.
05:57Then he talks.
05:58I'm not going to be scared anymore.
05:59He's a troublesome and mousy peasant
06:01who someone else now gets to kill.
06:05Could you finish my shoes?
06:07I'm upset and I don't trust the staff.
06:18Hugo's still there.
06:19Fucker.
06:21Gonna follow me to Grigor.
06:23Me.
06:24Come here, Cap.
06:32Out.
06:32Needed almost.
06:33Actually, go get my gun, Petra.
06:35Just where I was going.
06:36Look, I've been waiting out there all night.
06:41A few thoughts.
06:44You're a stunning, beautiful, scheming liar
06:48who hasn't been fucked in a while
06:50and so has a little edge that is even more attractive.
06:53I want to work with you.
06:55I want to watch blood spurt from your eye.
06:58The way you say it, so do I.
07:07Can we get some tea, Petra?
07:12This is what I've seen.
07:14Because I have been watching.
07:17You're an opportunist.
07:20You hate her and try to cause her problems.
07:23But don't you want more?
07:25All of it, I say.
07:28And you can help me, can you?
07:30There are only two people in this country
07:31with king experience
07:32and you're looking at one of them.
07:34So do you want to bring her down or not?
07:36Of course I do.
07:37I love her.
07:38Treasonous Swedish prick.
07:39Great.
07:40So you do.
07:45Pugachev.
07:46Her choices being
07:47tell everyone she killed Peter
07:48or try and explain who the fuck Pugachev was
07:51or kill him creating a martyr
07:53and a vacuum at the top of an uprising.
07:55All bad.
07:57We add in the general sense
07:59that she's in some kind of suicidal malaise
08:01and we have a chance.
08:05Gregor has Paul
08:06and I think you know where he is
08:08and don't want me following you there.
08:09Who are you taking a big risk here?
08:11Saying this.
08:12I know.
08:13But it's that kind of day
08:15where lives change.
08:20You know it's my Agnes wedding anniversary today.
08:22Who cares?
08:23Thirty-six years.
08:24What?
08:26You only look...
08:27Thirty-seven.
08:28I am thirty-seven.
08:29Royal marriage.
08:30Married at one.
08:33I can see you as a queen.
08:35What are you saying?
08:36Get Paul,
08:38ordain Paul,
08:39and you
08:41marry Paul.
08:44I know.
08:45It's amazing.
08:49There is an uprising sitting in Moscow
08:51and in a while
08:51they will realize
08:52they do not have a leader
08:53but they need one.
08:55We can take
08:56the whole country.
08:59Fuck.
09:01I've...
09:01I've been a king.
09:03We love it.
09:05Oh, fuck you.
09:06So paid in the tea.
09:08Of course I did, genius.
09:14Good night,
09:15translucent Swedish idiot.
09:20Great idea, though.
09:21The important thing, Maxim,
09:23is to ask yourself
09:24what will bring peace
09:25to your heart.
09:27Would you suggest prayer?
09:28Or I do enjoy tennis.
09:30Maybe that.
09:30Well, tennis never hurt.
09:31I just become enraged
09:33when I don't get what I want.
09:35You have to float
09:36out of your body,
09:37float above yourself,
09:38and add in the context
09:39of a world beyond yourself.
09:42However,
09:43there are moments
09:43in a man's life
09:44he knows when to pray,
09:46when to play tennis,
09:48and when to act
09:50to preserve one's life.
09:53Good advice.
10:02What is it with you, kid?
10:10Call me Maxim.
10:18Morning.
10:19I want a job.
10:21A job?
10:22Doing what?
10:23You're not a political person.
10:24Oh, really?
10:25I gave you the idea
10:26for the coup
10:26which got you on the throne.
10:29Seems political.
10:30What about chief advisor?
10:32Seems vague
10:32and probably doesn't involve
10:34reading.
10:35Do you remember?
10:37Did I have a sense
10:38of destiny before
10:39or after you had
10:40the coup idea?
10:41Because I feel like
10:42maybe I made it up after
10:44to kind of
10:44make me believe in it.
10:45Oh, you arrived
10:46delusional
10:47about almost everything.
10:48When did I say it?
10:52Um...
10:52I suggested kill him
10:54and you said,
10:55I knew I had a destiny here.
10:56I thought it was love.
10:58Maybe it's Russia itself.
10:59I said maybe.
11:00Who the fuck knows?
11:01Let's focus
11:02on my job.
11:03I need something.
11:05I cannot just be married
11:06to an 11-year-old
11:07and arrange his shoes.
11:09After last night,
11:09I've never felt more.
11:11Haters?
11:11And German.
11:13A foreigner.
11:15So many lies.
11:16We're not going to talk
11:17about my job, are we?
11:18At least I will reclaim
11:19Peter for Paul.
11:21I need Pukachev to make
11:22this deal.
11:26Pukachev's a massive liar,
11:27by the way.
11:28I just said that.
11:31What you're not...
11:34Who's that?
11:35Oh, Kastrati.
11:36Famously great fuck.
11:37Seedless, too.
11:38Forget all that.
11:39You know what?
11:40This is a great day.
11:41You have never led
11:42as you,
11:43without Peter on your back,
11:44in your head,
11:45or up your bum.
11:45Mariel.
11:46The point is,
11:47the coup
11:49is finally done.
11:51Pretend for me.
11:54It's day one.
11:55Mariel.
11:56Just do it!
11:57For what would it have been like
11:58without him
11:59if he had been dead
12:00that first day?
12:01Other than I would have missed
12:02the great love of my life.
12:04Who perverted your rule?
12:05Yes.
12:05Other than that.
12:09Morning, Empress.
12:11What a day.
12:12Boy,
12:13are the people excited.
12:15You look excited, too.
12:16What joy you will bring.
12:18Day one.
12:19Here we go.
12:21As your chief advisor
12:22and founding member
12:23of the coup,
12:24I, for one,
12:25am pretty upbeat
12:26about the day.
12:29Exactly.
12:30Such happiness.
12:31How will you lead?
12:32Go forth.
12:33Let us discover.
12:37I will lead
12:38with a lightness of heart
12:39and joy for the task,
12:40bringing naivete
12:41and delusion
12:42to all that I do.
12:52Your seat, Empress.
12:54Well, gosh,
12:55I'm overwhelmed.
12:56I'm sure it will go
12:57oh so well, though.
13:14Yours?
13:15Yes, Empress.
13:17May I?
13:17I am Nikolai Shostakich,
13:18the royal astronomer.
13:19I have a royal astronomer.
13:21You hired me
13:21in the big science hire
13:22at the start of your reign,
13:23remember?
13:24Seems so long ago.
13:26Yes.
13:27We have never met.
13:29I will talk fast
13:29and to the point
13:30in case I am to be
13:31ejected by guards,
13:32as sometimes happens to me
13:33for a variety of reasons
13:34not worth going into.
13:35There is a comet coming.
13:38A comet is a disturbance,
13:42a hole that tears in the sky,
13:44leaving a stream of light behind it.
13:47Beyond the moon,
13:47a form of dust and ice
13:48compact together
13:49to make a...
13:51a ball.
13:52No, not a ball.
13:53A fist.
13:54A fist of power and light
13:56that shoots through the solar system
13:58and passes us by.
14:00Every fucking 75 years,
14:01this comet,
14:02the same one,
14:03swings round
14:04and races through the sky again
14:06on a loop.
14:07And it's the only one,
14:08the only one we can see
14:08without a telescope
14:09and it passes by the Earth
14:10just enough
14:11so we can see it
14:12and in a few days
14:13it passes over,
14:14wait for it,
14:15Russia!
14:17Amazing.
14:17Yeah,
14:18and an opportunity.
14:19I suddenly thought.
14:20What thought last night?
14:22Should have thought earlier.
14:24I can kick you, Nikolai.
14:25Loving this day.
14:27Fascinating.
14:27But I digress.
14:29The people have always viewed
14:30the heavens as just that.
14:32God's domain.
14:34The unknowable.
14:34A mystery.
14:35And the church have used
14:36that fear and awe.
14:38But if we tell the people
14:40in advance,
14:41send charts and telescopes
14:42and show that by way
14:44of science and reason
14:45the heavens are knowable.
14:48Man and woman can know them,
14:50track them and explain them.
14:52And also maybe send up
14:53a balloon with cannons
14:54and just blow it out of the sky.
14:56Or at least change its orbit.
15:00No, forget that last part
15:01as it's possibly not true
15:02and unfeasible.
15:03And I shouldn't have said it.
15:05I even said to myself,
15:06walking here,
15:06don't say the balloon cannon thing,
15:08Nikolai.
15:08I couldn't help yourself.
15:09Exactly.
15:10So,
15:11can we do this?
15:12Can we...
15:16what?
15:17Clear breach of security,
15:18leading to a clear breach
15:19in his skull.
15:20No!
15:22Fuck!
15:27You!
15:28Shit.
15:30A duel, sir.
15:32What is going on?
15:33Private matter.
15:34Uh,
15:34dueling's illegal,
15:35is that right?
15:35Yes, it is.
15:36And who fucking shot Pugachev?
15:38We're dueling.
15:39Greatest respect, Empress.
15:40Even though the statement
15:41seemed not to contain any.
15:42Who shot him, I said.
15:43Maximus claim credit.
15:44What?
15:45Beat him like a drum that bleeds.
15:46Empress,
15:47we are agreed the comet.
15:48There's a comet coming.
15:50I should probably go.
15:51What's the probably part?
15:53See you on the field.
15:55Who shot him?
15:56What happened?
15:57I had a plan.
15:58Maxim,
15:59and now we need a new plan.
16:03I just heard.
16:06Shit.
16:08What do we do now?
16:10To think I once rode him,
16:13and he uttered desperately foul oaths
16:15in my ear as I came.
16:17From memory,
16:18it was something like,
16:19I'll rip open your ribcage
16:21with my bare hands
16:22and fuck you in your windpipe
16:24as I give your foie gras liver
16:26a handjob.
16:27I mean,
16:28out of context,
16:29bizarre,
16:29and yet,
16:30in the moment,
16:30I mean,
16:31I came like a sudden blizzard.
16:33But enough reminiscing.
16:35Let's focus on what now?
16:36We're in a very dangerous place.
16:43Catherine?
16:46So I guess
16:47the surrender to Ruz Pugachev
16:48is done with.
16:49He's dead.
16:51It's over now, isn't it?
16:52No,
16:53quite the opposite.
16:54You've thousands massed
16:55and a vacuum at the top.
16:57One group massed behind one man,
16:58easy to fight.
16:59They splinter into disparate,
17:01random groups
17:02if I'm in chaos,
17:03or someone else rises.
17:04It's very pessimistic, Pettroff.
17:06And yet accurate.
17:07We need to decide what to do
17:08before they do.
17:10Even word of his death
17:11will light a wick on something.
17:12They don't know he's dead
17:13at this point.
17:14That gives us the upper hand.
17:15My opinion.
17:16We need to mass troops,
17:17bring the body,
17:18and...
17:18Interesting.
17:19Empress,
17:19you need to own his death.
17:20He being Peter III.
17:22You need to come out
17:22and say,
17:23you killed Peter.
17:24Ideally with the body,
17:25and then probably say something
17:26along the lines of,
17:27Peter is vanquished by my own hand.
17:29And then just let it rain cannonballs.
17:31And then you've taken it out.
17:32You've also ended Peter the Great's line,
17:34and now you have the country.
17:35Ended Peter the Great's line?
17:37How dare you, Archie?
17:38There's Paul.
17:39Is there?
17:39Hasn't been at the buffet lately.
17:41We're not doing any of that.
17:42Then what are we doing?
17:43Because we fucking need to do something.
17:46Fuck!
17:46Fuck!
17:47This place!
17:49Catherine!
17:53I call that inconclusive.
17:55I call it a petulant response
17:58to a massive challenge
17:59that brings into question
18:00her competency.
18:02And I call that treason.
18:04But you call it inaccurate?
18:06No.
18:08Didn't think so.
18:10We need to hold our nerve
18:13and hold together!
18:17He will be back.
18:18And not only that,
18:19I can tell you this.
18:21We will retake the palace
18:23and restore Peter
18:24as the head of Russia!
18:28Huzzah!
18:41You're waiting for him.
18:43Fucking hell, Tatiana.
18:44He told me he wanted
18:46to rip the dress
18:46from my body.
18:47We left in a hurry
18:48so I don't have many dresses.
18:50I thought this was easier.
18:51Well, he hasn't come back
18:52so stand down
18:53and put some clothes on.
18:54I don't know where he is
18:55but that hall
18:56is full of maniacs
18:57who are ready to go.
18:58Where is he?
18:59With someone else, probably.
19:01Hurtful.
19:02You lying here naked
19:03for another man, however,
19:04is fine.
19:05We always said
19:06we'd let each other evolve
19:07as we needed to as humans.
19:09Or would you like our marriage
19:10to literally choke off
19:12our personal growth?
19:13Seems so difficult,
19:13either or.
19:14You need to keep
19:15those madmen out there
19:16under control
19:17until he gets back.
19:18They do keep looking at me
19:19like you're his best friend.
19:21You should know.
19:22People are riled up.
19:25You're just gonna lay here.
19:27He's got to come back
19:28at some point.
19:30Want anything?
19:31No, I could use an apple.
19:51Hi.
19:52Sorry.
19:52Inappropriate entry
19:53to your private quarters,
19:54but we have some time issues.
19:55The comet.
19:56May I do it?
19:57A brilliant idea
19:58and a good distraction
20:00for the country
20:00from your troubles.
20:03Also, sorry about the duel.
20:04I know it's illegal,
20:05but I'm kind of in it.
20:06My power over my own court
20:08is clearly waning.
20:10You slept with Petrov's fiancee.
20:12I have this thing
20:13that happens to me and women
20:14when I talk to them
20:16and we end up fucking.
20:19Yeah, I feel exactly
20:20the same way about it.
20:21It is laughable,
20:21not how I see myself,
20:23and yet...
20:23You are an accidental womanizer.
20:26That's a good way
20:27of putting it.
20:29What's it like to run Russia?
20:32I mean, that's crazy.
20:33I run an office
20:34with three people
20:34and it is a wrangling
20:36of drunk, insane cats
20:38who spit poison
20:39and speak in whiny,
20:41hieroglyphic codes.
20:42Not that we're not doing
20:43a great job.
20:44We are,
20:45so don't cut our funding.
20:47But it's just...
20:49complicated.
20:49These humans,
20:50I don't get paid enough.
20:51There are no biscuits.
20:52Why is Anatole
20:53at the window?
20:53It's sun.
20:54Russia must be...
20:56I digress.
20:57Bad habit,
20:58along with overreach.
21:00But an office
21:00with 80 million humans.
21:03Insane.
21:04Your head must explode.
21:05My head,
21:06my heart,
21:07everything has.
21:08How do you do it?
21:12I'll tell you a secret.
21:16I don't know.
21:19I try to be mean,
21:20be nice,
21:20be friends,
21:21be a tyrant.
21:22Still,
21:22everyone's at me.
21:23Probably why I spend
21:24all my time
21:24looking at the sky.
21:29It's happening,
21:30as you said.
21:32What?
21:35Fuck me.
21:37What?
21:38You hurt.
21:39I did.
21:40I just...
21:40Want to hear it again?
21:42I'd love to hear it again.
21:44Walk over here,
21:46pin me to the wall,
21:47lift up my skirt,
21:48and fuck me.
21:49On my way.
22:11Stop doing that!
22:13Walking in on me,
22:14on us,
22:15on Peter and me,
22:16to see if we would
22:17make a baby.
22:19You can go,
22:20young man.
22:22The Empress,
22:23assuming no lemon top,
22:25needs a douche bath
22:26of nettle and snake venom
22:27immediately.
22:32I walk in unannounced,
22:33as it is the best way
22:34to see where people are,
22:36to catch them
22:37as they are.
22:38Like seeing a squirrel,
22:39startled suddenly
22:40as it sucks on a nut.
22:42And whilst it is,
22:43on a personal level,
22:45thrilling to see you
22:46back fucking,
22:46on a wear mired
22:48in a national crisis,
22:49I do begin to question
22:51your priorities.
22:52Maybe start fucking people
22:53after you save the country
22:55from the uprising?
22:56I had saved it.
22:57And solved it.
22:58Peter's name.
22:59Everything.
23:00And things change.
23:01And I will work out
23:02what to do,
23:03alone.
23:04When?
23:05Stop talking to me.
23:06When I know what to do.
23:07That's when.
23:08Not good enough.
23:09Enough tears and weakness.
23:10No, not enough.
23:11Because if you ring me wet,
23:13nothing will come out
23:14but tears and weakness.
23:20It is just grief.
23:22Can you just go?
23:24No, I can't.
23:27Elizabeth!
23:28Catherine.
23:28Guards!
23:29Guards!
23:32Remove her!
23:33Dimitri and Alexei.
23:35You touch me now,
23:36you will never touch me again.
23:41Oh, my God.
23:42You may go.
23:44Later.
23:51I have no grip on anyone.
23:54My own head of the army
23:56is doing an illegal duel,
23:57oblivious to my wishes.
23:58They are burning effigies
24:00all over the country.
24:01My name inspires hate,
24:03not change.
24:05And I am rotten with grief
24:07throughout my being.
24:10And I am becoming sure
24:13that I have told myself
24:15and others
24:16a delusional story
24:18that has
24:19brought Russia to its knees.
24:22I know it feels like
24:24you were broken.
24:26I am broken.
24:28Not all the way through.
24:30You just fucked a boy
24:31against the wall.
24:32That was strange.
24:34Suddenly I just thought
24:35I want to fuck him.
24:37Nothing else.
24:38I was just present
24:39and wanted fucking.
24:42Oh, no.
24:43Now I feel terrible.
24:44Like you took a step
24:45away from Peter.
24:46Yes, and I don't want to.
24:48You need to.
24:50And if I can't?
24:51I know you're in pain
24:52and clouds of confusion
24:53fill your head.
24:54But you now need to stand up.
24:59Or.
25:01You know the or.
25:07Someone else will.
25:09You?
25:12Yes.
25:13Me.
25:15Perhaps it is, as you said,
25:16my destiny and not yours.
25:19Perhaps you weren't it.
25:20I was wrong.
25:22I am it.
25:23And you are merely
25:24a pretty stepping stone
25:25for me to wake up
25:26and see that.
25:28Jesus.
25:29Because the world
25:30burns a person down
25:31many times
25:33and you shake off
25:34the ashes
25:34and you walk into
25:36the next fire
25:36knowing that the fire
25:38never gets to the core
25:39of you.
25:42That is me.
25:44And that is
25:45who is needed now.
25:48Tomorrow,
25:49if I sit down
25:49in that seat,
25:50I don't get up.
25:52For anyone.
25:57I love you.
26:00And I you.
26:19Where is she?
26:20Weren't you going to
26:21follow her to Grigor?
26:22I might have made
26:23a small misjudgment.
26:25Or not.
26:25We'll see how it plays out.
26:27I'm hoping
26:28the idea sets in her head
26:30and she sees
26:30she needs us.
26:31You decided
26:32something without me.
26:32I added Georgina
26:33to the plan.
26:35A disappointing
26:35and I suspect
26:36idiotic betrayal.
26:38Let's assume
26:38George gets the baby
26:40and realizes
26:41we're the next step.
26:42Well,
26:43let's have
26:43the next step
26:44after the next step's ready.
26:47Hmm.
26:53I knew you'd come here.
26:55The three of us
26:56always came here.
26:57No one can find you.
27:01Where's Paul?
27:05Grigor!
27:05Safest place.
27:06No one looks up.
27:07Get him down.
27:13Birds have been a hassle.
27:15And there was a bear.
27:16A bear?
27:16Furry.
27:17He said furry
27:18after we shot the bear.
27:19What a kid.
27:29Squirrel coats.
27:30Matching.
27:31Are you mad?
27:33You clearly are.
27:35It's fine.
27:36I'm here to look after you
27:37as always, my darling.
27:39Let's take him back.
27:40He's not safe in court.
27:41They're coming for him
27:42and all of us.
27:43He's not safe here either
27:44in a fucking box
27:45in a tree, Grigor.
27:48We can do this together.
27:50We always wanted a child.
27:51No, we didn't.
27:52We said it would
27:52distract us from Peter.
27:53It would re-energize
27:54our marriage.
27:54I love Mariel.
27:55You don't!
27:56And it's very annoying
27:57that you keep saying it.
27:58I do.
27:59She hates Peter,
28:00so it's hard
28:01and confusing
28:02because I feel pain
28:03at her absence
28:04in my ribcage area.
28:06My head cries much
28:07at the loss of her.
28:09And then,
28:11Peter.
28:13God, I didn't feel anything.
28:18But Paul is all.
28:19That's my new motto.
28:20We say it all the time,
28:21don't we, Paul?
28:22Paul is all.
28:23I agree.
28:24Paul is all.
28:25He should be emperor
28:26and we can make it so.
28:30What?
28:30I'm good at this.
28:32At what?
28:32I'm not following.
28:33Politics.
28:34I think by pretending to change,
28:36I actually did.
28:38If this goes the way,
28:39it's clearly going.
28:40We might need a new leader
28:42behind Paul.
28:44And that's you.
28:47What the fuck?
28:48You.
28:50Why not me?
28:52You're not them.
28:54They're not them.
28:55No one's fucking them
28:56until they decide
28:57they're fucking them.
29:00This country can be changed
29:02for the better.
29:03For Peter.
29:05For our dearest friend
29:06to keep his line alive.
29:09I'm not helping you kill her.
29:11He loved her.
29:12He loved us too.
29:13For longer.
29:15Do it for him.
29:20Huh.
29:38Hey.
29:39She's fine, Paul.
29:41See?
29:42Look at her up and down chest.
29:44That's called breathing.
29:46But always be listening
29:48for what's sent behind you
29:50in the forest.
29:58Oh, ho, ho, ho.
30:00I remember these.
30:02We did all of them, didn't we?
30:05That one.
30:07The wheelbarrow with fruit.
30:11I loved it.
30:12You handsome savage.
30:15You delectable sexual hooligan.
30:19You look unsure.
30:21You know I can't stand that.
30:23I'm pondering.
30:24Not you.
30:24You're all instinct.
30:25Kill her.
30:26Impaler on a large pole
30:28and ride around Moscow.
30:29Take this fucking place.
30:31Paul, on your knee.
30:32I seem to recall
30:34that you looked into my dying
30:36but beautiful as the deep blue sea eye
30:38is and promised to protect
30:40my line.
30:42Things change.
30:43I've evolved.
30:44Our love is eternal.
30:46You're dead.
30:47Everything's eternal for you.
30:48I love her.
30:50You love me more.
30:56Now you're needling me.
30:58I remember it.
31:00Then torrid sex ensues.
31:02Just remove her
31:05before you're trampled
31:06at a black and blue pace
31:07by rampaging ex-Cossacks,
31:09cross-eyed with liquor,
31:10buzzing with rage,
31:12and with a need to feel
31:13blood spray in their eyes
31:15to make them happy.
31:16Jesus.
31:17I know.
31:18Powerful word pictures
31:20that can transform moments.
31:22One of my many gifts,
31:23you'll recall.
31:24I do.
31:26And having no empathy
31:28for anyone.
31:29Another gift,
31:30like you are with Peter.
31:31Who drowns
31:32on their fucking horse?
31:34Their kid.
31:36You heartless monster.
31:38You sassy enchantress.
31:40I'm not doing that.
31:41I'm calling you
31:42a fucking heartless monster.
31:43Oh.
31:46You know you have to
31:47take the throne
31:48or you'll fucking die
31:50and lose everything.
31:51Shh!
31:52Did you just shush
31:54Peter the Great?
31:58You're not choosing her.
32:01Maybe I'm choosing something else.
32:04What I want
32:05instead of what you want.
32:07You contrary argumentative
32:10strubbit.
32:12You deaf,
32:13blind,
32:14oh.
32:15God,
32:16I could tear all your clothes
32:17off with my teeth.
32:20Except you can't.
32:22You can just
32:25go.
32:27Oh.
32:30This duel,
32:31I probably shouldn't do it,
32:33undermines the empress
32:34of this delicate point.
32:36She seems like a drunk
32:37on the end of a jetty.
32:38As humans sometimes are
32:40when they have their hearts
32:41crushed by fate.
32:43I'll call her off.
32:44No.
32:46Do it.
32:48She must stand up
32:49and lead.
32:51Or not.
32:52If she can't.
32:55It's a bit like
32:56when I was a boy.
32:57I had all these apples
32:59and I wouldn't give them away
33:00or eat them
33:01or make cider.
33:02For the life of me,
33:03I couldn't decide.
33:05And then they just rotted
33:06and I looked like
33:07the fucking idiot I was.
33:11I think it's more like
33:12a young woman
33:13lost at sea
33:15throwing up
33:16into the ocean
33:17due to prevailing winds
33:18and insect bites.
33:21Hoping some
33:22friendly sharks
33:23will guide her home.
33:25She must find
33:27her compass
33:27but she's been blinded
33:29by a raven.
33:30And if she eventually
33:32falls in,
33:33the sharks
33:34will just have to.
33:37Be sharks?
33:39Yes.
33:42And the army and I
33:43will need to be marching
33:44in figure eights
33:45and hexagons as one.
33:48Right.
33:50Got it.
33:58Hi.
33:59Sorry.
34:00But it's a bit urgent.
34:01Hugo, what are you doing?
34:02You know what I smell out there?
34:04I smell what I smelt in Sweden.
34:08Implosion.
34:12And I do feel bad
34:13about Peter
34:14and stealing the army.
34:16And as you're about to be
34:16gargling on your own blood,
34:17I thought I'd give you
34:18some advice.
34:20You need to run.
34:24I can't run.
34:26That's what I thought.
34:27Out of some misguided
34:28sense of obligation?
34:30Destiny.
34:31It's my favorite desk.
34:33I don't want to leave it.
34:35But Paris.
34:36Rome.
34:37You tell me,
34:38ex-kings and queens,
34:39I'm going to be fetid there.
34:41And the food
34:42and the art.
34:44I see a new life.
34:48We'll have a carriage
34:48ready at nine
34:49in the courtyard.
34:50Get Paul.
34:52Or tell me where he is
34:53and I'll get him.
34:53We get in
34:54and we go.
34:57I'll leave that with you.
35:03Make the right decision.
35:05Or don't
35:06and die.
35:28Die, bitch!
35:59What are you doing?
36:01You're a sight.
36:02A sight I need in my eyes.
36:05What do you want?
36:06Other than clearly and also logically.
36:08My body?
36:09Marry me.
36:13You hated me because I hate Peter.
36:16Know that I always will.
36:18I do know.
36:18But I need you in the forest.
36:21So quiet.
36:22I felt this empty space in me.
36:25The sounds of the forest reverberating through it.
36:27Bears and birds and bees.
36:30And you are what I need in that space.
36:33You're the piece I miss.
36:35Right.
36:38Really?
36:38I want a new life.
36:40You and me.
36:41I want a new life too.
36:43Great.
36:45We go to my estate.
36:46We haul up there.
36:46We put in defenses.
36:48And we just be together.
36:50You, me and Paul.
36:52What do you mean Paul?
36:53I have to bring him up for Peter.
36:55I realize that now.
36:56We can do it together.
36:57Maybe have our own kids.
36:58Be good for him to have a brother.
37:00I'm not bringing up his fucking son.
37:01Are you mad?
37:02I know you hate him.
37:03But it's actually good.
37:05Paul will learn the complexity of human life.
37:07And we will raise him to take back his throne.
37:11Or not.
37:12Peter didn't want that.
37:13So maybe we'll let that play out.
37:14Don't have to decide now.
37:16Marry will get dressed.
37:16We should go.
37:19I could do with a bath actually.
37:21My teeth are fucking blueberry fuzz as well.
37:30Fuck.
37:32You sad man.
37:34You beautiful and sad man.
37:38But why is Gregor in my bath?
37:41I thought this sick liaison was done.
37:44Hi, Maxim.
37:45Just resting a minute.
37:46You're rending my garments.
37:47You fucking killed Pokerchef.
37:49Now all hell has broken loose, you fucking little monster.
37:53Archie and I have it in hand.
37:55Relax.
37:56We will be safe as others die.
37:59You have to touch.
38:01No.
38:02No you and Archie.
38:05No.
38:07Enough.
38:10In terms of the fact that you were about to marry her, you could just look at it as you
38:14dodged a bullet.
38:15You could look at trying to dodge a bullet but failing in about one minute.
38:18She wasn't right for you.
38:20Disloyal, for a start, and was definitely the aggressor.
38:22We were friends.
38:23Yeah, and I felt terrible.
38:26Every thrust was like a dagger in my own heart.
38:29Jesus Christ, really?
38:30I just wanted to know how bad I felt.
38:32At one point, she took me in her mouth.
38:35I was staring at your portrait on the other side of the room.
38:38You know the one with the red setter?
38:39I love that picture.
38:40Yeah.
38:41And I was like, this is really bad.
38:44He shouldn't be marrying her.
38:45Can we hurry this along before I just shoot him in the back of the head of point-blank range?
38:48All right, let's go!
38:51Ah, wonderful.
38:52I'm not too late.
38:53Empress, this is between us.
38:55Also made illegal by me.
38:57But these are Russian rules, and you seem to want to live this way, yes?
39:03In fact, I would like to second for Nikolai.
39:05You what?
39:06That's ridiculous.
39:06And yet, within the rules?
39:08It is.
39:09Great.
39:10Nikolai, go stand over there.
39:12I'd like to argue with you, but...
39:14I'm the Empress, and you're also a coward who does not want to die.
39:18Unexpressed.
39:19Begin.
39:20Explain to me how...
39:21I can't shoot you.
39:23Not my problem.
39:24I can shoot you.
39:25Great.
39:26And begin.
39:28Ten paces, turn, and then shoot.
39:32One.
39:34Two.
39:35Three.
39:40You all live by Catherine the Great's rules.
39:43Understand that.
39:45Or leave court.
39:47Petrov, stateroom.
39:48In an hour.
39:49We need a plan.
39:50I'll be there.
40:07Oh, that's my door.
40:11Give him here.
40:12You need to go home, Grigel.
40:14He needs me.
40:17No.
40:18He doesn't.
40:19You need him.
40:21But she needs him more.
40:24You take Paul from me, then I will one day come and find you and kill you in a very
40:29weird way.
40:30Go home, Grigel.
40:33I don't really have one.
40:35I don't really care.
40:41You will be emperor, as your grandfather intended.
40:47And I will live by your side, a benevolent shadow, and guide through this court.
41:02He's all right, Paul.
41:05See his chest moving up and down.
41:08Paul.
41:09Let's go find Uncle Archie.
41:20Look who I found.
41:27How much.
41:33Tatiana?
41:34Yes!
41:35Oh, it's you.
41:36Can you get me another apple?
41:39Oh.
41:40But is it more alluring if I'm on my front so you can just take me from behind?
41:43Paul's coming with George.
41:45And I'd say Grigel as well.
41:46And Pugacheff?
41:47No sign.
41:47But I'm thinking somewhat.
41:49We have the rest of us working in Peter's name and Paul.
41:51I had them eating out of my fucking hands.
41:54We just pretend he's sending me orders.
41:56They don't know.
41:57Look at you.
41:58You're a physic.
42:00And you've got me an apple.
42:02Come here.
42:07He's looking for you.
42:10To tell me what.
42:11How horrible he was again.
42:14I know what he did to me.
42:16That in some ways he was a terrible person.
42:18Terrible leader.
42:20All of it.
42:20How he thwarted me.
42:22How I contorted myself to fit with him.
42:26But I loved him.
42:28And the two are carried here.
42:30In my heart.
42:32Understand that.
42:33I do.
42:34You understand this, though.
42:36I have something to offer.
42:38I have to have my hands on something that matters.
42:40And I am someone you need.
42:45What's that?
42:47Letters between Archie and Pugacheff.
42:51He lit this fire.
42:53And he got Maxim to kill him.
42:56I've forgiven a dark view of humanity.
42:58You know why?
43:00Because bad shit happens to me all the time.
43:02And people are pricks.
43:04And that's why you need me.
43:11Archie.
43:20Let's go.
43:27And so, by the powers vested in me by our Lord God,
43:30I channel his powers into this child
43:32to do God's work as he one day becomes Russia's leader.
43:36This is very long.
43:37Hurry through this, Archie.
43:39Let's get to the wedding.
43:40God has touched and...
43:42Good doggy!
43:43In the middle of it.
43:44Sorry, Willis.
43:45Fuck!
43:45Ignore them.
43:46And yet, let's all accept we're part of this.
43:49Fine.
43:50Fine.
43:50God has touched and chosen you,
43:53Paul, Petrovich, Ilyich, Vasiliev, Alexievich, Romanov.
43:57All so very long.
43:58Can you just...
43:58Say amen!
43:59You say amen, I'll put a hole in you.
44:01Oh, shit.
44:01Hugo, don't fucking move!
44:03You're about to die.
44:04Put him down, Archie.
44:05He won't shoot you.
44:06Say it.
44:08I don't like the look in his eye, to be honest.
44:10Good analysis.
44:11Put the baby down and walk away.
44:15Fucker!
44:16You are the leader, the one God has chosen.
44:19Amen.
44:20Amen.
44:20Yes.
44:21Archie!
44:21The Empress has requested the Patriarch's presence immediately.
44:25Mustache.
44:31Well, half done.
44:33It's all for Peter and Paul, darling.
44:35We're done.
44:36You and I.
44:37Well, full disclosure, I am actually interested in someone else long term.
44:43So agreed.
44:44Mm-hmm.
45:08Feels strangely right.
45:17You sat.
45:18I did.
45:24Empress?
45:26I would like to apologize.
45:28My blood's loyalty to you overheats at times,
45:30and I act for your best interests.
45:32Out of my love.
45:33For you.
45:35And also, I'm the killer.
45:37That's Maxim.
45:38Sit, Maxim.
45:42Empress.
45:45Archie.
45:46Hello.
45:47I'd like to thank you for Pugachev.
45:51I'm not sure I...
45:52Archie, don't insult me with faux denials
45:55and the teary clutching of rosary beads and bleatings of innocence.
45:59I was in a haze of grief that didn't allow me to see it.
46:03But you were always the one coming to me with a solution.
46:08I recently shot a man in the head instead of myself,
46:12and it seems to have cleared something for me.
46:16I see with a blazing clarity.
46:20Right.
46:22So...
46:23I asked you to school me in savvy political dealings, did I not?
46:26Uh, you did.
46:27It has been a good lesson, and I'm grateful for your own work, or others involved.
46:35Uh, the gratitude belongs all to me, out of love for you.
46:42I never meant it to get out of hand like this, but let's clean the rest and show Russia your
46:48immense power.
46:49Let's.
46:51The church will come out across the country and say they have asked God for a sign
46:56that Catherine the Great is Russia's destiny.
46:59You will tell them the day and the time to look into the sky to see it.
47:05The comet?
47:06Exactly.
47:06Love it.
47:07They need a story.
47:08This will be one piece of it.
47:10Mariel has the proclamation for you to issue.
47:16What happened to you?
47:18The Empress shot me.
47:20Huzar.
47:21Maxim, I need a general.
47:23I'm sorry, what?
47:24I'm ready.
47:25Oh, come on, he's four.
47:27I want you to get the credit for the killing of Pugachev.
47:29So you will go on a speaking tour and tell the tale of the Cossack Pugachev's death.
47:34After that, there is a military academy in Vladivostok.
47:38You will go there, learn the craft, and return to me.
47:41Vladivostok?
47:42Also where the finest tailors in Russia reside.
47:45Interesting.
47:47But Mariel...
47:48For the good of Russia, I have agreed.
47:51I will visit often.
47:52Nearly seems enough.
47:54And Velomentov, you will go south to tell the tale of the death through the ice.
47:59Petrov, you will go to Moscow and claim the death of Peter III.
48:02And unleash...
48:03Please say a wave of cannonballs.
48:06Cannonballs.
48:06Brilliant.
48:07Of course he goes fucking cannonballs.
48:09Mariel, you will prepare a statement that Peter III is dead by hemorrhoids.
48:13Also a different one, saying smallpox.
48:15Also a different one, saying he was killed while fighting the uprising.
48:19Also that I am Peter the Great's daughter.
48:21Love my new job.
48:23Everyone will get a story they want.
48:25And I will get whichever I need, whenever I need it.
48:29Oh, Archie, one more thing.
48:31Guards!
48:34Take him.
48:34Tear his cassock from his body.
48:36Rip his beard from his face.
48:38And bury him alive.
48:39And then, in a semicircle, piss on the grave.
48:45What?
48:45Now!
48:48I thought you understood!
48:52Wait!
48:55The church has half a million serfs it owns.
48:59You're going to sign this and free them.
49:02The fuck I will?
49:03Also, ten million acres.
49:06Twenty-five acres per serf, which they will be awarded.
49:09The country can watch a grand experiment without the nobles wanting to bathe in my blood.
49:14I hope to shame them into freeing the serfs.
49:17Sign it, or die.
49:21Right.
49:23Fine.
49:25Thanks.
49:31Fucking let go of me!
49:33Oh, you thought they were going to release you?
49:35Sweet.
49:36Take him now.
49:38Catherine!
49:39You fucking blame me!
49:43Consider me school.
49:48Cut his head off and bring it to me.
49:50Head off.
49:50Will do.
49:56That was all very thrilling.
50:02Your seat.
50:05I thought you weren't getting up.
50:09It was an ultimatum.
50:11Had to sound dramatic, or it's not a good ultimatum.
50:30I was in a minute.
50:34Come on!
50:37I thought it was about to do it.
50:41It was about to do it.
50:42It was about to do it.
50:55You may go.
51:11Husband.
51:13Husband.
51:25Husband.
51:27Husband.
51:29Husband.
51:31Husband.
51:31Come on.
52:04It's a good day to kill an empress.
52:13Let it rip.
52:25Oh, fuck.
52:40Oh, fucker.
53:01Oh, fucker.
53:11Oh, fucker.
53:18Destiny didn't do it.
53:19I did it.
53:51She was a fast machine.
53:53She cut the morning cream.
53:55She was the best damn woman that I've ever seen.
53:59She had the saddest eyes.
54:01Telling me no lies.
54:03Knockin' me out with those American thighs.
54:07Take a moment to share.
54:08Had me fallin' for air.
54:10She told me to come, but I was already there.
54:14Cause the world started shakin'.
54:16The earth was quakin'.
54:18My mind was achin'.
54:20We were thinking.
54:22And you
54:23You took me all night long.
54:28Yeah, you
54:30Took me all night long.
54:36Walkin' double time on the seduction roll.
54:40She was one of the kind.
54:42She was one of the kinds of just a man on mouth.
54:44And the walls was shakin'.
54:46The earth was quakin'.
54:47My mind was achin'.
54:49And we were fakin'.
54:51And you
54:52Took me all night long.
54:57You really got me in you.
55:00Took me all night long.
55:03Yeah, you took me.
55:08Yeah, you took me.
55:11Yeah, you took me.
55:13All night long.
55:16Tsk
55:17Tsk
55:18Tsk
55:19Tsk
55:20Tsk
55:20Tsk
55:20Tsk
55:21Tsk
55:21Tsk
55:21Tsk
55:24Tsk
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