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Seeking Persephone Season 1 Episode 4
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00:00This gentleman is clearly ill.
00:03I run in a charity, Gough.
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 Fauston!
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 by the blasted blazes am I trying the same approach?
00:39Though I have promised you that your brother will visit you here,
00:42and that Fauston 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.
00:51I want to believe that.
01:10I want to believe that he is the only one who gets married to you.
01:11What do you think,
01:11or what do they want?
01:13John.
01:13What do you think they can do this now?
01:16What do you think they can do this now?
01:16Run the Lower...
01:17Why do you think they can do this now?
01:23What did you think?
01:24Of course, all the characters you've had to do this now.
01:25John?
01:26What do you think?
01:27Please have Atlas saddled. I wish to ride to the vicarage.
01:30First ride outside the castle gate.
01:32I'm ready.
01:34Very good, Your Grace.
02:17Oh, the veins are getting cold.
02:23Zeus, steady Zeus.
02:27Oh.
02:28Have 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 so close and angry?
02:42Persephone!
02:43She's not answering.
02:47Persephone!
02:48Persephone!
02:49Yeah!
03:05Yeah!
03:06Yeah!
03:10We need to find the pack!
03:11Yeah, I was thinking of that meself, Your Grace!
03:26Whoa!
03:27Steady Zeus.
03:28Steady.
03:29Steady.
03:30Steady.
03:31I heard that too, Your Grace.
03:33We're getting closer.
03:34Steady.
03:38Steady.
03:50I don't know.
04:10I don't know.
04:53I don't know.
05:09We'll be quick about it.
05:10The pack won't stay spooked for long.
05:13Is that me?
05:14Arms around me.
05:15Hold fast.
05:16When we reach the road, we are going to run.
05:39Everyone is to be armed.
05:41The pack's within yards of the castle.
05:43When John Hanley is through that gate, they are to be closed immediately.
05:46Yes, you can.
05:47I'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 she's broken her ankle.
06:00Should I have a surgeon sent for?
06:02No.
06:02The wolves are prowling just outside the gate.
06:04It isn't safe for anyone to go in or out.
06:06They've never done that before.
06:08Stephanie?
06:09Where is Mother?
06:11Drawing room, I think.
06:11Send her up to Persephone's room.
06:26Are we safe now?
06:28Yes.
06:30I was afraid no one would find me.
06:36Massive habits.
06:37Mother, I need your help.
06:38There's blood on her riding habit.
06:42Mother?
06:44Help her to a seat, Harry.
06:48Adam?
06:51Can you take my boot off?
06:54It's too tight.
07:04Adam, she needs a surgeon.
07:05I know.
07:08Bring me boiling water and the strongest brandy Barton can find.
07:11Go.
07:13Help me, Harry.
07:17You'll have to cut it.
07:19Mother, could you find me some scissors?
07:21Look.
07:30Hold her still.
07:31I don't want to accidentally cut her.
07:48Here.
07:49Here.
07:53I'm sorry, Persephone.
07:55I'm trying to be gentle.
08:01I'm sorry.
08:10I'm trying to be gentle.
08:19Here.
08:20Come on.
08:22Here.
08:31Here.
08:32Here.
08:34Here.
08:38Here.
09:00Adam?
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 her, 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, and I thought you might want to know sooner,
10:01than later, even if telling you means overstepping myself 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 a mate on my horse or
10:22at Ewan's house.
10:25Grace 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.
10:43Yes, you do, Chris.
10:46John?
11:05Adam.
11:08May I speak with you?
11:10Please.
11:14Perhaps you should sit down.
11:16I'm so sorry, Adam.
11:19I know you wished me to help with Persephone.
11:21You 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.
11:44Even 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 from 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 spill in the kitchen.
14:37The scent was so strong I could still smell it.
14:39While you were riding.
14:43Exactly.
14:45The groom who helped you mount.
14:47Does he assist you often?
14:49Occasionally.
14:50Do you know his name?
14:51Um...
14:52He wears a green handkerchief round his neck.
14:56None 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 lake.
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 at Grace Mount 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 who tried to kill my wife.
16:09You took the only thing that mattered to me.
16:12Just trying to repay the favour, Guff.
16:15You'll end for this.
16:15Oh no.
16:17I have a better idea.
16:21Put him in the gibbet.
16:23What?
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!
16:42If you're a good woman, please.
16:53I am the law!
16:57Ash-
17:00Let's go!
17:01You're the only one who has to stay here.
17:01You're the only one who is born.
17:02He is now the only one who swam cat.
17:20Dukes aren't supposed to need people, Persephone.
18:01Dukes aren't supposed to need people, Persephone.
18:02Dukes aren't supposed to need people, Persephone.
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 fallen 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, I never missed home.
19:06I believe he is home now.
19:09And he is within the world.
19:20Midshipman Lancaster.
19:22If I had known that your intention in visiting here was to make your sister cry, I would not have
19:27invited 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 on every possible occasion.
19:39And 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.
19:57Ah yes, I remember now.
19:58But I suppose, since you have guessed my plot, I shall have to abandon my ill-fated scheme.
20:03It 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.
20:39Imagine my shock when he walked out of the carriage.
20:42No leading strings on 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.
21:08WFOMC
21:10....
22:10Twelve.
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?
22:31Do you know what my 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?
23:32I know disappearing at 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.
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?
24:35That is the one trait he inherited from Papa.
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, then 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.
25:27Hades loved Persephone.
25:33He let her go because he loved her.
25:37She returned because she loved him.
25:39Hades never let him do hope for her.
25:41Hades never left him.
25:44Hades never let you leave her.
25:54Hashes, later on.
25:56Hades never left him.
26:04Hades never left him.
26:22Thank you for the ball, Adam
26:26It was wonderful
26:29And you were happy
26:32You weren't disappointed
26:36What?
26:40What more were you hoping for?
26:45I've never danced at a ball
26:49Though I've often imagined doing so
26:52I had no intention of asking you to do yet another unpleasant thing today
26:57And yet
26:58I 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
27:41And allow me to hold you
27:54So
28:12Check My thoughts
28:25Linus leaves for structure in the morning to visit your family.
28:31Yes, I know.
28:33You will be leaving with him.
28:35That was not the plan.
28:36It should have been.
28:38It should always have been.
28:41The two of you can depart immediately following breakfast in the morning.
28:47Will you be journeying with us?
28:52I belong at Falston Castle.
29:00And where do I belong?
29:11Your family needs you.
29:14And what about you, Adam?
29:21Dukes don't need people.
29:39What about you?
29:40I apologize for your to-
29:40I'm sorry.
29:42I hope you have my family.
29:43Do you feel a good friend?
29:44I've got the question.
29:44I was going to do for the day.
29:44And when I'm here, I've got my family.
29:44And I was waiting for the day to go.
29:45I was waiting for a meal.
29:46And the day, I was waiting for the day to begin for dinner.
29:46I was waiting for the day to meet you.
29:46I stayed for the day to go.
29:48I was waiting for the day to make a drink.
29:52I did not know that I was waiting for the day.
30:03You'd best not keep the horses standing, Mother.
30:06It'll only take a moment.
30:08And it is more important than me making a timely departure.
30:14Your father and I had an arranged marriage.
30:19No accounting was made for the differences in our dispositions.
30:23I was raised in town, among society.
30:30London, the tonne, it's what I knew and needed.
30:35Your father was raised here, in quiet and solitude.
30:42We wanted very different things in life.
30:48We tried to compromise, to blend our preferences.
30:55But he begrudged the balls and 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 Fulston, and by extension him, through a lens of
31:17bitterness.
31:18I do not wish to hear this.
31:19Resentment grows quickly, Adam.
31:25Your father was a good man, despite his implacableness.
31:31I held out hope for so long, in my foolishly romantic heart, that he would come for me while I
31:40was away.
31:42He never did.
31:45Did you tell him that that was what you were hoping for?
31:50I was so young.
31:52Only seventeen when we married.
31:55In my naivete, I believed that if he truly cared, he would meet me partway.
32:06You are more willing to compromise than your father ever was, and Persephone is more suited to quiet and solitude
32:14than 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 am here to be your conscience.
33:07To save you from yourself.
33:14She will come back.
33:18When Linus returns to his ship, Persephone will return to Fauston.
33:24And I know you well enough to predict that you will act as though you couldn't care less whether she
33:28is 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.
33:54Go to Shropshire.
33:55That isn't how it works.
33:57That isn't how it works.
33:58How it works.
34:02Persephone receives her reprieve, and Hades stays in the underworld, waiting to see if the seeds work.
34:10Obviously you were sleeping during that lecture at Harrow.
34:16Hades did not sit back and wait for Persephone.
34:20When the time came, when the time came, Hades slipped past the hellhounds and ventured into the realm of the
34:25living, to reclaim his bride.
34:29I do not remember that.
34:33Hades was no Pamsi Fribble, Adam.
34:37And I'd better pony his Persephone, knew exactly how her husband felt about her.
34:45how her husband felt about her.
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 that of lying and saying that
35:44you seem to miss the castle.
35:50I do.
35:52Then why do you seem so sad
35:53whenever 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
36:01what 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.
36:39Adam.
36:44Have you come to take me home?
36:47when you're ready
36:50but I
36:52I wanted to see Shropshire
36:56to see where you grew up
36:58you did
37:01and
37:03and get to know your family
37:07and I
37:08I
37:12Hades 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
37:27and 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
37:38how long she'd been gone
37:41but was Persephone as anxious to return
37:44as 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
38:20but
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
38:37is there nothing that I can't
38:38I said you belong at Fauston
38:42only at Fauston
38:44I belong with you
39:07I do love you Adam
39:20the Tom would not believe it
39:22even if they heard you say that
39:25we shall have to convince them
39:28I may enjoy London yet
39:31does this mean I can come to your castle
39:36our castle
39:37is in need of a good exploration
39:42perhaps if you have no other plans for Christmas
39:45you could undertake one then
39:48Athena
39:51you realise she will bring the rest of the family
39:54and Fauston will be overrun with people
40:00well
40:01and there is probably a chance
40:03I will be in a foul mood
40:05from 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
40:22oh my Persephone
40:26do you know that I would have come for you
40:30no matter how far you'd gone
40:34Hades always came for Persephone
40:41and she always returned home
40:47always
41:15do you solve the risk of her
41:15I love you
41:24I love you
41:25I love you
41:27I love you
41:30quite
41:30but he probably
41:30He can配
41:31I love you
41:31hold on
41:31I love you
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