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The Great-Season 3 Episode 11
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00:15You
00:16Did you see that how that we need to negotiate a surrender? Oh we do
00:22You
00:24To me
00:27Because 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
00:41ours
00:42I
00:44Listen or just watching my lips wondering how they taste
00:50You wouldn't be good for me
00:56Very good
01:00I think I'd lose myself
01:04You really fucking would
01:16Hmm
01:21Fuck God
01:23It's me you need
01:25Hmm
01:28No.
01:30No!
01:31No! Fucking no!
01:34Then you'll die with the rest of them, Patriarch.
01:37Ah.
01:42Fucker!
01:48These are fucking painful.
01:53Hello.
01:55I have a carriage waiting.
01:58I'd rather you shoot me. I doubt that.
02:00That seems just pugnacious talk
02:02to preserve one's dignity in the face of defeat.
02:05That sounds like you're not allowed to shoot me.
02:14Annoying.
02:20Good day, sir.
02:22You again.
02:26Shouldn't you be in school?
02:28No.
02:37Oh, outrageous.
02:39Yes.
02:45Hello.
02:47Wife.
02:48You're a fucking liar.
02:50Look alike is a liar, sir.
02:52Occupational hazard.
02:54The things you said to the people.
02:57You were there.
02:59Oh, must have been hard on you.
03:02Can I have some figs?
03:04And 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.
03:22Oh, douche.
03:24Don't do that!
03:28You 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.
03:42And surrender.
03:43As Pugachev, the bad breathed Cossack.
03:46Oh, Sarge.
03:47I mean, they brought me tuna.
03:48What could I do?
03:49You 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.
03:59Or...
04:00I could choose to die.
04:02That 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 gonna die by the knife sometime.
04:10That's how it is for people like me.
04:11So why not die at the height of my infamy,
04:14having fucked up the Empress,
04:16and trashed the good name of a fucking arsehole,
04:19because you both would have killed me
04:20and 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,
04:29they'll still come for you.
04:31They do love me.
04:33The walls fucking shook with my hold on them.
04:35You felt their love for me.
04:37Hm?
04:39Maybe running this country is my destiny.
04:41Oh, honey.
05:32You really planned all these breakfasts in advance?
05:39Crazy.
05:41So annoyed they didn't let me kill him.
05:44Shut up, Maxim.
05:46Fucking guy.
05:47He just wanted a chance at a new life.
05:49Who wouldn't want a chance at a new life?
05:52What if he talks, Mariel, 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 mouthy peasant who someone else now gets to kill.
06:06Could you finish my shoes?
06:07I'm upset and I don't trust the staff.
06:10Let's go.
06:11Let's go.
06:18Let's go.
06:20Let's go.
06:23Let's go.
06:34Let's go.
06:35Let's go.
06:58Let's go.
07:04Let's go.
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09:00Let's go.
09:07Let's go.
09:09Let's go.
09:10Let's go.
09:11Let's go.
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09:15Let's go.
09:35Let's go.
09:40Let's go.
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09:53Let's go.
10:03Let's go.
10:04Let's go.
10:07Let's go.
10:11Call me Maxim.
10:18Morning.
10:19I want a job.
10:21A job? Doing what?
10:23You're not a political person.
10:25Oh, really?
10:25I gave you the idea for the coup which got you on the throne.
10:29Seems political.
10:30What about chief advisor?
10:32Seems vague and probably doesn't involve reading.
10:35Do you remember?
10:37Did I have a sense of destiny before or after you had the coup idea?
10:41Because I feel like maybe I made it up after to kind of make me believe in it.
10:46You arrived delusional about almost everything.
10:49When did I say it?
10:51Um...
10:52I suggested kill him and you said,
10:55I knew I had a destiny here.
10:56I thought it was love. Maybe it's Russia itself.
10:59I said maybe.
11:00Who the fuck knows? Let's focus on my job. I need something.
11:05I cannot just be married to an eleven-year-old and arrange his shoes.
11:09After last night, I've never felt more.
11:11Haters?
11:11And German.
11:13A foreigner.
11:15So many lies.
11:16We're not gonna talk about my job, are we?
11:18At least I will reclaim Peter for Paul.
11:21I need Pukachev to make this deal.
11:26Pukachev's a massive liar, by the way.
11:28I just said that.
11:34Who's that?
11:35Castrati.
11:36Famously great fuck.
11:37Seedless, too.
11:39Forget all that.
11:39You know what?
11:40This is a great day.
11:41You have never led, as you, without Peter on your back, in your head, or up your bum.
11:45Mariel.
11:46The point is, the coup is finally done.
11:51Pretend for me.
11:55It's day one.
11:56Mariel.
11:56Just do it!
11:57For what would it have been like, without him, if he had been dead that first day?
12:01Other than I would have missed the 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, are the people excited.
12:15You look excited, too.
12:17What joy you will bring.
12:18Day one.
12:19Here we go.
12:21As your chief advisor and founding member of the coup, I, for one, am pretty upbeat about the day.
12:29Exactly.
12:30Such happiness.
12:31How will you lead?
12:32Go forth.
12:33Let us discover.
12:37I will lead with a lightness of heart and joy for the task, bringing naivete and delusion to all that
12:43I do.
12:52Your seat, Empress.
12:54Well, gosh.
12:55I'm overwhelmed.
12:57I'm sure it will go oh-so-well, though.
13:15Yes, Empress.
13:17May I?
13:17I am Nikolai Shostikich, the royal astronomer.
13:20I have a royal astronomer.
13:21You hired me in the big science hire at the start of your reign, remember?
13:24Seems so long ago.
13:26Yes.
13:28We have never met.
13:29I will talk fast and to the point in case I am to be ejected by guards, as sometimes happens
13:33to me for a variety of reasons not worth going into.
13:35There is a comet coming.
13:39A comet is a, uh, disturbance.
13:42A hole that tears in the sky, leaving a stream of light behind it.
13:47Beyond the moon, a form of dust and ice compact together to make a, a ball.
13:52No, not a ball.
13:53A fist.
13:54A fist of power and light that shoots through the solar system and passes us by.
14:00Every fucking 75 years, this comet, the same one, swings round and races through the sky again.
14:06What a loop.
14:07And it's the only one.
14:08The only one we can see without a telescope.
14:09And it passes by the Earth just enough so we can see it.
14:12And in a few days, it passes over.
14:14Wait for it.
14:15Russia!
14:17Amazing.
14:18Yeah, and an opportunity.
14:19I suddenly thought.
14:21What I thought last night.
14:22I should have thought earlier.
14:24I could kick you, Nicolai.
14:26Loving this day.
14:27Fascinating.
14:27But I digress.
14:29The people have always viewed the heavens as just that.
14:32God's domain.
14:34The unknowable.
14:35A mystery.
14:35And the Church have used that fear and awe.
14:38But if we tell the people in advance,
14:41send charts and telescopes and show that by way of science and reason, the heavens are knowable.
14:48Man and woman can know them, track them and explain them.
14:52And also maybe send up a balloon with cannons and just blow it out of the sky.
14:56Or at least change its orbit.
15:00No, forget that last part as it's possibly not true and unfeasible.
15:03And I shouldn't have said it.
15:05I even said to myself, walking here, don't say the balloon cannon thing, Nicolai.
15:08But couldn't help yourself.
15:09Exactly.
15:10So...
15:11Can we do this?
15:12Can we...
15:17What?
15:17Clear breach of security, leading to a clear breach in his skull.
15:21No!
15:22Fuck.
15:27You!
15:28Shit.
15:31A duel, sir.
15:32What is going on?
15:33Private matter.
15:34Dueling's illegal, is that right?
15:35Yes, it is.
15:36And who fucking shot Pugachev?
15:38We're dueling.
15:39Greatest respect, Empress.
15:40Even though the statements seem not to contain any.
15:42Who shot him?
15:43I said.
15:43Maximus claim credit.
15:44What?
15:45Beat him like a drum that bleeds.
15:47Empress, we 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?
15:58I had a plan.
15:59Maxim, and now we need a new plan.
16:03I just heard.
16:07Shit.
16:08What do we do now?
16:10To think I once rode him.
16:13And he uttered desperately foul oaths in my ear as I came.
16:17From memory, it was something like,
16:19I'll rip open your ribcage with my bare hands
16:22and fuck you in your windpipe as I give your foie gras liver a handjob.
16:27I mean, out of context.
16:29Bizarre.
16:29And yet, in the moment.
16:31I mean, I came like a sudden blizzard.
16:33But enough reminiscing.
16:35Let's focus on what now?
16:37We're in a very dangerous place.
16:43Catherine?
16:46So I guess the surrendertor as Pugachev is 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 and a vacuum at the top.
16:57One group massed behind one man.
16:59Easy to fight.
17:00They splinter into disparate, random groups fighting chaos.
17:03Or someone else rises.
17:04That's very pessimistic, Petrov.
17:06And yet accurate.
17:07We need to decide what to do before they do.
17:10Even word of his death will light a wick on something.
17:12They don't know he's dead at this point.
17:14That gives us the upper hand.
17:15My opinion.
17:16We need to mass troops.
17:17Bring the body and...
17:18Interesting.
17:19Empress, you need to own his death.
17:20He being Peter III.
17:22You need to come out and say you killed Peter.
17:24Ideally with the body.
17:25And then probably say something along 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.
17:36Ended Peter the Great's line?
17:37How dare you, Archie?
17:38There's Paul.
17:39Is there?
17:40Hasn't been at the buffet lately.
17:41We're not doing any of that.
17:42Then what are we doing?
17:44Because we fucking need to do something.
17:46Fuck!
17:46Fuck!
17:47This place!
17:49Katherine!
17:54I call that inconclusive.
17:56I call it a petulant response to a massive challenge that brings into question her competency.
18:02And I call that treason.
18:04But you call it inaccurate?
18:06No.
18:08Didn't think so.
18:11We need to hold our nerve and hold together!
18:17He will be back.
18:18And not only that.
18:19I can tell you this.
18:21We will retake the palace and restore Peter as the head of Russia!
18:28Huzzah!
18:42You're waiting for him!
18:43Fucking hell, Tatiana!
18:45He told me he wanted to rip the dress from my body.
18:47But we left in a hurry, so I don't have many dresses.
18:50I thought this was easier.
18:51Well, he hasn't come back, so stand down and put some clothes on.
18:54I don't know where he is, but that hall is full of maniacs who are ready to go.
18:58Where is he?
18:59With someone else, probably.
19:01Hurtful.
19:02You lying here naked for another man, however, is fine.
19:05We always said we'd let each other evolve as we needed to as humans.
19:09Or would you like our marriage to literally choke off our personal growth?
19:13Seems a difficult either or.
19:14You need to keep those madmen out there under control until he gets back.
19:18They do keep looking at me like you're his best friend, you should know.
19:21Look, people are riled up.
19:25Are you just going to lay here?
19:27It's got to come back at some point.
19:30Want anything?
19:31I could use an apple.
19:51Hi.
19:52Sorry.
19:53Inappropriate entry to your private quarters, but we have some time issues.
19:56The Comet.
19:56May I do it?
19:57A brilliant idea and a good distraction for the country from your troubles.
20:03Also, sorry about the duel.
20:04I know it's illegal, but I'm kind of in it.
20:07My power over my own court is clearly waning.
20:10You slept with Petrov's fiancee.
20:13I have this thing that happens to me and women when I talk to them and we end up fucking.
20:19Yeah, I feel exactly the same way about it.
20:21It is laughable.
20:22Not how I see myself.
20:23And yet.
20:24You are an accidental womanizer.
20:26That's a good way of putting it.
20:30What's it like to run Russia?
20:32I mean, that's crazy.
20:33I run an office with three people and it is a wrangling of drunk, insane cats who spit poison and
20:39speak in whiny hieroglyphic codes.
20:42Not that we're not doing a great job, we are, so don't cut our funding.
20:47But it's just complicated.
20:50These humans, I don't get paid enough.
20:52There are no biscuits.
20:52Why is Anatole at the window?
20:54It's sun.
20:54Russia must be...
20:57I digress.
20:58Bad habit, along with overreach.
21:00But an office with 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, be nice, be friends, be a tyrant.
21:22Still, everyone's at me.
21:23Probably why I spend all my time looking at the sky.
21:29It's happening, as you said.
21:32What?
21:36Fuck me.
21:37What?
21:39You hurt.
21:39I did.
21:40I just...
21:41Want 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.
21:50On my way.
21:52Oh!
21:53Oh!
21:55Oh!
21:58Oh!
22:00Oh!
22:02Oh!
22:03Oh!
22:05Oh!
22:05Oh!
22:07Oh!
22:08Oh!
22:09Oh!
22:11Oh!
22:11Stop doing that!
22:13Walking in on me!
22:14On us!
22:15On Peter and me!
22:16To see if we would make a baby!
22:19To see if we would make a baby!
22:19You can go, young man.
22:22The Empress, assuming no lemon top, needs a douche bath of nettle and snake venom immediately.
22:32I walk in unannounced as it is the best way to see where people are.
22:36To catch them as they are.
22:38Like seeing a squirrel, startled suddenly as it sucks on a nut.
22:42And whilst it is, on a personal level, thrilling to see you back fucking, on a wear mired in a
22:48national crisis, I do begin to question your priorities.
22:52Maybe start fucking people after you save the country from 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 what 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.
23:12Because if you wring me wet, nothing will come out but tears and weakness.
23:20It is just grief.
23:22Can you just go?
23:25No.
23:25I can't.
23:27Elizabeth!
23:28Catherine.
23:28Guards!
23:29Guards!
23:32Remove her!
23:33Dimitri and Alexei.
23:35You touch me now, you will never touch me again.
23:41Oh my god.
23:42You may go.
23:44Later.
23:51I have no grip on anyone.
23:55My own head of the army is doing an illegal duel, oblivious to my wishes.
23:59They are burning effigies all over the country.
24:01My name inspires hate.
24:03Not change.
24:05And I am rotten with grief throughout my being.
24:10And I am becoming sure that I have told myself and others a delusional story that has brought Russia to
24:21its knees.
24:23I know it feels like you are broken.
24:26I am broken.
24:28Not all the way through.
24:30You just fucked a boy against the wall.
24:32That was strange.
24:34Suddenly I just thought, I want to fuck him.
24:37Nothing else.
24:38I was just present and wanted fucking.
24:40I...
24:40Wow.
24:43Oh no.
24:43Now I feel terrible.
24:45Like you took a step away from Peter.
24:47Yes, and I don't want to.
24:48You need to.
24:50What if I can't?
24:51I know you're in pain.
24:52And clouds of confusion fill your head.
24:55But you now need to stand up.
25:00Or...
25:01You know the or.
25:07Someone else will.
25:09You?
25:12Yes.
25:13Me.
25:15Perhaps it is as you said.
25:17My destiny and not yours.
25:19Perhaps you weren't it.
25:20I was wrong.
25:22I am it.
25:23And you are merely a pretty stepping stone for me to wake up and see that.
25:28Jesus.
25:29Because the world burns a person down many times.
25:33And you shake off the ashes.
25:35And you walk into the next fire knowing that the fire...
25:38never gets to the core of you.
25:42That is me.
25:44And that is who is needed now.
25:48Tomorrow if I sit down in that seat I don't get up.
25:52For anyone.
25:57I love you.
26:01I love you.
26:01And I you.
26:19Where is she?
26:21Weren't you going to follow her to Gregor?
26:22I might have made a small misjudgment.
26:25Or not.
26:26We'll see how it plays out.
26:27I'm hoping the idea sets in her head and she sees she needs us.
26:31You decided something without me.
26:33I added Georgina to the plan.
26:35A disappointing and I suspect idiotic betrayal.
26:38Let's assume George gets the baby and realizes we're the next step.
26:42Well, let's have the next step after the next steps ready.
26:47Hmm.
26:53I knew you'd come here.
26:55The three of us always came here.
26:57No one can find you.
27:01Where's Paul?
27:05Gregor!
27:05Safest place.
27:07No one looks up.
27:08Get him down.
27:13Birds.
27:14Been a hassle.
27:15And there was a bear.
27:16A bear?
27:17Furry.
27:17He said furry after we shot the bear.
27:19What a kid.
27:29Squirrel coats. Matching.
27:32Are you mad?
27:33You clearly are.
27:35It's fine.
27:36I'm here to look after you as always my darling.
27:39Let's take him back.
27:40He's not safe in court.
27:41They're coming for him and all of us.
27:43He's not safe here either in a fucking box in a tree Gregor.
27:48We can do this together.
27:50We always wanted a child.
27:51No we didn't.
27:52We said it would distract us from Peter.
27:53It would re-energize our marriage.
27:55I love Mariel.
27:55You don't!
27:56And it's very annoying that you keep saying it.
27:58I do.
27:59She hates Peter so it's hard and confusing because
28:02I feel pain at her absence in my ribcage area.
28:06My head cries much at the loss of her.
28:10And then...
28:10Peter.
28:13I can't even feel anything.
28:17But...
28:18Paul is all.
28:19That's my new motto.
28:20We say it all the time don't we Paul?
28:22Paul is all.
28:23I agree.
28:24Paul is all.
28:25He should be emperor and...
28:28We can make it so.
28:30What?
28:31I'm good at this.
28:32At what? I'm not following.
28:33Politics.
28:34I think by pretending to change I actually did.
28:38If this goes the way it's clearly going.
28:41We might need a new leader behind Paul.
28:44And that's you.
28:47What the fuck?
28:48You.
28:51Why not me?
28:53You're not them.
28:54They're not them.
28:56No one's fucking them until they decide they're fucking them.
29:00This country can be changed for the better.
29:03For Peter.
29:05For our dearest friend to keep his line alive.
29:09I'm not helping you kill her.
29:11He loved her.
29:12He loved us too.
29:13For longer.
29:16Do it for him.
29:21Or another way?
29:26Oh.
29:30Oh.
29:32Woo!
29:33Ohmm!
29:37Oh!
29:38oh well.
29:39She's fine, Paul. See? Look at her up and down chest. That's called breathing.
29:46But always be listening to what steps behind you in the forest.
30:00Oh, I remember these. We did all of them, didn't we?
30:05That one. The wheelbarrow with fruit. I loved it.
30:12You handsome savage.
30:15You delectable sexual hooligan.
30:19You look unsure. You know I can't stand that.
30:23I'm pondering.
30:24Not you. You're all instinct. Killer.
30:27Impaler on a large pole right around Moscow. Take this fucking place, Paul, on your knee.
30:32Hey, I seem to recall that you looked into my dying, but beautiful as the deep blue sea eye is
30:39a promise to protect my line.
30:42Things change. I've evolved.
30:44Our love is eternal.
30:46You're dead. Everything's eternal for you. I love her.
30:50You love me more.
30:57Now you're needling me. I remember it.
31:00Then torrid sex ensues.
31:02Just remove her.
31:05Before you're trampled into black and blue paste by rampaging ex-Cossacks, cross-eyed with liquor, buzzing with rage,
31:12and with a need to feel blood spray in their eyes to make them happy.
31:16Jesus.
31:17I know. Powerful word pictures that can transform moments.
31:22One of my many gifts, you'll recall.
31:24I do.
31:26And having no empathy for anyone.
31:29Another gift, like you are with Peter.
31:31Who drowns on their fucking horse?
31:35Their kid.
31:36You heartless monster.
31:38You sassy enchantress.
31:40I'm not doing that. I'm calling you a fucking heartless monster.
31:44Oh.
31:46You know you have to take the throne.
31:48Well, you'll fucking die and lose everything.
31:51Shh.
31:52Did you just shush Peter the Great?
31:58You're not choosing her.
32:02Maybe I'm choosing something else.
32:04What I want instead of what you want.
32:07You contrary argumentative strubbit.
32:12You deaf, blind, oh.
32:15God, I could tear all your clothes off with my teeth.
32:20Except you can't.
32:23You can just...
32:25go.
32:27Oh.
32:30This duel.
32:31I probably shouldn't do it.
32:33Undermines the Empress of this delicate point.
32:36She seems like a drunk on the end of a jetty.
32:39As humans sometimes are when they have their hearts crushed by fate.
32:43I'll call it off.
32:45No.
32:46Do it.
32:48She must stand up and lead.
32:51Or not.
32:52If she can't.
32:55It's a bit like when I was a boy.
32:57I had all these apples.
32:59And I wouldn't give them away.
33:01Or eat them.
33:01Or make cider.
33:03For the life of me, I couldn't decide.
33:05And then they just rotted.
33:07And I looked like the fucking idiot I was.
33:11I think it's more like a young woman, lost at sea,
33:15throwing up into the ocean due to prevailing winds and insect bites,
33:21hoping some friendly sharks will guide her home.
33:26She must find her compass, but she's been blinded by a raven.
33:31And if she eventually falls in,
33:34the sharks will just have to...
33:37Be sharks?
33:39Yes.
33:42And the army and I will need to be marching in figure eights and hexagons as one.
33:48Right.
33:50Got it.
33:58Hi.
33:59Sorry.
34:00But it's a bit urgent.
34:02Hugo, what are you doing?
34:03You know what I smell out there?
34:04I smell what I smelt in Sweden.
34:08Implosion.
34:12And I do feel bad about Peter and stealing the army.
34:16And as you're about to be gargling on your own blood,
34:18I thought I'd give you some advice.
34:20You need to run.
34:24I can't run.
34:26That's what I thought.
34:28Out of some misguided sense of obligation?
34:30Destiny.
34:32It's my favorite desk.
34:33I don't want to leave it.
34:35But Paris?
34:36Rome?
34:38You tell me, ex-kings and queens, I'm going to be fetid there.
34:41And the food and the art.
34:44I see a new life.
34:48We'll have a carriage ready at nine in the courtyard.
34:50Get Paul.
34:52Or tell me where he is and I'll get him.
34:54We get in.
34:55And we go.
34:57I'll leave that with you.
35:03Make the right decision.
35:05Or don't and die.
35:28Die, bitch!
35:54Oh my god.
35:58What are you doing?
36:01You're a sight.
36:03A sight I need in my eyes.
36:05What do you want?
36:06Other than clearly and also logically.
36:08My body?
36:10Marry me.
36:13You hated me, because I hate Peter.
36:16Know that I always will.
36:18I do know, but I need you.
36:20In the forest, so quiet.
36:23I 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?
36:39I 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 hole up there.
36:47We 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, but it's actually good.
37:05Paul will learn the complexity of human life.
37:08And 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.
37:15Don't have to decide now.
37:16Marry, get dressed.
37:17We should go.
37:18I could do with a bath, actually.
37:21My teeth are fucking blueberry fuzz as well.
37:31Fuck.
37:32You sad man.
37:34You beautiful, sad man.
37:39But why is Gregor in my bath?
37:41I thought this sick liaison was done.
37:44Hi, Maxine.
37:45Just resting a minute.
37:46You're rending my garments.
37:48You fucking killed Pokerchef.
37:49Now all hell has broken loose, you foppy little monster.
37:53Archie and I have it in hand.
37:55Relax.
37:56We'll be safe as others die.
37:58We have the touch.
38:01No.
38:03No you and Archie.
38:05No.
38:08Enough.
38:10In terms of the fact that you were about to marry her,
38:13you could just look at it as you dodged a bullet.
38:15You could look at trying to dodge a bullet,
38:17but failing in about one minute.
38:18She wasn't right for you.
38:20Disloyal, for a start, and was definitely the aggressor.
38:23We were friends.
38:24Yeah, and I felt terrible.
38:26Every thrust was like a dagger in my own heart.
38:29Jesus Christ, really?
38:30I just want you 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. I'm not too late.
38:53Empress, this is between us.
38:55Also made illegal by me.
38:57But these are Russian rules.
38:59And 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.
39:07And yet, within the rules?
39:08It is.
39:09Great.
39:10Nikolai, go stand up 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.
39:22Not my problem.
39:24I can shoot you.
39:26Great.
39:26And begin.
39:28Ten paces, turn, and then shoot.
39:32One.
39:34Two.
39:36Three.
39:36Three.
39:41You all live by Catherine the Great's rules.
39:44Understand that.
39:45Or leave court.
39:48Petrov, stateroom.
39:49In an hour.
39:49We need a plan.
39:50I'll be there.
40:08Whoa.
40:09That's my nose.
40:11Give him here.
40:12You need to go home, Griggle.
40:14He needs me.
40:17No.
40:18He doesn't.
40:20You need him.
40:22But she needs him more.
40:24You take Paul from me, then I will one day come and find you and kill you in...
40:29a very weird way.
40:31Go home, Griggle.
40:34I don't really have one.
40:35I don't really care.
40:41You will be emperor.
40:43As your grandfather intended.
40:47And I will live by your side.
40:50A benevolent shadow.
40:52And guide through this court.
41:02He's all right, Paul.
41:05He is just moving up and down.
41:08Paul.
41:10Let's go find Uncle Archie.
41:19He's all right, Paul.
41:20Look who I found.
41:27How large.
41:33Tatiana?
41:34Yes!
41:35Oh, it's you.
41:37Can 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?
41:44Paul's coming with George.
41:45And I'd say Grigger as well.
41:46I'm Pugacheff.
41:47No sign.
41:48But I'm thinking somewhat.
41:49We have the rest of us working in Peter's name and Paul.
41:52I 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.
41:59Your physics.
42:00And you bought me an apple.
42:02Come here.
42:07I was looking for you.
42:10To tell me what?
42:11How horrible he was again?
42:14Wow.
42:15I know what he did to me.
42:16That in some ways he was a terrible person.
42:19Terrible leader.
42:20All of it.
42:21How 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.
42:41And 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 have given a dark view of humanity.
42:58You know why?
43:00Because bad shit happens to me.
43:02All the time.
43:03And people are pricks.
43:04And that's why you need me.
43:11Archie.
43:21Let's go.
43:27And so by the powers vested in me by our Lord God.
43:30I channel his powers into this child.
43:33To do God's work as he one day becomes Russia's leader.
43:36This is very long.
43:38Hurry 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 Willace.
43:45Fuck. Ignore them.
43:46And yet let's all accept we're part of this.
43:49Fine.
43:50God has touched and chosen you.
43:52Paul, Petrovich, Ilyich, Vasiliev, Alexievich, Romanov.
43:57All so very long.
43:58Can you just...
43:59Say amen.
44:00You say amen, I'll put a hole in you.
44:01Oh shit.
44:02Silke, don't fucking move.
44:03You're about to die.
44:04Put him down Archie.
44:05He won't shoot you.
44:07Say 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.
44:16Fucker!
44:16You are the leader.
44:18The one God has chosen.
44:19Amen.
44:20Amen.
44:20Yes.
44:21Archie!
44:22The Empress has requested the Patriarch's presence immediately.
44:25Must dash.
44:31Well, half done.
44:33It's all for Peter and Paul, darling.
44:35We're done.
44:36You and I.
44:38Well, full disclosure, I am actually interested in someone else long term.
44:42So agreed.
45:08Feels strangely right.
45:17You sat.
45:19I did.
45:25Empress.
45:26I would like to apologize.
45:28My blood's loyalty to you overheats at times.
45:31And I act for your best interests.
45:33Out of my love.
45:34For 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...
45:53Archie.
45:53Don't insult me with faux denials and 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.
46:04But you were always the one coming to me with a solution.
46:09I recently shot a man in the head instead of myself.
46:13And 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.
46:29And I'm grateful.
46:32All your own work or others involved.
46:36Uh, the gratitude belongs all to me.
46:41Out of love for you.
46:43I never meant it to get out of hand like this.
46:45But let's clean the rest and show Russia your immense power.
46:49Let's.
46:52The 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.
47:07Love it.
47:07They need a story.
47:09This 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.
47:20Bizarre.
47:21Maxim.
47:22I need a general.
47:23I'm sorry, what?
47:24I'm ready.
47:25Oh, come on.
47:26He's four.
47:27I want you to get the credit for the killing of Pugachev.
47:30So 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.
47:42Vladivostok?
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, and 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, and I will get whichever I need whenever I need it.
48:29Oh, Archie, one more thing.
48:31Guards!
48:34Take him, tear his cassock from his body, rip his beard from his face, and bury him alive.
48:40And 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?
49:04Also, ten million acres.
49:06Twenty-five acres per serf which they will be awarded.
49:08The 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.
49:18Sign it, or die.
49:21Right.
49:24Fine.
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.
49:51Will do.
49:56That was all very thrilling.
50:02Your seat.
50:06I thought you weren't getting up.
50:09It was an ultimatum.
50:11Had to sound dramatic, or it's not a good ultimatum.
50:14That was all right.
50:37I had to stop.
50:41I asked Kandi.
50:55You may go.
51:11Husband.
51:14You may go.
52:04It's a good day to kill an empress.
52:14Let it rip.
52:25Oh, fuck.
52:42Fucker.
52:49Fucker.
53:18Destiny didn't do it.
53:20I did it.
53:21I did it.
53:24I did it.
53:29I did it.
53:37I did it.
53:51I did it.
53:52I did it.
54:11I did it.
54:14I did it.
54:16I did it.
54:28I did it.
54:36I did it.
54:40I did it.
54:46I did it.
54:46The earth was quaking
54:48My mind was aching
54:49And we were faking
54:51And you shook me all night long
54:57You're really happy
54:59And you shook me all night long
55:03Yeah, you shook me
55:06Yeah, you shook me
55:12All night long
55:43Yeah, you shook me
56:15Yeah, you shook me
56:15Yeah, you shook me
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