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00:06For my son, for the throne, I will not fall.
00:15A woman on the throne, the old laws forbid it.
00:21Hand over the regency, my lady.
00:24A queen cannot rule alone.
00:32Silence!
00:48The king's last will, his seal.
00:51Read it, all of you.
00:55This, this is his private seal.
00:59The seal is genuine.
01:00I witness the king press it himself.
01:08Long live the queen!
01:20Caesar, you were at the frontier.
01:23Frontier?
01:24I rode three days and nights.
01:26For what's mine.
01:37That crown, it should be mine.
01:43Put it away, Caesar.
01:45Blood on the throne makes a poor start.
01:48The will could be forged.
01:49Who verifies it?
01:52The royal seal never leaves the king's chamber.
01:55Only he could press it.
01:58And yet, a boy of nine on the throne, who truly rules.
02:02I rule, as regent, until my son comes of age.
02:07The court has sworn.
02:09The queen stands.
02:11This session is over.
02:20This isn't over.
02:21Enjoy the crown while you can.
02:34Your highness, don't drink that.
02:37Yes.
02:47Poison in his nightly wine.
02:51Mother, what's wrong?
02:57They won't even spare a nine-year-old boy.
03:10The wine came from the east kitchen.
03:12Who had access?
03:17Gone.
03:18The kitchen ledger burned last night.
03:22Every witness silenced.
03:25They destroy everything before I can move.
03:30The dukes stand together.
03:32The court wavers.
03:34I have no one.
03:39Selina.
03:40You cannot fight them all alone.
03:42Not like this.
03:44Then who stands with me, father?
03:46Name one.
03:55A decree from the holy site, your majesty.
04:02The pope himself.
04:04The holy site never touches royal disputes.
04:06The church outranks the dukes.
04:09Even Caesar must kneel to God.
04:12If the crown can't save my son, maybe the mitle can.
04:15The man.
04:36Thirty years.
04:38And still I hide beneath this cloth.
04:54Augustu, the pope.
04:56Nothing more.
05:09Augustu, the pope.
05:10Augustu, the pope.
05:10Forgive the late hour, your holiness.
05:12I couldn't sleep.
05:15Speak, Severus.
05:17What troubles you?
05:21There are whispers.
05:24Some say the pope has been acting strangely of late.
05:28Whispers of the devil's tongue.
05:30I pay them no mind.
05:31Of course.
05:33And yet, a pope must be above all doubt.
05:38Is that a warning, Severin?
05:41Merely concern, your holiness.
05:44Are you quite well these days?
06:03We command the late king's soul to the eternal light.
06:08Your holiness, before we pray, the realm needs a strong king, not a boy.
06:17This is his father's funeral, Sizer.
06:20Have you no shame?
06:22Shame.
06:24I speak truth.
06:27Let the dukes decide who should wear the crown.
06:31The duke has a point.
06:34A regency breeds chaos.
06:39Say something, please.
06:43You're my only hope.
06:51Edmund, Edmund, wake up.
06:54Someone help.
06:56Look.
06:57The boy collapses at his own father's rights.
07:00Heaven forsakes him.
07:01The boy is unfit to rule.
07:04He's just a child.
07:06He's just a child.
07:09He's just a child.
07:19Your holiness, you speak for God.
07:22Then speak for my son.
07:27Begging on your knees.
07:29A queen indeed.
07:32Cast the lots.
07:34Read the heavens.
07:35Prove he is chosen.
07:36Or let they take everything.
07:41From this day, you are a boy.
07:44A girl can never wear the might.
07:50Enough.
07:54I will cast the lots myself.
07:56Three days, God will answer.
07:59And if the heavens say the boy is cursed?
08:03Then you'll have your answer.
08:05Until then, hold your tongue.
08:14Sedative herbs.
08:16Every week.
08:17For months.
08:24Not a curse.
08:25Slow poison.
08:27Someone's been killing the boy for months.
08:29The seal.
08:31It's ours.
08:32The poison came through the holy seat.
08:35The enemy is inside these walls.
08:38And that woman fights alone against them all.
08:41So be it.
08:42This game, I'm in.
08:57The lots are cast.
08:58Hear the will of heaven.
09:01The boy is not cursed.
09:04Edmund is chosen by God.
09:06His collapse was no omen.
09:08It was poison.
09:09Someone has been murdering your king's heir.
09:13Poison?
09:14Where is your proof, your holiness?
09:18Months of poison.
09:20Fed to a child.
09:22The holy site will hunt the culprit.
09:24Any who obstruct, answer to God.
09:27Heaven protects the king.
09:29Long live King Edmund.
09:37Your holiness.
09:38You saved my son.
09:40I don't know how to quit.
09:41Don't kneel.
09:43I did not do it for gratitude.
09:47Then why?
09:49The church never touches royal blood.
09:55Because I know what it is.
09:57To be caged by rules you never chose.
10:01A word, your majesty.
10:03The oracle bought you time.
10:04Not safety.
10:05What do you mean?
10:07The one who fed your son poison for months.
10:10He's close.
10:11Closer than you think.
10:13And he hasn't shown his face yet.
10:18Why does my heart race?
10:20Just watching him walk away.
10:28The poison herbs were shipped through your estate, Valentin.
10:31Explain.
10:34Forged.
10:35Anyone can plant this.
10:36Ask Caesar.
10:37He controls the eastern roads.
10:42You're blaming me now.
10:43The herbs passed your gates, brother.
10:45Your seal, your men.
10:46You set me up.
10:47You want the throne and my head both.
10:50Let the wolves tear each other apart.
10:54The church will find the truth.
10:56I've summoned the kitchen servant who mixed the wine.
10:58He testifies tomorrow.
11:07Your holiness, the kitchen servant.
11:10He's dead.
11:11Found in his cell an hour ago.
11:16Our seal on the murder weapon.
11:19Someone wants this pinned on the church.
11:23Pinned on the church, your holiness, or pinned on you?
11:28The witness who could expose the poisoner, silenced with our holy seal.
11:33And you were the last to see him.
11:36You dare accuse me, Severus?
11:37Treason.
11:38Conspiring with foreign hands to murder the heir.
11:40Tell me, your holiness, how do you explain this?
11:51Enough.
11:52I heard every word from the corridor.
11:54Your majesty, this is a matter of the church.
11:57Secular power has no place here.
11:59The prison log.
12:00The holy-sized guards left the servant's cib an hour before his death.
12:03Your men, Severus, not his holiness.
12:05This proves nothing.
12:07It proves the killer wore your seal to frame his holiness.
12:10Shall we ask the king's court to investigate you?
12:14This isn't finished, your majesty.
12:20You defended me before your own court.
12:23Why?
12:24You saved my son.
12:26Did you think I'd let them destroy you?
12:31To the one who stands with me when no one else would.
12:37To an unlikely alliance, your majesty.
12:45Selina, don't drink it.
12:47Selina, don't drink it.
12:50Poison.
12:51Again.
12:52Selina, run.
12:53No!
12:55Augusto, stay with me!
13:00Someone get a physician!
13:09The poison's drawn out, your majesty.
13:11But the fever's high.
13:13He must not be disturbed tonight.
13:26You took that cup for me, you reckless fool.
13:33Why does looking at you make it so hard to breathe?
13:42This...
13:43This...
13:44This isn't...
13:46This isn't...
13:51What are you doing?
13:54I...
13:54I...
13:55I was only tending your fever.
13:56Then let go.
13:58And forget what your fingers found.
14:09Forgive me.
14:10The fever.
14:11It brings on nightmares.
14:13I lash out.
14:17You gripped me like a soldier.
14:19Not like a man of God.
14:23Years of self-discipline.
14:25Old habits.
14:28Rest your holiness.
14:29I'll have the guards watch the door.
14:32Her fingers found my secret.
14:34If she speaks, it's the end.
14:39What is wrong with me?
14:41He's the Pope.
14:42And I...
14:42I'm a queen.
14:43A mother.
14:45I've buried a husband.
14:46I have a son to protect.
14:47I cannot.
14:48I will not fall for a man of the cloth.
14:49Selina.
14:50Caesar struck again.
14:52While you played nursemaid to the Pope.
14:56A joint petition.
14:57To force Edmund to abdicate.
14:59Three dukes signed in blood.
15:01The court convenes at dawn.
15:03If we don't stop this,
15:04the boy loses the crown.
15:06Fight them alone.
15:07Or crawl back to the one person I must not love.
15:12Three dukes.
15:14The court.
15:14All agree the realm needs a grown king, not a poisoned boy.
15:18The Holy See declared him chosen by God.
15:20You defy the church now, Caesar.
15:23The church?
15:24Your dear Pope lies poisoned in your bed.
15:26Convenient.
15:27Now who protects you?
15:29A regent who can't even secure her own halls.
15:32How can she secure a kingdom?
15:33The petition is unlawful.
15:35Blood prints under duress prove nothing.
15:39Sign the boy's abdication, Selina.
15:42I'll watch this court strip it from him by force.
15:46This session is adjourned.
15:48I'll give my answer in three days.
15:55Your Majesty.
15:56At this hour in the rain?
15:59They're forcing Edmund to abdicate.
16:01Three days.
16:02I have no one left, Augusty.
16:03No one but you.
16:06A blood petition.
16:07Bold.
16:09Caesar moves faster than I thought.
16:11Help me.
16:12Use the church's power.
16:14Stop them.
16:15I'm begging you.
16:18Selina.
16:20Please, step back.
16:22I can't lose my son.
16:24And I can't stay away from you.
16:27My heart.
16:29Why does it race like this?
16:31This can't be happening.
16:39The petition.
16:41Let's focus on the petition.
16:49You're trembling.
16:52The church will issue a decree.
16:53Any who force the king's abdication defy God's will.
16:56That buys you time.
16:57Why do you always help me?
16:59Say it's not just duty.
17:02Enough!
17:03You forget yourself, Your Majesty.
17:05And so do I.
17:07I...
17:08I overstepped.
17:10Forgive me.
17:11The decree.
17:12Take it.
17:14Present it to the court.
17:15Now go.
17:17Thank you, Your Holiness.
17:19I won't trouble you again tonight.
17:24I nearly kissed her.
17:26God help me.
17:27What is happening to me?
17:32Thirty years, I felt nothing.
17:35Why now?
17:36Why her?
17:40Three days are up, Selina.
17:42The court awaits.
17:43Will the boy abdicate or not?
17:47The Holy Psy has spoken.
17:49Read His Holiness decree.
17:55The late king entrusted his heir to God's protection.
17:59Any who force King Edmund's abdation defies the church and defies heaven itself.
18:03Excommunication awaits any who sign such a petition.
18:06Choose wisely.
18:08How convenient.
18:09The Pope defends the queen at every turn.
18:11Tell me, Your Holiness.
18:12Since when does the church take a widow's side so eagerly?
18:15Or has the Holy See been bought?
18:17A Pope in a queen's pocket is no Pope at all.
18:21You slander the church to save your own ambition, Caesar.
18:26Slander.
18:27The whole court sees it.
18:29The crown and the mitle.
18:31Far too close for comfort.
18:36The Pope shields her at every step.
18:40Decrees, oracles, excommunication threats.
18:42He's the wall I can't break.
18:44My lord, the court wavers, but the Pope's word still holds.
18:48As long as he stands, the queen stands.
18:53Then we remove the wall, since God protects them.
18:57Then we kill the man who speaks for God.
19:00Tonight, send the assassins to the holy scene.
19:11Assassins in the house of God?
19:20Caesar's dogs, he wants me silenced.
19:27Guards!
19:28Protect his holiness!
19:29Cut them down!
19:45I've got you.
19:46I won't let them touch you.
19:49Selina, you're hit.
19:50Why would you...
19:56Because I can't lose you.
19:58Do you hear me, Augustine?
20:00I can't lose you.
20:03She took an arrow for me.
20:04No one...
20:06No one has ever bled for me.
20:15Hold still.
20:16The arrowhead grazed deep.
20:18You shouldn't have...
20:23Shouldn't have taken an arrow for you.
20:25I'd do it again.
20:27Tonight.
20:28Tomorrow.
20:29Always.
20:30Don't say such things.
20:32You're the queen.
20:33I'm the church.
20:33There are lines.
20:34Then I'll cross every line.
20:36Look at me, Auguste.
20:37I fought wolves for my son.
20:39I've buried a husband I never loved.
20:41But you...
20:42You make my heart betray 30 years of ice.
20:44I love you.
20:46God forgive me.
20:46I love you.
20:48I want to say it back.
20:50God, how I want to.
20:51But if she knew...
20:52Loving me means the gallows for us both.
20:56Say something.
20:57Tell me I'm not alone in this.
20:59You forget yourself, Your Majesty.
21:01Auguste serves only God.
21:03There is no room in this heart for anything, least of least you.
21:06Take your leave.
21:07Tend your wound.
21:08And forget this ever happened.
21:11You lie.
21:12Your eyes told me the truth.
21:14This is not over, Auguste.
21:16Not by a long shot.
21:22Last night, assassins stormed the Holy Sea.
21:25His holiness survived.
21:26The queen was wounded defending him.
21:29The church will investigate independently.
21:32I require no further protection from the crown.
21:34As your holiness wishes.
21:36The crown will not impose where it's unwelcome.
21:41So cold.
21:42As if last night never happened.
21:44As if I never bled for you.
21:50This is her blood.
21:52She bled here.
21:53For me.
21:54No one in 30 years.
21:55I pushed her away.
21:57I said such cruel things.
21:58And yet, God help me, I can't stop thinking of her.
22:03I've hidden as a man for 30 years.
22:05I've never wanted anything.
22:06Why now?
22:07Why does she make me want to tear off this mask?
22:10Well, well.
22:12The Holy Pope weeping over a woman's blood.
22:15Severus will want to hear this.
22:22You've seemed distracted, your holiness.
22:25Distant.
22:25Some say you weep alone at night.
22:28You have eyes at my door now, Severus.
22:30That is a bold overreach.
22:34Merely concern.
22:35The whole court whispers.
22:37The Pope and the Queen far too close.
22:39Caesar says it.
22:39The Duke say it.
22:40It stains the Church.
22:41He suspects.
22:42And Caesar's poison of rumor spreads.
22:43If I don't cut this off, they'll dig until they find the truth beneath these robes.
22:47Then I shall silence the whispers myself.
22:50Summon the court.
22:51The Church will publicly sever all ties with the crown.
22:55Sever ties?
22:56You'd abandon the Queen you've shielded so devotedly?
22:59I shield the King, not the woman.
23:02To prove it, neither crown nor mightard shall favor the other.
23:06A public oath of separation.
23:08Let all doubt die.
23:11From the Holy See, the Pope requests a public ceremony.
23:15To formally sever all ties between Church and crown.
23:19Sever all ties.
23:20A public oath.
23:22He wants to draw a line I can never cross.
23:24It's wise, politically.
23:26It kills Caesar's rumors.
23:28Why do you look so wounded?
23:32It's nothing.
23:33Politics.
23:34Tell the court I accept.
23:36First you reject me.
23:38Now you push me away before the whole world.
23:40Fine, Augustine.
23:41If distance is what you want, I'll give it to you.
23:44And I'll hate every moment of it.
23:51Look, good people.
23:52The whole city knows.
23:54The Widow Queen and her Holy Lover.
23:56Is this who should rule you?
23:57Such scandal.
23:59The crown and the mites tangled in sin.
24:01The realm deserves better.
24:03Enough of these filthy lies.
24:05Let it be known.
24:07The Church holds no bond with this Queen beyond duty to the late King.
24:11Your Majesty.
24:13Keep your distance from the Holy Sighs henceforth.
24:16The Church will not be dragged into a Widow's affairs.
24:21Gladly, Your Holiness.
24:23The crown has no need of a Church that hides behind cold decrees.
24:32You can't be here.
24:34After today, if anyone sees a Widow's affairs, keep your distance.
24:39You looked me in the eye and tore me apart before the whole city.
24:42I had to.
24:44Caesar's rumors could destroy us both.
24:46Every cold word I spoke today, it cut me as deep as it cut you.
24:50Then why?
24:51Why keep pushing me into the cold?
24:53Because there's only one way to end these whispers for good.
24:55A public oath.
24:56Before God and the realm, we swear the crown and mites shall never be won.
25:00You'd swear that?
25:01Before God?
25:03Knowing it's a lie?
25:04It's the only shield we have left.
25:06Tomorrow, at the oath ceremony, we end this.
25:08For both our sakes.
25:09An oath to never love you.
25:10Fine.
25:11I'll stand there and swear it.
25:13But my heart will scream every word as a lie.
25:23Before God and this realm,
25:25the crown and the mites swear eternal separation.
25:29Let neither favor or bind the other.
25:33I, Augusti, servant of God, swear the Holy See shall hold no private bond with the crown.
25:37So help me, God.
25:40I, Selina, queen and regent, swear the crown shall hold no private bond with the church.
25:45So help me, God.
25:54That hair.
25:55Too long, too soft for any monk.
25:58And that profile.
25:59The same I remember from that night.
26:09That night, my fingers touched a curve no man should have.
26:12And today, that hair, that neck, dear God.
26:21It can't be.
26:22The Pope, the man the whole world kneels to, is a woman.
26:25Auguste, you're a woman.
26:28You're a woman.
26:29And I, God help me, I still want you more than ever.
26:49The wind today was cruel, Your Holiness.
26:51Your robes are in disarray.
26:53Let me help.
26:55There's no need.
26:56I can manage myself.
27:03Hold still.
27:04Just let me.
27:18Selina, what are you doing?
27:20I felt it.
27:21That night.
27:22And now, you're, you're not a man.
27:24You're a woman.
27:29You can't.
27:30No one can know.
27:31It means the stake for me.
27:33A woman.
27:34All this time.
27:35And God help me.
27:37Knowing the truth, I don't feel less.
27:39I feel more.
27:41I have to go.
27:47I thought I'd fallen for a man of God.
27:49Turns out I fell for the woman beneath the robes.
27:51And it changes nothing.
27:53No, it changes everything.
27:54I want her more than I ever dared.
27:56Your secret is safe with me, Augustine.
27:58And now, now I know exactly what I want.
28:04A woman.
28:05I love a woman.
28:06And I'm a queen.
28:08A mother.
28:09What would the court say?
28:10The church?
28:11The whole world?
28:17Same sex.
28:18It's forbidden.
28:19She hides as a man.
28:20That's heresy.
28:21My son's throne hangs by a thread.
28:23Four chains, all crushing me at once.
28:26Selina, don't drink it.
28:35Every time I was drowning, she pulled me out.
28:37She bled for me.
28:39Hid nothing from her heart, only her body.
28:41And I, I will not let this cruel world burn her for it.
28:45Let them call it sin.
28:46Let them call it heresy.
28:47I choose her.
28:48I'll guard her secret with my crown, my throne, my life if I must.
28:55A woman.
28:56The Pope.
28:57The man half the realm kneels to.
28:59Is a woman hiding beneath those holy robes?
29:04I saw the long hair myself, my lord.
29:06At the ceremony, when the wind tore off the mitted.
29:08And the guard I planted, he watched her weep like a woman over the queen's blooded robe.
29:13This is it.
29:14The wall I couldn't break.
29:15The sacred rite.
29:17Every noble, every bishop, every commoner will be watching.
29:19That's when I expose her, strip off her mask before the world.
29:22Her fall takes the queen and the boy king down with her.
29:25At the sacred rite, I tear the Pope apart and bury three enemies in one grave.
29:35The assassins bore no crest, but the blades were forged in the eastern armories, Caesar's territory.
29:43Then we move against Caesar together, side by side.
29:52As we always have, Augustine.
29:56Why does she look at me like that?
29:58So bold, so knowing.
30:00Does she suspect?
30:01Did my secret slip?
30:02I'll ready the guards.
30:04I'll leave the strategy to your majesty and his holiness.
30:08You've been avoiding me since the ceremony.
30:11Why?
30:12Did I do something wrong?
30:15Keep your distance, your majesty.
30:17We swore an oath before God.
30:20Separation.
30:20Have you forgotten?
30:21Oaths are just words.
30:23I meant none of mine.
30:24Did you mean yours, Augusto?
30:30I mean every word.
30:31Now, we have a war to plan.
30:33Focus, your majesty.
30:36The sacred rite.
30:38I'll demand a public verification of the Pope's body before every noble and bishop.
30:42A woman beneath the mitre.
30:43If it's true, the church crumbles, the queen falls, and the boy king with her.
30:47Brilliant.
30:49My lord, I've bribed a bishop to demand a verification on your signal.
30:52The Pope won't see it coming.
30:54Good.
30:54At the sacred rite, I point my finger, the bishop calls for verification, and the whole
30:58realm watches the Pope's mask torn away.
31:01Three days.
31:02At the sacred rite, I bury them all.
31:04And no God can save her then.
31:09Your majesty, intercept from Caesar's courier tonight.
31:12It's addressed to a bishop of the holy site.
31:25He knows.
31:27Caesar knows I'm a woman.
31:28And at the sacred rite, he'll strip my mask before the whole realm.
31:35A woman?
31:36The Pope.
31:38If this is true, Selina, it's heresy of the highest order.
31:41Exposure means the stake.
31:42The verification is set for the sacred rite.
31:45Three days.
31:46If I do nothing, she burns.
31:47Selina, think.
31:48If you shield a hereth, Pope, you gamble your crown, your son's throne, everything.
31:54Survive while she dies for a secret she never chose?
31:56She took an arrow for me, Father.
31:58She bled for me.
32:03Three days.
32:04He'll tear off your mask and feed you to the flames.
32:07And I, I'm the only one who can stop it.
32:13To save you, I'd have to defy Caesar, the church, the whole realm.
32:19I don't care if the whole world turns against me.
32:22I will save you, Augusty.
32:24Even if I have to burn every bridge to do it.
32:36Selina, in this storm, where are you going at this hour?
32:40To the holy sin.
32:41To warn her before Caesar strikes.
32:45You'd throw away everything for the Pope.
32:48Think of Edmund.
32:49If you fall, the boy loses his last shield.
32:52But the woman who saved him again and again, who took an arrow meant for no one but me.
32:56I won't let her die alone in the dark.
33:03You've made up your mind.
33:04You always do.
33:05Go then.
33:06But God help us all if this ends in ruin.
33:08Weigh it how I might.
33:10Expose her and save myself.
33:11Or shield her and risk it all.
33:13My heart gives only one answer.
33:15Her.
33:16Always her.
33:19Selina?
33:20You can't keep coming here after the oath.
33:22If anyone sees...
33:23Read it.
33:24Now.
33:26He knows.
33:27Caesar knows.
33:28At the sacred right, he'll strip me bare before the whole world.
33:31I intercept it tonight.
33:32Three days, Augusty.
33:34I came the moment I knew to warn you, to save you.
33:36You came to save me?
33:38Then you already knew.
33:39You knew I'm a woman.
33:40I've known since the Saron you'll meet her.
33:42And that night, my fingers found the truth.
33:43I've known.
33:44And I never once wanted to expose you.
33:46I wanted to protect you.
33:47Thirty years.
33:48I've hidden from everyone.
33:49And you...
33:50You knew and you still came running through the storm for me?
33:52For you.
33:53Always for you.
33:53I don't care what you hide beneath those robes.
33:55I care about the woman.
33:56The one who bled for me.
33:57Who saved my son.
33:58Let me save you now.
34:00The bells.
34:01The sacred root draws near.
34:02There's so little time.
34:10You're trembling.
34:11Not from the cold.
34:12From thirty years of carrying this alone.
34:14Talk to me.
34:14Let me carry some of it.
34:16I was seven.
34:17When the old Pope's true heir died, they needed a child to raise as the next Pope.
34:20A boy.
34:20But there was only me.
34:26From this day, you are a boy.
34:29A girl can never wear the might.
34:31Forget you were ever a woman.
34:34Thirty years bound in this cloth.
34:35I buried the woman I was.
34:36Until you.
34:37Until me?
34:38You looked at me like I was more than a mask for me.
34:40For the first time in thirty years, I wanted to be loved by you.
34:42Then be loved.
34:43I know your secret.
34:44I've chosen you.
34:45There's nothing left between us but this.
34:46No, I can't.
34:47We can't.
34:49Why?
34:50You just said you wanted this.
34:51Why keep running?
34:52Because loving me is a death sentence for you too.
34:54A queen who beds a woman posing as Pope, they'd burn us both.
34:57I've already crossed every line to warn you tonight.
34:59Don't you dare push me away to protect me.
35:01Let me push you away.
35:02While there's still time to save you, I won't drag you into my grave.
35:06The sacred root is almost upon us.
35:08Caesar will tear off my mask.
35:10There may be no stopping it.
35:11Then we stop it together.
35:12I didn't run through a storm to watch you surrender.
35:15We fight.
35:15Do you hear me?
35:23Caesar's plan.
35:24On his signal, a bribed bishop demands verification of your body.
35:26So we control the verification before he can.
35:31By tradition, the verification is overseen by a bishop I appoint.
35:33If I name someone loyal, he declares me a man and Caesar's blade turns to dust.
35:37Then name Bishop Aldrich.
35:38My gold bought his loyalty last month.
35:40He'll do exactly as we say.
35:41You've been protecting me even before I let you.
35:43Every step, you were ready.
35:44I told you.
35:45I chose you.
35:46Now, we turn Caesar's trap into his grave.
35:50Your holiness!
35:51Rumors say you conceal your true form.
35:53The realm demands a public verification of your body.
35:57Verify the Pope!
36:00If he hides a woman's body beneath those robes,
36:03it's heresy against God and man.
36:05By ancient church law,
36:06verification of the Pope falls to the senior cardinal.
36:09That is me.
36:09Severus has seized it himself.
36:11If he oversees this, I'm finished.
36:12I shall oversees it personally.
36:14Excellent!
36:15Let the senior cardinal verify.
36:16Let the realm see the truth!
36:20Now, your holiness,
36:22let us reveal the truth before God and this realm.
36:33Halt!
36:34By church law,
36:35verification requires two overseers,
36:37the senior cardinal,
36:38and a bishop chosen by the Pope.
36:39Where is Bishop Aldred?
36:42Indeed.
36:43Bishop Aldred and I shall retire behind the sacred veil
36:45for the verification.
36:47The cardinal may wait here.
36:51I have verified with my own eyes.
36:53His holiness is a man of God,
36:55pure and true.
36:55The rumors are filth!
36:57Impossible!
36:58Aldred is bought!
36:59Let the cardinal verify himself!
37:03Bought?
37:04Look at this, all of you.
37:05Duke Caesar's own letter.
37:06Plotting to bribe a bishop
37:08and slander the Holy See for his ambition.
37:10Forged.
37:10That's forged.
37:11I never...
37:11The seal is yours, Caesar.
37:13You slandered God's servant
37:14to Caesar Child's throne.
37:16Kneel and repent
37:17before the church cast you out.
37:21Guys!
37:31It's over.
37:32Aldric held.
37:33Caesar's finished for today.
37:34You're safe.
37:37You saved me.
37:38Again.
37:38You gambled everything to keep my secret.
37:40No one has...
37:40I told you.
37:41I chose you.
37:41And I'd do it a thousand times over.
37:43Thirty years of walls
37:44and you tore them all down.
37:45This time,
37:46I don't want to run.
37:47A false verification.
37:49So the queen and her disguised lover
37:50think they've won?
37:51I kept the real proof
37:53sealed and hidden.
37:54This game is far from over.
38:06You've seen my secret.
38:07Guarded it.
38:08Now,
38:09I want you to see me.
38:12The woman I buried for thirty years.
38:15This is who I am.
38:17Augusty.
38:18Not the Pope.
38:19Just a woman.
38:20Terrified.
38:20And yours.
38:21Thirty years this cloth cut into you.
38:23Never again.
38:24From tonight.
38:24No more hiding.
38:25Not from me.
38:26Hold me.
38:27Just once.
38:28Let someone hold the woman.
38:29Not the mask.
38:30I've got you.
38:31The woman.
38:32The mask.
38:33All of it.
38:34You're not alone anymore.
38:38My private records.
38:40Documenting my true nature.
38:41Sealed for thirty years.
38:41They're gone.
38:42Gone.
38:42Who could reach this room?
38:43Who knew where you hid them?
38:44Severus.
38:45Only he has access to the inner sanctum.
38:47At the right,
38:47he fought so hard to oversee the verification himself.
38:50He suspects.
38:51And now he has proof.
38:52A false verification bought us today.
38:54But if Severus holds the real records in my own hand,
38:58he can destroy me the moment he chooses.
39:00Then we find those records before he uses them.
39:02He's one old man.
39:03With the crown and the mitral combined.
39:05He will not win.
39:07No matter what comes.
39:08Caesar.
39:09Severus.
39:09The whole realm.
39:10We face it together.
39:12Always together.
39:19Listen to me.
39:20I know your secret.
39:21I know loving you is a death sentence in this world's eyes.
39:23And I choose you anyway.
39:24All of you.
39:25Selina, you'd risk everything.
39:27Your crown, your son, your life.
39:28For me?
39:29I've waited a hundred times.
39:30The whole realm on one side,
39:32you on the other.
39:32And every time I choose you,
39:34I love you, Augustine.
39:35Not the Pope, the woman.
39:36And I want you for the rest of my life.
39:37Thirty years I lived as a lie,
39:39feeling nothing.
39:40Then you made me want to live.
39:42God forgive me.
39:44I love you too, Selina.
39:45I've loved you so long,
39:46I ache with it.
39:47Then say it again.
39:48Say you're mine.
39:49I'm yours.
39:50Body, soul,
39:51and every secret I've ever kept yours.
39:55Father?
39:57What's wrong?
39:58What's happened?
39:58Edmund, the king.
40:00Caesar lured him from the palace,
40:02sent word he wished to reconcile over supper.
40:04The boy went and now he's gone.
40:05Vanished!
40:06Gone?
40:07Caesar took my son!
40:12My son!
40:14My son!
40:14My Edmund!
40:15He's just a child.
40:16Caesar has him!
40:18He struck the moment his verification failed.
40:20Cornered, he plays his cruelest card.
40:23The boy.
40:24Caesar, you dare touch my son!
40:27I will burn everything you have to the ground!
40:37Salina, look at me.
40:39Falling apart won't bring Edmund home.
40:41Breathe.
40:42We find him.
40:43Together.
40:44He's nine, Augusty!
40:46Nine!
40:47If Caesar hurts him,
40:48I'll lose everything that matters!
40:50Caesar wouldn't hide him in the city.
40:51Too many eyes.
40:52His country estate, here.
40:54Isolated.
40:54Fortified.
40:55That's where he'd keep a hostage.
40:56The estate's a fortress.
40:58Walls, moats, a hundred guards.
40:59Storm it and Caesar slits the boy's throat
41:01before we breach the gate.
41:02Then how?
41:02A fortal assault kills him,
41:04but I can't just wait and pray!
41:05We need someone inside first.
41:07Someone to locate the boy and get him out
41:09before Caesar knows we've moved.
41:11Stealth, not force.
41:15Your Majesty, I heard.
41:17The king's been taken.
41:18I came the moment I knew.
41:19Leon, Caesar has Edmund at his country estate.
41:22We need someone inside,
41:24but it's a death trap.
41:25Then let it be me.
41:27I'm the weakest of the princes.
41:29Caesar won't suspect me of anything bold.
41:30I can slip in as a neutral mediator
41:32and find the boy.
41:33Leon, no.
41:35The estate is guarded by a hundred men.
41:37If you're caught...
41:38I've served you all my life, Your Majesty.
41:40Let me serve you now.
41:42Let me bring your son home.
41:44Tonight, I ride to Caesar's den.
41:45If God is kind, I return with the king.
41:47If not, at least I die serving the woman I...
41:58Where do you think you're going?
42:01To the estate!
42:02Leon can't do this alone.
42:04He's my son, Augusti.
42:05I won't sit here waiting.
42:06And if Caesar captures you too,
42:08then he has the queen and the king.
42:10You'd hand him everything.
42:11I can't just do nothing!
42:13Every minute he's in there, I'm dying inside!
42:19You think I don't understand?
42:21I just found you.
42:22I just let myself love you.
42:24If I lose you to Caesar's blade,
42:26I have nothing left.
42:27Nothing.
42:28Then what do I do?
42:29Sit here helpless while my son and Leon risk everything.
42:32You trust the plan.
42:33Leon goes in for stealth.
42:34I ready the church's men for the signal.
42:36You command the rescue from outside
42:37where Caesar can't reach you.
42:38That's how we win.
42:39Together.
42:39Together.
42:40But if this goes wrong,
42:42if my son doesn't come back...
42:43He will.
42:44I swear it on everything I am.
42:48Take this.
42:49Show it to Edmund.
42:50He'll know you come from me.
42:51He'll trust you.
42:52Bring him home, Leon.
42:53Your Majesty, may I ask you something before I ride?
42:56The Pope, August.
42:57The way you look at each other.
42:59You love him, don't you?
43:02You don't have to answer.
43:04I've loved you for years, Selina.
43:07Quietly.
43:08Hopelessly.
43:08I always knew your heart was never mine to win.
43:12It's enough
43:13that I can do this one last thing for you.
43:15Bring your son back.
43:17Let you be happy,
43:18even if it's not with me.
43:19Come back safe, Leon.
43:20Bring my son
43:21and yourself
43:22home.
43:23This is my final gift to you, my queen.
43:25Farewell.
43:32Edmund.
43:33Edmund, it's me.
43:34Leon.
43:35Your mother sent me.
43:44Mother's seal.
43:45Uncle Leon.
43:46I knew she'd come for me.
43:47Quiet now.
43:48Stay close.
43:49We slip out the servant's passage,
43:50then you run to the signal fire.
43:51Don't look back, no matter what.
43:53Over the wall.
43:53The queen's men wait beyond.
43:55Go.
43:55Run to them.
43:56Now.
43:56Come with me, Uncle Leon.
43:58A neutral mediator?
43:59You reek of the queen, little prince.
44:01Should have known she'd send her lovesick pup.
44:02Run, Edmund.
44:03Don't stop.
44:05You'll have to go through me first.
44:13The boy escaped,
44:15but I've got his rescuer.
44:16That'll do just fine.
44:27My son is safe,
44:29but Leon,
44:30he traded his life for Edmunds.
44:32And now Caesar wants the royal seal for his head.
44:35God, what do I do?
44:40Three days,
44:41and the queen still hasn't sent the seal.
44:43Perhaps she doesn't value your worthless life
44:45as much as you hoped, pup.
44:46She'd never trade the realm for one man.
44:48That's why she's a queen,
44:49and you're just a traitor who kidnaps children.
44:52Tell me the queen's plans,
44:53her alliances,
44:54what's between her and that pope?
44:57I'll die with my tongue still.
44:59You'll get nothing from me,
45:00not a single word.
45:02Stubborn fool.
45:03Fine.
45:03If the seal doesn't come by dawn,
45:04you die at the block,
45:05in front of the whole city.
45:07If I send the seal,
45:08Caesar gains legitimacy over half the court.
45:10If I don't,
45:11Leon dies.
45:12He saved my son, Augustine.
45:13I can't just let him die.
45:14The seal is the realm's authority.
45:16Hand it to Caesar,
45:17and you undo everything we fought for.
45:18Leon knew the risk when he rode in.
45:20So I let a loyal man die
45:21to protect a piece of metals?
45:23Your majesty,
45:24a prisoner smuggled this out of Caesar's dungeon.
45:26It's from Prince Leon,
45:27written in his own blood.
45:29He knew.
45:30He knew I'd hesitate,
45:31and he's begging me to let him die
45:33so I won't lose the realm.
45:34He's giving you his life,
45:35aren't his blessing.
45:36This is a man's final act of love.
45:38I won't send the seal, Leon.
45:40I'll honor your wish,
45:41but I swear,
45:42I will make Caesar pay
45:43for every drop of your blood.
45:47No seal.
45:48The bitch chose the realm
45:49over her lapdog.
45:50Fine.
45:51Then let the whole city watch
45:52what happens to those who defy me.
45:54At dawn,
45:55the traitor loses his head
45:56in the public square.
46:00Behold,
46:00this traitor conspired against the realm.
46:02The queen abandoned him.
46:03She chose her crown over his life.
46:05Let this be a lesson.
46:08Don't listen to him.
46:10The queen honors the realm above all.
46:12That's why she's fit to rule.
46:13I die gladly
46:14for my queen
46:15and my king.
46:16Leon, no!
46:17Caesar, stop this.
46:18I'll give you anything.
46:21Long live the king!
46:24Long live the queen!
46:28You died with my son's name
46:29on your lips, Leon.
46:30I swear on your soul.
46:32I will tear Caesar apart.
46:33I will avenge
46:34every wound he gave you.
46:35His blood won't be spilled in vain.
46:36The church stands with you.
46:38Caesar's reckoning is coming.
46:40Your majesty,
46:41Prince Leon's death
46:42has opened my eyes.
46:43Caesar has gone too far.
46:44Kidnapping a child,
46:44murdering a loyal prince,
46:45I can no longer stand aside.
46:48Let me help you bring him down.
46:50My southern army,
46:5020,000 strong,
46:51is yours.
46:52Together we crush Caesar
46:53once and for all.
46:54A prince who's played
46:55both sides for months,
46:56now offering me his army?
46:57The timing reeks of a trap.
46:59Your offer is
47:00generous, Duke Valentin.
47:02Give me time to consider.
47:05Did you see that?
47:06His grief is a mask.
47:08This defection,
47:09I don't trust it
47:09for a heartbeat.
47:1620,000 men
47:17offered the day
47:17after Leon's death.
47:19Too generous,
47:19too fast.
47:20Valentine never gives
47:21anything for free.
47:25Look at this seal.
47:26Fresh wax,
47:26but pressed with Caesar's ring,
47:27not Valentine's.
47:28He was careless.
47:30Caesar's crest?
47:31Then Valentine's defection
47:32is a lie.
47:33They're still working together.
47:34It's a trap.
47:35Valentine lures you
47:35to a war council.
47:36You bring your loyal men
47:37and walk into an ambush.
47:39Both Dukes take you
47:40and me in one stroke.
47:42They think grief
47:43has made me reckless.
47:44They think I'll charge in blind.
47:48Then let them think it.
47:49We accept the invitation,
47:50but we come prepared.
47:52Church nights
47:52hidden outside,
47:53your father's guard
47:54in the shadows.
47:55When they spring their trap,
47:56we spring ours.
47:57Bury both Dukes
47:58in the very hall
47:59they chose to kill us.
48:00Leon died for you.
48:01Let this be his revenge,
48:02served cold and complete.
48:0450 church nights,
48:05concealed in merchant carts,
48:06entering the estate at dusk.
48:07On my signal,
48:08the tolling of the chapel bell,
48:09you strike.
48:10Father,
48:11take Leon's sword.
48:12Lead our houseguard
48:13through the southern passage.
48:14When the bell rings,
48:15seal every exit.
48:16No one leaves alive but us.
48:17For Leon,
48:18for Edmund,
48:19for you,
48:20consider it done.
48:21Tomorrow,
48:21Valentine opens his trap
48:22and Caesar thinks
48:23he's already won.
48:24Let them walk in smiling.
48:26It'll be the last mistake
48:27they ever make.
48:32Your majesty,
48:34your holiness,
48:35welcome.
48:35Today we plan the end
48:37of Caesar's tyranny
48:38together.
48:42Then let's begin,
48:43Duke Valentine.
48:44Show me your plan
48:45to crush Caesar.
48:49Plan.
48:50The plan was always this.
48:52The queen and the pope,
48:53gift-wrapped in one hall.
48:55You walked right in,
48:57your majesty.
48:58Grief makes fools
48:59of even queens.
49:02Fools?
49:03I came here for one thing,
49:05your heads.
49:11Your ambush is our slaughter,
49:13Caesar.
49:13Your men are falling.
49:16Severus,
49:16now,
49:17play your card.
49:18Stop!
49:19Behold the truth.
49:20I hold the sealed records
49:22of the Holy's Eye.
49:23The pope,
49:24Auguste,
49:25is a woman,
49:26a woman who stole
49:27the Holy Mitris,
49:28heresy against God and man.
49:31You want the truth,
49:32Severus?
49:33Then let the whole realm
49:34hear it from my own lips.
49:39Yes,
49:40I am a woman.
49:41For 30 years,
49:42I served God,
49:43guided this realm,
49:44and never once
49:44failed my duty.
49:45Confessed,
49:46a heretic.
49:47Seize her.
49:48The mitral must be purged.
49:49Purged?
49:49When did God ever say
49:50only a man may serve him?
49:52I healed the sick,
49:52fed the poor,
49:53protected your king.
49:54Did my hands work
49:54any less holy
49:55because of what lies
49:56beneath these robes?
49:57The Holy See
49:57recognized her for 30 years.
50:00I, your queen,
50:01recognize her now.
50:02She is more worthy
50:03of that mitral
50:04than any man here
50:05who dares say otherwise.
50:10Heretic!
50:11Die for your blasphemy!
50:1730 years of hiding
50:18taught me how to survive
50:19men like you.
50:19It's over, Severus.
50:20You conspired with Caesar.
50:22You silenced witnesses.
50:23Speak,
50:24or the church cast you
50:25into the flames
50:25you meant for me.
50:26It was Caesar.
50:27He paid me to expose you
50:28and more.
50:29He made me hide the truth
50:31of the old king's death.
50:32The king's death?
50:33My husband died of fever.
50:34What truth?
50:37You,
50:38you poisoned your own brother.
50:41You murdered the king
50:42to steal his throne.
50:44This isn't over.
50:45The throne will be mine.
50:48You've won the hall,
50:49but the war's not done.
50:50And this time,
50:52no god will save
50:53your precious boy king.
50:57People of the realm,
50:58behold Duke Caesar's
51:00own confession.
51:01He poisoned our beloved king,
51:02his own brother,
51:03to steal the throne.
51:07My husband was murdered,
51:09Prince Leon beheaded,
51:10my son kidnapped,
51:11all by Caesar's hand.
51:13Will you stand with a kinsilla
51:14or with your rightful king?
51:17For the king!
51:19For the queen!
51:20Death to the kinsler of Caesar!
51:22By the authority
51:23of the holy sign,
51:24Caesar is excommunicated.
51:26Any who bring him to justice
51:28earn heaven's grace.
51:31Your majesty,
51:32Duke Valentin's
51:33southern army has surrendered.
51:34Caesar's men are deserting
51:35by the hundreds.
51:36He's alone!
51:38Alone and cornered.
51:39Now we hunt him down.
51:48Edmund?
51:49Edmund, where are you?
51:54Looking for your precious king?
51:56He's right here.
51:59One more step
52:00and I paint this room red.
52:02Caesar,
52:02let him go.
52:04He's a child.
52:05Take me instead.
52:06Anything.
52:06Just don't hurt my son.
52:11He's cornered.
52:12Desperate.
52:13This is exactly
52:14where we wanted him.
52:15Hold his attention.
52:15Our men are in position.
52:20You've lost everything,
52:21Caesar.
52:21Killing a child
52:22won't give you the throne.
52:23It'll only damn you further.
52:25Then we all go down together.
52:26If I can't have the crown,
52:27no one will!
52:32You walked into my son's room
52:33thinking you held
52:34the last card.
52:35But this,
52:36this is the trap
52:37I set for you.
52:38Now!
52:56I've got the boy.
52:57Selina,
52:58he's yours now.
52:59You murdered my husband.
53:01You beheaded Leon.
53:02You tried to kill my son.
53:04This ends tonight,
53:05Caesar!
53:07This is for the king.
53:09For Leon.
53:10For every drop of blood
53:11you spilled.
53:12Beaten
53:12by two women.
53:14A queen
53:14and a false post.
53:15The realm will never...
53:20It's over, Edmund.
53:22It's finally over.
53:23You're safe.
53:24Mother,
53:25Augusto,
53:26I knew you'd both
53:27come for me.
53:30By the grace of God
53:31and the will of the realm,
53:33I crown Edmund
53:34rightful king.
53:35Long may he reign.
53:38Long live King Edmund.
53:40Long live the king.
53:42The regency is yours now,
53:44my king.
53:44I return the realm to you.
53:46Rule it well.
53:48I'll rule well
53:49because you both taught me
53:51what courage
53:52and love truly mean.
53:54No more mitre.
53:56No more crown.
53:57It's just us now.
53:58The way it was always
53:59meant to be.
54:00Thirty years I live
54:02beneath a mask.
54:03You live beneath a crown.
54:04Both were cages.
54:05And now,
54:06we're finally free.
54:08Strip away the power,
54:09the titles,
54:10the world's judgment
54:10and what's left.
54:11Just this.
54:12Just you and me.
54:13The purest thing
54:14I've ever known.
54:15We fought wolves,
54:16defied kings
54:17and challenged God's own laws.
54:19And in the end,
54:19all that mattered
54:20was finding each other.
54:22Two women,
54:22once caged by crown and mitre.
54:24Now,
54:25free
54:25and forever
54:26together.
54:27That's all right.
54:27And all that it's