# E16 - The Devil Has the Devil’s Way
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Lord Richard.
**[00:07] ---**
Catesby.
**[00:08] ---**
Mother says she'll take me to the woods
today because the weather is fine.
**[00:14] ---**
Come. Let's go deep into the woods.
**[00:19] ---**
Catesby, um...
**[00:22] ---**
If I get lost in the woods,
**[00:24] ---**
come and find me, okay?
**[00:27] ---**
Catesby.
**[00:28] ---**
I'll go on alone.
**[00:37] ---**
Sweet strawberry pies.
**[00:39] ---**
Why not bring one home to your family?
**[00:44] ---**
I have no reason to call on him.
**[00:48] ---**
If Richard won't speak against
His Majesty's whims,
**[00:51] ---**
you'll have to rely on the queen mother.
**[00:54] ---**
But then...
**[00:55] ---**
Asking her for a bit of advice
wouldn't be a betrayal.
**[01:00] ---**
Don't tell me...
**[01:05] ---**
York of the white rose.
**[01:07] ---**
Lancaster of the red rose.
**[01:10] ---**
These royal houses with roses for
their crests battled for the throne.
**[01:16] ---**
People call their strife
the "Wars of the Roses."
**[02:56] ---**
The next council will decide whether
you take the throne at the coronation.
**[03:01] ---**
Who might take our side?
**[03:05] ---**
By my reckoning, it's evenly split.
**[03:08] ---**
The Earl of Northumberland
and Lord Howard are ours.
**[03:12] ---**
Hastings and Stanley could be persuaded.
**[03:15] ---**
And the Bishop of Ely?
**[03:17] ---**
We can buy his support.
**[03:20] ---**
I'll speak to him, then.
**[03:22] ---**
I'll meet with Howard
and the others as well.
**[03:25] ---**
But what if they won't join us?
**[03:28] ---**
No one could refuse your
impassioned whisper in their ear.
**[03:34] ---**
And if that fails?
**[03:36] ---**
We'll need to kill them.
**[03:38] ---**
Otherwise, it will be our heads
on the executioner's block.
**[03:42] ---**
We've embarked on a game
of chance against God.
**[03:46] ---**
If Hastings goes that way,
**[03:49] ---**
what will become of him?
**[03:51] ---**
Of whom?
**[03:52] ---**
Catesby is a loyal man.
**[03:57] ---**
Will he look at me with hate in his eyes?
**[04:02] ---**
If he truly cares for the
royal family, he'll understand.
**[04:06] ---**
But if he becomes a briar in our path,
**[04:10] ---**
I'll clear him from it personally.
**[04:18] ---**
Mother! He's here!
**[04:20] ---**
I see. You've kept me waiting.
**[04:24] ---**
Hastings the dolt!
**[04:29] ---**
Thank you for your visit, Lord Hastings.
**[04:33] ---**
Q-Queen Elizabeth.
**[04:36] ---**
I'm sorry that I can't do more for you,
**[04:39] ---**
but I now spend my days
praying for a quiet life.
**[04:43] ---**
I guarantee your safety
so long as you remain here.
**[04:47] ---**
But I was hoping you'd advise me.
**[04:51] ---**
Goodness. Do you need
advice from the likes of me?
**[04:56] ---**
To earnestly seek knowledge from
your enemy shows nobility of spirit.
**[05:01] ---**
Lord Hastings, a man like
you should be Protector!
**[05:06] ---**
Y-You give me too much credit.
**[05:08] ---**
No. I could safely entrust
Edward to *your* care.
**[05:16] ---**
Should I report to His Grace?
**[05:19] ---**
But if the Duke of Buckingham
learned of this...
**[05:24] ---**
Where are you bound for, Lord Hastings?
**[05:28] ---**
An abbey is hardly a fitting place
to rendezvous with a lover,
**[05:32] ---**
although it would suit an interview
with the queen dowager.
**[05:36] ---**
She's had a complete change of heart!
**[05:39] ---**
You needn't fear her designs on--
**[05:40] ---**
Your Grace!
**[05:42] ---**
I wish to make a statement.
**[05:44] ---**
Lord Hastings acts with the interests
of the royal family at heart.
**[05:50] ---**
Punish me if I speak falsely.
**[05:55] ---**
I see. In that case, I wish to speak
with you in your master's stead.
**[06:00] ---**
Come.
**[06:03] ---**
Why did you shield Hastings?
**[06:05] ---**
Is your wish to remain pure until death?
**[06:11] ---**
Whom do you serve?
**[06:14] ---**
My master is...
**[06:15] ---**
Do you think you
understand him best of all?
**[06:19] ---**
Kindness isn't what he desires now.
**[06:23] ---**
You can't become a demon.
**[06:26] ---**
You can't save Richard.
**[06:37] ---**
You met with the Bishop of Ely.
**[06:40] ---**
Were you able to buy him off?
**[06:43] ---**
Wait!
**[06:44] ---**
What is this mark?!
**[06:46] ---**
It appears the bishop has immoral tastes.
**[06:50] ---**
He asked for my body rather than gold.
**[06:55] ---**
Did he defile you?
**[06:58] ---**
I'll gouge out his guts
and tear him apart!
**[07:01] ---**
What is there to be upset about?
**[07:03] ---**
This won us the bishop's support.
**[07:07] ---**
Why are you angry? Tell me.
**[07:11] ---**
Our oath.
**[07:14] ---**
I haven't broken it.
**[07:17] ---**
This body will not open to anyone but you.
**[07:22] ---**
Thank you for earlier!
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You're the purest and most
upstanding man I've ever seen.
**[07:30] ---**
Whom do you serve?
**[07:33] ---**
You can't save Richard.
**[07:40] ---**
Your Grace.
**[07:42] ---**
Catesby?
**[07:44] ---**
I wish to speak to you.
**[07:45] ---**
I can't just now.
**[07:47] ---**
I don't mind. Come in.
**[07:51] ---**
It's about Lord Hastings.
**[07:55] ---**
Pardon me.
**[08:01] ---**
If he becomes a briar...
**[08:04] ---**
If you turn your sword on me, then...
**[08:13] ---**
Lord Hastings often meets the queen
dowager secretly at Westminster.
**[08:19] ---**
I'm certain that their ties
are strengthening.
**[08:24] ---**
And what do you intend
to do about Hastings?
**[08:29] ---**
If he shows signs of treachery,
**[08:33] ---**
I'll dispatch him at once.
**[08:36] ---**
Your master is loyal to
the royal family, while I...
**[08:41] ---**
I am about to betray even the
blood of York to gain the crown.
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I have only ever served a single lord.
**[08:53] ---**
Only you, Your Grace.
**[08:57] ---**
I'm a demon. Consigning you
to hell gives me relief
**[09:03] ---**
as you look at me in pain,
bound by your loyalty.
**[09:09] ---**
Then from now on, consider my orders
as Richard's. We're halves of one whole.
**[09:15] ---**
Yes, Your Grace.
**[09:18] ---**
In that case, would you
begin by lopping off
**[09:22] ---**
that traitor's head?
**[09:25] ---**
His blood will seal our compact.
**[09:34] ---**
This warmth burns me.
**[09:37] ---**
Nothing is as vivid as this warmth.
**[09:40] ---**
Your Grace, allow me.
**[09:43] ---**
I'm about to meet with Lord Howard
and others at a tournament.
**[09:47] ---**
They're strongly behind us, but...
**[09:50] ---**
Will they still consent
to back you as king?
**[09:55] ---**
I'll have them forge a pact as well.
**[09:57] ---**
D-Duke of Gloucester!
**[10:00] ---**
Bishop of Ely. What is it?
**[10:02] ---**
I-I must tell you...
**[10:04] ---**
Then you may speak to me.
**[10:07] ---**
But it is a private matter.
**[10:09] ---**
No matter. Proceed.
**[10:13] ---**
You see... a service is planned for the
queen mother and her son, Edward V.
**[10:20] ---**
A church service?!
**[10:21] ---**
I've heard nothing of this.
**[10:23] ---**
You were not meant to.
**[10:26] ---**
The archbishop proposed it,
**[10:28] ---**
but the queen dowager worked through
Lord Hastings to request it of him.
**[10:33] ---**
Good day, Duke of Gloucester.
**[10:35] ---**
Please visit to sample my strawberries
whenever it pleases you.
**[10:40] ---**
This proves Hastings a traitor.
**[10:44] ---**
Still, I hadn't expected
Elizabeth to be so bold.
**[10:47] ---**
Holding this service
**[10:50] ---**
will demonstrate that the queen
dowager still wields great power.
**[10:55] ---**
But if we prevent it,
**[10:56] ---**
we'll suffer a fatal backlash as
enemies of the poor widowed queen.
**[11:01] ---**
This is a declaration of war from God
**[11:05] ---**
against the devil.
**[11:07] ---**
The devil has the devil's way.
**[11:11] ---**
I thought it a sin even to wish
for warmth, but now it is mine.
**[11:18] ---**
I'll take what I desire by force.
**[11:24] ---**
Lord Hastings, has the date
of the service been set?
**[11:29] ---**
Actually, the service has been canceled.
**[11:33] ---**
And what's more, there's to be a service
for the Duke of Gloucester instead.
**[11:39] ---**
Impossible!
**[11:40] ---**
Who gave the order?!
**[11:42] ---**
It was a royal decree.
**[11:45] ---**
Richard must have talked the king into it.
**[11:48] ---**
That demon!
**[11:49] ---**
Frankly, given his current position,
**[11:53] ---**
he might issue royal orders
without the king's knowledge.
**[11:56] ---**
Also, um... I hate to say this,
**[12:00] ---**
but the Duke of Gloucester
demands the younger prince as well.
**[12:05] ---**
Queen Elizabeth...
**[12:11] ---**
That demon gives no quarter!
**[12:14] ---**
Does he plan to take all my
hopes and leave me in despair?
**[12:18] ---**
But I've devoted my life to revenge.
**[12:21] ---**
The more he takes,
the hotter my soul burns.
**[12:25] ---**
Just you watch, Richard.
**[12:27] ---**
Next time, I'll be the one
to dash your hopes.
**[12:31] ---**
Mother.
**[12:33] ---**
Of course. Why didn't I realize?
**[12:37] ---**
Who knows--and hates--Richard most of all?
**[12:43] ---**
Your Majesty!
**[12:44] ---**
The Duke of Gloucester's actions clearly
overstep his authority as Protector!
**[12:50] ---**
True. He has been a bit
highhanded of late.
**[12:53] ---**
Don't you agree, Your Excellency?
**[12:55] ---**
A-Absolutely.
**[12:57] ---**
Yes! He's far too impudent!
Far too tyrannical!
**[13:01] ---**
Wait, Lord Hastings!
**[13:04] ---**
Lord Howard.
**[13:05] ---**
It's cowardly to speak
thus in his absence!
**[13:08] ---**
His Majesty formally delegated his
power to the Duke of Gloucester.
**[13:13] ---**
It is you who are impudent!
**[13:14] ---**
Mere excuses!
It's obvious who is in the right!
**[13:18] ---**
A mother's purehearted--
**[13:19] ---**
Hastings!
**[13:21] ---**
Church services are dull.
**[13:23] ---**
--But Your Majesty--
--Leave us.
**[13:28] ---**
--They say Hastings is sleeping
with the queen mother.
**[13:28] ---**
--First the witch and now the wife? --He must want to be the king's father.
**[13:32] ---**
I realized too late.
**[13:35] ---**
The palace is already
full of rotten apples.
**[13:39] ---**
The few of us left must
talk amongst ourselves.
**[13:42] ---**
I know just the place!
**[13:44] ---**
May God bless you, guardians of justice.
**[13:47] ---**
Lord Stanley. Lord Hastings.
Bishop of Ely.
**[13:52] ---**
The royal family is doomed
**[13:54] ---**
unless we seize England back
from that lawless fiend, Richard!
**[13:58] ---**
But our situation is even
more dire than before.
**[14:02] ---**
Richard was a reserved
and straightforward soldier.
**[14:05] ---**
Now, he has a strange
power to attract people.
**[14:08] ---**
It's practically magical!
**[14:10] ---**
Wealth and power cast a potent spell.
**[14:15] ---**
Qu-Quite right!
**[14:17] ---**
If only we knew his secret weakness.
**[14:22] ---**
Some scandal that would
shake people's faith in him.
**[14:25] ---**
I take it that's why
you called, Elizabeth.
**[14:29] ---**
Why you summoned me!
**[14:31] ---**
Mother-in-law!
**[14:32] ---**
Please forgive my abrupt summons.
**[14:35] ---**
God has left this task to us.
**[14:37] ---**
Elizabeth, I understand.
Your sorrow is my own,
**[14:42] ---**
although my sorrow is many times greater.
**[14:47] ---**
But the fruit of my womb and his
wickedness lies behind it all.
**[14:54] ---**
In exchange for my aid,
I want you to promise me one thing:
**[15:00] ---**
Kill Richard.
**[15:04] ---**
I've tried many times myself,
but I couldn't do it.
**[15:07] ---**
Oh! If only I could have
slain him with words!
**[15:11] ---**
I should have exposed Richard's secret
and let the world punish him sooner!
**[15:16] ---**
What secret?
**[15:18] ---**
I concealed it because it could have
brought ruin on our house.
**[15:24] ---**
And in consequence,
**[15:25] ---**
my cowardice has allowed
that demon to flourish!
**[15:31] ---**
But now I have no more left to lose.
**[15:34] ---**
Nothing but my dear Edward's children.
**[15:38] ---**
Yes, precisely!
**[15:39] ---**
For those darling children's sakes,
**[15:41] ---**
tell us the truth about Richard now!
**[15:45] ---**
Richard Plantagenet is...
**[15:53] ---**
A blood-soaked demon
who defied the will of God!
**[15:57] ---**
Let me prophecy!
**[15:58] ---**
One day, a host of the elderly,
of widows, of orphans
**[16:04] ---**
will lament the untimely
deaths that demon caused!
**[16:08] ---**
What did he say?
**[16:09] ---**
Duke Richard is...?
**[16:10] ---**
This will let us strike a fatal
blow against Gloucester,
**[16:14] ---**
although it is quite hard to believe.
**[16:17] ---**
No, thinking back, his actions
were always strange.
**[16:22] ---**
It all makes sense. We shall indict
him at the next council meeting
**[16:27] ---**
and expose his true demonic
nature to the light of day!
**[16:32] ---**
Why was he born?
**[16:33] ---**
Why was he ever born?!
**[16:35] ---**
Curse the day of his birth!
**[16:37] ---**
Curse the demon!
**[16:38] ---**
The demon, Richard Plantagenet!
**[16:47] ---**
What a racket.
**[16:49] ---**
He must want the next council
to have you burned at the stake.
**[16:53] ---**
Is that your idea of informing?
**[16:55] ---**
It's too late to beg for your life.
**[16:58] ---**
I knew His Grace's secret,
but I didn't tell it.
**[17:03] ---**
But do you truly understand yourself?
**[17:07] ---**
Have you felt at all unusual?
**[17:09] ---**
If you have need of medicines,
just say the word.
**[17:13] ---**
That potion that sapped the king's will?
**[17:16] ---**
An abortifacient.
**[17:19] ---**
Take care. It causes
inflammation in sunlight.
**[17:25] ---**
It won't be a demon on display
at the next council meeting.
**[17:30] ---**
It will be his head.
**[17:36] ---**
Where is the rest of the council?
**[17:38] ---**
Oh, we must have arrived too early.
**[17:41] ---**
Even the Duke of Gloucester
isn't here yet.
**[17:46] ---**
Can't you stand in for him?
**[17:50] ---**
You know his mind better than anyone.
**[17:53] ---**
Me? We may be close friends,
but I can't fathom his innermost thoughts.
**[17:59] ---**
Just as you and I cannot
know each other's minds.
**[18:05] ---**
Pardon my tardiness, my lords.
**[18:11] ---**
Now, what shall we discuss?
**[18:13] ---**
Why, the coronation, of--
**[18:15] ---**
By the way, Your Excellency,
**[18:18] ---**
was that not an intimate time
we spent the other day?
**[18:21] ---**
Just us two.
**[18:24] ---**
You promised to send me
strawberries from your garden.
**[18:28] ---**
Would you go and fetch them now?
**[18:30] ---**
N-Now?
**[18:32] ---**
Yes, now.
**[18:33] ---**
E-Excuse me.
**[18:36] ---**
Now, what date shall we set?
**[18:39] ---**
The others are too late.
**[18:41] ---**
Duke of Gloucester,
**[18:43] ---**
may I step out for a moment as well?
**[18:46] ---**
By all means.
**[18:53] ---**
Lord Hastings,
**[18:54] ---**
the other councilors have
convened in another location.
**[18:59] ---**
Damn! So, Gloucester *has* bought them off.
**[19:02] ---**
Catesby! Gather as many
of the nobles here as you can!
**[19:06] ---**
They can witness the charges!
**[19:08] ---**
As for that, they are already here.
**[19:12] ---**
Incredible. You're the most
capable and loyal man I know.
**[19:17] ---**
Gloucester is your former lord,
so I'm sure your feelings are conflicted.
**[19:24] ---**
I merely wished for His Grace
to walk in the warm light.
**[19:32] ---**
You should at least be
the one to end his misery.
**[19:40] ---**
Duke of Gloucester! Let me tell you
the *true* purpose of this council!
**[19:45] ---**
Listen well! Richard Plantagenet
schemes to overthrow the kingdom!
**[19:49] ---**
His mother, Duchess Cecily, has revealed
the truth, heedless of her own dishonor!
**[19:56] ---**
Richard harbors a demon in his flesh!
**[20:04] ---**
Richard! If you claim innocence,
then present proofs!
**[20:08] ---**
Here and now!
**[20:11] ---**
A cursed demon, am I?
**[20:14] ---**
And who cursed me?
**[20:17] ---**
My body has been twisted into
this ghastly, demonic form.
**[20:23] ---**
Are not those who cast that
curse the *true* demons?
**[20:27] ---**
Hastings and his allies!
**[20:31] ---**
You are the demons!
**[20:33] ---**
Y-You lie!
**[20:35] ---**
Then behold.
**[20:40] ---**
I was not born this way.
**[20:46] ---**
This is the result of your curse.
**[20:49] ---**
Put these rebels to death!
**[20:53] ---**
Now I'm certain of everything,
even without proof!
**[20:57] ---**
You fools seek the empty favor of a demon!
**[21:00] ---**
Catesby! Seize Richard!
**[21:05] ---**
That day, I could not save him.
**[21:09] ---**
Lord Richard! Lord Richard!
**[21:12] ---**
What shall I do? If Lord Richard is...
**[21:15] ---**
Your Grace,
**[21:16] ---**
I can never become the light
that illumines your path.
**[21:21] ---**
Even so...
**[21:24] ---**
...to me, you are life itself.
**[21:29] ---**
Lord Hastings, prepare yourself.
**[21:31] ---**
Even you?!
**[21:33] ---**
Disgusting! I would rather die
than see a demon crowned!
**[21:39] ---**
Even so, I will never leave you alone.
**[21:43] ---**
No matter how deep into
darkness your path takes you.