E23 - Mother...Goodbye

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    My beloved fatherland, I have returned!
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    How I've longed to see you, Lord Richmond!
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    No,
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    my king!
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    Stanley.
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    Where is your stepson Richmond?
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    I will mete out death to traitors,
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    be they great lords, close relatives,
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    or intimate friends.
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    It matters not how well I loved them.
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    I make no exceptions.
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    My lords!
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    We must fortify the crown so that
    no one will ever again foment rebellion!
[00:43] ---
    I shall bolster the royal forces
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    and adjudicate rights and
    arms with greater severity!
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    I will not have charlatans
    counterfeiting lineage
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    and armorial bearings to lay
    false claim to royal blood!
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    There must be no exceptions.
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    I slew even my other half
    with my own hands.
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    Richard,
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    would you make a few moments for me?
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    York of the white rose.
[01:20] ---
    Lancaster of the red rose.
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    These royal houses with roses for
    their crests battled for the throne.
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    People call their strife
    the "Wars of the Roses."
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    Don't go deep into the forest,
    and don't make a fuss.
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    I won't.
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    It's been so long
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    since you and I visited
    the woods like this.
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    Somehow, it all seems like a dream.
[03:24] ---
    The rain has long since ceased,
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    yet I search wherever I go.
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    It's all a bad dream.
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    Anne?
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    It's not just the battlefield,
    or the councils or feasts.
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    A royal palace isn't right for Edward.
[03:43] ---
    What's come over you?
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    Please, Richard.
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    Disinherit him.
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    What do you--
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    I haven't long to live.
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    I had an attack of
    tuberculosis as a child.
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    Now I have it again.
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    You recovered once before.
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    I know my own body better than--
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    Anne!
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    I thought that I'd be able to shape
    this kingdom alongside you.
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    I thought that I'd be able
    to guard Edward's future.
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    Even if I die, the threats
    to his life will continue.
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    As long as he's a king's son, he's doomed
    to a life of blood and conspiracy.
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    You made certain of that!
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    Didn't you, Richard?
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    Why?
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    Set Edward free
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    from the curse of this
    dreadful circlet of light.
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    Why is God so insatiable?
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    Why does He keep taking from me?
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    My whole body is on the verge of freezing.
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    Next time, make a true heir
    with someone you can truly love.
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    No! This is wrong!
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    This isn't the place!
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    The king's bed can't be this cold.
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    Where?
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    Where is he?
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    Why isn't he here?
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    How can he not be here?!
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    Your Majesty?
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    He's...
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    He's gone!
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    Yet I can't sleep without him.
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    Your Majesty.
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    Call me "Richard."
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    Like he did.
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    I want... that heat.
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    K-King Richard.
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    Just close your eyes.
    Imagine the woman you fancy.
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    King Richard!
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    We can't.
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    Heat of the flesh can't warm your soul.
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    I know.
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    No one knows that better than me.
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    I want to see him.
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    But he's gone.
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    Because I loved him.
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    All I love is vanishing.
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    Everything I care for will be gone.
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    I sinned to obtain my desire.
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    Is all this the wages of sin?
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    King Richard,
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    I'll stay with you to the last.
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    My sovereign, I have
    something to show you.
[06:37] ---
    And that is?
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    This is the purpose that the Duke
    of Buckingham entrusted to me.
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    Lord Oxford,
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    our army is safe in the hands
    of a veteran such as yourself.
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    But we are not yet heroes.
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    Richard can claim to be
    the legitimate king.
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    And what of our forces?
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    Foreigners!
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    Traitors!
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    Richmond, whose claim to the
    throne is, frankly, rather dubious.
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    It's too late for such worries.
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    What do you think we
    need to make us heroes?
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    Power?
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    Victory?
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    And a story.
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    Come one, come all!
[07:25] ---
    The show's about to start!
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    Actors?
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    Yes. Heroism requires one thing above all.
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    --Namely...
    --Here, we shall reenact the hidden
    truth of the royal palace!
[07:36] ---
    --Here, we shall reenact the hidden
    truth of the royal palace!
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    Its cursed reality!
[07:41] ---
    A consummate...
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    The wicked tale of King Richard III!
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    ...villain!
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    A nightingale?
[07:56] ---
    Did it wander here out of season?
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    What will burial benefit a soulless brute?
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    Only human beings may enter
    the Kingdom of Heaven.
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    Your Majesty, I bear fresh tidings!
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    The Earl of Richmond's army
    has come ashore in Wales!
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    So, Richmond has come at last.
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    The Earl of Oxford and several
    other lords have joined his cause.
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    Shall I summon the council?
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    Deliberation is pointless.
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    We have no choice but to give battle!
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    Have you heard?
    Sympathizers are flocking to his banner.
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    The king might fall if nothing is done.
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    Lord Stanley, if you go southwest,
    we would be happy to--
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    My lords!
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    I take it you're so well prepared
    for war that you have time for gossip?
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    N-Not quite. I must depart
    to ready my forces!
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    And I must levy troops.
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    Ungrateful fair-weather friends.
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    Still, considering this
    string of rebellions...
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    How can you join in such talk?!
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    I can't help feeling uneasy.
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    Ever since the war with Buckingham,
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    the king has been a shell of himself.
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    My health hasn't returned.
[09:18] ---
    Is that medicine to blame? Or is it...
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    King Richard!
[09:23] ---
    King Richard!
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    Richard.
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    Richard!
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    They're all looking for
    a chance to turn on you.
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    Incessant rebellions. A dying queen.
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    If you lose your precious heir as well,
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    you'll lose everything.
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    Even the crown you killed
    your other half to keep.
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    How is Her Majesty?
[09:51] ---
    She's stable now,
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    but to be honest, the end
    could come at any time.
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    And the Prince of Wales shows
    symptoms of the same disease.
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    If you let that boy go,
    you have no future.
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    I'm well aware of that.
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    Joan, you've made just one error.
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    What I sought to protect
    at any cost was...
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    Anne?!
[10:26] ---
    Mother?! Where are you going?!
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    That place is too haunted by death!
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    This is my only chance to flee!
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    Please wait!
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    Mother!
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    Everyone will worry. Let's turn back.
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    Listen, Edward.
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    I'm going... to die soon.
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    D-Die?
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    When I'm gone, the palace will be
    a den of those who wish you dead.
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    Especially if Richard loses his war.
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    The king's son will be executed, or else
    imprisoned for the rest of his days.
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    Before that happens--
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    Anne! Wait!
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    Father.
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    No!
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    No!
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    I can't stay here!
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    This place--that palace--
    isn't what I hoped for!
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    Anne.
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    I want to go back.
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    Back to the way I was
    before I met you that day!
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    Back to who I was
    before my life was stolen!
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    Wait, Anne!
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    I wasn't even allowed to dream.
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    A woman's duty
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    is merely to love whoever
    is placed before her.
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    Anne...
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    Let go.
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    Listen, Richard.
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    You are... my curse.
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    And not because I loved you.
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    I wasn't bound because I loved you,
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    but because I wanted you to love me.
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    All this time,
    you wouldn't even fetter me.
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    I bound myself with briars.
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    Her every wish for love
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    nurtured briars to tie her down.
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    You wanted to be loved.
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    Richard.
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    Anne, I'm sorry.
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    Here and now,
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    let's cut through those briars together.
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    I chose a bloody path of my own free will.
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    You needn't burden yourself with my fate.
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    Edward,
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    I love you.
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    Even if it costs me everything.
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    Once he's clear of London,
    announce that the Prince of Wales is dead.
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    I want to hold his
    "funeral" before the war.
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    Is this... a letter from Anne?
[13:12] ---
    Why is the seal unbroken?
[13:29] ---
    Was that really for the best?
[13:31] ---
    The death of an heir
    is a fatal blow to a king.
[13:34] ---
    If your wife were to pass as well...
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    Silence!
[13:38] ---
    Anne will pull through.
[13:41] ---
    You know she won't. Isn't that why
    you want to grant her wish?
[13:46] ---
    Now her wish is mine as well.
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    Give this to Edward for me.
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    It's a memento of his father.
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    Jane, take good care of Edward--
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    I mean, of that nameless boy.
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    Your Majesty! You mustn't enter!
[14:08] ---
    If you catch the queen's illness--
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    Stand aside! Anne is my wife!
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    Richard.
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    Lie down, Anne. This isn't good for you.
[14:21] ---
    We didn't lose that boy,
[14:24] ---
    did we?
[14:25] ---
    No, he gained a new life.
[14:31] ---
    Thank you.
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    Anne!
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    Richard...
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    Now I can die peacefully.
[14:39] ---
    Don't talk nonsense. You'll get well soon.
[14:42] ---
    I'll host a feast to
    celebrate your recovery.
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    I'll even have a new dress made for you.
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    You wear the dress.
    I like how you look in one.
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    I'll grant your every desire.
[14:57] ---
    No wish is beyond the king's power.
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    Your Majesty,
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    I am deeply grateful for
    your boundless kindness.
[15:10] ---
    You even provided my daughter
    with this lovely dress.
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    It was all Anne's wish.
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    I had that dress made for her.
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    I'm sure she would be
    pleased to see you wear it.
[15:23] ---
    How do you expect me to look
    Uncle Richard in the eye?
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    I'm engaged to his enemy!
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    But not wedded to him.
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    Queen Anne will soon be dead.
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    Thus, Richard desires your bloodline.
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    He wouldn't!
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    This is all for your happiness.
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    If you wish to return to the palace,
    I will go with you.
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    After all,
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    you're my last ray of hope.
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    Uncle!
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    No matter how much ill people speak
    of you, I won't believe them!
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    I pray that your life will be blessed
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    and that you live out your
    full span of years in peace.
[16:15] ---
    Edward was always concerned for you.
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    Richard,
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    perhaps you really did free us out
    of the goodness of your heart.
[16:25] ---
    But with that kind whim,
    you dug your own grave!
[16:32] ---
    My name is Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond!
[16:35] ---
    I have come to reclaim England from you!
[16:38] ---
    My brave and earnest gentlemen!
[16:40] ---
    Please, lend Richmond your strength
    to dethrone this demon king!
[16:46] ---
    Down with Richard III!
[16:49] ---
    Demon! Demon! Demon!
[16:59] ---
    Dear Duke Richard,
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    Do you remember that day at the banquet?
[17:05] ---
    I was truly glad that you asked
    me to dance with you then.
[17:11] ---
    It's strange. When I picture
    you in my mind's eye,
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    I soar out of the darkness,
    like a skylark at dawn.
[17:20] ---
    How I would love to dance
    with you again someday.
[17:25] ---
    Until that day comes,
[17:29] ---
    I pray for your happiness.
[17:41] ---
    Brave soldiers of England!
[17:44] ---
    The traitor Richmond now seeks
    to usurp our rightful throne!
[17:49] ---
    He devastates our land in
    his march toward London!
[17:53] ---
    But our foes are beaten curs
    who once fled England in defeat!
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    A common thorn has more power to wound us!
[18:01] ---
    We are the righteous
    shield of our fatherland!
[18:05] ---
    In the name of your king, to battle!
[18:07] ---
    Advance!
[18:09] ---
    Even if God watches over Richmond,
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    there are no more briars in my path.
[18:16] ---
    There's nothing left to me.
[18:19] ---
    What are you doing?!
[18:21] ---
    --Make way!
    --Impertinent wretch!
[18:22] ---
    Do you know to whom you speak?!
[18:25] ---
    I am the mother of your king!
[18:30] ---
    Have you come to pray
    for victory in battle?
[18:33] ---
    I have indeed.
[18:35] ---
    For Richmond's victory.
[18:37] ---
    Then kindly stand aside, Mother.
[18:40] ---
    Beat the marching drums!
[18:41] ---
    Richard.
[18:43] ---
    The day you were born...
[18:46] ---
    A terrible storm laid trees low.
[18:49] ---
    Owls screeched.
    Crows croaked in the night!
[18:53] ---
    Your mother suffered
    abnormal birthing pains!
[18:57] ---
    And after all that, her child was...
[19:01] ---
    ...a blood-soaked demon
    that defied the will of God!
[19:09] ---
    So, this voice that always tormented me
[19:12] ---
    was yours all along.
[19:16] ---
    Richard, you are unfit to be king.
[19:20] ---
    I should have been
    truthful before it came to this.
[19:23] ---
    I should have revealed our secret,
    which I'd hoped to take to my grave.
[19:29] ---
    Your father
[19:31] ---
    was not Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York.
[19:39] ---
    I have no more time
    to waste on your ravings.
[19:43] ---
    Ten months and ten days before your birth,
[19:46] ---
    during our days of strife with Lancaster,
[19:49] ---
    my husband Richard was
    overcome by rage and desperation.
[19:53] ---
    Between that pressure and his lust
    for the crown, he had no place for me.
[19:58] ---
    So I...
[19:59] ---
    I...
[20:01] ---
    You look nothing like
    your father or brothers.
[20:04] ---
    Everything about you is proof of my deed!
[20:10] ---
    True, I don't resemble Father.
[20:13] ---
    But I'm just like you, Mother!
[20:18] ---
    We clung to what we could never have
[20:21] ---
    and punished ourselves to
    escape our senseless suffering.
[20:25] ---
    We called ourselves sinners and demons.
[20:28] ---
    We could never have endured it otherwise!
[20:31] ---
    No!
[20:32] ---
    Mother,
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    you are no sinner.
[20:37] ---
    You're a victim.
[20:41] ---
    No! I am no victim!
[20:45] ---
    I sinned!
[20:47] ---
    Your birth was my punishment!
[20:50] ---
    Although my husband always loved me,
[20:53] ---
    he... he...
[20:56] ---
    He refused to love my darkness.
[21:00] ---
    How slender and frail she is.
[21:04] ---
    She's small, like I am.
[21:07] ---
    Have I been under this
    person's sway all this time?
[21:12] ---
    Mother, please pray.
[21:16] ---
    Pray for Richmond's triumph
[21:18] ---
    and my death.
[21:20] ---
    I hope that will be a comfort to you.
[21:25] ---
    For all my hatred,
[21:27] ---
    I...
[21:29] ---
    In truth, I always...
[21:38] ---
    Mother...
[21:40] ---
    Goodbye.
[21:43] ---
    Goodbye, my "curse."