"The Executioner of Lille!" "THE EXECUTIONER OF LILLE The Daring Life of Milady" "She was a poor woodcutter's daughter received by the Count of Provence's charity and she began by washing the floors and doing the most menial tasks with a spirit of Christian resignation." "Count Raymond, prizing her virtue, fell in love and wanted her for his wife." "During a Saracen raid, while defending her honor, he was martyred." "And this is the rosary of precious emeralds which our holy patron clutched in his hands at the moment of his agony." "The unbelievers who tried to snatch it from his hands were struck with lightning." "It's miraculous." "What a stupendous jewel!" "Would you like to kiss it?" "And your daughter will have for companions the daughters of the best families." "Don't worry, it's far off and this is a holy place." "No soldier would dare cross the threshold." "She'll be safer here than anywhere else." "What if the Spanish arrive?" "They fight by the orders of His Catholic Majesty." " But they're our enemies!" "Yes, but enemies respect holy places sometimes more than our friends." "Anne, be more careful." "Please excuse her." "And believe me, your concerns are totally unfounded." "Soldiers!" "Soldiers!" " The Spaniards?" "No, the French!" "You've bolted all the doors?" " Yes, all of them!" "Come!" "They must be stopped!" " Oh, God!" "Mama, the soldiers!" " Don't be a fool!" "You stay here!" "In the name of the King..." " What is it?" "I've orders to man the hill behind the convent!" "You can't!" "This is a sacred place!" "These are the orders I received, Reverend Mother," "If you refuse, I must use force." "Beware what you do or you'll regret it!" "I'll count up to 100 then." "1... 2... 3..." "Did you hear?" "The impudence!" "Gather all the damsels into the church!" "Hurry!" "Hurry!" "What will happen?" " Don't be afraid, my daughter, I'm here." "28..." "29... 30..." "31... 32..." "33... 34..." " How handsome!" "36... 37..." "97!" "98!" "99..." "100." "The news you gave me repays me 1000 times over for what I did for you and makes my sad life less bitter." "I'm looking forward to embrace you in your uniform of the King's officer." "Your beloved brother." "What are you doing?" " Oh, let go!" "Let go of me!" " Why do you want to die?" "Who did this to you?" "I didn't do anything but no one can see me." "They whip me for the least little thing." " Horrible!" "They'll hear from me!" " No, Sir, I beg you!" "You'll make it worse." "You don't know what they're capable of!" "Then why don't you leave?" " To where, Sir?" "I have no family." "I was left alone." "And they take advantage." " This is a disgrace!" "Something must be done!" " You've done enough for me already." "You are the first person in the world who has spoken a kind word to me." "I won't forget it." "Do you feel very hurt?" "Not anymore." "What is your name?" " Anne." "And you?" " Herbert." "No!" "Anne!" "My God!" "Leave it, I'll do it." "Private Lejeune!" "Can I help you, Miss?" "Sergeant Pitou!" "I'll be here waiting for you tonight." "Will you come?" "Miss Anne!" "Anne!" "I shouldn't have come." "I don't know why I did." "I know." " Why?" "I was waiting for you." "No, not here." "They can see us." "Holy, Protected, Blessed!" "What a scandal!" "Scandal!" "My God, they've discovered us!" "I'm done for." "They'll do anything to avoid a scandal." "Calm down!" " They'll shut me in a cell now!" "I will never see you anymore." "I'll have to pay my whole life for this moment of happiness." "Don't go back in there!" " How can I not?" "Where will I go?" "I have nobody." "They can lock me up, whip me, but they mustn't tear me from your arms!" "I can endure anything but not that." "Why is life so unfair to us?" "No, life will not be unjust." "My love will make you forget this, I swear." "There is an inn near here, I'll meet you every night." "Later the war will end and then we can leave." "No one will ever separate us." "Tomorrow there'll be a better room." "I think it's great." "I want you to procure clothes that would be most pleasing to a lady." "Ooh!" "There's a mirror!" "How soft it is!" "You're an angel." "I'm going now." "Now I must go..." "I really need to go." "Carlo!" "My sword." "My sword!" "You..." "They passed here, surprised us, killed everybody." "And you?" "Where were you?" "I was not there when they were attacked!" "I wasn't there." " Isn't it better that way?" "They would have killed you too." " But I I abandoned my soldiers!" "I will be declared a deserter." "Can't we escape?" "Go where no one knows you?" "Where can we go without money?" " Don't worry on that account." "Where did you find it?" "You won't scold me if I tell you?" " Talk." "I took it from the convent." " How could you?" "This is theft!" "You defile yourself with such a crime!" " I liked it." "It's so pretty!" "In the sun, it casts reflections like water in a cascade." "I picked it up just to feel it in my fingers." "But then, when that took place..." "It stayed with me." "I didn't even remember having it." "We must return it, we can't keep it." " And who will return it?" "You?" "Or I?" " We'll send the innkeeper." "The innkeeper?" "You think he will return it?" "Listen, Herbert," "St Clotilde doesn't need jewels." "She's rich in heaven and we need so much." "Perhaps it was she who wanted to help us." "Later when we're rich, we'll give her one even more lovely than this." "The French or the Spanish could be here any minute." "Dress, Anne, we must fly!" "Never mind the chickens, come see the lovebirds instead!" "Come!" "Get back!" "Get back!" "Don't bother two honest citizens passing their honeymoon in a house of straw!" "Not only the chickens travels but the chicks too!" "Don't joke, eh!" "Stop it, by Jove!" "Where did you steal these pants?" "I stole nothing!" " No fooling!" "Will you tell the truth?" " Hey!" "He has the complete outfit." "Here it is." "Ah, very good." "Is this yours too?" " No!" "Then it's the lady's?" " No, we found it!" "I don't doubt it and because it seems so obvious you'll repeat this before the judge." "What do you want?" " You're with him?" "Or did you dump him?" "I don't want to go to jail!" " Little snake!" "Come!" "Let's go!" "No, don't go away!" "We can be so little together." " I shouldn't have come." "You know I can't hide anything from my father." "I've stolen out three times already because he wasn't there." "But we didn't do anything wrong." "It's not a sin to love." "When do you come back?" " Tomorrow, I think." "I'll come to tell him I want to marry you." "The prisoner!" "Go!" "Go back home!" " No, I'll come with you!" "Oh my God, maybe it's too late!" "Stay here, I'm going to get water." "She's alive, still breathing." "Where am I?" " Courage!" "I wanted to die." "Why did you prevent me?" "I'm innocent." " Don't despair, they'll pardon you." "It's not easy to prove your innocence when you have no proof." "And I have none." "I can't stop thinking that I betrayed the man I love." "He's in there, in the next cell." "And I can do nothing for him." "Why do you say so?" "Have faith in God." "God has abandoned me." " Don't say that, it's a sin." "It's over." "I have no more hope." "Only two hours would be enough to prove our innocence." "I could reach a convent not far from here and a person who would help me." "He wouldn't refuse me anything." "He'd only tell the truth and we would be saved." "Not on my account... but for him." "He... mustn't be condemned no matter what." "This way!" "Hurry!" "I'll be back by dawn." "You are so good." "May you be happy in return." "Thank you!" "Why are you crying, Giselle?" "You finally came back, father." "Whatever may be the reason which makes you suffer, now I'm here." "We'll find a way to fix this." "Don't worry." "Tell me what happened." "She didn't come back!" "She didn't!" " Who?" "Neither you nor I can do anything." "A terrible thing has happened to Antonio." "He was arrested because he let a prisoner escape." "She promised to come back." "She seemed sincere." "Is it possible one who loves can lie?" "In the name of His Most Serene Majesty, the King of France," "Herbert de la Salle, of the 4th Regiment, has been found guilty of the following:" "First: unwarranted desertion of his unit during a time of war." "Second: sacrilegious theft." "For the first, he is sentenced to the loss of all pertinent privileges of his status." "For the second, he is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment subject to a dishonorable branding." "Anne de Breuil, accused but absent is pardoned via the exoneration of Herbert." "Young Antonio by making himself responsible for the escape from prison of the aforesaid Anne, is deprived of the office of jailer and sentenced to 2 years in prison." "Leave me." "If I had known what was waiting for me on my way here," "I would have prayed to God to have struck me dead." " Shut up!" "I thought I could fashion for my brother a fate that was different than mine." "To not be hounded by the looks of horror which accompany me everywhere." "I wanted you to be able to hold your head high before all." "I have sinned by pride." "All the blood that I shed now falls on me, on my family." " Pierre!" "I did all I could so none would know your origins, so you'd have a future." "But now you're a thief!" "A thief!" "It's not true!" "You know it's not!" " Then it was she?" "Was it that woman?" "You know nothing of her!" "She loves me like I love her." " Love?" "She abandoned you, understand?" "Left you!" "And you like a fool take the blame!" "No, it's not true." "She didn't abandon me." "She'll come back to get me out of here and we'll both go free." "And neither you nor anybody can do anything against us!" "Well then, Master Pierre?" "Go on, Master Pierre." "Do your duty." "I'll find that woman even at the ends of the earth." "Fire blazing, sword cutting, water running, insides of a rat, drool of a cat, blood of a bat, help me." "I see..." "I see in your life an immense fortune." "Honors and loves." "Yes, many loves." "And?" " A lot of money but..." "But?" "What don't you want to tell me?" "It's stained with blood." "I said what I know, don't ask me anymore." "Why don't you go on?" "What is it?" "A gypsy wagon is blocking the road." " Go on!" "Throw them in the ditch!" "Villains!" "God strike your children!" "Come vipers, get out if you dare!" "May your eyes fall out!" "And get me out of here, idiot servants, villains, bandits, thugs dressed in silk!" "Lady, I never imagined that here lurked so much beauty!" "Forgive me and please proceed with my carriage." "Villains, you've ruined my wagon!" "May you have an accident!" "Let's slacken the bridle now to regain the lost time." "Why say "lost"?" "How ungrateful! "Won"!" "Who's there?" "Now I see." "You're very beautiful." "Too much so." "Who are you then?" "I am Herbert's brother." "Don't be afraid, I don't want to hurt you." "I have come to tell you that my brother... was convicted for having taken upon himself your crime." "I beg you to come with me to try to save him." "Herbert told the truth." "You have no evidence against me." "It was he who stole the jewels." "He kidnapped me!" "I didn't want to go with him!" " My brother told me the truth!" "You must save him." "See this hand?" "With this hand, I branded my brother and if it wasn't blasted by God because it will be an instrument of justice if you don't save him!" " Never!" "Never!" "Kill me if you like, but you can't force me to go!" "Find the evidence against me!" "It'll be worse for you if you force me to speak!" "For your mother, for the love of those who brought you into this world," "I beseech you to listen to me." "For the last time, will you come with me?" " No!" "Viper!" "My God, what's happening?" " Stay here!" "Don't interfere with that man!" "What is it?" " Uncle Herbert has escaped from prison." "Anyone who will bring to the governor the head of the fugitive will receive a reward of 100 ducats." "Anyone who assists in his capture will have a reward of 5 ducats issued from the illustrious governor's palace." "You'll have to be alone for a while." " You're going to look for him?" "I don't know." "I don't know yet." "I'm convinced of my brother's innocence and as the law gives me the right," "I ask to take his place until he returns to clear himself." "You've saved his life." "But have you thought of the consequences of your act?" "And if he doesn't return?" " I know my brother." "I doubt that your act can have the consequences you hope for but you are in your right and I cannot oppose it." "One last grace, my lord, before I cross the prison threshold:" "I leave my daughter alone." "She is the dearest in the world to me." "Please, if you can, and if it's not for you a disgrace to help the executioner's daughter, protect her, comfort her at this sad time." "Anne?" "Are you cold?" "Are you cold?" "I can't go on anymore." "It's been a month since we escaped, flew from every inhabited place and I sleep outdoors." "I'm a woman, understand, not a soldier!" "Anne!" " Yeah, Anne!" "You don't say anything but "Anne"!" "What do you expect from me?" "That I follow you in your forced escape?" "That I could live overwhelmed with fear?" "No, sweetheart." "I want something else." "I'm tired, ragged, hungry!" "I can't go on anymore." "I can't go on living like this." "I've had enough!" "Halt!" "No passing without a toll." " I have no money!" "Ah, for you, we'll make an exception." "We'll accept a trade." "Get down, cutie!" "Gentlemen don't pay tolls!" " Where's your proof you're a gentleman?" "Here!" " Ah, very good!" "You others desist!" "I can handle him myself." "This way, your worship!" "Let's see what you can do!" "Wait a minute." "You'll pay for that!" "Go on and get it!" "Well done!" "I make my apologies to the lady, and my compliments to her champion." "I am the Count de la Fere, lord of this castle and the land you are crossing." "Mr Turcot!" "You are an ass!" "If you don't find your sword immediately, you'll be punished!" "What would you say to entering my service?" " My sword is in service to no one!" "My lord, forgive my brother for a response which suits our old station rather than our present misfortune." "And what was your old station?" "If I'm not being indiscreet." "Much better than the present one." "If speaking causes pain, I won't insist, but I wish to make the offer again to your brother." "My brother accepts, my lord." "Now I understand how the hell you managed to disarm my men." "The Italian school." "Now let's try the French school." "Now they can keep each other company!" "Perfect!" "Yes, indeed." "Tell me is that her?" " Yes." "Isn't she wonderful?" "It seems she and her brother are the only survivors of a noble Protestant family destroyed by religious persecution." "Is that him?" " Just look at him." "Besides, how can one be indifferent?" "No use rushing, it was nothing:" "a simple fall from a horse." "There's already so many people about he wouldn't have noticed your haste." "How can you think that I'm interested in the Count de la Fere?" "Ah, excuse me, I didn't realize you were worried about the horse." "Jealous?" " Yes!" "The Count de la Fere by any excuse tries to get me out of the castle." "Can I believe you haven't noticed?" "Anne, don't forget:" "rather than lose you I would kill you!" "Oh, Herbert!" "Don't talk nonsense." "Yes, everything I say is always nonsense." "Like this for example." "Oh, but it's beautiful!" "You'll spend all that you've earned since we got here." "Anne, why don't we go away?" "I'm sick of playing the stupid part of a brother!" "And where..." "could we go to?" "And you want us to go back to that life once again?" "Hiding?" "On the run?" "No, Herbert, I can't." "Maybe you're right." "He's done for." "There's nothing left to do." "Go away." "Go on, out!" "I said I didn't want anybody!" "No!" "You mustn't do it." "I don't wish it." "You prefer to see him suffer helplessly?" "He has been the most faithful companion." "I owe him that at least." "Look, he seems to be asking me himself." "Until tomorrow, wait until tomorrow." "Please, I was so scared today when the horse fell." "Anne!" " Yes?" "Why are you here tonight?" "I wanted to be alone." "Wait..." "Forgive me, Anne." "I didn't want to offend you." " You didn't, I understand." "Maybe it seems ridiculous...." " No." "You know that I..." "Don't say anything." "I'll go." " No." "You see, he's calmer." "Once, my father's horse broke his leg, they wanted to kill him but then..." " Then?" "Then a few days later, he started to get better." "He was like him." "A bit smaller perhaps." "I'll never forget his eyes." "So anxious." "Perhaps he needed you close, he wanted to show you that..." " What?" "That looking in your eyes made him forget any suffering." "That all of the past loneliness didn't matter as long as you were near him." "Perhaps he waited who knows how many times in a meadow, happy only to see you." "And often, you never even came." "And I didn't know." "I lived near him and didn't know." "I could never imagine that he needed me, that he loved me." "I thought he was sullen and instead he suffered so." "I've found out only too late." "Yes, Anne." "Very late." "Stop that!" "Anne!" "Why are you leaving?" "What happened?" "You must answer me." "You're running away like a thief without explanation!" " Forgive me." "I cannot tell you." "No, I have a right to know." " No, I beg you." "And you believe I'll let you go?" "Now that I've found you, I can't accept losing you without a reason." "When I'm gone, you'll know all." "Who is that addressed to?" "Give me that letter!" " No!" "No, I beg you." "Don't insist." "I don't know if you know me, but to defend my love, I'd be capable of murder" "if someone tried to take it away from me." "Anne!" "By the time you read this, I'll be far away." "God only knows how much this decision has cost me." "I've had a past before meeting you and in this past you weren't there." "Why didn't Fate have you enter my life when I was young?" "Everything would've been different." "I have never loved anyone before you and will never love anyone again." "I can tell you now, because I'm leaving." "I felt the joy of loving and being loved." "The time spent matters not in happiness." "It is enough once to have caressed it." "I have had this gift from you." "I don't want to ruin it, so I go." "Anne, the letter is not done." "Shall we finish it together?" "It ends like this:" ""But if I left, you wouldn't forgive me because I loved you too much to allow it."" ""So I must stay with you forever."" ""Until death do us part."" "Anne..." "You wanted to leave, thought of flight." "I would've found you anywhere." "I would have had no peace without you." "Don't you know I love you?" "I love you more than my life, more than yours." "No!" "No, please let me go." "Let go of me!" " Swear!" "Swear that you won't leave." "I swear." "Ah, it's you!" "I thought you went hunting with the Count de la Fere." "Anne!" "What is it?" " Oh, take me away from here, I can't endure it!" "Every moment, I hear him behind me." "I'm scared!" "Anne, love, what do you mean?" " I didn't want to tell you." "But his look so full of lust, is insupportable to me!" "No!" "I don't want that!" "You can't do anything against him." "You know you're a fugitive!" "Nothing?" "I can kill him!" " And after?" "You'll be taken!" "I'll be alone and without you!" "Let's fly!" "He's hunting now." "We've all our days ahead of us!" "Far from here we'll still be happy." "It's him!" "The man who escaped from the prison in Lille!" "Flee, Anne!" "Flee!" "14,15,16,17,18,19 and one 20." "There's something wrong." "What?" " 5 ducats for each makes 20 ducats!" "Didn't you agree to 30?" " Sure!" "The lady had no more money." "Really?" "Friend!" "We are 3 against 1." "I hope I'm clear." "Fine, but I told the truth, she had no more money." "And she gave me this." "And this is worth 10 ducats, isn't it?" " Yeah, maybe." "But it could be a fake and then?" "It's authentic!" " How do you know?" "I gave it to the lady who was with me!" "Fine then, if that's so, not a word more." "I'm free then?" " What?" "But the lady gave you the bracelet and the money for my ransom." "Isn't that so?" "Your ransom?" "That's a good one!" "Hear that, friends?" "Shall we tell him the truth?" "The lady gave us the bracelet to get you out of the way." "You see, she's tired of you." "But what can you do?" "That's women!" "It can't be!" "It's not true!" "You lie!" " Why should I do that?" "How else could we know that you were Lt Herbert de La Salle and that you escaped from the Lille gaol?" "Her?" "She told you?" "How is this possible?" "Cowards!" "Kill me!" "Kill me!" "Cowards!" "Cowards!" "What?" "Are you crazy?" "We have to bring you back alive or goodbye reward!" "Hang yourself later." "Oh, Henri, I did a horrible thing." " No, Anne!" "Yes, yes, you can't know, but I don't regret anything." "I'll never regret it even when God fills me with remorse one day perhaps." "You can forgive me because I did it only to defend my love." "I know you won't regret anything because I forbid you." "Your brother cannot object to our love just because we are of different faiths." "He fled abandoning you here." "Now it remains with me to defend you, to comfort you, to love you." "Repeat that you love me." "It's the only excuse for what I've done." "Because I love you too." "And for the first time in my life I know what love is." "Remember that whatever happens." "Anne, I lived 30 years before I met you," "I was alone, desperate, now I know why." "Because you weren't here." "But now you are." "I can hold you in my arms, look into your eyes, hear your footsteps in a house so empty." "Nothing will happen, nothing that will make you regret marrying me." "Those belong to the Count de la Fere" "And this is my wife's." "Herbert!" " Master Pierre, you are free." "I was sure you'd come back." "As soon as I knew..." "Are you ill?" "Master Pierre!" "You know you can't talk to the prisoners." " I'm coming." "Tomorrow I'll go myself to the judge and ask for a retrial." "You'll see..." " Let's go!" "I said no talking with the prisoners!" "I shouldn't have left him alone." "I should have known he was desperate." "Why didn't you tell me anything?" "Why didn't you leave a mark, a track that could lead me to that demon." "Count de la Fere." "Do you believe in dreams?" " It depends" "If they're nice, I believe them, if they're not, no." "You're right." "What is it, Ma'am?" "I've heard those footsteps in a dream." "Anne!" "Here I am, my love!" "Anne!" "Anne!" "Anne!" "Anne!" "Anne!" "Anne!" "Anne!" "Henri!" "Anne!" "Oh, what's this?" "When you have a body like yours it's better not to cover it up!" "I'll hold on to this then." "You know war is a horrible thing, but luckily it makes them thirsty and here there's drink for all:" "French and English." "The living sometimes don't pay but the dead always do." "Never found one to gainsay it." "Here!" "Take this!" "And if one fine day they found out you've stripped the dead?" " A bad day, you mean." "Well, I think they would kill me just like that." "Maybe I'd be shot at my door, but it pays very well." "And I'll earn even more now you're here." "They'll be lining up outside." "Get your paws off!" "Away!" "The British are coming!" "They're coming!" "Wait, where are you going?" "You must pay me first!" "Hey, I want my money!" "And you instead of helping me stop them have fun throwing my wine in their faces!" "You'll pay for me for this, damn you!" " Stop it!" "Curse the day I pulled you from the river!" "I've done much for you!" "Instead of being nice to them..." "who do you think you are?" " Excuse me." "Are there any French about?" "No, they're all gone." "Come right in." "Very good." "Hey guys, the field is clear, come on!" "Come on!" "Let's go, old lady!" "Drinks!" "I'll take care of you later!" "Wait 'til we're closed, I'll show you!" "Old drunken witch, if I catch you, I'll break your neck!" "There's nothing funny, you know" "My friends and I were saved by a miracle." "Not even a drop of water, my lord, you're completely dry." "On my word!" "Never mind, old gal, we want to drink." "Our friend here is paying." "How are you, my lord?" "Is that your daughter?" " Are you joking?" "Don't you see how lovely she is?" "I do see." "Can I have something to drink please?" "No, not you." "Her!" "Will you do me a favor?" "What would that be?" "Sit here a while." "And after?" "I don't know." "Maybe you can love me a little." "Why should I do that?" "Certainly, not for money, because those guys over there are drinking it all up." "I assure you that you would make me..." "very happy." "I must tell you I cannot promise eternal love, even with the best intentions in the world." "I couldn't do it." "I apologize, I won't insist." "But how sorry you'll be." "No, please, don't go." "I thank God that I've found you here." "You know, only men make war." "And it's a horrible thing." "What is your name?" " Anne." "Listen, Anne, I want to do something for you." "Take this whip to the commander of the French troops, my lord Rochfort." "It was his." "He'll be very happy to have it again." "Do it!" "It will be your fortune." " Come on, friend, it's getting late." "Here then!" "I drink my last glass." "You see, I'm quitting drinking." "Excuse me." "Then you won't?" "A pity." "A pity because I believe I'll never come through here again." "Get in line!" "Out!" "The bearer of this message is the trusted person of my choice  to send into the enemy camp." "RICHELIEU" "Don't go out!" "This is none of your business!" "Stop!" "Don't get involved!" "Richelieu must be insane." "He promised to send me a man, a trustworthy man." "Instead he sends me a woman on such an important mission." "Unless this is a disguise." "But it's too perfect." "Often a woman is more skilful." "No arguments." "Call my lord Brisac." "You can return to Paris." "Tell Cardinal Richelieu that a general's quarters are not a fit place for pranks." "Try me!" "I don't try women on battlefields." "Sending me back to Paris, shows you doubt the Cardinal's intelligence." "Tell me how can a woman secretly penetrate an English camp?" "Secretly?" "But I'll enter it in the noisiest way." "You have an English prisoner here in the camp?" "Countess, why won't you trust me?" "You must trust me!" "Tomorrow, you'll be taken to the general's quarters, along with the English prisoner to be tried for treason." "I've done my duty." "But don't fear, all is ready for your flight tomorrow morning." "There are faithful persons whom we can count on and all is ready." "The convoy is ready?" " Yes, Sir!" " Good." "We'll transfer you to the general's quarters where you'll be interrogated." "In Paris you'll receive the reward for traitors and spies." "Thank you, Lieutenant." "What an extraordinary woman!" "But I wouldn't want her against me." " I would!" "What happened?" "You two stop!" "Hurry, follow them!" "Forward!" "Where are you going?" "Turn back!" "Have a good trip!" "Don't worry Countess, give me your wrists." "Hurry!" "Give me your wrists!" "Who's that?" " My loyal servant." " Set me free, please!" "If they catch you unbound, they'll put you to death and me as an accomplice." "Forward!" "Don't shoot, don't shoot!" "I'm Lt. Connor!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "This way." "Bravo, Connor!" "A nice escape this time, eh?" " Ma'am, Capt Macgregor." " A pleasure." "I owe you my life." "I'd be very pleased to introduce you to our chief, Lord de Winter." "I've been played by a woman!" "Right now in the English camp perhaps she's laughing over that dupe Rochfort!" "You think this is funny?" "Find her!" "Go!" "Move your feet!" "I want that woman dead or alive!" "Better alive, my lord." "Here are, my incredulous lord, the military plans of the English troops." "Here's the camp of Lord de Winter." "And here's a list of the units under him." "Are you convinced now?" " Wonderful!" "How did you do it?" "Very easily:" "I married Lord de Winter." "Lord de Winter..." "Lord de Winter!" "He's the English commander!" " Exactly for that reason." "Only the English commander's wife can know certain things." "You are a truly extraordinary woman." "Thank you." "If I may, I offer you this in the name of France." "And this is offered by your Rochfort." "You think Lord de Winter will be jealous?" "I wouldn't know." "Tell me, did he suffer much?" " Oh no, not at all." "He died smiling." " Just as well." "You can't imagine how much Richelieu will be grateful for what you did." "And here is the proof of his gratitude." "Grant me the honor of fastening it around your snow white neck." "Now comes the most difficult and dangerous of your missions." "The King and the people don't want war, but it must go on for the good of France." "Buckingham is a man of peace." "Buckingham must die." " Buckingham?" "How and in what way will be your affair." "This time we won't be able to help you." "I know how to act alone." "But remember this time the price will be much higher." "Succeed and you can have anything you want." "Faster, Aramis, faster!" "D'Artagnan, if you believe me, redouble the bet!" " Sure." "Another 5 on Athos!" " Accepted!" "Come on, Aramis or you ruin me!" " I'm doing my best!" "Sirs, we finally know the name of that woman:" "Anne de Breuil." "Touché!" "Athos, you suffered the blow!" " Touché." "I'm sure Athos will soon return to being unbeatable." "While we were looking for her in France, that woman was in England to assassinate Buckingham." "This time Rochfort must have paid well." "A war government lasts as long as the war." "And Richelieu knows?" " Buckingham knew too and that's why he's dead." "But as for that woman, the justice of man waiting on God's, is about to close in." "Richelieu's protection has hitherto torn her from the courts, but the King faced with her last crime has signed her death warrant." "It is for you to follow her." "Ah, I wanted to tell you your path will be strewn with Richelieu's guards." "Be careful, eh?" "The lives of you 4 are close to my heart." "Athos?" "Yes, Mr Tréville." " Count de la Fere, it is your right to refuse this mission, if you want." "I preferred to believe that woman was dead." "In my heart I had forgiven her." "But now she is only an enemy of France." "As for the Count de la Fere, he no longer exists." "You know it." "Splendid." "They are all beautiful." "But my lord, this time I neither want money nor honors." "There is something that you want more?" " Yes!" "The head of the executioner of Lille." "You didn't hear wrongly, my lord." "I've your word that my every request would be granted." "I thought you wanted the keys to France's treasury." "Instead, you ask for a very cruel reward:" "The head of an executioner." " This is my price." "Fine." "I'll put all the necessary men at your disposal." "Where do I send them?" "Here." " The Pilgrim's Inn." "Tomorrow night at 9 and protect me from the Musketeers." " They as well?" "They haven't left my trail for an instant." " What do they know of Buckingham?" "They suspect me." "My life is at stake and maybe not just mine." "OK, I'll tend to them personally." "I await when the time is ripe." "But my lord, I wish nothing bad to befall one of them." "And you know well who that is." " I do." "But it's quite a shame." "I have your word?" " You do." "4 trusted men need to be at this address tomorrow." "I'll explain later." " Fine." "What is it?" " The Musketeers just arrived." "You must keep them from going on at any cost." "I'm going to provoke them." "As soon as they unsheathe their swords, come in and arrest them." "And if they should put up a fight and should be fatally wounded don't feel too bad." "To the King!" " Long live the King!" "Yes, dear officers, long live the King!" "The King!" "And Cardinal Richelieu!" " Long live the Cardinal too!" "Do you want any thing, Sir?" "Nothing from the likes of you!" " Ah, this pear is great!" " And this leg!" "Listen Porthos, for your instruction, the 1st plague that God sent to Egypt was the locusts." "The 2nd: pestilence." " The 3rd: thirst." "The 4th: the Cardinal's guards!" "By the order of Cardinal Richelieu duels are prohibited." "You're under arrest!" "Arrest?" "What does that mean?" " Who spoke of arrest?" "Don't know, someone said it." " Maybe these men are under arrest." "Less babble!" "Your swords!" " Our swords!" "Musketeers, clear the field!" "They explained what you had to do?" "Yes, it's no big deal, Ma'am." " You know where he lives?" " We all do." "But it's not all here." " You'll get the rest later." "Your mistrust hurts us, Ma'am." "They all pay us in advance." " Not me!" "Before the river ferry there's an empty mill." "I'll wait for you there." "Go!" "Trust in us." "Let's go!" "And remember:" "If you don't find the executioner of Lille," "Rochfort will make you find him in quite a different way." "Giselle dear," "in a few days you'll be 20." "20 years old?" "Did you know your mother was 20 when we married?" "I know what you're thinking, but I'm happy here with you." "But the years will pass." "What I wanted hasn't been possible and it doesn't matter if the years pass." "But Antonio is free now." "What happened doesn't matter." "Nothing changed on our side, but inside prison he became another." "He won't be seen anymore." "They say he's going far away from here to make a new life." "Who can it be at this hour?" " Don't know." "I'll go see." "Whom do you seek, Sir?" "Do you not recognize me?" " I see you are a King's Musketeer." "One day, a long time ago, you came to my castle to reveal to me the deceit of a wicked woman." "The Count de la Fere!" " Today I'm just a Musketeer" "And no one knows my real name." " Come in, my lord." "How can I serve you?" " That woman..." " Is dead!" "No, Master Pierre." "That woman lives." "The devil grabbed her by the hair and rescued her." "It's not possible." " She lives." "But her condemnation has just been signed by the King and you must execute it." "This is the list of her appalling crimes, from which we believe divine justice has come upon her." "It's horrible!" "The all-seeing God has chosen us to be her executioners." "Come with me, Master Pierre." "Tonight at Armentières, justice will be done." "Father!" "I'm going to Armentières with my lord, I'll be back at dawn." "All right." "Upstairs!" "He's not in the house!" " That bitch woke them up!" "What shall we do?" " Kill her!" "That's not our orders." "Milady will decide." "Hurry, let's not waste time!" "Let's go!" "Giselle!" "Go!" "And these are Rochfort's men?" "And is it with such rabble Richelieu wants to lead the world?" "His daughter!" "What are you doing still here?" "Go and bring me that man!" "Or I'll make you pay." "His daughter." "D'Artagnan, Aramis!" "Hurry to the mill on the river!" "She's taking refuge there!" "Do you feel better?" "You're warm." "Don't be afraid." "I'm your friend." "You haven't forgotten what you did for me?" "I took you from those men who wanted to revenge themselves on your father." "As soon as I return, I'll send you home." "Your father is in danger." "They will try to kill him." "We must do something to save him." "Where is he now?" "You understand if you don't tell me your father is lost?" "Speak!" "Where is he?" "Stop crying!" "I want to know where your father is!" "Tell me where!" " No!" "It's useless to keep pretending!" "You don't want to help him but to kill him!" "I know it was you who kidnapped me!" "But you'll get nothing from me!" "You can kill me but I won't say a word!" "Yes, it's true." "It is I who want to wreak vengeance on your father." "And you will speak." "You don't know how much I hate you and him!" "You see this knife?" "You know I'm capable of killing you?" "To kill you!" "The Executioner of Lille!" "By the will of God and in the name of His Majesty Louis XIII, King of the French," "Anne de Breuil, formerly Countess de la Fere, known as Milady de Winter, by the unanimous judgment of the judges who have examined your crimes, you are condemned to death." "The ruling will have immediate execution." "Kneel down." "Pray if you know how that God will have mercy on you." "My God..." "You know my crimes." "I have dug a pit under my own feet" "But if you could read inside of a soul, you could tell where there was crime and where fate has driven sinners." "Now, that I'm about to come before you, have mercy on me." "Anne!" "I have loved... that woman." "English subtitles by sineintegral@KG"