01x05 - Crows

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[OPENING THEME PLAYING]


- Sir John.
-Majesty, welcome.

HENRY: 'Twas my hap, riding here.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

SIR JOHN: It's never too late, you know.

You should marry again,
have another family.

Perhaps you'll find a bride
while you're here with us.

[CHATTER STOPS]

[SNORING SOFTLY]

Francis Weston.

I believe your gentlemanly
touch is required.

Perhaps we should make a noise.
To wake him naturally.

Someone laugh?

Yes, do that, Tom.

[SNORING CONTINUES]

[SNORTS] I wasn't asleep.

[SIGHS] just resting my eyes.

[INHALES]

[SIGHS]

[CHATTER RESUMES]

[BIRDS FLUTTERING]

WESTON: This is no time to be shy.

Tell Cromwell what Henry asked you.

He asked me if I would
look kindly on him.

If he wrote me a poem, for instance.

I said I would.

WESTON: Good.

But if he attempts anything
on your person...

Scream.

What if nobody comes?

Don't scream.

Pray.

Out loud.

Something that will appeal to
His Majesty's piety and sense of honour.

I'll get my prayer book.

I'm sure I can find something
that will fit the bill.

[SIGHS]

RAFE: Thomas Cromwell!
Secretary to the King!

GUARD:
Show your colours!

Tell him to let us in before
I show his arse my boot.

Well...

How do I look?

That's why he sent you, isn't it?

To see if I really am dying.

He used to call me his flower.

When my first son was born,
it was winter.

There were no blooms to be had.

He gave me six dozen roses.

Made of the purest white silk.

Over the years, I have given them
to those who have done me some service.

We...

[SHUDDERING]

Will you let the Princess Mary
visit me?

What harm can it do the king?

Chapuys has written to the Lady Mary.

Saying that he could
get her out of the country.

Never.

I answer for it with my life.

What does Henry imagine?

Mary returning with an army,
touring about all his kingdom?

It's laughable.

I answer for her intentions
with my own person.

Your own person has a lot to do, Madam.

Guaranteeing this, answering for that,
you can only die once.

And when I do,

I will set Henry an example

for when his own time comes.

Do you think about
the King's death a lot?

I think about his afterlife.

Ah.

How is Boleyn's daughter?

She lost the child, I'm told.

I know how that is.

Hmm.

She and the King have hopes
of another child soon.

Particular hope,

or general hope?

I thought she always confided in you.

I do hope there is no rift.

Well, is she...

[LAUGHS] She said nothing still!

Of course, the wise woman says nothing
until she feels the quickening.

Yes.

She's been wrong before,

but yes.

Does the King know?

You should tell him,
he might knight you on the spot.

I suppose it's to be expected.

She was with the King
for much of the summer.

And when he wasn't with her,
he would write her love letters.

And sent them by the hand
of Harry Norris.

My lady, I must leave you.

But you are usually
such a good listener.

[SCOFFS]

ANNE: The window was open.

He was such an innocent.

What kind of monster
would do such a thing?

Perhaps he got up on
the ledge somehow, and...

And his paws slipped.

- Paws slipped? Paws slipped?
-Get away, Mary!

No, yes, I've re-baptised my fool.

Well...

The King's daughter
is almost a dwarf, isn't she?

The French'll have a shock
'fi they ever see her.

- They'll have a shock.
-Yes.

I know they're trying for a match
between her and the Dauphin.

While my own daughter...

I told you to go to France
and negotiate her marriage.

- But you said you were ill.
-I was ill.

You're never ill!

Unless you want to be!

[CROMWELL CHUCKLES]

And now the French laugh behind my back.

The French never intended a match.

It's as if my daughter had
never been born.

As if Katherine was still Queen.

As if I didn't exist.

I won't let them make
a royal match for Mary.

I want you to visit her.

Take one of your handsome
young men with you.

She's never had
a compliment in her life,

it shouldn't be hard to seduce her.

You want me to compromise her?

ANNE: Hmm.

Do it yourself if you want.
I heard she liked you.

All that's needed is for her
to make a fool of herself in public

so she loses her reputation.

No.

- [LOUDLY] No? No?
- Shh!

What?

That's not my aim.

Those are not my methods.

I know you're talking to the Seymours.

You think it's a secret.

But nothing is secret from me.

I can't believe you put your money
on such a bad risk.

CROMWELL: There was a time, madam,
that you would listen to my advice.

Let me advise you now.

Drop your plans and schemes.

Put down the burden of them.

Keep yourself in quietness
until your child is born.

For Jane.

She's a distraction, that's all.

Let it run its course.

- Pretend that you don't even see...
-He'll never abandon me!

Never!

Since my coronation,
there is a new England.

And it can't subsist without me.

I'm warning you.

Make terms with me, Cromwell.

Before my child is born.

I hear you're going to put
all the nuns and monks out on the road?

Monsieur Chapuys,

wherever my commissioners go,
they meet monks and nuns

who come to them
begging for their liberty.

And after the scandals I've heard,
I'm not surprised.

Monks selling broken meats
from the last supper to the poor.

Young novices being visited
in their beds by older monks.

They claim they're living
the vita apostolica,

but you didn't find the apostles
feeling each other's bollocks, did you?

Tell your master, I mean good religion
to increase, not wither...

I won't tell my master lies,
I tell him what I see!

And I see discontent.

I see famine before the spring.

You're buying corn from
the territories of the Emperor.

This trade could be stopped.

What could your master possibly gain
by starving my countrymen?

Well, he would gain this,

they would see how
evilly they are governed.

Henry begins by mocking the Pope.

He will end up...

...embracing...

...the devil.

Eustache.

What's happened?

What is this?

I have news from Kimbolton.

Queen Katherine...

She has only one or two days to live
and I don't want to hurt her.

Thomas, I don't want her to die alone
without anyone who loves her.

And I'm afraid the King won't let me go.

Will you let me go?

It will be a kindness to let her
have a visit from Ambassador Chapuys.

Why?

So he can entreat with her
more conveniently?

Her doctor suggests, madam,
that she will very soon be in her grave!

[SCOFFS] She'd fly out of it,
shroud flapping,

if she thought she could
cause me trouble.

Your Majesty,

the Emperor may be a fond nephew,

but he won't keep up a quarrel
for a dead woman.

This could mean the end to
the thr*at of w*r, a new era.

Ambassador Chapuys...

Ambassador Chapuys has never
acknowledged my wife as Queen.

Until he is prepared
to bow before her publicly,

there will be no diplomacy
with that man.

[LABOURED BREATHING]

[WOMAN SOBBING]

At last, God...

[RELIEVED SIGH]

Not before time.

[CHAMBER MUSIC PLAYING]

[IN DISTINCT CHATTER]

She's very much looking forward
to seeing her younger brother.

Aren't you, dumpling?

And I share her impatience.

It has been a long enough wait.

I suppose we must expect
the country to mourn for her.

She was once given the title of Queen.

Mistakenly.

Majesty...

Do you wish the body
brought to St Pauls?

We will lay her to rest in Peterborough.

It will cost less.

She sent me a letter.

I don't want it.
Get rid of it, will you?

Richard Rich says the King
wants Katherine's plates and furs.

We tried to point out that
if she was never in fact his wife,

he has no right to her property.

Oh, he'll have the furs.

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

KATHERINE: I commend
unto you our daughter, Mary.

Beseeching you to be
a good father to her.

[PRIESTS CHANTING]

And lastly,

I make this vow...

That mine eyes desire you
above all things.

If I had been with you,
I could've put you out of danger.

I'd have...beaten with a...
With a blanket!

Oh, thank goodness that you...

- If I'd been here...
-Leave it!

Please, my husband.

- I'm not harmed.
-WOMAN: My Lady.

Let me drink this.

[SPEAKING FRENCH]

[SPEAKING FRENCH]

Oh, this was a good piece.

Yes, what is it?

Water must be kept at hand.

And a woman appointed
on every rota to check that

all the lights are being extinguished.

I can't imagine how
this could've happened!

First, this is a household matter,
and not within your remit.

Second, she was in no danger!

Third, I don't know who lit the candle.
Four, if I did...

-[FOOTSTEPS]
-[WHISPERS] I wouldn't tell you.

Five, no one else will tell you, either.

If, as it may happen,

some person visits the Queen
after the lights are out,

then it is an event over which
we should draw a veil.

Some person...

Some person for the purposes of arson,

or the purposes of something else?

Lady Rochford...

Jane.

When the time comes to unburden
your conscience, don't go to a priest.

He'll give you penance.
I'll give you a reward.

[BELL TOLLING]

HENRY: How much does the lordship
of Ripon bring in to the Archbishop?

CROMWELL: A little over £260, sir.

HENRY: How much does
Southwell bring in?

CROMWELL: A scant £150.

HENRY: Hm!
I thought it would be more.

Majesty-

- In the tournament today...
-Hmm.

If you should run against
my son, Gregory,

will you forebear to unhorse him?

If you can help it.

HENRY: We can't help
what we do, really.

When you're thundering down
at a man, you can't chat.

It's a very rare event, you know, Crumb,

to bring down your opponent.

If you're concerned about what
showing he'll make, you needn't be.

He's very able.

I don't really mind
what showing he makes.

I just don't want him to be...

...flattened.

You can't come.

Rafe is back.

I have to talk to him about
some abbeys he'd been surveying.

And there's my papers.

Richard will be here to represent me.

This is my first joust.

The Vatican has given Henry
three months to return to obedience

or the bull of excommunication against
him will be distributed through Europe.

The Emperor's fleet is set for Algiers
with 40,000 armed men.

The Abbot of Fountains has been
systematically robbing his own treasury.

Parliament opens in a fortnight.

The King says you're a credit
to my house.

And you are.

Some years ago, before you were born,

I met an old Portuguese
knight in Venice.

One of those men who made a career of

riding to tournaments
throughout Europe.

I don't know, for what it's worth,

he said the secret to jousting
was to sit easily in your saddle,

like you're going out to take some air.

"Carry your lance loose
until the very last moment.

"And above all else,

"defeat your instincts to...

"...survive."

Well, you're ready.

You look good.

Thank you.

[SIGHS NERVOUSLY]

A present.

You have to guess.

- St Apollonia's teeth.
-No.

Teeth from the comb of Mary Magdalene.

St Edmund's nail pairings.

Tip them in with the rest.

The man must have had 500 fingers.

What else?

[CLEARS THROAT]

A prior at Maiden Bradley claims
he has a license under papal seal

allowing him to keep a whore.

Westminster Abbey bought
the bones of a dead elephant.

Now, tell me what they want with...

[DOOR OPENS]

CROMWELL: Gregory.

[STAMMERS] It's the King, it's...

It's Henry.

He's dead.

Ah.

Tournament hadn't begun.

The King was running towards the ring
and the horse just went down.

No one was near. No one to blame.

RAFE: Master, if this is true...

-[HORSE WHINNYING]
-MAN: Whoa, whoa.

If he is dead,

should we escape now
before they block the ports?

Fetch Fitzwilliam.

[MEN ARGUING]

CROMWELL: Move! Move!

Move! Move! Move!

- Fetch a mirror to his lips!
-It was tried!

What do you mean,
leaving him lying here,

untouched by Christian hands!

By God, Cromwell, you're a dead man!

My Lord Norfolk! My Lord Norfolk!
Where's the Queen?

On the floor.

Er, I told her myself.
My place to do it.

Well, she warned you to be obedient.

Now she's regent,
your days are finished!

No! No! No!
No woman would be regent.

Me! Me!

- Gregory...
-Brought the master treasurer!

Thank you. Thank you.

The Princess Mary. If she falls into
Boleyn hands, she's dead.

We have to get up country
before this news does!

Go fetch William. Go quickly!

Sir, Mary's keepers are Boleyns.
What if they won't yield her?

[STAMMERS] Then, she's dead.

If we let her fall into
the hands of the papists,

they'll set her up as Queen,
then I'm dead.

There'll be civil w*r.

I don't know how this could...

A woman cannot rule, Cromwell!
A woman cannot rule!

Oh, my God! Oh, my...

[ALL EXCLAIMING]

[GRUNTS]

CROMWELL: The King's breathing!
The King's breathing!

- Long live the King!
-[ALL CHEERING]

Come on! Come on!

Come on! Come on!

Come on! There you are! There you are!

There you are! Do you see me?
Do you see me?

That's it. That's it.

[ALL CHEERING LOUDLY]

- MAN: Long live the King!
-Move away! Let him breathe!

Let him breathe! Let him breathe!

How many men can say,
"My only friend is the King of England"?

You'd think I have everything.

But take Henry away...

I don't know, Crumb.

You're not without support, you know?

Forgive my scepticism.

I mean, you would have support,

should you need it against the Boleyns.

Well, why should I need that?

Queen and I are perfect friends.

[LAUGHS]

Forgive my scepticism.

[SIGHS DEEPLY]

This support...

Sir Nicholas Carew says he thinks...

...you're an easy fellow to get on with.

Does he?

Perhaps...

Perhaps you should dine with him.

What would have happened, Crom,

if the King had not recovered?

Anne would have all to rule herself.

Though she'd have a fight
with her Uncle Norfolk.

Between the two of them,
which one would I back?

The lady, I think.

Let the lady be regent,

and the Boleyns will walk on our backs.

And your head will be on a spike.

[SIGHS DEEPLY]

But of course,
that will come to pass anyway,

if she gives Henry a son.

[HUSHED CHATTER]

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

My Lord...

I pray,

the whole of England prays

that you will never joust again.

[FOOTSTEPS]

[WHISPERING] Why not geld me
while you're at it!

That would suit you, wouldn't it, madam?

[ALL GASPING]

[CHATTER CONTINUES]

[PRINCESS MARY MOANING]

[GRUNTING]

[GRUNTS]

[PRINCESS MARY GIGGLES]

The child had the appearance of a male,
and of about 15 weeks' gestation.

What do you mean "the appearance of"?

- I only repeat the words of the doctor.
-HENRY: Oh, get away with you, woman!

You've never given birth!
What do you know?

There should have been
a matron at her bedside!

But, oh, no.

You Boleyns must all crowd in
whenever disaster strikes.

[DOOR OPENING]

[DOOR CLOSING]

[FOOTSTEPS RECEDING]

[SIGHS]

I see that God will not
give me male children.

If a king cannot have a son...

If he cannot give
stability to his realm,

then it doesn't matter
what else he can do.

The victories.

For just laws.

For famous courts.

Nothing.

It seems, to me,

that I was dishonestly led
into this marriage.

How, dishonestly?

It seems to me I was seduced.

Practised upon.

Perhaps with charms...

With spells... Women do such things.

And if that were so,

the marriage would be null, wouldn't it?

[HUSH ED CHATTER]

MAN 1 : He sent her a purse, the King.

Christ knows how much was in it.

CROMWELL:
What did she do?

She sent it back.
And the letter he sent with it.

Well, she didn't open it.

But before she returned it,
she kissed the seal.

MAN 2: Kissed it?
What genius possessed her?

Now Henry's walking around

talking about the virtuous
and chaste Jane.

What do you say to that?

The game's changed, Cromwell.

Now that Anne has failed again,

it's possible that Henry
may wish to remarry.

As long as the King holds by
the present Queen,

I will hold by her, too.

So you have no interest
of your own in this?

I represent the King's interests.

That's what I am for.

My Lord Bishop,
I hear you're leaving us for France.

We shall miss you.

I went down to Putney.

Or to be accurate, I sent a servant.
I learnt things about you.

You've k*lled a man.

CROMWELL: Not in this jurisdiction.

Do your worst, Stephen.

Put your men on the road,
lay out money, search Europe.

You'll not find any talent I possess
that England cannot use.

That lad you knifed in Putney d*ed.

You did well to run, Cromwell.

The family had a noose for you.

Your father bought them off.

What?

You see?

I know things about your life
you don't know yourself.

EUSTACHE:
I am disturbing you?

Eustache.

No, I was just remembering...

Sit down.

The Cardinal used to tell people
that I was an orphan.

Or else that...

I don't know.

I was Irish.
Recently escaped from prison.

He said it was wise to
deceive others about your past,

even if there was nothing to conceal.

But I was wondering whether
it's possible to deceive oneself.

About what?

Something you believed about

your life.

Who you are.

What you are.

You attended the funeral?

No, I refused to.

She was not buried as a queen.

I hear the concubine wore yellow
to celebrate Katherine's death.

She thought her passing
would change her position.

So it may, but perhaps not
in the way she thinks.

There's talk about this Semour girl.

May I meet her?

[CHUCKLES] And here I thought
you'd come just for my company.

The lady you refer to
is called Seymour.

And I am surprised
you'd take such an interest.

I would have thought
you were more interested

in which French princess
Henry will marry,

should he dissolve
his current arrangements.

Cromwell, you told me
that was a fairy tale.

You have expressed yourself
a friend of my master.

Tell me you won't countenance
a French match.

[LAUGHS] I have influence
on King Henry, Eustache.

But I do not claim to govern him.

To succeed with Henry you have to
anticipate his desires.

But then,

if he changes his mind,

you stand out there.

Exposé, huh?

It's Anne you should fear.

She's desperate and dangerous.
Strike first before she strikes you.

Remember how she brought down Wolsey.

Perhaps, you should come
to mass at court.

[CHOIR SINGING]

Cromwell? So you knew
this was going to happen.

After all this time avoiding her,
avoiding having to acknowledge her.

Well, this will get back to the Emperor.

Let's hope he will understand.

- It had to be done, Eustache.
-Why?

Princes do not think as other men do.

Now that you've acknowledged
his second marriage,

now, if he likes...

...he can let it go.

MAN: And the Boleyns
closed around him?

Poor fellow.

Looked as if he was being carried off
by slavers.

He didn't know what country
he was going to wake up in.

CROMWELL: No more do I.

Let's go.

Find a crust to gnaw on somewhere.
Leave him to it.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Cromwell?

EUSTACHE: My master, the Emperor,
hopes you will look kindly

on a Spanish match for Princess Mary.

You presume too much, Chapuys.

Do not presume to know
my policy, Ambassador.

Oh, so, this was all
a bargaining tool, was it?

EUSTACHE: Your Majesty...

HENRY: You bow to my wife,
and then you send me the bill?

I have not forgotten

howl helped your master
against the French.

He promised me territory.

Next thing I hear,
he's making a treaty with Francois!

The Emperor treats me like an infant!

First he whips me, then he pets me,
then he whips me again.

[YELLING] Well, tell him
I am not an infant!

And tell him to keep out
of my family business!

First he tells me how I should marry,

then he wants to show me
how to deal with my own daughter!

I demand a profound and public apology!

I don't know what I am
supposed to apologise for.

I come here in good faith,

I am tricked into meeting
that creature face to face,

and then I'm att*cked by Henry?

He wants my master. He needs my master.
And instead, he plays these games?

Please, peace.
We will do the apologising.

- Let him cool down.
-Yes, but...

- Never fear. We will keep the talks...
- HENRY: Cromwell!

I know what you've done.

You have gone too far in this matter.

You've made him promises, haven't you?

Well, you have no authority!

You have put my honour in jeopardy.

[SCOFFS] What do I expect?

What would a man like you
know about the honour of princes?

You've told them you have
the King in your pocket.

Don't deny it!

[SHOUTING] You would train me up,
like one of your boys?

Have me touch my cap when
you come down in the morning

and say, "How do you, sir?"

[YELLING] Well, I really believe
you think you are the King

and I am the blacksmith's boy!

Don't you?

Don't you?

God preserve Your Majesty.

And now,

will you excuse me?

[FIRE CRACKLING]

[METAL CLINKING]

[CLINKING RAPIDLY]

[SCREAMING]

Cross your wrists.

Like this.

Get it in the water.

Keep your wrists crossed.

[CROMWELL GROANING]

Confuses the pain.

[GROANING CONTINUES]

[DOOR OPENING]

I trust a lesson has been learnt.

You are not a gentleman born.

You should not meddle in affairs
of those set above you.

His Majesty may be pleased
to bring you into his presence...

MAN: Come, Wolsey!

We are fetching you to hell!

And Beelzebub is expecting
you to supper!

[MAN LAUGHING]

MAN: But you should always
remember who it was

that placed you where he could see you.

From now on, remember who you serve.

CROMWELL:
I shall profit from this lesson.

I assure you, sir.

See you do.

[FOOTSTEPS RECEDING]

[DOOR CLOSING]

And so, Majesty, if it please you,

look favourably on
the Emperor's overtures.

We beg you.

For the sake of the realm
and the common weal.

Well, if it's for the good
of the common weal, then...

I shall begin negotiations with Chapuys.

I suppose I must swallow any
personal insults I have received.

Other topics will not
be open for discussion.

The Emperor has discussed Mary
with his own counsellors.

He'd like her married to
his own relatives.

I will in no wise suffer her
to leave this country

until her behaviour to me
is as it should be.

DUKE OF NORFOLK:
Myself, I'd go up country,

and if she would not sign the oath,

I'd b*at her head against the wall
till it was soft as a baked apple.

Thank you for that, My Lord Norfolk.

Her mother's death
is still raw with her.

I have no doubt that she will
see her duty in these next weeks.

Oh. How pleasing to hear
from you at last, Cromwell.

Are we to assume that this
newfound reticence of yours

relates to yesterday's events?

When His Majesty,
if I do recall correctly,

administered a check to your ambition.

Thank you again, My Lord Wiltshire.

There'll be no foreign match for Mary.

That is final.

Will you walk with me?

I wish we would go down
to the wield one day.

Talk to the iron masters.

I've had various drawings,
mathematical drawings and advices

concerning how our ordinance
can be improved, but I...

I can't...

I can't make as much of it
as you would.

That's because...

Well...

Because you are my right hand, sir.

So, shall we go down?

You and I.

Meet the charcoal burners.

[CHUCKLES] Of course.

But not this summer, sir.

I think you'll be too busy.

Yeah.

I cannot live as I have lived, Cromwell.

[CROMWELL SIGHS DEEPLY]

You must free me from it.

From Anne.

Perhaps she and Harry Percy...

They were good as married, weren't they?

And if that won't run,
you know I was, erm...

I was on occasion with...

With Anne's sister, Mary.

Perhaps, having been with kin so near...

anyway.

I trust in your discretion
and your skill.

Be very secret.

[INAUDIBLE]

Does not Mistress Seymour
have the tiniest hands?

Doesn't she have the tiniest hands?

- Does she not have the whitest throat?
-Shh.

Has she not the wettest c**t
you've ever groped?

All right, that's enough.

[MAN CHUCKLING]

Cromwell's spies about.

RAVE: They talk about the Queen.

"They"?

Weston. Brereton. Sometimes Norris.

Go on.

The Queen needs
to conceive another child.

Quickly.

And they say that Henry cannot
be trusted to do the deed, so,

one of them has to step in
and do him a favour.

Have they come to any conclusion?

Well, they wouldn't really do it.
None of them...

It's just talk.

So, do they come to any conclusion?

I think it's every man for himself.

Well, [CLEARS THROAT]
I'm sure you're right.

Sounds like idle talk.

I don't think it will
be necessary to use this.

But thank you, Rafe.

[DOOR CLOSING]

WOLSEY: Trouble is, Thomas,
the King wants a new wife.

Fix him one.

I didn't.

And now I'm dead.

[WOLSEY LAUGHS]

[CLOSING THEME PLAYING]