01x09 - Fever

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01x09 - Fever

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♪ ♪

- (HORSES SNORTING)
- (SERVANT CHATTERING)

- I won't be long.
- Come, Lavinia!

- Faster! Faster!
- (GIGGLES)

Slow down! Slow down.

(GIGGLES)

I wish you weren't moving to Paris.

I know, my love, but you have
important duties to uphold here.

You'll be young Master Bidlow
in my absence.

- The last Bidlow, more like.
- Oh, darling, please don't be morose.

- Not right before I leave.
- But, Lavinia,

you're bound to get married now.

And once you are,
it'll just be me. Won't it?

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

Are you going to show me
this marvelous thing

that you've made or not?

♪ ♪

(BOTH GIGGLING)

- (LAVINIA LAUGHS)
- Come on!

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(HANDLE RATTLING)

(CREAKING)

(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

♪ ♪

(DISTORTED BIRD CALLS)

They're passerines. Mostly corvids.

But I was lucky to find one specimen

with its alternate plumage intact.

Do you see how the contour feathers

grow downwards in order to...

(DISTORTED BIRD CALLS)

Vinnie?

Is something the matter?

How did you come by all of these?

I...

I didn't hurt them, Vinnie!

I found them, and I simply...

Have I done something wrong?

♪ ♪

(FLAMES ROARING)

(CLATTER)

(ECHOING GASP)

- (BIRD CHIRPING)
- (FLAMES CRACKLING)

♪ ♪

(ELECTRIC FIZZLE)

- (ROCKS CLATTER)
- (FIZZLE)

- LAVINIA: Help me!
- (ELECTRIC POP)

(PANTING)

Help!

♪ ♪

Help!

(ROCKS CLATTERING)

Is there anybody there?

(AUGIE GASPS)

- (GRUNTING)
- Help!

- Help!
- (GASPING)

Augie!

- Lavinia. (GRUNTS)
- (ROCKS CLATTERING)

- (PANTING)
- Oh! Help me, my darling.

Just stay... stay still. Stay still.

(GRUNTING)

- (LAVINIA GASPS)
- (PANTING, STRAINING)

(PANTING) Uh...

(AUGIE GROANS)

Alright. We're gonna lift you, alright?

- (WHIMPERS)
- That's it. Legs. (GRUNTS)

- (PAINED YELL)
- (GASPS) That's it. You're alright.

- You're alright.
- (GASPS)

(BOTH PANTING)

♪ ♪

(ROCKS CONTINUE CLATTERING)

Um... I'm gonna get your chair.

(GRUNTS)

- (WHIRRING, HUMMING)
- (GALANTHI SQUEAKING, CHIRPING)

- (ROCKS CLATTER)
- Penance!

- (GRUNTING)
- (ROCKS THUDDING)

- Penance!
- PENANCE: I'm alright, but I have to go

gentle now or the whole thing
will fall down on us. Oh...

(MUFFLED ROCKS CLATTERING)

(SIGHS)

Well, here goes a little bit of nothing.

(WHIRRING)

(MUFFLED DRILLING)

It needed me, Pen, and I... f*ck!

♪ ♪

Penance, it came this way!

- (LILLIE SCREAMING)
- (BANGING ON DOOR)

(MUFFLED BANGING)

(MUFFLED BANG)

(MUFFLED BANG)

Lord Massen. You need to go down.

Something's changed.

The knocking, sir, it won't stop.

Maybe she was frightened
by the earthquake.

Enough!

(MUFFLED BANG)

(MUFFLED BANG)

(SIGHS)

Lord Massen! Please!

(LOUD BANGING, SCREAMING)

- (BANGING, SCREAMING CONTINUE)
- (COCKS g*n)

- (HEAVY BREATHING)
- (BANGING, SCREAMING)

(SCREAM, BANG)

(SCREAM, BANG)

(SCREAM, BANG)

(SILENCE)

(MUFFLED SOB)

(CRYING)

(UNCOCKS g*n)

- (CRYING CONTINUES)
- (HEAVY BREATHING)

(CRYING STOPS)

Your mother was spirited, too.

It's a pity... you never knew her.

♪ ♪

But at least she was... spared this.

If I were to let you leave...

(HEAVY BREATHING)

I know what fearful men are capable of.

A lone aberration like you...

could never survive outside these walls.

Lillie.

- I... (GASPS)
- (LOUD THUD)

♪ ♪

(RAGGED BREATHING)

(PANTING)

- (SHUTS DRAWER)
- (SIGHS)

♪ ♪

(GULPS)

(GAGING, COUGHING)

Ruby! (BURPS)

I need some more cocaine!

What in the name of
all-holy f*ck practice

have you people been doing all day?

Ruby!

- My lord.
- (WEAK LAUGH)

Why am I looking at a broken
lavatory of a hallway?

Is nothing prepared?

Where's my Olympian splendor?

My gilded tendrils of light?

- There is a concern...
- There is not.

that we won't be ready...

- You will be.
- ... by tonight.

The night of the party?
(LAUGHS) Excellent.

There's been an earthquake, Lord Swann.

Moses lived through plagues! Ten!

And a stutter!

But still, he got to work!

He parted the Red f*cking Sea
with nothing

but a robe and a stick.

You people have powers, abilities!

Use them!

Isn't there any one of you who
can just float that into place?

And you, plastering person!

You intend for the *** to
collapse into the river?

At least put some plaster on the
more ghastly cracks down there.

It doesn't have to be real.
It just needs to look pretty.

Surely, you can understand that.

Well, the quake, sir.
The foundations are damaged.

That is the entire point!

This is a sybaritic festival!

- Tonight, there will be no foundation!
- (KICKS PLATE)

Destiny cannot wait!

(PANTING)

- (DRAWER OPENS)
- (SIGHS)

- (SIGHS)
- (SHUTS DRAWER)

Much more of that.

- They telephoned again.
- (SIGHS)

This morning. Twice yesterday.

It's your father. He's
asking for you, sir.

And in five minutes, he'll be asking

for his dear departed
cocker spaniel Ruediger.

b*at the crap out of that
poor creature as well.

(SNIFFING)

- But he's dying, sir.
- (SIGHS, SNIFFS)

Are you still here?

♪ ♪

Look, I'll go, alright?

- Tomorrow.
- But they say tomorrow will be too...

Tomorrow, we can all return
to our miserable realities!

But tonight, please help me
forget all about it.

Gods will be men.
Men will be gods, Ruby.

And each will be transformed
by a taste of the other's lives.

(SIGHS)

Destiny cannot wait.

(DEEP SIGH)

(GRUNTING)

(GRUNTING)

- (GRUNTING)
- (SHOULDER CRACKS)

Oh, f*ck! (GASPS)

(GASPS, SNIFFS)

(PANTING)

- (KNOCKING)
- Who is it?

BIRCH (MUFFLED): It's me.

(QUIET CHATTER OUTSIDE)

- (SIGHS)
- (UNLOCKS, OPENS DOOR)

Don't have many visitors then?

- Is that everything?
- Just about.

I saw you, you know.

In the cell with her.

Just before she broke out.

- New Super's sharper than he looks.
- New Super is a prick.

He's gunning for you.

Talking about dismissal
unless you show your face.

(CHUCKLES)

I don't understand.

You're just gonna throw away
a whole career for what?

♪ ♪

You mustn't carry that
around with you, Frank.

- You know about Lord Massen?
- Massen?

One of them ministers
without portfolio, ain't he?

Whispering in everyone's ear.

I need a way in.

Who's he friends with? Who's he f*cking?

Do you think I've got the faintest idea

what side of the bed someone
like Lord Massen sleeps on?

Oh, yeah. Sorry. That's right.
He comes down to Nag's

every Thursday for a pint,
don't he? (LAUGHS)

No. You serious?

He had Mary k*lled? Why would
he do something like that?

- I don't know. I'm gonna find out.
- No, you ain't.

You'll get nothing but dead ends.

It's a fixed f*ckin' order!
You know that!

One way or another,

I will see him stretch for what he done.

I owe her that at least.

(SIGHS)

(PAPERS RUSTLING)

♪ ♪

(GASPS)

What the hell?

Lucy?

(WHIMPERS)

(PAINED GROANING)

(GASPING)

(BOTH SHUDDER)

(BREATHING WEAKLY) You...

too late... for all that.

(LABORED BREATHING)

What are you doin' down here?

(WHISPERS): You still think
you know everything.

(LABORED BREATHING)

(GASPS, SIGHS)

I hated myself... for so long.

I see it in you, too.

(GASPING)

Who brought you down here, Lucy?

- (GRUNTING)
- Lucy. Don't.

(GROANS)

(GASPS)

(LABORED BREATHING)

It... It sang to me, True.

Gentler than Mary, even.

Can you imagine...

singing... with such...

glory...

echoing through every...

hard and angry part of me?

Right through all of the...

goddamned loneliness.

♪ ♪

(QUIET RUMBLING)

(STOPS BREATHING)

(SNIFFS, SIGHS)

(SIGHS)

(SNIFFS)

I don't understand.

She was down here with the Galanthi.

I think she broke it out.

Did she hurt it?

Penance, you'll want that,
I think. (SNIFFS)

(CLEARS THROAT) Time to go.

- Well, we have to bury her.
- She won't hold it against us.

I might!

Someone told Lucy about the Galanthi

because they wanted her to destroy it.

- Who? Hague?
- I don't know,

but I have to find it
before it's too late.

(SIGHS)

(GASPS)

(RUSTLING)

Where to then?

(CLICK)

No way out but through.

- (AUGIE GRUNTING)
- (RUMBLING)

- (PANTING)
- (ELECTRIC FIZZLE)

- LAVINIA: It's not much further.
- AUGIE: What is?

(AUGIE STRAINING)

(DISTANT RUMBLING)

(AUGIE BREATHING HEAVILY)

LAVINIA: We can take it all the way out.

(CONTINUES BREATHING HEAVILY)

(DISTANT RUMBLING, CRUMBLING)

Is this... for the Galanthi?

What is a... "galanthi"?

Someone I know, s-someone...

I trust...

they told me that maybe...

- maybe it was hope.
- Hope?

(SCOFFS)

I expected better of
a scientist like Ms. Adair.

It wasn't Ms. Adair. It was Mrs. True.

Pining after two Touched women?

I hope this isn't becoming a fetish.

Am I not allowed friendship
under your purview,

Lavinia? For God's sake.

Be it Hugo or Ms. Adair or...

anyone who fails to live up

- to your draconian expectation...
- (GALANTHI SHRIEKING)

(SCUTTLING)

(SIGHS)

We almost d*ed, Vinnie.

(HEAVY BREATHING)

Don't you think we could
take this moment,

th-this opportunity to just
be honest with one another?

I-I saw you w-with the...

with the Touched woman. I-I...

I saw what you did.

(RUMBLING)

I just need you to tell me why.

Regardless of what you
have been told by Mrs. True,

that creature is our enemy.

(SCOFFS)

But, y-y-you... you support the Touched!

(EXASPERATED SIGH)

Well, then...

I refuse to take one more step with you

if you... if you... don't tell me
what is going on down here

w-with this enemy!

Augustus, how did you know I was here?

(DISTANT RUMBLING)

Well, I mean... As-as-as diffi...

As difficult to hear... um, I was...

I thought we were being
honest with each other.

(GULPS, SIGHS)

Now get out of my way.

- Lavinia...
- Get out of my way!

You'll hurt yourself! Lavinia!

sh*t. You alright? Um...

- S-stay there. Stay there. Stay there. Uh...
- (PAINED WAIL)

(STRAINING) Move your arm.
It's alright. It's alright.

- (LAVINIA WAILING)
- Come on. Come on.

- (SCREAMS)
- (STRAINING)

Careful with your head.

(BOTH PANTING)

♪ ♪

(STREET CHATTER)

Désirée is here because
it's time we had it out.

Any objections, you can go.

Good. Now, tell us again

exactly what that Bidlow woman
said to Amalia.

"No one in or out until
this unrest is settled,

or I'll be forced to
withdraw my patronage".

Which says to me Ms. Bidlow's guards

aren't here to protect us.
They're here to protect her.

How do you mean?

Her investment, her reputation.

So, Amalia laying out Bidlow's guards

like a couple of flapjacks

is probably bad for us.

Definitely not good.

Where will we go if
we lose the orphanage?

Well, it seems to me
that she's left you all

at your most vulnerable hour.

It wasn't Amalia who
b*rned our house down.

(SCOFFS)

She's got her mission,

but the Purists are our real enemy.

Any moment now, they will be
swarming these doors and...

- we're not ready.
- HARRIET: They're growing in numbers.

Aneel told me.

He says everyone out there
blames us for the earthquakes.

They say that Maladie called down

some dark Touched magic when she hung.

Well, they're right.

Mrs. True's creature
is responsible, isn't it?

All it seems to be doing
is causing chaos.

Had enough eyes on me as it was.

Well, Amalia told us the Galanthi

is from her future,

so she can deal with it.

What's coming for us
is bigger than some angry mob.

Soon, the Purists won't just be
the men on the streets,

but they'll be the men
in the police stations

and the men in the courtrooms!

Fear of the Touched will become
just part of the system.

There weren't no system for me
and Nigey when we needed it.

Yeah, and that's why
we need to change things.

How we gonna change anything
when we're stuck inside here?

- We need to wait for Amalia...
- Oh no, we are done

waiting for Amalia to save us.

It's time to do things our own way.

(HORATIO SIGHS)

- (GULLS CAWING)
- And what do we benefit?

Becoming foot soldiers
in this army of yours?

DECLAN: g*ns. More nicker
than you can find

in the pages of your good book,
for a start.

I know. I know about your principles.

It's okay. Singing your
little songs on the street,

daubing your little picture
on the walls. (LAUGHS)

Now if your idea of a campaign
is a few kids with crayons...

We've given lives in battle.

SIMON: She means her friend,
the girl that got k*lled.

She don't mean no harm. Do you, Bess?

Ever heard of King Canute?

Learned about him at the schoolhouse.

Stupid old duffer.

Sat there shoutin' at the sea
till it drowned him.

Oi. She yours?

- Get back, Bess.
- And there's you.

Asking for our lives
while you walk around

- with the stink of your Touched pet on you.
- (DEEP CHUCKLE)

A foul musk.

You ought to be ashamed.

Should I?

- She's only a kid.
- I ain't afraid.

(LAUGHING)

(g*ons LAUGH)

- (ODIUM YELLS)
- (CROWD GASPS)

- (GROANING)
- (STABBING)

(SCREAMS)

- (STABBING)
- (STRUGGLING)

(GRUNTS)

- (GRUNTING, GROANING)
- (CHAINS RATTLE)

(SCREAMING, PANTING)

♪ ♪

(DECLAN GRUNTS)

If anyone,

man, woman, or girl,

have any doubts about
where my loyalties lie,

step forward.

(HUSHED MURMURING)

Yeah, what I thought.

I'll get my army

and you get your money and your g*ns.

Never was a fairer match made
in all of London town.

(SIGHS) And you. Just a little tadpole,

but your mouth got some bite. (SIGHS)

♪ ♪

You oughta watch your backs
with that one, boys.

- (PAINED BREATHING)
- (DISTANT RUMBLE)

(AUGIE PANTING)

(AWKWARD SIGHING)

Why must you always be this way?

It's...

My whole life, I've just
tried to please you.

I've just... just...

I've done everything as you've asked.

W-why you keep me at a distance?

Because you can't help me.

Y-you let somebody help you!

Why couldn't it have been me?

Am I so lacking in your...

You are not fit to carry
the Bidlow name!

(DISTANT RUMBLING)

(SOFT CRYING)

I did it all for you, Augie.
Can't you see?

The...

Galanthi,

what it did to us.

Hurt you, Augie.

I can't help but...

hate it for what it did to you.

(LAVINIA PANTS)

(DISTANT RUMBLING)

You know.

I know every hair on your head.

I know every shadow in your eye.

I taste the very air
before you breathe it.

♪ ♪

(SOFT PANTING)

Long before there was a word for it...

- I knew you were Touched.
- (SOFT CRYING)

(SHUDDERING)

- (ECHOING CHIRP)
- (FIRE CRACKLING)

LAVINIA: I watched when you tried

to play it for confused bumbling.

Many people were
fooled by it, but not me.

S... I-I was...

I was never trying to fool you.

When the reports of the Touched

had become too numerous to ignore,

I knew y-you had some part in it.

Can you imagine, Augie,
how that pained me?

That I knew my brother, my everything,

was a danger?

What, you think... You think
because I'm Touched,

I'm somewhat... What...

What, I'm a... I'm a...
I'm a danger to society?

No!

(DISTANT RUMBLING)

The creature didn't make you dangerous.

It simply amplified
what you already were.

♪ ♪

I see.

(SNIFFS)

(EXHALES)

I'm going to try and start the boiler.

(PAINED BREATHING)

RUBY: Excuse me. You
can't go in there! Sir!

Frank?

What an entirely unexpected
surprise. (LAUGHS)

No riverbank summons today, then?

Or perhaps you're here to
see the Ferryman himself.

What the f*ck are you doin'?

Preparing.

What is that?

Is that milk?

Yes, well,

I wouldn't expect you to understand

the rigors of performance.

Or art, for that matter.

(SIGHS)

Lord Massen.

He one of yours?

Be coming to your little
shindig tonight?

- No.
- Because your families,

they go way back, don't they?

Ain't you gone peacock
sh**ting together,

or ridin' around on stags?

You got the wrong Swann, Frank.

Don't look at me.

Is everything alright?

(SNIFFS)

(SIGHS)

No, I ain't come here for that.

No.

No, of course not.

(INHALES)

Well, uh, I can't give you Massen.

Closing ranks, eh?

- That's what all you lot do sooner or later.
- Get out.

The fixed f*ckin' order.

(GROWLS)

(BOTH GRUNTING)

God forbid you should ever
just come to see me, Frank.

(SNIFFS)

(BIRDS CHIRPING OUTSIDE)

(MUFFLED BANG)

(MUFFLED BANG)

(MUFFLED BANG)

(MUFFLED BANG)

(METAL CLATTERING)

(LOUDER BANG)

(POT CLANKING)

(LOUDER BANG)

You've had a telegram.

(BANG)

(BANG)

Made her favorite.
Always calms her down.

(BANG)

- We must put an end to this madness now.
- (BANG)

- (BANG)
- But, sir...

- We can't.
- (BANG)

End it.

(WATER DRIPPING)

(RAT SQUEAKING)

PENANCE: Feels wrong to have
left her there all alone.

AMALIA: I told you before, you
have to focus on something else.

Don't give in to it.

PENANCE: What?

AMALIA: Sentiment. A good
soldier never looks back.

She must have been desperate
to have tried to k*ll the Galanthi.

Why would it let her break it out?

Can't say I've given much thought to...

(LOUD RUMBLE)

(PANTING, SNORTS)

Play with me.

♪ ♪

Play with me!

- (EVIL LAUGH)
- (WHOOSHING)

(GASPING)

PENANCE: Bet the road rose
up to meet you on that one.

Nothing makes any...

goddamned gray one...

- (RIPPLE)
- He's going to help.

- (RIPPLE)
- Shut up and ship out.

A friend's the one you trust.

- (RIPPLE)
- f*cking sim! (GASPS)

(AMALIA PANTING)

I just want it to be over.

There's mercy aplenty for
every sin under God's sun,

save the blasphemy of giving up.

Please don't be dancin'
with the devil of despair.

Well, maybe the devil
shouldn't have f*ckin' asked.

Come on, that's it!

(FLAME ROARING)

WOMAN: Go again!

- (GRUNTS)
- (GEORGE GASPS)

(WHIMPERS)

Faster, alright?

(WHIMPERS) Faster...

- (GRUNTING)
- (YELPING)

(GASPING)

Good. Good.

Good...

(HORSE WHINNYING)

You're training 'em how to fight?

Put some of these turns to use.
Show them what we're capable of.

The people out there
already fear us, Annie.

- Good.
- No, not good.

This kind of display is only gonna drive

more of the people to the Purists.

So what, we just lock our doors

and pray that no one burns us down?

You said it yourself, Horatio.

Our world is on fire.

Why won't you stand up and
use what you've been given?

(EQUIPMENT SQUEAKING, CLANKING)

(INAUDIBLE)

♪ ♪

- (GALANTHI CHIRPING)
- (HIGH-PITCHED HUMMING)

(SAD SQUAWKING)

(ECHOING SQUAWK)

MALADIE: Quick sharp,
little man, it's out!

It's out, and we must oblige it.

Our Sunday best, eh?

Oh, what's a bit of lace to do
with bags of flesh and bone?

Eh? Still,

we want to look our best, don't we?

- I've been waiting so patiently all this time.
- (HAGUE GASPS)

- (LAUGHS)
- DR. HAGUE: What are we doing?

What are we doing?!

What am I digging for?

Why has the rat stopped scrabbling?

Make haste! Make haste!

- As it happens...
- (VOICES REPEAT, ECHO)

a pack of rabid dogs

has caught your nasty scent!
(IMITATES BARKING DOG)

There lies your only chance!

Dig, dig, dig!

- (DOGS BARKING)
- (GIGGLES) It's coming.

It's coming! Hey, it's there. It's...

(SHRIEKS)

- Oh, it stings, Angel!
- (GALANTHI SQUEAKS)

It's stuck!

(GASPS) Oh...

It's almost... It's clawing.

- Scraping...
- (GALANTHI SQUEAKS)

Sound familiar? (GASPS)

(HAGUE GASPS)

Listen to it.

Chicken-hearted thing.

Screamin' and twistin'. Such suffering.

No. I hear nothing. Nothing. Noth...

And you call yourself a man of science?

- (GASPING)
- A creator, eh?

Oh, it's only been two days, love.

According to my calculations,

we've got at least to go

before I let you sleep.

This accumulation of anguish is dear,

very dear to me.

I will defend it until I won't.
Until I don't.

(WAILING, GASPING)

(HAGUE GRUNTS)

(COUGHING, INHALES)

- Are you finished yet?
- AUGIE: Near enough.

(FLAMES WHOOSH)

Have you used kindling?

- What... What kindling?
- LAVINIA: Heaven's sake!

Augie, it is the basic principle
of operating a st...

What the hell do you know
about the basic principle

of the operation of a steam engine?

Do you know, Lavinia?

I-I think it's high time
you started answering

some of my questions for a change.

A-about the bodies.

- What bodies?
- The b... The bodies. The ones...

The ones in the cave. The... God,

they had such horrible scars.

- God knows what you've done to them.
- Augustus...

No, no, no, no, no!

Lavinia, I will, I will finish my
thought, thank you very much.

Look, it just... (SIGHS)

It-it seems to me that...

you're the one that
we should be worried about.

M-maybe...

I'm the one... (GRUNTS)

who should be taking responsibility

for you!

You're acting strangely, Augie.

But, s-strange can...

can be wondrous!

It can be beautiful. It's glorious.

Of course, you don't know
anything about that.

Everything I have done

has been done in the name of humanity.

Sorry... (STAMMERING)

D-do you alone get to dictate

who's included in
this version of humanity?

'Cause based on what I saw today,

you've done far more to
compromise the Bidlow name

than I ever have!

You were shouting,
"k*ll it. k*ll it, k*ll it!" I...

I...

Never in my life have I done
anything to hurt anyone.

- Anybody!
- Are you serious?

♪ ♪

But that was an accident.

An accident?

Mm-hmm.

Is that what you truly believe?

I was a child!

You pushed me!

- (DISTORTED SCREAMING)
- (FLAMES ROARING)

♪ ♪

- No. No. Mm-mmm.
- You did.

And then, you watched me fall!

And now, you still refuse to
acknowledge your culpability.

And you can't see what...

(BIRDS CHIRPING, WING FLAPPING)

(SQUAWKING)

(LAVINIA GASPS)

♪ ♪

(FRIGHTENED BREATHING)

(FLAPPING, CHIRPING CONTINUES)

I think, Lavinia...

you fail to give yourself
the credit that you deserve.

(FRIGHTENED BREATHING)

You shape your own life.

- (FLAMES ROARING)
- (ECHOING SQUAWK)

It... it's time I shape mine.

(INAUDIBLE)

♪ ♪

- (WINGS FLAPPING)
- Augustus!

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

I've had enough of your theatrics! Stop!

Augustus!

(GASPS)

(EXOTIC MUSIC PLAYING)

- (FLAMES CRACKLING)
- (MUFFLED PARTY CHATTER)

HUGO: (SIGHS) That's enough.

(CHATTER, MUSIC GET LOUDER)

(SNIFFS, GRUNTS)

(SNIFFING, EXHALES)

That'll have to do, old chap.

(CHATTER, MUSIC GET LOUDER)

Ruby, If you say one more thing
about my g*dd*mn father...

RUBY: I'm afraid it's too
late, sir. He's gone.

♪ ♪

What shall I tell them?

(INHALES, SIGHS)

Let us call down the gods, Ruby.

Lord Swann... I mean, Your Grace.

- (EXOTIC MUSIC PLAYING)
- (LAUGHTER, PARTY CHATTER)

- (GONG RINGS, MUSIC STOPS)
- (HUGO CLEARS THROAT)

Welcome one,

welcome all.

Tonight, I am but your humble

and lowly steward,

conducting you from the shores of...

inert, quotidian languor

to one better suited

to the divine.

Welcome to Mount Olympus.

Your Saturnalia awaits.

ALL: Hail, Saturnalia!

(APPLAUSE, CHEERING)

♪ ♪

(WEAK LAUGH)

(PARTY CHATTER FADES OUT)

(GASPS)

(LOUD THUD)

- (LAUGHING)
- Ah...

MALADIE: Each strike, closer to God.

(MANIC LAUGHTER)

Don't fret, pet. Promise a big
wet kiss when I'm back.

(PANTING)

Keep him warm while I'm gone, will ya?

(CHUCKLES)

(SCREAMS)

(SCREAMS)

(SCREAMS)

PENANCE: We've been walkin' for hours.

Maybe we should head home, have
a look through the spectralacle

and try and track the Galanthi that way.

Home? The orphanage is
a stopgap, not a home.

PENANCE: No, Amalia.

That might have been true
when we first started,

but it's not the case now.

Didn't Mary's song show you that
behind the whisper ***?

And now, Mary's dead. And Lucy's dead.

My God, don't you know better
than to get attached?

I've lived in countless homes,

and I lost every single one of them.

Can barely remember the one
I grew up in, let alone...

- (cr*ck, CRUMBLING)
- What in God's Heaven...

(LOUD BANG)

(ROCKS CLATTERING)

(PANTING)

(LAUGHING)

Oh, you. (LAUGHS)

The two-faced woman

and her pretty little finger poppet.

♪ ♪

- Are you real?
- (LAUGHS) Are you real?

Are you here? 'Cause I am.

(GASPING)

(MALADIE MOANS)

Always turning up
where you're not wanted.

You're alive?

Heard you tried to save
my neck from stretchin'.

Did you imagine we'd be friends?

Brush each other's hair in the mornings?

A hundred times, mine.

- Nice and shiny.
- (PENANCE GASPS)

Bet she tried to stop you, didn't she?

Bet she tried to tell you Maladie
deserved to go limp like a dolly,

but she doesn't learn, you see?

Doesn't listen. She can't hear.

Her head's empty. Empty.

Empty.

What do you want to teach me?

You don't know what I f*ckin' want.

What would I want with her, eh?

She's a lost one, isn't she?

She can't even hear it.

Hear what?

(BOTH GRUNT)

We were talking. Never could
abide rudeness. You?

PENANCE: Th-there's a time and a place.

Exactly. This is the time, the place

for what I should have done
the first time he mocked me.

With that know-nothing nightingale Mary.

Got to thinkin', maybe
I'm faulting the angels

for the sin of their maker,

when he's the one should
go first, don't you think?

Isn't that fairest of all?

K-k-k*ll th-their maker?

Such a lot of hummin'
for such a little craven.

It's been years and years.

I can't wait to get out.

But he makes hum.

♪ ♪

You can hear the Galanthi.

You know where it is, don't you?

You've always known.

- Think you're so clever, but I know you aren't.
- (GASPS)

- (GASPS)
- Take a good look at that face, girlie.

You won't be seeing it much longer.

- Not after she's gone and left you.
- Gone?

(SCREAMING)

My heart pangs, too.

My heart and my lungs and my
c**t and my guts and my brain.

All of them are thrum-a-drum.

Bang, bang, loud and soft,
and loud again, enough!

(ALL PANTING)

Who you gonna choose, eh?

Who you gonna choose?

I've made my choice. La.

(PANTING)

(GASPING)

- What does she mean "gone", Amalia?
- Penance, please.

- We have to go now.
- So you save the Galanthi.

Won't it want to take you home?
Where is that?

When is that?

And you'll go, won't you?

Of course, you will.

You must.

♪ ♪

What are you doing?

No, we stay together.

I'm no soldier.
I'll only get in the way.

Penance, please!

The Galanthi needs you.

The world needs you.

(SOBS)

♪ ♪

(HAGUE GASPS)

(GASPS)

It's very... very hot.

(SHUDDERS)

(GASPS)

- As it happens...
- (VOICES REPEAT, ECHO)

your fever's only getting worse.

- (GASPS)
- (VOICES ECHO)

My lady said to keep you warm,

so warm I'll be keeping you warm.

(VOICES ECHO)

She's got special plans for you.

Gone to make a mockery
of their disrespect.

Should aim for the heart of it.

(COLONEL MUFFLED, ECHOING VOICES STOP)

(COLONEL UNMUFFLED, VOICES RETURN)

- (COLONEL MUFFLED)
- (MUFFLED PANTING)

(ECHOING VOICES FADE, STOP)

(SINGING, UNMUFFLED): From
little girls to powerful lords...

- (MUFFLED SINGING)
- (MUFFLED LAUGHTER)

(SINGING, UNMUFFLED): ... of us all!

- (MUFFLED SINGING)
- (MUFFLED LAUGHTER)

BOTH (SINGING): Is they maladies?

♪ Maladie! ♪

♪ And make Maladies of... ♪

(SHOUTS)

(GROANS)

(GROANS)

(SCREAMING)

(SIGHS)

(GALANTHI CHIRPING, SQUEAKING)

♪ ♪

(SAD SQUAWK)

(GRUNTS)

(PANTING)

(SCREAMS)

(GASPS)

(PARTY CHATTER)

(GIGGLING)

(PANTING)

(LAUGHING)

(PANTING)

(WAILS)

(PARTY CHATTER)

(GIGGLING)

(MANIACAL SHRIEKING)

(PANTING)

- (GALANTHI SQUEAKING)
- (PARTY CHATTER)

(SAD CHIRP)

♪ ♪

(GROANS)

(PARTY CHATTER)

(MALADIE CACKLING)

- (PANTING)
- (LAUGHING)

(GRUNTING)

You really don't learn.

(HEAVY BREATHING)

(YELLING)

(PANTING, LAUGHING)

- (GIGGLING)
- (GRUNTS)

(GASPING)

Sure you don't wanna
play with me? Eh? No?

(GASP, GRUNTING)

(GROANING)

How about we make a wager?

I'm not doing this.

Do you think

God will beg at my feet for mercy,

or meet the end with his head held high?

- Ah!
- I'll even give you a head start.

(GRUNTING)

(CROWD GASPS, CHEERS)

(APPLAUSE)

(GROANS) I'm not going to hurt you.

- Far too late for that.
- (GRUNTS)

(CROWD GASPING)

(PANTING)

Should we call Penance?
See what she's up to?

That one understands
the meaning of friendship.

Sort of wish we met sooner.

(CHOKING)

Do you think she misses us? Eh?

(GALANTHI WHIRRING, HUMMING)

(WATER LAPPING)

♪ ♪

(WATER LAPPING)

(YELLING)

(LOW WHIRRING)

(PANTING)

(CHIRPING, SQUAWK)

(CRACKING)

- (WATER RUSHING)
- (GALANTHI SHRIEKING)

(SPLASH)

(GURGLING)

♪ ♪

(GURGLING)

(MELODIC CHIRPING)

(CHIRPING, HUMMING GETS LOUDER)

♪ ♪

(CHIRPING, HUMMING CONTINUES)

(MUFFLED THUD)

(MUFFLED HEARTBEAT)

(MUFFLED THUD)

(MUFFLED HEARTBEAT)

(HIGH-PITCHED WHIRRING)

- (WHIRRING GETS LOUDER)
- (GALANTHI SQUEAKS)

(INDISTINCT SINGING)

(WATER RUSHING)

♪ ♪

- (DISTANT SHIP HORN)
- (BELL RINGING)

(WAVES GENTLY LAPPING)

♪ ♪
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