1 00:02:38,307 --> 00:02:40,247 There's your Governor. 2 00:02:58,193 --> 00:03:00,831 Mercedes! 3 00:03:04,247 --> 00:03:06,348 Mercedes... 4 00:03:08,756 --> 00:03:11,126 Your Majesty, this is Monsieur Gérard de Villefort, 5 00:03:11,216 --> 00:03:13,427 Deputy Public Prosecutor of Marseille. 6 00:03:13,517 --> 00:03:15,497 Come in, Mr. de Villefort. 7 00:03:16,337 --> 00:03:18,128 Mr. de Villefort, the Duke de Blacas assures me 8 00:03:18,218 --> 00:03:20,608 that you have important information for me. You may proceed. 9 00:03:20,698 --> 00:03:24,669 Sire, in the exercise of my duties, I arrested a Bonapartist agent, 10 00:03:24,759 --> 00:03:28,189 charged with a verbal message from the Grand Marshal to the committee in Paris. 11 00:03:28,279 --> 00:03:30,770 A verbal message? Why should he betray a secret carried in his head? 12 00:03:30,860 --> 00:03:33,691 My examination was rigorous and the man something of a coward. 13 00:03:33,781 --> 00:03:36,711 He made a full confession in the hope of obtaining leniency. 14 00:03:36,801 --> 00:03:37,901 I see. 15 00:03:38,262 --> 00:03:40,114 And what was the content of this message? 16 00:03:40,204 --> 00:03:43,650 Sire, it revealed no commonplace plot, 17 00:03:44,150 --> 00:03:45,617 but a full-blown conspiracy. 18 00:03:45,707 --> 00:03:49,480 - Come now, de Villefort. - Bonaparte has armed three ships. 19 00:03:49,753 --> 00:03:52,282 There is great peril. Forgive me, Your Majesty. 20 00:03:52,372 --> 00:03:54,624 We do not doubt your devotion, Villefort. 21 00:03:54,714 --> 00:03:56,760 It is not possible, though, that your enthusiasm 22 00:03:56,850 --> 00:04:00,009 may have given more weight to this rogue's words than they truly merit? 23 00:04:00,099 --> 00:04:02,278 Sire, it was not enthusiasm that made me leave 24 00:04:02,368 --> 00:04:04,992 my bride on our wedding night to bring you this news. 25 00:04:05,082 --> 00:04:07,714 Of course you're engaged to mademoiselle de Saint-Méran! 26 00:04:07,804 --> 00:04:09,384 Do you indeed do that? 27 00:04:09,945 --> 00:04:12,506 Sire, I could do no less. 28 00:04:12,947 --> 00:04:15,884 Which means that your prisoner's confession has convinced you, 29 00:04:15,974 --> 00:04:17,347 as you must now convince us. 30 00:04:17,830 --> 00:04:19,471 What more is there to tell? 31 00:04:19,871 --> 00:04:22,673 The usurper has sailed from Elba. 32 00:04:24,137 --> 00:04:25,237 Sailed? 33 00:04:29,224 --> 00:04:34,137 No, it's absurd. It's ridiculous. He's left Elba. 34 00:04:34,227 --> 00:04:34,997 Where could he go? 35 00:04:35,087 --> 00:04:37,298 Sire, that is the extent of my information. 36 00:04:37,388 --> 00:04:38,549 Sire. 37 00:04:38,909 --> 00:04:40,000 Dandré, what's the matter? What ails you? 38 00:04:40,090 --> 00:04:43,040 - Sire, dreadful misfortune. - Speak! I command you, speak! 39 00:04:43,131 --> 00:04:46,777 The usurper landed in France three days ago. 40 00:04:55,773 --> 00:04:57,159 Edmond Dantès? 41 00:04:57,979 --> 00:05:01,091 Edmond Dantès, this is the Inspector-General of Prisons. 42 00:05:01,181 --> 00:05:02,412 Is there anything you want to say to him? 43 00:05:02,502 --> 00:05:05,654 He seems harmless enough. I thought you said he was mad and dangerous. 44 00:05:05,744 --> 00:05:08,215 He did his best to murder the turnkey here. 45 00:05:08,305 --> 00:05:10,909 - Tried to strangle me. - Is that why you keep him down here? 46 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:12,618 Partly, but he's also a dangerous conspirator. 47 00:05:12,708 --> 00:05:14,339 My orders are to keep the strictest watch on him. 48 00:05:14,429 --> 00:05:15,260 I see. 49 00:05:15,350 --> 00:05:18,282 Well, Dantès, have you understood? 50 00:05:18,372 --> 00:05:20,152 Do you know who I am? 51 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:26,471 The Inspector General of Prisons. 52 00:05:26,562 --> 00:05:29,864 Of course! Is it true you tried to kill the turnkey? 53 00:05:30,525 --> 00:05:32,705 - Yes. - What made you do such a thing? 54 00:05:35,248 --> 00:05:38,960 A long time ago. I was mad. 55 00:05:39,050 --> 00:05:40,731 But you're not mad now? 56 00:05:42,672 --> 00:05:46,065 No, I don't think so. 57 00:05:46,155 --> 00:05:47,715 When were you arrested? 58 00:05:48,538 --> 00:05:53,693 The 28th of February, 1815, at 2h30 in the afternoon. 59 00:05:53,783 --> 00:05:55,744 Today is the 30th of June, 1820. 60 00:05:56,045 --> 00:05:58,447 Yes, yes, yes, that is a long time. 61 00:05:58,848 --> 00:06:01,410 Five and a half years! 62 00:06:05,050 --> 00:06:05,981 I'm innocent. 63 00:06:06,071 --> 00:06:08,743 They all say that, no matter how damning the evidence may be. 64 00:06:08,833 --> 00:06:09,403 No evidence? 65 00:06:09,493 --> 00:06:11,745 No, Dantès, my task is to inspect prisons. 66 00:06:11,835 --> 00:06:13,827 You can complain to me about your food or your treatment, 67 00:06:13,917 --> 00:06:15,428 but I cannot investigate the grounds on which 68 00:06:15,518 --> 00:06:16,888 the judges at your trial convicted you. 69 00:06:16,978 --> 00:06:19,119 Judges? Trial? 70 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:20,571 There never was a trial. 71 00:06:21,041 --> 00:06:22,721 He was arrested during the emergency. 72 00:06:22,811 --> 00:06:25,554 A man could be jailed for a conspiracy then without a trial. 73 00:06:25,644 --> 00:06:27,776 Yes, yes. That was a bad time. 74 00:06:27,866 --> 00:06:31,027 Well, Dantès, what is it you demand? 75 00:06:31,749 --> 00:06:33,609 Knowledge of my trial. 76 00:06:34,772 --> 00:06:38,105 I demand to be tried, to know what crime I'm guilty of. 77 00:06:38,195 --> 00:06:41,768 Shoot me if I'm guilty, but for God's sake set me free if I'm innocent. 78 00:06:41,858 --> 00:06:43,792 It is not in my power to release you. 79 00:06:43,882 --> 00:06:45,714 I know that, monsieur. 80 00:06:45,804 --> 00:06:49,514 I don't ask it, but you can't plead for me. 81 00:06:49,604 --> 00:06:52,775 You can at least have me tried, and that's all I'm asking. 82 00:06:52,865 --> 00:06:53,715 We shall see, we shall see. 83 00:06:53,805 --> 00:06:55,176 Well, at least let me hope. 84 00:06:55,266 --> 00:06:57,797 No, I can't do that, but I can promise to examine your case. 85 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:02,218 - Then I'm free! I'm saved! - Who arrested you? 86 00:07:02,308 --> 00:07:04,019 Monsieur de Villefort. 87 00:07:04,109 --> 00:07:05,980 Speak to him, monsieur, see what he says. 88 00:07:06,070 --> 00:07:07,600 Monsieur de Villefort has been gone a long time. 89 00:07:07,690 --> 00:07:10,511 He left Marseille in the year you were arrested. 90 00:07:11,252 --> 00:07:12,468 Then I understand. 91 00:07:12,558 --> 00:07:16,084 Had he remained, I'd never have been detained. 92 00:07:16,174 --> 00:07:18,896 But you must find him, monsieur. Speak to him. 93 00:07:18,987 --> 00:07:19,882 No, I cannot do that. 94 00:07:19,972 --> 00:07:22,567 His brilliant career has taken him to Paris and Versailles. 95 00:07:22,657 --> 00:07:23,977 All the same, he should... 96 00:07:24,378 --> 00:07:27,349 Are you sure he had no personal cause to dislike you? 97 00:07:27,439 --> 00:07:29,610 None. He was kindness itself. 98 00:07:29,700 --> 00:07:32,111 I can't then rely entirely on any notes he may have left concerning you. 99 00:07:32,201 --> 00:07:33,611 Entirely, monsieur! 100 00:07:33,701 --> 00:07:36,372 Very well, Dantès. You may trust me to do the best I can. 101 00:07:36,462 --> 00:07:39,103 - Monsieur? - You must be patient. 102 00:07:40,827 --> 00:07:41,988 Thank you. 103 00:07:43,250 --> 00:07:45,311 Monsieur, thank you. 104 00:08:27,483 --> 00:08:29,995 I think this is the entry, monsieur. Edmond Dantès. 105 00:08:30,085 --> 00:08:31,605 Yes, that is the man. Thank you. 106 00:08:32,927 --> 00:08:36,390 "Edmond Dantès: Violent Bonapartist, took an active part in the return from Elba." 107 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:38,730 "Greatest watchfulness and care to be exercised." 108 00:08:39,291 --> 00:08:43,113 "To be kept in perpetual solitary confinement." Signed de Villefort. 109 00:10:01,681 --> 00:10:04,092 You, give me another candle. 110 00:10:04,182 --> 00:10:06,662 - What do you do, eat them? - It's the rats. 111 00:10:07,822 --> 00:10:11,543 I don't mind them as long as I can see them. 112 00:10:13,970 --> 00:10:19,535 To wake up in the darkness and have them crawling over my body... 113 00:10:19,776 --> 00:10:21,108 Put them where they can't reach them, comrade. 114 00:10:21,198 --> 00:10:24,240 - Bring me another candle. - I'll see what I can do. 115 00:12:09,299 --> 00:12:12,360 - What's the date? - Why do you bother, Comrade? 116 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:14,354 What's the use of counting the days? 117 00:12:14,444 --> 00:12:16,660 They're never going to let you out of here. 118 00:12:17,522 --> 00:12:19,783 Then I shall be here until the day I die. 119 00:12:20,783 --> 00:12:23,994 And since nothing else happens in this place, that'll be a great event. 120 00:12:24,084 --> 00:12:27,425 One should always know the great dates of great events, Comrade. 121 00:12:29,106 --> 00:12:32,627 - 15th of December, 1823. - Thank you. 122 00:12:33,628 --> 00:12:35,968 - Good night. - Good night. 123 00:13:37,012 --> 00:13:38,312 God. 124 00:13:41,575 --> 00:13:43,246 Don't let me die in despair. 125 00:13:45,649 --> 00:13:48,212 Who speaks of God and despair at the same time? 126 00:13:48,565 --> 00:13:50,367 - Who are you? - A prisoner. 127 00:13:50,458 --> 00:13:52,013 - Your name? - Edmond Dantès. 128 00:13:52,103 --> 00:13:54,174 - Your profession? - Sailor. 129 00:13:54,264 --> 00:13:57,526 - How far have you tunneled? - Only a few feet from my cell. 130 00:13:59,628 --> 00:14:01,328 Then go back there. 131 00:14:01,529 --> 00:14:03,130 I shall break through. 132 00:14:58,134 --> 00:14:59,893 I'm Edmond Dantès. 133 00:15:00,762 --> 00:15:02,060 I... 134 00:15:02,384 --> 00:15:04,280 I am the Abbé Faria. 135 00:15:57,585 --> 00:16:00,458 Have you a little water, please? 136 00:16:02,807 --> 00:16:06,148 The dust in there it gets in your throat. 137 00:16:08,789 --> 00:16:10,460 How long is your tunnel? 138 00:16:13,550 --> 00:16:14,481 Fifty feet. 139 00:16:14,571 --> 00:16:17,582 Fifty feet? That's impossible. 140 00:16:17,672 --> 00:16:19,772 You shall judge for yourself. 141 00:16:21,233 --> 00:16:22,953 How did you shift them? 142 00:16:23,253 --> 00:16:24,353 With this. 143 00:16:28,536 --> 00:16:32,897 My tools are better, but then I probably had longer. 144 00:16:33,437 --> 00:16:36,075 You talk of tools. This is just a handle. 145 00:16:36,165 --> 00:16:40,563 No, my friend. It ceased to be that when you turned it to its present use. 146 00:16:40,653 --> 00:16:44,261 It has become a tool. Crude but serviceable. 147 00:16:44,881 --> 00:16:47,975 But you would not have progressed very far with that alone. 148 00:16:49,021 --> 00:16:52,484 I am better equipped. See 149 00:16:53,004 --> 00:16:54,945 This is my chisel. 150 00:16:56,266 --> 00:16:58,867 - How did you obtain this? - Made it. 151 00:17:00,168 --> 00:17:01,989 - Made it? - Yes. 152 00:17:03,142 --> 00:17:06,191 Because of my age, or calling, 153 00:17:06,792 --> 00:17:08,573 perhaps because of both, 154 00:17:08,753 --> 00:17:13,406 I am a somewhat pampered prisoner and I have furniture. 155 00:17:13,496 --> 00:17:15,407 A bed and a stool, 156 00:17:15,497 --> 00:17:18,189 The clamp from the bed made the blade 157 00:17:18,279 --> 00:17:20,480 and a bar from the stool made the handle. 158 00:17:22,001 --> 00:17:24,562 Yes, I'm very proud of it. 159 00:17:26,037 --> 00:17:28,217 How long have you been digging, Abbé? 160 00:17:28,918 --> 00:17:30,338 Two years. 161 00:17:31,559 --> 00:17:33,483 It was hard work at first. 162 00:17:33,716 --> 00:17:37,201 But making the tools was hardest, and it cost me four years. 163 00:17:37,702 --> 00:17:40,102 You've labored six years to escape. 164 00:17:40,283 --> 00:17:42,086 You've overcome every difficulty, 165 00:17:42,176 --> 00:17:44,904 and all your efforts have led you just to this. 166 00:17:45,185 --> 00:17:46,605 Another cell. 167 00:17:46,865 --> 00:17:49,626 To a companion also. 168 00:17:51,107 --> 00:17:54,558 I must be very poor exchange for freedom, Abbé. 169 00:17:54,648 --> 00:17:59,111 It was the will of God. I am not ungrateful. 170 00:18:00,771 --> 00:18:02,072 You're a saint? 171 00:18:03,893 --> 00:18:08,094 If it had been me, I'd have cursed his name. 172 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:11,635 I'd have been mad with grief and rage. 173 00:18:12,015 --> 00:18:16,097 Yet here you sit as calmly as a man who has his own fireside. 174 00:18:16,457 --> 00:18:18,117 That's superhuman. 175 00:18:19,018 --> 00:18:20,958 No, you are mistaken, my friend. 176 00:18:21,139 --> 00:18:24,431 I had my moment of disappointment some days ago. 177 00:18:24,521 --> 00:18:27,934 When the first sounds of your excavating answered mine, 178 00:18:28,024 --> 00:18:31,245 that was when I knew that I had miscalculated. 179 00:18:32,386 --> 00:18:36,439 You were so near, and I felt confident you could only be another prisoner, 180 00:18:36,529 --> 00:18:38,990 and once I had recovered from my disappointment, 181 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:41,382 I became curious, even anxious to meet you. 182 00:18:41,472 --> 00:18:43,172 Not more than I. 183 00:18:43,453 --> 00:18:47,973 But tell me, if you had succeeded in breaching the walls, 184 00:18:48,063 --> 00:18:50,137 what would you have done? 185 00:18:50,318 --> 00:18:53,170 Cast myself into the sea and gained the island of Tiboulen. 186 00:18:53,260 --> 00:18:54,960 Three miles. 187 00:18:57,212 --> 00:18:59,132 Could you have swung that far? 188 00:18:59,453 --> 00:19:01,913 Heaven would have given me strength. 189 00:19:03,794 --> 00:19:04,894 Abbé? 190 00:19:05,955 --> 00:19:07,375 We're two now. 191 00:19:08,095 --> 00:19:11,326 And together we'll forge a new shaft for freedom. 192 00:19:11,416 --> 00:19:13,427 And with my help, the work will take but half the time. 193 00:19:13,517 --> 00:19:15,357 Perhaps less. 194 00:19:15,537 --> 00:19:17,048 I am growing old. 195 00:19:17,138 --> 00:19:19,368 But you are still young and vigorous. 196 00:19:19,458 --> 00:19:20,989 - We go dig, then. - With all my heart. 197 00:19:21,079 --> 00:19:22,979 But now! Now! 198 00:19:23,079 --> 00:19:25,250 There's twelve hours before the jailer comes again. 199 00:19:25,340 --> 00:19:27,440 Let us not lose a single minute! 200 00:19:27,902 --> 00:19:29,842 Not tonight. 201 00:19:30,283 --> 00:19:33,484 This enterprise comes fresh to you, but... 202 00:19:34,005 --> 00:19:38,787 I have been tunneling like a rat in the darkness some months on end. 203 00:19:41,069 --> 00:19:42,910 No, Mr. Dantès. 204 00:19:43,971 --> 00:19:48,904 I want you to understand fully the nature of the task in which you would join me. 205 00:19:48,994 --> 00:19:52,335 I commend your enthusiasm, it is not enough by itself. 206 00:19:53,137 --> 00:19:58,443 You you will need infinite patience 207 00:19:59,023 --> 00:20:03,784 and you must achieve a faith, not that one that will move mountains 208 00:20:03,874 --> 00:20:07,616 but objects which, in the confines of a small tunnel, 209 00:20:07,706 --> 00:20:10,377 are equally obdurate. 210 00:20:13,820 --> 00:20:17,689 My words dishearten you. - No, on the contrary. 211 00:20:17,836 --> 00:20:21,213 Everything you say must be true. I needed only to hear it. 212 00:20:21,994 --> 00:20:25,175 I swear to you that my resolution shall match yours. 213 00:20:26,015 --> 00:20:27,955 I do not doubt it. 214 00:20:30,476 --> 00:20:38,787 Tomorrow we can make our preparations, but tonight I shall rest in your company. 215 00:20:45,662 --> 00:20:47,029 Abbé... 216 00:20:49,227 --> 00:20:54,150 Tell me about yourself and how did you come to be in this place? 217 00:20:54,271 --> 00:20:56,703 You mean, what crime have I committed? 218 00:20:56,793 --> 00:20:58,233 I did not say it. 219 00:20:58,694 --> 00:21:02,176 For, though I've only just met you, I know that you're a good man. 220 00:21:02,537 --> 00:21:04,889 And what crime could you possibly be guilty of? 221 00:21:04,979 --> 00:21:06,760 A very great one. 222 00:21:08,962 --> 00:21:10,993 My name tells you that I am Italian. 223 00:21:11,083 --> 00:21:16,587 Well, like Machiavelli, I had a dream of altering the political face of my country. 224 00:21:16,828 --> 00:21:18,288 I don't understand. 225 00:21:18,750 --> 00:21:22,012 It is all quite simple. 226 00:21:22,893 --> 00:21:26,506 Italy is divided into a number of small principalities, 227 00:21:26,596 --> 00:21:30,429 each one of which is ruled over by men or other fools or tyrants. 228 00:21:30,519 --> 00:21:36,122 United under one crown, the country would go strong and prosper. 229 00:21:36,543 --> 00:21:38,375 My dream was to achieve this. 230 00:21:38,465 --> 00:21:41,286 Yes, but men are not imprisoned for dreaming. 231 00:21:43,068 --> 00:21:45,949 Not if they keep their thoughts to themselves. 232 00:21:46,472 --> 00:21:49,503 Although I am a dreamer, I'm also a man of action. 233 00:21:50,418 --> 00:21:53,325 And I was obsessed with the nobility of my vision. 234 00:21:53,415 --> 00:21:56,457 I sought all means possible to make it a reality. 235 00:21:56,677 --> 00:22:01,859 My efforts excited the fears of the fools and the tyrants. 236 00:22:02,120 --> 00:22:04,031 They forgot all their differences 237 00:22:04,121 --> 00:22:08,663 and banded together to suppress the voice of the Abbé Faria. 238 00:22:08,884 --> 00:22:10,695 Were you aware of the danger that you were running? 239 00:22:10,785 --> 00:22:12,805 Yes, of course. 240 00:22:16,794 --> 00:22:20,726 And you were prepared to sacrifice your freedom and your life just for... 241 00:22:20,816 --> 00:22:22,096 ... an idea? 242 00:22:23,458 --> 00:22:26,430 It was more than an idea, it was an ideal! 243 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:31,903 And I was ready to die for it, but that was not demanded of me. 244 00:22:32,184 --> 00:22:34,965 Instead I was seized and sentenced. 245 00:22:38,139 --> 00:22:41,592 Here I am, 12 years later, 246 00:22:42,091 --> 00:22:46,104 confiding in you the sad story of my political enterprise. 247 00:22:46,194 --> 00:22:48,060 There's no justice under the sun. 248 00:22:48,360 --> 00:22:50,196 And how can you laugh? 249 00:22:51,777 --> 00:22:55,699 I saved my tears for those I failed to help. 250 00:22:57,081 --> 00:23:00,962 Come, my son, you shall not distress yourself on my account. 251 00:23:01,623 --> 00:23:03,815 - It's your turn now. - My turn? 252 00:23:03,905 --> 00:23:06,837 You've heard why I'm here. What crime have you committed? 253 00:23:06,927 --> 00:23:08,187 I'm innocent. 254 00:23:09,168 --> 00:23:11,269 Of what then were you accused? 255 00:23:13,662 --> 00:23:15,263 That's very strange. 256 00:23:16,464 --> 00:23:20,077 For years I've longed to pour out my sufferings to a sympathetic ear, 257 00:23:20,167 --> 00:23:23,609 and now, with the opportunity here, I... 258 00:23:29,665 --> 00:23:30,765 I can't... 259 00:23:33,196 --> 00:23:35,598 Then do not try. 260 00:23:37,019 --> 00:23:39,821 We shall have time on our hands if nothing else. 261 00:23:40,144 --> 00:23:43,928 And there will be other occasions when you will feel disposed to do so. 262 00:23:46,072 --> 00:23:47,243 Would you care to see where I live? 263 00:23:47,333 --> 00:23:48,165 With all my heart. 264 00:23:48,255 --> 00:23:50,019 Come then, bring your candle. 265 00:24:12,594 --> 00:24:16,546 I exercise my body by thinking, and my mind by writing. 266 00:24:16,636 --> 00:24:18,307 And what you write, Abbé? 267 00:24:18,397 --> 00:24:23,719 My treatise on the practicability of forming Italy into a sovereign state. 268 00:24:24,213 --> 00:24:26,781 If ever I escape, I shall hope to publish it. 269 00:24:28,943 --> 00:24:30,443 Let us say when. 270 00:24:34,166 --> 00:24:35,806 Better still, my friend. 271 00:24:38,653 --> 00:24:39,753 Let us say when. 272 00:24:54,266 --> 00:24:57,266 Subtitles LAPORT INC.