1 00:00:27,758 --> 00:00:30,910 What is done to infanticides in this country? 2 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:32,661 Their heads are cut off. 3 00:00:33,263 --> 00:00:35,459 Is that not right, Mr. de Villefort? 4 00:00:35,549 --> 00:00:37,745 Yes, you are right. 5 00:00:39,927 --> 00:00:42,507 My dear, what's the matter with you? You've gone quite pale. 6 00:00:42,597 --> 00:00:45,425 Mr. de Monte Cristo telling us horrible stories, 7 00:00:45,516 --> 00:00:47,998 doubtless intending to frighten us all to death. 8 00:00:48,088 --> 00:00:50,193 Really, Count, you frighten the ladies. 9 00:00:51,222 --> 00:00:53,144 I only wanted some air, that was all. 10 00:00:53,423 --> 00:00:55,418 Are you really frightened, madame? 11 00:00:55,509 --> 00:00:57,551 It's purely a matter of the imagination. 12 00:00:57,641 --> 00:01:00,330 Mme. Danglars is ill. She shall be taken to her carriage. 13 00:01:00,420 --> 00:01:02,858 No thank you. I've got recovered. 14 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:05,756 Sorry to have behaved so foolishly. 15 00:01:05,846 --> 00:01:08,628 The blame is entirely mine, madame. You are quite right. 16 00:01:08,718 --> 00:01:11,912 It was certainly not a story for somebody so sensitive as you. 17 00:01:12,002 --> 00:01:15,933 Then let us change this atmosphere. Eugénie, why not sing for us? 18 00:01:16,023 --> 00:01:17,158 That's a good idea! 19 00:01:17,249 --> 00:01:20,135 I should be happy to do so but I don't accompany myself. 20 00:01:20,225 --> 00:01:21,308 Maximilian plays the piano. 21 00:01:21,398 --> 00:01:23,316 Eugénie will sing for us it your accompany her. 22 00:01:23,406 --> 00:01:24,512 Please! 23 00:01:24,603 --> 00:01:26,437 I will be an honor for which my talents are scarcely suited. 24 00:01:26,527 --> 00:01:28,951 I'm sure you play the piano very well. 25 00:01:29,041 --> 00:01:30,258 I'll do my best, mademoiselle. 26 00:01:30,348 --> 00:01:32,228 Call at my office tomorrow. 27 00:01:32,610 --> 00:01:34,564 My dear Count, if this is an opportune moment, 28 00:01:34,654 --> 00:01:36,163 I would like a few words with you. 29 00:01:36,253 --> 00:01:38,865 By all means. But what's the matter with you? 30 00:01:38,955 --> 00:01:42,608 You look quite care-worn. Really, sir, you alarm me. 31 00:01:42,698 --> 00:01:45,270 Is it a matter of business you wish to speak of? 32 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:47,392 Well, let's call it that. 33 00:01:47,482 --> 00:01:49,934 Shall we go into the conservatory? 34 00:01:54,147 --> 00:01:56,801 I rather expected to see the Morcerfs here tonight. 35 00:01:56,891 --> 00:01:58,194 I had intended to invite them, 36 00:01:58,284 --> 00:02:00,664 but they're taking the waters of Vichy for a few days. 37 00:02:00,754 --> 00:02:02,302 But tell me, Mr. le Baron, 38 00:02:02,392 --> 00:02:05,840 is it true that you have suffered some financial reverse? 39 00:02:07,059 --> 00:02:08,771 Good devil! Who told you that? 40 00:02:08,861 --> 00:02:12,703 No one. It's just a rumour. Do you want money? 41 00:02:12,826 --> 00:02:14,296 Do you wish me to lend you some? 42 00:02:14,386 --> 00:02:16,737 It's extremely civil of you. Very generous indeed. 43 00:02:16,827 --> 00:02:18,798 But I am far from being in trouble. 44 00:02:18,888 --> 00:02:21,517 It's extraordinary how these rumors get about. 45 00:02:21,610 --> 00:02:24,663 I did have a minor setback recently, but good heavens, 46 00:02:24,753 --> 00:02:27,242 to a man in my position it was a mere drop in the ocean. 47 00:02:27,332 --> 00:02:31,784 I'm very glad to hear it. But you wish to speak with me? 48 00:02:33,287 --> 00:02:35,929 While we're on the matter of business, tell me... 49 00:02:36,019 --> 00:02:40,197 - What am I to do for Mr. Cavalcanti? - Give him money. 50 00:02:40,779 --> 00:02:43,391 If he's been recommended to you, the recommendation seems good. 51 00:02:43,481 --> 00:02:48,543 He has opened an account at my house and also made an allowance for his son. 52 00:02:48,844 --> 00:02:51,215 May I ask how much he's allowed the young man? 53 00:02:51,305 --> 00:02:53,817 Five thousand livre per month. 54 00:02:53,907 --> 00:02:57,339 I thought I was right in believing old Cavalcanti to be a stingy fellow. 55 00:02:57,429 --> 00:03:01,291 How can anyone expect a young man to exist on five thousand? 56 00:03:01,649 --> 00:03:04,800 You understand that if the young man should want a few thousand more... 57 00:03:04,891 --> 00:03:08,675 Don't advance it. The father will never repay it. 58 00:03:09,097 --> 00:03:11,989 You don't know these multimillionaires. They're regular misers. 59 00:03:12,079 --> 00:03:13,949 Would you not trust the Cavalcanti? 60 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:15,145 I? 61 00:03:15,236 --> 00:03:18,148 I'd advance him six million on his signature. 62 00:03:19,324 --> 00:03:20,202 Do you know? 63 00:03:20,292 --> 00:03:23,016 I should never have taken him for anything more than a mere major. 64 00:03:23,106 --> 00:03:25,056 The first time I set eyes on him, 65 00:03:25,146 --> 00:03:27,969 he appeared to me like a very old lieutenant. 66 00:03:28,730 --> 00:03:31,083 The young man is better. 67 00:03:31,966 --> 00:03:35,285 A little nervous, perhaps, but on the whole, tolerable. 68 00:03:35,375 --> 00:03:38,087 I believe these Italians are to marry amongst themselves. 69 00:03:38,177 --> 00:03:41,949 - They like to unite their fortunes. - Yes, it is usual, most certainly. 70 00:03:42,039 --> 00:03:44,251 But Cavalcanti is an original. 71 00:03:44,341 --> 00:03:46,452 He does nothing like other people. 72 00:03:46,542 --> 00:03:50,074 I believe that he's brought his son to France to choose a wife. 73 00:03:50,164 --> 00:03:52,155 - Do you think so? - I'm sure of it. 74 00:03:52,245 --> 00:03:54,336 Have you heard his fortune mentioned? 75 00:03:54,426 --> 00:03:56,567 People talk of nothing else, only... 76 00:03:56,849 --> 00:04:00,555 Some say that he has millions and others that he hasn't got a farthing. 77 00:04:00,645 --> 00:04:01,850 What is your opinion? 78 00:04:01,950 --> 00:04:05,111 I believe the good man to be very close. 79 00:04:05,292 --> 00:04:08,023 - You do not flatter him? - I scarcely know him. 80 00:04:08,113 --> 00:04:10,873 I've only met him three times in my entire life. 81 00:04:12,935 --> 00:04:16,766 Accept my thanks for the client you have sent me. 82 00:04:16,856 --> 00:04:19,813 By the by, when these kind of people marry their sons, 83 00:04:19,903 --> 00:04:21,648 do they give them any fortune? 84 00:04:21,738 --> 00:04:23,974 Do you wish to marry the young man yourself 85 00:04:24,064 --> 00:04:26,138 since you're asking so many questions? 86 00:04:26,228 --> 00:04:28,959 It would not be a bad speculation, I fancy. 87 00:04:29,049 --> 00:04:32,390 You're not thinking of Mlle. Danglars, I hope. 88 00:04:32,570 --> 00:04:35,722 And you don't want to see poor Andrea's throat cut by Albert, 89 00:04:35,812 --> 00:04:38,122 who is, after all, engaged to your daughter, I believe. 90 00:04:38,212 --> 00:04:42,084 Certainly le Comte de Morcerf and I have talked about this marriage. 91 00:04:42,174 --> 00:04:45,448 Yes, it would certainly be a triumph to unite a fortune like yours 92 00:04:45,538 --> 00:04:47,587 with the wealth of the Cavalcanti. 93 00:04:47,677 --> 00:04:50,249 But Albert's father might be proved rather awkward. 94 00:04:50,339 --> 00:04:52,272 And after all the name of de Morcerf 95 00:04:52,362 --> 00:04:54,973 must be equally ancient as that of Cavalcanti. 96 00:04:55,063 --> 00:04:56,854 Now I can't see him yielding to an Italian. 97 00:04:56,944 --> 00:04:59,195 My dear Count, can there really be some point 98 00:04:59,285 --> 00:05:00,857 on which you are not informed? 99 00:05:00,947 --> 00:05:02,018 Why very easily. 100 00:05:02,108 --> 00:05:04,410 Then let me hasten to enlighten you. 101 00:05:05,231 --> 00:05:07,743 Morcerf's origins are even more humble than my own. 102 00:05:07,833 --> 00:05:11,206 I may not be a baron by birth but my real name is at least Danglars. 103 00:05:11,296 --> 00:05:12,987 Do you mean to say that his isn't Morcerf? 104 00:05:13,077 --> 00:05:14,718 Indeed it is not. 105 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:19,633 When I was a poor clerk in Marseille, he was an even poorer fisherman. 106 00:05:19,723 --> 00:05:23,025 A fisherman? Is that possible? 107 00:05:23,145 --> 00:05:25,897 - What was he called then? - Fernand Mondego. 108 00:05:25,987 --> 00:05:27,708 Fernand Mondego? 109 00:05:28,349 --> 00:05:31,650 I've heard that name before somewhere. In Greece. 110 00:05:32,251 --> 00:05:34,963 - No, it cannot be the same man. - Why not? Fernand was in Greece. 111 00:05:35,053 --> 00:05:38,245 No, the man I'm thinking of is instructor general to Ali Pasha. 112 00:05:38,335 --> 00:05:39,956 That was Fernand! 113 00:05:41,457 --> 00:05:43,878 You astound me, Mr. le Baron. 114 00:05:43,979 --> 00:05:46,912 - Something you know. - Something I cannot repeat. 115 00:05:47,002 --> 00:05:49,914 There was a mystery linked with the affairs of Ali Pasha. 116 00:05:50,004 --> 00:05:51,695 I beg you, my dear Count, 117 00:05:51,785 --> 00:05:55,097 if this information is discreditable to Morcerf, tell me what it is, 118 00:05:55,187 --> 00:05:56,298 for my poor daughter sake. 119 00:05:56,388 --> 00:05:58,749 You place me in a very difficult position. 120 00:06:00,550 --> 00:06:03,352 - Have you an agent in Greece? - Naturally. 121 00:06:04,553 --> 00:06:05,713 Very well. 122 00:06:06,015 --> 00:06:08,868 If he concerns you so much, I can only give you this advice. 123 00:06:08,958 --> 00:06:11,731 Write to your agent and tell him to go to Janina. 124 00:06:11,821 --> 00:06:13,666 Ask him to find out what part 125 00:06:13,756 --> 00:06:17,425 Fernand Mondego played in the catastrophe of Ali Tepelini. 126 00:06:39,276 --> 00:06:42,198 My dear Count, good morning. 127 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:44,811 Welcome home again. 128 00:06:44,901 --> 00:06:47,733 I only arrived an hour ago from Vichy and come directly to see you. 129 00:06:47,823 --> 00:06:49,764 That's exceedingly kind of you. 130 00:06:50,607 --> 00:06:54,118 Well, what news? Tell me all you've been doing in my absence. 131 00:06:54,208 --> 00:06:55,719 And what do you mean by that? 132 00:06:55,809 --> 00:06:57,640 I spent ten days with my parents at Vichy. 133 00:06:57,730 --> 00:06:59,561 I come back to a scene I scarcely recognize. 134 00:06:59,651 --> 00:07:00,661 Be specific. 135 00:07:00,751 --> 00:07:03,543 - For example, Mme. Danglars. - What about her? 136 00:07:03,633 --> 00:07:05,554 An active, healthy woman who, to my knowledge, 137 00:07:05,644 --> 00:07:07,565 has never suffered a day's illness in her life... 138 00:07:07,655 --> 00:07:09,505 - Is she not ill? - Certainly not ill. 139 00:07:09,595 --> 00:07:12,427 But a convenient migraine confines her to her room. 140 00:07:12,517 --> 00:07:15,308 No one sat eyes on her for days, not even poor Lucien Debray. 141 00:07:15,398 --> 00:07:18,099 You're blaming me for her indisposition? 142 00:07:18,781 --> 00:07:23,124 These days, I attribute any unusual occurrence to your intervention. 143 00:07:24,326 --> 00:07:27,127 I see you as a kind of a grand puppet master. 144 00:07:27,308 --> 00:07:30,181 You pull the strings, we dance. 145 00:07:30,271 --> 00:07:32,122 Any evidence for this remarkable theory? 146 00:07:32,212 --> 00:07:33,924 No, none at all. 147 00:07:34,014 --> 00:07:36,986 Except before you arrived in Paris, life was more or less predictable. 148 00:07:37,076 --> 00:07:40,238 Now it no longer is. Things happen. 149 00:07:40,979 --> 00:07:43,152 Like Mme. Danglars' migraine? 150 00:07:43,242 --> 00:07:46,693 A small thing in itself, but it's part of the pattern of it. 151 00:07:46,783 --> 00:07:51,965 Everything you do seems to involve one or other of us directly or indirectly. 152 00:07:53,545 --> 00:07:55,486 And then your house at Auteuil. 153 00:07:55,626 --> 00:07:58,337 It was once a property of de Villefort's father-in-law. 154 00:07:58,427 --> 00:08:01,688 - Somebody had to own it. - Of course. 155 00:08:01,778 --> 00:08:05,469 And of all people, that somebody had to be poor old Saint-Méran. 156 00:08:07,030 --> 00:08:08,320 Never mind. 157 00:08:08,410 --> 00:08:12,411 You put it at the disposal of an Italian millionaire and his son. 158 00:08:12,512 --> 00:08:14,092 Presto! 159 00:08:14,293 --> 00:08:16,365 My prospects of marrying the lovely Eugénie 160 00:08:16,455 --> 00:08:18,006 seem to vanish into thin air. 161 00:08:18,096 --> 00:08:19,437 Admittedly I took no steps 162 00:08:19,527 --> 00:08:22,428 to prevent Mlle. Eugénie from meeting young Cavalcanti, 163 00:08:22,518 --> 00:08:26,804 but you seem so little set on the union, I thought I was doing you a favor. 164 00:08:27,121 --> 00:08:29,542 So you were! 165 00:08:30,003 --> 00:08:32,855 To be married to Mlle. Danglars would have been dreadful. 166 00:08:32,945 --> 00:08:35,526 Albert, you are very difficult to please. 167 00:08:35,617 --> 00:08:37,889 So I am, for I wish for what is impossible. 168 00:08:37,980 --> 00:08:38,939 And what's that? 169 00:08:39,029 --> 00:08:41,550 To find such a wife as my father did. 170 00:08:42,472 --> 00:08:44,713 Your father was fortunate? 171 00:08:44,854 --> 00:08:47,315 You know my opinion of my mother, Count. 172 00:08:47,556 --> 00:08:50,457 Just look at her, still so beautiful. 173 00:08:53,980 --> 00:08:57,352 - What happened was pure chance. - There's no such thing as chance. 174 00:08:57,442 --> 00:09:00,574 Of course it was chance that Monte Cristo bought the house in Auteuil. 175 00:09:00,664 --> 00:09:02,516 And chance that the gardener found it. 176 00:09:02,606 --> 00:09:04,917 No, nothing was found. No skeleton. 177 00:09:05,007 --> 00:09:06,498 It must have been. 178 00:09:06,588 --> 00:09:08,309 I dug the grave. 179 00:09:08,429 --> 00:09:10,006 I was about to bury the body 180 00:09:10,096 --> 00:09:12,715 when the madman attacked and nearly killed me. 181 00:09:13,214 --> 00:09:16,146 Six months later, when I recovered, you had gone. 182 00:09:16,236 --> 00:09:17,747 I dare not inquire after you. 183 00:09:17,837 --> 00:09:20,999 Then I heard that you had married Mr. Danglars. 184 00:09:21,620 --> 00:09:25,133 The memory of that half-filled grave was always with me. 185 00:09:25,223 --> 00:09:26,594 I went secretly to Auteuil. 186 00:09:26,684 --> 00:09:30,016 Night after night, I went there armed with a lantern and spade. 187 00:09:30,106 --> 00:09:33,828 Till at length, I dug over the whole area of the garden. 188 00:09:34,590 --> 00:09:36,591 There was nothing there. 189 00:09:38,513 --> 00:09:42,715 I think that the man who attacked me thought that I was burying treasure. 190 00:09:43,837 --> 00:09:45,668 I don't understand you. 191 00:09:45,758 --> 00:09:49,590 He would hardly have made off with the corpse of a newly born infant 192 00:09:49,680 --> 00:09:52,195 unless he wished to report it to the police. 193 00:09:52,301 --> 00:09:54,462 No report was made to them. 194 00:09:54,942 --> 00:09:56,503 What are you saying? 195 00:10:00,725 --> 00:10:04,416 The child was perhaps alive and it was saved by the assassin. 196 00:10:04,506 --> 00:10:06,187 My child alive? 197 00:10:06,627 --> 00:10:08,598 You buried my child alive? 198 00:10:08,688 --> 00:10:10,039 You weren't even certain it was dead. 199 00:10:10,129 --> 00:10:13,690 I merely supposed so as I might have supposed anything else. 200 00:10:13,780 --> 00:10:17,229 My child... My poor child. 201 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:20,781 Madame, I beg you to listen. 202 00:10:23,142 --> 00:10:24,847 I have no proof that the child lives. 203 00:10:24,937 --> 00:10:27,709 I made, as you can imagine, the most painstaking inquiries 204 00:10:27,799 --> 00:10:30,274 without any result but I believe that it does live. 205 00:10:30,364 --> 00:10:32,541 And if it does, it's not our guilty past 206 00:10:32,631 --> 00:10:35,276 but the future which threatens to destroy us. 207 00:10:35,366 --> 00:10:40,809 Monte Cristo speaks in our presence of a disinterred child. Why? 208 00:10:40,900 --> 00:10:45,620 - What are you and I to Monte Cristo? - I don't know but I shall find out. 209 00:10:45,710 --> 00:10:48,739 That's why I had to see you, to warn you against him. 210 00:10:49,491 --> 00:10:52,572 You have never revealed our connection to anyone? 211 00:10:52,752 --> 00:10:55,162 No. Never to anyone. 212 00:10:55,252 --> 00:10:58,213 - You've never kept a diary? - No. 213 00:10:59,073 --> 00:11:02,293 Alas, my life has been spent in frivolity. 214 00:11:02,994 --> 00:11:04,764 I only wanted to forget it myself. 215 00:11:04,854 --> 00:11:06,912 You might have talked in your sleep. 216 00:11:07,555 --> 00:11:09,535 I sleep like a child. 217 00:11:10,555 --> 00:11:11,966 Don't you remember? 218 00:11:12,056 --> 00:11:13,156 True. 219 00:11:13,556 --> 00:11:17,087 I know what I must do. My best agents shall be employed. 220 00:11:17,177 --> 00:11:19,527 Soon I'll have the life history of Monte Cristo. 221 00:11:19,617 --> 00:11:22,267 Who he is, whence he comes and where he goes. 222 00:11:22,357 --> 00:11:26,758 And armed with these facts I shall act, and perhaps save us. 223 00:11:27,558 --> 00:11:29,469 If it's not already too late. 224 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:30,929 Will you promise to keep me informed? 225 00:11:31,019 --> 00:11:33,039 Have no fear on that score. 226 00:11:33,719 --> 00:11:36,600 I believe that I am less afraid than you are. 227 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:39,670 I know what a courageous woman you are. 228 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:43,211 It's not that. My life is of no importance. 229 00:11:43,301 --> 00:11:45,373 But you are a great name in the land. 230 00:11:45,463 --> 00:11:48,956 Your ruin would shake France but I am a woman and a mother. 231 00:11:49,046 --> 00:11:53,640 And in all you've said to me I can only find one single passionate response. 232 00:11:53,730 --> 00:11:55,391 Perhaps my son, 233 00:11:55,612 --> 00:11:58,434 the child born of our love, 234 00:11:58,955 --> 00:12:00,736 still lives. 235 00:12:18,215 --> 00:12:19,686 - Any regrets? - Regrets? 236 00:12:19,776 --> 00:12:20,826 No! 237 00:12:20,916 --> 00:12:24,288 I feel free as air for the first time in months. 238 00:12:24,378 --> 00:12:27,069 Albert, your lack of gallantry is quite shocking. 239 00:12:27,159 --> 00:12:30,191 I'm honest, that's all, and Eugénie feels just as I do. 240 00:12:30,281 --> 00:12:32,512 She despises me for the frivolous fellow I am, 241 00:12:32,602 --> 00:12:35,834 just as I'm certain she despises our romantic Italian over there. 242 00:12:35,924 --> 00:12:37,835 The understanding between your two families still exists. 243 00:12:37,925 --> 00:12:40,126 Your father has yet to be informed. 244 00:12:40,906 --> 00:12:43,287 Have you not seen Valentine again? 245 00:12:44,188 --> 00:12:45,288 No. 246 00:12:46,991 --> 00:12:50,359 How could any man refuse to receive a splendid fellow like you 247 00:12:50,449 --> 00:12:54,672 because twenty years ago your father supported the little Corsican? 248 00:12:54,793 --> 00:12:55,603 I think it's scandalous. 249 00:12:55,693 --> 00:12:57,683 People have long memories out there. 250 00:12:57,773 --> 00:13:00,404 Why don't you ask Monte Cristo to do something about it? 251 00:13:00,494 --> 00:13:02,758 It is not a matter in which he could interfere. 252 00:13:02,849 --> 00:13:06,084 Not interfere. Use his genius for influencing events. 253 00:13:06,174 --> 00:13:09,945 I know of his warm regard for you. And what about Valentine? 254 00:13:10,035 --> 00:13:12,264 She's head over heels in love with you. 255 00:13:12,616 --> 00:13:15,230 De Villefort has sworn to send her to a convent 256 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:17,702 if she so much as mentions my name again. 257 00:13:18,638 --> 00:13:20,418 I must be off. 258 00:13:20,719 --> 00:13:22,640 Where's Mr. Danglars? 259 00:13:22,761 --> 00:13:25,953 I must leave before he returns. Haven't you noticed? 260 00:13:26,043 --> 00:13:28,264 He can scarcely endure my presence. 261 00:13:28,584 --> 00:13:31,606 To be candid, I cannot tolerate his. 262 00:13:33,948 --> 00:13:35,529 Goodbye, Eugénie. 263 00:13:36,630 --> 00:13:39,591 Arrivederci, Signor Cavalcanti. 264 00:13:41,033 --> 00:13:42,344 My dear Count. 265 00:13:42,434 --> 00:13:45,025 My dear father-in-law, I was on the very point of departure. 266 00:13:45,115 --> 00:13:47,376 Then let me not detain you, Vicount. 267 00:13:47,538 --> 00:13:51,695 The warmth of your hospitality almost persuades me to stay, 268 00:13:51,785 --> 00:13:53,140 but not quite. 269 00:13:53,661 --> 00:13:57,502 Goodbye, Count. Goodbye, dear father-in-law. 270 00:14:01,004 --> 00:14:03,005 The young scondrel. 271 00:14:03,205 --> 00:14:05,856 Count, have you ever heard such insolence? 272 00:14:05,946 --> 00:14:07,677 But then what can you expect? 273 00:14:07,767 --> 00:14:11,059 They say bad blood always shows itself in the end. 274 00:14:11,149 --> 00:14:12,039 I beg your pardon? 275 00:14:12,129 --> 00:14:15,690 I was saying bad blood shows in the end. 276 00:14:15,972 --> 00:14:17,523 Your advice was excellent. 277 00:14:17,613 --> 00:14:18,834 Excellent! 278 00:14:19,094 --> 00:14:20,666 I shall never forget the service you have done me. 279 00:14:20,756 --> 00:14:22,056 The service? 280 00:14:22,657 --> 00:14:27,240 Mr. le Comte, I've just had news from Janina. 281 00:14:28,301 --> 00:14:31,474 The council at Janina, which formed the protection of the town, 282 00:14:31,564 --> 00:14:34,076 was at the time under the command of a French officer, 283 00:14:34,166 --> 00:14:36,318 General Fernand Mondego. 284 00:14:36,408 --> 00:14:39,920 Mondego, in whom Ali Tepelini reposed the greatest confidence, 285 00:14:40,010 --> 00:14:42,482 not only surrendered the castle to the enemy, 286 00:14:42,572 --> 00:14:45,274 but sold his benefactor to the Turks. 287 00:14:45,596 --> 00:14:50,879 For this act of treachery, the general received 2,000 crowns. 288 00:14:51,099 --> 00:14:55,658 Mondego is better known in France under his title, Comte de Morcerf, 289 00:14:55,748 --> 00:14:58,643 and has a seat in the Chamber of Peers. 290 00:14:59,764 --> 00:15:03,529 - Father! - Well? 291 00:15:04,126 --> 00:15:07,799 This monstrous calumny, what does it mean? 292 00:15:07,889 --> 00:15:10,241 Exactly what it says, it is a monstrous calumny. 293 00:15:10,331 --> 00:15:11,971 But to what end? 294 00:15:12,093 --> 00:15:14,257 Why should anyone wish to vilify a man as great 295 00:15:14,347 --> 00:15:15,406 and honourable as you? 296 00:15:15,496 --> 00:15:18,107 Ask Beauchamp. It is printed in his newspaper. 297 00:15:18,197 --> 00:15:19,438 Beauchamp? 298 00:15:21,059 --> 00:15:23,340 - Beauchamp is my friend. - Indeed. 299 00:15:23,541 --> 00:15:25,402 You still so regard him? 300 00:15:29,325 --> 00:15:31,686 My God, he shall answer for this. 301 00:15:32,727 --> 00:15:35,259 - Have you told mother yet? - No. 302 00:15:35,349 --> 00:15:37,241 Then I'll leave before you do so. 303 00:15:37,331 --> 00:15:40,172 - She'll only seek to dissuade me. - Thank you. 304 00:15:41,254 --> 00:15:42,854 Have no fear, father. 305 00:15:43,755 --> 00:15:47,276 Beauchamp shall eat his words or die if he refuses. 306 00:15:47,416 --> 00:15:52,577 And you, you will refute this foul libel before the whole world. 307 00:15:53,538 --> 00:15:57,289 Before my fellow peers, at least, yes. I shall manage that, all right. 308 00:15:57,379 --> 00:15:59,240 God go with you, my son. 309 00:16:13,888 --> 00:16:15,999 Where was Albert going in such a hurry? 310 00:16:16,089 --> 00:16:18,179 - He hardly greeted me. - The boy's upset. 311 00:16:18,269 --> 00:16:19,439 Was that why you wanted to see me? 312 00:16:19,529 --> 00:16:20,800 Partly, there are two reasons. 313 00:16:20,890 --> 00:16:22,560 This morning I received this letter from Baron Danglars. 314 00:16:22,650 --> 00:16:25,101 He no longer wishes his daughter to marry our son. 315 00:16:25,191 --> 00:16:26,981 You astonish me. 316 00:16:27,071 --> 00:16:30,500 I thought his heart was as much set upon the match as yours. 317 00:16:31,492 --> 00:16:32,902 That is no longer the case. 318 00:16:32,992 --> 00:16:35,543 You have known my feelings all along, Fernand. 319 00:16:35,633 --> 00:16:38,084 I have never sought to hide them. 320 00:16:38,174 --> 00:16:39,628 But what has brought about 321 00:16:39,718 --> 00:16:42,325 this sudden change of mind in your old friend? 322 00:16:42,415 --> 00:16:44,614 That brings me to my second reason, 323 00:16:44,704 --> 00:16:48,156 this newspaper report which I think you should read. 324 00:16:57,058 --> 00:16:59,648 Very well. If you will not sit, you must stand. 325 00:16:59,738 --> 00:17:02,049 - Be cool, my dear fellow. - I am perfectly cool. 326 00:17:02,139 --> 00:17:03,529 And will you first hear me out? 327 00:17:03,619 --> 00:17:05,769 Naturally, since I'm here for your explanation. 328 00:17:05,859 --> 00:17:09,010 Very well. Listen carefully to what I have to say, 329 00:17:09,100 --> 00:17:12,186 for there is more to this affair than you may suppose. 330 00:17:13,202 --> 00:17:15,614 A month ago, Baron Danglars called at this office. 331 00:17:15,704 --> 00:17:17,255 - Danglars? - Yes. 332 00:17:17,345 --> 00:17:19,776 It was he who gave me the report which you read in my paper this morning. 333 00:17:19,866 --> 00:17:22,338 - Never! - I swear to you that he did. 334 00:17:22,428 --> 00:17:25,789 - What did you do? - I laughed in his face. 335 00:17:26,130 --> 00:17:28,882 I told him it was a malicious pack of lies, 336 00:17:28,972 --> 00:17:30,655 and that as the editor of a responsible paper, 337 00:17:30,745 --> 00:17:32,083 I would have nothing to do with it. 338 00:17:32,173 --> 00:17:35,225 - Go on. - He insisted that it was true, 339 00:17:35,315 --> 00:17:37,127 and told me flatly that if I didn't publish it, 340 00:17:37,217 --> 00:17:40,760 there were plenty of other papers that would be glad to do so. 341 00:17:41,540 --> 00:17:43,826 I was in a difficult position out there. 342 00:17:44,142 --> 00:17:46,371 I could see that he meant what he said. 343 00:17:46,663 --> 00:17:49,297 And I knew the damage which such a report, even though it were false, 344 00:17:49,387 --> 00:17:51,925 could do to a man in your father's position. 345 00:17:53,266 --> 00:17:55,687 In the end, I bargained with him. 346 00:17:55,988 --> 00:17:58,979 - Bargained with him? - Yes, I bargained for time. 347 00:17:59,069 --> 00:18:02,601 I asked him to give me a month, and unwillingly he agreed. 348 00:18:02,691 --> 00:18:05,523 But why? What did you hope to achieve? 349 00:18:05,613 --> 00:18:08,894 I hoped to prove that the report was false. 350 00:18:10,854 --> 00:18:12,765 Do you know why you haven't seen me for the past three weeks? 351 00:18:12,855 --> 00:18:14,386 No, I simply heard you were away. 352 00:18:14,476 --> 00:18:17,137 So I was. I went to Janina. 353 00:18:17,237 --> 00:18:19,729 A week to get there. Another to return. 354 00:18:19,819 --> 00:18:21,590 Four days in quarantine. 355 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,880 Forty-eight hours to stay there and if you don't believe me... 356 00:18:25,242 --> 00:18:26,922 ... there's my passport. 357 00:18:31,986 --> 00:18:33,086 Go on. 358 00:18:34,206 --> 00:18:38,149 I'm sorry, Albert. The report is true. It's accurate in every detail. 359 00:18:38,220 --> 00:18:39,320 Liar! 360 00:18:44,981 --> 00:18:47,438 Signed statements by the mayor of Janina 361 00:18:47,528 --> 00:18:49,985 and three other important men of the town. 362 00:18:52,028 --> 00:18:53,569 You were my friend. 363 00:18:54,811 --> 00:18:57,584 You made it public knowledge without a word of warning. 364 00:18:57,674 --> 00:19:01,027 I had no choice. I had made my bargain. 365 00:19:01,117 --> 00:19:04,408 And when I reached Paris last night, Danglars was waiting for his pound of flesh. 366 00:19:04,498 --> 00:19:06,049 Who honors bargains with a man like that? 367 00:19:06,139 --> 00:19:08,849 I honor the truth, Albert. That is my task as a journalist. 368 00:19:08,939 --> 00:19:13,030 And the obligations of friendship, they mean nothing, I suppose. 369 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:16,061 My regard for you is unchanged. 370 00:19:16,241 --> 00:19:18,983 But you know as well as I do that I could not, 371 00:19:19,073 --> 00:19:21,814 on that account, conceal your father's crime. 372 00:19:27,623 --> 00:19:29,135 What will happen, Beauchamp? 373 00:19:29,225 --> 00:19:32,540 The Count de Morcerf will have to answer to his fellow peers. 374 00:19:32,667 --> 00:19:34,448 Who knows? They may acquit him. 375 00:19:35,009 --> 00:19:39,050 - Will you give evidence? - No. My job is done. 376 00:19:39,211 --> 00:19:41,642 I have published a report, in good faith. 377 00:19:41,732 --> 00:19:44,704 No one but you knows that I have a deeper knowledge. 378 00:19:46,375 --> 00:19:49,616 But there is one question you've not asked, Albert. 379 00:19:50,917 --> 00:19:52,258 What's that? 380 00:19:53,239 --> 00:19:57,320 Who told Danglars how he might come by this information? 381 00:19:58,161 --> 00:19:59,173 You know the answer. 382 00:19:59,263 --> 00:20:01,504 Yes, Danglars gave it to me himself. 383 00:20:01,865 --> 00:20:02,965 Well? 384 00:20:03,326 --> 00:20:05,767 It was your friend Monte Cristo. 385 00:20:16,715 --> 00:20:18,386 Yes, well... 386 00:20:18,476 --> 00:20:20,028 I was only down there a few minutes. 387 00:20:20,118 --> 00:20:22,399 But I'm not an inspector. 388 00:20:22,619 --> 00:20:24,300 I see. 389 00:20:24,961 --> 00:20:27,053 It's not often I have visitors. 390 00:20:27,143 --> 00:20:29,087 You surprise me. I should have thought 391 00:20:29,177 --> 00:20:32,036 most people would have been interested in telegraphy. 392 00:20:32,126 --> 00:20:32,936 Maybe. 393 00:20:33,026 --> 00:20:36,417 There's not many interested in climbing all them steps. 394 00:20:36,507 --> 00:20:39,928 450 odd. It's quite a long way. 395 00:20:40,248 --> 00:20:42,934 Still, it's well worth it when you get up here. 396 00:20:43,189 --> 00:20:45,900 All the same, don't you find life rather tedious? 397 00:20:45,990 --> 00:20:47,601 I get used to it. 398 00:20:47,691 --> 00:20:49,721 And, of course, there's holidays sometimes. 399 00:20:49,811 --> 00:20:50,442 Holidays? 400 00:20:50,532 --> 00:20:53,772 - When there's a fog. - Yes, I see. 401 00:20:53,873 --> 00:20:55,943 And what do you do on your holidays? 402 00:20:56,033 --> 00:20:58,905 Well, there's my patchy garden down there at the... 403 00:20:58,995 --> 00:21:00,575 ... put to the tower. 404 00:21:00,665 --> 00:21:04,586 That's where I'm most happy, at my beauty gardern. 405 00:21:04,676 --> 00:21:08,927 Of course, the soil's not much. Very poor. Doesn't yield much. 406 00:21:09,017 --> 00:21:11,378 There's always something to do. 407 00:21:11,638 --> 00:21:16,509 Weeding, planting, pruning, killing insects. 408 00:21:16,599 --> 00:21:19,034 And dormice. They're the worst of the lot. 409 00:21:19,124 --> 00:21:20,651 They eat half the fruit. 410 00:21:20,741 --> 00:21:24,912 Do you know that the ancient Romans used to eat dormice preserved in honey? 411 00:21:25,002 --> 00:21:27,914 The ancient Romans used to eat dormites? 412 00:21:28,004 --> 00:21:31,805 - Yes, it was a great delicacy. - I don't think I like that. 413 00:21:32,365 --> 00:21:34,806 - How old are you? - Fifty-five. 414 00:21:34,926 --> 00:21:37,667 - How long have you been here? - Fifteen years. 415 00:21:38,208 --> 00:21:40,519 How long do you have to serve before you get a pension? 416 00:21:40,609 --> 00:21:41,819 Twenty-five years. 417 00:21:41,909 --> 00:21:44,581 - And how much is the pension? - Hundred crowns. 418 00:21:45,297 --> 00:21:47,917 - Poor humanity. - What did you say, sir? 419 00:21:48,477 --> 00:21:50,979 Do you understand all the signals you receive? 420 00:21:51,070 --> 00:21:53,953 No, they're in code, I just pass them on. 421 00:21:54,256 --> 00:21:56,247 But these signals here are addressed to you. 422 00:21:56,337 --> 00:21:58,631 - Do you understand them? - These I do. 423 00:21:58,721 --> 00:22:00,372 They're all the same, see? 424 00:22:00,462 --> 00:22:04,215 "Nothing new", "Nothing new". "You have an hour", "Nothing new". 425 00:22:04,305 --> 00:22:06,396 - That seems simple enough. - Yes. 426 00:22:06,486 --> 00:22:10,229 Isn't that your colleague over there signalling to you now? 427 00:22:13,092 --> 00:22:15,493 Yes, monsieur. Thank you. 428 00:22:15,954 --> 00:22:16,845 What's he saying? 429 00:22:16,935 --> 00:22:19,857 He's asking me to be ready to receive. 430 00:22:19,979 --> 00:22:21,321 And what do you reply? 431 00:22:21,411 --> 00:22:23,951 The signal I'm sending him now, 432 00:22:24,041 --> 00:22:27,814 that's my left-hand correspondent, tells him that I'm ready, 433 00:22:27,904 --> 00:22:31,635 and the same signal warns my right-hand correspondent 434 00:22:31,725 --> 00:22:33,817 that he must be ready in turn. 435 00:22:33,907 --> 00:22:35,999 I find that most ingenious. 436 00:22:36,089 --> 00:22:39,651 Yeah, you'll see! In a few minutes, he will speak. 437 00:22:40,712 --> 00:22:43,533 - How much do you earn per year? - A thousand livres, monsieur. 438 00:22:43,623 --> 00:22:47,996 - You can't live very well on that. - I live badly. But I live. 439 00:22:49,638 --> 00:22:52,359 What happens if you miss a signal? 440 00:22:52,719 --> 00:22:54,470 I can't pass it on. 441 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:58,922 If I can't pass it on, I get fined a hundred livres for negligence. 442 00:23:01,603 --> 00:23:05,515 It happened to me once. It teaches you to be careful. 443 00:23:05,605 --> 00:23:07,526 Yes, I should think it does. 444 00:23:08,286 --> 00:23:11,818 And what happens if you alter a signal or substitute another? 445 00:23:11,908 --> 00:23:15,909 I'll get turned off and lose my pension. 446 00:23:16,371 --> 00:23:18,121 Why are you asking me all these things? 447 00:23:18,211 --> 00:23:20,737 Because that's what I want you to do. 448 00:23:22,944 --> 00:23:26,174 - Do you know what these are? - They're banknotes, sir. 449 00:23:26,795 --> 00:23:30,976 Twenty-five notes of 1,000 livres each. 450 00:23:31,397 --> 00:23:34,277 Your entire income for twenty-five years. 451 00:23:34,998 --> 00:23:37,440 They're yours, my friend. 452 00:23:41,361 --> 00:23:42,601 I can't. 453 00:23:42,842 --> 00:23:46,692 I can't. You mustn't tempt me, Monsieur. 454 00:23:46,782 --> 00:23:48,463 But I must. 455 00:23:49,863 --> 00:23:51,405 Because in exchange, 456 00:23:51,495 --> 00:23:54,704 you're going to send this message for me. 457 00:23:55,381 --> 00:23:58,381 Subtitles LAPORT INC.