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THE NICOLAS LE FLOCH AFFAIR

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Part Two

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Inspector,

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your arrival is punctual
yet you appear uncertain.

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The Last�rieux case
has taken an odd turn.

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Odd and yet ordinary,

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tending to exonerate Mr le Floch
of all responsibility.

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Carry on.

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Mme de Last�rieux
had concomitantly left

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two kinds of provisions.

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She changed her will
in favour of her future husband,

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Marquis de Ranreuil,
leaving him...

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Leaving him nothing,
as there is nothing to inherit.

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I see nothing there to clear him.

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Yes...

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She had, however,
long ago arranged

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for her servants, Casimir and Rose,

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to be emancipated from slavery
upon her death.

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Sufficient motive for the crime.

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Did they have the means
to carry it out?

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Without any doubt.

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Obtain a confession, then.

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Both immediately protested
their innocence

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and now repose
in an obstinate silence.

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Well, then, Inspector,

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why wait to question them again?

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My superior, Mr le Floch,
hates these outmoded practices

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of dubious effectiveness
and limited results.

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We prefer to stick to the evidence.

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Your superior?

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Your only superior is me, Inspector.

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Send them for questioning,
since truth comes at a price.

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- But...
- I said do it!

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Without delay!

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A message from Mr le Floch.

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Order me a coach.
I must go to Versailles.

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Choiseul... Choiseul...

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That blasted Choiseul again.

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When the king dismissed him,

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that damned Choiseul
sided with the Dauphin.

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He plots ceaselessly
against the king

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and never hid his hatred
for Du Barry.

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He would do anything
to bring about the king's fall.

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They know of the mission?

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Indeed, I fear so.

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It's pointless to hide the fact

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that the lampoon
would be a powerful tool

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for Choiseul
and all those who want

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the Dauphin to be crowned.

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A triumph for them,
a disaster for us.

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The king embarrassed,
Mr de Beaumarchais exposed,

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you and I dismissed.

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Not counting
Commissioner Le Floch.

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Not counting?

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But I am indeed counting on him,
Mr de Sartine.

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For otherwise...

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Otherwise, we are lost.

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He first amongst us.

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Is it not customary
to sacrifice a soldier

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to save one's king?

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London, madam!

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Perhaps you shouldn't
have come with me.

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Two people draw less attention
than one,

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especially when they seem
quite besotted.

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Welcome to London, Marquis.

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I see you are astonished,
and uncomfortable.

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I am Charles D�on de Beaumont,
sir,

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Knight or lady,
according to circumstance,

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though with no mystery attached.

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If you wished, madam, I could

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prove my status forthwith.

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- I do not doubt it, sir.
- Your servant, madam.

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However,

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I am apprised of your mission,
Marquis.

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I will freely admit
that it seems perilous

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and contrary to diplomatic custom.

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Contrary to any custom.

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Persuading Morande to renounce...

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The man is indeed a coward,

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but since he was attacked,
the fellow is wary

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and is secretly protected
by the English police.

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As for eliminating him...

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Do not appear annoyed.

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There's a good distance
twixt cup and lip.

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Before eliminating Morande,

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we must get sufficiently close.

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Yes?

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This rogue followed your man,
ma'am.

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I fear, sir,
that you must tell me why.

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Fine. As the soft approach
does not seem to suit...

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Bad news, Marquis.

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That rogue was a secret agent
of the English crown.

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The object you see
is a last resort

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that His Majesty George III
promises to his secret service

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to stem any verbal outpouring
when taken prisoner.

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If you were followed,
you were preceded.

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This man's disappearance
affords us some mobility.

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Come, Marquis, that you might
form an opinion of our reality.

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Your man, sir.

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He never steps out alone
and is always on his guard.

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Is that the rascal you seek?

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- You know him?
- Yes.

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I started out at Les Italiens.

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That vile pimp was always
on the lookout for new blood.

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He also visited your friend
La Paulet.

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He stole watches
and lost heavily gambling.

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Yes, I do know that bottom-feeder.

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Tell me where he frequents.
I'll soon have him in my hand.

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And you in yours.

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You must double precautions.

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A man has come from
the king of France to eliminate you.

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I fear nothing. The lampoon is safe,
ensuring my safe-conduct.

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For the rest, I hold the king
far tighter than he holds me.

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Do beware, though.
Beware of everything.

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Gentlemen... Good evening.

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By Jove! A French woman
who does not hide her charms.

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What for? I already intend
that you display your merits.

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Somebody you know?

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I don't know.
For a second, it seemed...

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Come, sir,
it is time for entertainment.

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Do not look so discouraged.

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She sets about accomplishing
her mission ardently.

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I would rather her ardour
were more moderate.

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These variations
are not unknown to me.

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Music is not my forte, sir.

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I leave it to the effeminate.

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For now, I shall queer the pitch
of would-be suitors!

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Darchis?

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I beg your pardon...
I thought...

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No offence taken.

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May I know who wrote
the piece you are playing?

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Sir Richards,
highly skilled mathematician,

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brilliant virtuoso
and unrepentant composer.

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Your luck seems too insolent.
Would you be cheating, madam?

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Would you denounce me?

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Certainly not.
I thrill to your talents,

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which I cannot penetrate.

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Would you be attempting
to steal from me?

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I am not one to be stolen from

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and only cherish men
as much as they cherish me.

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Cherish you?
It is my sole desire. Here...

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Indeed.

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I do not fear a full sack, sir.

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I only fear insolvency.

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Insolvency?
Madam! Wait!

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Ugh!

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The pig turned out to be easier
to pick up than to drop.

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The animal resembles an octopus

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for his embrace,

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a goat for his smell

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and an ass, not for his stupidity,
but for...

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Should I infer that you scored?

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And what if I did?

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As you did under orders
with Last�rieux.

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Why, under orders,
should I not with Morande?

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I understand now
why he is so attractive to women

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and soon intends
to make money out of this.

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Don't be silly, Nicolas.

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The animal is clever
and excited my senses,

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but it is your job to fulfil them.

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The treasure you are about to invest
is worth 1000 louis.

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And Morande, in his passion,
is ready to exchange its use

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for the place where he hides
the secret you so desire.

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Hello, Marquis.

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It is late in the day

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and the lampoon
is ready for dispatch.

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We must prevent Morande
from causing harm.

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It is too late to try persuasion.

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Elimination will suffice.

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Hush!

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Hurry, madam!
Time is of the essence.

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Come along!

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I yearn to see the treasure
you prize so highly

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that it will cost me my own.

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You will not be disappointed, madam.

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A kiss!

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My treasure is not far now.

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This is the place.
We still have to get in.

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Modern Circe,

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to her charms falls the task

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of opening the doors.

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Let some time go by,
to make sure we are not followed.

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The lady does not hide.
As for her companion...

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All above board,

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but enthusiasm
would dampen suspicion.

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Not too much ardour, though.

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You only have one shot.

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Return to Paris, then.

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To Paris and your music,

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where you excel equally,
Sir Richards.

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"Secret Memoirs of a Whore. "

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And is this your nest-egg, sir?

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This drivel?

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Are you making fun of me?

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You intended to have me
for scraps of paper?

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You think I'm a bluestocking
to be paid in words?

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Hush!
This paper is worth 1000 louis.

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1000 louis?

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I'll give you 1000 louis!

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Rascal! Wretch!

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Enough!

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Renounce or you die.

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Leave, madam.

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Leave!

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Mercy, sir, I beg of you!

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Mercy!

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Get in, Marquis.

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Get in.

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We know all about you
and your mission,

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Commissioner.

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You haven't touched your tea.

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Could it be you never drink tea

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or, learning by experience,

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you fear it may upset you?

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You knew and did not stop me.
Why?

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Whether alive or dead,

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Morande embarrassed
His Majesty Louis XV.

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However, a Morande slain by yourself

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is an even greater embarrassment
to your king.

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Some choices are self-evident,
Commissioner.

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Therefore we made them.

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Not drinking?

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No?

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Never mind.

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He will be placed
in solitary confinement.

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If help doesn't arrive
from some unknown quarter,

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the marquis runs two risks,
one worse than the other.

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The worse?

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Rotting in the appalling dungeons
of the Tower,

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into which His Majesty
crams prisoners

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destined for a slow, horrifying end.

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And the other?

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A prompt yet merciful hanging.

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I owe the chance to see you
to my contacts.

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Alas, the news is not good.

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Shortly before I left,

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Mr de Sartine advised me
that in cases of extreme peril,

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I should take advantage
of John Wilkes.

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Wilkes! John Wilkes!

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What do you know of him?

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John Wilkes...

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Do not think of it, sir.

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He is one of the fiercest opponents
of George III.

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He owes his life to his power
to stir up the people of London.

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Expect nothing from him.

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This is shameful, Mr de Sartine,

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as you well know.

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This is a monstrous conspiracy
against our poor friend.

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Sir, your former position
as Prosecutor General

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should remind you
we are ruled by the facts.

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Facts and proof.

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The status and clout
of my former position

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still gives me some credit at Court.

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And if need be...

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Possibly, sir.

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Possibly.

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However, the affair
is more complex than it appears.

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Beware therefore of all prejudice

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and the slightest impetuosity
that might tend to harm him.

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The poor man.

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He must be lonely now.

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Come.
You were there at the fall,

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00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,440
you should be there
to witness the rise.

264
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,440
Gentlemen...

265
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,280
This is a publishing contract
in due form.

266
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:11,920
Read it, Mr de Morande.

267
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,400
And sign each page.

268
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,840
Here is the agreed sum:
1000 louis.

269
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,960
- Would you like to check, sir?
- No need.

270
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:52,280
My Lords...

271
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,680
Well, since the parties
came to an agreement,

272
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:01,280
all that remains is to execute
the contract's final clause.

273
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,200
The last but not the least.

274
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,560
Burn these lampoons forthwith.

275
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,400
You deceived me, did you not?

276
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:13,360
You were to frighten Morande
into bowing to our will.

277
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:15,240
Frighten, not eliminate.

278
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,400
So the gun was loaded with a blank.

279
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,200
Indeed.

280
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:24,000
Why deceive me?

281
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:29,480
- Wouldn't it have been easier...
- To tell you? No.

282
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,400
You are no actor.

283
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,360
To convince,
one must first be convinced.

284
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,480
You'd have taken the mission
less seriously

285
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,880
if we'd have told you
it was a masquerade.

286
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,480
A masquerade where I risked my life.

287
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:55,160
Is not the whole of life
a kind of masquerade?

288
00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:00,400
Anyway, at least
you played your part naturally.

289
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:04,080
Perhaps you'd care to appear
in one of my works.

290
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:07,480
Allow me to decline.

291
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,880
How did you pluck me
from the Englishmen's clutches?

292
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:17,880
This strange, sudden benevolence...

293
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,800
An ill wind is blowing
in New England.

294
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,360
There is unrest in the colonies.

295
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,600
An uprising is strongly rumoured.

296
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:28,920
See the English benevolence

297
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:32,840
as a kind of caution
in the face of perils,

298
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:37,080
a wish, no doubt vain
and rather fanciful,

299
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,440
to treat France tactfully, for now.

300
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,560
As an author, I can but wonder

301
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,880
at the strange and ephemeral fate
of a work

302
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:54,000
written, published and paid for
then straightway fed to the flames

303
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,840
without a single reader
having read it.

304
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:58,680
Anyway...

305
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,920
Welcome to Paris, Commissioner.

306
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:49,720
Glazier!

307
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:52,360
Glazier!

308
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:55,720
Glazier!

309
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:17,960
Ah! Sir.

310
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,160
You have been cleared.

311
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,720
The slave Casimir admitted
murdering his mistress.

312
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:27,640
For what motive?

313
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,200
This letter of emancipation.

314
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,000
I don't believe it.

315
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,640
Yet the man's confession was full

316
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:41,920
and explicit.

317
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:43,880
Torture?

318
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,480
- Mr de Sartine told me...
- Torture?

319
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:49,880
Yes.

320
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:53,880
He endured the worst suffering

321
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:56,400
with amazing courage

322
00:35:57,240 --> 00:36:00,760
till they threatened to visit
the same torments on his wife

323
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:02,880
while he watched.

324
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,040
Where might the poor wretch
be found?

325
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,400
The cruelty sapped his strength.

326
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,480
He died, Nicolas.

327
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,000
This is disgraceful!

328
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,040
Gently, Mr Spy, gently!

329
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:37,800
Did your distant exploits
and the shadow of anonymous glory

330
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,840
make you so full of yourself
as to burst in here like this?

331
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:46,480
- Take a seat, young Cinna.
- I'd rather stand.

332
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:47,960
Shame.

333
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:51,480
I was looking forward
to an account of your adventures.

334
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:58,680
You are shaking with anger.
Might I know why?

335
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:00,120
Casimir.

336
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,080
Oh! Casimir...

337
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:05,800
Well, Commissioner,

338
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:09,680
we held a suitable suspect,
together with a motive.

339
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:12,720
Questioning loosens tongues

340
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,040
and soon transformed
the lead of suspicion

341
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:17,840
into the gold of certainty.

342
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,840
- The man confessed.
- And you approve?

343
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:24,400
You see, Nicolas,

344
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:28,880
I am one of those men
who prefer a rickety chair

345
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,240
to no chair at all,
and sitting down

346
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:34,040
to standing.

347
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:39,200
But enough!
I cannot stand your wrath just now.

348
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,520
You may decide to leave my service,

349
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:43,240
the king's service.

350
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:45,440
But if you stay,

351
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:49,560
remember that you must
submit your will to mine

352
00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:51,120
and your feelings

353
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,640
to the demands of your missions.

354
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:57,320
I do not intend to slip away, sir.

355
00:37:57,800 --> 00:37:59,320
Capital!

356
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,120
One last thing, however.

357
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:08,280
For reasons I know not,
and am indifferent to,

358
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,920
before her passing,
Mme de Last�rieux

359
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:14,800
left you her estate.
It amounts to little, in fact,

360
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,560
as I paid for her house
and household

361
00:38:18,720 --> 00:38:21,160
through the Ferme G�n�rale.
Her salons

362
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,120
provided me with information.

363
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,280
She was, in short, my creature,

364
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:31,280
and like all creatures,
imperfect and fallible.

365
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,480
I sent you to her
to ensure her personal safety.

366
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:36,560
Which you did, in fact,

367
00:38:36,720 --> 00:38:41,120
with undoubted pleasure and zeal.

368
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:53,960
These items were retained
by the clerk of court

369
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,200
until the investigation was over.

370
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,320
As that is now the case,

371
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,160
I suppose they are yours by right

372
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:04,640
and I want them out of my sight.

373
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,280
In the science of handwriting,
nothing escapes

374
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,000
a full, careful examination.

375
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:59,320
My art is based
on that of comparison.

376
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,280
All these letters and this note

377
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,080
seem to come from the same hand.

378
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:12,040
This, "attendre" gives "tendre",

379
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:16,080
and other words have had
a letter added.

380
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,920
Thus, "marquis" for "marquise".

381
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:24,640
The note is evidently the fruit
of applied, methodical collation

382
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:26,320
of old letters.

383
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,800
A counterfeit executed
with particular meticulousness

384
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,800
by a very able copyist.

385
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,760
I can state, moreover,
that the fake was done by a musician,

386
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,200
accustomed by his occupation

387
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:42,360
to yielding to the inflexible lines

388
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:44,800
formed by musical staves.

389
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:49,360
What is the reason for
this sudden entrance, Commissioner?

390
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,360
The charge of passing intelligence
to the enemy.

391
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:54,040
Intelligence?

392
00:40:54,240 --> 00:40:57,800
Your role as master of music
to the king's daughter

393
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,320
allows you to collect information

394
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,040
on His Majesty and the Court

395
00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:04,560
harmful to the new favourite.

396
00:41:04,720 --> 00:41:07,920
Impossible, sir.
I am innocent of all that.

397
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:10,640
And are you also innocent
of this?

398
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:13,200
These boots and coat
in your cupboard...

399
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,720
...were stolen
from Mme de Last�rieux's.

400
00:41:16,240 --> 00:41:19,400
But these objects
are nothing to do with me.

401
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:21,960
As he lived in cramped lodgings,

402
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:24,680
Darchis would leave with me

403
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:26,440
cumbersome items

404
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:29,240
for which he had no immediate need.

405
00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:30,720
Darchis?

406
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:32,920
Darchis.

407
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:42,760
We would not want you,
fearing questioning,

408
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:47,200
to escape us by using
your safety ring.

409
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:52,720
Robert Darchis!

410
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,240
Unless I should call you Richards?

411
00:41:56,720 --> 00:41:59,920
Whichever, Commissioner.
Both are common currency.

412
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,560
So the object has its use?

413
00:42:05,720 --> 00:42:08,280
Extreme though it is, sir.

414
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:12,560
Play, Balbastre.

415
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:44,400
I cannot.

416
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,560
This thing is indecipherable.

417
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:51,000
Your astonishment exonerates you,
Balbastre.

418
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:54,960
On the other hand,

419
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,560
"indecipherable" indeed.
This is not music

420
00:42:58,720 --> 00:43:01,760
but a language expressed
through the notes.

421
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,960
Thus did certain
confidential information

422
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,760
find its way to London,
in the form of coded scores,

423
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:14,920
written by Robert Darchis,
or Sir Richards, whichever the case.

424
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:18,640
The anagram was easy
yet escaped me.

425
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:21,480
This ingenious device

426
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:26,000
explains how
certain important messages

427
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:29,200
escaped the vigilance
of my Black Cabinet.

428
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:30,760
Similarly

429
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:34,160
you forged my handwriting.

430
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,640
At the request of your friend.

431
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:40,440
Why?

432
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:44,640
You serve your king.
I serve the English crown.

433
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:48,360
- Our only difference.
- I do not practise murder.

434
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:54,680
Why did you kill her?

435
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:58,120
For the most stupid reason
there is: love.

436
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:00,760
I was the effect,
you the cause.

437
00:44:02,240 --> 00:44:05,200
Mme de Last�rieux loved you
and wanted to marry you.

438
00:44:06,240 --> 00:44:11,160
Not to continue her activities
in the shadow of your name,

439
00:44:11,720 --> 00:44:15,920
but because she loved you.
Her treachery would favour you.

440
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:19,840
For love! Can you credit it?

441
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,320
You had provoked the altercation.

442
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:27,280
I could get rid of her
and compromise you.

443
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:31,440
We had long sensed
what came next.

444
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:35,160
Your flight to England,
dreamed up by Beaumarchais.

445
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:36,680
Enough!

446
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,600
To conclude,
what was the murder weapon?

447
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:11,000
This substance, sir,

448
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:15,360
a protection for English spies

449
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:20,120
against disclosing secrets
should they be caught...

450
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:24,400
Beware, sir. A tiny dose
of this poison is fatal

451
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:29,160
and the little that remains
could kill a legion of rats.

452
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:32,920
Darchis,

453
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:35,200
I arrest you.

454
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:40,440
Not for your intelligence activities,
which are out of my sphere,

455
00:45:40,720 --> 00:45:43,120
but for the common law crime

456
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:46,160
of murdering Mme de Last�rieux
by poisoning.

457
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,120
Congratulations, Commissioner.

458
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:55,080
Congratulations.

459
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:58,560
I fear we must now make our report.

460
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:10,440
The king is hunting, Marquis.

461
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:13,280
He bade me transmit
his satisfaction.

462
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:19,920
I must inform you of facts
pertaining to the kingdom's security.

463
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:22,520
An intelligence agency

464
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,720
implicating Balbastre,
Notre-Dame's organist,

465
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:29,280
and music master to Mme Ad�laide,
the king's daughter.

466
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:33,040
We are holding the kingpin,
a certain Darchis.

467
00:46:33,240 --> 00:46:37,480
Enough, Mr de Sartine.
Balbastre is untouchable

468
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:41,160
and the danger he presents
is now very moderate.

469
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:43,400
As for the so-called Darchis,

470
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,400
you know what
Mr de Montesquieu wrote?

471
00:46:46,720 --> 00:46:49,880
"We thought it wise
to cease all prosecution

472
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:53,760
"as we ran the risk of finding
a greater enemy,

473
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,400
"and hide our enmity
so as not to render it

474
00:46:57,160 --> 00:46:58,760
"irreconcilable."

475
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:01,800
So the murderer
will escape punishment?

476
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,640
Yes, sir. He will.

477
00:47:06,240 --> 00:47:08,960
You escaped yours
in the English gaol.

478
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:12,680
A piece for a piece,
spy against spy.

479
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:17,200
One good turn deserves another.

480
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:21,840
I am ordering that the man
be taken to Calais

481
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:23,640
under close escort.

482
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:15,600
Madam loved you, sir,

483
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:18,440
far more than you imagined.

484
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:26,800
And Madam kept her word.
You are free.

485
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:30,840
Free?

486
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:33,400
Free.

487
00:48:35,720 --> 00:48:39,160
What does "freedom" mean,
when you're alone and destitute?

488
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:43,560
I don't think you are destitute.

489
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:59,320
The Ferme G�n�rale
owes you this.

490
00:49:07,720 --> 00:49:10,600
Some things money cannot buy, sir.

491
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:14,120
Such as the loss of a loved one.

492
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:23,720
One day, perhaps,
you will learn that cruel lesson.

493
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:29,720
Adieu, sir.

494
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:59,000
Subtitles - Henry Moon
for TELETOTA