1 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:37,220 He has the... 2 00:05:34,060 --> 00:05:35,060 Breathe in. 3 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:37,480 And breathe out. 4 00:05:39,340 --> 00:05:40,600 Breathe in. 5 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:43,360 Breathe out. 6 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:03,740 Because you have so little romantic interest and no instinct for decorum, I 7 00:06:03,740 --> 00:06:06,420 will now describe for you how this evening's proposal will unfold. 8 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:08,080 Yes? 9 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:10,520 Thank you, Mrs. Borden. 10 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:12,620 I am your mother, aren't I? 11 00:06:13,260 --> 00:06:14,280 Yes, mother. 12 00:06:16,820 --> 00:06:21,100 When your gentleman caller arrives, you will meet him at the door. 13 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:32,680 is his name, you've met. 14 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:36,840 You will welcome him in. 15 00:06:45,060 --> 00:06:46,120 He will bow. 16 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:52,340 You will curtsy. 17 00:07:00,110 --> 00:07:05,690 You will be brought into the parlor under an elder's supervision, which will 18 00:07:05,690 --> 00:07:06,690 be me. 19 00:07:10,610 --> 00:07:16,450 I will then depart the room for you to converse in private. 20 00:07:18,490 --> 00:07:21,670 Next, he will offer you a remembrance. 21 00:07:22,190 --> 00:07:24,830 This handkerchief belonged to my great-grandmother. 22 00:07:25,670 --> 00:07:26,910 How delightful. 23 00:07:27,820 --> 00:07:30,180 And then you will present an item to him. 24 00:07:30,620 --> 00:07:32,780 This is lace I wove myself. 25 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:38,180 It's inspired by the blossoms in my alley of cherry trees. 26 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:40,880 You'll note the fragrance. 27 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:43,240 It's floral. 28 00:07:43,380 --> 00:07:44,540 Let me see it. 29 00:07:46,260 --> 00:07:50,140 It's inspired by the blossoms, the way that the cherry... Yes, fine, I don't 30 00:07:50,140 --> 00:07:51,140 care. 31 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:55,880 Next, you will invite him to sit. 32 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:57,320 On my couch. 33 00:07:57,820 --> 00:07:59,440 You know the one. 34 00:08:03,340 --> 00:08:08,380 That fainting couch has been in my family for three generations. 35 00:08:09,180 --> 00:08:16,080 It was hand-carved from Congolese mahogany and upholstered 36 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:21,980 in bone-white mulberry, carded overland out of deepest yellow china. 37 00:08:23,900 --> 00:08:24,900 Yes. 38 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,080 It's the one thing you brought to the marriage. 39 00:08:30,060 --> 00:08:31,960 Is that a bit of mouth, Lizzie? 40 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:33,600 No. 41 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:36,940 No, I... Literally. 42 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:40,900 It's literally the one thing you brought when you married Father. 43 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:46,300 Continuing. You will sit on my couch. 44 00:08:48,700 --> 00:08:53,560 You will engage in polite conversation. Today, out amongst the cherry trees, I 45 00:08:53,560 --> 00:08:55,560 saw a hummingbird with a ruby throat. 46 00:08:56,230 --> 00:08:59,470 Something like that, but don't burden him with your opinions, Lizzie, because 47 00:08:59,470 --> 00:09:01,250 yours are shallow and off-putting. 48 00:09:02,850 --> 00:09:04,890 After having endured your tripe. 49 00:09:07,010 --> 00:09:13,570 Lizzie. He will take your turgid little sausage fingers that haven't known a day 50 00:09:13,570 --> 00:09:16,370 of work, and he will ask for your hand. 51 00:09:16,710 --> 00:09:17,790 Will you marry me? 52 00:09:18,010 --> 00:09:21,830 At which point, you will swoon and fall back onto the sofa. 53 00:09:28,750 --> 00:09:31,750 He will revive you with the scent of a perfumed handkerchief. 54 00:09:36,450 --> 00:09:42,130 And when you have fully regained your wits, you say to him... Yes, my beloved. 55 00:09:43,050 --> 00:09:44,670 I give you my hand. 56 00:09:50,390 --> 00:09:52,310 Understand, imbecile. 57 00:09:55,810 --> 00:09:56,810 Yes, mother. 58 00:10:48,590 --> 00:10:49,590 Good evening. 59 00:10:51,950 --> 00:10:52,950 Liz? 60 00:10:53,830 --> 00:10:55,330 Elizabeth? Lizzie. 61 00:10:55,610 --> 00:10:57,250 Or whatever you please. 62 00:11:04,530 --> 00:11:05,530 Oh, 63 00:11:06,510 --> 00:11:08,170 I have something for you. 64 00:11:13,290 --> 00:11:16,530 It's a lace handkerchief I sewed myself. 65 00:11:18,060 --> 00:11:20,860 Oh, and a nosegay of white tuberose. 66 00:11:23,660 --> 00:11:24,660 Thank you. 67 00:11:30,260 --> 00:11:33,840 Do you have a remembrance for me? 68 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:35,120 I do not. 69 00:11:43,500 --> 00:11:44,720 Here's our parlor. 70 00:11:56,490 --> 00:11:58,570 Oh, and look, it's the couch we're to sit on. 71 00:12:07,970 --> 00:12:13,110 Today in my alley of cherry trees, I saw a hummingbird with a ruby throat. 72 00:12:16,110 --> 00:12:17,990 God, that's fascinating. Do you think so? 73 00:12:19,170 --> 00:12:22,890 I do love nature, especially now that it's April. 74 00:12:23,610 --> 00:12:25,450 I simply adore the springtime. 75 00:12:26,410 --> 00:12:33,310 Everything is blooming and it's... It seems like the world 76 00:12:33,310 --> 00:12:34,450 is bursting with possibility. 77 00:12:36,490 --> 00:12:42,210 I also have a dove coat. 78 00:12:42,690 --> 00:12:43,870 Do you know what that is? 79 00:12:44,410 --> 00:12:46,690 It's a house for doves. 80 00:12:47,030 --> 00:12:49,550 My father made it. He's a woodworker. 81 00:12:49,910 --> 00:12:51,110 I love my doves. 82 00:12:52,010 --> 00:12:53,530 They mate for life, you know. 83 00:13:04,330 --> 00:13:05,330 What's wrong? 84 00:13:08,090 --> 00:13:10,050 Are you all right? 85 00:13:12,230 --> 00:13:15,150 I know what is expected of me tonight. 86 00:13:15,390 --> 00:13:17,370 My family faces destitution. 87 00:13:17,690 --> 00:13:20,750 I can't do this. I can't marry you. 88 00:13:21,210 --> 00:13:22,210 Why not? 89 00:13:22,250 --> 00:13:23,830 Because you have the face of a horse. 90 00:13:24,290 --> 00:13:28,150 The men in town, they're right. It's unpleasant to look at your plainness. 91 00:13:32,390 --> 00:13:33,390 What's happening? 92 00:13:33,660 --> 00:13:34,660 Hmm. 93 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:41,180 Where's your sister? 94 00:14:43,500 --> 00:14:46,260 She went into town. She was asked to the cotillion. 95 00:14:46,660 --> 00:14:48,580 This one will never be asked to go. 96 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:54,140 Oh, how I longed for this engagement so you would finally leave this house. 97 00:14:54,780 --> 00:14:56,320 You're a wool gatherer. 98 00:14:56,860 --> 00:14:59,840 All you're doing is frittering away your father's money. 99 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:01,080 That's it. 100 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:05,740 And you can be sure your hemorrhage story has already made its way around 101 00:15:05,740 --> 00:15:06,740 town. 102 00:15:12,490 --> 00:15:13,830 I have irregular menses. 103 00:15:14,170 --> 00:15:16,270 Irregular? They're a modern-day horror. 104 00:15:16,590 --> 00:15:22,070 You humiliate this house. Will you stop your caterwauling and pofagged? 105 00:15:22,470 --> 00:15:26,670 I work all day, and then I come home to this. 106 00:15:27,570 --> 00:15:29,490 Flapdoodle, this is my personality. 107 00:15:29,730 --> 00:15:33,670 I'm forceful. I have a point of view. You knew that when you married me. 108 00:15:34,430 --> 00:15:41,150 You don't know what it's like to be trapped in a house full of women. 109 00:15:43,310 --> 00:15:46,810 Astute observation, dearie. I certainly don't. 110 00:15:51,910 --> 00:15:54,890 If only you'd give me a son. 111 00:15:55,970 --> 00:15:57,110 What was that? 112 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,120 And this thick Irish dolt is as worthless as you, Lizzie. 113 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:18,960 She can't get the stain out, can you? 114 00:16:19,580 --> 00:16:21,420 No, ma'am, in spite of trying. 115 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:27,060 No, well, can't say I blame her. She's the brains of a dog, and she's expected 116 00:16:27,060 --> 00:16:31,060 to sop up a gallon of the last dregs of an old maid's dying womb. 117 00:16:34,100 --> 00:16:37,380 That was mulberry silk from deepest China! 118 00:16:37,580 --> 00:16:40,020 I'm going to have to have it reupholstered in muslin! 119 00:16:42,090 --> 00:16:44,210 My apologies again, Mrs. Borden. 120 00:16:47,710 --> 00:16:48,890 Tried me best, ma'am. 121 00:16:55,270 --> 00:16:56,410 What soup is this? 122 00:16:57,730 --> 00:16:59,430 Potato leek, ma'am. What? 123 00:17:00,090 --> 00:17:01,850 I asked for celeriac. 124 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:30,800 It's quite good. 125 00:17:33,020 --> 00:17:35,200 That's six maids in a year. 126 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:37,160 Yes, Mr. Barton, and what about it? 127 00:17:37,860 --> 00:17:39,680 Tomorrow, we'll interview a seventh. 128 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:46,200 Come on, Izzy. Eat up. 129 00:18:06,570 --> 00:18:07,810 I've brought you something. 130 00:18:10,790 --> 00:18:12,370 It's a lovely warm day. 131 00:18:15,290 --> 00:18:16,850 It's a cherry cordial. 132 00:18:21,730 --> 00:18:23,510 What's that floating on top? 133 00:18:25,310 --> 00:18:26,730 Those are borage flowers. 134 00:18:28,090 --> 00:18:29,090 They're edible. 135 00:18:29,970 --> 00:18:33,350 Oh, I read that Indians use them for cramping and bloating. 136 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:39,000 Sorry, it's not a topic of conversation for strangers. 137 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:41,260 No, that's wonderful. 138 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:43,800 Thank you. 139 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:49,040 Lizzie? 140 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:52,460 Are you still spotting? 141 00:18:52,700 --> 00:18:55,060 You trail blood like a wounded elk. 142 00:18:57,940 --> 00:19:02,740 Spotting? This one has heavy menses. 143 00:19:03,630 --> 00:19:05,990 Well, actually, heavy doesn't quite describe it. 144 00:19:06,430 --> 00:19:09,970 Deluvian is a more apt descriptor. She's a true freak of nature. 145 00:19:10,270 --> 00:19:14,050 Now when the lady time comes, we keep her upstairs on a bed of wooden planks 146 00:19:14,050 --> 00:19:17,730 and muslin sheets. She's free to befoul with her putrid cloths. 147 00:19:20,190 --> 00:19:24,130 My advertisement requested an Irish girl. You don't sound Irish. 148 00:19:24,510 --> 00:19:28,770 I am Irish by birth and half Irish by blood. 149 00:19:29,270 --> 00:19:33,580 My father's German and I... traveled all over europe i don't recall commissioning 150 00:19:33,580 --> 00:19:38,860 an autobiography the job is of a housemaid you'll have all of this 151 00:19:38,860 --> 00:19:44,520 standard obligations of cooking and cleaning and then some additional chores 152 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:51,480 pertaining to me we're a well-to-do household from my toil as a woodworker i 153 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:57,400 build furniture and fashion fine coffins and when i come home well i must relax 154 00:19:57,400 --> 00:19:58,400 as it were 155 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:11,840 Then you will dress my feet with fresh stockings and slippers and hand me a 156 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:12,840 dram of whiskey. 157 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:17,440 Maids in this home are expected to keep the house spotless. 158 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:23,880 And to ensure that they do, I will don a pair of white gloves daily and run my 159 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:25,780 fingers across the surface of my choosing. 160 00:20:25,980 --> 00:20:32,260 And any dust or dirt or grime I find, I will steep the glove in a mug of hot 161 00:20:32,260 --> 00:20:35,460 water and watch you drink the resulting tea. 162 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:37,160 Drink it. 163 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:48,020 Is that perfectly clear? 164 00:20:49,100 --> 00:20:50,100 Crystal. 165 00:20:51,660 --> 00:20:56,220 You will be paid 50 cents a day. A dollar on days you're asked to take my 166 00:20:56,220 --> 00:20:58,620 mentally sluggish stepdaughter here into town. 167 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:03,740 Now, accompanying her in public is a chore, in the truest sense of the word. 168 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:05,880 It's deeply humiliating. 169 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:07,640 And what is your name? 170 00:21:10,140 --> 00:21:11,220 Bridget. Maggie. 171 00:21:11,660 --> 00:21:13,320 No, Bridget. No, Maggie. 172 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:17,580 The last maid's name was Maggie, and I won't be compelled to learn a new one. 173 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:19,360 That's fine. 174 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:20,600 It's all fine. 175 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,000 I do have my own requirements. 176 00:21:24,820 --> 00:21:26,880 I follow orders very well. 177 00:21:27,620 --> 00:21:31,240 But when it comes to my hygiene, I will be allowed... 178 00:21:31,470 --> 00:21:34,870 To make myself up as I choose to. You're referring to your hair. 179 00:21:35,370 --> 00:21:37,450 It's strumpet hair. Looks like straw. 180 00:21:37,950 --> 00:21:39,550 I dyed it this color myself. 181 00:21:40,650 --> 00:21:41,970 I learned so in Paris. 182 00:21:43,210 --> 00:21:44,210 Paris? 183 00:21:45,110 --> 00:21:48,210 I don't care what you look like. I endeavor not to look at servants. 184 00:21:48,770 --> 00:21:50,090 You'll be invisible to me. 185 00:21:51,870 --> 00:21:53,190 So do I have the job? 186 00:21:53,470 --> 00:21:54,470 No. 187 00:21:54,670 --> 00:21:56,330 We have many more girls to see. 188 00:21:58,670 --> 00:21:59,670 Madam. 189 00:22:00,650 --> 00:22:01,650 The stain. 190 00:22:02,270 --> 00:22:07,630 I brought my own cleaning kit. May I try and remove it? It will take no longer 191 00:22:07,630 --> 00:22:08,630 than an hour. 192 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,300 Down the street, I'm the girl next door. 193 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,600 I'm the fox you've been waiting for. 194 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:38,300 Hello, daddy. 195 00:22:38,700 --> 00:22:43,380 Hello, mom. I'm your cheery bob. 196 00:22:43,980 --> 00:22:50,500 Hello, world. I'm your wild girl. I'm your cheery bob. 197 00:22:51,460 --> 00:22:57,600 Donate your love and straights out to her. Come on, baby, let me get to you. 198 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:05,820 CAUSING TEENAID FLIRT BOOZE GET DOWN LADIES YOU GOT NOTHING TO LOSE HELLO 199 00:23:05,820 --> 00:23:10,880 DADDY HELLO MOM MY BITCH CHERRY 200 00:23:36,170 --> 00:23:37,170 Mrs. Borden? 201 00:23:37,770 --> 00:23:40,710 Don't make a habit of shouting across the house. I'll whip you in the face 202 00:23:40,710 --> 00:23:41,710 with a switch. 203 00:23:45,990 --> 00:23:46,990 Oh, my. 204 00:23:47,530 --> 00:23:50,130 Yes, it is still a little damp. 205 00:23:50,410 --> 00:23:51,450 The stain is gone. 206 00:23:56,850 --> 00:23:58,730 Out, damn spot. 207 00:24:02,950 --> 00:24:03,950 You're hired. 208 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:20,100 He was a good man. 209 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,100 As good as he was tall. 210 00:24:23,780 --> 00:24:27,040 And tall he was. 211 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:36,020 This is our most inexpensive offering. 212 00:24:36,700 --> 00:24:38,320 Just a pine box. 213 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:44,460 But this won't keep the water out. Your husband will be liquid himself in a week 214 00:24:44,460 --> 00:24:45,019 or two. 215 00:24:45,020 --> 00:24:46,520 Nothing left of him. 216 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:51,680 when the Lord returns to judge the living and the dead. No, can't have 217 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:52,659 that. 218 00:24:52,660 --> 00:24:54,180 My father was a righteous man. 219 00:24:55,500 --> 00:25:01,540 Then I would suggest this sort of casket. 220 00:25:02,060 --> 00:25:08,420 It's mahogany, lined in pink satin, and most importantly, 221 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:14,460 watertight. So when the Lord Jesus comes again, your 222 00:25:14,460 --> 00:25:20,740 beloved will Rise up from this casket, body and soul intact. 223 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:23,940 We'll take that one. 224 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:28,100 It doesn't seem long enough. Father was 20 hands high. 225 00:25:28,420 --> 00:25:29,420 No, no. 226 00:25:29,460 --> 00:25:32,480 No, my apprentice and I, Stephen. 227 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:33,820 Say hello, Stephen. 228 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:38,360 Hello. We can make the necessary alterations. 229 00:25:40,780 --> 00:25:42,520 I assure you he'll fit. 230 00:26:19,910 --> 00:26:20,910 Mr. Borden? 231 00:26:24,610 --> 00:26:25,630 Mr. Borden? 232 00:26:28,350 --> 00:26:29,350 Yes. 233 00:26:31,750 --> 00:26:33,150 Good day, Margaret. 234 00:26:33,570 --> 00:26:34,570 Bridget, sir. 235 00:26:36,730 --> 00:26:43,530 Maggie, since you're what passes as an expert in the domestic sciences, 236 00:26:43,570 --> 00:26:46,690 I wondered if I might add to your list of tasks. 237 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:50,040 That's why I called you here today. 238 00:26:52,100 --> 00:26:53,100 Please. 239 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:04,380 Do you see these axes? 240 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:10,720 As you know, I'm a craftsman, a woodworker. 241 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:14,260 These are not just my tools, but my children, as it were. 242 00:27:14,540 --> 00:27:16,360 In fact, I love them more than my children. 243 00:27:16,750 --> 00:27:21,970 Through my one true passion, my lone frivolous indulgence, and yet my 244 00:27:21,970 --> 00:27:26,950 apprentice, simpleton that he is, is unable to keep them in the state of 245 00:27:26,950 --> 00:27:28,030 repair that I require. 246 00:27:28,710 --> 00:27:32,650 I wondered if you might add their care to your list of daily chores. 247 00:27:33,110 --> 00:27:35,850 Keep them sharp and polished. 248 00:27:36,310 --> 00:27:37,310 Of course, sir. 249 00:27:37,490 --> 00:27:39,430 These are fine axes. 250 00:27:40,190 --> 00:27:43,350 This one's called Raya. 251 00:27:47,020 --> 00:27:52,500 She's a Viking axe, pilfered from the private collection of Charles VI of 252 00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:54,580 Sweden. You didn't let me finish, sir. 253 00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:01,380 I will care for your axes, and I will care for them well. As you know, I'm 254 00:28:01,380 --> 00:28:02,860 good at executing orders. 255 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:05,920 But I will have to be paid. 256 00:28:06,660 --> 00:28:07,940 One dollar a week. 257 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:12,240 Very well. 258 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,620 Would you like to hold it? 259 00:28:20,460 --> 00:28:22,940 Is that blood? 260 00:28:23,340 --> 00:28:25,300 I can smell the iron. 261 00:28:26,300 --> 00:28:28,600 Did you cut yourself? 262 00:28:29,100 --> 00:28:30,820 Why is there blood on your axe? 263 00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:34,860 Most women faint at the sight of it. Well, I don't. 264 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:36,680 It's rejuvenating. 265 00:28:37,180 --> 00:28:38,700 People used to bathe in it. 266 00:28:40,180 --> 00:28:41,180 Why? 267 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:43,200 How macabre. 268 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:46,180 Is that also? 269 00:28:48,170 --> 00:28:50,010 I can be back first thing in the morning. 270 00:29:18,789 --> 00:29:21,030 Any dust, Miss Borden? I'm not finished. 271 00:29:31,150 --> 00:29:34,790 Any dust, or may I be free to go back to work? 272 00:29:37,250 --> 00:29:38,250 There. 273 00:29:38,530 --> 00:29:39,530 What's that? 274 00:29:41,070 --> 00:29:44,950 That's your footprint, Mrs. Borden. I will clean it up for you, but I will not 275 00:29:44,950 --> 00:29:45,950 be punished for it. 276 00:29:47,850 --> 00:29:51,870 It's from when you came in through that door a few minutes ago after shouting at 277 00:29:51,870 --> 00:29:52,870 Lizzie in the garden. 278 00:30:22,780 --> 00:30:25,040 Lucky angel! 279 00:30:25,340 --> 00:30:26,340 Hello! 280 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,360 Come here. 281 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:32,680 Shut 282 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:41,740 those 283 00:30:41,740 --> 00:30:42,740 birds up! 284 00:30:56,610 --> 00:30:58,490 It's the filthy shithawks. 285 00:30:58,850 --> 00:31:00,390 How I loathe them. 286 00:31:01,930 --> 00:31:05,870 Worse than roosters, the incessant cooing. It's all I hear now is the 287 00:31:05,870 --> 00:31:07,010 cooing. 288 00:31:09,910 --> 00:31:12,470 It's mating season, I believe, Mrs. Borden. 289 00:31:13,530 --> 00:31:14,530 Spring. 290 00:31:15,190 --> 00:31:16,190 Patience. 291 00:31:16,570 --> 00:31:17,570 It'll pass. 292 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:24,660 In the old days, they used to believe doves were the intermediary between 293 00:31:24,660 --> 00:31:26,020 humans and gods. 294 00:31:27,180 --> 00:31:29,380 Maybe that's a way to look at it. 295 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:31,620 Might help you calm your nerves. 296 00:32:12,490 --> 00:32:16,070 There's nothing wrong with your body. And there's nothing wrong with blood. 297 00:32:16,590 --> 00:32:17,610 Blood is freedom. 298 00:32:18,250 --> 00:32:22,330 Because it means that no man's seed has taken hold. 299 00:32:27,050 --> 00:32:28,050 Drink your tea. 300 00:32:29,430 --> 00:32:30,470 It's dandelion. 301 00:32:31,750 --> 00:32:34,170 It thins your blood and helps with the clotting. 302 00:32:46,410 --> 00:32:49,750 I'm not a doctor, but I've traveled a lot and I've seen a lot. 303 00:32:50,510 --> 00:32:57,030 And a mistress of mine, she went to see a specialist for similar 304 00:32:57,030 --> 00:33:03,810 problems, and he prescribed something called hysterical paroxysm, or they 305 00:33:03,810 --> 00:33:04,810 call it the little death. 306 00:33:05,010 --> 00:33:06,010 Have you heard of it? 307 00:33:08,030 --> 00:33:09,030 No. 308 00:33:11,790 --> 00:33:13,230 I bought this in Amsterdam. 309 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,280 You turn this, you crank it like you beat eggs. 310 00:33:29,500 --> 00:33:30,600 What does it feel like? 311 00:34:15,740 --> 00:34:22,699 When you hold it to the right spot, it makes you shiver and tremble, 312 00:34:22,780 --> 00:34:23,820 but in a good way. 313 00:34:24,460 --> 00:34:29,780 So when the little death comes on, that's how they call it, it goes over 314 00:34:29,780 --> 00:34:30,780 your whole body. 315 00:34:30,900 --> 00:34:34,739 And after that, you're just reborn. 316 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,880 Like you've been running through the fields and it just feels so good. 317 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:44,540 And I want you to feel it. 318 00:34:46,900 --> 00:34:47,900 Take it. 319 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:52,280 Take it. 320 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:08,480 Fine. And your own time. 321 00:35:17,580 --> 00:35:18,580 Lizzie? 322 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:22,860 All your books are written by men. 323 00:35:23,860 --> 00:35:26,960 Little Women is right there. No, you need the books they read in Paris. 324 00:35:28,100 --> 00:35:29,100 I'll bring you one. 325 00:35:53,750 --> 00:35:54,750 This house. 326 00:35:55,950 --> 00:35:57,070 These people. 327 00:35:57,350 --> 00:35:58,350 You. 328 00:35:58,550 --> 00:35:59,970 It's like a puzzle to me. 329 00:36:00,510 --> 00:36:04,290 You're like a puzzle to me. I've never met anyone like you. Simple, you mean? 330 00:36:04,410 --> 00:36:05,410 No. 331 00:36:06,130 --> 00:36:08,210 You're anything but simple, Lizzie. 332 00:36:09,610 --> 00:36:12,050 I don't know why she belittles you like that. 333 00:36:12,410 --> 00:36:16,650 She's the most cruel woman I've ever seen. She wasn't born that way. 334 00:36:19,370 --> 00:36:20,370 Nobody is. 335 00:36:29,770 --> 00:36:32,390 I wasn't even two years old when my real mother died. 336 00:36:35,570 --> 00:36:37,250 I don't remember her at all. 337 00:36:41,130 --> 00:36:41,610 My 338 00:36:41,610 --> 00:36:52,870 father 339 00:36:52,870 --> 00:36:58,770 was so young, he needed a wife to take care of my sister and I. 340 00:36:59,530 --> 00:37:04,630 He'd heard tell of a woman whose family had fallen on hard times. 341 00:37:05,110 --> 00:37:11,450 She'd lost all three of her brothers in the war, and in her grief, her mother 342 00:37:11,450 --> 00:37:12,810 had taken her own life. 343 00:37:19,390 --> 00:37:22,710 She left her daughter alone and in debt. 344 00:37:28,270 --> 00:37:30,050 Her name was Abby Durfee Gray. 345 00:37:51,830 --> 00:37:54,890 Father and her only courted a short while before marrying. 346 00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:03,080 My mother was buried only weeks before, but my father was overjoyed. 347 00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:05,940 He had a beautiful bride. 348 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,620 He felt alive again. He could return to work again. 349 00:38:11,580 --> 00:38:17,460 But I was a difficult baby, and Mrs. Borden was overwhelmed by it. 350 00:38:27,020 --> 00:38:28,380 She'd lock me in a room. 351 00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:38,180 She learned she could never have children of her own. 352 00:38:38,980 --> 00:38:41,580 And so she began to drink. 353 00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,100 She began an alcoholic depression. 354 00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:50,500 She'd drink all manner of things. 355 00:38:53,100 --> 00:38:54,100 Formaldehyde. 356 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:55,440 Ammonia. 357 00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:57,880 Paint dinner. 358 00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:02,940 I learned to be quiet. 359 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:08,840 I like being alone with birds and animals and nature. 360 00:39:12,540 --> 00:39:14,160 Everyone thinks I'm stupid. 361 00:39:16,180 --> 00:39:17,180 But I'm not. 362 00:39:32,270 --> 00:39:33,270 Tick, tick. 363 00:40:33,130 --> 00:40:34,130 Come in. 364 00:40:38,830 --> 00:40:42,670 What are you doing? 365 00:40:44,470 --> 00:40:49,010 I'm applying arsenic powder to my décolleté. 366 00:40:51,430 --> 00:40:53,550 I came to say thank you for the book. 367 00:40:54,370 --> 00:40:55,370 You're welcome. 368 00:40:56,210 --> 00:40:57,210 Did you read it? 369 00:40:57,770 --> 00:40:59,070 No, it's all in French. 370 00:41:05,100 --> 00:41:10,000 Her name was Elisabetta, Countess de Son. 371 00:41:11,140 --> 00:41:12,380 The Blood God. 372 00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:21,040 300 years ago, she lived at the far end 373 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:25,100 of the Hungarian Kingdom, at the end of the Carpathian Mountains, in 374 00:41:25,100 --> 00:41:26,100 Transylvania. 375 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,540 She was the richest woman in her kingdom. 376 00:41:33,900 --> 00:41:37,340 And she was born with a particular feeling. 377 00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:42,100 She was known for her beauty far and wide. 378 00:41:42,740 --> 00:41:46,380 But the fear of losing that beauty drove her mad. 379 00:41:48,140 --> 00:41:53,760 So she would call her handmaids and say, Halle van der Taschen, 380 00:41:53,780 --> 00:41:55,680 where's the milk? 381 00:42:40,710 --> 00:42:41,710 She bathed in milk? 382 00:42:42,190 --> 00:42:43,190 Yes. 383 00:42:43,810 --> 00:42:45,710 Milk has acid in it. 384 00:42:46,210 --> 00:42:48,510 That smoothens the complexion. 385 00:42:51,150 --> 00:42:53,450 I've noticed that with my cherries, too. 386 00:42:53,810 --> 00:42:54,810 Sorry? 387 00:42:56,210 --> 00:43:00,450 In the harvest, where the cherry juice stains your skin, 388 00:43:01,010 --> 00:43:06,310 it glows all winter. 389 00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,540 There must be acid in the cherries just like in Elisabetta's milk. 390 00:43:15,780 --> 00:43:20,160 But Elisabetta wasn't satisfied with the milk. It wasn't enough. 391 00:43:21,340 --> 00:43:21,940 The 392 00:43:21,940 --> 00:43:32,240 handmaidens 393 00:43:32,240 --> 00:43:34,740 were called furies by the townspeople. 394 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:05,680 And so they would descend on the town at dawn to search for the most beautiful 395 00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:07,220 girls they could find. 396 00:44:27,940 --> 00:44:29,680 They all had to be virgins. 397 00:44:31,370 --> 00:44:35,450 The families were told the Countess had invited the girls to a lavish supper, 398 00:44:35,650 --> 00:44:40,790 the likes of which they would never see again. 399 00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:12,240 wild boar, venison, sweetbreads, dark red, Carpathian wine, all to pump their 400 00:45:12,240 --> 00:45:13,540 blood full of iron. 401 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:26,560 She promised these peasant girls land and titles. 402 00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:32,140 She would welcome them to stay the night in white silken gowns from Samarkand. 403 00:45:52,490 --> 00:45:55,670 And then she would invite them downstairs to a special room. 404 00:45:55,970 --> 00:45:57,270 Meet her, tiny kid. 405 00:45:57,630 --> 00:45:58,890 A room with a drain. 406 00:46:00,630 --> 00:46:02,570 And then she would call the Furies. 407 00:46:58,830 --> 00:47:02,610 It took eight virgins to fill one bath with blood. 408 00:47:19,450 --> 00:47:26,250 And when she emerged, the Countess Bathory had pure white skin like a 409 00:47:26,250 --> 00:47:27,250 child. 410 00:47:28,170 --> 00:47:33,530 It was completely restored because blood is life. 411 00:47:39,550 --> 00:47:41,670 This story used to drive me mad. 412 00:47:42,570 --> 00:47:44,590 I couldn't stop thinking about her. 413 00:47:46,190 --> 00:47:48,170 It's not a real story, is it? 414 00:47:50,010 --> 00:47:52,890 As real as you and me in this room. 415 00:48:00,110 --> 00:48:01,310 It's eerie in this light. 416 00:48:02,310 --> 00:48:03,310 Are you scared? 417 00:48:05,870 --> 00:48:06,870 No. 418 00:48:09,090 --> 00:48:10,690 But she was onto something. 419 00:48:12,170 --> 00:48:13,370 That is power. 420 00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:44,720 Mr. Borden? 421 00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:47,420 Mr. Borden? 422 00:48:51,220 --> 00:48:52,220 Mr. Borden? 423 00:48:56,120 --> 00:49:00,380 Maggie, you've done a wonderful job with these axes. 424 00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:05,080 I hope it wasn't too much of a chore. Not a chore at all, Mr. Borden. 425 00:49:05,980 --> 00:49:08,160 Giving them compensated. 426 00:49:16,660 --> 00:49:20,620 Maggie, your room in Borden is paid for. 427 00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:25,060 What do you do with all of this money? 428 00:49:28,380 --> 00:49:31,480 Well, I save it, Mr. Borden. 429 00:49:31,820 --> 00:49:35,600 Because one day, I will have a house like yours, and I will have land like 430 00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:36,538 you. 431 00:49:36,540 --> 00:49:39,700 It's not a silly thing to want for a girl like me, is it? 432 00:49:41,100 --> 00:49:42,600 That's not silly at all. 433 00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:51,320 In fact, money means a fair bit to me, Mr. Borden, and I'm not ashamed to say 434 00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:56,720 it. I think there's not a thing in the world I wouldn't do for the right price. 435 00:50:00,100 --> 00:50:01,100 Like what? 436 00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:13,920 That's a deal. 437 00:50:16,620 --> 00:50:17,620 Is she in the tree? 438 00:50:17,820 --> 00:50:18,820 It's coming! 439 00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:22,520 Oh, hello. 440 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:24,000 Hello. 441 00:50:25,580 --> 00:50:27,140 I have something to show you. 442 00:50:27,860 --> 00:50:30,540 I can't stop thinking about her. 443 00:50:32,340 --> 00:50:33,340 Oh! 444 00:50:34,140 --> 00:50:35,240 The Countess. 445 00:50:55,740 --> 00:50:57,140 Easy. 446 00:51:00,300 --> 00:51:01,980 Cloud bath. 447 00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:07,760 Yes. 448 00:51:24,900 --> 00:51:27,120 It's four bushels of cherries. 449 00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:33,340 Out of your mind. 450 00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:47,980 I've always been a coward. 451 00:51:48,780 --> 00:51:55,000 And I don't know what's good for me. 452 00:51:55,700 --> 00:51:58,360 Oh, here I go. 453 00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:03,400 It's coming for me through the trees. 454 00:52:04,540 --> 00:52:08,220 Oh, help me someone, help me please. 455 00:52:11,180 --> 00:52:14,860 Take my shoes off and throw... 456 00:52:27,050 --> 00:52:28,270 I found this red light. 457 00:53:00,060 --> 00:53:05,200 I've always been a coward I 458 00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:10,900 never know what's good for me 459 00:53:10,900 --> 00:53:17,540 Oh here I go Don't let me go 460 00:53:17,540 --> 00:53:24,400 Hold me down It's coming for me through the 461 00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:25,400 trees 462 00:53:38,860 --> 00:53:44,120 And I'll be two steps on the water. 463 00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:51,000 I don't know what's good for me. I don't know what's good for me. 464 00:54:09,260 --> 00:54:10,260 You know what?