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Lizzie Borden took an axe.
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Gave her mother 40 whacks.
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When she saw what she had done.
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She gave her father 41.
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Andrew Borden now is dead.
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Lizzie hit him on the head.
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Up in heaven he will sing.
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And on the gallows she will swing.
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Breathe in.
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And breathe out.
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Breathe in.
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Breathe out.
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Sit.
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Because you have
so little romantic interest
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and no instinct for decorum,
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I will now describe for you
how this evening's proposal will unfold.
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Yes?
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Thank you, Mrs. Borden.
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I am your mother, aren't I?
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Yes, Mother.
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When your gentleman caller arrives,
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you will meet him at the door.
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Heath is his name.
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You've met.
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You will welcome him in.
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He will bow.
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You will curtsy.
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You will be brought into the parlor
under an elder's supervision,
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which will be me.
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I will then depart the room
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for you to converse in private.
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Next, he will offer you a remembrance.
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This handkerchief belonged
to my great-grandmother.
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How delightful.
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And then you will present an item to him.
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This is lace I wove myself.
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It's inspired by the blossoms
in my allée of cherry trees.
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You'll note the fragrance...
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is floral.
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Let me see it.
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It's inspired by the blossoms,
the way that the cherries...
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Yes, fine, I don't care.
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Next, you will invite him
to sit on my couch.
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You know the one.
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That fainting couch has been in my family
for three generations.
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It was hand-carved from Congolese mahogany
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and upholstered in bone-white mulberry,
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carted overland
out of deepest yellow China.
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Yes.
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It's the one thing
you brought to the marriage.
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Is that a bit of mouth, Lizzie?
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No.
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No, I...
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Literally. It's literally the one thing
you brought when you married Father.
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Continuing. You will sit on my couch.
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You will engage in polite conversation.
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Today, out amongst the cherry trees,
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I saw a hummingbird with a ruby throat.
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Something like that, but don't burden him
with your opinions, Lizzie,
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'cause yours are shallow and off-putting.
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After having endured your tripe...
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Lizzie.
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He will take
your turgid little sausage fingers
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that haven't known a day of work,
and he will ask for your hand.
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Will you marry me?
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At which point, you will
swoon and fall back onto the sofa.
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He will revive you with the scent
of a perfumed handkerchief.
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And when you have
fully regained your wits,
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you say to him...
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Yes, my beloved.
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I give you my hand.
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Understand, imbecile?
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Yes, Mother.
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I live with my old mother.
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And always pay the rent.
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A bedroom and a parlor.
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Is all we call our own.
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And you're welcome every evening.
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At Maggie Murphy's home.
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Good evening.
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Liz?
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- Elizabeth?
- Lizzie.
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Or whatever you please.
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I... I have something for you.
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It's a lace handkerchief I sewed myself.
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Oh, and a nosegay of white tuberose.
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Thank you.
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Do...
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Do you have a remembrance for me?
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I do not.
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Here's our parlor.
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Oh, and look,
it's the couch we're to sit on.
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Today, in my allée of cherry trees,
I saw a hummingbird with a ruby throat.
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- That's fascinating.
- Do you think so?
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I do love nature,
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especially now that it's April.
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I simply adore the springtime.
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Everything is blooming, and it's...
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It seems like
the world is bursting with possibility.
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I also have a dovecote.
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Do you know what that is?
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It's a house for doves.
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My father made it. He's a woodworker.
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I love my doves.
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They mate for life, you know.
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Well, wh... what's wrong?
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Are you... are you all right?
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I know... I know what is
expected of me tonight.
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My family faces destitution.
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But I can't do this. I... I can't marry you.
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Why not?
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Because you have the face of a horse.
The men in town, they're right.
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It's unpleasant to look at your plainness.
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What's happening?
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No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
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I have an odd...
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lady time.
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Where's your... sister?
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She went into town.
She was asked to the cotillion.
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This one will never be asked to go.
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Oh, how I longed for this engagement
so you would finally leave this house.
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You're a woolgatherer.
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All you're doing
is frittering away your father's money.
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That's it.
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And you can be sure your hemorrhage story
has already made its way around town.
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God's sake.
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I have irregular menses.
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Irregular? They're a modern-day horror.
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You humiliate this house.
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Will you stop your caterwauling?
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I'm powfagged!
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I work all day,
and then I come home to this.
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Flapdoodle! This is my personality.
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I'm forceful. I have a point of view.
You knew that when you married me.
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You don't know what it's like
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to be... trapped in a house full of women.
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Astute observation, dearie.
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I certainly don't.
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If only you'd given me a son.
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What was that?
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And this thick Irish dolt
is as worthless as you, Lizzie.
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She can't get the stain out, can you?
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No, ma'am, in spite of tryin'.
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No, well, can't say I blame her.
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She has the brains of a dog,
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and she's expected
to sop up a gallon of the last dregs
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of an old maid's dying womb.
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That was mulberry silk from deepest China!
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I'm going to have to have it
reupholstered in muslin!
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My apologies again, Mrs. Borden.
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Tried me best, ma'am.
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What soup is this?
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Potato leek, ma'am.
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What?
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I asked for celeriac.
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Get out!
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You're fired!
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It's quite good.
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That's six maids in a year.
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Yes, Mr. Borden, and what about it?
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Tomorrow, we'll interview a seventh.
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Come on, Lizzie, eat up.
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I've brought you something.
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It's a lovely warm day.
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It's a cherry cordial.
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What's that floating on top?
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Those are borage flowers.
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They're edible.
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I've read that Indians use them
for cramping and bloating and...
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Sorry.
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It's not a topic of conversation
for strangers.
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No, that... that's wonderful.
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Thank you.
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Lizzie.
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Are you still spotting?
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You trail blood like a wounded elk.
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- Spotting?
- This one has heavy menses.
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Actually, heavy doesn't quite describe it.
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Diluvian is a more apt descriptor.
She's a true freak of nature.
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Now when the lady time comes,
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we keep her upstairs on a bed
of wooden planks and muslin sheets
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she's free to befoul with her putrid clots.
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My advertisement requested an Irish girl.
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You don't sound Irish.
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I am Irish by birth,
and half Irish by blood.
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My father's German,
and I traveled all over Europe.
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I don't recall
commissioning an autobiography.
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The job is of a housemaid.
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You'll have all the standard obligations
of cooking and cleaning,
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and then some additional chores
pertaining to me.
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We're a well-to-do household,
from my toil as a woodworker.
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I build furniture and fashion fine coffins,
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and when I come home...
well, I must relax, as it were.
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Then you will dress my feet
with fresh stockings and slippers,
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and hand me a dram of whiskey.
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Maids in this home are
expected to keep the house spotless,
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and to ensure that they do,
I will don a pair of white gloves daily
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and run my fingers across
a surface of my choosing,
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and any dust or dirt or grime I find,
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I will steep the glove
in a mug of hot water
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and watch you drink the resulting tea.
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Drink it.
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Is that perfectly clear?
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Crystal.
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You will be paid 50 cents a day,
a dollar on days you're asked
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to take my mentally sluggish
stepdaughter here into town.
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Now, accompanying her in public is a chore
in the truest sense of the word.
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It's deeply humiliating.
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And what is your name?
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- Bridget.
- Maggie.
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No, Bridget.
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No, Maggie.
The last maid's name was Maggie,
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and... I won't be compelled
to learn a new one.
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That's fine. It's all fine.
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I do have my own requirements.
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I follow orders very well,
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but when it comes to my hygiene,
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I will be allowed
to make myself up as I choose to.
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You're referring to your hair.
It's strumpet hair.
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Looks like straw.
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I dyed it this color myself.
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I learned so in Paris.
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Paris?
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I don't care what you look like.
I endeavor not to look at servants.
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You'll be invisible to me.
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So do I have the job?
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No.
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We have many more girls to see.
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Madam.
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The stain.
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I brought my own cleaning kit.
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May I try and remove it?
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It will take no longer than an hour.
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Can't stay at home Can't stay in school.
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Old folks say, "You poor little fool".
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Down the streets I'm the girl next door
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I'm the fox you've been waiting for.
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Hello, Daddy Hello, Mom
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I'm your ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch.
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Cherry bomb.
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Hello, world, I'm your wild girl
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I'm your ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch.
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Cherry bomb.
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Stone Age love and strange sounds too.
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Come on, baby, let me get to you.
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Bad nights causing teenage blues.
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Get down, ladies
You've got nothin' to lose.
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Hello, Daddy Hello, Mom
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I'm your ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch.
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Cherry bomb.
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Hello, world, I'm your wild girl
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I'm your ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch.
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Cherry bomb.
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Cherry bomb.
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Cherry bomb.
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Cherry bomb.
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Cherry bomb.
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Cherry bomb.
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Mrs. Borden?
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Don't make a habit
of shouting across the house.
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I'll whip you in the face with a switch.
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Oh my.
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00:23:47,759 --> 00:23:48,927
Yes.
264
00:23:49,010 --> 00:23:52,305
It is still a little damp,
but the stain is gone.
265
00:23:57,144 --> 00:23:59,146
"Out, damn spot."
266
00:24:03,233 --> 00:24:04,401
You're hired.
267
00:24:18,748 --> 00:24:20,459
He was a good man.
268
00:24:21,334 --> 00:24:23,712
As good as he was tall.
269
00:24:25,630 --> 00:24:27,674
And tall he was.
270
00:24:32,220 --> 00:24:36,266
This is our most inexpensive offering.
271
00:24:37,142 --> 00:24:38,935
Just a pine box.
272
00:24:39,019 --> 00:24:41,396
But this won't keep the water out.
273
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:45,233
Your husband will be liquid himself
in a week or two.
274
00:24:45,317 --> 00:24:50,197
Nothing left of him when the Lord returns
to judge the living and the dead.
275
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,115
No! We can't have that.
276
00:24:53,116 --> 00:24:54,910
Father was a righteous man.
277
00:24:56,077 --> 00:25:01,958
Then... I would suggest
this sort of casket.
278
00:25:02,709 --> 00:25:04,377
It's mahogany.
279
00:25:05,295 --> 00:25:07,547
Lined in pink satin,
280
00:25:07,631 --> 00:25:10,800
and most importantly, watertight.
281
00:25:11,426 --> 00:25:14,262
So when the Lord Jesus comes again,
282
00:25:14,346 --> 00:25:18,934
your beloved will rise up from this casket,
283
00:25:19,017 --> 00:25:21,228
body and soul intact.
284
00:25:23,188 --> 00:25:24,397
We'll take that one.
285
00:25:24,940 --> 00:25:26,775
It doesn't seem long enough.
286
00:25:26,858 --> 00:25:28,860
Father was 20 hands high.
287
00:25:28,944 --> 00:25:29,819
No, no.
288
00:25:29,903 --> 00:25:33,156
No, my apprentice and I, Stephen...
289
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,283
- Say hello, Stephen.
- Hello.
290
00:25:35,367 --> 00:25:38,703
We can make the necessary alterations.
291
00:25:41,122 --> 00:25:42,999
I assure you he'll fit.
292
00:26:03,019 --> 00:26:04,688
Thank you, that will be all.
293
00:26:20,078 --> 00:26:21,371
Mr. Borden?
294
00:26:24,374 --> 00:26:25,959
Mr. Borden?
295
00:26:28,628 --> 00:26:29,963
Yes.
296
00:26:32,173 --> 00:26:33,466
Good day, Margaret.
297
00:26:33,550 --> 00:26:34,884
Bridget, sir.
298
00:26:36,928 --> 00:26:38,096
Maggie.
299
00:26:38,930 --> 00:26:43,518
Since you're what passes as an expert
in the domestic sciences,
300
00:26:43,602 --> 00:26:46,938
I wondered if I might add
to your list of tasks.
301
00:26:48,189 --> 00:26:50,483
That's why I called you here today.
302
00:26:52,027 --> 00:26:53,153
Please.
303
00:27:03,496 --> 00:27:05,081
Do you see these axes?
304
00:27:05,915 --> 00:27:06,916
As you...
305
00:27:07,959 --> 00:27:11,046
As you know,
I'm a craftsman, a woodworker.
306
00:27:11,129 --> 00:27:14,883
These are not just my tools,
but my children, as it were.
307
00:27:14,966 --> 00:27:16,676
In fact,
I love them more than my children.
308
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:21,640
They're my one true passion,
my lone frivolous indulgence,
309
00:27:21,723 --> 00:27:23,099
and yet my apprentice,
310
00:27:23,767 --> 00:27:25,060
simpleton that he is,
311
00:27:25,143 --> 00:27:28,688
is unable to keep them
in the state of repair that I require.
312
00:27:29,272 --> 00:27:33,568
I wondered if you might add their care
to your list of daily chores.
313
00:27:33,652 --> 00:27:36,571
Keep them sharp and polished.
314
00:27:36,655 --> 00:27:37,781
Of course, sir.
315
00:27:37,864 --> 00:27:40,158
These are fine axes.
316
00:27:41,451 --> 00:27:43,870
This one's called Freyda.
317
00:27:47,123 --> 00:27:48,500
She's a Viking axe,
318
00:27:48,583 --> 00:27:53,338
pilfered from the private collection
of Charles VI of Sweden.
319
00:27:53,421 --> 00:27:54,798
You didn't let me finish, sir.
320
00:27:56,716 --> 00:28:00,512
I will care for your axes,
and I will care for them well.
321
00:28:00,595 --> 00:28:03,223
As you know, I'm good at executing orders.
322
00:28:04,891 --> 00:28:06,810
But I will have to be paid.
323
00:28:06,893 --> 00:28:08,395
One dollar a week.
324
00:28:11,064 --> 00:28:12,482
Very well.
325
00:28:14,317 --> 00:28:16,111
Would you like to hold it?
326
00:28:20,615 --> 00:28:21,615
Is that...
327
00:28:22,951 --> 00:28:23,868
blood?
328
00:28:23,952 --> 00:28:26,121
You can smell the... the iron.
329
00:28:27,122 --> 00:28:29,207
Did you cut yourself or...?
330
00:28:29,290 --> 00:28:31,084
Why is there blood on your axe?
331
00:28:31,167 --> 00:28:34,212
Most women faint at the sight of it.
332
00:28:34,295 --> 00:28:37,173
Well, I don't. It's rejuvenating.
333
00:28:37,257 --> 00:28:39,217
People used to bathe in it.
334
00:28:40,593 --> 00:28:41,593
My.
335
00:28:42,595 --> 00:28:43,722
How macabre.
336
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:46,850
Is that all, sir?
337
00:28:48,309 --> 00:28:50,729
I can be back first thing in the morning.
338
00:28:54,482 --> 00:28:55,525
Until then.
339
00:28:59,571 --> 00:29:00,571
Bonsoir.
340
00:29:18,923 --> 00:29:21,426
- Any dust, Ms. Borden?
- I'm not finished.
341
00:29:31,478 --> 00:29:34,981
Any dust,
or may I be free to go back to work?
342
00:29:37,567 --> 00:29:39,194
There. What's that?
343
00:29:41,029 --> 00:29:43,239
That's your footprint, Mrs. Borden.
344
00:29:43,323 --> 00:29:46,117
I will clean it up for you,
but I will not be punished for it.
345
00:29:47,786 --> 00:29:51,122
It's from when you came in
through that door a few minutes ago,
346
00:29:51,206 --> 00:29:53,166
after shouting at Lizzie in the garden.
347
00:30:23,446 --> 00:30:25,865
Like the angels!
348
00:30:25,949 --> 00:30:27,408
Hello.
349
00:30:28,952 --> 00:30:29,952
Come here.
350
00:30:41,464 --> 00:30:43,007
Shut those birds up!
351
00:30:56,938 --> 00:30:59,190
Those filthy shit-hawks!
352
00:30:59,274 --> 00:31:00,817
How I loathe them!
353
00:31:02,151 --> 00:31:04,571
Worse than roosters, the incessant cooing.
354
00:31:04,654 --> 00:31:07,282
It's all I hear now is the... cooing.
355
00:31:10,243 --> 00:31:12,745
It's mating season,
I believe, Mrs. Borden.
356
00:31:13,872 --> 00:31:14,872
Spring.
357
00:31:15,290 --> 00:31:17,500
Patience. It'll pass.
358
00:31:19,711 --> 00:31:21,087
In the old days,
359
00:31:21,671 --> 00:31:26,509
they used to believe doves were
the intermediary between humans and gods.
360
00:31:27,594 --> 00:31:29,637
Maybe that's a way to look at it.
361
00:31:30,305 --> 00:31:32,390
It might help you calm your nerves.
362
00:32:12,472 --> 00:32:14,599
There's nothing wrong with your body,
363
00:32:14,682 --> 00:32:16,893
and there's nothing wrong with blood.
364
00:32:16,976 --> 00:32:18,186
Blood is freedom.
365
00:32:18,269 --> 00:32:22,941
Because it means
that no man's seed has taken hold.
366
00:32:27,445 --> 00:32:28,655
Drink your tea.
367
00:32:29,822 --> 00:32:31,115
It's dandelion.
368
00:32:32,158 --> 00:32:34,786
It thins your blood
and helps with the clotting.
369
00:32:45,672 --> 00:32:47,590
Look, I'm... I'm not a doctor,
370
00:32:47,674 --> 00:32:50,093
but I've traveled a lot, and I've seen a lot.
371
00:32:50,885 --> 00:32:51,886
And...
372
00:32:52,762 --> 00:32:58,059
a mistress of mine, she went to see
a specialist for similar problems,
373
00:32:58,142 --> 00:33:02,563
and he prescribed something
called hysterical paroxysm.
374
00:33:03,481 --> 00:33:04,941
Or they call it a little death.
375
00:33:05,024 --> 00:33:06,359
Have you heard of it?
376
00:33:08,277 --> 00:33:09,278
No.
377
00:33:12,115 --> 00:33:13,866
I bought this in Amsterdam.
378
00:33:15,576 --> 00:33:19,038
They call it a Vendee vibrator.
379
00:33:21,290 --> 00:33:24,877
You hold it up on your cunny
and you turn this.
380
00:33:25,420 --> 00:33:27,672
You crank it like you beat eggs.
381
00:33:29,757 --> 00:33:31,009
What does it feel like?
382
00:33:34,846 --> 00:33:35,846
Give me your hand.
383
00:34:11,007 --> 00:34:12,007
Well...
384
00:34:16,554 --> 00:34:19,182
When you hold it to the right spot,
385
00:34:20,183 --> 00:34:22,977
it makes you shiver and tremble,
386
00:34:23,061 --> 00:34:24,353
but in a good way.
387
00:34:24,896 --> 00:34:28,357
So when the little death comes on,
that's how they call it,
388
00:34:29,233 --> 00:34:31,027
it goes over your whole body.
389
00:34:31,110 --> 00:34:33,780
And after that, you're just...
390
00:34:34,530 --> 00:34:35,656
reborn
391
00:34:36,240 --> 00:34:40,244
and sweaty and like you've been running
through the fields,
392
00:34:40,328 --> 00:34:42,455
and it just feels so good.
393
00:34:43,331 --> 00:34:44,999
And I want you to feel it.
394
00:34:47,335 --> 00:34:48,335
Take it.
395
00:34:51,631 --> 00:34:52,631
Take it.
396
00:35:07,063 --> 00:35:08,856
Fine. In your own time.
397
00:35:17,532 --> 00:35:18,533
Lizzie.
398
00:35:20,993 --> 00:35:23,579
All your books are... are written by men.
399
00:35:23,663 --> 00:35:25,331
Little Women is right there.
400
00:35:25,414 --> 00:35:27,625
No, you need the books they read in Paris.
401
00:35:28,376 --> 00:35:29,669
I'll bring you one.
402
00:35:37,927 --> 00:35:38,927
What?
403
00:35:49,188 --> 00:35:51,190
I just want to help you.
404
00:35:53,067 --> 00:35:55,486
This... house.
405
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,781
These people... you...
406
00:35:58,865 --> 00:36:00,700
It's like a puzzle to me.
407
00:36:00,783 --> 00:36:03,494
You're like a puzzle to me.
I've never met anyone like you.
408
00:36:03,578 --> 00:36:05,371
- Simple, you mean?
- No.
409
00:36:06,455 --> 00:36:08,666
You're anything but simple, Lizzie.
410
00:36:10,001 --> 00:36:12,628
I don't know why
she belittles you like that.
411
00:36:12,712 --> 00:36:15,339
She's the most cruel woman I've ever seen.
412
00:36:15,423 --> 00:36:17,216
She wasn't born that way.
413
00:36:19,677 --> 00:36:20,845
Nobody is.
414
00:36:29,979 --> 00:36:33,065
I wasn't even two years old
when my real mother died.
415
00:36:36,027 --> 00:36:37,695
I don't remember her at all.
416
00:36:43,784 --> 00:36:46,204
Mama...
417
00:36:53,294 --> 00:36:56,505
My father was so young, he... needed a wife
418
00:36:57,131 --> 00:36:59,133
to take care of my sister and I.
419
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:05,348
He'd heard tell of a woman
whose family had fallen on hard times.
420
00:37:05,431 --> 00:37:09,101
She'd lost all three of her brothers
in the war.
421
00:37:09,185 --> 00:37:13,272
And in her grief,
her mother had taken her own life.
422
00:37:19,654 --> 00:37:23,241
She left her daughter alone and in debt.
423
00:37:25,076 --> 00:37:27,078
Whoa...
424
00:37:28,537 --> 00:37:30,081
Her name was Abby Durfee Gray.
425
00:37:52,061 --> 00:37:55,314
Father and her only courted
a short while before marrying.
426
00:37:57,650 --> 00:37:59,902
My mother was buried only weeks before.
427
00:38:00,444 --> 00:38:03,114
But my father was overjoyed.
428
00:38:04,490 --> 00:38:06,742
He had a beautiful bride.
429
00:38:06,826 --> 00:38:07,827
He felt alive again.
430
00:38:07,910 --> 00:38:10,037
And he could return to work again.
431
00:38:12,081 --> 00:38:14,125
But I was a difficult baby.
432
00:38:14,208 --> 00:38:17,753
And Mrs. Borden was overwhelmed by it.
433
00:38:23,301 --> 00:38:25,678
Be quiet! Be quiet!
434
00:38:27,054 --> 00:38:29,056
She'd lock me in a room.
435
00:38:35,771 --> 00:38:38,357
She learned
she could never have children of her own.
436
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,819
And so she began to drink.
437
00:38:42,403 --> 00:38:44,363
She began an alcoholic depression.
438
00:38:48,993 --> 00:38:51,162
She'd drink all manner of things.
439
00:38:52,747 --> 00:38:54,206
Formaldehyde.
440
00:38:54,290 --> 00:38:55,416
Ammonia.
441
00:38:57,126 --> 00:38:58,336
Paint thinner.
442
00:39:02,006 --> 00:39:03,591
I learned to be quiet.
443
00:39:04,675 --> 00:39:09,555
I like being alone
with birds and animals and nature.
444
00:39:12,892 --> 00:39:14,894
Everyone thinks I'm stupid.
445
00:39:16,437 --> 00:39:17,521
But I'm not.
446
00:39:20,900 --> 00:39:22,193
You're not stupid.
447
00:39:32,328 --> 00:39:33,579
That's a good girl.
448
00:40:33,431 --> 00:40:34,557
Come in.
449
00:40:42,106 --> 00:40:43,190
What are you doing?
450
00:40:46,318 --> 00:40:49,280
I'm applying arsenic powder
to my décolleté.
451
00:40:51,949 --> 00:40:53,868
I came to say thank you for the book.
452
00:40:54,827 --> 00:40:57,413
You're welcome. Did you read it?
453
00:40:58,080 --> 00:40:59,748
No, it's all in French.
454
00:41:05,129 --> 00:41:08,507
Her name was... Elizabetta.
455
00:41:08,591 --> 00:41:10,134
Comtesse de Sang.
456
00:41:11,594 --> 00:41:12,720
The blood countess.
457
00:41:14,555 --> 00:41:17,933
Can't stay at home Can't stay in school
458
00:41:18,017 --> 00:41:19,435
300 years ago,
459
00:41:19,518 --> 00:41:22,480
she lived at the far end
of the Hungarian kingdom,
460
00:41:22,563 --> 00:41:24,648
at the end of the Carpathian Mountains,
461
00:41:24,732 --> 00:41:26,025
in Transylvania.
462
00:41:29,695 --> 00:41:32,114
She was the richest woman in her kingdom.
463
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:35,326
And she was bored.
464
00:41:39,830 --> 00:41:43,083
She was known for her beauty far and wide.
465
00:41:43,167 --> 00:41:46,837
But the fear of losing that beauty
drove her mad.
466
00:41:48,547 --> 00:41:51,509
So she would call her handmaids and say...
467
00:41:54,970 --> 00:41:56,305
"Where's the milk?"
468
00:41:56,388 --> 00:41:58,933
Hello, Daddy Hello, Mom
469
00:41:59,016 --> 00:42:01,101
I'm your ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch.
470
00:42:01,185 --> 00:42:02,937
Cherry bomb.
471
00:42:03,020 --> 00:42:05,523
Hello, world, I'm your wild girl
472
00:42:05,606 --> 00:42:08,108
I'm your ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch.
473
00:42:08,192 --> 00:42:09,902
Cherry bomb.
474
00:42:09,985 --> 00:42:11,695
Cherry bomb.
475
00:42:11,779 --> 00:42:13,489
Cherry bomb.
476
00:42:13,572 --> 00:42:15,282
Cherry bomb.
477
00:42:15,366 --> 00:42:17,076
Cherry bomb.
478
00:42:17,159 --> 00:42:19,787
Cherry bomb...
479
00:42:40,599 --> 00:42:42,268
She bathed in milk?
480
00:42:42,351 --> 00:42:43,435
Yes.
481
00:42:44,270 --> 00:42:45,813
Milk has acid in it.
482
00:42:46,730 --> 00:42:48,524
That smoothens the complexion.
483
00:42:51,652 --> 00:42:53,696
I've noticed that with my cherries too.
484
00:42:53,779 --> 00:42:55,072
Sorry?
485
00:42:56,740 --> 00:43:00,786
In the harvest,
where the cherry juice stains your skin...
486
00:43:05,332 --> 00:43:06,625
it glows all winter.
487
00:43:08,502 --> 00:43:12,506
There must be acid in the cherries,
just like in Elizabetta's milk.
488
00:43:16,302 --> 00:43:19,263
But Elizabetta
wasn't satisfied with the milk.
489
00:43:19,346 --> 00:43:20,389
It wasn't enough.
490
00:43:31,567 --> 00:43:35,404
The handmaidens
were called Furies by the townspeople.
491
00:44:00,888 --> 00:44:04,308
And so, they would
descend on the town at dawn
492
00:44:04,391 --> 00:44:07,227
to search for
the most beautiful girls they could find.
493
00:44:28,707 --> 00:44:30,334
They all had to be virgins.
494
00:44:31,502 --> 00:44:35,923
The families were told the countess
had invited the girls to a lavish supper...
495
00:44:37,966 --> 00:44:41,387
the likes of which
they would never see again.
496
00:45:06,370 --> 00:45:10,999
Wild boar, venison, sweetbreads,
dark red Carpathian wine,
497
00:45:11,083 --> 00:45:14,086
all to pump their blood full of iron.
498
00:45:23,595 --> 00:45:27,099
She'd promise these peasant girls
land and titles.
499
00:45:27,641 --> 00:45:29,852
She would welcome them to stay the night
500
00:45:29,935 --> 00:45:32,563
in white silken gowns from Samarkand.
501
00:45:52,666 --> 00:45:56,211
And then she would invite them downstairs
to a special room.
502
00:45:58,005 --> 00:45:59,631
A room with a drain.
503
00:46:00,966 --> 00:46:03,051
And then she would call the Furies.
504
00:46:59,149 --> 00:47:02,986
It took eight virgins
to fill one bath with blood.
505
00:47:20,462 --> 00:47:27,177
And when she emerged, the Countess Báthory
had pure white skin, like a child.
506
00:47:28,262 --> 00:47:30,305
She was completely restored.
507
00:47:31,056 --> 00:47:33,809
Because... blood is life.
508
00:47:40,023 --> 00:47:41,942
This story used to drive me mad.
509
00:47:43,068 --> 00:47:45,028
I couldn't stop thinking about her.
510
00:47:46,572 --> 00:47:48,407
It's not a real story, is it?
511
00:47:50,325 --> 00:47:53,328
As real as you and me in this room.
512
00:48:00,002 --> 00:48:01,503
It's eerie in this light.
513
00:48:02,754 --> 00:48:03,797
Are you scared?
514
00:48:06,174 --> 00:48:07,384
No.
515
00:48:09,511 --> 00:48:11,346
But she was onto something.
516
00:48:12,556 --> 00:48:13,807
Blood is power.
517
00:48:43,837 --> 00:48:45,005
Mr. Borden?
518
00:48:46,798 --> 00:48:48,216
Mr. Borden?
519
00:48:51,845 --> 00:48:52,930
Mr. Borden?
520
00:48:56,433 --> 00:48:57,434
Maggie.
521
00:48:58,268 --> 00:49:01,063
You've done a wonderful job
with these axes.
522
00:49:01,146 --> 00:49:03,440
I hope it wasn't too much a chore.
523
00:49:03,523 --> 00:49:05,442
No chore at all, Mr. Borden.
524
00:49:06,318 --> 00:49:08,111
Given I'm compensated.
525
00:49:16,370 --> 00:49:21,249
Maggie, your room and board is paid for.
526
00:49:22,918 --> 00:49:25,671
What do you do with all of this money?
527
00:49:28,674 --> 00:49:31,593
Well, I save it, Mr. Borden.
528
00:49:32,177 --> 00:49:34,554
Because one day,
I will have a house like yours,
529
00:49:34,638 --> 00:49:36,098
and I will have land like you.
530
00:49:36,848 --> 00:49:39,685
It's not a silly thing to want
for a girl like me, is it?
531
00:49:41,436 --> 00:49:43,063
That's not silly at all.
532
00:49:45,357 --> 00:49:50,320
In fact, money means
a fair bit to me, Mr. Borden.
533
00:49:50,404 --> 00:49:52,114
I'm not ashamed to say it.
534
00:49:52,197 --> 00:49:56,785
I think there's not a thing in the world
I wouldn't do for the right price.
535
00:50:00,497 --> 00:50:01,498
Like what?
536
00:50:13,135 --> 00:50:14,428
That's a deal.
537
00:50:20,058 --> 00:50:22,102
When I was a child.
538
00:50:22,185 --> 00:50:23,270
Well, hello.
539
00:50:23,353 --> 00:50:24,354
Hello.
540
00:50:26,023 --> 00:50:27,482
I have something to show you.
541
00:50:28,900 --> 00:50:30,986
I can't stop thinking about her.
542
00:50:32,237 --> 00:50:33,321
Who?
543
00:50:34,489 --> 00:50:35,489
The Countess.
544
00:50:36,491 --> 00:50:39,411
Now hounds of love are hunting.
545
00:50:43,123 --> 00:50:46,585
I've always been a coward.
546
00:50:50,005 --> 00:50:53,050
And I don't know what's good for me.
547
00:50:54,593 --> 00:50:56,678
Oh, here I go.
548
00:50:58,680 --> 00:50:59,806
Lizzie.
549
00:51:01,475 --> 00:51:02,601
The blood bath.
550
00:51:02,684 --> 00:51:06,730
Oh, help me, someone, help me, please.
551
00:51:07,522 --> 00:51:08,690
Yes.
552
00:51:09,191 --> 00:51:14,362
And take my shoes off
And throw them in the lake.
553
00:51:14,446 --> 00:51:16,448
And I'll be.
554
00:51:16,531 --> 00:51:20,077
Two steps on the water.
555
00:51:25,207 --> 00:51:27,125
It's four bushels of cherries.
556
00:51:32,506 --> 00:51:34,800
You're out of your mind.
557
00:51:39,179 --> 00:51:42,224
Now hounds of love are hunting.
558
00:51:45,811 --> 00:51:49,231
I've always been a coward.
559
00:51:52,567 --> 00:51:55,654
And I don't know what's good for me.
560
00:51:57,614 --> 00:51:59,449
Oh, here I go.
561
00:52:00,492 --> 00:52:04,371
It's coming for me through the trees.
562
00:52:05,539 --> 00:52:09,417
Oh, help me, someone, help me, please.
563
00:52:12,129 --> 00:52:16,758
And take my shoes off
And throw them in the lake.
564
00:52:16,842 --> 00:52:18,802
And I'll be.
565
00:52:19,594 --> 00:52:22,597
Two steps on the water.
566
00:52:27,060 --> 00:52:29,020
If only this were blood.
567
00:52:29,104 --> 00:52:32,232
He let me take him in my arms.
568
00:52:32,315 --> 00:52:35,652
His little heart, it beat so fast.
569
00:52:35,735 --> 00:52:38,530
And I'm ashamed of running away.
570
00:52:38,613 --> 00:52:42,993
From nothing real
I just can't deal with this
571
00:52:43,076 --> 00:52:47,080
I'm still afraid to be there.
572
00:52:48,456 --> 00:52:52,043
Among your hounds of love.
573
00:52:55,046 --> 00:52:58,300
I feel your arms surround me.
574
00:53:01,636 --> 00:53:04,931
I've always been a coward.
575
00:53:08,268 --> 00:53:11,646
I never know what's good for me.
576
00:53:13,106 --> 00:53:14,941
Oh, here I go.
577
00:53:16,359 --> 00:53:18,445
Don't let me go.
578
00:53:19,029 --> 00:53:21,615
Hold me down.
579
00:53:21,698 --> 00:53:26,286
It's coming for me through the trees.
580
00:53:27,537 --> 00:53:32,042
Oh, help me, darling, help me, please.
581
00:53:34,544 --> 00:53:39,466
Take my shoes off
And throw them in the lake.
582
00:53:39,549 --> 00:53:41,468
And I'll be.
583
00:53:42,052 --> 00:53:45,055
Two steps on the water.
584
00:53:45,138 --> 00:53:47,474
Do, do-do, do, do
585
00:53:47,557 --> 00:53:51,436
I don't know what's good for me
I don't know what's good for me
586
00:53:51,519 --> 00:53:53,480
I need love, love, love, love, love.
587
00:53:53,563 --> 00:53:56,483
Yeah-yo, yeah-yo.
588
00:53:56,566 --> 00:53:58,485
Your love.
589
00:53:59,152 --> 00:54:00,487
Do-do, do.
590
00:54:00,570 --> 00:54:06,243
And take your shoes off
And throw them in the lake.
591
00:54:07,577 --> 00:54:11,748
Do you know what I really need?
Do you know what I really need?
592
00:54:11,831 --> 00:54:15,502
Love, love, love, love, love, yeah