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Ously on barkskins...

Yvon: The iroquois always collect their dead.

What will you do when they come back to make their own dead?

Mathilde: It was a business dispute.

Marth: I'm done with both you and that english bastard cooke.

(screaming).

(grunts).

Hamish: Gus lafarge is dead. I saw his end myself.

Cooke: The company did not send you here.

If they had, you would know that what happened...

(woman crying).

Cross's idea.

Hamish: Cross is married to my sister.

Melissande: The one in the end is quite taken with you.

Delphine: He has a kind face and not so old, I guess.

Melissande: You need a good wife,

Befitting a man with your vision.

Cooke: I have another job for you.

Take the boy into the woods. He must not return.

(splashing).

(panting, grunting).

♪ my eyes shall then behold thee ♪

♪ upon thy cross shall dwell ♪

♪ my heart in faith enfolds thee ♪

♪ who dieth thus dies well ♪♪

Cooke: God is watching.

He, uh, even watches us here in this speck of a town.

Annie: Then he can see what you have done.

Cooke: What is is that I have done,

Apart from putting food on your family's table?

Annie: God knows, just as you know what happened to my husband.

Cooke: God knows that gus was a good and loyal man.

Annie: Where is my son?

Cooke: He ran into the woods, from what I was told.

Annie: No, he would have been home by now.

Cooke: I will find him.

Now, we must see him into the earth so that he may pass over.

Annie: How will you find thom?

Cooke: Charles, my new man, will find him for you.

Duquet: I'm sorry for your loss.

Annie: Did you know my husband?

Duquet: No, uh, but he was a good man, I'm told.

A steadfast man.

Annie: My husband left me with nothing.

Murdered.

And now my son is lost in the woods.

I am widowed, and all of my days will now be doomed.

(jangling).

Cooke: I will see that you're taken care of.

Duquet: I will find your son. That is a promise.

Cooke: Now cover him so that he may pass into the kingdom of heaven

And be forgiven in the eyes of our maker.

(crying).

(crying).

(whistles).

Father gabriel: Forgive me, father.

It calls to me, even in contemplation of your words.

The smell of your crust, the way it sits in my belly.

Look away.

(footsteps).

Please, have mercy.

(grunts).

(splash).

(grunts).

Trepagny: To know the creator, one must first know the whole of the world.

And to know the whole of the world,

One must first know the law of two,

Which governs everything.

Nothing is single here, everything is double.

Every element contains its opposite.

Each sunrise starts at sunset the night before.

Every man emerges from a woman.

Wars are plotted at peace.

Sides of the same coin.

Good.

Now, come and chose your sweets.

(cheers, excited chatter).

Mother sabrine: Gather in the chapel, children.

Quickly.

What are you doing?

Trepagny: I was illuminating them, mother.

Mother sabrine: Illuminating?

I will have them double their prayers.

Trepagny: Ah, yes.

I'm sure they will find all the great answers to the world

While on their knees.

Praying, it is your solution to everything.

You would do well to take them out beyond the walls and show

Them the claws of beasts.

Mother sabrine: State your business.

Trepagny: I have come for my bride.

Ah, you disagree with the union.

Speak your mind, let the poison out.

Mother sabrine: You don't share a god, yet you

Hope to share a bed and put children into the world.

Trepagny: We share the same god,

Just different sides.

But I think those differences will make the marriage bed

More interesting, don't you think?

(sighs).

(sobbing quietly).

Isabelle: You chose well, delphine.

Pierre is a fine trapper.

Delphine: You chose correctly as well, isabelle.

Isabelle: It all happened so fast.

He was the first to look at me.

Delphine: That means he was drawn to you.

Isabelle: But then he... He barely spoke to me.

Delphine: It will come in time.

Melissande: Or it won't.

There is no way to know for certain.

The men put on a show as did we.

We all played our part.

Some more than others.

Delphine: I am sure all of our men will be kind.

I just pray that he is patient.

(scoffs).

Melissande: Patient? No man is patient, delphine.

Not even the priests.

The least he could do is provide you with a real ring.

That is what a kind man would do.

Delphine: He promised me a proper one.

Melissande: Hold him to that.

He must value you more than a strip of leather,

Or that is all you will ever be.

Mother sabrine: Mes chéries, hasten.

You have an hour before the signing.

Use it to pray for guidance and protection.

May you find utility and grace and...

Delphine: Happiness.

Mother sabrine: Yes, of course. Happiness.

Melissande, come with me.

Melissande: Yes, mother.

Mother sabrine: I wish to talk to you about monsieur trepagny.

Melissande: Hmm.

Mother sabrine: He is not like the other men.

Melissande: Yes. He is rich and well-dressed.

The other men smelled of dead animals and shit.

Mother sabrine: Do not be taken in by his boasts.

It is one thing to say that you have land as far as the eye can see,

It is quite another thing to be able to hold on to it.

Melissande: I will see it for myself.

I am sure he is the man for me.

I have made my choice.

Mother sabrine: I wish you luck.

Melissande: And our secret?

A man of monsieur trepagny's standing must never know

I am not as god made me.

Mother sabrine: It is yours to tell, child.

Do you have what I gave you?

Father jerome: Father gabriel often came here to contemplate after his chores.

He didn't return for morning prayer.

(quiet chatter).

Bouchard: Perhaps he shucked his robes and ran off?

Father jerome: No. He has been taken by iroquois.

Bouchard: And how is it you know this?

Father jerome: The bodies are gone.

Bouchard: Well, perhaps father gabriel ate them and then sank into the river.

Father jerome: It was a sin to display the dead like that.

Bouchard: And it is a sin to let the savages think they can move on us.

Father jerome: The iroquois will return.

I have been among them. I know how their minds work.

Bouchard: I'll post a lookout.

Father jerome: And I'll need men to lead a search party for father gabriel.

Bouchard: I have no spare men. Intendant de fer is coming.

Guy: Father.

(woodpecker).

(rooster crows).

Herve: I like them in a pot with wine and herbs.

Mathilde: Oh, you do now.

Herve: I come in a friendly and helpful manner.

A man of many talents who could be of use to you

In your current state.

Mathilde: I know what you are after, monsieur gasquet.

Herve: I could tell you all of it if you invited me for a meal.

Mathilde: You are welcome to pay for a meal like everybody else.

As I am learning, my late husband extended credit to the entire town.

Herve: I didn't mean that sort of meal.

Mathilde: Go away.

Herve: Perhaps tomorrow, then.

(grunts softly).

Mathilde: You can come out now.

Rabbits.

Monsieur gasquet brought them.

Can you say rabbit? Hmm?

He has designs on the inn and some other things as well.

Monsieur gasquet does not take no for an answer.

The more I push him away, the more he sees the challenge.

He has grabbed me more than a few times and

With francis right there.

Ah, but did francis protect me?

No.

And when I demanded that he put monsieur gasquet out,

What did he do? Hmm?

He did nothing, renardette.

Nothing.

He was as useless as a spring flower.

And now I have found he has let half the town dine on credit,

And it is up to me to collect the debts so that

I may carry forth.

But we will make do. Hmm?

Us girls will make do, and then we will prosper, renardette.

Oh, careful. You will hurt yourself.

(bell ringing).

Go.

Bouchard: Bonjour, mathilde.

Mathilde: Captain.

I have said all I will say on my husband's death.

Bouchard: Oh, no, I have not come about that.

I was hoping to have a word with the hudson bay man, mister goames.

Mathilde: Departed this morning.

Bouchard: Oh. D-did he say where he was off to?

Mathilde: There was some discussion of a trip to quebec city.

I believe they intended to return.

They asked me to keep a room for them.

Bouchard: Better they do not return.

Mathilde: Oh, they will be back.

I'm sure of it.

They are keen on finding their missing man, mister cross.

Bouchard: That one is dead, more than likely.

Mathilde: Is there something else?

Bouchard: Mm-mm. Uh...

Keep a sharp eye out and don't go beyond the walls,

Especially after dark.

The iroquois paid a visit to the docks last night.

Bodies are gone.

A priest missing.

Mathilde: Have you talked to mister cooke about the troubles?

Bouchard: What would mister cooke know of the massacre?

Mathilde: Scheming with gus lafarge about the land by the creek, they were.

Henri marth, too.

Bouchard: Marth?

Mathilde: Aye, I heard them discuss it more than a few times.

Bouchard: Was this before or after you fell into dispute

With lafarge on the matter of tables?

Huh? A fierce wobble?

Mathilde: I believe he was too busy scheming with mister cooke

Instead of building a proper table to sit without a wobble.

Bouchard: Cooke and lafarge are responsible for the creek massacre.

Is that what you are saying?

Mathilde: I am saying I heard them discussing it, and then,

Not a week later, those poor settlers met their end.

Bouchard: I suppose one could see it that way.

Mathilde: Aye.

Bouchard: Ah, my head spins with rumor.

What I need are facts.

Mathilde: Of course you do.

I am just an innkeep, what do I know of facts?

Bouchard: You are more than that, mathilde.

Mathilde: Mm.

And you are the captain set to watch over wobik, not me.

Bouchard: Yes. Yes, I am.

And I will come up with a plan, rest assured.

Mathilde: A wise man would run mister cooke out of wobik.

Put things to order before it is hung on your head.

(grunts).

(grunting).

Marth: Help. Help me. Mercy.

I'm burned.

Mari: You must leave the water.

(grunts).

Marth: Something for the pain, please.

Mari: Wait for me. I will be back.

(indistinct yells).

(panting).

(panting).

(grunting).

(grunting).

(quiet chatter).

(clears throat).

Captain wale: Sit.

Randall cross. Yes?

Who ordered this?

Hamish: There was no order. I took it upon myself.

My sister, alice...

Captain wale: I still don't understand the impetus to use

Company resources for a personal mission.

Hamish: A mister elisha cooke in wobik says that he and randall cross

Had a plan to stir the iroquois against some french settlers.

Captain wale: Aye, that is correct.

Along with the delivery we're supposed to make.

Mister cooke is well acquainted with english

Interests in the region.

Interests that include moving forward against wobik.

Were the settlers cleared?

Yvon: They were. Massacre.

Hamish: I want to know if that was cross's orders.

To work with mister cooke.

Captain wale: We find allies where needed.

Trade.

That is our business, or have you forgotten that?

Hamish: I know randall, and such an action, a massacre of

Innocent people, that is not his blood.

I need to know if he was acting on orders.

Captain wale: The orders were to make way inland.

Weaken the french hold.

The particulars are not important.

We have larger plans. That is no secret.

I'll ask again. Have you made a report?

Hamish: Yes.

Captain wale: I will see it, then.

Furthermore, I'm granting you and mister kirkpatrick

The oversee of the wobik post and all the land west of the creek.

If mister cross is to be found,

The posting can be restored to him.

Yvon: And if he is lost?

Captain wale: Then you will contact the iroquois and let

Them know that should they choose to avail themselves of

Muskets to rise up against the french,

That they will be supplied in abundance by their

Stalwart friends at the hudson bay company.

Hamish: And you expect us to work with this mister cooke?

Captain wale: If possible.

But mister cooke is not our only asset in the region.

Bill selby is about.

Well, you have your assignment, now be gone.

Mother sabrine: Mademoiselle isabelle carron and monsieur vincent belonger.

Bouchard: Hand over the notarized property list.

Félicitations.

Mother sabrine: Mademoiselle delphine langois and monsieur pierre gasquet.

Bouchard: Your property list, gasquet.

Mother sabrine: Mademoiselle melissande de senfamie and

Monsieur claude trepagny.

Trepagny: Now I have the whole of the moon.

Please accept my humble tithe, mother.

(indistinct chatter).

Delphine: I wish you happiness and fortune.

(scoffs).

Melissande: We are the mothers of new France.

Delphine: Will we see each other again?

Melissande: Of course.

There will be market days. There will be time to visit.

Pierre: Delphine!

Delphine: Oh! Put me down!

Pierre: My apologies.

Trepagny: Melissande, step away from this noble voyageur

Before he carries you off into the woods.

One pelt per man, pierre.

One pelt.

(chuckles softly).

Pierre: We should move off.

Melissande: My bags.

Trepagny: Uh, do not concern yourself.

We will send for it later.

My man, rené sel, will fetch it.

Bonjour, mathilde.

Mathilde: Monsieur trepagny.

Are you coming to pay your bill?

Trepagny: Comment? Mathilde: Your bill.

Are you coming to settle your bill?

Trepagny: I believe I am current.

I have a balanced account in all things.

Mathilde: Oh, no, no.

I am going through my late husband's books,

And it seems there are a few outstanding charges.

It would be a shame if your new bride could not come to the inn,

Should the need arise.

Trepagny: The need may not arise.

We are going to my doma, and she is not yet my bride.

In the eyes of the king, yes, but there are higher bindings

Yet to be done.

A proper wedding.

A celebration, and one to which you will surely be invited.

Now have we settled our debt?

Mathilde: Madame.

Good fortune to you.

Cooke: You will put a show of it on, and tell

Lafarge's widow her boy took a boat to quebec city,

Distraught at his father's demise.

Duquet: Is it not better if she hears it from you?

Cooke: No, it is not better.

You will find the truth in it, she will gladly accept it.

That is your task.

Duquet: I understand, but when will I be paid?

Cooke: The job is not finished.

Until it is, you should view me as a blunt blade that will

Smash you if you cross me.

Duquet: You asked I take care of lafarge's boy.

It was taken care of.

That is worth something.

Cooke: It is.

Duquet: Well, this won't cover passage.

Cooke: A smart man forgoes small reward now

For great reward later.

Compounded with work, dedication and loyalty.

Duquet: Loyalty?

Cooke: I will teach you the barrel game.

What do you think that is, the barrel game?

Duquet: You take timber.

Cut staves.

Make barrels.

Sell them.

Cooke: Oh, but you think too small, charles.

It is not the barrels themselves.

It pays to have a hand in what goes in and out of them as well.

Spice, cloth.

That brick, there.

I brought that across the atlantic.

Bought the barrels back at a discount,

And here are the barrels filled with salt fish.

Up the river, I take a piece.

Down the river, I take a piece.

Everything for a price.

Duquet: Was that gus's role in your company?

Cooke: Oh, gus's role is no more.

You see, it's not about the timber,

Or the staves, or the hewing or joining.

It is not about the making.

Look at these frenchmen.

Look at them slaving away.

Making their tannin, their tar, their rope.

While they are busy making, I am busy trading.

Duquet: With the english?

Cooke: It is unlawful to trade with the english.

Few staves, some wax, it would be good as new.

Trepagny: If it isn't the rat.

Duquet: Sir.

Trepagny: I see you have found a proper paraclete to serve

Your foul designs.

I told your friend sel the rat will find a hole.

Cooke: You may take him, if you'd like,

Though I do have use for him.

Trepagny: He is yours. I forfeit my claim.

Gladly and with all of my heart.

I release you.

Good luck to you both.

I am off with my new bride, full of bright thoughts.

Bouchard: Step aside, trepagny.

I have matters to put right with mister cooke.

Cooke: What is this?

Bouchard: Tell me where henri marth is.

Cooke: I do not know.

Eric: You are a liar.

Cooke: This is not a proper hearing.

You have no right.

Bouchard: Your rights in new France died with your wife.

I hereby exercise the power of the crown,

And I offer you a choice.

I relieve you of your house, your cooperage,

And cast you out of new France.

Or you submit now to the fiddle.

Cooke: I will not be scapegoated!

Bouchard: Then confess your hand in the murder of the innkeep.

Cooke: That was gus's business, not mine!

Bouchard: Then there is the business of the bloody massacre.

I hear there were more than iroquois at play. Huh?

A fine and poisonous english mind, in fact.

Cooke: Where is your evidence, you drunk?

Bouchard: Mister cooke, this will go better for you if you

Do not play me for a fool.

The fiddle will help us find the truth.

(grunting).

Bouchard: Eh...

Cooke: All right! All right!

I submit.

(grunts).

There's a lock of hair in my pocket.

Take it out and give it to me.

It belonged to my wife.

Give it to me, bouchard.

(laughs).

Woman: Bloody english!

Bouchard: You will stand bared before the people of wobik for

The murder of francis geffard!

(crowd cheers).

Bouchard: Let mr. Cooke's punishment be an example to

Every man in wobik!

Man: Throw away the key!

♪ ♪

(strains).

(grunts).

Marth: You're wendat?

Have you told anyone of me?

Mari: No.

Do I have your word that if you heal you will leave this

Land and not come back?

Marth: Okay. Yeah.

Mari: Good.

Now sleep. I will return with food.

If the pain is too much, take all of this in one swallow.

Spotted hemlock.

You will go to sleep and not wake up.

Melissande: My mother was a wit and I, I know that I said

My favorite of her sayings was the one about the bloated monk

Who feared his vow of silence covered farts,

But I don't have her way with the phrase.

I'm afraid I'll word it wrong.

Trepagny: Tell it another time, chéri.

The woods reward silence, it is in the silence we hear

Things not of this world.

Come, I will show you.

You must step very carefully, here and here.

(breathing heavily).

Are you nervous of what you will find when you reach my doma?

Melissande: Perhaps.

(grunts).

Trepagny: Which means you know surprises loom.

(gasps).

Ah.

(chuckles).

It's fine.

(exhales).

Trepagny: They are everywhere on my doma this time of year.

And there are mice, of course.

And many hawks, which also eat the mice,

But prefer to eat the snakes and sometimes get both.

There is also another creature that menaces them all.

The child of my housekeeper, mari.

This is one of the surprises I will warn you of now.

Melissande: You have a housekeeper?

Trepagny: I depend on her.

She is a wendat woman.

She may test you. She may throw curses at you.

Melissande: Then you must put her in her place.

Trepagny: She has long since forgotten her place,

I'm afraid.

Come, I will tell you the story of the wasp that

Followed me for two days.

Yes. I looked and saw...

(jangling).

(indistinct chatter).

Duquet: Come out of there.

Stayed where I put you.

Thom: Are you going to kill me?

Duquet: Not if you leave.

Do you understand?

Follow the river to quebec.

Thom: Please, I want to go home.

(grunts).

Duquet: And I should do as I was paid to do and

Smash your brains out.

Now go. I'm giving you a chance.

Thom: Tell my mother I love her.

Duquet: I shall tell her you're dead.

Now go.

Pierre: Do you like it here?

Delphine: It's perfect.

Pierre: We shall have more.

More land, a family, of course a proper house.

(chuckles).

Pierre: Come.

Put it on.

(chuckles).

Delphine: Please...

Mathilde: Everything is good?

Ah, come on.

(laughs).

That was good? Perfect.

Good? You liked it?

(speaks in french).

Okay I'll be right back!

What are you doing?

Herve: I've been waiting for our meal, mathilde.

(crashing).

Mathilde: You have been in the drink.

(chuckles).

Herve: True.

Mathilde: Monsieur gasquet, if you will leave my kitchen

At once I shall prepare your food.

Herve: And I shall be direct with you, mathilde.

Mathilde: I am not asking for that.

I am asking you to let me get back to my work.

(chuckles).

Herve: I would partner with you.

There is no more need for you to put up resistance.

You will need a man.

Better you see that now.

Mathilde: No. No.

(grunts).

Monsieur gasquet, I am telling you I do not need a man.

Now if you will please leave my kitchen at once.

Herve: I am sorry, mathilde...

(breathes heavily).

(shushes).

Mathilde: It's okay. Don't worry.

(shushes).

(breathes deeply).

(breathes heavily).

Delphine: I'm cold.

Pierre: Come over here. I will warm you up.

Take off the dress.

You are my wife, now.

Take it off.

Come to me.

Delphine: Pierre, I'm sorry.

Pierre: It's been a tiring day.

I'm going to sleep. You should do the same.

(crying).

Trepagny: Is something wrong?

Melissande: Is this it?

Trepagny: It is veiled in the dark.

The daylight will open your eyes to its beauty.

Melissande: I wish to see it all.

Trepagny: You will see everything in the morning.

That is my contemplation room.

I will show it to you another time.

Melissande: I wish to see so that I may better know my new husband.

Trepagny: One must have secrets, don't you agree?

Melissande: For now I will allow you just this one.

Trepagny: Shall we go?

Melissande: Yes.

Trepagny: The true binding of a man and woman must

Have a ceremony befitting the sanctity.

Melissande: A celebration.

Trepagny: Exactement, a party to celebrate our union so it

May be bound in the vault of heaven.

But tonight we must bind and consummate as

God intended all creatures.

Even the snake.

(exhales).

(breathes heavily).

(grunts).

(breathes heavily).

(grunts).

(breathes heavily).

(grunts).

Cooke: Good.

I see now what kind of man you are.

The lock of my wife's hair, fetch it for me.

(sniffs).

(breathes deeply).

Would you sit with me?

(spits).

(grunts).

(peeing).

(stab).

(music plays through credits).

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