Original subtitles

My Holy Father.

My tender God.

My great King.

My good Shepherd.

My everlasting salvation.

Amen.

PRIEST SPEAKS IN LATIN

SINGING IN LATIN

Corpus Christi.

Amen.

Corpus Christi. - Amen.

HORSES NEIGH

PRIEST SPEAKS IN LATIN

Amen.

Our brother in Christ, Father Daniel

leaves us today for the seminary in Douai

to perfect his understanding of the Holy Church.

Show this pass to any whose assistance you require.

I put my name to it.

If they're loyal to the one true church

they will succour and protect you.

Before Father Daniel departs

let us renew the fourth vow of our order.

I, Henry Garnet...

I, John Gerard...

I, Daniel Smith...

...promise a special obedience to our sovereign pontiff in Rome

our Holy Father, to faithfully further and protect...

PRIESTS RECITE: ...the interest of the one true apostolic church.

DOOR OPENS LOUDLY

Milady! There are men outside on foot and horse.

They surround the house!

By God, they shall not enter.

No, Robin, keep your sword still.

We are well-prepared.

Come.

Go upstairs, turn the beds and put the cold side up.

Quickly! - MAID: Yes, milady.

POUNDING ON DOOR

Forgive me, Father.

By order of the King

I command you within to open this door!

POUNDING ON DOOR

DOROTHY: Hurry, Father.

Just be still.

POUNDING ON DOOR

Who demands entry?

I'm Sir William Wade.

What is your business here, William? - It's the King's business!

Now open this door before I order it blustered!

Robin, I beg you.

Do not give them cause to do us violence.

POUNDING ON DOOR

POUNDING ON DOOR

I know you, Catesby.

And I know your skill with a sword.

Have a care what you do in my house.

It is curious, madam, that your cousin did prevent my entry

for such an unconscionable length of time.

Sir...

What man would admit a troop of desperate men

armed with swords and pikes to a widow's house

scarcely before she and her niece have risen from their beds?

Your intrusion is impolite and unlawful.

I shall have the names of all those within these walls.

Question the servants closely so their names

parish of their birth and the length of their service

with the Lady Dorothy.

Madam...

I counsel you most earnestly.

Deliver up the priest.

Priest?

I know there is a Jesuit priest in this house.

THEY BREATH RAPIDLY

Search for this phantom priest if you must

but if you truly seek one who has not the right to be here

go, sir, to a mirror.

Hm.

Search closely. Search every room, every closet.

For every bed slept in, find the man or woman that laid there.

Your eager hounds will find nothing here

to gorge their appetites.

MEN CLATTER THROUGH THE HOUSE

Get up.

INDISTINCT YELLS

CLATTERING CONTINUES

We have made a thorough search of the house.

There's nothing out of the ordinary.

Your sport here is finished, Wade.

Be gone.

THEY BREATHE RAPIDLY

SHE INHALES TENSELY

Are you playing us a child's game, sir?

Your searches have told you plain there is nothing here.

Your breath is foul, sir.

The air in this house, madam, is rancid

with popery-

Mistress Anne Vaux.

About you I have heard a great deal.

Tell me...

ls it true you lie with the priests you shelter?

This is indeed child's play and impertinence.

It is a sign that you have nothing of importance

with which to charge us.

Measure carefully without

and within.

THEY BREATHE RAPIDLY

WADE'S MEN CHATTER INDISTINCTLY

HE SHIVERS

34.

55 again.

Sir...

The measurements without do not tally with those of the hall.

Do you mean to pull down my house, sir?

Sir, every corner of my home has already been searched and disordered.

Madam...

Be quiet.

THEY BREATHE RAPIDLY

METAL CLANGS LOUDLY

HE SHIVERS

WADE: Huh.

Get out!

WADE: Hold him to his knees.

DANIEL SHIVERS

What is your name?

Smith. - Smith.

Why do you have such a paper in your possession?

Who gave you this paper?

Where's your man?! - DANIEL WHIMPERS

I have no memory who gave it to me, sir!

It is signed Henry Garnet.

WADE: Garnet gave you this, hm?

It's to secure your passage to Flanders, was it not?

This paper will see you dead, boy.

Take him away. - No!

DANIEL: Please!

DANIEL GROANS

Hm.

I am responsible for this house and all within it.

I alone. They knew nothing.

Well, take her as well. - What?

İt has never been the practise to take the women.

Well, the practise no longer fits the times in which we live.

No, sir, you shall not take her.

Madam, I shall I take who I please.

By God, you shall not.

DOROTHY: I shall go with them.

I'm not afraid.

SWORD IS SHEATHED

ANNE CRIES

There was nothing to incriminate Catesby?

The woman exonerated him and his cousin from complicity

in the hiding of the priest.

Garnet was sending the boy to Flanders.

Undoubtedly with intelligence for Stanley.

Stanley plots the invasion from without

Garnet the rebellion from within.

It is imminent.

Flanders is where these dangerous spirits are gathered

and Stanley is their leader.

Did you put the boy-priest to torture?

To the, er, gentler tortures

at first, My Lord, then he was racked.

I had hoped you would bring me a full confession.

It would help to convince His Majesty

of the true danger the Catholics pose.

Can His Majesty not see the danger the Kingdom is in?

His Majesty wants to be Solomon.

A blessed peacemaker.

He fears that harsher persecution will jeopardise

the peace treaty he seeks with Spain

a treaty he is most anxious to secure.

Scribe.

Write, 'The Priest Smith was found to be in possession

of a Iaissez-passer

written in the hand and signed by the traitor Henry Garnet

who styles himself Jesuit Superior in England.

LOUD CHATTER

Please... Yes...

Dear Aunt, will you not make a plea to save your life?

There's no time for conversation.

It seems there is ample time to torture and maim

but yet not one minute to speak words of love and pity.

What world is this?

I beg you, save yourself.

Dearest Anne, shed no tears on my account.

I'm happier today than I have ever been.

Dear Robin.

May you find peace.

ROBERT: God give you strength.

Farewell.

CROWD JEERS

Will you repent and pray before God?

I will not pray with you.

And you shall not pray with me.

I will not say amen to your prayers.

Nor shall you to mine.

Dorothy Dibdale, you have refused to enter a plea

for the charge brought against you

namely that you harboured and abetted

a Jesuit priest at your house

at Baddesley Clinton in the County of Warwick.

WADE: Will you answer the charge?

I will not.

My niece and heir will be free of the stain

with which you would smear her

and you will not, by my plea, dispossess her of her inheritance.

I pray for the King

that God might turn him to the Catholic faith.

CROWD CLAMOURS AND JEERS

And that after this mortal life

he might receive the blessed joys of Heaven.

You must remember

and confess that you die for treason.

No, no, sir.

I die for the love of my saviour, Jesus Christ.

CROWD CLAMOURS AND JEERS

Traitor! - Give her the box!

CROWD QUIETENS

Put off her apparel.

You must die naked

as judgement was given and pronounced against you.

DOROTHY BREATHES RAPIDLY

HE STRUGGLES

Make a plea, woman.

Save yourself.

I am already saved, sir.

Speak to me no more.

CROWD CHEERS

DOROTHY BREATHES RAPIDLY

CROWD CHEERS - SHE GROANS

Oh, Jesus...

Have mercy upon me.

CROWD CLAMOURS

CROWD CHEERS

Plead, woman.

Plead.

SHE SPEAKS LATIN

CROWD CLAMOURS

CHEERS

CROWD QUIETENS

CROWD JEERS

MAN: Papist filth!

This man...

who calls himself Daniel Smith

has been tried and condemned as a heretic!

And a hellish Jesuit!

DANIEL SHIVERS

Where is Garnet?

CROWD CHEERS

CROWD CHEERS

DANIEL SCREAMS - FLESH SIZZLES

DANIEL SCREAMS

CROWD CLAMOURS

DANIEL: No!

DANIEL SCREAMS

CHOPPING CONTINUES

JEERS

FLESH SIZZLES

CROWD CHEERS

Oh! Ho-ho! - APPLAUSE

Oh, well done, Philip! HE LAUGHS

Oh! - COURTIERS APPLAUSE

By God, I love thee dearly, Philip!

THEY LAUGH

Did my cankered beagle enjoy the performance?

Very much so. You have astonishing skills, sir.

Perhaps you would care to perform some tricks of your own

for our amusement?

Sadly, I am not shaped for tricks.

There would be no amusement in it.

On the contrary, there would be great amusement to be had

from watching you perform.

Have you had an opportunity to read the papers I sent you, sir?

Not all of them.

There are nests of conspirators abroad in the country

who seek Spain's aid and that of the Pope to plot an invasion.

The dangers to Your Majesty

and his family are of the gravest nature.

We have heard this siren song from you before, Lord Cecil.

You must bring down a heavy hand.

'Must'?

Must is not a word you use to princes.

You forget yourself.

Every papist in the Kingdom is a potential traitor.

They must be watched, harried

and made to answer for their crimes.

There are already good and sufficient laws

for the suppression of the Catholics.

CECIL: We need new laws rigorously applied.

What you propose, sir, is a recipe for rebellion.

On the contrary, My Lord Northumberland

it is a necessary recipe to avoid rebellion.

New laws will cause greater offense to the Spanish.

Further provocation would serve us poorly in the negotiations to come.

Your papers prove nothing.

Catholics, in my experience, are loyal and quiet if left in peace.

Continue to hang their priests as you find them, Master Secretary

but keep the disturbance on my Catholic subjects to a minimum.

Must have peace with Spain.

Again.

PHILIP: One, two, three...

We shall need harder evidence. - JAMES LAUGHS

Get you to the Tower, Sir William.

There is a prisoner I wish to meet.

JAMES AND COURTIERS LAUGH

HE STRUGGLES

BARNET: For I am the resurrection.

He who believeth in me

though he be dead, shall live.

BARN ET SPEAKS LATIN

Amen. - Amen.

My sister was crushed like a seed.

Our brother, butchered like a hog.

They will be revenged.

You have always been quick to draw your sword, Robin.

And now is the not the time to kindle spirits into flame.

Tonight we lay these two martyrs in their grave.

Tomorrow night it could be me or it could be you.

If we do not raise the sword in our defence, what then do we do?

How are we to survive? - The sword plays no part in what we do.

It must...

if we are to save ourselves.

Thou shall commit no murder.

INDISTINCT YELLS

Captain Turner, you have been a soldier these 14 years past?

I have, My Lord, and always served...

Why are you here? - My Lord?

Why stand you a prisoner in chains?

I was indicted for the killing of a man, My Lord

by some that sought to profit from my death.

That is, My Lord, I quarrelled with a man.

Hard words were offered.

He had slandered my good name in respect of a woman

and I had no other recourse but to seek satisfaction.

You stabbed an innkeeper through the eye

after you had laid hands upon his wife.

You were observed by a score of witnesses

stood trial at the assizes

and now are condemned to death.

Such is my unhappy and undeserved fate, My Lord.

Your family are of Catholic stock? - No! My Lord, on my life!

Jacob Turner of Battle in the County of Sussex.

Your father, I believe.

At the Sessions of Michaelmas

was accused of recusancy, fined 27 shillings.

Robert Turner of Battle, Sussex, your brother...

My Lord, I detest popery with all my heart.

My family are unknown to me these 12 years past.

Upon my honour...

Your honour, Captain Turner, such as it is

holds no interest for me.

You're here because you may yet perform some service

to the King, your country and me.

Upon my life

I will perform whatever you ask of me.

Your life now belongs to me, Captain Turner.

This is your cipher.

Each symbol represents a letter.

Your correspondence will be with His Lordship.

His Lordship is number one, you are number 32.

Never refer to yourself or His Lordship by name.

Do you understand?

Alum ink.

Invisible to the eye unless it be exposed to heat.

In Flanders you will seek out a notorious papist

Sir William Stanley.

Do you know him?

He is a soldier of great repute.

Stanley is a turncoat and traitor.

And the leader of a nest of dangerous Catholics

who plot the King's destruction.

You will discover his designs and stratagems

and report them back to me.

This will ease your entry into his society.

Now, go. A ship for your passage awaits you.

DOOR OPENS

They demand payment by tomorrow.

If we sell these, it should raise what we need.

Does it hurt?

No, Uncle Tom, 'tis nothing but a broken head.

Ha.

Nothing but a broken head.

It takes a strong will to stand your ground.

You grandson's a brave lad.

What were you thinking letting him fight with those bullies?

A man must learn to take his bruises.

You're selling those, too, Father?

The house empties by the day.

Would you rather that I conform?

The more I resist them, the more they take.

Look at your father when he speaks to you, Robert.

May I go?

ROBERT: You saw that, Mother.

He fears me.

Sons should fear their fathers.

The better they may learn to fear God.

Anne Hudson of Kenilworth, widow

on 17 September 1603 at Stoneleigh

is alleged to have spoken the following...

'The Spaniards will come

and I would they were come soon.

A plague of God light upon all the King's subjects.'

How do you plead?

I put myself on God and my country.

Bring forth the witness.

You were present at the alehouse

when the accused spoke the said seditious words?

I was, sir.

And what did you hear her say?

I heard her say the words in the indictment, sir.

AUDIENCE MURMURS

INDISTINCT WHISPERS

We find the charge is proved.

Additionally, James Hudson, her son

aged eight years or thereabouts, labourer

stole bread from Robert Edmunds to the value of 10 pennies.

Yes.

50 strokes by the beating for the mother, 20 for the son.

SHE CRIES

JUDGE: Who comes next?

LAWYER: The popish recusants, sir.

Robert Catesby, come to the bar.

Thomas Wintour, come to the bar.

John Rawlins, Edward Tidmarsh, and Worthing's Robert Bolton.

You are come again before us, Catesby.

Are you so addicted to these sessions?

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

I am addicted to the truth, sir.

You may grand claim, sir, for one whose priests pander

superstition and magic to their ignorant, deluded flock...

We both know the reasons why I'm come here, sir.

I suggest we proceed.

You stand indicted for being absent from your parish churches for 40 Sundays.

AUDIENCE REACTS

This court fines each of you the sum of £5.

AUDIENCE REACTS

And in respect of you, Robert Catesby

and you, Thomas Wintour

there are outstanding sums as yet unpaid.

£8 and £3 respectively.

With respect, sir

it has always been practise that a...

We have commission from His Majesty

to sit in judgment at these general sessions

and to levy such fines as we deem fit.

These fines are beyond all reasonableness.

Our authority comes from the King himself.

The King is but a man. - AUDIENCE REACTS

Robert... - The King wields no power

over the mortal soul of his subjects.

God alone has that power!

You will mind your speech, sir.

Is it the King's privilege to sit in judgement on men's souls?

Silence! - I say I owe my soul's allegiance

to God alone!

JUDGE: Silence!

I will not bow my head to any man whose flesh and blood

carries no more divinity than mine own!

Silence!

It is the order of this general session that you both be held in jail

until payment is made!

Take them away!

AUDIENCE CLAMOURS

Sir Joseph.

Mistress Vaux.

£13 for my cousin Catesby and £8 for Thomas Wintour.

The prisoners may now be released. - HE SCOFFS

Not yet, Mistress Vaux. - Not yet, sir?

The prisoners caused such outrageous stir during their appearance

that they may now face additional charges of contempt.

You say they may be charged? They have not been charged?

Not as yet. - Then, Sir Joseph

you must by law release them.

No man may be kept under restraint without charge.

Mistress Vaux...

As you will discover when I bring suit against you

for the unlawful detention... - Oh?

...of two of His Majesty's subjects.

There is law yet in this land

and I will see that you answer for what you do.

THOMAS A jail.

It's even bleaker than I remember.

Next time we should demand a cell with a better aspect.

I cannot go on as I am, Tom.

My lands are mortgaged, my name disgraced.

I am spat upon and reviled.

Well, toughen your hide.

FARM ANIMALS SOUND IN STREET

I will never be taken prisoner again.

Come on.

Thank you, Anne. Yet again.

You should not have paid, Cousin.

I would give all I possess to see you free.

He is anxious to speak with you.

Tom. - We'll go to London.

I'll tell young Robert that his father is a free man once more.

Hm?

CHURCH BELL TOLLS

You will see Father Garnet himself has put his name to it.

I do not know this man Garnet.

And I do not know his signature.

Sir, I'm certain you must know him.

Father Garnet does the Lord's work in England

at great hazard to his life.

I know neither the man nor his works.

I must speak with Sir William Stanley.

This man I do not know either.

TURNER SIGHS

DOOR SHUTS

This is all there is from Turner? There is nothing more?

Nothing, My Lord.

Our captain has so far failed even to make

the acquaintance of our prey.

This will not serve for what I have in mind.

Give me Turner's original.

HE WHISTLES

Ah, to the hunt again, Sir Philip.

I see you do love the sport.

I love tennis, hunting, dogs and horses.

Nothing else in the world.

Do you not love the King, sir?

With all my heart. - I do believe it.

And His Majesty favours you handsomely, sir

for your skill in the field, on the court

and all manner of...

manly pursuits.

The King has been most kind. - Such is his nature.

Will you help me preserve the King's life?

I mean, sir, the King is in mortal danger.

This morning, I received this cipher from my most reliable espio.

He has penetrated a conspiracy of desperate Catholics

whose end is to murder the King

and all those he holds dearest.

Has the King been told?

The King takes counsel from his Scottish friends only.

You, sir, are the one Englishman

to whom the King will listen.

If you love the King as you say...

No man loves him better.

Then I must urge you, at all costs, to convince him

that the threat to his life is grave

and immediate.

INDISTINCT YELLS AND CHATTER

DOOR UNLOCKS

Go with God, my son.

Robin.

Father Garnet.

I am humiliated.

Despised and impoverished.

I have nothing left except the kindness of a loving cousin.

GARNET: You have a son, Robin.

HE POURS WINE

A finer lad I never saw.

The only woman I ever loved died because of him.

Robin...

You cannot blame your son.

Women know when they conceive they carry both life and death.

And childbirth is a most dangerous time.

You're a father, Robin.

You must love your son.

I have no room for love.

Hate I have room for, anger.

Our plight is difficult.

But we have friends at court

who every day plead our cause to the King.

Do they report success?

How can they?

Whilst Cecil remains in office?

A spider in the middle of his web.

The King has not been moved by the pleadings of our friends

nor will he be.

Perhaps...

Perhaps he will be moved by tumult.

What mean you by 'tumult'?

I am not alone, Father.

Not all men possess your patience.

I've nothing to do with desperate men.

Who would entice you to tumult?

I am

a desperate man.

Can you not see?

JAMES COUGHS

This is very heavy.

But most necessary for your security

Your Majesty.

Your care for me touches me deeply

dearest Philip.

Their numbers swell like rats in a granary.

They want no more than to practise their mass quietly in a corner.

HOWARD: Or perhaps you have your own popish corner in mind!

NORTHUMBERLAND: I am no papist.

Aye, but you permit papists to swarm over your household!

There are...

some of my household that do have...

oars in that boat. - Ha!

But they are perfectly loyal to His Majesty. - DOOR OPENS

Gentlemen.

I am persuaded

and, uh, convinced

that there are abroad in the land evildoers

intent even on murder.

It is our pleasure to summon the Parliament

to devise new and timely laws for the certain suppression

of these wicked designs.

Spain will not countenance a more severe persecution.

The peace you seek will be lost.

HOWARD: This is England, sir.

Our laws are naught to do with Spain.

CHICKENS CLUCK

INDISTINCT CHATTER

DOG BARKS

Robin.

You are come.

Jack.

How are you? - I'm well, Robin.

What is he doing here?

We are going to have need of men like Jack Wright.

INDISTINCT CHATTER IN DUTCH

Captain Turner.

I am come from Sir William Stanley.

Where are you taking me, Farwell?

You wish to have conversation with Sir William, do you not?

I do. - Then gather your courage.

And follow me.

CHURCH BELL TOLLS

We need to strike at the root, Tom.

The nature of the disease requires so sharp a remedy.

CROWD: God save the King!

God save the King!

God save the King!

This is Turner? - Yes.

What do you want with Stanley?

I wish to dedicate my life to his cause.

SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC SWELLS

What do you know of any cause, Turner?

You are a light and dissolute fellow.

You're no man for any cause but your own.

I've been changed thanks to the grace of God.

FARWELL: He has a laissez-passer signed by Garnet.

You come armed?

I'm a soldier, like you.

And there is no just cause but the one true church.

I come to lay down my life to defend it.

CROWD CHEERS

In that Parliament

have they done us all this mischief.

Perhaps God has designed that place for their punishment.

Who are you?

My name...

is Guy Fawkes.

HE STABS TURNER