All language subtitles for Mala na listi.S01E03

- (music)

- On the 21st of May 1662,

King Charles II marries
a very rich,

and very Catholic, princess.

Catherine of Braganza.

- Welcome to our English court.

- Thank you.

- Catherine comes with
an impressive dowry,

equivalent to £74 million today.

Now Charles plans to become
Europe's most powerful king.

He'll hunt down the men
who killed his father,

start a devastating war, and
become an even bigger tyrant.

But you know what they say.

Power corrupts.

And absolute power...is even nicer.

- (rock music)

- (rock music builds)

- So Charles is a married man.

Who saw that coming?

Finally, he'll have the money
to be free from Parliament,

to rule without restraint,

like his cousin,
Louis XIV of France.

Free to hunt down anyone left
on his kill list, with impunity.

And top of his kill list?

Foremost of the men who signed
Charles I's death warrant,

Edmund Ludlow.

Ludlow is gathering allies
on the continent,

plotting to overthrow the king,

and evading Charles's network
of Royalist spies. Until now.

Because finally,
finally, there's news.

Edmund Ludlow's been spotted
in Vevey in Switzerland.

A spot of hunting is in order.

Regicides are in season.

SHEILA: Ludlow and his allies

have been granted protection
by the Protestant Swiss.

Ludlow is joined by English
republican, Algernon Sidney.

Together, they represent the
greatest threat to Charles's rule.

Remember George Downing?

The former republican
now paid by the king

to hunt down regicides in Europe.

Well, with his newfound
independence from parliament,

Charles has now let him off the
leash to employ more direct methods.

He's hired Captain John Reardon,
an Irish assassin

with a reputation
for extreme violence.

- Downing's a big fan of yours,
Reardon.

So you must be a terrible bastard.

- This is a new departure,
even for Charles.

Kings don't hire hitmen.

Well, kings shouldn't be
seen to hire hitmen.

- (scoffs)

A hitman?
Look, Charles isn't a gangster.

Reardon's a...freelancer.

- He's not particularly fond
of Protestants.

- Cromwell was not kind
to you Catholics.

- Normally, I won't allow mention
of that murdering bastard.

- Under Cromwell, it's estimated

that up to 40% of Irish people
were massacred.

- Hm! Good man.

I wonder, how would you feel about
murdering the head of his army?

JOSEPH: Not only is Reardon
a stone cold killer,

he has personal beef with Ludlow,

who butchered his friends
in Ireland.

Couldn't be more perfect.

- Hm, why, that'd be my
absolute fucking pleasure.

- (chuckles) Good man.

- (dramatic music)

SHEILA: Now Charles turns
his attention to politics,

and consolidating
his power on the world stage.

- (yelling)

SHEILA: The Dutch duly handed over
Charles's enemies for execution,

in return for
a lucrative trade deal.

But Charles failed to keep
his side of the bargain.

Now the conflict
threatens to escalate.

- What does de Wittless want?

- To discuss the trade concessions
you promised last year.

- Can they talk of nothing
but trade? It's incredibly dull.

- Charles is thinking
about the future.

He wants to be remembered
as a pioneering monarch.

And that means building
an empire, expanding trade,

and making England
a commercial powerhouse.

To do this, Charles plans
to muscle in on the Dutch,

Europe's richest and most
successful trading nation.

They dominate in everything.
From sugar, iron and copper,

to the transportation
of enslaved Africans.

- Congratulations on your marriage.
- Hm.

- When we handed over
your father's enemies,

you think we did that just
because you're a great guy?

- No, because you want to guarantee
a monopoly on the slave trade.

- Among other things.
- What hypocrites you Dutch are.

I thought you believed in liberty.

- When Charles looks at de Witt,
he sees a small man

with an even smaller country,
but much greater wealth,

the majority from trade,
including the slave trade.

It's very simple. Charles
wants what de Witt has.

- We put you here because we
thought we could work with you.

If not, we'll find someone who will.

- The more a shit's stirred,
the more it stinks.

I don't give a shit what you think.

- Your enemies are running round
Europe, everyone's laughing at you.

- Oh, really?
- Yeah. They do.

No-one fears you like Cromwell.

- (grunts)

- You need to understand,
the promise of Catherine's dowry

has completely changed
Charles's outlook.

Does Charles want to make enemies?

Yeah, actually he does.

He's done apologising. Great men
don't ask for permission.

They take what they want,
and they get it.

- News of Charles's rift with de
Witt reaches the exiled republicans.

For Edmund Ludlow, this is the
opportunity he's been waiting for.

And he dispatches Algernon
Sidney to do a deal with the Dutch.

Think of Sydney like an ambassador

for a country
that doesn't exist yet.

He wants the Dutch
to join forces with the exiles

to invade England and
establish a new republic.

Here's what Sydney proposes.

If the Dutch help the regicides
topple Charles,

the new English regime
will honour the trade deal

that Charles has reneged on.

- Invade?

And it will be another decade
of civil war,

and England must be sick of it.

- Civil war may be
a disease of the state,

but tyranny is its death.

- You are so quotable, Algernon,

and you always bring
the most delicious wine.

- I've brought you General Ludlow.

He could not be more serious
about overthrowing Charles.

JARED: The promise
that the republican forces

will be led by the legendary
Edmund Ludlow

is the reassurance
that the Dutch need.

But before a deal can be struck,

Ludlow has just one tiny request.

Not unreasonable.

Apologise for betraying
his regicide allies.

- You must first condemn
handing over his fellow men.

- That is out of the question.

- Why?

- Because we didn't hand them
over in the first place.

- OK, maybe he didn't
personally put them on a ship.

But he knew what Downing was
up to. He could have stopped it.

It's an uneasy alliance,

but the Dutch promise 10,000
soldiers, 20,000 sailors,

and their entire fleet,
to overthrow Charles.

- This is the last thing
Charles needs.

The regicides and the Dutch.
Republican bastards.

They're as treacherous and
as hypocritical as each other.

Charles now adds Algernon Sidney
to his ever growing kill list.

As for the Dutch...

- I won't have de Fuckwitt
cosying up to my enemies!

I want to hit them where it hurts!

- We simply don't have
enough ships for a battle.

- Their country is puny.
- Their navy is large.

If we take them on,
we risk losing our fleet.

- Well, we beat them last time.
- That was...

- That was what?

- A different time.

- Here's what you need
to understand.

England has been punching above
its weight on the world stage.

Under Cromwell, England had
become a military superpower,

winning spectacular victories
against the Spanish and Dutch.

But since Charles's return, its
military power is on the wane.

Hyde worries that war will reveal

that England is nowhere near
as powerful as it once was.

- This really stings.
You see, unlike Cromwell,

Charles has never won a war.

In fact, the only time he led an
army, he ended up hiding in a tree.

Is it any wonder he's so
desperate to prove himself?

- If you can't fight them,
stop them from trading.

CHARLES: How?

- We bar their ships from our ports.

- It's a brilliant plan.

Starving the Dutch of valuable trade

and buying Charles time
to build up his forces.

- English ports...for English boats.

Well, it has a ring to it.

I like it, James. Fucking love it!
(chuckles)

- (melancholy piano music)

SHEILA: But Charles doesn't only
ban Dutch sailors

from entering English ports.

He gives English sailors
the right to act like pirates,

attacking and looting Dutch ships.

English money and naval power
pours into transatlantic slavery.

- The slave trade is already
in existence at this point.

But when Charles signs
this document,

he industrialises it
to an unimaginable scale.

Charles's moral descent

reaches an appalling new level.

- Some of the very worst crimes
against humanity,

all signed off by...

..the king.

JARED: As the king's nemesis
Edmund Ludlow

gathers republican forces
in Switzerland,

his wife Elizabeth
races across Europe.

A single woman, travelling
across Europe, it's unheard of.

But Elizabeth Ludlow
is no ordinary woman.

She's as dedicated to the
republican cause as her husband.

With Irish assassin
John Reardon closing in,

some of the exiled regicides
decide to run.

- Lisle!

In the name of the king!

- (shot rings out)

JARED: The King of England
has had a man

illegally assassinated
on foreign soil.

John Lisle, a member
of Cromwell's parliament,

who had sat in judgement
on the late king.

This is a gangland murder.

- Oh, please. It was self-defence.

- He was shot in the back!

SHEILA: Whatever it is,
it's another name

Charles can strike
from his kill list.

But the king's assassins
are only getting started.

The main prize is Edmund Ludlow.

- (door creaks)

- Been too long
since I shot an Irishman!

- English bastard!

- (chaotic music)

Oh!

- Reardon might have killed
one more regicide.

But the main target, Ludlow,
escaped,

and he knows Charles
is on to him.

It's bad news for the king.

SHEILA: And now he's facing a
new battle much closer to home.

His new queen must appoint
the head of her household,

the first lady of the bedchamber.

It is an appointment which
must be approved by the king.

But unbeknownst to Charles, his
mistress, Lady Barbara Villiers,

has made a power grab.

- The Queen is profoundly upset.

- A conversation with you
and who wouldn't be?

- You appointed Lady Villiers

first lady of the bedchamber
without telling me.

What were you thinking?

- Lady of the Queen's Bedchamber

is the highest position
for a woman at court.

So Barbara has been telling everyone

that Charles has promised
her the role, but it's a lie.

- As it happens, I did not.

But you confronting me
in this appalling way

makes me think that I should have.

SHEILA: The king's mistress
is the last person

that Queen Catherine wants
as the head of her bedchamber.

- You would have been better off

putting a whore in the Queen's
bedchamber than Barbara Villiers!

- (footsteps recede)

- Now look what you've done, Hyde.
You've upset her.

Barbara knows Charles will not allow
anyone to publicly challenge him,

even if it's on a decision
he didn't make.

JOSEPH: But bad news arrives
that suddenly makes

Charles's domestic crisis
the least of his worries.

- Catherine's dowry
never arrived on the ship.

All those millions vanish before
Charles's eyes, like that.

- It turns out they never had
the money in the first place.

- Where's the fucking money
your father promised me?

- I don't understand.

JOSEPH: Charles has received the
territories of Bombay and Tangier.

But without the dowry, his plans
for global expansion,

his whole legacy, are in jeopardy.

- If you don't understand English
then I'll give you a bloody lesson.

SHEILA: And it's terrible news
for Queen Catherine.

Without the dowry, she is forced
to accept Barbara

as the head of her household.

Although Barbara might have won,

even she is unprepared
for what he does next.

- Who is your master?

- My master is God.
- Your husband is your God.

- My husband is the devil!

SHEILA: Charles places Catherine
in solitary confinement

while priests
psychologically torture her,

day and night, for three months.

- Charles wants to send a warning
to the Dutch, the regicides,

and anyone who's thinking
of taking advantage.

Mess with him and
he'll make you submit.

JARED: The republican Algernon
Sidney reaches Edmund Ludlow

with news of the Dutch offer.

10,000 soldiers and 20,000
sailors for an invasion.

- It's twice as many sailors
as soldiers.

They don't care about
an invasion, only trade.

- 10,000 troops.

- It's not nearly enough
for an invasion!

- Here's what Sidney doesn't get.

The Dutch don't need
to get rid of Charles.

They just need to force him
to the negotiating table.

No wonder Ludlow is thinking
twice about their offer.

- Once back in England,
we'll rally more people.

- We need professional soldiers.

I know how good his army is.
I fucking trained it.

We need twice as many men.

- There's only one man in Europe
that can give you that.

- What? Fucking Louis?

He's the one man in Europe
you hate more than Charles Stuart.

SHEILA: France is the most
powerful country in Europe,

with the biggest army.

The problem is, it represents

everything that Ludlow
and the republicans hate.

It is an oppressive
Catholic monarchy,

infamous for massacring Protestants.

But Sidney believes
the ends justify the means.

He sets up a secret meeting with
the most feared man in Europe.

Meet Louis XIV,
the Sun King himself.

He's the ultimate puppet master,

who loves nothing more than
manipulating his enemies

into war against each other.

He actively destabilises
his neighbours,

knowing it will only
make France stronger.

- My advisors tell me that you are

the most confident
young man in Europe.

- I'm older than you.

- But I'm not a man, I'm a god.

- Cousin to the king
we seek to overthrow.

- But what's wrong with the way
things have always been?

JARED: Sidney wants Louis to help
them overthrow his cousin, Charles.

It's a big ask.

But here's the thing about Sidney,

he'll do whatever it takes
to get it over the line.

- Somewhat naive to think that
your wholly untested idea

would work better, don't you think?

JARED: Sidney's banking on the fact

Louis doesn't really care
if England has a king or not,

as long as the country is weakened.

What's that expression? The enemy
of my enemy is my friend.

Louis offers the regicides money
and men for their invasion.

They now have the backing
of two powerful nations,

enough to launch an attack.

But here's the gamble.

Can Sidney really trust Louis to
betray his own cousin Charles?

That's the million-dollar question.

SHEILA: And of course,

Louis makes sure news of
the offer gets back to Charles.

He wants to create maximum chaos.

- Hats off to Louis, he knows
how to play the game.

- This obsession with hunting these
men is playing into Louis' hands.

He intends to become
King of all Europe.

- Louis doesn't want to rule
this shitty backwater.

He has too much taste.

- I expect he'll keep you on the
throne but you'll be neutered.

- I won't have de Witt fuck me.

- Swallow your pride

and sign de Witt's deal.

- Here's what Hyde knows.

If Charles doesn't sign this deal,

he's going to war with the Dutch,

which will bankrupt the country.

- That's insulting.
- It's a good...

..compromise.

- Make no mistake, Charles's back
is against the wall.

But Charles has come too far
to turn back now.

He won't stop until he is
taken seriously by de Witt,

by Louis, by all of Europe.

- If you swallow someone's shit,

then they'll keep serving it to you.

And that,

my dear Hyde...

..means war.

SHEILA: On the 4th of March 1665,

England declares war on the Dutch.

JARED: It's the opportunity the
republicans have been waiting for.

It's now or never for Ludlow.

- Against the odds,
Charles has early success

in the war against the Dutch.

At Lowestoft, the English
destroy a Dutch fleet.

Seventeen Dutch ships
are sunk or captured.

Their admiral lieutenant
is blown up.

Aboard his flagship, only five
survive out of a crew of 400.

- So what do you know?
Charles has won a battle.

He was right not to listen
to the naysayers.

SHEILA: And more victories follow.

140 Dutch merchant ships
destroyed in one raid.

A Dutch town burned to the ground,

killing over 2,000 people.

- (church bells toll)

SHEILA: Charles even turns
a disaster at home

to his own advantage.
- (yelling)

SHEILA: Shortly after midnight

on Sunday 2nd of September 1666,

London goes up in flames.

The fire rages for days, taking
with it 13,000 houses,

93 churches, and the mighty
St Paul's Cathedral.

London is a smouldering wreck.

100,000 people are left homeless.

JOSEPH: But as Londoners
watch their beloved city

burn to the ground, Charles sees
something else, an opportunity.

He rolls up his sleeves,
grabs a bucket,

and gets amongst the public
to help put out the fire.

- We will rebuild London
even better than it was!

CROWD: Yeah!
MAN: God save the king!

CROWD: God save the king!
God save the king!

- The King wins over the crowd,

playing on his image
as a man of the people.

He has never been more popular.

- Charles Stuart has the luck
of the bloody devil.

Just when you think he's down
and out, he finds a way through.

The republicans are
running out of options.

But it's now that Algernon Sidney
arrives back in Vevey

with the news of his deal
with the French.

- The bloody French? They're
blaming them for starting the fire

and you're about to lead
a French army into London?

- For the Ludlows, Sidney might
as well be suggesting a deal

with Lucifer himself. But look at
it from Sidney's point of view.

The French king
is the only option left.

- This isn't a popular uprising,
it's a fucking war,

bankrolled by Louis' cash.

It'll make the last one
look like a parlour game.

I mean, how many more
thousands are going to die?

- As many as it takes!
That's what revolution looks like!

- Ludlow understands the reality
of war. He lived through it.

The English Civil War was by far

the bloodiest conflict
the country had ever seen.

An estimated 5% of the population
died during the conflict.

That's almost twice as many
as the First World War.

- OK, say you invade,

say by some bloody miracle,

you defeat the army you created
in your own stubborn image.

What's your plan?

- Anything is better than
what's come before.

- Was Cromwell better than the
king that came before him?

JARED: For idealists like Ludlow,
Cromwell was a military dictator,

little better than the
king he replaced.

Without popular support,
any invasion

would just be replacing
one dictator for another.

- I won't be your Cromwell,
Sidney. You're a hot head.

I know soldiers like you.

I never put them in charge.

- It's easy to know
what you're against,

much harder to know
what you're for.

Maybe if they'd
understood that sooner,

the republic wouldn't have
fallen in the first place.

- (door opens and closes)

SHEILA: Without Ludlow, the Dutch
and French support evaporates.

JOSEPH: This is great news
for Charles.

His enemies are in disarray.

And now he can turn his attention
to unfinished business at home.

- (door creaks open)

- (heavenly choir singing)

- You have finally destroyed her.

- Catherine is strong, but she
can only hold out so long.

- Oh, dear.

You're stubborn. I am too.

See? We have more in
common than you think.

We find it hard to trust.

(whispers) Can I tell you
a little secret?

I've never trusted anyone
in my life. Have you?

- My father.

- (groans)

Right, come here. Come.

I will protect you, as he did.

If you just give me the sign, hm?

- I accept my king as my master.

- Good, my child.

Eat.

- This is what Charles does
to those closest to him.

Is it any wonder many believe
Charles is the devil incarnate?

SHEILA: With his house in order
and his enemies on the run,

Charles now decides to divert
money from the war effort

to indulging his ever more
decadent lifestyle.

- Charles should be feeling good,
so why does he feel so empty?

- I've been asking myself,

since when did Barbara
become so bad at cards?

It's very perplexing.

And then I realised,

she's doing it deliberately

to make me pay her debts,

so that I don't forget about her.

Well, this time...

..I've had to sell a palace.

I won't do it again.

- You will.
- No, I fucking won't!

- You destroy everyone
who comes close to you.

JOSEPH: Charles believes
the Dutch threat is over.

So to save money, he orders the
English fleet to return to port.

- It's a huge mistake. The Dutch
launch a brutal attack.

In London, people hear
the thunder of cannons

echoing through the streets.

On the 10th of June, Dutch soldiers
land on English soil

less than 50 miles from London,
which lies undefended.

The English fleet is destroyed,

and the flagship,
The Royal Charles, is captured.

It's one of the greatest
humiliations

in English military history.

It's total surrender.

But just as Ludlow had suspected,

the Dutch and de Witt have no
intention of deposing King Charles.

Much better to have a weak king
than a strong republic.

- Humiliating. There's
no other word for it.

All Charles's ambitions
to be a global leader,

all of it is...extinguished.

Charles set out to match Louis.

Now he finds himself
bowing down to de Witt.

- (door creaks open)

- (footsteps)

JOSEPH: Charles's finances
are in a dire state.

His only option is to
ask Parliament for more cash

in return for
humiliating concessions.

If he accepts, he would be
a king in name only.

- Yet another day
of rioting in the streets.

You've never been less
popular with the people.

- Well, they've never been
less popular with me.

- I fear they've had enough.

- Well, I certainly have.

- What have you done?

- Cousin Louis is offering me money.

- How kind of him.

If you take it,
there's no turning back.

- If I do, I won't have to listen
to Parliament ever again,

which means I'll never have
to listen to you, Hyde.

- It's unthinkable that the King of
England will be a paid agent,

ruling at the behest
of the King of France.

But Charles doesn't care.

He just wants to save his own skin.

He publicly blames Hyde for the
Dutch defeat, and fires him.

- (footsteps recede)

JOSEPH: Flush with
Louis' secret money,

he decides to prorogue Parliament
to prevent it from sitting.

He remarks that the country
is much better off

now that it has one king
rather than 500.

SHEILA: Parliament will never sit
again in Charles's lifetime.

He is absolute monarch of England

who rules at the indulgence
of the French king.

But there's one last piece
of business for Charles.

The few remaining names
on his kill list.

- You've been trying to kill me.

- Liar.

Show me your proof.

SHEILA: Sidney has been writing
a book on government,

calling for revolution.

- (laughs)
This is your proof?

My words?
- Uh-huh.

You urging the people to
revolt against their tyrant.

- Is that how you see yourself?

- Hm.

JOSEPH: Charles wants Sidney dead,
so he finds a loophole.

- In an unprecedented move,

his book is used
as evidence of treason.

The judge justifies this by saying

that in this country,
'to write is to act'.

- We invent an idol
and dance around it,

though it is stained with
the blood of innocent men.

Do I take it that I'm the idol?

- And my comrades' blood
shall stain your soul for eternity.

- What would you have me do?

- (exhales)

Oh, it's far, far too late
for you, Charles Stuart.

- It's always worth meeting
a condemned man.

I enjoy the execution so much more.

My only regret is that
I didn't have a chance

to sign your father's death warrant.

- (sighs)

- Does Sidney want to die?
Not especially.

But what he has always wanted
is to be remembered by history.

- This age...

..makes speaking the truth
an act of treason.

Though everyone would rather
shut their ears than hear it.

My trial and condemnation
is living proof of it.

- (clang)

- (church bells toll)

SHEILA: Algernon Sidney is executed

on the 7th of December 1683.

Charles suffers
a series of convulsions.

Doctors bleed him and blister him.

But he dies four days later,
aged 54.

When Charles dies, the hunt for
the regicides dies with him.

Of the 51 men on his kill list,

19 were condemned
to life imprisonment,

16 faced execution
or the assassin's bullet,

while the 16 who escaped

lived out the remainder of
their lives in constant fear.

But his revenge did not come cheap.

- Charles's single-minded
pursuit of his enemies

unravels not only his reign,

but the entire house of Stuart.

SHEILA: Just three years
after Charles's death,

the Stuart kings are
overthrown by Parliament

and replaced by
a constitutional monarchy,

invited from Holland, of all places.

- So what is Charles's legacy?

Some say his failure brings about

the end of absolutist monarchy
in England.

He's replaced by the very thing
he's always feared,

a monarchy subordinate
to parliament.

But look at it this way.

There's still a king of England,
and guess what he's called?

Preuzeto sa www.titlovi.com