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(eerie music)

(man grunting in pain)

- Charles has been on the throne less than a year.

In public he's towing the line and working with Parliament,

but behind closed doors, he's taking matters into his own hands,

and right now,

he needs the name of the men behind the plot to kill him.

- Do you think the people you're protecting give a fuck about you?

- Trust in your fellow men, it's the bedrock of a just society.

Without it what do we have?

- Kings don't normally interrogate prisoners,

but Charles just loves an interrogation.

- Fellow man.

(shackle rattling)

That's your fellow man over there.

Cruel, venal, self serving.

He'd kill his own brother if he thought he could get away with it.

Your fellow man's an animal, White.

(eerie music)

We all are.

Me, you, and bastard regicides.

It's hunt or be hunted, I'm afraid.

It's kill or be killed.

Just give me a fucking name.

WHITE: Edmund Ludlow.

(exhales wearily)

- Fuck you!

(objects clatter)

- Edmund Ludlow, of course, the bastard murdered one king

and now he thinks he can take down another.

Well, wherever Ludlow is hiding, Charles is going to find him,

whatever it takes.

(upbeat rock music)

(song ends)

(fast, suspenseful music)

- Charles has executed ten regicides on his kill list,

but 19 are still on the run.

London has erupted in violence.

(fast, rock music)

Fifth Monarchists, a sect of religious fanatics,

terrorise the streets.

- Open up in the name of King Jesus! Do him!

(clamouring ensues) (stabbing sounds)

- Well, what the hell did Charles expect?

He cut off the head of their leader, Thomas Harrison, along with nine

others, and now their supporters want revenge.

(rock music)

- Charles's vendetta is backfiring.

(music stops)

(bass guitar playing funky tune)

FIENNES: But Charles has other pressing business to attend to.

ATIM: For the Lord Chancellor, Edward Hyde,

this rebellion is a nightmare.

- How to distract the public when the country's in trouble.

How about the most ambitious coronation ever staged?

- You'll process through the Triumphal Arches, thus.

- What's your name?

- This is Rebellion, Satan's eldest daughter,

and this is Chaos. - Hmm.

- You are the emperor Augustus, bringing peace and stability.

- (chuckles) How well you know me Hyde.

- Now when Charles returned to the throne, Parliament granted him

a yearly income of 1.2 million pounds,

but Charles has almost burnt through it,

and every time he needs more he has to go back to Parliament,

and with the coronation coming up, costs are spiralling out of control.

- Five days of celebration?

Do you realise what that will cost?

- Charles's money issues are triggering for Hyde.

Charles first tried to rule without Parliament.

He levied new taxes directly from the people.

It's exactly what sparked the First Civil War.

- How many do you suggest? - One. It's customary.

- Hmm.

Four.

Final offer.

- Yeah, fine. Four.

ATIM: The king's mistress, Barbara Villiers, might be on the make,

but more than anyone she understands the power of public image.

She's stage-managing Charles's persona as a merry monarch,

which she knows is a powerful weapon in the battle

against the regicides' ideas.

- Make no mistake, this whole merry monarch act is just that, an act.

(eerie music)

(suspenseful music)

Behind the scenes, Charles is crushing the rebellion.

He's using the insurgency to instigate a wider crackdown

on religious minorities.

- The people asked for stability.

They can't complain when he gives it to them.

They've forgotten what strong leadership looks like.

Charles sends soldiers door to door, breaking up meetings,

arresting prominent republicans like Henry Vane,

looking for the 19 regicides who signed his father's death warrant,

and who are still on the run.

But the guy Charles really wants to find...

..is Edmund Ludlow.

- Where's Ludlow? No one knows.

Some say he's in the east end of London,

others say he's gone to America.

Between you and me,

he's in Catholic France and, um, he hates it.

For English protestants,

France is one of the most dangerous countries on the planet.

A Catholic police state ruled by Charles's despotic cousin,

Louis XIV.

A deadly conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Europe

has defined the last century.

Over eight million people have been killed.

(indistinct chatter)

Now there's a bounty on Ludlow's head,

and France is crawling with mercenaries eager to cash in.

- Jesus finger.

Very sacred.

Excellent price.

- Begone, huckster...

..or I'll have your death to atone for along with all the rest.

- If you're the most wanted man in Europe,

you need to keep your head down.

I will give you Jesus finger,

and you won't even have to pay.

(ominous music)

- I'll give you Jesus's fucking finger.

(finger snaps) - (man screams)

- There's a special circle of hell reserved for creatures like you.

- (man groans)

(objects clatter)

- If there's one thing Ludlow hates more than Charles, it's Catholics.

Why? Well where to start? How about the Spanish Inquisition?

Suppression of scientific enquiry, the disenfranchisement of women.

- That's rich.

The problem with these self righteous republicans,

they're always blaming someone else.

Ludlow's precious republic massacred thousands of Catholics in Ireland.

Make no mistake, his hands are drenched in blood.

Bunch of hypocrites.

(weapon swishes)

(slicing) - (man grunts, thuds)

(tense music)

HARRIS: Ludlow uses an underground network of Protestant sympathisers

to evade Charles's agents.

Crisscrossing France from safe house to safe house,

trying to reach republican Switzerland.

Back in England, his wife Elizabeth, his eyes and ears,

coordinates a network of sympathisers to send him

the money and intel he needs for his journey.

Together, they're a dangerous alliance

and right now, they're the best hope for the republican movement.

(clattering inside house)

ATIM: Charles has issued a proclamation

that any house can be searched, if there's a genuine fear of revolt.

(objects clatter)

(object shatters)

- Seen anything you like?

- You won't tell us where he is, we'll go looking ourselves.

- In my drawers?

- Prynne's the man who found the king's death warrant,

but that's just put more pressure on him to deliver arrests for Charles.

- The innocent virgin act won't work on me,

although it is rather becoming.

If I knew where he was, which I don't,

I wouldn't tell you.

- I'm going to ferret out every one of your dirty little secrets.

Once I'm done with you,

we'll be the best of friends.

(takes long sniff)

(chuckles)

Hmm.

(chuckles)

- Get out!

- Charles has another trick up his sleeve.

(device clicking)

The explosion in written communication

via the newly established Post Office

gives him access to his subjects' private thoughts.

- The machine re-seals it and the letter arrives on time.

It's undetectable.

- How underhand.

- This is amazing. Charles is a geek at heart.

He loves science and innovation.

Who cares if the technology was developed by Charles's enemies

to spy on him?

Now he can turn it on them, see how they like it.

- Your predecessor told me you can't be a great statesman,

unless you open people's letters.

- My father said that?

- I mean... Cromwell.

- Oh.

Where's that bastard Ludlow? You must have an idea.

- There are so many theories, it's impossible to know.

- Algernon Sydney, not a regicide.

- No, but a republican.

- Charles has a bold new idea.

What if it's not just the regicides he targets,

but their republican friends?

If Charles doesn't know where Ludlow is, why not apply pressure

on sympathetic republicans like Sydney, who surely do?

- He'll know you'-

- Hmm. He will know I've...

Come.

- These are scary times,

so Charles needs to use the power of surveillance

to keep law and order.

(eerie music)

- This is Algernon Sydney, a prominent republican who's been

watching the situation in England from a safe distance.

Sydney's young, idealistic, a bit of a hothead.

He has lofty ideas about himself.

Sydney thinks he's destine for a role on the world stage.

He, he just hasn't figured out what it is yet.

- But Vane did not sign Charles's death warrant.

He's maddingly non violent.

- And yet he's in prison. - For criticising the king?

- Sydney's just learnt that his beloved mentor Henry Vane

has been arrested.

He can't yet see what this says

about the path that Charles is taking.

- Thank you.

My father.

FIENNES: The unmistakable sign of the royal seal.

Republicans like Sydney need to learn an enemy of Charles

is an enemy of the state.

- That's what you want your country to be, Algernon?

And what it really is.

- So first it was regicides,

now Charles can just go after anyone whose ideas he doesn't like.

That's most of the bloody country.

(pen scraping)

- With his coronation fast approaching,

Charles is perfecting his image as the wise, magnanimous king.

(eerie music)

But behind the scenes,

Charles is haunted by the spectre of Edmond Ludlow.

(horse nickers)

Ludlow cannot be allowed to gather republican allies abroad.

LUDLOW: Ya! Ya!

- The longer he is at large, the greater the threat he poses.

Charles needs a new approach.

- Uh, Hyde...

That's quite enough of that shit.

Fucking roasting under all this. (grunts)

- What about an inside man?

Someone with links to the regicide?

Someone who can be bought?

In other words, someone who's not Edward Hyde.

- Using Cromwell's spies is one thing, but this man is a...

- Oh.

Oh, come on, Hyde, just say it.

Come on, it'll make you feel you feel so much better, he's a cu...

- He's not... a respecter of form and order.

Nor am I, in case it passed you by.

- I have men I trust.

- And have any of these cretins managed to even locate Ludlow?

- No. No, they haven't, have they?

(footsteps receding)

- (he sighs)

(ominous music)

ATIM: No one has done more in the last decade

to bring down Charles than this man.

George Downing.

And to Hyde's horror, Charles wants to meet him.

- Your friends are running around Europe like rats.

They're breeding.

- Your Majesty, you are mistaken.

(menacingly) I have no friends.

- Why should we trust a man with no friends?

- It's really very simple.

You need to avenge yourself on your father's enemies,

I need to demonstrate my loyalty to you, given my past associations.

CHARLES: Hmm.

- No one is more feared by the royalists.

Downing was Cromwell's ruthless spy chief in the Netherlands,

responsible for the deaths of many of Charles's friends

and very nearly Charles himself.

- You fought me tooth and nail, didn't you?

- I did it because it was expedient and profitable,

just as I come to you now

in the expectation of financial gain.

- A man after my own heart, unlike Algernon Sydney.

- Sydney?

He's not a regicide. - No.

But I'm certain the little prick knows where Ludlow is.

- Then he must tell us. - And if he won't?

- Then others must understand that to conceal a regicide

is tantamount to being one.

You see, Hyde?

Set a cunt to catch a cunt.

(he chuckles)

(ominous music)

- Well, that's one word for him.

Another would be snake, turncoat.

He'd sell his soul if he had one.

- Why the special interest in Sydney?

Well, he recently declared that the murder of Charles's father

was the justice and bravest thing ever done.

That's a stupid thing to say.

He's asking for trouble.

(tense music)

(birdsong)

- Charles has tasked Downing with bringing Sydney back to England,

with or without his consent.

- Uh... (chuckles)

You're not dressed for Italy, George.

- I don't plan to be here long.

I find the English climate more agreeable.

- Remember when Charles returned to the throne a year ago,

both these men were ambassadors,

but their lives had taken very different paths.

- I find the king really quite accommodating,

if you say the right thing.

- Yeah, well, Henry Vane does not share your way with words,

or perhaps it is your lack of principle.

- (Downing laughs)

Vane has a maddening habit of saying precisely the wrong thing.

- Charles has been rounding up not just regicides,

but prominent republicans like Henry Vane,

though he's promised not to execute them.

- And Charles always keeps his promises, right?

- Stop playing games, George.

- Where's Edmund Ludlow?

- It's not my job to know that.

- No? I rather thought it was.

- And I rather thought it was yours, George.

- An Englishman belongs at home,

not in this papist hell hole!

- Downing has a soft spot for Sydney.

He's trying to make him an offer,

but Sydney's too headstrong to listen.

- It's not 1660 anymore, Algernon.

The king's not just coming after his father's enemies, but his own.

(birdsong)

- (he chuckles)

Well, always fun talking with you, George.

- Is Sydney entitled? Very.

Does he think he's better than everyone else?

Definitely.

But one thing I'll say, the man has principles.

Unlike Downing, he'd never work with Charles.

(footsteps approaching)

(urinating)

(ominous music)

(attacker grunts)

(grunting)

(blows thudding)

(choking)

(choking)

(panting)

- This was a citizen's arrest to extradite an enemy of the state,

(scoffs) not an assassination.

Sydney didn't have to kill him.

It just goes to show what a dangerous threat he is.

Why would Charles want Sydney dead? He's only useful alive.

- Sydney has no idea, but he does know he needs to get out of Rome.

(eerie music)

(hooves clomping)

- No one knows where Ludlow is.

Soldiers, mercenaries and bounty hunters

are searching for him throughout England and France,

but they're nowhere near.

He's just crossing the Swiss border.

LUDLOW: Ya!

(ominous bell tolling)

- The day Charles has been waiting for his whole life

has finally arrived.

As he's anointed with the sacred chrism oil, he asks himself,

will he finally feel like a king?

(ethereal music)

(classical music)

- And guess what? He does.

(crowd cheering)

How can he not?

A huge day of celebrations, the likes of which the country

has never seen before.

Peasants take to the streets to catch a glimpse of their new king.

(dramatic music)

ATIM: The coronation procession is so long,

it takes five hours to travel across London.

There's so much gold on display, it hurts to look at it.

(cheering)

- The people adore Charles, and he is loving every second.

- What an utter farce.

This charlatan's bankrupting the country

and rubbing everyone's faces in it.

- The republicans claim to love the people.

Well, guess who the people love?

Charles.

(cheering, applause)

- Elizabeth Ludlow can see Charles is putting England

on a highway to hell.

SOLDIER: Oi! Give me those.

- Up and down this land, people are being hunted,

because when they were young,

they thought they'd make a name for themselves.

The world turns, it will turn again.

Keep your powder dry 'till it does.

(funky music)

ATIM: As Charles celebrates his coronation,

his agents are making slow progress in their attempts to catch Ludlow

or the other 18 regicides on the run.

To make matters worse, news of the foiled abduction of Sydney

has spurred more republicans to rally to Ludlow's cause.

(eerie music)

- Rather than ridding me of my enemies, you're spawning new ones.

Where is he now?

He killed one man, the other fled. He's gone.

- He's gone.

Fucking gone to find Edward Ludlow and I bet you he does!

Don't return until you have him.

(he sighs)

- There is the matter of funds.

Kidnapping operations are complex.

It would be cheaper if we simplified the operation,

sort it all out on the continent,

save on extradition costs.

- Look, what you need to understand is that hunting the regicides

is a deliberate spectacle.

He doesn't just want to bump people off quietly.

He knows that justice is pointless unless it's witnessed.

- I am the king, Downing

They're the fucking murderers.

Just bring me someone I can execute.

You shall taste regicide blood before the year is out.

- Hmm.

Or we'll have to make do with yours, won't we?

- Your Majesty.

- Charles has spent his whole life begging for money.

Now he's crowned, he vows never to get on his knees again.

ATIM: Charles's long time mistress, Barbara Villiers,

also craves money, but she's got a plan to ensure

they never have to worry about it ever again.

- Parliament expect me to live on a fucking pittance.

- That is so humiliating.

- Shouldn't even be money.

Everything should just be mine in the first place.

(he sniffs)

- You know, Louis wouldn't put up with it.

- No, he wouldn't would he?

Imagine what Louis would do to them?

He'd fuck them up.

- But even Louis relies on taxes,

not like the Spanish royals or the Portuguese.

Catherine of Braganza, for example.

- Isn't she meant to be... dull?

- (she laughs)

She is eligible.

- It's hard to tell.

- You're not marrying her for her looks.

- Well, does she speak English?

- She comes with Tangier,

and Bombay in India,

and two million crowns.

- Hmm. (chuckles)

I don't really think I'm the marrying type.

- Marriage doesn't have to be a big deal.

Look at me and Roger.

- (laughs) Hasn't he finally left you?

- Nothing's worse than having no money,

and only people who grew up without it like we did understand that.

- A rich, unsuitable princess who barely speaks English.

Sounds like my mother.

- The richer and more unsuitable, the better.

Now there's one tiny, tiny drawback.

- Oh, great, she's ten years old. - (she laughs)

She's Catholic.

But name me an eligible princess who isn't?

- Parliament won't like it.

- Fuck Parliament.

- Yeah.

Fuck Parliament.

(he chuckles)

- Well, you've got to hand it to Barbara.

Charles thought she was just a bit of fun,

but she's a considerable political operator in her own right.

With bags of money on the way, Charles doesn't hold back.

He ramps up his spy operation and takes Downing off the leash.

- The pressure's on Downing to deliver a head for Charles.

As Cromwell's ambassador to Holland,

Downing built up extensive spy networks on the continent.

And these he now uses to identify the English merchant

who is passing messages between the regicides in hiding.

With the merchant in his pocket,

Downing just needs to use his typical sleight of hand

to lure them into a trap.

He is now the spider at the heart of a regicide web.

He uses forged letters from the exile's wives,

suggesting a meeting in Delft.

Three of the regicides respond.

Okey, Barkstead, and Corbet.

Downing only has one shot.

Once he strikes, the regicides will know that their network has

been blown, and that Downing can't be trusted.

But before he can spring his trap, Downing needs assurances

that the Dutch authorities won't stand in his way.

- (Downing sighs)

- You have come to the head of Holland for an export permit.

Well, for these kind of black market goods, you do not require a permit.

- Very well.

An assurance then will suffice that you won't intervene.

- And in return?

- A trade deal.

A trade deal so attractive you'll want to take it to bed and fuck it.

(dramatic music)

ATIM: The Dutch might be Protestant republicans,

but there's nothing they love more than money and trade.

Downing gets the all clear.

Betrayed by the Dutch,

Okey, Barkstead and Corbet never stood a chance.

The men are piled onto a ship for England.

(crowd jeering)

- John Okey, John Barkstead

and Miles Corbet are the latest victims of Charles's blood feud.

You know, before he left for Holland,

Okey contacted his old protégé Downing to make sure it was safe,

but Downing sent Okey to his death for his own profit.

You know what he did with the money?

He built a street in London.

And being Downing, he named it after himself.

Things are going pretty well for Charles.

Three regicides had been stitched up by their old pal George Downing.

He struck Okey, Barkstead and Corbet off his kill list.

He's put on a public spectacle.

It's justice in action.

But this time, people have had enough.

(crowd jeering)

The mood on the streets is, is nothing short of mutinous.

Something has to be done.

This is how movements start.

(dark music)

Posters are plastered all over London,

inviting people to a peaceful vigil for Okey,

to remember the dead men and show opposition to Charles's brutality.

- It's rumoured that 20,000 people are gathering in Stepney.

That's no peaceful vigil. That's an uprising.

(dramatic music)

Hyde knows this is disastrous for Charles,

but the king is increasingly indisposed.

- We're a little bit busy, Hyde.

- 20,000 people are marching to meet the funeral procession.

- What do they want? - Okey's body.

- Can you believe it? Charles has delivered justice,

but instead, these ingrates are mourning the regicides.

- Well, then, burn it. Toss it in the Thames.

Take it to bed and make love to it if you feel inclined.

- He'll put it in an unmarked grave

and send in the troops to remind them who's boss.

- I would advise...

- If you can't solve any of my problems,

then what the hell's the point of you, Hyde?

- Maybe Hyde's your biggest problem.

- Troops easily dispel the mourners but Charles is feeling slighted.

He decides to send a message to republicans everywhere,

by making an example of a prominent republican thinker.

And he just happens to have the worst culprit under lock and key.

- How many opportunities have you had to renounce your critical words

and save yourself, Henry?

- I lose count.

- Yeah. Henry Vane.

(chuckles) Where do I start?

His ideas gave intellectual cover to the murder of Charles I.

Along with Edmund Ludlow, he did more than anyone to stop

Charles II returning to England.

And now he continues to deny the king's right to rule.

- What is it you seek?

- I want to be free,

to live in a country where I can criticise my king.

- (scoffs) Then I fear you will not live much longer.

Goodbye, Henry.

- When Charles arrested Vane, he promised Parliament

that he wouldn't have him executed.

- What can I say? People change their minds.

Look. Ultimately, kingship is about dignity.

Vane insulted Charles's dignity

and Charles gave him every opportunity to apologise.

- I have been unjustly tried...

(barely audible) ..and I am answerable only to God.

- And in a final insult,

Charles orders his trumpeters to drown out Vane's last words.

(trumpets blaring)

(axe chops) (head thuds)

(people groan)

- You want to talk about murder? This is murder.

There's no legal basis for this.

- The regicides killed Charles's father.

Vane attacked Charles personally. How could he let him live?

- Henry Vane was a thinker, a non-violent man.

He opposed the execution of Charles I, for Christ's sake.

Charles is now killing with impunity.

He's a tyrant as bad as his father or worse.

- People are outraged.

Charles lied so brazenly to Parliament.

- These are treasonous.

- Today, I saw Henry Vane executed at Tower Hill.

Charles is as bad as any tyrant in Europe.

- Worse, I fear.

- You have helped him every step of the way.

It will take more than pamphlets to stop him.

Hmm.

I shall always treasure this.

(she sighs)

- Prynne won't debase himself further by supporting a king

he no longer respects.

Charles has lost his most ardent follower.

- (she sighs)

- Look. Charles isn't stupid.

He can see his vendetta has spiralled.

His enemies are uniting,

the public have turned their backs on bloodshed.

Charles has been wearing a mask,

but he's lost sight of who he really is.

He's now wondering, is he actually no better than his father?

(pensive music)

- Sydney vows to avenge his mentor.

He writes, "Let there be revenge for the blood of the just."

Charles has made a dangerous enemy in Sydney.

He's given this young man, in search of a purpose,

the ultimate destiny:

overthrowing a tyrant.

(birdsong)

Elizabeth's seen the country she loves sliding into violence.

If she can get to Ludlow, maybe, just maybe,

they can spark a revolution of ideas

which could reshape the world as they know it.

- Come.

HARRIS: Ludlow has reached the safety of Switzerland

in the republican stronghold of Vevey.

He knows at any moment, he might be discovered and killed.

(loud knocking on door)

(gun clicks)

- If there's one bastard tough enough to topple Charles Stuart,

it's you.

(suspenseful music) (gunshot)

- A spot of hunting is in order. Regicides are in season.

- This is a gangland murder.

- Charles is out of his depth here.

- Great men don't ask for permission,

they take what they want, and they get it.

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