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The Pillars of the Earth
S01E07 - New Beginning
S01E08 - The Work of Angels
SAINT DENIS
- Qu'est ce que c'est?
- L'abb� Suger, excuse moi.
Il ya un probl�me
avec cette pierre.
Il pisse dans la nuit.
Il quoi?
Pendant la journ�e, il
semble comme tous les autres.
Mais quand la nuit
tombe, il suinte.
Le diable est dans cette pierre.
Peut-�tre.
Qui �tes-vous? Que
cherchez-vous �?
Uh, not nothing,
sir.
Rien, monsieur.
- Oh, you're an Englishman.
- Ouais.
Get back to work.
Abbot Suger, forgive me.
I I want
to learn here.
La lumi�re est magnifique.
Les murs
The walls are so high,
how do they bear their weight?
You know Euclid,
the father of geometry?
No, non.
Then you know nothing.
BAYEUX
France
Pardonne moi, je suis � la recherche
un ma�on anglais, avec les cheveux rouges
qui peuvent avoir pass�s par ici.
Vous avez vu?
Il est partir il ya un an.
Vous savez o� il est all�?
Non.
Yes, Prior?
You have a visitor.
You look lost.
Of course, you are.
No longer prior,
your dream demolished,
you must sometimes think
God is punishing you
for your sins,
your willful pride.
Yes.
But perhaps he's guiding
you in another direction,
towards me.
I admire you, Philip, in
spite of what you think.
You're a clever man,
determined and a good priest.
I want to make you my archdeacon.
Your Eminence.
Hear me out.
In recompense for
not naming me archbishop,
the king has agreed to send me
as his representative to Rome.
And I'll need a trustworthy man
to handle diocesan
affairs in my absences.
And you were the
first, and to be frank,
the only man I could think of.
I I don't think I'm
I'm not finished.
When I advance as
I hope one day to do
perhaps you will take my place.
As Bishop of Kingsbridge, you
could build your cathedral,
punish the Hamleighs,
do whatever you want.
Until then, I simply
ask for honest diligence
and obedience in all things.
In all good things.
Of course.
I don't need
your answer tonight,
but I will need you
living within my palace
in two weeks.
Prior Remigius will
reluctantly give you leave.
I look forward to our
partnership, Philip.
In nomine Patris et Filii
et Spiritus Sancti.
The mouth is too small.
Aliena!
Is it really you?
Yes.
I followed your work.
You left Alfred?
He's mine?
He's mine.
He won't break.
Aliena, he's beautiful.
What's his name?
I-I-I haven't chosen one yet.
Shall we call him Jack?
No, no.
No, Jack's the father I never knew.
Let's name him after
the father I did know.
Tom.
Tom.
Tom dreamed of light, of
churches filled with light,
but he didn't know
how to build them.
And now I know,
not only that it's possible,
but how it can be done.
How's Ma?
She misses you.
And Prior Philip, how's he?
Philip isn't Prior anymore.
- What?
- There was a terrible accident.
The vault fell in.
Alfred's vault fell?
The vault that Philip sanctioned.
Waleran called for
another election,
and now Remigius is Prior.
Philip
Philip isn't Philip.
He's lost his spirit.
The construction stopped
when the relic was crushed.
Waleran says that, without
a relic to perform miracles,
there can be
no pilgrims.
And without pilgrims,
there can be no church.
We're going home.
PORT OF CHERBOURG
France
We've got just enough.
We travel tomorrow.
No, don't let him move.
He can't not move.
He's a baby.
Gabriel!
Grabriel, viens ici!
Laissez l'homme tranquille.
Oh mon Dieu!
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Il est l'image crachant
de mon fr�re � cet �ge.
- Votre fr�re?
- Oui, Jacques Cherbourg.
Il �tait jongleur
qui sont morts en mer.
Jacques Cherbourg?
Of course.
This is Cherbourg.
Jacques.
Your father was my only son.
He was a
A storyteller and singer
and my close friend.
He taught me French
when I first came here,
and I taught him English.
The prince, King Henry's son,
hired him to sail with
him across the Channel.
Prince William?
Your father called
him the Phoenix Prince
because of a ring he wore.
Was it a signet ring?
Cut in the shape of a
bird rising from fire.
Prince William was
accompanied by his wife
and many people of his
court, including your father.
And they were never seen again.
That was the White Ship,
the ship that sunk with Prince
William, King Henry's heir.
I thought no one
survived that sinking.
My father survived it.
He was on that ship.
Brother Philip.
Welcome, I'm glad to see
that you have come
to a happy decision.
Yes, yes I have, Eminence.
May we have a word alone?
Your offer took me unawares.
And you were right.
I've never
I've never felt so lost.
Satan tempted Christ
at his weakest,
after 40 days
without food or water.
I haven't Christ's strength
to resist, Eminence, but
but you
you do not have
Satan's cunning.
You have taught me, you see.
Politics may be
a bargain between beggars,
but compromise between good
and evil is never possible.
God's work does not
blend with power or greed.
Your moral mortar
is corrupt.
And the walls of your
church will crumble,
and the roof will fall.
And you
and everyone who worships with you
will be crushed.
I would sooner
live out the rest of my days
feeding pigs at the monastery
than feeding your
ravenous ambition.
You're damned.
Robert of Gloucester!
Richard of Kingsbridge!
I thought you were a
knight, not a foot soldier!
A poor knight, My Lord,
but soon I'll be a wealthy one!
In the name of Queen Maud
I ask you for mercy.
Then God grant you peace.
Yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah! Yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah!
Good man!
I am not yet defeated.
I still have you, Henry.
Gloucester was my muscle,
but you, you are my heart.
And I swear upon
his butchered body
one day, you will be king.
God told me this would happen.
In a dream, Your Majesty?
Heavens, no.
He told me
over dinner last night.
You have my undying gratitude.
Thank you, Your Majesty.
- I humbly ask
- I have no title to give you.
Yet there's to be a crusade,
and I need volunteers.
I'll give you horse and
armor and a squire or two
if you kill
some Saracens for me.
When you return,
we'll see what we can do
about your father's title.
As you wish, Your Majesty.
You see, Eustaces,
Maud's *** brother is dead.
He was her strength.
She's defeated now.
And I swear on his traitorous head,
one day, you will be king.
The workers are gone.
Nothing's been done
since the collapse.
What is it, brother?
- Is something wrong?
- It's Jack! He's come home!
Hey! Jack Jackson's home!
He's in the cathedral!
Welcome home, Jack.
Last time we saw you, you were
locked away in our dungeon.
Have you returned to serve
out the rest of your sentence?
I was locked up to keep
me away from Aliena.
It's too late for that now.
I was wrong.
As I recall,
my predecessor forbade you
from stepping foot on these
holy grounds except as a monk.
You're consorting
with a married woman
and living in sin.
You must either leave the ***
or leave Kingsbridge.
I've come to finish
the cathedral.
The cathedral is dead, Jack.
There are no more relics,
miracles or pilgrims.
Which is why I bring you this
a miraculous statue,
a holy relic from France.
We've heard about these fake relics
traveling from
village to village,
supposedly curing the sick.
However, there's always
a charlatan behind it.
She weeps
for the world's ambitions.
Ave Maria,
gratia plena
Dominus tecum
benedicta tu in mulieribus,
et benedictus fructus
ventris tui Iesus.
It's a trick, Your Eminence,
but I don't know how he does it.
Where did he get it?
He made it himself, it's obvious.
Rumor has it, it's carved
from the true cross,
but it's far too new for that.
And the miracles,
are they real?
Who's to say?
Cripples walk, the
dying are revived,
but witchcraft does the same.
One thing is certain.
More and
more pilgrims come every day
giving money for the cathedral.
That's the greatest miracle of all.
Ma!
- Ma!
- My boy!
Oh, I missed you!
I missed you so much!
I missed you, too.
You're thinner than ever.
You look exactly the same.
You're a father now.
You
have to take care of yourself.
We named him Tom.
Give him here.
He looks like he eats well.
And constantly.
How is married life?
We're not married yet, not
in the eyes of the Church.
Why should you care
what the Church says?
I'm gonna ask Alfred
for an annulment.
He'll never give it.
Come.
I intend to rebuild
the cathedral, Ma,
but they won't hire
a man who's living in sin.
That would eliminate
everyone in their eyes.
Ma, I met my father's family.
Somehow, Father got that ring.
And it must've been a sign that
he intended to give the king,
but they silenced him
before that could happen.
A sign of what?
That he was there, Ma,
that he knew the prince
or that the prince told him
something or he saw something,
something that cost
him his life, Ma.
Who were the other two?
What other two?
The men that condemned
Father.
Who were they?
I curse you, all three of you.
Your church, dear prior,
shall burn to the ground.
Prior James was one, the prior
of Kingsbridge before Philip.
Your children, My Lord,
shall die on the gallows.
Who is the Lord?
He's dead.
There's nothing you
can do to him anymore.
Lord Percy.
Percy Hamleigh.
And the priest?
The one you confessed to.
And you,
good father, the
confessor whom I trusted,
you shall one day climb very high,
only to fall.
Waleran.
I told him that I'd
found a man on the beach.
He needs your help,
your support.
He has a secret he will
tell no one but the king.
They framed you father for
stealing the priory chalice.
And eventually,
they burned him.
And he never
told you his secret?
No.
But they knew.
How?
God hear thee, mother.
Your Eminence, welcome.
Make way for the bishop.
Your Eminence, I
I need to speak to
you about my sister.
Holy Mary, mother of God!
Tears of Mary!
It's beautiful!
Holy Mary! Please!
Please help!
Save me, o blessed ***!
Help me!
Help me!
Please help me!
Can I come in?
- Are you alone?
- Yes.
I didn't do it
to hurt you, Alfred.
I'm here to ask you,
on behalf of Aliena,
to apply for an annulment.
Why should I?
You won't be able to
marry again without it.
You'll have a wife
who won't live with you,
who fathered a child
with another man.
And that's how you'll be known.
I got rid of her.
I told her to leave.
I don't want her back,
you can be sure of that.
- Yes.
- The house is mine.
When I married her,
it passed to me.
Of course.
And I want money.
It'll cost you.
Well, I have no money now,
but if the church building
continues, I will soon enough.
And I can give you work,
too, if you need it.
They won't allow it.
No one trusts me to
build for them anymore.
Well, damn them! I built
that vault strong enough!
I supported it well.
It
wasn't my fault! I was cursed.
- Alfred
- I loved her!
You knew that.
From the first moment
I saw her, I loved her.
Now I'm a laughing stock.
You took my da from me.
You killed my ma.
Your witch
of a mother poisoned her.
Your ma died in childbirth.
She poisoned her!
And then she cursed me.
She made me soft
down here.
Everyone heard.
And when they
saw the baby, everyone knew!
- She doesn't have those powers.
- She collapsed the vault!
She took my work from me!
You took my wife!
Everything I've ever had
or wanted, you've stolen!
- You took something, too.
- What?
- What did I ever take?
- My ring.
You took my da's ring.
And I want it back.
If I had it,
I would melt it into a lump
and *** on it.
Get out.
We know you wish Jack Jackson dead.
If only wishes had knives.
Dear lady, I think
you miss my point.
Because of Jackson's
miraculous statue,
there are now pilgrims
in Kingsbridge.
And where there
are pilgrims, there is a market.
They have a license.
They haven't had a turnout
simply because your son
burned the fleece fair.
That was your idea.
Is that an accusation
or a compliment?
There will be a new market,
and I expect there will be
a newer, grander fleece fair.
Shiring will once again get
the sharp end of the stick.
Could I be clearer than this, hmm?
We are, for better
or worse, together in this.
Then let's kill him.
And Aliena.
They're living in sin.
They deserve to die,
and that *** child of theirs.
And how do you plan to do this?
We could slip him some poison.
Mother's a witch.
An assassin perhaps.
Assassins can be
caught and tortured.
Another attack on Kingsbridge.
He may run away, he may hide.
With our luck, he'll probably
be visiting his mother.
Why not combine all three?
William won't attack until
we're certain Jack is present,
I can see to that.
You once said you had
a spy or two at the priory.
In the midst of battle,
your spy will stab Jack with
a dagger dipped in poison.
Who's to say he didn't
die defending his church?
There's the
added bonus of course
of destroying Kingsbridge.
What do you think?
Oh, leave it to Eve every time.
First, I must make a
pilgrimage to Kingsbridge
to make sure Jack's at home.
And besides, I'm curious
to see the Madonna.
Give me your spy's name.
I'll talk to him.
Blessed be God in his
angels and in his saints.
Blessed be God forever.
Amen.
Father, I need to confess.
Tomorrow morning,
my child, uh, before mass.
No, Father, now.
Don't be afraid.
I can't imagine any sin
you've committed
is as terrible as you fear.
It's not a sin, Father.
- What do you mean?
- It's not a sin I need to tell you.
My husband, William
Yes?
He's going to attack
Kingsbridge in two days
with an army of men.
Dear God, why?
They want to kill
someone named Jack.
There's a spy who's going to
assassinate him during the attack.
Did they say who?
No.
It's Remigius.
He's always been Waleran's ally.
I'll have to try and find
some way to lock him up.
I'd rather catch
him in the act.
How can we defend
ourselves against William?
I haven't a clue, but Aliena
has a visitor who does.
We meet him in the field
outside of town.
There are hundreds of us.
He'll bring twenty at most.
Monks don't fight.
I can't ask the townspeople
to give their lives
when I won't risk my own.
Maybe they'll run when they see us.
And maybe they won't.
Is there any way to
avoid a pitched battle?
Not without town walls.
Walls would do it?
Yes, but we can't
build them in two days.
They're not hard to build.
We have the men and materials.
There's not enough stone
to wall in the town.
Well, does it have to be stone?
A ditch with a
rampart be effective.
But that wouldn't hold
them back for long.
Long enough.
They'd
be stopped, exposed.
And when they're vulnerable,
we can shoot stones, arrows
Can you build a town
wall in two days?
Well, I've never built
a town wall in my life,
so it'll be the
worst-built wall in England,
but I I think so, yeah.
Well, what if it
doesn't hold them back?
Wouldn't it be safer
to run to the forest
and trust William won't follow?
It's not a question of safety.
If we run, we lose everything
that we've worked for,
the priory, the cathedral.
And I have a special reason to
see William Hamleigh defeated.
Come on, you two!
Attention!
One, two, three.
Come on, men!
Keep it up!
This wall needs
to go up faster!
And pull!
Keep it up!
Thank you.
That's enough!
Shore 'er up! Shore 'er up!
Ma!
Aliena sent word.
I want to help.
Put me to work.
Tomorrow morning, when
we attack Kingsbridge,
don't forget that
destruction, My Lord
is the work of angels,
albeit the dark ones.
Where are you?
I want to *** you.
Up higher.
That's it.
Pick a pole.
Throw it away!
Watch out.
There you go.
Leave it alone.
Take it away.
Left, right.
It goes over there.
Another way clear.
Together!
Are you ready?
Ready!
Are we gonna finish in time?
At this rate, no.
What can we do to speed things up?
We need to build
faster and worse.
Well then, let's do it!
It's my fault you
rest in unholy ground.
I should go to hell,
Kate, not you.
I love you.
Ride toward me.
Arrest
everyone over there.
Now!
Come on!
William! Come!
My Lord?
My Lord!
Retreat!
Retreat!
Yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah!
Jack! Where is Jack?
We're saved!
We are saved!
We did it!
It was the wall that did it, Jack,
your wall.
What's this? What's
this? What's this?
My my sister.
He promised to
rebury her in holy ground.
She'd be saved, Philip.
He forgave me this.
Oh no!
Oh no!
Oh no, no, no!
You told Bishop Waleran
about the weeping lady.
You've done everything
you can to stop the cathedral.
You even knew about the
attack and you didn't tell us.
Did you coerce Cuthbert
into murdering Jack?
His sister was
a woman of the streets
who died on the day she
came here for forgiveness.
The bishop refused
her absolution
and buried her
in unholy ground.
Did you barter her salvation?
That was Bishop
Waleran's doing, not mine.
I told him Cuthbert's a fool,
but he didn't trust me.
We don't want you Prior no more.
We want Philip back.
Aye! Aye!
You idiot!
Twenty men to take a town!
I didn't know they had a wall.
Well, they didn't
as of a few days ago.
Somebody must've talked.
What did you do? Get
drunk and brag to one
of your stupid ***?
You are as dense as your father,
William, and twice the coward.
A bump on your head and
you turn tail and run!
Once again, it is up
to me to save Shiring.
God knows it'll never be saved
by incompetent pig slurry like you!
Enough!
Is my sweet William
out of sorts, hmm?
Your mother has a temper,
dear, you know that.
Now tell me.
Whom do you hate the most?
Jack Jackson.
And what would you do to him?
Skin him alive.
And so you shall.
And whom do you love the most?
William,
whom do you love the most?
You.
And what would you do to me?
What the *** are you looking at?
What a terrible accident.
Too much wine and
wandering at night.
You betrayed us, brother.
For that, we cast you out.
Take what few belongings
you have and leave.
We'll finish this
church without you.
Oh, you will.
That, you will.
But that church
is for your glory, not God's.
I may be a sinner, too, but you,
you, Philip, are no
better than Waleran.
It's only words, Prior.
There's truth in them.
Thanks to you, this town is saved,
and because of you, we
will finish this church.
I want you to be my
master builder, Jack.
I hope I'm ready, Prior.
I know you are.
My fight in the crusade
will get us back our title.
I'll bring back a Saracen's
head from the Holy Land
just for you.
Just bring yourself
back, that's all I ask.
Philip in power
Regan dead,
the cathedral to be finished.
Ever your patient
general, Lord God,
when will I see our victory?
Look what I have done for you.
God, why hast thou forsaken me?