0:00:02 > 0:00:10This programme contains some strong language
0:01:05 > 0:01:06Hello.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22Johannes Brandt?
0:01:26 > 0:01:28Are we to have a menagerie?
0:01:30 > 0:01:33Er, his name is Peebo.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36He's a parakeet.
0:01:36 > 0:01:37I'm Nella.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40Short for Petronella.
0:01:40 > 0:01:41Are you the housekeeper?
0:01:41 > 0:01:43MUFFLED LAUGH
0:01:46 > 0:01:47Where is Johannes?
0:01:49 > 0:01:51My brother is not at home.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55Your brother? So you are...
0:01:55 > 0:01:57Marin Brandt.
0:02:02 > 0:02:03Otto!
0:02:13 > 0:02:15For your feet.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26Otto is my brother's manservant.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28This is Cornelia, she is the maid.
0:02:28 > 0:02:33They will look after you. This is Petronella.
0:02:33 > 0:02:34She is the Seigneur's new wife.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38I expect you'll want to see your bedroom.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42To the kitchen.
0:02:44 > 0:02:45Oh, he lives with, um...
0:02:54 > 0:02:56Come on!
0:03:08 > 0:03:10This used to be my room.
0:03:10 > 0:03:14But it had the better view, so we gave it to you.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16Oh, no, please, you must keep it.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19No, you misunderstand.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22The view is of you.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25Amsterdammers must see that Johannes Brandt has a new wife.
0:03:29 > 0:03:35The Oortmans' grand ancestral seat, is it warm and dry?
0:03:37 > 0:03:39It's not that grand...
0:03:39 > 0:03:40..and it's damp.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46We couldn't afford to maintain the dykes.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49Pedigree counts for nothing.
0:03:49 > 0:03:50Nothing.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56The dykes must be maintained or the waters will rise.
0:03:58 > 0:04:02We sent the second-best barge. I hope you weren't offended.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04Johannes was using the other one.
0:04:04 > 0:04:10No, of course not. Did he know I was coming?
0:04:11 > 0:04:13You must be hungry.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16I'll have Cornelia bring you something to eat.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Oh, do you have any marzipan?
0:04:21 > 0:04:23We do not keep sugar in the house.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26The luxury of it sickens the soul.
0:04:27 > 0:04:28Cornelia will bring you a herring.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59Be still, girl! He'll be here any moment!
0:05:01 > 0:05:05Now you listen to me, my girl. You need to marry him.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09You need to make him want to marry you, otherwise we are ruined.
0:05:09 > 0:05:10For myself, I don't care.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13- But for your brother and sister... - He's coming! He's coming!
0:05:17 > 0:05:20And this is Nella...
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Petronella, I mean.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31Your daughter is very beautiful, Madame Oortman.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38- How bad are the debts, exactly? - The debts?
0:05:40 > 0:05:42I know I was not the only one you wrote to.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44You would not have done so had you not been desperate.
0:05:47 > 0:05:48Did I mention she plays the lute?
0:05:51 > 0:05:55Praise God, we are saved. He has asked for your hand.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57Do you think you could love him?
0:05:57 > 0:06:00- Does it make a difference? - No. But I want you to be happy.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05I think perhaps I could.
0:06:07 > 0:06:11I hear they eat chocolate wrapped in gold in Amsterdam!
0:06:11 > 0:06:13Come, come.
0:06:13 > 0:06:14DOOR SLAMS
0:06:14 > 0:06:17DOG BARKS
0:06:49 > 0:06:51She's here.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55It would have looked better if you'd been here when she arrived.
0:07:00 > 0:07:01Perhaps you should go and see her.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07No, let her sleep.
0:07:07 > 0:07:08- You have to understand... - I understand.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14I have to work. Rzecki, come.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23SHE INHALES
0:07:45 > 0:07:48That's right, although, Hamburg's a good choice
0:07:48 > 0:07:49And Marseilles...
0:07:55 > 0:07:56Good morning!
0:07:56 > 0:07:57Good morning.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02Thank you for my dress.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04There are more.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07It's a little large.
0:08:07 > 0:08:08Marin, don't you think?
0:08:11 > 0:08:14Never mind, we'll have it altered. Come and eat something.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34We are eating frugally today to demonstrate humility.
0:08:34 > 0:08:38Privation as a thrill, you mean. Otto, get me some beer.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40And Nella and Marin too.
0:08:40 > 0:08:41It gives me indigestion.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44Go on, be defiant!
0:08:44 > 0:08:47Bravery is the rarest commodity in the city these days.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52- How was the voyage? - Not much to tell.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56- The Lombardy silk, who won the import rights?- I forget.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59- Who?- Henry Field of London.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02The English, always the English. Think of the commission, Johannes.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05I know what I'm doing, Marin. This house is evidence enough, no?
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Have you spoken to Frans Meermans yet about his wife's sugar?
0:09:07 > 0:09:09So that's what this is about.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11It's been sitting in the warehouse for a month.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13You still haven't told them what you plan to do with it.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15My sister thinks that sugar rots the soul, Nella,
0:09:15 > 0:09:18but of all the things I might sell, she pushes this.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20- What do you make of that? - Sell the sugar!
0:09:20 > 0:09:21Don't tell me what to do!
0:09:29 > 0:09:31- Where are you going? - To check on your damned sugar!
0:09:31 > 0:09:33I don't believe you.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45- PEEBO CHIRPS - Hello!
0:09:52 > 0:09:56Did Johannes collect these on his travels?
0:09:56 > 0:09:58The world in a set of plates.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00Isn't he rich enough to have someone travel for him?
0:10:02 > 0:10:05The Seigneur's spirit belongs on the seas.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08He says the ocean is something the land can never be.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10No patch ever stays the same.
0:10:11 > 0:10:12What are you doing?
0:10:14 > 0:10:15Only talking.
0:10:15 > 0:10:19He's working. Can't you see?
0:10:19 > 0:10:20Leave that.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23There are scrolls you need to deliver.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33Marin, I think Peebo misses me.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35He needs fresh air and light.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38His place is down here.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40- But Johannes' dog... - Johannes is the Seigneur.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42He may do as he pleases.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45Is he away a great deal?
0:10:56 > 0:10:59Nobody forced you to marry him.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25DOOR SLAMS
0:11:25 > 0:11:27DOG BARKS
0:11:33 > 0:11:35Johannes...
0:11:36 > 0:11:38I just wondered,
0:11:38 > 0:11:41will I see you...
0:11:44 > 0:11:45..later?
0:11:50 > 0:11:51Tonight...
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Tonight, I cannot.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05Soon, then?
0:12:06 > 0:12:09Nella...
0:12:17 > 0:12:20..good night, sweet girl.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32I have now been in Amsterdam for over a week.
0:12:32 > 0:12:36The city is a glory, like nothing I have ever experienced.
0:12:36 > 0:12:40My new home is beautiful, and I want for no material thing.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43"He is like a man which built a house
0:12:43 > 0:12:46"and laid the foundations upon a rock."
0:12:46 > 0:12:50Johannes's sister Marin is very godly,
0:12:50 > 0:12:53and takes great interest in our diet.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55"..built his house upon the earth."
0:13:01 > 0:13:03As for Johannes,
0:13:03 > 0:13:05he treats me with great kindness,
0:13:05 > 0:13:09but his work takes him away a great deal.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12I look forward to spending more time with him.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19I hope the dykes are holding.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21Please send my love to little...
0:13:21 > 0:13:24DOG BARKS
0:13:24 > 0:13:25Be quiet!
0:13:25 > 0:13:30My God, Johannes, what have you done?
0:13:30 > 0:13:34- What? You told me to find a... - A what?
0:13:34 > 0:13:37A wedding gift. For you.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49A man at the docks had some cabinets left over.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51I had it improved with tortoiseshell and pewter inlays.
0:13:56 > 0:13:57But what is it?
0:13:57 > 0:14:01A house. Your house.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03This house.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07- How much? - The frame was 2,000.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10Curtains and furnishings brought it to three.
0:14:10 > 0:14:153,000 guilders? A family could live on that for years.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18If you had money to spare, you should have given it to the Church.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20Enough of your piety. DOG BARKS
0:14:20 > 0:14:24Well, she doesn't like it. Neither do I.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28That's a bitch's taste for you.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37What about you?
0:14:37 > 0:14:39I hoped you might like it.
0:14:39 > 0:14:44What am I to do with it, exactly?
0:14:44 > 0:14:45You'll think of something.
0:15:03 > 0:15:04What are you doing?
0:15:06 > 0:15:10Nothing. Your door was open.
0:15:10 > 0:15:11I thought you'd prefer it closed.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21Smit's List.
0:15:21 > 0:15:25It's a register of all the crafts people and businesses in the city.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28What for?
0:15:28 > 0:15:30To decorate your house.
0:15:30 > 0:15:34My brother will pay for everything.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39I thought you said it was an extravagance.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42The Devil finds work for idle hands.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49Miniaturist.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52Trained with the great Bruges clockmaker Lucas Windelbreke.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54At the sign of the sun.
0:15:54 > 0:15:58"Dear Sir, I have a house of nine rooms, on a miniature scale,
0:15:58 > 0:16:00"that is to be displayed in a cabinet.
0:16:00 > 0:16:04"I venture three requests to you and await your response.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07"Item - one lute with strings.
0:16:07 > 0:16:11"Item - one cage, suitable for a parakeet.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13"Item - one box of marzipan."
0:16:14 > 0:16:16How do I get to the Kalverstraat?
0:16:17 > 0:16:19What do you want there?
0:16:19 > 0:16:23Nothing. To leave a message for someone.
0:16:23 > 0:16:24Who?
0:16:24 > 0:16:27A craftsman, that's all.
0:16:30 > 0:16:31I'll come with you, Madame.
0:16:31 > 0:16:33There's no need. I have a good sense of direction.
0:16:41 > 0:16:43Why didn't Otto come?
0:16:44 > 0:16:47- It's not easy for him. - What do you mean?
0:16:48 > 0:16:54He was on a Portuguese slave ship. 16 years old.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56His parents were dead.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59The Seigneur saw him and bought him.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01You're saying he's a slave.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04No. But he owes the Seigneur his life.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12Oh, Marzipan! Do you think we can get some?
0:17:12 > 0:17:14- Come on, Madame. - Cornflower! Where've you been?
0:17:16 > 0:17:18Well, what you waiting for? Come in!
0:17:22 > 0:17:25Please, Madame, have a look around.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31The Meermans insisted the Seigneur distribute it.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33They know he can get a better price abroad.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36And Madame's all for it, even though she hates sugar.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38Her and all the rest of the killjoys!
0:17:38 > 0:17:41I heard a rumour they want to ban gingerbread men as papist -
0:17:41 > 0:17:42can you believe that?
0:17:44 > 0:17:46Madame, try anything you like.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50Why not sell it here?
0:17:50 > 0:17:52There's barely enough to go round.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54I think there's more going on.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56More? What do you mean...?
0:17:57 > 0:18:01Hanna! What are you doing, woman?
0:18:01 > 0:18:03I must go. I'll see you soon, Cornflower.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13There it is.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16The sign of the sun.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18I've never noticed that before...
0:18:21 > 0:18:23Hello?
0:18:24 > 0:18:26Hello?
0:18:46 > 0:18:48Madame!
0:18:48 > 0:18:50I don't think there's anyone here, Madame.
0:19:09 > 0:19:10What happened to the cabinet?
0:19:26 > 0:19:28It couldn't stay in the hallway.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30It was taking up all the light.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53DOG BARKS
0:19:56 > 0:19:58KNOCKING ON DOOR
0:19:59 > 0:20:01Otto! Cornelia! The door.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04KNOCKING CONTINUES
0:20:04 > 0:20:07DOG BARKS
0:20:16 > 0:20:17Hello.
0:20:20 > 0:20:22What the hell are you doing here?
0:20:22 > 0:20:25A package. For Nella Oortman.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27So, this is your new wife?
0:20:30 > 0:20:31Jack Philips, Madame.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35Next time, use the lower entrance.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40Who was it, Seigneur?
0:20:41 > 0:20:42No-one, Otto. No-one.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46A delivery, that's all.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52What is it in the parcel?
0:20:54 > 0:20:56Just some things for the cabinet you bought me.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18"Every woman is the architect of her own fortune."
0:21:23 > 0:21:26Item - one lute with strings.
0:21:34 > 0:21:38Item - one cage, suitable for a parakeet.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50Item - one box of marzipan.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07"Sir, I thank you for the items I requested.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09"Your craftsmanship is exceptional.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11"However, I made no request for a cradle,
0:23:11 > 0:23:13"nor do I understand why you would wish to send one.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16"I must therefore curtail our transactions forthwith.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18"Yours in good faith, Petronella Brandt."
0:23:27 > 0:23:29For the craftsman again?
0:23:29 > 0:23:31- Don't open it.- No, Madame.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40There you are. But where on earth is Cornelia?
0:23:40 > 0:23:42You need to start getting ready.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44Ready? For what?
0:23:44 > 0:23:46Johannes is taking you to a feast at the Guild of Silversmiths.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49Why are the curtains closed?
0:23:49 > 0:23:52The sunlight was too bright, that's all.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54We keep them open during the daylight.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02Otherwise people will think we have something to hide.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05The feast.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08Was it his idea?
0:24:08 > 0:24:10We agreed it was appropriate you should attend.
0:24:17 > 0:24:18You look wonderful.
0:24:21 > 0:24:25See, Marin, all that money I spent on dresses was worth it after all.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29Why aren't you coming?
0:24:29 > 0:24:33I think it is better you're seen with your wife, don't you?
0:24:33 > 0:24:35You must remember to invite the Meermans to dinner.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37All right. Nella, let's go.
0:24:49 > 0:24:53Thank you...for bringing me.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58You don't have to thank me.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01Then whom should I thank?
0:25:01 > 0:25:03I mean, you're my wife.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06You shouldn't have to thank me for taking you somewhere.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10Will the Meermans be there?
0:25:10 > 0:25:15Marin seems very keen for you to sell Frans Meermans' sugar.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17It's not his.
0:25:18 > 0:25:19It's his wife's.
0:25:21 > 0:25:26She sees it as a passport to what she's always wanted -
0:25:26 > 0:25:28the power and position Frans couldn't give her -
0:25:28 > 0:25:31but Marin doesn't understand the complications.
0:25:33 > 0:25:34Which are?
0:25:35 > 0:25:39Exactly what he and Agnes will do with the power once they have it.
0:25:49 > 0:25:50Turn around.
0:26:00 > 0:26:01Close your eyes.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19Smile, and don't say anything.
0:26:23 > 0:26:26The Guilds have monopoly on trade, and set the prices.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32The silversmiths' is one of the richest.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35For a merchant like me, who works outside the guilds,
0:26:35 > 0:26:38attendance is not simply a mark of respect, but a duty.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50Here.
0:27:05 > 0:27:09Did you ever think food is where we truly find ourselves?
0:27:12 > 0:27:13You see this?
0:27:13 > 0:27:16Cumin seeds studding a new cheese
0:27:16 > 0:27:18remind me I am capable of delight.
0:27:23 > 0:27:27Delft butter, so fine and creamy...
0:27:28 > 0:27:29Figs...
0:27:34 > 0:27:39..and sour cream, taking me back to childhood...
0:27:42 > 0:27:44..only the taste of which I now remember.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51You?
0:27:52 > 0:27:56My mother used to make marzipan into rolls.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00And the smell coming from the kitchen...
0:28:02 > 0:28:04..it made my heart race.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07Better than herrings.
0:28:09 > 0:28:10What do you eat out at sea?
0:28:16 > 0:28:17Other men.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20BAH!
0:28:20 > 0:28:22THEY LAUGH
0:28:31 > 0:28:33Johannes! Over here!
0:28:35 > 0:28:37Business. Won't be long.
0:28:44 > 0:28:48I see Brandt keeps the same standard of wife as he does everything else.
0:28:48 > 0:28:49Agnes Meermans.
0:28:49 > 0:28:52Petronella, isn't it?
0:28:52 > 0:28:55Now tell me, however did Marin find you?
0:28:55 > 0:28:59Marin? What do you mean?
0:28:59 > 0:29:04A bride for Johannes. She's been searching for so long.
0:29:04 > 0:29:08They're so close, of course, brother and sister.
0:29:10 > 0:29:13- Sometimes we wondered if... - Agnes, please...
0:29:14 > 0:29:18Frans, this is Petronella Brandt.
0:29:18 > 0:29:21Oh, I thought she was a silversmith.
0:29:22 > 0:29:24Where's Johannes? I thought we were going to talk to him.
0:29:24 > 0:29:27- Here he comes.- Madame Meermans.
0:29:27 > 0:29:31Seigneur. I see you are working your usual magic this evening.
0:29:31 > 0:29:33No magic, Madame. Just me.
0:29:33 > 0:29:37- About the sugar, Johannes. - I have it in hand.
0:29:37 > 0:29:39We never doubted.
0:29:39 > 0:29:42Only, er, when will it sell, do you think?
0:29:42 > 0:29:44To get the best price takes time.
0:29:44 > 0:29:46What with the black markets in the east,
0:29:46 > 0:29:48and the adulterers at home, people are craving good product.
0:29:48 > 0:29:50But I will not take your sugar to the bourse.
0:29:50 > 0:29:52The trading floor is a circus, the market rigged.
0:29:52 > 0:29:55You intend to sell it abroad?
0:29:55 > 0:29:57I sail to Venice shortly.
0:29:57 > 0:29:58Papists?
0:29:59 > 0:30:02Of course, if you prefer, we can dump it all here in Amsterdam,
0:30:02 > 0:30:05flood the market, and realise only a quarter of its true value. The choice is entirely yours.
0:30:05 > 0:30:09- You're the expert.- Yes, I am.
0:30:09 > 0:30:12Come, Agnes. There's Slabbaert.
0:30:12 > 0:30:14We should say hello.
0:30:14 > 0:30:15God be with you.
0:30:17 > 0:30:18And you.
0:30:25 > 0:30:27Who are they?
0:30:27 > 0:30:32Schout and Schepenbank. Judge and jury here in Amsterdam.
0:30:33 > 0:30:35Why do they look at you like that?
0:30:35 > 0:30:38Because they don't control me.
0:30:38 > 0:30:41Do they want to? Control you?
0:30:42 > 0:30:45No.
0:30:45 > 0:30:47They want to destroy me.
0:30:58 > 0:31:00You must be tired. Go to bed.
0:31:00 > 0:31:01I'm...
0:31:01 > 0:31:04..not tired, Johannes.
0:31:08 > 0:31:09Still...
0:31:12 > 0:31:14..I have to make notes on the men I met tonight.
0:31:32 > 0:31:33What do you want?
0:31:33 > 0:31:35What do you think I want, Johannes?
0:31:38 > 0:31:40I want to be your wife.
0:31:40 > 0:31:43You are my wife.
0:31:43 > 0:31:46No. As far as I can tell I'm just...
0:31:48 > 0:31:49..someone you own.
0:31:51 > 0:31:55Someone who's useful to you for purposes I can only guess at.
0:31:57 > 0:32:01Like a dog, like Otto.
0:32:01 > 0:32:04- Nella, please... - I've been here 11 days, Johannes.
0:32:05 > 0:32:08Longer than it took God to make the world.
0:32:10 > 0:32:14Until tonight, you've barely spoken to me.
0:32:14 > 0:32:15You're right.
0:32:17 > 0:32:20I'm sorry. I'll make it up to you.
0:32:23 > 0:32:25Come.
0:33:24 > 0:33:26Do I disgust you that much?
0:33:26 > 0:33:28You do not disgust me.
0:33:28 > 0:33:31- You cannot bear me to touch you. - It's not that.
0:33:33 > 0:33:37I have to share you with her. Is that it?
0:33:42 > 0:33:45I think you'd better leave before one of us says something we both regret.
0:33:45 > 0:33:48- No, no, Johannes, I know... - Go. Get out!
0:33:48 > 0:33:50SHE SOBS
0:34:15 > 0:34:17Oh, no.
0:34:17 > 0:34:19Come on, Madame. You can't stay in bed all day.
0:34:19 > 0:34:20Madame Marin wants us
0:34:20 > 0:34:24all to go to church to hear Pastor Pellicorne preach.
0:34:24 > 0:34:26And there's something for you.
0:34:26 > 0:34:30It must be from the artisan. Whatever it was you ordered.
0:34:30 > 0:34:32But I didn't order anything.
0:34:33 > 0:34:36Well, then. All the more reason to find out what's inside.
0:36:02 > 0:36:06Look! They brought the savage.
0:36:19 > 0:36:22Seigneur, Madame Meermans.
0:36:23 > 0:36:25Where is your brother?
0:36:26 > 0:36:29Did Johannes invite you to dine with us?
0:36:30 > 0:36:32No, he did not.
0:36:32 > 0:36:34But you will come, won't you?
0:36:35 > 0:36:39Shouldn't his wife be the one who issues the invitation?
0:36:40 > 0:36:43Please, do come tomorrow.
0:36:45 > 0:36:46We would be honoured.
0:36:48 > 0:36:50Come, let us take our place.
0:36:58 > 0:37:03Adultery! Usury! Fornication!
0:37:03 > 0:37:09And fouler deeds, too degraded to name in God's house!
0:37:09 > 0:37:14Do I talk of Sodom? Of Gomorrah?
0:37:14 > 0:37:18No, I speak of Amsterdam!
0:37:18 > 0:37:23A city of closed doors, through which no man can see.
0:37:23 > 0:37:26Nella! Please!
0:37:26 > 0:37:27But God sees!
0:37:27 > 0:37:30For too long we have tolerated the iniquities of our fellow men.
0:37:30 > 0:37:34But a storm is coming.
0:37:34 > 0:37:35So...
0:37:35 > 0:37:42..look now into your own hearts
0:37:42 > 0:37:46and the hearts of your neighbours,
0:37:46 > 0:37:50and consider how you have sinned.
0:37:51 > 0:37:54Marin. Marin, are you quite well?
0:37:55 > 0:37:59Husbands, love your wives.
0:39:19 > 0:39:20Only two of them.
0:39:32 > 0:39:34What are you doing?
0:39:39 > 0:39:41Where did you get these?
0:39:41 > 0:39:44A miniaturist. I don't know their name.
0:39:44 > 0:39:47Marin gave me Smit's List. It was the only one in there.
0:39:47 > 0:39:50- What did you tell them?- Nothing.
0:39:50 > 0:39:51But you ordered these.
0:39:51 > 0:39:54No. No, I didn't order these.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57I only ordered the lute, the cage and the marzipan.
0:39:57 > 0:39:59These just...came.
0:39:59 > 0:40:01How did they know what to make?
0:40:01 > 0:40:03I don't know.
0:40:03 > 0:40:05No more.
0:40:07 > 0:40:09No more, you understand?
0:40:09 > 0:40:12I think you're forgetting your place.
0:40:14 > 0:40:16What is that?
0:40:16 > 0:40:17As a servant.
0:40:17 > 0:40:21My place is to protect this house, and all in it, including you.
0:40:28 > 0:40:31We stand or fall together.
0:40:40 > 0:40:43A wonderful sermon from Pastor Pellicorne on Sunday,
0:40:43 > 0:40:45don't you think?
0:40:45 > 0:40:49Oh, but of course, you missed it, Johannes.
0:40:49 > 0:40:50Let me guess.
0:40:51 > 0:40:53He offers absolution for your own sins,
0:40:53 > 0:40:56but only if you confess those of your neighbours.
0:40:56 > 0:41:00Shall we try the sugar?
0:41:00 > 0:41:01Cornelia?
0:41:11 > 0:41:13Allow me.
0:41:40 > 0:41:42Exquisite.
0:41:49 > 0:41:52Cornelia, Otto, what do you think?
0:42:04 > 0:42:06Very good, Seigneur. Delicious.
0:42:14 > 0:42:15Mmm!
0:42:15 > 0:42:20God be thanked, you're going to make our fortunes, Brandt!
0:42:20 > 0:42:22When do you go to Venice?
0:42:22 > 0:42:23I'll be gone within the month.
0:42:23 > 0:42:26I have to know.
0:42:26 > 0:42:29What did Brandt get you for a wedding gift?
0:42:29 > 0:42:31- AGNES:- I want one of my own.
0:42:31 > 0:42:34And I want mine to be better than hers.
0:42:34 > 0:42:38Thank the Lord they've gone. Clear up in the morning.
0:42:45 > 0:42:48MUFFLED SHOUTING
0:43:25 > 0:43:28MARIN AND JOHANNES ARGUE
0:43:28 > 0:43:32- If you had only consented... - Why should I...
0:45:07 > 0:45:11"My darling, I love you like the ever-changing sea,
0:45:11 > 0:45:14"always different, and always moving
0:45:14 > 0:45:17"You are sunlight through a window which I stand in, warmed.
0:45:17 > 0:45:20"One touch lasts a thousand hours.
0:45:20 > 0:45:22"I love you from the bottom of my heart..."
0:45:22 > 0:45:23Give it to me.
0:45:25 > 0:45:28Marin, I'm sorry.
0:45:29 > 0:45:31I said give it to me.
0:45:32 > 0:45:35Marin, Marin, let go of me.
0:45:35 > 0:45:37Marin, you're hurting me!
0:45:37 > 0:45:40Get out! Johannes will hear of this!
0:46:19 > 0:46:21Where is everyone?
0:46:21 > 0:46:25Madame Marin is unwell. I took her her breakfast, but she...
0:46:25 > 0:46:26And Johannes?
0:46:26 > 0:46:29He left early for his office.
0:46:29 > 0:46:32No! Tell me! Where did he go last night?
0:46:34 > 0:46:37He didn't come back! And why is Marin so worried?
0:46:37 > 0:46:40I told you. He went to his office.
0:46:42 > 0:46:46No. No, you're lying to me.
0:46:46 > 0:46:50Where are you going, Madame? It isn't even eight o'clock!
0:46:50 > 0:46:52You should stay here.
0:46:52 > 0:46:55I can go wherever I want.
0:46:57 > 0:47:00Otto! Otto!
0:47:49 > 0:47:51Johannes.
0:48:01 > 0:48:05GASPING
0:48:11 > 0:48:13Oh!
0:48:28 > 0:48:31No, stop it, stop...
0:48:35 > 0:48:37CHIRPING
0:48:41 > 0:48:42I brought your creature.
0:48:44 > 0:48:47There are rose water wafers with cinnamon and ginger.
0:48:47 > 0:48:49Cornelia made them specially.
0:48:49 > 0:48:52- You think you can bribe me? - You haven't eaten in three days.
0:48:52 > 0:48:56- Because you drugged me. - You were beside yourself.
0:48:56 > 0:48:58I will not be your prisoner.
0:48:58 > 0:49:01Don't be ridiculous. Eat. And then we can talk.
0:49:01 > 0:49:04Enough of your orders, Marin. I understand it all.
0:49:04 > 0:49:05Your brother is...
0:49:07 > 0:49:09..is a sodomite.
0:49:13 > 0:49:15He is unlike most husbands, it's true.
0:49:18 > 0:49:19You knew?
0:49:24 > 0:49:25You all knew.
0:49:25 > 0:49:28Dear God, I am your fool.
0:49:28 > 0:49:30I have been a fool from the moment I arrived here.
0:49:32 > 0:49:34We never laughed at you. Ever.
0:49:34 > 0:49:36You knew he would never love me.
0:49:36 > 0:49:38He likes you.
0:49:38 > 0:49:41Like a pet. Like the dog, Rzecki, only less so.
0:49:43 > 0:49:45It's true, isn't it?
0:49:45 > 0:49:48He thinks less of me than his dog.
0:49:48 > 0:49:51I cannot forgive this...trick.
0:49:51 > 0:49:53You knew what this would be like for me.
0:49:53 > 0:49:56How can I be happy with a man who is going to burn in Hell?
0:49:56 > 0:49:57Your father left you paupers.
0:49:57 > 0:50:00It was a kindness to bring you here.
0:50:00 > 0:50:01You would have ended up a farmer's wife.
0:50:01 > 0:50:03- Who might have loved me. - And in ten years,
0:50:03 > 0:50:06when your hands are red raw with children squealing to be fed?
0:50:06 > 0:50:08At least I would have been a proper woman.
0:50:08 > 0:50:11You can be a proper woman without spawning brats.
0:50:13 > 0:50:15What are you doing?
0:50:15 > 0:50:17There's nothing for me here. There never was.
0:50:17 > 0:50:19It was a mistake to come.
0:50:19 > 0:50:23What will you tell them in Assendelft, Nella? Words are water.
0:50:23 > 0:50:24One drop could drown us all.
0:50:24 > 0:50:25I don't expect you to care about me,
0:50:25 > 0:50:27but what will happen to Otto and Cornelia?
0:50:27 > 0:50:29They are not my responsibility.
0:50:29 > 0:50:30But you are mistress of this house.
0:50:30 > 0:50:32Whose responsibility do you think they are?
0:50:32 > 0:50:35Well, then perhaps I should just tell them the truth.
0:50:35 > 0:50:38Do you know what they do to men like my brother?
0:50:38 > 0:50:39They drown them.
0:50:39 > 0:50:42The holy magistrate will tie weights around their necks
0:50:42 > 0:50:43and push them in the water.
0:50:43 > 0:50:45You would be signing his death warrant.
0:50:45 > 0:50:46Is that what you want?
0:51:07 > 0:51:09Go. Spread your wings!
0:51:13 > 0:51:15Madame!
0:51:22 > 0:51:26What are they going to do?
0:51:26 > 0:51:28Throw me out?
0:51:28 > 0:51:30This is your home now, Madame.
0:51:30 > 0:51:33How can this house of secrets ever be called a home?
0:51:36 > 0:51:38What is there for you in Assendelft?
0:51:39 > 0:51:42From what I hear, there's more cows than there are people.
0:51:42 > 0:51:44What do I have here?
0:51:47 > 0:51:50You have a friend, Madame.
0:51:50 > 0:51:51And more than just one.
0:51:54 > 0:51:57Cornelia, did Marin love someone once?
0:52:03 > 0:52:07Why do you think Agnes Meermans hates Marin so much?
0:52:09 > 0:52:11Marin stole her husband's heart.
0:52:11 > 0:52:12Frans?
0:52:15 > 0:52:18Madame Marin was little more than a child when she first met him.
0:52:18 > 0:52:21He was the Seigneur's friend,
0:52:21 > 0:52:24perhaps 18, and Marin was 11 or so.
0:52:25 > 0:52:28She first saw him at the Feast of St Nicholas.
0:52:28 > 0:52:31She thought he was a prince, so handsome.
0:52:31 > 0:52:34He eats too much now, but back then...
0:52:34 > 0:52:37You were barely a child then! How do you know all of this?
0:52:37 > 0:52:39Keyholes, Madame.
0:52:40 > 0:52:44When she was 15, the Seigneur took his first ship out to Batavia.
0:52:44 > 0:52:49Frans stayed here - he was seasick - but without a chaperone,
0:52:49 > 0:52:50she couldn't meet him.
0:52:50 > 0:52:54Then, when Marin was 20, and the Seigneur had returned a rich man,
0:52:54 > 0:52:57Frans came to the house and asked for her hand in marriage.
0:52:58 > 0:53:00And Johannes...
0:53:02 > 0:53:04Refused him utterly.
0:53:04 > 0:53:09But why? He loved her enough to wait five years.
0:53:09 > 0:53:13Meermans was handsome enough, but he didn't have a good reputation.
0:53:14 > 0:53:16Did Marin find out what Johannes had done?
0:53:17 > 0:53:19Eventually.
0:53:19 > 0:53:22But by then Frans had married Agnes.
0:53:22 > 0:53:25So he's married to Agnes, but he still loves Marin?
0:53:28 > 0:53:33He sends her gifts every St Nicholas Day, the day they met.
0:53:33 > 0:53:37He never puts his name, but we all know they're from him.
0:53:40 > 0:53:42Peebo.
0:53:44 > 0:53:46Peebo, where are you?
0:53:46 > 0:53:48Peebo.
0:53:48 > 0:53:50Peebo where are...
0:53:57 > 0:53:59No, no, no, no, no, no.
0:54:10 > 0:54:12Peebo!
0:54:14 > 0:54:16Peebo!
0:54:31 > 0:54:32Hello?
0:54:32 > 0:54:34Wait!
0:54:37 > 0:54:39Wait!
0:54:39 > 0:54:41Open up! St George's Militia.
0:54:45 > 0:54:46Nothing, nothing at all.
0:54:46 > 0:54:48No, there's nobody here.
0:54:52 > 0:54:55I just want to talk to you. What are you doing?
0:54:55 > 0:54:57Madame, you are needed back in the house.
0:54:57 > 0:54:59What are you talking about?
0:54:59 > 0:55:02We wondered where you had gone, Madame. Madame Marin was worried.
0:55:02 > 0:55:05I was looking for Peebo.
0:55:05 > 0:55:07We will help you find him.
0:55:27 > 0:55:30"Blue periwinkle for early friends, Persicaria for restoration.
0:55:32 > 0:55:35- "I would buy you a new bird but..." - It would pale in imitation.
0:55:36 > 0:55:41Do you think I can be bought with a cabinet, or dresses, or flowers?
0:55:43 > 0:55:46- I'm not trying to buy you. - No, because you already succeeded.
0:55:48 > 0:55:51Did she know, my mother, when she sold me?
0:55:51 > 0:55:56Nella, please. The fault is mine. Don't blame anyone else.
0:55:56 > 0:56:00If they find out, they will drown you.
0:56:00 > 0:56:02I've spent my entire life on the sea.
0:56:02 > 0:56:04- I am not afraid of drowning. - And what about me?
0:56:04 > 0:56:07You were drowning in Assendelft. Here you are safe, warm and dry.
0:56:09 > 0:56:13I wanted love. Not safety.
0:56:13 > 0:56:15As did I.
0:56:17 > 0:56:20Always. You see?
0:56:22 > 0:56:24The truth is...
0:56:26 > 0:56:28..you and I,
0:56:28 > 0:56:32we are more alike than we are different.
0:56:35 > 0:56:39Marin, Cornelia, Otto, they wish for love, but value safety more.
0:56:39 > 0:56:43You and I, our hearts are constructed differently.
0:56:49 > 0:56:53What made you like this, do you think?
0:56:55 > 0:56:57Nothing made me.
0:57:00 > 0:57:02It was in my soul from the beginning.
0:57:05 > 0:57:09They could cut me open from head to foot and still not get it out.
0:57:18 > 0:57:20Here...
0:57:20 > 0:57:22Please, they're yours. A peace offering, nothing more.
0:57:28 > 0:57:31If you wish to leave, I will not stop you.
0:57:31 > 0:57:34Otto will accompany you back to Assendelft,
0:57:34 > 0:57:36with enough to settle your family's debts.
0:57:36 > 0:57:38The marriage can be annulled.
0:57:38 > 0:57:39You would be free to marry another.
0:57:42 > 0:57:43What about the others?
0:57:45 > 0:57:46They are not your concern.
0:57:50 > 0:57:51And what about you?
0:57:59 > 0:58:00I would like you to stay.
0:58:10 > 0:58:16If I do, it will not be because you gave me flowers.
0:58:19 > 0:58:21But because this is my home.
0:58:24 > 0:58:29And because you swear to tell me the truth about everything from now on.
0:58:30 > 0:58:32Everything, Johannes.
0:58:41 > 0:58:44No more secrets.
0:58:44 > 0:58:47You have my word.
0:58:49 > 0:58:51Was it Jack who delivered this?
0:58:51 > 0:58:54It was there when I went to wash the front steps.
0:58:55 > 0:58:57What's in it?
0:58:57 > 0:58:58Just some things for my cabinet.
0:59:02 > 0:59:04You may go, Cornelia.
0:59:25 > 0:59:27"Things can change."
1:00:13 > 1:00:18Cornelia! You're sure you didn't see who delivered that package?
1:00:19 > 1:00:20No, Madame. I told you.
1:00:22 > 1:00:25It's November now!
1:00:25 > 1:00:27By December it'll be too late.
1:00:28 > 1:00:32Not to mention the damp in the warehouse spoiling the sugar.
1:00:32 > 1:00:35What about the damp in my bones, boat-hopping in that weather?
1:00:35 > 1:00:37But you were the one who told them to sell it.
1:00:37 > 1:00:39- Get someone else. - If you are even thinking...
1:00:42 > 1:00:46Nella. Did you... Did you have any luck with your parakeet?
1:00:46 > 1:00:49Where are you going?
1:00:51 > 1:00:55Venice. To sell Agnes' sugar.
1:00:55 > 1:00:57We thought it'd be best.
1:00:57 > 1:01:00- For whom?- For all of us.
1:01:12 > 1:01:14Do you have the sample loaves?
1:01:16 > 1:01:18My word is enough.
1:01:18 > 1:01:21Why don't you take her?
1:01:21 > 1:01:24She'd only get in the way.
1:01:28 > 1:01:30Look after her while I'm gone.
1:01:44 > 1:01:45Goodbye.
1:01:46 > 1:01:47You put the flowers in your hair.
1:01:51 > 1:01:52For restoration.
1:02:10 > 1:02:12Didn't you want to see Venice?
1:02:12 > 1:02:16I've been, Madame. Once is enough to see the Doge's palace.
1:02:20 > 1:02:21He could have taken me.
1:02:30 > 1:02:31What are you trying to do to us?
1:02:34 > 1:02:35Who have you told about us?
1:02:37 > 1:02:40Nobody. No, you don't understand...
1:02:40 > 1:02:43Dogs and furniture, I understand.
1:02:43 > 1:02:44But Jack Philips?
1:02:44 > 1:02:47What are you doing? Marin, no.
1:02:50 > 1:02:53You shouldn't have done that.
1:02:53 > 1:02:55Don't play with fire, Petronella.
1:02:55 > 1:02:57Or you'll get burned along with the rest of us.
1:03:23 > 1:03:26SOBBING
1:03:33 > 1:03:37SOBBING CONTINUES
1:03:43 > 1:03:46SHE GASPS
1:05:00 > 1:05:03DOG BARKS
1:05:21 > 1:05:23What are you doing here?
1:05:23 > 1:05:26Get out. Get out!
1:05:26 > 1:05:28Wait. Wait.
1:05:33 > 1:05:34I'm back on deliveries.
1:05:36 > 1:05:38I have something for you, Madame.
1:05:41 > 1:05:44You have no right to be here. Johannes said...
1:05:44 > 1:05:49You squeal like a mouse. I need to see him.
1:05:49 > 1:05:51Is he back yet? Johannes!
1:05:51 > 1:05:53He's not here.
1:05:53 > 1:05:55You need to leave.
1:05:55 > 1:05:59So, it's true. He's gone to Venice.
1:05:59 > 1:06:01Well, don't tell me you believed him
1:06:01 > 1:06:03- when he said he was going there to work.- How dare you!
1:06:03 > 1:06:07I know him, Madame, better than you.
1:06:07 > 1:06:10No-one works in Venice.
1:06:10 > 1:06:12Milan, maybe.
1:06:12 > 1:06:16But Venice is all dark canals and courtesans
1:06:16 > 1:06:20and pretty little boys like moths, flying to the brightest flame.
1:06:20 > 1:06:22What's happening? Why is the front door open?
1:06:24 > 1:06:26Get out.
1:06:29 > 1:06:31Get out!
1:06:33 > 1:06:36How many times have I told you to keep away?
1:06:37 > 1:06:39Clean that up.
1:06:39 > 1:06:42Your brother would fuck a dog if the price was right.
1:06:42 > 1:06:45I said clean it up.
1:06:45 > 1:06:49They say he gives it to you, too - that he's the only man that will.
1:06:49 > 1:06:50What a tired old insult.
1:06:50 > 1:06:52DOG BARKS
1:06:52 > 1:06:55How brave are you really, Jack?
1:06:55 > 1:06:56Do you dare draw my blood?
1:06:59 > 1:07:01Is that what you really want?
1:07:01 > 1:07:04Bitch. He said I couldn't work for him any more.
1:07:04 > 1:07:06And whose idea was that?
1:07:06 > 1:07:09Oh, so that's what this is about?
1:07:09 > 1:07:11You child!
1:07:11 > 1:07:14Just tell me what it'll cost to get you to go away.
1:07:14 > 1:07:15I don't want your money.
1:07:15 > 1:07:17I'm here to show you what happens when you meddle.
1:07:17 > 1:07:18Otto, he has a knife.
1:07:22 > 1:07:23Go.
1:07:23 > 1:07:25Before I kill you.
1:07:26 > 1:07:30He dresses you up as a lord, but the truth is you're nothing
1:07:30 > 1:07:32but a savage.
1:07:32 > 1:07:34Do you know what he says about you?
1:07:34 > 1:07:37He's going to get rid of you, savage.
1:07:37 > 1:07:40Sell you to the highest bidder.
1:07:40 > 1:07:44You're nothing to him, boy.
1:07:44 > 1:07:46Now go.
1:07:46 > 1:07:47Agh!
1:07:49 > 1:07:51THEY GASP
1:07:59 > 1:08:01JACK SCREAMS
1:08:23 > 1:08:25God speed.
1:08:50 > 1:08:52What if Jack reports what I did?
1:08:54 > 1:08:56You heard what he said - attempted murder,
1:08:56 > 1:08:58with a knife and a wound to prove it.
1:08:58 > 1:09:00The Militia would arrest me.
1:09:01 > 1:09:03When they ask Jack why he was here?
1:09:03 > 1:09:06He'd be signing his own death warrant if he told them.
1:09:08 > 1:09:10English, a sodomite...
1:09:11 > 1:09:14..a former actor in the playhouses?
1:09:14 > 1:09:16I can't think of three things the Burgomasters hate more.
1:09:16 > 1:09:19He has no money, and he needs it.
1:09:19 > 1:09:21A man may do anything when he is desperate.
1:09:28 > 1:09:32The Seigneur saved me, he taught me everything.
1:09:32 > 1:09:35And look how I've repaid him.
1:09:35 > 1:09:37There was never any debt to pay.
1:09:38 > 1:09:41Johannes bought you for his own amusement.
1:09:41 > 1:09:42He employed me, Madame.
1:09:45 > 1:09:48You haven't killed anyone. The boy's alive.
1:09:49 > 1:09:52Johannes will be more worried about his dog than you.
1:09:52 > 1:09:54I've endangered you.
1:09:56 > 1:09:57I've endangered all of you.
1:10:22 > 1:10:23Are you reading my mind now?
1:10:53 > 1:10:55"Every woman is the architect of her own fortune."
1:10:55 > 1:10:58"I fight to emerge."
1:10:58 > 1:11:01"Things can change."
1:11:01 > 1:11:04"The turnip cannot thrive in the tulip's patch of soil."
1:11:08 > 1:11:10Enough of this. Who are you?
1:11:10 > 1:11:12What do you want from me?
1:11:12 > 1:11:13Are you a spy?
1:11:13 > 1:11:15What is your business with Agnes Meermans?
1:11:24 > 1:11:27I know you're in there.
1:11:27 > 1:11:29You have to come out eventually.
1:11:29 > 1:11:31I can wait.
1:11:31 > 1:11:34There's no need to bellow. They can hear you in Antwerp.
1:11:34 > 1:11:36I need to find the miniaturist.
1:11:36 > 1:11:39The what? No-one's been in that building for over a week.
1:11:40 > 1:11:42But only yesterday she...
1:11:45 > 1:11:49What's your name? I might have something for you.
1:11:50 > 1:11:51Petronella Brandt.
1:11:58 > 1:11:59Left on that doorstep.
1:12:06 > 1:12:08Cornelia.
1:12:22 > 1:12:25"Don't let sweet weapons stray."
1:12:32 > 1:12:34Madame! The Seigneur has returned.
1:12:34 > 1:12:36He's already asking where Rzecki is.
1:12:37 > 1:12:39You haven't told him?
1:12:39 > 1:12:40Rzecki!
1:12:40 > 1:12:44I couldn't do it. It has to be you. Please.
1:12:44 > 1:12:45Rzecki!
1:12:48 > 1:12:49Johannes.
1:12:49 > 1:12:52You're home safe.
1:12:54 > 1:12:56Was Venice enjoyable?
1:12:58 > 1:13:00Venice was Venice.
1:13:00 > 1:13:03The Venetians never shut up, and too much dancing for my knees.
1:13:12 > 1:13:13It's good to see you.
1:13:15 > 1:13:17Rzecki!
1:13:17 > 1:13:20Why is there no fire in this room? The house is freezing. Otto!
1:13:22 > 1:13:23Morning, Otto.
1:13:27 > 1:13:30Something wrong?
1:13:30 > 1:13:33How many loaves did you sell in Venice, brother?
1:13:33 > 1:13:34It was slow.
1:13:34 > 1:13:37I told you I should have waited until the New Year.
1:13:37 > 1:13:40Then perhaps it would be better to build such a gigantic fire
1:13:40 > 1:13:42once the sugar is actually sold.
1:13:42 > 1:13:43Don't provoke me, Marin.
1:13:43 > 1:13:45It was you who forced me
1:13:45 > 1:13:47to go out on a ship to Italy in the dead of winter.
1:13:47 > 1:13:49You are the provocateur, not me.
1:13:49 > 1:13:51And stop talking about this household as if it's yours.
1:13:51 > 1:13:52It belongs to Petronella now.
1:14:00 > 1:14:02Then she can have it.
1:14:03 > 1:14:08I have wasted enough of my life
1:14:08 > 1:14:10keeping yours smooth.
1:14:11 > 1:14:16We are all nothing but prisoners to your desire, all of us.
1:14:18 > 1:14:20Otto, do you feel like a prisoner?
1:14:23 > 1:14:26- No, Seigneur. - What do you expect him to say?!
1:14:26 > 1:14:30Look around you, Marin! Amsterdam is closing down like a vice.
1:14:30 > 1:14:32This house is the only place any of us are free.
1:14:32 > 1:14:35You. You are free.
1:14:35 > 1:14:37You think because you have some maps on your wall, some books
1:14:37 > 1:14:40and a few animal skulls you know my business better than I do?
1:14:40 > 1:14:41Stop! Stop!
1:14:41 > 1:14:43All you had to do was marry. The one thing.
1:14:43 > 1:14:46- Marry rich, marry well.- Both of you! - But no, you couldn't do that.
1:14:46 > 1:14:47God knows we tried,
1:14:47 > 1:14:49- but all the guilders in Amsterdam... - Rzecki is dead!
1:14:54 > 1:14:55What?
1:14:57 > 1:15:02Rzecki. She's dead, Johannes.
1:15:04 > 1:15:05Is this true?
1:15:05 > 1:15:09Oh, yes. And all your own fault.
1:15:11 > 1:15:15Your Englishman came knocking yesterday. Your brothel moth.
1:15:16 > 1:15:22He put a dagger through her head right here in your own hallway.
1:15:22 > 1:15:27I warned you about him. Over and over.
1:15:27 > 1:15:29If it hadn't been for Otto...
1:15:32 > 1:15:35- What did you do to him? - I didn't mean to.
1:15:37 > 1:15:39What did you do?
1:15:39 > 1:15:41He showed mercy.
1:15:41 > 1:15:44Your pretty little English whelp got up and walked away.
1:15:58 > 1:16:00"Dear Seigneur Windelbreke, I am writing to
1:16:00 > 1:16:03"enquire about an apprentice you once had.
1:16:03 > 1:16:06"She is female, with a tall, fair-haired appearance,
1:16:06 > 1:16:08"and stares at me as if she would look into my soul.
1:16:11 > 1:16:13"She has crept into my life, Seigneur,
1:16:13 > 1:16:16"and the miniatures she sends are becoming more unnerving.
1:16:16 > 1:16:18"How did she come to you and why did she leave?"
1:16:23 > 1:16:25Did you find him?
1:16:25 > 1:16:26Who?
1:16:26 > 1:16:30Please, Johannes. You swore.
1:16:30 > 1:16:32No more lies, remember?
1:16:32 > 1:16:35You went to find Jack, didn't you?
1:16:37 > 1:16:39It's hard to tell the truth
1:16:39 > 1:16:42when your whole life has been built on lies and silence.
1:16:42 > 1:16:45Nobody has ever been much interested in hearing it, until now.
1:16:51 > 1:16:54This is not the marriage you imagined for yourself, is it?
1:16:54 > 1:16:56I was foolish to imagine anything.
1:16:56 > 1:17:01Without imagination, what else is there? And you are no fool.
1:17:01 > 1:17:04How much of the sugar did you manage to sell in Venice?
1:17:07 > 1:17:09What is happening, Johannes?
1:17:09 > 1:17:11Why will you not sell their sugar?
1:17:11 > 1:17:14Look at me. The truth.
1:17:14 > 1:17:15The truth?
1:17:17 > 1:17:19Because Frans hates me and would like to destroy me.
1:17:19 > 1:17:20And Agnes hates Marin.
1:17:20 > 1:17:23While they had no inheritance, they had no power.
1:17:23 > 1:17:25But once they have the money from the sugar,
1:17:25 > 1:17:27there will be nothing in Amsterdam that will stop them.
1:17:27 > 1:17:29Then why agree to sell it in the first place?
1:17:29 > 1:17:31Because if I didn't, somebody else would.
1:17:32 > 1:17:35You can't hold them at bay for ever.
1:17:35 > 1:17:36I know.
1:17:43 > 1:17:44The truth.
1:17:46 > 1:17:47Now you have it.
1:18:04 > 1:18:06You said something earlier that wasn't true.
1:18:08 > 1:18:10What was that?
1:18:12 > 1:18:14That our marriage was a lie.
1:18:16 > 1:18:18Isn't it?
1:18:19 > 1:18:21Not a lie.
1:18:23 > 1:18:25Just different.
1:18:33 > 1:18:35Tell me, Johannes.
1:18:35 > 1:18:37How does this end?
1:18:37 > 1:18:39I'll tell you how it ends.
1:18:41 > 1:18:43Come January, I'll be gone again.
1:18:43 > 1:18:49And this time I'll make their profit for them and all will be well.
1:18:51 > 1:18:54My stock always sells when I want it to. I promise.
1:18:56 > 1:18:57What about you?
1:18:59 > 1:19:01I'll take the consequences.
1:19:03 > 1:19:05There has to be another way.
1:19:12 > 1:19:14Here...
1:19:15 > 1:19:18..I've something to show you.
1:19:18 > 1:19:20Rzecki.
1:19:25 > 1:19:27I've never seen anything like it.
1:19:29 > 1:19:32Who on earth could have made such a thing?
1:19:32 > 1:19:35I've been asking myself that question for weeks.
1:19:50 > 1:19:52DOOR OPENS AND SLAMS
1:19:52 > 1:19:54Wake up, Madame, please!
1:19:54 > 1:19:56What is it? Cornelia, what's wrong?
1:19:56 > 1:19:59Is it Johannes?
1:19:59 > 1:20:01No, Madame. It's Otto.
1:20:01 > 1:20:02He's gone.
1:20:04 > 1:20:06Why did he have to run like that?
1:20:06 > 1:20:08I'll check the docks first.
1:20:08 > 1:20:10And then the prisons, in case he was arrested.
1:20:13 > 1:20:15Cornelia!
1:20:19 > 1:20:20Cornelia!
1:20:20 > 1:20:22I can't light the kindling.
1:20:26 > 1:20:27I told him nothing would happen.
1:20:27 > 1:20:29Why didn't he listen to me?
1:20:29 > 1:20:34It's better that he's gone. By leaving here, he protected us.
1:20:34 > 1:20:36Imagine what would happen to a man like Otto
1:20:36 > 1:20:39if the Burgomasters got hold of him.
1:20:39 > 1:20:43You knew he was going to leave, didn't you?
1:20:43 > 1:20:45Let's just say he saw sense.
1:20:50 > 1:20:52You sent him away, Madame?
1:20:53 > 1:20:55I suggested it.
1:20:55 > 1:20:58Yes, and we all know how your suggestions work.
1:21:00 > 1:21:01BANGING ON DOOR
1:21:03 > 1:21:06What if it's the Militia, come for Otto?
1:21:07 > 1:21:10Well, they won't find him, will they?
1:21:13 > 1:21:14BANGING ON DOOR
1:21:23 > 1:21:27- Frans. - Where is Johannes? Johannes!
1:21:27 > 1:21:29He'll be at the bourse.
1:21:29 > 1:21:32No, I've been to the bourse, and the Company, and several taverns.
1:21:32 > 1:21:34I am not my brother's keeper.
1:21:34 > 1:21:35More's the pity for all of us.
1:21:36 > 1:21:39Last night I went to the warehouse to see for myself how much
1:21:39 > 1:21:40sugar had been sold.
1:21:42 > 1:21:44Not a grain has been shifted.
1:21:44 > 1:21:47Not a single blasted grain of all that sugar.
1:21:49 > 1:21:50But it's worse than that.
1:21:52 > 1:21:56Our fortune, our entire fortune,
1:21:56 > 1:21:59is mouldering in the dark.
1:21:59 > 1:22:02I touched it. Some of it was paste.
1:22:02 > 1:22:05No, Frans. That's impossible.
1:22:05 > 1:22:07Johannes would never permit that to happen.
1:22:07 > 1:22:09I saw it with my own eyes.
1:22:09 > 1:22:12God knows, that would be reason enough to ruin Johannes Brandt.
1:22:12 > 1:22:15But there was worse to come. Far worse.
1:22:19 > 1:22:21Do you know what we saw,
1:22:21 > 1:22:23pressed up against the walls?
1:22:27 > 1:22:30- We saw his devilry. - What are you talking about?
1:22:30 > 1:22:33Oh, come on, Marin. You've always known it.
1:22:33 > 1:22:36You must have. But you... Did you know it?
1:22:36 > 1:22:39How he spends his time up against the warehouse walls?
1:22:40 > 1:22:44Such a thing cannot be unseen. That's right.
1:22:44 > 1:22:49Now you know, and soon the world will have to know,
1:22:49 > 1:22:53how your husband takes his vile pleasures - with a boy.
1:22:55 > 1:22:57And what's more...
1:22:58 > 1:23:03What's more, the boy says he attacked him.
1:23:03 > 1:23:09No, you've made a mistake, that's not possible.
1:23:09 > 1:23:10Frans.
1:23:13 > 1:23:16Frans, please...you're his friend.
1:23:18 > 1:23:20Do not seek his punishment.
1:23:22 > 1:23:24You know how it will end.
1:23:24 > 1:23:25That friendship died years ago.
1:23:25 > 1:23:28Our sugar is as abandoned as his soul.
1:23:29 > 1:23:32Johannes Brandt is a worm in the fruit of the city.
1:23:32 > 1:23:34And I must do my duty as a citizen.
1:23:34 > 1:23:37Frans, you will ruin us.
1:23:37 > 1:23:39Turn away from this.
1:23:39 > 1:23:44Surely, we can... We can come to some arrangement.
1:23:44 > 1:23:47- We will sell your sugar and let that be an end.- No.
1:23:49 > 1:23:51I'm a different man now.
1:24:01 > 1:24:04DOOR SLAMS
1:24:04 > 1:24:05I don't believe...
1:24:07 > 1:24:08It can't be true!
1:24:11 > 1:24:14Surely, he can't have been such a fool!
1:24:14 > 1:24:15Madame, calm, please
1:24:15 > 1:24:17Did you not hear him?
1:24:17 > 1:24:19He is going straight to the Burgomasters.
1:24:19 > 1:24:20Then his arrogance is a gift.
1:24:20 > 1:24:23Johannes still has a few hours to escape.
1:24:23 > 1:24:25First Otto, now the Seigneur?
1:24:25 > 1:24:28But we can't live here, just the three of us.
1:24:28 > 1:24:31I don't know how, but we need to find a way to sell the sugar
1:24:31 > 1:24:33and buy his silence. It can't all be rotten.
1:24:33 > 1:24:35Nothing will keep his silence.
1:24:37 > 1:24:39And what do you know of selling sugar?
1:24:39 > 1:24:41I am searching for the light, Marin.
1:24:41 > 1:24:44There must be some in all this darkness.
1:25:01 > 1:25:03DOOR CLOSES
1:25:08 > 1:25:11You have to go. You have to leave now.
1:25:14 > 1:25:16Nella, what's wrong, what's happening?
1:25:17 > 1:25:19Frans and Agnes saw you.
1:25:22 > 1:25:25They saw you, Johannes.
1:25:27 > 1:25:28At the warehouse, with a young man.
1:25:29 > 1:25:30Was it Jack?
1:25:32 > 1:25:36How could you, after the way he betrayed you?
1:25:36 > 1:25:38It is not Jack Philips who has betrayed me, Nella.
1:25:38 > 1:25:39It is this city.
1:25:41 > 1:25:45Neighbours watching neighbours, twisting ropes to bind us all.
1:25:45 > 1:25:48Well, they cannot bind you if you are not here.
1:25:55 > 1:25:57Where will you go?
1:25:57 > 1:26:00I have friends in many countries.
1:26:00 > 1:26:02What does it open?
1:26:02 > 1:26:05The warehouse. Here is the list that I've been working on.
1:26:05 > 1:26:08People who may be interested in the sugar.
1:26:08 > 1:26:09Give it to Marin.
1:26:09 > 1:26:11She's always wanted to run my business and now she can.
1:26:11 > 1:26:14But she'll find it's not as simple as she thinks.
1:26:17 > 1:26:19Will you ever come back?
1:26:19 > 1:26:22Amsterdam is a city like no other, but I have never called it home.
1:26:22 > 1:26:25- Well, where is home? - Wherever comfort is.
1:26:25 > 1:26:27But for a man like me, it can be hard to find.
1:26:28 > 1:26:30I'll miss you.
1:26:30 > 1:26:33I'll miss you, too. More than I ever expected.
1:26:35 > 1:26:37Where is Marin? Marin!
1:26:39 > 1:26:43She says she is too ill to come down.
1:26:45 > 1:26:47Johannes!
1:26:49 > 1:26:50Take me with you.
1:26:52 > 1:26:53You're serious?
1:26:54 > 1:27:00A man travelling with his wife doesn't attract a second glance.
1:27:03 > 1:27:06They need you here, Nella.
1:27:06 > 1:27:08Otto, Cornelia.
1:27:08 > 1:27:13Even Marin, much more than you know. Here.
1:27:24 > 1:27:26Promise me you'll come back.
1:27:28 > 1:27:29No lies, remember?
1:27:31 > 1:27:33I cannot change what I am...
1:27:34 > 1:27:35One day, perhaps.
1:27:47 > 1:27:49What happened?
1:27:49 > 1:27:51The Militia came for her last night.
1:27:51 > 1:27:53- You said she'd gone. - Then why are you here?
1:27:55 > 1:27:58- I thought she might have returned. - So did they.
1:27:58 > 1:28:02They left disappointed, but they cleared the place out.
1:28:07 > 1:28:09Marin, would you happen to have...
1:28:09 > 1:28:11SOBBING
1:28:11 > 1:28:14- I'm coming in. - No, no, no please don't.
1:28:15 > 1:28:17What, by all the angels...?
1:28:19 > 1:28:20Go away.
1:28:23 > 1:28:25What is that in your hand?
1:28:25 > 1:28:27- I said go away.- What is it? Marin!
1:28:29 > 1:28:31No! No!
1:28:31 > 1:28:33You have no right.
1:28:33 > 1:28:34You understand nothing!
1:28:34 > 1:28:36I understand everything. Johannes will be safe.
1:28:36 > 1:28:39And even if they catch him, I have a list of names.
1:28:39 > 1:28:42We will sell the sugar and it will all be fine.
1:28:43 > 1:28:47Oh, you stupid, stupid girl.
1:28:47 > 1:28:49Don't you see?
1:28:52 > 1:28:54It's not about him.
1:28:54 > 1:28:56What don't I see?
1:29:02 > 1:29:04Now do you see?
1:29:04 > 1:29:06My God, Marin.
1:29:07 > 1:29:08What have you done?