0:00:02 > 0:00:03This is the Seigneur's new wife.
0:00:03 > 0:00:05What did Brandt get you for a wedding gift?
0:00:05 > 0:00:08"Dear Sir, I have a house of nine rooms on a miniature scale.
0:00:08 > 0:00:10"Thank you for the items I requested.
0:00:10 > 0:00:12"However, I made no request for a cradle."
0:00:12 > 0:00:13You look wonderful.
0:00:13 > 0:00:14The feast. Was it his idea?
0:00:14 > 0:00:17We agreed it was appropriate you should attend.
0:00:17 > 0:00:18Go to bed.
0:00:18 > 0:00:20I'm...not tired.
0:00:20 > 0:00:22I think you'd better leave, before one of us
0:00:22 > 0:00:24- says something we both regret. - No, Johannes, I know...
0:00:24 > 0:00:25Go, get out!
0:00:25 > 0:00:27What made you like this?
0:00:27 > 0:00:28Nothing made me.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31It was in my soul from the beginning.
0:00:31 > 0:00:32Do you know what we saw?
0:00:32 > 0:00:36How your husband takes his vile pleasures...with a boy.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38You have to go. You have to leave now.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41What is it? Marin...
0:00:41 > 0:00:43No. Aaarh!
0:00:44 > 0:00:47My God, Marin. What have you done?
0:01:35 > 0:01:38What were you thinking, Marin?
0:01:38 > 0:01:41A girl in Assendelft died trying to lose a baby with poison.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55How far gone are you?
0:01:55 > 0:01:59Six, seven months.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01Perhaps more.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05How did you hide it?
0:02:05 > 0:02:10I let out my skirts and bound my breasts.
0:02:10 > 0:02:14Soaked my rags in animal blood so Cornelia wouldn't suspect.
0:02:21 > 0:02:25Tell me. Is it Frans's?
0:02:26 > 0:02:28He was just angry about the sugar, Marin.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32He loves you. Tell him about this.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34Once he knows, he will not harm Johannes
0:02:34 > 0:02:36because he knows it will endanger his child.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39You don't understand.
0:02:43 > 0:02:51If he survives, this child will be...stained.
0:02:51 > 0:02:55With his mother's sin, with his father's sin.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57SHE SOBS
0:03:00 > 0:03:03It's a baby. Not a devil.
0:03:07 > 0:03:12Animal blood on her rags to fool us. She always was clever.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19The crib...
0:03:19 > 0:03:21Did you know?
0:03:21 > 0:03:24No, of course not.
0:03:24 > 0:03:27Then why is the doll of Madame Marin carrying a child?
0:03:29 > 0:03:31What are you talking about?
0:03:33 > 0:03:37How could you betray us like this? You know how rumour spreads.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39I didn't order it. It just came.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43Then who is it that is spying on us?
0:03:43 > 0:03:45- I don't think she's a spy.- She?
0:03:49 > 0:03:51She sees our lives.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53I think she's trying to help us, trying to warn us...
0:03:53 > 0:03:58How has she helped us? The Seigneur is gone. Otto, too,
0:03:58 > 0:04:01and now Marin carries the shame of the man who wishes to destroy us.
0:04:01 > 0:04:02Look.
0:04:02 > 0:04:05This was white when it arrived.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08This is witchcraft.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10She's not a witch.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12How dare she send you things like this?
0:04:12 > 0:04:13What else does she know?
0:04:13 > 0:04:16KNOCKING ON DOOR
0:04:20 > 0:04:22Open up!
0:04:22 > 0:04:24It's the Militia.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27Marin, they cannot see you like this.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30Especially Frans. Cornelia!
0:04:30 > 0:04:31KNOCKING ON DOOR
0:04:31 > 0:04:33Open up!
0:04:42 > 0:04:44We've come for Johannes Brandt.
0:04:44 > 0:04:46He is not here, Seigneur. He's travelling.
0:04:46 > 0:04:47Don't lie. We know he's here.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50You don't want to make a fuss on your doorstep.
0:04:50 > 0:04:51Good day.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54Frans, tell them.
0:04:54 > 0:04:55It's out of my hands.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57We're here under the jurisdiction of Schout Slabbaert.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59A young man has been attacked on the Eastern Islands
0:04:59 > 0:05:01and there are witnesses to back it up.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04- Now go and fetch your master. - I said, good day.
0:05:04 > 0:05:05I told you. He's not here!
0:05:05 > 0:05:07Frans, all of you. You are better than this.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09Go and catch your thieves, your murderers.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11My husband has helped make this republic great.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13What he is, is a sodomite.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15And all the money in Amsterdam won't save him.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18Now get out of my way. Search the house.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20- Frans.- Search every room!
0:05:20 > 0:05:22Frans.
0:05:22 > 0:05:23Frans, please.
0:05:25 > 0:05:26Listen to me!
0:05:26 > 0:05:28Sir! Sir! They found him!
0:05:28 > 0:05:29- They found him!- Where?
0:05:29 > 0:05:32On a ship by the docks, about to set sail.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34They're taking him to the Stadhuis now!
0:05:34 > 0:05:35To the Stadhuis.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44Madame, Madame, you cannot!
0:05:44 > 0:05:46Let go of me, Cornelia!
0:05:46 > 0:05:48- No, I really... I will not hear of...- You need to stay.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50You can't go, Madame, please!
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Cornelia's right.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55If you follow them, you'll be arrested as well.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59Where is your heart, Marin? I would never abandon my brother.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02To fight them in the open is to invite certain defeat.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Then I will find another way.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16How do I look?
0:06:17 > 0:06:19Like a serving girl on an errand.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22You really think a disguise is necessary?
0:06:22 > 0:06:25If the Burgomasters find out his wife is trying to deal in sugar,
0:06:25 > 0:06:26who knows what they will do?
0:06:26 > 0:06:29I still don't think you should go to the Eastern Islands alone.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31Johannes is in a cell.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33And you need to stay here with Marin.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35We may be able to bribe Jack to change his story.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42I will visit Johannes afterwards, if they let me in.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Is there a message you would like me to send?
0:06:44 > 0:06:46There's nothing I can say.
0:06:46 > 0:06:47Marin...
0:06:48 > 0:06:49Hope is dangerous.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53Hope is all we have.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55Hope and sugar.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31Bribing officials?
0:08:31 > 0:08:33We need all the friends we can get.
0:08:37 > 0:08:41Thank you. They seem to think food is an option here.
0:08:44 > 0:08:45What have they done to you?
0:08:47 > 0:08:48It's nothing.
0:09:00 > 0:09:04Tell me, was it love?
0:09:07 > 0:09:08I don't know.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16By telling me lies, he made me see the truth.
0:09:19 > 0:09:23The way sometimes a painting is more beautiful than the thing itself.
0:09:26 > 0:09:27It was a painting of love.
0:09:31 > 0:09:35But I couldn't tell the difference, nor did I care to.
0:09:36 > 0:09:40You can fight this, Johannes.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42You're powerful, rich.
0:09:44 > 0:09:48You said it yourself, the Burgomasters cannot touch you.
0:09:48 > 0:09:53They have a name for it. "The unmentionable sin."
0:09:53 > 0:09:57Two men together, an act which only God has power to forgive.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59To do nothing would be to condone it.
0:09:59 > 0:10:03Then we make Frans Meermans change his mind.
0:10:03 > 0:10:04I have let his anger stew,
0:10:04 > 0:10:07- and now he is determined to take his revenge.- Jack, then.
0:10:07 > 0:10:08Nella...
0:10:08 > 0:10:09- I'll pay him off.- Nella!
0:10:12 > 0:10:14It won't make any difference.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25What if we had a child?
0:10:27 > 0:10:28To prove the lie.
0:10:29 > 0:10:33And where are we going to get one of those in a couple of weeks?
0:10:39 > 0:10:41I'm glad you came, Nella.
0:10:44 > 0:10:45I don't deserve you.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48I wish I'd been enough.
0:10:50 > 0:10:51You have been a miracle.
0:10:58 > 0:10:59Rezecki.
0:11:01 > 0:11:02I take her everywhere I go.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10The red's gone. From the wound.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13I don't understand.
0:11:16 > 0:11:17Must have worn it off.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29What on earth...?
0:11:30 > 0:11:34Madame Marin ordered it. It came in a big crate today.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39It's the same as the one the Miniaturist sent me.
0:11:40 > 0:11:41I know.
0:11:44 > 0:11:45DOOR OPENS
0:11:45 > 0:11:49Marin, what were you thinking?
0:11:49 > 0:11:52If any of the neighbours saw this arrive, what would they think?
0:11:52 > 0:11:53The same as you.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02I know you want this child for yourself.
0:12:02 > 0:12:03Marin, that's not true.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07But it would be convenient, no?
0:12:08 > 0:12:09Well...
0:12:10 > 0:12:14So what if we did pretend the child was mine?
0:12:14 > 0:12:16Would that be so awful?
0:12:16 > 0:12:19It would prove that Johannes has the same desires as other men.
0:12:21 > 0:12:22Don't you want him to live?
0:12:22 > 0:12:26This child will be far from convenient.
0:12:26 > 0:12:30But no-one will take it away from me. No-one.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36It's kicking me.
0:12:38 > 0:12:39We'll need a midwife soon.
0:12:41 > 0:12:42Do you know the law?
0:12:44 > 0:12:48A midwife must write down the name of the father.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52If we don't tell her she'll report that, too.
0:12:55 > 0:12:56Talk to Frans, Marin.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00Tell him about his child.
0:13:02 > 0:13:06You speak of things of which you know nothing.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08Do you want to know the truth?
0:13:11 > 0:13:13Johannes stopped my marriage.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15But it wasn't his decision.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20It was mine. I told him to.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23You?
0:13:23 > 0:13:26By the time I was a woman, I ran this household,
0:13:26 > 0:13:28and with Johannes away, I was the head of it.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33Was I supposed to give up my freedom for a man?
0:13:35 > 0:13:39I thought it a kindness to let Frans believe I was forbidden
0:13:39 > 0:13:42than to know I didn't love him enough to sacrifice my liberty.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47I never meant it to twist this way.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02It is his child you're carrying, though.
0:14:05 > 0:14:06Isn't it?
0:14:12 > 0:14:16I have taken things from my brother I was not meant to take.
0:14:36 > 0:14:38Don't let sweet weapons stray.
0:15:10 > 0:15:11Hannah!
0:15:13 > 0:15:14Hannah!
0:15:16 > 0:15:19I hadn't expected there to be so much.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21Imagine it transformed into guilders.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23Some of it is rotten.
0:15:23 > 0:15:27Very little, Madame. A few were refined in Surinam.
0:15:27 > 0:15:32But the rest were all refined here, in the city.
0:15:35 > 0:15:37How much for the Amsterdam stock?
0:15:37 > 0:15:40There are 750 loaves from the city.
0:15:40 > 0:15:44At 40 guilders each...
0:15:44 > 0:15:4530,000 guilders.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Impossible.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50We are bakers of cakes, not sellers of sugar.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53Its quality alone will guarantee it sells.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56The craving for sugar shows no sign of abating.
0:15:56 > 0:16:00The more the Burgomasters forbid it, the more people will yearn for it.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02The prices will rise.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04100 Amsterdam loaves for 900 guilders.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08If it makes a profit, we'll be back for more.
0:16:10 > 0:16:123,500.
0:16:12 > 0:16:141,100.
0:16:14 > 0:16:152,000.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20I have other buyers coming this afternoon.
0:16:21 > 0:16:231,500.
0:16:25 > 0:16:26Done.
0:16:38 > 0:16:42Madame, Johannes is to appear today!
0:16:47 > 0:16:49CROWD MURMUR
0:17:02 > 0:17:03Look. There's Agnes.
0:17:05 > 0:17:06What's she fiddling with?
0:17:12 > 0:17:14The sugar, Madame.
0:17:14 > 0:17:17We've already promised half the loaves we took this morning.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20Arnoud wants to send some to The Hague, where he has family.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23I'm sure it won't be long before we come to you for more.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25DOOR OPENS
0:17:27 > 0:17:30Seigneur, Seigneur.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37Good people of Amsterdam.
0:17:37 > 0:17:41We have made success for our city.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45But we have remained righteous.
0:17:45 > 0:17:51We have not wasted ourselves in the surfeit of our fortune.
0:17:51 > 0:17:56But here before you is a man who took another path.
0:17:58 > 0:18:04He considered that he was above the family, above the city,
0:18:04 > 0:18:07above the Church,
0:18:07 > 0:18:09above the State.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12Above God himself.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17You accuse me, Sir.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22But the truth of the accusation is yet to be tested.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24You deny the charge?
0:18:26 > 0:18:28If I am to defend myself I am entitled to know
0:18:28 > 0:18:30the specifics of the accusation.
0:18:32 > 0:18:36On Sunday the 4th of January,
0:18:36 > 0:18:42Jack Philips says that you attacked and sodomized him...
0:18:42 > 0:18:43CROWD GASP
0:18:43 > 0:18:48..and left him so badly beaten that he could barely walk.
0:18:49 > 0:18:54And then you tried to buy his silence.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56Is that specific enough for you?
0:18:59 > 0:19:03If any such thing happened, it was not me.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07My conscience is clear.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09Ha!
0:19:09 > 0:19:11We have witnesses that are ready to
0:19:11 > 0:19:14swear on the Holy Bible that they saw you.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17Then they are lying.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19- HE SCOFFS - You are married?
0:19:20 > 0:19:22I am.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26And what sort of a husband are you?
0:19:26 > 0:19:28Well, I'm still in one piece.
0:19:28 > 0:19:29LAUGHTER
0:19:29 > 0:19:32Are you a good or a bad husband?
0:19:32 > 0:19:34My wife is wealthy and secure.
0:19:35 > 0:19:39To be wealthy does not mean to be content.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42That is a rich man's answer. Try telling that to a poor man.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44LAUGHTER
0:19:44 > 0:19:47You have no children. Why not?
0:19:49 > 0:19:52I have been married but four months.
0:19:52 > 0:19:54How often do you lie with your wife?
0:19:54 > 0:19:55That is between me and her.
0:19:58 > 0:19:59You are late to marry.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05She was worth the wait.
0:20:05 > 0:20:12You have, over the years, employed many apprentices.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15A preponderance of young men...
0:20:15 > 0:20:18Are not all apprentices young men?
0:20:18 > 0:20:21..more than any other senior member of the Company.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23I have the figures here.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26I have more money and more business than most of them.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28But isn't that why I'm really here?
0:20:28 > 0:20:29GASPS
0:20:29 > 0:20:31Who will take my business if I drown?
0:20:31 > 0:20:33Will it be you, Schout Slabbaert? Dividing it up?
0:20:33 > 0:20:35Or will you lock it up in the Stadhuis coffers?
0:20:35 > 0:20:37- CROWD MURMUR - Silence.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40You insult the city of Amsterdam!
0:20:42 > 0:20:44Bring in the plaintiff!
0:20:54 > 0:21:00Are you Jack Philips, by trade a delivery boy and a stower?
0:21:00 > 0:21:03I am. But by trade an actor.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05The others, by necessity.
0:21:05 > 0:21:06Hand him the Bible.
0:21:08 > 0:21:12Do you swear to tell the truth for us today?
0:21:14 > 0:21:16I swear.
0:21:16 > 0:21:20And do you recognise this man?
0:21:20 > 0:21:22Oh, look at him, boy!
0:21:26 > 0:21:28Do you recognise him?
0:21:30 > 0:21:31I do.
0:21:32 > 0:21:36And what charges do you bring against him?
0:21:38 > 0:21:42That he sodomized me against my will, stabbed me in the chest
0:21:42 > 0:21:46when I resisted, and offered me money for my silence afterwards.
0:21:46 > 0:21:51His attack produced the wound you that bear now?
0:21:51 > 0:21:53He only just missed my heart.
0:21:53 > 0:21:59And how did he behave before he...seized you?
0:21:59 > 0:22:02He was in a frenzy, Sir. I pushed him away.
0:22:02 > 0:22:03I told him to leave me alone.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06But he took me by my coat sleeves and he pushed me
0:22:06 > 0:22:09up against the walls of his warehouse.
0:22:09 > 0:22:10And then?
0:22:10 > 0:22:12He...
0:22:15 > 0:22:17He...used me.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19He sodomized you.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22Lies, lies. This is all lies.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24You said he wouldn't speak to me!
0:22:24 > 0:22:27Silence, Brandt. You'll get your chance.
0:22:28 > 0:22:35Now, lad, you are entirely sure, and you swear before God,
0:22:35 > 0:22:39that the man who assaulted you was Johannes Brandt?
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Answer me, boy!
0:22:45 > 0:22:48Tell them the truth, Jack.
0:22:48 > 0:22:49Tell them.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00Enough. Take him away.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03Wait! Wait! Show us the wound.
0:23:03 > 0:23:04What?
0:23:04 > 0:23:06He says this attack happened on the 4th of January.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08What difference does it make?
0:23:08 > 0:23:11- Six days ago. - What is your point, Brandt?
0:23:11 > 0:23:14If he is telling the truth it will still be fresh.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17But if he received it in a different place, at a different time,
0:23:17 > 0:23:21a fortnight ago or more, say, it will have begun to heal.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23So, show us, Jack.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Show us the wound.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32Show us!
0:23:33 > 0:23:35HE GASPS
0:23:35 > 0:23:38Enough! Guards, get him out, take him away!
0:23:38 > 0:23:41He cannot show us because he knows that it would prove he is lying.
0:23:41 > 0:23:44Silence, Brandt!
0:23:44 > 0:23:49You saw the boy. He's in no condition.
0:23:49 > 0:23:55Court is adjourned till tomorrow, seven o'clock.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06Go to Marin, make sure she's all right.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09I have to talk to the Meermans.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32So that's what you were playing with.
0:24:35 > 0:24:39Seigneur! Please wait.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41Johannes has sold your sugar.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43Not all of it, but a substantial amount.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48Where did you get that? Just put it away!
0:24:48 > 0:24:50It's me, isn't it?
0:24:50 > 0:24:52Did Agnes commission a cabinet of your home?
0:24:52 > 0:24:54A cannonball would do less damage to my marriage
0:24:54 > 0:24:56than those cursed miniatures.
0:24:56 > 0:24:57What else did the Miniaturist send you?
0:24:57 > 0:25:00Evil hints and vile mockery.
0:25:00 > 0:25:04"It's the truth", Agnes kept saying. "It's the truth."
0:25:04 > 0:25:05So, I had her cabinet burned,
0:25:05 > 0:25:08and went to the Kalverstraat to have the Miniaturist arrested.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11The spying little villain had fled.
0:25:12 > 0:25:151,000 guilders?
0:25:15 > 0:25:17You think you can buy my silence with 1,000 guilders,
0:25:17 > 0:25:21when hundreds of thousands could have been made?
0:25:21 > 0:25:24Well, my future's been ruined because of your husband's neglect!
0:25:24 > 0:25:26If he is released, he can sell more.
0:25:26 > 0:25:30- There are ready buyers... - I need money. Not promises.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33Seigneur, it is time for this to end.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36We both know it's not about the money, or about the English boy.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39You think Johannes ruined your life.
0:25:39 > 0:25:40I know about you and Marin.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42I understand your wife might be jealous but...
0:25:42 > 0:25:45Be quiet, woman! You keep your vicious imagination to yourself!
0:25:45 > 0:25:47It wasn't him. It wasn't his idea.
0:25:49 > 0:25:50What do you mean?
0:25:52 > 0:25:54It was not Johannes who refused you.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56It was Marin's decision.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00But she did not want to hurt you and so he agreed to take the blame.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05You lie. You lie to save his neck!
0:26:05 > 0:26:08If you don't believe me, ask her.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13MARIN SCREAMS
0:26:13 > 0:26:15Feel it. It's beating so fast.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18Her waters. It's starting.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20- We have to fetch a midwife. - No, no.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22Marin, we can buy her silence.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24We don't even have money for firewood.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26We have enough.
0:26:26 > 0:26:30I just need you and Cornelia.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33I saw my brother and sister born. I think I know what we need.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Clean cloths, hot water, fresh sheets.
0:26:35 > 0:26:36And a knife for the cord.
0:26:38 > 0:26:39Marin.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42Marin, when the pain was bad, my mother used to pace.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Now, please, I need you to stand.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46SOBBING
0:26:46 > 0:26:47It's coming!
0:26:51 > 0:26:54Marin?
0:26:54 > 0:26:55Cornelia!
0:26:55 > 0:26:58- MOANING - No!
0:27:01 > 0:27:03No...
0:27:03 > 0:27:04I can see it.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06Marin, it's time to push.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09I can't, I can't.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11Marin, please, one more try.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13You're almost there.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15GROANING
0:27:17 > 0:27:19Oh, Marin, look.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23You did it!
0:27:23 > 0:27:26A little girl. It's a little girl.
0:27:26 > 0:27:30You did it. You did it, Marin.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32GASPING
0:27:41 > 0:27:43What's wrong with it?
0:27:44 > 0:27:46What's, what's wrong with...
0:27:50 > 0:27:52BABY CRIES
0:28:09 > 0:28:12Thea. Her name is Thea.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21BELLS TOLL
0:28:31 > 0:28:33Eight. Eight bells.
0:28:35 > 0:28:38Johannes's trial started at seven. I have to go.
0:28:38 > 0:28:41You can't leave me, Madame. I don't know what to do.
0:28:41 > 0:28:42And Marin...
0:28:44 > 0:28:45Find Smit's List.
0:28:45 > 0:28:47Bring a midwife, a wet-nurse,
0:28:47 > 0:28:49someone who understands what's happening here.
0:28:49 > 0:28:51But, Madame, the child...
0:28:51 > 0:28:53Give the woman whatever it takes to keep her quiet.
0:28:53 > 0:28:56If there isn't enough in Johannes's chest, sell the silver.
0:29:05 > 0:29:07Did Agnes Meermans testify?
0:29:07 > 0:29:12About seven o'clock, Madame. Trembling and strange, she was.
0:29:12 > 0:29:15The Schout grew angry when she would not tell him what he wanted.
0:29:20 > 0:29:23Seigneur Meermans,
0:29:23 > 0:29:28your wife's reluctance to enter into details is understandable.
0:29:28 > 0:29:31But I must ask you to be more forthright.
0:29:33 > 0:29:39Now, you have known Johannes Brandt for many years, is that correct?
0:29:39 > 0:29:42We worked together as young men.
0:29:42 > 0:29:45What kind of a man did you find him to be?
0:29:46 > 0:29:48Astute enough.
0:29:48 > 0:29:50But always too prone to admire his own philosophies
0:29:50 > 0:29:52and disdain those of other men.
0:29:52 > 0:29:55He was engaged in selling your stock of sugar.
0:29:57 > 0:30:00Were you satisfied with his conduct of the business?
0:30:04 > 0:30:05Yes, I was.
0:30:05 > 0:30:06CROWD MURMUR
0:30:06 > 0:30:10So, there's no reason for you to bear any animosity towards him?
0:30:10 > 0:30:12None whatsoever.
0:30:12 > 0:30:18So, you would say that, up till now, he has been a good merchant
0:30:18 > 0:30:20and a good man.
0:30:21 > 0:30:23You are under oath.
0:30:23 > 0:30:25A good merchant, perhaps.
0:30:25 > 0:30:28Johannes Brandt has always pursued his will with -
0:30:28 > 0:30:32or I'd say his desires, - with unbending insistence.
0:30:33 > 0:30:36But I did not realise the depth of his defiance,
0:30:36 > 0:30:39the merchants he bribed, the debts he grew...
0:30:39 > 0:30:41Who are these men? Show them to me!
0:30:41 > 0:30:43You know full well who they are, Johannes.
0:30:43 > 0:30:46It's for your soul I'm here today.
0:30:47 > 0:30:48God has spoken to me.
0:30:48 > 0:30:52He has told me my silence is no longer enough.
0:30:52 > 0:30:57Seigneur Meermans, tell us what you witnessed
0:30:57 > 0:30:59when you came to check your sugar.
0:31:00 > 0:31:05As we walked towards the warehouse doors, we heard voices.
0:31:05 > 0:31:10When we went around to the back, Seigneur Brandt had pushed
0:31:10 > 0:31:12a young man against the side of the building.
0:31:14 > 0:31:17The boy's face was up against the brickwork.
0:31:17 > 0:31:21Both their breeches were round their ankles, their hats knocked off.
0:31:21 > 0:31:23Is that young man in court now?
0:31:28 > 0:31:30I could, erm...
0:31:31 > 0:31:33I could see the lust in Brandt's eyes.
0:31:35 > 0:31:36He, erm...
0:31:39 > 0:31:42He scooped up his breeches as we approached and...
0:31:42 > 0:31:45He beat him, didn't he?
0:31:45 > 0:31:46Frans. You don't have to do this.
0:31:46 > 0:31:49Rapidly. And ferociously.
0:31:49 > 0:31:50Frans.
0:31:50 > 0:31:53And he stabbed him, deep, close to the heart.
0:31:53 > 0:31:57Just as the victim testified. Didn't he?
0:31:57 > 0:31:59Didn't he?
0:32:03 > 0:32:04Yes.
0:32:04 > 0:32:06GASPS AND MURMURS
0:32:12 > 0:32:16The witness has testified to the truth of the accusation.
0:32:17 > 0:32:21The Schepenbank will now consider its verdict.
0:32:21 > 0:32:23Surely I have a right to speak in my own defence?
0:32:23 > 0:32:27Oh, come now, Brandt. What is there you could say?
0:32:40 > 0:32:42Very well, then.
0:32:45 > 0:32:49Am I the only sinner in this room?
0:32:53 > 0:32:55Am I?
0:32:55 > 0:32:59You put on that costume in the morning, Pieter Slabbaert,
0:32:59 > 0:33:02as do you, Frans Meermans, and hope we will be
0:33:02 > 0:33:06so dazzled by your robes we will overlook your own sins.
0:33:06 > 0:33:11I will not apologise for who or what I am.
0:33:11 > 0:33:14But the allegations against me are false.
0:33:14 > 0:33:21Lies concocted out of envy, jealousy, bitterness.
0:33:26 > 0:33:32Citizens of Amsterdam, we are better than this.
0:33:32 > 0:33:37I have worked for this city from the moment I was old enough.
0:33:37 > 0:33:42I've sailed to lands I never knew existed, not even in my dreams.
0:33:42 > 0:33:47I've fought for, and seen men die for this republic
0:33:47 > 0:33:49on hot beaches and high seas,
0:33:49 > 0:33:52risking our lives for the glory of the land that gave us birth.
0:33:52 > 0:33:57Striving, building, never once resting in complacency.
0:33:59 > 0:34:03I rescued a slave boy from traders.
0:34:03 > 0:34:05I took in an orphan girl.
0:34:05 > 0:34:07I sponsored apprentice after apprentice,
0:34:07 > 0:34:09but exploited no man's need.
0:34:09 > 0:34:12I never perjured myself, or corrupted another with bribes.
0:34:12 > 0:34:18I took a wife, and I tried to make her happy, as she made me.
0:34:20 > 0:34:26And my reward...is this.
0:34:28 > 0:34:32Well...enough.
0:34:34 > 0:34:38The purpose of a trial is to discover the truth,
0:34:38 > 0:34:40and you deserve no less.
0:34:40 > 0:34:44So I will give it to you, in full.
0:34:48 > 0:34:55Yes, I know Jack Philips.
0:34:55 > 0:34:56Perhaps I even loved him.
0:34:56 > 0:34:58GASPS
0:34:58 > 0:35:01But I never hurt him, or offered any insult to his body.
0:35:01 > 0:35:05Frans Meermans I once considered a friend.
0:35:05 > 0:35:08But long ago I caused him great pain,
0:35:08 > 0:35:12and he, perhaps rightly, has never forgiven.
0:35:12 > 0:35:16If the story he has told here is his manner of revenge,
0:35:16 > 0:35:17it does not make it true.
0:35:17 > 0:35:20Nor does it prevent me from forgiving him.
0:35:20 > 0:35:22CROWD MURMUR
0:35:32 > 0:35:33Now that you have heard me...
0:35:37 > 0:35:39..you may do with me what you will.
0:35:54 > 0:35:58The court must retire to further consider its verdict.
0:36:05 > 0:36:09Cornelia! Marin! They couldn't agree a verdict.
0:36:09 > 0:36:10If we can get Frans to recant...
0:36:13 > 0:36:14What is it?
0:36:17 > 0:36:18Marin?
0:36:24 > 0:36:27No. It's not possible.
0:36:30 > 0:36:34There was nothing I could do. I'm Lysbeth Timmers.
0:36:34 > 0:36:35Your maid found me in Smit's List.
0:36:35 > 0:36:37You told me to, Madame.
0:36:37 > 0:36:39She's a wet-nurse, not a midwife.
0:36:41 > 0:36:43I birthed four children of my own.
0:36:45 > 0:36:47BABY CRIES
0:36:47 > 0:36:49She shouldn't be swaddled like this.
0:36:53 > 0:36:55SHE SHUSHES
0:36:57 > 0:37:00Dear God, what is this?
0:37:01 > 0:37:03I didn't agree to this.
0:37:20 > 0:37:23You will be amply rewarded for your help.
0:37:23 > 0:37:25A guilder a day.
0:37:25 > 0:37:26Four.
0:37:26 > 0:37:28Two.
0:37:28 > 0:37:32Three. Given the circumstances, I'm sure you'll agree.
0:37:38 > 0:37:40We are going to keep Thea, aren't we?
0:37:44 > 0:37:47We're already bribing new people to keep our latest secret.
0:37:50 > 0:37:52Where will it ever stop?
0:37:55 > 0:37:57I'll die before I let anything happen to that child.
0:38:00 > 0:38:03Did you know? About Otto and Marin?
0:38:06 > 0:38:08I wanted it to be Meerman's.
0:38:08 > 0:38:10Why?
0:38:19 > 0:38:21She looks peaceful, doesn't she?
0:38:35 > 0:38:37A map.
0:38:39 > 0:38:41For her travels.
0:38:49 > 0:38:51I have come to report a death.
0:38:52 > 0:38:54We have yet to announce a verdict.
0:38:55 > 0:38:57Not Johannes. His sister, Marin.
0:38:58 > 0:38:59Yesterday afternoon.
0:39:01 > 0:39:05Oh. A godly woman, despite her brother.
0:39:07 > 0:39:08How did it happen?
0:39:08 > 0:39:13A fever. She'd been ill for some time.
0:39:13 > 0:39:16I wondered why I hadn't seen her the last few weeks.
0:39:18 > 0:39:21However, if you have come to bury her here,
0:39:21 > 0:39:22I'm afraid that is impossible.
0:39:24 > 0:39:28Why? A godly woman, you said so yourself.
0:39:28 > 0:39:29You know why.
0:39:30 > 0:39:33Johannes is innocent. But even if he were not...
0:39:33 > 0:39:35The men at Sint Athonis will help you. I have no room.
0:39:35 > 0:39:38I will not have her buried beyond the city walls.
0:39:40 > 0:39:42She was a woman of Amsterdam. She worshipped here.
0:39:45 > 0:39:48You have a duty to bury her.
0:40:08 > 0:40:10Not for myself, you understand.
0:40:13 > 0:40:16There is a small space in the east corner of the church.
0:40:18 > 0:40:21Room for a modest slab, no more.
0:40:21 > 0:40:22And the finest elm for the coffin.
0:40:24 > 0:40:26On the slab, do you wish for an epitaph?
0:40:31 > 0:40:33"Things can change."
0:40:36 > 0:40:42Johannes Brandt, you are charged on three counts.
0:40:42 > 0:40:47On the first, that of assault on the boy Jack Philips,
0:40:47 > 0:40:53I, Pieter Slabbaert, Schout of Amsterdam
0:40:53 > 0:40:59and these four members of the city Schepenbank, find you...
0:40:59 > 0:41:01..not guilty.
0:41:03 > 0:41:10And on the second count, attempted bribery, we find you...
0:41:10 > 0:41:11..not guilty.
0:41:13 > 0:41:18And finally, on the charge of sodomy,
0:41:18 > 0:41:21the court finds you
0:41:21 > 0:41:24guilty as charged.
0:41:24 > 0:41:26CROWD MURMUR
0:41:29 > 0:41:35Your punishment shall be to be weighted down at the neck
0:41:35 > 0:41:39and to be drowned in the sea, this Sunday.
0:41:39 > 0:41:43And may God have mercy on your sinning soul.
0:42:12 > 0:42:16I mean you no harm, I just need to know.
0:42:21 > 0:42:25I am done with you, do you hear?
0:42:25 > 0:42:27I have had enough!
0:42:30 > 0:42:33SHE WHIMPERS
0:43:47 > 0:43:49- ECHOING VOICES:- Are you saying I shouldn't marry him?
0:43:49 > 0:43:52My husband threatens to stop this, but then I cannot bear to live...
0:43:52 > 0:43:55How did you know? I feel a madness creeping in...
0:44:03 > 0:44:04Peebo!
0:44:15 > 0:44:18He came in through the window.
0:44:18 > 0:44:20I thought you were a ghost.
0:44:22 > 0:44:24Or a sorceress.
0:44:25 > 0:44:28You were angry with me.
0:44:28 > 0:44:30I heard you downstairs.
0:44:30 > 0:44:32Please. You have the answers. I know you do.
0:44:34 > 0:44:36I have to save my husband.
0:44:38 > 0:44:39How?
0:44:41 > 0:44:42How do I save him from this?
0:44:45 > 0:44:47I'll pay you. Whatever it takes.
0:44:47 > 0:44:49This...is why I hide.
0:44:51 > 0:44:53I don't understand.
0:44:53 > 0:44:55Nobody does.
0:44:55 > 0:45:00Everyone thinks I am the one who can tell them what to do.
0:45:00 > 0:45:02That I have a third eye.
0:45:03 > 0:45:07I am just a maker of small things.
0:45:07 > 0:45:09No. Marin's baby. You knew.
0:45:09 > 0:45:11I knew because I have eyes.
0:45:11 > 0:45:14The woman, I saw how she walked.
0:45:14 > 0:45:16How she bound her breasts.
0:45:16 > 0:45:18The sugar in Agnes's hand.
0:45:18 > 0:45:20It went black, just like the Meermans'.
0:45:20 > 0:45:21Because it was real sugar.
0:45:21 > 0:45:23The cradle.
0:45:23 > 0:45:26There's no way you could have known what Marin would order.
0:45:26 > 0:45:27Neither did she.
0:45:27 > 0:45:29She saw what I had made,
0:45:29 > 0:45:32and she liked it enough that she ordered a copy.
0:45:32 > 0:45:36Rezecki, the dog. The wound.
0:45:36 > 0:45:37There's no way you could have known.
0:45:37 > 0:45:40There's no way anybody could have known.
0:45:44 > 0:45:50Sometimes...things come into my head.
0:45:51 > 0:45:58It's like a voice you hear carried on the wind that you can't make out.
0:45:59 > 0:46:01It's just a word, here or there.
0:46:03 > 0:46:06It's things,
0:46:06 > 0:46:09people,
0:46:09 > 0:46:12sometimes dogs.
0:46:15 > 0:46:20Everyone wants answers. But I have none.
0:46:20 > 0:46:21Sorry.
0:46:22 > 0:46:26I know it is not what you want to hear.
0:46:26 > 0:46:27You should take him back.
0:46:27 > 0:46:29He would not like the journey to Bruges.
0:46:29 > 0:46:31You're leaving?
0:46:31 > 0:46:32Tonight. With my father.
0:46:34 > 0:46:37You wrote me notes.
0:46:37 > 0:46:39So many of them.
0:46:39 > 0:46:40Please.
0:46:44 > 0:46:45You have to help me.
0:46:48 > 0:46:53My father tried to teach me to make clocks.
0:46:55 > 0:46:59But the ones I made would never keep time.
0:46:59 > 0:47:02They would either tick too slow or too fast.
0:47:03 > 0:47:07I would take them to him, and he would make them perfect.
0:47:09 > 0:47:14Eventually I said to him, "Please, I beg you,
0:47:14 > 0:47:17"teach me what you do to make the clocks keep time."
0:47:19 > 0:47:24He laughed and said, "I haven't done anything for months now.
0:47:25 > 0:47:28"Your clocks keep better time than mine."
0:47:31 > 0:47:33You had learned how to do it without even knowing it.
0:47:36 > 0:47:39Things can change, yes.
0:47:41 > 0:47:45But they have already changed because of things you've done.
0:48:25 > 0:48:27HE WHIMPERS
0:48:27 > 0:48:28Nella.
0:48:30 > 0:48:32It's so good to see you.
0:48:35 > 0:48:37But you wore your own clothes...
0:48:38 > 0:48:39I am not ashamed to be here.
0:48:42 > 0:48:44Nor can they make me ashamed of you.
0:48:45 > 0:48:47Tell me, how are you? How's Marin?
0:48:50 > 0:48:53Oh, you know...
0:48:55 > 0:48:57Too many herring dinners?
0:48:59 > 0:49:01Tell her not to come.
0:49:02 > 0:49:04I don't think I could bear it.
0:49:04 > 0:49:06SHE SOBS
0:49:06 > 0:49:08Come now.
0:49:10 > 0:49:14Don't drench me with your tears.
0:49:14 > 0:49:15Did you bring my best clothes?
0:49:37 > 0:49:38Nella.
0:49:41 > 0:49:43I mean it.
0:49:45 > 0:49:46Don't be sad.
0:49:49 > 0:49:54The secret in life, as in business, is not to care too much.
0:49:56 > 0:49:57Always be prepared to lose.
0:49:57 > 0:49:59KEYS JANGLE
0:50:06 > 0:50:08How much did you give him this time?
0:50:08 > 0:50:10Five guilders.
0:50:13 > 0:50:17To stay until dawn.
0:50:47 > 0:50:52The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
0:50:52 > 0:50:55He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
0:50:55 > 0:50:59He leadeth me beside the still waters.
0:50:59 > 0:51:02He restoreth my soul.
0:51:02 > 0:51:08He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.
0:51:08 > 0:51:11Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
0:51:11 > 0:51:13I will fear no evil,
0:51:13 > 0:51:14for thou art with me,
0:51:14 > 0:51:18thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
0:51:18 > 0:51:22Thou preparest a table in front of me in the presence of mine enemies,
0:51:22 > 0:51:26thou anointest my head with oil. My cup runneth over.
0:51:27 > 0:51:31Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life,
0:51:31 > 0:51:34and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
0:52:19 > 0:52:21CROWD GASP
0:52:28 > 0:52:30He was one of our best merchants.
0:52:30 > 0:52:32We're fools.
0:52:32 > 0:52:34This will bring the Burgomasters no friends.
0:52:52 > 0:52:53Otto!
0:52:54 > 0:52:55He's gone.
0:52:58 > 0:52:59He's really gone.
0:53:27 > 0:53:28Let's go home.
0:53:42 > 0:53:46Cornelia, I... I was going to write a...
0:53:46 > 0:53:48BABY FUSSES
0:53:53 > 0:53:55Cornelia, bring her down.
0:53:56 > 0:53:58BABY CRIES
0:54:28 > 0:54:29Sugar corn...
0:54:33 > 0:54:36What's it called?
0:54:36 > 0:54:37Her name is Thea.
0:54:39 > 0:54:41Marin said it would be a boy.
0:54:46 > 0:54:48Where is she?
0:54:55 > 0:54:56Where is Marin?
0:55:01 > 0:55:03I'm sorry, Otto.
0:55:06 > 0:55:08Truly, I'm so sorry.
0:55:10 > 0:55:13She worsened so quickly, there was nothing we could do.
0:55:18 > 0:55:20But you saved the child.
0:55:24 > 0:55:26She gave her life for this one.
0:55:28 > 0:55:31That's why I had to come back, because I had to see what he...
0:55:33 > 0:55:36..what she would be.
0:55:36 > 0:55:38KNOCK ON DOOR
0:58:00 > 0:58:02You can do this.