1 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:05,980 Hello. 2 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:22,100 Johannes Brandt? 3 00:01:26,460 --> 00:01:27,940 Are we to have a menagerie? 4 00:01:29,900 --> 00:01:33,130 Er, his name is Peebo. 5 00:01:33,180 --> 00:01:35,810 He's a parakeet. 6 00:01:36,260 --> 00:01:37,210 I'm Nella. 7 00:01:37,660 --> 00:01:39,170 Short for Petronella. 8 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:41,720 Are you the housekeeper? 9 00:01:46,020 --> 00:01:47,540 Where is Johannes? 10 00:01:48,900 --> 00:01:50,910 My brother is not at home. 11 00:01:51,460 --> 00:01:55,210 Your brother? So you are... 12 00:01:55,260 --> 00:01:56,740 Marin Brandt. 13 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:03,500 Otto! 14 00:02:13,660 --> 00:02:14,900 For your feet. 15 00:02:22,940 --> 00:02:25,650 Otto is my brother's manservant. 16 00:02:25,700 --> 00:02:28,490 This is Cornelia, she is the maid. 17 00:02:28,540 --> 00:02:32,770 They will look after you. This is Petronella. 18 00:02:32,820 --> 00:02:34,660 She is the Seigneur's new wife. 19 00:02:35,660 --> 00:02:37,980 I expect you'll want to see your bedroom. 20 00:02:40,460 --> 00:02:41,860 To the kitchen. 21 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:45,580 Oh, he lives with, um... 22 00:02:54,460 --> 00:02:55,900 Come on! 23 00:03:08,020 --> 00:03:10,450 This used to be my room. 24 00:03:10,500 --> 00:03:14,570 But it had the better view, so we gave it to you. 25 00:03:14,620 --> 00:03:16,530 Oh, no, please, you must keep it. 26 00:03:16,580 --> 00:03:18,890 No, you misunderstand. 27 00:03:18,940 --> 00:03:21,770 The view is of you. 28 00:03:21,820 --> 00:03:25,380 Amsterdammers must see that Johannes Brandt has a new wife. 29 00:03:29,260 --> 00:03:35,380 The Oortmans' grand ancestral seat, is it warm and dry? 30 00:03:36,940 --> 00:03:39,010 It's not that grand... 31 00:03:39,060 --> 00:03:40,460 .. and it's damp. 32 00:03:43,100 --> 00:03:45,810 We couldn't afford to maintain the dykes. 33 00:03:45,860 --> 00:03:48,850 Pedigree counts for nothing. 34 00:03:48,900 --> 00:03:50,180 Nothing. 35 00:03:52,860 --> 00:03:55,860 The dykes must be maintained or the waters will rise. 36 00:03:58,460 --> 00:04:02,250 We sent the second-best barge. I hope you weren't offended. 37 00:04:02,300 --> 00:04:04,370 Johannes was using the other one. 38 00:04:04,420 --> 00:04:10,020 No, of course not. Did he know I was coming? 39 00:04:11,060 --> 00:04:13,170 You must be hungry. 40 00:04:13,220 --> 00:04:15,820 I'll have Cornelia bring you something to eat. 41 00:04:17,100 --> 00:04:18,820 Oh, do you have any marzipan? 42 00:04:20,980 --> 00:04:23,410 We do not keep sugar in the house. 43 00:04:23,460 --> 00:04:25,700 The luxury of it sickens the soul. 44 00:04:26,740 --> 00:04:28,660 Cornelia will bring you a herring. 45 00:04:56,900 --> 00:04:59,140 Be still, girl! He'll be here any moment! 46 00:05:01,620 --> 00:05:05,210 Now you listen to me, my girl. You need to marry him. 47 00:05:05,260 --> 00:05:08,690 You need to make him want to marry you, otherwise we are ruined. 48 00:05:08,740 --> 00:05:10,130 For myself, I don't care. 49 00:05:10,180 --> 00:05:12,980 - But for your brother and sister... - He's coming! He's coming! 50 00:05:17,540 --> 00:05:20,090 And this is Nella... 51 00:05:20,140 --> 00:05:22,740 Petronella, I mean. 52 00:05:28,180 --> 00:05:31,180 Your daughter is very beautiful, Madame Oortman. 53 00:05:35,180 --> 00:05:37,860 - How bad are the debts, exactly? - The debts? 54 00:05:39,740 --> 00:05:41,650 I know I was not the only one you wrote to. 55 00:05:41,700 --> 00:05:44,620 You would not have done so had you not been desperate. 56 00:05:46,780 --> 00:05:48,420 Did I mention she plays the lute? 57 00:05:50,820 --> 00:05:55,010 Praise God, we are saved. He has asked for your hand. 58 00:05:55,060 --> 00:05:56,810 Do you think you could love him? 59 00:05:56,860 --> 00:05:59,860 - Does it make a difference? - No. But I want you to be happy. 60 00:06:02,100 --> 00:06:05,100 I think perhaps I could. 61 00:06:07,140 --> 00:06:11,290 I hear they eat chocolate wrapped in gold in Amsterdam! 62 00:06:11,340 --> 00:06:12,650 Come, come. 63 00:06:49,140 --> 00:06:51,130 She's here. 64 00:06:51,180 --> 00:06:55,060 It would have looked better if you'd been here when she arrived. 65 00:06:59,940 --> 00:07:01,660 Perhaps you should go and see her. 66 00:07:04,580 --> 00:07:06,690 No, let her sleep. 67 00:07:06,740 --> 00:07:08,740 - You have to understand... - I understand. 68 00:07:11,460 --> 00:07:14,220 I have to work. Rzecki, come. 69 00:07:45,500 --> 00:07:47,850 That's right, although, Hamburg's a good choice 70 00:07:47,900 --> 00:07:49,020 And Marseilles... 71 00:07:54,700 --> 00:07:56,490 Good morning! 72 00:07:56,540 --> 00:07:57,620 Good morning. 73 00:07:59,060 --> 00:08:02,290 Thank you for my dress. 74 00:08:02,340 --> 00:08:04,300 There are more. 75 00:08:05,300 --> 00:08:07,250 It's a little large. 76 00:08:07,300 --> 00:08:08,540 Marin, don't you think? 77 00:08:10,820 --> 00:08:14,340 Never mind, we'll have it altered. Come and eat something. 78 00:08:30,900 --> 00:08:34,250 We are eating frugally today to demonstrate humility. 79 00:08:34,300 --> 00:08:37,650 Privation as a thrill, you mean. Otto, get me some beer. 80 00:08:37,700 --> 00:08:40,170 And Nella and Marin too. 81 00:08:40,220 --> 00:08:41,530 It gives me indigestion. 82 00:08:41,580 --> 00:08:43,930 Go on, be defiant! 83 00:08:43,980 --> 00:08:47,020 Bravery is the rarest commodity in the city these days. 84 00:08:49,700 --> 00:08:52,610 - How was the voyage? - Not much to tell. 85 00:08:52,660 --> 00:08:55,810 - The Lombardy silk, who won the import rights? - I forget. 86 00:08:55,860 --> 00:08:58,690 - Who? - Henry Field of London. 87 00:08:58,740 --> 00:09:01,690 The English, always the English. Think of the commission, Johannes. 88 00:09:01,740 --> 00:09:04,850 I know what I'm doing, Marin. This house is evidence enough, no? 89 00:09:04,900 --> 00:09:07,570 Have you spoken to Frans Meermans yet about his wife's sugar? 90 00:09:07,620 --> 00:09:09,010 So that's what this is about. 91 00:09:09,060 --> 00:09:10,970 It's been sitting in the warehouse for a month. 92 00:09:11,020 --> 00:09:13,290 You still haven't told them what you plan to do with it. 93 00:09:13,340 --> 00:09:15,610 My sister thinks that sugar rots the soul, Nella, 94 00:09:15,660 --> 00:09:17,970 but of all the things I might sell, she pushes this. 95 00:09:18,020 --> 00:09:19,970 - What do you make of that? - Sell the sugar! 96 00:09:20,020 --> 00:09:21,140 Don't tell me what to do! 97 00:09:29,020 --> 00:09:31,490 - Where are you going? - To check on your damned sugar! 98 00:09:31,540 --> 00:09:32,820 I don't believe you. 99 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:44,040 Hello! 100 00:09:52,580 --> 00:09:55,730 Did Johannes collect these on his travels? 101 00:09:55,780 --> 00:09:58,210 The world in a set of plates. 102 00:09:58,260 --> 00:10:00,760 Isn't he rich enough to have someone travel for him? 103 00:10:01,860 --> 00:10:04,890 The Seigneur's spirit belongs on the seas. 104 00:10:04,940 --> 00:10:08,250 He says the ocean is something the land can never be. 105 00:10:08,300 --> 00:10:10,300 No patch ever stays the same. 106 00:10:11,260 --> 00:10:12,580 What are you doing? 107 00:10:13,980 --> 00:10:15,330 Only talking. 108 00:10:15,380 --> 00:10:18,890 He's working. Can't you see? 109 00:10:18,940 --> 00:10:20,450 Leave that. 110 00:10:20,500 --> 00:10:22,740 There are scrolls you need to deliver. 111 00:10:29,860 --> 00:10:32,850 Marin, I think Peebo misses me. 112 00:10:32,900 --> 00:10:35,610 He needs fresh air and light. 113 00:10:35,660 --> 00:10:38,170 His place is down here. 114 00:10:38,220 --> 00:10:40,330 - But Johannes' dog... - Johannes is the Seigneur. 115 00:10:40,380 --> 00:10:41,980 He may do as he pleases. 116 00:10:43,220 --> 00:10:44,980 Is he away a great deal? 117 00:10:56,500 --> 00:10:58,940 Nobody forced you to marry him. 118 00:11:32,740 --> 00:11:34,820 Johannes... 119 00:11:36,100 --> 00:11:37,930 I just wondered, 120 00:11:37,980 --> 00:11:41,540 will I see you... 121 00:11:43,900 --> 00:11:45,540 .. later? 122 00:11:49,700 --> 00:11:51,180 Tonight... 123 00:11:55,660 --> 00:11:57,380 Tonight, I cannot. 124 00:12:03,060 --> 00:12:04,900 Soon, then? 125 00:12:06,580 --> 00:12:08,860 Nella... 126 00:12:16,780 --> 00:12:20,300 .. good night, sweet girl. 127 00:12:29,140 --> 00:12:32,210 I have now been in Amsterdam for over a week. 128 00:12:32,260 --> 00:12:36,090 The city is a glory, like nothing I have ever experienced. 129 00:12:36,140 --> 00:12:40,050 My new home is beautiful, and I want for no material thing. 130 00:12:40,100 --> 00:12:43,210 "He is like a man which built a house 131 00:12:43,260 --> 00:12:46,250 "and laid the foundations upon a rock." 132 00:12:46,300 --> 00:12:50,450 Johannes's sister Marin is very godly, 133 00:12:50,500 --> 00:12:53,330 and takes great interest in our diet. 134 00:12:53,380 --> 00:12:55,540 ".. built his house upon the earth." 135 00:13:00,980 --> 00:13:03,170 As for Johannes, 136 00:13:03,220 --> 00:13:05,490 he treats me with great kindness, 137 00:13:05,540 --> 00:13:08,690 but his work takes him away a great deal. 138 00:13:08,740 --> 00:13:11,780 I look forward to spending more time with him. 139 00:13:16,260 --> 00:13:18,770 I hope the dykes are holding. 140 00:13:18,820 --> 00:13:20,770 Please send my love to little... 141 00:13:23,740 --> 00:13:25,610 Be quiet! 142 00:13:25,660 --> 00:13:30,410 My God, Johannes, what have you done? 143 00:13:30,460 --> 00:13:33,730 - What? You told me to find a... - A what? 144 00:13:33,780 --> 00:13:37,260 A wedding gift. For you. 145 00:13:46,100 --> 00:13:48,650 A man at the docks had some cabinets left over. 146 00:13:48,700 --> 00:13:51,620 I had it improved with tortoiseshell and pewter inlays. 147 00:13:55,780 --> 00:13:57,410 But what is it? 148 00:13:57,460 --> 00:14:01,330 A house. Your house. 149 00:14:01,380 --> 00:14:03,420 This house. 150 00:14:05,420 --> 00:14:07,530 - How much? - The frame was 2,000. 151 00:14:07,580 --> 00:14:10,490 Curtains and furnishings brought it to three. 152 00:14:10,540 --> 00:14:14,650 3,000 guilders? A family could live on that for years. 153 00:14:14,700 --> 00:14:17,930 If you had money to spare, you should have given it to the Church. 154 00:14:17,980 --> 00:14:19,590 Enough of your piety. 155 00:14:20,340 --> 00:14:24,060 Well, she doesn't like it. Neither do I. 156 00:14:25,820 --> 00:14:27,700 That's a bitch's taste for you. 157 00:14:35,340 --> 00:14:36,890 What about you? 158 00:14:36,940 --> 00:14:39,570 I hoped you might like it. 159 00:14:39,620 --> 00:14:43,770 What am I to do with it, exactly? 160 00:14:43,820 --> 00:14:45,420 You'll think of something. 161 00:15:02,980 --> 00:15:04,500 What are you doing? 162 00:15:06,420 --> 00:15:09,890 Nothing. Your door was open. 163 00:15:09,940 --> 00:15:11,620 I thought you'd prefer it closed. 164 00:15:19,060 --> 00:15:20,770 Smit's List. 165 00:15:20,820 --> 00:15:24,740 It's a register of all the crafts people and businesses in the city. 166 00:15:26,260 --> 00:15:28,330 What for? 167 00:15:28,380 --> 00:15:30,490 To decorate your house. 168 00:15:30,540 --> 00:15:33,820 My brother will pay for everything. 169 00:15:36,580 --> 00:15:39,490 I thought you said it was an extravagance. 170 00:15:39,540 --> 00:15:42,260 The Devil finds work for idle hands. 171 00:15:47,580 --> 00:15:49,210 Miniaturist. 172 00:15:49,260 --> 00:15:52,290 Trained with the great Bruges clockmaker Lucas Windelbreke. 173 00:15:52,340 --> 00:15:54,090 At the sign of the sun. 174 00:15:54,140 --> 00:15:57,890 "Dear Sir, I have a house of nine rooms, on a miniature scale, 175 00:15:57,940 --> 00:16:00,210 "that is to be displayed in a cabinet. 176 00:16:00,260 --> 00:16:03,770 "I venture three requests to you and await your response. 177 00:16:03,820 --> 00:16:06,890 "Item -- one lute with strings. 178 00:16:06,940 --> 00:16:10,690 "Item -- one cage, suitable for a parakeet. 179 00:16:10,740 --> 00:16:12,940 "Item -- one box of marzipan." 180 00:16:14,340 --> 00:16:16,140 How do I get to the Kalverstraat? 181 00:16:17,420 --> 00:16:19,490 What do you want there? 182 00:16:19,540 --> 00:16:22,770 Nothing. To leave a message for someone. 183 00:16:22,820 --> 00:16:24,490 Who? 184 00:16:24,540 --> 00:16:27,220 A craftsman, that's all. 185 00:16:29,740 --> 00:16:31,090 I'll come with you, Madame. 186 00:16:31,140 --> 00:16:33,620 There's no need. I have a good sense of direction. 187 00:16:41,380 --> 00:16:43,220 Why didn't Otto come? 188 00:16:44,380 --> 00:16:47,180 - It's not easy for him. - What do you mean? 189 00:16:48,540 --> 00:16:53,850 He was on a Portuguese slave ship. 16 years old. 190 00:16:53,900 --> 00:16:55,690 His parents were dead. 191 00:16:55,740 --> 00:16:58,810 The Seigneur saw him and bought him. 192 00:16:58,860 --> 00:17:01,130 You're saying he's a slave. 193 00:17:01,180 --> 00:17:04,180 No. But he owes the Seigneur his life. 194 00:17:08,900 --> 00:17:11,770 Oh, Marzipan! Do you think we can get some? 195 00:17:11,820 --> 00:17:14,620 - Come on, Madame. - Cornflower! Where've you been? 196 00:17:15,940 --> 00:17:18,620 Well, what you waiting for? Come in! 197 00:17:21,860 --> 00:17:24,780 Please, Madame, have a look around. 198 00:17:28,460 --> 00:17:31,410 The Meermans insisted the Seigneur distribute it. 199 00:17:31,460 --> 00:17:33,490 They know he can get a better price abroad. 200 00:17:33,540 --> 00:17:36,290 And Madame's all for it, even though she hates sugar. 201 00:17:36,340 --> 00:17:38,410 Her and all the rest of the killjoys! 202 00:17:38,460 --> 00:17:41,290 I heard a rumour they want to ban gingerbread men as papist -- 203 00:17:41,340 --> 00:17:42,540 can you believe that? 204 00:17:44,300 --> 00:17:46,300 Madame, try anything you like. 205 00:17:48,300 --> 00:17:50,330 Why not sell it here? 206 00:17:50,380 --> 00:17:52,250 There's barely enough to go round. 207 00:17:52,300 --> 00:17:54,010 I think there's more going on. 208 00:17:54,060 --> 00:17:56,100 More? What do you mean...? 209 00:17:57,540 --> 00:18:00,890 Hanna! What are you doing, woman? 210 00:18:00,940 --> 00:18:03,540 I must go. I'll see you soon, Cornflower. 211 00:18:11,220 --> 00:18:12,980 There it is. 212 00:18:14,420 --> 00:18:16,530 The sign of the sun. 213 00:18:16,580 --> 00:18:18,380 I've never noticed that before... 214 00:18:21,420 --> 00:18:22,900 Hello? 215 00:18:24,340 --> 00:18:25,980 Hello? 216 00:18:46,540 --> 00:18:48,290 Madame! 217 00:18:48,340 --> 00:18:50,540 I don't think there's anyone here, Madame. 218 00:19:08,820 --> 00:19:10,540 What happened to the cabinet? 219 00:19:25,700 --> 00:19:28,170 It couldn't stay in the hallway. 220 00:19:28,220 --> 00:19:30,220 It was taking up all the light. 221 00:19:59,180 --> 00:20:01,370 Otto! Cornelia! The door. 222 00:20:15,780 --> 00:20:17,620 Hello. 223 00:20:19,780 --> 00:20:21,650 What the hell are you doing here? 224 00:20:21,700 --> 00:20:25,250 A package. For Nella Oortman. 225 00:20:25,300 --> 00:20:27,020 So, this is your new wife? 226 00:20:30,020 --> 00:20:31,380 Jack Philips, Madame. 227 00:20:33,220 --> 00:20:35,180 Next time, use the lower entrance. 228 00:20:38,420 --> 00:20:39,940 Who was it, Seigneur? 229 00:20:41,100 --> 00:20:42,580 No-one, Otto. No-one. 230 00:20:44,140 --> 00:20:46,300 A delivery, that's all. 231 00:20:50,500 --> 00:20:52,300 What is it in the parcel? 232 00:20:53,820 --> 00:20:56,380 Just some things for the cabinet you bought me. 233 00:21:15,100 --> 00:21:18,420 "Every woman is the architect of her own fortune." 234 00:21:23,420 --> 00:21:25,820 Item -- one lute with strings. 235 00:21:34,300 --> 00:21:37,860 Item -- one cage, suitable for a parakeet. 236 00:21:47,500 --> 00:21:50,140 Item -- one box of marzipan. 237 00:23:04,300 --> 00:23:06,850 "Sir, I thank you for the items I requested. 238 00:23:06,900 --> 00:23:08,890 "Your craftsmanship is exceptional. 239 00:23:08,940 --> 00:23:10,690 "However, I made no request for a cradle, 240 00:23:10,740 --> 00:23:13,450 "nor do I understand why you would wish to send one. 241 00:23:13,500 --> 00:23:16,210 "I must therefore curtail our transactions forthwith. 242 00:23:16,260 --> 00:23:18,340 "Yours in good faith, Petronella Brandt." 243 00:23:27,020 --> 00:23:28,930 For the craftsman again? 244 00:23:28,980 --> 00:23:31,420 - Don't open it. - No, Madame. 245 00:23:37,980 --> 00:23:40,410 There you are. But where on earth is Cornelia? 246 00:23:40,460 --> 00:23:42,050 You need to start getting ready. 247 00:23:42,100 --> 00:23:43,650 Ready? For what? 248 00:23:43,700 --> 00:23:46,610 Johannes is taking you to a feast at the Guild of Silversmiths. 249 00:23:46,660 --> 00:23:48,650 Why are the curtains closed? 250 00:23:48,700 --> 00:23:51,810 The sunlight was too bright, that's all. 251 00:23:51,860 --> 00:23:54,620 We keep them open during the daylight. 252 00:23:58,700 --> 00:24:02,490 Otherwise people will think we have something to hide. 253 00:24:02,540 --> 00:24:04,780 The feast. 254 00:24:05,900 --> 00:24:07,970 Was it his idea? 255 00:24:08,020 --> 00:24:10,660 We agreed it was appropriate you should attend. 256 00:24:17,140 --> 00:24:18,500 You look wonderful. 257 00:24:21,540 --> 00:24:25,380 See, Marin, all that money I spent on dresses was worth it after all. 258 00:24:27,140 --> 00:24:29,090 Why aren't you coming? 259 00:24:29,140 --> 00:24:32,690 I think it is better you're seen with your wife, don't you? 260 00:24:32,740 --> 00:24:35,410 You must remember to invite the Meermans to dinner. 261 00:24:35,460 --> 00:24:37,300 All right. Nella, let's go. 262 00:24:49,340 --> 00:24:53,260 Thank you... for bringing me. 263 00:24:54,940 --> 00:24:58,490 You don't have to thank me. 264 00:24:58,540 --> 00:25:00,810 Then whom should I thank? 265 00:25:00,860 --> 00:25:02,890 I mean, you're my wife. 266 00:25:02,940 --> 00:25:05,780 You shouldn't have to thank me for taking you somewhere. 267 00:25:07,500 --> 00:25:10,090 Will the Meermans be there? 268 00:25:10,140 --> 00:25:14,690 Marin seems very keen for you to sell Frans Meermans' sugar. 269 00:25:14,740 --> 00:25:16,780 It's not his. 270 00:25:17,940 --> 00:25:19,380 It's his wife's. 271 00:25:21,420 --> 00:25:25,730 She sees it as a passport to what she's always wanted -- 272 00:25:25,780 --> 00:25:28,570 the power and position Frans couldn't give her -- 273 00:25:28,620 --> 00:25:31,180 but Marin doesn't understand the complications. 274 00:25:32,700 --> 00:25:34,220 Which are? 275 00:25:35,260 --> 00:25:39,060 Exactly what he and Agnes will do with the power once they have it. 276 00:25:48,940 --> 00:25:50,540 Turn around. 277 00:25:59,900 --> 00:26:01,660 Close your eyes. 278 00:26:16,780 --> 00:26:19,220 Smile, and don't say anything. 279 00:26:23,380 --> 00:26:26,460 The Guilds have monopoly on trade, and set the prices. 280 00:26:29,780 --> 00:26:32,130 The silversmiths' is one of the richest. 281 00:26:32,180 --> 00:26:34,730 For a merchant like me, who works outside the guilds, 282 00:26:34,780 --> 00:26:37,860 attendance is not simply a mark of respect, but a duty. 283 00:26:48,180 --> 00:26:49,740 Here. 284 00:27:05,260 --> 00:27:09,420 Did you ever think food is where we truly find ourselves? 285 00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:13,050 You see this? 286 00:27:13,100 --> 00:27:15,650 Cumin seeds studding a new cheese 287 00:27:15,700 --> 00:27:18,260 remind me I am capable of delight. 288 00:27:22,900 --> 00:27:27,100 Delft butter, so fine and creamy... 289 00:27:28,340 --> 00:27:29,620 Figs... 290 00:27:33,780 --> 00:27:39,420 .. and sour cream, taking me back to childhood... 291 00:27:42,060 --> 00:27:44,580 .. only the taste of which I now remember. 292 00:27:49,540 --> 00:27:50,820 You? 293 00:27:52,620 --> 00:27:55,860 My mother used to make marzipan into rolls. 294 00:27:57,100 --> 00:27:59,980 And the smell coming from the kitchen... 295 00:28:02,460 --> 00:28:03,980 .. it made my heart race. 296 00:28:05,260 --> 00:28:06,780 Better than herrings. 297 00:28:08,820 --> 00:28:10,460 What do you eat out at sea? 298 00:28:15,940 --> 00:28:17,330 Other men. 299 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:18,430 BAH! 300 00:28:31,300 --> 00:28:32,980 Johannes! Over here! 301 00:28:35,380 --> 00:28:37,460 Business. Won't be long. 302 00:28:43,740 --> 00:28:47,850 I see Brandt keeps the same standard of wife as he does everything else. 303 00:28:47,900 --> 00:28:49,450 Agnes Meermans. 304 00:28:49,500 --> 00:28:51,690 Petronella, isn't it? 305 00:28:51,740 --> 00:28:55,530 Now tell me, however did Marin find you? 306 00:28:55,580 --> 00:28:59,450 Marin? What do you mean? 307 00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:04,490 A bride for Johannes. She's been searching for so long. 308 00:29:04,540 --> 00:29:08,260 They're so close, of course, brother and sister. 309 00:29:10,500 --> 00:29:13,300 - Sometimes we wondered if... - Agnes, please... 310 00:29:14,660 --> 00:29:17,850 Frans, this is Petronella Brandt. 311 00:29:17,900 --> 00:29:20,900 Oh, I thought she was a silversmith. 312 00:29:22,100 --> 00:29:24,610 Where's Johannes? I thought we were going to talk to him. 313 00:29:24,660 --> 00:29:26,810 - Here he comes. - Madame Meermans. 314 00:29:26,860 --> 00:29:31,090 Seigneur. I see you are working your usual magic this evening. 315 00:29:31,140 --> 00:29:33,330 No magic, Madame. Just me. 316 00:29:33,380 --> 00:29:36,930 - About the sugar, Johannes. - I have it in hand. 317 00:29:36,980 --> 00:29:38,730 We never doubted. 318 00:29:38,780 --> 00:29:42,130 Only, er, when will it sell, do you think? 319 00:29:42,180 --> 00:29:43,730 To get the best price takes time. 320 00:29:43,780 --> 00:29:45,730 What with the black markets in the east, 321 00:29:45,780 --> 00:29:48,210 and the adulterers at home, people are craving good product. 322 00:29:48,260 --> 00:29:50,130 But I will not take your sugar to the bourse. 323 00:29:50,180 --> 00:29:52,450 The trading floor is a circus, the market rigged. 324 00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:54,770 You intend to sell it abroad? 325 00:29:54,820 --> 00:29:56,850 I sail to Venice shortly. 326 00:29:56,900 --> 00:29:58,180 Papists? 327 00:29:59,500 --> 00:30:01,850 Of course, if you prefer, we can dump it all here in Amsterdam, 328 00:30:01,900 --> 00:30:05,490 flood the market, and realise only a quarter of its true value. The choice is entirely yours. 329 00:30:05,540 --> 00:30:09,530 - You're the expert. - Yes, I am. 330 00:30:09,580 --> 00:30:12,050 Come, Agnes. There's Slabbaert. 331 00:30:12,100 --> 00:30:14,210 We should say hello. 332 00:30:14,260 --> 00:30:15,500 God be with you. 333 00:30:17,180 --> 00:30:18,460 And you. 334 00:30:25,060 --> 00:30:27,130 Who are they? 335 00:30:27,180 --> 00:30:31,780 Schout and Schepenbank. Judge and jury here in Amsterdam. 336 00:30:33,220 --> 00:30:35,570 Why do they look at you like that? 337 00:30:35,620 --> 00:30:37,690 Because they don't control me. 338 00:30:37,740 --> 00:30:40,740 Do they want to? Control you? 339 00:30:42,340 --> 00:30:44,690 No. 340 00:30:44,740 --> 00:30:46,700 They want to destroy me. 341 00:30:57,940 --> 00:30:59,650 You must be tired. Go to bed. 342 00:30:59,700 --> 00:31:01,290 I'm... 343 00:31:01,340 --> 00:31:04,620 .. not tired, Johannes. 344 00:31:08,060 --> 00:31:09,260 Still... 345 00:31:12,060 --> 00:31:14,620 .. I have to make notes on the men I met tonight. 346 00:31:31,780 --> 00:31:33,450 What do you want? 347 00:31:33,500 --> 00:31:35,380 What do you think I want, Johannes? 348 00:31:38,380 --> 00:31:40,490 I want to be your wife. 349 00:31:40,540 --> 00:31:42,730 You are my wife. 350 00:31:42,780 --> 00:31:46,540 No. As far as I can tell I'm just... 351 00:31:47,940 --> 00:31:49,380 .. someone you own. 352 00:31:51,580 --> 00:31:54,900 Someone who's useful to you for purposes I can only guess at. 353 00:31:57,540 --> 00:32:01,530 Like a dog, like Otto. 354 00:32:01,580 --> 00:32:04,300 - Nella, please... - I've been here 11 days, Johannes. 355 00:32:05,420 --> 00:32:07,900 Longer than it took God to make the world. 356 00:32:10,540 --> 00:32:13,650 Until tonight, you've barely spoken to me. 357 00:32:13,700 --> 00:32:15,660 You're right. 358 00:32:16,980 --> 00:32:20,060 I'm sorry. I'll make it up to you. 359 00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:24,900 Come. 360 00:33:23,700 --> 00:33:26,250 Do I disgust you that much? 361 00:33:26,300 --> 00:33:27,810 You do not disgust me. 362 00:33:27,860 --> 00:33:31,300 - You cannot bear me to touch you. - It's not that. 363 00:33:32,980 --> 00:33:36,820 I have to share you with her. Is that it? 364 00:33:42,460 --> 00:33:45,570 I think you'd better leave before one of us says something we both regret. 365 00:33:45,620 --> 00:33:48,170 - No, no, Johannes, I know... - Go. Get out! 366 00:34:15,340 --> 00:34:16,650 Oh, no. 367 00:34:16,700 --> 00:34:19,050 Come on, Madame. You can't stay in bed all day. 368 00:34:19,100 --> 00:34:20,370 Madame Marin wants us 369 00:34:20,420 --> 00:34:24,410 all to go to church to hear Pastor Pellicorne preach. 370 00:34:24,460 --> 00:34:26,610 And there's something for you. 371 00:34:26,660 --> 00:34:30,130 It must be from the artisan. Whatever it was you ordered. 372 00:34:30,180 --> 00:34:31,940 But I didn't order anything. 373 00:34:33,220 --> 00:34:36,420 Well, then. All the more reason to find out what's inside. 374 00:36:02,420 --> 00:36:05,740 Look! They brought the savage. 375 00:36:19,420 --> 00:36:22,420 Seigneur, Madame Meermans. 376 00:36:23,580 --> 00:36:25,260 Where is your brother? 377 00:36:26,380 --> 00:36:28,740 Did Johannes invite you to dine with us? 378 00:36:30,420 --> 00:36:32,210 No, he did not. 379 00:36:32,260 --> 00:36:34,100 But you will come, won't you? 380 00:36:35,420 --> 00:36:38,700 Shouldn't his wife be the one who issues the invitation? 381 00:36:40,140 --> 00:36:42,860 Please, do come tomorrow. 382 00:36:45,140 --> 00:36:46,660 We would be honoured. 383 00:36:47,940 --> 00:36:49,700 Come, let us take our place. 384 00:36:58,340 --> 00:37:03,570 Adultery! Usury! Fornication! 385 00:37:03,620 --> 00:37:09,530 And fouler deeds, too degraded to name in God's house! 386 00:37:09,580 --> 00:37:14,130 Do I talk of Sodom? Of Gomorrah? 387 00:37:14,180 --> 00:37:17,890 No, I speak of Amsterdam! 388 00:37:17,940 --> 00:37:23,170 A city of closed doors, through which no man can see. 389 00:37:23,220 --> 00:37:25,650 Nella! Please! 390 00:37:25,700 --> 00:37:27,370 But God sees! 391 00:37:27,420 --> 00:37:30,490 For too long we have tolerated the iniquities of our fellow men. 392 00:37:30,540 --> 00:37:33,770 But a storm is coming. 393 00:37:33,820 --> 00:37:35,170 So... 394 00:37:35,220 --> 00:37:41,810 .. look now into your own hearts 395 00:37:41,860 --> 00:37:46,050 and the hearts of your neighbours, 396 00:37:46,100 --> 00:37:50,260 and consider how you have sinned. 397 00:37:51,380 --> 00:37:53,700 Marin. Marin, are you quite well? 398 00:37:55,020 --> 00:37:58,700 Husbands, love your wives. 399 00:39:18,940 --> 00:39:20,660 Only two of them. 400 00:39:32,620 --> 00:39:33,820 What are you doing? 401 00:39:39,220 --> 00:39:41,010 Where did you get these? 402 00:39:41,060 --> 00:39:44,410 A miniaturist. I don't know their name. 403 00:39:44,460 --> 00:39:47,050 Marin gave me Smit's List. It was the only one in there. 404 00:39:47,100 --> 00:39:50,130 - What did you tell them? - Nothing. 405 00:39:50,180 --> 00:39:51,610 But you ordered these. 406 00:39:51,660 --> 00:39:54,450 No. No, I didn't order these. 407 00:39:54,500 --> 00:39:57,410 I only ordered the lute, the cage and the marzipan. 408 00:39:57,460 --> 00:39:59,410 These just... came. 409 00:39:59,460 --> 00:40:01,450 How did they know what to make? 410 00:40:01,500 --> 00:40:03,370 I don't know. 411 00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:04,820 No more. 412 00:40:07,060 --> 00:40:08,970 No more, you understand? 413 00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:11,700 I think you're forgetting your place. 414 00:40:14,100 --> 00:40:15,810 What is that? 415 00:40:15,860 --> 00:40:17,490 As a servant. 416 00:40:17,540 --> 00:40:21,500 My place is to protect this house, and all in it, including you. 417 00:40:28,540 --> 00:40:31,580 We stand or fall together. 418 00:40:40,020 --> 00:40:43,050 A wonderful sermon from Pastor Pellicorne on Sunday, 419 00:40:43,100 --> 00:40:44,770 don't you think? 420 00:40:45,820 --> 00:40:49,090 Oh, but of course, you missed it, Johannes. 421 00:40:49,140 --> 00:40:50,180 Let me guess. 422 00:40:51,220 --> 00:40:53,290 He offers absolution for your own sins, 423 00:40:53,340 --> 00:40:56,530 but only if you confess those of your neighbours. 424 00:40:56,580 --> 00:40:59,930 Shall we try the sugar? 425 00:40:59,980 --> 00:41:01,340 Cornelia? 426 00:41:11,460 --> 00:41:13,060 Allow me. 427 00:41:40,500 --> 00:41:42,340 Exquisite. 428 00:41:49,300 --> 00:41:52,140 Cornelia, Otto, what do you think? 429 00:42:03,740 --> 00:42:06,500 Very good, Seigneur. Delicious. 430 00:42:14,020 --> 00:42:15,370 Mmm! 431 00:42:15,420 --> 00:42:20,170 God be thanked, you're going to make our fortunes, Brandt! 432 00:42:20,220 --> 00:42:21,850 When do you go to Venice? 433 00:42:21,900 --> 00:42:23,570 I'll be gone within the month. 434 00:42:23,620 --> 00:42:25,970 I have to know. 435 00:42:26,020 --> 00:42:28,810 What did Brandt get you for a wedding gift? 436 00:42:28,860 --> 00:42:31,370 I want one of my own. 437 00:42:31,420 --> 00:42:33,930 And I want mine to be better than hers. 438 00:42:33,980 --> 00:42:38,100 Thank the Lord they've gone. Clear up in the morning. 439 00:43:27,780 --> 00:43:31,740 - If you had only consented... - Why should I... 440 00:45:07,540 --> 00:45:11,450 "My darling, I love you like the ever-changing sea, 441 00:45:11,500 --> 00:45:14,170 "always different, and always moving 442 00:45:14,220 --> 00:45:17,450 "You are sunlight through a window which I stand in, warmed. 443 00:45:17,500 --> 00:45:19,730 "One touch lasts a thousand hours. 444 00:45:19,780 --> 00:45:21,730 "I love you from the bottom of my heart..." 445 00:45:21,780 --> 00:45:22,980 Give it to me. 446 00:45:25,140 --> 00:45:27,860 Marin, I'm sorry. 447 00:45:28,940 --> 00:45:31,140 I said give it to me. 448 00:45:32,580 --> 00:45:34,730 Marin, Marin, let go of me. 449 00:45:34,780 --> 00:45:36,970 Marin, you're hurting me! 450 00:45:37,020 --> 00:45:39,740 Get out! Johannes will hear of this! 451 00:46:19,540 --> 00:46:21,490 Where is everyone? 452 00:46:21,540 --> 00:46:24,690 Madame Marin is unwell. I took her her breakfast, but she... 453 00:46:24,740 --> 00:46:26,370 And Johannes? 454 00:46:26,420 --> 00:46:29,170 He left early for his office. 455 00:46:29,220 --> 00:46:32,660 No! Tell me! Where did he go last night? 456 00:46:33,820 --> 00:46:36,930 He didn't come back! And why is Marin so worried? 457 00:46:36,980 --> 00:46:39,740 I told you. He went to his office. 458 00:46:41,860 --> 00:46:45,930 No. No, you're lying to me. 459 00:46:45,980 --> 00:46:49,930 Where are you going, Madame? It isn't even eight o'clock! 460 00:46:49,980 --> 00:46:52,290 You should stay here. 461 00:46:52,340 --> 00:46:54,860 I can go wherever I want. 462 00:46:56,900 --> 00:46:59,900 Otto! Otto! 463 00:47:49,140 --> 00:47:50,700 Johannes. 464 00:48:11,380 --> 00:48:12,900 Oh! 465 00:48:28,660 --> 00:48:30,980 No, stop it, stop... 466 00:48:40,980 --> 00:48:42,580 I brought your creature. 467 00:48:43,980 --> 00:48:47,490 There are rose water wafers with cinnamon and ginger. 468 00:48:47,540 --> 00:48:48,890 Cornelia made them specially. 469 00:48:48,940 --> 00:48:52,210 - You think you can bribe me? - You haven't eaten in three days. 470 00:48:52,260 --> 00:48:55,890 - Because you drugged me. - You were beside yourself. 471 00:48:55,940 --> 00:48:58,050 I will not be your prisoner. 472 00:48:58,100 --> 00:49:00,770 Don't be ridiculous. Eat. And then we can talk. 473 00:49:00,820 --> 00:49:04,090 Enough of your orders, Marin. I understand it all. 474 00:49:04,140 --> 00:49:05,580 Your brother is... 475 00:49:07,380 --> 00:49:09,060 .. is a sodomite. 476 00:49:13,220 --> 00:49:15,660 He is unlike most husbands, it's true. 477 00:49:17,700 --> 00:49:19,180 You knew? 478 00:49:23,900 --> 00:49:25,250 You all knew. 479 00:49:25,300 --> 00:49:27,850 Dear God, I am your fool. 480 00:49:27,900 --> 00:49:30,340 I have been a fool from the moment I arrived here. 481 00:49:32,100 --> 00:49:34,130 We never laughed at you. Ever. 482 00:49:34,180 --> 00:49:36,290 You knew he would never love me. 483 00:49:36,340 --> 00:49:37,850 He likes you. 484 00:49:37,900 --> 00:49:41,620 Like a pet. Like the dog, Rzecki, only less so. 485 00:49:43,180 --> 00:49:45,010 It's true, isn't it? 486 00:49:45,060 --> 00:49:48,410 He thinks less of me than his dog. 487 00:49:48,460 --> 00:49:50,810 I cannot forgive this... trick. 488 00:49:50,860 --> 00:49:52,930 You knew what this would be like for me. 489 00:49:52,980 --> 00:49:55,810 How can I be happy with a man who is going to burn in Hell? 490 00:49:55,860 --> 00:49:57,490 Your father left you paupers. 491 00:49:57,540 --> 00:49:59,770 It was a kindness to bring you here. 492 00:49:59,820 --> 00:50:01,410 You would have ended up a farmer's wife. 493 00:50:01,460 --> 00:50:03,570 - Who might have loved me. - And in ten years, 494 00:50:03,620 --> 00:50:06,450 when your hands are red raw with children squealing to be fed? 495 00:50:06,500 --> 00:50:08,250 At least I would have been a proper woman. 496 00:50:08,300 --> 00:50:10,800 You can be a proper woman without spawning brats. 497 00:50:13,380 --> 00:50:15,090 What are you doing? 498 00:50:15,140 --> 00:50:17,250 There's nothing for me here. There never was. 499 00:50:17,300 --> 00:50:19,610 It was a mistake to come. 500 00:50:19,660 --> 00:50:22,650 What will you tell them in Assendelft, Nella? Words are water. 501 00:50:22,700 --> 00:50:23,970 One drop could drown us all. 502 00:50:24,020 --> 00:50:25,410 I don't expect you to care about me, 503 00:50:25,460 --> 00:50:27,330 but what will happen to Otto and Cornelia? 504 00:50:27,380 --> 00:50:28,890 They are not my responsibility. 505 00:50:28,940 --> 00:50:30,330 But you are mistress of this house. 506 00:50:30,380 --> 00:50:32,210 Whose responsibility do you think they are? 507 00:50:32,260 --> 00:50:34,850 Well, then perhaps I should just tell them the truth. 508 00:50:34,900 --> 00:50:37,650 Do you know what they do to men like my brother? 509 00:50:37,700 --> 00:50:39,170 They drown them. 510 00:50:39,220 --> 00:50:41,650 The holy magistrate will tie weights around their necks 511 00:50:41,700 --> 00:50:43,170 and push them in the water. 512 00:50:43,220 --> 00:50:44,850 You would be signing his death warrant. 513 00:50:44,900 --> 00:50:46,020 Is that what you want? 514 00:51:07,420 --> 00:51:09,460 Go. Spread your wings! 515 00:51:13,500 --> 00:51:15,020 Madame! 516 00:51:22,260 --> 00:51:25,730 What are they going to do? 517 00:51:25,780 --> 00:51:27,970 Throw me out? 518 00:51:28,020 --> 00:51:30,130 This is your home now, Madame. 519 00:51:30,180 --> 00:51:32,740 How can this house of secrets ever be called a home? 520 00:51:35,740 --> 00:51:37,780 What is there for you in Assendelft? 521 00:51:39,220 --> 00:51:42,450 From what I hear, there's more cows than there are people. 522 00:51:42,500 --> 00:51:43,780 What do I have here? 523 00:51:46,740 --> 00:51:49,770 You have a friend, Madame. 524 00:51:49,820 --> 00:51:51,620 And more than just one. 525 00:51:53,780 --> 00:51:56,820 Cornelia, did Marin love someone once? 526 00:52:03,500 --> 00:52:07,460 Why do you think Agnes Meermans hates Marin so much? 527 00:52:08,780 --> 00:52:11,490 Marin stole her husband's heart. 528 00:52:11,540 --> 00:52:12,580 Frans? 529 00:52:15,020 --> 00:52:18,490 Madame Marin was little more than a child when she first met him. 530 00:52:18,540 --> 00:52:20,730 He was the Seigneur's friend, 531 00:52:20,780 --> 00:52:23,700 perhaps 18, and Marin was 11 or so. 532 00:52:24,820 --> 00:52:27,930 She first saw him at the Feast of St Nicholas. 533 00:52:27,980 --> 00:52:31,610 She thought he was a prince, so handsome. 534 00:52:31,660 --> 00:52:33,850 He eats too much now, but back then... 535 00:52:33,900 --> 00:52:37,610 You were barely a child then! How do you know all of this? 536 00:52:37,660 --> 00:52:39,500 Keyholes, Madame. 537 00:52:40,540 --> 00:52:43,930 When she was 15, the Seigneur took his first ship out to Batavia. 538 00:52:43,980 --> 00:52:48,690 Frans stayed here -- he was seasick -- but without a chaperone, 539 00:52:48,740 --> 00:52:50,330 she couldn't meet him. 540 00:52:50,380 --> 00:52:54,050 Then, when Marin was 20, and the Seigneur had returned a rich man, 541 00:52:54,100 --> 00:52:57,580 Frans came to the house and asked for her hand in marriage. 542 00:52:58,580 --> 00:53:00,140 And Johannes... 543 00:53:02,660 --> 00:53:04,570 Refused him utterly. 544 00:53:04,620 --> 00:53:09,130 But why? He loved her enough to wait five years. 545 00:53:09,180 --> 00:53:13,140 Meermans was handsome enough, but he didn't have a good reputation. 546 00:53:14,220 --> 00:53:16,340 Did Marin find out what Johannes had done? 547 00:53:17,580 --> 00:53:19,410 Eventually. 548 00:53:19,460 --> 00:53:22,530 But by then Frans had married Agnes. 549 00:53:22,580 --> 00:53:25,500 So he's married to Agnes, but he still loves Marin? 550 00:53:28,660 --> 00:53:33,530 He sends her gifts every St Nicholas Day, the day they met. 551 00:53:33,580 --> 00:53:36,940 He never puts his name, but we all know they're from him. 552 00:53:40,260 --> 00:53:42,260 Peebo. 553 00:53:43,700 --> 00:53:46,290 Peebo, where are you? 554 00:53:46,340 --> 00:53:48,010 Peebo. 555 00:53:48,060 --> 00:53:50,620 Peebo where are... 556 00:53:56,740 --> 00:53:59,460 No, no, no, no, no, no. 557 00:54:10,580 --> 00:54:11,900 Peebo! 558 00:54:14,380 --> 00:54:15,980 Peebo! 559 00:54:31,340 --> 00:54:32,610 Hello? 560 00:54:32,660 --> 00:54:33,900 Wait! 561 00:54:37,140 --> 00:54:39,090 Wait! 562 00:54:39,140 --> 00:54:41,420 Open up! St George's Militia. 563 00:54:45,060 --> 00:54:46,570 Nothing, nothing at all. 564 00:54:46,620 --> 00:54:48,380 No, there's nobody here. 565 00:54:52,340 --> 00:54:54,770 I just want to talk to you. What are you doing? 566 00:54:54,820 --> 00:54:57,370 Madame, you are needed back in the house. 567 00:54:57,420 --> 00:54:59,010 What are you talking about? 568 00:54:59,060 --> 00:55:02,290 We wondered where you had gone, Madame. Madame Marin was worried. 569 00:55:02,340 --> 00:55:04,930 I was looking for Peebo. 570 00:55:04,980 --> 00:55:06,740 We will help you find him. 571 00:55:26,900 --> 00:55:30,220 "Blue periwinkle for early friends, Persicaria for restoration. 572 00:55:31,980 --> 00:55:35,060 - "I would buy you a new bird but..." - It would pale in imitation. 573 00:55:36,260 --> 00:55:41,420 Do you think I can be bought with a cabinet, or dresses, or flowers? 574 00:55:42,740 --> 00:55:45,820 - I'm not trying to buy you. - No, because you already succeeded. 575 00:55:47,700 --> 00:55:51,250 Did she know, my mother, when she sold me? 576 00:55:51,300 --> 00:55:55,970 Nella, please. The fault is mine. Don't blame anyone else. 577 00:55:56,020 --> 00:55:59,770 If they find out, they will drown you. 578 00:55:59,820 --> 00:56:01,890 I've spent my entire life on the sea. 579 00:56:01,940 --> 00:56:04,330 - I am not afraid of drowning. - And what about me? 580 00:56:04,380 --> 00:56:07,660 You were drowning in Assendelft. Here you are safe, warm and dry. 581 00:56:09,620 --> 00:56:13,490 I wanted love. Not safety. 582 00:56:13,540 --> 00:56:14,860 As did I. 583 00:56:16,860 --> 00:56:20,540 Always. You see? 584 00:56:22,220 --> 00:56:24,300 The truth is... 585 00:56:25,940 --> 00:56:28,330 .. you and I, 586 00:56:29,380 --> 00:56:32,260 we are more alike than we are different. 587 00:56:35,140 --> 00:56:39,090 Marin, Cornelia, Otto, they wish for love, but value safety more. 588 00:56:39,140 --> 00:56:43,580 You and I, our hearts are constructed differently. 589 00:56:49,020 --> 00:56:53,540 What made you like this, do you think? 590 00:56:55,460 --> 00:56:56,740 Nothing made me. 591 00:56:59,700 --> 00:57:02,100 It was in my soul from the beginning. 592 00:57:04,900 --> 00:57:08,940 They could cut me open from head to foot and still not get it out. 593 00:57:18,140 --> 00:57:19,650 Here... 594 00:57:19,700 --> 00:57:22,540 Please, they're yours. A peace offering, nothing more. 595 00:57:28,020 --> 00:57:30,770 If you wish to leave, I will not stop you. 596 00:57:30,820 --> 00:57:33,690 Otto will accompany you back to Assendelft, 597 00:57:33,740 --> 00:57:36,330 with enough to settle your family's debts. 598 00:57:36,380 --> 00:57:37,650 The marriage can be annulled. 599 00:57:37,700 --> 00:57:39,460 You would be free to marry another. 600 00:57:41,700 --> 00:57:43,340 What about the others? 601 00:57:44,980 --> 00:57:46,500 They are not your concern. 602 00:57:50,220 --> 00:57:51,420 And what about you? 603 00:57:58,700 --> 00:58:00,100 I would like you to stay. 604 00:58:10,620 --> 00:58:16,060 If I do, it will not be because you gave me flowers. 605 00:58:19,340 --> 00:58:21,220 But because this is my home. 606 00:58:24,140 --> 00:58:28,820 And because you swear to tell me the truth about everything from now on. 607 00:58:30,460 --> 00:58:32,580 Everything, Johannes. 608 00:58:40,780 --> 00:58:43,690 No more secrets. 609 00:58:43,740 --> 00:58:46,700 You have my word. 610 00:58:49,100 --> 00:58:51,290 Was it Jack who delivered this? 611 00:58:51,340 --> 00:58:53,700 It was there when I went to wash the front steps. 612 00:58:55,380 --> 00:58:56,890 What's in it? 613 00:58:56,940 --> 00:58:58,540 Just some things for my cabinet. 614 00:59:01,980 --> 00:59:03,900 You may go, Cornelia. 615 00:59:25,260 --> 00:59:27,260 "Things can change." 616 01:00:13,380 --> 01:00:18,140 Cornelia! You're sure you didn't see who delivered that package? 617 01:00:19,100 --> 01:00:20,580 No, Madame. I told you. 618 01:00:22,060 --> 01:00:24,770 It's November now! 619 01:00:24,820 --> 01:00:26,700 By December it'll be too late. 620 01:00:27,940 --> 01:00:31,970 Not to mention the damp in the warehouse spoiling the sugar. 621 01:00:32,020 --> 01:00:34,650 What about the damp in my bones, boat-hopping in that weather? 622 01:00:34,700 --> 01:00:36,890 But you were the one who told them to sell it. 623 01:00:36,940 --> 01:00:39,240 - Get someone else. - If you are even thinking... 624 01:00:41,700 --> 01:00:46,610 Nella. Did you... Did you have any luck with your parakeet? 625 01:00:46,660 --> 01:00:48,740 Where are you going? 626 01:00:50,860 --> 01:00:55,570 Venice. To sell Agnes' sugar. 627 01:00:55,620 --> 01:00:57,250 We thought it'd be best. 628 01:00:57,300 --> 01:01:00,260 - For whom? - For all of us. 629 01:01:11,940 --> 01:01:13,740 Do you have the sample loaves? 630 01:01:16,460 --> 01:01:18,610 My word is enough. 631 01:01:18,660 --> 01:01:21,490 Why don't you take her? 632 01:01:21,540 --> 01:01:23,820 She'd only get in the way. 633 01:01:28,620 --> 01:01:30,140 Look after her while I'm gone. 634 01:01:43,740 --> 01:01:45,060 Goodbye. 635 01:01:45,980 --> 01:01:47,620 You put the flowers in your hair. 636 01:01:50,780 --> 01:01:52,140 For restoration. 637 01:02:10,060 --> 01:02:12,410 Didn't you want to see Venice? 638 01:02:12,460 --> 01:02:16,180 I've been, Madame. Once is enough to see the Doge's palace. 639 01:02:19,820 --> 01:02:20,980 He could have taken me. 640 01:02:29,700 --> 01:02:31,540 What are you trying to do to us? 641 01:02:33,780 --> 01:02:35,500 Who have you told about us? 642 01:02:37,380 --> 01:02:40,410 Nobody. No, you don't understand... 643 01:02:40,460 --> 01:02:43,050 Dogs and furniture, I understand. 644 01:02:43,100 --> 01:02:44,490 But Jack Philips? 645 01:02:44,540 --> 01:02:47,420 What are you doing? Marin, no. 646 01:02:50,620 --> 01:02:52,770 You shouldn't have done that. 647 01:02:52,820 --> 01:02:54,730 Don't play with fire, Petronella. 648 01:02:54,780 --> 01:02:57,100 Or you'll get burned along with the rest of us. 649 01:05:21,020 --> 01:05:23,210 What are you doing here? 650 01:05:23,260 --> 01:05:25,930 Get out. Get out! 651 01:05:25,980 --> 01:05:28,300 Wait. Wait. 652 01:05:32,980 --> 01:05:34,500 I'm back on deliveries. 653 01:05:36,020 --> 01:05:37,860 I have something for you, Madame. 654 01:05:41,060 --> 01:05:44,250 You have no right to be here. Johannes said... 655 01:05:44,300 --> 01:05:48,770 You squeal like a mouse. I need to see him. 656 01:05:48,820 --> 01:05:50,650 Is he back yet? Johannes! 657 01:05:50,700 --> 01:05:52,770 He's not here. 658 01:05:52,820 --> 01:05:55,490 You need to leave. 659 01:05:55,540 --> 01:05:58,890 So, it's true. He's gone to Venice. 660 01:05:58,940 --> 01:06:00,690 Well, don't tell me you believed him 661 01:06:00,740 --> 01:06:03,330 - when he said he was going there to work. - How dare you! 662 01:06:03,380 --> 01:06:07,410 I know him, Madame, better than you. 663 01:06:07,460 --> 01:06:09,730 No-one works in Venice. 664 01:06:09,780 --> 01:06:12,050 Milan, maybe. 665 01:06:12,100 --> 01:06:16,410 But Venice is all dark canals and courtesans 666 01:06:16,460 --> 01:06:20,010 and pretty little boys like moths, flying to the brightest flame. 667 01:06:20,060 --> 01:06:22,180 What's happening? Why is the front door open? 668 01:06:24,380 --> 01:06:25,700 Get out. 669 01:06:29,180 --> 01:06:31,140 Get out! 670 01:06:33,100 --> 01:06:35,940 How many times have I told you to keep away? 671 01:06:37,620 --> 01:06:39,090 Clean that up. 672 01:06:39,140 --> 01:06:42,570 Your brother would fuck a dog if the price was right. 673 01:06:42,620 --> 01:06:44,650 I said clean it up. 674 01:06:44,700 --> 01:06:48,730 They say he gives it to you, too -- that he's the only man that will. 675 01:06:48,780 --> 01:06:50,050 What a tired old insult. 676 01:06:51,860 --> 01:06:54,690 How brave are you really, Jack? 677 01:06:54,740 --> 01:06:56,580 Do you dare draw my blood? 678 01:06:58,900 --> 01:07:00,930 Is that what you really want? 679 01:07:00,980 --> 01:07:04,410 Bitch. He said I couldn't work for him any more. 680 01:07:04,460 --> 01:07:06,210 And whose idea was that? 681 01:07:06,260 --> 01:07:08,770 Oh, so that's what this is about? 682 01:07:08,820 --> 01:07:10,890 You child! 683 01:07:10,940 --> 01:07:13,650 Just tell me what it'll cost to get you to go away. 684 01:07:13,700 --> 01:07:15,010 I don't want your money. 685 01:07:15,060 --> 01:07:17,410 I'm here to show you what happens when you meddle. 686 01:07:17,460 --> 01:07:18,660 Otto, he has a knife. 687 01:07:21,780 --> 01:07:23,490 Go. 688 01:07:23,540 --> 01:07:25,060 Before I kill you. 689 01:07:26,540 --> 01:07:30,090 He dresses you up as a lord, but the truth is you're nothing 690 01:07:30,140 --> 01:07:31,850 but a savage. 691 01:07:31,900 --> 01:07:33,890 Do you know what he says about you? 692 01:07:33,940 --> 01:07:37,250 He's going to get rid of you, savage. 693 01:07:37,300 --> 01:07:40,050 Sell you to the highest bidder. 694 01:07:40,100 --> 01:07:44,290 You're nothing to him, boy. 695 01:07:44,340 --> 01:07:45,930 Now go. 696 01:07:45,980 --> 01:07:47,340 Agh! 697 01:08:23,580 --> 01:08:24,980 God speed. 698 01:08:50,380 --> 01:08:52,260 What if Jack reports what I did? 699 01:08:53,700 --> 01:08:56,490 You heard what he said -- attempted murder, 700 01:08:56,540 --> 01:08:58,530 with a knife and a wound to prove it. 701 01:08:58,580 --> 01:08:59,980 The Militia would arrest me. 702 01:09:01,540 --> 01:09:03,210 When they ask Jack why he was here? 703 01:09:03,260 --> 01:09:06,380 He'd be signing his own death warrant if he told them. 704 01:09:08,220 --> 01:09:10,500 English, a sodomite... 705 01:09:11,620 --> 01:09:13,730 .. a former actor in the playhouses? 706 01:09:13,780 --> 01:09:16,170 I can't think of three things the Burgomasters hate more. 707 01:09:16,220 --> 01:09:19,050 He has no money, and he needs it. 708 01:09:19,100 --> 01:09:21,220 A man may do anything when he is desperate. 709 01:09:28,300 --> 01:09:31,650 The Seigneur saved me, he taught me everything. 710 01:09:31,700 --> 01:09:35,130 And look how I've repaid him. 711 01:09:35,180 --> 01:09:36,940 There was never any debt to pay. 712 01:09:37,980 --> 01:09:40,810 Johannes bought you for his own amusement. 713 01:09:40,860 --> 01:09:42,220 He employed me, Madame. 714 01:09:44,900 --> 01:09:47,860 You haven't killed anyone. The boy's alive. 715 01:09:49,180 --> 01:09:51,770 Johannes will be more worried about his dog than you. 716 01:09:51,820 --> 01:09:54,180 I've endangered you. 717 01:09:55,740 --> 01:09:57,420 I've endangered all of you. 718 01:10:21,860 --> 01:10:23,540 Are you reading my mind now? 719 01:10:52,780 --> 01:10:55,410 "Every woman is the architect of her own fortune." 720 01:10:55,460 --> 01:10:58,210 "I fight to emerge." 721 01:10:58,260 --> 01:11:00,890 "Things can change." 722 01:11:00,940 --> 01:11:04,020 "The turnip cannot thrive in the tulip's patch of soil." 723 01:11:08,260 --> 01:11:10,410 Enough of this. Who are you? 724 01:11:10,460 --> 01:11:11,690 What do you want from me? 725 01:11:11,740 --> 01:11:12,930 Are you a spy? 726 01:11:12,980 --> 01:11:15,080 What is your business with Agnes Meermans? 727 01:11:24,220 --> 01:11:26,890 I know you're in there. 728 01:11:26,940 --> 01:11:29,370 You have to come out eventually. 729 01:11:29,420 --> 01:11:30,930 I can wait. 730 01:11:30,980 --> 01:11:34,330 There's no need to bellow. They can hear you in Antwerp. 731 01:11:34,380 --> 01:11:35,970 I need to find the miniaturist. 732 01:11:36,020 --> 01:11:39,340 The what? No-one's been in that building for over a week. 733 01:11:40,420 --> 01:11:41,860 But only yesterday she... 734 01:11:45,500 --> 01:11:49,220 What's your name? I might have something for you. 735 01:11:50,220 --> 01:11:51,540 Petronella Brandt. 736 01:11:58,220 --> 01:11:59,580 Left on that doorstep. 737 01:12:06,580 --> 01:12:08,020 Cornelia. 738 01:12:22,500 --> 01:12:25,100 "Don't let sweet weapons stray." 739 01:12:32,260 --> 01:12:33,850 Madame! The Seigneur has returned. 740 01:12:33,900 --> 01:12:35,780 He's already asking where Rzecki is. 741 01:12:37,260 --> 01:12:38,650 You haven't told him? 742 01:12:38,700 --> 01:12:39,850 Rzecki! 743 01:12:39,900 --> 01:12:44,170 I couldn't do it. It has to be you. Please. 744 01:12:44,220 --> 01:12:45,540 Rzecki! 745 01:12:48,380 --> 01:12:49,610 Johannes. 746 01:12:49,660 --> 01:12:51,820 You're home safe. 747 01:12:54,300 --> 01:12:56,300 Was Venice enjoyable? 748 01:12:58,540 --> 01:12:59,850 Venice was Venice. 749 01:12:59,900 --> 01:13:03,060 The Venetians never shut up, and too much dancing for my knees. 750 01:13:12,020 --> 01:13:13,300 It's good to see you. 751 01:13:15,620 --> 01:13:17,050 Rzecki! 752 01:13:17,100 --> 01:13:20,000 Why is there no fire in this room? The house is freezing. Otto! 753 01:13:22,220 --> 01:13:23,580 Morning, Otto. 754 01:13:27,340 --> 01:13:30,530 Something wrong? 755 01:13:30,580 --> 01:13:33,010 How many loaves did you sell in Venice, brother? 756 01:13:33,060 --> 01:13:34,050 It was slow. 757 01:13:34,100 --> 01:13:36,850 I told you I should have waited until the New Year. 758 01:13:36,900 --> 01:13:40,050 Then perhaps it would be better to build such a gigantic fire 759 01:13:40,100 --> 01:13:41,810 once the sugar is actually sold. 760 01:13:41,860 --> 01:13:43,530 Don't provoke me, Marin. 761 01:13:43,580 --> 01:13:44,810 It was you who forced me 762 01:13:44,860 --> 01:13:47,050 to go out on a ship to Italy in the dead of winter. 763 01:13:47,100 --> 01:13:48,810 You are the provocateur, not me. 764 01:13:48,860 --> 01:13:51,090 And stop talking about this household as if it's yours. 765 01:13:51,140 --> 01:13:52,660 It belongs to Petronella now. 766 01:14:00,540 --> 01:14:01,820 Then she can have it. 767 01:14:03,420 --> 01:14:07,850 I have wasted enough of my life 768 01:14:07,900 --> 01:14:10,020 keeping yours smooth. 769 01:14:11,540 --> 01:14:16,260 We are all nothing but prisoners to your desire, all of us. 770 01:14:18,540 --> 01:14:20,660 Otto, do you feel like a prisoner? 771 01:14:23,060 --> 01:14:26,050 - No, Seigneur. - What do you expect him to say?! 772 01:14:26,100 --> 01:14:29,850 Look around you, Marin! Amsterdam is closing down like a vice. 773 01:14:29,900 --> 01:14:32,210 This house is the only place any of us are free. 774 01:14:32,260 --> 01:14:34,850 You. You are free. 775 01:14:34,900 --> 01:14:37,570 You think because you have some maps on your wall, some books 776 01:14:37,620 --> 01:14:40,210 and a few animal skulls you know my business better than I do? 777 01:14:40,260 --> 01:14:41,250 Stop! Stop! 778 01:14:41,300 --> 01:14:43,130 All you had to do was marry. The one thing. 779 01:14:43,180 --> 01:14:45,970 - Marry rich, marry well. - Both of you! - But no, you couldn't do that. 780 01:14:46,020 --> 01:14:47,010 God knows we tried, 781 01:14:47,060 --> 01:14:49,660 - but all the guilders in Amsterdam... - Rzecki is dead! 782 01:14:54,020 --> 01:14:55,260 What? 783 01:14:57,540 --> 01:15:01,900 Rzecki. She's dead, Johannes. 784 01:15:04,220 --> 01:15:05,610 Is this true? 785 01:15:05,660 --> 01:15:08,980 Oh, yes. And all your own fault. 786 01:15:11,460 --> 01:15:14,940 Your Englishman came knocking yesterday. Your brothel moth. 787 01:15:16,620 --> 01:15:21,930 He put a dagger through her head right here in your own hallway. 788 01:15:21,980 --> 01:15:27,330 I warned you about him. Over and over. 789 01:15:27,380 --> 01:15:28,860 If it hadn't been for Otto... 790 01:15:32,060 --> 01:15:35,140 - What did you do to him? - I didn't mean to. 791 01:15:37,100 --> 01:15:39,010 What did you do? 792 01:15:39,060 --> 01:15:41,250 He showed mercy. 793 01:15:41,300 --> 01:15:44,300 Your pretty little English whelp got up and walked away. 794 01:15:57,740 --> 01:16:00,210 "Dear Seigneur Windelbreke, I am writing to 795 01:16:00,260 --> 01:16:02,650 "enquire about an apprentice you once had. 796 01:16:02,700 --> 01:16:05,770 "She is female, with a tall, fair-haired appearance, 797 01:16:05,820 --> 01:16:08,220 "and stares at me as if she would look into my soul. 798 01:16:11,540 --> 01:16:13,570 "She has crept into my life, Seigneur, 799 01:16:13,620 --> 01:16:16,610 "and the miniatures she sends are becoming more unnerving. 800 01:16:16,660 --> 01:16:18,760 "How did she come to you and why did she leave?" 801 01:16:23,180 --> 01:16:24,890 Did you find him? 802 01:16:24,940 --> 01:16:26,530 Who? 803 01:16:26,580 --> 01:16:29,890 Please, Johannes. You swore. 804 01:16:29,940 --> 01:16:32,610 No more lies, remember? 805 01:16:32,660 --> 01:16:35,500 You went to find Jack, didn't you? 806 01:16:37,140 --> 01:16:38,690 It's hard to tell the truth 807 01:16:38,740 --> 01:16:41,890 when your whole life has been built on lies and silence. 808 01:16:41,940 --> 01:16:45,040 Nobody has ever been much interested in hearing it, until now. 809 01:16:50,860 --> 01:16:53,930 This is not the marriage you imagined for yourself, is it? 810 01:16:53,980 --> 01:16:55,970 I was foolish to imagine anything. 811 01:16:56,020 --> 01:17:01,290 Without imagination, what else is there? And you are no fool. 812 01:17:01,340 --> 01:17:04,020 How much of the sugar did you manage to sell in Venice? 813 01:17:06,780 --> 01:17:09,050 What is happening, Johannes? 814 01:17:09,100 --> 01:17:11,330 Why will you not sell their sugar? 815 01:17:11,380 --> 01:17:14,130 Look at me. The truth. 816 01:17:14,180 --> 01:17:15,620 The truth? 817 01:17:16,780 --> 01:17:19,370 Because Frans hates me and would like to destroy me. 818 01:17:19,420 --> 01:17:20,610 And Agnes hates Marin. 819 01:17:20,660 --> 01:17:22,970 While they had no inheritance, they had no power. 820 01:17:23,020 --> 01:17:24,810 But once they have the money from the sugar, 821 01:17:24,860 --> 01:17:27,090 there will be nothing in Amsterdam that will stop them. 822 01:17:27,140 --> 01:17:28,930 Then why agree to sell it in the first place? 823 01:17:28,980 --> 01:17:30,980 Because if I didn't, somebody else would. 824 01:17:32,540 --> 01:17:35,210 You can't hold them at bay for ever. 825 01:17:35,260 --> 01:17:36,620 I know. 826 01:17:43,220 --> 01:17:44,380 The truth. 827 01:17:45,740 --> 01:17:47,380 Now you have it. 828 01:18:03,860 --> 01:18:06,340 You said something earlier that wasn't true. 829 01:18:08,460 --> 01:18:09,740 What was that? 830 01:18:12,180 --> 01:18:13,780 That our marriage was a lie. 831 01:18:16,460 --> 01:18:17,740 Isn't it? 832 01:18:19,620 --> 01:18:21,500 Not a lie. 833 01:18:23,540 --> 01:18:24,900 Just different. 834 01:18:33,620 --> 01:18:35,370 Tell me, Johannes. 835 01:18:35,420 --> 01:18:37,610 How does this end? 836 01:18:37,660 --> 01:18:39,500 I'll tell you how it ends. 837 01:18:41,420 --> 01:18:43,410 Come January, I'll be gone again. 838 01:18:43,460 --> 01:18:48,780 And this time I'll make their profit for them and all will be well. 839 01:18:50,780 --> 01:18:54,100 My stock always sells when I want it to. I promise. 840 01:18:55,900 --> 01:18:57,420 What about you? 841 01:18:59,620 --> 01:19:01,500 I'll take the consequences. 842 01:19:03,500 --> 01:19:05,060 There has to be another way. 843 01:19:12,460 --> 01:19:13,820 Here... 844 01:19:15,420 --> 01:19:18,170 .. I've something to show you. 845 01:19:18,220 --> 01:19:19,900 Rzecki. 846 01:19:25,540 --> 01:19:27,540 I've never seen anything like it. 847 01:19:29,100 --> 01:19:31,850 Who on earth could have made such a thing? 848 01:19:31,900 --> 01:19:35,380 I've been asking myself that question for weeks. 849 01:19:52,060 --> 01:19:53,770 Wake up, Madame, please! 850 01:19:53,820 --> 01:19:56,450 What is it? Cornelia, what's wrong? 851 01:19:56,500 --> 01:19:58,850 Is it Johannes? 852 01:19:58,900 --> 01:20:00,810 No, Madame. It's Otto. 853 01:20:00,860 --> 01:20:02,140 He's gone. 854 01:20:04,180 --> 01:20:06,050 Why did he have to run like that? 855 01:20:06,100 --> 01:20:07,970 I'll check the docks first. 856 01:20:08,020 --> 01:20:10,340 And then the prisons, in case he was arrested. 857 01:20:12,700 --> 01:20:14,700 Cornelia! 858 01:20:19,340 --> 01:20:20,530 Cornelia! 859 01:20:20,580 --> 01:20:22,580 I can't light the kindling. 860 01:20:25,740 --> 01:20:27,450 I told him nothing would happen. 861 01:20:27,500 --> 01:20:28,810 Why didn't he listen to me? 862 01:20:28,860 --> 01:20:34,250 It's better that he's gone. By leaving here, he protected us. 863 01:20:34,300 --> 01:20:36,450 Imagine what would happen to a man like Otto 864 01:20:36,500 --> 01:20:39,210 if the Burgomasters got hold of him. 865 01:20:39,260 --> 01:20:43,370 You knew he was going to leave, didn't you? 866 01:20:43,420 --> 01:20:45,220 Let's just say he saw sense. 867 01:20:49,940 --> 01:20:51,820 You sent him away, Madame? 868 01:20:52,820 --> 01:20:54,930 I suggested it. 869 01:20:54,980 --> 01:20:58,620 Yes, and we all know how your suggestions work. 870 01:21:02,940 --> 01:21:05,740 What if it's the Militia, come for Otto? 871 01:21:06,740 --> 01:21:09,940 Well, they won't find him, will they? 872 01:21:23,420 --> 01:21:26,810 - Frans. - Where is Johannes? Johannes! 873 01:21:26,860 --> 01:21:29,170 He'll be at the bourse. 874 01:21:29,220 --> 01:21:32,450 No, I've been to the bourse, and the Company, and several taverns. 875 01:21:32,500 --> 01:21:33,890 I am not my brother's keeper. 876 01:21:33,940 --> 01:21:35,420 More's the pity for all of us. 877 01:21:36,460 --> 01:21:39,330 Last night I went to the warehouse to see for myself how much 878 01:21:39,380 --> 01:21:40,420 sugar had been sold. 879 01:21:41,700 --> 01:21:44,050 Not a grain has been shifted. 880 01:21:44,100 --> 01:21:47,180 Not a single blasted grain of all that sugar. 881 01:21:49,180 --> 01:21:50,380 But it's worse than that. 882 01:21:52,180 --> 01:21:56,410 Our fortune, our entire fortune, 883 01:21:56,460 --> 01:21:59,450 is mouldering in the dark. 884 01:21:59,500 --> 01:22:02,530 I touched it. Some of it was paste. 885 01:22:02,580 --> 01:22:05,090 No, Frans. That's impossible. 886 01:22:05,140 --> 01:22:07,050 Johannes would never permit that to happen. 887 01:22:07,100 --> 01:22:09,250 I saw it with my own eyes. 888 01:22:09,300 --> 01:22:12,210 God knows, that would be reason enough to ruin Johannes Brandt. 889 01:22:12,260 --> 01:22:15,380 But there was worse to come. Far worse. 890 01:22:19,180 --> 01:22:21,450 Do you know what we saw, 891 01:22:21,500 --> 01:22:23,140 pressed up against the walls? 892 01:22:26,940 --> 01:22:30,050 - We saw his devilry. - What are you talking about? 893 01:22:30,100 --> 01:22:32,690 Oh, come on, Marin. You've always known it. 894 01:22:32,740 --> 01:22:36,010 You must have. But you... Did you know it? 895 01:22:36,060 --> 01:22:39,020 How he spends his time up against the warehouse walls? 896 01:22:40,300 --> 01:22:44,490 Such a thing cannot be unseen. That's right. 897 01:22:44,540 --> 01:22:48,690 Now you know, and soon the world will have to know, 898 01:22:48,740 --> 01:22:53,540 how your husband takes his vile pleasures -- with a boy. 899 01:22:54,980 --> 01:22:57,420 And what's more... 900 01:22:58,540 --> 01:23:03,050 What's more, the boy says he attacked him. 901 01:23:03,100 --> 01:23:08,930 No, you've made a mistake, that's not possible. 902 01:23:08,980 --> 01:23:10,220 Frans. 903 01:23:12,740 --> 01:23:16,380 Frans, please... you're his friend. 904 01:23:18,140 --> 01:23:20,180 Do not seek his punishment. 905 01:23:21,900 --> 01:23:23,730 You know how it will end. 906 01:23:23,780 --> 01:23:25,610 That friendship died years ago. 907 01:23:25,660 --> 01:23:28,340 Our sugar is as abandoned as his soul. 908 01:23:29,420 --> 01:23:31,810 Johannes Brandt is a worm in the fruit of the city. 909 01:23:31,860 --> 01:23:33,770 And I must do my duty as a citizen. 910 01:23:33,820 --> 01:23:37,130 Frans, you will ruin us. 911 01:23:37,180 --> 01:23:39,490 Turn away from this. 912 01:23:39,540 --> 01:23:43,650 Surely, we can... We can come to some arrangement. 913 01:23:43,700 --> 01:23:47,340 - We will sell your sugar and let that be an end. - No. 914 01:23:49,380 --> 01:23:50,780 I'm a different man now. 915 01:24:03,700 --> 01:24:04,940 I don't believe... 916 01:24:07,220 --> 01:24:08,540 It can't be true! 917 01:24:11,180 --> 01:24:14,130 Surely, he can't have been such a fool! 918 01:24:14,180 --> 01:24:15,410 Madame, calm, please 919 01:24:15,460 --> 01:24:16,810 Did you not hear him? 920 01:24:16,860 --> 01:24:19,050 He is going straight to the Burgomasters. 921 01:24:19,100 --> 01:24:20,570 Then his arrogance is a gift. 922 01:24:20,620 --> 01:24:23,490 Johannes still has a few hours to escape. 923 01:24:23,540 --> 01:24:25,250 First Otto, now the Seigneur? 924 01:24:25,300 --> 01:24:28,450 But we can't live here, just the three of us. 925 01:24:28,500 --> 01:24:30,890 I don't know how, but we need to find a way to sell the sugar 926 01:24:30,940 --> 01:24:33,370 and buy his silence. It can't all be rotten. 927 01:24:33,420 --> 01:24:35,580 Nothing will keep his silence. 928 01:24:36,740 --> 01:24:38,850 And what do you know of selling sugar? 929 01:24:38,900 --> 01:24:41,410 I am searching for the light, Marin. 930 01:24:41,460 --> 01:24:44,060 There must be some in all this darkness. 931 01:25:08,180 --> 01:25:11,140 You have to go. You have to leave now. 932 01:25:13,740 --> 01:25:15,980 Nella, what's wrong, what's happening? 933 01:25:17,620 --> 01:25:19,620 Frans and Agnes saw you. 934 01:25:22,620 --> 01:25:25,020 They saw you, Johannes. 935 01:25:26,700 --> 01:25:28,400 At the warehouse, with a young man. 936 01:25:29,300 --> 01:25:30,540 Was it Jack? 937 01:25:32,220 --> 01:25:35,650 How could you, after the way he betrayed you? 938 01:25:35,700 --> 01:25:38,090 It is not Jack Philips who has betrayed me, Nella. 939 01:25:38,140 --> 01:25:39,180 It is this city. 940 01:25:40,980 --> 01:25:45,010 Neighbours watching neighbours, twisting ropes to bind us all. 941 01:25:45,060 --> 01:25:48,540 Well, they cannot bind you if you are not here. 942 01:25:55,260 --> 01:25:57,090 Where will you go? 943 01:25:57,140 --> 01:26:00,290 I have friends in many countries. 944 01:26:00,340 --> 01:26:01,810 What does it open? 945 01:26:01,860 --> 01:26:05,570 The warehouse. Here is the list that I've been working on. 946 01:26:05,620 --> 01:26:07,970 People who may be interested in the sugar. 947 01:26:08,020 --> 01:26:09,050 Give it to Marin. 948 01:26:09,100 --> 01:26:11,490 She's always wanted to run my business and now she can. 949 01:26:11,540 --> 01:26:14,100 But she'll find it's not as simple as she thinks. 950 01:26:16,980 --> 01:26:18,890 Will you ever come back? 951 01:26:18,940 --> 01:26:22,090 Amsterdam is a city like no other, but I have never called it home. 952 01:26:22,140 --> 01:26:24,850 - Well, where is home? - Wherever comfort is. 953 01:26:24,900 --> 01:26:27,140 But for a man like me, it can be hard to find. 954 01:26:28,460 --> 01:26:30,410 I'll miss you. 955 01:26:30,460 --> 01:26:33,620 I'll miss you, too. More than I ever expected. 956 01:26:34,820 --> 01:26:36,700 Where is Marin? Marin! 957 01:26:39,180 --> 01:26:43,020 She says she is too ill to come down. 958 01:26:45,500 --> 01:26:47,300 Johannes! 959 01:26:49,020 --> 01:26:50,420 Take me with you. 960 01:26:52,100 --> 01:26:53,380 You're serious? 961 01:26:54,580 --> 01:26:59,900 A man travelling with his wife doesn't attract a second glance. 962 01:27:03,660 --> 01:27:06,330 They need you here, Nella. 963 01:27:06,380 --> 01:27:08,130 Otto, Cornelia. 964 01:27:08,180 --> 01:27:13,220 Even Marin, much more than you know. Here. 965 01:27:24,100 --> 01:27:25,940 Promise me you'll come back. 966 01:27:27,700 --> 01:27:29,660 No lies, remember? 967 01:27:30,980 --> 01:27:32,860 I cannot change what I am... 968 01:27:34,100 --> 01:27:35,460 One day, perhaps. 969 01:27:47,620 --> 01:27:48,770 What happened? 970 01:27:48,820 --> 01:27:51,130 The Militia came for her last night. 971 01:27:51,180 --> 01:27:53,580 - You said she'd gone. - Then why are you here? 972 01:27:55,580 --> 01:27:58,050 - I thought she might have returned. - So did they. 973 01:27:58,100 --> 01:28:01,940 They left disappointed, but they cleared the place out. 974 01:28:06,820 --> 01:28:09,090 Marin, would you happen to have... 975 01:28:11,420 --> 01:28:13,860 - I'm coming in. - No, no, no please don't. 976 01:28:14,980 --> 01:28:17,620 What, by all the angels...? 977 01:28:18,700 --> 01:28:20,020 Go away. 978 01:28:23,260 --> 01:28:24,930 What is that in your hand? 979 01:28:24,980 --> 01:28:27,580 - I said go away. - What is it? Marin! 980 01:28:29,220 --> 01:28:31,090 No! No! 981 01:28:31,140 --> 01:28:32,810 You have no right. 982 01:28:32,860 --> 01:28:34,010 You understand nothing! 983 01:28:34,060 --> 01:28:36,370 I understand everything. Johannes will be safe. 984 01:28:36,420 --> 01:28:39,210 And even if they catch him, I have a list of names. 985 01:28:39,260 --> 01:28:41,740 We will sell the sugar and it will all be fine. 986 01:28:43,500 --> 01:28:47,530 Oh, you stupid, stupid girl. 987 01:28:47,580 --> 01:28:49,660 Don't you see? 988 01:28:51,860 --> 01:28:54,170 It's not about him. 989 01:28:54,220 --> 01:28:55,700 What don't I see? 990 01:29:02,020 --> 01:29:04,170 Now do you see? 991 01:29:04,220 --> 01:29:05,900 My God, Marin. 992 01:29:07,020 --> 01:29:08,180 What have you done?