La Peste (2018) s01e02 Episode Script

1 Take off your shirt.
Raise your arm.
Come.
You're very handsome.
- THE PACT - "WHO FALLS INTO SODOMY SHALL BE BURNED AT THE STAKE" We beg for mercy! Your hands.
Get up! You have something to say? Objections, I mean.
I know you're familiar with Apuleius.
I'm just translating his work.
Celso de Guevara you turned up again.
- Much can happen in 5 years.
"Taken individually, all men are mortal.
Together, we're eternal.
" I'd say "perpetual" rather than "eternal".
He refers to the human species.
"Man is mortal, mankind is eternal.
" In a biological sense rather than religious.
- Yes Aristoteles.
That's your "sanbenito".
(penitential garment) I had it brought here when I heard you were back.
I presume you know a bust of you was publicly burned.
Since that, they say you're a man without soul and without shadow.
Literature.
- I tried to avoid this.
I sent these letters to try and get you a fair trial.
To the Inquisition's Supreme Court, to the Bishopric and to the Crown.
You're free to look at it.
No one replied.
For them, you were an heretic before even being tried.
Your merits have never been valued.
I wanted you to know whose side I'm on.
You must be hungry.
Will you join me? It's snow from Sierra Norte, it can be preserved inside pits.
You recognize the town? The promise of the New World there it is.
They come from everywhere looking for fortune and this is what they find: misery and chaos.
It's not by chance that we met so suddenly.
You're here for a greater reason, to which we all are subject.
You're here to help me.
You have a gift.
Go with him and tell me what you see.
Remove the chains.
Out! Some kid says he saw everything.
- Where is he? You saw who did this? What was he like? - He speaks a bad Castilian.
You know what these are? About 50.
Dressed like a poor but he probably was rich.
A merchant, didn't work with his hands.
The skin is fine and smooth.
Blue stains on his fingers, most likely fabric dye.
No blood around, he wasn't killed here.
One kid said a sort of giant brought him here.
Must have been someone strong, there are no carriage marks so he came on foot.
He's got a wound on the shoulder and his hands and feet were perforated.
Stigmata.
That's Ignacio Azuaga, one of the most known merchants of the town and the reign.
Very generous with the Crown and with the Church.
I want you to find the murderer.
If you do, you'll be free.
And if I say no? - You're not the martyr type.
What if I can't find him? - You're an heretic.
The stake.
- You've already been tried and sentenced.
Put the body in oil so it's preserved, I might need to look at it again.
I can't do that, it's against God's law.
Everything concerning men is God's will.
- He had a family, they probably wanna bury him as soon as possible.
Make up an excuse, you folks have been doing that for centuries.
You try to keep it discrete.
It's the third one in less than 2 days.
Where are they taking him? - Some infirmary outside the town.
They do it at night so that nobody sees.
That's his family.
We can't afford any risks, they'll all be taken to the slums.
We can't keep it a secret any longer, the disease is spreading.
We gotta make it official to pay back the Crown's money.
The Council can't sustain the cost of an epidemic.
We ain't got any credit.
How many? - More than 15.
Sign the receipt.
You don't deserve to be called a man! You're a bastard! A bastard! The tickets, you bastard! Clean up your blood.
- You sleep here with the horses! I'll get him a mattress.
- No he's an animal and he's gotta be treated like that! You're not an animal, I know who you are.
We come from the same place and while you're here, I will help you.
You're alive thanks to your father.
But your father is dead.
I'm not like Mateo.
For me, his memory is not enough.
Therefore, if you betray his name one more time, I'm gonna kill you myself.
I'll get you a mattress and something to eat.
He's the Inquisition, Mateo.
You can't trust him.
I have no choice.
- Yes you do.
I can get you out of town right now, if you want.
I have the opportunity to put an end to all this.
I'm tired of running.
You know what they did to your house? They burned it down.
Then they covered everything with salt so that nothing will grow for many years.
That's what's expecting you if you stay.
Get up and get the cart.
I'll be outside, hurry up.
Mateo? - Monards.
I nee you to do an autopsy.
It's forbidden by the Inquisition, I don't wanna be burned.
- Not this time.
Put it on.
He looks like his father.
- I wouldn't say so, he's just a bastard.
The body is almost bled out.
That's why you didn't see blood around the body.
- How? He was impaled on a steak.
Then they planted the stake in the ground.
Two men? - Or one with the strength of two.
The stake came out here, so that it didn't perforate any internal organs.
A stake with a rounded end? - They wanted him to bleed to death slowly.
What about his hands and feet? - Nails, done after he was dead.
Any idea what this might be? No.
I wanna draw him before I sew him up.
Women can't get in.
- Ma'am won't be long.
Would you like a mattress? 2 real.
I just cleaned it.
- No.
It's all legal, don't worry.
Business is run by the Church and the Council.
That's Moreno's shop.
10 real.
This way.
Look.
Get up.
Let them see you.
As per ordinance, they're all over 12 and orphans of both father and mother.
They're all in health.
Every two months, a doctor from the Council comes over.
Do you have more? - Don't you like any of them? Up in the pigeon house.
Stand up.
What's your name? Eugenia.
Come closer.
Open yur mouth.
Do as she says! - Leave it.
How much? - 10 real.
The Council doesn't allow whores outside of here.
Pay him.
Clean yourself up.
- No need to, she's fine like that.
Slow down.
I only ask that we wait for the ships back from the New World.
If we go public now, we'll have to shut down the city.
That means we're gonna lose the monopoly over the trade with the Indies.
Cadiz has been trying for years to persuade the Crown to change the ships course.
They've already tried with St.
Anthony's fever a few years back.
Shutting down the city means they're gonna win.
They'll never lose such an opportunity.
We need money to face the epidemic, that's why we need to make it public.
We can get the money in another way.
- How? Merchants - Merchants.
They're willing to pay for all expenses as long as we don't shut down the port.
Assistant this city has never been so close to be once again the capital of the Reign.
We can't throw this opportunity.
To accomplish that, we need gold.
And gold is coming on those ships.
Lardin.
Assistant.
Mr.
Morata, you got it wrong.
Closing the port will not end our capital dreams the plague will.
If we don't shut down the city we'll have gold, alright but it's only gonna make us the richest dead people in Europe.
You talk about gold as if a good government depended on its possession.
It's the exact opposite! We're governors, not speculators.
Our interests are different! Crows go after gold.
Silence, please.
In favor of Morata's proposal.
Against? Indigo.
Thanks to my father, it's the most sold dye in Europe.
Where are you shipping these barrels? - Flanders.
Only a few Sevillian companies export it.
The office is on the upper floor.
Everything is still how he left it, I still haven't gotten in myself.
My father lived for his work and his family.
I don't know why someone would do something like that.
Have you noticed if something of value is missing? - No.
Did he have any argument with anyone? Someone who owed him money? An employee? In this town there's a lot of misery, you don't kill who's making you work.
Don't look here for the murderer.
Do the initials E V ring any bells? - No.
He's Manuel.
What happened, Manuel? I was cleaning my tools when I heard some noises from the office.
What time was that? - Late, after 11.
Was there someone else in the factory? - We were always the last to leave.
Could someone get inside unnoticed? - Impossible, my station is right by the door.
Then I heard the screams and I came running but it was locked.
How did you open the door? When I got in, I saw him being dragged out the window.
And you didn't do anything? I was scared.
- Scare of what, Manuel? You were armed.
It was a beast.
A big black beast with hair all over its body.
Dates and almonds! A giant? - A monster.
Anything else? What's her name? - Whose name? Your father wasn't that irreproachable.
He had a secret woman.
Young and with expensive tastes.
A lover.
Carmen Gálvez.
You know where she lives? - We looked for her everywhere, she disappeared.
She's not in town.
She has a sister in Portugalete but no one dares to go there.
I do.
I'm not afraid of the disease.
They're all yours? - Yes.
Don't move.
Why do you sign them with a man's name? You can read? Who taught you? - No one.
If they were signed by a woman, nobody would buy them, right? You can change, we're done for the day.
Mr.
Lardin.
- Sorry if I don't come in but I'm in a hurry.
I heard you have problems with your warehouse.
This is the best ship in the port, free of charges.
I'm not gonna change my vote, Mr.
Zuníga.
You can put that away.
What is it you want? I can get you anything.
- Nothing.
I know what it means to lose your family to the plague.
Gold won't bring them back.
Sorry, I had no idea.
Let's go.
What are you doing? - It's to cheat the disease, it won't see me this way.
There.
My money.
Who are you? What do you want? Where's your sister? - Give me some water, please I can't move.
Where is she? - I don't know she came to say goodbye a few days ago.
Did she say where she was going? - She said she couldn't tell.
Water, please - Why she couldn't say? I don't know she was scared.
- Of what? I don't know.
This stuff is quite expensive.
It's hers she brought those on a boat with some man.
Azuaga? A different man I didn't see him.
Give me some water, I'm begging you! I'm dying of thirst! E V V "Ex Veritate Vita".
Where did you get this? - I don't know water, please It's the plague.
What does it say? - You can't read? It's Latin, it says only truth will save mankind.
You heard of the man who cut his son's hand off so that he could go begging? It's prohibited, if they catch you, you go to jail.
They have a test to see if one is a real beggar.
I saw it, poor people come to town from all places.
I can do it without them knowing.
I'm not afraid but I need your help.
Grab a rock.
Come on! No.
That one.
Let's go.
I'm sorry.
You're still using your father's name.
- He's become famous all around Europe.
Men in this family have always gone far including the dead.
You're gonna have to start using your name eventually.
- Why? Who's this? - Nobody.
It's very nice.
You still have the same sadness in your eyes.
How can such a good man live without God? You who enlighten all, Holy Spirit, and who enlighten the path to my goal.
You who gives me the strength to forgive who did me wrong and who's with me every moment of my life.
I thank you and I reaffirm my will to remain with you.
Despite material illusions, I want to be with you and all my loved ones in eternal glory.
Thank you for your mercy for me and my loved ones.
Thank you, my Lord.
You know why they call them "mariposas"? (moths, butterflies) Fire attracts them.
Attracted by it, they get closer and closer to the flame.
It's like a ballet.
The first time, she flies close to the flame and burns one wing.
But the fire it's still too tempting.
She comes back.
She can't avoid it, it's her nature.
The second time she gets so close that she catches fire.
She dissolves.
You decide whether you wanna catch fire or not.
I can make sure you won't burn.
Where he's going, you can't follow.