The Empress (2022) s02e04 Episode Script

1
[whimsical music playing]
[rain pattering]
[thunder rumbling]
[Gisella cooing]
Fienchen, come see your sister.
- [Fienchen humming]
- [Gisella cooing]
- [Fienchen] I'll make tea!
- [Elisabeth gasps]
[crockery clinks]
[Fienchen] And milk.
[slurps]
Mm!
[giggles]
- [Fienchen] Papa must have tea too.
- [Elisabeth]Yes.
Want your tea, Papa?
Franz? Fienchen is talking to you.
Oh. Sorry.
Have you got my tea?
Thank you.
[Fienchen] Tea without milk.
[crockery clinks]
What are you dwelling on?
- [Fienchen] Teddy doesn't get one.
- Our visit to Milan.
[Fienchen] He has to behave himself.
[Franz] I hope the situation
in Lombardy calms down.
[Elisabeth] It was right
to give your brother this responsibility.
- [crockery clinks]
- Don't you think?
- [Fienchen] I've told you before.
- Well, let's wait and see.
[crockery clinks]
- [thunder rumbles]
- [Fienchen] You must learn to behave.
There are other parts of the empire
that worry me.
Which ones?
[thunder rumbles]
Hungary.
I know we've been travelling such a lot,
and you want to be with the children, so
Then the children can come with us.
- Really?
- [Elisabeth] Yes.
Shall we have a family adventure?
- [Fienchen] Mm-hm.
- Yeah?
[Sophie] To Hungary?
Are you in earnest?
[Franz] The Hungarians
are paying a very high price
for a revolution
that is now ten years past.
It is time for a change.
Let us take the first step.
And what would this step look like, then?
Franz, the Hungarians want a constitution.
Are you going to allow that?
I will take Elisabeth over there.
It is she who binds the people
in our empire together.
[Sophie] Do I really have to remind you,
Your Majesty,
how your last encounter
with one of those barbarians ended?
I cannot hate a whole nation
for the act of one soldier.
[Sophie sighs]
And what is more,
this time we'll be taking the girls.
No. You can't.
They're not nearly old enough for that.
Fienchen is old enough,
and it will be of great value to her.
And, who knows,
perhaps someday she'll play
an important role for the empire.
[theme music playing]
THE EMPRESS
[theme music fades]
[knocking on door]
- Yeah.
- [Charlotte] Good morning, Countess.
- It is time to go.
- I am not ready yet, Charlotte.
- Your luggage is still here.
- Yeah.
Will you please collect this baggage?
We can't afford to be late.
[valet] Yes, Countess.
[Frieda] Is the Princess here?
Have you seen the Princess?
[Pauline] No, we haven't seen her.
[sighs]
- Your Imperial Highness, where are you?
- The poor dear.
Is there something wrong with you?
You are very pale.
Yes. Is the fever back?
We believed that you were fully recovered.
I'm feeling well.
- Shall I bring the doctor?
- No, please.
I probably haven't slept enough.
[Pauline] I heard the kitchen staff
have pertussis.
- Two of our chambermaids are poorly
- Pauline, it's fine.
I've a cold, that's all.
I'll be with you presently.
[indistinct chattering]
You cannot travel in this state.
You are obviously unwell.
I see what this is.
You want to be rid of me.
I am certain it is not pertussis.
So, what will you do, then?
I've no idea what you're on about.
Please leave.
[gulps]
Right now.
[door opens]
[footsteps receding]
[inhales, exhales]
[suspenseful music playing]
- [joyful music playing]
- [Fienchen humming]
[Sophie] Oh how pretty.
[sniffs]
This flower smells so good.
- Yes.
- [kitten meowing]
Now come.
I want to show you something else
before you leave.
[kittens meowing]
[both gasp]
- [meowing]
- [Fienchen laughs]
[meowing]
Who brought these here?
That's it. You are good.
[Sophie chuckles]
[kittens meowing]
[Fienchen laughs]
How delightful.
[Fienchen] Mm.
It's a pity that you have to go soon
and not see the fluffy kitties again.
By the time that you return,
they will be a lot older.
Oh well.
[kitten meowing, purring]
Now come.
- It is time to go, I'm afraid.
- [Fienchen] I'm not going.
I want to play here.
- [kittens meowing]
- You can't, my little one.
Your Mama and Papa are leaving,
and you're going with them.
Sophie, put the kitty down.
- [Fienchen] No. The kitty is mine.
- Put it down.
I'm going to stay here!
[birds chirping]
[Sophie] Mm.
[horses whinnying]
- [kittens meowing]
- [Elisabeth] Kittens?
You cannot do this to her.
Where is she?
She is hiding there in the bushes,
and doesn't want to come out.
I thought that you wanted your children
to spend more time in the garden.
Don't take me for a fool.
This journey
is not the right thing for her.
I decide what is right for her.
I am her mother.
You won't credit it
when I inform you, Elisabeth,
but I will miss her.
You're right,
I don't credit it.
[horse whinnies]
[Fienchen sniffles]
[indistinct chattering]
Your nose is running, darling.
- I hope you haven't caught a cold.
- [man] This way.
- This way.
- [Fienchen] Mm.
[horse whinnies]
[Elisabeth] Leontine?
Tell me what's wrong.
I cannot come with you, Majesty.
[Elisabeth] Will you please go on ahead?
- [nurse] Yes, Your Majesty.
- [Elisabeth] Thank you.
Why not?
Has the fever returned?
Honestly, you had better rest some more.
- You're not angry with me, are you?
- [Elisabeth] No.
If you're not better,
you should stay and rest.
I really wanted to come,
now that you're finally going to Hungary.
You'll come next time.
- [Leontine] Mm.
- [horse whinnies]
You have to promise me
you'll see the doctor, please.
Yeah.
You must get well.
[inhales deeply, exhales]
Thank you, Elisabeth.
[guard] Your Majesty, please.
["Im Abendrot, D.799" by Franz Schubert
playing on piano]
[sighs]
[in German] Could I complain? ♪
Could I be apprehensive? ♪
Could I lose faith in you ♪
And in myself? ♪
[piano playing stops]
[teacher in English]
That was so much better, Your Highness.
More precision on your triplets, please.
And do not run away with the sixteenths.
[Luzi] Certainly.
I have a note too.
When you draw towards the end
and sing the line,
"Could I lose faith in you and in myself?"
it must be more forceful,
do you understand?
"Could I lose faith?" he asks.
But he does not.
And he knows Almighty God is with him.
Even in the darkest hour,
he does not give up the fight.
We must hear it.
Yes, Imperial Highness.
And so, let's just have one more run.
[playing "Im Abendrot, D.799"]
[in German] Could I complain? ♪
Could I be apprehensive? ♪
Could I lose faith in you ♪
And in myself? ♪
[birds chirping]
- [sighs]
- [knocking on door]
- [in English] I'm well now, thank you.
- [von Bach] It is I, Alexander.
[von Bach chuckles]
I was so worried when I heard that
you weren't well enough to go to Hungary.
Uh, and then I was happy
because we could spend more time together.
[von Bach chuckles]
Uh, can we?
Yes, we can.
[inhales]
[von Bach] Can I say something?
Yeah.
You have been avoiding me.
And you seemed so very angry.
- [Leontine exhales]
- Why have you lost interest in me?
I really have not.
[Leontine moaning]
I have this stupid cold.
I understand. [clears throat]
[inhales] I'll leave you now.
[breathing shakily]
Alex.
Make me some tea.
You surely know how?
[laughs] Yes, I can do that. [exhales]
I prefer you without the tight dress.
- Naked. Original.
- [von Bach chuckles]
I didn't mean it like that.
It feels like I see the real you.
Leontine.
[sighs]
[inhales]
Can you envision
you and I ever leaving here?
Going somewhere where we can start anew?
Get away from court
and from politics.
Just a vegetable garden and
a little child?
[suspenseful music playing]
I thought you didn't want
that whole life though.
I could do, but not here.
[sighs]
It's just that His Majesty and I,
we've accomplished so much here.
And you're so vital to the Empress,
and we both still have
so much to achieve here
Forget it now, will you?
First you don't want to marry
because you want to work,
and suddenly you want to,
but just away from here.
Why can't we just marry and stay here?
[tense music playing]
[bell ringing]
- [orphan 1] Get off.
- [orphan 2 laughing]
- [orphan 3] Look.
- [nun 1] Children, come!
[nun 2] Quickly.
[orphan 1] Move. Get off me.
[nun 1] Go inside.
Sit at the table. Quickly now.
[orphan 4] Hurry up!
Or Sister will scold us.
[orphan 5] Wait for me.
I want to sit next to Joseph.
[orphan 6] It's my turn.
You always sit next to him.
[orphan 5] I'm very hungry.
This is the dorm for the youngest.
- [orphan coughing]
- Many have to share a bed.
We lack so much here.
A good day is when
they don't go to sleep hungry.
[orphans coughing]
- The Lord will give you strength.
- [coughing]
Her Majesty wishes to give help
where it's most needed.
God bless the Empress.
We desperately need new windows.
Last winter,
we lost 20 to whooping cough alone.
Sister, and newborns?
[gentle music playing]
Do you take newborns at all?
[nun speaking indistinctly]
- Yeah.
- [orphan crying]
What sin has brought forth
we find on our doorstep.
[nun speaking indistinctly]
Tell me, do any of the children here
get adopted and rehoused again?
Because Her Highness wants to know.
Listen, these children have found
their abode in the Lord's house.
Nowhere else.
I know this world often leaves
young girls no choice at all.
But nothing is more powerful
than a mother's love.
[adventurous music playing]
- [whips cracking]
- [coachman] Hyah! Hyah!
Hyah! Hyah!
[horse whinnies]
[woman vocalising]
[horse whinnies]
[coachman] Whoa!
Whoa now!
[horse whinnies]
[Theo] Welcome to Ofen, Your Majesty.
- I trust you had a pleasant journey.
- [Charlotte panting] Out of the way!
[Charlotte vomiting]
- Travel sickness.
- [Charlotte gasping]
Charlotte, the streets in Hungary
are in a much poorer state than ours are.
Will you kindly shut up? [panting]
Please get her to bed.
- Yes, Your Majesty.
- [Elisabeth] Hm.
[Franz] The nursery is in the East Wing.
- Theo will escort you.
- You not feeling well?
[Fienchen] No, tummy ache.
[Franz] It's been a long journey for her.
Hasn't it, my little one?
Franz, Fienchen is suffering
from the long journey.
I'd like to take her
for a walk in the garden.
[Theo clears throat]
We await the Viceroy
at seven o'clock, Your Majesty.
It would do you good too.
[Fienchen whimpering]
- Right. I'll come too.
- [Elisabeth] Mm-hm.
- We have time to spare.
- Yeah.
[Theo] Very well, Majesty.
[Elisabeth] I've heard tell
there's a river here.
[indistinct chattering]
[bright music playing]
[birds quacking]
[buzzing]
[frogs croaking]
Are you feeling better?
- Yeah.
- Yeah?
- Tummy still hurt?
- No.
[Elisabeth] Charlotte
was feeling ill earlier too.
Where are they?
Where are all the stars hiding?
[Elisabeth] Yes,
where are they all hiding?
[Franz] Fienchen, come.
I'll show you something.
[Franz groans]
- See how it glitters?
- [Fienchen] Yes.
[Franz] Whatever could that be?
- [Elisabeth chuckles]
- [Franz] Oh goodness.
Now we have to get wet.
Look.
See how it glitters?
Perhaps it's a star
that fell from the sky.
[Fienchen] Yeah.
[Franz] For you.
[chuckles]
Oh.
Come, my darling. Come.
- Here.
- [Elisabeth] Show me your star.
[Franz kisses]
[Franz] Hm.
- Hup!
- [water splashes]
Look at her now.
Adventurous like her brave mother.
[Elisabeth] I know.
[water splashing]
But she has your tender heart.
- [Fienchen] Ew.
- [Elisabeth and Franz chuckle]
I wish it could always be like this.
[kisses]
["Im Abendrot, D.799" playing on piano]
[Baron in German] No, I will carry ♪
In my breast ♪
Your heaven ♪
For all times ♪
And this heart ♪
Before it breaks ♪
[man] Tea for you, madam.
[teacher] Oh, thank you,
but I must leave right away.
If you'll excuse me,
Your Imperial Highness.
I'm attending
a golden wedding anniversary.
Certainly. Thank you.
Your Imperial Highness,
Baron.
[door opens]
[door creaks]
[footsteps receding]
I very much enjoyed the music today.
So did I.
[Luzi] May I ask you something?
Why do you do that?
[Baron] Do what, Your Imperial Highness?
Rest your hand the way you do.
I can stop doing it, Highness.
I don't want you to stop doing it.
I rest my hand to feel the notes,
their vibrations under my fingers.
You play well, Your Imperial Highness.
Sorry.
I don't know why I said that to you.
I had better go.
Baron, you sing well.
[curious music playing]
[gasps]
[gasps]
[Luzi gasps]
Was someone there?
You should go now.
Farewell.
[inhales]
[Rauscher] It's a matter
of ripping out this sickness
before it spreads and takes root.
[Sophie] He is still but a child.
He's almost a man.
You can save your children
from many dangers here on Earth,
but when they die,
they'll be on their own in the afterlife.
Do not fear, Imperial Highness.
I'll redeem his soul.
[footsteps receding]
[Fienchen crying]
- [Frieda] Your Majesty.
- What's wrong?
- The Princess has vomited.
- Does she have a fever?
She's a little warm.
And yesterday in the night,
she had a touch of diarrhoea.
Why did you not inform me last night?
I didn't want to wake you again, Majesty.
- It was so late.
- Tell Dr Fritsch to come.
Dr Seeburger has arrived
with the Imperial entourage.
Better than nothing.
[Dr Seeburger] Mm-hm.
I see. [clears throat]
- Open your mouth.
- [Fienchen] Ah.
[Elisabeth] She had a fever
all night and this morning.
Ah.
- [tool clatters]
- She is teething.
That is often the cause
of a temperature and diarrhoea.
- No reason for concern.
- She was also vomiting.
Majesty,
I know that on occasion
the emotions can run high in a mother,
but this child is healthy.
Do not make me out a fool.
Right. We thank you, Doctor.
[doctor's bag closes]
[Frieda] Your Majesty.
I cannot stand him.
- [door closes]
- I know.
You can go to the reception by yourself.
Fienchen needs me here.
Elisabeth, I have issues to discuss
with the new Justice Minister,
Count Nádasdy.
He wants
all the revolutionary leaders pardoned.
I'm not sure if I should agree to that.
- And it's crucial that you are there.
- I know.
But I will not leave her alone today.
Come, let's put you to bed,
my darling one. Up.
You'll be better soon, my love.
[door opens]
"And all the stars shone down."
"And all the children gathered together,
and they saw the lamb standing there."
- Are you cold?
- [Fienchen] No.
You will soon see the stars.
[tender music playing]
[Franz] How is my girl?
[Franz sighs]
She's never had
a high fever from teething.
Do you think we should return to Vienna?
Everything we need, we have here.
[Elisabeth] Mm-hm.
[Franz] Elisabeth, you heard the doctor.
And you should try and get some sleep.
How was the dinner?
When I go by myself,
everybody expects a confrontation.
I am sorry.
I'll call Frieda so you can lie down.
No. I want to stay right by her.
Thank you.
[Franz] Good night.
[door closes]
[birds chirping]
[fluttering]
[Fienchen] I don't want any more.
I don't like it.
- [Frieda] Your Majesty.
- [Dr Seeburger] Your Majesty.
We wanted you to rest.
She's so much better.
[Elisabeth] Fienchen.
- Mama!
- [Elisabeth] Hello.
[Elisabeth and Franz chuckling]
[Elisabeth] Mm.
- Aw.
- She had some porridge.
As I told you, no cause for worry.
Oh, my darling, I'm so glad
that you're feeling better. [kisses]
[Dr Seeburger] You can perform your duties
without concern, Your Majesty.
[Elisabeth chuckles]
I feel it'd be advantageous
if you came with me.
Where are you going?
We would first spend three days
in the Great Hungarian Plain.
We need the landowners allied with us.
[Fienchen] Uh-oh.
Let's go, then.
It is vital.
- [Franz] Hm.
- [Fienchen] Mm-hm.
[Elisabeth chuckles]
Sit down, Luzi.
[door closes]
You will not see the Baron ever again,
and your music lessons are now forbidden.
Mother, no.
You're nearly a man, Ludwig.
Come the new year, we will make sure
there's a suitable candidate to wed
to terminate the endless gossip.
[breathing shakily]
I will do better, Mother.
Please.
Please allow me to have my music.
[Luzi whimpers]
[gentle music playing]
I only want to protect you, Ludwig.
Put your faith in me.
[breathing shakily]
Margarete.
[Luzi crying]
- [sobbing]
- [door opens]
[door closes]
Your Imperial Highness,
if you would come with me.
Where?
The Cardinal Rauscher
will be instructing you daily from now on.
[breathing shakily]
- No. Please, not the Cardinal.
- It is for the best.
[footsteps approaching]
[door opens]
Minister, a guest has arrived for you.
- Guest? What sort of guest?
- [valet] A certain Count von Apafi.
[footsteps approaching]
[door opens]
Count von Apafi.
It is an honour.
You are Minister von Bach.
I thank you for seeing me.
Please.
[exhales] I, uh, hope you will forgive me
for arriving here
unannounced like this. [exhales]
- I just happened to be passing through.
- Absolutely, yes.
Leontine will certainly
be happy you have come.
[inhales]
So, Minister, to be honest
my dear wife and I are very concerned.
We have written to our daughter
numerous times over the past two years,
but have not heard back from her.
Then comes your letter of intent
to marry her, and then your withdrawal.
So I want to know
what the hell's going on?
[sighs]
I, uh I understand your bewilderment.
[inhales] I will endeavour to explain.
[von Bach clears throat]
Your daughter Leontine
is the closest confidante to Her Majesty.
The Empress and my daughter?
[inhales]
You don't say.
Yes, this, uh, position,
it demands all that she has.
She finds little time for other things.
And that is why your betrothal
is no longer what you wish?
Uh, no, it is not that.
I'm absolutely enchanted, Earl von Apafi
Sorry, Count von Apafi.
That's such a relief.
[von Apafi laughing]
[von Bach laughing]
The Countess has insisted that you have
the wedding at our ancestral castle.
Ah. [chuckles]
I have here a photograph of our castle
that you will soon be heir to.
And this is Countess Agnes, my wife,
and Leontine
on the day she departed to come here.
- [von Apafi chuckles]
- [von Bach] Leontine?
Uh, where?
[von Apafi] Here.
What say you, Minister von Bach?
Can I see my daughter?
Is she here in the palace?
[suspenseful music playing]
[sombre music playing]
[knocking on door]
[von Bach] Countess von Lamberg,
are you in there?
[drowsily] One moment.
[door opens]
Oh. Hm.
Baron von Bach, well, well.
What does this concern?
The Countess von Apafi.
And what has she done?
Can you still remember
the day of her arrival here?
Uh, were there any discrepancies?
Discrepancies?
- None.
- Please, think again.
- Any doubts you have?
- Mm.
Think, Margarete. Think now.
There was something about her shoes.
Countess Amalia, God rest her soul,
she constantly wittered on about it,
that Countess Apafi shouldn't be around.
Countess Salm-Reifferscheidt said that?
Amalia could not stand Leontine.
Schönbrunn is a lunatic asylum.
Amalia, she discovered, uh,
photographs of, um
Of Leontine.
So do you know what became of them?
Do you know where they can be found?
No.
Amalia died due to a tragic accident.
That's all I know.
[suspenseful music playing]
- Mm.
- Thank you.
[man] Majesty,
it sustains the whole village.
[children chattering]
[festive music playing]
[Elisabeth] They really
are very well-behaved.
[goat bleats]
Thank you.
- [geese honking]
- [goats bleating]
[indistinct chattering in Hungarian]
[cackling]
[indistinct chattering in Hungarian]
- [goat bleating]
- [geese cackling]
[woman 1 speaking in Hungarian]
[goat bleats]
[Theo in English] A traditional dish.
Carp soup.
- [Elisabeth] Mm-hm.
- Carp from the Danube.
[Elisabeth] Mm.
I do not recommend it, Your Majesty.
[man] It is good.
[in Hungarian] Phenomenal.
- Thank you very much.
- [Elisabeth chuckles]
[girl in English] For you, Majesty.
[woman 2 laughing]
[gentle music playing]
[Elisabeth in Hungarian] Thank you.
[indistinct chattering]
- [whistling]
- [horses galloping]
[indistinct chattering]
[horses whinnying]
[horsemen shouting]
[Theo] Traditional Hungarian horseman,
Your Majesties.
[horsemen chattering loudly]
- [horseman laughs]
- [horsemen chattering]
[euphoric music playing]
[laughing]
- [whistling]
- [horse whinnies]
[chattering indistinctly]
Hello.
[horse snorts]
[Franz] I thought you'd enjoy this.
[horse whinnies]
Dr Seeburger sent me.
The Princess is extremely unwell.
[Theo] It's the Princess.
Her condition has worsened.
Dr Seeburger is concerned.
[Elisabeth] Prepare the carriage!
[panting]
[dramatic music playing]
[coachmen shouting]
We must try not to panic unduly.
But why have they asked us to return?
[coachmen shouting]
Dr Seeburger was wrong all along.
It is not the time for blame.
We don't know what's wrong at the moment.
[coachman] Hyah! Hyah!
I shouldn't have made this journey.
[Franz] But she was doing well
when we departed.
If a fever comes, she gets a fever.
Whether we're there or not
doesn't change that.
Knowing that your parents are there,
the emotional security
makes a difference, Franz
even if that's not what you were taught.
[music continues]
- [coachman 1] Whoa.
- [coachman 2] Whoa.
- [horse whinnies]
- Your Majesty.
- Your Majesties.
- Your Majesties.
Where is she?
Your Majesty, this is Dr Götz,
a paediatric specialist from Vienna.
Specialist? For what?
Imperial Highness,
Princess Sophie has typhoid fever.
What?
This doctor's wrong.
She was getting better.
I'm going to her.
Let's listen to the doctor.
I am certain the illness has been
festering for two or even three weeks.
The nurse informed me that the Princess
had suffered from diarrhoea lately.
Yes, but there was never any mention
that it could be typhoid.
How on earth could you miss that?
[Dr Götz] Your Majesty,
in the early stages,
typhoid symptoms are inconclusive
and easily mistaken.
- [door opens]
- How can you be so certain?
We had our best doctor,
and he couldn't tell!
[Dr Götz] In the last three years,
I've seen hundreds
of children with typhoid,
and I say it is.
I'm here,
my darling.
Has she had fluid?
She just spits it out. [sniffles]
I've been trying with water
and a spoon for hours. [sniffles]
Your Majesty. [breathing shakily]
She's so pale, Franz.
[Fienchen breathing shakily]
I'm here, my Fienchen.
My little girl.
All will be well.
She will recover soon.
Of course she's going to.
[banging on door]
[footsteps approaching]
[door opens]
[door closes]
Is there something you want to tell me?
- What do you mean?
- Don't treat me like a fool, Leontine.
Oh no. What do I even call you?
I don't even know your name.
Why are you saying all these things?
[inhales deeply] You've been lying
to me all along.
[von Bach breathing heavily]
There've been rumours about me
since I came.
- You must take no heed of them.
- Your father is here.
Count von Apafi.
[breathing heavily] I spoke to him today.
Shall we go get him?
[von Bach breathing shakily]
I never cared if you were rich or poor,
or how noble you were,
or where on earth you came from.
But I do care
when you're not who you claim!
[Leontine gasps]
My feelings were always real.
[melancholy music playing]
- Who on earth are you?
- [Leontine sniffles]
[both breathing heavily]
Did you have any involvement
in Amalia's accident?
Say something!
[both breathing heavily]
Take care of asking questions
that you don't want the answers to.
Is he still here?
Count von Apafi?
And does he know his daughter's not?
Not yet. [inhales]
I I won't betray you.
I'll tell him that Her Highness
wanted Leontine to go with her to Hungary.
I'm in love with you.
[melancholy music playing]
Pack all your things.
You will leave the palace before dawn
and never return.
[crying]
[Rauscher] You ridicule divine creation
- [Luzi whimpers]
- and, boy, you insult it.
Do you understand?
[breathing shakily]
Mm-hm.
[Rauscher] Stand up.
[Luzi whimpers, exhales]
[Rauscher] Embrace me.
The Lord is with you.
Kneel down again.
Pray with me.
- O Lord.
- [Luzi] O Lord.
[Rauscher] Deliver me
from the sin of lust.
Deliver me from the sin of lust.
[Rauscher] Deliver me
from the sin of sodomy.
[Luzi] Deliver me from the sin of sodomy.
Deliver me from all sins
that are too powerful for me.
Deliver me from all sins
that are too powerful for me.
- Let me be cleansed by your blood
- Let me be cleansed by your blood
so that I triumph through prayer.
so that I triumph through prayer.
- In the name of the Father
- In the name of the Father
- the Son
- the Son
- and the Holy Spirit.
- the Holy Spirit.
[both] Amen.
[Rauscher] Stand up.
Embrace me.
[sombre music playing]
[Elisabeth] We're nearly done.
[Fienchen whimpering]
When you're better again,
we'll have another tea party.
[Elisabeth] Yes.
- [Elisabeth breathing shakily]
- [Fienchen whimpers]
Please, my Fienchen,
the water is good for you.
- Please will you try?
- [Pauline sobbing]
[sniffles] Majesty, I'm sorry.
[Pauline breathing shakily]
It's It's just that I can't
Stop all this crying!
If you won't, get out!
[footsteps receding]
[Elisabeth exhales]
My star.
The stone.
Why are you still there, woman?
Go look for the stone.
Of course, Your Majesty.
[Elisabeth] We will find it.
I have it.
[laboured breathing]
You are going to get better.
[birds chirping]
[playing "Im Abendrot, D.799"]
[in German] O how beautiful ♪
Is your world ♪
Father ♪
When she shines with golden beams ♪
When your gaze ♪
Descends ♪
And paints the dust ♪
With a shimmering glow ♪
Could I complain? ♪
Could I be apprehensive? ♪
Could I lose faith in you ♪
And in myself? ♪
No, I will carry ♪
In my breast ♪
Your heaven ♪
For all time ♪
[sobbing]
And this heart ♪
Before it breaks down ♪
Shall drink in the glow ♪
And the light ♪
Drink in the glow ♪
And the light ♪
[bird cawing]
Fienchen, Mama's here again.
I just dozed off.
My darling.
Fienchen?
[whimpers]
Fienchen?
Wake up.
[Elisabeth breathing shakily]
Wake up.
[Elisabeth crying]
Franz? [sniffles]
[crying] Get the doctor.
Get the doctor!
- [Elisabeth crying]
- [footsteps rapidly approaching]
[Elisabeth sobbing]
[sombre music playing]
[Elisabeth screams]
[agonised wailing]
Majesties, uh
my deepest apologies.
[breathing shakily]
[Elisabeth] No.
[Elisabeth sobbing]
No. [sobbing]
[music continues]
[music fades]