The Empress (2022) s02e06 Episode Script

1
[gentle piano music playing]
[Rauscher] Do you like it?
It's very tight.
One day, you'll be Emperor
of our great Austria, Franz
20 YEARS EARLIER
and she is indeed
a very precious treasure.
Our enemies wish to steal her from us.
You have to protect her
in war and in peace.
Why me?
It is God's will.
The Lord's appointment.
[inhales]
If God's a good person,
why must he make us fight all the time?
[music continues]
It suits you wonderfully, my dear Franz.
As I wear a uniform,
then will I have to join the army
just like other soldiers?
[Sophie] No.
Your soldiers go to battle for Austria.
You wear a uniform like them
so they can look up to you.
You are now a commander of men.
You're very special, Franz.
Never forget that.
[music continues]
[theme music playing]
THE EMPRESS
[theme music fades]
[bells ringing in the distance]
Thank you, Theo.
[Theo] This is indeed
a great day, Your Majesty.
It is, truly.
- [bell rings]
- [door opens]
Your Majesty, the Archduchess.
Your Imperial Highness.
Franz, do you hear the bells?
We have waited so long for this day.
[Franz inhales]
The uniform.
He is a newborn.
He's not just getting his name
before God, Franz.
He will be getting his title.
Where is our Rudolf?
Our little angel?
Elisabeth has taken him with her.
Of course.
[Elisabeth] May I introduce you?
Your little brother.
[Rudolf exhales softly]
He's so very quiet.
He doesn't cry like you once did.
But strangers frighten him.
[Rudolf exhales]
You'd have taken good care of him.
[footsteps approaching]
[Franz] Here you are.
You are always with me, Fienchen,
whatever I do.
Your father and I
think of you all the time.
[melancholy music playing]
[Rauscher] And so we baptise you,
Rudolf Franz Karl Josef,
one day to be Emperor of Austria
- [Rudolf crying]
- and as of today,
Colonel of the 19th
Imperial Infantry Regiment.
[Rauscher speaking in Latin]
- Amen.
- [all] Amen.
[Rudolf continues crying]
Give him to me.
- [Rudolf stops crying]
- Hush there, Rudolf. It's done now.
You did it.
You were so good.
[Elisabeth chuckling]
What's wrong with him?
He's just been made head of the military.
I'd cry as well.
He will also be head of the empire.
- But not today.
- [Rudolf crying]
Congratulations have come
from across Europe, you see?
More than a thousand messages
have arrived.
These are all the letters
from your family back home,
and these are from the common folk.
[Charlotte sniffs]
- This cannot
- [Elisabeth] What is it?
Who's that one from?
Countess Apafi.
From Leontine? What's happened?
[Elisabeth] She merely congratulates me.
[paper rustling]
There's no address.
The postmark is illegible.
[exhales] There is hope.
- To the heir to the throne!
- [all] To the heir to the throne!
[Grünne] The future
of Habsburg is secured.
- [man] Congratulations, Your Majesty.
- I thank you.
Could we talk, Your Majesty?
I have to tell you
about a rather unfortunate
recent political development in Lombardy.
Today is not the day for politics,
Foreign Minister.
I'm sure it can wait. I don't want
to foist it on Your Highness now.
It's a bit late for that.
[indistinct chattering]
Well, um, we have heard
there are now thousands of recruits
from a number of Italian regions
who've joined the independence movement
in Lombardy, Your Highness.
It's an assault, just like an avalanche.
Do I not get one single day
to celebrate having an heir to the throne?
Where do these rebel fighters come from?
[Buol inhales]
They come from the regions
that are supporting Garibaldi.
Modena, Parma, Sicily.
Have you spoken with Her Highness
about our Sicily trouble?
I know that she will oppose your idea.
Her Highness will yield to our will
when political challenges are surfacing.
We urgently need the other Italian states
to help stop the rebellion,
and our closest ally
is the Kingdom of Sicily.
We have to strengthen that bond.
And how do we do that?
The King of Sicily is terminally ill.
His son Francesco
will soon be on the throne,
but he doesn't yet
have a Queen by his side.
And you have one going spare?
[inhales] To maintain their position
within the empire,
they'll need to secure a matrimonial union
with a ruling European family.
[sighs]
We could give that to them.
Mimi has just turned 16.
She was due to be wed next year anyway.
Oh please.
She needs a man, Franz,
who she can fall in love with.
Not everyone can be as happy as we are.
Marriages secure political alliances.
And the empire
depends on this one. Really.
[sombre music playing]
[sighs]
When would it happen?
We will need them to marry straight away.
[Elisabeth sighs]
[both in Italian] Down with the Habsburgs!
Freedom for Italy!
MILAN, AUSTRIAN PROVINCE
[crowd shouting]
Freedom for Italy!
Down with the Habsburgs!
[both] Freedom for Italy!
[soldier] Stay where you are!
[all] Freedom for Italy!
Down with the Habsburgs!
[in English] Highness,
you have to get away from here.
General Gyulai has imposed a curfew
on all citizens.
I remind you that I am still the Viceroy.
Highness, we must leave. Immediately.
[shouting]
[crowd in Italian] Freedom for Italy!
Down with the Habsburgs!
Freedom for Italy!
Down with the Habsburgs!
Freedom for Italy!
Down with the Habsburgs!
Freedom for Italy!
[von Bach] The situation
is coming to a head.
Garibaldi's rebels come from far and wide.
There are reports of riots
almost every night.
[Grünne] Our intelligence
has learnt that Piedmont
is gathering troops along our border.
Your Majesty,
we must send word to Piedmont
this amount to war.
That is exactly what Cavour wants.
No, Your Majesty, this is a grave error.
[Buol] For years, Cavour
has been inciting our people against us.
The other great powers are showing
sympathy for Italian unification.
Queen Victoria pleads with us to grant
Lombardy the independence they seek.
You have to take heed of that.
Then we ask Queen Victoria
to grant India their independence,
and she will have to take heed of that.
The other great powers want to see
our empire diminish, that is all.
Lombardy belongs to Austria.
So declaring war on Piedmont
is our only course.
Cavour wants a seat at the adults' table,
so let's see what comes of that.
[von Bach] That's exactly why I wonder
what on earth
the Piedmontese want a war for,
when Austria is so superior.
The rebels in our country are fighting
for something they believe in.
And if they join forces
with troops from Piedmont,
then we will end up firing at our own.
Send an ultimatum to Turin in Piedmont.
Cavour has three days to lay down arms
and cease giving
Lombardian rebels his aid.
If he does this
we can start to negotiate.
Otherwise
it's a declaration of war.
[Grünne clears throat]
You can go.
[door opens]
Elisabeth's sister is coming today
for the bridal preparations, Franz.
I will make sure she travels
on to Naples as early as possible.
The Sicilians really must stop
the influx of rebels.
Is she to marry
Prince Francesco of Sicily? [chuckles]
I've heard he's intellectually challenged,
and that his appearance
is somewhat repulsive.
Then you had best not wed him, had you?
Uh, Highness.
[footsteps receding]
[sombre music playing]
Have you ever been to Vienna?
[In Italian] No.
[in English] Do you know
my sister, Her Highness?
[In Italian] No.
[in English] It's my first time away
from Bayern.
Is it lovely in Sicily?
[In Italian] Yes.
[music continues]
[coachman trilling]
- Whoa!
- [horse whinnies]
[carriage door opens]
[horse whinnies, snorts]
Elisabeth.
Your Majesty. [chuckles]
It's so good to see you.
[Mimi exhales]
- I shall wed soon. Can you believe it?
- [Elisabeth] Mm-mm.
[woman in Italian] Your Majesty.
[in English] This is Donna Nina.
The King of Sicily sent her
to accompany me on the journey.
- And she is my waiting-woman.
- You are welcome.
So, what are we doing? What happens now?
Well, now we have to try on
your bridal garments, Mimi.
Is that so?
[in Italian] Yes.
[Mimi chuckles]
[in English] Is she always so cheery?
[in Italian] Yes.
[both laughing]
[in English] In Naples,
there are lemon trees and lizards,
and people only eat macaroni.
- [scissors snipping]
- Did you know that?
[Elisabeth] Mm-mm. [chuckles]
You've been much missed.
I will wear this when the day comes.
Will it please Prince Francesco?
Of course it will.
I've never seen him.
I know not what he looks like,
what his interests are.
Nothing.
I wish to have some time with my sister.
[seamstress] Very well, Your Majesty.
- [Elisabeth] Let us sit.
- [seamstress] Come along, ladies.
[door opens]
[Elisabeth sighs]
[door closes]
I know this is hard for you, Mimi.
Are you afraid?
That's not it.
I still have not
[Mimi sighs]
What?
- You can tell me, Mimi.
- [Mimi inhales]
bled yet.
Mother says you're not supposed
to marry if you haven't bled.
In the autumn,
I told her I'd started bleeding.
But I was lying about it.
I have not yet bled.
Allow me to take care of this.
- [bell rings]
- [door opens]
Her Majesty the Empress.
[Margarete] Your Majesty.
Your Majesty, what can I do for you?
My sister is not yet ready to be wed.
I was afraid that
you were going to say that.
She says her monthlies have not yet begun.
That is unfortunate, but not a hindrance.
Since when is it not?
The Sicilians help us,
and they get a bride from Habsburg.
We have that understanding.
All other concerns
are problems for the future.
My sister knows nothing at all
about her bridegroom.
Not even what he looks like.
I knew how my Karl looked.
It didn't make it any better for me.
[Margarete stops buffing nails]
I can withdraw my consent at any time.
Tell me the truth about him.
Francesco was a very sickly child.
He didn't speak a word
until he was six years old.
They say he is withdrawn and bigoted.
Francesco's father is a brutal tyrant.
Everyone fears him
and hates the whole family.
Will that do?
[spoon clinking]
Men wage war,
but we secure the empire
on our wedding day.
That is our place in history.
It was ever thus, my dear.
Even if it comes to war, Elisabeth,
which I'm trying to prevent,
the distance between Piedmont and Sicily
is almost a thousand miles.
Your subjects in Sicily
all hate the royal family.
What do you think will happen to them all,
and my sister, Franz,
if they start a revolution there?
She must be prepared
to do what we demand of her
for the sake of the empire.
Would you do that too?
You can't do this to me.
- [birds chirping]
- [owl hooting]
[door opens]
[footsteps approaching]
Is there anything new?
My brother gave the rebels and Piedmont
three days to lay down their arms
or else there's war.
What choice had he? As Piedmont
would do nothing but provoke him.
There was another way.
He could sit down
with Cavour and Lombardy.
He won't do that.
[exhales sharply]
He's making
the biggest mistake of his reign.
- [breathing shakily] I cannot allow it.
- And why not?
He's my brother.
He does not care at all what you think.
He's treating you like a boy again.
[inhales]
Was it ever really about Lombardy?
Or the empire?
Or is it really about your brother?
[tense music playing]
Why did he even give me this position?
Just so that he could take it away again.
- I must speak with him.
- Resolve this, Maximilian.
Do you hear me?
Or there's no me and you.
I telegraphed ahead.
We must speak to the Emperor at once.
- [valet] Very well, Lieutenant Colonel.
- [horse whinnies]
[indistinct chattering]
I trust that you slept well
last night, Your Majesty.
I won't until we hear from Piedmont.
[valet] Lieutenant Colonel Rosmini,
Your Majesty. He says it's urgent.
- I'll deal with this, Majesty.
- I will talk to him.
[footsteps approaching]
Your Majesty. Thank you for your time.
We confiscated this crate
after the latest riots
on our border with Piedmont.
[Grünne] Muskets. The Piedmontese
have been smuggling them across the border
to Austrian rebels for months.
This is not a surprise.
[unsettling music playing]
[Sophie gasps]
It's the French eagle.
Cavour and Napoleon
must be collaborating somehow.
[Grünne] Therefore,
if we declare war on Piedmont
- [Buol] We'll be at war with France.
- [musket thuds]
Why didn't we know this?
I'm just as surprised as you,
Your Majesty.
It is not your duty to be surprised,
but to be prepared for it!
Your Majesty, I never thought that
Napoleon would give his support
to Cavour in this way.
I cannot see his advantage.
He's using
the Lombards' rebellion to destroy us.
Highness, Napoleon's army
is not unbeatable.
I couldn't care less!
I want to decide who I go to war with,
and not be surprised on the battlefield!
[music continues]
You've taken that away from me.
Now, just get out.
[birds chirping]
[Elisabeth] Is my sister here?
- [maid] Yes, Your Majesty.
- [Elisabeth] Thank you.
Elisabeth!
Your Majesty.
- Good morning.
- [Mimi] Look what Aunt Sophie gave me.
[Sophie] It belonged to Maria Theresia.
And you look like
a real Queen with it on, Mimi.
Maria Theresia was steadfast and strong.
She would never give up.
An example to us all.
I'd like to be alone
with my sister, please.
Your sister and I
have had so much to talk about.
How life in Sicily could be difficult.
But Mimi is a very brave
young woman indeed.
And she will honour our family greatly.
I know she will.
You obviously don't agree I should go.
I sense Elisabeth is jealous.
You could soon be more adored
throughout Europe
than she could hope to be.
That's nonsense, Mimi. It's a joke.
[Sophie] Hm.
[cup clinking]
I have duties to attend to.
Eat your meat, Mimi.
It will stimulate the blood.
[Elisabeth inhales]
Why did you tell her?
- Ignore Aunt Sophie.
- I trusted you, Elisabeth.
You cannot go through with this farce.
- And why not?
- It's too dangerous.
And, Mimi, a revolution could come.
And Francesco?
Are you jealous, then,
like Aunt Sophie said?
No, Mimi.
I just want you to be aware of the facts.
You have no right to tell me
what I can't do or what I can.
[carriage rattling]
[coachman] Halt.
- [coachman trilling]
- [horse snorts]
[valet] Your Imperial Highness.
I'll go straight to him.
Will you be all right?
I didn't know it was so impressive.
Is that envy?
Envy's an emotion
for those who can't get what they want.
I will see you soon.
[horse whinnies]
His Imperial Highness
the Archduke Maximilian, Your Majesty.
[Maximilian] Your Majesty.
I telegraphed that I was coming.
[footsteps approaching]
Withdraw the ultimatum.
We must negotiate with the Piedmontese.
It isn't just the Piedmontese
against me now.
- What do you mean?
- Napoleon.
He supports the rebels.
He has an agreement with Cavour.
It is clear that this
is what he wanted from the start.
To trick us
into declaring war on them all.
- Then we must give Lombardy freedom.
- [Franz sighs]
- And there will be no reason for war.
- And then?
You think that would be the end of it?
Do you not see what's happening here?
Napoleon will come one step closer,
then another,
until he's standing here in Vienna.
I will not be the little child
that Emperor Napoleon has running scared.
Do you not see it, Franz?
You yourself are partly to blame.
If you had talked to the Lombards,
this would not have happened.
Is that all you have been doing
for the last year and a half?
And what's bled our coffers dry?
Is it? You talked?
I am very proud of everything Marie
and I did in Lombardy this last year.
However, it didn't work.
[Maximilian breathing heavily]
[Maximilian] You cannot
blame me for this disaster.
Just when I had the trust of the Lombards,
along came Gyulai,
and he ruined it all
because he was following your damn orders!
You gave me an impossible task.
You wanted to enjoy my failure.
And what makes you think so?
You just can't forgive me, can you?
I wouldn't risk the empire for that, ever.
- [footsteps approaching]
- [Buol] Your Majesty.
There's word from Turin.
[sombre music playing]
[Napoleon in French] Read it.
Cavour rejected the ultimatum.
[music continues]
[inhales]
Is there news from Vienna yet?
From him?
[Jean] Not yet.
[music continues]
[in English] We are now
at war with Piedmont,
and with France as well.
Order mobilisation.
Absolutely the right decision,
Your Majesty.
Ministers Grünne and Buol,
the time for you
to leave my service has come.
I expect your resignations
by this evening.
Your Majesty,
we all misjudged the situation.
- But you can't do this to us
- Napoleon deceived us all.
But since the beginning
of this conflict in Lombardy-Venetia,
you have yet to present
one good idea to resolve it.
Send in the military for strength,
that was all.
That's not enough.
We received information, Count Buol,
that you've lucrative investments
in artillery and ammunition factories.
That's why you kept up production.
You pursued your own interests
and not Habsburg's.
You can go.
[door closes]
And I want a letter of resignation
from you as well.
From me as well?
You are the Viceroy of Lombardy.
The world must see
that our family holds itself responsible.
[sombre music playing]
You just need a scapegoat.
I just need my brother.
[footsteps]
[in French] Emperor Franz Josef
has declared war.
It happened exactly as you predicted.
That's good.
Isn't it, Your Majesty?
[music continues]
I just felt sorry for him for a moment.
[Jean] Franz Josef?
Why?
It's the beginning of the end for Austria.
He doesn't know it yet.
[music continues]
[Elisabeth] Franz?
Franz.
[Franz] I had no other choice.
[Elisabeth] I know.
[inhales, exhales]
The whole of Europe will think that
the Emperor's little brother
has failed utterly as the Viceroy.
We are at war.
- I have to stand by my family.
- But this war rests on his shoulders.
His only.
He needs me.
That's what he said.
And what about us?
That family is no good for you.
Can you not see?
Yet they're my only family.
I didn't mean that, Marie.
Habsburg.
That family of yours will be
on the wrong side of history, Maximilian.
Do not be so dumb as to join them.
[footsteps receding]
[horses whinnying]
Mimi, I'm sorry.
I shouldn't have unsettled you.
No.
You were right.
I do not want this.
[Donna Nina clears throat]
May I have a moment with my sister?
You must wed him.
But you
- You said that you didn't even want this.
- I know.
But it's not about what I want, my love.
What if the family
is as horrid as you once said,
and they really are disgusting?
[breathing shakily]
And if they are, then
Then I really
don't want to be a Queen there.
Mimi, Queens don't just wear nice clothes
and host parties all the time.
Queens give the people
something to hold on to
when all around them is darkness.
[gentle music playing]
[Mimi sighs]
And that's why you must go.
So that there's someone there
that the people can believe in.
If you really cannot stand it,
I will come and bring you back.
You represent the empire.
[horses snorting]
You will think well of me?
Yes, my darling.
[Mimi] Farewell, Your Majesties.
[footsteps receding]
[Sophie] I never would have believed it.
That I would ever send her there?
[carriage door closes]
That you would be a true Habsburg one day.
- [coachman] Hyah!
- [whip cracks]
[horse whinnies]
[ominous music playing]
3 WEEKS LATER
GARRISON HOSPITAL I, VIENNA
[patients coughing]
[sombre music playing]
[muttering incoherently]
In Magenta, there were many thousand dead,
8,000 wounded, and 4,500 missing.
[music continues]
General Gyulai
has ordered them to retreat.
Napoleon was ahead of us at every turn.
[patient breathing shakily]
[music continues]
[breathing shakily]
[breathing slows down]
[von Hess] Your Majesty,
what do you command us to do?
[exhaling softly]
How could this happen?
Tens of thousands lost.
What is General Gyulai doing there?
[Margarete crying]
[Margarete whimpers]
What is this crying for?
[Margarete] My brother is in the army.
He was there, in Magenta.
[Margarete gulps]
I'll not tolerate weakness, Margarete.
This is no way to behave
when our men are fighting for the empire.
I know it's not, Imperial Highness.
[inhales sharply]
[sobbing]
[sighs]
[sighs]
[bell rings]
LEONTINE
COUNTESS APAFI
[door opens]
[door closes]
Majesty, can I be of service?
I often wonder what Leontine would do.
What she would say to me
in such a situation.
[inhales, exhales]
Highness, I know that
you and Countess Apafi became very close,
and that I cannot replace her.
But if there is something that I could do
[gulps]
Can you tell me if there's something
about Leontine that I am not aware of?
[inhales]
There's one thing that you do not know.
[inhales]
When Leontine went
she was with child.
All the other stories about Leontine,
they were just nonsense.
[inhales]
[door opens]
[valet] Your Majesty.
Her Majesty the Empress.
What can I do for you, Your Majesty?
Is it about our military hospital?
Leontine deceived us both, Minister.
I know as little about
who she really was as you do,
or where she came from.
The Countess Apafi,
or whatever her real name was,
was nothing but a swindler.
And she is not worth you wasting any more
of your precious time, Imperial Highness.
She was with child.
I tried all I could to find her
but I don't think
I'm the one who should be searching.
[inhales]
[door opens]
[footsteps approaching]
[Rauscher sighs softly]
The Lord's on our side, standing by.
Victory will be ours.
He's our guide in this conflict.
Can you recall the first day
that I put on my uniform?
I asked you to tell me
that if God were good,
then why does he allow
wars to happen, Cardinal.
I do remember it.
I do not recall you answering.
[gentle music playing]
I don't believe that you can.
It was me who baptised you, Franz.
It was me who crowned you and married you.
I know you, Franz Josef.
You may be an Emperor by the grace of God,
but you feel, suffer, and doubt
like everyone else.
It's your weakness
but also your strength.
[inhales deeply]
You are right.
Excuse me, Your Eminence.
[von Bach] Your Majesty,
do you have a moment?
[Franz] What is this?
Will you explain?
You cannot leave. We're losing
a thousand soldiers every single day.
This war is not your fault, von Bach.
It was mine as much as it was all of ours.
[inhales]
Uh
Over this past year,
my judgement has been erratic.
You're the only Minister I can trust.
Whatever you blame yourself for,
I forgive you.
That is generous, Your Majesty.
[inhales] But I must implore you
to dismiss me from duty.
And what if I want to keep you?
I will still leave your service, Majesty.
I've done someone wrong, and it haunts me.
I have to atone for my actions
before it's too late.
Majesty, I've been so proud
being in your service.
Alexander?
It can never be too late for one to atone.
[footsteps receding]
- [whimpers]
- [door opens]
[door closes]
[Elisabeth] Franz?
[Franz] Leave us alone, please.
[Rudolf whimpering]
I've made a decision.
I'm going to the front.
Franz.
How come?
I have to do this.
And what difference will that make?
Do you think that
you can do better than your generals?
[sombre music playing]
Not remotely.
But I'm ashamed, Elisabeth.
[inhales] I've yet to become a man.
I've been wearing
this uniform for 20 years.
And what for?
Please, Franz, don't go.
You've seen what this war
is doing to our soldiers.
It is my duty to accompany them.
[music continues]
Your support is essential.
[breathing shakily]
I have something I need to say.
General Gyulai has been demoted.
At the end of the week,
I will join our troops
at the front in Lombardy,
and I will assume command of them.
My decision is final.
[Sophie] Why?
More than 6,000 soldiers dead.
Just as many wounded.
Morale has never been worse.
[cutlery clinking]
With war, that happens.
It is a war that I couldn't avoid.
The least I can do
for our soldiers is join them.
No, Franz.
You do not belong on the battlefield.
It is a foolish notion,
and your duty's to stay here.
Napoleon's there though.
Napoleon is a fighter.
A general who never stops or gives in!
You're not the same kind of man as he is.
You are just
Too weak?
I knew that
the whole of Europe thinks that,
but not my own mother.
This is your idea.
No.
It sounds like it.
It's your influence, isn't it?
I support him.
[breathing shakily]
Will you excuse me?
Utter madness.
[Franz] You're right, Mother.
There's a big difference
between Napoleon and me.
He declared himself Emperor.
A choice I never had.
Franz
you said that you needed me.
[exhales]
[inhales] If anything
should happen to you
I'll be here.
I have my son, Maximilian.
He's not yet a year old.
I could stand in for him.
Between our mother and my wife,
Austria is in good hands.
[sombre music playing]
What do you want from me, Franz?
- Tell me.
- Will you stop this?
- Our empire needs us to fight
- This empire is not mine at all.
That's right.
Not yours, and not mine either.
And as Emperor,
my role is to keep it safe,
and that is all.
[music continues]
[exhales]
[Donna Nina in Italian]
Hail Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of our death.
[music continues]
[music continues]
[exhales]
[music continues]
[kisses]
[bells tolling]
[music continues]
[footsteps receding]
[sighs]
[Franz] Thank you, Theo.
- [commander] Attention!
- [horse whinnies]
[horse snorts]
[horse whinnies]
[inhales]
Goodbye, Mother.
[footsteps crunching on gravel]
[horse whinnies]
Which hand?
Right.
Fienchen asked where the stars
disappear to in the day.
[melancholy music playing]
We will meet again.
[footsteps crunching on gravel]
[horse whinnies]
[horse snorts]
[commander] Stand fast!
[music continues]
[music builds]
[Sophie crying]
[footsteps approaching]
[Sophie sobbing]
[breathing shakily]
That's enough.
[Sophie] Leave me.
Just leave!
[Sophie breathing heavily]
Why must it be you
who remains here with me?
[inhales sharply]
[inhales sharply]
[Sophie breathing shakily]
What do I do if he doesn't come back?
I've sacrificed so much.
I know you have.
[sombre music playing]
What if these dark days are never over?
What if everything I've done
wasn't worth anything?
All that we can do is continue to hope
and keep going.
For now.
[music continues]
[dramatic music playing]
[music fades]