1 00:00:13,722 --> 00:00:16,683 - There's something strange happening 2 00:00:16,725 --> 00:00:17,809 with me and Rose. 3 00:00:17,851 --> 00:00:20,061 - Remember! - [gasps] 4 00:00:20,103 --> 00:00:22,647 - Don't freak out. - Okay. 5 00:00:22,689 --> 00:00:24,816 [dramatic music] 6 00:00:24,858 --> 00:00:26,401 That's, um, new. 7 00:00:26,443 --> 00:00:29,779 - I'm actually a Spirit User just like St. Vladimir. 8 00:00:29,821 --> 00:00:31,531 - When I become queen, 9 00:00:31,573 --> 00:00:33,742 we'll know if someone is an incompetent fighter. 10 00:00:33,783 --> 00:00:34,784 - That's a lie. 11 00:00:34,826 --> 00:00:36,286 He was one of the best. 12 00:00:36,327 --> 00:00:38,413 - Mikhail Tanner betrayed us 13 00:00:38,455 --> 00:00:41,041 by allowing himself to be turned Strigoi. 14 00:00:41,082 --> 00:00:43,376 - [growling] 15 00:00:43,418 --> 00:00:45,170 - Guardians follow orders, Rose, 16 00:00:45,211 --> 00:00:46,338 or the system crumbles. 17 00:00:46,379 --> 00:00:48,048 - The system is broken. 18 00:00:48,089 --> 00:00:49,716 - I have to follow orders. 19 00:00:49,758 --> 00:00:51,593 - I don't. 20 00:00:51,634 --> 00:00:53,011 - Lady Vasilissa, 21 00:00:53,053 --> 00:00:54,763 the last Dragomir. 22 00:00:54,804 --> 00:00:56,222 I'm Adrian, by the way. 23 00:00:56,264 --> 00:00:57,807 - So what do you know about Saint Vladimir? 24 00:00:57,849 --> 00:00:59,976 - I can help you, but only if you come back. 25 00:01:00,018 --> 00:01:01,728 Wake up. 26 00:01:01,770 --> 00:01:03,063 - You Dream Walked. 27 00:01:03,104 --> 00:01:04,064 You're a Spirit User. 28 00:01:04,105 --> 00:01:05,315 - You up for an adventure? 29 00:01:05,357 --> 00:01:07,317 Get some of those answers that you want. 30 00:01:07,359 --> 00:01:09,069 - I know you're hurting. 31 00:01:09,110 --> 00:01:10,820 And I'd do anything to make it stop. 32 00:01:10,862 --> 00:01:16,785 * * 33 00:01:21,081 --> 00:01:24,751 - Once there were 13 saints. 34 00:01:24,793 --> 00:01:29,172 Today, their children's children's children 35 00:01:29,214 --> 00:01:31,257 are called Royals. 36 00:01:31,299 --> 00:01:33,385 But they were saints back then, 37 00:01:33,426 --> 00:01:35,428 the best of the Moroi. 38 00:01:35,470 --> 00:01:38,306 [foreboding music] 39 00:01:38,348 --> 00:01:42,310 And the best of the saints was Vladimir, 40 00:01:42,352 --> 00:01:47,190 the Messenger, the Founder. 41 00:01:47,232 --> 00:01:49,109 It was Vladimir who had the vision: 42 00:01:49,150 --> 00:01:51,111 a world for the Moroi, 43 00:01:51,152 --> 00:01:54,614 secret and isolated from the barbarous humans 44 00:01:54,656 --> 00:01:58,159 with their wars of religion, wars of conquest, 45 00:01:58,201 --> 00:02:00,036 wars of intolerance. 46 00:02:00,078 --> 00:02:04,082 And that vision was embodied in the human treaty, 47 00:02:04,124 --> 00:02:08,795 which gave all Moroi a home and gave all Dhampirs 48 00:02:08,837 --> 00:02:14,009 a purpose in the great, holy Elemental Order. 49 00:02:14,050 --> 00:02:15,802 You know this story. 50 00:02:15,844 --> 00:02:18,096 It's the one they tell children in the academies 51 00:02:18,138 --> 00:02:20,098 and in Feast Day homilies. 52 00:02:20,140 --> 00:02:23,309 It's the first great lie. 53 00:02:23,351 --> 00:02:27,188 The happy lie of St. Vladimir. 54 00:02:30,066 --> 00:02:31,317 - [speaking Portuguese] 55 00:02:31,359 --> 00:02:34,362 - [hissing] 56 00:02:34,404 --> 00:02:37,907 - But the truth will come out because the truth always does. 57 00:02:42,287 --> 00:02:44,080 - Shh. 58 00:02:44,122 --> 00:02:47,625 [speaking Portuguese] 59 00:02:48,585 --> 00:02:51,755 - And woe unto us if we let the lies make us forget 60 00:02:51,796 --> 00:02:55,759 the real dangers out there because they are out there, 61 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,845 and they are very, very real. 62 00:02:58,887 --> 00:03:01,848 [dramatic music] 63 00:03:01,890 --> 00:03:08,813 * * 64 00:03:19,032 --> 00:03:21,451 - It is time, Your Majesty. 65 00:03:21,493 --> 00:03:23,453 The hope we had for unanimity from the Council 66 00:03:23,495 --> 00:03:25,955 has gone by the wayside. 67 00:03:25,997 --> 00:03:29,042 Yes, because of my daughter's outburst. 68 00:03:29,084 --> 00:03:30,877 But we need to act. 69 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,004 The only way we'll get a clear and decisive mandate 70 00:03:33,046 --> 00:03:34,881 is if you lead us there. 71 00:03:36,633 --> 00:03:38,510 You need to declare for me. 72 00:03:40,595 --> 00:03:44,641 - They are so beautiful after a feed. 73 00:03:44,683 --> 00:03:47,977 I know they say it is the outrush of chemicals 74 00:03:48,019 --> 00:03:50,980 in their brain that our bite releases, 75 00:03:51,022 --> 00:03:54,067 but there is a part of me that always believed 76 00:03:54,109 --> 00:03:57,862 we take their cares along with their blood. 77 00:04:03,785 --> 00:04:06,913 I hate the idea of an Elementalist on the throne, 78 00:04:06,955 --> 00:04:09,749 especially Tatiana Vogel. 79 00:04:09,791 --> 00:04:14,754 Happily, by my count, even after last night's fiasco, 80 00:04:14,796 --> 00:04:16,923 if you bring the three more persuadable 81 00:04:16,965 --> 00:04:18,758 heads of family home-- 82 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,429 Abby Batista, Peter Tarus, and Evette Ozera, 83 00:04:22,470 --> 00:04:24,597 you should have a majority. 84 00:04:24,639 --> 00:04:28,476 Six to five-- that is enough for a win. 85 00:04:28,518 --> 00:04:31,021 - Yes, but-- - No, Victor. 86 00:04:31,062 --> 00:04:34,190 I cannot mandate this. 87 00:04:34,232 --> 00:04:37,235 There was a moment in the wake of Andre's death, yes, 88 00:04:37,277 --> 00:04:41,906 but now, all our hatreds and troubles are out in the open. 89 00:04:41,948 --> 00:04:46,453 The only way to hold the throne is to win the crown, 90 00:04:46,494 --> 00:04:50,790 legitimately and without my help. 91 00:04:50,832 --> 00:04:53,418 You have until tonight's closing caucus 92 00:04:53,460 --> 00:04:56,463 to get your votes. 93 00:04:56,504 --> 00:04:58,256 - * No escape * 94 00:04:58,298 --> 00:05:00,300 [upbeat music] 95 00:05:00,342 --> 00:05:03,803 * Get away * 96 00:05:03,845 --> 00:05:05,805 * My game to play * 97 00:05:05,847 --> 00:05:08,308 * * 98 00:05:08,350 --> 00:05:11,686 * I got you where I want you * 99 00:05:11,728 --> 00:05:13,229 * No escape * 100 00:05:13,271 --> 00:05:17,484 - [panting] 101 00:05:17,525 --> 00:05:22,530 * * 102 00:05:22,572 --> 00:05:25,867 - * I got you where I want you * 103 00:05:25,909 --> 00:05:28,411 - Gotcha. 104 00:05:28,453 --> 00:05:30,038 - Cheater. 105 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:32,749 There's no way that you beat me here 106 00:05:32,791 --> 00:05:37,087 and set up an ambush unless you scouted ahead of time. 107 00:05:37,128 --> 00:05:40,173 - Recon is just basic perimeter control. 108 00:05:40,215 --> 00:05:42,842 - You said we were going blind. 109 00:05:42,884 --> 00:05:46,304 - Suddenly, Rose Hathaway is a believer in rules. 110 00:05:46,346 --> 00:05:49,557 - Or maybe you've been scouting out 111 00:05:49,599 --> 00:05:51,559 secret places to get me into. 112 00:05:51,601 --> 00:05:54,562 [soft music] 113 00:05:54,604 --> 00:06:01,736 * * 114 00:06:15,375 --> 00:06:16,710 - Rose? 115 00:06:21,131 --> 00:06:23,383 - Uh-huh. 116 00:06:23,425 --> 00:06:25,427 - I need a favor. 117 00:06:28,096 --> 00:06:30,724 - The risk of even one more person knowing, Lissa. 118 00:06:30,765 --> 00:06:32,684 - Yeah, after he just walks into my dream 119 00:06:32,726 --> 00:06:34,060 and makes himself at home? 120 00:06:34,102 --> 00:06:37,647 Rose, Adrian Ivashkov and I are in the same boat. 121 00:06:37,689 --> 00:06:41,276 I know of three confirmed Spirit Users. 122 00:06:41,317 --> 00:06:42,902 Vlad went Dark. 123 00:06:42,944 --> 00:06:45,655 I might be losing my mind, and the last one-- 124 00:06:45,697 --> 00:06:47,282 - Is a stone drunk, from what I hear. 125 00:06:47,323 --> 00:06:48,658 - A self-medicating drunk 126 00:06:48,700 --> 00:06:50,910 who drinks to keep the Darkness at bay. 127 00:06:50,952 --> 00:06:52,871 But he might have answers, and right now, 128 00:06:52,912 --> 00:06:54,664 I need answers more than I need lectures 129 00:06:54,706 --> 00:06:57,625 about how scary it is. 130 00:06:57,667 --> 00:07:00,795 Because I might end up the same as Adrian 131 00:07:00,837 --> 00:07:04,924 if I don't find another way of keeping the Darkness in check. 132 00:07:04,966 --> 00:07:07,260 And this might be our only shot 133 00:07:07,302 --> 00:07:09,804 to figure out this link you and I have. 134 00:07:11,806 --> 00:07:14,184 - You're going to need Dimitri as well, you know. 135 00:07:17,020 --> 00:07:19,773 And what am I signing up for here? 136 00:07:19,814 --> 00:07:21,524 - That's the part that doesn't suck. 137 00:07:21,566 --> 00:07:23,109 - A trip into the human world. 138 00:07:23,151 --> 00:07:24,778 Do you realize the kind of pre-planning 139 00:07:24,819 --> 00:07:26,112 that normally takes? 140 00:07:26,154 --> 00:07:28,740 It's a playground for Strigoi out there. 141 00:07:28,782 --> 00:07:31,785 Route planning, recon, coordination of guards. 142 00:07:31,826 --> 00:07:33,286 We don't have the necessary clearances. 143 00:07:33,328 --> 00:07:35,455 They won't so much as open the provincial gates for us. 144 00:07:35,497 --> 00:07:36,998 - They will for me. 145 00:07:39,209 --> 00:07:41,378 - This is foolhardy. 146 00:07:41,419 --> 00:07:43,963 Go another day, when I know I can keep you safe. 147 00:07:44,005 --> 00:07:47,842 - Wow, you got a real earnest one here. 148 00:07:47,884 --> 00:07:49,844 Are you sure he's cool for what we got to do? 149 00:07:49,886 --> 00:07:52,722 - I trust him implicitly. 150 00:07:52,764 --> 00:07:54,307 This is what I'm doing. 151 00:07:54,349 --> 00:07:56,643 And your job is to make sure I don't die doing it, 152 00:07:56,685 --> 00:07:58,978 so are you in, or are you leaving me 153 00:07:59,020 --> 00:08:01,189 to the human world with only Adrian to protect me? 154 00:08:03,441 --> 00:08:05,193 - I am useless in a fight. 155 00:08:07,529 --> 00:08:08,905 Speaking of which, listen. 156 00:08:08,947 --> 00:08:12,575 You told me that I would have my own Guardian. 157 00:08:12,617 --> 00:08:14,828 - I know, I'm late. 158 00:08:14,869 --> 00:08:17,831 - Well, hello, little Dhampir. 159 00:08:17,872 --> 00:08:21,001 [suggestive music] 160 00:08:21,042 --> 00:08:22,335 * * 161 00:08:22,377 --> 00:08:23,878 - This is the guy? 162 00:08:27,298 --> 00:08:29,592 [laughs] I'm driving. 163 00:08:33,388 --> 00:08:35,056 - I am in your hands. 164 00:08:35,098 --> 00:08:42,022 * * 165 00:08:43,606 --> 00:08:45,734 - Have you ever even driven a car before? 166 00:08:54,576 --> 00:08:56,327 - Guess I'm in your hands. 167 00:09:06,755 --> 00:09:08,548 - * Make a night to regret * 168 00:09:08,590 --> 00:09:11,217 * Makes 'em go and sweat to the moon, yeah * 169 00:09:11,259 --> 00:09:14,054 * Come alive for the sunset * 170 00:09:14,095 --> 00:09:16,473 * Hearts racing in the darkness * 171 00:09:16,514 --> 00:09:17,849 * We go, we go * 172 00:09:17,891 --> 00:09:19,934 - And they just comply? 173 00:09:19,976 --> 00:09:21,644 Whatever you tell them? 174 00:09:21,686 --> 00:09:23,897 - Most of the time. 175 00:09:23,938 --> 00:09:26,274 - When you tried that with me, I could feel you 176 00:09:26,316 --> 00:09:29,027 knocking at the door of my consciousness. 177 00:09:29,069 --> 00:09:30,403 I'm envious. 178 00:09:30,445 --> 00:09:33,490 - Says the man who can just stroll into my dreams. 179 00:09:33,531 --> 00:09:35,075 - About that. [clears throat] 180 00:09:35,116 --> 00:09:38,078 Now, Rose, just so you know, when I start making 181 00:09:38,119 --> 00:09:40,288 inappropriate cameos in your dreams, 182 00:09:40,330 --> 00:09:43,625 just know that's not Spirit Magic, all right? 183 00:09:43,667 --> 00:09:45,752 That's just your intense attraction to me. 184 00:09:47,754 --> 00:09:49,881 Are you a whiskey kind of lady? 185 00:09:49,923 --> 00:09:51,758 - Where did you find this guy? 186 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:52,926 - So have you ever healed anyone? 187 00:09:52,967 --> 00:09:57,097 - He--heal? You can heal? How? 188 00:09:57,138 --> 00:09:58,807 - Well, it's just like the other power. 189 00:09:58,848 --> 00:10:02,435 It's like this part of me drops inward and pools, 190 00:10:02,477 --> 00:10:05,063 and I get this warm rush, and I can do stuff. 191 00:10:05,105 --> 00:10:07,107 - So maybe I should explain. 192 00:10:07,148 --> 00:10:08,525 - Have you seen the auras yet? 193 00:10:08,566 --> 00:10:12,320 - Auras? No. Not yet. - What the hell is all this? 194 00:10:12,362 --> 00:10:14,197 And where are we going? 195 00:10:15,824 --> 00:10:17,075 - Time to clue us in. 196 00:10:19,035 --> 00:10:21,746 [inquisitive music] 197 00:10:21,788 --> 00:10:24,124 - [clears throat] 198 00:10:24,165 --> 00:10:27,127 There is a scholar that we think 199 00:10:27,168 --> 00:10:29,295 has some answers that Lissa and I very much need. 200 00:10:29,337 --> 00:10:32,298 - A Moroi scholar in the human world? 201 00:10:32,340 --> 00:10:34,217 - She's written some things about St. Vladimir 202 00:10:34,259 --> 00:10:38,388 that haven't made her very popular with the church. 203 00:10:38,430 --> 00:10:39,931 Or the Queen. 204 00:10:39,973 --> 00:10:41,599 Or anyone, really. 205 00:10:41,641 --> 00:10:44,227 - A heretic? 206 00:10:44,269 --> 00:10:46,438 - An iconoclast 207 00:10:46,479 --> 00:10:48,732 who's been accused of heresy. 208 00:10:48,773 --> 00:10:54,571 * * 209 00:10:54,612 --> 00:10:57,490 - Lissa. 210 00:10:57,532 --> 00:11:00,827 [dramatic percussive music] 211 00:11:00,869 --> 00:11:08,001 * * 212 00:11:16,384 --> 00:11:19,721 - * Let's make a night to regret * 213 00:11:19,763 --> 00:11:21,056 - We need different clothes. 214 00:11:25,977 --> 00:11:29,105 [dramatic classical music] 215 00:11:29,147 --> 00:11:36,988 * * 216 00:11:37,030 --> 00:11:39,282 - I understand the fear that St. Jude touched off, 217 00:11:39,324 --> 00:11:41,826 I feel it, but how much of our souls are we willing 218 00:11:41,868 --> 00:11:45,288 to trade away just to feel a little less afraid? 219 00:11:45,330 --> 00:11:47,707 Lady Ozera, these Dhampirs that the others 220 00:11:47,749 --> 00:11:50,460 are talking about elevating aren't just bodies. 221 00:11:50,502 --> 00:11:51,961 They're children, 222 00:11:52,003 --> 00:11:53,421 just like your nephew Christian. 223 00:11:53,463 --> 00:11:58,593 * * 224 00:11:58,635 --> 00:12:01,805 Abby, it's down to you. 225 00:12:01,846 --> 00:12:03,556 Your family has the honor 226 00:12:03,598 --> 00:12:04,933 of hosting the Royal Caucus tonight. 227 00:12:04,974 --> 00:12:06,976 Do me the honor of giving me your vote. 228 00:12:07,018 --> 00:12:10,397 - Victor, spare me the pitch. 229 00:12:10,438 --> 00:12:13,775 I'll do anything to stop that xenophobic monster Tatiana 230 00:12:13,817 --> 00:12:16,069 from taking the throne. 231 00:12:16,111 --> 00:12:23,034 * * 232 00:12:30,834 --> 00:12:34,462 - [breathing heavily] 233 00:12:34,504 --> 00:12:37,132 - Sir, are you all right? 234 00:12:42,721 --> 00:12:46,182 - This scholar of yours, she lives around here? 235 00:12:46,224 --> 00:12:47,183 - Approximately. 236 00:12:47,225 --> 00:12:50,562 - You do know where we're going? 237 00:12:50,603 --> 00:12:54,274 - I know where we're going next. 238 00:12:54,315 --> 00:12:57,360 [laughs] What? 239 00:12:57,402 --> 00:12:58,903 I don't know where she lives, 240 00:12:58,945 --> 00:13:02,365 but I know someone who might. - Might? 241 00:13:02,407 --> 00:13:06,703 - She's not exactly living out here on an official permit. 242 00:13:06,745 --> 00:13:09,289 You know, a heretic and all. 243 00:13:09,330 --> 00:13:10,415 She keeps a low profile. 244 00:13:10,457 --> 00:13:12,584 - For fuck's sake. 245 00:13:14,586 --> 00:13:15,920 - Do we look human now? 246 00:13:17,297 --> 00:13:19,591 [both chuckle] 247 00:13:22,218 --> 00:13:25,138 [soft tense music] 248 00:13:25,180 --> 00:13:30,560 * * 249 00:13:30,602 --> 00:13:33,521 - Okay. 250 00:13:33,563 --> 00:13:34,731 - All right. 251 00:13:34,773 --> 00:13:36,191 So where's this friend we're meeting? 252 00:13:39,069 --> 00:13:40,653 - Who wants to go clubbing? 253 00:13:40,695 --> 00:13:42,572 - * Everywhere we go * 254 00:13:42,614 --> 00:13:44,074 [Sofi Tukker's "Greed"] 255 00:13:44,115 --> 00:13:46,159 * People wanna know * 256 00:13:46,201 --> 00:13:47,786 [upbeat music] 257 00:13:47,827 --> 00:13:49,704 * Who you are * 258 00:13:49,746 --> 00:13:53,917 * * 259 00:13:53,958 --> 00:13:56,211 * Everywhere we go * 260 00:13:56,252 --> 00:13:57,629 * * 261 00:13:57,671 --> 00:14:01,383 * People wanna know * 262 00:14:01,424 --> 00:14:02,676 * Who you are * 263 00:14:02,717 --> 00:14:04,844 - [laughs] What is this music? 264 00:14:04,886 --> 00:14:07,514 - It's fucking perfect. 265 00:14:07,555 --> 00:14:08,807 - And all these people. 266 00:14:08,848 --> 00:14:11,267 I mean, have you ever seen this many anybody? 267 00:14:11,309 --> 00:14:14,437 - I've never been in a room where I literally know no one. 268 00:14:14,479 --> 00:14:16,731 - I don't think anybody knows anybody here. 269 00:14:16,773 --> 00:14:19,526 - No? 270 00:14:19,567 --> 00:14:23,113 - * So we tell them * 271 00:14:23,154 --> 00:14:26,074 * Your ill will, your sad song, your haircut * 272 00:14:26,116 --> 00:14:28,827 - * Keeping you up all night * 273 00:14:28,868 --> 00:14:30,578 * * 274 00:14:30,620 --> 00:14:33,581 - * Your ego, your crashing, your greed * 275 00:14:33,623 --> 00:14:35,834 - * Keeping you up all night * 276 00:14:35,875 --> 00:14:37,836 * * 277 00:14:37,877 --> 00:14:41,131 - Focus, Rose. This is a protective nightmare. 278 00:14:41,172 --> 00:14:43,591 - I got it, Mr. Perimeter Control. 279 00:14:43,633 --> 00:14:44,843 - Really? 280 00:14:44,884 --> 00:14:46,678 How many entry and exit points? 281 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:48,555 Yeah, I don't know either. 282 00:14:48,596 --> 00:14:50,890 You've got 360 degree exposure on our two charges 283 00:14:50,932 --> 00:14:52,809 with only two of us to cover. 284 00:14:52,851 --> 00:14:55,228 - I'm aware, but we're good. 285 00:14:55,270 --> 00:14:56,980 - We could be walking through a Strigoi buffet line. 286 00:14:57,022 --> 00:15:00,316 - I'll know if there are Strigoi. 287 00:15:00,358 --> 00:15:05,405 * * 288 00:15:05,447 --> 00:15:08,783 [upbeat music] 289 00:15:08,825 --> 00:15:10,535 - Hi. 290 00:15:10,577 --> 00:15:15,081 * * 291 00:15:15,123 --> 00:15:17,334 - Muscle stays out here, Ivashkov. 292 00:15:17,375 --> 00:15:19,544 You know that. 293 00:15:19,586 --> 00:15:20,670 - Go. Be quick. 294 00:15:20,712 --> 00:15:22,839 - Got it. One drink. 295 00:15:22,881 --> 00:15:23,965 Maybe two. 296 00:15:24,007 --> 00:15:25,675 - No uncovered entry points. 297 00:15:25,717 --> 00:15:26,843 They'd better be quick. 298 00:15:26,885 --> 00:15:28,887 - We're only here for information. 299 00:15:31,306 --> 00:15:32,724 And maybe one drink. 300 00:15:35,894 --> 00:15:38,521 - Hey, uh, Rose, try not to get too bored 301 00:15:38,563 --> 00:15:40,190 without me, all right? 302 00:15:40,231 --> 00:15:47,155 * * 303 00:15:49,783 --> 00:15:51,117 - Want to do a shot? 304 00:15:53,870 --> 00:15:56,289 Joking. 305 00:15:56,331 --> 00:15:59,876 Ish. 306 00:15:59,918 --> 00:16:02,337 [indistinct chatter] 307 00:16:02,379 --> 00:16:04,506 - Is it okay with you if I let them in? 308 00:16:06,007 --> 00:16:07,801 - Let me--let me just get this straight. 309 00:16:07,842 --> 00:16:09,928 You'd marry Jesse Zeklos? 310 00:16:09,969 --> 00:16:11,930 Listen, that guy makes me look eligible. 311 00:16:11,971 --> 00:16:15,350 - Look, it's Jesse or Ralf Dawoud, 312 00:16:15,392 --> 00:16:17,769 Anthony Carter, or Wade Vogel, okay? 313 00:16:17,811 --> 00:16:20,146 [chuckles] And... 314 00:16:20,188 --> 00:16:21,731 it's not that I would marry him. 315 00:16:21,773 --> 00:16:24,401 - But they say you have to. 316 00:16:24,442 --> 00:16:27,320 - If I want to get my quorum back, yeah. 317 00:16:27,362 --> 00:16:28,446 - Hoo. 318 00:16:30,865 --> 00:16:32,409 You know, back home, 319 00:16:32,450 --> 00:16:35,453 they'd look at a room full of humans like this 320 00:16:35,495 --> 00:16:38,456 and see only a feedlot. 321 00:16:38,498 --> 00:16:39,791 You know, like cattle. 322 00:16:42,252 --> 00:16:44,713 But you spend some time out here, 323 00:16:44,754 --> 00:16:50,343 among the humans with all their mess and chaos and fun... 324 00:16:52,470 --> 00:16:54,097 Suddenly, when you turn around and look back 325 00:16:54,139 --> 00:16:56,266 into our little world with all its-- 326 00:16:56,307 --> 00:16:59,894 all its pious rules and sacred bloodlines-- 327 00:16:59,936 --> 00:17:03,440 it's those Zekloses and those Dawouds 328 00:17:03,481 --> 00:17:06,985 and those Carters who start to look pretty fucking bovine. 329 00:17:11,114 --> 00:17:14,284 But Lissa, seriously, you got to know. 330 00:17:14,325 --> 00:17:17,871 When a wise old Moroi gives you a list like that, 331 00:17:17,912 --> 00:17:20,123 it's just a fact. 332 00:17:20,165 --> 00:17:24,961 The names they left off are sure to be a lot more fun. 333 00:17:27,672 --> 00:17:29,090 Time to play. 334 00:17:31,551 --> 00:17:34,471 [upbeat dance music] 335 00:17:34,512 --> 00:17:36,848 * * 336 00:17:36,890 --> 00:17:38,266 - This isn't our world. 337 00:17:38,308 --> 00:17:39,517 - No. 338 00:17:39,559 --> 00:17:41,811 This is fun. 339 00:17:41,853 --> 00:17:44,647 You're so awkward. [laughs] 340 00:17:44,689 --> 00:17:46,191 - I'm doing my job. 341 00:17:46,232 --> 00:17:48,985 - Or maybe you don't know what to do with yourself 342 00:17:49,027 --> 00:17:51,654 when you're actually kind of free. 343 00:17:51,696 --> 00:17:52,822 No Moroi. 344 00:17:52,864 --> 00:17:53,948 No Dhampirs. 345 00:17:53,990 --> 00:17:55,950 None of your rules. 346 00:17:55,992 --> 00:17:58,411 Just the music 347 00:17:58,453 --> 00:18:00,830 and us. 348 00:18:00,872 --> 00:18:01,873 Come on. 349 00:18:01,915 --> 00:18:03,833 Just dance with me. 350 00:18:03,875 --> 00:18:11,049 * * 351 00:18:23,019 --> 00:18:29,984 * * 352 00:18:35,740 --> 00:18:42,455 * * 353 00:18:42,497 --> 00:18:44,499 - Fuck. [groans] 354 00:18:45,583 --> 00:18:46,876 - Which is it? 355 00:18:46,918 --> 00:18:49,504 Is it Strigoi or Lissa? 356 00:18:49,546 --> 00:18:52,340 I've seen this enough times, Rose, at home, in Caroni. 357 00:18:52,382 --> 00:18:54,217 You feel things coming. Which is it? 358 00:18:54,259 --> 00:18:56,469 - Strigoi. We have to get out of here. 359 00:18:56,511 --> 00:18:57,929 - Lissa. Go. 360 00:18:57,971 --> 00:19:00,140 Go, go, go! - Go! 361 00:19:00,181 --> 00:19:02,100 - * If you let go * 362 00:19:02,142 --> 00:19:03,810 * If you're down for more * 363 00:19:03,852 --> 00:19:05,311 * Till we six feet below * 364 00:19:05,353 --> 00:19:07,731 * Till we six feet below * 365 00:19:07,772 --> 00:19:10,108 * If you gotta know * 366 00:19:10,150 --> 00:19:11,234 * * 367 00:19:11,276 --> 00:19:14,446 * Till we six feet below * 368 00:19:14,487 --> 00:19:18,867 * * 369 00:19:18,908 --> 00:19:23,079 [tires squealing] 370 00:19:23,121 --> 00:19:25,373 - I don't see anyone following. 371 00:19:25,415 --> 00:19:27,125 - What the hell was that back there? 372 00:19:27,167 --> 00:19:29,336 - There were Strigoi. - I didn't see any Strigoi. 373 00:19:29,377 --> 00:19:31,421 - They were there, trust me. 374 00:19:31,463 --> 00:19:33,965 - What the hell was that back there? 375 00:19:34,007 --> 00:19:35,342 Not the Strigoi. 376 00:19:43,141 --> 00:19:44,684 Took you long enough. 377 00:19:44,726 --> 00:19:46,770 [soft music] 378 00:19:46,811 --> 00:19:48,521 I like it. 379 00:19:52,067 --> 00:19:55,278 - Just tell us where we're going. 380 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:57,197 - A little moonlight boat ride, anyone? 381 00:19:57,238 --> 00:20:04,371 * * 382 00:20:22,013 --> 00:20:23,306 - They're down there, 383 00:20:23,348 --> 00:20:26,309 brainstorming questions for their heretic. 384 00:20:26,351 --> 00:20:28,687 It's the nerdiest I've ever seen her. 385 00:20:31,523 --> 00:20:32,691 - Keep warm. 386 00:20:41,366 --> 00:20:43,785 - Do you ever think about another life? 387 00:20:43,827 --> 00:20:46,329 Being more than just a pawn they can rip from your home 388 00:20:46,371 --> 00:20:49,416 or throw Strigoi at for fun? 389 00:20:49,457 --> 00:20:52,836 A life outside the Dominion. 390 00:20:52,877 --> 00:20:56,047 While we were dancing, 391 00:20:56,089 --> 00:20:58,717 you wanted that freedom too. 392 00:21:13,356 --> 00:21:17,986 - When I was 13, two years into my academy training, 393 00:21:18,028 --> 00:21:20,572 they gave us a Feast Day furlough. 394 00:21:20,613 --> 00:21:23,908 I went to see my mother, my little sisters 395 00:21:23,950 --> 00:21:26,202 back on the Commune. 396 00:21:26,244 --> 00:21:28,538 This time, my father-- 397 00:21:28,580 --> 00:21:30,915 or the Royal who fathered me-- 398 00:21:30,957 --> 00:21:32,459 was visiting too. 399 00:21:35,253 --> 00:21:38,757 I'd met him a few times, 400 00:21:38,798 --> 00:21:41,343 heard him a few times 401 00:21:41,384 --> 00:21:44,763 on the far side of the wall, 402 00:21:44,804 --> 00:21:48,475 taking it out on her. 403 00:21:48,516 --> 00:21:52,228 Whatever a posh Moroi fucker has to take out on anybody. 404 00:21:55,148 --> 00:21:59,319 I had no idea how angry I was 405 00:21:59,361 --> 00:22:01,279 till I found myself on him. 406 00:22:03,198 --> 00:22:06,284 Years of anger just... 407 00:22:06,326 --> 00:22:09,245 poured out of me. 408 00:22:09,287 --> 00:22:13,625 And when it was done, I remember the fear, 409 00:22:13,667 --> 00:22:15,168 not just his. 410 00:22:17,295 --> 00:22:20,757 But also the fear in the eyes of my mother, 411 00:22:20,799 --> 00:22:22,509 my sisters. 412 00:22:26,304 --> 00:22:29,349 And the fear I felt 413 00:22:29,391 --> 00:22:31,643 of that thing in me. 414 00:22:33,269 --> 00:22:37,232 It's why I need the code of the Guardian life, 415 00:22:37,273 --> 00:22:39,484 to keep that thing in check. 416 00:22:41,736 --> 00:22:43,321 Freedom. 417 00:22:46,074 --> 00:22:48,410 Freedom scares me to death, Rose. 418 00:22:50,995 --> 00:22:54,082 Or it did until-- 419 00:22:54,124 --> 00:22:55,875 - Until now? 420 00:22:55,917 --> 00:23:02,841 * * 421 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,120 [suspenseful music] 422 00:23:32,162 --> 00:23:39,002 * * 423 00:23:41,838 --> 00:23:43,673 - Where the hell are we? 424 00:23:53,016 --> 00:23:55,185 - You've had a line on this woman for a while now. 425 00:23:55,226 --> 00:23:57,020 How have you never come to ask these questions before? 426 00:23:59,731 --> 00:24:01,608 - Sometimes you need the right answers to be able 427 00:24:01,649 --> 00:24:03,318 to ask the right questions. 428 00:24:03,360 --> 00:24:09,949 * * 429 00:24:28,009 --> 00:24:30,637 - Clarice Sewani. I'm Adrian-- 430 00:24:30,679 --> 00:24:32,430 - I know who you are, and the answer 431 00:24:32,472 --> 00:24:33,682 is the same as it's been for everyone 432 00:24:33,723 --> 00:24:36,309 you've sent to hassle me: fuck off. 433 00:24:36,351 --> 00:24:39,104 - Adrian, what are you doing? 434 00:24:39,145 --> 00:24:41,481 - What do you think, Lord Ivashkov? 435 00:24:41,523 --> 00:24:42,565 Just gonna force your way in? 436 00:24:42,607 --> 00:24:43,733 - Adrian... 437 00:24:43,775 --> 00:24:45,527 - Gonna set your Guardians on me? 438 00:24:45,568 --> 00:24:47,237 You think you can make me talk? 439 00:24:47,278 --> 00:24:49,906 - No. 440 00:24:49,948 --> 00:24:51,741 She can. 441 00:24:55,245 --> 00:24:58,206 She's not gonna give us what we need if you don't. 442 00:25:03,253 --> 00:25:05,338 - I will. 443 00:25:05,380 --> 00:25:08,591 - You have Compulsion. 444 00:25:08,633 --> 00:25:10,176 You're a Messenger. 445 00:25:12,262 --> 00:25:15,140 - Which means I can make you talk, 446 00:25:15,181 --> 00:25:16,683 if I choose to. 447 00:25:16,725 --> 00:25:23,857 * * 448 00:25:43,585 --> 00:25:45,795 - Are you okay? 449 00:25:45,837 --> 00:25:49,257 - I should be asking you. 450 00:25:49,299 --> 00:25:50,633 I'm fine. 451 00:25:55,013 --> 00:25:55,972 - Here. 452 00:26:01,978 --> 00:26:03,355 [sighs] You're pushing yourself. 453 00:26:03,396 --> 00:26:06,274 - I'm just--I'm just tired. 454 00:26:06,316 --> 00:26:07,609 But I did it. 455 00:26:07,650 --> 00:26:10,445 I will be king. 456 00:26:10,487 --> 00:26:13,323 I-- [coughs] 457 00:26:13,365 --> 00:26:14,824 [groans] 458 00:26:18,953 --> 00:26:24,000 I just--I just need to make it through this last night. 459 00:26:24,042 --> 00:26:26,378 The Queen will submit me to caucus, 460 00:26:26,419 --> 00:26:28,004 the votes will formalize it, 461 00:26:28,046 --> 00:26:29,798 and then you and I can both rest. 462 00:26:29,839 --> 00:26:31,299 - But you have to make it through tonight 463 00:26:31,341 --> 00:26:36,596 looking like a king, and you can barely stand. 464 00:26:36,638 --> 00:26:41,017 Do you really think they'll allow it if they see this? 465 00:26:41,059 --> 00:26:45,146 Dad, would the Unionists even support you? 466 00:26:45,188 --> 00:26:48,566 I believe in you. 467 00:26:48,608 --> 00:26:50,902 And I'm better. Look at me. 468 00:26:50,944 --> 00:26:53,446 I slept. I had a feed. 469 00:26:53,488 --> 00:26:55,615 I'm gonna heal you again. 470 00:26:55,657 --> 00:26:57,992 I am. I can handle it. 471 00:26:58,034 --> 00:27:01,454 And after last night, 472 00:27:01,496 --> 00:27:04,958 there isn't much in my life that's come to anything. 473 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,920 But this, I can do. 474 00:27:08,962 --> 00:27:11,840 [soft dramatic music] 475 00:27:11,881 --> 00:27:14,175 I can make you king. 476 00:27:29,566 --> 00:27:31,443 Ready? 477 00:27:41,036 --> 00:27:43,038 - A man who raises such daughters 478 00:27:43,079 --> 00:27:44,873 seeks to be the father to our people. 479 00:27:44,914 --> 00:27:46,833 It cannot be. 480 00:27:46,875 --> 00:27:49,711 Your Holiness, it's time you stopped Victor 481 00:27:49,753 --> 00:27:51,755 once and for all. 482 00:27:51,796 --> 00:27:53,173 - Me? 483 00:27:56,134 --> 00:27:59,679 I represent the Elemental Way, my dear. 484 00:27:59,721 --> 00:28:00,972 Not the mortal one. 485 00:28:01,014 --> 00:28:03,808 - That distinction is exactly the problem. 486 00:28:03,850 --> 00:28:05,518 The Strigoi are at the gates. 487 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:09,898 Our numbers are dwindling, and we are dithering. 488 00:28:12,442 --> 00:28:15,278 We need to think bigger. 489 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,573 You, my dear aunt, 490 00:28:18,615 --> 00:28:22,035 need to think bigger. 491 00:28:22,077 --> 00:28:24,996 You will speak for the Church 492 00:28:25,038 --> 00:28:27,749 and end this humiliation. 493 00:28:27,791 --> 00:28:34,923 * * 494 00:28:44,808 --> 00:28:47,894 - Okay. 495 00:28:47,936 --> 00:28:49,312 I think I need to know what's happening here. 496 00:28:52,816 --> 00:28:54,776 - What do you want to know? 497 00:28:54,818 --> 00:28:56,486 - All of it. 498 00:28:56,528 --> 00:28:58,363 - And then this corner looked like 499 00:28:58,405 --> 00:29:00,365 it was Vladimir healing someone, 500 00:29:00,407 --> 00:29:01,741 which is also something I can do. 501 00:29:01,783 --> 00:29:04,911 - That leaves the center, where Vladimir's eyes are. 502 00:29:04,953 --> 00:29:06,830 - Where he's consumed by Darkness. 503 00:29:06,871 --> 00:29:11,418 His eyes are black in a way I think I've seen in myself. 504 00:29:11,459 --> 00:29:15,255 He was a Spirit User, and it did something to him. 505 00:29:15,296 --> 00:29:16,965 And a long time ago, someone decided 506 00:29:17,007 --> 00:29:18,508 that no one should ever know. 507 00:29:18,550 --> 00:29:21,302 And they gave us some bullshit story about happy Vladimir. 508 00:29:21,344 --> 00:29:24,222 - We want the truth about Vlad. 509 00:29:24,264 --> 00:29:25,348 All of it. 510 00:29:25,390 --> 00:29:26,808 - We want to know how he fought it off, 511 00:29:26,850 --> 00:29:28,435 the Darkness. 512 00:29:28,476 --> 00:29:29,978 He must have, somehow. 513 00:29:30,020 --> 00:29:37,152 * * 514 00:29:38,236 --> 00:29:41,823 - Compulsion,. Dream Walking. Healing. 515 00:29:41,865 --> 00:29:44,117 That's Anna there. 516 00:29:44,159 --> 00:29:48,747 Faithful Anna, the model Dhampir Guardian. 517 00:29:48,788 --> 00:29:50,415 Shadow-Kissed Anna. 518 00:29:52,208 --> 00:29:54,044 But what about the fourth corner? 519 00:29:56,796 --> 00:29:59,007 - It's been worn away. 520 00:29:59,049 --> 00:30:01,968 I've never been able to find that out. 521 00:30:02,010 --> 00:30:05,805 - If early accounts of this altarpiece are to be believed, 522 00:30:05,847 --> 00:30:10,060 the image here originally looked something like this. 523 00:30:12,937 --> 00:30:15,899 It's called a Spirit Bond. 524 00:30:15,940 --> 00:30:17,859 Anna knew his heart like it was her own. 525 00:30:17,901 --> 00:30:20,278 Sometimes his thoughts. 526 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,198 Maybe even saw through his eyes. 527 00:30:23,239 --> 00:30:26,534 This is your answer. 528 00:30:26,576 --> 00:30:30,955 Vladimir's solution to the Darkness, as you call it. 529 00:30:32,832 --> 00:30:35,710 He passed it to her. 530 00:30:35,752 --> 00:30:42,676 * * 531 00:30:47,931 --> 00:30:50,392 - They actually believe all of this. 532 00:30:50,433 --> 00:30:51,851 A Fifth Element? 533 00:30:51,893 --> 00:30:54,479 Secret Magic that Vladimir had and the entire Dominion 534 00:30:54,521 --> 00:30:56,106 has kept a secret for centuries? 535 00:30:56,147 --> 00:30:58,441 - Or they just edited it out of the whole story 536 00:30:58,483 --> 00:31:01,361 after they burned a bunch of people alive. 537 00:31:01,403 --> 00:31:04,572 That's what they do-- lie and kill. 538 00:31:04,614 --> 00:31:05,615 So why not? 539 00:31:05,657 --> 00:31:07,701 - Because...it goes against 540 00:31:07,742 --> 00:31:09,911 the whole holy Elemental Order. 541 00:31:09,953 --> 00:31:13,123 The four-part harmony of the world. 542 00:31:13,164 --> 00:31:16,376 I shouldn't have let this happen. 543 00:31:16,418 --> 00:31:19,170 - Fuck. 544 00:31:19,212 --> 00:31:21,423 They're coming. 545 00:31:21,464 --> 00:31:22,966 - Go. 546 00:31:25,385 --> 00:31:28,972 - Vladimir didn't beat the Darkness. 547 00:31:29,014 --> 00:31:30,390 He just gave it to someone else. 548 00:31:30,432 --> 00:31:33,727 Have I been doing this to Rose? 549 00:31:33,768 --> 00:31:35,770 - She does sort of walk on the Dark side of things. 550 00:31:35,812 --> 00:31:37,272 - No, no. 551 00:31:37,313 --> 00:31:40,984 He was supposed to show me I could be someone good. 552 00:31:41,026 --> 00:31:43,820 When everything's telling me that what I have in me is bad, 553 00:31:43,862 --> 00:31:45,780 he was supposed to be good. 554 00:31:45,822 --> 00:31:49,200 But he's just another parasitic Moroi like all of us, 555 00:31:49,242 --> 00:31:51,119 just using his Guardian like that. 556 00:31:51,161 --> 00:31:53,538 - Strigoi coming. We're going now. 557 00:31:53,580 --> 00:31:56,207 - What? 558 00:31:56,249 --> 00:31:58,251 You children. 559 00:31:58,293 --> 00:31:59,711 You led them right to me. 560 00:31:59,753 --> 00:32:01,546 - Yeah, lady, we did, but we've got the jump on them, 561 00:32:01,588 --> 00:32:03,089 and we're going with or without you. 562 00:32:03,131 --> 00:32:05,592 - Rose, no, she has-- - Lissa, we've got to go. 563 00:32:05,633 --> 00:32:07,802 [tense music] 564 00:32:07,844 --> 00:32:09,054 - They're here. 565 00:32:09,095 --> 00:32:16,102 * * 566 00:32:16,853 --> 00:32:20,440 [Strigoi snarling] 567 00:32:20,482 --> 00:32:22,692 Inside. 568 00:32:22,734 --> 00:32:24,194 - You'll be safe in here. 569 00:32:32,285 --> 00:32:33,828 - You knew they were coming. 570 00:32:33,870 --> 00:32:36,998 You can sense them in your gut. 571 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:43,630 * * 572 00:32:50,345 --> 00:32:53,431 [pounding on door] 573 00:32:55,767 --> 00:32:58,687 [Strigoi snarling] 574 00:32:58,728 --> 00:33:05,527 * * 575 00:33:26,881 --> 00:33:28,425 - Hey. 576 00:33:28,466 --> 00:33:31,261 Hey, listen, you're assuming that Vladimir 577 00:33:31,302 --> 00:33:33,304 forced his Darkness onto Anna, 578 00:33:33,346 --> 00:33:36,266 but what if she took it? 579 00:33:36,307 --> 00:33:37,684 Isn't that what we learned in Sunday school, 580 00:33:37,726 --> 00:33:41,730 the holy devotion of Shadow-Kissed Anna? 581 00:33:41,771 --> 00:33:44,441 - What is Shadow-Kissed? 582 00:33:44,482 --> 00:33:47,068 I mean, how does any of this even makes sense? 583 00:33:47,110 --> 00:33:54,284 * * 584 00:34:00,749 --> 00:34:02,667 - This is one of the parts of Vladimir's story 585 00:34:02,709 --> 00:34:05,837 the authorities wanted to expunge 586 00:34:05,879 --> 00:34:09,966 because the Spirit Bond 587 00:34:10,008 --> 00:34:12,844 was the fruit of Vladimir's ultimate sin. 588 00:34:15,347 --> 00:34:18,391 - [screaming] 589 00:34:20,185 --> 00:34:23,229 Rose! Rose! 590 00:34:23,271 --> 00:34:29,819 * * 591 00:34:31,821 --> 00:34:34,115 Rose! [screams] 592 00:34:34,157 --> 00:34:35,700 - Lissa! 593 00:34:43,750 --> 00:34:45,669 - She's just a kid. 594 00:34:45,710 --> 00:34:48,755 [groans] What the actual fuck? 595 00:34:52,092 --> 00:34:55,345 [Strigoi snarling, screeching] 596 00:35:01,351 --> 00:35:04,521 - [panting] 597 00:35:09,776 --> 00:35:11,695 - Never hesitate. 598 00:35:11,736 --> 00:35:18,702 * * 599 00:35:30,005 --> 00:35:33,174 - [murmuring in Old Moroi] 600 00:35:33,216 --> 00:35:36,177 [soft tense music] 601 00:35:36,219 --> 00:35:40,348 * * 602 00:35:46,271 --> 00:35:49,566 May the succession bring prosperity to the Dominion. 603 00:35:52,485 --> 00:35:53,695 - Very good. 604 00:35:53,737 --> 00:35:55,780 Thank you all. 605 00:36:03,204 --> 00:36:06,166 Is there something else, Irene? 606 00:36:06,207 --> 00:36:07,500 - There is. 607 00:36:13,631 --> 00:36:15,383 Your Majesty... 608 00:36:20,055 --> 00:36:23,350 For decades now, you and I 609 00:36:23,391 --> 00:36:27,604 have maintained a balance between the vagaries 610 00:36:27,645 --> 00:36:32,484 of the political realm and the durable interest of the faith. 611 00:36:32,525 --> 00:36:35,779 - As have all eight of my High Priests 612 00:36:35,820 --> 00:36:38,031 and Priestesses before you. 613 00:36:38,073 --> 00:36:40,408 - Yours? Hmm. 614 00:36:40,450 --> 00:36:43,286 That, Marina, is precisely the problem. 615 00:36:43,328 --> 00:36:45,121 The balance has collapsed. 616 00:36:45,163 --> 00:36:47,874 This ugly chapter with Victor is only 617 00:36:47,916 --> 00:36:50,460 the latest indignity to be forced on the faith 618 00:36:50,502 --> 00:36:52,796 by political interests. 619 00:36:52,837 --> 00:36:56,466 The time has come for the faith to assert itself. 620 00:36:56,508 --> 00:36:59,386 - To muck about where it doesn't belong, you mean? 621 00:36:59,427 --> 00:37:01,304 - To call in the many chits we have 622 00:37:01,346 --> 00:37:04,766 piled up against the crown. 623 00:37:04,808 --> 00:37:08,728 Do not mistake forbearance for weakness. 624 00:37:08,770 --> 00:37:11,314 I am telling you that nominating Victor 625 00:37:11,356 --> 00:37:14,025 would be a very grave error. 626 00:37:14,067 --> 00:37:16,361 - Better your niece. 627 00:37:16,403 --> 00:37:19,739 How much balance would there be 628 00:37:19,781 --> 00:37:24,786 if one family controlled both Church and state? 629 00:37:24,828 --> 00:37:26,955 Unless you're retiring. 630 00:37:26,996 --> 00:37:29,958 - Tatiana is the only candidate for the throne 631 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,419 that the Church will tolerate. 632 00:37:32,460 --> 00:37:35,797 And without the support of the Church, 633 00:37:35,839 --> 00:37:37,173 the new monarch will fail. 634 00:37:37,215 --> 00:37:39,926 The Elementalists will make sure of it. 635 00:37:39,968 --> 00:37:41,761 Iwill make sure of it. 636 00:37:41,803 --> 00:37:45,765 Victor will not rule. 637 00:37:45,807 --> 00:37:49,310 * * 638 00:38:09,789 --> 00:38:11,624 - I saw him. 639 00:38:11,666 --> 00:38:13,460 They followed us here from the club. 640 00:38:13,501 --> 00:38:15,128 - They had a human smorgasbord there. 641 00:38:15,170 --> 00:38:17,255 What would we matter to them? 642 00:38:32,354 --> 00:38:34,147 - My life here is dead. 643 00:38:34,189 --> 00:38:35,982 - No, the Strigoi are dead. 644 00:38:36,024 --> 00:38:37,484 You could clean up, and-- 645 00:38:37,525 --> 00:38:40,487 - You're so far out of your depth. 646 00:38:40,528 --> 00:38:44,908 You have no idea how this world works. 647 00:38:44,949 --> 00:38:48,286 It's not the Strigoi I'm worried about. 648 00:38:48,328 --> 00:38:49,662 It's the ones who come after them. 649 00:38:56,503 --> 00:39:01,007 You've burned my world down. 650 00:39:01,049 --> 00:39:04,886 But to make us even, I'm going to give you 651 00:39:04,928 --> 00:39:06,721 what you came here for. 652 00:39:09,974 --> 00:39:13,144 [inaudible speech] 653 00:39:13,186 --> 00:39:20,318 * * 654 00:39:30,245 --> 00:39:31,579 - What the hell is going on? 655 00:39:31,621 --> 00:39:33,665 How can you have possibly lost the Queen? 656 00:39:33,707 --> 00:39:35,125 - What are you talking about, Abby? 657 00:39:35,166 --> 00:39:38,211 The Queen has assured me-- 658 00:39:38,253 --> 00:39:41,047 - I have it from Tatiana's own lips. 659 00:39:41,089 --> 00:39:43,550 The Queen won't submit your name to the Council. 660 00:39:43,591 --> 00:39:45,385 Word's already getting out. 661 00:39:45,427 --> 00:39:47,012 You've lost her confidence. 662 00:39:47,053 --> 00:39:51,808 Tarus, the Ozeras, they're all wavering. 663 00:39:51,850 --> 00:39:53,893 You may not have your votes much longer. 664 00:39:53,935 --> 00:39:59,232 * * 665 00:39:59,274 --> 00:40:01,359 - No. [panting] 666 00:40:01,401 --> 00:40:03,403 Not now. [groans] 667 00:40:04,863 --> 00:40:06,072 No. [groans] 668 00:40:06,114 --> 00:40:07,115 No. 669 00:40:07,157 --> 00:40:08,783 [knock at door] 670 00:40:08,825 --> 00:40:15,415 * * 671 00:40:16,124 --> 00:40:18,460 - Your father sent me. 672 00:40:23,173 --> 00:40:24,299 Are you all right? 673 00:40:24,341 --> 00:40:25,342 - I just need to feed. 674 00:40:25,383 --> 00:40:27,469 - Of course. 675 00:40:44,319 --> 00:40:48,823 [groaning] 676 00:40:48,865 --> 00:40:50,867 Sonya. 677 00:40:50,909 --> 00:40:53,703 Hey, easy. 678 00:40:53,745 --> 00:40:54,954 Sonya. 679 00:40:54,996 --> 00:40:56,831 [gasps] 680 00:40:56,873 --> 00:40:58,208 Slow down, please! 681 00:40:58,249 --> 00:41:00,043 [gasps] 682 00:41:00,085 --> 00:41:03,630 Please! No! [groans] 683 00:41:07,050 --> 00:41:09,886 - This is the moment. I have the votes. 684 00:41:09,928 --> 00:41:11,346 You only need to name me, and it's done. 685 00:41:11,388 --> 00:41:12,889 They will do your will. 686 00:41:12,931 --> 00:41:15,475 Marina, please, after all we've given, 687 00:41:15,517 --> 00:41:18,603 I have to have this. 688 00:41:18,645 --> 00:41:21,064 - I'm sorry, Victor. 689 00:41:21,106 --> 00:41:23,066 The Church has forced my hand. 690 00:41:28,530 --> 00:41:33,159 But I have one final card to play. 691 00:41:33,201 --> 00:41:40,041 * * 692 00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,842 I want to thank my dear friend Abby Batista 693 00:41:48,883 --> 00:41:52,595 for hosting us on this weighty day. 694 00:41:52,637 --> 00:41:54,764 As we choose our next leader, 695 00:41:54,806 --> 00:41:59,853 I remind you that a good monarch must know when to rule 696 00:41:59,894 --> 00:42:01,479 and when not to. 697 00:42:01,521 --> 00:42:04,607 As there is no clear majority for either the Elementalist 698 00:42:04,649 --> 00:42:06,818 or Unionist candidate tonight, 699 00:42:06,860 --> 00:42:09,571 I am suspending this caucus... 700 00:42:09,612 --> 00:42:11,990 [crowd murmuring] 701 00:42:12,032 --> 00:42:16,578 And invoking the ancient rite of Royal Trial, 702 00:42:16,619 --> 00:42:19,831 a ritual steeped in and sanctified 703 00:42:19,873 --> 00:42:22,751 by our religious forebears. 704 00:42:22,792 --> 00:42:26,629 The candidates must face a series of sacred tests. 705 00:42:26,671 --> 00:42:30,759 Whoever wins will rule. 706 00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:34,596 Thus, the Elements will decide our fate, 707 00:42:34,637 --> 00:42:37,724 not your aging Queen. 708 00:42:37,766 --> 00:42:41,936 As of now, the future of our Dominion 709 00:42:41,978 --> 00:42:44,647 is in the hands of the Elements. 710 00:42:44,689 --> 00:42:47,609 [dramatic music] 711 00:42:47,650 --> 00:42:50,487 * * 712 00:43:08,838 --> 00:43:11,424 - It was just a moment. 713 00:43:11,466 --> 00:43:14,886 We hesitated for one tiny moment. 714 00:43:14,928 --> 00:43:18,765 - There's no room for divided loyalties in this world, Rose. 715 00:43:18,807 --> 00:43:21,434 There can never be a question 716 00:43:21,476 --> 00:43:24,312 of you or them, 717 00:43:24,354 --> 00:43:26,606 me or your charge. 718 00:43:26,648 --> 00:43:27,941 There can be no hesitation. 719 00:43:27,982 --> 00:43:31,277 - Of course not. 720 00:43:31,319 --> 00:43:32,821 It's a fucking dream. 721 00:43:38,159 --> 00:43:41,121 But you felt it. 722 00:43:41,162 --> 00:43:42,455 Right? 723 00:43:42,497 --> 00:43:45,959 [soft music] 724 00:43:46,001 --> 00:43:47,919 What we could be? 725 00:43:50,171 --> 00:43:52,966 - Every second of it. 726 00:43:53,008 --> 00:43:54,467 But never again. 727 00:43:54,509 --> 00:43:57,679 [somber music] 728 00:43:57,721 --> 00:44:04,853 * * 729 00:44:30,045 --> 00:44:32,839 [tense music] 730 00:44:32,881 --> 00:44:36,426 - For 500 years, we've burrowed down in our provinces 731 00:44:36,468 --> 00:44:39,137 and let ourselves forget that the Strigoi 732 00:44:39,179 --> 00:44:42,599 aren't the only ones with the power to do us harm. 733 00:44:44,225 --> 00:44:48,438 Beyond the wards, they watch and wait, 734 00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:53,651 ready to come down on us with all their fury if we err. 735 00:44:53,693 --> 00:44:55,612 But if history is our guide, 736 00:44:55,653 --> 00:44:59,657 the first wound we suffer will be self-inflicted. 737 00:44:59,699 --> 00:45:03,036 We turn on our own first. 738 00:45:03,078 --> 00:45:05,997 [dramatic music] 739 00:45:06,039 --> 00:45:12,879 * * 740 00:45:38,113 --> 00:45:40,573 [knock at door] 741 00:45:52,210 --> 00:45:54,379 - Thank God you're here. I needed to see you. 742 00:45:54,421 --> 00:45:57,007 - I don't want you to be my Guardian. 743 00:45:57,048 --> 00:45:59,718 Not now, not ever. 744 00:45:59,759 --> 00:46:03,138 It's just--it's too wrong, all of it. 745 00:46:03,179 --> 00:46:05,640 The way we exploit you. 746 00:46:05,682 --> 00:46:08,601 I just can't do it anymore, not to you. 747 00:46:10,020 --> 00:46:14,107 They'll give me someone, and I can't avoid that. 748 00:46:16,776 --> 00:46:20,238 But I just can't have it be you. 749 00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,407 You deserve better. 750 00:46:22,449 --> 00:46:23,616 - I deserve? 751 00:46:23,658 --> 00:46:25,994 - I'm trying to do what's best. 752 00:46:28,204 --> 00:46:32,250 - You have no idea what it's like to be us. 753 00:46:32,292 --> 00:46:33,626 None. 754 00:46:33,668 --> 00:46:36,755 And now you're gonna tell me what I deserve? 755 00:46:36,796 --> 00:46:39,257 You're going to make that choice for me, 756 00:46:39,299 --> 00:46:40,675 but I don't get a say? 757 00:46:43,178 --> 00:46:47,974 I have no option but to be a Guardian, 758 00:46:48,016 --> 00:46:52,020 and the only thing that makes all that shit worthwhile 759 00:46:52,062 --> 00:46:53,688 is you. 760 00:46:53,730 --> 00:46:55,774 And now you're gonna take that away 761 00:46:55,815 --> 00:46:58,818 as some kind of a favor to me? 762 00:46:58,860 --> 00:47:01,154 You have no idea what I would give up for you. 763 00:47:01,196 --> 00:47:02,489 I would die for you. 764 00:47:02,530 --> 00:47:04,616 - Yeah, I know you would, because you did. 765 00:47:06,826 --> 00:47:10,330 - The ultimate sin Vladimir committed 766 00:47:10,372 --> 00:47:12,165 was resurrection. 767 00:47:14,626 --> 00:47:18,546 In a faith built on the cycling of Elements, 768 00:47:18,588 --> 00:47:21,091 there is no greater violation... 769 00:47:24,511 --> 00:47:28,807 Than bringing life back to the dead. 770 00:47:28,848 --> 00:47:32,352 That was the source of the bond to Anna, 771 00:47:32,394 --> 00:47:35,063 the Shadow Kiss. 772 00:47:35,105 --> 00:47:39,317 Death left its mark on her... 773 00:47:39,359 --> 00:47:40,777 - [gasps] 774 00:47:40,819 --> 00:47:44,531 - Just as it has on your friend. 775 00:47:46,991 --> 00:47:48,493 - You died 776 00:47:48,535 --> 00:47:52,163 saving me in the accident. 777 00:47:52,205 --> 00:47:53,665 I brought you back. 778 00:47:56,209 --> 00:47:59,170 You're Shadow-Kissed. 779 00:47:59,212 --> 00:48:02,173 That's why we have this bond between our spirits. 780 00:48:02,215 --> 00:48:04,092 But now-- 781 00:48:04,134 --> 00:48:08,596 now I know how toxic that's been for you. 782 00:48:08,638 --> 00:48:12,559 I've been passing my Darkness off to you. 783 00:48:13,977 --> 00:48:16,521 I'm not gonna do it anymore, 784 00:48:16,563 --> 00:48:17,856 not if I can help it. 785 00:48:17,897 --> 00:48:20,775 - So firing me is going to solve that? 786 00:48:20,817 --> 00:48:22,444 - It's a start. 787 00:48:22,485 --> 00:48:25,697 - Lissa-- - I'm sorry. 788 00:48:25,739 --> 00:48:27,532 I'm so sorry. 789 00:48:27,574 --> 00:48:30,493 [somber music] 790 00:48:30,535 --> 00:48:34,873 * * 791 00:48:34,914 --> 00:48:37,208 - Lissa. 792 00:48:37,250 --> 00:48:38,376 Lissa! 793 00:48:38,418 --> 00:48:39,961 [pounding on door] 794 00:48:40,003 --> 00:48:41,296 Lissa! 795 00:48:44,174 --> 00:48:45,383 Lissa! 796 00:48:45,425 --> 00:48:48,970 [pounding continues] 797 00:48:49,012 --> 00:48:51,097 [groans] 798 00:48:51,139 --> 00:48:53,391 Lissa! 799 00:48:53,433 --> 00:49:00,607 * * 800 00:49:19,125 --> 00:49:20,126 - Sonya? 801 00:49:21,294 --> 00:49:22,629 Sonya. 802 00:49:24,172 --> 00:49:30,970 * * 803 00:49:36,476 --> 00:49:37,644 Sonya? 804 00:49:40,939 --> 00:49:43,858 [eerie hip-hop music] 805 00:49:43,900 --> 00:49:51,032 * * 806 00:50:34,993 --> 00:50:36,119 [dog barks]