Bruc, the Manhunt: The Birth of a Legend Page #2

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No! Father!

Father!

Murderersl

May God punish youl

Spare the journalist.

He'll draw us holding

the boy's head. Tie the girl!

Father!

Are you sure?

Yes, he was here.

Someone took him by mule.

Drink this, it'll do you good.

You're the young man

from the Bruc, right?

I wish I'd never been

in that battle.

Don't say that.

They all talk about you

since that battle.

You symbolise the struggle

against the invader.

They won't stop till I'm dead.

Don't let them.

We need you alive.

Then give me something to eat.

l may be a symbol,

but I'm starving.

No time.

They'll soon find you here.

Where can I go?

Come. The view from here

is marvellous.

Claim sanctuary,

and you'll be safe.

Austerlitz,

Heliopolis,

Eylau, Jena...

You've fought

in all the great battles.

You studied with the Emperor.

And everyone knows how highly

he thinks of you.

You should be in Versailles,

not in these mountains.

Since when have you been

covering the war?

Since Egypt? Jena?

Since I left my regiment.

I had my leg blown apart in Egypt.

You like the battlefield.

Me too.

I don't Iike watching from afar.

I like being among my men.

And they know it.

Like in Eylau.

De la Mata, the Catalan fellow,

saved my life

I owe him one.

Did you talk to the coalman?

- Yes.

How did he defeat

Schwartz's column?

He said it was thanks

to his Virgin.

And to the mountain.

If you kill him,

he'll become a legend.

If I kill him,

he won't even be a footnote

in the history books.

Good morning.

We're looking for a young man.

A coalman.

There's no coalman here.

Someone took him by mule.

By mule?

Everyone here has a mule.

Do you llke chickpeas?

He's deaf and dumb.

He was taken prisoner in Egypt.

The Mamelukes tortured hlm,

but they couldn't get

a word out of him.

And you know what happened?

They cut his tongue.

Difficult to understand him.

Captain!

Try them!

Try them!

How many did you kill, Bruc?

You wene very brave

in the Battle of the Bruc.

Are you ail right, son?

Why won't you tell us

wnat happened?

Everyone is waiting for you.

I doubt they'll be back. But if

they are, we'Il beat them again.

A small failure won't stop them.

My brother will.

If he did it once in the Bruc,

he can do it again.

Isn't fighting for your country

a good emough reason?

We could fulfil our dream.

I'm proud of you, son.

I love you.

- We all are.

Where is he?

This is a sacred place.

You can't come in here armed.

Father, we know a coalman

is hiding here.

Hand him over to us,

and we'll leave quietly.

People here come and go

at thelr own will.

They claim sanctuary.

The Revolution doesn't

believe in God.

This is the House of God!

Armed men have no place here.

The cowls!

Remove your cowls!

This is outrageous!

- Get out of here!

Remove your cowls!

Tell me where he is,

or I'll set fire to the monastery.

Nothing will be left of your Virgin.

Enough!

Stop killing innocent people!

Attab!

Flnd Nouaille. Bring the girl.

I'll kill you. Better still,

they'll cut your girl's throat.

Tell him to surrender!

He says you should surrender.

We have your fiancee.

Surrender and she'll be spared.

If you don't surrender, she'll die.

We have no interest in her!

Don't do it, Juan!

Don't hurt her! Let her go!

Next it will be her ear.

Her ear!

Let her go or he dies!

Captain, I trust you.

I owe him my life.

Let him go and I'll free the girl!

Let me go, he says!

Let her go first!

Let her go.

Run, Juan!

Help the girl!

- What?

Help her.

This one, Captain!

If you get in the way again,

I'll klll you.

Have you got a flint?

I need to cauterize my wound.

Gloria!

Maybe you really are the devil.

Gloria.

My father...

he also.

- Gloria, I'm sorry.

Sorry I got you involved in this.

Don't say that.

Take her down to the village.

You're not coming?

If I go down with you,

they'll find me.

And more people wlll die.

I need you to go down

and ask for help.

Don't let them kill you, Juan.

If there's hand to hand combat,

look out for Maraval's boot.

We should go to the village.

He needs help.

I'll wait for him here.

You go down, if you want.

He needs me.

The food is good.

It's your stomach that's not right.

We are soldiers.

We deserve to die fighting

against a wall of bayonets,

not in these damn mountains

He's takang us to his territory.

Damn mountains!

He leaves no trace on the rocks.

He's there

- Let me go.

I'll bring you his head.

Each hour that goes by

is like a dagger in France's heart.

I want his head.

It can't be!

He's just a coalman.

A nobody.

Come out!

Fight bravely!

Be a man!

You wanted to bring me here?

Well, here I am!

Come on out!

Be a man! Fight!

You murdered my parents!

You murdered my brother!

You're as hard as these mountains.

But you won't come out alive.

Juan!

I love you so much.

I'm so proud of you.

Have this.

You deserve it more than I do.

"Ah, the Spanish War!

That damn war was the onigin

of the tragedy of France"

Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816

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