Le pacte des loups - Les entrailles de la bête Page #3

Ah, Indians have priests?

You just lost me...

What are their beliefs?

Every person has their own totem.

An animal that represents their spirit.

Sounds amusing but I don't understand.

Mani... Would you mind?

Don't be afraid. No harm will come to you.

You...

caribou... its a kind of deer.

Yes, a deer. What do you think my wife?

Am I a deer by my own

horns or by someone else's?

And my dear Thomas? What is his...

...totem?

- Worm.

A book-worm.

Snake.

- Snake?

According to the Indians,

Snakes stand for wisdom.

Wise snake.

And you, Mr. Intendant?

A pig.

Away with that frown.

With those barbarians,

the pig may represent nobility.

Who is next? Sardis?

- No! No.

I am.

What am I? Half lion... and... half eagle?

Change me into a lizard so my arm will grow back...

That's enough.

What's the matter? Have I gone too far?

Let go of me, let go of me... let go of me!

Madame, what about you?

Excuse me, but your tricks bore me.

I choose to call it a night,

before you start dancing on a ball.

Good evening.

This should relax you.

It's not Paris, but it's

the best Mende has to offer.

It is more comfortable then an inn.

They are all for you, gentlemen.

And we also have a new one...

My dear Marquis, come.

I don't come cheap, Gregoire de Fronsac.

- Have we met before?

- From here, Gevaudan looks tiny.

Italian.

Yes, I have passage in this beautiful country.

I have money.

Money is not the only issue.

So?

What did this?

An Iroquois arrow.

So close to your heart...

Maybe... I am a lucky man.

And this?

A bear.

The price of love.

You haven't seen anything yet.

I have a dangerous job.

Not all men have manners like you.

A scar to remember me by.

A Scandal in my house! A scandal.

Valentine! What is it!?!

- I won't sleep with this sorcerer.

What does it mean?

- He snakes all over his body.

Our reputation will be finished.

It's nothing, it is an Indian.

Not a sorcerer.

I won't sleep with an Indian.

- You hookers are so delicate...

Girls?

Who's going to sleep with the red skin?

I will double the price.

I like his sketches...

- Voila, Everything's under control...

So... like that you are a wizard?

Would you do my portrait?

If you need passage.

The weeks passed...

...yet no sign of the Beast.

It was the third winter

under his lordship's rule...

...we knew the snow and the cold...

...much like our weapons,

would not make it stop.

Think about the threats God had spoken

through the mouth of Moses...

"I will come to you like a bear

who has lost her young...

...I shall tear your children apart like a lion.

Poison shall replace intestines...

...I shall send the Beast to

consume your mortal life, your soul...

... and your precious cattle...

...leaving your crops but barren fields of dust."

How long will you stay angry, Lord?

Each victim receives a candle.

Do you really think we live in a rational time?

Mercy.

I ask forgiveness.

Mercy.

Bless me.

What is it, my son?

God punished me.

My children are gone.

I'm doomed.

We're all doomed.

Assemble your men,

we leave at once.

Alert Mani, I will meet up with you soon.

Good evening, friend of the wolves.

I've got something for you.

I would like to see you, Marianne.

Alone.

In ten days my mother and father will be away.

Ten days?

I am not as free as you are.

Hand me a torch.

Bring me the torch.

A storm is on its way and my men are tired.

We'd better head back.

No. Let's find the girl.

I found the child.

Captain, those traps you set,

catch more peasants than wolves.

Your men misuse their power

over the population.

And since your little hunt,

the Beast has killed twelve times.

I don't understand.

No way it could have escaped.

What's that?

- ...no way it could have escaped.

And you, Knight, do you know

what kind of wolf this is?

Gentlemen...

I am certain it's not a wolf...

Wolves do not attack people.

I observed them in Canada.

Perhaps you observe different kinds of wolves.

One that is enraged, would attack anyone.

One that has become ravenous,

would die in under two weeks.

Still it's alive and loose.

For more then two years now...

...I have also seen wounds a wolf

could never have made, on the victims' bodies.

And I found, in a body of a victim,

a piece of metal.

So?

So...

No animal has metal teeth.

Well, the Beast is not an animal then.

Tell me Knight, how do we catch it?

As we speak now, people are being killed.

I think we should listen carefully to Fronsac.

So, Knight, according to your statements,

The Beast is no ordinary animal.

I'm glad you admit it's something extraordinary.

I won't admit anything.

I only have my doubts.

Knight, do you have something else to add?

No.

Gentlemen, I received this from Paris.

Captain Duhamel, His Majesty was informed

about your inability to capture the Beast...

... and I was asked to remove you from this case.

You and your men may leave at once

and rejoin your regiment in Langogne.

Sir Beauterne is already on his way to Langogne...

...with orders from his Majesty

to kill this ferocious wolf.

He is the only one who shall have

the authority to hunt in the district.

Gentlemen.

Have you forgiven me?

I would like to know my totem?

Do I say that properly?

I would say...

...a mermaid.

You are ever serious.

I will ask your red skinned man.

And the Beast? Are you going to pursue it?

No.

- You don't want to talk about it?

I could only draw an absurd conclusion,

labeled a buffoon in front of the King.

If I said the Beast is made of flesh and iron...

...that it can think like a human

and disappear at will...

What would you think?

- That the country air has made you mad.

People think that it hides from me...

You haven't been here long.

Have you given up so easily?

Did you think the Beast would give up easily?

Maybe it's scared of you.

- Am I so scary?

The more difficult the victory,

the greater the satisfaction.

Jean-Francois said you wanted to go to Africa.

It's a dream of a Naturalist...

...who is fed up with the winter.

And you? Ever want to discover new lands?

Women have more responsibilities,

than desires.

Do you see Sardis on the far wall?

Does he keep an eye on you?

- No

He watches me.

Alone with you in the park,

that is were he might be of help.

Let us go inside,

the priest will catch a cold.

Goodnight, Knight.

Goodnight, Knight.

Is it love?

- I don't know.

I know.

The maps?

I didn't need them for you my friend.

Let us drink.

To Mademoiselle de Morangias.

Why?

Her brother was here too that night.

Did you sleep with him?

With him?

He is not to be touched.

He looks, he drinks...

...and when he's drunk, he talks

in his sleep. Like all men.

Do I talk in my sleep?

What do I say then?

Again, again

Do you know how Florentine women

keep their men from straying?

They give their husbands slowly

working poison each morning.

...and each night, an antidote.

Men who sleep elsewhere will have

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