The Face of Alexandre Dumas: The Man in the Iron Mask Page #5

Your Majesty?

Carry on, everyone.

To the passageway.

[Panicked breathing]

Your Majesty! Your Majesty!

It's Judgement Day.

Don't look so shocked,

Phillippe.

Phillippe?

Why do you call me Phillippe?

We have a present for you.

No!

D'Artagnan guards the hall.

Let us go back

the way we came.

Time to go, Your Majesty.

Good.

- You know the way.

- Hm-hm.

You have the heart of a king.

[Music stops]

[Music stops]

Continue.

[Courtier] Your Majesty?

Some refreshments, Your Majesty?

[Stunned silence]

The Queen Mother!

God bless the King

and Queen Mother!

God bless the King

and Queen Mother!

I retire now.

Wait two dances,

then withdraw to your room

and spend the night in safety.

We have much to talk about.

And the rest of

our lives to do it.

Goodnight...

Mother.

Goodnight...

my son.

Anne...

Tomorrow.

How long has the King been back?

Some while, Captain.

[Christine] Murderer.

Murderer!

Christine?

I wrote to the front

under your seal.

I demanded to know why the

general disregarded the order

to keep Raoul out of danger.

He writes back:

'But, Your Majesty!

'Your letter ordered me

to place him

'at the vanguard of the assault

'in front of the cannon.'

You killed Raoul!

You killed Raoul!

You killed Raoul!

Let her go! You're hurting her!

However I have wronged you,

I will make amends.

Take her to her room.

Deploy the Musketeers!

Guard the passages!

Continue.

We have an emergency

of security, Your Majesty.

I must ask you to accompany me.

Not now. The ball...

My guests...

I insist...Your Majesty.

Yes, certainly.

- They've raised the alarm!

- They'll try to cut us off.

I am Porthos!

And I fight the King!

Look out!

Come on! Porthos!

Come on!

Everyone pump!

Stop them before

they reach the river!

Pull them back!

This man...is an imposter.

This is the imposter.

Pull them back.

Get in the boat, Your Majesty.

Open the gate!

Open the gate!

Open the gate.

I'm sorry. I failed you.

We failed you.

Stop!

You take my king...

I shall take yours.

[Louis] Get him! Get him!

Seize the imposter!

- Get him!

- Sire!

Seize him!

Phillippe!

Seize him! Take him!

- Hold on to him!

- Athos!

ATHOS!

I was told this

imposter was dead.

You knew?

You knew there was a man

of such resemblance?

He is my brother.

- Brother?

- My twin.

My blood.

A fact which has

kept him alive, until now.

Phillippe!

Louis! Please!

You were a part

of this, Mother?

I love you both!

That has meant nothing to us!

It has meant something to me.

Your Majesty, listen to me.

Never once have I asked

anything for myself.

I ask you now - spare the life

of this man, your brother.

You have no right to ask this!

Your Majesty...

every day of your life,

I have watched over you.

I have bled for you.

I have prayed every day

to see you become

greater than your office.

Show me what my faith

and blood have purchased.

Show mercy.

You take the side of traitors?

This one, worst of all -

my own brother!

And what have you done to him?

For one moment...

I thought you had

become the king

I'd hoped you would be.

Please...

My Lord, may I speak?

I beg that you kill me.

I release you from any sin

in taking my life.

In fact, I pray God

rewards you for your mercy.

But, please...do not...

I beg you...

return me to the prison

where I have lived for so long.

D'Artagnan...

You will hunt down

Porthos, Athos and Aramis

and bring me their heads.

Or I will have yours.

As for you, my brother,

back to the prison you shall go,

and into the mask you hate.

Wear it until you love it.

And die in it!

Anne!

There were two?

Not one but two?

I couldn't tell you.

You had enough to bear.

Anne...

I have loved you always,

none but you.

No matter what happens,

I pray you remember that.

[Woman screams]

Christine's room.

Where is she?

Get rid of it.

Where are you taking me?

No!

Where are you taking me?!

Where are you taking me?!

Please, no! No!

No! No! No!

NO!

No!

No!

No-o-o-o-o!

No! No! No!

It has been done, Your Majesty.

When d'Artagnan returns,

watch him.

When he leaves again, tell me.

Your Majesty.

Nothing down here.

All right, this way.

[D'Artagnan's voice] Phillippe is

in the lower dungeon of the Bastille.

At midnight, I will delay

the new guards for 10 minutes.

One for all and all for one,

d'Artagnan.

It is a trap,

but we have no choice.

If Phillippe is in the Bastille,

to the Bastille we will go.

I'd rather die covered in blood

than an old man

lying in my piss.

Our old uniforms,

from our days of glory.

I was saving them...

so that we could

wear them in death.

And so we shall!

Open up. We have a prisoner.

Take him to level three.

The captain will see

to the document.

It worked!

It's a prison.

The problems come

when we want to get out.

[Clock strikes]

Midnight. We have 10 minutes.

Down there.

Is this what you're looking for?

The key!

No!

Remember this?

[Musketeer]Don't be so sad.

There's nothing

left of him anyway.

He's just a snivelling,

drooling...

I knew you'd come!

We feared the mask

would destroy you.

I wear the mask,

it does not wear me.

- The courtyard is blocked.

- He lies!

- He's here to trap us.

- See for yourselves.

All that you have suffered,

I would gladly

have borne myself

to keep it from you.

Go to the east gate.

The courtyard

is filling with soldiers!

This way!

Go till you reach the river.

- They'll know you helped us.

- That doesn't matter. Go!

Fire!

Get that door!

The lock!

We're trapped!

Charge them!

Spare their lives if you can.

Cowards! Twenty men

run from four!

No one has the stomach

to fight the Captain.

[Louis] D'Artagnan!

I am not angry with you.

I knew you'd lead me to them.

Lay down your sword

and I will not punish you.

You can retire in peace.

I'll give your friends

a swift execution

if you surrender now.

You should take his offer.

We're dead anyway.

He's right, d'Artagnan.

[Phillippe] Wait!

Bargain me to Louis

for your lives.

You've done your best.

Please, let me go.

No.

I cannot do it.

Even if I could give up my king,

I could not give up...

my son.

Your son?

I loved your mother.

I love her still.

You are my son.

I never knew you existed.

And I never felt pride

as a father...

until this moment.

[Banging]

D'Artagnan...

They're young Musketeers.

They've been weaned

on our legends.

They revere us!

- It is an advantage.

- Yes. Why don't we charge them?

I trained these men.

They will fight to the death.

But if we must die...

if we must die,

Iet it be like this.

One for all...

All for one.

[Yelling]

Shoot!

Magnificent valour!

Shoot them!

Fire!

Get off me!

[D'Artagnan] Phillippe!

Phillippe!

He is...your brother.

Brother?

Outside, all of you!

You are sworn to silence.

Get this off me!

Forgive me.

All my life...

this...this is the death

I have always wanted.

All for one...

And one fo...

[Aramis prays quietly]

YOU were the one in the mask.

All MY life...

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