The Lovers Page #4

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in Massachusetts?

It's an odd thing.

Whenever I imagine happiness

with another person...

I have this premonition

that I won't be allowed it.

How sad that is, captain.

So, Tulaja Naik has gone

with the British?

To distract my pursuers.

So, they would still believe

I'm in their hands.

- She did an honorable thing.

- Sleep now. Jamnabai, rest.

Rest for the sake

of the new soul you carry.

Allow me to attack the boat, father.

Udaji, there are two things about the British

that really wake my insecurities.

First is their artillery and second

is the uncanny abilities

some British have to touch

the hearts of our people.

Father, I can do this.

Let this Captain Stewart make landfall.

Then Tulaja Naik is to be taken

from their hands and brought here.

Hurry up, hurry up. Out. Come on.

My king!

No longer a king.

Ex-queen Jamnabai has been taken

from the British by Killedar.

He has raised an army.

It's going to destroy us.

Why are you doing this?

My enemies now have their queen

and the British have abandoned me.

You said we could trust the British.

Where are the soldiers they promised us?

They move us around

like pieces on a chessboard.

Who knows what their next move would be.

So, you abandoned your throne

like a coward?

You're free to come with us

if you can find yourself a horse.

And what? Live the rest of my life

scurrying around like a rat?

Look at us. A rat and a viper.

- My lord!

- Stay here, woman, with your animal.

When hunger strikes, you'll soon know

which of you is the stronger.

Dolly! Dolly!

Dolly!

Look!

Oh, heaven! We're saved.

Oh, my God!

Saved.

Your alliance with Raoji

and his cowardice

has left us mightily exposed.

Don't you think, colonel?

On the contrary, governor

I believe his predicament

gives us a greater opportunity.

Which we shall leap

to take advantage of.

I propose, we invade

Purandhar fort with...

Restore Raoji to the throne

under certain new conditions.

Which I have negotiated.

Gold!

Bullion bars and coins!

Five hundred thousand ounces per year

for five years.

Payable to the company.

Calculate your bonuses, gentlemen.

Yum, yum.

Yes and with the ex-queen

still our guest...

we still have, in reserve,

a bargaining chip

we can use on the either side.

Which ever way it goes.

But... London.

Gentlemen, his majesty's government

will strenuously object to all this.

I think the vast sum of money involved

will mollify their scruples.

Indeed.

And while it maybe argued that the Colonel

Egerton has stirred up a hornet's nest.

We can, now, this time,

rightfully plead...

self defense.

War, it is then!

War!

James!

It appears we're officially at war.

I have to leave tomorrow.

We must address the issue,

of your escape.

Is everything alright?

Guru Dev.

Am I such a person, Guru Dev?

I've dreamt of this moment.

Tulaja.

Will you forgive me if I speak my mind?

You have deeply touched me

with your person,

with your wisdom, your courage,

your canniness.

If you could find it in your heart,

to reciprocate.

- My happiness would be immeasurable.

- James!

I never thought it would be

in my luck to love.

But plainly, as you see,

I'm in love with you.

I have nothing to offer you but myself.

My loyalty.

Tulaja!

Dare I hope.

James.

I have closed my heart tight.

I cannot.

You cannot?

My heart is closed, James.

You must look elsewhere.

Why?

Why is your heart closed?

Tulaja!

Look at me.

Please.

Well, then I'm... I'm taking it back...

Please, forgive me

if I have misread your heart.

I must organize your escape.

It's not necessary.

You told me that a Maharatha

does not like to be outdone

in paying a debt of honor.

Neither does a Scott.

Tulaja Naik.

The guards change

in twenty minutes. Go, go!

Return the key, quickly. Now, go, go.

Damn him!

It f***ing bit me.

Damn it!

Desai!

Sahib! Shoes.

Well...

I might as well check on the queen.

Get me the keys.

We must be quick.

Come on, quickly. Come on!

Sir!

Sir, Raoji has come from Kalyan.

Dash it.

It's not one pissing little pest,

it's another.

Escaped! Escaped!

The door was locked. I had the key.

Desai!

This is treachery, damn it,

not the f***ing road trick.

Call out the guard. Find her.

Stewart, something fishy going on.

Well, I'll sniff it out.

You are a part of time...

what the ancients called sarwadaiti.

That's which contains everything.

I feel you there, Jay.

Where are you, baby?

Where are you, baby?

Where are you?

Damn it! Damn it!

Is that the real queen girl, you say?

Damn him.

Stewart knew all the time.

Mastin, don't you think he's damnable?

Don't you think he should be cashiered?

No, it's of no matter now.

It matters to me, dear.

I'll wager he saw it as a humane act.

An empire is not made

on humane act, sir. Damn!

- Damn him!

- You'll have to get used to it, Egerton.

I fear Captain Stewart

is the voice of the future.

Not mine.

He's a threat to all the company

stands to gain. All England stands to gain.

- There is the Roman solution.

- What?

In battle how many men ever make it back

from leading the advance guard.

No one from His Majesty's point of view

is fitter to lead the advance

guard than Stewart.

And no one from your point of view

is fitter to not come back. Voila.

Clara, Clara!

How could you do it?

How could you? You love him.

You love James.

Eves dropping again.

Yes, I heard everything.

- I know what you've done.

- And have you enjoyed being enlightened?

- You're snake.

- How dare you!

You who have money and youth.

I have nothing.

Now I have something and it's nothing

to be proud of. But I will settle for it.

What about all those things

you said to me about loving

and counting ourselves lucky.

Doesn't that mean anything?

Love has many faces

and one of them is jealousy.

And you, you keep telling me

to act and I have.

And there's something

that I've always wanted to do.

I am not your servant.

That is the end of lessons for today.

And don't think

that you can get rid of me

because I'm coming to America with you

and your father. It's all agreed.

When we set off, I'll be your governess

and by the time we arrive,

your step mother...

You've driven out yourself, Raoji.

Now the British declared war on us.

Shall we allow them to do to us

what they did to Oudh?

To Bengal, to Madras? No!

Let us end their ambitions.

Let us send them home back

to their little island.

They shall not rule us.

May the Gods bless our queen.

Let them hear...

bounce your shouts, off the clouds!

Tell me about this Captain Stewart.

He's a leader of men.

He inspires love in our people.

Some people say so, father.

Then it will benefit us

to arrange his death.

Copy her writing and her signature.

In this Stewart is a good man.

I take no delight in doing this.

But my father fought the British and he

said "it's easier to wrestle the python

after you have chopped it's head off."

Let's bait the trap.

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