The Merry Widow Page #5

But, Potpot or no Potpot,

I consider you the greatest idiot

in the diplomatic service.

Now, listen, Potpot.

Danilo gives secret away to

Maxim's girls,

secret all over terrace.

Local Marshovian newspapers read

information by telegraph.

Opposition paper will print story

tomorrow. Speedo.

Bring forth the marriage

or everything lost.

She must be married tonight.

Therefore, act quickly.

Be brilliant, be creative.

Kill umas. Admit nothing.

Deny everything. Avail crisis.

Face fact. Stand fast.

Something lost

if we don't do it now.

What are you waiting for. Augment

You still like Maxim's girls?

I love you and only you, darling.

Please believe me.

Danilo.

Ask me anything you want.

All my silly questions?

Yes. About tomorrow,

about all the days after tomorrow

Ask me anything, everything.

But please, believe me.

I do believe you because

I want to believe you.

Ladies. Ladies and gentlemen.

I have to honor to announce

the coming marriage

and the present engagement of

the charming Marshovian lady,

Madam Sonia,

and our own Captain Danilo,

captain of the royal guard.

It's a love match.

How does he know?

How does anyone know except you

and me?

Darling.

Captain Danilo,

would you be good enough to come

to his excellency immediately?

Sonia.

Yes, Danilo?

Would you wait here for me?

Of course.

Your excellency, how dare you

made such an announcement.

How dare you.

Do you know whom you're talking?

To the biggest idiot.

You read the telegram.

What telegram?

Here. Here. Read it.

It's unbelievable.

An officer giving away

a government secret

to a lot of Maxim's girls.

All Paris knows this.

Tomorrow,

it'll be in all the papers.

If the widow ever finds out that

this is a conspiracy,

that the government sends you here

she'll call off the marriage,

and the next thing she'll take

her money out of Marshovia,

then where will we be?

You have to marry her tonight.

Act quickly, be brilliant.

Act quickly, meet crisis,

deny everything, stand fast.

Something must be done.

Do it. Do it now.

What are you waiting for?

Your excellency. Shut up.

Sonia, you're crying.

I'm crying because I'm happy.

Why shouldn't I be happy?

Sonia.

Yes, Danilo.

There is something,

something I must tell you.

Please. Just a moment.

You love me, don't you?

Yes, I do. I do love you.

You don't have to convince me.

I know it, and the Maxim's girls,

all Paris, the whole world,

everybody knows you love me.

And everybody knows why.

Well, Captain, go ahead,

I'm waiting.

I love to hear you lie.

Have you nothing to say to me?

Nothing, madam,

that you would believe.

Goodbye, Captain.

Congratulations.

Ladies and gentlemen.

I wish to correct

a misunderstanding.

The announcement of

Madam's engagement

has been made without

Madam's knowledge or consent.

I am speaking for Madam Sonia

when I said Madam

has never entertained

the slightest thought of

such an engagement.

Madam, there is nothing left

to be said.

I shall make no attempt

to explain.

I know it's all over.

There's only one thing I want to

say before I go.

I love you, Fifi.

Now, what do you expect me to do?

Fall in your arms?

Marshovia has elected

the right man.

You're brilliant, Captain,

too brilliant.

Sorry, Captain.

In the name of your majesty,

you're under arrest.

You leave for

Marshovia immediately.

Well, gentlemen, shall we dance?

Oh, please, madam.

Open the gate for moment,

for gay time is in Paris

and play time

with the man of sincerity,

and he tells you he loves you

indefinitely.

What a pretty thing to see,

Paris in the spring.

High officer, Captain Danilo.

Widow has lost company.

King denies heart attack.

King denies heart attack.

Yes, sir.

King denies heart attack.

Widows withdraws many

from country.

Keep the change.

Thank you, sir.

What are we going to do?

If the widow doesn't change

her mind,

we can close up the country.

Oh, Dolores, Dolores.

Looks like exile to me.

Revolution?

The cannon just announced

the opening of the trial.

Thank you, Gabrilovitch.

In the name of His majesty,

I herewith open the trial of

the State of Marshovia versus

Captain Danilo.

Would you be good enough

to remove all the livestock in

the court room?

Bring in the prisoner.

Bring in the witnesses

and exhibits.

In the name of the State,

I accuse Captain Danilo of

high treason, failing his duty.

State is going to prove that

this man who lives was always was

a madness to Marshovia,

with no respect for the sanctity

of home,

not even stopping on garden walls

Exhibit Two.

Now, generals of the jury.

I will prove this Exhibit...

Your honor, I object.

I object this witness

being called an Exhibit.

She's an Exhibit.

She's a witness.

She is not. She is.

Objection sustain.

From now on, the prosecution

will refer to Exhibit Number Two

as Witness Number One.

Your honor, when I read

the charges against Count Danilo,

I realize this case concerns me,

so I came here from Paris.

May I have the opportunity

to testify?

The court appreciates

your patriotism, Madam.

Please, Madam.

Madam, will you tell the generals

of the jury,

in your own charming way,

everything you knew about

this case.

As I understand it,

you are charging the defendant

for neglecting his duty

and being a traitor to his country

Your honor, you are accusing

an innocent man.

He did everything in his power to

be true to Marshovia,

and betrayed me.

Don't put him in jail.

Give him a medal, a monument,

set him as an example.

A Marshovian patriot who stopped

at nothing.

He did do his duty.

He used every strategy,

every trick.

He lied, he deceive me,

he played with emotions, romance,

he was willing to break a woman's

heart just to proceed

what he is instructed.

Your honor, may I be permitted

to cross-examine the witness?

Granted.

Witness is yours.

So I lied to you.

Yes.

I was playing you games.

Nothing else.

When I danced with you,

I was only thinking of

your millions.

And when you took me in your arms

I was following instructions.

Yes.

And when I kissed you.

That's was the biggest lie of all

That's all I want to know.

I'm guilty.

Guilty of treason, failing in

duty, of everything you want.

But most of all,

I'm guilty of being your fool.

Once in my life, I lost both

my heart and my head.

Therefore, I should be punished

without mercy.

Let my fate be a warning to

every men, any man,

who can dance through life with

hundreds of women,

and is willing to walk through

life with one, should be hanged.

The widow.

Something must have happened

to the widow.

What? What? What?

She wants to go to jail

because of Captain Danilo.

I think... Quiet.

Racheski, Gabrico.

Yes, your majesty.

My horse.

Yes, your majesty.

Now, are you a friend of

the captain, madam?

Not exactly.

A relative?

No.

But you knew him before,

didn't you?

Oh, yes.

Well,

you wouldn't recognize him now.

He's a changed man.

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