Anno 1790 (2011): Season 1, Episode 6 - En skål för schavotten - full transcript
So there, children. This isn't
something you should see. Come on.
- But...
- Freund is coming soon. No, but.
My friends...
To His Majesty who will
soon have one less enemy.
- Death to the traitor!
- Long live the king!
Traitors!
Long live the king!
Everyone cheers, except for those
who want to see the king dead.
- Why did Dĺĺdh disappear?
- He'll come back.
This mustn't go wrong.
Mrs. Wĺhlstedt.
Nordin is watching you.
Won't you come back?
I find it hard to raise a glass
to a neck that must be broken.
He suggests you're the king's
enemy; which you aren't, but...
It's so easy to be denounced.
- Nordin wants very much...
- To see me hang.
To take your place.
But it's safe.
Whatever you think about this
spectacle, don't turn away.
It's too dangerous.
Play along with it.
Is that what you're doing?
- Mrs. Wĺhlstedt.
- Freund...
The children shouldn't
witness the hanging.
You may teach as
soon as it is over.
It's time.
- Where are the children?
- In the kitchen.
They should be here.
- Won't we spare the children's eyes?
- Spare them? Bring them here.
- Dĺĺdh!
- Mr Wĺhlstedt, you stand and hang?
Long live the king!
Death to the tyrant!
- Cheers!
- The King, one with his people.
For the hanging?
- What is going on?
- It's to be dissected.
The body is mine.
I have the thing.
- What's happening?
- I'm Dr. Brodersson.
The body is of utmost
importance for my experiment-
- But now it's to be dissected.
- What is this nonsense?
- It's by His Majesty's command.
- I represent science.
My moulds need
young, healthy meat.
What a triumph.
Lilja's plans were
quite far advanced.
Now can our monarch breathe freely, for
time being. There are more enemies.
Lilja was the second to
believe in these crazy ideas.
What?
That someone other
than the king should
govern the country.
Brotherhood and freedom.
That all human life is equal although
there are the rich and the poor.
No, you can hear for
yourself how it sounds.
What a joy it was.
- Do you have something to talk about?
- Yes. Lilja's corpse was to be dissected.
- Yes.
- I wonder why.
The cause of death, there
is hardly any doubt.
You are aware, but it's
not something I like.
On the contrary, but in this case,
your questions will remain unanswered.
Of course.
Sometimes only a narrow circle around
our monarch knows what's happening.
Will you close the door?
"remove everything that worries, away
with everything that troubles the heart"
From the beginning.
Mrs. Wĺhlstedt.
- Have you encountered something?
- Yes, I have experienced something.
I ran into it when I was
born, since I was a woman.
Education of my children
is my responsibility.
It... It is my only one.
Suddenly it dawned on me I have
no control over it either.
Children shouldn't see what
they don't understand.
You want to break free.
My words mean as much
as everyone else's.
I wouldn't be silent.
And I beg you, never be silent.
I want to hear your thoughts.
If it was only you
who decided that.
It's not your place, if
I should keep quiet.
So there, children.
Dĺĺdh!
- Yes?
- Now all hell is loose. Come along.
- Can I get that?
- Oh hell!
Someone has killed two men and
stolen Pehr Lilja's corpse.
Why kill to take a corpse?
- It was Lilja's supporters.
- Why do you think?
- Revenge, of course.
- They hadn't killed the students.
You have high regard
for the insurgents.
Nordin, excuse us a moment?
Of course.
What I'll tell you
doesn't leave this room.
Pehr Lilja was arrested
and sentenced for...
Plotting a conspiracy against the king.
I can't go into the evidence.
- Do you know who the others were?
- No.
Any attempt to encourage
Lilja to talk, failed.
Believe me, we used
all possible means.
They said Lilja said there
was a list of names.
And Lilja carried it on
him wherever he went.
The body was be
dissected to see-
- if Lilja had invented a way to
hide the names on his person.
Those who stole the body and
wanted to prevent dissection.
- It wasn't necessary to...
- I have more.
Pehr said this was a paper that
shouldn't fall into the wrong hands.
- Have you read them?
- No, Mademoiselle.
I haven't been bestowed
the gift of reading.
- I will take good care of them.
- Do you know who turned him in?
It's dangerous times for
those who speak of freedom.
- Pehr gave his life for a good cause.
- In death, his corpse is cursed.
And I didn't get the ring.
- What ring?
My fiancé's ring.
It was a nice ring
with an emerald.
He said it would be my insurance
against poverty and distress.
Your loyalty won't go unnoticed.
Thank you.
That's opium, a good
remedy for melancholy.
Here you are.
- You showed interest in Lilja's body.
- Yes, such a body!
Strong, with the power of life.
Imagine being able to
grow mould on him.
- Mould?
- Of course, mould.
Mould. Mould hides many
surprising secrets.
With these cells I
come out of nowhere.
The rot before I had time
to make observations.
Mushrooms need human cadavers.
- What was that?
- Nothing. It's only rats.
- It didn't sound like rats.
That's it.
I can't get rid of them,
the only way is kill them.
- Who is he?
- Just a vagrant.
- What are you going with him?
- A few experiments.
It can lead to
something important.
- You think he'll soon be a corpse.
- If you have some luck.
- How many have gone to this?
- No, God forbid.
All corpses had been beheaded.
By whom? The executioner? Axel Roslund?
Does he sell the corpses?
Roslund does great service
to science, nothing else.
- But this time you went without.
- Yes.
- The body was to be dissected.
- Yes.
But the corpse was stolen.
What do you say to that?
Is that why you came? I
haven't stolen anything.
I am the Lord's servant, I haven't
stolen anything in my entire life.
It would be too great a sin.
- Where are your servants?
- Here.
I have a kitchen housekeeper,
a maid and a manservant.
Soon, you'll have another one.
What is your name?
Godfrey Palsson, but
what will I do with him?
So.
No vagrants.
Make sure to give the groom a real
food before you put him to work.
Nordin, Brodersson buys
corpses from the executioner.
You found out.
- Yes? I went in.
- It was my payment.
- Was it eight kronors for a hanging?
- Yes, that's right.
Brodersson and you
get along well.
- It isn't against the law.
- No.
But it's against common sense
to make money from a dead man.
What do you think? How was a
corpse that you sold, stolen?
I know nothing about it.
There.
Why was Pehr Lilja hanged?
I think Lilja himself
asked for it.
- Why would he do that?
- I only kill people under instruction.
If it was Pehr Lilja's own wish to be
hanged, is it possible to confirm?
Yes...
There ought to be here.
Royal petition.
Here's the letter.
"Hereby, I humbly petition" -
"your Majesty grant me
the grace to be hung"
- "And not executed with an axe.
Pehr Lilja."
Good.
Dĺĺdh... If you saw a blind
man move towards a cliff
Would you stand and watch
or would you intervene?
I'd intervene. Any sensible
person would do the same.
- Who is the blind man?
- You.
You are playing with lives. Mr. Wĺhlstedt.
Just look at you and Magdalena
To understand what
is between you.
Death follows in the wake of the passion
visible as soon as you're in the same room.
Freund.
Do you think Magdalena harbours
the same feelings for me?
It's quite obvious.
You can't understand how
impossible it is for me-
-To stifle the feelings
for Magdalena.
Don't you realize the magnitude
of what love can do to a man?
Why do you think I set
out in the war? Why?
You know that.
Don't think you're the only
one who suffers out of love.
- What's the matter?
- I can't breathe.
So...
Does it feel better?
You are so beautiful.
Where are my son's remains?
The body was stolen.
I can't discuss that matter now.
I beg you, let me bury him.
If not in consecrated
ground, then in the earth.
- Mr Lilja.
- Who are you?
I work as district commissar.
Come with me.
This way. Mr. Wĺhlstedt.
Get up. Wake up.
It wasn't his fault, it was those
he ran with... the traitors.
- Do you know what it was?
- How could he be so blind?
He'd probably argue
you were blind.
Now remind you of him.
Who were they?
He held me off.
I stayed outside.
We became insolvent, I
couldn't protect him.
- It was my fault.
- Don't you know who he spent time with?
Come in.
I saw you on the square
at Lilja's execution.
- We planned to get married.
- You were there with Miss Raxelius.
- I don't know who she is.
- I saw you.
How do you know her?
I don't know her; it
was Pehr who knew her.
Do you know others he hung
out with around town?
- No thanks.
- I know nothing of Pehr's movements.
Did he use to keep things here?
What would they be?
- Papers.
- No.
Or yes...
His talk about the king.
- Do you have it somewhere?
- I burned it.
Was there anything on his body?
With written characters or words?
He carried on him ...?
Pehr is dead, let
him rest in peace.
- You haven't heard.
- What?
Two students were to carry the body
to Uppsala, but they were assaulted.
The students are dead; and
your fiancé's body is gone.
Who would do such a thing?
I'm sorry.
Pehr had a ring.
An engagement one.
It was worth a lot of money.
No one could touch
it; not even me-
despite the celebration
of our engagement.
Thank you.
The commissar...
Sit down.
When you brought Lilja to the
gallows, did he wear a ring?
- I don't know, it could be.
- Think about it.
- It's possible.
- Many people were in the square.
- Where Pehr Lilja's supporters there?
- Not that I know.
- You didn't behave differently?
- No.
What do you do when you
don't hang people?
- I 'm a saddler.
- A saddler?
- What did you do after the hanging?
- I took a few cups.
Someone murdered to get Lilja's corpse.
Who? Brodersson?
You can't believe it was him.
I don't know. I
swear, I don't know.
- Why does she sit in the pillory?
- Don't ask.
- What had she done wrong?
- You heard me.
- Why is she there?
- You heard the pastor's words.
A marriage, ordained by God,
demands unswerving loyalty.
We need to go home.
Hello there! It's the law
to use a lamp after dark.
- Dĺĺdh, accompany me.
- I'm going to the police.
Let me drive you there.
- This night journey is dangerous.
- Things have to be done in the dark.
You are chasing the
same thing as me.
Let's hear it. What
are you looking for?
There is a list. If the list
falls into the wrong hands-
the people on the list risk having
the same fate as Pehr Lilja.
So?
Your name is probably
on the list.
- Your name may also be there.
- Nothing identifies me as a conspirator.
No, some people stand by their
ideas, others are silent.
I don't applaud the
existing order-
-But I don't believe
in bloodshed.
Really? But you
killed my brother.
No.
No!
From now on I don't care whether
you or someone else shot him.
You can enter the heart of power.
You can be the determining factor-
if people are allowed to continue
in the dark or into a new light.
Do you sleep well at nights when
you know you serve those in power?
Above all is the rooster,
the demon's enemy.
Previously, he was a sacred bird,
because he sits on the church tower.
The woman at church was held
fast in the demon's grip.
So said father.
Man is a weak, therefore,
she needs God.
What did the woman
do to be punished?
Mrs. Wĺhlstedt?
Fornication was her sin.
- Did she steal something?
- She cast shame on her husband.
She dishonoured their
name and the name of God.
- She broke her promise to God.
- What kind of promise?
What God joined together isn't
made for man to break up.
Good evening, Mrs.
Wĺhlstedt and Freund.
It's late. The lesson is
over, you can go to Johanna.
- I'm looking for the Chief Constable.
- He isn't home, you may come back.
Freund.
- The lesson is over.
- I'm waiting for Dĺĺdh.
If there's anything you want to
say, Freund, do so now or go away.
I know... I'm concerned.
I mean, I'm worried.
- It would pain me...
- If?
Good evening.
Mr. Dĺĺdh, I want
to be left alone.
Did I do the opposite?
I can't be alone with
you, never again.
I want you to go.
You are welcome here
when my husband is home.
Dĺĺdh!
Are you hungry?
Opium.
I can't be alone with you.
Freund!
- How is your husband?
- I'm a widow since March.
Is he your friend?
He seems to need your help.
I wasn't completely
in my senses.
That sometimes happens. It
looks like you need this.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
Don't take it so seriously. I
was struck by your escapades.
Do you want some good advice?
Get a wife, Dĺĺdh. Provide
stability for their lives.
- I'm convinced.
- With an honourable wife you'd avoid...
Yes, you know what I mean.
The itch of course sucks.
"Au revoir."
Magdalena?
Couldn't you find-
A respectable and
charming woman for Dĺĺdh?
He isn't particularly rich,
but his face is attractive.
- I can try...
- But he's respectable.
- Don't you know someone who'd suit him?
- Please don't...
Dĺĺdh's love life really
doesn't interest me.
You should think about it.
- Adolfsson was murdered.
- What?
See.
The chair!
Incipient body stains. It must
have happened last night.
- The throat is cut with...
- We can see well the throat is cut!
Do you know who
could have done it?
The city is perfectly
lousy with pigs.
What did he do before?
The last time he guarded detainees here.
He watched Lilja.
He watched Lilja.
When Lilja was arrested before the
hanging, Adolfsson was guarding him?
Yes.
Who came here and
picked up Pehr Lilja?
The executioner as usual.
Roslund.
Roslund.
The Customs House has
enhanced surveillance.
Mr. Wĺhlstedt! Roslund is also dead.
Murdered.
- What?
- The throat was cut.
The culprit is Pehr Lilja.
- Pehr Lilja?
- He survived.
A mock execution.
- What?
- Lilja lives. I know where he is.
- This is the whole corps.
- Gather the city guard.
Open!
- Step aside!
- What are you doing here?
- We are looking for a murderer.
- At my home?
Come in, Chief Constable.
District commissar.
Nordin, up stairs.
- You're pitiful.
- He's killed four.
And how many died in the war?
If you dig your own grave
your end will soon be here.
This applies both to the king as to
his lackeys, district commissar.
Pst!
What are you doing up so early?
Keep the pot warm.
You'll come back for dinner?
I have more questions to ask.
Wait a minute!
Good day, Madame.
Good day yourself, Freund.
I was surprised When I received
your invitation to dinner.
It was a surprise, a happy one.
- Dinner with one.
- Oh!
- Well, we'll have company?
- It is my master.
He should be here now.
He's a very pleasant
gentleman, I assure you.
- Can I pour you a drink?
- Yes.
- While we're waiting.
- Yes.
Thank you.
I knew you were alive.
So you are Mr. Dĺĺdh.
District Inspector.
I've heard a lot about you.
- Your ring holds many secrets.
- It teaches you not to spread further.
Open, but don't let anyone in.
Mr. Lilja, good day.
- I... I need to talk to you.
- It doesn't suit right now.
- Who did this to my son?
- You can't be here, you have to go.
Let him.
God in hell!
Aren't you happy to see me?
I couldn't die. I have too
much left to accomplish.
- What will you do?
- Free the commissar.
Please, father, I
can't allow it.
- Who are you?
- The one you brought me up to be.
Your fine master seems
a long time coming.
What shall we do in the
meantime, do you think?
- Madame isn't understood.
- I understand men's intentions.
They're often
difficult to guess.
No. No. My master goes about
in suffering and anguish.
He dreams of a woman he can't get.
I've been asked...
by God to help him from the
dangers of temptation.
Another woman might
be able to...
You're a good man, Freund.
But you don't know
a lot about women.
Cheers for that.
I don't understand. I saw you die.
I saw it with my own eyes.
You saw what he wanted you to see. He
had a contract with the executioner.
Roslund's device just made
it look like he was hanged.
But you didn't know you
were to be dissected.
So when you killed the students.
- Then you learned it from the witnesses.
- Is it true? Did you kill innocent people?
You've never understood.
The fight has its price.
The king took everything
away from us -
And yet you persist to be
his submissive lapdog!
Stop! He's your father!
You can sit here and regret
you've betrayed your friends.
Father, you will see.
You'll be proud of my courage.
You're a murderer.
But what's one life compared to all
the suffering coming from oppression?
- Four lives.
- Yes, there we have it.
Precisely, the idea
holds people back.
The struggle comes at a price, you
must understand that, promise?
Yes.
God!
You're not a good man.
- Promise!
- We don't have time.
You must get us loose.
- Where is he?
- Far away.
He intends to escape
from Haman's Cape.
Mr. Lilja, you must alert the city guard.
Haman's cape.
They'll help you over the
border and then off to France.
Farewell, my friend. Thank
you for your courage.
"Allez."
- Lilja!
- Come on, Dĺĺdh!
It's over. They're too far away.
Stay away for your own sake.
Lilja!
Quiet! Not a sound to. You're silent
Always when you should be talking.
I ask you.
The bullet could
have killed you.
You won't go anywhere!
- You're a murderer!
- I just spared your life.
Come with me.
So I can again see the gallows? I can
bargain my life for the names in the ring.
But it would be unjust.
Do you want to create change? Then take
your punishment. It'll create a stir.
Call out what you want to change,
inform people about freedom.
You could be the spark
so the fire will spread.
Now, if you believe in word so
much, why are you so quiet, then?
How easy is it to kill
when the mind is cold?
What is your accusation?
I killed a corpse?
You serve your king well, very well.
Where is my horse?
- Where is my horse?
- It's over there.
Get it.
Dĺĺdh...
- Don't let me interrupt.
- Will you meet Madame Ulfberg?
It'll make me happy one day when
it suits you both. Good night.
Freund...
Freund... Freund.
something you should see. Come on.
- But...
- Freund is coming soon. No, but.
My friends...
To His Majesty who will
soon have one less enemy.
- Death to the traitor!
- Long live the king!
Traitors!
Long live the king!
Everyone cheers, except for those
who want to see the king dead.
- Why did Dĺĺdh disappear?
- He'll come back.
This mustn't go wrong.
Mrs. Wĺhlstedt.
Nordin is watching you.
Won't you come back?
I find it hard to raise a glass
to a neck that must be broken.
He suggests you're the king's
enemy; which you aren't, but...
It's so easy to be denounced.
- Nordin wants very much...
- To see me hang.
To take your place.
But it's safe.
Whatever you think about this
spectacle, don't turn away.
It's too dangerous.
Play along with it.
Is that what you're doing?
- Mrs. Wĺhlstedt.
- Freund...
The children shouldn't
witness the hanging.
You may teach as
soon as it is over.
It's time.
- Where are the children?
- In the kitchen.
They should be here.
- Won't we spare the children's eyes?
- Spare them? Bring them here.
- Dĺĺdh!
- Mr Wĺhlstedt, you stand and hang?
Long live the king!
Death to the tyrant!
- Cheers!
- The King, one with his people.
For the hanging?
- What is going on?
- It's to be dissected.
The body is mine.
I have the thing.
- What's happening?
- I'm Dr. Brodersson.
The body is of utmost
importance for my experiment-
- But now it's to be dissected.
- What is this nonsense?
- It's by His Majesty's command.
- I represent science.
My moulds need
young, healthy meat.
What a triumph.
Lilja's plans were
quite far advanced.
Now can our monarch breathe freely, for
time being. There are more enemies.
Lilja was the second to
believe in these crazy ideas.
What?
That someone other
than the king should
govern the country.
Brotherhood and freedom.
That all human life is equal although
there are the rich and the poor.
No, you can hear for
yourself how it sounds.
What a joy it was.
- Do you have something to talk about?
- Yes. Lilja's corpse was to be dissected.
- Yes.
- I wonder why.
The cause of death, there
is hardly any doubt.
You are aware, but it's
not something I like.
On the contrary, but in this case,
your questions will remain unanswered.
Of course.
Sometimes only a narrow circle around
our monarch knows what's happening.
Will you close the door?
"remove everything that worries, away
with everything that troubles the heart"
From the beginning.
Mrs. Wĺhlstedt.
- Have you encountered something?
- Yes, I have experienced something.
I ran into it when I was
born, since I was a woman.
Education of my children
is my responsibility.
It... It is my only one.
Suddenly it dawned on me I have
no control over it either.
Children shouldn't see what
they don't understand.
You want to break free.
My words mean as much
as everyone else's.
I wouldn't be silent.
And I beg you, never be silent.
I want to hear your thoughts.
If it was only you
who decided that.
It's not your place, if
I should keep quiet.
So there, children.
Dĺĺdh!
- Yes?
- Now all hell is loose. Come along.
- Can I get that?
- Oh hell!
Someone has killed two men and
stolen Pehr Lilja's corpse.
Why kill to take a corpse?
- It was Lilja's supporters.
- Why do you think?
- Revenge, of course.
- They hadn't killed the students.
You have high regard
for the insurgents.
Nordin, excuse us a moment?
Of course.
What I'll tell you
doesn't leave this room.
Pehr Lilja was arrested
and sentenced for...
Plotting a conspiracy against the king.
I can't go into the evidence.
- Do you know who the others were?
- No.
Any attempt to encourage
Lilja to talk, failed.
Believe me, we used
all possible means.
They said Lilja said there
was a list of names.
And Lilja carried it on
him wherever he went.
The body was be
dissected to see-
- if Lilja had invented a way to
hide the names on his person.
Those who stole the body and
wanted to prevent dissection.
- It wasn't necessary to...
- I have more.
Pehr said this was a paper that
shouldn't fall into the wrong hands.
- Have you read them?
- No, Mademoiselle.
I haven't been bestowed
the gift of reading.
- I will take good care of them.
- Do you know who turned him in?
It's dangerous times for
those who speak of freedom.
- Pehr gave his life for a good cause.
- In death, his corpse is cursed.
And I didn't get the ring.
- What ring?
My fiancé's ring.
It was a nice ring
with an emerald.
He said it would be my insurance
against poverty and distress.
Your loyalty won't go unnoticed.
Thank you.
That's opium, a good
remedy for melancholy.
Here you are.
- You showed interest in Lilja's body.
- Yes, such a body!
Strong, with the power of life.
Imagine being able to
grow mould on him.
- Mould?
- Of course, mould.
Mould. Mould hides many
surprising secrets.
With these cells I
come out of nowhere.
The rot before I had time
to make observations.
Mushrooms need human cadavers.
- What was that?
- Nothing. It's only rats.
- It didn't sound like rats.
That's it.
I can't get rid of them,
the only way is kill them.
- Who is he?
- Just a vagrant.
- What are you going with him?
- A few experiments.
It can lead to
something important.
- You think he'll soon be a corpse.
- If you have some luck.
- How many have gone to this?
- No, God forbid.
All corpses had been beheaded.
By whom? The executioner? Axel Roslund?
Does he sell the corpses?
Roslund does great service
to science, nothing else.
- But this time you went without.
- Yes.
- The body was to be dissected.
- Yes.
But the corpse was stolen.
What do you say to that?
Is that why you came? I
haven't stolen anything.
I am the Lord's servant, I haven't
stolen anything in my entire life.
It would be too great a sin.
- Where are your servants?
- Here.
I have a kitchen housekeeper,
a maid and a manservant.
Soon, you'll have another one.
What is your name?
Godfrey Palsson, but
what will I do with him?
So.
No vagrants.
Make sure to give the groom a real
food before you put him to work.
Nordin, Brodersson buys
corpses from the executioner.
You found out.
- Yes? I went in.
- It was my payment.
- Was it eight kronors for a hanging?
- Yes, that's right.
Brodersson and you
get along well.
- It isn't against the law.
- No.
But it's against common sense
to make money from a dead man.
What do you think? How was a
corpse that you sold, stolen?
I know nothing about it.
There.
Why was Pehr Lilja hanged?
I think Lilja himself
asked for it.
- Why would he do that?
- I only kill people under instruction.
If it was Pehr Lilja's own wish to be
hanged, is it possible to confirm?
Yes...
There ought to be here.
Royal petition.
Here's the letter.
"Hereby, I humbly petition" -
"your Majesty grant me
the grace to be hung"
- "And not executed with an axe.
Pehr Lilja."
Good.
Dĺĺdh... If you saw a blind
man move towards a cliff
Would you stand and watch
or would you intervene?
I'd intervene. Any sensible
person would do the same.
- Who is the blind man?
- You.
You are playing with lives. Mr. Wĺhlstedt.
Just look at you and Magdalena
To understand what
is between you.
Death follows in the wake of the passion
visible as soon as you're in the same room.
Freund.
Do you think Magdalena harbours
the same feelings for me?
It's quite obvious.
You can't understand how
impossible it is for me-
-To stifle the feelings
for Magdalena.
Don't you realize the magnitude
of what love can do to a man?
Why do you think I set
out in the war? Why?
You know that.
Don't think you're the only
one who suffers out of love.
- What's the matter?
- I can't breathe.
So...
Does it feel better?
You are so beautiful.
Where are my son's remains?
The body was stolen.
I can't discuss that matter now.
I beg you, let me bury him.
If not in consecrated
ground, then in the earth.
- Mr Lilja.
- Who are you?
I work as district commissar.
Come with me.
This way. Mr. Wĺhlstedt.
Get up. Wake up.
It wasn't his fault, it was those
he ran with... the traitors.
- Do you know what it was?
- How could he be so blind?
He'd probably argue
you were blind.
Now remind you of him.
Who were they?
He held me off.
I stayed outside.
We became insolvent, I
couldn't protect him.
- It was my fault.
- Don't you know who he spent time with?
Come in.
I saw you on the square
at Lilja's execution.
- We planned to get married.
- You were there with Miss Raxelius.
- I don't know who she is.
- I saw you.
How do you know her?
I don't know her; it
was Pehr who knew her.
Do you know others he hung
out with around town?
- No thanks.
- I know nothing of Pehr's movements.
Did he use to keep things here?
What would they be?
- Papers.
- No.
Or yes...
His talk about the king.
- Do you have it somewhere?
- I burned it.
Was there anything on his body?
With written characters or words?
He carried on him ...?
Pehr is dead, let
him rest in peace.
- You haven't heard.
- What?
Two students were to carry the body
to Uppsala, but they were assaulted.
The students are dead; and
your fiancé's body is gone.
Who would do such a thing?
I'm sorry.
Pehr had a ring.
An engagement one.
It was worth a lot of money.
No one could touch
it; not even me-
despite the celebration
of our engagement.
Thank you.
The commissar...
Sit down.
When you brought Lilja to the
gallows, did he wear a ring?
- I don't know, it could be.
- Think about it.
- It's possible.
- Many people were in the square.
- Where Pehr Lilja's supporters there?
- Not that I know.
- You didn't behave differently?
- No.
What do you do when you
don't hang people?
- I 'm a saddler.
- A saddler?
- What did you do after the hanging?
- I took a few cups.
Someone murdered to get Lilja's corpse.
Who? Brodersson?
You can't believe it was him.
I don't know. I
swear, I don't know.
- Why does she sit in the pillory?
- Don't ask.
- What had she done wrong?
- You heard me.
- Why is she there?
- You heard the pastor's words.
A marriage, ordained by God,
demands unswerving loyalty.
We need to go home.
Hello there! It's the law
to use a lamp after dark.
- Dĺĺdh, accompany me.
- I'm going to the police.
Let me drive you there.
- This night journey is dangerous.
- Things have to be done in the dark.
You are chasing the
same thing as me.
Let's hear it. What
are you looking for?
There is a list. If the list
falls into the wrong hands-
the people on the list risk having
the same fate as Pehr Lilja.
So?
Your name is probably
on the list.
- Your name may also be there.
- Nothing identifies me as a conspirator.
No, some people stand by their
ideas, others are silent.
I don't applaud the
existing order-
-But I don't believe
in bloodshed.
Really? But you
killed my brother.
No.
No!
From now on I don't care whether
you or someone else shot him.
You can enter the heart of power.
You can be the determining factor-
if people are allowed to continue
in the dark or into a new light.
Do you sleep well at nights when
you know you serve those in power?
Above all is the rooster,
the demon's enemy.
Previously, he was a sacred bird,
because he sits on the church tower.
The woman at church was held
fast in the demon's grip.
So said father.
Man is a weak, therefore,
she needs God.
What did the woman
do to be punished?
Mrs. Wĺhlstedt?
Fornication was her sin.
- Did she steal something?
- She cast shame on her husband.
She dishonoured their
name and the name of God.
- She broke her promise to God.
- What kind of promise?
What God joined together isn't
made for man to break up.
Good evening, Mrs.
Wĺhlstedt and Freund.
It's late. The lesson is
over, you can go to Johanna.
- I'm looking for the Chief Constable.
- He isn't home, you may come back.
Freund.
- The lesson is over.
- I'm waiting for Dĺĺdh.
If there's anything you want to
say, Freund, do so now or go away.
I know... I'm concerned.
I mean, I'm worried.
- It would pain me...
- If?
Good evening.
Mr. Dĺĺdh, I want
to be left alone.
Did I do the opposite?
I can't be alone with
you, never again.
I want you to go.
You are welcome here
when my husband is home.
Dĺĺdh!
Are you hungry?
Opium.
I can't be alone with you.
Freund!
- How is your husband?
- I'm a widow since March.
Is he your friend?
He seems to need your help.
I wasn't completely
in my senses.
That sometimes happens. It
looks like you need this.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
Don't take it so seriously. I
was struck by your escapades.
Do you want some good advice?
Get a wife, Dĺĺdh. Provide
stability for their lives.
- I'm convinced.
- With an honourable wife you'd avoid...
Yes, you know what I mean.
The itch of course sucks.
"Au revoir."
Magdalena?
Couldn't you find-
A respectable and
charming woman for Dĺĺdh?
He isn't particularly rich,
but his face is attractive.
- I can try...
- But he's respectable.
- Don't you know someone who'd suit him?
- Please don't...
Dĺĺdh's love life really
doesn't interest me.
You should think about it.
- Adolfsson was murdered.
- What?
See.
The chair!
Incipient body stains. It must
have happened last night.
- The throat is cut with...
- We can see well the throat is cut!
Do you know who
could have done it?
The city is perfectly
lousy with pigs.
What did he do before?
The last time he guarded detainees here.
He watched Lilja.
He watched Lilja.
When Lilja was arrested before the
hanging, Adolfsson was guarding him?
Yes.
Who came here and
picked up Pehr Lilja?
The executioner as usual.
Roslund.
Roslund.
The Customs House has
enhanced surveillance.
Mr. Wĺhlstedt! Roslund is also dead.
Murdered.
- What?
- The throat was cut.
The culprit is Pehr Lilja.
- Pehr Lilja?
- He survived.
A mock execution.
- What?
- Lilja lives. I know where he is.
- This is the whole corps.
- Gather the city guard.
Open!
- Step aside!
- What are you doing here?
- We are looking for a murderer.
- At my home?
Come in, Chief Constable.
District commissar.
Nordin, up stairs.
- You're pitiful.
- He's killed four.
And how many died in the war?
If you dig your own grave
your end will soon be here.
This applies both to the king as to
his lackeys, district commissar.
Pst!
What are you doing up so early?
Keep the pot warm.
You'll come back for dinner?
I have more questions to ask.
Wait a minute!
Good day, Madame.
Good day yourself, Freund.
I was surprised When I received
your invitation to dinner.
It was a surprise, a happy one.
- Dinner with one.
- Oh!
- Well, we'll have company?
- It is my master.
He should be here now.
He's a very pleasant
gentleman, I assure you.
- Can I pour you a drink?
- Yes.
- While we're waiting.
- Yes.
Thank you.
I knew you were alive.
So you are Mr. Dĺĺdh.
District Inspector.
I've heard a lot about you.
- Your ring holds many secrets.
- It teaches you not to spread further.
Open, but don't let anyone in.
Mr. Lilja, good day.
- I... I need to talk to you.
- It doesn't suit right now.
- Who did this to my son?
- You can't be here, you have to go.
Let him.
God in hell!
Aren't you happy to see me?
I couldn't die. I have too
much left to accomplish.
- What will you do?
- Free the commissar.
Please, father, I
can't allow it.
- Who are you?
- The one you brought me up to be.
Your fine master seems
a long time coming.
What shall we do in the
meantime, do you think?
- Madame isn't understood.
- I understand men's intentions.
They're often
difficult to guess.
No. No. My master goes about
in suffering and anguish.
He dreams of a woman he can't get.
I've been asked...
by God to help him from the
dangers of temptation.
Another woman might
be able to...
You're a good man, Freund.
But you don't know
a lot about women.
Cheers for that.
I don't understand. I saw you die.
I saw it with my own eyes.
You saw what he wanted you to see. He
had a contract with the executioner.
Roslund's device just made
it look like he was hanged.
But you didn't know you
were to be dissected.
So when you killed the students.
- Then you learned it from the witnesses.
- Is it true? Did you kill innocent people?
You've never understood.
The fight has its price.
The king took everything
away from us -
And yet you persist to be
his submissive lapdog!
Stop! He's your father!
You can sit here and regret
you've betrayed your friends.
Father, you will see.
You'll be proud of my courage.
You're a murderer.
But what's one life compared to all
the suffering coming from oppression?
- Four lives.
- Yes, there we have it.
Precisely, the idea
holds people back.
The struggle comes at a price, you
must understand that, promise?
Yes.
God!
You're not a good man.
- Promise!
- We don't have time.
You must get us loose.
- Where is he?
- Far away.
He intends to escape
from Haman's Cape.
Mr. Lilja, you must alert the city guard.
Haman's cape.
They'll help you over the
border and then off to France.
Farewell, my friend. Thank
you for your courage.
"Allez."
- Lilja!
- Come on, Dĺĺdh!
It's over. They're too far away.
Stay away for your own sake.
Lilja!
Quiet! Not a sound to. You're silent
Always when you should be talking.
I ask you.
The bullet could
have killed you.
You won't go anywhere!
- You're a murderer!
- I just spared your life.
Come with me.
So I can again see the gallows? I can
bargain my life for the names in the ring.
But it would be unjust.
Do you want to create change? Then take
your punishment. It'll create a stir.
Call out what you want to change,
inform people about freedom.
You could be the spark
so the fire will spread.
Now, if you believe in word so
much, why are you so quiet, then?
How easy is it to kill
when the mind is cold?
What is your accusation?
I killed a corpse?
You serve your king well, very well.
Where is my horse?
- Where is my horse?
- It's over there.
Get it.
Dĺĺdh...
- Don't let me interrupt.
- Will you meet Madame Ulfberg?
It'll make me happy one day when
it suits you both. Good night.
Freund...
Freund... Freund.