Anno 1790 (2011): Season 1, Episode 8 - Tärningen är kastad - full transcript

Magdalena.

Magdalena.

Magdalena...

Mr.District commissar.

- Won't Clara come down?
- She has a cold.

Poor child. She visits the
capital and becomes ill.

Clara!

Clara?

Clara?

Clara!

Clara, what are you doing?



What are you thinking, child?

Magdalena?

What's going on?

- Nothing.
- What was that noise?

I dropped a plate.

- Clara's washing.
- Well...

Magdalena...

Please help me. You are a midwife, you're
the only one who knows how to do it.

You're the only one who can.

It's too dangerous.

You can die too, not
just the child.

It's a difficult procedure-

And the person who does it can be
sentenced to death if they're caught.

I'm sorry.



I'm sorry.

- You received letters.
- Letters?

Perhaps an invitation to Mrs.
Wĺhlstedt's birthday.

Yes.

What were you going to
give her as a present?

What would be
considered appropriate?

- A prayer book.
- A prayer book?

Or a flower.

There is a winter
crop in Vituna yard.

Your senses fail you.

I don't want to beat you,
but it's gone too far.

I curse you!

- Is this the way to Vituna?
- Yes, up here.

So...

Oh...

Hello!

- Who are you?
- I want to buy a flower.

Are you the son of the house?
- No, I'm the servant here.

He's my master.

Oh, calm.

- Where's everyone?
- Edward's in the building.

Mrs. Esperson and Miss
Elouise are in the yard.

I'll ride down the road,
and bring them back.

Come here. So, so, so. Come on.

Come on.

I found him like this.

I'm sorry for your loss.

There was a nail in the
softest part of the hoof.

Then I understand the horse was wild.
It may have been an accident.

I will give this to Magdalena.
It can hang here.

Although the horseshoe
mark is random-

- So I don't understand how an adult,
healthy man didn't manage to escape.

No. Perhaps you can hold it.

Stranger things have happened.
Up.

No, down.

The farmhand didn't seem at all
surprised, and no one else either.

A mishap.

For an offense, someone
must be prosecuted.

Do you suspect murder?

- I want to examine it.
- Do so.

- Yes.
- "Allez."

Well, Dĺĺdh...

This is for you, as a little appreciation.
For the party.

- There is too much, Mr. Wĺhlstedt.
- You can try it on at home.

Of course. Thank you kindly.

- What a juicy pheasant.
- I was going to take Clara out tomorrow.

To one of the islands.

- It sounds like an excellent idea.
- We'll be gone most of the day.

- You are on your feet. Good!
- Yes, thanks to your wife Magdalena.

Go ahead, sit down.

Magdalena told me about
your planned trip.

Yes.

It'll be wonderful.

I can't wait.

Maybe I should go.

- It sounds fantastic.
- No, sorry. I can't do it.

Take the opportunity and see all
the beautiful places around here.

And if Mademoiselle pleases maybe
we can play controversy tonight.

Yes.

Do what you do, I'm
not much for games.

I'm such a bad loser.

My father was buried today.

Mother and Elouise
are at peace inside.

You can't just step in.

Dĺĺdh must investigate
your father's body.

- Mrs. Esperson... Miss.
- Commissar Dĺĺdh.

This shouldn't take long.

- I found what I was looking for.
- Are we finished?

No, quite the opposite.

- Murder?
- His hands were tied.

- Who do you think did it?
- I want to ask you that.

Eberhard was a righteous man.
He had no quarrel with anyone.

- No.
- Joel?

- Yes, Mr commissar.
- You are the servant here on the farm.

- Yes.
- You were sent to shop.

At the grocer on
Västerlĺnggatan.

You can sit down.

- We passed a house on the way here.
- Crofters.

We have almost nothing
to do with them.

- But you must know who they are.
- Ĺberg. A man and his wife.

- Are they good people?
- I have never had problems with them.

- But someone else has.
- I didn't say.

Has anyone had trouble
with the crofters?

Now they are here.

Unfortunately, we have to go.

I'm the district commissar,
I'm looking for your husband.

I haven't seen him
since yesterday.

He threatened to enlist.

- You don't seem particularly worried.
- He's too cowardly to be a soldier.

He crawled for that pig.

- What pig?
- Eberhard Esperson, of course.

- Eberhard.
- He wasn't so popular.

We'll ride back to the farm.

This crofter, Ĺberg, did he have
a quarrel with Mr. Esperson?

- I don't gossip.
- I'm the commissar.

And he?

The crofter cursed this place.

He said if he didn't have to
be drawn into the secrets-

-He was pleased and grateful.

- Do you understand the secrets?
- No. "Everything was destroyed," he said.

Dĺĺdh, come here.

Do you see the tracks?
They lead in, but not out.

The tracks don't come
from those we spoke with.

Stop.

No! still!

Freund! Freund!

Take the boy.

- Where are you taking him?
- To the city.

- Is it necessary?
- Who's the boy?

They say he's a beggar
child they care for.

- They call him "Pimple".
- "Pimple"?

That isn't sensible.

Well...

Sven Ĺberg.

- What should he be arrested for?
- Murder.

- Do you know where he lives?
- He isn't there.

- Where should I look?
- Among the newly registered soldiers.

The boy, is he suspected of anything?
- Stop that!

- Nordin, let him be.
- He doesn't behave in any case.

- Can someone lock up this boy?
- I'll question him first.

- Who goes there?
- I do.

- Clara. Did anyone see you?
- No.

I told Johanna to
organize laundry.

Come on. I'm just finished.

So. Don't be afraid.

Are you afraid?

No matter what happens
I'm grateful.

It will go well.

Are Magdalena and Clara back?

They are down in the basement
arranging the laundry.

So there, dear Clara. Now the
worst of the pain is over.

Now you just lie still.

Ma... Magdalena...

Clara!

Clara.

No, no, no...

Clara? Clara, wake up!
Say something!

No, no, no... Clara!

She doesn't stop bleeding.

Chocolate.

As a confection.

Taste.

No.

Were you in the stables
when the accident happened?

If you tell me what happened in the
barn you'll get more chocolate.

- Dĺĺdh, you must come.
- What is it?

- She's bleeding, it's urgent.
- Who?

- What must I do?
- We have to get her up.

She must be higher
than the heart.

Clara? Clara?

I have lesson. I'll
take him away.

Just make sure he
doesn't escape.

- What have I done?
- Mrs. Wĺhlstedt.

- What have I done?
- So...

I'll be punished as a murderess.

And my children...

Magdalena, no one will know anything.
We'll clean everything.

It's all right.

Clara?

Clara...

- She breathes.
- Miss Clara?

Please, fine...

Everything is my fault.

I asked Freund to get him.
He saved Clara's life.

Mrs. Wĺhlstedt did what she
thought was the right thing.

She forgot to ask if I
were of the same mind.

If I felt the Chief Constable's
wife can perform... infanticide-

-in a wash house!

The penalty...

Like this...

No one will accuse
Wĺhlstedt's wife.

Never a word about this here.

Ever to anyone.

For the sake of both of you
I'll never utter a word.

Please go now, Dĺĺdh.

Clara tried to hang
herself in her room.

It was so close.

The child isn't her fault. She was
assaulted by three men in the woods.

Why did she walk in the woods?

I'm sorry.

Forgive me.

I must see to Clara.

Damn! He's here now.

- Who? -The soldier
you were looking for.

Sven Ĺberg.

He's waiting in the cell.

She ran in the yard all the time.
I wanted to know what she did.

What did she say?

She couldn't stand I
crawled for that fellow.

- Eberhard.
- I was a coward.

You wanted to prove
the contrary.

Yes, a woman's infidelity removes
all the power from a man.

- You went to see him.
- He even denied it.

And it made you angry.

- You got angry and hit him.
- Yes.

- What did he do?
- He laughed and said:

"You can't scare me with blows.
I'm used to it."

- Everything went black.
- You struck him.

Then you drove the nail into
the horse's foot, and waited.

What?

You killed Eberhard Esperson.

- No.
- He was the man your wife wanted.

No, she didn't bother him.

Mr. Esperson told me
of her movements.

- You said...
- With his son Edward.

The commissar. The commissar!

Clara has awakened.

I'll get ready for
the birthday party.

- I'm not ready yet.
- But please, Carl-Fredrik...

I'm ashamed, I have no
energy to play games.

You must have the energy.

You should greet
all your guests.

You should laugh at their jokes.

You will smile, and behave
like the good hostess you are.

Have I made myself clear?

The farmhand told the truth.

- Have you been to the grocer?
- Yes. He remembered him well.

Apparently he was there two days
earlier and purchased the same thing.

I asked the grocer if it was
common to buy so much sugar.

The answer was no.
It was unusual.

The farmhand was sent away because
he wasn't supposed to be there.

I'll make a trip to the
farm tomorrow morning.

- I saw your carriage.
- One thing I don't understand.

Why did the groom buy a new sugar-loaf
when he had just done the same thing?

I dropped it on the floor.

So it was you who
sent Joel there?

Yes.

Was it before or after you
amused yourself with Mrs. Ĺberg?

You don't deny it, I know.

I hadn't planned to deny it.

Did your father know about it?

He knew nothing.

How could he then
tell Ĺberg about it?

I dropped the sugar loaf, there's
nothing remarkable in that.

Was it you who sent
Joel to the merchant?

Yes.

- Tell me about your husband.
- He is dead and of blessed memory.

Was he also blessed in life?

Let the dead rest in peace.

- What's wrong with your legs?
- It is what it is.

- I have to live with it.
- I'm a doctor, I can help you.

Ouch! What are you doing, man?

- What happened?
- I fell.

I'm not always so
steady on my feet.

I don't think you will fall again.
What do you think?

I'd be very surprised.

You're good with flowers.

Yes.

Have you seen the orchid?
Isn't it beautiful?

I got it from a man
who wished me well.

Not from your father, then?

Did you know varieties of orchids
multiply in hot and cold weather?

When it's hot, they reproduce
like other flowers-

- But if it lives in the
cold it pollinates itself.

Its own pollen on
its own pistil.

Yet it's the most
beautiful flower I know.

In nature there is both
beautiful and loathsome things.

I just have a small question.

Why did farmhand go to buy a sugar-loaf
two days after he had bought one?

It was my fault, I dropped it.

Did you send Joel
to the merchant?

Yes.

Did the father of the child you're
expecting give you the orchid?

No.

Thanks, I have no
more questions.

Stolt.

Ulfberg.

We'll bring all
three to Stockholm.

Dĺĺdh, you know what
your prisoner has done?

- Sit down.
- "Pimple" pissed all over the cell.

All of you said you
broke the sugar loaf.

I don't care who it was.

What I'm interested in is
which of you killed Eberhard.

Who?

If no one confesses,
I'll find a scapegoat.

One who can't speak for himself.

A child.

I'll go and fetch the boy.

- It was me.
- Elouise, no.

My father pushed me,
and I beat him.

- I struck father.
- Edward.

He had crept up on me
and Anna Catherine.

He grumbled about the Lord. He'd
bang the Catechism into me.

Don't listen to them, I had enough.
Twenty years with that man.

- They want to protect me. It was me.
- It was me. -It was me!

- That was me!
- Enough!

It's usually the opposite.

One approach was used
when it was the opposite.

- I didn't think about it.
- On what?

It's a case where you let
fate decide who's to blame.

Two farmers were accused of
killing a customs officer.

The villains blamed each other.

It was decided to let them
roll dice to see who'd die.

- It's completely arbitrary.
- If we prove, after all, all are guilty.

- Then all should be acquitted.
- I think everyone should be executed.

Unless people can trust in
justice they will rise up.

I apologize, Chief Constable.

I don't think Dĺĺdh meant
what he said right now.

I think Dĺĺdh let his heart
speak freely for once.

Someone is guilty, someone
should be punished.

So!

Therefore, it comes to a throw.

The person getting the lowest
number will be judged guilty.

If no one wants to
admit responsibility.

All right, then we'll
leave it to fate.

Feel no duty to start?

- What happens now?
- Everyone has to throw.

- But I got one.
- It could be you, but all have to throw.

Unless your sister wants to
withdraw her confession.

Then we'll throw once again.
We have two left.

- I want to see Elof.
- Who?

Her son.

- This way.
- No.

Guard.

The boy will have it good now.

Father wouldn't let
him inside the house.

He forced Elof to
sleep in the stables.

If he came found mother bringing
porridge to the barn he hit her.

I'll bear the punishment
with my head held high.

Especially you...

You mean you are guilty.

It is my penance.

What really happened?

- I got carried away.
- And the others?

My mother saw what I had
done but she wasn't angry.

Was he dead when you
carried him out?

She has no guilt in this.

Was he already dead when
you carried him out?

Guard, go to your post.

I won't accuse your mother, I want
know what happened. When he was alive?

Yes.

Edward, he became angry?

I didn't know it then, but
Edward and Mrs. Ĺberg...

My father caught them.

He beat Edward worse than ever He
couldn't speak for several days.

He has no guilt, I'm guilty.

Your father was guilty, he
won't leave you in peace.

Freund.

Welcome.

Welcome.

Fine.

Adorable. Thank you. Come in.

- I wish to congratulate you.
- Thank you.

- Unfortunately I have no gift.
- Good, I don't want any more gifts.

Adlar Kreutz, welcome.
Thank you very much.

Not only in Poland they
confuse art with pork.

Dearest brothers, sisters and friends!
I would like to propose a toast.

My dear wife.

Those of you who know
me a long time know-

- That I called you the
first time I saw you.

As the prettiest and purest
woman as a man could want.

I proposed immediately.

You immediately said no.

But I asked again and again
and again and again-

And you said no, no, no, no.

But I continued because I knew-

-That you would stand by me-

And I couldn't live without you.

You said yes.

Since that time You are
the dearest thing I have.

But there are also moments
When you're my worst headache.

You're like an errant child, Magdalene.
You defy me!

You put a strain on my patience,
and I allow it because...

I love you.

If I were to lose you my life
would be incredibly poor-

And meaningless.

Magdalene cheers...

Your faults notwithstanding.

Cheers!

And now a little piece
in your honour.

Composed for you, dear wife.

Yes?

I'd like to discuss
one thing with you.

Dĺĺdh's behaviour at the dice.

I don't know how wise it is to have
a district commissar who is soft.

And this evening...

I noticed his behaviour
towards Wĺhlstedt's wife.

- How do you mean?
- I don't know...

It's as if they shared
something, a secret.

It would be wise to keep
him under surveillance.

- You leave Dĺĺdh in peace.
- I'd like to...

No!

Now the end of it, we
can't suspect each other.

Of course. It was
only a suggestion.

How are you?

I can't do this anymore.

- All this theatre.
- I understand you.

- Trust me.
- I know.

You know.

I can't be commissar anymore.

Why not?

The rift between the world I imagine
and the world I see is impossible-

-It's too deep.

I no longer want.

If you stop now,
Nordin takes over.

Maybe he should.

And you leave me.