02x03 - The Widow's Window

[bunniefuu]

[women] Goddess of ten thousand names.

Lady of Life,

Lady of Terror,

{\an8}Roamer of Deserts,

{\an8}Wanderer in the Wastes.

{\an8}[tense music playing]

[woman sobbing softly]

If we have to, we try again.

- [fabric whooshing]
- [gasps]

[footsteps approaching]

[dramatic music plays]

[Drolta] As it was
in the beginning of time,

when the furnace of her breath
created the desert,

so be it now.

[sizzling]

[groaning softly]

[woman gasps]

Come, Sekhmet.

Come, ceaseless night.

Fill our hearts with joy.

- [gasps]
- [disorienting music plays]

[Drolta] It takes strength
to be her sacred vessel.

[sinister music playing]

[music intensifies]

Can you feel her?

- Can you feel the goddess in you?
- [woman groaning]

[screams]

[woman groaning in agony]

- [mysterious music plays]
- [body thuds]

[woman sobbing]

Not again.

[music fades]

[theme music plays]

[music fades]

[fabric billowing]

{\an8}[flies buzzing]

{\an8}[Olrox] You couldn't have saved them.

{\an8}I don't only pick the fights I can win.

{\an8}- Then you're a fool.
- No.

{\an8}I'm just not an animal.

{\an8}Why don't you go back to where you belong?

{\an8}I've seen enough too, Olrox.

{\an8}[somber music playing]

Enough to know that some things
are worth dying for.

{\an8}And some things are not.

[music fades]

[jingling]

{\an8}You made this for me.

{\an8}I used to stare at it
when I had trouble sleeping,

{\an8}and imagine all the birds taking flight.

{\an8}I'd tell myself stories
about the places they'd go,

{\an8}and I'd always, always imagine
them coming back.

{\an8}[Tera] We're lucky

{\an8}when the things we love come back to us.

{\an8}[ominous music plays]

{\an8}The sun is setting fast.

{\an8}[crickets chirping]

{\an8}Does it seem quieter to you?

{\an8}And there's a smell in the air.

Iron.

Flesh.

Blood.

[carriage approaching]

[Maria] The National Guard.

All of them.

[gasps] Who could have done this?
Vampires?

Not in the daylight.

[Maria] They're taking them to the abbey.

[Tera] Erzsebet will have a new army
of night creatures by tomorrow.

Thanks to him.

[dramatic music plays]

[mechanism clunks]

[mechanism creaking]

- [mechanism whooshing]
- [air hisses]

I have a newfound fondness
for this contraption.

I was born three times.

The second time a vampire.

And the third...

[groans, wails]

[whimpers]

[gasps, sighs]

...a new and glorious thing.

[eerie music rising]

[music swells, ends]

[mysterious music plays]

[female voices whispering] Annette.
Annette. Annette.

Annette.

Annette.

[male voice whispers] Annette.

[female voice] Annette.

[eerie music rising]

- Annette!
- [gasps, groans]

[breathing heavily]

Annette.

It's okay. It was just a dream.

Are those dreams too?

[ominous music plays]

This is Erzsebet's doing.

But we're miles from Machecoul.

She has followers everywhere.

[people groaning, wailing]

Keep rowing.

Are you just going to leave them behind?

- We don't have time for distractions.
- But there are people in that village.

[people wailing in fear]

They'll be k*lled if we don't help them.

She's right.

We can't just pass them by.

If we rush to rescue
every distressed villager,

Erzsebet will rule the whole country
before we have half a chance to stop her.

Richter.

[woman whimpers] Help!

[woman whimpers]

[footsteps running]

- [people whimpering]
- [vampire snarling]

[woman gasps in fear]

[whip whooshing]

[groans wetly]

That way. It's safe over there.

Run!

[suspenseful music playing]

[Richter and Annette grunting]

[snarls]

Anyone ever tell you
not to torment your food?

[heroic music playing]

Me neither.

[grunts]

[vampire screams]

[music fades]

I think I k*lled all of them.

None left to report back to Erzsebet.

What?

Yesterday, when we were fighting vampires...

[tense music plays]

[inhales deeply]

...I might have given our destination away.

- I was just--
- Showing off.

As usual.

I'm sorry. It was stupid.
I wasn't thinking.

No, you weren't. You don't.

What's done is done, Alucard.
Let's just get moving.

[Alucard groans]

Hey, um...

thank you.

[gentle string music plays]

[night creatures snarling, trilling]

[Edouard] You were a captain
in the Revolutionary Army.

Yes.

And now I'm...

I am a new and glorious thing.

What were you?

From when I was a boy,

all I dreamed of was the opera.

When I sang, people loved me.

They whistled and cheered
and threw coins at my feet.

I wore Parisian silks.

I drank champagne.

But the world is dark and cruel

and filled with monsters.

And that was too much to bear.

You thought so too, Captain.

It's why you joined
the Revolutionary Army.

Yes.

To purge the world of monsters.

But here we are.

[night creature snarls]

Maria.

Maria!

- [eerie sting]
- [grunts]

[Juste sighs]

- [fox howls softly]
- [sighs]

[fox whines]

[ominous music plays]

[low whoosh]

[whooshing]

[haunting music plays]

[eerie whooshing and clicking]

[Maria] They look different
when I'm angry.

Do I draw them from somewhere else?

Or do I change them somehow?

Maybe I'm making monsters.

Like my father.

[melancholy music plays]

It's my fault all of this happened.
My fault for going back to the abbey.

- My fault that you're--
- None of this is your fault.

It was my job to keep you safe,
and I'd do it again a thousand times.

This is the place where I first taught you
to call creatures from other worlds.

To harness your magic.

Do you remember what I told you then?

I taught you that magic
is subtle as a blade,

and it has two sides.

{\an8}That it can be used
for survival or slaughter.

[ominous music playing]

Maybe I've learned everything
I need to know about survival.

[somber string music playing]

Alucard is on his way to Paris.

[sighs]

[Drolta] I'll leave soon,
Your Magnificence.

And give the vermin a shock.

Soon, Sekhmet will be whole again.

And I will be whole.

[clears throat]

Oh, look, he's hoping for a reward.

[chuckles]

[Drolta] It would be my pleasure.

[ominous music plays]

- Kneel.
- [gasps in surprise]

[somber string music playing]

[sizzling]

[gasping in fear]

[whimpers, groans in protest]

- [sizzling]
- [groans in pain]

Hail, Keeper of Light,

- Mother of the Dead.
- [Erzsebet chuckles]

- [laughing]
- [vampire groaning in pain]

[Drolta] Olrox.

Once again, I find myself
wondering where you've been.

Admiring the brutality with which
you slaughtered the Revolutionary Army.

[vampire whimpering]

[Olrox] What did he do?

He was making
a heartfelt display of his loyalty.

And it occurs to me, Olrox,

that you have done no such thing.

[Olrox] As you well know,
I both admire and worship you, goddess.

We sacrificed all we had
to serve Erzsebet.

What have you ever sacrificed, Olrox?

What would you die for?

Or who?

Only you.

[eerie, dramatic music playing]

[Erzsebet approaching]

If you love me, Olrox...

{\an8}you can wear it on your face.

[grunts]

[Olrox struggles]

[eerie music rising]

- [music swells]
- [sizzling]

[music fading]

[Mizrak] All our men are dead.

And yet, here we stand.

What are you doing here, Mizrak?

I'm here to say
that it's not too late, Emmanuel.

To remind you that even at the final hour,
the thief repented and was forgiven.

[chuckles softly]

How would I repent?

Unmake the night creatures?

Barter back my soul?

[eerie string music plays]

She'll k*ll me if I disobey her.

The man I knew was never afraid to die.

You wouldn't question me if you'd glimpsed
what I have of the other side.

If you heard it sometimes in the twilight.

Quiet laughter.

Hell.

Waiting.

Whispering your name.

[Mizrak] You told me it would be worth it

because you planned to use
the night creatures to k*ll Erzsebet.

Why don't you do that now?

[laughs]

Because now I've seen

that she could crush them
with an open palm.

So you fought to wrestle the world
from the hands of the revolutionaries

only to surrender it to her.

[Abbot] I thought I could use
hell's weapons to fight for heaven.

When Erzsebet finally swallows the sun
and floods this world with darkness,

we'll find that they were
the luckiest of us.

The ones who didn't live to see it.

[somber string music plays]

[wind whistling]

The first time I touched the Otherworld,

it felt like ripping a hole
through the fabric of the world.

I remember how scared I was
of what I might draw out.

I've sensed that fear many times.

It's been holding you back.

I can feel them.

Strange things on the other side.

Creatures that want to get out.

[whooshing]

- [magic humming]
- [quick whooshing]

[magic thrums, hums loudly]

[gasps]

[gasps]

[gasping]

- [wind howling]
- [magic humming louder]

[humming stops]

- [snarls]
- [Maria screams]

- [creature growling]
- [footsteps stomping]

- [footsteps stomping]
- [eerie music playing]

- [snarls]
- [Maria gasps]

[creature growling]

[creature snarls]

[Tera] What makes a thing a monster?

[grunts]

[suspenseful music playing]

[roars]

You'll never control it if you fear it.

[creature growling]

[Maria grunts]

- [mysterious music plays]
- [stops growling]

[creature growling softly and steadily]

To control it like I do with my birds,
I need to harness some part of its nature.

Be more like it.

Powerful. Predatory.

Deadly.

[footsteps thudding]

[music fading]

- [blade rasps]
- [eerie, suspenseful music plays]

[Juste] Maria, get out of the way.

Who are you?

What are you doing here?

I'm trying to save your daughter.
From you.

- No! Please! She's not like them.
- [ice crackling]

- [groans]
- [both grunt]

Now you show me a rat
that's different from any other rat.

I've seen hundreds of vampires in my life,
and they're all the same.

- [bones crack]
- [groans]

[grunts]

[gasps]

[grunts in surprise]

[hisses]

[grunts in fear]

[music fades]

[Tera pants]

I'm sorry.

Juste... [sighs]

I don't want to k*ll you.

[snarling in distance]

[footsteps marching]

[Juste] What are they?

[Maria] The National Guard.

It makes me sick looking at them,

knowing that he did this.

Turned them all into night creatures.

He needs to be stopped.

[wings beating overhead]

That's a night creature too?

[Tera] Drolta.

[wind whistling]

[gasps] How's that possible?

Where's Maria?

[ominous music plays]

- No!
- [sizzles]

She's going to the abbey.

Juste, go after her.

I can't get there fast enough to save her.

- Save her from what?
- From what she's about to do.

She's going to k*ll her father.

[eerie music rises]

- [dramatic sting]
- [music fades]

- [snarling]
- [ominous music plays]

[wings beating overhead]

[Drolta] Look at all this.

We're so close now.

To everything we've ever wanted.

[eerie music plays]

- [snaps fingers]
- [snarls]

I'll be back by sunset.

[eerie music rising]

- [music fades]
- [church bell tolling]

[people conversing indistinctly]

Is Paris always like this?

I can feel the tension.

[military drum beat playing]

Something's about to happen.

[ominous music plays]

I think that's the king.

Not anymore.

Which Louis is it? I've lost count.

They're calling him Louis the Last.

I'm all for beheading vampire aristos.

I mean, people who are actually evil,
but isn't this going a little far?

How can you say that?

It just doesn't seem
completely fair to me.

I'm on the side of the revolution,
but he wasn't a bad man.

Even Maria says
he wasn't a particularly bad king,

and all these old families...

The Bourbons.

The Belmonts. [chuckles softly]

Yes, they must seem rather lowly to you,
since you're related to an actual god.

It's not about good kings or bad kings.

No one can reign innocently.

This is the cost.

This is the way we let change in.

[Alucard] Through the widow's window.

Don't tell me you're a Royalist too.

I'm a realist.

But I'm also very old.

I'm not saying that when you live
for centuries you stop caring,

{\an8}but enough rebellions and upheavals,
and you notice the patterns.

[mysterious music playing]

They start with hope
and end with bloodshed.

Or they start with bloodshed
and end with bloodshed.

[crowd clamoring]

Annette. What's wrong?

Annette.

[drum beat stops]

[squelches]

[crowd cheering]

[ominous music plays]

[whooshing]

Annette?

[eerie, dramatic music plays]

[music rising]

[music fades]

[haunting, ethereal music plays]

[music fades]