01x01 - Episode 1

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I cannot bear it.

I will not believe
she's gone from all of us,

From me.

Melanie wilkes
was my only true friend.

How could she leave me now

Just when I need her most?

...And commit her body
to the ground.

Earth to earth...

Ashes to ashes...

And, oh,
my poor darling ashley,

Because
of my life's destruction,

Now the only thing left
of me of that wreckage.

Whoa.

This awful day
will be over soon.

Then I can go home...

To tara.

Oh, melanie...

Don't leave me.

Please, don't leave me,
melanie.

Oh, melanie. Melanie.

Ashley, stop it.

Ashley, don't.

Stop. Stop it.
You mustn't.

Leave my brother
alone.

Take your hands
off of him.

Leave him alone.

Haven't you done
enough harm?

If it's harm to have loved
melanie wilkes

With all my heart

And her husband
near as much-

In the name of heaven,
ladies, cease.

Cease this instant.

I'm ceasing.

Ashley.

Ashley,
come on.

Ashley, come along.

Come along, now.

Hail mary, full of grace,

The lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou
amongst women,

And blessed is the fruit
of thy womb jesus.

Excuse me, miss scarlett.

Gentleman here
to see you, ma'am.

What gentleman might that be, p*nsy?

Mr. Hamilton, ma'am.

Now, he says you wasn't
expecting him, but-

I'll say I wasn't.

Well, send him
on in, then.

Evening, scarlett.

Well,
here's a surprise.

Have a seat,
I guess.

I just thought
I'd stop by

And see how you're doing...

Mm-hmm.

After all that considerable
upset this morning.

That was most unfortunate.

Was it really all that
chilly out there, uncle henry,

Or was it only me feeling the cold draft

Of pompous
disapproval?

There was a bit
of a nip in the air.

Guess you've got a point
about the other.

Seems like a fair amount
of that disapproval

Was coming off you,
I'd say, henry.

What brings you by,
anyhow?

I thought
I might be able

To offer you
a little advice

That might ease
your situation.

What situation
is that?

The situation
that brought about

That unseemly display
of mutual animosity

At the cemetery, scarlett.

Now let's face
the facts a bit.

Feelings are running real high
against you here in atlanta.

Everybody seems
determined to believe

That you had your eye
and your intentions

Set on ashley wilkes

Right up to the time
melanie passed on.

That's a damn
scurrilous lie!

Scarlett, if I may offer
my best advice,

I think it would do
a world of good

For everybody concerned

If you would just remove
yourself from atlanta for a while.

Give tempers time
to simmer down.

Run away with my tail between my legs?

Well, I guess you'd all be real pleased

To see me take the next boat to timbuktu

On a one-way
passage.

You got the tar, the feathers, and the rail

Waiting outside,
have you?

I was just making
a kindly suggestion.

No more, no less.

I'm making
a kindly suggestion

For you to leave
my house, henry hamilton.

In spite of everything, scarlett,

I want to say
I was real upset

To hear about you and rhett
coming to a sorrowful end.

Well, maybe it's
sorrowful,

But whether
it's the end or not

Remains to be seen.

Hyah! Come on! Hyah!

Hyah! Come on!

All out for jonesboro.

Scarlett!
Hey, scarlett!

Will!

Oh, will.

I'm so glad to see you,

I'm practically
crying for joy.

Well, I guess you've
been doing enough crying

For grief, scarlett.

Joy wants his turn.

It's been
such a long time,

Almost a year.

More like two,
I guess.

You're exaggerating.

Don't believe I am,
scarlett.

Well, we best
get a move on

If we're gonna
beat the dark home.

Let's beat the dark home.

p*nsy, see to the luggage.

Hope you don't mind
riding rough.

Figured as long as I was coming to town,

Might as well
get some supplies.

I don't mind at all.

How's my dear sister
taking to the idea

Of me showing up
on your doorstep

Out of the clear blue sky?

I told suellen to let bygones be bygones.

I'm offering you
the same advice.

I'm hoping
you'll take it.

You know I'm not a person
to carry a grudge.

What's happened
to tara, will?

It's looking
downright ramshackle.

Do the best I can
keeping it up

When I'm not
tending the crops.

I know you do, will.

You've always been
a steady man,

The best foreman
we ever had at tara.

I'll bet you've been
a good husband to suellen,

Lots better that frank
kennedy would have been.

Well, coming from the
former mrs. Frank kennedy,

I guess I can take that as a compliment.

I thank you for it.

Whoa.

Whoa, now.

Suellen, god's nightgown,
you're having another?

We're still trying
for a boy.

He's trying for a boy.

I'm trying to take care
of the two I got.

And speaking
of which,

Let me get a look at
my pretty little nieces.

My,
how you've grown.

Aunt scarlett's here with
delicious surprises for you.

Oh, your aunt scarlett's

Always been one
for surprises.

Uh, let's-let's go in.

Lucius, see to
that luggage, will you?

Yes, sir,
mr. Will.

How have you been
getting along?

Just fine, I guess.

You getting
some good yields?

You didn't come back
to tara

To inquire about
our crops, scarlett.

Why are you here?

Why, to see mammy.

And where the dickens
is she, anyhow?

Oh, mammy.

Old mammy
is getting ready

To lay down
her worldly burdens.

I love you, mammy.

No need
for speaking

When I already
knows.

Yes, there is a need.

I never told melanie.

And I didn't tell rhett

Until it was too late.

Wouldn't mind
seeing that...

Devil's face again.

And so you will.

So you will.

Come on.
Just going to say hi

To your uncle seth here.

I'd like to send this
to atlanta, if you please.

Yes, ma'am.

This place could use
some sprucing up.

Looks almost
as bad as it did

The day
the w*r ended.

I reckon we could buy
enough whitewash

To paint the entire house

With what that fancy dress
you're wearing cost.

You're not being fair, suellen, as usual.

Haven't I tried a
hundred times to help out?

Hasn't will
been too proud

To accept my help?

Your charity, scarlett.

It's not charity.

Tara's still partly
my house, too.

It's not charity.

It's trying to make
what's partly mine

A fit place
to live in.

Yours and mine...

And the sisters of mercy
convent.

What do you mean?

The startling fact is
that our baby sister

Handed over her share
of tara to the convent.

It's her dowry
upon her entry

Into the service of jesus.

Careen did that?

Looks like you'll be having
the catholic church

To contend with before you
can make good your intentions.

What intentions?

Finding a way of throwing
us out to live like crackers.

You's way over the line.

I'll say she is.

I wanted us to be a family
again. Tara's our home.

I wanted us to be a family again in it.

Doesn't seem to be
a chance of that

As long as you hold your grudge against me

For something that happened
a hundred years ago.

Guess it wasn't all that long ago, was it?

Ladies, please?

She won't let
the past be past.

You're not the one
who had her beau stolen

From under her nose
by her very own sister.

If you knew what
kind of a husband

Frank kennedy
turned out to be,

You'd be
thanking me.

You stole frank
to pay the taxes on tara.

You lied to him, telling
him I had another beau.

You only married charles
hamilton out of spite

Because ashley
married melanie,

And you couldn't
bear it.

I guess careen
is the saint

Amongst the three
o'hara sisters.

I obviously
do not qualify.

Well, so much
for bygones, I guess.

That's belle watling's
place, isn't it?

Yes, sir.
Welcome to atlanta.

Yeow!

You are a feisty
little girl.

He come right back
to me.

Pick a card.

Put it back.

That's amazing.

How did you do that?

Show me again,
rhett.

I bet
I'll figure it out.

One time per trick,
honey.

Depending on the trick.

I bet
I'll figure it out

If I seen it
one more time.

Pick a card.

Don't let me
see it, now.

You got it fixed
in your mind?

Uh-huh.

Then put it back.

If I have it wrong,

You win.

If I have it right,

I win.

What do you win?

How many guesses you need,
luli?

Oh, rhett.

Take her away, fellas.

Don't shortchange
him, luli.

Now, can I interest
any of you gentlemen

In a game of chance?

Always a pleasure doing
business with you, rhett.

Evening, mr. Butler.

There's a telegram
for you, sir.

Thanks.

Good to see you, rhett.

You're looking well.

Suellen.

Prosperous, I might say.

Your survival of our
ignominious defeat in the w*r

Appears to have flourished
with the passage of time.

I've had me
some luck, suellen.

Hmm.

Thank you
for informing me

Of mammy's
dire state.

Came as soon
as I could.

Me?
Your telegram.

I didn't send you
a telegram.

Was there another will
benteen I didn't know about?

I assumed it was scarlett
let you know.

Scarlett.

Hello, rhett.

Mammy, mammy,
I brought you my promise.

Look.

Look who's come to see you.

Hello, old girl.

Am I still a mule
in a horse harness?

Who would ever call
mr. Rhett butler that?

You would, and did.

I must have
been teasing.

You must have been.

You wouldn't
hold it against me

If I asked you
a favor, mr. Rhett?

Not a chance, mammy.

Remember that fine red
silk petticoat you give me?

Yeah. I never gave a prettier to anyone.

I want you to see

That I'm laid
to rest in it.

I'll make sure
it goes with you, mammy.

Would I be asking
too many promises

If I was to have
one more?

Anything you want, mammy.

I want you to take care
of miss scarlett.

She needs caring for
so bad.

I will, mammy.

Always needed caring
so bad,

Miss scarlett did.

Thank you, mammy.

I just can't imagine tara without mammy.

Can you?

Why did you sign
will's name

To that telegraph
you sent me?

It was just a little bit of a fib.

I was afraid
you wouldn't come

If you knew
I was here.

For mammy,
I would have come.

Well,
I'm glad you did.

Apart from mammy,

I just thought
it would be

A perfectly
natural location

For courteous and civilized conversation

Between husband
and wife,

However strained relations
might be between us

At the present time.

I was sorry you couldn't
be at melanie's funeral.

I was traveling.

So I heard.

I laid some flowers
on her grave.

And bonnie's?

Hmm...

I wonder sometimes if things
might have been different

If our child
hadn't died.

Do you ever
wonder that?

No.

I've missed you,
rhett.

I've missed you so.

I hope you don't
expect me

To echo that sentiment.

Well, I thought
you might be able

To express some
semblance of it

After what you said
upstairs to mammy.

I lied.

Don't say you lied.

I will not
tolerate it.

I lied to make a dear old
woman's last moments happy.

No gentleman would lie about such a matter.

No, I don't suppose
a gentleman would.

You are such a child,
scarlett.

You've known me
all these years,

Yet when it suits,
pleases, or satisfies you,

You can forget
all you've learned.

Nothing's changed,
scarlett. Nothing.

I offered you a divorce.

You ready
to accept it yet?

I will never
divorce you.

You'd be free
to marry ashley.

I don't want ashley.

He was only ever
some figment

Of my silly
girlish dreams.

Let me make
amends, rhett.

Please, please
let me make amends.

Whatever amends you care
to make are your concern.

I'll not be
a party to them.

I hope you'll change
your mind about a divorce.

I think it's
the only possibility

Of some kind
of peace between us.

In the meantime,
I'll see to it

We're seen
often enough in public

To keep the gossip down.

I'm leaving in the morning.

Good night, my dear.

The yankees
should have hung you

When they had
the chance!

Whoa.

I've come to see
how ashley is.

You are not
welcome here, scarlett.

I made a promise
to melanie.

I intend
to keep it.

Do you intend
to step aside

And let me come in
like a lady,

Or do I have to
knock you over?

Ashley is in no humor
to receive visitors,

Least of all
unexpected ones.

Where is he?

You can either
tell me, india,

Or I'm going to
find him.

Get away!

Damn it!

Miss scarlett.

Dearest, I-

I didn't know you were back in atlanta.

Don't you look
the dickens?

What are you doing?

Doing? Why...

Nothing.

What I hear is

You haven't been seen
in public

Since the day
of the funeral.

Really?

Well, I suppose
that might well be.

I've rather lost track.

Maybe it's time

You found it again,
ashley.

You mustn't worry about me,
scarlett.

I'll be fine.

Really I will.

When are you going
to start trying to be?

I just can't bring myself

To believe it, you see.

I know how that is-

Somebody you love
dying.

You go to sleep
every night,

And it's gone
for a while,

And you wake up
remembering.

There isn't a moment
of a day

That I don't feel her...

Near...

And think that...

If I were merely to turn...

There she'd be...

My melanie.

Oh, scarlett...

How can I go on
without her?

You're going to have
to find a way, my darling,

And you will.

How?

Well, not like this,

Locking yourself away

And tormenting yourself

With what's never
going to be.

You can stare at that door
until you're old and gray,

And melly's never
going to come through it.

Scarlett,
you are harsh.

Not in my heart.

I know nobody loved melly
the way you did,

But you're not the only one
who did love her.

And the rest of us

Aren't going to curl up
and die from it,

And neither are you.

Maybe you should be giving
some thought to your son,

Melanie's son.

You're all he's got now.

Is this what
you want her to see

Looking down on you
from heaven-

Her boy all alone
and grieving alone

Because his pa feels too sorry
for himself to remember him,

To remember what he needs?

You shame me now,
scarlett.

Pa used to say

Some of the best things
folks have ever done

Come out of their shame

For the things
they did before.

Now, do you think

Maybe I could have
a cup of tea?

And we'll talk things over.

Tea.

So, now,

What's the situation
with scarlett of late?

I offered her a divorce.

If I know scarlett,

She ain't taking you
up on that.

Not yet.

You got more chance

Of her giving you
a divorce

Than you do

Of getting into
a bank on Sunday.

You going
to the ball this year?

What ball?

What ball?
The masked ball.

The carnival.

I expect
you already received

Your fancy engraved

Personal invite.

Well, I don't know.

Probably.

You get yours?

Ha!

That'll be the day.

But you ought to go,
you know.

Probably do you
a world of good.

I didn't know
I was in need

Of being done
a world of good.

The only thing darker
than your hair of late

Has been your countenance.

I been looking
all that glum?

You haven't been altogether
sparkly, you know.

I think a bit of
your former social life

Might very well
perk you up.

You want
to perk me up?

Climb in here with me.

This ain't built for two.

It depends on which two.

Come on.

Aah!

Why don't you
come home to pa?

That's it.

How do things stand
with my store

And the warehouses
and the land?

Everything is better
than well.

It was a more
fortunate decision

Than you may
have realized

When you sold
your sawmill to ashley.

Why?

Well, it's going under.

Builders always
need lumber.

If they're building.

I know you're
not interested

In what happens
in the world

Unless it concerns you,

But you have got one of
the best business heads

That I have ever met,

Despite the fact
that you're a female.

You might as well know

There was a considerable
financial scandal

In new york
three weeks ago.

What about my money?

Are the banks safe?

The one holding
your funds is.

But investments
are very tight,

And that means
building, too.

And if nobody's
building,

Nobody needs lumber.

Are you saying ashley

Is really in serious
financial difficulty?

You can't boom
without bucks.

This is delicious
sponge cake.

I want my cook
to have this recipe.

Who's the best builder
in atlanta, henry?

Well, define best.

Who can build

A reasonably
respectable structure

Without stealing
too much?

That's a difficult
parley, scarlett.

I'm asking for advice,

Not discouraging opinions.

I suppose a person

Could do worse
than big sam. Why?

Big sam. What do you mean, our big sam?

Our foreman at tara?

Formerly your big sam,
scarlett.

Does the name lincoln
ring a bell with you?

I got to say it,
miss scarlett.

You are a sight
for sore eyes.

Heh heh!

And maybe make them
water a bit, too.

You could've knocked me
over with a feather

When mr. Hamilton
told me

About your
coming back to atlanta

And your subsequent
good fortune, big sam.

The north didn't suit me
after a time.

But I did prosper.

I did prosper,

Enough so's
I could come home

And establish my little
business enterprise.

I'm glad to see you're
doing so well for yourself.

I'm here to offer you the
opportunity for lots better.

I'm just holding my breath,
miss scarlett,

Hoping you're going
to ask me

To build you
a big, new, fine house.

I'm thinking more
along the lines

Of maybe 25, big sam.



I'm not utilizing
all of it.

I won't require
that much land

To build, what,


on standard lots.

Yes, ma'am.

Who supplies
your lumber, sam?

The harrison lumber works
mostly.

Good quality,
fair prices.

If you keep your eye
on them.

You'll be getting your
lumber elsewhere for this job.

How many good rafters
you got over there?



Yes, sir, mr. Wilkes.

I've recently been
contracted to build them.

I'd be mighty pleased

If your outfit could
supply the lumber

To build them with.

I don't see why
it wouldn't be possible.

I will say, sam,

It seems a somewhat
precarious investment

For anyone in these
uncertain times.

Who are the developers?

Some folks I was in
business with up north

For a short spell.

Nice fellas. Highly spoken of up there.

Probably will be down
here, too, in the south,

Where they're expecting to
expand their business interests.



Even of the modest
dimensions

You've suggested, sam...

It's a good deal
of lumber.

I'd say so, mr. Wilkes.

Yes, indeed. We're discussing
a whole lot of lumber here.

Could be a profitable
discussion.

Yes, yes,
I expect it could.

I want you to draw up
a contract

Between samuel o'hara
building company

And atlanta acres
real estate incorporated.

Who in the world
are they?

They are me, uncle henry.

And I'm hereby
officially calling upon

The traditional
confidentiality

Existing between
a lawyer and his client.

What are you up to,
scarlett?

I'm up to keeping
a promise.

And if keeping it
means losing some money

In order to keep
ashley wilkes

From going belly up
in the sun,

Then...I'll just have
to take the loss this time.

Tomorrow's another day.

This is something
I thought I'd never see

In these days of
blatant opportunism.

These are quality
construction.

For once,
the less fortunate

Can be treated
as well as the rich.

It would appear

That maybe all
the old values

Haven't been
entirely lost.

It does seem that way,
doesn't it?

I'm honored to be part
of this.

I hope there's some financial
benefit to be derived

From all this honorable
and uplifting endeavor.

You can't imagine,
scarlett.

No, I suppose not.

I have to confess,

I have virtually no head
for commerce.

My business
is on the brink.

Then like a bolt
from the blue,

Big sam walked
into my office.

The good lord must've
been looking down on me.

I just know he was.

Well, I was getting
worried about you.

Well, your mother
is of her own mind.

Imagine her
having the nerve

To show her face
here tonight.

Ah, but what a face.

You men are all the same.

Ha ha ha!

Good evening, henry,
aunt pittypat.

Aren't you looking royal?

I gather
you've come alone,

But it's just not done
in polite society.

Well, so far I haven't
found so much polite

In the society
this evening.

I'll have to keep looking.

And as for being alone,

Well, I never am.

God is always with me.

I'll save a dance
for you, henry.

Have you saved
one for me, scarlett?

Why, ashley,
you know I have.

Remember when we
used to dance, ashley?

It's hard to remember sometimes.

I wonder if any of us
will ever dance again

The way we used to
before the w*r.

Our hearts
were different then.

Everything was
different then.

I miss it so,
don't you, scarlett?

Will it ever be that
way again, do you think?

I guess not.

We've got to keep
dancing, don't we?

Oh, my lord.

What is it, scarlett?

I haven't trod
on your toe, have I?

He's here.

He's here, ashley.

I didn't think
he'd come.

I hardly dared hope.

That's the silliest
looking thing

I've ever seen.

Who are you
supposed to be?

Keep a civil tongue

In your pretty head,
young miss.

You are addressing
edward teach,

The most fearsome pirate,

Known far and wide
as blackbeard.

Bluebeard would
be more like it.

Did you recognize
me, too?

I don't need to find the most
ostentatious gown in the room

To know who was under it.

I might've known you'd
say something mean.

I'd know you with a
flour sack on your head.

How would you
manage that?

I'm too much of a gentleman
this evening to say.

I believe you've
been drinking.

Did you come to see me?

No, I came to be seen,
scarlett, not to see.

I'm taking the opportunity

To fulfill our obligations
to the social amenities.

Keeping down
the gossip,

That's all you
came for.

You didn't come
to see me.

That-a girl, dear scarlett.

Whisper your
sweet nothings

Into my burning ears.

You're as tipsy as
a termite in a beer barrel.

I assume that weapon
is not loaded.

I don't think
I'd chance

Being in such close proximity
to you with a loaded p*stol.

I suppose you'll be staying
the night at the house.

Imagine
the gossip tomorrow

If I were to check into
the harmon hotel tonight.

I understand you made a spectacle
of yourself at melanie's funeral.

I was only keeping ashley from
making a spectacle of himself.

Ashley had a right
to be a spectacle.

He was well
within his bounds.

You were way outside
of yours.

You just persist
in breaking the rules.

You know that I'd hold you
to account for that.

I've always found it to be one
of your few agreeable aspects.

I don't care what the
mucky-mucks think of me.

I never have, and I'm not going to start.

The more you
natter on,

The more fortunate for you
that that p*stol isn't loaded.

Whoa!

Good night,
mr. Rhett.

Miss scarlett.

Y'all have pleasant
dreams, now.

You once carried me
across this threshold.

You can rest assured
that won't happen again.

Who is it?

What do you want?

It's just me,
miss scarlett.

I brought you
a pot of coffee.

I don't want it.

Miss scarlett,
maybe it would-

Get out before I take
a strap to you.

Why would you do that now
that sl*ve days is over?

You never done when sl*ve days still was.

There were plenty
of times I wanted to.

Yes'm,
I could see that.

Go away.

You're doing yourself
real hurt,

Miss scarlett.

It's breaking my heart

To see you
breaking yours.

The only hurt there's going to
be around here is me hurting you

If you don't remove yourself
from my sight.

It wouldn't be
you hurting me.

What's in that
bottle there,

And you'd wake up weeping and
moaning for the doing of it.

Spare yourself the hurt
and me the weeping.

Well...

It's just something
I had to say is all.

p*nsy!

I want you
to wash my hair.

And start packing.

We're going
to charleston.

Just lots more
hurtin' in charleston.

Now arriving
in charleston,

The express train
from columbia.

Oh, there she is.
There she is.

Aunt eulalie!
Aunt pauline!

Miss scarlett.

Oh, darling.

Shall we tell her now?

Tell me what?

Let's tell her now.

Tell me what?

Soon as we got your letter
telling us you were coming,

We mentioned it
to eleanor butler.

You told rhett's mother?

We presumed she was already
cognizant to the fact,

You being
her daughter-in-law.

She was just as surprised as we were.

We said you would be
staying with us at our house.

She said, "why, she'll
be doing no such thing."

She said, "you bring her
directly to my doorstep,

Or you will never hear
the end of it."

You will never hear
the end of it.

Is rhett there?

Rhett's up north.

Buying back some of
the family silver

The yankees stole.

Are you saying I'll be
a guest of mrs. Butler's?

She's invited me
to stay with her?

What could be more
natural and fitting, child?

It's your husband's
home, too.

Oh, my dear scarlett.

Oh.

I'm so glad
you've come home.

I've been longing
for you to come.

We'll go to market tomorrow.

You'll meet everyone
you should know there.

It's the traditional place
to learn all the news, too.

The newspapers don't print

The really
interesting things.

I suppose you couldn't
help being aware of

The unfortunate presence
in charleston

Of so many yankee soldiers.

I know you've
been rid of them

For some very long time
up in atlanta.

We've been occupied
for so long,

We hardly notice them
anymore.

I'll never get
used to them, never.

Well, then we'll just
have to do our best

To distract you
from their presence.

We can begin
this very day.

My committee is meeting
here this afternoon.

You must join us,

If only for tea.

I wouldn't want to prevail
on you to participate.

In what?

We raise money
with cake sales

And bazaars of handicrafts
and such

For the confederate home
for widows and orphans.

I'd be quite pleased
to participate

In something like that.

Oh, lovely.

Every bit of help helps.

Giddyap! Come on!

Giddyap! Come on!

Giddyap!

Sally!

Watch it!

Sally.

Jehoshaphat!

We're here.

Who in the heck
is that?

Sally brewton.

She can be mad
as a March hare at times.

Margaret, emma,

We have arrived.

Oh, my.

Well, it's another perfectly
thrilling ride, sally.

One's soul looks
forward to it.

Speak for yourself.

Yoo-hoo!

Eleanor!

Ha ha ha!

Who's that with you?

The new recruit

For our disgustingly
noble cause?

I had always heard that
you would turn the heads

On tin soldiers.

I'm pleased to see that
nobody was exaggerating.

Smoke?

No, thank you.
I don't indulge.

Your husband and I go back
to when he was in knee pants

And I was wondering what those
two funny bumps was on my chest.

Eleanor, where has that son
of yours been keeping himself?

He's in
philadelphia.

What the pluperfect heck
is he doing there?

Why don't you
ask him yourself?

Rhett!

I believe you rang
for tea, mrs. Butler.

Rhett, darling.

Is that what
I think it is?

Is that my tea service?

Oh, lord, it is
my tea service.

Where on earth
did you find it?

Philadelphia.

The place is bursting
with yankee plunder.

I brought a little bit
of it home...

To its rightful place.

I think I'm going to cry.

If I ever had a son, I'd
want to be just like rhett.

A husband would've been
even better.

Sally! Sally!

How you been keeping,
you wolf in wolf's clothing?

I proposed to you on a number of occasions.

You were about


I wanted to get
my bid in early.

Hello, rhett.

Ahem.

It is a fortunate man

Who's offered a greater
surprise than he offered.

I don't believe you know
our newest member

Miss anne hampton.

How do you do,
miss hampton?

Charmed to finally
meet you.

I've heard so much
about you.

Your tender ears
must be sizzling.

Welcome home, rhett, honey.

Welcome to charleston,
scarlett...

Honey.

You might seriously hurt
my arm, rhett butler!

What are you
doing here?

I sure didn't
come all this way

To lend my time
and efforts

To the confederate widows
and orphans sewing society.

I'm here
to be with you.

I no longer love you.

Don't say that. I'm your
wife. You're my husband.

An unfortunate circumstance
I offered to correct.

I will never divorce you
- never, never!

Your mother's overjoyed
that I'm here.

What will you tell her
if you throw me out?

'cause I'll tell her
the truth,

And it'll
break her heart.

I don't have to
throw you out.

Sooner or later,
you'll reveal yourself.

You think you can pass
yourself off as a lady.

Charleston gentry
will see through you.

I am a lady,
damn you!

You couldn't fool
a blind, deaf mule.

Show me
your clothes.

I assume you've armed
yourself with a new wardrobe

To win back
my favors,

All of it in your typically awful taste.

Now show me
your new frocks.

I'll see what can be salvaged, if anything.

Don't catch cold trying
to be alluring, scarlett.

You're wasting
your time.

I think I've been
wasting my time

Since the day I first
laid eyes on you.

Get rid of
all this lace.

It's supposed to be a
dress, not a tablecloth.

Get rid of this one
altogether. It's hopeless.

Change these gold
buttons for black ones

And shorten the train.

Ha ha ha. There's enough bows on this

To decorate
a christmas tree.

I hope you're enjoying
insulting me.

As a matter of fact,
I am.

See if you can make one
of these presentable enough

To be seen in
this evening.

My mother was
a robillard from savannah,

And the o'haras are descended
from the kings of ireland.

Every irishman
I've ever heard of

Seems to have been
descended from a king.

Is it just the one king,
scarlett, or were there several?

Ha ha ha.

I hate you.

Ha ha ha!

I hate you!

Looks like that royal
irish blood, miss hampton.

Sometimes it gets them
carried away.

Won't rhett be joining us, miss eleanor?

I'd hoped to have my
first charleston breakfast

With the company
of my husband.

Oh, but I thought
you knew, my dear.

Well, there-there was a
note from rhett this morning.

He left last night.

He's gone up-river
to dunmore landing.

Didn't he tell you?

Well, aren't I
the perfect dunce?

Certainly he told me.
Completely left my mind.

What a silly willy I am-
certainly, your plantation.

Yes. He spends quite a bit
of his time there these days,

As you're
no doubt aware.

Well...

Maybe it's just as well

I have a private moment
with you, miss eleanor.

Oh?

I need you to help me,
miss eleanor.

Well, of course,
scarlett.

How may I? Anything.

I want to
look like a lady.

Well, now, scarlett.

I know that I don't,

But I want to know
what I'm doing wrong.

I am a lady.

Well, of course
you are, scarlett.

Well, it may be that you
have so much vitality,

I mean, all the vigor

Of the world
you grew up in,

It's misleading
to people here

In the old,
tired, low country.

Still, you have no need of
rouge on your lovely face,

And your clothes are...

Well...

Uh...

As some of
your clothes are,

Ill considered.

Yes, w-we'll just
have to find ways

To make you
more like us.

Then you'll be
more comfortable.

Heh.

And I suppose
you will be, too.

Well, I would
never have said so.

Fresh fish! It's over here!

Go on, now.

And, uh, baked goods,
and they're so delicious.

You could gain 20 pounds
just by looking.

Oh, yes, um, I want
some sausage, please.

I'm afraid you're a
little late, mrs. Butler.

You don't
want those onions.

They're no good.

No good?

What's wrong with them?

They're not rotten
or sprouting.

They've been
dug up too soon.

They look fine, but they
won't have any flavor.

Take my word for it.

How do you know?

When I had to run our place
after the w*r, tara,

I planted onions.

I didn't know beans
about growing things,

So I dug up some when
the tops started to brown.

I figured they would rot.

They didn't have bite
to them at all.

You want these.
They're good onions.

Well, what can you
tell me about celery?

I have an uncommon

If not downright unnatural
adoration for celery.

Celery was too fancy
for us.

I had a dozen mouths
to feed.

Ask me about yams, though,
or white potatoes, turnips,

Or cotton-

You worked the fields?

We had to eat.

Weaved grass baskets.

I'll just go have
look at those baskets.

I hear charleston's
famous for its basketry.

How much
is that?

That's $4.00.

I just love
those.

I missed out
on the darn sausage.

That girl is just about
altogether lacking

In anything that would
pass for an education.

She's got the taste
of a hottentot,

But she's got vigor
and strength and brains.

She's a survivor.

We need her kind
in the south, eleanor,

Even in charleston,

Maybe especially
in charleston.

I'm going
to sponsor her.

I tried your recipe
for peach cobbler.

Scarlett, we have a rather important matter

We'd like to
discuss with you.

What's that, aunt pauline?

Concerning your
grandfather robillard.

Incidentally-

What about him?

It's come
to our attention

That you haven't
written him for years.

Why should I write him?

He's a crabby, mean old man
who's never helped me.

We were hoping you might
come with us to savannah...

For the celebration party.

What celebration party?

Father's birthday.

Well, I guess you'll just have
to do that celebrating without me.

Regardless of your
personal feelings,

You might consider
the question

Of respect
for one's elders.

And family loyalty.

Duty.

And good manners.

Don't you dare preach
over me.

I don't care a fig
for grandfather robillard.

He was horrid to mother
and to me.

You know I'm right.

He treats everybody
like dirt,

Including you,
his own daughters.

Father's sometimes
less than gracious.

Father has
his shortcomings.

That cannot be gainsaid,

But he is our father
nonetheless.

Nonetheless.

And nonetheless,
I won't be in savannah

Watching him
blow out his candles.

What I said
she'd say.

It's what you say.

Can you spare a bouquet for
my hall table, mr. Butler?

Take you'll pick,
miss brewton.

Heh heh heh.

Ahh, flowers.

Ha ha.

You, sir, are a caution.

You and me
go way back, rhett.

Tell me just what
exactly is going on

Between you and
that amazing girl.

What makes you
think that?

Your mother told me

That scarlett was less
than charitable to you

Concerning the death
of your child.

If I hadn't wanted
bonnie to ride that young,

She wouldn't
have been on a horse.

If she hadn't
been on a horse,

She wouldn't
have been jumping it.

If she hadn't
been jumping it,

She'd still be alive.

There were several
remarks to that effect.

That was
obviously grief

Turned upside down
and backwards.

She's put it back
together now.

Why else would
she be in charleston,

Except to show you that?

She's here because she refuses
to believe our marriage is over.

This marriage shouldn't
have occurred at all.

She'd been married
twice before.

She married me
for my money.

She admitted that.

She was madly in love
with ashley wilkes.

Why did you marry her?

Because she was unlike
any woman I had ever known-

Passionate, infuriating.

Ahh, I fell
in love with her

The moment
I laid eyes on her...

Kind of disease,
I suppose.

Now ashley wilkes
is a free man

And would marry scarlett
in an instant.

And I want to
be rid of her.

That only makes her
more determined to have me.

Heh heh.

I'm afraid it might
all happen again.

She's...

Heartless.

She's selfish.

She's like a child
who cries for a toy

And then breaks it,
but...

There are moments...

There are moments that I come
close to forgetting what I know.

Well, maybe
she'll change.

When pigs fly, my dear.

Dunmore landing
coming up now.

Isn't it perfectly stunning?

I'll give you $50,000
in gold-

I beg your pardon?

If you'll go away.

Go away?

A handsome deal, scarlett,

A fortune bigger
than you'd ever hoped for,

A king's ransom.

The king being you,
I guess.

It's funny you should offer
me what you call a deal.

What's funny about it?

I came to offer one.

I shudder to think what
your mind might concoct.

Why don't you just listen
through all that shuddering?

I'm offering for you to
stop acting so hateful to me,

To act nice and help me
have a good time

Through
the social season

Like a happy
married couple.

After the season,
I'll leave.

Without the money?

With the money,
of course.

That's no deal.

There's nothing
in it for me.

You'll take the money to
leave, but you don't leave.

How do I benefit?

I don't stay forever.

I don't tell your mother
what a skunk you are.

Hmm.

I think we might
be able to do business.

I'm always
willing to dicker.

You confide in mother

That however much
you adore me,

I snore incorrigibly
and unbearably,

A misfortune requiring us to
sleep in separate bedrooms.

After
the saint cecilia ball,

You'll express an urgent,
irresistible desire

To rush back to atlanta,

Where you will immediately
engage the services of a lawyer

To negotiate
a legal separation.

You will never again
set foot in charleston.

You'll never write or
otherwise communicate with me.

Swear you'll be nice
before I leave?

Word of honor.

Lacking a bible,
that will have to do.

If you turn mean,
you broke the deal,

And I don't
have to leave.

I still get the money.

Done.

You're a right trial in
the husband department,

But it's nice
doing business with you.

I don't suppose you'd reconsider that
aspect concerning separate bedrooms?

Girl can't
have everything.

Thank you, sir.








There you are,
ma'am.

Thank you.

Hi, rhett.

Well, now, here's
a happy surprise.

Ooh, darlin', I was just
hoping I would run into you.

And so you have.

How have
you been, luli?

Just fine
and dandy, rhett.

When you coming back
to atlanta?

I never know when I
might run up there.

It could be I'll be here in
charleston if belle wants.

You don't say.
And why's that?

Business.

Yours?

Mine's the only kind of
business I know, ain't it?

Exploring new frontiers
of commerce, are you?

Mmm...You might say.

Belle's opening
a whorehouse.

You might say that, too.

You're here just in time for the big race,

Horse race I'm running day after tomorrow.

Why the hell you runnin'
a horse race?

I love horse racing.
Can we go?

What horse race?

I won a fine quarter horse in a card game.

The loser suggested
he'd race me for it.

If he wins, he
gets his horse back.

If I win,
I keep the horse

And take his
other one as well.

Why?

Why don't you just settle
for what you already won?

Why are you in charleston?

Touché.

She told you. She's
opening a whorehouse.

Ha ha ha!

Don't let me down
now, rhett.

I bet the mortgage
on you.

Don't tell the missis,
jake.

Don't make me have to.

Good morning.

Hello, mr. Butler.

Who you betting on?

I'm not the betting sort.

I thought horse racing was
always around and around.

No, not this kind.
This kind is straight.

I thought it would
be around and around.

Mother.

Yoo-hoo, rhett!

Are my eyes
deceiving me,

Or is that
belle watling?

Morning, belle.

Hello.

Luli.

Ladies, may I introduce miss belle watling

And
miss luli harris.

My mother, belle,
mrs. Butler senior.

How do?

I don't believe you've
ever met my wife scarlett.

I know miss watling
by reputation.

Glad to make your
acquaintance, mrs. Butler.

Heard lots about you.

I don't expect you
came from atlanta

To see rhett race a horse, miss watling.

I wouldn't travel


Actually, I'm here on, uh,
business, truth be told.

Oh, I'm so fascinated

By ladies with
business interests.

So very unusual, isn't it?

What business are you
engaged in, miss watling,

If one may know?

You might say I arrange
social get-togethers.

I see. What exactly-

Uh, uh, mother...

I believe it's time for the race to start.

Belle, real good running into you. Luli.

Wish me luck.

I bet a whole dollar
on you.

Don't disappoint me.

He seldom does.

Easy on that
last bend, harry.

Would you care for a mint julep, darling?

Come on.

More!

Faster.

More!

Oh!

Yes!

Whoo!

All right!

Ooh, he sure can ride,
can't he?

I'll say.

Harry.

Congratulations.

Never a doubt,
my friend.

Never a doubt.

Great job.

Congratulations,
mr. Butler.

Congratulations.

Well, thank you so much.

I really
don't believe rhett

Was in need of two
more horses, though.

Didn't have a thing
to do with horses.

It had to do
with him winning.

Much too revealing to me.

When you going to stop all
this lollygagging around, sally,

And accept my oft repeated
proposals of matrimony?

Maxwell, if
I've told you once,

I've told you
more than twice,

Two marriages
were enough for me.

It's nothing personal.

Third time lucky.

Says who?

When I mentioned

I'd recently
made your acquaintance,

Daddy said
you had a reputation

Of some considerable
notoriety during the w*r.

Wonder what he could
have been referring to.

Are you teasing me?

I made me some money,

And I had me some fun,
miss hampton.

Did you come
in my room last night?

No.

You're lying.

Why would I lie?

I must have dreamt it.

Some random nocturnal
fever overcame you,

No doubt, giving rise
to visions.

Did you come
to my room last night?

Yes.

I expect your
dance card's full.

I threw it away.

I'm not dancing
with anyone but you.

We'll be hearing the
crack of breaking hearts

All over the ballroom.

There's only one
I want to hear breaking.

Pity.

You're a skunk.

It was by far the very
best ball of the season.

And the last.

That's your way
of reminding me

Our agreement
has concluded,

As if I
needed reminding.

I don't want to talk
about that tonight.

We'll talk
about it tomorrow.

Your mother mentioned your
being in new orleans recently.

For a short while.

Did being there bring
to mind our honeymoon?

Sure it did.

That's something, anyway.

Is your boat
out there somewhere?

Mm-hmm.

Does it have a name?

Bonnie.

I suppose I might
have guessed that.

I've never been sailing.

What's it like?

It's wonderful.

I'll bet it is.

I've never been.

All right.

All right,
just this once.

As adam said to eve.

I've never had
so much fun in my life.

Well, more or less.

Bring it about, mate.

Ha ha ha!

We don't want to tangle

With that
kind of weather.

Here. Take the tiller.

This!

I'll drop the jib.

Hold your course, mate!

Start bailing!

Bail out the water!

Rhett!

Scarlett!

Scarlett!

Hold on!

Don't die on me,
scarlett.

Please...

Don't die on me.

Come on.

Come on. Come back
to me, scarlett.

Don't go.

Don't go, scarlett.

Don't go.

Oh, scarlett!

I thought you were gone.

I wasn't dreaming
this time, was I?

Here. Take some of this.

It's just rotgut.
It'll warm you.

I don't need it.

I've never been warmer
in my life.

Listen to me, now.

For the rest of my life.

What happened...

Ahh, it was, um...

It was a celebration
of survival.

Nothing more.

You're saying that
'cause...

That's all
you want it to be,

But what happened
was your true heart,

Your true heart...

You love me.

I know you do.

You love me.

p*nsy?

p*nsy.

Oh, miss scarlett,

You woke up.

You been sleeping
the longest time.

How long?

What time is it?

How is she?

Well, she woke up
just this minute.

Oh, thank goodness.

Oh, honey.

Miss eleanor...

Ohh.

How long
have I been sleeping?

Oh...

Where's rhett?

Oh, you've been sleeping

Nearly 24 hours, dearest.

How do you feel?

Jehoshaphat.



How could anybody
sleep that long?

You had quite an ordeal.

Don't you remember?

Most of it, I guess.

Where's rhett?

p*nsy...

Tell mr. Rhett
that sleeping beauty

Is back from
the land of nod.

Well, maybe not so beauty...

If I look as bad
as I feel.

Oh.

I'm feeling dreadful.

Well, I don't believe
mr. Rhett here...

Right now.

p*nsy, go down
to the kitchen

And bring some broth up
for miss scarlett.

And some tea.

The doctor's
been by several times,

And he's given
every assurance

About your condition.

And he says
he wants you to rest

For another day or two.

Is rhett all right?

Rhett's fine.

I've got the most
splitting headache.

Will he be back soon?

Go on, miss eleanor.

It's just like
the poets say.

Sometimes...

Out of the darkest
danger and fear

Comes the most beautiful
and dazzling night.

We almost lost our lives.

And in that near losing,

We found each other
at last.

Oh, scarlett.

What's the matter?

Rhett is all right,
isn't he?

You're not lying to me,
are you?

What's this?

From rhett?

Shall I leave you alone for a bit?

Scarlett...

There's nothing I can say
about what happened yesterday,

Except that
I'm profoundly ashamed

And sorry
to have been the cause

Of such pain
and danger for you

And regret bitterly
all that occurred

After our escape.

My actions
were reprehensible.

I cannot, however,

Deny now the truth
of anything I said

In the aftermath
of our...

Ill-advised
and reckless encounter.

I must not and will not
ever see you again.

Naturally I cannot remain

In the environs
of charleston.

The cash settlement
I promised

Will be transferred to you
immediately

In care of henry hamilton
in atlanta.

I ask you to accept
my sincere apologies

For everything
about our lives together.

It was not meant to be.

I wish you
a happier future.

Miss scarlett,
a messenger just came by.

Delighted as I am to
hear your news, ashley,

I naturally
would've preferred

It had been a visit to me
that brought you to charleston

Instead of some
darned business matter.

Dare I say
my business here

Is more excuse for my
presence than reason for it?

You're not rake enough to say
such a thing to a lady, ashley.

Not and get away
with it.

I sometimes
so wish I were...

Rake enough.

You've heard
the saying

About leopards
and spots, I guess.

Alas, yes.

Alas nothing.

What you are is wonderful and fine, ashley.

You have no cause whatsoever
for regret about it.

It's what
I loved you for.

And made a ninny of myself
for, if truth be told,

And I guess it has to be sometimes.

If rhett butler
had just a smidgen

Of your character
and dignity-

How's rhett? That's the first
mention you've made of him.

Does a leopard
change his spots

For a stripe
down his back?

Are there difficulties?
I thought-

He's left me, ashley.

For good and all
this time, I guess.

I'm so very sorry,
my dear.

A minute ago you said
you brought a surprise,

As if your being here
wasn't surprise enough.

I won't tolerate being kept in
suspense for one minute longer.

I brought you
some photographs.

I'll just go
and get them.

I'll only
be a moment.

Don't be silly.

Save you a trip.
I'll come on up.

You really
think you should?

Fiddle-dee-dee.

I've spent
the past two months

Trying to do
what's expected

Of a proper charlestonian
nose-in-the-air lady.

What I have to conclude
is they're them, I'm me,

And never
the twain's gonna meet.

I hope the accommodations in this
hotel are worthy of you, ashley.

I'm quite content so far.

They're perfectly
wonderful, ashley.

I can hardly wait
to see them real.

Of course the photographs
don't quite do them justice.

They're such fine homes.

They've enhanced
big sam's reputation

In the building trades.

You can be sure of that.

And how about your reputation
in the lumber trades?

I've got almost more
demand than I can supply.

I'm so tickled-pink
for you, ashley.

Will you be coming back
to atlanta, scarlett?

I haven't quite decided

On my next
course of life.

I wish you'd
come back to atlanta.

Do you?

Very much.

Very much.

I think maybe I've got about 10 seconds

To get myself
out of this room.

Scarlett...



Scarlett...

This is charleston.

And you are,
ostensibly,

A lady.

A lady does not
accompany a man

To his hotel room.

And certainly not
in the broad light of day.

And most certainly
not in charleston.

Did this person who saw
me going up the stairs,

Whoever she is,

Since you refuse
to divulge her identity,

Did this person
observe me

Coming back down the
stairs 10 minutes later?

I'd need more time than
that to unlace my shoes,

Much less my corsets.

Scarlett, don't.

You're being vulgar.

I'm sorry.

But you are no longer
welcome in this house.

Well,
that suits me just fine.

'cause this is
no longer a house

In which I care
to be welcome.

Oh, my lord.

Is that me?

How can that be me?

What am I doing?

What have I done to myself?

Is that cowardly
disgusting creature

Scarlett o'hara?

No, it is not.

Scarlett o'hara
doesn't drown her sorrows.

Scarlett o'hara
doesn't hide away

And hope for
what she wants.

Scarlett o'hara goes out
and gets what she wants.

You coward.

Coward!

This here for
miss robillard.

Which of 'em?

Whichever.

Eulalie!

Scarlett's changed her mind!

She's going
to savannah with us!

Ohh.

Oh, my lord.

Oh, lord.

Yes.

Yes.

Well, I guess life's

Just a long game of chance
after all,

Isn't it,
mr. Rhett butler?

That's what a gambling man
like you would say,

Isn't it?

And you think
you've won it

And walked away
from the table

Leaving me high and dry.

Well, you'll be
thinking again

One of these days,
won't you?

You surely will.

Maybe you don't want me,

But I've got something now
you do want...

Always wanted.

The ace
is up my sleeve now,

And I'll play it
when the time's right

When I'm good and ready.

You'll be willing
to walk barefoot

Over hot coals
to come back to me.

We were always two pieces
of the one thing,

My darling rhett.

Now we're three.