1 00:00:00,919 --> 00:00:02,469 Previously on "Salem"... 2 00:00:02,504 --> 00:00:04,221 - Aah! - This is my vow. 3 00:00:04,256 --> 00:00:05,639 I will come back for you. 4 00:00:05,674 --> 00:00:09,142 George Sibley drove John Alden off to die in the war. 5 00:00:09,178 --> 00:00:10,594 What do you think he's gonna do 6 00:00:10,596 --> 00:00:12,930 when he finds out you're pregnant with John's baby? 7 00:00:14,066 --> 00:00:18,669 Precious Salem caught up in a stinking witch panic. 8 00:00:18,704 --> 00:00:20,570 I was told you were killed. 9 00:00:20,606 --> 00:00:23,340 Was that before or after you married Sibley? 10 00:00:23,392 --> 00:00:27,227 What's John Alden compared to all that lies before you? 11 00:00:27,262 --> 00:00:28,595 The Grand Rite, 12 00:00:28,647 --> 00:00:31,181 a ritual of death attributed to witches over the centuries. 13 00:00:31,233 --> 00:00:33,350 What do these witches want? 14 00:00:33,402 --> 00:00:35,518 A country of their own. 15 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:36,770 I want to be just like you. 16 00:00:36,822 --> 00:00:39,122 All the world shall be yours. 17 00:00:39,158 --> 00:00:40,158 Mercy! 18 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:41,992 You said your master would protect us. 19 00:00:42,995 --> 00:00:44,561 You have betrayed me. 20 00:00:44,596 --> 00:00:48,031 Alden is a traitor, and he is in love with a witch. 21 00:00:48,033 --> 00:00:49,666 - You're one of them? - Yes. 22 00:00:49,718 --> 00:00:52,002 Execute them on the spot. 23 00:00:52,004 --> 00:00:55,305 Tonight, there will be a plague released near Salem. 24 00:00:55,340 --> 00:00:58,091 Only those who carry the witch blood will be safe. 25 00:00:58,143 --> 00:00:59,893 I am not a witch! 26 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:02,345 It will end here. 27 00:01:02,347 --> 00:01:03,897 Father! 28 00:01:03,932 --> 00:01:06,149 Cotton. Your father's gone mad! 29 00:01:06,185 --> 00:01:07,851 She dies now! 30 00:01:08,654 --> 00:01:11,738 I am the Queen of the Night. 31 00:01:11,773 --> 00:01:13,607 And she will pay for what she's done. 32 00:01:13,659 --> 00:01:16,226 My child... lives? 33 00:01:41,270 --> 00:01:42,969 Hey! 34 00:01:44,106 --> 00:01:45,805 Stop! 35 00:01:45,858 --> 00:01:47,524 Get back here, boy! 36 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:56,616 Stop! 37 00:02:16,607 --> 00:02:18,607 _ 38 00:02:32,938 --> 00:02:34,437 Don't go in there. 39 00:02:36,825 --> 00:02:38,525 Who's down there? 40 00:02:38,577 --> 00:02:42,078 Death. 41 00:02:59,798 --> 00:03:06,269 ♪ And if that mockingbird don't sing ♪ 42 00:03:06,305 --> 00:03:14,144 ♪ Mama's gonna buy you a diamond ring ♪ 43 00:03:24,823 --> 00:03:27,824 ♪ Mama's gonna buy you... ♪ 44 00:03:29,628 --> 00:03:31,461 Boy. 45 00:03:47,512 --> 00:03:51,014 The plague is among us. 46 00:03:51,016 --> 00:03:53,316 Ma'am. 47 00:04:15,741 --> 00:04:17,056 Aah! 48 00:04:19,144 --> 00:04:21,277 No! Aah! 49 00:04:21,313 --> 00:04:22,696 Aah! 50 00:04:22,748 --> 00:04:24,080 - Help me. - Aah! 51 00:04:24,116 --> 00:04:26,616 Help me! 52 00:04:28,837 --> 00:04:32,122 ♪ Mother's gonna buy you a looking glass ♪ 53 00:04:32,174 --> 00:04:35,592 ♪ and if that looking glass gets broke ♪ 54 00:04:35,627 --> 00:04:39,212 ♪ mother's gonna buy you a black she-goat ♪ 55 00:04:39,264 --> 00:04:42,799 ♪ and if that black she-goat won't milk ♪ 56 00:04:42,851 --> 00:04:46,219 ♪ mother's gonna buy you a roll of silk ♪ 57 00:04:49,141 --> 00:04:53,360 You look like you've never had a lullaby before. 58 00:04:53,395 --> 00:04:56,613 The Widdershins don't like songs. 59 00:04:56,648 --> 00:04:58,732 Widdershins? 60 00:04:58,784 --> 00:05:00,617 They guarded me at night. 61 00:05:00,652 --> 00:05:04,287 Well, we'll soon change that. 62 00:05:04,323 --> 00:05:06,756 I shall sing to you every night. 63 00:05:08,961 --> 00:05:10,577 Tell me, dearest. 64 00:05:10,629 --> 00:05:13,964 Where were you all these years? 65 00:05:16,418 --> 00:05:18,385 Tell me. 66 00:05:18,420 --> 00:05:20,170 Time's up. 67 00:05:20,172 --> 00:05:21,504 Come now, child. 68 00:05:21,506 --> 00:05:23,923 You'll see your mother again tomorrow. 69 00:05:23,976 --> 00:05:25,175 It's time to go home. 70 00:05:25,227 --> 00:05:26,676 This is his home. 71 00:05:26,678 --> 00:05:27,811 It's been three days, 72 00:05:27,846 --> 00:05:30,230 and I'm already tired of this arrangement. 73 00:05:30,265 --> 00:05:32,916 You're not taking my child from me. 74 00:05:38,273 --> 00:05:40,106 Tituba, make it stop. 75 00:05:40,158 --> 00:05:41,791 Let him go, and it will. 76 00:05:49,918 --> 00:05:53,086 I will not be toyed with like this. 77 00:05:53,121 --> 00:05:56,956 They need to trust me. 78 00:05:57,009 --> 00:05:58,575 I am his mother. 79 00:05:58,610 --> 00:06:01,277 The Elders want to make sure that you stay focused 80 00:06:01,312 --> 00:06:03,212 on the urgent tasks at hand. 81 00:06:03,248 --> 00:06:04,914 Have I not already done 82 00:06:04,949 --> 00:06:06,949 what none before me could accomplish? 83 00:06:06,985 --> 00:06:09,986 Including those decrepit, old shits in the woods? 84 00:06:10,038 --> 00:06:11,121 At this very moment, 85 00:06:11,156 --> 00:06:13,173 the witch pox decimates our enemies 86 00:06:13,208 --> 00:06:15,959 but cannot touch those of witch blood. 87 00:06:16,011 --> 00:06:18,044 I will close the curtain around Salem 88 00:06:18,096 --> 00:06:21,047 and begin the consecration of the land with hell-blood. 89 00:06:21,099 --> 00:06:23,049 The gate will open on time. 90 00:06:23,101 --> 00:06:26,720 No one lacks Faith in your abilities. 91 00:06:26,772 --> 00:06:29,639 But what remains to be done cannot be done alone. 92 00:06:29,691 --> 00:06:32,609 You must shore up your support. 93 00:06:32,644 --> 00:06:37,914 Mercy, your own creation, is dangerously unstable 94 00:06:37,950 --> 00:06:41,818 and Anne Hale, an infinitely greater threat. 95 00:06:41,853 --> 00:06:43,653 That pallid blossom? 96 00:06:43,689 --> 00:06:47,624 She is a cradle witch of the highest and oldest order. 97 00:06:49,044 --> 00:06:51,211 Come, child. 98 00:06:52,331 --> 00:06:55,882 Remember, time is not on our side. 99 00:06:55,917 --> 00:06:58,001 A month from now, 100 00:06:58,053 --> 00:07:01,404 every man, woman, and child in this cursed town 101 00:07:01,439 --> 00:07:05,758 will be dead by the pox or on our side. 102 00:07:07,896 --> 00:07:10,930 You still think of John Alden. 103 00:07:12,567 --> 00:07:14,750 And you wonder why we don't trust you. 104 00:07:14,786 --> 00:07:17,820 I remember well what Rose told me. 105 00:07:17,856 --> 00:07:20,406 Only a broken heart can feel true malice. 106 00:07:20,441 --> 00:07:24,327 Watching you walk my son back into the darkness 107 00:07:24,362 --> 00:07:27,330 breaks it all over again every night. 108 00:07:27,365 --> 00:07:28,965 So, have no fear. 109 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,001 My malice is in full bloom. 110 00:07:32,037 --> 00:07:35,538 And rest assured, you traitorous, little bitch, 111 00:07:35,573 --> 00:07:39,208 once they have tasted it, you will choke on it. 112 00:08:28,943 --> 00:08:31,027 You track the Indians. 113 00:08:31,062 --> 00:08:33,696 Your eyes are everywhere and can go anywhere. 114 00:08:33,732 --> 00:08:36,366 What is it that you wish to see? 115 00:08:38,903 --> 00:08:42,155 I need to find John Alden. 116 00:08:48,997 --> 00:08:50,580 Yes. 117 00:08:50,582 --> 00:08:52,715 I remember him. 118 00:08:52,751 --> 00:08:53,951 He was here once. 119 00:08:54,002 --> 00:08:55,802 But where is he now? 120 00:08:55,837 --> 00:08:57,470 I've heard all the reports. 121 00:08:57,505 --> 00:08:59,222 Scores of the militia who sought him 122 00:08:59,257 --> 00:09:01,257 found slaughtered with nary a trace of him. 123 00:09:03,645 --> 00:09:05,995 Sit, Mistress. 124 00:09:07,932 --> 00:09:11,684 And give me your hands. 125 00:10:05,406 --> 00:10:08,908 Did you find what you were looking for? 126 00:10:30,432 --> 00:10:32,432 _ 127 00:10:32,756 --> 00:10:34,756 _ 128 00:10:34,780 --> 00:10:38,180 _ 129 00:10:39,704 --> 00:10:42,904 _ 130 00:10:42,928 --> 00:10:45,328 _ 131 00:10:45,752 --> 00:10:47,752 _ 132 00:11:00,076 --> 00:11:02,976 _ 133 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:08,200 _ 134 00:11:08,224 --> 00:11:10,624 _ 135 00:11:10,648 --> 00:11:13,748 _ 136 00:11:59,699 --> 00:12:02,699 - Synced and corrected by Retrojex - - Addic7ed.com - 137 00:12:19,424 --> 00:12:23,292 I wonder if you even remember. 138 00:12:23,294 --> 00:12:25,127 Remember what? 139 00:12:25,179 --> 00:12:26,663 What it feels like to sleep 140 00:12:26,698 --> 00:12:29,532 with your head on a pillow instead of a corpse. 141 00:12:29,584 --> 00:12:31,584 And your dress. 142 00:12:31,620 --> 00:12:34,537 Do you remember the feel of clean silk? 143 00:12:34,589 --> 00:12:37,457 Even your father never dressed you as poorly as this. 144 00:12:37,509 --> 00:12:41,428 No, he thought nothing of my dressing. 145 00:12:41,463 --> 00:12:43,629 Only my undressing. 146 00:12:43,681 --> 00:12:46,966 We are all angry at someone, Mercy. 147 00:12:47,018 --> 00:12:49,135 But we can't let that control us. 148 00:12:49,187 --> 00:12:52,388 That would be to leave the whip in our oppressor's hand 149 00:12:52,390 --> 00:12:54,557 even after they're gone. 150 00:12:59,113 --> 00:13:00,780 Wise words. 151 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,201 And true. 152 00:13:05,236 --> 00:13:07,537 But forgive me, Lady, if I still cherish 153 00:13:07,572 --> 00:13:09,739 thoughts of revenge in my breast. 154 00:13:09,741 --> 00:13:12,959 Salem will be ours soon. 155 00:13:12,994 --> 00:13:14,293 Isn't that the best revenge? 156 00:13:14,329 --> 00:13:18,998 Sometimes the best revenge is revenge. 157 00:13:19,050 --> 00:13:22,218 Mercy, I know you blame me for much. 158 00:13:22,253 --> 00:13:24,470 But it has always been I who protected you. 159 00:13:24,505 --> 00:13:25,922 And I still can 160 00:13:25,924 --> 00:13:30,977 if you would only pay proper respect to the Elders and to me. 161 00:13:31,012 --> 00:13:34,180 You alone know the truth. 162 00:13:34,232 --> 00:13:38,834 That I, and not you, beheaded the Samhain witch. 163 00:13:40,138 --> 00:13:41,571 But I'm not greedy. 164 00:13:41,606 --> 00:13:47,243 I'm perfectly content to rule alongside you. 165 00:13:47,278 --> 00:13:48,661 As your equal. 166 00:13:50,081 --> 00:13:54,250 You know that will never happen, child. 167 00:13:54,285 --> 00:13:57,620 You are too reckless. 168 00:13:57,672 --> 00:14:01,090 Submit to your elders, myself included. 169 00:14:01,125 --> 00:14:03,092 And in the fullness of time, 170 00:14:03,127 --> 00:14:05,761 who knows what powers you might attain? 171 00:14:05,797 --> 00:14:07,129 Truly. 172 00:14:07,131 --> 00:14:09,131 I promise. 173 00:14:09,934 --> 00:14:11,968 Like you promised John Alden? 174 00:14:13,521 --> 00:14:17,106 If you believe nothing else I say, girl, believe this. 175 00:14:17,141 --> 00:14:20,359 If you defy me, only horror awaits you... 176 00:14:20,395 --> 00:14:23,446 Unimaginable and infinitely painful. 177 00:14:23,481 --> 00:14:24,647 Hear me. 178 00:14:24,649 --> 00:14:26,732 That is no mere promise, but a curse. 179 00:14:54,729 --> 00:14:57,513 Cotton Mather. 180 00:14:57,565 --> 00:15:00,016 Sent to Salem to see to the matter 181 00:15:00,018 --> 00:15:02,018 of a single, disturbed girl, 182 00:15:02,070 --> 00:15:04,153 you return here to Boston six weeks later 183 00:15:04,188 --> 00:15:08,658 leaving in your wake a full-blown witch panic, 184 00:15:08,693 --> 00:15:09,925 more than a dozen hangings, 185 00:15:09,961 --> 00:15:14,363 and apparently unbeknownst to you, 186 00:15:14,415 --> 00:15:16,449 the murder of your own father. 187 00:15:17,785 --> 00:15:22,454 And even worse, these horrible deeds 188 00:15:22,506 --> 00:15:26,108 are all the work of the witch John Alden, 189 00:15:26,143 --> 00:15:29,011 according to some, your closest associate. 190 00:15:29,797 --> 00:15:31,213 Indeed. 191 00:15:31,265 --> 00:15:33,799 I have much to answer for. 192 00:15:33,851 --> 00:15:38,471 But first I must say that whatever happened to my father, 193 00:15:38,523 --> 00:15:42,058 I cannot believe that John Alden had anything to do with it. 194 00:15:42,060 --> 00:15:44,276 Then at least try to explain yourself. 195 00:15:44,312 --> 00:15:45,361 How did it come to this? 196 00:15:45,396 --> 00:15:48,698 On the very night he landed in Salem, 197 00:15:48,733 --> 00:15:51,233 my father said to me 198 00:15:51,285 --> 00:15:54,370 that it were better 1,000 innocents die 199 00:15:54,405 --> 00:15:56,205 than a single witch walk free. 200 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:58,708 I now believe that though my father was right about... 201 00:15:58,743 --> 00:16:01,493 about the nature of the threat that hangs over all of us, 202 00:16:01,529 --> 00:16:06,582 he... he was entirely wrong in his moral mathematics. 203 00:16:06,634 --> 00:16:08,417 Somehow, 204 00:16:08,469 --> 00:16:11,854 d-despite or even because of our relentless efforts, 205 00:16:11,889 --> 00:16:15,558 the witches completed their dreaded Grand Rite. 206 00:16:16,928 --> 00:16:19,261 The war is on. 207 00:16:21,482 --> 00:16:23,766 The battle has begun. 208 00:16:25,570 --> 00:16:28,938 And the front line is in Salem. 209 00:16:33,611 --> 00:16:36,245 Cotton Mather. 210 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:38,531 It is the elders' will 211 00:16:38,583 --> 00:16:41,033 that you shall, as your father intended, 212 00:16:41,085 --> 00:16:43,786 continue his work at the north Boston church. 213 00:16:43,838 --> 00:16:48,758 You are confined to Boston and... 214 00:16:48,793 --> 00:16:52,878 forbidden from returning to Salem. 215 00:17:06,310 --> 00:17:07,977 Save me. 216 00:17:07,979 --> 00:17:09,812 Save us. 217 00:17:11,732 --> 00:17:14,950 And deliver us from our failures. 218 00:17:18,656 --> 00:17:20,456 Gloriana. 219 00:17:25,546 --> 00:17:27,046 Gloriana. 220 00:17:29,500 --> 00:17:31,750 Don't stop, my lord. Don't stop. 221 00:17:31,803 --> 00:17:33,085 Oh! 222 00:17:33,137 --> 00:17:36,172 Ugh. 223 00:17:38,843 --> 00:17:40,476 See yourself out, 224 00:17:40,511 --> 00:17:42,344 and help yourself to any food 225 00:17:42,396 --> 00:17:45,431 you may find in the kitchen on your way. 226 00:18:04,202 --> 00:18:06,669 We know the truth, don't we, father? 227 00:18:08,005 --> 00:18:12,124 It wasn't John Alden who ran you through but me. 228 00:18:16,681 --> 00:18:21,100 Perhaps I should tell them how insane you'd become. 229 00:18:24,222 --> 00:18:27,389 How close to murder you came. 230 00:18:29,810 --> 00:18:36,482 And what I did to save your soul from that condemnable sin. 231 00:18:38,452 --> 00:18:41,904 How is it you've always stared at me, father, 232 00:18:41,939 --> 00:18:43,873 but never saw me? 233 00:18:45,743 --> 00:18:48,577 Damn your eyes! 234 00:18:48,629 --> 00:18:50,045 Damn your eyes! 235 00:18:50,081 --> 00:18:53,082 Damn them straight to Hell! 236 00:18:53,084 --> 00:18:54,717 To Hell! 237 00:19:14,272 --> 00:19:16,655 - Blessed evening. - Good evening. 238 00:19:16,691 --> 00:19:18,157 Good night. 239 00:19:18,192 --> 00:19:20,943 Ta! 240 00:19:29,620 --> 00:19:31,870 Now, the only women 241 00:19:31,923 --> 00:19:34,373 on the streets this time of night 242 00:19:34,425 --> 00:19:38,093 are whores or beggars. 243 00:19:38,129 --> 00:19:42,965 I ain't never seen a beggar smile. 244 00:19:42,967 --> 00:19:45,568 So, how much? 245 00:19:45,603 --> 00:19:48,804 I don't want your money. 246 00:19:48,806 --> 00:19:50,439 I just want you. 247 00:19:55,313 --> 00:19:58,397 Come with me. Someplace we won't be seen. 248 00:20:09,126 --> 00:20:10,909 Where we going? 249 00:20:10,962 --> 00:20:12,828 You'll see. 250 00:20:17,301 --> 00:20:18,861 - Just come with me a little... - Leave me alone! 251 00:20:18,871 --> 00:20:20,070 A little bit further. 252 00:20:21,222 --> 00:20:22,671 No, no. Hey! 253 00:20:22,673 --> 00:20:24,757 Shh. 254 00:20:24,809 --> 00:20:27,343 Shh. Mm. 255 00:20:27,395 --> 00:20:30,763 Mm. Oh. 256 00:20:39,657 --> 00:20:41,857 It's just my sisters. 257 00:20:43,027 --> 00:20:44,693 Mm. 258 00:20:47,498 --> 00:20:49,365 Oh, god. 259 00:21:14,442 --> 00:21:16,725 Mercy Lewis! You witch! 260 00:21:16,727 --> 00:21:18,694 Stay away from me. 261 00:21:18,729 --> 00:21:20,696 No. No, you let me go. 262 00:21:20,731 --> 00:21:22,314 I'll tell them all. I'll tell them all. 263 00:21:22,366 --> 00:21:24,900 I'll tell them all you're here and what you're doing. 264 00:21:24,952 --> 00:21:26,235 Really? 265 00:21:26,237 --> 00:21:29,071 And what are you gonna tell them? 266 00:21:29,123 --> 00:21:32,157 That you dragged a poor girl to the woods 267 00:21:32,209 --> 00:21:33,709 to steal her maidenhood? 268 00:21:33,761 --> 00:21:35,544 No. 269 00:21:36,631 --> 00:21:39,431 Some crazy bitch stole your manhood? 270 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:03,739 I control you now. 271 00:22:13,167 --> 00:22:14,383 Go home. 272 00:22:14,418 --> 00:22:16,085 You will say nothing of this 273 00:22:16,087 --> 00:22:18,554 because you can say nothing of this. 274 00:22:18,589 --> 00:22:21,807 And one day, 275 00:22:21,842 --> 00:22:25,844 maybe tomorrow night, maybe 1,001 nights from now, 276 00:22:25,896 --> 00:22:27,897 I will call you. 277 00:22:27,932 --> 00:22:29,765 Yes. 278 00:22:29,767 --> 00:22:32,685 And you will do as you are told. 279 00:22:47,022 --> 00:22:49,440 Make way! 280 00:22:50,875 --> 00:22:52,125 Move back. 281 00:22:53,845 --> 00:22:56,212 Make way! 282 00:22:56,214 --> 00:22:58,347 Make way. 283 00:23:00,718 --> 00:23:03,136 Move away. 284 00:23:04,556 --> 00:23:07,106 Move back! Make way! 285 00:24:20,348 --> 00:24:22,431 It's your own life force, Anne. 286 00:24:22,467 --> 00:24:28,437 Deep down, beneath the guilt, you want to live. 287 00:24:29,807 --> 00:24:33,809 I know you killed your parents, Anne. 288 00:24:33,811 --> 00:24:36,028 It's time to face what you really are. 289 00:24:36,064 --> 00:24:37,363 No. 290 00:24:37,398 --> 00:24:42,217 I may bear certain unasked-for traits, 291 00:24:42,219 --> 00:24:44,470 but that does not make me a witch. 292 00:24:44,522 --> 00:24:46,889 I am not one of you. 293 00:24:46,941 --> 00:24:48,307 You know nothing of me. 294 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:50,442 I don't want to know. 295 00:24:51,946 --> 00:24:54,446 I, too, came into my powers 296 00:24:54,482 --> 00:24:57,399 in the wake of great and painful loss. 297 00:24:57,451 --> 00:24:59,902 And I remember what it was first like 298 00:24:59,954 --> 00:25:05,074 to feel my body from within like a fever in the blood, 299 00:25:05,076 --> 00:25:07,409 that I could now do things, 300 00:25:07,411 --> 00:25:11,664 do things with words, with gestures. 301 00:25:11,716 --> 00:25:14,550 There is nothing I care to learn from you. 302 00:25:14,602 --> 00:25:16,469 No? 303 00:25:16,521 --> 00:25:19,221 You have yet to feel the terror 304 00:25:19,273 --> 00:25:23,392 that slowly becomes fascination and eventually joy 305 00:25:23,444 --> 00:25:25,194 as you learn to take in the life force 306 00:25:25,246 --> 00:25:26,696 in all the creatures around us, 307 00:25:26,698 --> 00:25:29,615 turning the power within it, directing it as you will, 308 00:25:29,667 --> 00:25:32,702 into another person... 309 00:25:32,804 --> 00:25:35,688 Or into, say, a doll. 310 00:25:35,923 --> 00:25:38,841 Do you remember when I gave you a little doll 311 00:25:38,843 --> 00:25:42,578 that very nearly squeezed the life out of you? 312 00:25:44,181 --> 00:25:45,731 That was you. 313 00:25:52,323 --> 00:25:54,189 I can teach you to control that. 314 00:25:54,241 --> 00:25:56,025 If you allow me in 315 00:25:56,027 --> 00:25:57,826 and you come in with us, with me, 316 00:25:57,862 --> 00:26:01,914 your eyes and heart and body will open to a truly new world. 317 00:26:01,949 --> 00:26:04,416 How can you hope to build a new world 318 00:26:04,452 --> 00:26:07,786 on the corpses of the innocents who live in this one? 319 00:26:08,506 --> 00:26:10,589 There is no world new or old 320 00:26:10,625 --> 00:26:12,541 not founded on bones and blood. 321 00:26:12,593 --> 00:26:14,009 Imagine a world 322 00:26:14,045 --> 00:26:17,630 free of the violent hypocrisy and oppression of the puritans, 323 00:26:17,682 --> 00:26:20,883 a new world that celebrates the power of nature, 324 00:26:20,885 --> 00:26:23,469 freedom of thought, belief, and feeling. 325 00:26:23,521 --> 00:26:25,721 This is our chance. 326 00:26:25,723 --> 00:26:30,693 A moment when the future of this land is utterly in doubt. 327 00:26:30,728 --> 00:26:32,394 You and I may have different methods, Anne, 328 00:26:32,396 --> 00:26:35,130 but the life you dream of is the very one I'm fighting for. 329 00:26:35,182 --> 00:26:37,566 But at what price? 330 00:26:37,568 --> 00:26:41,487 You, all of you, even my father, 331 00:26:41,539 --> 00:26:45,140 sold your souls to the devil himself. 332 00:26:46,544 --> 00:26:50,629 Neither the world, the flesh, nor the devil himself 333 00:26:50,665 --> 00:26:53,749 is like a puritan suit in only black and white. 334 00:26:53,784 --> 00:26:56,151 All is gray. 335 00:26:56,187 --> 00:26:59,421 And the devil they fear is not the devil I know. 336 00:26:59,457 --> 00:27:03,192 Either way, you had best be careful. 337 00:27:03,227 --> 00:27:06,261 You are an orphaned female, 338 00:27:06,263 --> 00:27:09,431 naked and vulnerable in a world of predatory men, 339 00:27:09,483 --> 00:27:11,066 many of whom would be glad 340 00:27:11,102 --> 00:27:15,904 to take your father's fortune and your virginity. 341 00:27:15,940 --> 00:27:17,773 I would be happy to extend to you 342 00:27:17,775 --> 00:27:19,858 the protection I receive from Mr. Sibley 343 00:27:19,910 --> 00:27:21,326 until you should find a man of your own 344 00:27:21,362 --> 00:27:22,802 to lend you a name and some standing. 345 00:27:22,830 --> 00:27:26,365 And why would you want to help me? 346 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,953 We have both known loss. 347 00:27:31,005 --> 00:27:32,921 Profound loss. 348 00:27:32,957 --> 00:27:36,258 But we are of the same family. 349 00:27:36,293 --> 00:27:40,629 And to heal those losses, we must work together. 350 00:27:44,018 --> 00:27:46,802 But what will we say 351 00:27:46,854 --> 00:27:50,105 about my parents? 352 00:27:50,141 --> 00:27:51,774 Just clean yourself up, 353 00:27:51,809 --> 00:27:53,859 and show up at the meeting house. 354 00:28:01,368 --> 00:28:03,869 This is not the time to fall into despair. 355 00:28:03,904 --> 00:28:08,540 Yes, since the discovery of this awful pox in Knocker's Hole, 356 00:28:08,576 --> 00:28:10,743 four more households have been felled. 357 00:28:10,795 --> 00:28:13,328 And not all of them in that downtrodden place. 358 00:28:13,330 --> 00:28:16,548 Good homes in fine neighborhoods are not immune, 359 00:28:16,584 --> 00:28:17,916 and none of us are safe. 360 00:28:17,968 --> 00:28:19,418 This scourge has taken 361 00:28:19,470 --> 00:28:22,471 our own Magistrate Hale and his loving wife, 362 00:28:22,506 --> 00:28:26,425 leaving behind their sorrowful daughter, Anne. 363 00:28:26,477 --> 00:28:29,762 But we can and will protect ourselves 364 00:28:29,814 --> 00:28:31,597 from the ravages of this pox. 365 00:28:31,649 --> 00:28:35,651 It may require some sacrifices, some strictures. 366 00:28:35,686 --> 00:28:37,686 But these are small prices to pay. 367 00:28:37,688 --> 00:28:40,489 Absurd. 368 00:28:41,492 --> 00:28:42,858 Why's that? 369 00:28:42,860 --> 00:28:44,193 Speak. 370 00:28:44,245 --> 00:28:47,579 I submit to my fellow select men and citizens 371 00:28:47,615 --> 00:28:51,166 that there is an entirely other way 372 00:28:51,202 --> 00:28:55,204 of viewing our dreadful circumstances. 373 00:28:55,256 --> 00:29:01,260 God has given us a clear sign that we have offended him. 374 00:29:01,295 --> 00:29:03,479 A pox on all our houses. 375 00:29:03,514 --> 00:29:07,599 Now we must do whatever is necessary 376 00:29:07,635 --> 00:29:10,219 to win back the Lord's favor. 377 00:29:10,221 --> 00:29:14,690 And presumably, Mr. Hathorne, you know what God's will is. 378 00:29:14,725 --> 00:29:17,693 What is it that has offended him so? 379 00:29:17,728 --> 00:29:19,361 I am quite certain 380 00:29:19,396 --> 00:29:21,230 what god is most displeased with. 381 00:29:21,232 --> 00:29:25,701 But what is a surer sign of a world turned upside-down 382 00:29:25,736 --> 00:29:28,237 than a world with a woman on top? 383 00:29:30,574 --> 00:29:33,041 We have utterly upended 384 00:29:33,077 --> 00:29:37,263 the most fundamental principle of how things are to be, 385 00:29:37,315 --> 00:29:39,815 which is led by men... 386 00:29:40,251 --> 00:29:44,920 Men of property, men of substance, 387 00:29:44,972 --> 00:29:47,339 men of godly goodwill. 388 00:29:47,391 --> 00:29:49,808 But above all, by men. 389 00:29:49,844 --> 00:29:51,760 Hear, hear! 390 00:29:51,812 --> 00:29:52,928 My husband... 391 00:29:52,980 --> 00:29:55,347 N... Let us be done with that. 392 00:29:55,399 --> 00:30:00,269 Mrs. Sibley, until George may speak for himself, 393 00:30:00,321 --> 00:30:03,772 clearly and audibly as a man, 394 00:30:03,774 --> 00:30:07,659 let us at least admit it is you, Mrs. sibley, 395 00:30:07,695 --> 00:30:09,945 who lead the select men of Salem. 396 00:30:11,665 --> 00:30:13,999 I submit it is high time 397 00:30:14,034 --> 00:30:17,336 that the select men of Salem either elect a new leader 398 00:30:17,371 --> 00:30:22,524 or explicitly affirm that they choose to be led by Mary Sibley 399 00:30:22,559 --> 00:30:26,962 under the name of her incapacitated husband, George. 400 00:30:30,134 --> 00:30:32,334 If you think this pox cares 401 00:30:32,369 --> 00:30:35,554 whether you be led by a woman or a man, 402 00:30:35,606 --> 00:30:37,306 you will all die. 403 00:30:38,442 --> 00:30:40,642 The pox no more discriminates by sex 404 00:30:40,644 --> 00:30:43,729 than a lion prefers to eat a man or a woman. 405 00:30:43,781 --> 00:30:46,565 Though like a lion, it may take the weakest first. 406 00:30:46,617 --> 00:30:50,402 And I have just been to where your weakest reside, 407 00:30:50,454 --> 00:30:52,537 in wretched Knocker's Hole. 408 00:30:52,573 --> 00:30:53,906 I had hoped to give them 409 00:30:53,958 --> 00:30:55,490 more voice here than they obviously have, 410 00:30:55,492 --> 00:30:59,411 but I find you all consumed with petty politics. 411 00:30:59,463 --> 00:31:03,415 I'm headed back there now to see what can be done. 412 00:31:03,467 --> 00:31:05,250 Well said, Sir. 413 00:31:05,302 --> 00:31:07,552 Well said. 414 00:31:07,588 --> 00:31:10,472 It is high time this board made it clear 415 00:31:10,507 --> 00:31:12,841 that however abject they may be 416 00:31:12,893 --> 00:31:14,810 and whether they pray at meeting or not, 417 00:31:14,845 --> 00:31:18,263 the least among us is our responsibility, too. 418 00:31:18,315 --> 00:31:19,731 I shall accompany you 419 00:31:19,767 --> 00:31:23,018 to see how they fare and to show our support. 420 00:31:23,020 --> 00:31:25,020 Why, this woman is not afraid 421 00:31:25,072 --> 00:31:27,656 to walk into the den of plague for our people. 422 00:31:27,691 --> 00:31:30,826 Would you care to join me, Sir? 423 00:31:36,333 --> 00:31:38,700 The worst afflicted are this way. 424 00:31:38,702 --> 00:31:40,202 In my experience, the difference between 425 00:31:40,204 --> 00:31:42,504 a plague terrorizing a town and destroying it 426 00:31:42,539 --> 00:31:44,673 is a matter of days. 427 00:31:44,708 --> 00:31:45,841 Hold there. 428 00:31:46,844 --> 00:31:48,377 Tell me, Sir. 429 00:31:48,429 --> 00:31:51,096 Who are you to speak with such confidence of the pox? 430 00:31:51,131 --> 00:31:54,883 A doctor, Ma'am, with royal certification. 431 00:31:54,935 --> 00:31:56,468 I've walked through many poxes. 432 00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:58,520 I survived the plague as a child, 433 00:31:58,555 --> 00:32:01,723 and I believe I can save all of you. 434 00:32:01,775 --> 00:32:04,393 Not by prayer, not by repentance, 435 00:32:04,395 --> 00:32:05,727 not by fasting, 436 00:32:05,779 --> 00:32:08,613 nor by purging your community of undesirables, 437 00:32:08,649 --> 00:32:13,568 witches, or powerful women, but, in a word, by science. 438 00:32:13,570 --> 00:32:16,154 Seal and mark that door. 439 00:32:23,497 --> 00:32:26,498 Your arrival here could not be more fortuitous. 440 00:32:26,550 --> 00:32:28,750 I think you might be God's gift to Salem. 441 00:32:32,607 --> 00:32:34,806 That's a very old-world affectation. 442 00:32:34,842 --> 00:32:37,676 Well, I think despite all the progress in new thinking, 443 00:32:37,728 --> 00:32:39,428 we are less advanced in other ways. 444 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,730 After all, England achieved its greatest heights 445 00:32:41,765 --> 00:32:45,150 a century ago under a woman... Queen Bess. 446 00:32:45,185 --> 00:32:47,769 And yet over here, men like your Mr. Hathorne 447 00:32:47,771 --> 00:32:50,072 still doubt the value of a strong woman. 448 00:32:50,107 --> 00:32:52,607 And I think perhaps, Mrs. Sibley, 449 00:32:52,659 --> 00:32:55,610 you are like the Queen Elizabeth of Salem. 450 00:32:56,830 --> 00:32:58,447 Are you as adept at the new science 451 00:32:58,499 --> 00:33:00,499 as you are the old flattery? 452 00:33:00,534 --> 00:33:01,950 I am. 453 00:33:01,952 --> 00:33:03,752 And I'm determined to cure this pox 454 00:33:03,787 --> 00:33:06,755 before it spreads any further. 455 00:33:06,790 --> 00:33:08,240 And what is it you think you can do? 456 00:33:08,292 --> 00:33:10,142 Well, to begin with, find its origin, 457 00:33:10,194 --> 00:33:13,612 for in the beginning of things is often to be found their end. 458 00:33:13,647 --> 00:33:15,418 Good day. 459 00:33:27,142 --> 00:33:29,542 _ 460 00:33:29,566 --> 00:33:31,566 _ 461 00:33:31,590 --> 00:33:34,690 _ 462 00:33:35,214 --> 00:33:37,914 _ 463 00:33:37,938 --> 00:33:40,938 _ 464 00:33:41,262 --> 00:33:44,162 _ 465 00:33:44,186 --> 00:33:46,186 _ 466 00:33:46,310 --> 00:33:49,710 _ 467 00:33:50,234 --> 00:33:52,834 _ 468 00:33:52,858 --> 00:33:55,358 _ 469 00:33:55,682 --> 00:33:58,682 _ 470 00:33:59,206 --> 00:34:05,430 _ 471 00:34:06,254 --> 00:34:08,054 _ 472 00:34:08,078 --> 00:34:11,078 _ 473 00:34:11,102 --> 00:34:13,102 _ 474 00:34:13,126 --> 00:34:15,126 _ 475 00:34:15,150 --> 00:34:18,350 _ 476 00:34:23,461 --> 00:34:25,411 Hell. 477 00:34:28,383 --> 00:34:29,415 Hell. 478 00:34:29,467 --> 00:34:31,217 Hell. 479 00:34:48,269 --> 00:34:50,987 Do I have your protection? 480 00:35:06,371 --> 00:35:07,920 Why, you look like a man 481 00:35:07,956 --> 00:35:09,789 poring over a pirate's treasure map. 482 00:35:11,709 --> 00:35:12,875 And if I find what I seek, 483 00:35:12,877 --> 00:35:14,593 it may be a great treasure, indeed. 484 00:35:14,629 --> 00:35:17,546 These are all the cases of the pox 485 00:35:17,598 --> 00:35:19,799 I've encountered or heard of. 486 00:35:19,851 --> 00:35:22,468 My tracking of where outbreaks and incidents have been reported 487 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:25,554 may point directly to the place the pox must have started. 488 00:35:26,691 --> 00:35:29,892 I intend to go there to the north woods. 489 00:35:29,894 --> 00:35:32,478 And finding the point or place of origin 490 00:35:32,530 --> 00:35:35,731 may lead me to some answers as to how this outbreak began. 491 00:35:35,783 --> 00:35:38,034 Those are deep woods, Sir. 492 00:35:38,069 --> 00:35:39,735 Even locals fear to trek there. 493 00:35:39,787 --> 00:35:42,955 Ah. Terra incognita. 494 00:35:42,991 --> 00:35:45,157 Well, I live for unexplored territory. 495 00:35:45,209 --> 00:35:47,576 And in my experience, 496 00:35:47,628 --> 00:35:49,879 often the most fearsome landscapes 497 00:35:49,914 --> 00:35:54,750 are hiding the most succulent gardens. 498 00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:56,886 Very well. 499 00:35:56,888 --> 00:35:58,354 Godspeed. 500 00:36:04,979 --> 00:36:07,480 Deep woods, indeed. 501 00:36:16,574 --> 00:36:18,825 But let me show you. 502 00:36:18,877 --> 00:36:20,793 In just a few days, 503 00:36:20,829 --> 00:36:25,081 I have claimed control of six men to do my bidding. 504 00:36:25,105 --> 00:36:27,605 _ 505 00:36:27,629 --> 00:36:29,620 _ 506 00:36:29,721 --> 00:36:31,587 But I should be running the Hive! 507 00:36:31,589 --> 00:36:33,422 It is I, not Mary Sibley, 508 00:36:33,446 --> 00:36:35,946 - who should run... - _ 509 00:36:38,470 --> 00:36:40,970 _ 510 00:36:41,494 --> 00:36:44,194 _ 511 00:36:46,104 --> 00:36:47,304 But... but I have worked so... 512 00:37:02,754 --> 00:37:06,622 That was a mistake. 513 00:38:38,997 --> 00:38:40,663 Is this it? 514 00:38:42,284 --> 00:38:45,418 Have I passed over? 515 00:38:46,888 --> 00:38:49,539 Did I make it to Heaven? 516 00:38:52,961 --> 00:38:54,844 Or am I in hell? 517 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:56,596 Neither Heaven nor Hell, Sir. 518 00:38:56,631 --> 00:38:58,097 Merely Salem. 519 00:38:58,133 --> 00:39:00,433 Oh. 520 00:39:19,621 --> 00:39:22,588 Uh, forgive me the late hour, Mather, 521 00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:24,640 but I felt that some of my questions 522 00:39:24,675 --> 00:39:27,676 might be better asked in private. 523 00:39:27,728 --> 00:39:31,680 When exactly was the last time you saw your father? 524 00:39:31,732 --> 00:39:35,901 Um... earlier on the day I left. 525 00:39:35,937 --> 00:39:39,155 He felt quite certain 526 00:39:39,190 --> 00:39:42,908 that he and his militia would lay their hands upon John Alden, 527 00:39:42,944 --> 00:39:45,111 and he felt that his flock here in Boston 528 00:39:45,163 --> 00:39:47,279 had suffered without a Shepherd for far too long. 529 00:39:47,331 --> 00:39:51,617 So, he sent me back to prepare for his own return. 530 00:39:51,669 --> 00:39:52,919 I see. 531 00:39:52,921 --> 00:39:54,754 Though, of course, he never did. 532 00:39:54,806 --> 00:39:56,472 What? 533 00:39:56,524 --> 00:39:58,491 Return. 534 00:39:58,526 --> 00:39:59,959 No. 535 00:39:59,994 --> 00:40:02,195 What do you think it says that he sent you back 536 00:40:02,230 --> 00:40:04,864 just when he was about to attempt to capture the witch? 537 00:40:04,899 --> 00:40:07,400 It doesn't exactly show a lot of confidence. 538 00:40:07,452 --> 00:40:09,869 We argued. 539 00:40:09,904 --> 00:40:13,206 Yes, as one does. 540 00:40:13,241 --> 00:40:16,659 I don't recall ever arguing with my father. 541 00:40:16,711 --> 00:40:19,495 I certainly never raised my voice. 542 00:40:19,547 --> 00:40:23,032 It would have felt to me like striking him. 543 00:40:23,067 --> 00:40:24,016 Trust me. 544 00:40:24,018 --> 00:40:26,519 If either of us was likely to bolster words with blows, 545 00:40:26,521 --> 00:40:28,437 it would have been my father, not me. 546 00:40:28,489 --> 00:40:30,449 Are you saying that your father struck you? 547 00:40:38,116 --> 00:40:40,082 I'm sure no more than was necessary 548 00:40:40,118 --> 00:40:41,167 for my proper upbringing. 549 00:40:41,202 --> 00:40:43,169 Now, if you haven't any further questions, 550 00:40:43,204 --> 00:40:44,370 it's getting quite late. 551 00:40:44,422 --> 00:40:45,504 Yes, of course. 552 00:40:45,540 --> 00:40:47,757 And as you are confined to Boston, 553 00:40:47,792 --> 00:40:50,293 if we have any need of further inquiry, 554 00:40:50,345 --> 00:40:53,379 we certainly know just where to find you. 555 00:41:34,088 --> 00:41:37,640 Cotton Mather knows nothing. 556 00:41:37,675 --> 00:41:40,977 But is it clear that Increase is dead? 557 00:41:41,012 --> 00:41:43,262 Truly and definitely dead? 558 00:41:43,314 --> 00:41:46,332 Oh, yes. Most definitely dead. 559 00:41:46,367 --> 00:41:48,334 I suppose that is something to celebrate. 560 00:41:48,369 --> 00:41:52,605 That man had a grip like none other. 561 00:41:52,657 --> 00:41:55,374 Were it not so, I would not carry this mark, 562 00:41:55,410 --> 00:41:57,693 and I would have done in Marburg some time ago 563 00:41:57,745 --> 00:41:59,996 what they whisper has been achieved in Salem. 564 00:42:00,031 --> 00:42:01,614 Mather understands enough 565 00:42:01,616 --> 00:42:04,116 to know that a Grand Rite was undertaken. 566 00:42:04,168 --> 00:42:07,954 But he has no idea who was actually leading it 567 00:42:08,006 --> 00:42:10,039 nor who killed his father, 568 00:42:10,091 --> 00:42:15,594 though he seems quite certain it was not this John Alden. 569 00:42:16,464 --> 00:42:18,381 But this is what I want to know. 570 00:42:18,433 --> 00:42:21,217 Who is it that led the Grand Rite? 571 00:42:21,269 --> 00:42:24,804 Well, to answer that, your Grace, 572 00:42:24,806 --> 00:42:28,441 I believe we must go to Salem ourselves. 573 00:42:32,030 --> 00:42:35,064 I am sorry, Mr. Eliot, that you will not be accompanying 574 00:42:35,116 --> 00:42:37,066 me and my son to Salem. 575 00:42:37,118 --> 00:42:39,068 Your work for me is done. 576 00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,237 But in recompense... 577 00:42:45,827 --> 00:42:50,880 I invite you to stop averting your gaze... 578 00:42:50,915 --> 00:42:53,499 and stare directly. 579 00:43:29,811 --> 00:43:31,093 Mrs. Sibley. 580 00:43:31,145 --> 00:43:33,179 Given your concern for the city, 581 00:43:33,231 --> 00:43:36,566 I wanted you to be the first to know I have found him. 582 00:43:42,774 --> 00:43:44,657 I see you've found our Isaac. 583 00:43:44,692 --> 00:43:47,944 He is quite possibly the savior of Salem. 584 00:43:47,946 --> 00:43:49,829 Oh? 585 00:43:49,864 --> 00:43:51,197 He holds the key. 586 00:43:51,249 --> 00:43:54,166 I found him at the very epicenter of the plague. 587 00:43:54,202 --> 00:43:55,701 And how does that aid us? 588 00:43:55,753 --> 00:43:58,254 Well, he's showing remarkable resistance to the pox. 589 00:43:58,289 --> 00:44:00,923 Some property in his blood may well provide the key 590 00:44:00,959 --> 00:44:02,708 to protecting other people. 591 00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:04,760 And if he lives, he will tell us what happened to him 592 00:44:04,812 --> 00:44:06,829 and how he came to be in the woods. 593 00:44:06,864 --> 00:44:08,931 He will point directly to the origin 594 00:44:08,983 --> 00:44:12,735 and source of the pox itself. 595 00:44:12,770 --> 00:44:15,821 Well, let us pray he survives. 596 00:44:25,545 --> 00:44:28,145 _ 597 00:44:28,569 --> 00:44:34,169 _ 598 00:44:34,193 --> 00:44:36,793 _ 599 00:44:37,017 --> 00:44:39,017 _ 600 00:44:39,041 --> 00:44:42,541 _ 601 00:44:46,365 --> 00:44:49,765 _ 602 00:44:50,389 --> 00:44:52,589 _ 603 00:44:52,613 --> 00:44:56,813 _ 604 00:44:57,037 --> 00:45:00,937 _ 605 00:45:05,061 --> 00:45:07,061 _ 606 00:45:09,385 --> 00:45:11,585 _ 607 00:45:11,609 --> 00:45:15,009 _ 608 00:47:00,404 --> 00:47:02,187 That was my mother's. 609 00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:03,439 I never met her, 610 00:47:03,491 --> 00:47:08,193 but my father gave it to me when I was about your age. 611 00:47:08,245 --> 00:47:13,248 And this, her comb. 612 00:47:13,284 --> 00:47:16,118 It's made from the shell of a great sea creature 613 00:47:16,170 --> 00:47:19,505 from some far-off island in the west indies. 614 00:47:22,676 --> 00:47:25,177 Don't know much about my mother. 615 00:47:25,212 --> 00:47:28,180 Or my father, for that matter. 616 00:47:28,215 --> 00:47:30,966 They were taken from me too young. 617 00:47:33,137 --> 00:47:35,554 I want it to be different for you. 618 00:47:35,606 --> 00:47:37,106 Tell me. 619 00:47:37,141 --> 00:47:38,440 What? 620 00:47:38,476 --> 00:47:40,743 About my father. 621 00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:45,047 Your father. 622 00:47:47,151 --> 00:47:52,955 He is... was the very best of men. 623 00:47:52,990 --> 00:47:56,091 I loved him more than anything. 624 00:47:58,028 --> 00:47:59,962 But he is dead. 625 00:47:59,997 --> 00:48:04,600 And now all my love is reserved for you. 626 00:48:06,937 --> 00:48:10,572 And what was his name? 627 00:48:10,608 --> 00:48:12,040 John. 628 00:48:12,076 --> 00:48:16,078 They won't let me have a name. 629 00:48:16,113 --> 00:48:17,713 Not until I'm baptized. 630 00:48:17,748 --> 00:48:19,782 But if I could, 631 00:48:19,817 --> 00:48:23,886 I would like to be John, too, like him. 632 00:48:23,921 --> 00:48:27,389 And so you shall be, little John. 633 00:48:32,696 --> 00:48:33,696 What's wrong? 634 00:48:33,697 --> 00:48:34,997 They're dead. 635 00:48:42,623 --> 00:48:44,373 They're dead. They're dead. 636 00:48:44,425 --> 00:48:45,707 What's going on? 637 00:48:45,759 --> 00:48:47,709 They're dead. 638 00:48:47,761 --> 00:48:50,295 Mercy Lewis killed our witches. 639 00:48:50,347 --> 00:48:52,781 True witches. The Elders. 640 00:49:21,428 --> 00:49:24,428 - Synced and corrected by Retrojex - - Addic7ed.com -