1 00:00:02,590 --> 00:00:06,526 Previously on "Salem"... 2 00:00:06,527 --> 00:00:08,361 I will find Mercy Lewis 3 00:00:08,362 --> 00:00:11,067 with or without your help. 4 00:00:12,198 --> 00:00:14,132 Are you saying that I am... 5 00:00:14,133 --> 00:00:15,434 A witch. 6 00:00:17,003 --> 00:00:18,370 Tomorrow I shall bring 7 00:00:18,371 --> 00:00:20,372 John Alden's case before the board. 8 00:00:20,373 --> 00:00:22,206 He is innocent. 9 00:00:22,207 --> 00:00:24,276 And you know it. 10 00:00:25,845 --> 00:00:27,379 By order of Increase Mather, 11 00:00:27,380 --> 00:00:30,282 I place you under arrest. 12 00:00:33,052 --> 00:00:35,254 I've decided to defend Captain Alden. 13 00:00:35,255 --> 00:00:36,921 To defend? 14 00:00:55,708 --> 00:01:00,178 Let the little children come unto me, 15 00:01:00,179 --> 00:01:06,084 for the kingdom of the Devil belongs to them. 16 00:01:06,085 --> 00:01:07,819 Come. 17 00:01:07,820 --> 00:01:10,422 Sit here, poor boy. 18 00:01:10,423 --> 00:01:14,926 Poor, sweet boy, worked to death by your family. 19 00:01:14,927 --> 00:01:18,263 Every day of your life, 20 00:01:18,264 --> 00:01:21,333 making you unfit for burial in the churchyard, 21 00:01:21,334 --> 00:01:23,402 so they dumped you here. 22 00:01:24,437 --> 00:01:27,639 Alice. 23 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:29,574 Died in child birth, 24 00:01:29,575 --> 00:01:33,145 pregnant from your mother's brother. 25 00:01:33,146 --> 00:01:36,314 There. There, the baby. 26 00:01:39,519 --> 00:01:44,156 Smothered to hide the evidence. 27 00:01:46,826 --> 00:01:50,362 Let mother and child be together. 28 00:01:53,966 --> 00:01:56,468 I am your mother now. 29 00:01:56,469 --> 00:01:59,538 All of you! 30 00:01:59,539 --> 00:02:01,473 And you all are my children. 31 00:02:01,474 --> 00:02:03,708 My father, the good Reverend Lewis, 32 00:02:03,709 --> 00:02:05,510 said that there is no purgatory, 33 00:02:05,511 --> 00:02:08,646 no place for souls lost between heaven and hell. 34 00:02:08,647 --> 00:02:10,482 But he was wrong. 35 00:02:10,483 --> 00:02:12,984 Earth is purgatory. 36 00:02:12,985 --> 00:02:17,022 We are the ghosts that haunt this land. 37 00:02:17,023 --> 00:02:18,089 No, Mercy. 38 00:02:19,925 --> 00:02:21,926 You are very much alive. 39 00:02:21,927 --> 00:02:24,362 Perhaps more alive than any of us. 40 00:02:24,363 --> 00:02:27,265 Yet you have hidden yourself like a ghost. 41 00:02:27,266 --> 00:02:30,769 Increase searches everywhere for you. 42 00:02:30,770 --> 00:02:32,870 He will never look here. 43 00:02:32,871 --> 00:02:34,973 But my girls. 44 00:02:34,974 --> 00:02:37,041 What of my poor girls? 45 00:02:37,042 --> 00:02:39,010 He has four of them. 46 00:02:39,011 --> 00:02:41,980 But do not fear for them or yourself. 47 00:02:41,981 --> 00:02:45,350 Soon our grand rite will cleanse this land of the evil men do 48 00:02:45,351 --> 00:02:46,618 and the men who do it, 49 00:02:46,619 --> 00:02:49,353 like the great flood of biblical times, 50 00:02:49,354 --> 00:02:51,256 making way for our new world. 51 00:02:51,257 --> 00:02:53,758 And rest assured, Mercy... 52 00:02:53,759 --> 00:02:57,128 you, your girls, 53 00:02:57,129 --> 00:03:00,098 and all your children shall have a place there. 54 00:03:03,068 --> 00:03:05,404 Oh, thank you. 55 00:03:08,207 --> 00:03:09,307 But tell me... 56 00:03:09,308 --> 00:03:13,077 tell me so I may reassure them in their fear. 57 00:03:13,078 --> 00:03:14,179 What is it? 58 00:03:14,180 --> 00:03:16,147 What is coming? 59 00:03:25,324 --> 00:03:28,192 Death. 60 00:04:19,919 --> 00:04:22,420 'Tis an ancient proverbial truth 61 00:04:22,421 --> 00:04:26,792 that it requires but one dead apple to rot an entire barrel. 62 00:04:26,793 --> 00:04:29,995 And I come to believe it requires but one apple 63 00:04:29,996 --> 00:04:33,164 to make this whole land equally rotten. 64 00:04:33,165 --> 00:04:35,834 And not just any apple, 65 00:04:35,835 --> 00:04:37,869 but the malum. 66 00:04:37,870 --> 00:04:39,471 The icon of the apple 67 00:04:39,472 --> 00:04:43,075 runs through almost every image we have of the grand rite. 68 00:04:43,076 --> 00:04:45,811 The grand rite brings about death, 69 00:04:45,812 --> 00:04:49,547 death on a mass scale. 70 00:04:49,548 --> 00:04:51,549 We know little of its operation, 71 00:04:51,550 --> 00:04:53,719 nor the... the mechanism of magic 72 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,989 that unleashes the... the death that follows. 73 00:04:56,990 --> 00:05:00,325 Only this one enigmatically simple sentence... 74 00:05:00,326 --> 00:05:03,061 "malum est aperta." 75 00:05:03,963 --> 00:05:07,265 "The evil begins." 76 00:05:07,266 --> 00:05:09,067 But I have been misreading it all these years. 77 00:05:09,068 --> 00:05:10,936 We all have, my father included. 78 00:05:10,937 --> 00:05:14,440 "Malum" means "evil," but equally "apple." 79 00:05:14,441 --> 00:05:16,274 And I know believe the sentence to read, 80 00:05:16,275 --> 00:05:17,810 "the apple opens," 81 00:05:17,811 --> 00:05:24,349 and, by implication, unleashes the death that results. 82 00:05:24,350 --> 00:05:26,885 I believe I have seen that apple, 83 00:05:26,886 --> 00:05:30,388 or the box that contains it... 84 00:05:30,389 --> 00:05:33,525 In the house of John Alden. 85 00:05:36,295 --> 00:05:37,629 Yes? 86 00:05:37,630 --> 00:05:40,065 Reverend Mather? 87 00:05:40,066 --> 00:05:42,267 I know it is late. 88 00:05:48,074 --> 00:05:49,774 What are you doing out? 89 00:05:49,775 --> 00:05:51,176 I'm sorry. 90 00:05:51,177 --> 00:05:53,245 I didn't know who else to turn to. 91 00:05:53,246 --> 00:05:56,715 You are the only one who can help me. 92 00:05:56,716 --> 00:05:59,050 Well, then you did the right thing by coming. 93 00:06:00,553 --> 00:06:04,056 Uh... How may I help you, and... and with what? 94 00:06:04,057 --> 00:06:07,625 Do you think it's possible to be a witch 95 00:06:07,626 --> 00:06:09,394 and not even know it? 96 00:06:10,329 --> 00:06:12,363 Um... 97 00:06:12,364 --> 00:06:13,865 I-I think one would know 98 00:06:13,866 --> 00:06:16,801 if one had... Deeded one's soul to Satan. 99 00:06:16,802 --> 00:06:19,237 But what if someone deeded it for you? 100 00:06:20,373 --> 00:06:21,973 I can assure you, Miss Hale... 101 00:06:21,974 --> 00:06:24,076 No. I want more than your assurance. 102 00:06:24,077 --> 00:06:26,311 I want... 103 00:06:30,616 --> 00:06:33,351 I want you to examine me now... 104 00:06:33,352 --> 00:06:34,953 For the mark of the Devil. 105 00:06:36,155 --> 00:06:38,957 Then, you may assure me. 106 00:07:17,463 --> 00:07:19,564 I feel no sign of Satan. 107 00:07:19,565 --> 00:07:21,900 You seem, to me, in every respect, 108 00:07:21,901 --> 00:07:25,337 unmolested by the Devil. 109 00:07:25,338 --> 00:07:26,605 I assure you, Miss Hale, 110 00:07:26,606 --> 00:07:28,940 if you were a witch, you would know it. 111 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:43,355 Ask not for whom the bell tolls. 112 00:07:43,356 --> 00:07:46,291 It tolls for... 113 00:07:46,292 --> 00:07:48,860 I wonder who will be first. 114 00:07:48,861 --> 00:07:51,163 Who will it be? 115 00:07:52,664 --> 00:07:54,199 What do you mean? 116 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:56,768 Whoever will speak will not burn. 117 00:07:56,769 --> 00:07:58,736 Simple. 118 00:08:02,408 --> 00:08:06,011 Close in here this evening, no? 119 00:08:06,012 --> 00:08:08,580 Think I'll take some air. 120 00:08:10,549 --> 00:08:13,551 While I'm gone, consider... 121 00:08:13,552 --> 00:08:16,421 Which of you will be the first to confess 122 00:08:16,422 --> 00:08:20,058 what the witch John Alden did to you. 123 00:08:20,059 --> 00:08:21,559 Aah! 124 00:08:36,342 --> 00:08:39,644 Mercy, thank God. 125 00:08:39,645 --> 00:08:41,579 We cannot hold on. 126 00:08:41,580 --> 00:08:43,581 He is going to make us turn. 127 00:08:43,582 --> 00:08:46,017 But you have come to save us? 128 00:08:46,018 --> 00:08:48,486 No, it doesn't work that way. 129 00:08:48,487 --> 00:08:52,324 You're not ready to travel as I do. 130 00:08:52,325 --> 00:08:55,293 But remember, we still serve the queen of the night, 131 00:08:55,294 --> 00:08:59,464 and she has not forgotten you any more than I have, 132 00:08:59,465 --> 00:09:02,400 and there will be a day where she will save you. 133 00:09:02,401 --> 00:09:03,401 I promise. 134 00:09:03,402 --> 00:09:05,002 But for now, 135 00:09:05,003 --> 00:09:08,273 you must give that old goat what he wants. 136 00:09:08,274 --> 00:09:11,109 I'm terribly afraid it's us he's going to serve up. 137 00:09:11,110 --> 00:09:14,479 This is surely part of her design. 138 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:17,248 Her web is greater than all of ours, 139 00:09:17,249 --> 00:09:18,783 and she has a vision, 140 00:09:18,784 --> 00:09:21,719 a vision of what this land could be. 141 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:23,488 So do as Reverend Mather asks 142 00:09:23,489 --> 00:09:26,458 and speak against John Alden at the trial. 143 00:09:52,951 --> 00:09:55,820 Malum aperta. 144 00:09:58,557 --> 00:10:01,559 But why John Alden? 145 00:10:13,739 --> 00:10:15,440 But he is innocent. 146 00:10:23,382 --> 00:10:25,483 It matters to me. 147 00:10:49,275 --> 00:10:51,943 Mary, listen to me. 148 00:10:51,944 --> 00:10:55,480 To free him would reveal what you are to him. 149 00:10:55,481 --> 00:10:57,648 You think he could love you then? 150 00:10:57,649 --> 00:11:00,085 Do not lose his love. 151 00:11:00,086 --> 00:11:04,322 Use it for all of us. 152 00:11:04,323 --> 00:11:07,592 That is the sacrifice. 153 00:11:12,077 --> 00:11:13,711 In all of the literature on witchcraft, 154 00:11:13,712 --> 00:11:15,797 on malice, malum is "evil." 155 00:11:15,798 --> 00:11:17,808 So you tell me why, in this particular case, 156 00:11:17,809 --> 00:11:20,195 should it signify "apple"? 157 00:11:20,196 --> 00:11:21,593 I have reason to believe the malum referred to here 158 00:11:21,594 --> 00:11:22,861 is an actual object, 159 00:11:22,862 --> 00:11:25,697 and that object is here in Salem awaiting use against us. 160 00:11:25,698 --> 00:11:28,134 Well, it's an interesting theorem, 161 00:11:28,135 --> 00:11:32,371 but... It fails the most basic tenet of rational thinking. 162 00:11:32,372 --> 00:11:36,274 Tell me... the shortest distance between two points is...? 163 00:11:36,275 --> 00:11:38,510 - A line. - Correct. 164 00:11:38,511 --> 00:11:39,745 And often, 165 00:11:39,746 --> 00:11:44,316 the simplest explanation is the correct explanation. 166 00:11:44,317 --> 00:11:47,019 I'm only trying to stop the grand rite. 167 00:11:47,020 --> 00:11:49,188 Stop the grand rite? 168 00:11:49,189 --> 00:11:51,189 You? 169 00:11:51,190 --> 00:11:54,660 Oh, my, the arrogance of youth. 170 00:11:54,661 --> 00:11:56,962 Would you even know how to stop it? 171 00:11:56,963 --> 00:11:57,996 And at what cost? 172 00:11:57,997 --> 00:12:00,232 Or would you like to hear from one 173 00:12:00,233 --> 00:12:03,368 who actually has stopped it and has paid the cost? 174 00:12:03,369 --> 00:12:05,103 You? 175 00:12:07,107 --> 00:12:08,940 I never knew. 176 00:12:08,941 --> 00:12:11,243 Many years ago. 177 00:12:11,244 --> 00:12:12,544 In marburg. 178 00:12:12,545 --> 00:12:15,113 You were still just a-a baby. 179 00:12:15,114 --> 00:12:16,582 The German witches, oh, 180 00:12:16,583 --> 00:12:19,285 far bolder than even the essex witches. 181 00:12:19,286 --> 00:12:23,756 They attempted the grand rite. 182 00:12:23,757 --> 00:12:28,561 Within the space of a month, a dozen children disappeared. 183 00:12:28,562 --> 00:12:31,830 Their bodies were found bled dry. 184 00:12:31,831 --> 00:12:34,900 Their innocent blood soaked the ground. 185 00:12:34,901 --> 00:12:37,969 And as the full moon approached, more children disappeared, 186 00:12:37,970 --> 00:12:40,772 and I knew the grand rite was nearing its completion. 187 00:12:40,773 --> 00:12:42,808 So while others searched for the children, 188 00:12:42,809 --> 00:12:45,477 I hunted the witch. 189 00:12:45,478 --> 00:12:47,680 And I found him. 190 00:12:47,681 --> 00:12:50,416 He had taken the appearance of a 6-year-old girl, 191 00:12:50,417 --> 00:12:52,851 but I knew this was no girl. 192 00:12:52,852 --> 00:12:54,452 It was him. 193 00:12:54,453 --> 00:13:00,125 And I strangled her with my bare hands. 194 00:13:00,126 --> 00:13:05,197 And as the life left that body, 195 00:13:05,198 --> 00:13:08,166 the Devil reached out and snatched the body, 196 00:13:08,167 --> 00:13:09,635 but I held on. 197 00:13:09,636 --> 00:13:14,005 I was determined that he should not return to his home in hell. 198 00:13:14,006 --> 00:13:18,844 And my hands were plunged into the boiling black tar. 199 00:13:18,845 --> 00:13:20,946 Hellfire. 200 00:13:22,549 --> 00:13:26,585 These hands have actually touched hell. 201 00:13:28,622 --> 00:13:30,822 And they burn me still. 202 00:13:35,094 --> 00:13:36,662 But the grand rite was averted? 203 00:13:41,267 --> 00:13:45,904 There really is only one way to stop the grand rite. 204 00:13:45,905 --> 00:13:49,975 One must kill the witch that began it 205 00:13:49,976 --> 00:13:53,612 before the moonrise that ends it. 206 00:13:53,613 --> 00:13:55,013 In this case 207 00:13:55,014 --> 00:13:57,583 kill John Alden. 208 00:14:10,063 --> 00:14:11,329 It's no secret 209 00:14:11,330 --> 00:14:16,602 that John Alden has a cold and a willful hatred for us, 210 00:14:16,603 --> 00:14:18,804 for everything we believe 211 00:14:18,805 --> 00:14:23,074 and for our puritan community of saints. 212 00:14:23,075 --> 00:14:24,676 And so, it was 213 00:14:24,677 --> 00:14:29,448 that a young John Alden severed himself from Salem 214 00:14:29,449 --> 00:14:35,421 and, rootless, faithless, and loveless, 215 00:14:35,422 --> 00:14:39,257 cast himself into the crucible of war, 216 00:14:39,258 --> 00:14:41,193 where he was captured by the heathen Indians. 217 00:14:41,194 --> 00:14:47,399 And that seed of evil within, already a hard and vicious knot, 218 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:50,502 found fertile ground in which to flourish. 219 00:14:50,503 --> 00:14:55,274 And the savage servants of the angry, eldritch gods, 220 00:14:55,275 --> 00:14:58,811 they saw in Alden a gift from Satan, 221 00:14:58,812 --> 00:15:00,512 a powerful and vicious weapon 222 00:15:00,513 --> 00:15:03,915 to be used in their hopeless war against us. 223 00:15:03,916 --> 00:15:07,486 And so, because of his hatred for us 224 00:15:07,487 --> 00:15:13,325 and his hatred for one he felt had betrayed him, 225 00:15:13,326 --> 00:15:15,360 a powerful and a vicious weapon he became. 226 00:15:15,361 --> 00:15:19,265 Sir, this is pure fancy, 227 00:15:19,266 --> 00:15:21,099 bald conjecture. 228 00:15:21,100 --> 00:15:22,067 You have no idea what may 229 00:15:22,068 --> 00:15:23,569 or may not have happened to Captain Alden 230 00:15:23,570 --> 00:15:27,605 while fighting for all our lives against the Indians 231 00:15:27,606 --> 00:15:29,741 or when he was held their captive. 232 00:15:29,742 --> 00:15:31,977 Well, then, let him speak. 233 00:15:31,978 --> 00:15:33,411 Let Alden tell us here and now 234 00:15:33,412 --> 00:15:36,882 exactly what transpired during that long period of time 235 00:15:36,883 --> 00:15:38,984 when you were lost amongst the savages. 236 00:15:38,985 --> 00:15:40,586 Speak, man. 237 00:15:41,554 --> 00:15:43,389 Speak! 238 00:15:44,323 --> 00:15:46,224 No? 239 00:15:46,225 --> 00:15:51,196 All those years, what could he have been doing? 240 00:15:52,165 --> 00:15:53,599 I will tell you. 241 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:55,100 Like Satan in the book of job, 242 00:15:55,101 --> 00:15:57,769 he was walking to and fro upon the earth 243 00:15:57,770 --> 00:16:00,806 mastering the tools of malice, 244 00:16:00,807 --> 00:16:02,541 learning the dark art 245 00:16:02,542 --> 00:16:07,245 of sending demonic familiars to do his bidding at a distance. 246 00:16:07,246 --> 00:16:10,849 You will observe, here, upon his neck... 247 00:16:12,418 --> 00:16:16,955 An iron-hard, raised lump with a hole, 248 00:16:16,956 --> 00:16:21,893 and it was here where he suckles his familiars. 249 00:16:28,201 --> 00:16:31,403 You will not laugh again. 250 00:16:31,404 --> 00:16:34,106 I'm sure you have laughed many times to think how, 251 00:16:34,107 --> 00:16:37,676 beneath the very nose of a devoted young wife, 252 00:16:37,677 --> 00:16:41,179 you turned our leader, a once robust George Sibley, 253 00:16:41,180 --> 00:16:44,049 into a suffering heap that he is today. 254 00:16:44,050 --> 00:16:47,819 And after you had undermined the pillar of our community, 255 00:16:47,820 --> 00:16:50,989 you unleashed a campaign of terror. 256 00:16:50,990 --> 00:16:55,561 It was Alden who projected that specter of dread, the night hag, 257 00:16:55,562 --> 00:16:57,195 to terrorize Mercy Lewis. 258 00:16:57,196 --> 00:17:00,565 And you will ask, "why? Why Mercy Lewis?" 259 00:17:00,566 --> 00:17:04,970 Well, perhaps it was because her father, the good Reverend Lewis, 260 00:17:04,971 --> 00:17:09,307 married Alden's bitterly lost love to a hated rival, 261 00:17:09,308 --> 00:17:15,346 or perhaps it was just to show that no one in Salem is safe, 262 00:17:15,347 --> 00:17:19,251 not even the daughter of a blessed Reverend. 263 00:17:21,554 --> 00:17:23,922 Cotton! 264 00:17:23,923 --> 00:17:25,657 You attended Mercy Lewis. 265 00:17:25,658 --> 00:17:30,261 You had no doubt as to what ailed her. 266 00:17:30,262 --> 00:17:33,031 She was indeed under spectral attack, 267 00:17:33,032 --> 00:17:34,132 but Captain Alden... 268 00:17:34,133 --> 00:17:36,334 Captain Alden... what did he say 269 00:17:36,335 --> 00:17:38,336 when he witnessed such an attack? 270 00:17:41,107 --> 00:17:42,640 He cast some doubt upon it. 271 00:17:42,641 --> 00:17:44,943 Some doubt! 272 00:17:44,944 --> 00:17:47,178 I am told... 273 00:17:47,179 --> 00:17:49,415 He said it was... 274 00:17:49,416 --> 00:17:51,449 "Bullshit." 275 00:17:52,519 --> 00:17:55,854 And he said that prayers were worthless. 276 00:17:55,855 --> 00:17:59,958 Prayer? Worthless? 277 00:18:01,428 --> 00:18:03,394 Ask yourselves... 278 00:18:03,395 --> 00:18:06,531 every time we have attempted to catch and stop a witch, 279 00:18:06,532 --> 00:18:09,500 who has risen up to defend them? 280 00:18:09,501 --> 00:18:13,605 Who alone among us, in encounter, time after time, 281 00:18:13,606 --> 00:18:16,642 with witches has emerged with nary a scratch upon him? 282 00:18:16,643 --> 00:18:20,378 Whose name was on Giles Corey's lips as he died? 283 00:18:20,379 --> 00:18:25,050 Who has proclaimed that he will see every man here in his grave? 284 00:18:25,051 --> 00:18:27,619 And who stood up to defend Bridget bishop 285 00:18:27,620 --> 00:18:31,423 even in the very sight of the monstrosity she had created? 286 00:18:31,424 --> 00:18:32,724 I swear to you 287 00:18:32,725 --> 00:18:36,895 this man condemns himself every time he opens his mouth. 288 00:18:36,896 --> 00:18:39,931 And like Satan in the garden of eden, 289 00:18:39,932 --> 00:18:43,101 John Alden understands that women are the open doorway 290 00:18:43,102 --> 00:18:47,072 through which evil enters to poison us all. 291 00:18:47,073 --> 00:18:51,709 How many women, young and old, good and bad, 292 00:18:51,710 --> 00:18:53,511 has Alden bewitched? 293 00:18:53,512 --> 00:18:57,015 It has been seen that John Alden attempted to seduce 294 00:18:57,016 --> 00:19:00,285 even the highest women in the land. 295 00:19:00,286 --> 00:19:01,687 Mary Sibley. 296 00:19:03,355 --> 00:19:06,291 Did not the accused forcibly enter your house, 297 00:19:06,292 --> 00:19:10,729 nay, into your very boudoir, in the dead of night? 298 00:19:10,730 --> 00:19:13,031 Would I allow such a thing? 299 00:19:13,032 --> 00:19:15,667 I do not know. 300 00:19:15,668 --> 00:19:18,736 But your servant man has testified 301 00:19:18,737 --> 00:19:22,875 that Alden did indeed forcibly make entry in the night. 302 00:19:27,346 --> 00:19:29,314 He came to discuss politics. 303 00:19:29,315 --> 00:19:30,848 - Politics? - Indeed. 304 00:19:30,849 --> 00:19:31,984 To announce his intention 305 00:19:31,985 --> 00:19:34,185 to take his father's seat on the select board. 306 00:19:34,186 --> 00:19:35,653 In the middle of the night? 307 00:19:40,426 --> 00:19:42,227 Miss Hale. 308 00:19:44,697 --> 00:19:49,100 The accused was seen kissing you forcibly in public. 309 00:19:49,101 --> 00:19:51,636 There is no blame attached to you. 310 00:19:51,637 --> 00:19:55,974 You are a... a slight and defenseless slip of a girl. 311 00:19:55,975 --> 00:19:58,476 But do you deny it? 312 00:20:07,420 --> 00:20:08,420 He did. 313 00:20:09,122 --> 00:20:12,657 He did. 314 00:20:12,658 --> 00:20:15,526 A snake in the grass is what John Alden was 315 00:20:15,527 --> 00:20:19,064 and what John Alden is. 316 00:20:19,065 --> 00:20:23,301 And when he was not attempting to seduce his betters, 317 00:20:23,302 --> 00:20:26,304 he was satiating his own inhuman lusts 318 00:20:26,305 --> 00:20:27,905 in roomfuls of whores 319 00:20:27,906 --> 00:20:31,076 in the brothel run by his very own witches. 320 00:20:32,711 --> 00:20:38,283 And, worst of all, I think, the tender, young maidens of Salem, 321 00:20:38,284 --> 00:20:42,187 so eager to fall prey to his serpentine ways. 322 00:20:49,762 --> 00:20:54,099 Mercy told us it was... it was John Alden 323 00:20:54,100 --> 00:20:57,269 who came I-in the shadows in the night, 324 00:20:57,270 --> 00:21:03,941 that he... he kissed and licked and bit every part of her. 325 00:21:03,942 --> 00:21:09,647 But he bewitched her so she might not name his name 326 00:21:09,648 --> 00:21:12,517 but she might blame all on the hag. 327 00:21:12,518 --> 00:21:17,255 He took her in the night in spectral form 328 00:21:17,256 --> 00:21:22,327 and gave her body and soul to the Devil himself. 329 00:21:24,430 --> 00:21:27,832 And she... she drew us in after that 330 00:21:27,833 --> 00:21:31,136 w-with magical tricks a-and games. 331 00:21:31,137 --> 00:21:34,439 And, soon, we were dancing in the woods with him, 332 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:38,944 where we touched each other and, one after the other, 333 00:21:38,945 --> 00:21:40,879 laid with him. 334 00:21:48,154 --> 00:21:49,287 Really? 335 00:22:00,566 --> 00:22:02,100 All of you? 336 00:22:10,176 --> 00:22:13,879 Are you saying, Emily... 337 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:15,447 That you are not a maiden? 338 00:22:17,583 --> 00:22:19,417 If I were to examine you, 339 00:22:19,418 --> 00:22:23,155 have one of the women here examine you... 340 00:22:24,756 --> 00:22:28,159 They would find that you are not intact? 341 00:22:31,530 --> 00:22:35,033 He... he has tongue and fingers 342 00:22:35,034 --> 00:22:36,501 and invisible instruments of... of pleasure. 343 00:22:36,502 --> 00:22:37,469 Ah. 344 00:22:37,470 --> 00:22:39,971 But I-I had my eyes closed. 345 00:22:39,972 --> 00:22:41,907 I don't know what he did. 346 00:22:41,908 --> 00:22:44,442 These are phantasms, 347 00:22:44,443 --> 00:22:47,845 fabrications of the mind. 348 00:22:47,846 --> 00:22:49,815 And who here among us has not had, 349 00:22:49,816 --> 00:22:55,186 even involuntarily, some heated thoughts? 350 00:22:55,187 --> 00:22:58,623 This girl has been overwhelmed by them. 351 00:22:58,624 --> 00:23:02,427 Especially in the face of extreme torture 352 00:23:02,428 --> 00:23:04,896 by my own father. 353 00:23:06,565 --> 00:23:10,836 Put to the rack, threatened with death, 354 00:23:10,837 --> 00:23:13,404 even an innocent girl might think herself a witch, 355 00:23:13,405 --> 00:23:16,942 and any man around her a Devil. 356 00:23:18,244 --> 00:23:20,045 I submit to you that everything you have seen here today 357 00:23:20,046 --> 00:23:24,749 is the result of torture worthy of the inquisition! 358 00:23:25,918 --> 00:23:28,353 Who is it who has really violated women? 359 00:23:30,256 --> 00:23:33,525 John Alden? 360 00:23:33,526 --> 00:23:38,230 Or one who possesses... 361 00:23:38,231 --> 00:23:41,699 And uses... 362 00:23:41,700 --> 00:23:43,935 Tools such as this?! 363 00:23:47,340 --> 00:23:48,473 How dare you? 364 00:23:48,474 --> 00:23:50,608 No, sir! How dare you?! 365 00:23:56,182 --> 00:23:59,084 This session is suspended for the day! 366 00:23:59,085 --> 00:24:03,888 We will resume in the morning when tempers have cooled. 367 00:24:17,970 --> 00:24:19,637 The whole town wants to hang me 368 00:24:19,638 --> 00:24:21,839 like I'm some kind of monster, 369 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:26,111 like I possess some dark, magic power. 370 00:24:26,112 --> 00:24:26,911 And you do. 371 00:24:26,912 --> 00:24:29,447 Oh, not you, too. 372 00:24:29,448 --> 00:24:31,216 No. 373 00:24:31,217 --> 00:24:33,084 Don't believe you're a witch. 374 00:24:33,085 --> 00:24:36,421 But I do believe you possess something of dark, magic power. 375 00:24:38,124 --> 00:24:40,725 Where is the malum? 376 00:24:40,726 --> 00:24:41,759 What? 377 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:42,827 The box. 378 00:24:42,828 --> 00:24:45,663 The box you found 379 00:24:45,664 --> 00:24:48,233 that lured that infernal witch to your house. 380 00:24:48,234 --> 00:24:49,300 Why? 381 00:24:49,301 --> 00:24:52,570 I believe it is the fabled malum, 382 00:24:52,571 --> 00:24:54,506 the key to the grand rite. 383 00:24:55,641 --> 00:24:57,075 This more of your book nonsense? 384 00:24:58,244 --> 00:25:00,978 That box covered in images... 385 00:25:00,979 --> 00:25:03,881 I believe it is the greatest weapon of the witches, 386 00:25:03,882 --> 00:25:05,883 that it contains some kind of 387 00:25:05,884 --> 00:25:08,453 supernatural agent of destruction 388 00:25:08,454 --> 00:25:13,859 which will open when the grand rite is completed, 389 00:25:13,860 --> 00:25:17,762 releasing its doom upon us like... 390 00:25:17,763 --> 00:25:19,297 Like the myth of pandora. 391 00:25:19,298 --> 00:25:21,866 Look, if that thing is what you say it is, 392 00:25:21,867 --> 00:25:23,935 and your father knows that I have it, 393 00:25:23,936 --> 00:25:26,171 that is the final nail in my coffin. 394 00:25:26,172 --> 00:25:28,273 And what if it's the only chance we have? 395 00:25:32,578 --> 00:25:33,711 Giles has it. 396 00:25:33,712 --> 00:25:36,947 Giles? 397 00:25:36,948 --> 00:25:38,616 Giles Corey is dead. 398 00:25:39,751 --> 00:25:43,020 And I buried it in his grave. 399 00:27:09,714 --> 00:27:11,614 You know what to do with it? 400 00:27:22,793 --> 00:27:24,794 Father, I must speak to you. 401 00:27:24,795 --> 00:27:25,862 What now? 402 00:27:25,863 --> 00:27:27,330 More disrespect? 403 00:27:27,331 --> 00:27:29,032 No. 404 00:27:29,033 --> 00:27:32,101 Sir. 405 00:27:32,102 --> 00:27:34,370 I still think what you do is fundamentally wrong, 406 00:27:34,371 --> 00:27:37,440 that there must be other ways, but... 407 00:27:37,441 --> 00:27:40,209 I am afraid. 408 00:27:40,210 --> 00:27:44,413 Deathly afraid. 409 00:27:44,414 --> 00:27:47,950 I fear, while we disagree on methods, 410 00:27:47,951 --> 00:27:50,720 we are both determined to stop the grand rite. 411 00:27:50,721 --> 00:27:55,224 Well... 412 00:27:55,225 --> 00:27:58,761 I'm gratified that you at least acknowledge that. 413 00:28:01,131 --> 00:28:04,601 The malum is here. 414 00:28:06,570 --> 00:28:09,806 Or was. 415 00:28:09,807 --> 00:28:12,141 I saw it. 416 00:28:12,142 --> 00:28:13,576 I touched it, even. 417 00:28:13,577 --> 00:28:15,779 Indeed? 418 00:28:15,780 --> 00:28:18,682 Then where is it? 419 00:28:18,683 --> 00:28:20,316 I don't know. 420 00:28:20,317 --> 00:28:23,019 Well... 421 00:28:23,020 --> 00:28:25,488 Tell me where you saw it. 422 00:28:30,060 --> 00:28:31,995 In John Alden's house. 423 00:29:08,932 --> 00:29:10,533 Father, you don't understand. 424 00:29:10,534 --> 00:29:12,369 He was helping me. 425 00:29:12,370 --> 00:29:14,771 It was he who trapped the witch and carried her with me 426 00:29:14,772 --> 00:29:16,439 to the woods to question and kill her. 427 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,375 You don't understand. 428 00:29:18,376 --> 00:29:20,643 In some respects, the witches are not unlike us. 429 00:29:20,644 --> 00:29:24,046 They have factions. They have power struggles. 430 00:29:24,047 --> 00:29:27,550 Your friend Alden was not trying to catch a witch. 431 00:29:27,551 --> 00:29:29,518 He was eliminating a rival. 432 00:29:29,519 --> 00:29:32,621 You are blinded by your own doubt, 433 00:29:32,622 --> 00:29:35,191 and it will destroy you! 434 00:29:35,192 --> 00:29:36,493 If I grant you 435 00:29:36,494 --> 00:29:40,062 that there is a possibility that Alden is innocent, 436 00:29:40,063 --> 00:29:42,064 can you not grant the possibility 437 00:29:42,065 --> 00:29:44,834 that there is a 1 in 10, nay, a 1 in 100 chance 438 00:29:44,835 --> 00:29:47,070 that I am right?! 439 00:29:47,071 --> 00:29:49,839 And if I am, thousands will perish. 440 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,474 The nation itself may fall. 441 00:29:51,475 --> 00:29:53,542 Can we take that chance? I cannot. 442 00:29:53,543 --> 00:29:55,645 Can you? 443 00:29:55,646 --> 00:29:57,046 I tell you, Cotton, 444 00:29:57,047 --> 00:29:59,582 you do not know this man nearly as well as you think you do. 445 00:30:00,484 --> 00:30:02,384 I searched Giles Corey's grave. 446 00:30:02,385 --> 00:30:03,820 The malum wasn't there. 447 00:30:03,821 --> 00:30:06,489 That's impossible. I buried it myself. 448 00:30:06,490 --> 00:30:08,124 Who else knew? 449 00:30:08,125 --> 00:30:10,026 No one. 450 00:30:10,027 --> 00:30:11,527 Just you. 451 00:30:16,066 --> 00:30:17,066 And you don't believe me. 452 00:30:17,067 --> 00:30:19,969 I'm not sure what to believe. 453 00:30:19,970 --> 00:30:21,671 I am certain only of two things. 454 00:30:21,672 --> 00:30:23,072 All our lives may depend on 455 00:30:23,073 --> 00:30:25,207 finding and destroying the malum. 456 00:30:25,208 --> 00:30:27,610 And? 457 00:30:27,611 --> 00:30:29,745 And you are being less than honest with me. 458 00:30:31,515 --> 00:30:34,083 I've told you everything. 459 00:30:40,624 --> 00:30:42,725 What the hell is going on?! 460 00:30:42,726 --> 00:30:44,961 - Get up. 461 00:30:44,962 --> 00:30:46,328 Those girls are innocent! 462 00:30:48,432 --> 00:30:49,532 No! 463 00:30:54,472 --> 00:30:55,638 Forgive me! 464 00:30:55,639 --> 00:30:58,641 It's the only thing I regret... lying about you! 465 00:30:58,642 --> 00:31:00,910 Look, I know what they did to you. 466 00:31:00,911 --> 00:31:01,944 It's not your fault. 467 00:31:01,945 --> 00:31:03,246 Get over here! 468 00:31:04,848 --> 00:31:07,283 Damn you! 469 00:31:07,284 --> 00:31:09,252 Do something! They're just girls! 470 00:31:38,982 --> 00:31:43,119 You! You promised you'd spare us! 471 00:31:46,690 --> 00:31:49,692 I am sparing you the flames of this world 472 00:31:49,693 --> 00:31:51,160 and of the next. 473 00:31:52,129 --> 00:31:54,330 You will not suffer long. 474 00:31:54,331 --> 00:31:59,435 A full measure of Mercy is being added to your legs. 475 00:31:59,436 --> 00:32:00,603 Let go of me! 476 00:32:00,604 --> 00:32:02,271 Father, you lied! 477 00:32:02,272 --> 00:32:04,473 You promised these girls they wouldn't... 478 00:32:04,474 --> 00:32:05,908 Burn. 479 00:32:05,909 --> 00:32:07,143 Nor shall they. 480 00:32:07,144 --> 00:32:08,377 Don't do this, father. 481 00:32:08,378 --> 00:32:10,747 How can this possibly help? 482 00:32:10,748 --> 00:32:12,582 You said yourself they were victims! 483 00:32:12,583 --> 00:32:13,750 Sad but true. 484 00:32:13,751 --> 00:32:16,585 But they're tainted... By the Devil. 485 00:32:16,586 --> 00:32:18,888 I fear they carry his very seed. 486 00:32:18,889 --> 00:32:20,189 How can you be certain? 487 00:32:20,190 --> 00:32:21,357 I am certain. 488 00:32:21,358 --> 00:32:24,093 I am certain of the threat they pose to Salem, 489 00:32:24,094 --> 00:32:27,196 just as I am certain that your weakness poses a threat. 490 00:32:27,197 --> 00:32:30,533 But above all, I am certain that, 491 00:32:30,534 --> 00:32:33,736 like a surgeon, I have no choice but to cut out 492 00:32:33,737 --> 00:32:36,272 the malignant manifestation of malice 493 00:32:36,273 --> 00:32:38,774 before it can spread any further. 494 00:32:40,811 --> 00:32:41,877 No! Stop! 495 00:32:41,878 --> 00:32:44,147 Please help me! Please! Please! 496 00:32:44,148 --> 00:32:45,247 Get back! 497 00:33:03,233 --> 00:33:06,869 Burn in hell! 498 00:33:06,870 --> 00:33:08,570 Let them burn! 499 00:33:44,851 --> 00:33:47,785 Mercy! 500 00:33:47,786 --> 00:33:50,055 Where are you?! 501 00:33:50,990 --> 00:33:53,425 Mercy! 502 00:33:53,426 --> 00:33:55,093 What is it? 503 00:33:56,529 --> 00:33:57,830 Dollie, what has happened? 504 00:33:57,831 --> 00:34:03,001 Emily, Elizabeth, Susanna, and charity... 505 00:34:03,002 --> 00:34:05,470 Increase Mather has hung them all. 506 00:34:11,411 --> 00:34:13,578 You swore that they would be safe, 507 00:34:13,579 --> 00:34:14,679 but they're dead! 508 00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:16,648 All of them have been killed! 509 00:34:16,649 --> 00:34:18,917 You said your master would protect us, 510 00:34:18,918 --> 00:34:20,218 and she did nothing! 511 00:34:22,422 --> 00:34:26,625 Go back to Salem. 512 00:34:26,626 --> 00:34:28,460 Gather the young, 513 00:34:28,461 --> 00:34:33,498 the poor, the suffering. 514 00:34:33,499 --> 00:34:37,169 They will be our army. 515 00:34:37,170 --> 00:34:39,771 A new day is upon us. 516 00:34:39,772 --> 00:34:41,973 And that new day demands 517 00:34:41,974 --> 00:34:45,744 a new queen of the night! 518 00:34:47,180 --> 00:34:51,349 I know that so many of you find it hard to accept, 519 00:34:51,350 --> 00:34:54,419 impossible to believe that John Alden, 520 00:34:54,420 --> 00:34:59,023 son of one of our founders and a brave soldier in our defense, 521 00:34:59,024 --> 00:35:02,760 is guilty of malefic witchcraft. 522 00:35:02,761 --> 00:35:04,429 Fine. 523 00:35:04,430 --> 00:35:05,897 Fine! 524 00:35:05,898 --> 00:35:09,100 Suspend your belief or not. It doesn't matter. 525 00:35:09,101 --> 00:35:16,341 The only thing that matters is that Alden... Be convicted 526 00:35:16,342 --> 00:35:19,611 and sentenced for what he truly is, 527 00:35:19,612 --> 00:35:22,580 a traitor and a murderer. 528 00:35:22,581 --> 00:35:24,082 What? 529 00:35:24,083 --> 00:35:25,484 Whatever do you mean? 530 00:35:25,485 --> 00:35:30,956 I submit that while John Alden was with the Indians, 531 00:35:30,957 --> 00:35:33,558 he not only took up with them. 532 00:35:33,559 --> 00:35:37,195 He took up arms against his own people, 533 00:35:37,196 --> 00:35:41,233 slaughtering militiamen in his own company, 534 00:35:41,234 --> 00:35:45,337 good new england men, every one of them. 535 00:35:45,338 --> 00:35:48,573 I swear this to be true. 536 00:35:48,574 --> 00:35:52,444 And I dare John Alden to deny it! 537 00:35:52,445 --> 00:35:54,646 I dare you to tell me 538 00:35:54,647 --> 00:35:59,951 that you did not paint your face as a heathen Indian 539 00:35:59,952 --> 00:36:03,254 and smash the skulls of men in your own company! 540 00:36:03,255 --> 00:36:05,524 Outrageous accusations! 541 00:36:05,525 --> 00:36:08,092 Wherever did you find such nonsense? 542 00:36:08,093 --> 00:36:11,029 I have sworn testimony from the slave Tituba! 543 00:36:11,030 --> 00:36:12,630 Aha! 544 00:36:12,631 --> 00:36:15,533 Lies and fantasies. 545 00:36:15,534 --> 00:36:17,669 Lies? Captain? 546 00:36:17,670 --> 00:36:20,172 Fantasies? 547 00:36:20,173 --> 00:36:23,875 Do you dispute the charges? 548 00:36:25,611 --> 00:36:26,678 Speak. 549 00:36:28,081 --> 00:36:32,450 Captain... Is this all true? 550 00:36:35,921 --> 00:36:39,958 Every sane man in this place knows I ain't a witch. 551 00:36:39,959 --> 00:36:43,195 Are you a traitor? 552 00:36:43,196 --> 00:36:45,697 Are you a murderer? 553 00:36:48,434 --> 00:36:50,868 Damn you, John. Answer him. 554 00:37:01,514 --> 00:37:05,383 So, you see... 555 00:37:05,384 --> 00:37:10,655 Sometimes, silence can be the most eloquent confession of all. 556 00:37:12,525 --> 00:37:15,126 I have no doubt, not a sliver of a doubt, 557 00:37:15,127 --> 00:37:17,262 that John Alden is a witch. 558 00:37:17,263 --> 00:37:22,401 But... Even had I not... 559 00:37:22,402 --> 00:37:24,035 I would still maintain 560 00:37:24,036 --> 00:37:30,442 that he must hang for crimes he will not deny. 561 00:37:32,878 --> 00:37:34,446 And nor should you. 562 00:37:37,650 --> 00:37:41,686 For God's sake, tell me my father is wrong. 563 00:37:41,687 --> 00:37:44,656 Tell me you are not the man he says you are. 564 00:37:44,657 --> 00:37:45,990 What does it matter now? 565 00:37:45,991 --> 00:37:48,827 It Matters to me... 566 00:37:48,828 --> 00:37:50,528 whether you duped me all this time. 567 00:37:50,529 --> 00:37:54,466 Are you sure you want the truth? 568 00:37:54,467 --> 00:37:55,667 Are you really damn sure 569 00:37:55,668 --> 00:37:58,170 you know the difference between good and evil? 570 00:37:58,171 --> 00:38:00,071 'Cause you puritans, 571 00:38:00,072 --> 00:38:04,176 you think the world is just black and white. 572 00:38:04,177 --> 00:38:08,246 What if the truth of the world is that it's nothing but gray? 573 00:38:15,187 --> 00:38:16,655 After the battle of the great swamp, 574 00:38:16,656 --> 00:38:20,191 I was left for dead. 575 00:38:20,192 --> 00:38:23,995 But I was found by the mohawk... 576 00:38:23,996 --> 00:38:26,464 not the Indians we fought, no. 577 00:38:26,465 --> 00:38:28,700 The mohawk aren't our friends, 578 00:38:28,701 --> 00:38:33,471 but they are the enemies of the abenaki we fight. 579 00:38:33,472 --> 00:38:38,042 In all honesty, I... 580 00:38:38,043 --> 00:38:44,115 I don't think I'll ever understand why they saved me. 581 00:38:44,116 --> 00:38:47,051 It is a mystery to me to this day. 582 00:38:51,323 --> 00:38:53,425 The scar your old man found 583 00:38:53,426 --> 00:38:55,793 he said was from feeding a familiar? 584 00:38:55,794 --> 00:38:57,428 That was from digging a ball of lead out of me 585 00:38:57,429 --> 00:39:00,064 and healing it with their medicines. 586 00:39:00,065 --> 00:39:03,000 They held you for ransom? 587 00:39:03,001 --> 00:39:05,002 No. 588 00:39:05,003 --> 00:39:07,939 They treated me with kindness and respect. 589 00:39:09,308 --> 00:39:11,409 And their holy men took an interest in me. 590 00:39:11,410 --> 00:39:14,346 I'm not even sure why or what he saw in me, 591 00:39:14,347 --> 00:39:16,548 but if he hadn't... 592 00:39:16,549 --> 00:39:18,550 I'd be dead. 593 00:39:18,551 --> 00:39:22,187 So I lived amongst them. 594 00:39:22,188 --> 00:39:24,989 I shared their food and their shelter. 595 00:39:24,990 --> 00:39:26,691 I even hunted with them. 596 00:39:26,692 --> 00:39:30,328 One day, me and a few braves returned from a hunt 597 00:39:30,329 --> 00:39:34,232 to find the village had been burned to the ground. 598 00:39:34,233 --> 00:39:37,469 The women and the children, they're all scattered 599 00:39:37,470 --> 00:39:42,139 like dead, fallen leaves, slaughtered. 600 00:39:42,140 --> 00:39:44,108 By the abenaki? 601 00:39:44,109 --> 00:39:45,577 No. 602 00:39:45,578 --> 00:39:48,412 Militia. 603 00:39:48,413 --> 00:39:51,849 Our militia. 604 00:39:51,850 --> 00:39:53,184 Couldn't even be bothered 605 00:39:53,185 --> 00:39:55,453 to tell one Indian tribe from another. 606 00:39:55,454 --> 00:39:58,823 A red fog descended upon me, 607 00:39:58,824 --> 00:40:00,992 and it did not lift until I ran through those woods 608 00:40:00,993 --> 00:40:03,561 and killed every one of those bastards, 609 00:40:03,562 --> 00:40:05,697 everyone but one. 610 00:40:08,100 --> 00:40:12,503 And that I corrected the night I found the box. 611 00:40:21,313 --> 00:40:22,714 And the malum? 612 00:40:23,616 --> 00:40:25,483 I didn't know nothing about that. 613 00:40:25,484 --> 00:40:30,421 You said it was something that the witches wanted badly. 614 00:40:30,422 --> 00:40:32,023 When we lost that witch in the woods, 615 00:40:32,024 --> 00:40:33,925 I thought it was best to hide it, 616 00:40:33,926 --> 00:40:36,327 so, like I told you, I buried it with Giles. 617 00:40:36,328 --> 00:40:37,762 Well, then someone unburied it. 618 00:40:37,763 --> 00:40:39,430 Maybe you have nothing to worry about, then, 619 00:40:39,431 --> 00:40:40,699 because according to your father, 620 00:40:40,700 --> 00:40:42,967 I am the witch behind it. 621 00:40:42,968 --> 00:40:45,336 So, all you have to do is hang me, 622 00:40:45,337 --> 00:40:48,072 and then everything will be just fine. 623 00:40:48,073 --> 00:40:50,675 What I can't figure out, 624 00:40:50,676 --> 00:40:54,679 what I am trying to surmise, 625 00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:57,915 is, after all of this, 626 00:40:57,916 --> 00:41:01,720 after everything we've been through... 627 00:41:01,721 --> 00:41:06,223 you needed a friend or a pawn? 628 00:41:25,398 --> 00:41:26,966 Weeping don't help. 629 00:41:26,967 --> 00:41:28,600 Trust me. 630 00:41:28,601 --> 00:41:30,402 Done my fair share. 631 00:41:32,605 --> 00:41:37,242 Isaac. 632 00:41:37,243 --> 00:41:39,278 God, you're still bleeding. 633 00:41:39,279 --> 00:41:41,947 Around here, who ain't? 634 00:41:50,356 --> 00:41:52,792 What have I done? 635 00:41:56,562 --> 00:41:59,231 I know none of this is your fault, 636 00:41:59,232 --> 00:42:00,566 and all of it's mine. 637 00:42:00,567 --> 00:42:03,102 He was on his way out of town that day. 638 00:42:03,103 --> 00:42:04,169 I stopped him. 639 00:42:04,170 --> 00:42:05,938 If it weren't for me, he'd be long gone. 640 00:42:05,939 --> 00:42:07,439 None of this would have happened. 641 00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:11,343 I might as well pull the rope myself in the morning. 642 00:42:11,344 --> 00:42:15,748 I've as good as killed John Alden. 643 00:42:15,749 --> 00:42:17,783 But you... 644 00:42:17,784 --> 00:42:19,551 You can save him. 645 00:42:19,552 --> 00:42:22,221 I can't. I can't! 646 00:42:22,222 --> 00:42:23,622 You're Mary. 647 00:42:23,623 --> 00:42:27,560 You're Mary. 648 00:42:27,561 --> 00:42:28,728 They all call you Mary Sibley. 649 00:42:28,729 --> 00:42:30,296 Do you know what I call you 650 00:42:30,297 --> 00:42:34,233 in my head, to myself, in my heart? 651 00:42:34,234 --> 00:42:35,400 "Magic Mary." 652 00:42:35,401 --> 00:42:38,603 You were always magic, 653 00:42:38,604 --> 00:42:41,540 even back when we was just sprouts. 654 00:42:41,541 --> 00:42:43,475 And you could do anything... 655 00:42:43,476 --> 00:42:45,945 always could. 656 00:42:45,946 --> 00:42:48,480 You just have to want it bad enough. 657 00:42:48,481 --> 00:42:51,016 And you do. 658 00:42:51,017 --> 00:42:53,052 Don't you? 659 00:42:53,053 --> 00:42:55,021 You do want John Alden to live. 660 00:43:25,618 --> 00:43:26,785 How did you get in here? 661 00:43:27,888 --> 00:43:30,790 They will hang you tomorrow. 662 00:43:30,791 --> 00:43:33,258 "They"? 663 00:43:33,259 --> 00:43:36,462 Well, aren't you one of them, Mrs. Sibley? 664 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,602 Sometimes, I no longer remember who I am. 665 00:43:43,603 --> 00:43:45,838 But I know who you are... 666 00:43:45,839 --> 00:43:48,273 an innocent man. 667 00:43:48,274 --> 00:43:51,377 Hardly. 668 00:43:51,378 --> 00:43:54,580 Now it's almost funny. 669 00:43:54,581 --> 00:43:57,349 Salem finally sentenced someone to die 670 00:43:57,350 --> 00:43:59,551 for something they've actually done. 671 00:43:59,552 --> 00:44:02,621 Go home, Mary. 672 00:44:02,622 --> 00:44:05,690 Go back to your life, Mrs. Sibley. 673 00:44:08,395 --> 00:44:10,629 You are my life. 674 00:44:14,234 --> 00:44:16,468 Well, it's a little late for that thought. 675 00:44:16,469 --> 00:44:18,170 I'll not let you hang. 676 00:44:18,939 --> 00:44:20,605 I can save you. 677 00:44:20,606 --> 00:44:22,008 The good people of Salem, 678 00:44:22,009 --> 00:44:25,611 the people I've been trying to save, 679 00:44:25,612 --> 00:44:29,081 they all want me dead. 680 00:44:29,082 --> 00:44:31,150 They think I'm the Devil himself. 681 00:44:33,053 --> 00:44:34,586 I'm no Devil. 682 00:44:38,258 --> 00:44:42,027 But I am guilty of treason... 683 00:44:42,028 --> 00:44:43,395 And murder. 684 00:44:45,532 --> 00:44:48,033 And I'm ready to hang for it. 685 00:44:49,903 --> 00:44:52,872 Besides... 686 00:44:52,873 --> 00:44:54,306 I'm awfully tired. 687 00:44:55,608 --> 00:44:57,543 Tired of living without you. 688 00:44:57,544 --> 00:45:00,079 There's still a way for us to be together. 689 00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:01,047 It's over. 690 00:45:01,048 --> 00:45:02,448 What's wrong with you? 691 00:45:02,449 --> 00:45:05,484 Have you gone mad like everyone else in this town? 692 00:45:05,485 --> 00:45:08,520 John, I promise you... 693 00:45:08,521 --> 00:45:10,822 No, don't. 694 00:45:10,823 --> 00:45:14,093 Neither of us is very good with promises, so no more vows. 695 00:45:14,094 --> 00:45:15,160 Listen to me. 696 00:45:15,161 --> 00:45:17,329 I am listening to you, 697 00:45:17,330 --> 00:45:20,299 and you aren't making any sense. 698 00:45:20,300 --> 00:45:23,602 Look around you. 699 00:45:23,603 --> 00:45:27,707 These are stone walls. 700 00:45:27,708 --> 00:45:29,174 Barred windows, 701 00:45:29,175 --> 00:45:31,476 an iron door. 702 00:45:31,477 --> 00:45:35,947 Right above us, a thick rope awaiting my neck. 703 00:45:35,948 --> 00:45:39,384 Those are the stubborn facts. 704 00:45:39,385 --> 00:45:40,352 And all the love in the world 705 00:45:40,353 --> 00:45:42,955 can't change a single one of them. 706 00:45:42,956 --> 00:45:44,323 You're wrong. 707 00:45:44,324 --> 00:45:48,594 Love is stronger than fact, stronger than everything. 708 00:45:50,530 --> 00:45:53,232 But I tell you, John, 709 00:45:53,233 --> 00:45:56,535 there is still a place for us in this world. 710 00:45:56,536 --> 00:45:59,371 Only in dreams. 711 00:45:59,372 --> 00:46:01,840 All right, then. 712 00:46:01,841 --> 00:46:05,044 One last time... 713 00:46:05,045 --> 00:46:06,946 Dream with me.