The Buccaneers (2023) s02e06 Episode Script

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[sighs]
[breathes shakily]
Jinny. Jinny, he's here. I'm so sorry.
Seadown's here. He's in the marketplace.
- Get Freddie's things together…
- Guy.
- …I'll get mine, and we'll go.
- Guy, wait.
I knew.
[stammers] I've been seeing him.
He's different.
Really, he's softer.
You should see him with Freddie.
He's seen Freddie?
I know what you're thinking,
but I know him.
I can help him. I can see the man
that he's trying to be a…
I'll try harder.
I'm making my own choices,
and-and I don't wanna be
someone who gives up.
I can mend my marriage.
But it wasn't you who broke it.
Well, that won't happen again.
He's promised.
But that's what he says.
You… You told me that.
[stammers] Can't you see what he's doing?
I'm stronger now.
You always were.
Y-You're the strongest person I know.
He's changed.
He's a father. He has Freddie.
He does not have Freddie. We have Freddie.
We do.
Guy, this could all be over. For you too.
No more hiding.
You can go wherever you want in the world.
[stammers] And James and I,
we can… we can just be.
- What?
- Just… [sighs] …be us.
Jinny. Jinny, you… This is what he does.
Okay? He makes you believe
that your world is small,
but it… but it isn't small.
It never will be.
What would Nan say?
I can't.
I can't tell James
that I'm not coming home.
- I can't.
- But… [sighs]
He'll be… He'll be so angry.
Isn't that all you need to know?
[sighs]
We… We need to go.
We need… We need to go now.
We've got to hurry.
[Guy] I'll get the suitcases.
I'll get Freddie.
Guy!
Jinny!
[panting]
[Jinny breathing shakily]
[gasps]
["North American Scum" playing]
[whinnying]
[blusters]
[dog barking]
Hi. [cries]
Hi.
[crying] Nan, he's got him.
Seadown's taken Freddie.
[Nan] He's not at his house,
but we're going to find him.
We'll make sure you're not seen.
We're gonna make sure you're safe.
We're gonna track Seadown down.
We're gonna get baby Freddie back.
We have a plan.
There's a journalist on his way.
- He'll be here soon. With Theo.
- Okay.
Just have to wait.
But what are we doing?
We're just sitting in chairs and talking.
- Why aren't we out there looking?
- We have to wait.
The Times are going to
print an article about you.
I'm not interested in articles,
or in who thinks what
or how my hair should look
to make me look sympathetic.
We need to find Freddie. Where is he?
- Jinny, Seadown's not at his house.
- [breathing heavily]
He hasn't been there for weeks,
but Theo and Dick,
they're trying to find out where he is.
And, Jinny,
if we're going to get through this,
we have to agree on a few things, okay?
Number one. It's crazy,
and we all know it's crazy,
but you are a criminal.
In the eyes of the law,
you are a fugitive.
You stole Seadown's baby.
Number two. You have to stay in his house.
If anyone knows you are here,
he can have you arrested.
The law's absurd, but it is on his side.
And number three.
I'm going to change that law.
I am, okay? I'm doing everything I can,
you're doing everything you can,
because if The Times supports us,
that is the first step.
[sighs] I just wanna find him.
- [Nan] We will.
- Okay, we have to trust them.
Do you trust us?
Let's get you ready.
Thank you for bringing her home
and for being here.
Where else would I be?
Only a duke could get the editor of
The Times out of bed at this hour.
I don't know how to thank you.
Give me the name of your barber.
[chuckles]
[Theo] Mr. Clark.
Your Grace,
if this man's your big surprise…
He isn't. Follow me.
[footsteps approaching]
- [Clark] Lady Seadown.
- Who did you expect?
I wouldn't have expected for a moment
that you'd dare show your face.
I-I don't dare. O-Only to you.
Only because my sister
thinks it might help.
My husband has taken my baby.
It's not me who's guilty.
So, will you call the police?
Or will you hear her out?
Please, go on.
[sighs]
I was so determined
that I was marrying this wonderful man
that even when the doubts crept in
and it turned out
that he wasn't wonderful at all,
I didn't wanna have to admit to anyone,
let alone myself,
that I'd made a mistake.
I just wanted a perfect marriage.
So, she's arrived then?
[Lady Brightlingsea]
In the usual flurry of melodrama.
Has Richard said anything?
Does he know that it went as I thought?
That I predicted she would follow me home?
Well, he doesn't know that you're here,
at unfortunate Aunt Emily's house,
in the middle of nowhere.
What men know, what they've always known,
is that the law is on their side.
She went abroad
without telling me where she was going.
All I did was bring the child home.
A woman can't just go gadding
round the world with a man's child.
I'm his mother. Freddie is a part of me.
I used to be the center of Jinny's world,
as she is mine.
But then her friends
turned her against me.
In Italy I thought she'd see sense
and come home.
But there was resistance.
My husband hurt me every day.
How will he know
how to look after Freddie?
[Lady Brightlingsea] And the child?
I'm afraid the child was the problem.
So young, and yet already he knows
how to provoke me like his mother does.
All the way over on the boat,
endless fussing.
It's wearing.
[Jinny] Please. Please, Mr. Clark.
Help me get my baby back.
Thank you.
[Conchita] Jinny.
"Lady Seadown might have been
painted a criminal,
a reckless young woman
who snatched her own baby from his father,
but in all truth,
I found no evidence of that
in this dignified, honest,
and vulnerable young woman
who courageously opened her heart to me,
speaking not just for herself,
but for many women
in the same predicament.
It seems to me Lady Seadown
is the victim in this case,
and that the guilty party is her husband,
Lord James Seadown."
This is unbearable. [scoffs]
Are you all right?
I'm trying to be. For Jinny.
I've been desperate for everybody to stop
sympathizing with me about the wedding,
but not like this.
I don't regret it.
Is it unforgivable that I miss you?
- [door opens]
- [footsteps approaching]
[Richard] Ready?
[door opens, closes]
- [doorbell rings]
- [door opens]
- Thank you.
- Yes, sir.
- [sighs]
- [Lizzy] Hector?
The Duchess is expecting me.
[clears throat]
We still need to talk.
Oh, you said enough. At the churchyard.
How, uh, you're not sure you love me.
At least not with
every single piece of your heart.
You know, I cannot move in Westminster
for the pitying glances.
Humiliation at every turn,
and the whole world
asking after your health.
[chuckles, breathes shakily]
I would've much rather
told them all the truth.
[chuckles, sniffs]
But you deserve a full love.
I'm so sorry.
A million times over.
I should have realized sooner.
Thank you for coming today.
After everything,
for you to be doing this for us is…
Oh, I'm doing this for the Duchess.
Because she asked me,
and because it's my job.
I can be civil, Lizzy,
but not with every single piece
of my heart.
[knocks on door]
- [Nan] Did you see the news?
- Ah. London's abuzz.
It's such relief to have progress.
Jinny, this is Mr. Robinson.
- Hi.
- Hello.
Have you spoken to the Home Secretary?
Well, undoubtedly,
your interview has swayed public opinion.
So they will debate the bill soon?
The next chance they get?
I'm afraid it would be
a considerable favor to speed things up.
And whilst he's now engaging with me on
the matter, my sway with him is limited.
It will take time.
Well, may I s-speak with him?
I'm afraid an official meeting
is out of the question, but, Your Grace,
I do believe you're guest of honor
at tonight's opera?
Yes. We're all invited. Will he be there?
I know that he would be delighted
to talk to you informally.
[Jinny] Go.
Are you sure? Would you manage without me?
Take all the girls if it'll help.
Isn't that better than doing nothing?
I'll be with Guy.
Please, go.
[chattering]
[bell rings]
[chattering continues]
[Nan] Home Secretary,
what I really came to talk about
is my sister.
The fact is that neither my sister,
nor women in similar positions…
have the rights over their own children.
This bill can't wait.
Well, I'm afraid bringing the bill forward
with such urgency would involve…
Bravery? Resolve?
Sure, and a lesser politician
wouldn't dare move so fast,
but a cause this vital requires action.
[applause]
[classical music playing]
It's hard to know where to even begin.
Saying sorry. [sighs]
And one day, possibly long into the night,
we'll work it out.
[sighs]
You'll have gathered that Nan and I are…
- We're under one roof. For now.
- Yeah.
But mistakes were made. On both sides.
Freddie must be like a son to you.
Richard and I will search again tomorrow.
- No luck today?
- No.
Ought I to be kicking down doors
and upending furniture?
If I thought it'd get us closer
to finding him, I'd help you.
[sighs] I couldn't protect them.
Guy, you did your best.
What's to be done, man?
About men like Seadown.
I think we must just thank God for women.
[classical music playing]
I gather you're likely to run for
prime minister in a few years?
And I imagine the influence of Tintagel
would be beneficial.
[Home Secretary]
You're very persuasive, Your Grace.
[performers singing opera]
[whispering] What? Nan, is that him?
[theatergoers whispering]
[whispers] What's he doing here?
[knocks on door]
[sighs]
I hear your sister's gone out
to overhaul an entire legal system.
And the English are famous
for embracing change.
What do you want?
Being a mother of sons,
as you'll discover,
is an exercise in letting them run.
Like dogs.
Well, you can teach dogs how to behave.
[sighs] James hides it, of course,
but he's a fragile boy.
Naturally, today's headlines
have been upsetting for him.
- I've brought you this dress.
- You've seen him?
- Where is he?
- James just wants this all to go away
- as much as you do…
- But where is Freddie?
[stammers] No idea.
What do you… What do you mean?
Freddie wasn't with him?
You can stop the headlines altogether
if you're just a united front.
And simply put this all behind you
and get on with your marriage.
He's gone to the opera.
Living life as one does
when one has nothing to hide.
Where is he? And where is my baby?
- [Guy] Jinny?
- [sighs] If you go to the opera,
- you may be able to ask for his…
- [scoffs]
- [Guy] Jinny, what is it?
- James is at the opera.
What?
[theatergoers whispering]
[Nan] That's Jinny.
She was not supposed to be here.
Well done.
You've done the right thing by coming.
No, you know nothing about right or wrong.
Where's my son? Where is he?
Sit down. Let's just have
a lovely quiet evening together.
No. You must know
what you've done is horrendous.
- Sit down.
- You must know what you've done.
- What's happening?
- I don't know.
I don't know.
- Where is he?
- Sit down.
No.
Sit down.
Where's my son? Where is he?
Where is he? Where is he, James?
Help.
Someone please help me.
- James.
- Help me. Please. Someone.
[Lizzy] No, no, no. Jinny.
- What are you doing? Stop it.
- Help. Is there a doctor?
- Please. Someone, help me. My wife.
- James.
- [Seadown] Please! Jinny, calm down.
- [Jinny] James, stop!
- Jinny, please. Calm down.
- Get off me. Stop.
- Please. Jinny. [groans]
- Get your hands off of me!
- [Nan] Jinny, no.
- [Conchita] We need to go.
[theatergoers gasping, clamoring]
- Where is my son? Where is my son?
- [Seadown] Jinny!
Where is my son? Where is he?
He's tricked me. You don't understand.
It's all…
Get off me!
Nan!
Get your hands off of me!
Stop. [grunts]
No, no, no. No.
No, no, no, no. [grunts]
Stop them! Stop them! [panting]
- Jinny!
- Nan. Nan.
Stop. Nan.
[panting]
[panting]
[grunting, strains]
Please. No, no, no, no.
Miss… Miss, I need to talk to somebody.
Please, Miss, I need to talk to somebody.
Please get off me. No.
Miss! Miss!
You don't… This is a mistake.
Please. [gasps]
[gasps, grunts]
[bolt locks]
[sighs]
This must be terrifying for you.
It's terrifying for me.
- Seeing you like this.
- Where is Freddie? Where is my son?
This isn't about Freddie.
This is about you.
- You are unwell.
- I'm not unwell.
I am not unwell.
[Seadown] You are unwell.
But I'm taking care of your treatment.
- James. James. James, please.
- Jinny, I am…
- [Seadown] Sorry, this is for the best.
- Please, James. Where…
Where is he, James? Please.
[stammers, whimpering]
[breathes shakily]
[door slams]
- I'm her sister, and I need to see her.
- Lord Seadown's been quite clear.
- Please, just let me see her.
- Hey.
No visitors.
- You've said that so many times!
- Okay, okay, okay.
[screams]
[screams]
Let me out! Let me see my baby! Please!
[door opens]
I'm hearing you're calmer?
[chuckles] That's good.
I'm sorry that no one else came for you,
but I think you'll be happy, because…
we've come to visit you.
[breathing shakily] Freddie.
Hi.
Oh, Freddie. Hi. Hi, baby.
Hi.
No, come back. [cries] Freddie!
[cries]
Please, come back. Please, come back.
Freddie, my baby. [cries]
He was just waiting for you to be well.
[cries] Please bring him back.
Thank you. You were…
You were right. [sniffles]
[stammers] Um… I haven't been well.
[sniffles]
Thank you for getting me the help
that I needed. [sniffles, sighs]
You're safe now.
[whimpers, cries]
- Jinny.
- [sniffles]
- [breathes heavily]
- Only us.
[Nan] Here. Finally.
[nurse]
I'm sorry, Your Grace. You're too late.
Wait, Nan.
Nan.
[panting]
- Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey.
- [crying]
[shushing]
[panting] Freddie?
Hi. Hello. Hi. [chuckles]
[gasps] Hi.
Hi, baby. Oh. Oh.
[chuckling, sniffling]
Thank you. [sniffles]
[chuckles]
- Jinny, you're still recovering.
- [chuckles]
[cooing]
- [Seadown] Slow and steady.
- [Jinny sniffles, sighs]
- No. James. No. [stammers]
- Safety first, Jinny.
Please. [stammers] Bu…
[sighs] It's okay.
For Freddie's sake. Come.
- Mm-mmm. [sniffles]
- Jinny, come.
- But it's just… Let me stay a bit longer.
- Jinny… Jinny, come.
- Please, can I just see him?
- Jinny. Goodness sake.
[Jinny] James, please. Please, James.
[Seadown sighs, sniffles]
You've been through hell, my love.
But you're back where you belong.
And you'll never be alone again.
You and I have learned
what love really is.
A love your friends can't understand.
A love your painted sister will only
ever feel for her own self-publicity.
More fond of the sound of her own voice,
than she is of you.
I am here. And I will be your wife.
I will allow the world
to believe that I am unfit.
But I cannot love you.
I can't.
I won't.
Not anymore. Not anymore.
[grunts]
[stammers] When we were boys,
people would compare us.
James and I were never the same.
We were never…
Your brother's a terrible man.
- [breathes heavily]
- Truly terrible.
But to compare him to you,
that… that wouldn't be fair to anyone.
Richard, um, do you have a moment?
James has always been a… a funny fish.
But it does appear it, um,
well, it escalated.
Inevitably,
I feel a certain level of culpability.
James makes his own decisions.
- Distant. Unwavering.
- Mmm.
Always standing outside the playroom door,
- affecting indifference.
- [scoffs]
You and Honoria playing your interminable,
mystifying games,
and James constantly
seeking your attention.
You don't have
an older brother to idolize.
But if ever you had anything… [stammers]
…a toy, say, or…
or an American wife, James wanted one.
And if ever he did some dreadful drawing
and felt inexplicably proud,
it was never me or your father
he wanted to show it to.
He sought approval from you.
James wanted his wife back.
And I helped him.
Which I now see may have been
something of a mistake.
He's at Aunt Emily's house.
He won't let anyone else in.
It's you he wants to impress.
As I say, he's a funny fish.
- Oh, sorry.
- Sorry. [chuckles] Sorry.
How are you?
The relief of knowing where she is…
I'm desperate to go too.
Dick and Honoria will find her.
Dick has a plan. Don't worry.
Okay. Well, you go.
Nan, I, uh…
I-I wanted to say this sooner,
when you left Italy.
You… [sighs]
You needed to come back, to help Jinny.
And, uh, I-I should've never
have made you feel guilty for that.
So, I'm sorry.
[Nan] Guy…
It's, um…
It's always been you.
I am so grateful you're here,
and I'm grateful for how you've been.
And for how you are,
and these last few days,
if they've made me understand anything,
it is that we need to fight
for the people we love.
Don't we?
Yes.
So, I'm… I'm saying I'll fight for you.
If you'll let me.
I… I'll fight for you.
I'll fight too.
I will. Okay?
- Okay.
- [door opens]
[Honoria] Aunt Emily's house
is just outside of London.
It's not difficult to find,
the house is enormous.
[Richard] I'll keep him talking.
It'll be down to you.
[Honoria] I'll do my best.
Are you certain? Just you two?
Well, if he thinks we're tricking him,
he's gonna run. He's our brother.
Good luck.
[girls speaking indistinctly]
Family support.
It's what siblings do, isn't it?
Rally round when times are tough.
Where is old Aunt Emily, anyway?
Is she off being unfortunate somewhere?
[chuckles] Probably some trip or other.
A while since you've been here, hey?
Yeah.
Never once let us sit on that sofa,
did she?
- Not once.
- Mm-mmm.
I dare you.
[Honoria chuckles]
- Ooh. [chuckles]
- [chuckles]
[chuckles] Look at you now.
You're your own man.
Huh.
James. [grunts] Sorry.
[scoffs]
So you got the family back?
[Seadown] Did you ever doubt it?
You know families,
quarreling and the like,
and women after birth…
- [Richard] Oh, gosh.
- She can be quite…
You don't need to tell me,
Conchita was the same.
She was an absolute nightmare. Impossible.
And Jinny, how is she?
Under the weather.
Resting.
- Gosh, this is a cheerful room.
- [Honoria laughs]
You know, it reminds me
of the library at home.
Yeah. Even the dogs wouldn't go in there.
- Yeah. [chuckles]
- [Honoria laughs]
Too lazy lying by the fire,
being fed those
horrible little cakes by Mother.
- [chuckles]
- [chuckles] She loved them like children.
She loved them a lot more than that.
[Honoria, Richard chuckle]
Well, no, at least… at least her…
her real children turned out
so well-adjusted.
[all chuckling]
Poor old Aunt Emily,
why was she so unfortunate?
No husband. She was a spinster. Unmarried.
Right. Yes.
- Should we have some tea?
- Yes.
- No, you boys stay. I'll find the maid.
- [stammers]
Yeah.
You know,
there's that saying, isn't there?
Don't tell Conchita,
but there's that saying,
"A husband and wife always ought to be
on the same side. His."
[chuckling]
[Richard, Seadown chattering, chuckling]
J-J… [gasps]
Jinny? Jinny?
[Jinny] Honoria?
H-Honoria, I'm here. I'm here.
- [Honoria] I can't open the door.
- Shh. Please, be quiet.
Honoria, listen to me.
Just get Freddie.
I need you to get him to Guy.
- Leave me here.
- No, I'm taking you both with me.
No, please, just get Freddie.
All that matters is Freddie.
- Where is he?
- He's on the top floor.
I promise, I'm going to come back for you.
No, it doesn't matter about me.
Just get Freddie out.
All right, all right, all right.
[breathes heavily]
Please, please, God.
- Can I ask you something? [sighs]
- Mm-hmm.
It's no secret that when you and Conchita
came to England,
you had your troubles.
- Oh. Cat and dog, famously. [chuckles]
- [chuckles]
[stammers] How did you fix that?
Time. Is what it took.
I don't think Jinny
will ever love me again.
Freddie, Freddie, Freddie. Hi.
Hello, little one.
Ready? There we go. There we go.
- There we go. All right.
- [cooing]
You gotta be really quiet.
It's such a god-awful shambles, all this.
At first, I thought it was a shambles
that might be fixed, but then…
then there was a series of events…
[stammers]
…and it became
harder and harder to rectify.
To apologize for.
- [coos]
- [shushing]
[Seadown] Jinny and I,
we were so happy at the start.
[Richard]
Anyone could see it. Yeah, of course.
But Father was right. These Americans,
- they need domesticating. Taming.
- [shushes, breathing shakily]
They absolutely need taming, James.
They are willful.
But it's a fine line, isn't it?
No one wants a completely invisible woman,
like Honoria.
- [Richard] No. Honoria's barely there.
- [Seadown chuckles]
She's barely there at all.
[handle creaks]
[breathing heavily]
- [cooing]
- Shh.
You're safe. You're safe.
Listen, we should have something
stronger than tea, shouldn't we?
How often do we get to do this?
The two of us.
Whiskey?
Where is Honoria?
Oh, I expect she's, um…
You know Honoria, she's…
she's, uh… [clears throat]
She's probably found
a maid to annoy, James.
Honoria?
Where's my son?
[Richard] James.
James. James.
- [grunts]
- [grunts] Hey.
- Is that Freddie?
- [Jinny] Help!
- Answer me!
- Help me!
- You've locked up your wife. [pants]
- [panting]
What is wrong with you? You coward.
[Seadown shouts]
[Richard] Jinny! I'm coming!
Jinny!
Richard?
- Richard! I'm in here.
- [pounds on door]
Jinny? Stand back. Stand back.
- [sighs]
- [breathes shakily]
- You're all right, you're all right.
- [sniffles]
- Honoria's got the baby.
- [whimpers] Okay.
- [whimpering]
- You'll be all right.
Just run as fast as you can.
I'll be right behind.
- [hammer cocks]
- [gasps]
Get in the house.
Get out of my way, Richard.
[sighs] That's my wife.
- Get out of my way!
- No.
- I'll shoot. I'll shoot.
- [breathing shakily]
- All right.
- [Jinny breathing shakily]
I will shoot you.
[Richard] Go! Jinny, go!
- No! No!
- [Richard grunting]
- [Seadown] No!
- [panting]
- [grunting]
- [Seadown] No. [grunts]
- [Richard shushes]
- No. No.
[breathing heavily]
- I know how tough it's been. [pants]
- [panting]
I know how much you love her. [panting]
- You know nothing about me.
- I do.
- You know nothing about me!
- Yes, I… I do.
I'm your brother, James.
We can solve this. All's not lost.
But first, you have to put the gun down.
- This is all over. Jinny's gone.
- [breathing heavily]
- She's not coming back…
- [crying]
…but you'll be all right.
[sighs]
It's over.
Stop saying that.
James, give me the gun.
It's over.
[crying, panting]
- [gunshot]
- [gasps, breathing shakily]
[sniffles]
[cries]
[door opens]
[crying] I did it. I did it.
[distorted] Jinny's okay. She's fine.
- [clamoring]
- [Freddie crying]
[Seadown crying]
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
[sobbing]
[breathes shakily]
[no audible dialogue]