Tensions are rising in King Henry's court - BBC
Tom-Cromm :
I'm a dead man, Eustace.
I'm in this matter so deep,
there's no going back.
I assured The King that
Mary would comply.
Ambassador Eustace Chapuey :
The Emperor will not suffer
Mary to be mistreated --
He will send ships.
Tom-Cromm :
No, no. You know, and
I know as well. Come on.
The Emperor in arms has
no power to save Mary.
The case is urgent.
Ambassador Eustace Chapuey :
You eat these raw?
Tom-Cromm :
We do.
Ambassador Eustace Chapuey :
We bake them in tarts. Mm.
Mary expected to be embraced without
question once Anne Boleyn came down.
Tom-Cromm :
She doesn't know her father.
Ambassador Eustace Chapuey :
How could she?
She has been in prison
for five years.
Tom-Cromm :
Prison? She's been kept
in great comfort.
Ambassador Eustace Chapuey :
For God's sake, don't tell her that.
Tell her she has
suffered grievously,
in case she feels she
has not done enough.
She boasts to me she's
not afraid of the axe.
Tom-Cromm :
She doesn't want to live?
Ambassador Eustace Chapuey :
Not at any price, sir.
.....It is her mother.
I believe she vowed to Catherine
she would never give way.
Vows to The Living may be set aside,
with their permission, but
The Dead do not negotiate.
Only A Fool stands in A Tower
during a lightning storm.
What's this....?
Ah, it's Mary's hand. Ha.
Dear God...
She called you her chief
friend in the world?
Why?
Why does she call you her friend?
Something her mother told her.
It can only be that.
Well...
It seems to me that if
she Trusts you, so must I.
-- which is an unfortunate
situation to be in.
Tom-Cromm :
Why? All I ask is you advise that
she be ruled by her father.
The Pope will forgive her, if
she submits to save her life.
Tell her that you've asked
for absolution for her.
Of course, when Anne Boleyn was
alive, there was no chance that
The King would restore
her to the succession.
But now...if she
obeys her father in
every particular...
Ambassador Eustace Chapuey :
You are making her this offer?
Tom-Cromm :
Tell her... if she
is ever to compromise
her conscience, now's the time.
When she can do herself
the most good.
Ambassador Eustace Chapuey :
.....it seems to me you are saying to her,
"You can Live, but only as Cromwell permits."
"You can reign, even, but only
through Cromwell's grace.”
Tom-Cromm :
Explain it as you like.
Ambassador Eustace Chapuey :
Oh... You brought me up here because
you knew the storm was coming, didn't you?
Tom-Cromm :
No, I like watching the sky.
And tell her she need not sign
the usual oath.
I will compose a letter
as if from her to her father.
I'll have it written out,
I'll bring it to her myself.
All she need do is sign it.
Ambassador Eustace Chapuey :
If this is discovered, you...
You risk your life for her?
Tom-Cromm :
But tell her...
if she does not give way now,
if she will not sign the letter,
then she's dead to me.
I shall never...
...never see her or
speak to her, again.
Henry VIII makes a damaging decision
for his daughter's future - BBC
