Herbert?
Stay down, stay down.
No, I can't. I can't. I...
I can't. Where are we?
Let me think!
Okay, we cannot stay here. We have to move.
We have to move, now.
No...
Yes, we have to move now.
- No. No, no. Don't. - Come here. It's okay.
No, no!
- Come on. - I can't! I can't!
No!
I can't just be in this state of being or not being
like I'm just some person surviving!
Listen to me!
No, you listen to me!
I have to... I have...
- We're going back to who I was! - No, come... come on!
No!
- Listen to me! - Fuck you!
- Your government has fallen! - Get off me! Off!
- No! - Hey! Hey!
Hey, it's over!
- You understand? - No.
- My love, look at me. It's over. - No, get off me, you fuck!
Hey!
Look at me, my love.
You have no power anymore, you understand?
- Herbert... - You're in...
you're in my world now.
I'm the soldier, yes?
You want to survive, you listen to me.
- Yes? You take my hand. - Yes.
- Yes, I understand. - Yes? Take my hand.
- My love, you understand? - Okay. Yes.
Yes, yes.
So, from now on, you have to think like a soldier, yes?
- Yes? - Yes.
We never surrender of our own free will.
If we are captured
we do everything to resist and everything to escape.
Stay close.
- Yes? - Yes.
But...
if we could get a camera crew
or just something on social...
No, we are done with that shit!
But if my people could just see me...
- No one can... No one can see you. - They... they...
They will report us.
We need to get you out. You understand?
China! That's it. China.
- They've always been good to me. - Forget about it! Forget about it!
China is over there. We are here.
Move with me, come on.
Then... Rinnburg, then.
Yes, my biggest loyalist stronghold.
We'll regroup there. Consolidate support...
Rinnburg is on the other side of the country.
We're on foot, and they are hunting you.
Well, then we find an airfield.
No, it's probably taken over.
Well, then we just get a plane to meet us somewhere.
God, why is this so fucking hard?
We just get a plane.
How, Elena? How?
Well, I don't fucking know.
I just do it.
What?
What is it?
"The Vernham regime has been defeated.
The country is yours.
Disregard any news to the contrary.
All services will soon be restored by the Westgate Resistance Army."
Fuck them all!
Fuck them all forever for what they've done to me, the...
- cunts! - Shut up!
Shut up!
Nicky!
Nicky, Nicky! I know where he is.
I know where he's staying in Switzerland.
Yes. That's it. I...
We just find a phone and call him
and he'll send help.
Yes, this is it, Herbert. Herbert, we've got a plan.
That's right. Yes, we just need to find a phone somewhere...
Where are we?
I don't know.
Stay down. Stay down.
All right, careful.
Okay. We're good. Yes.
My people are close by. I know it.
We need to find you shelter. Come on.
So, do we just knock on a door?
I mean, no one could refuse my face.
What... what's that?
Army!
That... that's us! That's us! That's...
This is a curfew warning.
We cannot guarantee the safety of those found
outside after 9.00pm tonight.
Anyone harboring Elena Vernham
or members of the Vernham regime
will be apprehended
or shot on sight.
Mobile phone services will remain down for the time being...
- No mobile phone services. - Forget about that.
But landlines, maybe.
- Elena, look at me... - If we find someone who...
Elena, look at me.
We need to find you shelter and a place to hide
where nobody else would ever go.
- You understand? - Right.
No food. No water. Nothing.
It's just fucking poetry books everywhere.
I told Nicky it's a pointless fucking genre.
Eighty words of drunken drivel about a pussy willow.
- Elena? - What?
Were you really going to do it?
Do what?
Make me chancellor.
Well, yes, of course.
I mean, that was the whole plan, wasn't it?
Was it?
It was all happening, wasn't it? Haven't I...
I... I said it.
You didn't say it. You hesitated.
- Did I? - Yes, you did.
- No, I... - Don't fucking pretend with me.
Herbert.
Look at me and tell me I would betray you.
You tell me.
Tell me.
I would never betray you.
All right.
I can't hide in the shadows.
- You have to. - I can't.
I have to do something.
My people are out there.
They will help me. Please.
We have to... we have to find someone.
Hello, my friend.
- Merry Christmas. - Yeah, sorry, was I...
No... You're not in trouble. You're not... you're not in trouble.
Listen, listen. Can you give me and my friend
- a ride, please? - I'm... I'm already late.
- No, wait. It's not that far. - Curfew...
It's not that far and we've been waiting for hours.
The roads aren't safe, and my home's been ruined.
I'm just trying to get to my brothers.
Look at me. Look at me. It's Christmas. Come on.
- Okay, I... - All right?
Here's my friend. Here's my friend. Listen.
- Oh, Christ! - All right? We go wherever you go.
No... listen
- my friend, listen... - No...
What... what is your name, my dear?
What is your name, my dear?
What is your name?
- Gregor. - Gregor. Gregor, listen to me.
I'm telling you as your Chancellor.
Don't worry about the curfew. Don't worry about the roads.
Just kill the noise in your head, Gregor.
You know you can trust me, don't you, hm? Yes?
And when this is all over, very soon
they will say your name.
They will. They'll say, "Gregor, the man who drove her."
The Savior. The Ferryman. You know?
Gregor. Gregor, listen to me. Listen.
We'll do anything you want. For your future, for your family
it will all be provided.
You'll be a hero.
And we always remember heroes, don't we?
- Yes, we do! - You have a phone?
- And heroes lend people their phone. - No!
My friend... My friend, wait!
Shit. Shit!
- Stop! Stop... - Elena!
Elena!
Fuck me. You are joking.
Will you help your Chancellor?
Me, miss? Oh, yes, yes. Where are you going then?
Well, to your home, if you'd be so kind.
Miss, I... I am... I would be...
- It's the most fucking - Elena.
Great honor in the world.
Fuck me. You as well?
Maybe we should take another one.
No... No, sir.
No, no, Corporal, my corporal.
I am your man. Yeah, I am your man.
- Yes, he is our man. - He's drunk.
He is our man. Get in the car. Don't complain.
Hey, are you sure you can drive?
Best damn driver in East Ganz you got here.
For my angel.
And you have my undying gratitude, sir.
Oh, my god, how can this be?
How the... how are you with me?
Hey, sir, is your house safe?
Oh, yes, safe house.
Very clean place, sir.
We'll have a Christmas toast, yeah?
Listen, what is your name, my love?
It's Tomas. They call me The Rooster
but call me what you like.
There! Look there!
Tomas, now listen.
Do you happen to have a phone, Tomas?
Oh, yes. I have a phone. At home.
- You can use me. You... you... - Just let him drive. Let him drive.
- Please, use... - Just one other thing. The road!
I am all yours, my sweet angel.
- You said you live in a house. - Oh, yes, sir.
My big, lovely house with all my fat fuck neighbors.
- No, it's too public. - Don't worry, sir.
It's just me in my unit.
I take you right up.
You... you just wait here first.
I... I fetch you something to wear.
Okay, for hiding, yes?
- Good, right? We are here. - Yes, good. Good.
- We made it! We have done it! - Yes. Done it!
Yes, Tomas!
- Well done. - My love.
Yes, my love.
For fuck's sake.
I don't trust him. He will fuck it up.
No.
He's exactly what we want.
He's a beautiful, perfect idiot
- and he'll do anything for me. - Attention, former chancellor
Elena Vernham is now a fugitive from justice.
If you have any information concerning her whereabouts
report it immediately and receive your reward.
Loyalists will not be tolerated.
The Vernham partisans are losing support.
There is nowhere for the former chancellor to hide.
She will be found and prosecuted...
No need to hear these lies.
Oh, shit.
What is it?
Go home already!
Always like for your to look straight.
Tough times.
Bye-bye.
Here. Some of mine.
Here and here.
Here's a fake fur from my dead mother.
The old sow's cunt.
Bless you, my love. Bless you.
- No, you are my love. - No, To...
- Tomas... - You are our guardian angel.
Keep your head down.
What side are these people on?
Here? All sides, ya know?
Everywhere is all sides.
Come on, hurry up.
Just people.
Go in. Go.
We cannot thank you enough, Tomas.
You will be remembered as a man who saved a nation.
- Yes? - Yes.
I think I'd like it. I would.
Listen, you cannot tell anyone that she's here, you understand?
- Anyone. - Yes, of course.
I only told my mother.
And my papa.
And my brother, and my sister
and my sister's brother's cock.
You should see your faces!
It was a joke!
Hurry up.
And here we are.
Get inside.
- You know that woman? - Who?
- Right there, on the other side. - Oh, Greta.
Wouldn't she like to know me.
Been eyeing my prick like a plum pudding, that one.
Oh, god. I'm...
Can you trust her?
Oh, yeah, sure. Fuckin' sure.
- Now, Tomas, my love, now - Yeah?
You mentioned that you might have a telephone.
Oh, yes, yes. Absolutely.
It's... just here.
Do you want a brandy?
- Shall we toast, huh? - No...
I... I would love to.
- Oh, Herbert, Herbert. - There you go, then.
- Is it... is it working? - Very good phone if you want...
To... Tomas, the...
To... No.
No, Tomas. The... the door appears to have locked itself behi...
You fuckin' pig woman!
They'll hang you out like sausage!
- Just you wait! - No... Tomas!
- Open this door! - No, no!
I... I demand you open this door immediately!
Tomas!
Tomas, no. Tomas, my...
- Tomas, my... my love, my angel. - Tomas!
I'm calling my cousin in Security Services!
Jesus Christ, Herbert! We need to find some...
- You are a demon bitch. - Open the door!
- And you will be sent back to hell! - Tomas! Motherfucker!
You took my gun!
- You killed my country - Open the door!
- And now I'm going to kill you! - You're dead now! Motherfucker!
Open this door!
I'll kill you!
Fuck!
- Herbert, no... - Move! Move!
Move!
My friend
guess who is in my sleeping room.
- Told you! - Herbert.
What?
It's... it's over.
No, it's not. We find a way like always.
- No, no, I've... - Yes.
- I've died. - No!
- I've died. - No, you're not!
- Stop it! - I... I... I've died!
I might as well just fucking...
just fucking die!
Stop it! Elena, what are you doing?
Hey, hey.
No.
Look at me. Look at me.
Elena, please, please promise me never do this.
- No. - Promise me.
They are on their way!
- You fuckin' savages! - Shut up!
- I kill you, you... Fuck! - You stole all our money!
Give us our money back!
Herbert, no.
You did this to us!
All of the love I gave them, Herbert.
You did this!
All the love I gave them.
I'll be dancing on your grave!
No, wha...
Oh, no... I don't... I don't...
I don't speak to traitorous spy rat cunts!
Note, the former chancellor is refusing a civil dialogue.
Where's your bill of indictment?
I demand to see some documentation of your fucking legitimacy
of which there is none!
- Take her. He stays. - Don't fucking move!
No... Don't you hurt him!
- Elena, don't talk to them! - You harm Herbert, you'll...
- I will kill you! - Listen to me!
- Leave him. Leave him. No... - Elena, don't tell them anything!
Elena!
balls off with a pair of
- fucking scissors! Herbert! - Elena!
Elena!
You will answer our questions now.
I absolutely will not.
Note, the former chancellor refuses to answer the people's questions.
Tell my people I will only answer
to the true representatives of the working class
- at Parliament! - Parliament has been dissolved.
Parliament cannot be dissolved unless I dissolve it.
The Security Service and the WRA have merged
to form a new supreme governing body.
The National Freedom Front.
National Freedom Front?
Nobody even knows what that is.
This is a fucking joke.
We shall read your offenses.
I've committed no offenses.
The defendant, Elena Vernham, has committed the following offenses.
"Defendant"?
- Oh, you fucking infants. - "Carrying out acts incompatible
with human dignity.
Acting in a despotic and criminal manner.
Murdering former chancellor Edward Keplinger.
Procuring luxurious foodstuffs from abroad while the people
- subsisted on 200g per day. - Lies, lies.
- Incontrovertible lies. - Undermining the national economy.
- Not one of which will be recognized - Armed attack on the people.
- By an international governing body. - And in accordance with Article 6
- You're pathetic, sordid - of the Rome Statute
- little men. You're... - the crime of genocide."
Oh, you are delusional.
Did you hear the charges? Have you understood them?
- No, I haven't understood what... - Answer me.
- No. - Answer me.
Hear me now, you psychotic!
I tried with you!
Over and over, I tried to make your crippled brain walk straight
but no, you wouldn't listen!
It was all mold, and menopause, and daddy-please-fuck-me bullshit
all the way to hell!
So, now...
you will pay the piper
and you will answer for your crimes.
No.
You will answer for the crime of treason
and I will drag your festering corpse to the People's Palace!
What are you doing to her?
No, you will take me to her now. Come on.
You do know what she's just done in there?
- She's betrayed you. - Fuck you.
She wants you to wear the hair shirt.
Pin her sins on you.
"The Butcher made me do it."
We know the truth, you and I.
She's not wired right, is she?
- The father? - Hey!
God knows what he did.
Put his cock in her mouth, is the rumor.
- Who knows? - Hey! Shut up!
- Shut up! - I'm not so sure
but it doesn't matter.
She's incurable.
She used you to plump her ego
and now the country's dying.
She is killing us.
Thousands, everywhere.
Fathers, mothers, sons, the working people.
Your people.
For nothing.
For pride.
You know it's true, don't you?
I assumed you always knew.
I'm not your tormentor.
I'm not here to extract anything.
But I watched it all.
We all have.
How she's hurt you.
Deceived you.
The humiliations.
Caging you, torturing you, turning it around
and calling it love.
Convincing you of some deep, ancient fucking tether you'd be lost without.
This is what she's done to all of us.
Held us captive to her love.
But now, it is over.
The time has come to renounce her publicly, okay?
And save yourself.
Wh... what's happening?
I... I demand to know what's happening.
What we expected.
Your big ox has deserted you.
Says you poisoned his brain.
What do you make of that?
He'd never say that.
Everyone's left you, Elena.
You're all alone
with no choice but to cooperate.
You'll tell your people the truth.
You will publicly admit your crimes
and you will do it on television.
On television, right.
You need me, don't you?
I do not, Madam.
That's why I'm alive.
No.
We believe in the principle
a legal transition of power.
And you need me to sell it, pig.
You don't have the numbers, do you, piggy?
Quite the contrary, I assure you.
You've got a broken constituency
haven't you, piggy-wiggy?
Millions of my people in Rinnburg, in the Hills
will never grant you and your National Freedom Front
moral authority.
You don't even have America, do you?
Go on. Admit it.
We have all the support we need.
If that were true, you'd be burning my bones
and picking out upholstery!
Listen to me!
I order you to cooperate!
You couldn't order a fucking omelet!
Right.
What's happening?
What's with... what... what's that?
No!
- You'll help me, yes? - Yes!
- Yes? - Yes...
- Today? - Yes.
- It must happen today! - Yes, yes.
Note, the former chancellor has agreed to cooperate.
- Are you listening? - Yes.
Here's how we manage it.
We get you out of here, yes?
- Yes. - Then we ferry you to Parliament.
We marshal the broadcasters.
And you confess your crimes to the people.
- Do you agree? - Yes, yes.
Yes.
Note, the former chancellor acknowledges her crimes
and agrees to confess.
We do this all above board.
We do it legally.
Because we are not butchers.
- No. - We are servants
of the Constitution.
Come.
Lean on me, Elena.
We'll clean you up first, make you presentable.
I'm not seeking to humiliate you, Elena.
Corporal Zubak will of course be treated fairly under the law
same as you.
Once you confess...
Clear!
Let's go. Let's go.
We're movin' you now.
Out of the way.
- No. No! - Get back!
- Sit! - Stay off the back.
Stay off the back. Guys, watch her.
No!
Wait a minute. Where... where are we...
Where are you taking... Where are you taking me?
Are we flying?
Are we... are we flying somewhere?
- Get out, now! - Places!
Let's go!
Come on. Let's go. Let's go.
Get away from the Chancellor!
You over there, move!
- Go, go! - Out of the way!
Move, let's move!
- Give me that! Fucking let's go! - Move!
- Just do it! - Fuck...
Are you all right? Are you hurt?
No. Herbert, they won't...
Where are we?
I don't know.
It's... it's the Americans.
It's the Americans, I know it.
I didn't tell them anything. I... I didn't betray you.
- No! Herbert! Herbert! - Elena, Elena!
- No! Herbert... No! - Elena!
Good.
I apologize profusely for the rough transit.
You all right then, Madam?
What am I saying?
You must be exhausted.
What... What is this, hm?
Are we alone?
- Are we... - Here, please, sit.
Is it over? Is it?
If it's over, I demand to be taken back to the Palace at once
and if it's not over, I need to get to China, hm?
I need to get to China with a guarantee against extradition.
Do you understand? Yes? I need it now, Emil.
I demand. I... I need it now.
Madam, please. Sit.
God, what does one say?
Makes me sick, the whole thing, what they've done to you.
The humiliation.
The ingratitude.
It's unconscionable.
Tell me what's happening.
Am I alive? Am I dead? What's the fucking play here?
- Where are we? - A civil war is raging.
No one has won yet.
It's on a knife edge.
The rebels have gained ground
but they're soft at the edges.
Your loyalists hold the mines, the Hills, most of the army
but it's all so fluid.
I remain neutral.
Partisanship's bad for business
but I can see the situation cries out for a sense of authority.
A sense someone real is in charge.
Someone with the knack
a familiar face.
Right.
Well...
well, then we can't waste any time.
- Emil, listen to me... - No, you listen to me now.
You've got the knack, but your chances of survival long term
are infinitesimal.
You're cut off entirely.
You're a baby on an ice floe.
What you need is a buffer
not a friend or a visible ally, per se
but a good, strong levee to stop the shit from rolling in.
- Yes, China. - No, no.
You're too hot for them now.
Moreover, I've come to see the danger they pose in the region.
- Have you? - I have.
And indeed, so should you.
The West would welcome a breakwater in the region.
Someone to talk tough to China.
With our resources and our newfound cobalt.
No, no. I just don't trust them. I...
- I don't see it. No. - Pivots are not uncommon.
Not in public, of course.
But where these things happen, in the dark.
A little material support comes your way through backchannels
to aid the war effort.
And quietly, priorities shift
sanctions ease.
The new White House settles in
and suddenly, we're back to the old relationship.
What do you think, Judith?
Will that track with the new admin?
It's plausible.
If we see some changes and assurances.
Yes, changes.
What do you think, Elena?
Perhaps we'll leave it there for now.
Yes, we'll hop off, but thank you.
We'll get you cleaned up fresh
then talk next steps.
It's safe here.
Safe rooms
clean air.
There is one last piece, Madam.
He will have to go, of course.
Who?
Doesn't work, the two of you.
Your trouble started with him, and it must end with him.
Ma'am, I'm sure you know this.
And what if I object?
Oh, by all means.
You must do as you like.
You're in control here.
Anyway, go, freshen.
Make your peace with it.
And then we'll firm it all up.
What's happening, Elena?
Herbert, sit... Sit down, please.
Tell me what's happening.
They're here, Herbert.
The Americans with Bartos.
They've come to take our country from us
and...
they want me to kneel and be the face of it.
What did you tell them?
- My love, I... - Elena.
Don't fucking pretend with me.
What did you agree?
Nothing. Nothing.
I have agreed nothing.
They can't tear us apart.
They... they can't, can they?
Herbert, say it.
Say it.
They can't tear us apart.
That's right. That's right.
I have a plan. We are going to fight them.
We will fight them to the death.
You and I, together.
Yes, we'll play their tune at first
but only for a while.
And then, when their backs are turned
we'll trigger a counter assault from our people.
And then we'll jail Bartos for his crimes
and we'll seize his wealth
and we'll redistribute it amongst the poor.
And then...
and then we'll build it.
We'll build it all again.
From our earth.
You and I, together, we'll do it
and our dreams will go on forever.
Herbert.
I will fight them to the death.
Yeah.
I love you.
You must be tired.
Yes.
It's been a hard road.
- Well, you can sleep now, my love. - I know.
We'll sleep
and we'll dream.
And we'll make all this go away.
What is it?
I don't know. It's just...
all the work it takes to grow old
all those years.
And then one day
your worst fears arrive, and...
you're still the same child.
Herbert?
I'm happy you came along.
Me too.
I needed you.
I really did.
It's like you said when...
when we met.
"Meant for each other."
I'm scared.
Don't be.
I'm here.
Here you are, my love.
Thank you.
Oh, and Karla wanted to check.
Is salmon still your preference for tonight?
- Yes? - Yes, fine.
Lovely, luscious lady.
Your ninth Victory Day.
Christ. The fuckin' years.
Yes, I know.
Can I say, though
you do look quite strong, my love.
Thank you.
No, but, really...
considering the... you know...
What?
The tricky patch.
Annus horribilis.
Yes.
I... I wonder sometimes, though...
what... what was that all about, do you think?
The whole...
All of it?
Guess I had a little wobble.
Right.
My loves.
What a glorious evening.
I'm so glad you're here joining me
in this year's Victory Day festivities.
But let us reflect for a moment
on the road that led us here.
Our love, as you recall, was tested.
Our faith in our way of life was very nearly brought to the brink.
Now we know the forces of darkness who brought us to that point.
Keplinger and the radical left
the corrupt Security Service
and of course, the Chinese menace
who even now seek to overrun Europe with their totalitarian economics
and their cancerous 5G technology.
And yes
even people
in my own government.
Individuals I valued.
Individuals who claimed to have
the best interests of working people at heart
but who, in the end, were not to be trusted.
I'm only grateful that I was able to see their true nature
before it was too late
and could head catastrophe off at the pass.
But now
we stand at the dawn of a new era
a new Europe.
From here, we can look back at our past divisions and turmoil
not as mistakes
but as opportunities for learning
opportunities for healing
and for growth.
It remains my deepest honor to lead you on this journey.
I am no one without all of you.
Because all that I am
I am through you.
- And so, I bless you all. - I love you!
And I bless our love
always.
I love you!