WEBVTT 00:08.509 --> 00:13.514 16 September, in the year of our Lord 1702. 00:14.348 --> 00:16.892 The wind has favored us on my journey. 00:17.768 --> 00:20.771 The crew informs me we are soon to make port. 00:21.855 --> 00:24.024 I hear he is a great man. 00:24.525 --> 00:28.070 Please, Lord, let him be kind and handsome. 00:28.987 --> 00:31.156 And make room in my heart for his children. 00:32.783 --> 00:35.994 I thought my time for marriage had passed, 00:36.870 --> 00:38.455 but you had other plans. 00:43.502 --> 00:45.379 Today I begin a new life. 00:46.088 --> 00:48.257 I am to wed a leader, 00:48.882 --> 00:49.966 an explorer, 00:49.967 --> 00:52.511 the founder of this island hamlet. 00:53.637 --> 01:00.435 I, Sarah Westcott, shall this day become Mrs. Richard Warren. 01:02.312 --> 01:03.647 Just missed the fog. 01:04.272 --> 01:05.440 Stroke of luck, I suppose. 01:05.941 --> 01:08.151 No getting in or out once it arrives. 01:08.861 --> 01:09.945 Straight to the church then? 01:12.239 --> 01:13.614 What is he like? 01:13.615 --> 01:15.701 Well, he's the reason we're all here. 01:16.493 --> 01:18.579 Everyone on this island owes a great debt to that man. 01:19.162 --> 01:22.456 Fore he arrived, it was a place with nothing but barren dirt. 01:22.457 --> 01:27.045 But today, blossoms on the trees, food for every hungry mouth, mild winters. 01:28.380 --> 01:29.798 He controls the weather, does he? 01:30.507 --> 01:31.508 What's that? 01:32.259 --> 01:33.886 He controls the weather, does he? 01:35.679 --> 01:36.763 No. 01:37.598 --> 01:40.933 But a cold breeze cuts half as quick 01:40.934 --> 01:43.562 when you've got a warm home and a strong coat. 01:46.190 --> 01:47.191 Who said that? 01:47.941 --> 01:49.026 Richard Warren. 02:17.262 --> 02:19.264 Have you no kin come with you? 02:20.682 --> 02:21.683 No. 02:22.351 --> 02:24.686 I had resigned myself to the lot of a spinster. 02:25.187 --> 02:29.690 Perhaps the greater celebration may be me no longer a charge on my father's purse. 02:29.691 --> 02:33.362 It's a rare blessing to marry at such an age. 02:34.238 --> 02:36.822 Lucky the island proved too small to furnish him a wife. 02:36.823 --> 02:39.409 He had no choice but to look to the mainland. 02:40.160 --> 02:43.997 A man of stature doth require a goodly wife to order his household. 02:45.415 --> 02:47.626 Is he a man of-of good repute then? 02:53.006 --> 02:54.882 Sarah, my child, 02:54.883 --> 02:59.095 I am Pastor Collins, shepherd of the flock here on this island. 02:59.096 --> 03:01.722 - Pleased to meet you, Pastor. - And I, you. 03:01.723 --> 03:02.974 How was your journey? 03:02.975 --> 03:06.310 Well, I… I arrived in good order, for which I give thanks. 03:06.311 --> 03:10.399 It must seem to you a strange land, and you a stranger in it, 03:10.941 --> 03:12.900 but know that you have friends here 03:12.901 --> 03:16.905 and the light of God to lift you up whenever you feel alone. 03:18.532 --> 03:19.783 Thank you, Pastor. 03:22.119 --> 03:27.373 If you are ever in need, do not think twice to come to me at any hour. 03:27.374 --> 03:30.711 I will do what I can, by God's grace. 03:32.754 --> 03:34.006 I will, Pastor. 03:35.132 --> 03:36.133 Good. 03:41.013 --> 03:44.391 Richard has requested to be part of the wedding vows. 03:44.975 --> 03:47.144 Something he's written himself. 03:49.104 --> 03:51.523 They are unique. 03:53.609 --> 03:54.610 Unique? 03:56.195 --> 03:59.531 Love is as strong as death. 04:00.699 --> 04:05.995 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. 04:05.996 --> 04:09.750 Richard, do you take this woman to be your lawful wife? 04:15.255 --> 04:16.463 I do. 04:16.464 --> 04:19.927 Sarah, do you take this man as your lawful husband? 04:20.969 --> 04:23.263 - I do. - For you, as his helpmeet, 04:23.847 --> 04:25.973 will be bound to him. 04:25.974 --> 04:30.061 You will agree to serve him as the Reeve Prime of the colony, 04:30.062 --> 04:33.398 the handmaiden to the Lord Island Protector. 04:37.486 --> 04:38.820 I do. I do. 04:42.824 --> 04:44.200 Thomas, 04:44.201 --> 04:45.451 John, 04:45.452 --> 04:46.536 Cromwell, 04:46.537 --> 04:47.620 Holyoke, 04:47.621 --> 04:48.704 Frances. 04:48.705 --> 04:50.540 Wagon wheel took her finger. 04:50.541 --> 04:52.876 Children, your new mother. 04:56.421 --> 04:58.340 'Tis a blessing to meet you all. 05:00.759 --> 05:01.760 Has she a name? 05:03.846 --> 05:04.888 Mary. 05:06.682 --> 05:07.683 Good name. 05:09.309 --> 05:10.978 But I think she's missing something. 05:15.649 --> 05:18.193 This brooch came from my mother. 05:21.196 --> 05:22.990 Is there one for each of us? 05:27.202 --> 05:30.372 Perhaps the morrow shall yield further tokens. 05:35.502 --> 05:36.753 At such an hour? 05:44.678 --> 05:46.555 Ensure no harm comes to them. 05:48.807 --> 05:51.392 Have you an errand that requires my company? 05:51.393 --> 05:53.395 No, I have work that needs doing. 05:55.731 --> 05:56.981 On our wedding night? 05:56.982 --> 06:00.026 The burdens of leadership ride my shoulders by day and by dark. 06:00.027 --> 06:02.029 See them all laid down to their rest. 06:06.408 --> 06:10.245 I set down these lines for the first time as a married woman, 06:10.787 --> 06:15.958 though I confess when my mother spoke of what to expect on my wedding night, 06:15.959 --> 06:17.961 she missed the mark. 06:19.004 --> 06:21.423 First, there are five children here. 06:22.174 --> 06:26.261 Second, my husband departed suddenly with neither a caress nor a kind word. 06:27.471 --> 06:30.973 But Christ asks us not to despair, 06:30.974 --> 06:34.394 and I look with hope to grow into the duties of a wife. 07:01.463 --> 07:02.464 Richard? 07:10.389 --> 07:11.640 Richard, are you home? 07:20.023 --> 07:21.108 Richard? 07:34.371 --> 07:35.372 Richard? 07:50.012 --> 07:51.096 Leave me be. 08:22.753 --> 08:24.171 You're a watcher. 08:28.967 --> 08:30.135 I'm sorry? 08:31.261 --> 08:33.346 You like to watch other people, 08:33.347 --> 08:35.349 see into their business. 08:36.850 --> 08:38.434 Forgive me, what befell them? 08:39.520 --> 08:41.145 There's a plague upon us. 08:41.647 --> 08:44.483 A violent madness comes over the infected. 08:45.734 --> 08:47.069 Can they not be healed? 08:47.569 --> 08:49.029 Well, that's my husband. 08:49.738 --> 08:50.821 Town physician. 08:50.822 --> 08:52.199 He does what he can for them, 08:52.783 --> 08:54.784 gives them something to calm their nerves, 08:54.785 --> 08:56.870 but heal them? No. 08:57.704 --> 08:58.705 But don't worry. 08:59.456 --> 09:03.460 Richard Warren always says the bad times will end. 09:05.212 --> 09:06.839 God be with you. 09:08.924 --> 09:09.925 And with you. 09:17.099 --> 09:20.142 There's three more infected this week since the fog. 09:20.143 --> 09:21.687 That makes 20 now in total. 09:23.063 --> 09:25.732 I have warned them to stay out of the foul air. 09:26.233 --> 09:28.443 Otis Stevens tends to the sick every day. 09:29.778 --> 09:31.112 But he's not infected. 09:31.113 --> 09:32.614 Well, not yet. 09:33.532 --> 09:36.577 They say they suffer from some kind of mania. 09:37.369 --> 09:38.662 Should we be worried? 09:40.455 --> 09:41.456 No. 09:44.710 --> 09:47.754 Cornelius Evans was the first to fall ill. 09:48.297 --> 09:50.132 At first, had no symptoms beyond a headache. 09:50.841 --> 09:53.135 His wife gave him brandy. He slept soundly, but… 09:53.635 --> 09:57.264 he woke always with the same headache. Here. 09:59.141 --> 10:00.684 Five days like this. 10:01.476 --> 10:03.394 And his eyes were yellow with spoiled moons. 10:03.395 --> 10:04.478 He changed. 10:04.479 --> 10:06.063 He was angry, confused. 10:06.064 --> 10:07.315 Otis saw him that very night. 10:07.316 --> 10:08.733 He told him to take a warm bath, 10:08.734 --> 10:10.819 and he thought to come back with a draught in the morning. 10:11.486 --> 10:13.906 But by dawn, when Otis came back, 10:14.823 --> 10:17.159 he saw a knot of hair in the doorway. 10:18.202 --> 10:22.206 Went inside and he found Cornelius on the ground. 10:24.041 --> 10:26.752 With his fingers inside his wife's skull. 10:33.091 --> 10:35.093 The infections are growing faster. 10:35.677 --> 10:37.762 It will soon overwhelm us. 10:37.763 --> 10:39.180 We must do something. 10:39.181 --> 10:41.557 - You must do something. - Sarah, 10:41.558 --> 10:43.894 would you take yourself to bed? 10:45.687 --> 10:47.189 But I haven't finished cleaning. 11:00.994 --> 11:03.579 They say that you're in communion with this island, 11:03.580 --> 11:04.915 that you whisper to it. 11:05.707 --> 11:07.917 You tame it. You turn it to your will. 11:07.918 --> 11:10.461 That you are the only reason we survived 11:10.462 --> 11:12.839 - the first years. - Hold your tongue. 11:12.840 --> 11:16.717 They say that you kiss that necklace like it was a cross, 11:16.718 --> 11:18.136 but it's no cross, sir. 11:18.637 --> 11:20.346 What is it you hide in there? 11:20.347 --> 11:21.682 They say it is a covenant! 13:56.837 --> 13:58.630 Child, what ails thee? 14:06.722 --> 14:10.976 I feel I have greatly mistaken my course in coming here. 14:13.812 --> 14:17.815 Though my days before were sorrowful, I fared well enough. 14:17.816 --> 14:20.860 Perhaps the life of a… of a childless woman without a husband, 14:20.861 --> 14:23.237 it is… it is… It is one I could… I could come to bear… 14:23.238 --> 14:25.990 - Enj… Enjoy! Enjoy the role-- - Good woman, you are not making sense. 14:25.991 --> 14:28.493 Well, I am filled with terror, Pastor! 14:29.036 --> 14:30.369 I saw him. 14:30.370 --> 14:33.040 I saw him murder Ezra Lowery. 14:34.625 --> 14:35.708 Is there a body? 14:35.709 --> 14:37.043 No, 14:37.044 --> 14:39.587 but there's a hidden chamber beneath our home 14:39.588 --> 14:42.591 and Ezra's bloody cane therein. 14:44.218 --> 14:45.969 You must be told the truth. 14:47.554 --> 14:50.139 Evil stalks this land. 14:50.140 --> 14:52.142 There is a wrongness about. 14:53.769 --> 14:56.939 I fear that the devil himself has chosen your husband. 14:57.523 --> 14:59.399 For what cause, I cannot tell. 15:00.317 --> 15:01.902 Others share my belief. 15:03.028 --> 15:04.780 We fear Warren consorts with him. 15:06.532 --> 15:08.700 Villagers go missing and they're never seen again, 15:09.284 --> 15:10.743 including his last wife. 15:10.744 --> 15:11.912 Oh, God. 15:12.955 --> 15:16.791 I cannot stay here a moment longer. I want off this dreadful island. 15:16.792 --> 15:20.211 I am but four and ten years almost. Allow me to wither in my father's attic… 15:20.212 --> 15:22.129 - Sarah. Sarah. - …as my womanly destiny. 15:22.130 --> 15:23.131 Sarah. 15:25.133 --> 15:28.887 Know that God has chosen you for a special purpose. 15:30.097 --> 15:33.808 You arrived on this island not for the reason you thought, 15:33.809 --> 15:35.811 but for a greater one still. 15:36.395 --> 15:39.231 Thou art not alone. 15:41.149 --> 15:43.652 When you retire to bed tonight, 15:45.070 --> 15:48.657 leave the front door unlatched so that we may enter. 15:49.783 --> 15:50.784 To do what? 15:53.537 --> 15:55.372 What must be done. 15:59.668 --> 16:04.047 No one understands the burdens of leadership. 16:04.673 --> 16:07.466 They're conspiring against me, and you know that. 16:07.467 --> 16:10.469 They are afraid. The plague, the disappearances… 16:10.470 --> 16:11.763 Disappearances? 16:14.641 --> 16:15.893 What disappearances? 16:18.562 --> 16:20.104 Who have you been speaking with? 16:20.105 --> 16:21.315 I've spoken with no one. 16:25.235 --> 16:26.319 'Tis nothing. 16:26.320 --> 16:27.321 I… 16:28.322 --> 16:30.907 Forgive me, I cannot make sense of my own… 16:30.908 --> 16:31.992 My own words. 16:34.953 --> 16:36.622 Take all the children upstairs. 16:37.539 --> 16:38.540 The… 16:39.166 --> 16:40.167 Children. 16:53.722 --> 16:55.140 Is something wrong? 16:58.852 --> 17:00.270 All shall be well. 19:45.811 --> 19:47.813 Did I not plainly forewarn you? 19:50.023 --> 19:52.526 For your own safety, you must not leave this house again. 19:53.485 --> 19:55.904 Not to do the wash, not to accompany the children. 20:01.702 --> 20:05.038 Well, let no fear take hold. 20:06.707 --> 20:10.543 I will unearth the one who bears this guilt. 20:10.544 --> 20:15.966 None may hide forever on an island where there is no way out. 20:21.263 --> 20:22.431 I will protect us. 20:28.645 --> 20:29.646 Go to our room. 20:30.480 --> 20:31.690 Pray. 20:42.868 --> 20:46.330 Oh, please. Oh, please. Oh, Father, please. 20:49.041 --> 20:50.042 Please. 24:22.963 --> 24:24.214 Pastor Collins! 24:25.340 --> 24:27.968 Richard is alive! 24:30.846 --> 24:33.724 Yes, we noted that with some distress. 24:35.434 --> 24:37.852 Be not afraid. This committee can be trusted. 24:37.853 --> 24:39.687 Then you all must listen. 24:39.688 --> 24:41.606 He is not consorting with the devil. 24:41.607 --> 24:43.107 He is the devil. 24:43.108 --> 24:46.027 I saw him struck with a knife again and again, but he died not. 24:46.028 --> 24:48.946 For the good of every man, woman, and child, you must make haste 24:48.947 --> 24:50.490 and stop him immediately. 24:53.243 --> 24:54.994 There's a secret tunnel that leads to the house. 24:54.995 --> 24:58.331 There's a well at the far southeastern edge that will grant to serve you passage. 24:58.332 --> 25:00.834 You must send ten good, strong men. 25:05.672 --> 25:09.008 A merchant sailing vessel is due to depart this evening 25:09.009 --> 25:10.968 with a berth for you on it… 25:10.969 --> 25:12.345 God be thanked. 25:12.346 --> 25:15.265 …but we need your help. 25:19.061 --> 25:24.649 Pour this in his drink, and he will be helpless as a babe. 25:24.650 --> 25:26.734 No, I cannot go back there. 25:26.735 --> 25:29.488 You must, or he shall know. 25:30.364 --> 25:35.284 You said he must be stopped. Now you bear the burden as well. 25:35.285 --> 25:38.121 Consider the welfare of your children. 25:39.289 --> 25:42.792 My children? I have but just met them. 25:42.793 --> 25:44.795 Sarah, please. 25:45.337 --> 25:49.174 You are our only hope against this darkness. 25:54.555 --> 25:57.890 I do not comprehend the nature of the curse 25:57.891 --> 25:59.643 that has fallen on the island. 26:00.435 --> 26:06.608 I do know that its heart beats inside the cylinder my husband wears around his neck. 26:07.359 --> 26:08.860 Who will crush my throat? 26:08.861 --> 26:11.988 His hands? This plague? 26:11.989 --> 26:15.993 Death comes for us each, but I fear to me first. 26:16.785 --> 26:18.620 I know not how, but who. 26:28.505 --> 26:33.427 Of course, he's here with me, so I say all this in jest. 26:34.011 --> 26:36.096 And with that, I retire. 26:46.481 --> 26:48.066 You're home. What a blessing. 26:49.735 --> 26:51.778 What do you write in that book? 26:53.071 --> 26:54.781 A woman's silly thoughts. 26:56.700 --> 26:57.951 I want to read it. 26:59.244 --> 27:00.829 I would feel too abashed. 27:28.315 --> 27:30.317 A swig of brandy to ease your mind. 27:32.194 --> 27:34.112 No, I need to be clearheaded. 27:41.537 --> 27:42.995 Go to your beds now, children. 27:42.996 --> 27:46.083 Now. I need a quiet word with your father. 27:47.668 --> 27:48.669 Now. 28:05.853 --> 28:11.775 If folk are truly set against you, you need your wife at your side. 28:15.904 --> 28:18.365 We are married all these days and have not yet… 28:21.285 --> 28:22.452 known each other. 28:28.333 --> 28:32.879 Well, the burdens that have been placed upon me-- 28:32.880 --> 28:34.882 Let me help you bear them. 29:08.040 --> 29:09.958 What sin lies on your tongue? 29:12.961 --> 29:16.089 You're in league with them. Traitress. 29:31.563 --> 29:32.731 He killed my mother. 29:35.025 --> 29:36.944 Gather your siblings. We're leaving. 29:44.201 --> 29:45.535 Who are they? 29:45.536 --> 29:46.703 Just keep moving. 30:09.434 --> 30:10.644 They left without us. 30:11.854 --> 30:14.273 Here, into this boat. We can catch them. 30:14.982 --> 30:15.983 Easy. 30:23.365 --> 30:24.908 Are you leaving? 30:27.202 --> 30:28.412 Abigail, I… 30:29.454 --> 30:31.290 I reckon you are not well. 30:31.957 --> 30:33.584 Go to your husband, the physician. 30:34.585 --> 30:35.794 I did already. 30:39.464 --> 30:41.340 I will get on board with you. 30:41.341 --> 30:43.427 I'm sorry, there is not enough space. 30:45.095 --> 30:46.680 But I am not sick! 30:48.557 --> 30:50.142 Forgive me, there is no space. 30:50.684 --> 30:53.520 Then leave off these children. They're not of thy blood. 30:56.064 --> 30:57.065 They're with me. 30:59.526 --> 31:01.069 And under my charge. 31:03.780 --> 31:07.451 Stand back! I will take no more orders! 31:18.295 --> 31:21.381 Go. Go. The ropes. 31:35.896 --> 31:37.022 Traitors. 31:40.234 --> 31:44.153 You've set yourself above the law of God and man. 31:44.154 --> 31:48.158 You have murdered those you swore to protect. 31:49.368 --> 31:50.369 No! 31:51.036 --> 31:53.246 It doesn't want you to open it. 31:53.247 --> 31:55.791 What does not want me to open it? 31:56.375 --> 31:58.126 That which has kept us alive. 31:59.127 --> 32:03.047 It is just as we feared. You have made a deal with the devil. 32:03.048 --> 32:05.217 No, it's not the devil. 32:05.843 --> 32:07.510 It is our God. 32:07.511 --> 32:11.013 He's gone mad. Let us be rid of him. 32:11.014 --> 32:12.516 You cannot rid yourself of me. 32:13.517 --> 32:15.101 It won't allow it. 32:15.102 --> 32:17.521 This is my burden. 32:18.438 --> 32:23.484 Free me, you will all be forgiven, and I will continue to carry it myself. 32:23.485 --> 32:29.199 Your fate will be decided by God, the one true God. 32:37.040 --> 32:42.004 No. You cannot bury me! You cannot bury me! 32:43.380 --> 32:45.883 You'll doom yourselves! The pact! 32:46.383 --> 32:48.301 The pact must be honored! 32:48.302 --> 32:51.847 The pact which spared us… in that first winter. 32:52.431 --> 32:55.017 It spoke to me through the mushrooms! 32:56.101 --> 32:58.436 Please. Fulfill the pact. 32:58.437 --> 32:59.729 How? 32:59.730 --> 33:01.856 Sacrifice! A life… 33:01.857 --> 33:02.858 Life for life. 33:04.276 --> 33:09.448 Whatever I have undertaken, it has been for the welfare of our people! 33:10.282 --> 33:14.953 Fulfill the pact and the plague will stop! 33:15.913 --> 33:17.122 But if you don't… 33:17.706 --> 33:18.832 If you do not, 33:20.417 --> 33:22.627 the terrors will not cease! 33:22.628 --> 33:24.337 They will only deepen! 33:24.338 --> 33:28.383 Please do not make my children suffer for your mistake. 33:29.051 --> 33:33.055 Your wife is taking your children back to the mainland, far from you. 33:34.848 --> 33:37.308 No. No, no, no. 33:37.309 --> 33:39.645 The island won't… The island won't let them leave. 33:40.562 --> 33:42.396 Oh, please! Oh, please! 33:42.397 --> 33:44.441 You'll kill them all! You'll kill them all! 33:48.820 --> 33:56.285 You'll kill them all! You'll kill them all! 33:56.286 --> 33:58.330 You'll kill them all! 33:58.997 --> 34:03.835 You'll kill them all! You'll kill them all! 34:03.836 --> 34:07.005 You'll kill them all! 35:23.332 --> 35:24.333 I got it. 35:27.920 --> 35:29.505 - You got it? - Come on.