The Musketeers

If we might just prevail upon Your Majesty to reconsider...

Are you telling me that the King cannot have what he wants, Athos?

Is that what you're saying?

Of course not, Your Majesty.

Then it is settled.

You there!

Take off your clothes.

How do I look?

Transformed, Your Majesty.

No. No "Your Majesty" tonight.

Or bowing or fussing or any manner of deference.

Tonight you treat me as an equal, all right? A friend.

For one night I will enjoy the same freedom as

the most carefree peasant.

Must a king be a slave to duty all his life?

Tonight I'm just like you.

My, erm, my tunic's come undone.

Oh! Allow me.

Let the night begin!

Come on, Porthos!

Oh!

A toast to the victor!

This is fun!

Oh, how I envy the ordinary life!

Right, my turn.

I think it's time we called it a night.

Cards! I love cards!

Hello, lads?

Ha! I win again! And you know what the best part is?

I don't even need the money.

He'll go back to the palace thinking his subjects

spend all their time drinking and gambling.

We should show him what it's really like to be poor in Paris.

Or not.

Yes!

Show me your sleeves, sir.

Or are they in your boots?

Is that where you have them hidden?

Are you saying I cheated?

I don't like this. Time to go.

Well, how else did you beat me?

I'm an excellent player.

I always prevail.

Get him outside. We'll follow you.

Your Majesty.

Let's get your friend out the back way...

before he gets lynched.

Come on.

Thank you. We won't forget... this.

That was wonderful.

The life of a commoner is so exciting, so exhilarating, so...

D'Artagnan?

Your Majesty?

D'Artagnan!

What are you doing? I'm on duty.

And you shouldn't be in the Queen's quarters.

I know. Then send me away.

This, this has all been so sudden. I...

You never even looked at me before.

I'm looking at you now.

Was that the Dauphin?

The nurses will attend to him.

But he'll, he'll want his Governess.

Just give me a moment.

He will not settle.

Let me try.

I'm told I have a way with infants.

He is the royal prince.

He's still a baby.

Is the child guarded night and day?

You take your duties very seriously.

Now was it me or the baby you've come to see?

Do you know what this means?

The Dauphin's christening is tomorrow.

If Louis is not in attendance it will be noted the length of Europe!

He can't have got far. We will find him.

Find who?

Who was the lucky woman this time?

A Musketeer doesn't kiss and tell.

Find the King. And do it quickly.

The King is missing?

All drunks look the same to me.

The one who started the fight.

Which fight?

There were a few here last night.

Don't mess us about.

They left in a hurry. Now you remember.

Yeah, I know who you mean.

Yeah. No idea what happened to them.

But I'll ask around, see if anyone remembers.

Let me quench your thirst.

Where does this lead?

Just out the back.

These cobbles look like they've been scrubbed clean, look.

Yeah, definitely.

Blood?

Look at this.

The handle's been sawn off.

Ah, once you're out here there's no way back in.

It's just a missing door handle, that's all. It's nothing sinister.

Your last chance.

If I could help you, I would.

You can't kill me.

You're Musketeers.

Oh!

If I knew anything, I would tell you. I swear.

Put your pistol away, Aramis.

This will be quicker.

He pays me!

He pays me.

Who?

Who pays you?

He pays me to get people drunk and send them out the back door.

Who pays you?

I don't know his name.

And I don't ask.

~ Questions like that, they can get you killed. ~ Ah!

First day he came in here, he gave me a choice.

He said,

"You do as I say, or I'll burn this place to the ground."

What was I supposed to do?

I was frightened.

The men you send him, what does he do with them?

Well, God knows.

Robs them, probably.

Throws their bodies in the Seine.

How could your men have allowed this?

The King was adamant he experience Paris as a commoner.

Then they should have made clear to him

the utter stupidity of his suggestion.

We can't entirely blame the Musketeers.

When the King demands something it is difficult to refuse.

You have searched everywhere?

Even...

.. the brothels?

~ Yes, Your Majesty. ~ Then where is he?

Let's not forget, the King is not alone - he has D'Artagnan.

Who has so far failed to return the King to the palace.

If you're implying that D'Artagnan has neglected his duty,

you are wrong.

He is the King's Champion.

I don't care if he is alone, or with D'Artagnan,

I only care that he is not here.

The Dauphin's christening is tomorrow.

Guests are arriving expecting to see the King!

His absence will be a scandal!

You will turn this city upside down and find him, wherever he is.

Perhaps, in the meantime, we should let it be known the King is ill,

to explain his absence from court.

Thank you, Rochefort.

Those are the first sensible words I've heard this morning.

See to it.

I will have the Red Guards join the search. We will find the King.

Congratulations, Madame Bonacieux,

on your appointment as the Queen's special advisor.

There has been no appointment.

I just assumed...

why else would a servant...

question the Captain of the Red Guards in front of the Queen?

Remember your place in future.

Can't you look again?

You have seen for yourself, Madame Pepin. He is not here.

You should be pleased. People vanish for all manner of reasons.

Doesn't mean he is dead.

My husband is a good man, he'd never abandon us.

Something's happened to him.

Come back tomorrow.

If he drank too much and fell in the Seine,

his body will wash up with the evening tide.

We're looking for two friends who disappeared last night.

They may have been robbed.

You'll have to be more specific.

Are your friends young, old, fat, thin?

20s, dark hair, healthy - before last night anyway.

One like that just arrived. This way.

The number of people coming down here looking for lost relatives,

like that time the year before last.

But most of them leave without finding their loved ones.

So many people vanishing without trace.

Why haven't the authorities been informed?

These are the poor and desperate.

No-one really cares.

Not him. Thank God!

Here. Convict?

Possibly. But do you remember that summer two years ago?

Something similar - drunks and vagrants snatched in the streets?

It went on for months until the culprit was finally caught.

Sebastian LeMaitre.

His gang sold them on as slaves to the Spanish galleys.

But LeMaitre was caught

and sentenced to hard labour in the colonies.

It... can't be him?

~ Here, wasn't his brother a... ~ blacksmith?

We're looking for your brother.

Try the Americas.

We've heard he's back in Paris.

If he was back here I'd know.

He'd have come to see me.

I wouldn't tell you about it, but I'd have seen him.

Which I haven't.