1 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:12,760 Many centuries ago, 2 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:15,640 much of Scotland was a law unto itself... 3 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,000 ..beyond the reach of any king. 4 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,520 Here, it's not the king who's the lawgiver, 5 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:26,160 it's the clan chiefs. 6 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:27,960 Like Mafia godfathers, 7 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:30,840 they control the people, wield the power. 8 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:36,400 They lead armies, 9 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:38,120 scheme, 10 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:40,800 slaughter, 11 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,720 use any means to expand their territories. 12 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:49,120 It's clan against clan. 13 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:50,760 Blood will be spilt. 14 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:57,800 But the clan's violent struggle for dominance... 15 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,040 Mary, you forget yourself. You think you can talk to me! 16 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:02,400 You forget yourself! Forget myself?! You are just a woman! 17 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:04,480 ..is more than just gang warfare - 18 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:07,080 it will determine the fate of a nation. 19 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:11,720 Rebels and rogues will become heroes, 20 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:13,280 freedom fighters, 21 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:15,240 even kingmakers... 22 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,080 Raibeart! CROWD: Ar righ! 23 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:19,120 ..and breakers. 24 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:23,120 Things can only get medieval! 25 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,800 Once, there was a great clan chief 26 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:47,840 who rose above all the others 27 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,600 to take Scotland's throne. 28 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:54,360 His name was Robert Stewart. 29 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,400 To control Scotland and the unruly clans, 30 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,040 Robert gave each of his four sons 31 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:05,560 a portion of his kingdom and royal powers to rule. 32 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:17,080 A vicious contest between the brothers, 33 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,240 who each thought he should be king. 34 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,280 So which of the four will emerge victorious? 35 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:29,600 Whose bloodline will become the Royal Stewarts? 36 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,920 In a field just outside Perth, two clans, 37 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:49,480 the Camerons and the Chattans, 38 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:53,440 have come to settle a bitter feud over land. 39 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:59,360 They're going to sort it the clan way. 40 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,520 No armour, helmets or shields. 41 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:08,160 Each clansman is armed only with a broadsword and axe. 42 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:13,000 It's a fight to the death. 43 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:16,800 But things aren't going well. 44 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,480 Clan Chattan are a man down. 45 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:21,880 The Highlander in question, 46 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:23,720 well, he's either run away 47 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,200 or maybe he's just sleeping off a hangover somewhere. 48 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:28,240 The problem is that Clan Cameron 49 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,360 won't surrender one of their men to level the numbers. 50 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:40,760 The man judging the contest is the current King of Scots, 51 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:43,720 eldest of the four Stewart brothers, 52 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:45,240 Robert III. 53 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:47,880 You, you, you, you. 54 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:51,320 While the argument rages, 55 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:53,400 Robert looks on helplessly, 56 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,400 watching the two clans have a fight about how to have a fight. 57 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:02,840 But the clan feud is the least of Robert's problems. 58 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:06,640 Standing next to him are his three younger brothers. 59 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,400 They've all got their eyes on one thing... 60 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:14,720 ..Robert's throne. 61 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:17,960 I'll do it. 62 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:19,200 Good news... 63 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:22,160 Grant me a pension for life, and I'll do it. 64 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:25,800 Pray for me if I die. 65 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,120 ..a local blacksmith volunteers to fight 66 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,080 in place of the missing clansman. 67 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:37,280 Robert gives him the royal nod. 68 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:41,880 There he is, presiding like a little emperor, 69 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:44,720 but while this gladiator-style clash 70 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:47,720 might bring to mind the Colosseum in Rome, 71 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:50,360 Robert III is no Julius Caesar. 72 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:01,160 YELLING 73 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:38,520 This fight to the death is Robert's idea - 74 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:40,800 a PR exercise. 75 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:47,360 A demonstration to his critics that he can control the clans. 76 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,280 He can control his kingdom. 77 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:54,600 That Robert, King of Scots, is the boss. 78 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:04,120 After all the butchery, 79 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:07,320 there's only one Cameron left standing. 80 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:11,720 Rightly judging his chance of survival as nil, 81 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:14,240 he makes a run for it. 82 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:23,760 38 clansmen now lie dead. 83 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:29,720 Justice has been done. 84 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:35,520 But it's clan justice, not royal justice, 85 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:38,840 and Robert's PR stunt in Perth fooled no-one... 86 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:43,040 ..least of all Robert's brothers. 87 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,080 Discontent with the King is running high. 88 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,040 The King's brothers are circling, 89 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:59,040 ready to swoop in for the kill. 90 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:07,480 But Robert's wife, Annabella, 91 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,800 has a plan to make the boys kiss and make up. 92 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:13,880 Son David has come of age. 93 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:16,360 She presses Robert. 94 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,080 "It is time to let the boy fly. 95 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:21,600 "He's so clever. 96 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:27,320 "He can help you outwit your devious brothers." 97 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:33,080 David is every inch a prince - 98 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:35,000 handsome and charming, 99 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,040 wild, spirited and precocious. 100 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:41,480 He leads from the heart, and also from the groin. 101 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:46,160 Annabella's plan is to use David to unite the feuding Stewart family 102 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:49,120 by having them focus on a different target - 103 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:52,200 their common enemy - the MacDonalds. 104 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:55,520 They shall be their prey. 105 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:01,880 Clan MacDonald is the biggest single threat 106 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:03,040 to the Stewarts. 107 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:07,720 The heart of their power is Islay. 108 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:12,760 From here, they dominate the west coast, 109 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:17,000 providing protection to dozens of clans scattered across the Hebrides. 110 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:22,280 With an army of over 10,000 men, 111 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,360 Donald MacDonald 112 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:26,600 is one of the most powerful clan chiefs 113 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:27,960 in the kingdom. 114 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:33,360 Domhnall Ileach, Donald of Islay, 115 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,120 was the head of Clan Donald. 116 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:40,160 In English, he was Lord of the Isles. 117 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,520 In Gaelic, he's Ri Innse Gall. 118 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:49,520 He's the leader and indeed the King of the Hebrides. 119 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:53,600 They also held by now extensive areas 120 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,160 of mainland Gaelic Scotland as well. 121 00:08:57,640 --> 00:08:59,160 Clan Donald had split 122 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:00,440 into various branches, 123 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:02,000 and those branches were planted 124 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,200 around the various parts of the lordship 125 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:06,240 that they controlled. 126 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:08,240 One of the things that often gets forgotten 127 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:10,360 about the MacDonald family 128 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:12,320 is that they are intermarried with the Stewarts. 129 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:17,200 Donald's mother is a daughter of King Robert II, 130 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:20,600 and so they are cousins of the Crown. 131 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:22,440 They are part of the blood royal. 132 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:28,240 The MacDonalds are also a clan on the make. 133 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:30,640 They've advanced up the Great Glen, 134 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:32,360 through Loch Linnhe, 135 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:34,080 through Loch Ness, 136 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:35,760 and now their eyes are set on 137 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:38,440 one of the greatest prizes of them all - 138 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:40,440 the Earldom of Ross, 139 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:41,920 the largest in the kingdom. 140 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,280 If he acquires Ross, this brings him in from the western fringes, 141 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:48,760 right into the very heart of Scottish politics. 142 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:51,240 He will no longer be regarded 143 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:52,720 as this island lord. 144 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,560 He will be one of the leading magnates within Scotland. 145 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:07,520 Annabella's plan is to end Stewart feuding 146 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:10,760 by mounting a military campaign against the MacDonalds. 147 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:17,480 The man to lead it will be their son, David. 148 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:24,360 But Annabella knows she has to keep the King's brothers on side. 149 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:26,920 They'll see David's promotion as a threat. 150 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:32,920 Of the three, Robert, Duke of Albany, is the most devious. 151 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:35,680 It's an old saying - 152 00:10:35,680 --> 00:10:39,000 "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." 153 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:42,640 So Annabella makes him David's right-hand man... 154 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,320 ..and packs the pair off to the Highlands, 155 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:47,960 to deal with the MacDonalds. 156 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:01,360 Supported by clans loyal to the Stewarts, 157 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:04,600 their crusade against the MacDonalds is less a campaign... 158 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:07,640 ..more a show of force. 159 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:11,800 There's no pitched battle. 160 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:15,720 No loss or victory. 161 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:18,840 But the show of Stewart muscle seems to work. 162 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,880 Donald MacDonald, King of the Hebrides, submits. 163 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:28,040 He's not prepared to take on the Stewarts...just yet. 164 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:30,680 Job done. 165 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,080 Now the MacDonalds are out of the way, 166 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:37,960 Uncle Robert can get back to his day job - 167 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:40,520 plotting against his family. 168 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,080 Well, well, dear nephew, 169 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:49,040 how did you find the campaign? 170 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:51,120 Well, I thought. 171 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:54,400 I thought we fared well. And you? 172 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:57,200 Yes, very good indeed. 173 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:01,760 You have any wenches waiting for you when you get back? 174 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:03,680 I suppose there'll be a few. 175 00:12:03,680 --> 00:12:05,480 Maybe you can send some my way. 176 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:13,520 Uncle Robert is playing the long game. 177 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:17,600 What he wants is to become king. 178 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:21,480 But to do that, 179 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:24,240 he needs to eliminate his brother's bloodline. 180 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:28,480 Robert can't play the assassin, 181 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:32,360 but can he turn David's success against the MacDonalds 182 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:35,960 into a stick to beat his brother, the old king? 183 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:43,120 By the time they return home, 184 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,400 Robert Albany is spinning hard, 185 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:48,440 and the tales of David's shining campaign against the MacDonalds 186 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:50,200 have grown very tall indeed. 187 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:01,280 Now the boy wonder has returned a war hero, 188 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:04,520 his father, the old king, is looking rather feeble. 189 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:09,120 This is Scotland, 190 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:12,600 where the clan chiefs can break kings as well as make them. 191 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:20,640 Just three months after the campaign against the MacDonalds, 192 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:23,800 the chiefs retire the old king on health grounds. 193 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:26,760 But don't think he went willingly. 194 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:34,640 Robert was stripped of his ruling power, 195 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:36,480 and that power was given 196 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:40,200 in the shape of a three-year lieutenancy of Scotland 197 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:44,800 to the 21-year-old Prince David. 198 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:50,720 With Dad forced into early retirement, 199 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:52,720 David is very much the young man 200 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:56,880 of the moment, the rising star destined to be king. 201 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:00,040 Well, we all know what happens to rising stars. 202 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:11,560 At this point, the youngest of the four Stewart brothers, Walter, 203 00:14:11,560 --> 00:14:14,200 starts to make his presence felt. 204 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:19,400 Growing up, Walter experienced 205 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:22,360 all the frustrations of being the youngest. 206 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:25,960 He had to stand by and watch his siblings be showered 207 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:28,560 with gifts by their father, Robert II, 208 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:30,920 the first Stewart King of Scotland. 209 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:32,200 But now Walter's 40, 210 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:34,240 and he feels short-changed. 211 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:36,080 All he got from Dad... 212 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:37,640 ..was Caithness! 213 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:43,560 Bleak, barren and bog-ridden - 214 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:46,840 not exactly what Walter had in mind. 215 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,280 No wonder he spends little time here. 216 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:55,960 Instead, Walter hangs around court, pestering his nephew David 217 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:58,640 for more profitable lands and titles. 218 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:02,960 But David has bigger fish to fry - 219 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:04,840 the King of England! 220 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,400 Henry IV has been watching developments in Scotland 221 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:14,920 with growing interest. 222 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:19,680 Now a 21-year-old rookie is running the kingdom, 223 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,160 Scotland is ripe for attack. 224 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:26,360 In the summer of 1400, 225 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:30,440 Henry marches north with an army of 10,000 men. 226 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:36,480 He heads straight to Edinburgh and demands David pay him homage. 227 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:42,840 But David's hiding in Edinburgh Castle, and he's not coming out. 228 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:48,440 Thankfully, help is at hand. 229 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:52,720 Uncle Robert's clan army is mustering 15 miles to the east. 230 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:58,680 But rather than come to David's rescue, 231 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:00,680 Uncle Robert stays put. 232 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,240 Henry has no-one to fight. 233 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:09,720 A week passes... 234 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:13,440 ..then two. 235 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:17,000 Henry's 10,000 hungry stomachs start to rumble. 236 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:21,720 So, like the grand old Duke of York, 237 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:24,720 he marches his men back down to England. 238 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:35,240 We might expect that David's reputation would rise 239 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:39,600 as a result of the English having turned back, but in actual fact, 240 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:43,440 because he was holed up in Edinburgh Castle during the invasion, 241 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:47,040 refusing to go out and defend the realm, 242 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:49,520 it looks like he rather lost face 243 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,760 as a result of this botched invasion. 244 00:16:57,360 --> 00:16:58,960 The following year, 245 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:02,920 a great comet is spotted hovering above the kingdom. 246 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:04,600 Always an ill omen, 247 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:07,600 the comet is so bright, it can be seen during the day. 248 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:18,160 David's cowardly behaviour in the face of the English king looks bad. 249 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:22,760 The chiefs and nobles begin to grumble. 250 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:26,920 Perhaps promoting the young prince had been rash. 251 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:33,600 David's failure plays right into the hands of his uncles. 252 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:43,360 With his father absent and his mother Annabella's recent death, 253 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:45,880 David was dangerously isolated. 254 00:17:48,120 --> 00:17:49,920 Walter turned to his brother, 255 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:51,840 "Let's remove David from power, 256 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:55,960 "and I'll help you become what you've always wanted to be - king. 257 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:58,400 "In return, you grant me the lands I want." 258 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:05,080 David's fall was as quick as his promotion. 259 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:10,120 He was arrested on false charges of debauchery and wicked living. 260 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:13,200 He was imprisoned in his Uncle Robert's castle. 261 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:16,800 A prince in a tower - 262 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:20,040 David was locked away, hidden from public view. 263 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,280 Now that Robert and Walter have David in captivity, 264 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:29,680 they have to decide what to do with him, 265 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:32,920 because as long as David is alive, as the rightful heir to the throne, 266 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,600 people will hold a torch for him and they will come looking for him. 267 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:38,320 They'll expect answers. "Why have you not given us our king back?" 268 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,600 And a simple solution presents itself - 269 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:44,200 that the heir to the throne, 270 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:45,240 the young prince... 271 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:48,520 ..should not emerge 272 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:51,360 from the dungeons of Falkland Castle. 273 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:04,440 Grief-stricken, Robert reported David's tragic death to Parliament. 274 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:08,280 The cause, he said, was dysentery. 275 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:09,680 Crocodile tears. 276 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:12,360 Robert starved his nephew to death. 277 00:19:12,360 --> 00:19:14,360 He was just 24. 278 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:19,760 BELLS CHIME 279 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:22,280 Parliament absolves Robert of all blame 280 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:24,760 and gives him David's job. 281 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:27,720 Now he's in charge. 282 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:35,680 Meanwhile, the redundant old king remains alive. 283 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:40,480 He may have lost his throne, but he hasn't lost his wits. 284 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:44,160 He knows his scheming brothers all too well. 285 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,480 The old king begins promoting masses for his dead son 286 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:53,520 as a royal martyr. 287 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:56,200 But as the masses multiply, 288 00:19:56,200 --> 00:20:00,080 so do the stories of the horror of David's end. 289 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:03,520 The rumours, the suspicions gnaw away 290 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:05,960 at Robert Albany's newly won authority, 291 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:08,400 and the old king is scared. 292 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:16,080 He has another son. 293 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:19,120 A spare. 294 00:20:19,120 --> 00:20:20,600 11-year-old James. 295 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,240 Brother to the martyred prince. 296 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:29,120 Now heir to Scotland's throne. 297 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:38,120 Robert knows that the only way to protect James is to get him 298 00:20:38,120 --> 00:20:40,560 as far away from Scotland as possible. 299 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:42,880 If he doesn't, there's always that possibility 300 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:44,720 that Robert and Walter 301 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:48,200 will do the same thing to James as they did to David. 302 00:20:49,360 --> 00:20:51,640 TREMBLING SOBS 303 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:53,320 The King decides 304 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:57,320 that young James should be sent to his ally, the King of France, 305 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:01,600 and should remain there until he reaches adulthood. 306 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,080 The old king acts quickly. 307 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:11,400 Young James is rowed out to the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth... 308 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:15,440 ..home to Scotland's most impregnable castle. 309 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:19,720 James has to sit 310 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:23,920 and wait for a little over a month, er, 311 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:27,920 before a passing ship will grant him passage to France, erm, 312 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:29,360 and then, on the way, 313 00:21:29,360 --> 00:21:32,640 erm, the ship is seized by English pirates 314 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:35,600 and poor James is handed over, as a prisoner, 315 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,360 to Henry IV of England. 316 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,440 James does time in the Tower of London, 317 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,520 where he's forced to share a cell with another Scot - 318 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:51,680 his cousin. 319 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:59,080 Murdac Stewart is Robert Albany's eldest son and heir. 320 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,280 He was captured and taken prisoner during a border raid 321 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:06,000 a few years previously. 322 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:09,440 A generation apart, 323 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:12,640 Murdac is 44, James is 12. 324 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:15,520 You have to wonder what they talked about. 325 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:16,880 Two cousins... 326 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,960 ..one the sole and rightful heir of old King Robert... 327 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,520 ..the other the eldest son of the man 328 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,440 who starved his brother, David, to death. 329 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:37,680 Awkward. 330 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:44,920 The pair are left to reflect on their uncertain futures 331 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,440 as the English king's bargaining chips. 332 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,440 But Uncle Robert had no intention 333 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,600 of paying so much as a penny for either. 334 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,920 "No, thanks, we're doing just fine without a king." 335 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:02,240 Robert would prefer James dead, 336 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,560 but imprisoned in an English jail was the next best thing. 337 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:09,440 ROBERT SOBS 338 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:13,560 When the old king hears of his son's capture, 339 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:15,440 he collapses with grief. 340 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:23,240 Rejecting all food, he dies like his son, David, 341 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:24,960 from starvation. 342 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:35,560 Robert declined to be buried among the other kings at Scone 343 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:37,880 and wrote his last wishes. 344 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,080 "Let those men who strive in this world for the pleasures 345 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:44,000 "of honour have shining monuments. 346 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,520 "I, on the other hand, should prefer to be buried 347 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:47,960 "at the bottom of a midden. 348 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:49,480 "Bury me, therefore, I beg you, 349 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:51,440 "and write for my epitaph, 350 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:55,080 " 'Here lies the worst of kings and the most wretched of men 351 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,480 " 'in the whole kingdom.' " 352 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,160 Robert Albany buried his brother in Paisley Abbey. 353 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:03,200 A midden just wouldn't do for a Stewart - 354 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,560 not even for the worst of them. 355 00:24:14,360 --> 00:24:15,520 With David dead 356 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:19,640 and the passing of the fourth Stewart brother, Alexander, 357 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,200 only James now stands between Robert Albany 358 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,080 and his claim to the throne. 359 00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:31,360 For now, Robert must be content with ruling the kingdom as Regent... 360 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:36,880 ..with grateful Walter, newly promoted to Earl of Atholl, 361 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:38,040 at his side. 362 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:47,400 But it's not all plain sailing. They soon have a problem - 363 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,880 a supersize MacDonald problem, 364 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,120 who's demanding the return of James, 365 00:24:52,120 --> 00:24:53,520 right now. 366 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,920 Donald MacDonald can never forgive Robert Albany 367 00:24:59,920 --> 00:25:03,520 for challenging his status as King of the Hebrides... 368 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,400 ..and he sees, in the captivity of young James, 369 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,200 a chance to take revenge. 370 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:17,440 He sends an ambassador on a secret mission 371 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,560 to negotiate with James. 372 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:20,600 They cut a deal. 373 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:27,520 It's not necessarily that Donald is particularly blown away 374 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:31,600 by the prospect of springing James from his captivity 375 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:32,680 down in England. 376 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:34,560 This is just a useful mechanism 377 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:36,600 that can actually bring him closer to power. 378 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,600 It gives him, erm, a reason, 379 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:43,080 an excuse, if you like, for challenging Albany. 380 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:47,800 In the summer of 1411, 381 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:49,960 Chief MacDonald sets sail 382 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,200 on a military campaign in the name of the captive king. 383 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,440 In return for backing James, 384 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:00,400 Donald plans to take what he believes is rightfully his... 385 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:03,640 ..the Earldom of Ross. 386 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:07,960 After capturing Inverness, 387 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,320 the clans, bound by ties of loyalty to the MacDonalds, 388 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,240 rally in support. 389 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,440 Meanwhile, Robert Albany's army marches north. 390 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,400 In support are his clan allies. 391 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,960 The two armies meet at Harlaw. 392 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,120 The stage is set for the mother of all clan battles. 393 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,800 Cath Gairbheach in Gaelic - 394 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:52,360 was not a victory for the Highlanders. 395 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:58,120 We know that because Donald retreats immediately 396 00:26:58,120 --> 00:27:00,880 back to the west. 397 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:06,800 The MacDonalds' challenge to Robert Albany's rule has failed. 398 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,720 For James, the MacDonalds' setback 399 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,200 means his captivity has dragged on, year after year. 400 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,200 He's now 21. 401 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,680 At least, his living conditions have improved, 402 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,880 trading his cell in the Tower of London for rooms in Windsor Castle 403 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,120 and an English garden. 404 00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:50,400 Because he's royal, because he's valuable, 405 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,560 James is pretty much free to indulge his passions, 406 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:57,200 which include women and tennis, gardening and poetry. 407 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:58,840 In The Kingis Quair, 408 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,080 James wrote about gazing upon his beloved 409 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,120 across a beautiful rose garden. 410 00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:13,200 And there-with kest I doun myn eye ageyne 411 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,400 Quhare as I sawe, walking under the toure 412 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,480 Full secretly, new cummyn hir to pleyne 413 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,600 The fairest or the freschest yonge floure 414 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,240 That ever I sawe, me thoght, before that houre 415 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,480 For quhich sodayn abate, anon astert 416 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,120 The blude of all my body to my hert. 417 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,200 The girl James is writing about is Joan Beaufort. 418 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,960 And there's talk of a possible match. 419 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,120 Joan's no romantic wallflower. 420 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,240 A rose, maybe, but with thorns attached - 421 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,600 heiress to the prickly Beauforts, 422 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,240 the most acquisitive family in England. 423 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,720 They're used to power, and they know how to wield it. 424 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,200 But for James's cellmate, cousin Murdac, 425 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:12,320 captivity has been a bitter pill to swallow. 426 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,400 Murdac carries less value, 427 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:20,080 so his privileges don't extend to furnished rooms or rose gardens. 428 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,600 Murdac wrote home, begging his father to pay up, 429 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:28,720 complaining that his mattress and blankets 430 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:30,560 hadn't been changed for two years. 431 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,920 They were all worn out, he moaned. 432 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,520 Robert Albany paid the ransom and Murdac is now heading home, 433 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,000 but Robert doesn't care about his son's bedding. 434 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,720 Robert's getting old, 435 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:45,240 and his son, Murdac, 436 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,280 is the Albany Stewarts' future. 437 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,400 But James must stay. 438 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:58,960 The English are keen for him to head home too. 439 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,360 But no-one in Scotland will pay up. 440 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,200 Everyone knows what's going on. 441 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:13,560 James's return will spell the end of Albany Stewart rule. 442 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,960 In 1420, Robert Albany dies. 443 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,120 And now his son, Murdac, will rule the kingdom. 444 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,320 Father like son, 445 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,320 Murdac fully intends James to stay in captivity... 446 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,360 ..preferably till he rots. 447 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,640 It's too simplistic to just present 448 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,240 what's going on at this time as a straightforward conflict 449 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,240 between the Albany Stewarts, on the one hand, 450 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:59,520 and James I, in prison down in England, on the other. 451 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:01,040 There are other Stewarts 452 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,960 who are dabbling their fingers in the pot here 453 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,200 and really beginning to stir things up. 454 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:10,360 There is the King's surviving uncle, Walter. 455 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,800 He is somebody who has generally been left out 456 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:17,520 of the big dishing-outs of real estate 457 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:19,640 that have taken place throughout this period. 458 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:23,440 He's been looking at what the opportunities are. 459 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,320 Not content with the Earldom of Atholl, 460 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,480 Walter's been busy expanding his power base. 461 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:35,920 After the death of Alexander, 462 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:39,280 Walter started to muscle in on his brother's lands. 463 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,320 Like a Mafia godfather, 464 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,320 Walter won the loyalty of the local clan chiefs. 465 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,200 Now his eyes turn south 466 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:50,640 to Strathearn, 467 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:52,800 the richest estate in Scotland. 468 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,480 In medieval Scotland, land really equals power, 469 00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:58,520 and Walter knows this. 470 00:31:58,520 --> 00:31:59,960 He's spent his entire career 471 00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:02,080 trying to build up his territorial portfolio 472 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:03,200 because he knows that 473 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,640 if he wants to be taken seriously on a political stage 474 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,880 as a kind of player in the big leagues, if you like, 475 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,120 then he needs the land and really, 476 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:14,200 the Earldom of Strathearn would provide that status for him. 477 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,000 And he realises that his nephew, Murdac, 478 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,720 he's not going to help him. 479 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:22,120 He needs to cut a deal with James - 480 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,160 start to leverage for James's release. 481 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,560 Walter writes secretly to James. 482 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:32,880 He's a worried man. 483 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,480 He fears for the future of the Stewarts. 484 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,200 Murdac is proving a hopeless guardian, he says, 485 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,800 a pale imitation of his brother, Robert. 486 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,760 Walter wants James to return and help him secure the kingdom. 487 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,680 He offers his loyalty and assistance. 488 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,360 Walter wants very little in return. 489 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,320 He has his eye on a little land in Strathearn. 490 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,040 Perhaps James will help him with that, 491 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:57,640 once he's back on the throne. 492 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,400 So, what's next? 493 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:07,040 Reply to the letters from the English and pay up. 494 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,200 A king's ransom was never going to be cheap. 495 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,280 £40,000. 496 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,600 That's around £30 million in today's money, 497 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,160 paid in instalments. 498 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,960 For that, the Scots get James back 499 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,200 and seven years' peace with the English. 500 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:24,640 Walter agreed. 501 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:40,960 In February 1424, James marries Joan Beaufort. 502 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:44,400 They're an unusual royal couple. 503 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,680 It's a relationship built on love as well as politics. 504 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,320 This would be a partnership of equals - 505 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:54,160 The James And Joan Show. 506 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,160 Joan expects equal billing. 507 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,080 As James prepares for his return, 508 00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,480 the new king has much on his mind. 509 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,680 He's spent more than half his life in England, 510 00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:15,240 where the orders of the English king are obeyed. 511 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,480 But in Scotland, royal authority is challenged 512 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,160 by the great clan chiefs... 513 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:25,600 ..a patchwork of rival godfathers 514 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,000 who behave like kings in their own right... 515 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:32,800 ..paying lip service to the man they call King of Scots. 516 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,880 Two months after they tie the knot, 517 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:38,920 James and Joan head north. 518 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,440 First stop, Melrose, 519 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,680 where cousin Murdac waits to surrender the reins of power. 520 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,640 The regime change from Murdac to James 521 00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,360 is actually quite smooth, but it's also tense. 522 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,160 There are underlying tensions here. 523 00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,520 The nobles and the clan chiefs aren't actually sure 524 00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:59,200 what kind of king James is going to be. 525 00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,360 First item on the King's agenda - 526 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,280 a well-earned holiday. 527 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:11,720 James and Joan travel to Perthshire, 528 00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:14,960 to spend a couple of weeks with Uncle Walter. 529 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,640 They have a lot to discuss. 530 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,680 James knows nothing of his homeland. 531 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:22,480 He needs advice. 532 00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,160 A falconer covers the bird's head 533 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,720 to trick it into thinking it's night-time. 534 00:35:29,720 --> 00:35:31,440 It calms the bird down, 535 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,640 lets the falconer free the prey from its talons. 536 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:41,160 Just like the young hawk, you might say James is hoodwinked... 537 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,320 ..blind to his uncle's involvement 538 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,520 in his brother's murder 22 years ago, 539 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:51,480 also blind to Walter's endgame. 540 00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:57,360 James's eyes are firmly fixed on his other uncle, 541 00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,160 dead Uncle Robert. 542 00:36:01,240 --> 00:36:03,040 When James comes back, 543 00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,840 he doesn't immediately show his hand. 544 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,160 James knows he needs to solidify his position in Scotland first. 545 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,720 He can't go after the family that had a hand in killing his brother. 546 00:36:13,720 --> 00:36:15,240 He needs to bide his time. 547 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,520 James waits a year. 548 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:26,040 And then, guess who finds himself on trial? 549 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,200 Murdac Albany Stewart. 550 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:34,160 It's the whole of the family that is being targeted. 551 00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:37,000 They are going to be picked off. 552 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,280 And James, of course, is going to keep the cream of their lands 553 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:45,320 once he has executed and removed the Albanys from the land. 554 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,080 The charges hardly matter. 555 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:53,560 One thing we can be sure of is that, for this jury, 556 00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:56,480 a not-guilty verdict is not an option. 557 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:03,400 Your sentence for this crime 558 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,440 is death... 559 00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:06,840 by beheading. 560 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:17,960 This is meant to send a very clear message to the chiefs 561 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:21,480 and to the nobles of the Realm of Scotland 562 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,560 that James I is a new broom 563 00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:28,440 and he's not going to tolerate any dissent. 564 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:37,400 Among the chiefs enraged by the execution is Robert Graham. 565 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,440 With land all across the Lowlands, 566 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,880 Clan Graham is tied to the Albany Stewarts. 567 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:47,720 The Grahams fought shoulder to shoulder 568 00:37:47,720 --> 00:37:50,320 with the Albany Stewarts against the MacDonalds. 569 00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,040 Graham is Murdac Stewart's man. 570 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,480 He has faithfully served his master for many years. 571 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:05,240 In Graham's eyes, 572 00:38:05,240 --> 00:38:07,800 the trial and execution by the King isn't royal justice, 573 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,240 it's just a revenge killing, 574 00:38:09,240 --> 00:38:11,360 no different than any other clan feud. 575 00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:16,720 Graham can never forget, or ever forgive, 576 00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:18,480 the King's actions. 577 00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,520 Now the Albany Stewarts are out of the way, 578 00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:32,960 the biggest problem facing James is cash, and fast. 579 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:36,760 And that's because James has grand designs. 580 00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,680 James is a king on the make, 581 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,520 a king with a burning urge to make a name for himself, 582 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,120 a catwalk king, 583 00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,360 a king who has learned from the English court, 584 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,400 who understands the power of image. 585 00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:54,720 James is a mirror man, 586 00:38:54,720 --> 00:38:57,360 acutely self-conscious. 587 00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,360 Pleased with what he sees - 588 00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,160 Scotland's first Renaissance king. 589 00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:07,160 James, with his long upbringing in England, 590 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,840 has seen a new way of conducting kingship, 591 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:11,400 and a lot of it is around, you know, 592 00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,000 the physical real estate, the trappings of kingship. 593 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:18,640 So it's palaces, it's endowments of major new monastic institutions. 594 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,520 It's all about the glitz, the glamour, the show, the bling. 595 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:27,880 His spending spree includes a palace at Linlithgow, 596 00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,640 a magnificent new priory in Perth... 597 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:35,160 ...and the very latest in military hardware - 598 00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,800 the most expensive cannon money can buy. 599 00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,840 And guess who's going to pay for it? 600 00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,000 Think not so much Bank of Mum and Dad - 601 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,240 think Bank of Uncle Walter. 602 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,520 James cost a king's ransom, 603 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,240 now he's bankrupting the kingdom. 604 00:39:55,240 --> 00:39:57,800 To pay for all this Renaissance bling, 605 00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,880 James begins to eye up the most profitable of Walter's lands... 606 00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:04,920 ..Strathearn. 607 00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,280 Walter fizzes. 608 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:12,760 Strathearn is going to be drawn into royal hands, 609 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,280 become a source of revenue for the King, 610 00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:19,240 and that really does not please Uncle Walter. 611 00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:27,560 Walter's not the only clan chief incensed by the King's spending. 612 00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:31,800 Robert Graham is, too. 613 00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,120 Graham is an educated man, 614 00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,320 and he has developed views 615 00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:41,560 about the way kingships should work, 616 00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:43,200 about the possibility 617 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,760 that kings can slip into tyranny. 618 00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,960 So you have this mixture of political principle 619 00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:52,360 and the quest for personal revenge, 620 00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:56,120 and in 1436, Robert Graham attempts to arrest him. 621 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:00,880 Can you tell us, Your Majesty, 622 00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:05,120 why you persist in spending money we don't have? 623 00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:09,000 James has summoned his council to plead poverty yet again. 624 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:13,280 While you're pissing money away on fine palaces and tapestries, 625 00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,680 we are up to our necks in taxes. 626 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,920 What about your ransom to the English King 627 00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:22,880 that still hasn't been paid? 628 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:26,880 Does this not trouble Your Majesty? 629 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,720 Tempers reach boiling point. 630 00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:32,840 Sir Robert Graham loses his cool. 631 00:41:34,240 --> 00:41:36,800 You are spending our money! 632 00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:38,840 This is about Murdac, isn't it? 633 00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:46,200 Get off! 634 00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,240 No-one says a word. 635 00:41:51,240 --> 00:41:53,840 Everyone is scandalised. 636 00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:56,840 Everyone, that is, except Walter. 637 00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:03,520 In Robert Graham's violent protest, Walter begins to hatch a plan. 638 00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:11,160 Once, there were four competing Stewart bloodlines. 639 00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:14,040 Now there are two. 640 00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:19,280 But while Walter has only one surviving grandson... 641 00:42:21,720 --> 00:42:24,080 ..James has a burgeoning family 642 00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:25,800 and a son and heir. 643 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:31,600 Walter's line, his lands, everything he's worked for is finished... 644 00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,520 ..unless he can be rid of the whole family. 645 00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:46,320 Graham has shown his mettle, 646 00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,080 how far he's prepared to go. 647 00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:51,440 Will he do it again? 648 00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:53,280 Will he go further? 649 00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:55,520 Is he prepared to kill the King? 650 00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,200 Clan Graham is still bound by ties of loyalty 651 00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:03,640 to the Albany Stewarts. 652 00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:07,960 Bound to avenge their murders. 653 00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:14,280 Walter offers Graham the opportunity to exact clan justice on the King. 654 00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,760 Of course, not just James - 655 00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:19,800 Joan, his queen, must die too. 656 00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:26,280 And then Walter will rule Scotland as guardian. 657 00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:33,480 Like Robert's guardianship of James's dead brother, David, 658 00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,840 Walter will look after the orphaned royal children too. 659 00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:42,520 He might even feed them this time. 660 00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:52,400 But Robert Graham cannot do the deed by himself. 661 00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:54,720 He'll need help. 662 00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:00,640 Walter had an inside man, 663 00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:03,200 a man who wouldn't have a penny to inherit 664 00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,400 if James's cash demands couldn't be curtailed. 665 00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:10,400 Meet Walter's grandson and heir, Robert Atholl. 666 00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:16,000 Robert cuts a dash, 667 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:19,040 has proven himself in jousting tournaments 668 00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:23,120 and at tennis, the latest fad from Renaissance Europe. 669 00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:34,760 He's become the King's favourite. 670 00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,360 With a little help from his grandfather, 671 00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:41,240 Robert has landed the top job of chamberlain of the royal household. 672 00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:46,560 He organises the King and Queen's domestic household, 673 00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:48,400 supervises their security. 674 00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:56,240 James has a weak backhand, 675 00:44:56,240 --> 00:44:58,440 and therefore a habit of losing balls 676 00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:01,240 down the drainage holes in the corners of the court. 677 00:45:01,240 --> 00:45:04,960 So Robert has thoughtfully had the royal sewers blocked up 678 00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:08,080 so that servants can recover the rogue balls. 679 00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:11,920 Faithful Robert is Walter's perfect Trojan horse. 680 00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:18,640 Now Walter has two accomplices - 681 00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:23,240 Robert Graham, a man hate-filled enough to kill, 682 00:45:23,240 --> 00:45:26,280 and his grandson, Robert Atholl, 683 00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:29,280 who knows the movements of the King, day and night. 684 00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:33,080 The stage is set. 685 00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:40,720 # Nam faiceadh tu Griogal Cridhe 686 00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:45,440 # 'S e na shuidhe air tom... # 687 00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:50,120 After months of plotting, Walter is given the perfect opportunity 688 00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:55,160 to put his plans into action by the arrival of a papal emissary, 689 00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,520 who James and Joan intend to host 690 00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:01,040 in the royal residence at Perth - 691 00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:05,520 an unfortified and open residence, 692 00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,600 the ideal spot to kill a king. 693 00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:13,680 # Is chan eil duine chi mo leanabh 694 00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:19,640 # Nach canadh ba ba... # 695 00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:22,400 After all the entertaining, 696 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,400 James and his party return to the royal residence. 697 00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:28,760 Exhausted from the revelry, 698 00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:31,520 Joan soon retires to her bedchamber... 699 00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:36,840 ..leaving James, Walter and grandson Robert playing chess. 700 00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:45,000 As midnight approaches, Walter makes his move... 701 00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:51,280 ..the signal to Robert that Graham and his men are ready. 702 00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:56,280 # Nach canadh ba ba. # 703 00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:09,280 After James has retired for the night, 704 00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:12,040 Robert waits for everyone else to go to bed, 705 00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,480 and then, when all is quiet... 706 00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:23,320 ..he makes his way to a side door and unlocks it. 707 00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:27,040 Outside, Robert Graham and the rest of the assassins are waiting. 708 00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:30,840 Robert beckons them inside and leaves them to their work. 709 00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:39,720 As Graham and his accomplices climb the stairs to the bedchamber, 710 00:47:39,720 --> 00:47:43,920 they encounter a page fetching wine and strike him down. 711 00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:46,080 PAGE GROANS 712 00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:50,240 The cries of the page give warning to Joan and James inside. 713 00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:52,800 I have to go. 714 00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:59,000 With the assassins outside the door, 715 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,600 James searches for a way out, but there is none, 716 00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:04,800 so frantically he smashes a hole through the wooden floor 717 00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:08,720 with the fire tongs and drops into the stone sewer below. 718 00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:12,520 The conspirators burst in through the door. 719 00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:14,160 Where the hell has James gone? 720 00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:20,240 He's now found himself stuck in the dark, in the latrine pit. 721 00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:22,560 He'd ordered that exit to be blocked up 722 00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:26,520 because he kept on losing his tennis balls down there. 723 00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,280 He can hear all this commotion. 724 00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:30,960 He can hear the screams. 725 00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:34,640 And he is holding on quietly, 726 00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:36,800 desperately praying it's all going to go away. 727 00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:41,000 Joan and her ladies are terrified, 728 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:42,760 but they do stand their ground, 729 00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:44,400 although some of them are wounded, 730 00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:46,520 the Queen included. 731 00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:49,480 And I think she would have been killed had Graham's son 732 00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,160 not actually come in and chided the group and said, 733 00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:53,760 "For shame, she is but a woman." 734 00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:55,120 So they want to leave her alive. 735 00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:57,840 They have a conscience, almost. 736 00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,760 At this last gasp, they decide to leave her alive. 737 00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:04,600 And that act of mercy is, in the end, 738 00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:07,240 the act that will seal the fate 739 00:49:07,240 --> 00:49:10,120 of those who are looking to kill the King. 740 00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:17,160 They also start to give their thought to where the King might be, 741 00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:19,840 and this is where the remembrance 742 00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:21,600 that there is the privy. 743 00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:28,320 With nowhere to run, James faces his foes. 744 00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:33,720 As James fights off his assailants, he recognises Graham, 745 00:49:33,720 --> 00:49:35,120 the man who had attacked him 746 00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:37,040 so publically in Parliament. 747 00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:38,400 He begs for mercy. 748 00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:43,360 For God's sake, bring me a confessor! 749 00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:47,640 But Graham replies, "Thou shalt never have other confessor 750 00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:49,320 "but this same sword." 751 00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:51,680 Then he strikes James with the weapon. 752 00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,880 And there, in the filth and the darkness... 753 00:49:56,240 --> 00:49:58,120 ..the King is stabbed to death. 754 00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:06,200 Clan justice has been done. 755 00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:14,400 To his dying breath, 756 00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:16,080 James has no idea 757 00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:19,000 that good old Uncle Walter is the real assassin. 758 00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:22,480 As Joan raises the alarm, 759 00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:26,440 Graham and his men head straight to Walter's castle to report back. 760 00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:31,680 And you can just imagine how he feels when he's told, 761 00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:34,560 "Actually, we only did half the job," 762 00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:37,120 because, yes, they've killed the King... 763 00:50:38,240 --> 00:50:41,360 ..and the new King is now a child, 764 00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:42,920 but they haven't killed the Queen. 765 00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:48,400 She is going to come looking for two things - 766 00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,720 one is revenge... 767 00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:55,120 ..the other, the reins of power. 768 00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:03,680 While Scotland holds her breath, 769 00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:06,200 Joan plots her revenge. 770 00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:07,440 Word of warning - 771 00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:09,040 what the Queen does next 772 00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:12,000 is not for the squeamish or the faint-hearted. 773 00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:19,640 She has to act swiftly and she has to act decisively. 774 00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:24,280 She has to identify those who have been involved 775 00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:26,200 in James I's death, 776 00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:29,720 and she has to make their execution, 777 00:51:29,720 --> 00:51:32,600 their dispatch, exemplary. 778 00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:38,480 Joan hunts down the assassin, Robert Graham. 779 00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:40,160 This is personal. 780 00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:42,280 He'd killed her husband, 781 00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:43,960 wounded her. 782 00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:45,880 She's going to make him pay. 783 00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:51,000 He's tried. To the last, 784 00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:54,000 he denies he has done anything wrong 785 00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:57,040 and suggests that he's rid the kingdom 786 00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:59,520 of a great tyrant. 787 00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:05,640 Erm, he's then executed in a prolonged and inventive way. 788 00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:09,800 You've got all the great noblemen. 789 00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:11,800 You've got the clan chieftains, 790 00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:14,840 you have got the great territorial earls and lords 791 00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:16,040 all sitting there. 792 00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:20,320 Here is the opportunity for a spectacular piece of theatre 793 00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:21,960 that will really get across messages. 794 00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:24,600 And that central message is, 795 00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:26,200 "You do not mess with Crown power." 796 00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:35,080 His hand is severed from his arm, using the same dagger 797 00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:38,200 that he used to kill King James, 798 00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:40,720 and he's then paraded through the streets of Edinburgh, 799 00:52:40,720 --> 00:52:44,520 where the townspeople poke at his skin with hot iron tongs, 800 00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:47,560 on his back, and his legs, and his stomach. 801 00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:49,400 And then they cover him with a tunic, 802 00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:53,040 so they let the blood just stick itself to the material. 803 00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:55,920 And then, at last gasp, they rip the material away from him 804 00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,160 so that it opens up the wounds, all in one go, 805 00:52:58,160 --> 00:52:59,680 and he faints because of the pain. 806 00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:07,160 Through it all, Graham is defiant. 807 00:53:08,240 --> 00:53:10,880 In his mind, clan justice has been exacted. 808 00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:15,720 But Joan doesn't play by clan rules. 809 00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:21,480 He's forced to watch his son disembowelled in front of him, 810 00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:26,440 before then suffering the same fate, erm, that he's just witnessed. 811 00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:31,440 Erm, so, you know, particularly grisly stuff. 812 00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:37,120 Joan has one more treat in store - 813 00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:42,160 a blunt, rusty axe takes several blows to cut off Robert's head. 814 00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:51,080 When Joan discovers the role Robert Atholl played, 815 00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:53,280 she dishes out similar treatment. 816 00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:58,840 SCREAMING 817 00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:07,440 To Joan's delight, Robert confesses to the King's murder. 818 00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:10,840 "Do whatever they will do with our wretched bodies, 819 00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:15,360 "for being guilty, we have deserved it, this painful death," he cries. 820 00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:18,360 Joan's not finished with Robert yet. 821 00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:22,960 After lying bleeding for an hour, 822 00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:25,840 ropes are tied around his ankles and his armpits, 823 00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:28,920 and he's pulled up high and very nearly apart. 824 00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:31,880 And while the crowd wonder at his agonies, 825 00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:35,200 Robert confesses every detail of the assassination, 826 00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:37,600 and still Joan's not finished. 827 00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:41,680 Joan takes Atholl's head, 828 00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:46,040 has it sent to Perth to be spiked on the town gates. 829 00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:51,560 The manner in which these men are executed 830 00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:54,920 really shows a level of violence that we've not seen in Scotland, 831 00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:57,600 prior to this. 832 00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:00,200 She knows that she needs to demonstrate 833 00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:04,120 that she can be just as strong as any male ruler. 834 00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:09,200 And she will mete out the type of justice that underscores 835 00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:13,160 that type of male power being exercised by her. 836 00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:23,360 Like snow in spring, 837 00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:26,600 support for Atholl among the clans melts away. 838 00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:29,440 Walter is captured and taken to Edinburgh. 839 00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:31,480 His gamble for power is over. 840 00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:34,440 His heir is dead, his line is finished. 841 00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:37,720 All he can do now is wait for his own end. 842 00:55:41,240 --> 00:55:44,960 Walter is the starring act in Joan's theatre of cruelty. 843 00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:48,640 The old man is hoisted high, 844 00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:52,440 then dropped to a juddering halt just short of the ground, 845 00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:55,160 creating intolerable pain. 846 00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:58,280 Walter's crowned with a paper hat, 847 00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:00,120 which bears the words, 848 00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:04,920 "Traitor, traitor, traitor." 849 00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:09,040 After he's beheaded, 850 00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:12,560 the paper hat is replaced with a sizzling hot iron crown 851 00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:14,960 inscribed with the words, 852 00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:16,640 "King of all the Traitors..." 853 00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:21,440 ..and mounted on a spike in the middle of Edinburgh. 854 00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:48,640 With the execution of Walter Atholl in 1437, 855 00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:51,080 Queen Joan ended the Stewart civil war 856 00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:53,320 that had erupted 50 years before. 857 00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,040 Robert III is dead... 858 00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:04,800 ..as are his sons, David and James. 859 00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:09,600 Albany, the man who would be king, 860 00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:13,320 and his son, Murdac, have turned to dust. 861 00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:16,080 Donald MacDonald, King of the Hebrides, 862 00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:18,720 is a distant memory. 863 00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:23,360 And arch plotter Walter Atholl and his heir, 864 00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:25,360 they are history. 865 00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:29,320 You start out with this great pride 866 00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:32,560 of strutting lion Stewarts 867 00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:35,240 going around the kingdom, all contending for power, 868 00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:37,280 all wanting to be the big man, 869 00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:39,840 gradually eliminating each other. 870 00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:42,920 And right here, in 1437, 871 00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:46,920 you suddenly see this whole wide connection 872 00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:49,560 of family disappearing, finally unravelling, 873 00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:52,200 and you're left with one strand, 874 00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:54,480 the Royal Stewart strand, 875 00:57:54,480 --> 00:57:58,240 represented by James's son, James II. 876 00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:06,320 Mary, you forget yourself. You think you can talk to me... 877 00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:08,760 You forget yourself! Forget myself?! You are just a woman! 878 00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:11,520 Next time, the rise of the clans continues 879 00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:16,560 as the chiefs plot to overthrow Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots. 880 00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:18,520 Who will triumph? 881 00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:22,320 Mary or the clans? 882 00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:23,760 There's going to be no happy ending.