
The Rose of Versailles

Episode 27

"Even if I Lose the Light..."

translated by GinRei
edited by Usagi Grey

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 notes on names:
 Andre should be spelled with "/" accent acute over the "e"
 Francois should be spelled with a cedilla (like "5") under the "c".
 Orlean should be spelled with an accent sign '/' on the 'e'.
 Chatelet is spelled with a circumflex ^ over the 'a'.
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[Andre's eye harmed]

OSCAR
Andre!

ANDRE
My eye...

OSCAR
Andre!!
Andre! Andre!!

ANDRE-!!

{Opening Title}

{Episode 27: Even if I Lose the Light...}

DOCTOR
It's not a light wound. Please make sure not to take off the bandage
without my instructions. Otherwise, he might become permanently blind in
one eye.

OSCAR
Yes, doctor.

NANNY
Yes, doctor.

NANNY
Doctor, a man can still live without an eye, can't he?

DOCTOR
Grandma, we don't know if his eye will be blinded or not yet.  Cheer up!

NANNY
Thank you very much.

DOCTOR
See you.

ANDRE
What happened to the Black Knight?

OSCAR
He escaped, unfortunately.

ANDRE
Why? Why didn't you catch him?
That was the only chance we had after all that trouble.

OSCAR
Don't be ridiculous, Andre.
How could I leave you behind and chase him?

OSCAR
It's dawn, Andre.

ANDRE
I'm really glad that it wasn't your eye.

OSCAR
Andre...

BK
For the coming age, a gun is worth more than an hour of speeches.
Let's go, comrades!

[attack]

JARJEYES
I don't know what to do.

OSCAR
Is something wrong, Father?

JARJEYES
Hmm, they're gone.

OSCAR
What are gone?

JARJEYES
200 brand new rifles.
One of my subordinates was in charge of the transportation.
It was the Black Knight!

[eye test]

DOCTOR
How is it? Do you see anything?

ANDRE
Yes, a little but blurry...

NANNY
Uh, Doctor, how is it?

DOCTOR
Open the curtain when I finish disinfecting and putting on the bandage (on his
eye).

NANNY
Yes, Doctor.

[flashback]

OSCAR
Palais Royale!

OSCAR
Palais Royale...
Perhaps I should look into it.

NARRATION
Palais Royale... that was where Oscar cornered the Black Knight and lost
him. And it was also the resident castle of Duke Orleans, the King's
cousin who's said to be an anti-monarchist.

OSCAR
I'm Brigadier Oscar Francois de Jarjeyes. I have a permit from Duke
Orleans for an official visit. Please open the gate!

ORLEANS  [the voice actor has changed!]
Welcome, Brigadier Jarjeyes.
I welcome your visit with my heart.

OSCAR
Thank you very much.
Duke Orleans, I'm glad to see you in your usual good health.

ORLEANS
I already got used to the disgrace of being called "anti-
monarchist". I'm living in perfect health everyday.
Please sit down. Formalities don't suit me.

OSCAR
Thank you. (lit. "Then...")

ORLEANS
Let's take care of the business. You said you needed to talk to me.

OSCAR
Yes, there's something that I'm eager to ask.
Do you know the Black Knight, Sir?

ORLEANS
Yes, I do. I've heard the rumors.

OSCAR
No, not the rumors. Do you know him personally?

ORLEANS
What an honor. That I'm an acquaintance with that celebrity.
But unfortunately, I've yet to meet him.
But it's refreshing that you've asked me straight out.
Just like you.
All right. I'll guide you to my salon out of respect for you.
All sorts of people gather in my salon, especially the young.
Perhaps among those youngsters you'll be able to find the Black Knight
that you're after.

MAN
All the music, literature, art, and education up until now were abortive
flowers of the Court salon! The new art and culture shall be born from our
salon (like this)!
Right! From the small world to the bigger world, and from musty (/stale)
salon into the sunlight!

ORLEANS
Are you surprised?
My salon is (free and) open to young lawyers, artists, and news reporters,
 regardless of their classes.
Society disparagingly calls us "anti-monarchists"
But I'd (at least) call it (something like) "Liberalism".

OSCAR in her mind
It worked. I wanted to sneak into this salon.
I'll find the man who tried to blind Andre's left eye (at any cost)!

MAN
Wow, your Latin is outstanding.

OSCAR
No, it's not that much.

MAN
(BTW) Classics are nice. But read Jean Jacques Rousseau if you can.

OSCAR
Rousseau?

MAN
"Discourse on the Origin of Inequality among Mankind"
It clearly shows that the world doesn't exist only for the nobles.

BLACK KNIGHT
All right. Capture her alive.
If we blackmail her father, we can get as many guns as we want.

SERVANT
Miss Jarjeyes, I was instructed by Lord Orleans to guide you this way.
He'd like you to see the old wine collection with him.

OSCAR
This is marvelous.
Where is Duke Orleans?

SERVANT
He'll come shortly. Please wait for him here.

OSCAR
OK. (or, All right.)

BLACK KNIGHT
Don't move, Royal Guard Regiment Commander!
If you obey me, you'll stay alive. 

NANNY
Do you need help, Andre?

ANDRE
No, it's all right.
But tell somebody to groom Oscar's horse.
I won't be able to do it for a while.

NANNY
Well... Mademoiselle Oscar hasn't come back for 2 days now.

ANDRE
What?!

NANNY
We haven't heard from her since the official visit to Palais Royale. We
sent a messenger there but the reply was that she left within that day.

ANDRE
Palais Royale...?!

OSCAR
How long are you going to keep me here?

BLACK KNIGHT
Until you obey our commands:
Write to your father, and we receive 500 rifles in exchange for your life.
We already know that your father, General Jarjeyes, is in charge of all the
military weapons and their transportation.
He's in a position to be able to manage 500 rifles without any difficulty.

OSCAR
Don't underestimate me.
Do you really think that I'll write such letter?

BLACK KNIGHT
With enough time, yes. You will write it.
We know quite enough that the (mere) pride of nobles is weak and fragile.

[flashback]

DOCTOR
Please make sure not to take off the bandage without my instructions.
Otherwise, he might become permanently blind in one eye.

[Andre sneaks into Palais Royale]

GUARD
Hi.

ANDRE (as BK)
H-hi.

GUARD
Ah, wait!
That Royal Guard Regiment Commander doesn't eat any of the bread we give her.
Who does she think she is?
The nobles are so obnoxious, so snobbish, you know.

ANDRE
Yeah, absolutely.
Bye.

GUARD
Bye.

[Andre goes into Oscar's cell]

ANDRE
W-wait, Oscar! It's me!

OSCAR
Andre!

ANDRE
Jesus, you almost broke my neck.

BLACK KNIGHT
What happened? Who did this to you?!

GUARD
The Black Knight...

BLACK KNIGHT
What?!

ANDRE
Wait, Oscar. Somebody is coming!

OSCAR
It's the Black Knight.
All right. Andre, hand me your gun!

OSCAR
We've come this far. We'll take him back.

BLACK KNIGHT
Damn!

OSCAR
Drop your gun, Black Knight!
It's my turn now.

GUARD
Yo, Black Knight! Are you going out for your work?

BLACK KNIGHT
Yeah, more or less. Open the gate.

ANDRE
Hey, you guys, has someone who was dressed up like me just gone out from
this gate?

GUARD
Uh...y-yeah...just now...

ANDRE
WHAT?!
You've let him escape! He's an impostor!

GUARD
Eh?! Impostor?!

ANDRE
You morons! Open the gate! I'm going after him!

GUARD
Y-yes!

OSCAR
All right, stop. We'll wait for Andre.
Now get off the horse, too!

BLACK KNIGHT
What if I say no? (or, What if I refuse?)

OSCAR
What?!

BLACK KNIGHT
Are you going to shoot me? You can't.
I'm going!  There are many things that need to be done.
I'll see you again.

OSCAR
Stop!

BLACK KNIGHT
Among the nobles I've seen, you're (/you'd be categorized as) one of the
better ones.
So I estimate that you're not the kind to shoot an unarmed man in the back.

OSCAR
It depends on who it is!

[Oscar shoots]

OSCAR
You're the one who wounded Andre's eye!
If you try to give me any crap, I'll shoot a lead bullet in your
left eye!

ANDRE
What was that gun shot (just now), Oscar?
Did you kill him?

OSCAR
Andre, rip off his mask! We'll see his (real) face!

ANDRE
All right!

OSCAR
This man is...
the man who was always with Robespierre (I think).

OSCAR
Bernard Chatelet, born in 1760, a newsreporter (/journalist) of "Le
Vieux Cordelier".

BERNARD
You've done a through investigation.

OSCAR
I can find out something more interesting if I hand you to the authorities.
Your relationship with Palais Royale, for instance.

OSCAR
Do take good care of yourself.
I'll let you stay here until your wound heals.

BERNARD
You're too lenient just like I assumed.
If you do that, you're giving me a chance to escape.

OSCAR
I missed my aim. I aimed at your shoulder, but the bullet went through
right by your heart. So the doctor said it's dangerous for you to move.
My conscience will bother me if you die from my bullet.
That's all.
But if you want to die, move around. It's up to you.

BERNARD
Queen's (watch)dog!

OSCAR
A (watch)dog and a thief. We're even.

BERNARD
I'd rather be a thief! [lit. It's better to be a thief!]
I'm acting of my (own) will!

OSCAR
What's wrong, Andre?

ANDRE
No, it's nothing serious.
My left eye is a bit...

OSCAR
ANDRE!

DOCTOR
I TOLD you not to take off the bandage!
I'm sorry but there's nothing I can do for your left eye.

[Oscar runs upstairs]

OSCAR
I'll do exactly what you've done to Andre!

ANDRE
Oscar, I still have my right eye.
I can still see the sun light and greenery (of the trees).
I still haven't lost anything yet.

ANDRE
Oscar, are you really going to hand him over to the authorities?

OSCAR
What?!

ANDRE
The aristocrats aren't starving now, but the people are.
We can't do anything but HE can (probably) do something for the people.
As well as in the future.

OSCAR
Andre, what are you saying?! You're willing to help the man who deprived
one of your eyes?! You're willing to forgive him?!
He's a thief!

ANDRE
You're right...
I guess I've become eccentric after being blinded (in one eye)
impersonating the Black Knight.
Sorry. I sometimes forget that I work for the nobles.

JARJEYES
Oscar, Oscar!
Oscar, I heard you did it! You've captured the Black Knight? Good job!
I'm confident that you'll be promoted to a Major General!

OSCAR
Father.
He was...a wrong man.

JARJEYES
What?

OSCAR
Unfortunately, it was the wrong person.  (or, Unfortunately, it wasn't him.)
He was just a city hoodlum.
We've found no evidence in the investigation afterwards.

OSCAR
There's something I want to know.
What's Duke Orleans to you guys?

BERNARD
Nothing. We only took advantage of his Liberalist posture and used
Palais Royale as a hideout. There's no better place to hide.

OSCAR
All right, then.
Let's move on to (/talk about) business.

BERNARD
Business?

OSCAR
I mean The 200 guns you stole from my father's troops.
I'll make it a bargain at 1000 Livres, so pay the money.

BERNARD
What?

OSCAR
I've written a letter to a girl named Rosalie in the Temple District in
Paris. Hide there for a while and heal your wound. (or, Hide there while
your wound heals?) She knows how to keep a secret.

BERNARD
Thank you. I didn't think you'd let me go.

OSCAR
If you want to thank someone, thank Andre. Not me.

BERNARD
Andre?

OSCAR
Right.
He was perhaps a better Black Knight than you were.

[ending title]

NEXT EPISODE:
Oscar was stepping into her own path after parting with Fersen. Meanwhile,
Andre who grew with Oscar since his childhood was stunned to find himself
seeing Oscar as a woman. What would become of his illicit love? 
Next episode on The Rose of Versailles: 
"Andre, a Green Lemon". 

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