Relic Hunter S01e17 A Good Year
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01:54The carriage is waiting, your highness.
01:57I am not going.
01:58Oh, but you must.
02:00The uprising is closing in.
02:01Your son and the king have already been captured.
02:04My place is here.
02:06I beg of you, I beg of you, save yourself while you still can.
02:09We can reach my vineyard by morning.
02:11No one will find you there.
02:12I am not one to run.
02:16Guard this with your life.
02:18When my son is old enough to rule, he'll come for it.
02:22Please, my love.
02:25Go.
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03:09Are you all right?
03:11I'll be fine.
03:12What does I'll be fine mean?
03:14Well, the needle hurt a bit, but it was all totally worth it.
03:17Needle? What needle?
03:19For the inky stuff.
03:21Inky stuff?
03:22For the tattoo.
03:24You got a tattoo?
03:25I got a tattoo.
03:26Why would you get a tattoo?
03:28Because, Nigel, that's what cool people do in the millennium.
03:31What kind of tattoo do your kind of cool people get?
03:34The Egyptian symbol of fertility.
03:37I see.
03:38If I may be so bold, where does it reside?
03:40The fertility god.
03:41Last-minute warning.
03:44You don't mean...
03:45Exactly.
03:47Do you want to...
03:48No!
03:49I'll have a look, if you want.
03:51Oh, um, I'm sorry.
03:52I, uh, I didn't realize anyone else was here.
03:57I am Professor Dutry.
03:59From the Louvre?
04:00Yes.
04:01Professor Fox is expecting me.
04:03Not just expecting, looking forward.
04:05So nice to see you again, Gerard.
04:08Oh!
04:11She got the needle with the inky stuff.
04:14I see.
04:16What was so urgent?
04:18Let me show you.
04:20It was a gift from Marie Antoinette to her son, Louis XVII.
04:25Boy, did she have a lot of kids.
04:27Recently, we discovered it is more than just a toy horse.
04:38It's supposed to hold the clue
04:40to the whereabouts of the lost jewels
04:42from Marie Antoinette's crown.
04:51Under keeps of a true winemaker.
04:55I totally love limericks, don't you?
04:57You know the one about there once was a girl with a bucket?
04:59Claudio.
05:00That's it.
05:01That's all it says on the scroll.
05:03Okay.
05:05The locksmith is Louis XVI.
05:07The locksmith, he liked to fiddle with locks as a hobby.
05:10The queen tended sheep on a luxurious farm near Versailles.
05:13So Marie Antoinette is a shepherdess.
05:16The word treasure must refer to the crown jewels.
05:20Why do you think that?
05:22The first letter of each line spells bijoux,
05:26which in French means...
05:28Jewel.
05:29Jewels under keeps of a true winemaker.
05:32Jewels hidden in a bottle of wine?
05:34Chateau Halson.
05:36Chateau Halson?
05:37Yes.
05:40Rumor had it he was her lover.
05:43Former stable boy who became a widower.
05:46I guess the first thing we have to figure out
05:48is what happened to the Halson estate.
06:01No trespassing.
06:03When has that ever stopped us?
06:28You're wasting your time.
06:31No one ever sees him.
06:34Oh, I see.
06:37Are you going to buy it?
06:39Actually, we're just...
06:40We're considering it.
06:42Very seriously.
06:44A brie, eggs, a baguette.
06:50It was once one of the greatest vineyards in France.
06:53Yes, so they say.
06:54Now he sells it off piece by piece.
06:57Only the house left now.
07:01Au revoir.
07:03Au revoir.
07:17Is this wise?
07:23Hello?
07:30Hello?
08:01Jerome Alizan himself.
08:06Who the hell are you?
08:07Well, actually, we're very interested in buying the...
08:10We're historians.
08:12Serious historians.
08:14There's no history here.
08:16Only the past.
08:17Actually, that's a contradiction in terms.
08:20Hilt's point, I'm sure.
08:23I'm not sure.
08:25I'm not sure.
08:27Hilt's point, I'm sure.
08:30What do you want?
08:32I'd really like you to put the gun down.
08:34I don't think so.
08:36Why does it always have to be like this?
08:37I wish I knew.
08:41Release a cup of coffee.
08:50My family in possession of the crown jewels?
08:52Ridiculous.
08:53Is it?
08:54Do you think I'd be selling if you were?
08:56Well, maybe you didn't know.
08:57I know everything.
08:58Did you know Jerome Alizan was having a liaison with Marie Antoinette?
09:02Jerome Alizan was a stable boy.
09:05He tended the queen's horses.
09:08Were there any heirlooms handed down generation to generation?
09:11Mementos?
09:17No.
09:18Why don't we take a look around the house?
09:20Perhaps tomorrow.
09:21It's being shown to potential buyers today.
09:23It won't take long.
09:25Tomorrow would be the earliest.
09:29I must go.
09:31How much do I owe you?
09:32My treat.
09:42He's up to something.
09:55DOOR CREAKS
10:25SIGHS
10:55CLATTERING
11:25DOOR CREAKS
11:41Coucou.
11:42C'est un rien.
11:44Nice to see you too, guys.
11:46I don't wish I'd have his money on Saturday.
11:49Ah!
11:55No, ah!
11:56Ah!
11:57No, ow!
11:58GRUNTING
12:19Come on, let's go.
12:25Are you all right?
12:27I think so.
12:31Who were those guys?
12:33Nobody.
12:35It was a misunderstanding.
12:37What are you doing here?
12:39I think you know where those jewels might be, Laurent.
12:45Each generation was told about this bottle of wine.
12:48We were never to touch it.
12:50Never open it or sell it.
12:52Here.
12:56It bears the original seal.
12:58This bottle's labelled 1910.
13:011910, Jerome would have been 150 years old.
13:05Why, he was quite spry for his age.
13:09All right.
13:10All right.
13:14The real bottle's...
13:16here.
13:18Ah!
13:28I'm telling you the truth.
13:30I had it in my hands.
13:32It was labelled 1792.
13:34So where did it go?
13:36I don't know.
13:37You sold it.
13:38No!
13:39I would never sell it.
13:40It was a matter of family honour.
13:45I could have sold it a long time ago,
13:47and everything else, but I didn't.
13:49Because you didn't know about it.
13:51I didn't know about the jewels, that's true,
13:53but I knew it was a rare bottle of wine.
13:55What about those guys who beat you up?
13:57No, they weren't ever down here.
13:59What did they want?
14:02They wanted money.
14:05I take it it wasn't a student loan.
14:07I got myself in a hole.
14:10Trying to make a go of the winery.
14:12And?
14:15Gambling.
14:16They bailed me out.
14:19How much do you owe them?
14:21A lot.
14:22How much is a lot?
14:23A lot, a lot.
14:24Why do you think I've been getting rid of the place,
14:26piece by piece?
14:28So you were down here and saw the bottle.
14:30That's right.
14:31And you heard something upstairs and went to check.
14:33Yes.
14:34And while you were out front being beaten up,
14:36someone stole the bottle.
14:38Sounds preposterous, doesn't it?
14:40Yeah.
14:43Some other bottles are missing.
14:45Oh, come on!
14:47You're asking us to believe that this was a simple robbery?
14:50No.
14:51A couple of bottles of red wine?
14:53One containing the crown jewels.
14:57What's this?
15:01A grocery list.
15:04Three eggs and a baguette.
15:08The delivery girl?
15:12What the hell?
15:22There she is.
15:29Oh, that's her, all right.
15:31What's she doing?
15:33Not going hungry.
15:34What about the wine?
15:35Can you see the wine?
15:39No.
15:41Wait a minute.
15:49Bingo.
15:51What is bingo?
15:53Wine.
16:01Oh, no.
16:04No!
16:11No!
16:25Sydney!
16:371924?
16:391924?
16:411924?
16:42The wrong year.
16:44Where's the other bottle?
16:46Which one?
16:47The one from 1792.
16:49Oh, that one.
16:50Yeah.
16:51The way you were looking at it,
16:52I figured it was worth a few hundred francs.
16:54A few hundred francs?
16:56Did you like the brie?
16:57Where is it now?
16:59I gave it to my sister.
17:00To drink?
17:01No.
17:02Oh, thank God.
17:03To sell.
17:04She has a stall at the flea market.
17:09Have you seen that puppy?
17:26There she is.
17:34Bingo.
17:36Oh, no.
17:391924?
17:43We'll buy that bottle.
17:45I think purchasing is out of the question.
17:47Oh, there!
17:48There!
17:49Oh, no!
17:50Stop!
17:51Come back here!
17:52Come back here right now!
18:04Leave them!
18:05Don't let them go!
18:06Quick, hide!
18:07Over here.
18:09Oh, no!
18:10Where are they?
18:12Please!
18:13Hold on!
18:18Hey, Milk Toast,
18:19where is your Amazon now, eh?
18:21Yes, it's time to finish your beating.
18:23Come on!
18:24The boss wants a word with you.
18:26I told him I'll have the money by Friday.
18:30Tell it to him personally.
18:32No, I'd really love to.
18:34Finlay, guns!
18:37Nigel, catch!
18:39Whoa!
18:40Whoa!
19:08Oh, brilliant!
19:09Brilliant!
19:13Really brilliant.
19:15And now, let's see if you can stop a speeding bullet.
19:20Ready?
19:29No more American football, please.
19:35Nigel, don't.
19:36Come on, give it to him.
19:38A wise choice.
19:40It's nice to see a woman with brains,
19:42as well as beauty.
19:45Chateau Alizan, 1792.
19:48Oh, the Revolution, very good bottle.
19:50It should fetch a handsome price at auction.
19:53Please, it's a family heirloom.
19:55Shh!
19:56I want the rest of my money by the end of the week.
20:09I can't believe you just gave him the bottle like that.
20:12Who is he, Laurent?
20:15He's one of Paris' most notorious crime lords.
20:17This is who you borrow money from?
20:19He's a friend of the family.
20:20With friends like that.
20:22So you must know where he lives.
20:26Sydney, he's one of Paris' most notorious crime lords.
20:29Yeah, yeah, I know.
20:39The man lives like a king.
20:41It was built in 1785 for Arnaud Fouché,
20:43head of Napoleon's secret police.
20:46They keep the winery locked and keyed.
20:48The safe is in the library.
20:50How do you know that?
20:51When he gave me my money, he made me wait outside,
20:53in the hallway.
20:55There's no way in or out.
20:57It's impenetrable.
20:58Where have I heard that before?
21:00Cameras above the windows and doors,
21:02alarm system with motion detectors.
21:05But it was built for the head of Napoleon's secret police,
21:07and there's got to be another escape route.
21:08Where have I heard that before?
21:12Paris has got an elaborate underground tunnel system.
21:14Here we go.
21:15Of course, the catacombs.
21:17They're parallel to the streets.
21:19We've come right up on Amicia's fat butt.
21:38Are you sure we're going the right way?
21:40No.
21:51There are people down here doing things.
22:01Yes, the catacombs are a favourite spot for doing things.
22:08Oh, yeah.
22:18Herein begins the realm of the dead.
22:26What do you think that means?
22:28What do you think that means?
22:33This has been the dumping ground
22:34of Amicia's overcrowded cemeteries for centuries.
22:41What's that?
22:42Shh! Underground cops checking the tunnels.
22:46Cops!
22:52Did you hear something?
22:53Rats.
22:54I hate rats.
22:55I'm getting hungry.
22:56We can go for a baguette and a café later.
22:59My cousin Charlie has a café.
23:02OK.
23:04We've got to figure out where Rue Madame crosses Rue Garand.
23:15This is it.
23:16OK, so that means that the tunnel through Amicia's cemeteries
23:19is the only way to get to Rue Garand.
23:21That's right.
23:22It's the only way to get to Rue Garand.
23:24It's the only way to get to Rue Garand.
23:26It's the only way to get to Rue Garand.
23:28This is it.
23:29OK, so that means that the tunnel through Amicia's house
23:32is the second one on the left.
23:41What do you mean?
23:43Why am I not surprised?
23:46Brick and cement.
23:48Which means?
23:49A recent addition.
23:58OK.
24:29OK.
24:41Do you see anything up ahead?
24:42I mean, besides rats and skeletons?
24:44Looks like a gate.
24:52Stand back.
24:53Actually, you'd better refuse to look back.
24:55Why?
24:56You'll see.
24:59Oh, God.
25:14I can't make out the rest of it.
25:15It's worn away.
25:17It starts with a T.
25:29The word is tête.
25:31French for head.
25:33Right.
25:35Must be the first line of defense.
25:55Guys?
25:57Guys?
26:27Guys?
26:49If my memory serves me correctly,
26:51that should be the library.
26:57No.
27:28It has very expensive tastes.
27:33A great collection of classics.
27:35Yeah, I'm sure he's a very literate killer.
27:37We're looking for the safe.
27:58He dresses his women well.
28:03What's a closet full of clothes doing in a library?
28:27I don't know.
28:58Laser detectors.
29:00Nigel, go back into the library and light a cigar.
29:03Light a cigar?
29:05Light a cigar.
29:07Cuban? Honduran?
29:09Doesn't matter.
29:10Churchill? Robusto?
29:11Doesn't matter.
29:12Ring gauge?
29:13Nigel!
29:15One thing.
29:16What?
29:17I don't smoke.
29:20I don't understand.
29:23It's one of those security systems you were talking about.
29:26Laser protection.
29:27Nigel?
29:28I don't know.
29:29Blow.
29:50Nigel.
30:13Dollars.
30:15Francs.
30:16I miss his own personal international bank in here.
30:20I see something else.
30:28Bingo?
30:30Bingo.
30:35What?
30:36You know what.
30:37I do not.
30:38Here's a hint.
30:39Every time you get the bottle in your hand, your feet start moving.
30:43I am insulted.
30:46No.
30:51No!
31:17No.
31:25No wonder.
31:31Great expectations.
31:35Sid!
31:41Look at this.
31:46Come on.
32:04I knew I could count on you to be on time for something.
32:12Click.
32:17Five.
32:18Four.
32:19Three.
32:20Two.
32:23Ah.
32:24Not bad.
32:25Not the best, but not bad.
32:29Let them go, Misha.
32:30You win.
32:31You've got the wine.
32:32That's more than enough to cover my loan.
32:34Well, I wish I could, but I can't possibly now.
32:37You've seen too much.
32:39Not really.
32:41It may seem that way on the surface,
32:43Not really.
32:44It may seem that way on the surface,
32:46but really we're not that observant.
32:49Oh, really?
32:51The security cams show you found my private room behind the closet.
32:57Dispose of them quietly.
33:01And now, if you'll excuse me,
33:03I have less than an hour to go to a very exclusive wine auction.
33:08I'd be a fool to miss it.
33:10Well, we wouldn't want you to be that.
33:12Funny.
33:13Very funny.
33:21Ow!
33:22Ow!
33:23Ow, my ankle!
33:42Ow!
34:05What are we going to do with that?
34:07Leave him for the cops. We've got an auction to attend.
34:09They're not going to let us in looking like this.
34:12Ow!
34:35Isn't this just like a woman?
34:37Vive la difference.
34:42Ladies and gentlemen, we have a last-minute entry,
34:45a bottle that wasn't featured in our catalogue.
34:48This item, one of the rarest we've had in a long time,
34:52a bottle of wine from the famous Chateau Alzon.
34:56We've got to get a cab.
34:58Come on!
35:00Taxi!
35:02Taxi!
35:04Taxi!
35:06Taxi!
35:07Taxi!
35:08Taxi!
35:09Taxi!
35:10Taxi!
35:11Taxi!
35:12The year, ladies and gentlemen, 1792.
35:16A very good year.
35:21Bidding starts at $30,000.
35:23$30,000.
35:24Sir.
35:27Taxi!
35:29Do I hear $65,000?
35:31$65,000? Thank you, sir.
35:32$65,000?
35:33$70,000?
35:34$70,000?
35:35Thank you, sir.
35:36Any advance on $70,000?
35:38Faster, faster!
35:41$85,000 to Mr. Yamamoto, a true connoisseur.
35:46Ladies and gentlemen, this is a Grand Cru Classé,
35:49hand-labeled by Jérôme Alzon himself, founder of Chateau Alzon,
35:54and reputed to be a former lover of Marie Antoinette.
36:00Obviously kinder to some persons than telling them to just eat cake.
36:04Sir.
36:06I'll give you 300 francs if you get us there in five minutes.
36:09$90,000, sir.
36:11$95,000, sir.
36:13$95,000.
36:15Ladies and gentlemen, is that all I bid for this unique bottle?
36:19Maybe one of the last surviving from the Revolution.
36:22Well, going once,
36:25for $95,000, going twice...
36:28$100,000!
36:29$100,000 to the lady in red.
36:32$100,000 to the lady in red.
36:35Do you mind?
36:36I had to do something.
36:37Why are you turning the papers?
36:38I have no idea. I just had to get it first.
36:40I can't afford to let it fall into the wrong hands,
36:42not with the crown jewels in it.
36:44$150,000 for the Yamamoto Corporation.
36:48Any advance on $150,000?
36:52$160,000.
36:53$160,000. Thank you, sir.
36:54Let it go, sir.
36:55$170,000.
36:56$175,000.
36:57$175,000 to the lady in red.
37:00Why does she want it so bad?
37:02I have absolutely no idea.
37:04Going once, going twice...
37:07$180,000, sir.
37:10$185,000.
37:11$185,000, madam.
37:13It's got to be something.
37:15I wish to withdraw it from auction.
37:18You can't do that. It's too late.
37:19$190,000.
37:20$190,000. Thank you, sir.
37:22$200,000.
37:24Quiet, please, ladies and gentlemen.
37:26The bid now stands at $200,000.
37:30Any advance on it?
37:36$200,000, ladies and gentlemen.
37:39Going once, going twice...
37:42$300,000.
37:44Are you crazy?
37:46What can I say? It's got great sentimental value.
37:48But I had it for $200,000.
37:50I can't let it go for that cheap. It's an honor zone.
37:52Going once, going twice...
37:57Sold to the young man in the tuxedo with the boots.
38:03These three are frauds.
38:05I want to cancel the sale right now.
38:07I'm sorry, sir, you can't do that.
38:09They will never be able to pay.
38:11Fine, then I suggest you call the police right now.
38:13Well, no need to do that.
38:16If he feels he can pay...
38:19You do know the penalties for fraudulent bids, don't you, sir?
38:24I must have left my checkbook at home.
38:26Good. Then I'll reclaim my bottle.
38:29You do take cash, though, don't you?
38:33This is highly regular.
38:35Where did you get that?
38:37Where do you think?
38:39Yes, $300,000 it is.
38:42Congratulations, sir, the bottle's yours.
38:45You're going to pay for this.
38:47No, I'm afraid you're going to.
38:49And just have.
38:59Not again.
39:01I think I know where he went.
39:05I didn't think you'd find me so fast.
39:07Yeah, well...
39:09This might just be the best glass of wine you'll ever have.
39:12Certainly the most expensive.
39:14I don't think we're really in this for the wine.
39:16Why not? It should be good.
39:181792 was a great year.
39:21The jewels, the jewels, get on with it.
39:23All in due time, mon ami, all in due time.
39:37It's empty. There's nothing in there.
39:40What happened?
39:42I don't know.
39:44$300,000 for this?
39:46You could have had it for two.
39:48Why would the bottle be empty if my family made such a fuss about it?
39:51Like you said, it was a very good year.
39:53Not that good.
39:55Maybe there were two bottles from 1792.
39:58No, impossible. There's only one.
40:00There's even a story about it.
40:02My great-grandfather wanted to sell the bottle
40:04after our vineyard was almost destroyed by insects.
40:07He needed the money to put us back on our feet.
40:10His wife pulled the gun on him,
40:12threatened to kill him if he ever tried to sell the bottle.
40:15She never trusted him after that.
40:18Oh.
40:35This one.
40:36This one?
40:37But the label says 1910.
40:39Run your finger down the side.
40:41Feel anything?
40:43No. That's strange.
40:45Precisely. There's no line from the mold.
40:48Bottles were mechanically molded at the turn of the century.
40:51Prior to that, they were all hand-blown.
40:53Which means the 1910 label can't possibly be right.
40:56It was switched by my great-grandmother.
40:58Because she didn't trust your great-grandfather not to sell it.
41:07The bottle you tried to con us with in the beginning was the real thing.
41:11I can't believe it.
41:14Hey!
41:15Laurent!
41:18Just joking.
41:32I can't believe we had it in our hands the first time.
41:35It was in the cellar all along.
41:37Safe and sound.
41:38While we were out risking our necks for what?
41:40For this decoy bottle?
41:42My great-grandmother sure fooled us.
41:52Laurent.
41:54It's going to the museum.
41:58Oh, just one.
42:05Laurent's not such a bad egg, really.
42:08If you like him scrambled, maybe.
42:10If your family owned the crown jewels.
42:12Nobody owns them. They belong to the people of France.
42:14The house aunts only had them for safekeeping.
42:19What's that?
42:20My tattoo.
42:21Well, not actually on my body.
42:23It's a sample from the place.
42:24I wanted to bring it in and show you guys.
42:28What's the matter?
42:30That's not the Egyptian symbol for fertility.
42:33In fact, it's not even Egyptian at all.
42:35Well, what is it?
42:37Assyrian.
42:38Very similar ancient culture.
42:40The Egyptian symbol for fertility looks a lot like this one, but...
42:45What does it mean?
42:46In layman terms, the marketplace.
42:49Oh, I have to go now.
42:57You're not actually going to let her get it removed
42:59before you tell her that you made all that up?
43:01Well...
43:02Nigel!
43:03All right.
43:05But that's not to say that we can't let her think about it for a while.
44:05I'm sorry.
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