Days Of OTMA's Lives: The Original

[Tim]

Sure enough...
Olga: How can you trust him... after what he almost did to us!?
Sam: Olga I...
Olga: He could have killed Papa, he could have Alexei!
Sam I get that Olga but...
Olga: What about me and my sisters!?
Sam: Olga, you're not...
Olga: I just... I can't believe you trust him!
Sam: Olga listen to reas...
Olga: For all we know you could have said that you trusted Ermakov too if you had been here!
Sam: I never would have...
Olga: Luckily you weren't! I wonder if you hit your head or something!
Sam: Mount Olga needs to...
Tatiana: What's going on?
Sam: Mount Olga is ranting and not letting me get a word in edgewise! Everytime I talk she interrupts!
Olga: Out of all people to trust it had to be him!?
Sam: Watch this! Yes but Olga he's...
Olga: Did you hit your head!? (not realizing Tatiana's in the room) Did the rest of our family hit their heads too!?
Tatiana: Don't worry I can handle this! OLGA BE QUIET!
Olga: Tatiana? When did you come in?
Tatiana: Not too long ago actually while you were raving like a mad woman! Sam has been trying to talk to you and you keep cutting her off! Now listen here... Mount Olga needs to stop erupting all over our room starting right now!
Olga: But Tatiana, you don't seem to under...
Tatiana: NOW OLGA! (turns to Sam) Could you excuse us, we need to have a BP chat obviously !
Sam: Obviously!
Tatiana (Sam exits): Now Olga...
Olga: Don't say it Governess! I can't believe you'd take his side!
Tatiana: Olga? Do you remember what happened after you first saw Ivan, Maria's Ivan i mean?
Olga: Yeah I stormed out, got flipped over a cossack's shoulder, and forced back to the Alexander Palace!
Tatiana: Exactly... and that never would have happened if you had just trusted him now would it?
Olga (just looks at her): You're right!
Tatiana: I know I'm right!
Olga: I suppose it wouldn't have happened had I listened!
Tatiana: No it wouldn't have!

Downstairs...
Alexandra: Nicky? What are you working on?
Nicholas: Just some approved paperwork... I had it sent over from the Duma!
Sam (enters): Hey what's happening with Yurovsky?
Nicholas: I'm thinking of getting him pardoned... it's already approved by the Duma! Kerensky said they feared you come to St. Petersburg and unleash your wrath if they didn't believe you!
Sam (smiles): Really now?
Nicholas: Yes! I trust you when you say you can tell that he's on our side!
Sam: Why Nicholas Romanov... it's about time you actually believed me on something the first time around!
Nicholas: Well what can i say? There's been too many moments where you've repeatedly been right!
Sam: You best believe it! I'm going to check on Yurovsky!
Alexandra: Alright dear!

Sick room...
Sam (looks over him): Yurovsky? (no answer) I see you've been sedated by Dr. Malama! (snaps fingers, taking off the sedation) Yurovsky can you hear me?
Yurovsky: Who's there?
Sam: It's me! The one who brought you here to get you treated!
Yurovsky (looks at her): I remember you now! You're still alive? I would've thought their Witch Woman would be long dead now!
Sam: Their Witch Woman has a name... it's Sam!
Yurovsky: Oh... my apologies for calling you Witch Woman!
Sam: Ah don't bother! It doesn't phase me... so it's alright! How are you feeling?
Yurovsky: Tired, a little weak!
Sam: I can understand! Get some rest... you'll get the whole story eventually when you're stronger!
Yurovsky: Very well!

The BP's room...

Olga: Still, this is different. Maria's Ivan didn't try to kill us. Yurovsky and his thugs were aiming guns at us and were ready to shoot!
Tatiana: I remember, Olga. I was there too.
Olga: Yet now you're helping him!? What the hell is wrong with you?
Tatiana: Olga, do you remember the ceremony when I officially became a doctor? Remember the oath I took? It's my sacred duty to help all human beings who are sick or injured.
Olga: Well then that should let you off. He's NOT human!
Tatiana: That's it! Walks over, grabs Olga, and sits her down. Now you listen to me, Olga Nicholaievna...
Olga: Hey what...
Tatiana: I said LISTEN!!
Olga shuts up.
Tatiana: Now, as I said, it's my sacred duty as a doctor to help Yurovsky, period! Even if it were Lenin himself, I would help, no matter what my personal feelings are. Second of all, what would have happened to Yurovsky had he refused to carry out the order. Do you think the Bolsheviks would have just patted him on the head and said "That's okay, we understand."
Olga: Well, no, they probably would have shot him.
Tatiana: Exactly, and then put someone else in charge. Ermakov perhaps. Do you think HE would had hesitated to shoot us, or even rape us, if he was given the chance. Remember when he came after Ivan and Mashka? he would have killed them both, but luckily Mashka got him instead.
Olga: Tanya...
Tatiana: The point is, Olga, that Yurovsky is my patient, under my care. Besides, Sam said there is some good in him, buried under all that hate and bitterness. I trust her word on this, and you should too. Stop erupting like a volcano and think for a change. You not thinking has gotten you in trouble too many times in past. Please,Olga, for all our sakes, just think before you do something stupid!
Olga: You know, Governess. sometimes i think we were born in the wrong order.
Tatiana: How so?

[Tim]

Olga: Well, you're two years younger than me, why is it you seem, in maturity, many years older... why is it that you've always seemed to be able to tell me what to do? I'm the oldest... shouldn't i be telling you what to do and keep you in line instead?
Tatiana: You have a point! I suppose it's because me and Mama are alike... so Sam keeps reminding me! I always wanted to be like Mama so that she would approve... and yes Sam's right part of that is that we have a lot of the same personality! But Olga, you're not me and you're definitely not like Mama! You're a lot like Papa!
Olga: I am?
Tatiana: Yes you are and that's okay! Now if you'll excuse me I have to check on Yurovsky!
Olga: Alright!
Tatiana: Just do me a favor Olga?
Olga: Yes?
Tatiana: Try to forgive him for that morning please?
Olga: I'll... I'll try!
Tatiana: Thank you!
Olga: No Governess, thank you!
Tatiana (outside the door): Well that went well! (downstairs) Yurovsky? (he slowly turns his head to look at her)
Yurovsky: Yes Doctor...
Tatiana: Malama... but please just call me Tatiana!
Yurovsky: Very well... Tatiana!
Tatiana: I came to examine you and make sure you were alright! How are you feeling by the way?
Yurovsky: I'm alright... though i must say I've been better!
Tatiana: Good... (puts a stethoscope around her neck) your pulse is normal which is a good thing! There's something however that you must do in order to still survive!
Yurovsky: Which is what?
Tatiana: You must stop drinking!
Yurovsky (sarcastically): Oh that is just so easy!
Tatiana: We can help you! Would that make it easier to quit?
Yurovsky: You would do that? Even the Tsar himself would care to help?
Tatiana: Papa isn't anything like what you've been told to believe! You'll see that soon enough!
Yurovsky: Very well... I believe I'll have to see it!
Tatiana: You're doing better... but you should get some more rest!
Yurovsky: I shall! Tatiana.... (grabs her arm)
Tatiana (she looks down at him): Yes Yurovsky?
Yurovsky: Thank you!
Tatiana: You're very welcome!
Yurovsky: Oh and one other thing...
Tatiana: Yes?
Yurovsky: You're not proud like your mother.... which is what we were told!
Tatiana: Thank you for finally seeing that... but neither is Mama! Now rest... Dr's orders!
Yurovsky: Yes ma'am!

Upstairs...
Sam: Olga?
Olga: Yes?
Sam: Are you alright?
Olga: I've been better let's put it that way!
Sam: Hey maybe you need some more anger management classes! (Olga gives Sam dagger eyes) Just kidding... (mumbles) kind of!
Olga: What was that?
Sam: Nothing Olga!
Olga: That's what I thought!


Later, there is a family meeting...

Nicholas: So, how is Yurovsky doing?
Tatiana: Fine for now, Papa, but I'm worried.
Nicholas: Worried?
Tatiana: When the delirium tremens start.
Gets a bunch of blank stares.
Anastasia: Could you please put that into words we non-doctors can understand.
Tatiana: Oh, sorry, I mean alcohol withdrawl. Don't forget he's been more or less constantly drinking for the last seven years. Once alcohol gets you in its clutches, it doesn't easily let go.
Nicholas: I can relate. Remember how I started drinking after my mother's death.
Alexandra: yes, Nicky, we all remember. And we were so worried about you.
Tatiana: The difference is that Papa had a support system around him of family and friends to help. Yurovsky didn't. From what he told me, when he starting drinking, his wife took their children and abandoned him. He was really messed up.
Alexei: I'll say. As I said, when I ran into him in Ekaterinberg, he had no idea who I was. He was so hammered he probably had no idea what planet he was on.
Maria: Why would his wife just up and leave like that? Shouldn't she have stayed and helped him, like we helped Papa?
Tatiana: Some people just can't handle it, Mashka, I guess. The point is that Yurovsky's life was smashed to pieces. Hopefully, we can help him rebuild it. I think he's starting to realize that the Russian Empire he so hated no longer exists.
Anastasia: I guess he must feel like that American story, can't remember the name. The one where the guy goes to sleep for decades and wakes up to find the world he knew gone.
Olga: Rip Van Winkle. That was the name of the story, as well as the guy.
Anastasia: Thanks, Library Girl.
Tatiana: So I'm going to keep an eye on him, he's going to have a rough time getting over seven years of drinking. We're just going to have to play it by ear...


Olga: Here comes Sam!
Sam: Yurovsky's throwing up by the way... that's one way to get excessive amounts of alcohol out! Don't worry he has a bin!
Tatiana: Oh, I was just about to suggest that!
Sam: Oh boy does this bring back memories!
Tatiana: You've gone though this too haven't you?
Sam: No comment?
Anastasia: I take that as a yes then?
Sam: Yes... if you really need it in plain English!
Maria: So what happens now?
Sam/Tatiana: We wait!
Sam: Spoken like a true doc... doc!
Tatiana: Uh... thanks?
Sam (smiles): No problem!
Nicholas (a phone rings) Hold on! (answers the study phone) Yes? (looks at everyone) It's Kerensky!
Sam: What's going on?
Nicholas: Uh-huh... yes I understand! Yes they will be to the Duma! (listens) We are on our way!
Sam: We? Where?
Nicholas: His family is in from Kiev! The fallen soldier's I mean! There's to be state funeral!
Maria: That sounds good!
Tatiana: I'm afraid I can't go though!
Olga: Why ever not?
Taitana: Because Olga... I have Yurovsky to tend to remember?
Olga: Oh yeah... right!
Sam: I'll stay to assist her... if you haven't gotten it already i don't do funerals!
Alexandra: Perfectly understood dear!

The rest leave for the state funeral while Sam and Tatiana stay behind with Yurovsky.
Yurovsky: How long is this going to go on?
Tatiana: Until all of that alcohol is removed from you're system!
Yurovsky: This is terrible!
Sam: Would it help to say that you have someone who personally knows how this feels?
Yurovsky: I do? Who?
Sam: Me!
Yurvosky: You? You don't seem like an alcoholic!
Sam: That's because I've been sober for quite a while!
Yurovsky: Years i imagine?
Sam: The last time i relapsed was like 2008! I speaking of my time... so if i were to go back like 8 this time considering it's still 2010 where i am that would make it 3 years my time and (has to do a mental countdown so it takes a bit) 1917 your time!
Tatiana: Wow!
Sam: Yeah i had to do a serious mental countdown in my head hence why it took so long to answer!
Tatiana: And you haven't relapsed since then?
Sam: As tempting as it's been at times... no luckily i haven't relapsed!
Tatiana: Good for you!
Sam: Thank you! You want to know what kept me going in the hard times?
Tatiana: To keep from drinking the pain away?
Sam: Yes!
Tatiana: What?
Sam: I think you mean who?
Tatiana: Alright... who then?
Sam: You! You and your sisters kept me from doing something stupid!
Tatiana: I'm glad we were there to help so to speak!
Sam/Tatiana: Get some rest!
Yurovsky: Great minds think alike?
Tatiana (laughs): I suppose so!

[Tim]

In St. Petersburg, the Igor Smirnov is laid to rest. Afterwords, Kerensky gets Nicholas alone...

Kerensky: Will you lot be heading back to Livadia now?
Nicholas: Yes, Tatiana and Sam are still down there with Yurosky. Why?
Kerensky: Because I'm giving your this. Yurovsky's pardon. Hands it to Nicholas: The Duma just issued it today, as you can see, I signed it.
Nicholas: Thank you.
Kerensky: Who would have thought that Yakov Yurovsky would end up in the care of your daughter.
Nicholas: I know. How times have changed.

Livadia, Tatiana is reading, when the phone rings.

Tatiana: Hello?
Alexandra: On phone. Hello Tanya, we're on our way back. What's going on down there?
Tatiana: Sam and I are taking shifts, helping Yurovsky get over his alcohol addiction. It's Sam's shift right now.
Alexandra: Tell them that the Duma issued Yurovsky's pardon. We'll be bringing it when we return.
Tatiana: Thanks, I'll tell Sam and Yurovsky right now.

Sam: Dr. Malama. (Tatiana's smiling) What's with the smile?
Tatiana: I just got a call from Mama!
Sam: And?
Tatiana: And... (looks down at Yurovsky) you've been officially pardoned!
Yurovsky: Why?
Tatiana: Because we believe there's some goodness to you! Afterall had you not followed orders you would have been killed alongside of us... we understand that now! Well... maybe except Olga still!
Sam: Don't worry... she'll come around i just know it!
Yurovsky (stunned): But who? (Tatiana looks to Sam) You?
Sam: Nicky had help... let's just put it that way!
Yurovsky: Thank you!
Sam: You're welcome! (the three hear noise) I think they're back!
Olga: We're home! Where are you guys?
Tatiana: We're both in the sick room!
Alexandra (walks in with the others): How are you feeling dear?
Yurovsky: I'm fine! You're daughter and friend are amazing! I would probably be dead if not for the real likes of all of you!
Tatiana: I'm happy you feel that way!
Sam (laughs): Though probably is an understatement!
Yurovsky (laughs a bit then looks to Olga): Olga Nikolaievna?
Olga: Yes?
Yurovsky: Could you come here please?
Olga: I guess!
Yurovsky (extends his hands carefully): Can there be a truce between us now?
Olga (looks to the others who are anticipating the shake, she nods and shakes his hand): Yes I believe we can have a truce Yurovsky!
Maria (as there's big applause): To think I thought she'd never bend!
Alexei: You thought? We all thought it Mashka!
Maria: Okay true... i stand corrected!
Tatiana: By the way, so that all of you know Yurovsky will be able to be back on his feet starting tomorrow!
Nicholas: That is wonderful to hear! Yurovsky?
Yurovsky: Yes your majesty?
Nicholas: Firstly call me Nicholas and secondly i wish to extend an invitation to come back with us and I hope you'll accept! We leave next week!
Yurovsky: I would be honored your... Nicholas!
Nicholas: Great! It is settled then!
Tatiana: Don't worry, you'll get to stay with us at Anichkov Palace!
Alexandra: And Nicholas and Alexei and I will be at the Winter Palace so that we are close by to help you recover!
Yurovsky: Thank you to all of you!
Ivan S: No problem... (salutes) Commandant! (everyone looks at him) What!? It was a joke... relax!
Everyone bursts into laughter including Yurovsky followed by some of them going "Oh, Ivan!"


The following week, at Anichkov Palace...

Yurovsky: So this is where you all live? Didn't this used to belong to the Dowager Empress?
Tatiana: It did. When she died, our Uncle Misha got it. He gave it to Sam, and she asked all of us, myself, my sisters, our husbands, and children to come and live here too.
Yurovsky: Children...
Anastasia: What is it?
Yurovsky: I haven't seen my children in years.
Tatiana: That might change. Papa asked Kerensky to tried and track down your wife and children. Maybe now that you're off the booze, she might take you back.
Yurovsky: You think so?
Anastasia: Anything is possible. If Library Girl here can be flexable, who knows what could happen.
Olga: Hey, I'm right here!
Yurovsky: Listen, I never wanted to hurt any of you. I....
Tatiana: We know, but it was a different time.
Yurovsky: Also, something happened at the House Of... I mean Ipatiev House. It involved Peter Ermakov.
Maria shudders at the name.
Yurovsky: Sorry, I was told that you had a run-in with him.
Maria: Yeah, he tried to kill me and my Ivan some years ago. There was a struggle and I shot him dead.
Yurovsky: Well, the world is not a poorer place with him gone, after the incident at Ipatiev House.
Olga: What incident...
Yurovsky: Well, it happened soon after I had assumed command there. One night...

Flashback: Ipatiev House, July 9, 1918...

Yurovsky is doing his rounds, when he caught Peter Ermakov lurking outside the Grand Duchesse's room.
Yurovsky: What are you doing here!?
Ermakov: Well, sir, I was thinking. Smiles evilly.
Yurovsky: Thinking what?
Ermakov: I was thinking that perhaps I could have some fun with one of the Grand Duchesses tonight, if you know what I mean. Chuckles. Perhaps you would like to join me?
Instead of replying, Yurovsky grabs Ermakov and pins him against the wall.
Yurovsky: If you so much as lay a finger on ANY of the Grand Duchesses, you'll be standing in front of a firing squad before you realized you've moved. You hearing me?
Ermakov: Hey, pal, we're all friends here, all on the same side!
Yurovsky: We may be on the same side, Ermakov, but we are most definitely NOT friends. Now get back to your assigned post and don't let me catch you doing this again!
Ermakov slinks away, muttering to himself.

Flashback Ends...


Olga: Oh my god! You... you saved us!
Tatiana (all the sudden Olga shudders): Olga what is it?
Sam: I saw it too! What's wrong Olga?
Olga: Nothing!
Sam: Don't even start with that!
Olga: I was just remembering something!
Tatiana: The Rus? (Olga nods) I was thinking of it too!
Sam: I heard if you will that something happened on there! (alarmed) Oh please don't tell me any of you were raped!?
Tatiana: No... Sam calm down! The men were too drunk to do anything to us physically! It was just a lot of verbal abuse... pretty much of what they wanted to do with us if they weren't so drunk!
Olga: The three of us were so terrified! We couldn't be helped by the men because they were locked in their cabin!
Yurovsky: That's terrible!
Tatiana (wanting to get away from the subject): Anyhow, thank you for saving us again from... (looks at Maria and chooses not to say his name again) him!
Yurovsky: You're very welcome... and you thought i became a terrible drinker?
Alexander: Mama?
Olga: Yes?
Alexander: Can we go back to the beach tomorrow?
Olga (chuckles): Sorry but we're aren't at Livadia anymore! There isn't a beach here!
Alexander: Aww man!
Olga: I used to know the feeling sometimes... (looking to Sam smiling) no comment from you either!
Sam (smiling): What? I wasn't going to say anything!
Tatiana: You weren't!?
Sam: No! I mean besides the fact that he sounds like some other children i used to know... oh dear i said it anyhow!
Maria: Oh... you did that on purpose!
Sam: You best believe i did!
Anastasia: Aren't you the funny one?
Sam: Nope sorry i don't look like you Malenkaya!
Anastasia (stamps on her foot): Don't call me that!
Sam (recovering): Ow... (Anastasia runs off) Where are you going now?
Anastasia: Hello I'm a mother now remember?
Sam: Oh yeah... Malenkaya!
Anastasia: What was that again!?
Sam: I didn't say anything! (shakes her foot a bit) That was quite a stomp!
Tatiana: You alright?
Sam (laughs): Oh yeah I'm alright!

Winter palace...
Alexandra (Nicky walks in): Was that Kerensky you were talking to earlier?
Nicholas: Yes it was!
Alexei: Did he find them?
Nicholas (sighs): Yes he found Yurovsky's wife and children!
Alexei (as Alexandra puts down her knitting): And... what happened?
Alexandra: Alexei!
Nicholas: She is refusing to return! He says that she's stated that she's too hurt to go back to him!
Alexandra: Oh dear! I'll call Tatiana and tell her the sad news!
Nicholas: Very well!

Anichkov Palace...
Sam: I'm going to go and take a nap! I'll be down in a few hours!
Olga: Alright! (Tatiana's phone rings) Mama?
Tatiana (looks at caller id): Yes it's Mama! (answers) Yes Mama?
Alexandra: Tatiana I have news concerning Yurovsky....


Tatiana: What is it, Mama?
Alexandra: Apparently his wife doesn't want him back.
Tatiana: What?
Alexandra: Yes, and the reason is...

Later, Tatiana tells her sisters...

Tatiana: Apparently, when Yurovsky got REALLY drunk, he would beat his wife.
Olga: What? No way!
Maria: I can't even imagine my Ivan doing that to me.
Anastasia: Nor my Ivan.
Tatiana: That's because your husbands are not chronicle alcoholics, like Yurovsky was. When you get really drunk, all your inhibitions are lowered. You do things you would never do if you were sober.
Olga: But he hasn't touched a drop since Sam brought him to us.
Tatiana: I know, but his wife still suffers the psychological scars from that. Sometimes those take years to heal, if they heal at all.
Anastasia: Didn't Sam mention that one of her husbands used to beat her.
Maria: I think so. Maybe she can relate, since she's the only one of us who has actually gone through it. We should talk to her when she gets up from her nap.
Tatiana: We will, Mashka.
Olga: Who would have thought I'd end up feeling sorry for Yakov Yurovsky, of all people.
Tatiana: Olga, he fell in with a bad crowd. Besides, as we have seen, he's not as blood thirsty as Er... I mean, some of those others were.
Anastasia: It was the old Empire that did it. It was corrupt and rotten to the core. We just never saw it, because we had been sheltered and isolated our whole lives from it. Knowing what we know now, I can understand why so many radical groups hated us.
Tatiana: I don't think it was so much us, Nastya, as it was the old Empire, which we personified. Thankfully, that Empire is gone forever, and no one wants it back.
Maria: Except the Children Of The Empire.
Tatiana: Yes, but thankfully they never had any real support among the people. They're just a bunch of spoiled Princes and Grand Dukes who look back at the Empire is rose tinted glasses. They remember what they want to remember, not necessarily what really happened.
At that point, Sam enters the room...


Sam: What are we talking about?
Tatiana: I got a call from Mama about Yurovsky!
Sam: What about him?
Olga: Apparently when he was drunk he hit his wife! That's why when Kerensky found them she said she didn't want him back!
Maria: Didn't you say you had a husband like that?
Tatiana: Yeah... i think Dmitri told me something about a conversation you two had! I'm sorry if you're offended that he shared the conversation with me!
Sam: Oh no, I'm not offended at all! In fact two of them used to hit me! The second one is the one that turned me into a alcoholic!
Maria: That's terrible!
Sam: So i take it... she's scarred terribly from the experience?
Anastasia: It seems like it!
Sam: He is not going to like the news!
Yurovsky (enters with a cane): What news is that?
Sam: Uh... (looks to OTMA) should we tell him?
Tatiana: We can't lie to him!
Olga: You know how much i like to be honest no matter how brutal it is! Yurovsky, your wife isn't coming back to you! Sorry but it's the honest truth!
Tatiana: Olga!
Olga: Well it is!
Tatiana (Yurovsky slumps into a chair): What Olga is trying to say is that I got a call from Mama earlier!
Yurovsky: And!?
Tatiana: And... Kerensky found your wife! She told him that she didn't want to come back to you because... (looks to Sam) you may want to take it from here!
Sam: She doesn't want to come back to because she's suffering from what is called in my time Battered Wife's Syndrome! You hitting her when you were drunk had a very negative effect on her!
Yurovsky: Was she told that I stopped drinking?
Tatiana: Yes but she said to just wait a couple weeks and all the stress would make you pick up another vodka bottle!
Sam: Ouch! That's harsh!
Yurovsky: I have to remember to think of the positive things in life right?
Sam: Right! Think of something that will keep you from wanting to drink! Like me... I have my family! By family... I also mean the girls here!
Maria: Really?
Sam: Really! Not wanting to let them down is what keeps me going!
Yurovsky: You are a very smart woman!
Sam: Speaking from personal experience and from being an abused wife myself well twice upon a lifetime... I should be!
Maria: Maybe you could go find her like you did with Olga and Anastasia those two times! Maybe you could talk to her!
Sam: It don't work that way Mashka! She's damaged from what's she's been through... it's going to take more then hypnosis to take care of it! It may take years... or if she's not as strong as i turned out to be... then she'll never recover!
Yurovsky: Oh great!
Olga: Don't worry... you have us!
Maria: Yeah... we can be your family now!
Olga (actually smiles at the idea): That is if you accept us?
Tatiana: Do you?
Yurovsky: You all really mean that? Even after all I did?
Olga: Yes we really do!
Anastasia: Yeah you could be an honorary Romanov just like Sam!
Sam (stunned): A what?
Anastasia: You're an honorary Romanov... in fact you always have been!
Olga: She's right! You've practically been an honorary Romanov actually since 1895!
Sam: Oh girls... I'm touched!
Anastasia: I meant to tell you after Paul was born but i forgot!
Sam: Awww... how sweet! Thank you girls! Now back to the subject at hand!
Tatiana: Well what do you think Yurovsky?
Yurovsky: I... uh... are you sure that what all of you want?
Sam: Maybe we should have a meeting in the study to take a vote if that makes it easier?
Yurovsky: I guess so!
Olga: Good! You'll see we all want you now!
Tatiana (smiles): Even you Olga?
Olga: Yes even me but you should already know that.... wait you were just saying that to make fun of me weren't you!
Tatiana: Oh but of course!
Olga: Ha! Ha! Ha! Very funny Tatiana!
Tatiana: I try!
Olga: Call Mama!
Tatiana: Very well! (dials Alix) Mama?
Alexandra: Oh hello dear!
Tatiana: Can you, Papa, and Alexei meet us here at Anichkov Palace?
Alexandra: I suppose we could... what's going on?
Tatiana (smiles at she looks to the others): You'll find out! But please come... it's important!
Alexandra: Is everyone alright?
Tatiana: Oh yes, we're all perfectly fine!
Alexandra: Very well, we shall see you all soon!
Tatiana: Alright... thank you Mama!

Winter Palace...
Alexandra (hangs up): Nicky?
Nicholas (enters): Yes Alix?
Alexandra: That was Tatiana on the phone... she wants the three of us to go to Anichkov Palace!
Nicholas: Is everyone alright!?
Alexandra: Yes... at least that's what she said!
Nicholas: Alright... I'll get Alexei and we'll go over!
Alexandra: Very well!

Anichkov Palace...
Sam: Are they coming Tatiana?
Tatiana: Yes they're coming!
Anastasia (looks at her phone): I just got a txt from Alexei... they should be here shortly!
Sam (hears the main doors): Speaking of... here they are now!
Nicholas (rushes to Tatiana): Is everyone alright!? Are you alright!?
Tatiana: Yes Papa... we're all alright! We'll tell you in the study!
Nicholas: Alright!

Study...
Olga: Since our new (looks to Yurovsky) friend here doesn't have a family that will support him... Anastasia has suggested that we be his family! However he isn't convinced that all of us want him... especially after keeping us prisoner at the Special Purpose House! So Sam suggested a vote to let him know that we do want him here!
Sam: Okay let's just cut right to the chase shall we... who wants to make him (looks to Anastasia) an honorary Romanov like apparently me?
Anastasia: Your the honorary Romanov... you should decide first!
Sam: Okay... my answer is yes! So yes you want him to stay or no, once he's better he's on his own! Nicky's the head of the house still if you will... so the Czar shall make the last vote! We'll go in order then... (looks to Olga) Olga?
Olga: Yes! (looks to Dmitri C-B)
Dmitri C-B: I have to say... (has to think on it) yes! (looks to Tatiana)
Tatiana: It's definitely a yes from me! (looks to Malama)
Dmitri M: Yes! (looks to Maria)
Maria: Yes from me! (looks to Ivan S)
Ivan S: Speaking from experience... yes! (looks to Anastasia)
Anastasia: Yes, yes, yes!
Sam: Chill imp! (looks to Ivan K) Ivan?
Ivan K: Since I suppose I'm also speaking from experience my answer is also yes!
Alexei: I think I could say yes!
Alexandra: Yes!
Sam: Nicky as head of house you have final say!
Nicholas: I say.... (he takes his time) well...
OTMAA: PAPA!
Maria: Quit fooling around Papa!
Nicholas (sounds likes he going to say no): Well, what with keeping us prisoner and all... (then he smiles) I have to say yes! All of the terrible things are in the past!
Tatiana: See ALL of us do want you!
Yurovsky (nods): Very well... I accept!

Yurovsky suddenly begins to cry.
Tatiana: What's wrong?
Yurovsky: I don't deserve all this kindness from you. I was such a monster!
Alexandra: Nonsense, you were misguided, yes, but hardly a monster.
Anastasia: Besides, when the time came, you did the right thing by releasing us. Lenin wanted us dead.
Yurovsky: What happened to him, by the way.
Nicholas: He and a group of his goons broke into our palace some years ago, after the revolution failed. He wanted to bargain us for his freedom, but my men outnumbered his. He tried to shoot me, but Maria took the bullet for me.
Yurovsky: Looks at Maria. You did?
Maria: To save my Papa, yes.
Tatiana: Lenin and his men were hung soon after.
Yurovsky: So he should have been. I just regret that I followed him, at the time I really believed that we could change Russia for the better.
Nicholas: But you don't believe that now.
Yurovsky: No, I don't. What I saw of Ermakov and others like him made me open my eyes.
Nicholas: Indeed, from what I saw of Lenin and his lot, if they had succeeded, they would have cast Russia into a new Dark Age.
Yurovsky: Looks at Nicholas. Did you know that I saw you once, when I was thirteen. In 1891, you came to Tomsk, my home town. You were still tsarevich then, I was in the crowd when you met the Governor. I remember feeling so thrilled to have seen you. How did that young man become the wreck of the man you see before you now.
Nicholas: Circumstances beyond your control.
Yurovsky: Clearly he has to say this. Please, understand, all of you. It was not you, per sei, I hated, it was the Russian Empire. My family and I barely had enough to get by, so many went hungry. We, I mean the Bolsheviks and others, knew the Empire was the cause of our problems, that dammed Empire! However, we needed a target, someone to blame.
Olga: Us.
Yurovsky: Yes, exactly. Back then my hatred seemed to make sense. Now... I don't know what to believe anymore!
Bursts into even more tears...

Sam: It's alright... once you get to know all of us you'll see that everything Lenin said about us is untrue!
Anastasia: Well there are some things that are kind of true but exaggerated!
Olga (knowing she's talking about Sam): Nastya!
Tatiana: You've already noticed that I'm not proud and haughty... you'll see that from Mama too! We're just both very shy of people that's all!
Olga: I'm just plain stubborn... which you'll probably see a lot?
Sam: Probably?
Olga: Well...
Alexandra (enters): I just got a call from Sablin!
Olga (smiles): And?
Alexandra: Him and Rodionov are coming to pay a visit!
Tatiana: That's wonderful!
Maria: Yeah we haven't seen them in how long again?
Sam: I believe say it was either 1918 or 1919 when they saved the imp from that bear!
Anastasia: Yes they did!

Foyer:
Rodionov: Anyone here?
Sam: We're in the study! (Rodionov and Sablin enter) Well I said it before and I'll say it again! Well, well...
Olga/Tatiana (look at each other quickly): Look what the Standart anchored in!
Sam: Hey!
Olga: What? Did you think we would forget?
Sam: I didn't even know you heard me that day!
Tatiana: Surprise, surprise?
Sam: Uh... yeah!
Sablin: Well you're in for a bigger surprise!
Maria: So are you! (moves out of the way) This is Yakov Yurovsky, former Commandant of the Ipatiev House!
Rodionov: Thank you for letting them go! I am Nicolai Rodionov this is Nicolai Sablin!
Sablin: Hello!
Anastasia: So you said you had a surprise for us?
Sablin: That we do... you can come in now!
Alexei (all are shocked): NAGORNEY!
Sam: But how did you...?
Nagorney: I had some help from a strange man!
Sam (rolls eyes): His name wouldn't be Castiel?
Nagorney: I don't know... he didn't say! He said he came to help and the next thing I knew me and Sednev there were free men! Speaking of Sednev, he's looking for his nephew by the way!
Tatiana: He's with relatives... or so we last heard!
Nagorney: Oh! If I may, I'd like to guard your son again!
Sam: Well... as nice as this has been I need to rest!
Tatiana: Are you alright?
Sam: Yeah, I'm fine just haven't been feeling that well for the last day or two! Although before i do that i think I'm going to get something to eat! Excuse me all!
Sablin: Sam really hasn't changed at all has she?
Maria: Nope... she's still the same person she always was back then!

Nagorney looks at Alexei.

Nagorney: You've grown quite a bit since I last saw you.
Alexei: Yeah, I'm 21 now. I'm glad to see you. when they took you away, I was sure they had executed you.
Nagorney: They almost did, if that stranger hadn't showed up.
Anastasia: About him. Describes Castiel.
Nagorney: Yes, that sounds like him. Do you know who he is?
Tatiana: His name is Castiel. He's popped up a few times in our lives over the years.
Anastasia: To Nagorney. We know he came from the same time as Sam, but not much else. Of course, there is still some stuff that we don't know about Sam, even though she has been part of our lives for years.
Alexei: Yeah, she somehow cured me of hemophilia.
Nagorney: Cured? I thought there was no cure.
Alexei: But she did it, and not just me. Mama, my sisters, and their children.
Tatiana: I took some blood samples from everyone and sent them to the Medical Center, to make sure. The results confirmed it. The hemophilia gene is gone.
Nagorney: Incredible!
Tatiana: Speaking of which, I'm going to check on Sam.
Anastasia: Going into doctor mode again, Governess?
Tatiana: Yes, I think Sam is holding something back. I'm going to find out excuse me. Heads out.

Later, Alexandra is in the kitchen, making lunch, when Tatiana comes in.

Alexandra: Well?
Tatiana: Sam is lying down in her room. She's locked the door, so I can't get in. Sometimes she can be more stubborn than Olga!
Nicholas: Enters the room. Lunch smells good.
Alexandra: Well, we have a few guests to feed today.
Tatiana: Mama, Papa, I just realized something.
Alexandra: What is it?
Tatiana: Not only will Olga be turning 30 soon, but that is the same time that Sam first appeared in our lives. Of course, I wasn't around them
Nicholas: I remember! Alix, you had just gone into labour with Olga, when....

[Tim]

Flashback: November 15, 1895...
Woman (holds paper up looking at it): Alexander Palace? (looks up) Well... (looks around) here goes nothing! (takes a breath, walks up to Cossack) I'm here to see the Emperor!
Cossack: Right and I'm the American president!
Woman: Listen! Samantha Winchester... check your clipboard
Cossack: You'll have to return later!
Sam: Just check your clipboard and let me in!
Cossack (looks to clipboard): I see! You still have to wait!
Sam: Why is that!?
Cossack (looks around): I shouldn't tell you this but the Empress is with child! It is her first!
Sam: Well good to know... now let me in!
Cossack (shakes his head): Very well! This way madame! (he escorts her inside, he holds up his hand) You'll have to wait for the Emperor here!
Sam: Right! (a baby's cry is heard, Sam turns her head) So it begins!
Nicholas (enter Foyer): Mrs. Winchester I presume?
Sam: Sam, please! I hate formalities!
Nicholas: As do I! You may call me Nicholas! I am Nicholas, Czar of all the Russia's! (looks to Alexandra's door) God has given us a daughter, Olga!
Sam: That's wonderful!
Nicholas: Come in! (Sam follows) I would like to introduce my wife, Alexandra Feodorovna!
Sam: Your majesty!
Alexandra (turns her head slightly to face her): Please call me Alexandra!
Sam: She's beautiful! I'll leave you so you can rest!
Nicholas (follows suit): I fear we had to use forceps... (Sam cringes at the word "forceps") Olga was too big!
Sam: A big head... if you don't mind me saying so!
Nicholas: Yes! You're quite right actually! I must go check on my wife! (just looks at her) You're American no?
Sam: Yes I am! How did you know!
Nicholas: Your accent!
Sam (Nicholas nods and exits): Figures! (Nicholas returns) Yes?
Nicholas: If I may, I would like to request that you stay here with us... if you don't mind?
Sam (smiles): I don't mind at all! So... no heir as of yet?
Nicholas: No, but the heir will belong to Russia! Olga belongs to us!
Sam: How very right you are!

Present...
Olga: Wow!
Anastasia: See... even Sam remarked on your big head!
Olga: Watch it imp!
Anastasia: Just saying!
Sam (enters): What are we talking about? Oh look food!
Nicholas: I related the story of when you first came to us!
Sam: Oh god no... not that story!
Nicholas (laughs): Yes that story!
Tatiana: Are you alright?
Sam: Yes Dr. Malama for the umpteenth hundred time!
Tatiana: You sure?
Sam: Yes alright?
Tatiana: Alright!
Sam: Excuse me!
Maria (after Sam exits): Is that Sam throwing up?
Tatiana: Sam's not alright! (goes to bathroom) Sam? (tries to turn knob) It's locked!
Sam: I'm fine Tatiana... go have lunch! (comes out and wraps her arm around Tatiana's shoulder and they go back) Let's have lunch shall we?
Alexandra: Oh dear... are you alright?
Sam: Why does everyone keep asking me that!? I'm fine, maybe it was hair or something!
Olga: You sure?
Sam: Yes already! (after lunch) Excuse me I need to lay down!
Olga (Sam exits): Something's up with her!
Maria: I know the perfect person who can find out!
Anastasia (smiles): Me?
Maria: Yes you... who else?
Anastasia: Oh I'm on it!

Upstairs, as Sam is walking to her room she doesn't know Anastasia's following her...
Sam: Maybe I shouldn't stay God! I mean who wouldn't want to rule like heaven and stuff... you know be good all G-O-D? Oh right... me! I'm just not cut out for this... uh then again... oh who am i kidding!?
Anastasia (whispers): Oh my god! (she quietly goes downstairs as Sam goes into her room and locks the door) Guys! Guys!
Maria: Did you find something out?
Anastasia: Mashka! Remember when you said that God may be a lot closer then we think?
Maria: Yes, I remember... what's your point?

[Tim]

Anastasia: Well, according to Sam, she's....God.
Silence falls.
Anastasia: Someone please say something!
Olga: Nastya, that's... crazy! Did you fall and hit your head while up there.
Anastasia: No, Library Girl, I didn't.
Maria: still, it does sound out there. I mean, God??
Anastasia: Well, Mashka, we know that there is more than one god.
Nagorney: Amazing. But when she said God, do you think...
Anastasia: She meant as in Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the one that Papa used to think actually ruled Russia through him.
Nicholas: Ignorant as I was back then.
Olga: Come on, you all don't think Sam is God!
Anastasia: Well, how do you explain the disappearance of the hemophilia gene from all of us? According to medical science, that's not possible, but gone it is. Sam did it. If anyone here has a better explanation, please feel free to chime in.
No one says anything.
Anastasia: I rest my case.
Tatiana: Wait a second, Nastya. If Sam is God, as you say, why is she sick now? I know she's sick, I'm a doctor, remember, I know a sick person when I see one. If she is God, why doesn't she just cure herself.
Olga: So now what!?
Tatiana: We talk to Sam. Heads for the stairs.
Olga: Wait, I'll come with you.
Maria: Me too!
Anastasia: Me three.

OTMA heads up the stairs...


Maria: Since I seem to be the more gentle one... (looks to Olga) not the one that pounds on the door demanding she opens it!
Olga: Okay, okay so I lost it back then!
Tatiana: Let's not forget that was before Anger Management!
Olga: Do we really have to keep bringing that up?
Anastasia: Yes Mount Olga!
Olga: It's apparently another thing i won't let down will I?
Tatiana: Do you mean having a cossack flip you over his shoulder because you stubbornly won't cooperate?
Olga: Gah! Yes that's the one... did you have to actually say it!
Maria (smiles): Yeah... i think she did! Here we are (knocks on door) Sam are you in there? (no answer) Sam... it's Maria! (Olga clears her throat, Maria looks to her) I was getting to that! (looks back at door) My sisters are here behind me! (no answer) If you're still here can you make some sort of noise or something so that we know you didn't leave for home?
Sam (you see her laying on her side, she sighs): I'm... here!
Maria: She's here!
Olga: We heard her voice too Mashka!
Maria: Tatiana?
Tatiana: What?
Maria: Try going into Dr. Malama mode!
Anastasia: Try going into Dr. Malama mode... you make her sound like she's transforming into a superhero or something!
Tatiana: Ha! Ha! (goes to door) Sam?
Sam: What?
Tatiana: Are you alright?
Sam (looks likes she's about to scream if one more person asks that question, but she tries to be calm about it): Yes, I'm fine... why wouldn't I be fine?
Olga (stands next to her): There is another thing that we have to discuss!
Sam: Which is?
Olga: Anastasia thinks that you called yourself God... you know as in the one that Papa thought he was Tsar under!
Sam (opens door): How did you... when did you?
Olga: Anastasia followed you and heard you talking to yourself!
Sam (looks to Anastasia with a calm expression even though she'd really like to scream): I'm not denying but I'm not admitting to it either!
Maria: But how (Sam slams door) was the hemophilia gene erased then? (looks to sisters) Well that went... well!
Tatiana: Let's return downstairs... (not thinking of that "sonic hearing" vampires have) Anastasia may just have to spy on her again!
Sam (voice): Don't even think about it!
Olga: I think she listened!
Maria: Oh right... vampires have good hearing!
Olga: She's like a dolphin...
Tatiana: Olga!
Olga: Let me finish Governess! She's like a dolphin... they using sonic hearing to find each other!
Maria: She has a good point actually!

Downstairs...
Ivan S: Well how did it go?
Maria: It went alright!
Dmitri M: She didn't tell you anything for any of us to go on did she?
Olga: No but when it came to being God or not she said she would deny nothing but that she wouldn't admit anything either!
Yurovsky: What kind of answer is that?
Anastasia: From experiences... it's the kind of answer Sam would use if she had a secret!
Alexei: She's right!
Dmitri P: Hey... anybody home?
Maria: Dmitri! (yells out) We're in the study!
Dmitri P (enters study): There you all are... where's my new favorite Witch Woman?
Tatiana: Upstairs... uh resting!
Dmitri P: I see! I take it she's recovered now?
Tatiana: Yes she has!
Olga: Do you remember Sablin, Rodionov, and Nagorney?
Dmitri P (looks to three): I was wondering why these three looked familiar! Yes I do indeed remember! (looks to Yurovsky) He is... who?
Alexei: Yakov Yurovsky meet our cousin Dmitri Pavlovitch! Yurovsky was the Commandant of the Ipatiev House!
Dmitri P: The one that almost killed all of you?
Olga: That's the one!
Dmitri P: He's a friend now?
Maria: Yes he is! So if you have any resentment for how we were treated... let it go and remember that us being his prisoners is all in the past!
Dmitri P: Fine! So is she okay by the way?
Anastasia: She's God now apparently!
Tatiana (hisses): Anastasia! Not another word from you!
Dmitri P: She's what?
Maria: Well you see Sam's a lot of things!
Dmitri P: Like?

[Tim]

Olga: She's a angel, witch, vampire, and now, apparently, God.
Dimitri P: You're serious!?
Olga: Yes, we are.
Tatiana: She somehow cured us all of hemophilia.
Anastasia: Even thought that is impossible.
Dimitri P: Well... This is unexpected. Where is she?
Maria: Up in her room. We suspect that her curing us may have affected her.
Dimitri P: Huh?
Nicholas: There was a price involved somehow. We're trying to find out what that price is. But Sam won't say anything.
Meanwhile, Sablin, Rodionov, Nagorney, and Yurovsky all have looks of astonishment on their faces.
Ivan S: You guys look like you've seen a ghost!
Nagorney: I had no idea such beings existed, until now, that is. Witches, vampires, I thought they were just stories.
Anastasia: Well, when I first found out she was a vampire, no one believed me. Looks at her sisters. Remember?
Olga: Okay, Nastya, you were right, we were wrong. Don't rub it in.
Tatiana: Still, something IS wrong with Sam. I have a medical obligation to find out and help her if I can. But she won't let us in.
Anastasia: Maybe Mashka should knock down her door.
Alexandra: Anastasia!
Anastasia: Sorry, but does anyone else have a better plan.
Maria: Maybe I should try Nastya's idea. Heads up the stairs.
Anastasia: Wait for me. I gotta see this!
Alexandra: Looks at Dimitri P. I guess I should set another place at the dinner table.
Nicholas: Yes, we have a real reception going on here!


Maria: Sam open the door!
Sam: Why?
Maria: Because we need the truth! You're ill... we all know it! Apparently erasing hemophilia had a price and you were willing to pay for it to help us! (Sam laughs) Is something funny?
Sam: My illness as you call it has nothing to do with erasing of hemophilia
Anastasia: By the way they all know now!
Sam: Who knows what?
Anastasia: Sablin, Nagorny, Rodionov, Yurovsky and cousin Dmitri know that you're well you know!
Sam (opens door): They know I'm not... normal so to speak!? How did they find out!
Anastasia: Uh... I think i may have said to much... uh bye!
Sam (grabs her): Oh no, no, no! Who had to go and say everything!?
Maria: It was Olga!
Sam: I see! This is not one of those things to be totally honest about... she knows that!
Maria: Well if it's any conselation... they seem to be okay with it?
Anastasia: Yeah... they're just shocked!
Maria: So...
Sam: So... what?
Maria: What's wrong with you then?
Sam: Nothing! (as she attempts to return inside, Maria runs in front to block her escape. She sees Anastasia right behind her) Oh are you cornering me now?
Anastasia: Yes... we want answers!
Maria: And we're going to get them!
Anastasia: Even if that means either following you around all the time...
Maria: Or keeping you here and cornered! We have all the time in the world!
Anastasia: Yeah... so talk!
Sam: I'm... (looks to Maria) I can push you out of the way you know that right?
Maria: Try me... with my strength I should be able to keep my position long enough!
Sam: Oh so you both think you're so smart now huh?
Anastasia: Yeah and don't try any of those abilities of yours either... cause even if you manage to we'll be knocking at the door so much you'll want to scream!
Sam: And what if I return home... can't corner me there can you?
Maria: No but we can call and call and call until you get fed up though!
Sam: And if I turn my phone off?
Anastasia: Ever hear of voicemail?
Sam: Touche! You're still not getting any answers!
Maria: So.. we'll wait!
Anastasia: Yeah what she just said... we'll wait!

Downstairs...
Tatiana: How do you think it's going up there?
Olga: I don't know!
Alexei (looks at phone): I just got a txt from Nastya...
Olga: And?
Alexei: And... they've got her cornered and are unwilling to let her out of their sight until she confesses whatever it is she's hiding!
Olga: Since when have the LP gotten so smart!
Tatiana: Olga?
Olga: Yeah?
Tatiana: Did you forget that Nastya's the family imp... this is what she does!
Olga: Okay, yeah true!

Upstairs and Sam is still monkey in the middle...
Sam: How long do you think you can both keep this up?
Maria: As long as it takes for you fess up to whatever it is you're keeping from us... again!
Anastasia: Yeah so talk... and this can all be over!
Sam: What is this an interrogation now?
Anastasia: We could do it that way if that's what you really want?
Sam: What I want... is for you two to get out of my way!
Anastasia: Sorry not going to happen! (gets idea) Mashka can you do me a favor?
Maria: Uh-oh I know that grin!
Sam: So do I!
Anastasia: Could you kindly wait with Sam in her room?
Sam: Yeah... the only one that's going to go in is going to be me! Only me!
Anastasia: Fine I'll rephrase it then! Mashka can you bring her into her room!
Maria: Okay! (Anastasia runs off) Where are you going now?
Anastasia: You'll see if it's an interrogation she wants... it's an interrogation she'll get!
Sam: Yeah right... don't think so!
Maria: Yeah right... do think so! (pulls her in) Come on!
Anastasia (comes in): Sit her down!
Maria (looks at the rope): Nastya... what's that for?
Anastasia: Just do it!
Maria: Sit... I guess!
Anastasia: Now help me here!
Sam (shocked): What's going on here? (as they're tying her up with her hands behind the chair) What... what are you doing!?
Anastasia (turns off the lights) So... (turns on a flashlight and points it at Sam) let the interrogation begin! Mashka be a human barricade for the door in case someone tries to end the interrogation!
Maria (stands against the door using her strength to be a human barricade): Okay... if you say so!
Anastasia: Now we can do this the easy way... or the hard way!
Maria: Hard way? We're not going to hurt her are we?
Anastasia: No it's just something interrogators are supposed to say in these situations... I think!
Maria (though a little worried): Oh!
Sam (rolls her eyes): You have got to be kidding me!

Downstairs...
Olga (Alexei laughs as he looks to his phone): What's so funny?
Alexei: Nastya just me a txt!
Tatiana: What does it say?


Alexei: Her and Mashka are interrogating Sam.
Tatiana: What?
Alexei: They've tied her up and are interrogating her.
Alexandra: Overhears. Surely this is going too far!
Nicholas: I'll put a stop to this right now! Starts for the stairs, but Olga blocks his path.
Olga: Papa, wait.
Nicholas: Surely, Olga, you don't approve of this.
Olga: Papa, Sam is hiding something from us, and she wasn't telling. If Nastya and Mashka's methods work, I say we give them a try.
Alexandra: Olga, surely you're not serious.
Tatiana: I agree with Olga, Mama. I say we wait and see what happens.
Nicholas: All right, we wait, for now. However, if they haven't gotten an answer from Sam in an hour, I'm putting a stop to this. Sam is our guest, not our prisoner. Understood?
Tatiana and Olga: Yes, Papa.

[Tim]

Meanwhile, the guys are talking..

Dimitri P: Walks over to the bar. Anyone want a drink?
Everyone says yes, except..
Yurovsky: None for me, thanks. I'm a recovering alcoholic. The last thing I need right now is a relapse.
Dimitri P: You should go to America then.
Yurovsky: Why?
Dimitri P: Because alcohol is illegal over there now.
Ivan S: Surely you're kidding!
Dimitri P: I'm serious, I have a friend in the American Consulate who told me all this. They passed a law a few years ago, Prohibition, I think it's called. Anyway, the buying, selling, or manufacture of alcohol is illegal in the U.S.
Dimitri M: I can't imagine the American people are too thrilled about that.
Dimitri P: They're not. In fact the criminal elements over there are doing brisk business. There is one guy in Chicago, can't remember his name now, but he's become one of the bigwigs in all this. In fact, I have heard rumours that stills have been built on the Siberian coast. They make vodka, and then smuggle it across the Bering Strait to Alaska.
Ivan K: Isn't that illegal.
Dimitri P: Since when. Last time I checked it was legal to make vodka in Russia.
Ivan S: How do you know all this?
Dimitri P: Let's just say that information comes my way and leave it at that...


Upstairs...
Anastasia: Come on! You're going to have to confess sooner or later!
Maria (Sam just smiles at them): What is it that you are hiding?
Sam: Let's just say that I know what Maria's going through!
Maria: Well yeah you have children of your own... we already know that!
Anastasia: How did you become... well you know?
Maria: I totally forgot... Nastya maybe we should let her go!
Sam: Oh no, no, no I'm still me just with extra power now! I choose to act more human if you will! Let's just say destiny has it's ways!
Anastasia: Right! So are you going to let Dr. Malama find out what's wrong with you yet? (Sam smiles and shakes her head) Gah! You're worse then Olga when it comes to being stubborn sometimes!
Sam: I'll gladly admit to that too!

Downstairs...
Alexandra: It's almost been an hour Nicky!
Nicholas (looks to clock then Alexei): txt your sister and see what's going on!
Alexei: Yes Papa! (sends txt) I sent her a message!
Olga (her and Tatiana walk over): Are you going to go up Papa?
Nicholas: Soon, when Alexei gets a txt from Anastasia!
Tatiana: Who would have thought they'd pull something like this off?
Olga: Not me that's for sure!
Tatiana: I can see Anastasia doing something like this... though I didn't expect Maria to help her!
Alexei: Oh yeah... that's the other part of the earlier txt!
Tatiana: What?
Alexei: She pushed Mashka into helping her!
Olga: That's not something new!
Ivan S (him and the guys walk in): How's it going?
Alexei: I'm still waiting for a txt from Nastya!

Upstairs...
Anastasia: So... (looks to phone) hold on i have a txt!
Maria (as she reads) Who's it from?
Anastasia: Alexei! He says that Papa gave us an hour to do this and then he's coming up and ending it if there's no progress! You may have to be a human barricade again! I just sent him a txt letting him know what's going on!
Maria (hears footsteps): Uh-oh I think that's Papa coming now!
Anastasia: Alright human barricade... do your job!
Maria: I can't believe I'm doing this!
Nicholas (knocks on door): Maria! Anastasia! May I enter? (tries to open the door) What's this!? (tries to open the door) Is the door jammed?
Anastasia (so that Nicky can't hear): Something like that!
Nicholas: Open the door you two! (still trying to open the door but can't cause of Maria) Sam are you alright!?
Sam (laughs): Oh yeah Nicky I'm fine!
Maria: Sorry Papa, we can't let you in!
Nicholas: Can't!? What do you mean can't!? (realizes) Is there something barricading this door on purpose!?
Maria: Yes?
Nicholas: What is it!?
Maria (knowing she can't lie to him): It's not what, it's who!
Nicholas: Who!?
Maria: It's me Papa!
Nicholas: Maria! (jingles the knob) Maria step away from the door!
Anastasia: She can't do that Papa!
Nicholas: Maria do as I say!
Anastasia: Mashka... don't step away from that door!
Nicholas (getting angry): Maria Nikolaievna you will step away from this door this instant and you will let me in! This is going too far!
Anastasia (shakes her head): Don't do it... don't do it!
Nicholas (knowing who he should really be yelling at): Anastasia Nikolaievna this little game of yours is over!
Anastasia: But Papa... these things don't happen in one hour! Or as the saying goes "things like this don't happen overnight!"... you know what i mean?
Nicholas: ANASTASIA NIKOLAIEVNA! MARIA NIKOLAIEVNA! YOU WILL UNBARRICADE THIS DOOR AND LET ME IN... NOW!!!
Maria (gives in): Yes Papa!
Anastasia (as Maria's about to open the door): Maria... no... don't! (she opens it) Too late!
Nicholas: Sam?
Sam: Yes Nicky?
Nicholas (moves Anastasia aside and goes and unties her): Are you alright!?
Sam (smiling): Oh yeah... I'm fine! (then gets that feeling) Or I was... excuse me!
Nicholas (as Sam rushes into bathroom, he turns to the LP): You two downstairs... NOW!
Maria: Yes Papa! (tugs at Anastasia) Let's go imp!

Everyone is Downstairs and this may be the first time Sablin and Rodionov have ever witnessed any of the girls in trouble...


Nicholas: I can not believe you two did this! This is NOT the old Empire, in case you two need reminding!
Anastasia: Papa..
Nicholas: I'm not finished. If Sam wishes to keep a personal secret, that is her right. As I said, she is a guest, not a prisoner!
Maria: But Papa, something is wrong with her.
Nicholas: I see, I thought Tatiana is the doctor around here!
Anastasia: She is, but Sam wouldn't talk.
Nicholas: I see, so going and acting like a couple of old Imperial interrogators was the answer!
Anastasia: It seemed like a good idea at the time.
Nicholas: Well, guess what, here is another idea. You want prisoners, you got them! You're both grounded for the next two weeks! Hand over your cell phones and get up to your rooms and think about what you have done!
Anastasia: Papa, you can't...
Nicholas: NOW!! And no Internet either!
Maria and Anastasia realize that they better not push it. They hand over the cell phones and head out.
Nicholas: To the two Ivan's. You better look after your wayward wives.
The Ivan's head out.
Alexandra: What that necessary, Nicky?
Nicholas: Alix, they went too far, I gave them the time they wanted. When it was up, the refused to let me into the room. I had to put my foot down.
Olga: Papa, still maybe you went too far.
Nicholas: Turns to Olga. You're lucky I don't ground you too, for endorsing this idea of theirs!
Mount Olga looks about to erupt, but Tatiana puts an arm on her older sister's shoulder.
Tatiana: Olga, please, don't lose your temper. Don't make this worse than they are.
Nicholas: As always, Tatiana, you are the voice of reason. I'm going to take a walk outside and cool down. I'll be back in about half-an-hour. Heads out.
Alexandra: Turns to the others. Sorry you had to see all that.
Dimitri P: Wow, that was intense!

Upstairs...

Anastasia: Grounded? I'm 24 years old, married with a child, and I'm being sent to my room! This is nuts!
Maria: You want to go back down and argue with Papa some more.
Anastasia: No, he might clap us both in irons. But I still think it's nuts...


Maria: Exactly! Remember what he did to Olga... when she left him no options? Remember how her wrists looked?
Anastasia (shudders): Yeah, I remember! But that was different... Olga had it coming to her!
Maria: That's true! Although I think Olga would yell at you if she heard you say that!
Anastasia: True... she probably would!
Tatiana (knocks on the door): May i enter?
Maria: Of course!
Tatiana: What was that all about?
Anastasia: We thought we were doing the right thing at the time!
Maria: Don't entirely blame me... i got pushed into it remember?
Tatiana: Yes and that doesn't surprise me! Olga almost exploded at Papa by the way! But I was able to keep her from losing her cool!
Maria: That's a good thing... where is Olga anyhow?
Tatiana: She went outside for a walk to cool off!
Anastasia: Good idea! (hears footsteps and looks out) Here comes our men... mine and Maria's i mean!
Maria: Oh boy!
Ivan K: Hey! You two busy?
Maria: No... we're grounded remember?
Ivan S: True... though that was ridiculous of your father to do that in your own palace!
Sam (knocks): Hey... you may want these back! (give them each their cell phones back) I got your father to give in and give them back and you're ungrounded!
Anastasia: How did you do that?
Sam: I told him there was no reason to get so upset! It took a few tries but your father gave in eventually!
Ivan S: You amuse me you know that?
Sam: I hope so! (looks out door) Here comes Olga... and she looks mad!
Olga (storms in): How could he... in OUR palace!? We don't live at home anymore!
Sam: Olga... Olga.. OLGA! You're ranting again! By the way everything's fixed!
Maria (holds up her cell phone): See?
Olga: But how... (Sam winks at her) oh you're good!
Sam: I know! By the way... the guys are leaving so you should go down!
Maria: Alright!

Downstairs...
Sablin (as they come down): Well that was intense!
Tatiana (laughs): You should have been here in the beginning!
Olga: Yes, that was a sight to see!
Sam: Hey I missed it too you know!
Maria: Yeah... maybe then you could have talked sense into Papa too!
Sam: Ha! Ha!
Rodionov: Well I hate to say that we're leaving...
Sablin: But we are!
Nagorny: Your parents and brother are waiting outside... I wanted to say goodbye before we go!
Maria (smiles): So you are staying?
Nagorny: Yes... like I said I'd give my life to protect your brother! So... goodbye!
Maria: Goodbye!
Sablin: We'll keep in touch now that we have new laptops and cellphones!
Rodionov: Exactly... i couldn't have stated that better myself! (both exit)
Sam: Well that just leaves you Dmitri!
Dmitri P: Well I'm afraid my now favorite witch woman... that i have to go too!
Sam: You just like calling me that now don't you?
Dmitri P: No... never! (smiles) Of course! Though I hope I'm not offending you!
Sam: Oh no... no offense taken!
Dmitri P: Good then... (nods at the ladies) until next time!
Sam (laughs): Oh Dmitri!

[Tim]

Soon, Nicholas, Alexandra, Alexei, Nagorney, and Yurovsky arrive at the Winter Palace...

Nicholas: Well, Nagorney, pick any room you'd like. We have plenty.
Nagorney: So you're living here again.
Alexandra: Yes, when the girls moved out of Tsarskoe Selo, we wanted to be near them. So we came back here.
Alexei: There's an empty room next to mine.
Nagorney: I'll take it. It will be like old times.
Nicholas: I'm sorry for that scene back there. I just lost it. But Sam set me straight.
Alexandra: Yes, Nicky, your forgot it was their palace, not yours. Your rules don't apply there.
Nicholas: I guess I just forgot where I was. Old habits die hard. Yurovsky, you can have the room at the end of the hall.
Yurovsky: Thank you.

The next day, at Anichov Palace, at OTMA are having breakfast. The guys have gone to the country for the day, hunting.

Tatiana: Holds up an envelope. This is interesting.
Olga: What is it.
Tatiana: I've been invited to Moscow as police consultant.
Anastasia: Why?
Tatiana: Because of the Moscow Ripper. The police think he might have been a doctor at one point, or at least have some basic knowledge of human anatomy. They've invited doctors from all over Russia to consult. I'm one of them.
Maria: So you're going?
Tatiana: Yes, I am. Don't worry, the Ripper kills prostitutes, not Grand Duchesses. Besides, my Dimitri will be going with me. That is if I can find a babysitter.
Maria: Me, me!
Tatiana: I thought you'd say that, Mashka.
Anastasia: What about Mama?
Tatiana: what about her?
Anastasia: I don't know how she's going to react. This whole Moscow Ripper thing has her kind of freaked.
Olga: I can't blame her. She remembers Jack The Ripper.
Tatiana: Okay, I'll call her. Heads off to make the call.
Anastasia: Hmmm, I wonder. Opens her laptop and is soon deep in research. Well, this is interesting.
Maria: What is it, Nastya.
Anastasia: I found a trail here. Before Moscow, there were a series of prostitute killings in Warsaw, then a few years before that, in Berlin, before that, Oslo, and on, and on,. Guess where the trail ends.
Olga: London, 1888?
Anastasia: Go the head of the class!
Maria: Nastya, are you suggesting that Jack The Ripper and the Moscow Ripper are the same person?
Anastasia: This trail seems to say that.
Olga: But wouldn't Jack The Ripper be an old man by now.
Anastasia: Yes, that is if he were human. We know that there are magical beings out there. What if he's one, what if he doesn't age. Sam comes in for breakfast. Ah, Sam, just the person I want to talk to.

Meanwhile, Tatiana is on the phone with Alexandra..

Alexandra: On the phone. What is it, Tanya?


Tatiana: Well, Mama, I've been invited to Moscow to consult the murders made by the Moscow Ripper!
Alexandra: No absolutely not! I don't want you to be put in harms way.... I absolutely forbid it!
Tatiana: But Mama...
Alexandra: The answer is no... i don't want you to risk running into this mad man and then have to find out that you've been murdered! Tatiana I would die if anything happened to you, or your sisters and Sam! That goes for your husbands and children as well!
Tatiana: I understand Mama but he kills prostitutes not Grand Duchesses!
Alexandra: No Tatiana!
Tatiana: I understand Mama! (hangs up) Well that didn't go so well!

Back to...
Olga (Tatiana enters): So how did it go?
Tatiana: It didn't! Mama says she absolutely forbids it! She's afraid she's going to get the news that i may have been murdered at the hands of this Moscow Ripper!
Anastasia: So you're not going then?
Tatiana: Most likely not... especially after Mama said she would die if anything happened to any of us!
Maria: True... that wouldn't be good now would it?
Tatiana: No it wouldn't!
Anastasia: Okay back to Sam!
Sam: What?
Anastasia: Jack the Ripper and this Moscow Ripper... are they the same person!
Sam: No they aren't! What we have here is what we call a copycat! This man whoever he is wants to copy himself off of Jack the Ripper!
Olga: So there's no magical beings involved?
Sam: No... just some mad man who must believe that Jack the Ripper is his hero or something!
Tatiana: Great! Sam can I ask you something?
Sam: Yeah of course!
Tatiana: I received this envelope! (She hands Sam the envelope) They've chosen doctors to come to Moscow to consult in these murders... and I'm one of them!
Sam (as she reads): I see!
Tatiana: Should I go? Mama forbids it as she's afraid for my safety!
Sam: I am too! But... I think you should go!
Olga: You do!?
Sam: Yes! She'll be fine!
Olga (thinks about it again): Tatiana I don't want you to go! I understand why Mama's so terrified... because i have those same feelings!
Tatiana: Oh Olga... it will be alright! By the way ten doctors have been asked to consult in these cases! five will do autopsies and five will be in the field as they call it!
Sam: And which group are you in?
Tatiana: I'm one of those that are doing autopsies!
Sam: So you're an M.E then?
Tatiana: I guess so... whatever that means!
Sam: In forensics or police work the M.E or Medical Examiner is the Dr. who performs autopsies! You would also be more widely known as a coroner!
Maria: So you'd be around dead bodies and stuff? Sounds creepy!
Tatiana: Yes... but no one can get to the truth if doctors like (tries to remember term) the M.E don't do autopsies! Sometimes you find something you didn't find when the patient was still alive! Sometimes my group will also be in the field if extra doctors are needed!
Olga: Okay can we not talk about the dead anymore over breakfast please!?
Anastasia: So you are going then?
Tatiana: Yes... we are going! If Sam says I'm going to be safe then there's your answer! (goes to pack)
Olga (grabs her arm): Still be careful!
Tatiana: I will Olga! Don't be so afraid... I'll come back to you in one piece alright?
Olga (looks to Sam who nods): Oh alright! Come back soon... Dr. Malama!
Tatiana: I'll try to! Try to put Mama and Papa at ease will you... especially Mama?
Sam: Don't worry, we will! How long are you going to be gone again?
Tatiana: Five weeks at the latest... but it can be up to months if needed!
Sam: Alright! Good luck!
Tatiana: Thanks... I'll need it!

[Tim]

At the Winter Palace...

Nicholas: Alix, what was all that yelling about?
Alexandra: I just got this call from Tanya. Goes on to explain the call.
Nicholas: I see.
Alexandra: I won't permit it, Nicky! There is no way I'm allowing one of my children to be in harm's way.
Nicholas: Alix, she would be protected. It's not like she will be out on the streets by herself.
Alexandra: I don't want her in the same city as that psychopath!
Nicholas: Alix, you're being unreasonable.
Alexandra: E tu, Nicky?
Nicholas: I'm just saying that nothing is going to happen to Tatiana. They would protect her.
Alexandra: I don't care what they say. Tatiana is NOT going to Moscow, end of debate! Storms away.
Nicholas: Oh my..

Later, Alexandra places a call to George V.

George V: Cousin Alix, I say, how's it going?
Alexandra: It's not. You know that Tatiana is a doctor now.
George V: Yes, and I'm very happy for you and Nicky. You two did an excellent job raising her.
Alexandra: Well, she's been invited to Moscow as a police consultant. They want doctors there to help them with that Moscow Ripper case.
George V: Oh dear, yes, I've been following the case. Quite a disturbed chap, he reminds me of Jack The Ripper.
Alexandra: Me too. I almost fainted when I first heard about the case. They never caught the Ripper, or even found out who he was.
George V: No, and they are still coming up with theories. You should hear some of them. They're even saying that my brother could have been the Ripper.
Alexandra: Astonished. Cousin Eddy?
George V: Yes, and they say our grandmother knew about it, and covered up for him.
Alexandra: Surely not!
George V: It's all bollocks, of course. Eddy was at Balmoral when those murders happened! I should know, I was there with him.
Alexandra: You still miss him, don't you.
George V: Yes, Alix, I do. He would have made a good king. He was only 28 when he died. Bloody flu!
Alexandra: Did you know that some thought he and I would get married.
George V: Really?
Alexandra: Yes, but I didn't feel about him that way, my heart belonged to Nicky, and told I grandmother as such.
George V: What did she say?
Alexandra: She said it was okay. She and I were very close.
George V: Jolly good for you, Alix. Usually our grandmother did not take no for an answer!
Alexandra: Laughs. No, she sure didn't.

Anichov Palace, two days later, lunch time...

Anastasia: I got an e-mail from Tanya today.
Maria: What does she say.
Anastasia: You might want to send the children out of the room.
Maria: Oh. Turns to Ivan S. Ivan, could you take the children into the living room and watch TV.
Ivan S: Okay. Come on, children, let's go. Ivan and the kids head out.
Anastasia: She says she's done two autopsies already. Goes onto describe what Tatiana wrote.
Olga: Puts down her sandwich. And we're done with lunch!
Anastasia: Sorry, Olga.
Olga: How can she do that. Cut into dead bodies.
Maria: Olga, it's her job.
Olga: Still, I can't even imagine it. I'd faint.
Anastasia: Well, you did okay when she operated on me and took out my appendix.
Olga: That's different, Nastya. You're alive.
Anastasia: That's true. Gets a look in her eye.
Maria: Nastya, you still hung up that Jack The Ripper and the Moscow Ripper are the same man, even though Sam said no magic was involved.
Anastasia: Yes, I am. Maybe there is no magic. Suppose Jack The Ripper was in his early twenties in 1888, that would make him in his late fifties now. If he has kept in good shape over the years, I can't see why he couldn't keep killing. As for the prostitutes, from what Tanya has said, they were all drunk when they were murdered. They wouldn't have been able to put up much of a fight.
A servant enters.
Servant: Your mother is here.
Anastasia: Uh oh.
Alexandra enters.
Anastasia: Uh, hi Mama.
Alexandra: Where is Tatiana? I've been trying to call her, but I keep getting her voice mail. Where is she?
Olga, Maria, and Anastasia say nothing, just look at each other.
Alexandra: Puts the pieces together. She didn't!?
Olga: Mama...
Alexandra: Oh she is in SO much trouble!...


Olga: Now Mama before you say anything...
Alexandra (cuts her off): I told her not to go! I told her I absolutely forbade it!
Olga: She's not a child anymore Mama! She has a job to do and she's doing it!
Alexandra: She's putting herself in harms way! What happens if this Moscow Ripper decides he's going to make a random killing... and Tatiana becomes that victim!?
Olga: Mama...
Alexandra: Don't you "Mama" me Olga! You're the oldest... how could you let your sister go!?
Olga: I'm not her guard Mama!
Alexandra: I know that but once again... you're the oldest and you should be setting a better example!
Maria (as Alix heads out the door): Mama where are you headed?
Alexandra: I'm going to Moscow and right away! I'm going to go and see if i can't talk some sense into Tatiana!
Olga (Alix leaves): Oh this isn't going to be good!
Sam (enters): I thought I heard your mother yelling!
Olga: You luckily just missed her!
Sam: What's going on?
Olga: Mama says she's going to Moscow!
Sam: Uh-oh! She's know about Tatiana doesn't she?
Maria: Oh yeah and let's just say that she's throwing a fit about it!

Winter Palace...
Alexandra: Nicky!
Nicholas (comes to the foyer as Alix as just entered): Yes Alix?
Alexandra: I need the Imperial train!
Nicholas: Where to may I ask that you are going Alix?
Alexandra: Moscow! Someone needs to make Tatiana see reason!
Nicholas: But Alix...
Alexandra: NOW Nicky!
Nicholas: I'll get right on it!

Imperial Train...
Alexandra (talking to Olga on phone): Olga you're sister is putting herself in harms way! I don't want anything to happen to her!
Olga (voice): She's going to be okay Mama and besides Dmitri is with her!
Alexandra: Who is looking after their children!?
Olga (voice): Maria is Mama but that shouldn't surprise you!
Alexandra (a man whispers in her ear): I'm almost there so I must let you go!
Olga (voice): Alright Mama!

Moscow...
Alexandra: Tatiana? Where are you? (sees who she thinks is Tatiana) Tatiana?
Tatiana (turns around and her eyes go wide with shock) Oh no Mama! (she walks and fast) What is Mama doing here?
Alexandra: Perhaps that wasn't her! While I'm here I suppose I'll go visit Ella at her convent! Perhaps I can stay there while I search for Tatiana!

Ella's convent...
Ella (hears a knock at the door as she's gardening) Tatiana could you please get the door for me?
Tatiana (gets up and wipes her hands on an apron as she's gardening as well): Of course Aunt Ella!
Alexandra: Ella... are you there?
Ella (Tatiana's eyes widen): What is it dear?
Tatiana: Mama!
Ella: Oh dear what is she doing here?
Tatiana: She's here because of me Aunt Ella!
Ella: You? (Tatiana nods) I understand... hold on and wait right here I'll answer the door! (goes to main door) Alexandra!
Alexandra: Have you seen Tatiana anywhere! She's here in Moscow... against my wishes if i may add!
Ella: She's busy right now in the garden! (knows she shouldn't have said that) I wasn't supposed to say that!
Alexandra: She's staying here?
Ella: Well she needed someplace to go when she's not at her job! (Alix walks right in) Alix!
Alexandra (as Ella follows her to the garden, Alix turns to her): Please leave us Ella!
Ella (sighs): Very well!
Alexandra (Tatiana's back is turned as she's watering some plants): Tatiana!
Tatiana (whispers to herself as she closes her eyes): Oh no! (turns around to face her holding the watering can in both hands) Mama!
Alexandra: You're coming home!
Tatiana: I can't Mama I have a job to do!
Alexandra: I don't want to argue with you Tatiana!
Tatiana (knowing as she does not like to argue): It's not arguing Mama... we're just having a simple discussion!
Alexandra: What if this Moscow Ripper decides he's going to be random all of a sudden? I would lose it if I found out you were murdered!
Tatiana: I'm not going to be murdered Mama! I have police around me all the time... he wouldn't dare try anything with them around!
Alexandra: What about at night?
Tatiana: Mama I have Dmitri here with me!
Alexandra (speaking of Dmitri, he sees her tries to "run the other way"): Dmitri Malama I see you out of the corner of my eye... get back here!
Dmitri M: Alix... (kisses her hand but is sarcastic) what a pleasant surprise!
Alexandra: How could you let your wife take this job? It's dangerous!
Dmitri M: She's well protected I assure you!
Alexandra: You're both coming home with me this instant!

Anichkov Palace...
Sam: Any word on your mother?
Olga: None but I got a txt from Tatiana earlier!
Maria: What did it say!
Olga: She almost ran into Mama on the street! Luckily they were opposite sides and she managed to get away before Mama actually recognized her!
Sam: Oh dear! Hopefully Alix won't find out that she's staying at Ella's convent!
Olga: Yeah... hopefully!

Ella's convent...


Tatiana: No, Mama, we're not.
Alexandra: What did you just say?
Tatiana: I said I'm not coming. I have a job here.
Alexandra: I don't care about this job! You're coming back to St. Petersburg, now!
Tatiana: Mama, I'm 28 years old, a married woman.
Alexandra: So!?
Tatiana: You can't tell me what to do anymore!
Alexandra: Yes, I can. I don't care how old you are, you're still my daughter. You are coming back with me, NOW! End of discussion!
Tatiana: Getting angry. Spoken like a true autocrat!
Alexandra: Also getting angry. What's that supposed to mean?
Tatiana: It means exactly as it sounds, Mama!
Alexandra: How dare you speak to me like that, young lady!
Tatiana: For the last time, Mama, I'm not coming! I have a job to do here, and frankly, you're in my way!
Alexandra briefly loses it and slaps Tatiana across the face! Then she realizes what she has done, she's hit Tatiana!
Alexandra: Oh....my.....God... What...have I.... Faints.
Tatiana: MAMA!

Alexandra (slowly comes to): Tatiana?
Tatiana: Here Mama let me help you up!
Alexandra (Tatiana helps her up then rubs her right cheek, Alix quickly hugs her): Oh my... my dear Tatiana I'm so sorry! (she pulls back and puts her hand on Tatiana's hand which is still on her cheek) I should never have slapped you!
Tatiana (takes her hand in return, her eyes are stained with tears): Oh Mama! I'll be alright! I'm sorry too... for i should never have said what i said earlier! Let's get you inside so i can make sure that you're alright! Dmitri help me here please?
Dmitri M: I'm on it!
Tatiana (inside and she she sits Alix in a chair): There you go Mama! (looks to Dmitri) Could you hand me my medical bag Dmitri?
Dmitri: Of course! (hands her a black bag) Here you go!
Tatiana: Thank you Dmitri! (she listens to her mother heartbeat) Your heart is racing a bit but you'll be alright!
Dmitri M: She isn't going to suffer like from another stroke or anything right?
Tatiana: No, she's going to be just fine! Mama? I want you to retire to our room and get some rest alright? Dmitri will show you the way!
Dmitri (helps Alix up): Right this way! (looks back at Tatiana) Shouldn't you be off to work now?
Tatiana: I'm supposed to be on my way soon! Mama I'll see you tonight when I return! (Alix nods) Thank you Dmitri!
Dmitri: Of course!

Anichkov Palace...
Sam: Any word on your mother now that she's probably in Moscow by now?
Olga: None as of yet... (looks to phone) wait a minute I'm getting a call from Tatiana!
Sam (as the LP and her gather around Olga): What does she say?
Olga: Hold on! Tatiana?
Tatiana: Yes Olga it's me!
Maria: Put her on speaker!
Olga: Mashka wants me to put you on speaker!
Tatiana: Go ahead!
Maria: Have you run into Mama yet?
Tatiana: Yes and we got into a heated discussion... no Olga it was not an argument! We said some things out of anger and then...
Sam: And then what Dr. Malama?
Tatiana: Mama slapped me! (Olga drops phone) Olga? Anyone? Hello?
Sam (picks up Olga's phone): Tatiana are you still there?
Tatiana: Yes I'm still here! What happened?
Anastasia: Olga dropped the phone in shock!
Maria: Did Mama really slap you... you know... her favorite daughter?
Tatiana: Yes she did... in fact my right cheek still stings a little and it's still a little red! But I'll be alright!
Anastasia: Wow!
Olga: Where's Mama?
Tatiana: She's at Aunt Ella's convent right now! She's resting in mine and Dmitri's guest room!
Olga: Wait... you're staying at Aunt Ella's convent?
Tatiana: Yes... and it turns out that's where she found me!
Sam: Oh dear!
Tatiana: Well I'm at the building where my office is... so until later tonight!
Olga: Yeah until later tonight! (Tatiana hangs up) Her office?
Maria: Tatiana has her own office... isn't that like so cool?
Anastasia: Yeah!
Sam: Well she has to have someplace to do like paperwork and stuff right?
Olga: Right!

Tatiana at the office doing paperwork when another victim comes in...


Police Officer: Dr. Malama?
Tatiana: Yes?
Police Officer: Another victim has come in.
Tatiana: Gets to her feet. When?
Police Officer: About ten minutes ago. Consults a clipboard. Her name was Maria Krycek, 24 years old. A prostitute like all the others.
Tatiana shudders.
Police Officer: Are you okay?
Tatiana: I'm fine. It's just that poor girl has the same first name as one of my sisters, and was the same age as another. Take me to the body.
Police Officer: Follow me.
Tatiana: Thinking. I hope Mama doesn't find out about this too soon. She'll freak!

Later, at Anichkov Palace Sam, Olga, Maria, Anastasia, and their guys are watching the news..

Anchorman: And Moscow Police have just confirmed that the Moscow Ripper has struck again. The victim's name is Maria Krycek, 24 years old.
Anastasia: Whoa, she was the same age as me.
Maria: And had the same name as me.
Anastasia: Hmmmm...
Olga: what is it, Nastya.
Anastasia: I was just thinking of something my research on the Moscow Ripper uncovered. His victims names were Mischa Nicolae, Anatoly Carrolon, Erina Streckia, Catya Ermakov (no relation) and now Maria Krycek!
Olga: Yes, don't keep us in supsense, Ms. Holmes!
Anastasia: They all have the same initials as the London victims of 1888: Mary Ann Nicholls, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddows, and Mary Kelly. Another amazing coincidence, don't you all think! I'm gonna e-mail Tanya about this!

Ella' Convent, Alix gets a surprise visitor.

Alexandra: Nicky, when did you get here?
Nicholas: Just now. Ella called and told me what happened. I came right away.
Alexandra: Is Alexei here too?
Nicholas: No, left him at the Winter Palace. It's okay, Nagorney's there, after all.
Alexandra: Nicky, I slapped Tanya.
Nicholas: Tell me what happened?
Alexandra relates the story.
Nicholas: It sounds like you just lost control for a moment, like I did when I grounded Maria and Anastasia the other day. It happens. Besides, she's forgiven you.
Alexandra: Yes she has. it's just that she's never gone against my wishes like that before.
Nicholas: Alix, she's a grown woman now. You're going to have to expect more of this.
Alexandra: Yes, I guess so.
Dimitri M comes in.
Nicholas: Dimitri, what is it?
Dimitri M: I just heard on the news, the Ripper has killed again...


Alexandra: Oh god! Not Tatiana!
Dmitri M: She's around police remember... that and she's not out on the street!
Alexandra: Oh right!
Dmitri M: A 24 year old named Maria Krycek!
Nicholas: Oh my! (Alix shudders) What is it dear?
Alexandra: It's just all the victims! They have the same initials as those of the original ripper!
Nicholas: Could it be?
Alexandra: No, Olga told me that it isn't! Sam has already confirmed it with her bosses! He's just some copycat killer who seems to have an admiration for the original killer!
Nicholas: I see!

At autopsy...
Tatiana (eyes widen): Oh my...
Doctor: What is it?
Tatiana: This poor girl!
Doctor: What!?
Tatiana: This girl was with child! (a cry is heard) Oh my god! She's alive... it's a daughter!
Doctor: Oh my... I'll alert the police!
Tatiana: Please do so! (an officer enters) Yes?
Officer: We have another victim being brought in!
Tatiana: What of the child?
Officer: She's being sent to an orphanage until we can find relations that actually want her!
Tatiana: Very understandable! Thank you!
Officer: Oh by the way... you're shift is almost over so you don't have to stay for the next victim!
Tatiana: I know... but I want to!
Officer: Suit yourself!

After autopsy, Tatiana returns to the convent when...
Tatiana: Papa? What are you doing here?
Nicholas: I came to find your mother!
Tatiana: Oh! Papa please don't be mad about this too!
Alexandra: He isn't and neither am i anymore! In fact (pauses) we're both very, very proud of you!
Tatiana (smiles with relief): Thank you! I'm so pleased you feel that way! Excuse me I have to make a call home!
Alexandra: Alright! By the way dear... we're leaving for home in the morning!
Tatiana: Alright! Goodnight to you both! (Nicky and Alix nod, she get to her room and pulls out her phone) What is it with them taking so long to pick up the phone?
Maria (hears phone): Is everyone else deaf or something? (shakes head) I'll get it... again! (answers) Tatiana!



Tatiana: On speaker phone. I have news! It turns out the police located Maria Krycek's parents, but...
Olga: But what?
Tatiana: They don't want the baby. When Maria went into prostitution, her family disowned her.
Maria: But why don't they want the baby?
Tatiana: Apparently they feel the baby is "corrupted", or something like that.
Anastasia: That sucks! That baby is not responsible for the livelihood her mother chose.
Tatiana: I agree, Nastya, but that is how they feel.
Maria: So that poor little girl has no family. what's going to happen to her?
Tatiana: She's being put in an orphanage until she's adopted.
Maria: But that could take years!
Tatiana: I know, Mashka, but it's the best they can do. All we can do is hope she finds a nice family that wants her. I have to go now. Talk to you later. Hangs up.
Maria: That poor baby, this is just wrong!
Ivan S: Well, maybe she'll find someone that will want her.
Maria: She will, me.
Ivan S: What!?
Maria: Ivan, we've been talking about having another baby. Well, there is a baby out there that needs a home and a family. Turns to the others. What do you all think.
Anastasia: I say go for it, Mashka. You've always loved kids, and that baby needs all the love she can get.
Olga: Nasty is right, Mashka.
Maria: Turns to Ivan. Well?
Ivan S: How can I refuse those saucer eyes of yours. Do it, Maria, Nicholas deserves a sister!

The next day, Nicholas and Alexandra are back at the Winter Palace, when Maria calls...

Nicholas: Hello?
Maria: On phone. Papa, that little girl, the daughter of the Ripper victim. Tanya told us her family doesn't want her.
Nicholas: I know. It's sad, but true.
Maria: Well, I want to adopt her. I talked to Ivan and he's on board. Can you make some phone calls and get the ball rolling on this.
Nicholas: I'll get right on it, Mashka.
Maria: Thank you, Papa.
Soon, Alexandra comes in and Nicholas tells her the news.
Alexandra: That's good to hear, Nicky. That baby needs a loving family, and our Maria certainly loves children.
Nicholas: Good, I'll make the necessary phone calls. Maybe we can fasttrack the adoption. Starts to make the calls.

Later, at Pizza Hut, Olga and Anastasia are eating out and talking...

Olga: So, Detective Imp, how goes the Ripper hunt.
Anastasia: It seems I've hit a dead end in my theory that the Moscow Ripper is Jack The Ripper.
Olga: How so?
Anastasia: According to my research, one of the most promising suspects of being the Ripper was a man names Francis Tumblety. Apparently, he did have a hatred and woman and, according to what I found, he was in London at the time of the Ripper murders in 1888. Furthermore, after he left England, the murders stopped. He died in the United States in 1903. Apparently, found among his belonging, were copper rings that belonged to the second Ripper victim, Annie Chapman, they were taken when she was murdered.
Olga: Well, there you go, Nastya. Even if this Tumblety guy was the Ripper, he's been dead for 22 years, therefore he can't be the Moscow Ripper!
Anastasia: Hang on a sec. Pulls out her laptop and is soon at it again.
Olga: Wow, you don't quit, do you Detective Imp.
Anastasia: Detective Imp, I like that. Ah, here it is Begins to read. Although never confirmed, there were rumours that Francis Tumblety may have fathered an illegitimate son during his time in London in 1888.
Olga: Nastya...
Anastasia: That child would now be in his thirties now. Maybe he decided to honour his father by following in his footsteps.
Olga: Well, Detective Imp, it is an interesting idea...

What Anastasia and Olga don't know is that a reporter from the National Intruder was sitting at the next table and was listening in. In no time, the National Intruder runs the article titled: MOSCOW RIPPER IS JACK'S SON, SAYS GRAND DUCHESS ANASTASIA. Story on Page 2. The Intruder is printed all over Russia, and anyone can read it, including the Moscow Ripper.

At that point, Alexandra has another dream encounter with Queen Victoria...

Alexandra: Hello, good to see you again, grandmother.
Victoria: Distressed. There is no time for small talk this time, Alecky!
Alexandra: What is it, grandmother?
Victoria: Your youngest daughter is in terrible danger!
Alexandra: Anastasia!? Why?
Victoria: She guessed who the Moscow Ripper is, and he knows, Alecky, he knows! He will come for her. You must protect her, Alecky...

Alexandra then wakes up.

Alexandra: NICKY, GET IN HERE, NOW....

Nicholas: Alix! Alix... what's wrong!? Why are you screaming like that!?
Alexandra: Victoria! She came to me again!
Tatiana (all of a sudden calls, she's pale with fear): Mama? Papa?
Nicholas: What is it? Why do you sound so afraid!?
Tatiana: It's Anastasia! Papa, she's in trouble!
Alexandra: That's what Victoria said! How do you know of this?
Tatiana: This (she looking at a copy of the National Intruder) and I talked with Olga! Her and Anastasia were at a Pizza Hut talking... they didn't know that a reporter was nearby at another table listening in!
Nicholas: Oh my... we have to get to the Anichkov Palace and soon!
Tatiana: I fear I have to go to the office... I have what they call the graveyard shift!
Alexandra: You can't seriously think of going to work now!? Your sister could be in serious danger!
Tatiana: I have to Mama... the more work is done the more this crisis will be stopped! I'll be fine!

Anichkov Palace...
Maria (looks outside): What's with the extra Cossacks? It's not like the Children of the Empire can do any harm now that they're in prison alongside Felix!
Sam: This is why Maria... (hands National Intruder to her) they didn't know that a reporter was nearby listening when they went out to Pizza Hut!
Maria: Oh my... that's means... Anastasia... she's in danger!
Sam: Exactly! (Olga and Anastasia walk in) Have you seen this!?
Olga: Oh my...
Anastasia: Wait a minute... there was a man at a table nearby! He kept watching us! You don't think...?
Sam: Oh I do think!
Maria: Not to worry... Sam has extra Cossacks guarding us!

Moscow, Dmitri is escorting her when....
Tatiana (Dmitri is knocked out from behind): DMITRI!
Dmitri M (gets up): Run Tatiana! Run! I'll fend him off!
Tatiana: No Dmitri... don't! (Dmitri gets punched) DMITRI! (she covers her eyes) Dmitri!
Dmitri M: Run... NOW!
Tatiana: I can't leave you! (Moscow Ripper comes her way) Oh god!
Moscow Ripper: If i can't teach your sister to stay out of it... I'll have to have someone take her place! What better then an older sister?
Tatiana: You want to hurt me to send my little sister a message don't you?
Moscow Ripper: No, no not hurt... (pulls out a knife) kill... kill to send your little sister a message! To stay out of this... just like you should have done! Call it a random killing to make my point nice and clear! But first before I kill you... you'll be my prisoner! (Tatiana tries to run when he grabs her arm making her scream in terror and conks her in the back of the head knocking her out) There we go (picks her up)... now there won't be any trouble!

Winter Palace...
Nicholas (answers phone): Dmitri?
Dmitri M: Tatiana! She's gone!
Alexandra: What do you mean she's gone!?
Dmitri M: The Moscow Ripper... we got into a fight and he must have knocked me out in the end! He must have taken her to his place of hiding or what have you... or worse he may have killed her!
Nicholas: Oh my god! Alix call Anichkov Palace!
Alexandra: I'm on it Nicky!

Somewhere...
Moscow Ripper (gently slaps her): It's time to wake up! Wakey, wakey!
Tatiana (tied to a chair and blindfolded): Where am I?
Moscow Ripper: You're in my place of residence!
Tatiana: Who are you?
Moscow: I can't tell you that... just call me Ripper if it makes it easier for you!.


Alexandra: On the phone. Olga, we just heard from Dimitri.. He....
Olga: Mama, what is it?
Alexandra: Clearly sobbing. The Ripper, he took Tatiana.. Oh God, I knew I should never have let her go....
Olga: Oh my God.
Nicholas: Comes on the line. Your mother, Alexei, and I are on our way over. We'll take more when we get there.
Olga: Okay, Papa.
Anastasia: Bursts into tears. It's my fault! This is all my fault.. Runs out of the room.
Olga: Nastya, wait..
Olga and Maria find Anastasia crying in her room, being comforted by her Ivan.
Anastasia: Tatiana is...*sob*.. in his clutches, all because of...*sob*...I found out who he was.
Maria: Nastya, stop it, it's not your fault.
Olga: Exactly, it's that damned newspaper! They've gone too far, it's bad en ought they like to print smear articles about us, but now they've put Tatiana's life in danger! I swear to God in Heaven that if anything happens to Tanya, I'm going to burn that rag's offices to the ground. Let them lock me up for arson, I'll go proudly.
A servant comes in...
Servant: Your parents and brother have arrived. Sam is with them now.
Olga: We'll be right down..

Meanwhile, back at the Ripper's hideout...

Moscow Ripper: I must congratulate your little sister. No one else has ever figured out who I am.
Tatiana: You are Francis Tumblety's son, aren't you.
Moscow Ripper/William Tumblety: Damn, I forgot that newspaper article. Very well, William Tumblety, at your service! I took his last name when my whore of a mother told me who he was, before I cut her throat!
Tatiana: You killed your own mother?
Tumblety: Yes, she was a worthless whore, she deserved to die. All whores deserve to die, so I have continued on where my father left off. I enjoy ending their miserable lives. They are garbage, they are nothing!
Tatiana: They're human beings!
Tumblety: No, they are vermin, like the rats in the sewers. I exterminate all vermin! Laughs.
Tatiana: You're disgusting.
Tumblety: And you, my dear, are my prisoner. Mind you, you're different than all the others. The second daughter of the Tsar of Russia. What a catch!
Tatiana: So I suppose you're going to kill or rape me?
Tumblety: No, I have a better plan. Thanks to your meddlesome sister, people here know who I am. You're going to be my bargaining chip, your release, in return for safe passage out of Russia. Maybe I'll try America next. Cities like Chicago and New York are no doubt crawling with whores, and my knife is so sharp. I can't wait to get back to work. Laughs evilly..


Author's Note: Francis Tumblety was a real person, and suspected of being Jack The Ripper. His son is my creation though.

Olga (rushes down the stairs and hugs her mother): Oh Mama!
Sam: Where's Anastasia?
Maria (looks behind her): I thought she came down behind me!
Sam: I'll go up!
Maria (as Sam exits): Papa... what are we going to do!?
Nicholas: I don't know!
Alexandra: You don't think she's dead do you!?
Nicholas: It's is possible... but don't be thinking that right now!
Dmitri M (storms in): I'm starting to worry we've lost her!
Olga: What makes you say that!?
Dmitri M (holds up her medical bag): Her medical bag... it's has her blood on it!
Alexandra: No... no it can't be! Oh Nicky... hold me! (there's a thud) OLGA!
Maria: Oh god she fainted!
Nicholas: Maria... go upstairs and tell them the bad news! We'll take care of Olga down here!
Maria: Yes Papa!

Upstairs...
Sam: Anastasia?
Anastasia: What if he kills her? It's all my fault!
Sam: Hey! It's not your fault! You were just trying to help!
Anastasia: Help!? Look where helping got my sister!
Maria (comes in slowly shaking): Sam?
Sam (quickly gets up and takes Maria's shoulders and feels her shaking): Mashka! You're shaking! (escorts her to her camp bed) Sit down! Maria... what's wrong!? Your saucers have gone seriously dark!
Maria: It's Tatiana!
Sam: She's saved? Oh thank god!
Maria: No!
Anastasia (sits up): What?
Maria: She's... she's... DEAD (goes sobbing in Sam clutching for dear life) Tatiana's dead!
Sam (trying to keep it together): Oh my... god!
Anastasia (her head back in her pillow): This all my fault! If I had just kept my mouth shut! I'm the reason Tatiana's dead!
Sam: Hey! This isn't the time for blame... Tatiana wouldn't want that! You two stay together... I'm down to speak with your father! I'll be right back... you both understand!?
Maria: Yes... we... we understand!

Downstairs...
Alexandra: I have already lost one daughter please don't make me lose another!
Sam (enters study, Olga's on sofa): What's going on!?
Nicholas: She fainted! She hasn't woken up!
Sam (goes over and checks for a pulse): She's alive Alix... (realizes and remembers what would have happened in 1945) She's catatonic! The news of Tatiana's death has sent a shock to her system!
Nicholas: I need to call Kerensky to arrange a memorial for my second daughter... (tries to keep it together) excuse me!
Sam: Alix, you stay with Olga! I'll...
Alexandra: What are you going to do?
Sam: I'm going back up to Maria and Anastasia!
Alexandra: Alright!

Upstairs...
Maria: Stop blaming yourself... Tatiana would get all Governess on you if she heard you talking like this!
Anastasia: But it's true! Tatiana died because of me!
Sam (enters): Maria's right... she would get all governess on you talking like this!
Maria: What did Papa say?
Sam: When I went into the study... I found Olga on the sofa! She's catatonic! Your mother is watching over her while your father has gone and made a call to Kerensky to arrange Tatiana's memorial service!
Maria: And... oh god Dmitri!
Sam: He's quiet... that's all I know!

Ripper's place...
Ripper: So tell me something Dr...?
Tatiana: Malama!
Ripper: Do you have a first name Dr. Malama?
Tatiana: Yes, I'm Dr. Tatiana Nikolaievna Malama!
Ripper: Tatiana... hmm it's pretty!
Tatiana: How long am I going to be blindfolded?
Ripper: Oh as long as I choose! I can't have you be able to identify me now can I?
Tatiana: I suppose that would be bad on your part now wouldn't it?
Ripper: Yes... but it would be even worse on yours if my name would be discovered to the world! All they know... is who my father is! And that (slaps her then smiles) is all they're going to know for your own safety... (pats her on the head) right Dr. Tatiana Nikolaievna Malama?
Tatiana (shudders from the slap): Right!
Ripper: See I always figured you were the more cooperative one! You cooperate with me and I won't hurt you understand?
Tatiana: I understand!

Anichkov Palace, Nicky's talking to Kerensky...
Kerensky: Yes Nicholas?
Nicholas: My daughter Tatiana is...
Kerensky: Dead! I've heard the reports... I'm so sorry for your loss!
Nicholas: Thank you Kerensky! I want to arrange a memorial in her honor!
Kerensky: If I may I'd like to suggest....




Kerensky: If I may I'd like to suggest the Tatiana Nikolaieva Foundation, in her honour. It would be used to fund the building of new hospitals.
Nicholas: I.... I think Tatiana would have liked that.
Kerensky: How is Alexandra?
Nicholas: Holding it together well. However Tatiana was her favourite daughter. I know this has utterly devastated her. So, I guess... We better discuss the service...
Kerensky: I was thinking...

Meanwhile, the two Ivan's and Dimitri C-B find Dimitri M loading a gun..

Ivan K: Dude, what are you doing?
Dimitri M: What does it look like. I'm going to find that Ripper and make him PAY!
Dimitri C-B: This is not the answer, Dimitri.
Dimitri M: That monster killed the only woman I've ever loved. This cannot go unavenged. I'll find him if I have to chase him to the depths of Hell itself. Starts forward, but Dimitri C-B and the two Ivan's block his path.
Dimitri M: Get out of my way!
Ivan S: Dimitri, please, think this over. Would Tatiana want this?
Ivan K: Also, what about your children?
Dimitri M: Stops. My children.
Dimitri C-B: They're going to need their father. They've lost their mother, please don't make them lose their father too.
Dimitri M: Drops the gun. I.... Loses it. Aw God!
Ivan S: It's okay, let it out. We understand.
Dimitri M: Between sobs. It's 1918 all over again, I thought I'd lost her forever, but now, I HAVE lost her.....



Sam (comes up behind Malama and puts a hand on his shoulder): It's going to be okay! You may have lost her physically but spiritually she'll always be here among all of us!
Dmitri M: How is Olga?
Sam: She's still catatonic! Dmitri moved her upstairs to her bed!
Dmitri M: I thought I had it hard!
Sam: Just don't lose your will to live like 1918! Tatiana wouldn't want that! Besides you have a bigger support system then you did then!
Dmitri M (smiles for the first time): You're right I do! How's Anastasia?
Sam: She's still at it! She's in bed with the covers over her head! Everytime you take them off to try and talk to her she rips them back over her head!
Dmitri M: So I take it she still blames herself then?
Sam: Yeah... she still does!
Dmitri M: Sam?
Sam: Yeah?
Dmitri M: I need you to do a favor... for Tatiana's sake!
Sam: Name it!
Dmitri M: Go to the memorial... i need ALL of my support to keep it together and that includes you too!
Sam (turns her back, keeping the tears back she's starts walking away upstairs) I"ll try!

Ripper's...
Ripper: So... how is my little grand duchess fairing today?
Tatiana: I'm scared... I'm sure that's what you want to hear isn't it?
Ripper: You being scared of me... yeah actually it is! It let's me know you understand what I'm capable of doing to you!
Tatiana (starts crying): Please... just let me go!
Ripper (rolls his eyes): There... there... uh there! You can stop your crying... no one can hear you for miles anyhow!
Tatiana: Please... the world may know who your father is but they don't know your name!
Ripper (gets right down in front of her): And they aren't going to know unless they want something like "Random: Grand Duchess Killed" splashed across all of Russia's newspapers... understand?
Tatiana (starts regaining composure and nods): I... I understand!
Ripper (pats her on the head): Good!

Nicky and Kerensky are still talking...
Kerensky: I was thinking that we'd have it at a special place!
Nicholas: She like her sisters loved the children's playhouse... and after her and Dmitri were married it became they're house!
Kerensky: Sounds lovely! So shall it be an outside service then?
Nicholas: Yes... Tatiana liked the outdoors!
Kerensky: Sounds good! I heard your daughter there... the oldest sing at Samantha's party!
Nicholas: The oldest is Olga... however i don't think she's going to be able to pull it together to do that! I don't even know if she's going to pull out of it to go to the service!
Kerensky: Out of it? Is she alright?
Nicholas: No, she's catatonic!
Kerensky: I take her and Tatiana were very close?
Nicholas: Yes they were! The were more like best friends then just sisters!
Kerensky: I see then... then yes that would make it very hard! When should we have it?
Nicholas: Sooner the better! (Sam enters) Hold on... would you like to speak with Kerensky?
Sam: I suppose so... put him on speaker!
Nicholas: Very well! (puts it on speaker) Kerensky, you're on speaker! Sam just entered!
Sam: I heard it all when i walked by! I don't think Olga's going to have what it takes to do anything either!
Kerensky: I was wondering if i may come over... make this planning easier? Sam, would you mind helping?
Sam: Of course!
Kerensky: Right then... I'm on my way!
Nicholas: Very well! (hangs up) Thank you... Tatiana would be proud!
Sam: Yes she would!
Rodionov (enters with Sablin): We heard what happened!
Sablin: Are you all alright?
Sam (looks to Nicky then looks back): As good as we're going to get i suppose! Why don't you talk with the others when we get back? Me and Nicky have some plans to make... (looks to Nicky) don't we Nicky?
Nicholas (clears throat): Of course we do! Gentlemen!

Everyone travels to Alexander Palace and Nicky, Kerensky, and Sam go to the Children's playhouse...
Sam: I'm thinking a podium here, with a giant framed photo of her next to it! Flowers in front of the photo as well!
Nicholas (thinking about it): Jasmines! She loved Jasmines!
Sam: You're right... in fact that was her favorite perfume wasn't it! (gasps) We could put a vial of Jasmine somewhere around the photo!
Nicholas (forces a smile): Yes! It would be like she was there with us... just with the scent of her perfume alone!
Sam: Yeah... you're right! I didn't think of it that way!
Kerensky: When to have it that's the thing!
Nicholas: Yes it is!
Olga (enters): Papa?
Nicholas (rushes to her and hugs her): Oh Olga... you're awake!
Olga: I figure Tatiana wouldn't want me to be catatonic like this!
Sam: You're right and she wouldn't want Nastya hiding under her covers either! Have you realized you can't even call her imp anymore without it upsetting her?
Nicholas: Yes... her Ivan did that! He called her Comrade Imp again hoping she'd smile... but she yelled at him instead that she wasn't an imp anymore!
Sam: Been there and did that the other day!
Nicholas: Olga?
Olga: Yes Papa?
Nicholas: When do you think we should have the service?
Olga: The sooner the better! Get it done and over with!
Sam: I understand how you feel!
Olga: No you don't!
Sam: When I lost my first husband, it was hard.
Olga: Then I suppose you do know how it feels!
Nicholas: Would you do the honors?
Sam: Honors? (looks at Nicky) Do you mean pop everything up by magic... (looks to Kerensky) in front of him?
Kerensky: I'll be alright by it... you're secret will be safe with me!
Sam (rolls her eyes): I can't believe I'm doing this! Wait which photo?
Olga: You choose!
Sam (looks at Olga, goes over and takes her hand): No, you two were closest so you choose!
Olga: Your favorite 1914 formal! I must admit I liked it very much too!
Sam (waves her hand): OUR favorite 1914 formal it is then!
Olga (looks around): She would have been touched by this! Do you think... we could keep it this way?
Sam: A permant memorial to Tatiana... hmm she would have liked that!
Nicholas: Yes... we in fact should keep it like this! Shall I get everyone present?
Sam: Uh yeah! Kerensky?
Kerensky: Yes?
Sam: You two go ahead I need to talk to Kerensky!
Olga: Alright!

Inside...
Nicholas (goes to Mauve Room, he knows where to find Alix): Alix? It's time!
Alexandra: Does this mean she's really gone and not coming back Nicky?
Nicholas: Yes my dear I'm afraid so!
Alexandra: Oh Nicky! Why... why did I let her stay there?
Nicholas: It's not your fault just like it isn't Anastasia's fault either!

Upstairs...
Olga (goes to LP Room): Hey... it's time for the memorial service!
Maria (looks at the doorway): Olga! You're awake!
Olga (comes in): Yeah, yeah I'm awake! (puts a hand on the covers) Nastya! It's time!
Anastasia: I'm not going!
Olga: You wouldn't want to disappoint our Governess now would you?
Anastasia (slowly takes the covers off from her head and sits up): No... I wouldn't!
Olga: Then let's dress and go then!
Anastasia (looks to Maria who then puts a hand on her shoulder): Alright!
Memorial service and everyone is there including the Sablin, Rodionov, Yurovksy, Nagorney, and Dmitri Pavlovitch well and Nicky's brother and sisters...
Nicholas: We are gathered here... (clears throat) to mourn the loss of a daughter, a sister, a friend to many! No, not morn... celebrate for that is what my daughter Tatiana would want! She may have not been so open but she had a willing heart! Always prepared to give up something she wanted to do for the sake of someone else! It's hard believe me... but it's time we unfortunately must say goodbye! Olga? Can you manage it?
Maria: We'll be right there with you Olga!
Olga (looks to the LP): Thank you! (goes up) I never thought this would ever happen! Tatiana was my best friend as well as my sister! We did everything together, we told each other everything, we would even now still coordinate our outfits and almost perfectly match! Now she's gone and... and...
Maria (puts a hand to her back): It's alright!
Olga: Thank you Maria! And I don't know how to let her go! But I know... I know I must! Someone once quoted a friend of hers... "There will be things in this life that you can't stop but that doesn't mean you have to shut out the world! Things will happen for the good and for the bad!" I think I'm done... I can't go on anymore!
Dmitri M (as LP literally have to help Olga down): What can i say about the only woman i have ever loved? I remember it was 1914 when I saw this beautiful though still just 17 at the time woman come up to my bed at the Lazaret with a set of bandages! I'll never forget that gentle smile of hers... always apologizing if during the process of treating us caused any pain! Now she's gone... the world lost a great nurse and a great doctor! She is and always will be my Fairy Princess! Excuse me... I need to sit back down!
Kerensky: Before we go, a special friend would like to sing something of her time! If you would please...?
Sam (wipes her eyes and goes up and hands over some music) I was originally going to do just one but as the week went by i decided two would be better! The first is for Dmitri and it's called If You Came Back Heaven!

If You Came Back from Heaven - Lorrie Morgan
I wouldn't know what to say
I wouldn't know what to do
If you came back from Heaven and I could look at you
Would I fumble for the words, would I be a little shy
Would I bust right out with laughter or break right down and cry
Chorus:
Oh if you came back from heaven
Would it be like it was then
Could we just pick up where we left off and try it all again
Oh if you came back from heaven
It would freeze me in my tracks
And I hope God knows if he let you go I'd never send you back
Do your kisses feel the same
Do you still have the same touch
And will you whisper softly cause you've missed me so much
Have you heard all my prayers when I lay down at night
And did you feel my body when i held your pillow tight
Chorus:
Oh if you came back from heaven
Would it be like it was then
Could we just pick up where we left off and try it all again
Oh if you came back from heaven
It would freeze me in my tracks
And I hope God knows if he let you go I'd never send you back
And if god forbid you leave this again while I sleep
I hope he knows if you go you'll be bringing me
Chorus:
Oh if you came back from heaven
Would it be like it was then
Could we just pick up where we left off and try it all again
Oh if you came back from heaven
It would freeze me in my tracks
And I hope God knows if he let you go I'd never send you back
I hope God knows if he let you go I'd never send you... back

Sam: This is the other one the one that i recently thought of and it's called Borrowed Angels
Borrowed Angels - Kristen Chenoweth
They shine a little brighter
They feel a little more
They touch your life in way no one has ever done before
They love a little stronger
They live to give their best
They make our lives so blessed
So why do they go so soon
The ones with soul so beautiful
I heard someone say
There must be
Chorus:
Borrowed angels
Here in this life
They come along into this world and make this world bright
But they can't stay forever cause their heaven sent
And sometimes heaven needs them back again
They reach a little deeper
They see what's in your soul
And even when they leave you know you'll never let them go
The worlds a little richer just cause they came along
Their love goes on and on
So why do they go so soon
The ones with soul so beautiful
I heard someone say
There must be
Chorus:
Borrowed angels
Here in this life
They come along into this world and make this world bright
But they can't stay forever cause their heaven sent
And sometimes heaven needs them back again
How else can you explain
Why there here and not here to stay
I believe there must be, must be
Chorus:
Borrowed angels
Here in this life
They come along into this world and make this world bright
But they can't stay forever cause their heaven sent
And sometimes heaven needs them back again
And sometimes heaven needs them back again

Sam (goes and touches the photo and places a jasmine below it): Goodbye Tatiana... at least for now!

Inside...



Olga: Wow, I didn't know that Sam was such a powerful singer. I wish...
Maria: Olga?
Olga: I wish that.... Tanya could have been here to hear it too... Oh God! Bursts into tears.
Dimitri C-B: That's it, Olga, just let it out.
Maria: Olga's right, Sam's voice is incredible.
Anastasia: It should have been me.
Maria: What did you say, Nastya?
Anastasia: I'm the one that should have died, not Tanya! The Ripper was after me, the only reason he got Tanya was.... because I was too well protected...
Maria: Nastya, stop it
Anastasia: No, it should have been me. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME!! Runs away

Meanwhile, in the study, Nicholas and Alexandra are on speaker phone with George V.

George V: Nicky, Alix, I can't begin to say how sorry I am.
Alexandra: Thanks George.
George V: I just wish I could have been there too.
Nicholas: That's okay, George, we know you can't always get away.
George V: Still I'd like to help you, Nicky.
Nicholas: How so?
George V: I've been in touch with Scotland Yard and I've asked them to send you all the help you need. Detectives, equipment, you name it, they'll send it. I'd send Sherlock Holmes himself if he were real. I want to help you catch the bugger that did this!
Alexandra: Thank you, George.
George V: You're welcome, Alix. Both you take care, and know I'll be thinking about you.
Nicholas: Thanks, George. Hangs up.
Alexandra: It's nice to know that our friends are there for us.
Nicholas: I agree.
Suddenly, Maria comes in, worried look on her face.
Maria: Mama, Papa, it's Nastya. Tells them what happened.

Meanwhile, Anastasia has found her way to the liquor cabinet. Seeing no one around, she removes a bottle of vodka and opens it.

Anastasia: Just a little, to take the guilt and pain away. Just a little. Raises the bottle to her lips...

Sam (comes up behind her and takes the bottle): Don't turn into your father now!
Anastasia (startled): Sam I didn't hear you come into the room!
Sam (puts vodka back in and locks it with a force field so NO ONE can get to it): Yeah well i crept up behind you that's why!
Anastasia: WHY!?
Sam: Why what?
Anastasia: Why did she have to die... he wanted me not her!
Sam: He did it to get to you! To send you a message! Since you weren't in Moscow but she was... he chose her as a substitute because she was closer!
Anastasia: It's not fair!
Sam: No it isn't! I'm going to go and take care of her stuff! I was thinking of putting the medical bag underneath the Memorial's photo!
Anastasia: Dmitri beat you to it! It's already there... I watched him as he placed it there!
Sam: Oh... well I'm going to go to the site anyhow! Do you want to join me?
Anastasia (runs upstairs): NO!
Sam: Okay then! (sees Olga) Olga?
Olga: Yes?
Sam: Are you alright?
Olga: Oh I'm just perfect!
Sam: No need to be sarcastic! (starts heading out door) I'm going to Tatiana's memorial site... care to join?
Olga: No... i feel as though I need to see how Anastasia's holding up!
Sam: Not well... i can tell you that! She's very upset just so you know!
Olga: Alright thanks for the heads up!

Memorial Site...
Sam: Oh Tatiana! None of us can believe you're really gone! Why did it have to be you? You survived Typhoid, Measles, imprisonment and worse a Bolsheviks bullet... all for it to end this way! (opens perfume vial) Jasmine! Jasmines were always your favorite... I know that! (looks to medical bag) I remember that day you got your medical license! (laughs a little) It took me going backstage to get you to come out and face the crowd! I just... I can't believe it! (she picks up the medical bag and all of a sudden gasps)

SAM'S PREMONITION...
She sees Tatiana sitting in a chair, her hands tied behind her back. She sees that Tatiana's blindfolded! She's hears the end of a discussion...
Tatiana: So I suppose you're going to kill or rape me?
Tumblety: No, I have a better plan. Thanks to your meddlesome sister, people here know who I am. You're going to be my bargaining chip, your release, in return for safe passage out of Russia. Maybe I'll try America next. Cities like Chicago and New York are no doubt crawling with whores, and my knife is so sharp. I can't wait to get back to work. Laughs evilly..

End of Premonition making Sam scream! Maria rushes to her side as she was coming to visit the memorial herself...
Maria: Sam! SAM!
Sam: Tatiana! Oh my god!
Maria (as Sam rushes off): Sam! What is it!? What's going on!? (rushes after her) Sam... talk to me! (she gets upstairs when Sam slams the door in her face) Sam?
Sam: Not right now Maria! There's something I have to go and do! (she comes back out with a gun strapped to her waist) Excuse me Mashka but you're in my way!
Maria (watches her go): Sam!
Sam (goes downstairs): NICKY! NICKY GET OUT HERE RIGHT NOW!
Nicholas (rushes out): WHAT!?
Sam: IMPERIAL TRAIN... NOW AND I'M NOT ASKING FOR IT I'M DEMANDING IT!
Nicholas: But Sam...
Sam: NOW NICKY... RIGHT NOW! I'M GOING TO MOSCOW WITH OR WITHOUT YOUR HELP!
Nicholas: I'll make the calls! That little girl should be coming soon... someone just needs to pick her up from that orphanage!
Sam: Well then it's a good thing I'm going then now isn't it!?

Moscow...
Sam: I forgot how long trains could take sometimes! (closes her eyes) Tatiana now that i know you're alive... I will find you! (she opens her eyes) This way! (she starts walking) When I find him... I swear I'll make sure he never hurts another woman again! Then once I have Tatiana and it's all over... we'll go to the orphanage together and get the child for Maria and Ivan! Nicholas, soon Mikhail in 9 months and now they're adopting! It's a good thing Maria loves children... hey maybe she might get her twenty after all whether Ivan likes it or not!

Rippers Place...
Ripper: Can't you stop crying for one second!?
Tatiana: I can't help it! I'm scared!
Ripper: Look doc... no ones going to hear you and frankly i really don't care! Now just be a good grand duchess there doc and pull yourself together!
Tatiana (forces composure): I'll... I'll try!
Ripper (pats her on the head again): There... that's better!
Sam (finds the place): Well isn't this nice, shabby and dilapidated but nice! (pulls out her gun and quietly enters) It's a good thing I ran a police force back home so i know how to do this! (points her gun at a door) Here's hoping this is the right one... (senses it) thank god for being a witch! Maybe i shouldn't have stopped being god though... hmm oh well!

She opens the door quietly but she's not expecting...
Ripper (his knife at Tatiana's throat): Move one more step closer and she dies! Now put the gun down!
Sam: What if I just put it back in the holster?
Tatiana: Sam?
Ripper: You be quiet! (back to Sam) I can agree to that... as long as it's not out and pointed at me nothings going to happen to our little Grand Duchess here! I looked out the window and saw you by the way!
Sam (holsters her gun): Is that better?
Ripper: Yes it's better! It means killing you will be easier!
Sam (he goes after her with his knife, she takes her gun out fast): Yeah you wish! (3 bullets fired right into his chest) You just shouldn't mess with a good shooter! (she runs over) Tatiana? Tatiana can you hear me?
Tatiana: Oh god Sam it is you!
Sam: Yes it's me I'm here now! We've all spent the last two weeks thinking you were dead!
Tatiana: What!?
Sam: Dmitri, your Dmitri he stormed in with your medical bag... it had your blood on it!
Tatiana: Oh god!
Sam (takes blindfold off of her, looks into her eyes): It doesn't matter now! What matters is that you're alive! Here (stands up and goes behind her) let's untie you... let's get you home! (Sam helps her stand) It's over now... he can't hurt anyone ever again!
Tatiana (hugs her nearly squishing her and toppling her over): You saved my life... thank you!
Sam: You're welcome! Your mother is going to be overjoyed... so is Olga! Not saying that everyone else won't be but those two especially will be!
Tatiana: Olga... is she alright?
Sam: She's... well... she's trying to handle it! Wait until you see the memorial on the Children's Playhouse!
Tatiana: You had a memorial service just for me?
Sam: Yes we did... afterall we thought we really had lost you!
Tatiana: I can't wait to see it!
Sam: Come on let's get you home... the police will enter afterwards and take care of him!
Tatiana: I can't wait to be home!
Sam: I can't wait for you to be home either! Your job here is done! No more prostitutes will have to be afraid now that he's dead!
Tatiana: You're right they won't have to be afraid anymore!
Sam: There's nothing for you to fear either! He can't scare you anymore alright?
Tatiana: Alright! Although i swear if he patted me on the head one more time...! (she stops making Sam stop) How did you discover the truth?
Sam: I went to the memorial site... when I picked up your medical bag I had a premonition!
Tatiana: A what?
Sam: Premonition... a vision! I saw you tied to chair and blindfolded and then i heard a small conversation about him bargaining you for his freedom! The rest as they say is history!
Tatiana: Thank you again... now everyone will know I'm alive!
Sam: Yes they will! (smiles and her wraps her arm around Tatiana's shoulder) Let's go home!

Alexander Palace, she's home now and the first person she sees is crying in bed...
Tatiana (goes over and puts a hand on her shoulder)




Olga: Her eyes go wide. Either I'm seeing a ghost or...
Tatiana: It's me, Olga, I Wooooffff! Cut off as Olga hugs her hard. Olga, you're crushing me.
Olga: Mashka, Nastya, get in here, now!
The LP enter.
Maria: Olga what... Breaks off as she and Anastasia see Tatiana. Soon they join in the hug.
Tatiana: Can't....breathe!
Olga: Sorry, Tanya, it's just that we'd thought we'd lost you what happened?
Tatiana: Well.. Goes on to explain her captivity and Sam rescuing her.
Maria: Sam does it again.
Anastasia: Oh my God, Tatiana, I'm so glad to see you. It's my fault all this happened and..
Tatiana: Nastya, it was never your fault. You had no way of knowing that a reporter was listening in to you and Olga talk.
Maria: That's what we've been trying to tell her for two weeks now.
Tatiana: Besides, Nastya, you helped uncover who the Ripper was, that in turn led to Sam ultimately stopping him from hurting anyone else. So, stop blaming yourself!
Anastasia: Yes, Governess. God, it's good to say that again. Smiles.
Olga: So, can we call you Imp again.
Anastasia: Yeah, you can.
Dimitri M enters.
Tatiana: Dimitri my darling! Runs over and the two of them embrace.
Dimitri M: Oh my God, I thought I'd lost you again.
Tatiana: I'm safe, Dimitri, Sam saved me.
Dimitri M: When I get my hands on that Ripper...
Tatiana: There is no need. Sam shot him dead.
Olga: Good riddance to bad rubbish!

Soon they head downstairs where...

Alexandra: Tanya! Oh my Tanya! Hugs Tatiana hard.
Tatiana: Yes, Mama, I'm back. I'm safe.
Soon Nicholas embraces her too.
Tatiana: Yes, Papa, it's me.
Nicholas: Oh thank God, and Sam, that you're safe, Tanya.
Anastasia: Of course, they're one and the same!
Maria: That's right.
Alexandra: Hush, now is not the time for that kind of talk.
Nicholas: Well, I'm going to call George back and tell him that we won't be needing Scotland Yard's help after all.
Tatiana: Yes, Sam shot the Ripper. He's dead.
At that point, Ivan S comes in, holding a baby.
Maria: Is that..
Ivan S. Yes, it's the little girl from Moscow. She's our's, Mashka. Now what should we name...
Maria: Tatiana, her name is Tatiana. Turns to her sister. You don't object, do you Governess.
Tatiana: No, you have my blessing.
Ivan S. Tatiana it is then.
Tatiana: Now, how you all show me this memorial I've heard about...

[Tim]

Anastasia: Right this way Governess! (Tatiana looks at her) Sorry... can't help but say it!
Tatiana (laughs): It's alright... imp!
Olga: Well here it is!
Tatiana (gasps as she sees the portrait and ALL the flowers underneath that happen to be Jasmines): Oh my... I don't know what to say!
Maria: Too bad you missed Sam sing though!
Tatiana: She sang?
Anastasia: Yeah and whoa! She's amazing!
Olga: Hey remember our first trip to the future? She mentioned that theater house or something?
Tatiana: Oh yes! So it would be no surprise if she's already a performer!
Olga: We should find her and have her sing for you again!
Sam (comes up): What are we talking about? (notices Tatiana) Oh, so what do you think?
Tatiana: It's beautiful!
Olga (puts a mike in her hand) Sing!
Sam: What!?
Olga: Sing! How about that one you did for her and Dmitri?
Sam: You're kidding right?
Tatiana: Please sing?
Sam: Well I suppose in celebration of your return!

If You Came Back from Heaven - Lorrie Morgan
I wouldn't know what to say
I wouldn't know what to do
If you came back from Heaven and I could look at you
Would I fumble for the words, would I be a little shy
Would I bust right out with laughter or break right down and cry
Chorus:
Oh if you came back from heaven
Would it be like it was then
Could we just pick up where we left off and try it all again
Oh if you came back from heaven
It would freeze me in my tracks
And I hope God knows if he let you go I'd never send you back
Do your kisses feel the same
Do you still have the same touch
And will you whisper softly cause you've missed me so much
Have you heard all my prayers when I lay down at night
And did you feel my body when i held your pillow tight
Chorus:
Oh if you came back from heaven
Would it be like it was then
Could we just pick up where we left off and try it all again
Oh if you came back from heaven
It would freeze me in my tracks
And I hope God knows if he let you go I'd never send you back
And if god forbid you leave this again while I sleep
I hope he knows if you go you'll be bringing me
Chorus:
Oh if you came back from heaven
Would it be like it was then
Could we just pick up where we left off and try it all again
Oh if you came back from heaven
It would freeze me in my tracks
And I hope God knows if he let you go I'd never send you back
I hope God knows if he let you go I'd never send you... back

Sam (smiles): There! Happy now? (Tatiana nearly squishes her again) Ahh... Tanya i can't breath!
Tatiana (pulls away): Oh sorry! That was so beautiful!
Sam: I hope so! Come on we have a celebratory dinner to attend and then we'll go back home to Anichkov Palace!
Tatiana: Yes!
Sam: Oh by the way (picks up Tatiana's medical bag... where did the blood just go?) you may need this back!
Tatiana (accepts her bag): Thank you... you're right I will need it! (looks to her sisters) Let's go you three!
Olga/Maria/Anastasia (look at each other then at Tatiana smiling): Yes Governess!

[Tim]

Soon, at the dinner, Nicholas stands up and makes an announcement..

Nicholas: I don't have to tell you all why we're here, but I will anyway. Our Tatiana has been returned to us alive and safe. I want to give thanks to God, and Sam, for bringing her back to us.
Alexandra: Amen. I don't know what I would have done, Tanya, if I had lost you to that madman. These past two weeks have been the worst in my life. However, she is safe, and that is all that matters.
Nicholas: Plus there is one good thing that came out of this tragedy, a new addition to our family. Gestures to Little Tatiana in Maria's arms.
Maria: I'll say.
Anastasia: yeah, Mashka, you might end up having those twenty kids after all. Everyone laughs, a welcome release.

Later, OTMA, their guys and kids, and Sam, head back to Anichkov Palace. That night, Maria has a dream, in which she sees a young woman.

Maria: Who are you?
Woman: I'm Maria Krycek.
Maria: You're the mother of my new baby.
Maria K: Yes, I am. I just want to tell you that I am at peace now, we all are.
Maria: The victims of the Moscow Ripper?
Maria K: Yes, and also those of his evil father. We are all at peace now.
Maria: That's good to know.
Maria K: Also, I want to say that you have my blessing to raise my daughter as your own. I know she has found a good home and loving family.
Maria: Thank you.
Maria K: Farewell. Maria K fades away and our Maria wakes up.
Ivan S: Maria, what is it?
Maria: Something wondering has just happened.
Ivan S: Well, don't keep me in suspense, tell me.
Maria: Maria Krycek came to me in a dream.
Ivan S: Little Tatiana's birth mother?
Maria: Yes, she said she was at peace now, and she also said we have her blessing to raise little Tatiana as our own.
Ivan S: That's good to know, Mashka...


Next morning at breakfast...
Maria: I have news to tell everyone!
Sam: Really? What is this news?
Maria: I saw Maria Krycek in a dream last night! (Olga almost chokes on a piece of bacon) Olga... you okay?
Olga: Yeah I'm fine... what was that you just said Mashka?
Maria: I saw Maria Krycek in a dream last night... wow did i stutter?
Sam: What did she say?
Maria: She said that her and all of the victims including those of his father were at peace! She also gave me her blessing to raise her daughter!
Tatiana: That's wonderful!
Anastasia: That's so cool! Why can't I see like any dead relatives or whatever?
Sam: Who would you want to see?
Anastasia: We would be very amused indeed if we got to meet our Great Grandmother Queen Victoria!
Sam (laughs): Nice one! Careful you may just get your wish someday!
Anastasia: I doubt it!
Sam: You never know imp... you never know!
Anastasia: Still... I doubt it!
Tatiana: So how is our new addition?
Maria: She interestingly doesn't cry very often! She's kind of predictable sometimes!
Olga: Uh-huh!
Maria: So Sam!
Sam: So Mashka!
Maria: Cute! Singing for anyone again anytime soon?
Sam: Ha! Ha! No... not the last time i checked anyhow! (Olga smiles) Don't you be getting any ideas there!
Olga (gasps and points to herself): Who me?
Sam: Yes unless there's another Olga Nikolaievna that i don't know about somewhere here in the palace!
Olga: Oh how very cute!
Sam: Well I try hard! So what are we up to today?
Anastasia: We are going to be spending some time with Jemmy, drawing, and spending time with our new niece!
Olga: Okay cool it... you aren't our great grandmother so keep dreaming!
Anastasia: She asks... I'm the first to answer!
Olga: I'm going to be spending the day in town with Dmitri and the children then I'm coming home and relaxing with a nice book! Oh and Tatiana and her Dmitri and their children our joining us!
Tatiana: We are?
Olga: After what happened two weeks ago you are... (Tatiana's about to object) and not another word Governess! Besides I'm sure all you have to do today is what sit here at home and sew something?
Tatiana: I... uh... no!
Olga: I... uh... yes!
Tatiana: But I... (everyone looks at her) oh fine! Dmitri?
Dmitri M: I think it's a wonderful idea!
Olga: Good then it's settled... so there Governess!
Maria: I'm of course going to be taking care of the children!
Sam: Oh but of course!

That night Victoria comes to see ALL four of them in a dream (yes they all have the same dream)...


That night Victoria comes to see ALL four of them in a dream. OTMA find themselves in the same mist covered field that Alexandra did.

Olga: Where are we?
Tatiana: I don't know.
Maria: I don't remember getting here, wherever this is.
Anastasia: I think we're in a dream.
Olga: The same dream at the same time? Is Sam doing this?
Queen Victoria steps out of the mist.
Victoria: No, I am.
Olga: Great grandmother!
Maria: Well, Nastya, you did say you wanted to meet her!
Victoria: I just wanted to come and see you all. Alecky had done a great job raising you all.
Anastasia: Alecky?
Victoria: What is what I always called your mother when she was a little girl. She was always one of my favourite grandchildren. Oh, there are stories I could tell you.
Maria: I can just imagine.
Victoria: You've made me proud, all of you, my great granddaughters. Also, there is someone I want you to meet. Another woman appears beside Victoria.
Olga: Is that...
Victoria: This is my daughter, Princess Alice, your grandmother. You never got a chance to know her, she died when Alecky was six.
Alice: It's wonderful to meet you all. I can see your mother in all of you.
Tatiana: Thank you grandmother.
Victoria: We just want to let you all know that we'll be watching over you, and your children.
Alice: Please tell your mother that I love her, and not a day goes by that I don't miss her. However, she has raised five wonderful children, and that makes me happy.
Olga: We will.
Victoria and Alice: Then take care, and remember you'll always be in our hearts. Before they fade away, Victoria smiles and says. You got your wish, Imp.

OTMA wake up...

[Tim]

2 D's/ 2 I's (each to their perspective wife): What is it?
Maria: I just shared a dream with my sisters!
Ivan S: Really now?
Maria: We saw both our great grandmother and our grandmother! I actually got to meet my maternal grandmother!
Ivan S: Whoa... are you saying you met Queen Victoria and what was your mother's well mother's name again?
Maria: Alice!
Ivan S: Whoa!
Anastasia: I got my wish... though i may have gotten more then expected!
Ivan K: Let me guess you met Queen Victoria?
Anastasia: Yes and then she surprised us by letting us meet our Grandmother Alice!
Ivan K: Your mother's mother?
fades to...
Tatiana: Yes and oh dear won't Mama be surprised!
Dmitri M: I wouldn't doubt she would be!
Dmitri C-B: So what happens now?
Olga: We talk to Sam tomorrow and then we'll get Tatiana to call Mama!
Dmitri C-B: Works for me! (kisses her) Good night!
Olga (blushes): Goodnight Dmitri!
Next day...
OTMA: SAM!
Sam: OTMA!
Olga: Man... we were not expecting a comeback like that!
Sam: Well?
Tatiana: Nastya got her wish! We got a chance to meet with Queen Victoria...
Sam: And Alice? (they look to her in shock)
Olga: What was that you just said?
Sam: Nothing! How was your visit with Victoria?
Maria: It was cool and hey we got to meet our Grandmother Alice too!
Sam (trying to hide she knows something): Oh that's wonderful! I bet if you told your mother she would be so happy!
Anastasia: We bet our Mama would be very happy indeed!
Olga: Nastya!
Anastasia: Sorry... couldn't resist!
Olga: Hey Tatiana?
Tatiana: Yes Olga?
Olga: Maybe you should call Mama and tell her!
Tatiana: Maybe I should!
Sam (as they go off she turns around to see...): Cas... thanks!
Castiel: Not a problem I guess!
Sam (watches OMA): What do you mean (turns to face him sure enough he's disappeared again) you... guess? I hate it when he does that!

Tatiana calls Alix...
Tatiana: Mama?
Alexandra: Hello dear!
Tatiana: I have news for you!
Alexandra: Is everything alright?
Tatiana: Yes Mama everything's fine! The four of us all had the same dream last night!
Alexandra: Tell me about it!
Tatiana: Well yesterday it seems that Nastya was jealous that you got to see Great Grandmother Victoria, Maria saw Maria Krycek who gave her blessing by the way and a couple times Sam got to see Grandmother as in Papa's mother!
Alexandra: Yes and?
Tatiana: She made the remark of who she would like to see and guess what Mama she got her wish!
Alexandra: Who was it?
Tatiana: Great Grandmother Victoria! She liked Nastya's impressions of her which by the way Nastya does a very good job! But as a bonus visit our grandmother Alice... your mother Mama came to us!
Alexandra: Mama? My Mama?
Tatiana: Yes and oh Mama she wants you to know that she loves you and not a day goes by when she doesn't miss you! (crying is heard on the other line) Mama? Are you alright?
Alexandra: Oh yes dear I'm fine! I'm just so overjoyed you got to meet her!
Tatiana (looks over her shoulder): Olga's calling for me! I'll talk to you later!
Alexandra: Alright!
Tatiana (hangs up): I'm coming Olga!

That night Alix is visited in a dream...
Alexandra (turns around): Mama?
Alice: Yes it's me! I have another surprise for you my daughter!
Alexandra (gasps): Oh my... it can't be!
Alice: But it is my dear!
Alexandra: But how...


Standing beside Alice is a little girl, Alix's younger sister, May, who had died when Alix was six.

Alexandra: May, is that you?
May: Who are you? How do you know my name?
Alexandra: May, it's me, your sister, Alix.
May: You can't be Alix, she's six!
Alice: Forgive me, Alix, time has no meaning over here. Let me help. Turns to May. May, look deep, and you'll see that it is your sister.
May turns and concentrates. Surely, she sees the image of Alix as a little girl.
May: It is you! Runs over and hugs her sister.
Alexandra: Yes, May, it's me, your big sister.
May: Very big sister.
Alexandra laughs.
Alexandra: I have children of my own now, your nieces and nephews, their names are Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei. They themselves have children.
May: You... you're a grandma!?
Alexandra: Yes, I am.
May: Can I meet them?
Alexandra: Perhaps someday, you can.
May: I'd like that.
Queen Victoria appears.
Alexandra: Grandmother, did you arrange this?
Victoria: No, someone who has friends in high places did, and that's all I can say.
Alexandra: I think I may know who this someone is.
Victoria: There is someone else who wants to see you, Alecky.
Prince Albert Victor "Eddy",the Duke Of Clarence,appears.
Alexandra: Cousin Eddy!?
Eddy: Hello, Alix, it's been a long time.
Alexandra: It has.
Eddy: I just want to say that there are no hard feelings, Alix. I know you didn't love me, and I understand why. You chose a good man to marry, I approve.
Alexandra: Thank you,Eddy.
Eddy: I also know what happened with that Moscow Ripper business. I just hope that puts an end to those silly rumours about me being Jack The Ripper.
Alexandra: Me too.
Eddy: One more thing, next time you talk to my brother, George, tell him I think he's an excellent king.
Alexandra: I will.

Alexandra continues to hug May, overwhelmed with emotion..


Alice: Alix?
Alexandra: Yes Mama?
Alice: You must do me a favor!
Alexandra: What is it Mama?
Alice: You must smile more!
Alexandra: Really? It's... it's just been so hard to see the good things in live since...
Alice: I know! (she knows it) I'm afraid we must leave you now!
May (looks to their mother): Do we have to go?
Alice: Yes my dear... we must!
Alexandra (as they fade): Mama?
Nicholas (Alix wakes up sobbing waking him up): Alix? Why the tears my dear?
Alexandra: Mama... i saw her! I also say May and cousin Eddy!
Nicholas: Wait when you say May... you mean your sister May?
Alexandra: Yes! Oh god Nicky... I... I just don't know what to say!
Nicholas (Alix gets up): Where are you going it's 2:49 in the morning Alix?
Alexandra: I must call her!
Nicholas: Who? Alix?

[Tim]

Anichkov Palace...
Sam (her cell goes off, awakening her): Dude it's 2:51 in the morning! (looks to ID) Alix? (answers) Alix are you alright!?
Alexandra: Thank you dear!
Sam (sits up): Alix are you crying? Wait... what are you thanking me for?
Alexandra: I saw them!
Sam: Who?
Alexandra: Don't you know?
Sam: No!
Alexandra: My mother and my little sister!
Sam: Oh! Alix... I wasn't responsible for that! (mumbles) Least not this time!
Alexandra: What was that dear?
Sam: Oh nothing! We'll talk again later today!
Alexandra: Very well! I'm sorry if i disturbed you!
Sam: Oh no... no it's alright! (she hangs up) That was... uh interesting! (looks over) Oh not again!
Victoria: You were expecting to see Marie Feodorovna weren't you?
Sam: Wait I know you... oh my... your Victoria!
Victoria: Yes I am! We have another visitor for you?
Sam: Who?
Alice: Me, I'm Alix's mother!
Sam: Alice!
Alice: That's correct!
Sam (looks next to her and is startled to see a little child staring right at her) And you are?
Alice: May come over here! I'm sorry if she startled you, she's Alix's sister!
Sam: The one that died of Diphtheria!
Alice (sighs): Yes!
Sam: But why me?
Victoria: We just want to give thanks! We approve of your presence in our family's lives!
Sam (mimics her): We are glad that you approve then! (Victoria looks at her) Uh sorry?
Victoria: We are quite alright with it! Now we believe you must get some more sleep!
Sam (they disappear): You have no idea! Now that was just weird![/color]

The next morning, back at Tsarskoe Selo, Nicholas gets up early to find Alexandra going through some photo albums...

Nicholas: Alix?
Alexandra: She's right, Nicky, I need to smile more.
Nicholas:She?
Alexandra: My mother. She told me that I need to smile more, and she's right. I look so grim in some of these pictures.
Nicholas: Alix, I can understand. You had issues back then, your health for one.
Alexandra: That's true. Also being an autocrat also could put strains on any one.
Nicholas: That's true. I'm glad we got rid of that. Smiles.
Alexandra: What is it, Nicky?
Nicholas: I was just thinking, with all these spirits popping up, I wonder if I'll run into my father, Alexander III. I can't imagine he's too thrilled with me.
Alexandra: Why not?
Nicholas: Because he was 100% autocrat. He must have flipped his ghostly lid when I signed that Constitution seven years ago.
Alexandra: Well, Nicky, maybe you will see him. You never know.
Nicholas: Perhaps.
Alexandra: Is it too early to call George. There is something I have to tell him.
Nicholas: I guess not.

Soon, in the Mauve Room, they have George V on speaker phone..

George V: I say, Nicky, jolly good news about Tatiana being okay.
Nicholas: Yes, it is. Sorry I didn't call earlier, George, I meant to. But things got busy.
George V: Totally understandable, old boy.
Nicholas: Anyway, Alix has something to tell you.
George V: She does?
Alexandra: Yes George. Goes on to tell him about her dream. Notices the silence. George, you still there?
George V: Yes.... You saw Eddy? Clearly trying to hold it together, thinking of his late brother.
Alexandra: Yes, George, he told me to tell you that he thinks you're an excellent king. Those were his very words.
George V: Clearly touched. Well...tell him I'm grateful... What am I saying...
Alexandra: George, I'm sure he knows.
George V: It is just me, Nicky, Cousin Alix, or has some pretty wonderful supernatural stuff have been happening to you lot over there in recent years?
Nicholas: Laughs. No, George, it's not you...


Nicky gets a visitor that night alright...
MF: Nicky!
Nicholas: Mama... what a pleasant surprise?
MF: Did you want to see your father?
Nicholas: Uh... I don't know actually?
MF: Well you won't have to worry about him... I talked him out of it! Remember how you said he was 100 percent autocrat and would flip about that new constitution?
Nicholas: Yes Mama I remember?
MF: He did just that! It seems his time on the other side hasn't give many regrets like it did me! He's still against Alexandra! You should hear the things he says about your friend!
Nicholas: You mean Sam? He knows about her?
MF: Oh he knows about her alright! He's been watching too! You should hear the things he says about her! He calls her that Devil Woman! He says she came in and ruined everything! That she pushed it in 1914 when she dared to say you were not put on the throne by God! He called it blasphemous! She gave up her power by the way... she's just herself again!
Nicholas: He always was a hot head! Wait... did you say Sam's not God anymore?
MF: Yes I did! Not to worry you won't have to face him!
AlexanderIII (voice): Don't be so sure of that!
Nicholas (looks to his mother): I thought you said I didn't have to face him?
AlexanderIII (appears): Don't be so sure! Boy, what were you thinking!? I knew all the years i was raising a girl!
Nicholas: But Papa!
Alexander: Don't "but Papa" me Nicolai Alexandrovitch! If you have any sense in that small brained head of yours you'll get rid of that ridiculous so called constitution and return Russia to order under a tight fist... not some woman's glove! That woman, that friend of yours... she had no right stepping in where she did not belong! How dare she tell you, that you weren't put on the throne by God... it's blasphemous! If you have any sense in that small brained head of yours... you'll get rid of her again and immediately! She's not even in the church!
MF: Alexander! He's your son!
AlexanderIII: Oh defending the little girlie again... just like when we were alive!
MF: Alexander! That's enough!
AlexanderIII: I'm not done Marie! About that proud haughty German woman! You should get rid of her Nicolai before she sees another man behind your back again!
MF: Alexander! Those were all lies! Nicky you had better wake up... don't worry I'll handle him!
Nicholas: Alright! (wakes up) I thought i had gotten enough of being called a little girlie when he was alive! So Sam's no longer God... hmm I'll have to ask her about that later!
Alexandra (wakes up hearing him): Nicky? Who are you talking to?
Nicholas: Oh no one dear... just thinking out loud is all! I just had a visitor myself tonight!
Alexandra: Oh I see! Who did you see?
Nicholas: I'll tell you later today! Go back to sleep dear!
Alexandra: Very well!

Later that day...
Sam (answers her phone): Yes Nicky?
Nicholas: It happened!
Sam: What happened... (realizes) not you too?
Nicholas: Yes, me too now! I saw my father!
Sam: Uh-oh that can't be good!
Nicholas: No it wasn't! He knows about you!
Sam (nervous): Does he now?
Nicholas: You think you had an enemy in Mama when she was alive... that's nothing compared to him! It seems death hasn't changed him like it did Mama!
Sam: I guess not! Does Alix know?
Nicholas: No, not yet! I'll speak with you later!
Sam: Alright!
Nicholas: Oh by the way Sam!
Sam: Yes Nicky?
Nicholas: Why?
Sam: Why what?
Nicholas: Why did you give up that power?
Sam: How did you know?
Nicholas: Mama!
Sam Because I'm not God material... let's just leave it at that! (hangs up) Let's just leave it at that!

Alexander Palace...
Alexandra: So care to tell me about your experience?
Nicholas: Well Alix...

[Tim]

Nicholas: Well Alix, I saw my father.
Alexandra: You did?
Nicholas: Yeah, I did.
Alexandra: From the sound of your voice, Nicky, you did not have a nice visit.
Nicholas: I didn't. I was right, Alix, he hasn't changed one bit. He called me a little girlie, he said that I should return Russia to autocratic rule. Apparently, he doesn't know, or doesn't care, that that kind of thinking almost got us all killed!
Alexandra: That doesn't any sense.
Nicholas: No, it doesn't. Furthermore, he said I should get rid of you, before "she sees another man behind your back again" His exact words. Obviously he thinks you were sleeping with Rasputin while I was away at the war.
Alexandra: I guess those awful rumours will never go away.
Nicholas: Finally, he said some awful things about Sam. He said that it was under her influence that I signed the Constitution.
Alexandra: But Sam wasn't even here when you did that.
Nicholas: Try telling him that, if he would listen. But he probably wouldn't. Luckily, my mother was there to run interference.
Alexandra: Marie was there too?
Nicholas: Yes, thank God she was. As you know, she's learned from the past, he hasn't. Also..
Alexandra: Also what.
Nicholas: I got the impression that he might try something against Sam.
Alexandra: What?
Nicholas: Don't worry, I've already called her and given her a heads up.
Alexandra: That's good to know.
Nicholas: Anyway, I need to be alone for a while, Alix.
Alexandra: I understand Nicky.

A while later, back at Anichkov Palace...

Tatiana: I just got a call from Mama.
Olga: And?
Tatiana: Papa got a visitation last night from our grandfather.
Maria: Alexander III?
Tatiana: Yeah, and it did not go well. Explains.
Maria: Yikes, sounds like grandfather hasn't changed a bit.
Anastasia: Yeah, the Children Of The Empire would love him. He personifies everything they stand for.
Tatiana: Papa also thinks that he might try to hurt Sam. He's already warned her.
Maria: That's good to know.

Back at Alexander Palace, Nicholas has sequestered himself in his study and is getting drunk on vodka. He looks up at a portrait of Alexander III on the wall.

Nicholas: Drunkenly slurs. What the hell are you looking at? I hope I see you again in a dream, so I can tell you what I REALLY think of you! Monster! Bully! Takes another swig of vodka. Yeah, you were always the king of the castle. You bullied me, you bullied Misha, and Xenia, and Olga! It was always your way or the highway! You were a horrible father, and a worse Tsar! It's no wonder the people came to hate the monarchy! The worse part is that you tried to make me into a monster like you! Gets up and staggers over to the portrait. I hate you! You hear me, I HATE YOU!! In a drunken rage, he pulls the portrait down and smashes in on the floor.

Alexandra has been watching and goes to a phone. Soon, Sam is on the line

Alexandra: Sam, we have a BIG problem here...

Sam (answers): Alix?
Alexandra: It's Nicky... he's relapsed on the vodka!
Sam: Dammit! I knew I shouldn't have taken that force field down!
Alexandra: He also ripped his father's portrait from the wall and smashed it to the ground!
Sam: Well from what i heard his father would deserve that actually!
Alexandra: I've heard he's called you...
Sam: To warn me about Alexander? Yeah he gave me a heads up! Frankly I don't think his father's going to hurt me... we're just going to verbably clash just like when Marie was still alive! Remember the arguments she got started with me?
Alexandra (shudders): Oh I remember... I remember all too well!
Sam: I'm on my way! Well I should say WE are are on our way!
Alexandra: Good! Please hurry!
Sam: Oh we're on our way! We'll see you when we get there! (hangs up and storms out) Girls! GIRLS!
Olga (comes out with go figure a book in her hands): Sam... are you alright!
Sam: Oh I'm fine... but your father isn't!
Olga (goes over to her): What do you mean?
Sam: I mean I should've never taken that force field off!
Olga: He hasn't.... (Sam nods) TATIANA! TATIANA GET DOWN HERE!
Tatiana (rushes downstairs): Olga... you'll wake the children! What is wrong!?
Olga: Papa's relapsed!
Sam: I blame your grandfather! Get the LP, the men will stay and take care of the children!
Tatiana: Alright!
Sam (as the BP rush upstairs): CAS!
Castiel: What?
Sam: That power... I want it back! It's important!
Castiel: You can't just flip a switch Sam! It's not like you can be God and then not! You have to choose!
Sam: CAS! TURN ME BACK INTO GOD... NOW!
Castiel: I'm going to have to have a word with... well i think you know who!
Sam: I don't care just hand it over!
Castiel (looks up): Looks like you get your way with him again! (shoots the orb) There!
Sam: Thank you!
Olga: Was that Cas?
Sam: Yes and anyway he's gone now! Let's go see your father! (mist envelopes quickly and they're in the study at the Alexander Palace) Nicholas Romanov what are you doing!?
Nicholas: Why do you care? You gave it all up!
Sam: Gave being the obvious (Nicky faints) term! (a vial appears in her hand) Have him drink this!
Tatiana: Is that a potion?
Sam: An anti-drunk potion! The vodka is back in the cabinet and the force field is back up! I've had to use this a couple times! I need to talk to someone!
Alexandra: Is he going to be alright!?
Sam: Oh yeah... he may be drunk right now but once he empties that little vial it will be like he never relapsed! I know from experience!
Alexandra: Thank you!
Sam: No problem! Can I use your Mauve Room for a bit?
Alexandra: Of course dear!
Sam: Thanks! (in Mauve Room) Yo Cas! You can...
Castiel: Take it now? Go figure! (the power is removed) So i take you figured out you didn't need that great power just to do that?
Sam: Yeah, yeah, yeah!

Study, Nicky comes too...

Tatiana: Papa, drink this. Hands him the vial.
Nicholas: What is it?
Anastasia: Just drink it, Papa, please.
Nicholas slowly drinks it. Suddenly, he's sober.
Nicholas: What the???
Tatiana: Something Sam gave me to give you
Nicholas: When did all you get here?
Maria: Just now, Sam brought us.
Olga: Mama called her.
Nicholas: she did? Why
Alexandra comes in.
Alexandra: Because you had relapsed, Nicky, you were drinking again. Point to the smashed portrait. Remember doing that?
Nicholas: Vaguely.
Tatiana: Papa, drinking is not the answer.
Anastasia: Yeah, you can talk to us, all of us.
Nicholas hangs his head in shame.
Nicholas: Alix, all of you, forgive me. Just hearing him call me a little girlie again woke up old demons I thought I'd laid to rest years ago. The way he bullied me and my siblings. Looks at OTMA. I can't imagine treating any of you like that.
Olga: That's the difference, Papa, you're not him.
Tatiana: And you never will be.
Anastasia: We were saying that he would be a good member of the Children Of The Empire.
Nicholas: Yes, I guess he would be. He wants Russia to be under autocratic rule again. He doesn't get it, that Russia is gone, and it won't be coming back.
Alexandra: Forget about him, Nicky. You have a family that loves and supports you. To hell with him.
Tatiana: Mama, I couldn't have said it better myself.

At that point, Sam comes into the room..

[Tim]

Sam: Please tell me he drank it?
Tatiana: Yes he drank it!
Sam: Works wonders don't it Nicky?
Nicholas: Yes it did! Although by the sounds of that question... you're speaking from experience!
Sam: Yeah, yeah i am!
Nicholas: Why did you give it up?
Maria: Give what up Papa?
Nicholas: Sam isn't God anymore!
Olga: What!?
Alexandra: Why?
Sam: I'm not cut out to be God trust me!
Olga: Yes you are!
Sam: No, no I'm not!
Maria: But yes you are! You're kind and gentle and warm! We're not saying that you aren't to be feared or anything being well you know!
Sam: I'm not one for worship and I don't want people to fear me... well except maybe the Duma of course!
Tatiana: No worship? But you were a Greek god... so to speak!
Sam: Even then... I just don't get the whole worship thing! Are you four ready to go?
Olga (looks to Nicky): Yes we're ready! Will you be okay Papa?
Nicholas: Yes Olga I'll be fine!

That night...
Man (shakes Sam trying to wake her): Wake up! (gives another, this time jolting shake) I said wake up woman!
Sam: What the...? (she opens her eyes) Who!?
Man: Do you know who i am!?
Sam: No... (gets a better looks and gasps) oh my god! You're... you're Nicky's father! You're Alexander!
Alexander III: Yes I am and this is all your fault!
Sam: My fault!? Look Nicky told me what happened! I wasn't even there when the constitution was made and signed! Do you have any idea what happened in 1918!? Your son was almost killed along with your innocent grandchildren!
Alexander III: Once again that is entirely your fault!
Sam: What is my fault!? I'm so sorry that the empire you had was falling apart! I'm so sorry that Nicky got some sense into him even though it was almost to late to turn the government into a constitutional monarch! No, you know what... I'm NOT sorry!
Alexander III: YOU HAD NO BUSINESS STEPPING IN WHERE YOU DIDN'T BELONG YOU DEVIL WOMAN! PERHAPS IF MY SON FOR ONCE IN HIS LIFE STARTED ACTING LIKE A MAN... THE REVOLUTION WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN EVEN ALLOWED TO BE THOUGHT OF! MY SON NEEDS TO STOP ACTING LIKE A LITTLE GIRLIE AND ACT LIKE A CZAR! YOU NEED TO STAY OUT OF IT! HOW DARE YOU TELL HIM THAT HE WASN'T ON THE THRONE BY GOD'S ORDER! YOU DON'T EVEN GO TO CHURCH!
Sam: Newflash there "Mr. High, Mighty and Seriously Stupid" God does not give men free will so he can be their dictator he gives it to them so that THEY can choose!
Alexander III: THERE IS NO CHOICE IN BEING CZAR! I don't want my granddaughter on the throne!
Sam: Who? Olga? She doesn't even want the throne! Why do you care anyway... you're dead!
Alexander: She's a woman!
Sam (rather sarcastic): Oh my god... i never noticed that! Get over it... those stupid laws are abolished and they aren't ever coming back! Anyhow...
MF (appears): Alexander! You will leave her alone this instant!
Alexander III: Don't you be telling me what to do Marie!
MF: If i don't tell you what for... (points to a light and out walks "Jeremy Sisto" aka Jesus) HE will!
Sam: Oh great! Dumb and Dumber!
JC (smiles): Please tell I'm just the dumb one Sam?
Sam: In this case... yeah!
JC: You out! (winks at Sam) See ya! Oh and thanks Marie!
MF: My pleasure! (turns to Sam) Go back to sleep now!
Sam: Sure thanks! (all of a sudden a flash of white light and the room is empty again) Show off! It's pays to be his ex don't it? Not that he'd let anything happend to me since we're back to being just personal friends and all! (she goes back to sleep)


That night, Nicholas is asleep when...

Alexander III: Listen to me, boy
Nicholas: What do you want now?
Alexander III: I want that Devil Woman executed. She spoke against me!
Nicholas begins to laugh.
Alexander III: What the hell are you laughing at, girlie?
Nicholas: You, Papa, I'm laughing at you. I can't believe I was afraid to stand up to you. You're pathetic.
Alexander III: Now you listen to me...
Nicholas: No, you listen to me! Even if I wanted to, which I most certainly don't, I couldn't have Sam executed. I don't have that kind of power anymore! Get it thought your thick skull, the Tsar is a figurehead now, and it's like that with my blessing. The old Empire is dead, gone, finished! I killed it.
Alexander III: How dare you speak to me like that!
Nicholas: What are you going to do, Papa, send me to my room without supper!
Alexander III: Why you insolent brat! You were never fit to rule by God's will.
Nicholas: Don't you get it, we were NEVER on the throne by God's will. That was just an excuse we cooked up to account for our blunders. News flash, Papa, the mistakes were OURS, not God's, OURS!
Alexander III: I'm warning you, boy...
Nicholas: No, I'm warning YOU! You leave me alone, you leave my family alone, you leave my friends alone. You can't push me around anymore. So just GET THE HELL OUT OF MY LIFE!! I'M DONE WITH YOU!
The two of them stare at each other, then Alexander III fades back into the mist.
MF: Appears. Well done, Nicky, I don't think he will be bothering you again.
Nicholas: I'm sorry it came to this, Mama.
MF: Nonsense, you've made me proud. You should have done that a long time ago.
Nicholas: What will happen now.
MF: I'll talk to him, Nicky. Maybe I'll be able to penetrate that thick skull of his. Maybe not. In any event, you've proved that he can't push you around anymore, and that might make a difference.
Nicholas: I hope so, Mama.
MF: Take care, my son.

Nicholas wakes up...


Nicholas wakes up...
Nicholas (looks over to Alix): What?
Alexandra: Is everything alright? You were screaming in your sleep!
Nicholas: I was!? (laughs) Not to worry Alix... my father will not be bothering any of us anymore! I for the first time in my life stood up to him!
Alexandra: I bet he didn't like that one bit!
Nicholas: Oh no... not at all! But I showed him! That made my mother proud!
Alexandra: It makes me proud too Nicky!
Nicholas (kisses her on the forehead): You need your sleep as do i!
Alexandra: Goodnight Nicky!
Nicholas: Good night dear!

The next day...
Sam (picks up her phone): Yeah?
Nicholas: I have some good news for you!
Sam: Which is what Nicky?
Nicholas: My father will not be bothering any of us anymore!
Sam: You know this how Nicky?
Nicholas: Because my dear girl... i stood up to him!
Sam: Good for you... it's about freaking time!
Nicholas: So anyhow... how is everything there?
Sam: Oh it's good, it's good! Tanya was thinking of getting the bob back again... and i didn't even have to drop any hints!
Nicholas: Wonderful! I was thinking in the next couple weeks of taking another cruise on the Standart, though most likely no trip to Livadia this time... what do you think?
Sam: Lovely idea!
Nicholas: I have to go... i promised Alix a walk in the park! I shall talk with you again soon!
Sam: Lovely Nicky! (hangs up) It's about time!
Tatiana (right behind her, the bob has returned): So?
Sam: To bob or not to bob that is the question?
Tatiana: To bob is definitely the answer!
Sam: I thought as much! Oh by the way your father stood up to him!
Tatiana: Wait... Papa stood up to granfather?
Sam: Oh yeah!
Tatiana: Amazing!
Sam: That's what i thought! Go tell your sisters!
Tatiana: Alright!

Upstairs...
Tatiana: I have news about Papa!
Maria: He's okay right!?