Booth: A Hideous Dream | 16

1865

Airship / Wondery

Fiction, Drama, Government, Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, History

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In the finale of the three-part bonus series on the John Wilkes Booth story, with the surrender of Robert E Lee, Booth is driven to take the final, foreboding step towards his dark and violent destiny.

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Featuring (in order of appearance):

Montgomery Sutton (John Wilkes Booth)

Jessica Renee Russell (Lucy Hale)

Reed Birney (Senator John P. Hale)

Steven Walters (Robert Lincoln)

Cameron Cobb (John Harrison Surratt, Jr.)

Max Hartman (Lewis Thornton “Payne” Powell)

Derek Phillips (David Edgar Herold)

Tyson Rinehart (George Andrew Atzerodt)

Matthew Gray (Ford Theater Actor 1)

Pam Dougherty (Ford Theater Actor 2)

Didi Archilla (Ford Theater Actor 3)

Taylor Harris (Soldier 1)

Erik Archilla (Soldier 2)

Created by Steven Walters and Erik Archilla

Directed by Robert McCollum

Written by Steven Walters

Executive Producer: Lindsay Graham

Co-executive Producers: Erik Archilla, Robert McCollum and Steven Walters

Music and Sound Design by Lindsay Graham

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0:00.0	I'm not a dog to be chided when you're unsatisfied. I am not your property. Are you Roberts? We were dancing. It was nothing.
0:07.0	It didn't look like nothing. Everyone saw you, shoved him, including my father. How do you think your chances will fare with him now?
0:14.0	Why hardly think it'll make a difference. Once he's taken you to Spain. How did you find out? Why didn't you tell me?
0:20.0	Do you know why I don't want to be with Robert Lincoln?
0:24.0	The real reason? I mean you're a part of it to be sure, but don't flatter yourself into thinking that that's the sum of it.
0:31.0	Because Robert behaves the way that you're acting right now. I am nothing like him.
0:36.0	Oh, you have your plans, don't you? Your visions of my future? My future is your happiness. Your future is your own happiness. Only I'm to bow my head in subservience and do my duty in following your career.
0:48.0	You know that's not true. Even if it were, what difference will it make once your father drags you across the Atlantic?
0:55.0	What do you know exactly? I know that your father has taken a political appointment in Spain. Is there more to the story?
1:04.0	There is a way I can stay. I would do anything to keep you here.
1:12.0	Not this?
1:14.0	Tell me what is it?
1:18.0	Robert's hand. Christ.
1:26.0	And how did you answer him?
1:30.0	I said yes. What? Why play a game that we can't win? I mean if I marry him, then we can still see each other.
1:41.0	No, you have my answer. We can still have this and you have mine. I mean this way that you will have my bed, my body and my heart. Is that not enough?
1:49.0	I would have all of you, Lucy. I'm no Robert Lincoln. No, tyrant like your father or his. I would marry you or not marry you if that's what you desire.
2:01.0	I would do anything you ask of me. But you're not free. You're locked away and imprisoned by Robert, by your father, by these duties and these obligations.
2:14.0	And I am left here in despair. Ask anything of me.
2:19.0	Lucy, and I will give it to you, but do not make me live another day in this prison. Marry me.
2:29.0	My father will never give us his blessing. I'm not asking for his blessing. I'm asking for yours.
2:41.0	I choose you.
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