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She Rode Back for War
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00:01my daughter your father and your six brothers have all fallen in this war
00:08all i ask is that when this battle is over you bury your war honors and live as a proper
00:14young
00:14lady ought to live we can't hold the line much longer mother if i make it home alive
00:21then i give you my word i will marry well
00:33sophie when i come back i will give you the grandest wedding anyone's ever seen
00:38until then
00:41you take good care of yourself
00:46all right i'll bring your mother to set an estate and care for her in your place
00:53and then i'll wait for you to come home
01:08evelyn and i were married at the front
01:12still if you wished i could arrange a place for you in my household
01:16you said when you came back you'd give me a grand wedding
01:22when i proposed to you it was because i thought you were a suitable match
01:26but now
01:28in my heart
01:30evelyn is the woman i truly love
01:34is that so evelyn
01:39i want to meet her
01:44that's the war hero from the papers isn't it
01:46that's her lord she's so cool
01:53mother
01:55allow me to introduce her this is evelyn my wife whom i married while serving in the army
01:59so this is a true war hero
02:02the bearing the presence
02:08any fool can see she's no ordinary woman
02:17sophie good you're here meet evelyn properly
02:24from now on you'll be the one taking care of her and nathan
02:27look after them
02:29miss sophie has bent over backward for the blake family all year all for nothing
02:36you want me to take care of them
02:39of course
02:41nathan and i both have duties to the army
02:43we may be called back to the front at any moment but you
02:47you've spent your life away from the front
02:49you don't understand what it takes out there
02:51aside from managing a household what role do you think you can play
02:56do not forget this i am a general's daughter
03:02my father and my six brothers all died on the battlefield as well
03:05that was your father and your brothers not you
03:09you just tend to the household and when evelyn and i have children you'll take care of them too
03:17i am to raise your children
03:19if you want a child too i can give you one
03:23but after that i will never touch you again
03:26and you agree to this i'm not a petty woman
03:31i can allow you to have a child that way you'll at least have something to hold on to in
03:35the future
03:40as for whether nathan will still want your bed after that that is hardly my concern
03:46after that i won't be going to her bed again you're the only one in my heart
03:50and you agree as well you can keep the house raise the child and free the two of them from
03:55every worry
03:56it's a fine arrangement
04:02is that so the longer i listen to the three of you the more it sounds like
04:06in your version of things i am the outsider here
04:11in that case nathan and i should simply end the engagement
04:17why drag this into something so ugly sophie don't be foolish you're the only one left in
04:23your family now with an estate this large and this much land do you truly think a woman alone
04:28can hold it that's right sophie if this is what troubles you on certain occasions i can even tell
04:33people you're my wife and if it truly means that much to you i can even give you a small
04:38wedding
04:42this is outrageous for the past year my lady treated your mother like royalty
04:47she even paid for a private doctor to tend to your mother day after day
04:52and now you want to get the sutton estate and everything that comes with it
04:57you're a servant how dare you stand there and run your mouth like that
05:03mary is mine no one lays a hand on my people
05:07sophie you're nothing but an orphan now you can protect no one if you truly dare to break off your
05:12engagement to nathan this whole town will laugh you into the ground you still won't be able to
05:16hold on to the sutton estate is that so then stand there and watch whether i keep it or not
05:20steward
05:25miss add up everything mrs blake's at sutton estate this past year every last penny what
05:32yes miss finest tea imported sweet wine custom gowns jewelry repairs daily meals
05:38coal for the winter farth as well as the family doctor's fees for the full year
05:42medicine costs and nursing expenses grand total twenty three thousand dollars
05:52you dare ask me to pay you sophie don't push this too far steward show them out
06:01how dare you
06:14how dare sophie do this to me enough the blakes are an old family too we do not need the
06:20sutton's to keep
06:21us afloat we can manage just fine on our own let's go home
06:41it's fine no one's lived here for the past year that's all this is
06:48truth is the family money's mostly gone it was spent long ago
07:00it's fine tomorrow i'll speak to the pioneer sophie abused a war hero to mother too and then
07:06she demanded a fortune from us the whole town ought to hear about that i will make her pay back
07:11every
07:11last thing she owes the blake family
07:20yes
07:23how can they twist the truth like that
07:32there she is that's her the woman who abused the war hero give mrs blake her money back
07:41what are you talking about that's not what happened
07:46wicked woman give the hero's family their money back
07:55open the gate
07:58get out here
08:10stand down
08:15isn't that general lucas the one who led the cavalry through three enemy fire lines at wilton
08:23i heard he's covered in honors even the district commander thinks highly of him
08:28seven members of the sutton family died on the battlefield
08:32a father six sons that family has already given everything to this war
08:37and what are you doing now if not bullying a hero's family now leave this instant
08:46or i'll have the sheriff deal with a lot of you
09:13that day she was ordered to ride to the eastern line with reinforcements
09:17but by the time she got there the men holding that position were already dead
09:22fill the gas
09:44what the hell is going on weren't they nearly wiped out
09:48there's still someone on the right
09:51where are we told this is all that was left of them
09:58one of the reinforcements coming i can't hold much longer
10:25they're holding that line hard there must still be plenty of men up there
10:30move
10:40i see her it's just one person shoot her down
10:55she held that breach alone and by sheer will she held the entire eastern line
11:04he saved me that day
11:07ma'am i have come to ask for sophie's hand
11:11i will protect her for the rest of my life
11:13she will never have to carry everything and everything alone again
11:20general lucas i already gave my word to the blake family
11:24once the sutton's make a promise we do not break it
11:28from that day on i decided i would never marry
11:33but i still couldn't help myself
11:36i had to come see how she was living i never thought i'd find her being treated like this
11:49miss sophie
11:50miss sophie i did not come here to pity you
11:55i came to honor you
11:57to thank the sutton family for all it gave to this country
12:01and to thank you for holding that eastern line all by yourself
12:09thank you
12:11i want to help you
12:13and how do you mean to help me
12:21sophia sutton edward sutton's daughter yes sir
12:26that family's given everything for the cause how is she faring now
12:30her fiancee nathan married evelyn at the front
12:34and now they're asking sophie to become nathan's mistress that is completely unacceptable
12:42nathan's behavior may be dishonorable but evelyn is our new war hero
12:47i cannot tear apart a hero's marriage but
12:53the one who held the eastern line by herself that was her
12:59yes sir
13:01why in god's name am i only hearing of this now after that battle
13:05a foray high in joss her mother wanted it kept secret that she'd ever gone to war
13:10so she could marry and live a peaceful life
13:16so the truth was kept secret
13:21i want to see her
13:27the soldier in that report was holding the breach under artillery fire with not another soul
13:34beside her
13:36and to think it was a woman who looked so slim
13:40on the battlefield bullets do not turn aside just because i'm a woman sir
13:45you are an extraordinary woman miss sutton
13:49but i must speak plainly
13:53evelyn is the most celebrated war hero in the entire republic right now
14:00evelyn is the most celebrated war hero in the entire republic right now
14:09i cannot step in on your behalf and be the man who tears apart her marriage
14:14i have no interest in tearing apart their marriage i do not love nathan blake
14:21i came here for one thing only
14:24i want you to stand behind the truth that my engagement to nathan blake should have been
14:29ended from the start i want you to know and i want the whole town to know the one who
14:35broke faith
14:36was not me and what else i want back in the army to speak plainly i am surprised and glad
14:46a woman like you was never meant to be buried and forgotten
14:51but seven members of the sutton family have already died in this war
14:58i do not have the heart to send you back to the front
15:04the fighting in the south is growing worse and blackstone valley could be pulled into it again at any
15:09moment i only want to do my part
15:14i only want to do my part very well place her under your command and remember you must bring her
15:22back
15:23alive she actually dared to come back wasn't it all in the paper she threw mrs blake right out of
15:40the
15:40estate she is no proper lady at all i took care of her for a whole year and now she
15:46has the nerve to ask
15:47me for money
15:53miss sutton is it true you drove mrs blake out of the estate did you truly demand a large sum
15:57of
15:57money from the blake family were you taking revenge because your engagement was broken enough
16:08miss sophia sutton asked me to share these with everyone
16:11they may help clear up a few misunderstandings about her engagement to nathan blake
16:18that engagement is hereby declared null and void
16:22on account of mr blake first breaking his promise and entering into another marriage
16:27miss sutton never broke her word nor did she commit any so-called ingratitude or cruel expulsion
16:34this bears the general's own signature and seal
16:40that's impossible there is one more thing the whole town ought to know
16:45for the past year mrs blake has been living at sutton estate her food her clothes her doctor her
16:52medicine her daily expenses even her luxuries were all paid for by miss sutton then the ungrateful ones
16:57are the blake family's got some mighty thick skin you think one piece of paper can clear her name
17:04at the very least it proves she was not the one who broke faith
17:13let's go back
17:17sophie actually dared to humiliate me in public today
17:26this place feels suffocating
17:29then you never should have left sutton estate in the first place
17:34how dare you speak to me that way if it hadn't been for you enough we still have a wedding
17:40to prepare for
17:42of course
17:43i think we should invite sophie
17:49have you lost your mind why would you do that i want her to see it with her own eyes
17:58everything she's lost
18:06okay
18:08she really had to make a show of it
18:11she even sent the invitation all the way to the state so now miss sophie has to go
18:17we did know each other once i should go congratulate them
18:27i now pronounce you husband and wife
18:41miss why is everyone leaving
18:44my congratulations mrs blake thank you
18:49now that the ceremony is over we'll be taking our leave
18:53leaving so soon the reception has only just begun
19:04this sort of setting does not quite suit a lady of my standing
19:15this is the wedding you gave me
19:18the ceremony wasn't even over before half the guests walked out
19:24you humiliated me in front of everyone
19:27i sold the last few pieces of land we had left just to pay for this wedding
19:30if you ask me it was those low-class people you invited who scared off the respectable guests
19:35low-class are you calling my people low-class
19:39you two stop already
19:49miss sophie
19:50miss sophie how lovely of you to come to nathan's wedding and mine
19:55mary
20:04you even know how to send your former fiance a proper wedding gift
20:08just like your father
20:10even in the black creek fire he still wore his uniform neat as ever
20:17how would she know details like that about my father at black creek
20:20the gift has been delivered i should be going now
20:27for a house lady like you miss sophia this must be your first military wedding
20:33why not stay a while longer it might be interesting
20:42my father died in the battle of black creek
20:45and in that fire how would evelyn know details that were never made public
20:50mary go find my teacher general howard i want the truth about what happened at black creek
20:54yes miss
21:00miss sophie since you're here open your eyes and watch closely this is how a gun is truly handled
21:26why is it jammed
21:30you didn't even set the hammer to half cap
21:32load it like that and of course it'll go wrong
21:34and what would you know about it
21:39you
21:48you
21:52you
21:54you
21:56you
21:56you
21:57you
22:06Bullseye
22:09Isn't she supposed to be some society lady?
22:11Sophia
22:13How do you even...
22:14And one more thing
22:15You cap it last
22:17If the ball isn't seated all the way
22:19The gun can blow
22:21If you'd fumbled it any worse just now
22:22The one dead would have been you
22:37The front is in crisis
22:42Orders from the front have come in
22:44All soldiers on leave
22:45Report back at once
22:48At last
22:49I have a chance to prove myself again
22:52If this goes well for you and Evelyn
22:54Things might finally turn around for our family
23:00Colonel Sutton
23:02Prepare to move out at once
23:06Colonel Sutton
23:07Prepare to move out at once
23:13What did you just say?
23:15Why aren't Nathan and I the ones going?
23:18The Major General
23:20Has granted you newlyweds leave
23:21Until further notice
23:22You are to remain behind
23:24Leave
23:25That's one way to say they're staying clear of the front
23:27Sounds more like being set aside
23:31Then what exactly is Sophie supposed to be?
23:33Why did you call her Colonel?
23:37Miss Sophie Sutton has been formally commissioned
23:39By the Major General of the 7th Military District
23:41Effective today
23:43She holds the rank of Colonel
23:46That's impossible
23:47What could possibly qualify her for a rank like that?
23:51Because at Wilton
23:52During the main assault
23:53She was the first to jump into the enemy trench
23:55She took out multiple forward gun positions
23:57And tore open a breach for the main force
23:59Because before Black Creek fell
24:02She got 37 civilians and wounded men
24:05Across the North Bridge
24:06And out of the line of fire alive
24:12And because at the Eastern Narrow Pass
24:14She held the whole line by herself
24:15And kept the enemy pinned down
24:17Until reinforcements arrived
24:21Is that enough for you?
24:27Sophie!
24:29I don't know when you learn to shoot
24:30But riding is no game
24:32If you can't ride
24:49Sophie!
24:57Are you hurt?
25:05Come on
25:06We're riding for the front
25:17What are you doing?
25:19What is it?
25:20Are you reconsidering things now?
25:24What is it?
25:26Are you reconsidering things now?
25:29What gives you the right to lay a hand on him?
25:35That's enough
25:35Don't push this any further
25:38What did the Blake family ever do
25:41To deserve bringing a woman like you into this house?
25:55Miss
25:55General Howard uncovered the truth
25:57About what happened at Black Creek
26:02Black Creek came under heavy assault
26:04Because Julian Vale
26:05The badly wounded son of General Gideon Vale
26:08One of the enemy nation's most feared commanders
26:10Had been captured
26:11And was being held at the field hospital in Black Creek
26:18Julian had been stable
26:20But after night watch
26:22The wrong medicine was given to him
26:26The wrong medicine was given to him
26:28He went into violent convulsions
26:30Stopped breathing
26:31And died soon after
26:32The nurse assigned to Julian
26:34Was Evelyn
26:35This is a statement from a trainee nurse
26:37She passed Julian's room
26:38And saw Evelyn panic right after he died
26:40Then Evelyn tried to burn the medical chart
26:42The medicine log
26:43And the handover records
26:44To destroy the evidence
26:45But the wind was too strong that night
26:46And Black Creek was full of wooden buildings
26:48The fire got out of control in no time
26:52What about my father
26:54Your father General Edward Sutton
26:56Had been ordered to evacuate the civilians
26:58And wounded from Black Creek
27:01When the fire broke out
27:03He did not leave
27:03He led men back in to save people
27:05And kept organizing evacuations through the flames
27:08But then the enemy attacked
27:10Your father had no choice but to fight
27:12He was badly outnumbered
27:13And he fell
27:15So my father died because of Evelyn
27:19Not just your father
27:20Your six brothers died because of her too
27:27Go on
27:29The specifics we still need to investigate further
27:36Keep investigating
27:37I need to know
27:39What exactly does she have to do
27:41With the deaths of my six brothers
27:43Yes
27:45General Lucas
27:46The frontline military orders have arrived
27:48Evelyn and I request to lead the Iron Cavalry into battle immediately
27:52Our wedding leave is over
27:53As heroes it is only right that we fight for our country
27:56Besides
27:56We can't let some newly commissioned woman
27:58Get all the battlefield glory can we
28:00The Major General of the 7th Military District just signed
28:03As of today
28:04The Iron Cavalry is under the full command of Colonel Sophie Sutton
28:08You two just need to provide support for port from the rear
28:11What?
28:13The Iron Cavalry is the best in the Republic
28:14And I led them to that hero title
28:16She's been sitting at home for a year
28:17What right does she have to command me?
28:19General, Sophie
28:20Colonel Sutton hasn't set foot on a battlefield in years
28:22The Iron Cavalry needs a commander with real experience
28:24Someone the troops will follow
28:25Are you questioning my decision?
28:27I mean
28:29She's just trying to steal the credit
28:31Sophie doesn't care about the country
28:32She's getting back at me and Nathan
28:34Handing the Iron Cavalry over to her
28:36That's playing with everyone's lives
28:37I'm trying to steal credit
28:39Of course
28:41Fine
28:43Since you think I'm not qualified
28:44I'll give you a chance
28:48Challenge me
28:56You think a housewife like you can beat me?
29:01General Lucas
29:02I request a challenge against Sophie tomorrow
29:05Fine
29:06But if you lose
29:07You'll lose all credit for the Southern Front
29:09And hand over command of all your current troops
29:12Clear
29:13What if she loses?
29:14If Sophie loses
29:15The Iron Cavalry gets transferred
29:17Why, she will only lose his one regiment
29:19But if I lose
29:19I lose everything
29:20The Challenger is supposed to put up a bigger stake
29:22Not enough
29:24One more thing
29:24If you lose
29:26You hand over the Iron Cavalry
29:27And for the rest of your life
29:29You will never
29:29Set foot on a battlefield again
29:42I accept
29:43Evelyn, isn't this too risky?
29:49Ridiculous
29:50I won't lose to a worthless like her
30:02Use this
30:08A wooden stick
30:09The General want her to die, does he?
30:10Evelyn's got a real sword
30:11How's she supposed to fight with a wooden stick?
30:13Calm down, Sophie
30:14I've been holding back for way too long
30:16I'm going to make her pay
30:18Don't worry
30:18I'll get to the bottom of everything
30:20Your whole family's deaths
30:21Oh
30:22Coming at me with a stick
30:24Sophie
30:26I know you've been riding on your family's dead war heroes
30:29To get glory
30:30But you'll never be as good as me
30:32We're the ones risking our necks on the front line
30:34Shedding blood
30:35Killing enemies
30:36And in the end
30:37All the credit goes to some woman
30:38Who only got ahead because of her family name
30:40Exactly what makes her a colonel
30:41Just because her dad's a general
30:43Evelyn, beat her to a pulp
30:44Shut up
30:47One more word
30:48You'll face court-martial
30:51All because of you
30:53My father died in that fire at Black Creek
30:56And my six brothers
30:58There is no need
30:59Evelyn will beat you
31:05Step back
31:09Arm duel
31:10Whoever knocks the other off their horse first wins
31:13Begin
31:33That strike from Sophie
31:35Was brutal
31:36Evelyn nearly got knocked off her horse
31:38Again
31:48That wooden stick
31:49General Lucas gave it to you
31:51Is it modified or something?
31:54Impossible
31:55I'm a cavalry soldier
31:56How can I get beaten like this by some stick?
31:58The stick has got to be modified
32:01Yeah, unfair
32:02There must be something wrong with that stick
32:05Yes
32:05That's not fair
32:06Look closely
32:14Again
32:15Don't get cocky
32:30Stop playing tricks
32:45Let's go
32:46Stop playing
32:52You're the only problem
32:52It's all
32:52It's all
33:00We're the only bad
33:02You're the only human
33:12I'LL KILL YOU!!!
33:19I'LL KILL YOU!!!
33:21I'LL KILL YOU!!!
33:22I'LL KILL YOU!!!
33:34Neil...
33:40For a year, every single night, I dream about that fire.
34:00You... you can't kill me!
34:03I'M A HERO!!!
34:08You killed my whole family!
34:10You deserve to die!
34:11Sophie!!!
34:18You lose.
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