restored?
i will try.
perhaps not as much as you might imagine. when tutors answered every question except those about who i was. when i was imprisoned in a way no other man had ever been, i knew there was something different about me. but a king.
there is.  wrath.  in me. i have learned to hide it. those years in the cell, i dreamed that freedom would someday just happen, the way the mask happened. now i am free. and with each free breath i feel the growing desire to make someone suffer for all i lost. look at this, all this that for ten years i could not see! what if i become a king -- a king no different from my brother?
what is its antidote?
you look so sad. is it something i have done?
what is that?
i've worn this mask so long, i couldn't sleep without it.
athos? thank you for being my guide.  back into the world.
i am so sorry! forgive me, i --
is that the king of king you wish me to be? or do you say this because of your son?
porthos told me.
whose rooms are those?
whose carriage is this?
my brother.
he knew. he knew what they did to me.
the room of the king's favorite mistress?
continue.
how are you.  michelle?
stop! you're hurting her!
however i have wronged you i will make amends. whatever the cost.
continue.
good night, mother.
sees d'artagnan, staring at him.  then calling more guards over and giving them quick instructions; the guards hurry away. then d'artagnan moves to phillippe, and bows. he looks at him carefully, but seems to see nothing unusual.
continue.
 the ball.  continue.
yes? why do you bring me here, d'artagnan?
please, may i speak? m'lord.  i beg that you kill me. i release you, before almighty god, from any claim of sin in taking my life. in fact i will pray that god reward you for your mercy to do it. but do not -- i beg you -- return me to the prison, where i have lived so long.
no. please! no!
how did you --
wait. bargain me to louis, for all your lives. you have done your best. let me go, and let all of you find peace.
if i could have a blade, then i would be please to run with you.
i am unhurt --
you! vicious.  evil!
all this time.  i was a lost secret. but you were hiding all your loyalty, all your love. you were the man in the iron mask.
i will be with you in a moment, mother.
After all you have done, I must ask you one more service to your king. I have lost my father. And you have lost your son. Let me love you like a son to a father. And I pray you live for this, to love me like your son.