Photography by Annushka Munch
Costume design by Jennifer Giorno
Makeup design by Jessicalee Skary
Set design by Bernie Gabin
Production design by Phoebe Roberts
Arisia 2017
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- Mrs. Hawking advises Mary from the shadows as they stake out the society ball.
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- The thief has cleverly disguised himself as the fancy party.
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- Will Mary ever be able to impress Mrs. Hawking?
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- Poor Nathaniel. He just wants to help.
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- Having recently taken up boxing, Nathaniel tests his mettle against Mrs. Hawking.
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- But Nathaniel isn’t much of a fighter.
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- “You must do better than that! And if you can’t, you’d best keep out of the way.”
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- The mysterious Mrs. Braun comes to beg for their aid.
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- “What would it take for you to kidnap a man from the German embassy?”
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- Mrs. Braun is here to get justice for her maid, who was assaulted by a gentleman protected by diplomatic immunity.
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- Mrs. Hawking and Mary plot as to how to bring their quarry to justice.
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- Mrs. Hawking rebukes Mary for her thoughtless patriotic loyalty to Queen Victoria.
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- Clara comes in like a hurricane.
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- Mrs. Hawking takes advantage of Clara’s temporary absence to bug the heck out of there.
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- “You manage her, if you find her so charming! In this case, I assure you, better you than me.”
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- “And where is dear Auntie? Have I frightened here off? Perfect!”
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- Clara wheedles a little information out of Mary.
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- But Mary tells Clara Mrs. Hawking has changed in ways no one could have imagined.
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- Mrs. Hawking isn’t pleased Mary called Nathaniel to help.
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- “You look so much like him! Too damn much.” Mrs. Hawking confesses the reason she doesn’t want to let Nathaniel in.
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- But Nathaniel wants a real chance to prove himself– the chance she never gave the Colonel.
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- “Not now, Mary. We have work to do.”
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- While staking out the German embassy, Mary saves a police officer from a ruffian on the street.
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- Out cold.
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- “Did you do this?” Officer Arthur Swann is surprised at his rescuer.
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- The meet cute. “The name’s Swann. Constable Arthur Swann. But you might call me Arthur.”
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- Nathaniel and Clara enter the ball at the embassy. They are a very attractive couple.
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- Nathaniel checks out the party at the German embassy.
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- Mrs. Hawking is not pleased that he’s pushed his way in.
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- The help is unimpressed by the crazy rich guy talking to the punch bowl.
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- Nathaniel does his best to cope as Mrs. Hawking yet again makes him look ridiculous.
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- But Mrs. Hawking’s on a mission.
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- Nathaniel does his best to serve as a distraction.
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- Nathaniel keeps Frau Gerhard out of her office while Mrs. Hawking searches it.
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- “You are a devotee of the German opera!?”
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- Frau Gerhard sweeps Nathaniel off to play him hours of German opera.
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- Clara brings a little gift for Mary– groceries and some encouragment –guaranteed to get under Mrs. Hawking’s skin. Bonus!
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- Mrs. Hawking gets mean when she is tired and frustrated.
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- Will nothing Mary does ever be good enough for Mrs. Hawking?
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- But Mrs. Hawking wants to make Mary her protege, and there’s nothing Mary wants more.
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- Nathaniel burst in to wreck the nice moment. But at least he has some useful information!
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- Mrs. Hawking shakes does her own client, as she is wont to do.
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- “It’s not my doing!” “Because you’ve done nothing!”
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- Mary and Nathaniel lie in wait to spring the trap on their target.
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- They beat up the bad guys!
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- Badasses.
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- That’s it, Mrs. H! Make that guy mad enough to take a swing at a cop!
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- Frau Gerhard is horrified that Austerlitz has been spying, and that he calls her a “dumster kou.”
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- Mrs. Braun thanks the team for their help.
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- She leaves them with a letter, unsigned, but from a very obvious source.
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- “You guys did a good job. But stay out of my business, you hear?”
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- Mrs. Hawking laughs for the first time that we hear! “Well! It seems we’ve dug under someone’s skin! In that case, jolly well worth it, wasn’t it?”
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