S1 E1
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Season 1  "The Vow"  1x1

Aired 10 years ago - Apr 20, 2014

After ten years of service fighting in the French and Indian War, John Alden returns to his home in Salem, intent on reuniting with his love, Mary. On his arrival, he's stunned to discover that the town has been swept up in a wave of witch hunt hysteria, and that Mary has married the town’s richest and most powerful resident.

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As soon as you sit down inside, it will settle.
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MARY: (BREATHING HEAVILY)
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So you are either a ghost, or you're about to be one.
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GILES: Well, he's all grown-up now.
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GILES: Died a few years ago.
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ISAAC: It was John Alden.
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COTTON: Tie her down!
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(STAMMERS)
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everything we have built and ever hope to build here!
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will help you identify what your reason fails to deliver.
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As my beloved husband, the head of your selectmen, reminds me,
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is like jumping in the ocean to get out of the rain.
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without the bother of the man attached?
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JOHN: Taught you everything about hunting witches?
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GEORGE: (GRUNTS)
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MRS. HALE: Natural?
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like an honest frenchman or a faithful woman,
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He said the universe itself was made out of vows,
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MARY: (SNIFFLES)
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Tomorrow, the moon is with us. Tomorrow, it begins.
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First, it broke my heart. Then it broke my back.
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Or am I?
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JOHN: It's a long way to New York.
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Do you know what killed nearly every woman buried here?
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MERCY: I don't know.
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(SCREAMS)
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COTTON: He won't plead either way.
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Let the same devil that holds his tongue hold the stones.
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Come to the circle, all who can.
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JOHN: What the hell is this?
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GILES: (GROANS)
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JOHN: Giles! Get the hell off of him!
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