Queen Anne: Your Majesty.

King Louis XIII: My dear. You look troubled.

Queen Anne: Hardly. Your Majesty just startled me.

King Louis XIII: Oh, I'm so sorry. I just wanted to drop by and tell you how much I was looking forward to tonight. Should be quite spectacular, you know. Costumes, fireworks, and such. But you...you shall be the most spectacular sight of all. And especially since you'll wear the diamonds. You will wear them, won't you? Well, it's very important to me that you do.

Queen Anne: Then I shall wear them, your Majesty.

King Louis XIII: Until tonight then. She promised she'll wear them. You do think she'll wear them, don't you, Richelieu?

Cardinal Richelieu: I'm sure she will, your Majesty. I'm sure she will.

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Planchet: I hate air travel!

Athos: Damn!

Man: Hard to starboard!

Captain Rochefort: Well, now that we have their attention, let's see if we can settle this in a peaceful manner. More or less. Ah, Gascon! So you've traded up when it comes to transport. But, once again, you're outmatched. You can thank Milady for that. She passed on Buckingham's plans a long time ago. As you can see, we made some improvements. Isn't she a beauty?

D'Artagnan: What do you want?

Captain Rochefort: The diamonds.

D'Artagnan: Come and take them.

Captain Rochefort: Gladly! You see, I can blast you out of the skywith total impunity. If you fire on me, on the other hand, you'll be killing Ms. Oh-so-young-and-pretty. You have 60 seconds.

Aramis: He'll shoot us down the moment he has the diamonds.

Porthos: We can't outrun them.

D'Artagnan: And we can't fight them, damn it! We can't.

Athos: Ah, d'Artagnan.

D'Artagnan: What? Do you think you have the monopoly on loss? What if she dies? The life of one woman or the future of France, what would you do if you were in my position?

Athos: I've made a lot of sacrifices, a lot of hard choices. For honor, for King, for country. You wanna know what I've learned, boy? Hard choices and sacrifices do not keep you warm at night. Life is too damn short and too damn long to go through without someone at your side. Don't end up like me. Choose the woman. Fight for love, d'Artagnan. France'll take care of itself.

Captain Rochefort: Time's up!

D'Artagnan: An exchange. I go aboard your ship with the diamonds, the girl comes aboard ours. Once I know she's safe, I give them to you.

Captain Rochefort: Fine. But I want to see the diamonds first.

Porthos: Planchet?

Captain Rochefort: Cut her loose.

Man: Deploy the gangway! Deploy the gangway!

D'Artagnan: Satisfied?

Captain Rochefort: You never learn, do you? Fire!

Athos: Hard right! Fire!