The Count of Monte Cristo: Mercédès and Edmond

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00](gentle upbeat music) - In the beginning of the story, Mercedes is a young Catalan fisher woman.

[00:00:06]She's really deeply in love with Edmond Dantes.

[00:00:09]- Mercedes?!

[00:00:10]Mercedes has grown up alongside Edmond in the small city of Marseilles.

[00:00:16]The two of them are very much in love, very young, very naive and innocent to the dark side of the world.

[00:00:23]- She's about to get married, and she really is living a young love, a free love.

[00:00:30]She's very loyal to this love story she has with Edmond.

[00:00:35]- [Sam] Edmond is sent away to prison on the night of his engagement party.

[00:00:39]- [Mercedes] What's going on? - [Soldier] Hold her.

[00:00:40]- Edmond, where are they taking you?

[00:00:41]- I don't know, I don't know!

[00:00:42]And that throws their relationship into all sorts of uncertainty.

[00:00:46]- She's gonna be forced to believe he's now dead, and that's going to destroy her.

[00:00:53]But, after a while, she eventually gonna have to move on with her life and she's gonna evolve.

[00:00:59]She's gonna become a new woman.

[00:01:01]She's gonna now move to Paris.

[00:01:03]She is now married to Fernand, she has a son.

[00:01:07]- Eventually, after 15 years of suffering in prison, Edmond makes it his purpose to find her again.

[00:01:13]- Count, how lovely of you to come.

[00:01:16]She meets with the Count of Monte Cristo, this wealthy and mysterious man.

[00:01:21]And deep inside her, the day she meets him, the minute she meets him, she knows it might be Edmond, but she cannot believe it because he's dead.

[00:01:32]And now, Edmond is a different man.

[00:01:35]He has been through a lot, and he's consumed by an idea of revenge.

[00:01:42]And there is no room left for this innocent love they used to have for each other.

[00:01:48]- I think there's a lot of mixed feelings for Edmond.

[00:01:50]There's the feeling of betrayal, the feeling of loss, anger.

[00:01:55]She's now a different woman, and I'm a different man.

[00:01:59]But there is still some semblance of confusion and love deep down within him.

[00:02:04]So when they're reacquainted, there are so many beautiful moments and beautiful scenes where the two of them are intertwined.

[00:02:09]She doesn't want to admit that she suspects that he is who he is, and he doesn't want to admit that he is who he is.

[00:02:16]- Mercedes want also to protect her family, but she's tormented by the love she has for Edmond too.

[00:02:24]The fact that she is never gonna be able to live that love story ever again.

[00:02:30]- The two of them have this very, very complicated pull towards one another, but can't do anything about it.

[00:02:36]- If I did not think you were dead, I would've never married Fernand... I would've waited.

[00:02:41]- How long would you have waited?

[00:02:43]- I am still waiting. I love you, Edmond, I always have.

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