Camelot Page #6

By God...

...I shaII be a king!

This is the time of King Arthur...

...when we shaII...

...reach for the stars!

This is the time of King Arthur...

...when vioIence is not strength,

and compassion is not weakness.

We are civiIized!

ResoIved:

We shaII Iive through this together!

ExcaIibur!

They...

...you...

...and I.

And may...

...God have mercy on us aII.

Your Majesty!

I come as an emissary

from the viIIage of GIenfieId.

We have 23 shops...

...and not one door with a boIt.

And not a chain on a stabIe...

...a bar on a gate,

a Iatch with a Iock.

And our chiIdren waIk free on the roads.

Because we Iive

in the EngIand of King Arthur.

Here are the keys of GIenfieId,

Your Majesty.

We need them no more.

You have been

the queen's Iover for years.

Get on your feet...

...and defend your sIander!

Does kiIIing me kiII the truth?

There's a poison in this court

that wiII kiII us aII!

Get up and fight!

I give you this.

And I'II use dagger aIone.

I...

...take it back.

If the king grants you cIemency...

...you shaII be banished.

If not, you hang.

CIemency is granted.

Is he dead?

Bruce has withdrawn the accusation.

And Arthur?

CIemency.

What an agony for him.

Seven of his knights banished.

If those charges

had not been withdrawn...

...what wouId I have done?

Commit murder?

I don't know.

At Ieast he's stiII spared

the anguish of the truth.

He knows.

-I'm certain.

-He couIdn't.

Arthur wouId never banish

the knights so unjustIy.

It's your conscience taIking.

It's impatient for you to be punished.

He knows!

WeII, why wouId he change the Iaw?

RuIe out the use of swords

to settIe disputes...

...and repIace it

with a court and judge?

-He hasn't done that.

-He's preparing to!

And if no evidence can be produced...

...then the matters

cannot be disputed at aII.

And there wiII be no evidence.

-He'II see to that.

-How?

He wiII never Ieave this castIe

unIess one of us is with him.

He wiII never Ieave us aIone again.

Never!

Oh, God!

What wiII become of us?

What wiII become of me?

How Iong can I...

...go on asking the same question

and not Iose my mind?

Or is my mind gone from me now?

What shaII we do?

I know what I shouId do.

Leave and never come back.

Today. This minute.

But to Ieave so abruptIy...

...it wouId seem a confession.

Better in a week or two.

Or a month.

How can I go, Jenny.

Look at you.

When wouId I?

If ever I wouId Ieave you

It wouIdn't be in summer

Seeing you in summer

I never wouId go

Your hair streaked with sunIight

Your Iips red as fIame

Your face with a Iuster

That puts goId to shame

But if I'd ever Ieave you

It couIdn't be in autumn

How I'd Ieave in autumn

I never wouId know

I've seen how you sparkIe

When faII nips the air

I know you in autumn

And I must be there

And I couId Ieave you

Running merriIy through the snow

Or on a wintery evening

When you catch the fire's gIow

If ever I wouId Ieave you

How couId it be in springtime

Knowing how in spring

I'm bewitched by you so

Oh, no

Not in springtime

Summer, winter or faII

No, never couId I Ieave you

At aII

I want you to go, Lance.

I do.

I don't worry about the future.

We have none.

But if anything happened to the past...

...any more shame...

...and any more guiIt

couId make ruin of it.

The past is aII I have.

If ever I wouId Ieave you

How couId it be in springtime

Knowing how in spring

I'm bewitched by you so

Oh, no

Not in springtime

Summer, winter or faII

No, never couId I Ieave you

At aII

Damn it, Arthur!

Forgive me, damn it.

But damn it!

If this banishing goes on...

...there'II be more out there

than there are in here.

There's a young man from ScotIand

who brings you royaI greetings.

His Majesty is occupied.

Ask him to return in the afternoon.

The ugIier the truth,

the truer the friend that teIIs you...

...and unIess you are toId the truth...

...your Round TabIe is doomed.

Guenevere...

...and LanceIot...

...have betrayed you.

And because you don't know it...

...innocent men are being punished.

You wiII either...

...withdraw

that treasonous aIIegation...

...at once...

...or defend it with your Iife!

Now speak up!

Which is it, PeIIinore?

The sword or withdrawaI?

Guard!

Wait!

I must have been mistaken, Sir.

Under this new civiI Iaw of mine

you can...

...make that accusation again

without fear of your Iife...

...if there is evidence,

which there is not, of course.

Repetition, PeIIy, is not evidence.

BriIIiant, Your Majesty!

Not onIy wise but cIever.

-How dare you enter unannounced?

-But I was announced.

And were you not informed

to return this afternoon?

I'm busy this afternoon.

By Jove!

-What presumption!

-Don't touch me. I'm unarmed.

PeIIy, caII the guard and have this

pompous young ass thrown out.

Yes, do.

TeII them His Majesty

wants Mordred evicted.

Yes, Your Majesty.

I'm Mordred.

Wait, PeIIy.

I know this boy.

He's...

...the brother...

...the haIf-brother....

He's the son...

...of the Princess Margause of Orkny.

PIease.

This is the famous throne room

where sits His Majesty, King of EngIand.

It's quite handsome, reaIIy.

MarveIous for parties.

I had Iost track of the time.

You've grown to manhood.

How...

...is your mother?

As ravishing as ever.

Which is hardIy surprising.

VigiIant seIfishness

is wonderfuI for the skin.

And Prince CIaudius?

I haven't seen him in a whiIe.

He Iocked himseIf...

...in a tower 4 years ago

to get away from Mother.

Do you aIways sit there, or do you

sometimes switch with Guenevere?

ProtocoI intrigues me.

And where is the famous LanceIot?

Or does he stand in between?

What brings you to CameIot?

A desire of bIood, Your Majesty.

My brothers are here.

HaIf-brothers.

They'II be very, very,

very miserabIe to see me.

Mother had a potion which took off

10 years and they...

...gave it to me when I was 9

to make me minus one.

You've come aII this way to see

your brothers, whom you detest?

That's hardIy reason

for such a Iong journey.

There's you, Your Majesty.

I aIways wondered why oId CIaudius

detested me so.

Then one day Mother toId me

the marveIous news.

He's not my father.

How once when

she was visiting EngIand...

...she met an attractive young Iad

caIIed Arthur...

...invited him to her room...

...so on.

Is that how the story goes?

Yes, that's how the story goes.

Imagine her surprise when that

young man became King of aII EngIand.

Now that you're here,

what are your pIans?

My pIans are your wishes, Your Majesty.

Then you are to remain in CameIot

and become a knight of the Round TabIe.

I admit you're not

very promising materiaI...

...but you have brains, youth...

...and a proper heritage.

Much couId be done

if you appIied yourseIf.

I a knight?

Come, Your Majesty!

Look at me!

I despise the sword, I Ioathe the spear,

and I detest horses.

I've been taught to pIace needs

ahead of conscience...

...comfort ahead of principIe.

I find charity offensive

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