Exodus: Gods and Kings Page #4

Who are you talking to?

God.

God.

Which God?

You're not seriously

considering his proposal.

Is it a proposal?

If a man is holding a dagger

to your throat, minister?

- Is it?

- I stand corrected. That's a demand.

He has lost his mind.

He's found a God. His God.

Not one of ours, so...

I would like Moses...

I want Moses dead.

Did you hear me?

Yes.

Then, go.

And...

His family, too.

Moses. Where's Moses?

Moses? Where's Moses?

Moses... His family.

Where are they?

This is not Moses.

This is not his family.

This is a man, his wife,

and his child...

who when asked the simple question,

"where is he?"...

answered, "we don't know."

Carry this image home with you tonight,

and discuss why you would protect him

knowing that tomorrow at this time

there will be another family

where this one is.

And another the day after.

And the day after that.

Dare I say yours?

Go ahead.

- I want to join the fight.

- In there.

Joshua, use your knee.

It's good.

Both eyes open!

Nock!

Draw! Loose!

Advance. Nock. Draw.

Loose!

Draw!

Loose!

Draw! Loose!

Again!

There are two kinds of warfare.

Each is dictated by numbers.

With greater numbers

you attack the enemy head on!

You stab it in the heart!

With fewer numbers, you come at it

from the side. You cut off the blood...

That pumps the heart.

- The army supply lines.

- No!

The people's supply lines. Their food,

their property, their comfort.

- What would that achieve?

- Everything.

Only the Egyptian people

can force him to accept our demands

for freedom. We must force them

to make him say yes!

- Yes?

- Yes!

- Yes?

- Yes!

With me!

With me!

Ready.

You're not going to do anything?

I didn't say that.

- Where have you been?

- Watching you fail.

Wars of attrition take time.

At this rate, you'll take years...

a generation.

- I am prepared to fight for that long.

- I'm not.

I thought we were making progress.

Now, you're impatient.

After 400 years of slavery.

Am I the only one sitting here

who's done nothing about this until now?

I do know a few things

about military action.

Still, if you're not going

to listen to me,

then why did you take me away

from my family?

I didn't. You did.

You don't need me.

Maybe not.

So what do I do? Nothing?

For now...

you can watch.

Divine goddess Kebechet,

I humbly call upon you to purify

the waters of our life-giving river.

How long will it take?

Not long.

But longer than that.

- Ramses! Ramses!

- Yes?

- Enough!

- Do something!

They're just frogs.

Back away, back away.

Unclean.

No, no, no. Don't drink. Unclean.

The Nile, as we know,

carries a certain amount of clay.

This year there's much more of it

than usual. Drifting in on the currents,

settling on the riverbeds, and kicked up

by the wild thrashing of the crocodiles.

This thrashing not only dramatically

changed the color of the water,

but it fouled it

to the point of killing the fish.

But frogs, as we know...

can get out of the water,

when they have to.

Which they did.

But frogs still need water.

And when they can't find it

in the streets of our city...

They what?

- They die?

- They die!

And then they decompose.

And then the gnats come

and the maggots come and the flies come.

And then...

And then what?

The flies die.

- Speak up.

- It's in Hebrew.

Hebrew? Read it.

"These catastrophes are the work of God.

"And they have not finished.

They will get worse.

"We need to reach a settlement

for both our sakes."

So, the work of God.

Here is my settlement to you.

Work quotas shall be doubled...

And you will get no straw

to make your bricks.

Perhaps your God

will provide it for you.

I was impressed at first.

Not anymore.

This is affecting everyone.

So, who are you punishing?

What's wrong with him?

It's sick.

What is this?

- Did you do this?

- Not me. Not me.

- Is this you?

- No, no!

Wake up, please.

What's happened to him?

We have made great strides in medicine.

However, there are still a few hidden diseases

that we don't completely understand.

Animals are not exempt,

and there is some conjecture

that these maladies can migrate

from the smallest creature.

Like a...

A fly.

Have you been out to the river lately?

I appealed to Kebechet again

and six more gods.

Is that it?

Are you done?

I am.

Are you trying to say something

with your absence?

Is it meant to humble me?

Because it will not!

Initial reports suggest

more than 10 million square cubits

of crops have been lost.

The quartermaster has suggested

we return a portion of the supplement

to the civil granary. An act of mercy.

Your people are starving.

Are you suggesting

that I should starve, too?

No.

People have plenty of water.

They will endure.

Aim!

Fire!

Aim!

Fire!

Is that you?

Moses?

Brother?

Have you come to negotiate?

Because I'm ready...

as I have an offer for you.

One more thing happens...

and I will bring my own plague to you.

You see, every Hebrew child...

Not yet walking...

they never shall.

Because I will drown them in The Nile.

As you should have been.

You say that you didn't cause all this?

Your God did?

I am the God! I am the God!

So, let's just see

who's more effective at killing.

You.

This God.

Or me.

Nice of you to come.

He's given you what you asked?

Not yet. But his own people

are turning against him.

- And his army?

- It will.

I disagree.

- Something worse has to happen.

- I disagree.

- Anything more would be...

- Would be what?

What were you about to say?

Cruel? Inhumane?

It's not easy to see the people who

I grew up with suffering this much.

What about the people you

didn't grow up with?

What thought did you give to them?

You still don't think of them

as yours, do you?

As long as Ramses has an army

behind him, nothing will change.

- Anything more is just revenge!

- Revenge?

After 400 years of brutal subjugation?

These pharaohs who imagine

they're living gods,

they're nothing more

than flesh and blood.

I want to see them on their knees,

begging for it to stop!

I'm tired of talking with a messenger!

General!

I have heard Ramses' final threat.

So, let me tell you

what's going to happen next.

No. No. You cannot do this.

I want no part of this!

Stay!

- Hold!

- Moses?

Leave him.

- Khyan.

- Moses.

I could have you killed.

I don't think so.

Unless you do it yourself.

Your own soldiers let me in.

I am not negotiating anymore.

That's not why I'm here.

I came to tell you

that something is coming...

that is out of my control.

Something that will affect thousands

and thousands of citizens.

And it will affect you very personally

unless you accept what I've asked for,

and announce it publicly

before the sun goes down.

Ramses... do not turn your back on me!

This has nothing to do with you and I.

This is far beyond that.

This is about Egypt's survival.

Do you understand?

Sunset.

After that, it will be too late.

What will be too late?

You protect your child.

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