King Arthur Page #4

You mean they refused to be your serfs!

You are a Roman.

You understand.

And you are a Christian.

You! You kept her alive!

- (soldier) My lord!

- No! No, stop!

When we get to the wall

you will be punished for this heresy.

Perhaps l should kill you now

and seal my fate.

l was willing to die with them.

Yes, to lead them to their rightful place.

lt is God's wish

that these sinners be sacrificed.

Only then can their souls be saved.

Then l shall grant his wish.

- Wall them back up.

- Arthur.

l said wall them up!

Don't you see it is the will of God

that these sinners be sacrificed?

- Unhand me, defil... They're sinners!

- Get in there!

We're moving too slow.

The girl's not gonna make it,

and neither is the boy.

The family we can protect, but we're

wasting our time with all these people.

We're not leaving them.

lf the Saxons find us, we will have to fight.

Then save your anger for them.

ls this Rome's quest or Arthur's?

(weak moans)

- Arthur.

- How is he?

He burns.

Brave boy.

Some of your fingers are out of place.

l have to push them back.

lf l don't do this, there's a chance

you may never use them again.

- (cracking)

- (cries)

(cracking)

They tortured me.

With machines.

To make me tell them things that...

that l didn't know to begin with.

And then...

l heard your voice in the dark.

l am Guinevere.

You are Arthur...

of the Knights from the Great Wall.

l am.

The famous Briton

who kills his own people.

l found tracks coming from the south,

but none going back.

Horsemen traveling light and fast.

Could be Roman cavalry.

Could be knights.

They know we're after them.

They'll head east now,

through the mountains.

God's holy work has been defiled.

l am a servant of God!

No, please, l... Agh!

He says they walled him up in a building

and took the family.

Someone who goes

by the name of Artorius.

lt's him.

lt's Arthur.

Take your men east. Hunt them down.

l'll take the main army to the wall.

Bring the family there.

- (man) And the monks?

- Put them back where you found them.

l am a servant of God!

Please, l... l am a servant of God!

(monk) Unhand me, you defiler!

(sighs)

Burn it all.

Yah!

My father told me great tales of you.

Really?

And what did you hear?

Fairy tales.

The kind you hear about people so brave,

so selfless, that they can't be real.

Arthur and his knights.

A leader both Briton and Roman.

And yet you chose your allegiance

to Rome.

To those who take

what does not belong to them.

That same Rome that took your men

from their homeland.

Listen, lady, do not pretend

you know anything about me or my men.

How many Britons have you killed?

As many as tried to kill me. lt's the natural

state of any man to want to live.

Animals live! lt's a natural state of any man

to want to live free in their own country.

l belong to this land.

Where do you belong, Arthur?

How's your hand?

l'll live, l promise you.

ls there nothing about my land

that appeals to your heart?

Your own father married a Briton.

Even he must have found something

to his liking.

(gallops away)

We'll sleep here.

Take shelter in those trees.

- Tristan.

- You wanna go out again? Yeah.

lt is here, given to us by the Pope.

These people, they send an army for us.

(rustling)

(footsteps)

You betrayed me.

He means you no harm.

Peace between us this night,

Arthur Castus.

So Rome is leaving. The Saxon is come.

The world we have known

and fought for is ended.

Now we must make a new world.

Your world, Merlin, not mine.

l shall be in Rome.

To find peace?

The Saxon will come to Rome.

My knights trust me

not to betray them to their enemy.

Rome was my enemy, not Arthur.

We have no fight between us now.

You tell that to the knights

you killed before my eyes,

whose bones are buried in this earth.

We have all lost brothers.

You know nothing of the loss l speak!

Shall l help you remember?

An attack on a village.

The screams of an innocent woman.

Mother!

Artorius!

Mother!

Mother!

I ran to the burial mound

ofmy father to free her.

To kill you.

Father, please let loose your sword.

l feel the heat of that fire

on my face even now.

l did not wish her dead.

She was of our blood, as are you.

lf you were so determined to leave us

to slaughter, why did you save so many?

My men are strong,

but they have need of a true leader.

They believe you can do anything.

To defeat the Saxon

we need a master of war.

Why do you think

l spared you in the forest?

That sword you carry is made of iron

from this earth, forged in the fires of Britain.

lt was love of your mother

that freed the sword, not hatred of me.

Love, Arthur.

Seize him!

No!

No...

l have the boy!

- Kill him!

- No, don't! Let him go!

Kill him now!

Down! Hah!

(Lancelot) Your hands seem to be better.

Artorius!

Do we have a problem?

Huh?

You have a choice.

You help or you die.

Put down your weapons.

- Do it now!

- Yeah!

(neighing)

- How many did you kill?

- Four.

Not a bad start to the day! (laughs)

Armor-piercing.

They're close. We have no time.

You ride ahead.

l'm sorry for your loss.

My father lost his way.

He used to say the Church

is there to help us stay on our path.

lt didn't help those he made suffer.

The path he chose was beyond the reach

of the Church, Alecto.

But not of Rome. What my father believed,

so Rome believes.

What, that some men are born

to be slaves? No, that isn't true.

lt is so! He told me so.

Pelagius, a man as close to me as any,

is there now,

teaching that all men are free, equal.

And that each of us has the right

to choose his own destiny.

Teach? How?

They killed Pelagius a year past.

Germanius and the others

were damned by his teachings.

They had him excommunicated and killed.

The Rome you talk of doesn't exist,

except in your dreams.

- ls there any other way?

- No. We have to cross the ice.

Get them all out of the carriages.

Tell them to spread out.

(creaking)

(cracking)

(distant drums beating)

(creaking)

- Knights...

- Well, l'm tired of running.

And these Saxons are so close behind

my ass is hurtin'.

Never liked

looking over my shoulder anyway.

- Be a pleasure to put an end to this racket.

- And finally get a look at the bastards.

Here. Now.

Jols!

You two, take the horses.

(Arthur) Ganis, l need you

to lead the people.

The main Saxon army is inland,

so if you track the coastline till you're

well south of the wall, you'll be safe.

- But you're seven against 200?

- Eight.

You could use another bow.

- l'd rather stay and fight.

- You'll get your chance soon enough.

This man is now your captain.

You do as he says. Am l understood?

- Yes, sir.

- Go. Go!

Right. Come on, then! Move on!

l am able. l can fight.

No. You must bear witness

to all you have seen.

There's one thing you must do,

and that's get back to Rome.

(ice cracking/horses neighing)

(beating drum)

Hold until l give the command.

You look frightened.

There's a large number

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