Season Of The Witch Page #3

How did she escape?

She took the key

from around my neck.

Which way did she go?

ECKHART:
Maybe she followed

this road to the village.

Kay and Eckhart, that way.

KAY:
She's in the square!

GRuNTING)

There she is!

This is a grave.

This is a mass grave.

GIRL WHISPERING:
Papa...

Wait here.

GIRL:
Papa!

- Mila?

- Papa?

I'm here!

Eckhart!

- Mila? Mila.

- MILA:
Papa.

Papa, where are you?

- Mila. My child.

- MILA:
Papa, is that you?

- Don't run away!

- MILA:
Papa!

ECKHART:
Mila!

- Papa.

- Mila?

Eckhart. Eckhart

Eckhart Felson! Behmen!

Where are you?!

He came running out of nowhere.

Why didn't he stop?

Why didn't he see me?

Oh, dear God, what have I done?

What have I done?

He looked me in the eye,

but he didn't see me.

He... He called me Mila.

FELSON:
Behmen!

I had to run.

I had no choice. I...

I couldn't let him touch me again.

I'm so sorry.

Please! Please don't take me

back to him, please.

Please, I beg... please.

DEBELZAQ:
Heavenly Father,

we pray thee.

Take thy servant Johann Eckhart

unto the heavenly realm.

For he was a soldier of the Cross

and fought in thy name.

And in the name

of thy only son, Jesus Christ.

And thus did he die

for the glory of God.

- Amen.

- Amen.

Would anyone care

to offer some words?

Let his sacrifice not be in vain.

Behmen!

Behmen, I must speak with you.

What is it now, priest?

You must warn the others

to be careful in her presence,

not to discuss personal matters,

things she might use against...

Listen to me!

It was the witch killed Eckhart!

Now you heard what Kay said.

His mind was not his own.

She overheard us

talking of his daughter.

What exactly are you suggesting?

She sees the weakness

that lies in our hearts.

And what she sees there

she will use against us.

Crusader.

I'm truly grateful for your help.

You're very brave.

A man like you could never stand

to see a young girl come to any harm.

Debelzaq believes you are

to blame for Eckhart's death.

And you believe him?

After what he did to me?

I had no reason to harm Eckhart.

He was nothing but kind to me.

He told me I looked like his daughter.

I can see his death weighs

heavy on your mind.

Allow me to ease your pain.

Some good deeds can be done

even from behind bars.

Kay. Remember this.

It was not your fault.

It was the witch, no one else.

He died by my sword.

It could just as easily been another's.

But it wasn't.

It was mine. I killed him.

FELSON:
Why are we stopped?

You call that a bridge?

Last time I saw it,

it was eight or nine years ago.

I remember it differently.

It's our reward for taking

a swindler as our guide.

HAGAMAR:
I told you,

I'm not a swindler.

FELSON:
You're not much

of a guide either, are you?

How are we supposed to get

across this rotting timber?

HAGAMAR:
You're blaming me

for the bridge?

You're the one who led us to it.

You're the one who...

Behmen.

Behmen!

Take everything off the wagon.

Bring the horses across one by one.

It will be on my count of three.

One... Two... Three!

My hands!

Can't hold on much longer!

Help!

Hagamar! Hitch a rope to the horses

and we'll use them to pull the wagon.

If you let me out, it will be lighter.

Please! I can help!

- It won't hold!

- It will! Push!

GIRL:
Push!

We won't make it! Let me out!

- Come on!

- Push!

Hold it!

That was a little too close.

I've saved your ass a hundred times.

Have a little faith.

Kay, bring me a fresh wrap

for the priest's hand.

It would be a shame

if he bled to death.

Thank you.

Felson!

The flask.

Really?

What is this place?

Hagamar. Where are we?

Wormwood Forest.

HAGAMAR:
Damn fog.

Like a veil before my eyes.

FELSON:
We haven't strayed

from the path, have we?

I can barely see my own hand

in front of my face.

The only reason you're around

is because you claimed you knew the way.

I know the way,

I just can't see the way.

Maybe you'd like to try leading

the way then, huh?

Enough! Both of you!

We'll camp here on the road.

Wait for the fog to pass.

Kay told me what happened

on the bridge.

He says you saved his life.

With one hand.

Hard to believe.

We believe what we want to believe.

Do you believe I'm a witch, Behmen?

You're not afraid of me, are you?

Mm...

Mm...

BEHMEN:
Trouble sleeping?

Myself as well.

Not sure if it's the fog,

the altitude...

It's unsettling.

Even for a knight.

Let alone a spineless

scoundrel like myself?

That is not what I meant.

No?

Behmen, how many more are going to die

before we reach Severac?

- None if I can help it.

- And if you can't? Well, then what?

Forgive me if I seem reluctant

to put my life in your hands.

But I have a better solution.

We kill the b*tch.

Here and now and be done with it.

We tell those back in Marburg

she tried to escape. She meant us harm.

What could we do?

We had no choice.

And who would be the wiser?

I, for one.

Did you hear that?

- What is it? What's happening?

- Listen. Be quiet.

Wolves.

What do we do?

Kill as many as you can.

- Oh, no.

- Get the horses. I'll take the wagon.

Go!

Hyah!

FELSON:
Behmen!

It's too late. We can't help him.

Behmen? What are you doing?

Behmen, what are you doing?

He's doing what comes naturally.

Killing the innocent.

- You cannot do this!

- Step aside.

- Two lives have already been lost.

- No one grieves for that more than I!

Then step aside

or this arrow will be yours.

If we falter now those lives

will have been lost in vain.

All will not be lost.

Four lives will be spared.

What are four lives compared with

the thousands more that will be lost

if this plague is not ended? I know!

There may be no room in your

heart for God, Behmen.

But in my heart,

I know He would not abandon us!

In God's name.

No man has spilled more blood

in God's name than I.

A benevolent God would not

ask such things of men!

But if you kill her,

you will not have God to blame.

Only yourself.

The end is in sight.

LOOK.

Severac.

FELSON:
We've come a long way,

Behmen. Across oceans, deserts.

Seen things few men have seen.

When this is over I think I'd like

to see the valley where I was born.

And you?

I have no such yearnings for home.

Oh, well, then come with me.

I will show you my home.

And we will sit in the hall

where my forefathers sat and drink ale.

- Tell tales few men have lived to tell.

- And fewer still will believe.

But we will know the truth, my friend.

We will know.

Hello?

Is anyone there?

- FELSON:
Where are the monks?

- DEBELZAQ:
Chapel.

At this time

they should be in vespers.

My brothers, forgive the intrusion,

but we have traveled far...

It cannot be.

He would not abandon us.

God would not abandon us.

We must go.

There is no hope here. Only the plague.

Go where?

These men were our hope.

We are in God's hands now.

Prayer is our only salvation.

Our Lord in heaven,

- hallowed be thy name.

- BEHMEN:
Debelzaq!

- Thy kingdom come, thy will be done...

- Debelzaq!

...on earth as it is in heaven.

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