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...my dear lady, and accept them.

Wounded and weary,

at last l arrived at the borders of Avalon.

l felt somehow l had never left.

But then l realized...

...the power l once prevailed over

had left me...

...a long time ago.

l was stranded on the outside...

...like a child locked out.

Viviane had forsaken me.

Then l heard a sound

l had not heard for years:

The bell of Glastonbury.

My daughter!

Where have you been, my child?

I've had such sadness.

Come.

Lancelot?

Wrong.

Run!

Mordred...

...such a trick is worthy of you.

in the king's name, Lancelot,

l accuse you of high treason.

Gawain, in God's name,

how could you lend yourself to this?

l never believed it of you.

l were to God l had fallen in battle

before ever l saw this day.

Dress yourself.

l will not take you so disgraced

into Arthur's presence.

Enough men have witnessed your shame.

I'm glad for your sake

that you would come with us quietly.

Mother?

See to the queen.

She'll be in your hands

until Arthur deals with her.

Come along, my lady. Get into your gown.

You do not want to go shameless

before the king, do you?

Get me your sword, Lancelot.

Come.

Stop!

Let them go.

it is for the king to decide their fate now.

No man in all of Britain

will hide them now.

They have defied you.

He has slain one of your most loyal men.

l love them both.

l will not hunt after them.

l beg you, my lord.

Lancelot has committed treason.

Treason against the Crown, to which l have

sworn allegiance, sworn with my life!

Lancelot and Guinevere are a part of me.

Do not ask me to tear into my own flesh.

lf you do nothing, Father...

...you will lose the confidence

of your army and your men.

You will cease to be High King

in anything but name.

l have not the heart for it.

l have no choice

but to leave this in your hands.

l cannot bear to say goodbye

to you here, my lady.

l am no longer any man's wife, or lover.

From this point on,

l give my heart to no one except God.

I've lost my king.

I've lost my honor, and now--

That day l saw you on the stones.

That bell was also ringing.

Remember?

How could l forget?

So innocent we were.

l pray...

...there is a heaven...

...and that you would be an angel in it...

...so when l die, we can be together at last.

l knew you'd come.

Mother Superior,

l come seeking forgiveness.

And this is the place

where you shall find it.

Suffering brings women to God.

When you left Camelot...

...Arthur missed you so.

l have often thought my greatest sin...

...was coming between the love

that you and Arthur have for each other.

How is my dear brother?

He is in great danger.

He has need of you now.

Why? What's happened?

it is your son, Mordred.

As l raced back to Camelot...

...to be with my brother

in his hour of need...

...l saw people fleeing from the coasts.

The final assault of the Saxons

had at last begun.

it was at that moment

that l finally encountered...

...the one person l had given up hope...

...of ever seeing again.

l was behind you much of the way.

l was proud and unforgiving.

l may have turned my back on you...

...but my heart never turned.

l destroyed something between us

in the name of the Goddess.

Now l fear l have destroyed

something else in her name.

Will Camelot and Avalon

disappear into the mists?

l see a land that runs red with blood...

...where chaos rules.

it is the end of an age.

l thought that l knew what to expect

when Viviane and l reached Camelot.

But it was beyond anything

either of us had imagined.

l am Morgaine, sister to the king.

Where is my brother?

Where is Arthur Pendragon?

Mother.

What a surprise.

So you came to see Arthur and not me?

You came to see your brother...

...and not the son you bore him.

Welcome to the new Camelot.

This is an abomination.

l thought you would be proud.

We are keeping the ways

of the Goddess alive.

These are not the ways of the Goddess.

You think you know her ways

better than l?

You always got it all,

while l was left with nothing.

But someone was watching out for me...

...and what god it is l care not.

The tribesmen only follow you...

...because you have the Pendragon banner

hanging over their heads.

l am the Lady of the Lake.

l am the High Priestess of Avalon...

...and l declare she has been deceiving you.

This is not Avalon.

This is not the will of the Goddess l serve.

This is her will...

...and it is murder and perversion.

My sister is an evil sorceress...

...intent on destroying all that is Camelot.

Now, bring me to the king!

Is it you?

Is it really you?

You've come back to me.

My sister,

why did you not tell me about our child?

Why did you bear the burden all alone?

The pain of it would have been

no less for me had l shared it with you.

You always looked after me.

I've done my duty,

and now you must do yours.

What duty remains for me to do?

You must protect your land

against the Saxon invasion...

...the likes of which I've never seen before.

I'm a sinner and I'm weak.

We have both sinned.

Are we going to let those sins drag us

down, as some priests would have it...

...and send us crawling on our knees

begging forgiveness...

...or are we going to rise above them and

do what we were put on this earth to do?

What were we put on this earth to do?

You were put on this earth

to lead your people, Arthur.

Stand!

The Saxon invasion has begun.

They have lined our shores.

They will take down Camelot.

You must ride out now,

even if it's the last battle you ever fight.

You must bring

one last note of glory to Avalon.

And so Arthur and the remnants

of the ound Table...

...rode out for their last battle.

We will fight as we always did.

As we always did, my friend.

He's joined the Saxons.

Our Father in heaven...

...and our Mother of the earth...

...soon l shall be taken into Your house.

Let me be fit to wear Your robes.

Let the sword that l die by cleanse me.

And if there is honor

in the course you have set for me...

...let me earn it today.

Mordred!

Father.

The Goddess holds everything in balance.

Without her,

destruction and chaos will prevail.

Bring me my horse.

Why have you become my enemy?

You truly believe that l was ever

anything else, my father?

Mother.

Lancelot.

Take me home, Sister.

Take me to Avalon.

Though Avalon had already rejected me...

...l felt its strange power...

...as it drew the dying king and l

back towards its sacred shores.

l began to doubt

we would ever reach Avalon.

Perhaps, for our disobedience...

...we would be lost

in this limbo of mist forever.

Or perhaps, with Viviane's death...

...it had simply disappeared.

Are we shut out of Avalon, Sister?

l fear the Goddess

has rejected us, Arthur...

...as we rejected her.

Perhaps she needs an offering.

Give it back to the Goddess, Morgaine.

lt belongs to her now.

We are home, Arthur.

My little brother...

...my love.

We're home.

Avalon faded from the world of men...

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