Cursed (2020) s01e07 Episode Script

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[arrow whistles]
[ominous music plays]
[Arthur yells]
[both grunt]
[Arthur grunts]
[tense music plays]
[Arthur yells]
[Arthur groans]
[Arthur grunts]
[monk grunts]
[Arthur groans]
[eerie ethereal music plays]
[distant panicked screaming]
[groans]
He's gone!
Take shelter. In the mill.
Run!
[yelling]
[paladins groan]
[man] Run for the mill!
-Go!
-[grunts]
[Arthur grunts]
[Arthur groans]
[Arthur grunts]
[Arthur groans]
[Arthur pants]
[Arthur grunts]
-[Gawain] Come on, Man Blood!
-The horses!
-No time!
-We can't outrun them on foot!
Do as I say, and stop bleeding!
[rider] Ya! Ya!
[grunting]
[grunting]
[distant yelling]
[paladins yelling]
[horse brays]
[groans]
-Come on, Bergerum!
-[Bergerum] I'm bloody busy!
[Gawain] Hurry!
[groans]
[paladins yelling]
Bergerum!
No.
[Fey people screaming]
Is he breathing?
-I don't know.
-[Gawain] How many are there?
A dozen in the field.
Probably twice that in the wood.
-What's downstairs?
-Food storage. A hatch to outside.
Put a sword by that hatch
and get the wounded downstairs.
-We can't stay here.
-Well, we can't reach the bloody horses,
so I suggest you grab a bow
and take out as many as you can.
[tense ethereal music plays]
[man] Come on, quickly. Careful.
[paladins yelling]
[horses bray]
[Nimue] Kaze should've been back by now.
What is this place?
Brother's Blood,
the Roman battleground
cursed by the Cailleach.
Nimue?
[Nimue] How was it cursed?
What did she do?
Didn't you tell ghost stories as a child?
No. Mine were real.
She conjured a fog
that enveloped the Roman army.
And in that fog, the soldiers went mad
and slaughtered one another.
Brother's Blood.
Twenty thousand men fell here.
[bird screeches]
[hoofbeats approach]
Thank the gods you're safe.
What did you see?
We have less than an hour
before Pendragon's soldiers reach us.
We can't lose them.
We can't circle back.
The Celts built tunnels in these cliffs
to escape the Romans.
Some of them reach Gramaire.
Arthur and I used to play in them
when we were kids.
You want me to go in that mountain?
No.
This place reeks of death magic.
In my land,
the Bexare would burn this place
and cover it in salt.
We are fools to stay here.
We're fools to turn around.
I'd rather die battling the king's men
than die battling evil
we cannot see or touch.
[bird screeches]
Whoa. Whoa.
[horse brays]
[Nimue] Let's try here.
Well, not like we have a choice.
We'll send the horses off, and hopefully,
Pendragon's soldiers
will follow them instead.
No one listens.
[tense music plays]
[groans]
[chains rattle]
[exhales sharply]
[groans loudly]
[bones creaking, snapping]
-[grunts]
-[metal clangs]
Ya!
-[man 1] Bring us in good ale ♪
-[distant muffled yelling]
[muffled yelling continues]
For our blessed lady's sake ♪
[muffled coughing]
Bring us in good ale ♪
[muffled coughing continues]
[muffled gasping]
[man 1] Bring us in no mutton ♪
For that is often lean ♪
[muffled gasping, panting]
[blows slowly]
[muffled coughing]
-[man 2, muffled] Help me!
-[woman] Fisherman!
[man 2] Please, help me! Help! Help!
[woman] I have a message from our master,
Rugen the Leper King.
I've been told to say
your abilities are needed elsewhere.
I've been told to say the moment has come
to claim the fish you have long sought.
[man 2] Help!
Merlin the Magician.
[muffled coughing]
[woman] I've been told to say
if you wish to seek vengeance
on that fallen Shadow Lord,
then my lord will fill ten trunks
with gems for you.
[muffled cries for help]
[woman] That is all I've been told to say.
[muffled gasping]
[man 2] Please! I can't breathe.
[muffled gasping]
[man 2] Please, help me! Help me! Don't!
[muffled cries stop]
[mystical music plays]
[gasps]
[mystical twinkling]
[Morgana] Oh!
The Celts that defied Caesar.
They fought to the last man,
woman, and child.
The Cailleach offers the people her help.
[distant ghostly cries]
Then turns the Roman blades
upon themselves.
The Cailleach protected the innocent.
But she demanded payment.
[Nimue] Payment?
Their children.
To be consumed by the Cailleach,
the spider god.
This is the price of a people undefended.
They find themselves
at the mercy of demons.
[tense music plays]
Not all demons know they are demons.
When the Cailleach first met the Celts,
maybe she didn't yet know her true nature.
[eerie wind howls]
[distant snarling]
[eerie wind howls]
Oh
[tense music intensifies]
[eerie wind howls]
[Merlin] Every second you hold that sword,
the danger to your life increases.
Revenge took ownership of me.
It will do the same to you.
Because you're my kin!
You worry about your nature?
Don't.
The Devil's Tooth chose you for a reason.
It bent Merlin.
Every day I feel it trying to bend me.
Your character is stronger than his.
What do you know about me?
You hardly know me.
And all this sword wants is death.
-If you love it so much, take it.
-That is the sword of your people.
It is your honor to wield it.
I'm sick of honor bought with blood!
Oh, stop whining!
Hold that sword and lead.
Lead them where?
To more slaughter?
There is no hope for the Fey.
[squelching]
This wretched thing belongs
-at the bottom of a well!
-Nimue!
[ominous music plays]
[sword clatters on ground]
[breathes deeply]
What have you done?
I don't know.
I was just seized with the impulse to
Gods, why did I do that?
Well, now we can't leave the bloody sword.
-I'll retrieve it.
-No. We have to stay together.
Wait, you two retrace our steps.
Meet me back in that chamber.
[breathes deeply]
Here.
Nimue,
everything is going to be all right.
[scuttling]
[ominous music plays]
[eerie wind howls]
[breathes shakily]
[footsteps approach]
[Red Spear] I've been caught
by a villager's ax.
Stitch me up.
Okay. Yep.
[Pym] Uh
Uh
-Right there.
-[woman sighs]
[Red Spear] Beggar's Coast,
it seems, is so named
because none of them have
any bloody money!
Prepare the crew for a long sail
to Black Chain.
Uh
-[groans]
-Sorry! Sorry, sorry, sorry!
It's just, um
I'd quite like to find my friend,
and I think she may still be
by Beggar's Coast.
You mistake me for someone
who gives a flying shit!
Why are you still here?
Black Chain!
[footsteps recede]
[Pym] So,
have you always been a raider?
A raider?
Don't you mean a thief?
Is that what you think I am?
No. No, no, no. Not Not
This is no raider ship.
This is the blade
that cuts out the heart
of Eydis the Snake!
Eydis the Fair!
The lying whore daughter
to Cumber the Ice King!
[seething breaths]
You try me, healer.
And that isn't hard to do
when I can't find any bloody gold!
[coins clatter to floor]
Maybe you should try raiding
the Red Paladins.
[Red Spear] You speak again?
Well, you've been stealing
from the twice robbed.
I mean, these towns,
they've already been sacked.
By the Red Paladins.
If it's gold you're after,
strike their camps,
got wagons full.
[raiders yelling in distance]
You're a shit healer.
[Red Spear] Belay that order.
Stay on Beggar's Coast!
-[horse brays]
-[paladin] Ya!
[tense music plays]
[horse grunts, snorts]
-How is she?
-Yeah, she'll live.
Away. Both of you.
Are you healers?
Well, I am.
[bang, clattering]
[shrieking]
[woman whimpering]
Boy, why am I looking at your face?
Because I'm here to rescue you.
I ordered you to stay back at camp.
Today I shall kill paladins, my lord.
Stay down here and out of trouble.
Watch him and plug that damn hole.
[grunts weakly]
He's alive.
[groans]
[grunts weakly]
[horse snorts, brays]
[horse snorts]
[horse brays]
Bow. Give me a bow.
[breathes sharply]
[grunts, groans weakly]
[strained breathing]
[groans weakly]
[Bergerum groans]
-[groaning]
-Surrender the Green Knight
-[coughing]
-we'll let the rest of you live.
[Bergerum groans loudly]
He's lying.
[monk] Come, now, Green Knight,
how many more will you make suffer
for your crimes?
You see, I'm a patient man,
and I'm willing to wait for you.
But I will need to occupy my time.
-[squelching]
-[pained screaming]
[Bergerum groans loudly]
[coughing, pained groaning]
[groaning, coughing]
[pained screaming]
[Bergerum screams in pain]
[pained screaming continues]
Let me go.
You said before, had you gone down there,
there'd be two dead Fey instead of one.
I don't care.
[monk] Let me explain how this works,
Green Knight,
though I'm sure you can recall.
To give you enough time,
I'll slowly cut this fellow to pieces.
[pained screaming]
[pained screaming]
[pained screaming]
[Bergerum groans loudly, gasps for air]
[pained screaming]
I can at least take a few of them with me!
Who would that save? Not Bergerum.
Not those poor souls downstairs.
-I don't care!
-Then you're a fool!
[Bergerum screams in pain]
[Gawain] If you try to stop me again,
I will kill you.
[Bergerum gasps for air]
[groans loudly]
[Bergerum groans, coughs]
[groans, coughs weakly]
So, what now, Green Knight?
Shall we untwist his stomach?
[strained breathing]
Yes?
[monk] Is that a yes?
[poignant music plays]
[grunts quietly]
[strained breathing]
Take him.
[weak groaning, strained breathing]
[groans]
-What have you done?
-[door closes]
What had to be done.
Honor Bergerum by saving lives,
not wasting them.
Ehh!
[both laugh]
[woman] Phillip.
Can I have a look?
No. Phillip!
No more food.
[man] You little rascal!
[woman chuckles]
Milady, you have a visitor.
[man chatters indistinctly]
[Phillip laughs]
[distant chattering, laughter]
Leave me.
Your family seems well.
They are.
[distant laughter]
[Merlin] Yours and their every need
has been tended to?
Every one a peasant girl
could have thought to ask for.
You acknowledge, then,
that I have kept my promises to you?
The time has come
for you to keep your promise to me.
[distant laughter]
Can I host you for the night?
Wine and pheasant?
If I could just
spend one last evening with them?
The fates of two kings
and thousands of lives
hinge on our actions
in the next few hours.
The hounds are at my heels.
It must be now.
Say your goodbyes.
[poignant music plays]
[distant laughter]
-[Phillip laughs]
-Ooh-oh! Very good.
[playful chattering]
No. Let them play.
[raider] Should've heard
the tonsured weasels!
"The Pope will hear of this!"
[raiders laugh]
As your captain,
I declare open season on Red Paladins!
[raiders roar approval]
-[raider 2] Look at that!
-[raider 3] Thank you, clerics.
[folk music plays]
[raider 4] Yeah!
[raider 4] For our captain!
[raiders] Yeah!
[raiders yell gleefully]
[Morgana breathes heavily]
-[mystical twinkling]
-[sighs]
[ghostly voice] Morgana!
[gasps]
[breathes shakily]
[ghostly whispering]
[water sloshes]
[breathes shakily]
-[eerie whooshing]
-[ghostly voice] Morgana!
[gasps]
Kaze?
[breathes shakily]
[ominous music plays]
Where is she?
Morgana! Morgana!
She will return here.
She's my friend.
She's one of many
that warned me against Merlin's treachery.
Yeva
Gawain
[sighs] Everyone I trust.
I had the sword.
I could have set all the terms.
I could have forced him
to a place of my choosing,
but instead, I went to him,
trusting, like a fool.
Like a child.
Merlin has made fools of kings,
popes, and Shadow Lords alike.
None of them were his daughter.
You are the daughter of Merlin?
I wish it were not so.
You must carry that secret to your grave.
The Fey do not trust Merlin.
Their faith in you cannot afford
to be shaken.
What if that faith is misplaced?
[Kaze] It is not.
I still believe that.
I'm not only Merlin's daughter,
I'm my mother's daughter.
Unquestioning.
Obedient.
My mother thought
Merlin should have the sword,
and so I ignored my eyes and guts
and just rode off to hand it to him.
But instead,
you gave it to the gray bats
at the bottom of this cursed cavern.
I've counseled many leaders
from my own tribe and others.
Those who do not doubt
are only pretending to lead.
But I'm no king.
Neither were they.
My people are not led by kings.
They are led by queens.
[reverential music plays]
Did these queens make mistakes?
Not this bad.
But you will learn.
Maybe you will help teach me.
We will see.
[woman] Who's there?
-Who is that?
-Stay back.
Celia?
[chuckles lightly]
[gasps]
-Oh!
-[Celia chuckles]
It can't It can't be.
Don't press too roughly.
[chuckles lightly]
Oh
Oh!
-[breathes shakily] How can you be here?
-I
I barely escaped the fire.
A few of us thought to hide down here.
We remembered the place
from playing when we were young.
I had given up, my love.
[sniffles] Maybe the gods are merciful.
[both chuckle]
[Celia chuckles]
[relieved sighing]
[Morgana sniffles, sighs]
[paladin] You've got to come out!
[ominous music plays]
[paladin] Burn it down!
[man] Watch out!
[paladin] Go!
[breathes shakily]
[arrows hit door]
How many more of those arrows
do you think they have?
As many as oil and cloth make.
We'll burn before the sun sets.
This place.
I feel it studying me.
Searching for weakness.
Whatever is here,
it senses your power.
It fears you.
[eerie whooshing, screeching]
What about Morgana?
No, you stay in this chamber.
No, I'm not staying here.
If you want to learn from me,
then listen first.
This is the web of the Cailleach.
And she waits for us in the spiral.
You're safer here.
I will find Morgana and your sword.
Do you remember Nimue?
The Fey girl.
They call her the Wolf-Blood Witch.
She's rallying the tribes.
I've made a vow
to support and protect her.
[scoffs]
You've always given yourself too fully
to the people you admire.
Remember Sister Dawn?
You stole jewels from the rectory
because Sister Dawn said
God had sent her a dream
that gems in her hand would protect us all
from the snowstorms.
[both giggle]
[Morgana giggles]
Do you know who helped us
find each other again?
It was the Cailleach.
[Celia chuckles]
Oh, I I was afraid too.
I thought the Cailleach was a monster,
but she saved me, Morgana.
She brought me here to talk to you.
I don't understand.
She has a message for you.
Your destiny is much greater
than you believe.
See, you follow this one and that one
because you fear your own power.
The Cailleach told me who would be
the greatest sorceress in Britannia.
And it is not the Wolf-Blood Witch.
It's you, Morgana.
-You.
-I know nothing of magic.
The Cailleach sees clearly
all that is to come.
And soon, Morgana,
you will decide
who holds the Sword of Power.
How do you know this?
How did you come to know the Cailleach?
I have kept one secret from you.
Promise not to be angry?
Never, my love.
I'm no longer among the living.
Celia, you're scaring me.
I speak to you only through the power
of the Cailleach.
She bids you seek the dead man
who stands outside the Bell Tower.
-I don't understand.
-Seek him, and you shall find him.
Do this, Morgana,
and she will lift you in power
above Nimue, above Merlin,
above even the Shadow Lords themselves.
[distant screeching]
My darling.
[distant screeching]
[Morgana breathes shakily]
It's all right.
[eerie wind howls]
[Kaze] Morgana!
-When will I see you again?
-Do what is asked,
and I swear on my allegiance to
the Cailleach, you'll see me again soon.
[eerie whooshing]
[mystical twinkling]
[eerie wind howls]
[tense music plays]
[groans]
[gasps]
[distant laughter]
[shrieking]
[kisses]
Arthur?
Nimue.
Milady, we have recovered your sword.
It's time to go home.
No. We're not going home.
Not yet.
[tense music plays]
[fire crackles]
[shrieking]
[Gawain] Arthur!
-[coughs]
-[banging]
[panicked shrieking]
They have both entrances covered.
If we go out as a group,
they'll kill us like cows.
It's better to die fighting out there
than to roast to death in here.
[Gawain] Indeed.
Prepare to guide them from the mill.
Where are you going?
I'm the prize that they seek.
The prize distracts them long enough,
gives you a minute's jump on them.
No, sir, that is not the plan.
No, sir.
My one regret in leaving this life
is that I shall not be able
to beat your hide
for disobedience as you deserve.
Please, Green Knight.
Bergerum's gone.
I need a second.
Someone brave and fast.
[loud crashing]
[gasps, coughing]
Can you lead these Fey back to the camp?
Aye, Green Knight.
Good boy.
[wood creaking]
-[panicked shrieking]
-[coughing]
-I'm going with you.
-Could you do anything I ask you to?
You're a damn good swordsman,
but you have a back too.
Go out there unprotected, they'll kill you
or capture you too quickly,
and all here will die.
So when you go out there,
I'm coming with you.
Wait!
Before we do this, I must know:
Do you love her?
-What?
-Nimue! Do you?
We'll be dead in six minutes.
What do you care?
I want to know if I'm fighting
with a rival or a brother.
After all that we [sighs]
-If I did, you would not block my path.
-Answer the question.
When I left, she was a small girl.
She is a little sister to me.
-If we survive--
-We won't.
I know that, but if we do--
Well, then I'll be alive,
you can marry her twice for all I care.
Then we die as brothers.
[Fey people cough, cry]
Aye.
[rousing music plays]
[paladin] There they are.
Those two!
[dramatic music plays]
[paladins roar] Ah!
Aah!
[paladin] Ya!
[groaning]
Ah! Ya!
Ah!
[battle cries continue]
[wind howling]
[grunts]
[wind continues howling]
[distant screaming]
[wind continues howling]
[yelling]
[paladin] It's the witch,
she's come for us.
Quiet!
[paladins yell]
[swords clang]
-[draws sword]
-[yelling]
[eerie ethereal music plays]
[paladins yell]
[Gawain] Are you okay? Behind you.
[panicked screaming]
[pained yelling]
No!
[eerie ethereal music intensifies]
[man] Nor bring us in no tripes ♪
For they are seldom clean ♪
[slurps]
[ominous music plays]
Bring us in good ale ♪
Bring us in good ale ♪
For our blessed lady's sake ♪
Bring us in good ale ♪
[mystical music plays]
Uh What?
No. Excuse me.
[Red Spear] The sea is full of fish.
We spied three paladin campfires.
We'll need a healer on site.
You'll go with Dof and his team.
I'm not I
[Pym gasps]
Gods, this is heavy. Dof.
Relax, Minnow.
This isn't funny, Dof.
I don't fight.
I'm very uncoordinated.
Here.
Sigurd will protect you.
But who will protect you?
My Minnow will sew me up after.
-[distant yelling]
-[footsteps recede]
Gods.
[indistinct chattering]
[Merlin exhales]
Merlin the Magician?
Unless I've been the victim
of a persistent hoax.
[man chuckles]
I must be advancing in the world
to gain audience with the Great Druid.
[woman chuckles]
Do you have one with bronze knobs?
How can I smash a skull through a helmet
without bronze?
You'll need stronger weapons
than that to oust Pendragon.
An army of Uther's squires
would crush those hungry fools
I just saw in the fields.
You don't have the numbers or the steel.
-May I cut out his tongue, father?
-Eydis.
Perhaps your bitch king likes
that kind of talk, Merlin,
but I have no ear for it.
It was a bold stroke seizing those ports.
But now you seem content
to squat in this foul forest
like a hen afraid to drop her eggs.
You fear to advance
because militias loyal to Uther Pendragon
will resist you in every village.
I am the rightful heir by blood
and thereby their master!
They will
yield to me.
But for Cumber to rise, Uther must fall.
You come to these shores
to question the legitimacy
of Uther's claim to the throne.
I offer the proof.
The eyewitness to the lie
of Uther Pendragon's royal birth.
Are you saying this is the midwife?
None other.
She saw the dead child with her own eyes.
This is the blood of my cousin?
It is, my lord.
[Cumber exhales slowly]
You are a late convert to our cause.
Coins found in pockets can still be spent.
But nothing in life is free.
I do have a small favor to ask in return.
[chuckles lightly]
Of course you do.
Feed them.
[tense music plays]
[whistling]
-[horse snorts]
-[man whistles]
-Minnow.
-[shrieks]
[shushes]
The paladin camp is right ahead.
Stay quiet, Minnow.
This will be quick.
-[man roars]
-[grunts]
-[swords clang]
-[men grunt]
[gasps]
[men grunt, yell]
[girl] It's Nimue. She's back.
-Quickly!
-[poignant music plays]
[Fey girl] Is anyone injured?
I did not bring back your flour.
You're safe.
That's enough.
Bergerum?
-[groans]
-Arthur.
[Arthur breathes shakily]
I don't like being saved by you.
I want to do the saving.
Maybe you're doing that.
[Gawain] Nimue.
They are losing hope.
And I
I have nothing to offer them.
[Fey woman sobs in distance]
All we have now
is you.
[sobbing]
[distant sobbing]
[footsteps recede]
She summoned the smoke and fire
and wielded it like a sword.
May Arawn pluck out my eyes
if it isn't true.
Her. Her!
This one.
She saved us.
She saved us all.
She saved us all.
Her.
This one.
Like you,
the Red Paladins took everything from me.
My mother.
Friends.
My home.
Everything.
Everything but this.
[mystical twinkling]
[Fey folk murmur indistinctly]
[rousing music plays]
This is the sword of our people,
forged in the Fey Fires
when the world was young.
The kings of men have fought wars
to possess it,
and the Church sought to destroy it,
because within its blade
lies the collective power
of our ancestors.
-Ancestors!
-Power.
Power!
-This
-[mystical twinkling]
is our courage,
our light in all of this darkness,
our hope in all of this despair.
[rousing music intensifies]
I will be your shield.
And by the gods, I will be your sword.
And I vow on this day
that the Fey will live free again!
[exclamations of agreement]
Some call this
the Sword of the First Kings.
But I claim it
as the sword of the First Queen.
The Fey Queen!
Fey Queen!
Fey Queen!
Fey Queen!
Fey Queen!
The Fey Queen!
The Fey Queen!
-Fey Queen!
-The Fey Queen!
The Fey Queen!
The Fey Queen!
The Fey Queen!
The Fey Queen!
The Fey Queen!
[cheering]
[cheering continues]
The Fey Queen!
[all] Fey Queen!
Fey Queen!
Fey Queen!
Fey Queen!
Fey Queen!
Fey Queen!
Fey Queen!
Fey Queen!
[monotonous] The Fey Queen.
The Fey Queen.
[ominous music plays]
[eerie ethereal music plays]
[music ends]