Roar s01e07 Episode Script
The Spear of Destiny
[ Boy .]
| Tell us a story, Fergus.
| A good one.
Have I ever told you the story | of the butchers of Angrim? Aye.
you have.
| Yes.
you have.
Fergus.
Well.
then.
uh.
have I ever | told you about the head choppers | of the Black Valley? Oh.
we heard that one.
yeah.
| We've heard that one.
Tell us one that's scary.
| Yeah.
- Scary.
| - Very scary.
- Scary you say? | - Yes.
please! - Please? | - Please? [ Boy .]
None of your lies though.
| You can do that, Fergus.
| All right.
This is the story of | the Spear of Destiny.
It's a story of | madness and power.
It's a story of corruption | and betrayal, a story of eternal life and horrible death.
And don't say | I didn't warn you.
It's a story about a prince | and a spear of incredible power.
The prince wanted to bring | the people of his land together.
but the prince was having | a very hard time of it.
[ Men Shouting .]
[ Conor .]
| Unification is the only weapon.
I tell you now.
unification is the only weapon | that will stop the Romans.
| [ Men Laughing .]
It will! | We have to unite as one! | We will stop them! We will beat the Romans! The time is now! | This is good enough for us! There is nothing to lose | and everything to gain.
Food cooperation.
| Exchange of ideas.
| Weapons.
1 0.
000 swords against the Romans | instead of your hundred.
If you care anything about | the protection of your home- our home, | this could be the most important | decision you'll ever make.
[ Shouting, Laughing Continues .]
What is your answer? [ Man Mutters, Chuckles .]
I got one question for you.
lad.
| [ High-pitched .]
| You shaving yet? [ All Laugh .]
A nice blade.
Nice.
| Damn big blade for such a pup.
- What do you say.
men? | - [ All Shouting .]
What do you say.
pup? | Get your filthy hands | off my sword.
[ Fergus .]
| Sweet Bridget.
[ Man .]
| Come on.
! Easy there! There's a lesson - in manners- | - [ All Laugh .]
- pup! | - [ All Laugh .]
Now remember this day.
The day Brach | of the Mountain People | spared your pink.
little hide.
Now you run home and be thankful I never | let my men kill you just for fun.
| [ Laughs .]
All right.
| You can go kill 'em.
[ All Cheering .]
[ Man Narrating .]
| Long ago, | at the edge of the known world, the last Celtic tribes | were fighting for survival.
Europe had fallen | to the Romans, and this remote | and untamed island was the final stronghold | of the ancient ways.
[ Roaring .]
So there were our heroes.
chased from the village | of the Mountain People.
their weapons taken from them.
No food | and three days walk from home.
We're better off without them.
| Bunch of sow's bellies.
All those big necks | and tiny.
stupid eyes.
Terrible thing.
inbreeding.
Unification doesn't have to mean | every half-witted tribe | on the island.
Conor.
Three out of five.
| There's a goal for you.
| Absolutely.
You can kick a lot of Roman butt | with three out of five.
Oh.
stop it! | Will you stop this! He said remember this day.
| and I will.
I'll never forget it.
We'll go back someday and give | him something to remember.
| Conor.
We'll get your father's sword | back for you.
Don't worry.
It'll be an honor | to hand it to you with | that big oaf's arm still attached.
Not before I get my shot at him.
| I just want one chance.
| [ Men Shouting .]
[ Catlin .]
| It's the Mountain People.
Oh.
I hate running.
[ Shouting Continues .]
[ Fergus Narrating .]
| So they ran and ran | until they could run no more.
And they came upon a cave.
You all right.
darlin'? | Just a chill.
Stand fast.
Who are they? [ Fergus .]
| These lads knew their duty.
Let's go home.
Conor.
Let's go home.
Don't touch it.
öö [ Singing Folk Song .]
Conor.
don't! Please! | Don't touch that spear! Conor.
please! Stay away from it! öö [ Continues .]
We don't belong here! | Conor.
don't! Don't touch it! Don't touch that spear.
! Don't touch that spear.
[ Animal Howls .]
[ Gasps .]
[ Girl .]
| Who is he? Darlin; he's everythin'that | hides under your bed at night.
He's the whispering | sounds of the forest.
He's the claw that grabs you | from behind in your darkest nightmares.
He's the man who cannot die.
[ Thunderclap .]
| [ Groaning .]
[ Groaning Continues .]
It's here.
It's here! It's here! [ Fergus Narrating .]
| By touching the spear the prince had unleashed | its sinister power.
A darkness spread over the land.
Trees withered.
| Crops died.
The cows dried up.
And the sheep threw | their young too early.
| [ Thunder Rumbling .]
The smell of death | was everywhere.
Maire.
| He's mine.
| My da said I could have him.
He's mine.
His name is Warrior.
| I know.
Let me go! | No.
Maire.
Leave me alone! | Come here.
[ Crying .]
| He's my horse! His name is Warrior.
| Now he's dead.
[ Gasps .]
[ Fergus Narrating .]
| And now the prince knew.
The spear had told him how it was used in ancient times | to kill a god, how the man who did the killing | was still alive and how the fate of the world | was in his hands.
In the dream it's another time.
| A desert city.
There are Romans there.
| and they've taken the Christ.
their own God, to be crucified.
That's why the Romans | have no souls.
| To kill your own God- There are two others, | also crucified.
I don't know if they're | also Roman gods or not.
He wasn't Roman.
| He was a Jew.
They killed him because | they were afraid of him.
Catlin.
please.
If you know anything | that can help us- anything- please tell us.
There are those who | believe there is one God and that Christ is his son who taught that God is love, that the world will | belong to the meek.
that even the lowest, | most wretched creature on earth has value and can be loved.
[ Crying .]
Rome could not abide that.
| and they killed him with that.
A spear that can kill a god? - Burn it! | - [ Thunderclap .]
[ Thunderclap .]
[ Maire .]
| Look, everybody.
! | It's Warrior, he's alive.
! [ Man .]
I can't believe my eyes.
| [ Maire .]
| Look, Conor, Warrior's back.
Look! He's alive! Alive! | Warrior's here! Warrior's back! | He's alive! Warrior's back.
! | He's back.
! | [ Warrior Whinnies .]
Perhaps the spear | is neither evil nor good.
Perhaps it depends on | who holds it.
Either way.
its power is- I think about how | we came to find it.
and I think that maybe | it was meant for you.
Maybe.
The spear has the power | to change the world.
It belongs in the hands | of a leader.
You could do anything | with this.
Conor.
Do you realize that? Yes.
So you'll have to | search your heart.
What is it you want to do? [ Man #1 .]
| What is he doing here? | [ Man #2 .]
The pup is back.
! [ Men Laughing, Shouting .]
[ Man #3 .]
| Get out ofhere.
! [ Man #4 .]
Let's run him through.
! | [ Man #5 .]
| Why's your head so high? [ Shouting Continues .]
I hope you were right | about that bloody thing.
Heaven help us either way.
Amen to that.
darlin'.
Peddling toothpicks now.
| are we.
son? I came to change your mind.
You don't seem to wanna live.
You declined my invitation | to join the Confederation ofTribes.
| and that was a mistake.
A leader can't afford to make | too many mistakes.
This is your chance to make | the right choice.
After I kill you.
I wanna carry | your head around on that spear.
It's you who's made the mistake, pup.
Well.
you got guts.
| I'll give you that.
What do you say we show | everybody what they look like? As a leader.
| your first responsibility is to your people.
and your people | are best served by joining with us.
It makes perfect sense.
| Think about it.
Killing you would be | doing you a favor.
Because you know | what I say is true.
- Because a strong leader knows | what's right for his people.
| - Of course.
I don't need you to tell me that.
And what your people want | is to unite with the Confederation.
You want what's best | for your people and so do I.
I will not have you- Unite against the Romans.
you say? Food cooperation.
| Exchange of ideas.
Weapons.
| 1 0.
000 swords against the Romans | instead of your hundred.
This is my decision then.
The Mountain People would benefit from | this C-Confederation.
It is an honor to welcome | the Mountain People to | the Confederation ofTribes.
[ All Murmuring .]
Your people defy you.
- That's a lie.
| - They will follow you? Yes.
| Prove it.
Bow.
- I'm not goin' to- | - As a gesture of your conviction.
bow.
Bow.
[ All Murmuring .]
Bow! [ Fergus Narrating .]
| So it began.
The great unification of tribes.
The prince rode from village to village, | clan to clan.
No one could resist | the power of the spear.
Soon warriors would lay down | their weapons at the sound ofhis name, so powerful had he become.
But there was a price.
As the spear gave power, | it ate away at the soul.
Soon the whole land was following a leader whose heart | had turned to stone.
[ Thunderclap .]
Then what happened? | Oh.
I can't tell you.
- Why not? | - It's terrifying.
It's too much for such young ears.
No.
Fergus! | Tell us! You have to! You'll have nightmares for weeks.
| No.
we won't! [ Boy #1 .]
| We won't.
Come on.
| [ Boy #2 .]
It's not true.
[ Girl .]
| Please? | All right.
Here we go.
The prince was feelin' like | everything was under control.
but he couldn't have | been more wrong.
Brach of the Mountain People.
Angras of the River Source.
Laiten of the Boyne.
Dermont of the Highlands.
Conor of the Confederation ofTribes.
Tomorrow we begin | the eastern sweep.
The Lowlands.
the Cliffs | and the River People.
It will be a two-week campaign.
| which is all we can risk before the Romans | start to build their defenses.
Till tomorrow.
[ Thunderclap .]
| [ Conor .]
| Oh, Fergus.
You left this at the meeting.
Thank you.
That's your father's sword.
| I know what it is.
Fergus.
You've got something to tell me.
Fergus.
You think I've lost the way.
| don't you? You think I've forsaken my father | and everything he stood for.
You think I've gone crazy | with the power of the spear.
Don't you see.
Fergus? This is my father's dream.
Only it's not a dream now.
It's here now.
| It's happening.
The unification of tribes- | That's what Galen said.
Now with the spear.
| it's in my hands.
In a month's time | the Romans will be gone.
pushed into the sea by the united fist | of the people of the island.
We're not going to | dream about it.
my friend.
We're going to see it.
Yeah.
And here.
all the time.
| I thought it was the spear turning heads.
[ Chuckles .]
Fergus.
| Yes.
lad? Fergus.
there's a lot | at stake right now.
Oh.
I know that.
I think it would be better | if you'd bow with the others.
[ Thunder Rumbling .]
For appearance.
Bow? In councils.
| Just when you come in | and when you leave.
The long view is what | you must keep in mind.
my friend.
There are things that we all | must do now which are distasteful.
My father's dream | is just the beginning.
There's a world out there.
| Fergus.
a whole world.
And it's not a dream.
The long view.
[ Thunderclap .]
It's a simple spear of the old style.
like this one.
Look closely.
See it.
Learn it.
If you find it, if you find anything | that even smells like it, do whatever is necessary | and bring it to me.
A thousand gold pieces | to the man who brings me the spear.
So, ride, men, and bring me every spear | on this island if you have to.
With all due respect, sir, | there's word of an army of tribes | growing larger every day.
Just priorities.
sir.
I mean.
wha-wha-what good's a spear | if the whole island's rising up? | [ Chuckles .]
[ Chuckles .]
[ Groans .]
[ Gasping .]
"Priorities.
'' Now ride.
Ride! Who are they? | [ Thunderclap .]
"They'' are his bodyguards.
We're going to be in Rome | before the snow flies.
Can you imagine it? | Rome.
I can imagine it.
Conor.
| and it's wrong.
It can't be.
| because it's meant to be.
| [ Thunderclap .]
Give me your hand.
| What? Do you feel that? Do you feel my heart? Do you feel how fast | it's beating? I'm scared.
Conor.
I'm scared.
| It's changing you.
It's changing everything.
It's evil.
| The spear is evil.
[ Thunderclap .]
Drop it.
Conor.
Let's drop it.
It's too late.
| [ Thunderclap .]
What have you done? öö [ Singing Folk Song .]
ö[ Ends .]
It was the quiet hours | of the morning just before the dawn.
The morning the great | Confederation ofTribes was to attack the Romans | and push them into the sea.
But the spear was gone, and with it, its power.
And as the prince watched | his dream slip through his fingers.
he crossed the line | that separates sanity from madness.
Fergus! Fergus! Fergus! Fergus! The Confederation | has made you soft.
Brach! Brach.
what are you doing? Patrick.
where are you going? | I'm not endangering | my people.
Our safety is in numbers! | I will not ride into battle with | the River People at my back! Catlin! Catlin.
! Catlin.
! Catlin! [ Screams .]
Where is it? Where is it? | Where'd you put it? Where's it gone? Tell me! | Where is it? Tell me! | It's gone! You're its slave.
Conor! It was your master! You were its slave! I saw it in your eyes.
You were its slave! | [ Crying .]
[ Crying .]
[ Breathing Heavily .]
Don't! It's irresistible.
isn't it? Holding history in your hand.
Enjoy it for the moment.
You'll never feel anything | like it again in your life.
No woman.
no glory.
no triumph | will ever be as satisfying.
öö [ Singing Folk Song .]
I'm going to take the spear | away from you.
There's nothing | you can do to stop me.
I'll die by that spear today | no matter what you do.
The question is.
| will you die with me? öö [ Ends .]
[ Grunting .]
[ Grunts.
Groans .]
I've waited 400 years | for this moment.
You think I'd share it with you? My treasure.
My treasure.
[ Thunderclap .]
[ Thunderclaps .]
My treasure.
My treasure.
Oh! My treasure! [ Groaning .]
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please! Please.
Please.
Please.
Please! [ Gasping .]
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
! I no longer serve the spear.
Please.
Please.
Come on.
old man.
| We're goin' home.
Please.
Please.
Please! Please! What happened? I begged for | that boy to kill me.
I begged him.
For 400 years | I've begged Christ for salvation.
I held the spear in my hands.
and I'm still alive.
I will not beg again.
If I am to live forever.
| then so be it.
Christ has betrayed me.
So I will destroy him.
I will spit in the face of God.
I will spend my eternity | on earth.
I will profane his work.
I will eradicate his memory.
I will not rest.
I will remake the world in my image.
Come to me.
- [ Boy .]
What happened to the spear? | - And the prince? [ Sighs .]
| The prince.
After all he'd been through.
after all his struggles.
the prince found | the very thing he'd lost.
We will pick up the pieces | of the Confederation.
I promise.
For the right reasons.
For us.
For the land.
Not for one man's glory.
I'm sorry.
I am so sorry.
[ Wind Roaring .]
[ Shouts .]
[ Thunder Rumbling .]
[ Waves Crashing .]
| [ Seagull Mewing .]
| Tell us a story, Fergus.
| A good one.
Have I ever told you the story | of the butchers of Angrim? Aye.
you have.
| Yes.
you have.
Fergus.
Well.
then.
uh.
have I ever | told you about the head choppers | of the Black Valley? Oh.
we heard that one.
yeah.
| We've heard that one.
Tell us one that's scary.
| Yeah.
- Scary.
| - Very scary.
- Scary you say? | - Yes.
please! - Please? | - Please? [ Boy .]
None of your lies though.
| You can do that, Fergus.
| All right.
This is the story of | the Spear of Destiny.
It's a story of | madness and power.
It's a story of corruption | and betrayal, a story of eternal life and horrible death.
And don't say | I didn't warn you.
It's a story about a prince | and a spear of incredible power.
The prince wanted to bring | the people of his land together.
but the prince was having | a very hard time of it.
[ Men Shouting .]
[ Conor .]
| Unification is the only weapon.
I tell you now.
unification is the only weapon | that will stop the Romans.
| [ Men Laughing .]
It will! | We have to unite as one! | We will stop them! We will beat the Romans! The time is now! | This is good enough for us! There is nothing to lose | and everything to gain.
Food cooperation.
| Exchange of ideas.
| Weapons.
1 0.
000 swords against the Romans | instead of your hundred.
If you care anything about | the protection of your home- our home, | this could be the most important | decision you'll ever make.
[ Shouting, Laughing Continues .]
What is your answer? [ Man Mutters, Chuckles .]
I got one question for you.
lad.
| [ High-pitched .]
| You shaving yet? [ All Laugh .]
A nice blade.
Nice.
| Damn big blade for such a pup.
- What do you say.
men? | - [ All Shouting .]
What do you say.
pup? | Get your filthy hands | off my sword.
[ Fergus .]
| Sweet Bridget.
[ Man .]
| Come on.
! Easy there! There's a lesson - in manners- | - [ All Laugh .]
- pup! | - [ All Laugh .]
Now remember this day.
The day Brach | of the Mountain People | spared your pink.
little hide.
Now you run home and be thankful I never | let my men kill you just for fun.
| [ Laughs .]
All right.
| You can go kill 'em.
[ All Cheering .]
[ Man Narrating .]
| Long ago, | at the edge of the known world, the last Celtic tribes | were fighting for survival.
Europe had fallen | to the Romans, and this remote | and untamed island was the final stronghold | of the ancient ways.
[ Roaring .]
So there were our heroes.
chased from the village | of the Mountain People.
their weapons taken from them.
No food | and three days walk from home.
We're better off without them.
| Bunch of sow's bellies.
All those big necks | and tiny.
stupid eyes.
Terrible thing.
inbreeding.
Unification doesn't have to mean | every half-witted tribe | on the island.
Conor.
Three out of five.
| There's a goal for you.
| Absolutely.
You can kick a lot of Roman butt | with three out of five.
Oh.
stop it! | Will you stop this! He said remember this day.
| and I will.
I'll never forget it.
We'll go back someday and give | him something to remember.
| Conor.
We'll get your father's sword | back for you.
Don't worry.
It'll be an honor | to hand it to you with | that big oaf's arm still attached.
Not before I get my shot at him.
| I just want one chance.
| [ Men Shouting .]
[ Catlin .]
| It's the Mountain People.
Oh.
I hate running.
[ Shouting Continues .]
[ Fergus Narrating .]
| So they ran and ran | until they could run no more.
And they came upon a cave.
You all right.
darlin'? | Just a chill.
Stand fast.
Who are they? [ Fergus .]
| These lads knew their duty.
Let's go home.
Conor.
Let's go home.
Don't touch it.
öö [ Singing Folk Song .]
Conor.
don't! Please! | Don't touch that spear! Conor.
please! Stay away from it! öö [ Continues .]
We don't belong here! | Conor.
don't! Don't touch it! Don't touch that spear.
! Don't touch that spear.
[ Animal Howls .]
[ Gasps .]
[ Girl .]
| Who is he? Darlin; he's everythin'that | hides under your bed at night.
He's the whispering | sounds of the forest.
He's the claw that grabs you | from behind in your darkest nightmares.
He's the man who cannot die.
[ Thunderclap .]
| [ Groaning .]
[ Groaning Continues .]
It's here.
It's here! It's here! [ Fergus Narrating .]
| By touching the spear the prince had unleashed | its sinister power.
A darkness spread over the land.
Trees withered.
| Crops died.
The cows dried up.
And the sheep threw | their young too early.
| [ Thunder Rumbling .]
The smell of death | was everywhere.
Maire.
| He's mine.
| My da said I could have him.
He's mine.
His name is Warrior.
| I know.
Let me go! | No.
Maire.
Leave me alone! | Come here.
[ Crying .]
| He's my horse! His name is Warrior.
| Now he's dead.
[ Gasps .]
[ Fergus Narrating .]
| And now the prince knew.
The spear had told him how it was used in ancient times | to kill a god, how the man who did the killing | was still alive and how the fate of the world | was in his hands.
In the dream it's another time.
| A desert city.
There are Romans there.
| and they've taken the Christ.
their own God, to be crucified.
That's why the Romans | have no souls.
| To kill your own God- There are two others, | also crucified.
I don't know if they're | also Roman gods or not.
He wasn't Roman.
| He was a Jew.
They killed him because | they were afraid of him.
Catlin.
please.
If you know anything | that can help us- anything- please tell us.
There are those who | believe there is one God and that Christ is his son who taught that God is love, that the world will | belong to the meek.
that even the lowest, | most wretched creature on earth has value and can be loved.
[ Crying .]
Rome could not abide that.
| and they killed him with that.
A spear that can kill a god? - Burn it! | - [ Thunderclap .]
[ Thunderclap .]
[ Maire .]
| Look, everybody.
! | It's Warrior, he's alive.
! [ Man .]
I can't believe my eyes.
| [ Maire .]
| Look, Conor, Warrior's back.
Look! He's alive! Alive! | Warrior's here! Warrior's back! | He's alive! Warrior's back.
! | He's back.
! | [ Warrior Whinnies .]
Perhaps the spear | is neither evil nor good.
Perhaps it depends on | who holds it.
Either way.
its power is- I think about how | we came to find it.
and I think that maybe | it was meant for you.
Maybe.
The spear has the power | to change the world.
It belongs in the hands | of a leader.
You could do anything | with this.
Conor.
Do you realize that? Yes.
So you'll have to | search your heart.
What is it you want to do? [ Man #1 .]
| What is he doing here? | [ Man #2 .]
The pup is back.
! [ Men Laughing, Shouting .]
[ Man #3 .]
| Get out ofhere.
! [ Man #4 .]
Let's run him through.
! | [ Man #5 .]
| Why's your head so high? [ Shouting Continues .]
I hope you were right | about that bloody thing.
Heaven help us either way.
Amen to that.
darlin'.
Peddling toothpicks now.
| are we.
son? I came to change your mind.
You don't seem to wanna live.
You declined my invitation | to join the Confederation ofTribes.
| and that was a mistake.
A leader can't afford to make | too many mistakes.
This is your chance to make | the right choice.
After I kill you.
I wanna carry | your head around on that spear.
It's you who's made the mistake, pup.
Well.
you got guts.
| I'll give you that.
What do you say we show | everybody what they look like? As a leader.
| your first responsibility is to your people.
and your people | are best served by joining with us.
It makes perfect sense.
| Think about it.
Killing you would be | doing you a favor.
Because you know | what I say is true.
- Because a strong leader knows | what's right for his people.
| - Of course.
I don't need you to tell me that.
And what your people want | is to unite with the Confederation.
You want what's best | for your people and so do I.
I will not have you- Unite against the Romans.
you say? Food cooperation.
| Exchange of ideas.
Weapons.
| 1 0.
000 swords against the Romans | instead of your hundred.
This is my decision then.
The Mountain People would benefit from | this C-Confederation.
It is an honor to welcome | the Mountain People to | the Confederation ofTribes.
[ All Murmuring .]
Your people defy you.
- That's a lie.
| - They will follow you? Yes.
| Prove it.
Bow.
- I'm not goin' to- | - As a gesture of your conviction.
bow.
Bow.
[ All Murmuring .]
Bow! [ Fergus Narrating .]
| So it began.
The great unification of tribes.
The prince rode from village to village, | clan to clan.
No one could resist | the power of the spear.
Soon warriors would lay down | their weapons at the sound ofhis name, so powerful had he become.
But there was a price.
As the spear gave power, | it ate away at the soul.
Soon the whole land was following a leader whose heart | had turned to stone.
[ Thunderclap .]
Then what happened? | Oh.
I can't tell you.
- Why not? | - It's terrifying.
It's too much for such young ears.
No.
Fergus! | Tell us! You have to! You'll have nightmares for weeks.
| No.
we won't! [ Boy #1 .]
| We won't.
Come on.
| [ Boy #2 .]
It's not true.
[ Girl .]
| Please? | All right.
Here we go.
The prince was feelin' like | everything was under control.
but he couldn't have | been more wrong.
Brach of the Mountain People.
Angras of the River Source.
Laiten of the Boyne.
Dermont of the Highlands.
Conor of the Confederation ofTribes.
Tomorrow we begin | the eastern sweep.
The Lowlands.
the Cliffs | and the River People.
It will be a two-week campaign.
| which is all we can risk before the Romans | start to build their defenses.
Till tomorrow.
[ Thunderclap .]
| [ Conor .]
| Oh, Fergus.
You left this at the meeting.
Thank you.
That's your father's sword.
| I know what it is.
Fergus.
You've got something to tell me.
Fergus.
You think I've lost the way.
| don't you? You think I've forsaken my father | and everything he stood for.
You think I've gone crazy | with the power of the spear.
Don't you see.
Fergus? This is my father's dream.
Only it's not a dream now.
It's here now.
| It's happening.
The unification of tribes- | That's what Galen said.
Now with the spear.
| it's in my hands.
In a month's time | the Romans will be gone.
pushed into the sea by the united fist | of the people of the island.
We're not going to | dream about it.
my friend.
We're going to see it.
Yeah.
And here.
all the time.
| I thought it was the spear turning heads.
[ Chuckles .]
Fergus.
| Yes.
lad? Fergus.
there's a lot | at stake right now.
Oh.
I know that.
I think it would be better | if you'd bow with the others.
[ Thunder Rumbling .]
For appearance.
Bow? In councils.
| Just when you come in | and when you leave.
The long view is what | you must keep in mind.
my friend.
There are things that we all | must do now which are distasteful.
My father's dream | is just the beginning.
There's a world out there.
| Fergus.
a whole world.
And it's not a dream.
The long view.
[ Thunderclap .]
It's a simple spear of the old style.
like this one.
Look closely.
See it.
Learn it.
If you find it, if you find anything | that even smells like it, do whatever is necessary | and bring it to me.
A thousand gold pieces | to the man who brings me the spear.
So, ride, men, and bring me every spear | on this island if you have to.
With all due respect, sir, | there's word of an army of tribes | growing larger every day.
Just priorities.
sir.
I mean.
wha-wha-what good's a spear | if the whole island's rising up? | [ Chuckles .]
[ Chuckles .]
[ Groans .]
[ Gasping .]
"Priorities.
'' Now ride.
Ride! Who are they? | [ Thunderclap .]
"They'' are his bodyguards.
We're going to be in Rome | before the snow flies.
Can you imagine it? | Rome.
I can imagine it.
Conor.
| and it's wrong.
It can't be.
| because it's meant to be.
| [ Thunderclap .]
Give me your hand.
| What? Do you feel that? Do you feel my heart? Do you feel how fast | it's beating? I'm scared.
Conor.
I'm scared.
| It's changing you.
It's changing everything.
It's evil.
| The spear is evil.
[ Thunderclap .]
Drop it.
Conor.
Let's drop it.
It's too late.
| [ Thunderclap .]
What have you done? öö [ Singing Folk Song .]
ö[ Ends .]
It was the quiet hours | of the morning just before the dawn.
The morning the great | Confederation ofTribes was to attack the Romans | and push them into the sea.
But the spear was gone, and with it, its power.
And as the prince watched | his dream slip through his fingers.
he crossed the line | that separates sanity from madness.
Fergus! Fergus! Fergus! Fergus! The Confederation | has made you soft.
Brach! Brach.
what are you doing? Patrick.
where are you going? | I'm not endangering | my people.
Our safety is in numbers! | I will not ride into battle with | the River People at my back! Catlin! Catlin.
! Catlin.
! Catlin! [ Screams .]
Where is it? Where is it? | Where'd you put it? Where's it gone? Tell me! | Where is it? Tell me! | It's gone! You're its slave.
Conor! It was your master! You were its slave! I saw it in your eyes.
You were its slave! | [ Crying .]
[ Crying .]
[ Breathing Heavily .]
Don't! It's irresistible.
isn't it? Holding history in your hand.
Enjoy it for the moment.
You'll never feel anything | like it again in your life.
No woman.
no glory.
no triumph | will ever be as satisfying.
öö [ Singing Folk Song .]
I'm going to take the spear | away from you.
There's nothing | you can do to stop me.
I'll die by that spear today | no matter what you do.
The question is.
| will you die with me? öö [ Ends .]
[ Grunting .]
[ Grunts.
Groans .]
I've waited 400 years | for this moment.
You think I'd share it with you? My treasure.
My treasure.
[ Thunderclap .]
[ Thunderclaps .]
My treasure.
My treasure.
Oh! My treasure! [ Groaning .]
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please! Please.
Please.
Please.
Please! [ Gasping .]
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
! I no longer serve the spear.
Please.
Please.
Come on.
old man.
| We're goin' home.
Please.
Please.
Please! Please! What happened? I begged for | that boy to kill me.
I begged him.
For 400 years | I've begged Christ for salvation.
I held the spear in my hands.
and I'm still alive.
I will not beg again.
If I am to live forever.
| then so be it.
Christ has betrayed me.
So I will destroy him.
I will spit in the face of God.
I will spend my eternity | on earth.
I will profane his work.
I will eradicate his memory.
I will not rest.
I will remake the world in my image.
Come to me.
- [ Boy .]
What happened to the spear? | - And the prince? [ Sighs .]
| The prince.
After all he'd been through.
after all his struggles.
the prince found | the very thing he'd lost.
We will pick up the pieces | of the Confederation.
I promise.
For the right reasons.
For us.
For the land.
Not for one man's glory.
I'm sorry.
I am so sorry.
[ Wind Roaring .]
[ Shouts .]
[ Thunder Rumbling .]
[ Waves Crashing .]
| [ Seagull Mewing .]