1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:05,166 I knew your father. 2 00:00:05,190 --> 00:00:07,819 I am yet convinced that he was not of this world. 3 00:00:09,420 --> 00:00:11,166 You have his presence. 4 00:00:11,190 --> 00:00:13,596 I've seen the land shining with goodness. 5 00:00:13,620 --> 00:00:16,353 It's the kingdom of summer, and I will be its king. 6 00:00:17,994 --> 00:00:21,036 Vortigern is gone. Rome is gone. 7 00:00:21,060 --> 00:00:24,126 The saecsen is here, but who will lead the fight? 8 00:00:24,150 --> 00:00:26,106 My brother is high king. 9 00:00:26,130 --> 00:00:28,566 Your brother commands no army of his own. 10 00:00:28,590 --> 00:00:30,396 Yield your claim. 11 00:00:30,420 --> 00:00:32,936 I will yet forgive if you agree to bend the knee. 12 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:39,753 Will you follow me against the saecsen? 13 00:00:42,180 --> 00:00:45,038 We recognize aurelius as the lawful high king. 14 00:00:48,060 --> 00:00:49,356 Fisher king's sword. 15 00:00:49,380 --> 00:00:53,290 Your sword, the sword of a high king. 16 00:00:54,123 --> 00:00:57,419 What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with god? 17 00:00:57,443 --> 00:00:59,946 Is that who you think I was alone with? 18 00:00:59,970 --> 00:01:00,970 Who else? 19 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:04,476 I do not know if god was with me in caer efon 20 00:01:04,500 --> 00:01:08,570 all these many years, grandfather, but I know morgian was. 21 00:01:10,740 --> 00:01:11,946 You would've drowned on the shores 22 00:01:11,970 --> 00:01:13,416 of sores if not for me. 23 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:15,996 And am I to thank you for this life that I have, 24 00:01:16,020 --> 00:01:18,306 ignored and forgotten? 25 00:01:18,330 --> 00:01:21,636 Arian, you must hurry along to your studies with caius. 26 00:01:21,660 --> 00:01:24,546 Your mother knows what's best for you. 27 00:01:24,570 --> 00:01:28,566 A gift for hengist. 28 00:01:28,590 --> 00:01:31,206 Great darkness is falling upon this land. 29 00:01:31,230 --> 00:01:33,480 These brothers are our only hope to stand against it. 30 00:01:33,504 --> 00:01:36,477 The kings of the north shall ride to their aid. 31 00:01:36,501 --> 00:01:38,043 You have my word. 32 00:02:36,420 --> 00:02:38,553 Hail the wild man of the wood. 33 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:42,513 I bring you greetings from the world of men. 34 00:02:44,580 --> 00:02:47,673 Your work is not finished in the land of the living. 35 00:02:49,980 --> 00:02:51,903 Your salvation is at hand. 36 00:02:53,130 --> 00:02:56,731 But you must go back the way you came. 37 00:02:56,755 --> 00:03:02,586 I won't go back. I won't go back. 38 00:03:02,610 --> 00:03:05,613 Do you remember the last time you tasted wine, 39 00:03:07,290 --> 00:03:10,263 warm food in your belly, Merlin ambrosius? 40 00:03:12,060 --> 00:03:14,166 How do you know my name? 41 00:03:14,190 --> 00:03:15,484 Drink. 42 00:03:18,450 --> 00:03:22,683 50 years is a long time to live on locusts and honey. 43 00:03:25,350 --> 00:03:26,550 Has it been that long? 44 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:30,966 I am not going back. 45 00:03:30,990 --> 00:03:33,876 So you say. 46 00:03:33,900 --> 00:03:35,496 I am happy as I am. 47 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:37,836 No one is happy in hell. 48 00:03:37,860 --> 00:03:38,957 Leave me. 49 00:03:43,260 --> 00:03:45,513 I have not come to take you away. 50 00:03:46,980 --> 00:03:50,346 You have carried your burden long enough. 51 00:03:50,370 --> 00:03:52,928 It is time to lay it down. 52 00:03:57,630 --> 00:03:58,633 Burden it may be, 53 00:04:01,537 --> 00:04:05,887 but it's all I have left. 54 00:04:05,911 --> 00:04:08,255 No, Merlin, not all. 55 00:04:12,237 --> 00:04:16,865 The time has come, my son, to be reborn. 56 00:07:00,563 --> 00:07:02,973 Madoc's archers arrived last night. 57 00:07:04,590 --> 00:07:08,313 We estimate about 2,000 with another 500 mounted. 58 00:07:12,690 --> 00:07:13,940 How many are there now? 59 00:07:18,911 --> 00:07:19,911 More. 60 00:07:24,450 --> 00:07:28,206 We grow our army by twos and threes, 61 00:07:28,230 --> 00:07:33,036 and every day, a new warship arrives from saecsenland. 62 00:07:33,060 --> 00:07:34,686 Do we grow? 63 00:07:34,710 --> 00:07:37,776 Some of the dumnonii slipped away last night. 64 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:41,823 Leave the quarrels outside this tent. 65 00:07:46,260 --> 00:07:47,860 We all know the enemy is strong. 66 00:07:49,380 --> 00:07:51,503 Their ranks are more numerous than our own. 67 00:07:51,527 --> 00:07:53,740 It was our weakness and division 68 00:07:54,900 --> 00:07:57,353 that let the barbarians gain a foothold in this land. 69 00:07:58,320 --> 00:07:59,883 If we are to drive them out, 70 00:08:01,470 --> 00:08:03,276 it must be by our strength and unity. 71 00:08:03,300 --> 00:08:05,650 And how are we to drive out 72 00:08:06,527 --> 00:08:09,557 15,000 saecsen 73 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,460 with only two and a half thousand men? 74 00:08:18,444 --> 00:08:20,594 Hengist's arrogance will be his downfall. 75 00:08:29,782 --> 00:08:30,986 Take those blades over. 76 00:08:31,010 --> 00:08:32,806 The boy is a fool. 77 00:08:32,830 --> 00:08:34,926 5,000 could not hold that fort, 78 00:08:34,950 --> 00:08:38,403 not even if they were the finest soldiers in the world. 79 00:08:38,427 --> 00:08:42,666 You must talk to him, attempt to impart some reason. 80 00:08:42,690 --> 00:08:46,053 Speak if you will. I've had my fill of talk. 81 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:48,066 What are you saying? 82 00:08:48,090 --> 00:08:51,486 Look around you. If we stay, we're doomed. 83 00:08:51,510 --> 00:08:53,886 And if we retreat the saecsens will rape 84 00:08:53,910 --> 00:08:55,416 and pillage this land. 85 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:57,576 Let them rape and pillage. 86 00:08:57,600 --> 00:08:59,376 The walls of my fortress are high, 87 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:01,902 and I intend to live to see another summer. 88 00:09:11,310 --> 00:09:13,121 I didn't figure you for a coward. 89 00:09:16,530 --> 00:09:17,826 Since when does a king need permission 90 00:09:17,850 --> 00:09:18,966 to ride among his troops? 91 00:09:18,990 --> 00:09:20,796 Don't lie to me, morcant. 92 00:09:20,820 --> 00:09:21,996 I do not lie. 93 00:09:22,020 --> 00:09:25,146 You would abandon your brothers on the Eve of battle. 94 00:09:25,170 --> 00:09:27,393 I would save my people from destruction. 95 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:30,755 So should you. 96 00:09:30,779 --> 00:09:33,246 A saecsen army could never breach the walls of tintagel. 97 00:09:33,270 --> 00:09:36,726 Send your men back to their beds, 98 00:09:36,750 --> 00:09:39,126 and I'll say no more of this offense. 99 00:09:39,150 --> 00:09:41,973 No one commands my men but I. 100 00:10:02,742 --> 00:10:04,234 Faer folk. 101 00:10:34,050 --> 00:10:35,163 King aurelius. 102 00:10:36,030 --> 00:10:38,406 I present to you the lord of the north. 103 00:10:38,430 --> 00:10:39,633 Greetings, my friends. 104 00:10:40,650 --> 00:10:42,250 You'll find a warm welcome here. 105 00:10:43,290 --> 00:10:45,740 I hear you've brought us some saecsens to kill. 106 00:10:46,860 --> 00:10:47,960 That's welcome enough. 107 00:10:50,370 --> 00:10:51,370 Steward. 108 00:10:52,106 --> 00:10:53,356 Battle chief. 109 00:11:01,497 --> 00:11:03,383 Are we late to the battle? 110 00:11:05,340 --> 00:11:09,581 The enemy's before us, not behind. 111 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:16,460 I heard the faery of the north are great warriors. 112 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:18,990 Did the saecsens take your arm? 113 00:11:21,353 --> 00:11:24,093 No, it was my daughter's husband. 114 00:11:35,370 --> 00:11:38,253 My lord, there's someone waiting for you. 115 00:11:43,980 --> 00:11:44,980 Mother. 116 00:11:47,199 --> 00:11:49,199 What are you doing here? 117 00:11:51,093 --> 00:11:52,296 It's not safe. 118 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:55,446 I've come with some brothers from the shrine of St. Joseph 119 00:11:55,470 --> 00:11:57,096 to ease the pain of the wounded 120 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:00,111 and the passage of the dying. 121 00:12:09,423 --> 00:12:10,623 What is it, hawk? 122 00:12:15,030 --> 00:12:17,780 Not long ago, you offered me the Fisher king's sword. 123 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:22,083 I would gladly take it up now. 124 00:12:24,420 --> 00:12:25,470 I did not bring it. 125 00:12:27,450 --> 00:12:28,836 I have offered that sword to each 126 00:12:28,860 --> 00:12:31,356 of the three great men in my life. 127 00:12:31,380 --> 00:12:32,946 Your grandfather refused it. 128 00:12:32,970 --> 00:12:36,423 Your father refused it, and you refused it. 129 00:12:40,770 --> 00:12:43,470 I have always believed you were meant to be high king. 130 00:12:45,150 --> 00:12:48,655 Your father prophesied it. Hafgan declared it. 131 00:12:52,530 --> 00:12:54,580 Perhaps they saw through me to another. 132 00:12:55,620 --> 00:12:59,316 And perhaps, perhaps you were meant 133 00:12:59,340 --> 00:13:00,933 to wield a different weapon. 134 00:13:34,350 --> 00:13:36,054 King gorlas's daughter. 135 00:13:40,117 --> 00:13:41,523 Does your brother know? 136 00:13:43,410 --> 00:13:46,263 My brother has more important matters to attend to, 137 00:13:48,900 --> 00:13:49,900 as do we all. 138 00:13:59,310 --> 00:14:01,923 The river is too far and too deep. 139 00:14:02,940 --> 00:14:05,076 It's not too far on horseback, 140 00:14:05,100 --> 00:14:08,166 and it's not too deep if it's unguarded. 141 00:14:08,190 --> 00:14:10,503 As soon as we march our armies north, 142 00:14:11,591 --> 00:14:13,506 hengist will turn to us. 143 00:14:13,530 --> 00:14:17,676 No, he won't because the main body of our war host 144 00:14:17,700 --> 00:14:19,200 will already have engaged him. 145 00:14:23,099 --> 00:14:26,349 Here. 146 00:14:28,710 --> 00:14:30,063 Make an easy target. 147 00:14:31,620 --> 00:14:33,216 Make him commit his war host. 148 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:34,326 Aye. 149 00:14:34,350 --> 00:14:37,953 And I will lead the mounted troops to the river, 150 00:14:40,170 --> 00:14:43,833 cross, and attack hengist from behind. 151 00:14:44,790 --> 00:14:45,966 You? 152 00:14:45,990 --> 00:14:46,957 It must be me. 153 00:14:46,981 --> 00:14:50,373 If you can kill the bretwalda himself, 154 00:14:51,300 --> 00:14:52,923 his armies will collapse. 155 00:14:55,170 --> 00:14:57,066 Then you think it's a good plan, king gorlas? 156 00:14:57,090 --> 00:15:01,338 I think it's a desperate plan and foolish. 157 00:15:06,990 --> 00:15:08,403 But I can see none better. 158 00:15:13,350 --> 00:15:17,736 Then the die is cast. 159 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:22,000 Tomorrow, we make war. 160 00:15:22,975 --> 00:15:26,399 For britain. 161 00:15:34,890 --> 00:15:37,896 And what happens when we cannot hold the river long enough 162 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:39,670 before aurelius makes his crossing? 163 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:42,580 We won't need that long, 164 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:45,820 just long enough 165 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:50,163 for myrddin to remember his calling. 166 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:05,605 You've kept your promise 167 00:16:05,629 --> 00:16:08,530 and brought us the men in the north, 168 00:16:08,554 --> 00:16:10,221 but it isn't enough. 169 00:16:12,394 --> 00:16:14,496 What does aurelius say? 170 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:16,713 His new faith has clouded his judgment. 171 00:16:18,180 --> 00:16:19,480 He's waiting on a miracle. 172 00:16:21,660 --> 00:16:23,160 And why do you tell me this? 173 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:27,870 Because I think you can give him one. 174 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:39,880 They say that when the battle awen is upon you, 175 00:16:41,070 --> 00:16:42,873 you become an unstoppable force. 176 00:16:43,740 --> 00:16:45,483 Ride with us into battle tomorrow. 177 00:16:48,150 --> 00:16:52,776 We face 15,000 saecsen. 178 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:55,523 What do you ask? I know what I ask. 179 00:16:56,900 --> 00:16:59,676 If I lead you into victory, uther, 180 00:16:59,700 --> 00:17:02,223 the men of britain will proclaim me king. 181 00:17:09,360 --> 00:17:10,360 Yes. 182 00:17:13,140 --> 00:17:15,007 But at least there will be a britain. 183 00:17:32,356 --> 00:17:39,124 Jesu before me. Jesu behind. 184 00:17:40,225 --> 00:17:43,768 Not by my power, jesu, but thine. 185 00:17:43,792 --> 00:17:46,125 Jesu before me. Jesu behind. 186 00:17:47,893 --> 00:17:50,226 Jesu before me. Jesu behind. 187 00:17:52,026 --> 00:17:54,359 Jesu before me. Jesu behind. 188 00:17:56,589 --> 00:17:57,909 Not by my power, jesu, but thine. 189 00:18:00,429 --> 00:18:02,762 Jesu before me. Jesu behind. 190 00:18:03,660 --> 00:18:06,046 The men are ready for battle. 191 00:18:06,070 --> 00:18:10,026 Not by my power, jesu, but thine. 192 00:18:10,050 --> 00:18:11,660 For the soul of britain, 193 00:18:13,063 --> 00:18:14,853 the battle has already begun. 194 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:23,780 Jesu before me. Jesu behind. 195 00:18:25,857 --> 00:18:29,597 Not by my power, jesu. The power is thine. 196 00:18:29,621 --> 00:18:31,954 Jesu before me. Jesu behind. 197 00:18:42,403 --> 00:18:45,336 A war camp is no place for a lady such as yourself. 198 00:18:45,360 --> 00:18:47,976 A lady is never safer than with the battle chief 199 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:49,450 of britain watching over her. 200 00:18:53,070 --> 00:18:55,776 Forgive me if I've overstepped. 201 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:56,800 No. 202 00:18:57,690 --> 00:18:59,267 Ygerna. 203 00:19:20,532 --> 00:19:22,865 Jesu behind. 204 00:19:24,503 --> 00:19:27,636 Jesu before me. Jesu behind. 205 00:19:27,660 --> 00:19:29,823 He seeks our deliverance from god- 206 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:32,826 jesu behind. 207 00:19:32,850 --> 00:19:34,416 When he could so easily just give it 208 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:37,170 to us with his own hands. 209 00:19:37,194 --> 00:19:39,520 Not by my power, jesu, but thine. 210 00:19:48,458 --> 00:19:50,458 Jesu behind. 211 00:19:50,482 --> 00:19:53,076 Jesu before me. Jesu behind. 212 00:19:53,100 --> 00:19:55,510 That is why he seeks deliverance from god 213 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,177 and not by his own hands. Jesu behind. 214 00:20:02,873 --> 00:20:04,593 Old one-eye approaches. 215 00:20:07,740 --> 00:20:09,603 You are lady of the lake? 216 00:20:09,627 --> 00:20:12,003 And you are king gorlas of tintagel, yes? 217 00:20:13,740 --> 00:20:15,423 This is my daughter, ygerna. 218 00:20:17,490 --> 00:20:20,583 I would entrust her into your care tomorrow. 219 00:20:21,690 --> 00:20:24,633 Can you help bind wounds and fetch water for the dying? 220 00:20:26,940 --> 00:20:29,140 I will do whatever I can to aid the fight. 221 00:20:58,668 --> 00:21:02,226 In the days of your father's fathers, 222 00:21:02,250 --> 00:21:06,063 before the treachery, before the conspiracy. 223 00:21:07,110 --> 00:21:10,266 When the eagle still flew above the emperor's wall 224 00:21:10,290 --> 00:21:13,263 and the Roman peace still held in these lands, 225 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:17,530 a babe was fetched from the waters beneath yr widdfa, 226 00:21:21,030 --> 00:21:22,383 and that babe a bard, 227 00:21:24,990 --> 00:21:27,903 and that bard a prophet. 228 00:21:31,290 --> 00:21:32,463 Hear then, if you will, 229 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:39,100 the vision of taliesin ap elphin ap gwyddno garanhir, 230 00:21:43,578 --> 00:21:45,745 and this is the way of it. 231 00:25:17,730 --> 00:25:20,043 There is a land shining with goodness, 232 00:25:21,060 --> 00:25:25,746 where each man protects his brother's dignity as his own, 233 00:25:25,770 --> 00:25:27,876 where war and want have ceased, 234 00:25:27,900 --> 00:25:32,073 and all races live under the same law of love and honor. 235 00:25:33,570 --> 00:25:36,156 It is a land bright with truth, 236 00:25:36,180 --> 00:25:38,496 where a man's word is his pledge 237 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:40,263 and falsehood is banished, 238 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,410 where children sleep safely in their mother's arms 239 00:25:45,450 --> 00:25:49,506 and never know fear or pain, 240 00:25:49,530 --> 00:25:52,116 a land where kings extend their hands in justice 241 00:25:52,140 --> 00:25:53,740 rather than reach for the sword, 242 00:25:54,750 --> 00:26:00,400 where mercy, kindness, and compassion 243 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,783 flow like deep water over the land, 244 00:26:06,030 --> 00:26:11,260 and men revere virtue, revere truth, revere beauty 245 00:26:12,390 --> 00:26:15,393 above comfort, pleasure, 246 00:26:17,130 --> 00:26:18,153 and selfish gain, 247 00:26:21,030 --> 00:26:24,246 a land where peace reigns in the hearts of men. 248 00:26:24,270 --> 00:26:27,456 Faith blazes like a beacon from every hill, 249 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:30,126 love like a fire from every heart, 250 00:26:30,150 --> 00:26:32,166 where the true god is worshiped 251 00:26:32,190 --> 00:26:34,053 and his ways acclaimed by all. 252 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,570 There is a golden realm of light, my friends, 253 00:26:42,990 --> 00:26:44,940 and it is called the kingdom of summer. 254 00:28:06,994 --> 00:28:09,640 Nice work. 255 00:28:11,378 --> 00:28:13,211 Good luck. 256 00:28:21,967 --> 00:28:24,884 Be strong. Be resilient. 257 00:28:34,683 --> 00:28:36,213 This is an honor, father, 258 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,963 to ride with you into battle. 259 00:28:41,722 --> 00:28:45,426 And we both earn names the bards shall speak of 260 00:28:45,450 --> 00:28:46,533 throughout the ages. 261 00:28:59,460 --> 00:29:01,863 And may god in heaven deliver us. 262 00:29:06,210 --> 00:29:07,560 Sire, allow me. 263 00:29:12,150 --> 00:29:16,533 Your song last night, I've never heard anything like it. 264 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,190 Greater rebuke you could not give me. 265 00:29:21,420 --> 00:29:22,420 I mean no rebuke. 266 00:29:23,850 --> 00:29:24,850 On the contrary, 267 00:29:26,820 --> 00:29:29,376 I've never seen the souls of men stirred so. 268 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,150 But that is the rebuke, king. 269 00:29:34,625 --> 00:29:36,958 I have failed you, aurelius. 270 00:29:38,310 --> 00:29:39,310 Failed? 271 00:29:40,860 --> 00:29:42,936 I sit at the head of an army of your making. 272 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,663 While I've been playing kingmaker and politician, 273 00:29:47,250 --> 00:29:49,506 while I've been wallowing in my misery 274 00:29:49,530 --> 00:29:51,063 for a lifetime or more, 275 00:29:53,850 --> 00:29:56,616 while I was busy being king in maridunum, 276 00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:01,233 fhain-brother in the north, and dreaming away my youth, 277 00:30:03,390 --> 00:30:06,450 I should have been focused on my first calling, 278 00:30:10,170 --> 00:30:11,253 my true calling. 279 00:30:15,930 --> 00:30:17,796 I am Merlin emrys, 280 00:30:17,820 --> 00:30:21,426 son of taliesin ap elphin ap gwyddno, 281 00:30:21,450 --> 00:30:24,273 and I am the last true bard of the island of the mighty. 282 00:30:26,310 --> 00:30:29,977 I will uphold you in battle, as the bards of the old did. 283 00:30:35,700 --> 00:30:37,547 The fate of britain ever rests 284 00:30:37,571 --> 00:30:39,171 in the hands of the great light. 285 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:53,753 Then I'll see you in the battle is won. 286 00:31:05,412 --> 00:31:07,829 If your prayer should fail. 287 00:32:16,823 --> 00:32:18,597 Are we not riding with them, lord? 288 00:32:19,860 --> 00:32:20,860 No. 289 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:23,730 We must fight a different battle. 290 00:32:53,190 --> 00:32:55,173 Men of the island of the mighty, 291 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:58,000 long have your tribes fought alone 292 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:00,833 against the Irish, pict, 293 00:33:02,551 --> 00:33:04,468 scoti, and the saecsen, 294 00:33:05,430 --> 00:33:07,773 at times, against each other, 295 00:33:09,210 --> 00:33:12,573 east and west, north and south, 296 00:33:14,526 --> 00:33:19,026 cymry and brigante, cornovii and demetae, 297 00:33:20,327 --> 00:33:21,994 belgae and dumnonii. 298 00:33:23,940 --> 00:33:27,186 Since bran the blessed, you have only known peace 299 00:33:27,210 --> 00:33:28,986 when it was given to you. 300 00:33:29,010 --> 00:33:30,546 You have only known unity 301 00:33:30,570 --> 00:33:32,883 when it was forced upon you by stronger kings, 302 00:33:33,870 --> 00:33:37,386 but today, you stand together. 303 00:33:37,410 --> 00:33:39,333 You stand as britons. 304 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:46,413 You stand as one, or you will surely fall. 305 00:34:10,470 --> 00:34:12,963 Behold, the sword of Magnus Maximus, 306 00:34:14,605 --> 00:34:16,938 emperor of britain and Rome, 307 00:34:17,776 --> 00:34:21,093 who held this land against the barbarians so long ago. 308 00:34:25,980 --> 00:34:27,430 Now behold your battle chief. 309 00:34:31,818 --> 00:34:35,076 You must hold the line, brother. 310 00:34:35,100 --> 00:34:36,200 You must hold britain. 311 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,460 The sword is britain. 312 00:34:53,127 --> 00:34:54,330 For aurelius. 313 00:34:54,354 --> 00:34:55,487 For britain. 314 00:36:34,924 --> 00:36:37,423 Hold your formations. 315 00:36:37,447 --> 00:36:39,494 Hold. 316 00:36:45,248 --> 00:36:48,467 Any man who runs, dies. 317 00:36:52,584 --> 00:36:53,667 Hold. Hold. 318 00:36:55,334 --> 00:36:59,782 Hold your formations, men of britain, please. 319 00:36:59,806 --> 00:37:00,854 Hold. 320 00:37:08,503 --> 00:37:11,061 Hold the line. 321 00:38:39,395 --> 00:38:41,281 Well done, uther. 322 00:39:36,607 --> 00:39:38,857 Belgae, ready yourselves. 323 00:39:42,117 --> 00:39:45,715 Now. 324 00:39:45,739 --> 00:39:46,988 Ya, ya. 325 00:40:01,007 --> 00:40:02,362 Where is he going? 326 00:40:02,386 --> 00:40:07,144 Jesu before us. Jesu behind. 327 00:40:19,928 --> 00:40:21,386 Hold. 328 00:40:23,237 --> 00:40:24,237 Hold. 329 00:40:25,935 --> 00:40:26,935 Uther. 330 00:40:28,953 --> 00:40:30,324 Archers. 331 00:40:33,904 --> 00:40:34,904 Do it. 332 00:40:47,697 --> 00:40:48,870 Now. 333 00:41:21,335 --> 00:41:23,380 Hold the line, hold the line. 334 00:41:23,404 --> 00:41:24,557 Don't go back. 335 00:41:24,581 --> 00:41:25,581 Push. 336 00:41:34,943 --> 00:41:37,951 Go. Take them down. 337 00:41:42,887 --> 00:41:44,785 They are breaking through! 338 00:41:56,648 --> 00:41:57,969 Hold the line. 339 00:42:03,076 --> 00:42:05,105 Push them back, push them back. 340 00:42:19,457 --> 00:42:22,540 Well done, battle chief, well done. 341 00:42:58,945 --> 00:43:00,753 I would urge you to be cautious. 342 00:43:42,237 --> 00:43:44,404 Ygerna, ygerna. 343 00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:56,200 Hold the line. 344 00:44:52,170 --> 00:44:53,920 Great light, deliver your people. 345 00:44:55,020 --> 00:44:56,643 Great light, preserve our king. 346 00:44:58,680 --> 00:44:59,680 Great light, 347 00:45:01,996 --> 00:45:04,425 we are lost in unless we find ourselves in you. 348 00:45:05,937 --> 00:45:07,236 Will your great light save you 349 00:45:07,260 --> 00:45:09,660 if you have the power to save yourself, my love? 350 00:45:12,900 --> 00:45:14,913 Jesu before me. Jesu behind. 351 00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:18,183 Not by my power, jesu, but thine. 352 00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,506 Why does the champion of summer devote himself 353 00:45:22,530 --> 00:45:25,236 to prayer when the battle is before him? 354 00:45:25,260 --> 00:45:28,210 Why does he let others suffer when his sword arm is strong? 355 00:45:33,030 --> 00:45:35,286 Well, you know suffering, don't you? 356 00:45:38,427 --> 00:45:39,427 Morgian. 357 00:45:42,310 --> 00:45:45,264 At last, my dear nephew. 358 00:45:45,288 --> 00:45:48,980 I'd begun to fear you had lost your wits. 359 00:45:56,194 --> 00:45:57,519 Father. 360 00:46:28,710 --> 00:46:30,310 Why do you not speak, my love? 361 00:46:31,740 --> 00:46:33,756 Does fear bind your tongue? 362 00:46:33,780 --> 00:46:36,180 You are right when you speak of fear, morgian. 363 00:46:37,650 --> 00:46:39,153 I do fear you full well. 364 00:46:40,230 --> 00:46:42,486 And yet, if not for me, 365 00:46:42,510 --> 00:46:44,310 you would have been killed long ago. 366 00:46:45,150 --> 00:46:46,953 I interceded for you, nephew. 367 00:46:48,180 --> 00:46:50,885 You owe me a debt. You owe me a father. 368 00:46:56,405 --> 00:46:58,744 Taliesin's death is bitter to me. 369 00:47:01,950 --> 00:47:03,700 My arrow was never meant for him. 370 00:47:05,700 --> 00:47:07,833 Those are the first true words you've ever spoken. 371 00:47:12,150 --> 00:47:14,706 Charis never spared a thought for me, 372 00:47:14,730 --> 00:47:16,053 savior of her people. 373 00:47:18,450 --> 00:47:20,256 I would've given the world than everything in it 374 00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:23,043 to have taliesin smile at me the way he smiled at her, 375 00:47:24,570 --> 00:47:27,270 to have avallach smile at me the way he smiled at her, 376 00:47:28,470 --> 00:47:31,170 to have anyone smile at me the way they smiled at her. 377 00:47:33,750 --> 00:47:34,750 But I was young. 378 00:47:35,910 --> 00:47:37,563 Such things mattered to me then. 379 00:47:40,260 --> 00:47:42,486 What matters to you now, mistress of lies? 380 00:47:42,510 --> 00:47:47,283 You, nephew. 381 00:47:48,720 --> 00:47:51,816 Your unreasoning hatred of the old ways, 382 00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:54,963 of your own past and power, cannot continue. 383 00:47:56,580 --> 00:47:58,230 It will not be tolerated, Merlin. 384 00:48:00,630 --> 00:48:03,216 But it does not have to be this way. 385 00:48:03,240 --> 00:48:04,806 Britain does not have to perish. 386 00:48:04,830 --> 00:48:07,236 The saecsens do not have to prevail. 387 00:48:07,260 --> 00:48:08,741 My god will preserve us. 388 00:48:08,765 --> 00:48:10,713 Your god. 389 00:48:13,110 --> 00:48:16,033 Or your aurelius? 390 00:48:17,502 --> 00:48:21,306 Did you think your juvenile plan would not be known to us? 391 00:48:21,330 --> 00:48:24,618 Did you think we would not be prepared? 392 00:49:38,122 --> 00:49:41,122 Just as your witch mother foresaw. 393 00:49:49,839 --> 00:49:51,366 Loose the arrows. 394 00:49:51,390 --> 00:49:53,076 My men are down there. 395 00:49:53,100 --> 00:49:54,700 The witch foresaw their deaths. 396 00:49:56,340 --> 00:49:58,095 You will be rewarded. 397 00:50:01,117 --> 00:50:04,942 Today, britain dies. 398 00:50:41,190 --> 00:50:42,440 Great light, uphold us. 399 00:50:44,610 --> 00:50:48,453 The waste of it all, the senselessness. 400 00:50:49,770 --> 00:50:51,186 How many lives must be lost 401 00:50:51,210 --> 00:50:55,056 before you accept the power you were born to wield? 402 00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:56,330 Great light, uphold it. 403 00:50:57,900 --> 00:50:58,900 Great light. 404 00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:01,293 Great darkness. 405 00:51:02,370 --> 00:51:04,203 What separates day from night? 406 00:51:05,070 --> 00:51:09,585 Only a handful of hours, turn of the earth. 407 00:51:10,418 --> 00:51:12,108 We are not so different, you and I. 408 00:51:30,834 --> 00:51:32,863 We're overrun. 409 00:51:32,887 --> 00:51:36,692 Tell them to retreat, or we're lost. 410 00:51:42,362 --> 00:51:44,695 You know what you must do. 411 00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:47,380 Why do you falter? 412 00:51:52,194 --> 00:51:54,027 They need you, Merlin. 413 00:51:55,833 --> 00:51:57,363 They need you now. 414 00:52:00,780 --> 00:52:03,452 Feel the power in your arm. 415 00:52:06,330 --> 00:52:08,790 Feel the strong steel in your hand. 416 00:52:15,469 --> 00:52:17,219 Take me up. 417 00:52:24,555 --> 00:52:28,267 Remember what they did to me, my love. 418 00:53:00,561 --> 00:53:01,916 Meurig! 419 00:53:29,593 --> 00:53:31,093 Charis. 420 00:53:46,650 --> 00:53:48,150 Close the ranks! 421 00:53:55,380 --> 00:53:56,680 They are dying, myrddin. 422 00:54:00,420 --> 00:54:01,533 Britain is dying. 423 00:54:03,905 --> 00:54:05,672 The vision of your father is dying. 424 00:54:10,050 --> 00:54:11,703 Your battle chief is dying, 425 00:54:14,202 --> 00:54:15,873 and your king is dead. 426 00:54:17,392 --> 00:54:18,565 Great light, forgive me. 427 00:54:18,589 --> 00:54:22,476 You do not need forgiveness, just the will to power, 428 00:54:22,500 --> 00:54:24,126 and when you have vanquished your foes, 429 00:54:24,150 --> 00:54:25,716 we will rule together, 430 00:54:25,740 --> 00:54:28,153 the king and queen of the kingdom of summer. 431 00:54:28,177 --> 00:54:29,954 Jesu! 432 00:55:20,913 --> 00:55:22,383 I've already been baptized. 433 00:55:23,670 --> 00:55:24,670 I know, my son. 434 00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:28,043 It's been a long time since you were clean. 435 00:55:36,450 --> 00:55:39,903 Your work is not yet finished, Merlin. 436 00:55:39,927 --> 00:55:42,396 The great darkness we've long feared 437 00:55:42,420 --> 00:55:44,813 has gained a foothold on the island of the mighty. 438 00:55:54,660 --> 00:55:56,110 You should have let me die. 439 00:56:01,140 --> 00:56:02,553 You sang your life into me. 440 00:56:05,386 --> 00:56:07,186 Would that you had remained instead. 441 00:56:10,890 --> 00:56:11,890 I had my time. 442 00:56:13,740 --> 00:56:14,853 I completed my work. 443 00:56:18,986 --> 00:56:23,403 You, you were my vision, my son. 444 00:56:26,250 --> 00:56:27,250 I have failed. 445 00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:32,170 Then you must start again. 446 00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:37,893 You must go back the way you came. 447 00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:41,540 What does that mean? 448 00:56:45,990 --> 00:56:47,483 That is for you to discover. 449 00:56:56,070 --> 00:56:58,733 It's a father's right to give his son his first shave. 450 00:57:00,060 --> 00:57:02,463 That right was stolen from me by the one you fear most. 451 00:57:05,700 --> 00:57:06,700 Morgian. 452 00:57:07,913 --> 00:57:11,753 And yet the swift sure hand has given us this moment 453 00:57:13,110 --> 00:57:14,310 to make right that loss. 454 00:57:42,510 --> 00:57:43,563 Let her go, my son. 455 00:57:46,366 --> 00:57:49,300 Go forth. Meet the day. 456 00:58:02,107 --> 00:58:04,233 It's time for us both to leave this place. 457 00:58:07,290 --> 00:58:10,116 One comes whose prayers have carried you 458 00:58:10,140 --> 00:58:11,240 further than you know. 459 00:58:12,870 --> 00:58:14,950 We'll dress you in clothes appropriate to your rank. 460 00:58:16,140 --> 00:58:18,140 I'd rather stay here with you, father. 461 00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:23,880 I have ever been with you, Merlin. 462 00:58:26,495 --> 00:58:27,495 Myrddin. 463 00:58:34,324 --> 00:58:35,324 Myrddin. 464 00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:52,470 I am not the king of the summer kingdom, morgian, 465 00:58:54,990 --> 00:58:57,173 and you are only the queen of air and darkness. 466 00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:07,386 You fool, still clinging to the promises of a god 467 00:59:07,410 --> 00:59:08,510 who has abandoned you. 468 00:59:10,050 --> 00:59:14,747 We're not abandoned, not yet. 469 00:59:34,449 --> 00:59:36,521 Hengist is dead. 470 00:59:44,170 --> 00:59:45,170 Orcadians. 471 00:59:57,585 --> 00:59:59,918 For britain. For britain. 472 01:00:27,657 --> 01:00:30,453 One battle, one war, 473 01:00:32,160 --> 01:00:33,873 men's heart remain unchanged. 474 01:00:37,290 --> 01:00:38,290 And yet... 475 01:00:44,282 --> 01:00:46,623 When I consider what you must have sacrificed, 476 01:00:49,290 --> 01:00:51,804 only to fail-I sacrificed nothing. 477 01:00:55,980 --> 01:00:58,263 My power comes as easily as yours, nephew, 478 01:01:02,490 --> 01:01:03,843 and as your father's. 479 01:01:09,804 --> 01:01:14,804 I will see you again, myrddin. 480 01:01:17,357 --> 01:01:19,857 I'll see you again, morgian. 481 01:02:37,850 --> 01:02:39,850 Nice work. 482 01:04:00,150 --> 01:04:01,803 All hail aurelius, 483 01:04:03,570 --> 01:04:06,100 high king and pen dragon of britain. 484 01:04:07,197 --> 01:04:09,596 Aurelius! 485 01:04:53,758 --> 01:04:56,841 King aurelius, ygerna, my daughter. 486 01:05:09,711 --> 01:05:11,128 Is ygerna here? 487 01:05:12,602 --> 01:05:13,985 Ygerna. 488 01:05:35,596 --> 01:05:36,596 Uther. 489 01:05:37,451 --> 01:05:38,681 It's you. 490 01:05:38,705 --> 01:05:40,393 What you said. Uther! 491 01:05:42,792 --> 01:05:43,875 Master. 492 01:05:46,334 --> 01:05:48,880 Great light, we are not equal to this fight. 493 01:05:48,904 --> 01:05:52,476 Myrddin, what is it? What have you seen? 494 01:05:52,500 --> 01:05:54,249 Our doom. 495 01:06:03,079 --> 01:06:04,955 We all have the right. We're kings of britain. 496 01:06:04,979 --> 01:06:06,931 Shut up. This is executive council. 497 01:06:06,955 --> 01:06:08,589 Don't you shut me up. Come now. 498 01:06:08,613 --> 01:06:09,672 I have every right. 499 01:06:12,213 --> 01:06:13,836 I have the right to say this. 500 01:06:13,860 --> 01:06:15,910 What gives her the right to the sword of britain? 501 01:06:17,115 --> 01:06:18,806 What gives you the right? 502 01:06:22,614 --> 01:06:24,716 Quiet, quiet. 503 01:06:32,980 --> 01:06:34,670 This is executive council. 504 01:06:34,694 --> 01:06:36,377 Don't you shut me up. 505 01:06:36,401 --> 01:06:37,795 I have every right. 506 01:06:41,145 --> 01:06:42,962 Quiet, quiet. 507 01:06:42,986 --> 01:06:45,069 You leave with-quiet.