"Once upon a time, in deep winter, a queen was admiring the falling snow when she saw a rose blooming in defiance of the cold." "Reaching for it, she pricked her finger and three drops of blood fell." "And because the red seemed so alive against the white she thought, "If only I had a child as white as snow," ""lips as red as blood, hair as black as a raven's wings" ""and all with the strength of that rose. "" "Soon after, a daughter was born to the Queen and was named, "Snow White. "" "And she was adored throughout the kingdom as much for her defiant spirit as for her beauty." "We found it in the woods." "It's injured, Mother." "It must have broken its wing." "Don't worry, it will heal in time." "I'll look after it." "You possess a rare beauty, my love." "In here." "Never lose it." "It will serve you well when you become queen." "Be careful you don't fall." "I'm just getting you an apple." " Here you go." " Thank you." "William!" "The next winter was the harshest in memory and Snow White's mother passed away." "The King was inconsolable." "Taking advantage of his grief, a dark and mysterious army appeared and lured him into battle." "What devil spawned this army?" "Send them back to hell!" "No prisoners!" "The dark army was defeated, but what would soon come to pass was far darker." "Sire!" "A prisoner." "Fear not, you will come to no harm from me or my men." "What is your name, my lady?" "Ravenna, sire." "So enchanted by her beauty was the King that he forgot, for the first time, his broken heart and the very next day, she would become his wife." "You're so beautiful." "That's kind, child." "Especially when it is said that yours is the face of true beauty in this kingdom." "Come." "This all must be difficult for you." "I, too, lost my mother when I was a young girl." "I can never take your mother's place." "Never." "But I feel that you and I are bound." "I feel it there." "Your heart." "You will be the ruin of me." "Indeed, my lord." "I was ruined by a king like you once." "I replaced his queen, an old woman." "And, in time, I, too, would have been replaced." "Men use women." "They ruin us and when they are finished with us they toss us to the dogs like scraps." "What have you given me?" "When a woman stays young and beautiful forever, the world is hers." "First, I will take your life, my lord." "And then I'll take your throne." "Welcome, brother." "My queen." "She had tricked her way into the kingdom with a phantom army." "She now welcomed a very real one." "William!" "Snow, get out!" "Snow!" "I can't leave!" " The Princess!" " No!" "Get out of here!" "Go!" "William!" "Don't leave me!" "Father, we must go back!" "We must!" " No!" " We've lost her!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "Don't leave me!" "William!" "Out." "Out!" "Mirror, mirror on the wall," "who is the fairest of them all?" "It is you, my queen." "Yet another kingdom falls to your glory." "Is there no end to your power and beauty?" "The remnants, my queen." "What do we do with them?" "To the sword." "Finn." "Lock her up." "One never knows when royal blood may be of value." "So poisonous was the reign of Ravenna, that nature turned on itself and people turned on each other." "The land died and with it, hope." "And all that time, she kept Snow White imprisoned high up in the north tower." "Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name." "Thy kingdom come." "They will be done on Earth as it is in heaven." "Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us." "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." "Amen." "Hello?" " What is your name?" " I am Greta." "What happened to you?" "All the girls in our village were taken." "I was trying to reach Duke Hammond's castle when I was caught." "Duke Hammond?" "Is he alive?" "Does he still fight in my father's name?" "You're the King's daughter." "The night the King died, we were told all in the castle were slain." "And William?" "Is the Duke's son still alive?" "I don't know, Princess." "What will they do to me?" "Do you remember when we were children begging for scraps like those wretches?" "Yes, sister." "Am I not kinder?" "Yes." "These two were captured leading an ambush on one of our supply trains." "Your son?" "Handsome." "Obviously, a debt owed to your mother." "There was a time I would have lost my heart to a face like yours." "And you, no doubt, would have broken it." "Lain, no!" "You would kill your queen?" "Such courage." "Such beauty." "But how strong is your heart?" "No." "My son." "My son!" "Leave him." "Let him return to the Duke and speak of the generosity of his queen." "Out." "Out!" "Magic comes at a lofty price." "And the expense grows." " You look..." " Old." "Tired." "My power fades." "I have something for what ails you." "Oh." "Greta?" "Greta?" "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is fairest of them all?" "My queen, on this day, one has come of age fairer even than you." "She is the reason your powers wane." "Who is it?" "Snow White." "Snow White?" "She is my undoing?" "I should have killed her when she was a child." "Be warned." "Her innocence and purity is all that can destroy you." "But she is also your salvation, Queen." "Take her heart in your hand and you shall never again need to consume youth." "You shall never again weaken or age." "Immortality." "Immortality forever." "Finn!" "Brother, bring me the King's daughter." "Did I wake you?" "Are you always awake when I watch you?" "You've never come in before." "My sister won't allow it." "She wants you all to herself." "I'm afraid of her." "And not of me?" "No." "Fear not, Princess." "You will never again be locked in this cell." "What does she want from me?" "Your beating heart." "Get me out of here!" "No!" "Greta?" " Go." " Get me out of here!" " No!" " Go." "No!" "Stop her!" "Catch her!" "Seize her!" "Get to the gate!" "Bring her back to me!" "How is it that an innocent young girl makes a fool of my brother?" "Armed only with a nail." "If she'd had a sword, she would have taken my kingdom." ""Bring me the King's daughter,"" "and you let her slip right through your tiny little fingers." "How?" "You swore that you would protect me!" "You swore!" "Now there's no one I can trust." "No one." "There's no loyalty, no loyalty." "None, not even from you!" "Where is she?" "She was chased into the Dark Forest, where the men lost her." "She's no good to me in the Dark Forest, lost!" "I need her heart!" "You failed me, Finn!" "Have I not given all to you!" "Have I not given you all?" "Yes, sister." "Quiet." "I have no powers in the Dark Forest." "You have to find me someone." "Someone who knows it." "Someone who can hunt her." "You owe me money from my pocket and money for the girl." "Well, you know, I seem to have drunk it all, but you're welcome to it when it comes out again." "You've gone too far." "I want my money!" "Here it is!" "The Queen demands your presence." "Can't you see I'm having a bath?" "Trust me on this, sister." "All right!" "All right!" "Hey!" "My brother tells me you are a widower." "A drunkard." "And one of few who has ventured into the Dark Forest." "Aye." "One of my prisoners has escaped there." " Then he's dead." " She." "She is certainly dead." "Find her." "Bring her to me." "No, I've been to that forest." "I'm not going back." "You will be rewarded handsomely." "What good is gold to me if I'm lying dead with the crows picking at my eyes?" "Why is she of such value?" "That is none of your concern." "I'll determine what concerns me, thank you." "You will do this for me, huntsman!" "And if I refuse?" "Do me the favour, I beg of you." "To his knees." "So you wish to be reunited with your beloved?" "You do not speak of my wife." "You miss her." "What would you give to see her again?" "You know of my powers." "Bring me the girl and I will bring back your wife." "Nothing can bring her back." "I can." "A life for a life." "She can't have gone far." "All right, do exactly as I do." "It's a bad idea." "Stay here." " Come here." " No!" "Will you help me?" "Please, the Queen is going to kill me." "Sure she is." "She's going to rip out my heart." "Quick work." "Hey." "Well done, huntsman." "Hand her over." "What do you intend to do with her?" "Why do you care?" "You want her..." "Hey!" "Give me what I was promised." "You did your job well." "Now, keep your word." " He'll kill us both." " Shut up." " He will." " I said, shut up." "No, no." "I'll keep my word when the Queen keeps hers." "Where's my wife?" "He's going to betray you." "My sister has many powers." "She can take life away, or sustain it, but she can't bring your wife back from the dead, you fool!" "I want her back!" "I will find you!" "Quiet." "All right?" "Hey, what the hell's going on?" "Who are you?" "Why does the Queen want you dead?" "She wants everyone dead, all of us." "What makes you so damn valuable?" "You should know, you're the one hunting me." "Forget it." "I should have never got involved in the Queen's business." "What did I get in?" "Stupid..." "Where are you going?" "Getting away from you." "You're trouble, is what you are." "I need to get to the Duke's castle." "There's an army there." "Oh, the Duke's army?" "Bunch of farmers and milkmaids with pitchforks." "I know sheep that have more fight in them." "I'm valuable." "That's why you're here, isn't it?" "If you return without me, you're dead." "If you leave me, I'm dead." "Just for argument's sake, how much reward?" "However much is enough." " At least thirty gold pieces..." " A hundred." "Help me." "Who are you?" "Maybe you should have asked the Queen that." "I don't trust you." " I've given you my word." " I still don't trust you." "But you have a deal." "Give me that, before you lose a finger." "She killed my brave lain with just the palm of her hand and then she drew a dagger from her side with no blood." "She cannot be killed." "But there is more." "The Princess is alive." "Where is my son?" "We have word of the Princess." "Ravenna has kept her, all these years." "She lives?" "She escaped the castle, into the Dark Forest." "I'm going after her." "We don't know if she survived." "William!" "What?" "You ventured beyond the castle walls again, disobeying my orders." "We're all that's left, don't you understand?" "I cannot afford to lose any more of my men." "I'm going alone." "I will not lose my only son." "You don't know the Dark Forest." "Then I'll find somebody who does." "I will not abandon her a second time." "The forest gains its strength from your weakness." "Do you drink to drown your sorrows?" "Or your conscience?" "What concern is it of yours, why I drink?" "I suppose a man's sorrows are his own." "What does a young girl like you know about sorrow?" "Don't flatter yourself." "Now stay close." "You men know the dark forest?" "Load and prepare." "You ride for 50 gold pieces." "Does it not trouble you to serve her?" "Who the Queen?" "I serve no one." "Especially that old hag, and any other royalty." "They're all damned." "The King and his true queen are not damned." "The King?" "He's the one that let the devil in the door." "It's his fault the kingdom's plunged into darkness." "From you?" "You know nothing." "What?" "And you do?" "What's a wee scrod like you care about the King anyway?" "You're barely old enough to remember him." "The land is diseased." "Nature is upturned." "This, this is the legacy of your precious king." "Do you need a bowman?" "I have a bowman." "Kill him." "I said, do you need a bowman?" "Here, I want to show you something." "Which is your lead foot?" "If someone comes at you, you raise this arm up and you block, and use their strength against them." "You're small, so wait until they're close and you drive it through their heart to the hilt." "You understand?" "Do not hesitate." "You look in their eyes and do not pull it out until you see their soul." "I couldn't do that." "Well, you might not have a choice." "We have their trail." "Move on." "Move on!" "Wait." "Is this the edge of the Dark Forest?" "Aye." "What is it?" "Troll!" "Go!" "Run!" "I told you to run." "If I had, you would be dead." "Only demons or spirits pass through the Dark Forest." "Which are you?" "We're fugitives from the Queen." "We mean you no harm." "Where are all the men?" "Gone." "Have you got nothing to drink?" "You have travelled far and carried a great burden." "I've had worse jobs." "Anyway, she's not that heavy." "You don't know who she is." "What do you mean?" "Why?" "Who is she?" "Maybe it needs a skirt, or a dress or something?" "That's nice." "How about a face?" "Your mother wants to see you." "Why didn't you tell me?" "Because I'd think it was too difficult a task?" "You would be right." "I didn't trust you." " I'm sorry." " Yeah." "Our scars protect us." "Without beauty, we are worthless to the Queen." "It's a sacrifice we made so we could raise our children in peace" "while their fathers are at war." "And you, your sacrifice will come." "You must rest." "How can you desert her when you know the truth?" "Aye, I know the truth." "That's why she should be as far away from me as possible." "Anything I ever cared about was taken away from me." "Not this time." "She's safer here with you." "Lily!" "Lily, come on!" "Come on!" "Run, rats, run!" "Find her!" "Come on!" "Get in the boats!" "Get in the boats!" "Lily!" "In there, baby." "There you go." "Come on!" "No!" "No!" "Come on!" "Let's go!" "No!" "We have to help them!" "You will." "Go." " Come on!" " Go!" "Your beauty is all that can save you, Ravenna." "This spell will make your beauty your power and protection." "By fairest blood it is done." "Here." "Drink, drink!" "But, be warned." "By fairest blood, this spell can be undone." "Avenge us!" "I'm sorry." " I'm sorry." " You're not." " I am." " You left us." "We should never have been there." "Hey, look at me." "I'll take you to Duke Hammond's, okay?" "All right?" "You have my word." "Wait!" "This is our lucky day." "Oh, no." "Dwarves." "The hedge-pig I loathe most in the world lands right in our lap." "Come on, Beith." "Is this how you treat a friend?" "Oh!" "No, no, no, you puttock." "This is how I treat a friend." "She's pretty." "And who's this?" "Is this an errant apprentice or captive?" "This man is helping me." "We should kill them both." "He's caused us nothing but trouble." "Skewer him and leave her to rot." "I don't like killing girls." " I do." " Good." "Leave her alone, Duir." "He's got nothing." "One silver coin and an empty codpiece." "Two days we sat here." "What for?" "Nothing." "We should have stayed by the river." "What a waste of time!" "Cut us down, Beith." "I have gold I can pay you." "It's not here, it's hidden back in the woods." "Shut your ugly mug, huntsman." "If you had any pennies, you would have pissed it away on mead by now." "Cut us down, then I'll show you." "Pull the other one, you lying dangler." "Tell them the truth, huntsman." "There's no time!" "I have to take this girl to Hammond's." "She's not safe here." "Well, my little heart bleeds for you." "We should chop them up and feed them to the wolves." "Yeah." "Yes!" "Who is she?" "She's worth a lot of gold to me." "Which I am happy to share with you stupid little dwarves." "Stop that!" "Gold is worth nothing to any of you if you're all dead!" "The Queen's men hunt us!" " They're very close!" " Shut up!" "You have love for the Queen?" "We have no love for the Queen." "Then you fight against her?" "No one fights against the Queen." "We lost everything when the King died." "We fight only for ourselves!" "Yes." "My father was King Magnus." "Muir, does she speak the truth?" "Yes." "She is of the blood." "She is destined, Beith." "I see an end to the darkness." "Riders!" "They found us!" "If you don't cut us down, we'll all be killed!" "I don't like this, Beith." "It smells like trouble." "You'll find your weight in gold if you cut us down, now!" "Shut up, Princess." "Queen's riders!" "And they're coming this way!" "We'll take her, but not him!" "What?" "No, both of us!" "Cut them both down, Gort!" "Let's get the hell out of here!" "Move it!" "Move it!" "They're close." "Blasted fairy music." "Yeah." "Good thing there's plenty of moss about." "Where are we?" "They call it Sanctuary, my lady." "It's the home of the fairies." "Fairies." "Clear!" "Coll?" "Clear!" "Set up camp!" "Gus." "Quert." "Make the fire." "Gort, your mug." "Play louder, you whey-face," "I can still hear them harpy fairies." "Duir, would you really have killed her?" "Yeah." "Of course." "That seat's not taken, if that's what you were about to ask." "I want to thank you." "It's only a log." "There's no need to thank me." "No, for before." "For defending me." "Ah." "Your father was a good man." "The kingdom prospered." "Our people prospered." "There were more of you." " Aye." " Yeah." "The men you see before you and many, many more, went deep into the caves." "We were noble gold miners because we could see the light in the darkness." "Gus." "Gus?" "You were just a boy, but you remember." "When we returned to the surface, there was nothing." "The land was blackened." "Everything, everyone was gone." "Was dead." "That was the month your father died." "I'm very sorry." "As am I, Princess." "As am I." "Son, play a happy song." "¶¶ Why spend your leisure Bereft of pleasure ¶¶" "¶¶ Amassing treasure Why scrape and save?" "¶¶" "¶¶ Why look so canny At every penny?" "¶¶" "¶¶ You'll take no money within the grave" "I know I'm a bit gicky, but would you care for a dance?" "I'd be honoured, Gus." "¶¶ Our glasses clinking And round and round ¶¶" "¶¶ Is iomaa­ sla­ sin Do bhaos ag daoine ¶¶" "¶¶ Ag cruinniÃº paisa­ Is ag dÃanamh stÃ³ir ¶¶" "¶¶ So, lads and lasses Because life passes ¶¶" "¶¶ Come fill your glasses for another round ¶¶" "I don't trust her, and I don't believe her." "No matter what Muir says." "I feel peculiar." "Queer almost." "What?" "Since when?" "I'm tingling all over, but I feel lovely." "I feel lovely." "How's your gout?" "Gout?" "It's a bit better." "And my cough." "You know, this is her doing." "How much have you had to drink?" "No, it was the mushrooms." "Send a log downstream." "¶¶ With hump for tramel The scripture's camel ¶¶" "Still fleecing us out of our bevvy, huntsman?" "What do you say we let bygones be bygones?" "Not yet, nut-hook." "Hug." "¶¶ Come fill your glasses for another round ¶¶" "¶¶ Is iomaa­ slÃ­ sin Do bhÃ­os ag daoine ¶¶" "So what's in it for you?" "What are you talking about?" "I'm talking about the girl." "¶¶ Come fill your glasses for another round ¶¶" "Is it really just the gold?" "I'm not sure, Beith." "If I had any sense, I'd have abandoned her long ago." "Muir says she's destined." "Question is, huntsman, for what?" "Hmm?" "Get up." "Father?" "What was that?" "Father?" "I know, son, I know." "It's him." "No, no, no, huntsman." "No one's ever seen this before." "The white hart bows before the Princess, Father." "He's blessing her." "What are you talking about?" "You have eyes, huntsman, but you do not see." "You, who have been with her the longest." "She is life itself." "She will heal the land." "She is the one." "Can't you feel it?" "Are your ailments not gone?" "Gold or no gold, where she leads, I follow." " Aye." " I'm with you." "Yes, Father." "Ambush!" "Aim low!" "Aim low!" "Coll, Duir, take him." "Gus, go with her." " Stay with me." " Don't you wait for me." "You first." "I know." "Go." "That way." "Go, go!" "No, no, it's me!" "It's William." "It's William." "I admire your fight, huntsman." "Your wife was the same." "What do you know of my wife?" "I remember them all." "But especially the ones with fight." "She screamed your name, but you weren't there." "Now, you can beg her forgiveness in the Otherworld." "Sister, heal me." "Forgive me, brother." "I feel..." "Arrow!" "Gus." "Gus!" "Gus, breathe." "Gus, breathe." "I won't leave you, miss." "We used to have pride." "And now we just pilfer and drink and dream about when we didn't." "Every man here would die for the chance of becoming that man again." "So, we follow you, Princess, in life and in death." "And we shall have our pride again." "On Gus's soul, this I swear." "¶¶ Dark the stars And dark the moon ¶¶" "¶¶ Hush the night And the morning loon ¶¶" "¶¶ Tell the horses And beat on your drum ¶¶" "¶¶ Gone their master Gone their sun ¶¶" "¶¶ Dark the oceans Dark the sky ¶¶" "¶¶ Hush the whales And the ocean tide ¶¶" "¶¶ Tell the salt marsh And beat on your drum ¶¶" "¶¶ Gone their master ¶¶" "¶¶ Gone their sun ¶¶" "¶¶ Dark to light And light to dark ¶¶" "¶¶ Three black carriages Three white carts ¶¶" "¶¶ What brings us together's What pulls us apart ¶¶" "¶¶ Gone our brother Gone our heart ¶¶" "I'm sorry I left you." "You didn't." "If I'd have thought you were alive," "I would have come for you." "We were children, William." "You're here now." "¶¶ Hush the whales And the ocean tide ¶¶" "¶¶ Tell the salt marsh And beat on your drum ¶¶" "¶¶ Gone their master Gone their sun ¶¶" "Here." "She hasn't changed." "She has that same light inside her." "You must see it." "You'd be blind if you didn't." "Thought about her every day since I lost her." "I can hardly believe I found her." "You should tell her how you feel." "It'd be good for her." "No." "I wouldn't know how." "Your not telling someone something like that and living with the regret is a lot worse." "William." "It's as if nothing's changed here." "The world seems beautiful again." "It will be, when you are queen." "The people of this kingdom hate Ravenna with every fiber." "I used to hate her." "But now I feel only sorrow." "Once people find out you're alive, they will rise up in your name." "It takes more than a name." "You are your father's daughter." "The rightful heir." "If I had a choice, I'd take you far away." "Keep you safe by my side." "But I have a duty." "And so do you." "How do I inspire?" "How will I lead men?" "The way you led me when we were children." "I followed you everywhere." "I ran when you called." "I would have done anything for you." "That's not how I remember it." " No?" " No." "And we used to fight all the time." "And argue." "Do you remember that trick?" "What trick?" "You see, child, love always betrays us." "Wake up." "By fairest blood it was done, and only by fairest blood" "can it be undone." "You were the only one who could break the spell and destroy me." "And the only one pure enough" "to save me." "You don't even realize how lucky you are never to know what it is to grow old." "No!" "No." "No." "No." "What are you looking at?" "Do something!" "You're dwarves, healers." "Save her." "Help her." "No." "This cannot be." "Please, please." "Please." "What do we do, Beith?" "What we promised." "Well, here you are." "All dressed up, like you're about to wake up and give me more grief." "Am I right?" "You deserved better." "I once had a wife, Princess." "Sara was her name." "When I came back from the wars," "I carried with me the stench of death and the anger of the lost." "I wasn't worth saving, that's for sure." "But she did so anyway." "And I loved her so much." "I loved her more than anyone or anything." "And then I let her out of my sight and she was gone." "And I became myself again." "A self I never cared for." "Until you." "See, you remind me of her." "Her heart." "Her spirit." "But now you, too, have gone." "You both deserved better, and I'm so sorry I failed you." "I'm so sorry." "But you'll be a queen in heaven now and sit among the angels." "She died for us!" "For our cause!" "We cannot just hide behind these walls and watch this land die with her!" "Your grief clouds your judgment, my son." "My grief makes me see clearer, Father." "My duty is to protect those people who come to me for help." "I will defend them to the last drop of my blood, but I will not abandon these walls." "The spell is lifted." "Death has favored you." "Death favors no man." "We must ride like thundering waves under the tattered battle flag of my father." "You must rest." "We have rested long enough." "Frost to fire and fire to frost." "Iron will melt." "But it will writhe inside of itself!" "All these years all I've known is darkness." "But I have never seen a brighter light than when my eyes just opened." "And I know that light burns in all of you!" "Those embers must turn to flame." "Iron into sword!" "I will become your weapon!" "Forged by the fierce fire that I know is in your hearts!" "For I have seen what she sees." "I know what she knows." "I can kill her." "And I'd rather die today than live another day of this death!" "And who will ride with me?" "Who will be my brother?" "Aye!" "Farewell, Princess." "Where are they?" "Amassed on the cliffs." "Their numbers have swollen." "They say the King's standard flies again." "Then let them come." "And let them break their skulls on these stone walls and bring me my prize." "My lord, we only have a few hours before the tide comes in." "Not long enough to breach the castle walls." "Is there no other way in?" "There is another way." "Hi-ho, lads, it's off to work." "If he starts whistling, I'll smash his face in." "Yes." "We're promised gold and what do we get?" "Poo!" "How low has the dwarf race sunk?" "That looks like one of mine." "Hold this!" "All right." "The gatehouse is 50 yards to the right." "And there's a whole army out there." "Six dwarves against an army?" "I like them odds." "We must ride now." "The portcullis will be open." "So, you're back from the dead and instigating the masses." "You look very fetching in mail." "We ride!" "All right." "We move as one." "After you." "Hey, go, go, go." "Sorry." "What's happening, Coll?" "They're on the beach!" "Release!" "Ready!" "Release!" "Release!" "Go, go, go!" "The summit's breached!" "Back here, lads!" "Come on!" "Get back to it!" " Pull!" " Nion, get on that rope!" " Come on!" " Go on!" "Quert!" "It's a massacre down there!" "Gort, on that rope!" "We must turn back!" "No!" "I gave them my word!" "It's over!" "Get on now!" "She's moving." "You done it, lads!" "Charge!" "Ya!" "Form!" "Form!" "William!" "Come and avenge your father who was too weak to raise his sword." "Ah." "Go on." "Watch them die." "How does it feel, knowing you were the one who led them to their deaths?" "You see?" "We're not that different, are we?" "I'm everything you're not." "You cannot defeat me!" "I've lived too many lives." "Ravaged entire kingdoms." "I have been given powers that you could not even fathom!" "I will never stop." "Never." "I will give this wretched world the queen it deserves." "By fairest blood, it is done!" "And only by fairest blood is it undone." "You can't have my heart." "In the name of all that is good and just in this land" "I crown you queen." "Hail to the Queen!" "Hail to the Queen!" "Hail to the Queen!"