"?" "Do you hate the idea of peace, Or just the lost opportunity of more profit?" "It doesn't matter why i want the war to continue, Only that i do." "Was it that sad a year, william?" "I don't know why you think He deserves special treatment." "I was hoping to see michelle there." "She's the princess." "If she wanted you there you'd be there." "I'm sorry." "I can't." "I'm promised to someone else." "You saved the king's son." "He's a cocker spaniel." "That cocker spaniel just got the best post in the military." "I see the way your father looks at him." "All it takes is one wedding" "And he can make of the pair of you a king and queen." " No one wants your crown." " Not yet." "Capture:" "FRM@ÏÄ·ç Sync:" "FRS@ÏºÃ× B i e r d o p j e . c o m" "Sir." "Sir." "Sir, may i help you?" "The days of confusion are behind me." "I know the smell of omen." "I knew it once better and feared to never have it again." "Perhaps no longer withheld." "Perhaps forgiven." "Acacia is a portent of change." "Of death and resurrection." " Death?" " And rebirth." "Beginnings on the heels of ending." "Change comes from inside the hearth." "Those you love to be its agents." "Who?" "If god has indeed resumed conversation with you," "There will be more signs." "Let them guide you." "If those signs guide me to your door..." "It will be open." "Forgive the interruption." "A visitor." "Send them off." "An ambassador of gath, sir." "I come with a message from my premiere" "Asking our new friend a favor." "We need your help." "A fool's errand to benefit gath at our risk." "We should refuse." "Is what gath says true?" "Are they so close to the brink?" "The claim bears out." "Gath nears crisis." "A crisis which we might then inherit." "Sir, if i may." "Venturing into gath as they ask has its dangers." "But nothing is as dangerous as inaction." "We have to do what we can to secure the peace." "We'll send a team." "I volunteer to lead." "As your son, my involvement gives weight to our commitment." "Those you love." "You go, you succeed, you return." "And take captain shepherd with you." "?" "kings s1 e07" "The citizens of port prosperity Seem concerned about the handover." "Yes, there have been some negative responses To the treaty." "That's why king silas sent us." "To reassure you" "That a few angry voices do not speak for the whole." "We remain committed to the peace." "Representatives of gilboa were sent On a diplomatic mission today" "To reassure the people of gath That the peace process will continue as promised." "Despite recent protests in gilboa," "King silas intends to return..." "All clear." "We're clear to proceed." "Where are we going?" "The press conference was our cover." "You're here with the king's own under my command." "Put these on and follow orders." "Welcome to the real mission." "We're supposed to be on a diplomatic tour." "We are ordered to head deep into gath And eliminate an insurgent known as belial." "Covertly, under the order of our king, And at the request of the premiere of gath." "Wake up, shepherd." "This is diplomacy." "Quickly now, and with good cheer." "A great day approaches." "Why the rush?" "Father's birthday is days away." "Days in which 1,000 things go wrong Unless managed with attention." "I could make do with some of yours." "I have an appointment at the hospital." "We're surveying the impact of the new healthcare plan." " Changing lives." " Ah." "It's a good time to call it a victory And find yourself a new preoccupation." "I love my work." "Couldn't you find yourself something More... or less noble?" "The insurgents have a heavily guarded camp Deep in these woods." "Our mission is to isolate belial and kill him." "Men, stealth approach." "Precision kill." "Back by morning." "Sound good?" "Don't underestimate him." "Your country and mine fought viciously, But always with honor." "Rules of engagement respected." "This one targets civilians." "And why hasn't gath taken out belial?" "He has spies in our government." "He knows our every move before we make it." " Four of us against an armed encampment" " Three of us." "We have training and experience." "You're just a diversion mandated by father silas." "I've been in combat before, jack." "Remember yourself, captain." "On this mission i am not your friend." "I am your commanding officer, better than king." "Is that clear?" "Yes, sir." "As you can see, we have more patients than beds." "Your bill forced the insurance companies Totesting." "They're all crammed in the hallway." "Can't they be sent to another facility?" "Every hospital in shiloh is at capacity." "Your pet healthcare bill Has created more problems than it's solved." "It was supposed to make people's lives easier," " Not more difficult." " Easier, no." "But better." "Many of these people would've been turned away before." "We're catching things ould've missed." "We have two people in isolation Because of your new protocols." "You mean quarantine." "It's precautionary," "But a month ago it would've slipped through the cracks." "Mother and son." "They came in this morning." "Normally we'd dismiss their symptoms as flu, But now we were able to run a disease panel." "And did you find anything?" "The minister of health doesn't want to incite panic." "However, preliminary results indicate similarities To the disease currently in sidon." "But that's arana plague." "People are dying in sidon." "As she said, we're still running tests." "Don't move." "That's a mine." "You step off, we all die." "Back off... slowly." "Our men make advances." "Boys brushing their baby teeth." "Young and inexperienced." "We were boys our first mission." "South fork." "You were insufferable." "Cocky, stubborn, raiding the rations." "Lucky you were there." "Wasn't the last time i saved your life." "Oh, but who's counting, huh?" "We need words with the king." "Oh, it starts with words." "Ends with my day shot to hell." "I fear we only burden the king's ear." "He hides the threat of plague." "On our soil." "In our city." "Plague?" "Consider your words." "I witnessed a mother and child in quarantine Hidden away without notice." "Necessary precautions." "Measures already taken to prevent further contamination" "Should the worst, not yet confirmed," "Nor expected to be so, be so." "Take us through the day, if it is." "Highly contagious and always fatal." "No vaccine or cure." "The disease is only communicable for 12 hours." "But if these two came in contact with others Before we isolated them," "Within 12 hours, 2 cases become 20." "20 become thousands." "Can it be staunched?" "A logistical impossibility Without quarantining the entire city." "Beyond imagination without knowing for certain." "Know for certain, and soon." "No logistics are impossible for the king." "No measures are too inconvenient." "At least let the people know." "Our intel places the encampment Down here at the base of the valley," "Just past that bridge." "Prepare to move." "Northeast, under the bridge." "Are you saying belial's camp is at the base of the valley?" "That's were we tracked him." "Wouldn't they have seen our approach from the hill?" "I'm in command here." "Prepare an over-Watch position and keep us out of trouble." "I'll head in." "Shepherd... you're with me." "Eyes." "Clear path." "Bridge is clear." "And go." "Hold." "One ace on bridge." " ?" " Don't move." "Ace is out of range." "You're good to go." "Bridge is secure." "We're clear." " Move forward." " Hold." "Movement on the hill." "They're on us!" "Surrounding the high ground!" "It's an ambush!" "I'm gonna flank 'em!" "Move it up to the flank!" "?" "One o'clock!" "Go!" "Go!" "Coming in behind!" "A list of everyone they came in contact with." "It's small so there's hope." "I'll get it to the ministry." "Where's the boy's mother?" "She died an hour ago." "So what did you tell him?" "So he's just waiting for his mother?" "He's dying." "Someone should be with him." "At this point, we're just trying to save the living." "Excuse me." "It's okay." "I'm here." " What's your name?" " Corey." "It's nice to meet you, corey." "I'm michelle." "You look familiar." "I get that a lot." "Someone must've tipped off belial's men." "Someone who knew we were coming." " We should call in for help." " No." "We have a mission to complete." "The mission's over, sir." "Then i'll go alone." "You go with him." "I'll find my own way back." "Sir, we have news." "Tests confirm it is plague," "With another case brought in." "Plague on my house." "Death and endings." "Bring everyone in." "Target sighted." "We have belial." "How do we get to him?" "I'll grab his man, switch clothes." "I can do it." "Wait!" "Wait." "He deserves to die." "He's not the one killing innocent people." "We are." "Weapons from our army." "Someone on our side has been arming belial." "We need to find out who." "We can't kill him." "Not yet." "Oh, it's okay." "It's okay." "Do you know where my mom is?" "She's waiting for you." "As soon as you get out of here, She'll be the first person you'll see." "Your daughter takes chances with her life As if it wasn't a hard one." "And now..." "We suffer." "She can't be mother to them all." "Damn her!" "I'm sorry, sir." "She went in before we could stop her." "Get her out now." "The boy carries plague." "She's already been exposed." "We have to assume she's infected." "We open that door now, We open the door to 1,000 more cases Of plague by morning." "The virus can only be passed onto new hosts..." "You'd hold any opportunity for contagion." "My daughter's right." "I'll shut down the entire city." "12 hours!" " What else?" " Crowd control's a problem." "The police are stretched beyond capacity." "Panic turns crowds into mobs." "No, confrontation turns crowds into corpses." "Make do with civilian resources." "Any news of jack?" "I thought you'd be on a jet to the calsays." "I take no joy watching this city become a graveyard." "Oh, of course not." "There's no profit in the dead." "Today may be the day To set aside differences." "Let me offer my best scientists," "Researchers, doctors." "Open up crossgen hospitals to the public." " Free of charge." " Then i'll accept." "On your knees." "The woods are crawling with belial's men." "We'll wait here till they pass." "We need a vehicle." "We passed a farm a while back." "If i'm not back in an hour," "Don't wait for me." "Come here!" "I like doing this in a chair." "So they sent a prince for me." "It's quite an honor." "I also, um..." "I also like coins." "A roll of them." "Right along the lifeline." "I used to argue with one of my men About what was the best denomination for the job." "But your men just killed him." "The weapons that came from my country." "Stolen, given..." "How?" "I'm not gonna tell you anything." "Good." "More signs come." "Each of them black." "Yesterday, i was filled with joy." "Today, with fear that he speaks Only to say terrible things." "You assume god sent this plague?" "Who else?" "The plague." "A pestilence that threatens to consume The nation that we built." "My only daughter openly exposed to it." "My son lost behind enemy lines." "My family, my people at risk." "He tests me beyond endurance." "And yet you are here." "You answered the call." "This silas i know." "I will protect my city with your help." "I need 12 hours of curfew." "12 hours of locked doors and windows shut down." "Each to his home." "Every soul in compliance." "12 hours." "All that i can." "Every resource i wield works towards this end." "Plague is an outward sign of inward disease." "You have poison in the body" "To be rid of it, you must cut off the bitten limb." "This is a warning, silas..." "Of someone close for whom light fails." "There were two brothers." "Cain and abel." "God's first grandchildren." "And the wicked one killed the innocent one Cause of jealousy." "But he became the father of mankind." "So... beneath the veneer of civility, We're all children of cain." "The war is over, in case you haven't heard." "The war will never end" "As long as there are those who make a profit from it." "Is that how you got your weapons?" "Someone who profits from both countries being at war?" "I use him as he uses me." "He wants me to destroy the government of gath." "I will." "And i'll turn against yours." "And out of this chaos," "Something new and beautiful will be born." "And how many have to die To give birth to your utopia?" "As many as it takes for us to become united." "We are brothers all." "Even you and him." "He is not my brother." "He may well be..." "one day." "Jack, what are you doing?" "Stay outside!" "Get off of him!" "Who are you to even talk to me?" "!" "?" "?" "We must sacrifice tonight," "So that tomorrow" "So that there is a tomorrow." "We ask you to leave your places of work," "And go to your homes." "We ask you to close your doors to the world." "Do not open them until the sun rises." "Light a candle in your window." "A sign to your neighbor that we stand together Even as we stand apart." "If we act as one," "The angel of death cannot single us out." "She will pass over our doors, and we will be spared." "I have no fear, because tonight My faith is not in god, but in you." "Surely you can't expect them all to obey." "Someone will run into the streets and spread death." "I have faith in my people." "Sir, the prince and shepherd have resumed contact." "They lost two men, but they are unharmed And approach the border." "And what of gath's problem belial?" " They have him." " Alive?" "They discovered a cache of gilboan-Issued weapons." "They believe someone from our country Has been arming his brotherhood." "Send rescue teams to the border, then go home." "Poison in the body." "William." "Your brother-In-Law just offered aid During our time of need." "He's always been an open enemy to peace." "And if this plague was sent to make a king pay attention," "Attention must be paid." "Treachery will be rooted out and punished." "Let me." "He'll dream his last tonight." "First bring me proof that it is him and him alone." "You thought you saved my life When i was taken hostage." "But you destroyed it." "Had i died at gath's hand, i would've been a hero." "You should've left me to die." "Then the kingdom would never know you existed." "I'm not your enemy." "Enemies i understand." "You..." "I don't know what you are." "I'm part of this mission, jack." "Let's go home." "Streets were empty when i came home." "I had hoped you'd be with michelle." "All those times you sat by her bedside." "She needed you." "She's never needed me." "Not the same way." "Every child longs for its mother." "To sit and watch her slip away?" "I didn't have it then." "I don't have it now." "I" "I can save them, save them all." "Michelle, jack, shiloh." "A diseased limb needs to be severed So that the body may heal itself." "Then cut." "Price will be steep." "For you more than most." "One sibling sacrificed to save two." "For them cut, and cut again." "You cut until there is nothing left But my children alive." "Let your daughter hear those words." "Mom." "Mom." "I'm here." "When are we leaving?" "Soon, sweetie." "Very soon." "I can't see." "Go back to sleep." "Mom." "I'm here." "It's okay." "Try to sleep." "* may your eyes * * close with the moon *" "* may they open again soon * * so sleep on with no fear, love *" "* your mother is here * * your mother is here *" "William cross." "General malic." "It appears he's enlisted gath In his plot against you." "How does one kill his own..." "Family?" "Brother to his wife, uncle to his children." "With joy." "He's a traitor." "Make it fast." "Clean." "Do not let one drop of his poison blood Touch this earth." "Must be a wind." "Must be." "Make sure they shut down all checkpoints." "Shoot any vehicle that attempts to cross over." " The border is just ahead." " Yeah." "Thank god." "We made it home." " Why is gilboa aiming at us?" " Turn back or we'll fire!" "They think we're the enemy." "Get down!" "Back!" "Back!" "Get out!" "Move!" "Hold your fire!" "Stand down!" "It's the prince!" "Termination order has been given." "Cross will be found dead within the hour if not already." "Made to look by his own hand." "I slaved to bring this city to life," "And now it's as quiet as death." "We'll soon know which way falls the balance." "I wish i shared your faith." "I don't believe in signs." "And me?" "Do you believe in me?" "Yes, sir." "I see you strong before me." "You do?" " I stayed the order." " Sir?" "William lives, and will continue to." "You do not get to pass the blame on this." "I pray for signs, and when i get them i am grateful." "But this sign." "This..." "I prayed to not be true." "Your treachery, for which our country must pay the price." " You think i caused this plague?" " You are the plague." "You sold us to the enemy." "After 30 years by my side, why?" "You lost your way." "Become weak." "Ever since that shepherd boy came and waved a white flag." "Is peace so threatening?" "I am a warrior." "You took my war." "I would rather fall on my sword than lay it down." "No." "You fall on mine." "You venture outside?" "12 hours passed, sir." "It's over." "It worked." "The plague is gone." "And those infected gone with it, But your people did as asked." "Down to the last." "So we count ten lost." "10 and not 10 million?" "Only those who came in contact with our patients Without knowing." "All passed in their homes," "Sacrificing themselves for their neighbors." "What news of my daughter?" "I'm proud of you." "Both of you." "You truly are the king's own." "I never would've thought abner." "I'm sorry, father." "I know he was your friend." "The king has no friends." "He has, if he's lucky, his family." "Trust each other with your lives As i know entrust you with mine." "Brotherhood." "Pray for your sister." "Then go home." "Rest." "You've made your first true kill." "No easy thing." "It changes the color of your blood." "Paints your conscience." "You did that for me." "I tell myself i had no choice." "There's always a choice." "You don't owe me anything." "Words don't settle debt."