"(DRUMS THUDDING)" "(WOMAN VOCALIZING)" "(VOCALIZING CONTINUES)" "(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)" "(MOANS)" "(SPEAKS LATIN)" "(YELLING)" "(SQUELCHES)" "(ARROW WHOOSHING)" "(WIND GUSTING)" "(DISTANT WHISPERING)" " (WOMAN VOCALIZING) - (MALE VOICE WHISPERING)" "(CHUCKLES, MUTTERING)" "(WHISPERING CONTINUES)" "(ZINGS, SIZZLING)" "(CAESAR SPEAKING LATIN)" "(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)" "(INHALES SHARPLY)" "(FLAMES CRACKLING)" "(SWORD SLICES)" "(VOCALIZING)" "(WEAPON CLATTERS)" " (METAL CLANKS) - (MAN GURGLES)" " (BLOW THUDS) - (MAN SCREAMS)" " (BLADE SLICES) - (MAN SCREAMING)" "Another wretched remnant, rancid leftover of humanity." "(GRUNTS)" "More than a thousand years have passed, witch, and where is your lion?" "Where is your King?" "I am here and I am waiting for you!" "(BAGPIPES PLAYING)" "(HOOTING)" "(MEN LAUGHING)" "(DRUMS PLAYING)" "(LAUGHTER, CHATTERING)" "(BANGS)" " Friends!" " (CHATTER DIES)" "Filthy peasants." "Honor our illustrious English guest Richard." "(SLURS) Philippe, let it be!" "The descendant of the King of england!" "(CHEERING)" "Hey, son of King!" "Kiss my Italian ass!" "(LAUGHING)" " Ow..." " Give thanks, you villain." "I've just honored your ass with a hearty English kiss!" "(JEERS)" "Drink up, all of you!" "It's on my Royal family." " (CHEERING) - (LAUGHTER)" "(METAL CLANKING)" "(BANGING)" "(CHEERS)" "(CREAKING)" "(MEN CHANTING)" "PHILIPPE:" "Thanks for this disgusting piss." "Now where's the good stuff?" " More wine!" " (LAUGHTER)" " Oh." " (CUP CLATTERS)" "Sorry, friend." "Didn't mean to deprive you of this poisonous piss, Sir." "Gutta cavat lapidem." "Penetrate the rock, prepare for the end." " The time has come." " (SNICKERING)" "What?" " Get out of my way!" " Lord, my Lord!" "Rest assured, I will offer you the best." "Your end is nigh." " Get out of my way." " My Lord, my..." " (CHOKING)" " Did you wish to say something?" "You are beginning to bore me." "And your stench makes me want to vomit." " My Lord, please please." " (GLASS SHATTERS)" "What are you hiding out back there?" "Nothing, my Lord!" "(GAGS, COUGHS)" "REMEMBER:" "Save yourself while you still can." " Who is she?" "!" " Please." " It's my daughter!" " RICHARD:" "Enough!" "Look what a spicy morsel I've found!" "(INNKEEPER SOBBING)" "Richard, look, a present for you!" " (GIRL SOBBING)" " No no!" "No!" " (GIRL SCREAMING)" " No-ooo!" "(BAGPIPES, DRUMS PLAYING)" "(HOOTING)" " (INNKEEPER WAILS) - (LAUGHS)" " (MUSIC STOPS) - (RICHARD MOANS)" "Henry!" "Let me introduce the young King... my brother!" "(WIND GUSTS)" "(GRUNTS, ROARS)" "(SPITS) Filthy traitor!" "Bloodless brother!" " Silence, renegade!" " (GRUNTS)" "As of today..." "You are forgotten." "(BLADE SCRAPES)" "(SOBBING)" "(MEN GRUNTING)" "(HORSE NICKERS)" "Father," "I have followed your orders." "Richard is imprisoned." "You know what to do." "The journey we have undertaken leads in one single direction." "Well, take it then, right to the end." "You risk his life." "Does not a King risk his life every day?" "Show no pity." "I must be certain that he is still my son..." "Like you." " (WHOOSHES) - (HEART BEATING)" "(DRUIDESS WHISPERS) Richard." "(MALE VOICE WHISPERING)" "DRUIDESS:" "Richard." "Who are you?" "Do you know?" "(WIND BLOWING)" "(SLAPS)" "(CHAINS RATTLING)" "I am selector and you are nothing!" "You are lost." "You are forgotten." "You don't deserve names." "You don't even deserve to live." "You have rejected the very essence of what is human!" "(CURSES IN FRENCH)" " (BLOW THUDS) - (GRUNTS)" "Well well well, a volunteer." "He will do." "(WHIMPERING)" "(ALL GRUNTING)" "Arrogant, foolish and naive." "Move!" "(SCREAMS)" "RICHARD:" "Stop!" " (BONES CRACKING)" " Ah stop!" "Stop, no!" "(SCREAMING)" "That's how it begins." "(WOMAN SCREAMS)" "HENRY THE YOUNG:" "A woman," " as written in mythology..." " (SOBBING) is the inspiration of every battle that is worth fighting for." "They open the gates of hell..." "To predatory beasts:" "Lost souls who are not allowed to speak their names, godless and hopeless." " (SOBBING CONTINUES)" " But as in the epic tales, the hero comes between the tragic and the tragedy." "No no no." "(GROWLS)" "(LAUGHING)" "(GRUNTS)" "(SWORD CLANGS)" " (ROARS) - (SCREAMING)" " (SWORD ZINGS) - (YELLS)" "(SNARLS)" "(GROWLS)" "(YELLING)" "Sword!" "Sword!" "DRUIDESS:" "I have waited a thousand years for someone with Royal blood to be imprisoned." "There is only one way for you to be free from this place." "You must pass" " three torments..." " (SCREAMING)" "Three tests." "Give peace to all who have suffered, avenge my death, break my curse." "Destroy this prison and free yourself." "Defeat the three torments." " Richard." " (GASPS, PANTING)" "Eat." "You need it." "Por favor." "Please." "What's the point?" "To be strong." " No!" " You need to get me out of here." " No no!" " I am of Royal blood!" "Come back here!" "Come back here!" "WOMAN:" "No." "(KEYS JANGLE)" "(RICHARD LAUGHS, GRUNTS)" "(GASPING)" "What happened?" "Stay still or your wounds will open." "(MOANING)" "It will heal you." "I don't need your vile potions, moor." "Moor?" "Yeah, moor!" "Look in my face!" "I'm from the great kingdom of Spain." "(SNORTS)" "We fought the moor for centuries." "Idiota." "First of all," "I'm no idiot." "Secondly, you still seems to me" " indeed like a moor." " (SCOFFS)" "Then you also know that if you trust the medicinal cures of your people, that that there would fester in a day." "And by the second day, would have become infected." "By the third..." "Well, it would poison you." "Mercy." "(HISSES)" "A wise choice, King's boy." "King's boy?" "I am Richard!" "You are nothing more than a renegade." "When you passed those gates, you lost your name." "You can never pronounce it again..." "Or death will be your punishment." "It pleases you to see me so." "But if I had the strength," "I will rip out your heart." " Rip out my heart?" " Yeah." "I've heard that one before." " Oh." " Drink." "When I recover, you will die." "(SLURPS, COUGHS)" "It's disgusting!" "Drink it." " You need it." " (SIGHS)" "(WHISPERS) Yeah." "(EXHALES)" "Good." "(MOANS)" "What's..." "Happening to me?" "(MOANS) Damn... damn moor!" "You damn..." " you... (SNORES)" " It's the black water of dreams." "You can thank my woman for it later." " Rest." " (MOANS)" "Rest and you will heal." "Tired..." "Tired..." "(WOMAN PANTING)" "How alike we are..." "Both trying to repair broken things..." "Both disposed even to suffer..." "For those who don't deserve our dedication." " (WHIMPERING)" " But can a broken flower bloom again?" "(GAGGING, COUGHS)" "Must I show mercy?" "(GASPING)" "It is a hard and narrow road we walk, isn't it?" "(SOBBING)" "Until you can fill that hole you call your mouth, it would be difficult to rip out my heart." "I am a knight, just like you." "You are not here by choice, but that doesn't concern me." "But if you try to stand in my way," "I will kill you." "I am of Royal blood!" "By birthright, maybe." "Yes, you have blue blood running in your veins." "So what?" " The soul is something else." " (GRUMBLES)" " And you are here to earn it." " I don't have to earn anything." "Then yours will be a very short journey indeed." "Your... your poison has worked well." "Eat everything, it's our turn tomorrow." "For what?" "For your brief journey." "Prince!" "I must talk with you about your brother." "Don't move one inch closer to me." "Your visit disgusts me more than your obscene ways, more than this accursed place." "It was not my desire that a member of the Royal blood should end up in your grubby claws." "Of course not." "It was the King's desire." "And so here he is, in my grubby claws." "So what about my brother?" "I fear he will never give in." "And this causes, among the forgotten, unrest." "Richard is of Royal blood, of course he will never give in." "It's only our father who hasn't yet grasped the truth." "You'd better pray that my father doesn't suddenly change his mind and charge in here to destroy this abominable place..." "Even with my dead body inside." "As you wish..." "Prince." "(FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING)" "And as you know," "I follow the King's orders!" "(STONES CLATTERING)" "Oh!" "What are you doing?" "I am practicing the audaces, as any warrior worthy of the name." "Oh." "It's child's play." "No use whatsoever." "My father taught it to me." "But in real combat," "♪ such stylized blows serve... ♪ ♪ nothing. ♪" "That's because you've never done it correctly, son of a King." "How dare you talk to me so, moor?" "I am... you are nothing more than a forgotten, and a pathetic one at that." "(CHAIN RATTLING)" "Where are they taking us?" "I guess we're gonna find it out." "Silence, you two!" "(WHISPERING VOICE)" "(MEN GRUNTING, MOANING)" "(WHIMPERING)" " FORGOTTEN:" "No!" "(SCREAMING) - (WEAPON SLICING)" "No!" "(GRUNTING)" "(SCREAMS) A demon!" " A demon!" "(SCREAMS) - (WEAPON SLICES)" "(MOANING)" "(CRUNCHING)" "(GROWLS)" "(SIZZLES)" "(CHAIN RATTLES)" "Yah!" "(SPLASHING)" "(WHISPERING VOICE)" " (CHAIN RATTLING) - (GROWLING)" "(DISTORTION)" " (WHISPERS) Save yourself." " (GRUNTS)" "(DEMON MOANS)" " (SIZZLING)" " Yah!" " (DEMON HISSES) - (SIZZLING CONTINUES)" "(CHEERING)" "(FORGOTTEN GRUNTING)" "(YELLING)" "(CLANGS)" "(MALE VOICE WHISPERING)" "(DIRT CLATTERING)" "(RUMBLING)" "(GROANING)" "You have fought well." "Maybe you're not such a fool." "I..." "I had a nightmare." "There was this man..." " Uh, with sores and..." " Yeah." "It wasn't a nightmare." "You have passed your first torment." "You faced your first challenge." "Because there are more?" "You shouldn't be afraid." "There are only three." "But only by passing all of them..." "Can you take your rightful place in this world and free yourself from this place." "How many have succeeded?" "How many?" "As far as I know..." "No one." "Oh." "(LAUGHS)" "But the next is..." ""gutta cavat lapidem."" ""The drop that erodes the Stone."" "How did you know?" "A warning, which I ignored." "That woman, who was she?" "That is ghaliya." "She is why I am here." "I abandoned everything to give her her freedom." " So she's your woman?" " Uh, no." "She's my promised bride." "She was captured in a cowardly attack on our village." "And you came to a place from which there is no escape for her?" "For her." "For her I crossed the endless plains." "I faced pirates on the mediterranean sea aboard my ship, lost all my friends, all my companions-in-arms." "And I would do it again." "I would do it again." "We need to be ready." "(COINS CLANK)" "Speak." "All is in motion, my Prince." "Your highness' younger brother is safe and your mother has sent the messengers." "And the nobles I have asked you to contact?" "They have received the message and accepted." "They will arrive, but not before three weeks have passed." "Will he make it?" "He must." "Take this." "It is for to our father." "And when he receives it, nothing will be as it was before." "I will give you the signal." "Inform me when the heralds will arrive." "I will." " (CREAKS)" " KING HENRY: ..." "And then bring me news of my emissaries on the Brittany coast." "They should arrive today, but I have a bad feeling." "I don't trust King Louis." "He is up to something." "And if I know my wife well enough, ensconced in her damned aquitaine, the two of them will already be plotting my demise." "Sir, stop scribbling!" "What I've said is not official." "He has passed the first torment." "Hmm." "Well, what he has faced until now is nothing." "Gutta cavat lapidem." "The drop that cuts the Stone." "Well, I hope the drop within him digs as deep as possible." "All right, go now, bring news of my men." "And send a message to Henry immediately." "Richard must bend to our will..." "The only way for him to get out of that accursed castle." "We must forge him..." "Or we must kill him." "(SIGHS)" "Gutta cavat lapidem." " (GUARD GRUNTS) - (MOANING)" "(GRUNTING, MOANING)" "SELECTOR:" "Small blooming flower, today you may leave your cares to others." "BASILEUS:" "The animals of the audaces have the perfect characteristics." "They must be swift and poisonous as a serpent!" "(GRUNTS)" "You have a gift for saving lives, for redeeming them." "It is so pure!" "But what about you?" "BASILEUS:" "Silent and ferocious" " as a tiger!" " (WHOOSHES)" "No orders today." "A pact, perhaps." "Strong and upright as an elephant." "Your love is here, isn't he?" "He came here to save you, didn't he?" "As perceptive as a falcon, his senses are more acute than any other living creature." "(GRUNTS)" "True love is a rare and precious thing, especially when it survives among such walls as these." "No." "I would give you my blessing." "I bet he's your favorite." "I belong to the air." "I want you both to be free." "Yes, it's true!" "But there's a small price to pay." " What?" " The companion of your love must not survive the second torment." "Make it happen, convince him to find a solution and you will both be free." "You forgot the last one." "Ah yes." "Is that all clear?" "Above them all there is one animal that possesses all the characteristics:" "Strength, speed, ferocity and most importantly intelligence." "That is why he is known as the King." "Love cannot fail." "(WATER DRIPPING)" "Do you hear that?" "(HOLLOW THUMPS)" "It's empty beneath these boards." "Here, give me a hand." " (WATER DRIPS)" " Maybe... maybe out of this castle." "Maybe I don't want to escape." "Ha!" "I think we should keep our options open." " Maybe." " Huh." " (GRUNTING) - (GRATE SCRAPING)" "It goes a long way down." "I'm gonna see where it leads." "Hurry, someone is coming!" "(WOMAN VOCALIZING)" "(SPLASHING)" "(VOCALIZING CONTINUES)" "(MUSIC FADES)" "(SPEAKING SPANISH)" "(SPEAKING SPANISH)" "Ghaliya." "(GASPS)" "(SWORD CLATTERS)" "(WHOOSHES)" "(CHAIN JINGLES)" "Ah." "Look what I've found." "(CLANKS)" "Gutta cavat lapidem." "We have our drop." "(EXHALES)" "No!" "No no." " (BIRDS CHIRPING) - (GRUNTING)" "(FORGOTTEN MOANING)" "(WHIP CRACKS)" " We had an agreement." " (GASPS)" "Do not disappoint me." "(GROANING)" "FORGOTTEN:" "Help help!" "Take my hand!" " GUARDS:" "No no!" " Come on." " Take my hand!" " No!" "(STRAINING)" "(BOTH SCREAMING)" "No!" "(ROARING)" "(STONE SCRAPING)" "Your majesty, I beg your pardon," "BUT YOU WERE RIGHT:" "A terrible threat is looming." "Three days ago the count of Chester mobilized his troops to invade Brittany." "It seems as though he has the support of King Louis, who is besieging verneuil." "It was inevitable." "Most of the breton nobles are behind count Chester." "This means that sooner or later..." "They will control the ports and prepare to invade our English shores." "Hmm." "I managed to unite my son John in matrimony to the count of savoy's daughter." "In doing so..." "I relinquished control of the alpine Mountain passes and the right to succession of those very lands." "In France, at King Louis' court..." "John..." "Hurls insults against me... his father!" "If only Richard were ready now." "His temperament would be of the utmost use to me." "Considering his ascendancy over your wife." "Rarely does a conquered land stay in the Victors' hands for very long." "Blood, however, remains." "It carries on through the centuries..." "In our chronicles and in our lives." "That is why we are here..." "for our blood." "The same blood that is now turning against us." "When you are a King you must father enough sons to secure your succession." "At the same time you must pray that your sons die so as not to put you in too much danger." "A crown can only be carried by one head at a time." "(CHUCKLES) This is why this rebellion pleases me." ""Pleases," your majesty?" "What more of a fitting test can it be for a King to go in a battle against his own lineage?" "!" "(CHUCKLES)" "(DRUM MUSIC PLAYING)" "(WOMAN VOCALIZING)" "(GATE CREAKS)" "(WIND BLOWING)" " (CLANGS)" " Stop!" "This is not the test." "(THUDDING)" " (CRACKING) - (THUDDING)" "(THUDS)" "Get him in the middle of the arena." "(THUDDING FOOTSTEPS)" "(GRUNTING)" "(RUMBLING)" "(RUMBLING CONTINUES)" "(WOMAN VOCALIZING)" "(LAUGHING)" "When I saw him falling, I thought," ""that beast will crush the head of that presumptuous moor."" "Oh, but what about me underneath?" " Mmm." " I saw a Mountain fall upon me." "I just closed my eyes and I prayed." "Well, your gods listened and your animals protected you." "I swear, not even the pain I feel right now can wipe away the smile from my face." "Today was a good day." "Where's ghaliya?" "(GHALIYA SCREAMS)" "Forgive me." "(GASPS, SOBS)" "(CHOKING)" " (KEYS RATTLE)" " RICHARD:" "What are you doing?" "We've got to go." "(GRUNTS)" "Ghaliya!" "Ghaliya!" "(METAL CLANGS)" "Hey!" "We need to get out of here!" "Come on!" "(SWORDS CLANGING)" " (RICHARD SHOUTS) - (WOMAN VOCALIZING)" "Come on!" "Hey, where are we going?" "Towards the tower." "(GROWLS)" "Basileus!" "Wait!" "(YELLS)" "Basileus!" "This is the first time you see it like this, is it?" "What do you mean?" "The world." "Your world." "Far different from the pain and suffering that man creates." "See..." "My time has come, my friend." "But it's not the end." "She's waiting for me." "And I can't let her wait too long." "Follow your destiny;" "Reveal your true nature." "Your journey in this land is only just begun." "(RUMBLING)" "(KICKS THUDDING)" "This must finish." "Things... things have gone too far." "No man should suffer in this way." "This fight that our father has commanded..." "It was the King that ordered me to put you here." "Things... things have changed." "The rebellion against our father is imminent." "One word from you and all this..." "Will end." "Our destiny is beyond this place." "Just one word." "Leave this place;" "Lead the fight against our father." "Don't..." "Waste your life..." "In this way." "The heralds will arrive at sunset." "Good." "The time has come." "Then Richard is safe?" "Not yet." "But I can do no more." "His destiny is in his own hands." "BASILEUS:" "Above them all there is one animal that possesses all the characteristics:" "Strength, speed, ferocity and most importantly intelligence." "That is why he is known as the King." "(FIRE CRACKLES)" "For millennia" " he has waited for the coming of the lion. - (BLADE ZINGS)" "It could have been you, but no amount of pain, no suffering could redeem this spoiled child, this King's baby." "You are no lion and you and your name die here!" "(SWORDS RINGING)" "(GRUNTS)" " (KICKS) - (GROANING)" "(COUGHS)" " (BLOW THUDS) - (GRUNTS)" " (BLOW THUDS) - (GROANS)" "Hyah!" "(GRUNTING)" "So..." "After all these years, a wasteful Prince fulfills the prophecy." "I did not foresee this, but I am still nevertheless the hammer and the anvil of your forging." "I salute you, you are..." " RICHARD:" "Richard!" " (GURGLES)" "(GRUNTS)" "The lionheart." "(MOANING)" "(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)" "(WOMAN VOCALIZING)" "(CLAMORING)" "(CHAIN RATTLES)" "(GATE CREAKS)" "(COUGHING)" "Is it true?" "Is there is a rebellion against our father?" "Yes." "Our mother awaits us in chatillon." "(RUMBLING)" "We can fight together this time." "(WIND BLOWING)" "(THUNDER RUMBLING)" "Prepare my horse." "We're leaving." "For where, your majesty?" "For war." "(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)"