"The Witcher" "Scenario:" "Micha³ Szczerbiec based on short stories by Andrzej Sapkowski" "Starring:" "Micha³ ¯ebrowski" "What will you have?" "Beer." "I need a room for a night." "Do you have money?" "We don't know this kind here." "I have some kauri shells and gold sand, too." "Show me, what do you have there, you tramp!" "Mine, isn't it?" "You've stolen it from me at the table!" "I am a witcher, go away." "Give it back!" "Drop it, you will come with us!" "Get people, Treska!" "There is no need, I will go." "You will go, on the rope!" "Drop your weapon!" "We will go to the castle together." "But you'll go ahead of me." "Episode 8 The Crossroads" "Three men killed." "An attempt to hex." "Here, in Wyzima, we hang for this." "What will you say?" "It was defence." "We are allowed to defend ourselves." "You put it at crossroads." "Is it true, what is written here?" "Aaa." "Such a case." "Witcher's mark have you?" "You know, witcher?" "Give it up." "It is a serious case." "There have been many who tried already, few lived.." "That's my job, comes, that's what I do for living." "This is written here: 3000 orens price." "You insist..." "What do you want to know?" "The more, the better." "Every detail can be important." "Well, yes." "14 years ago, after the death of our old king, in Temeria the rule of his son started" "The current king, Foltest" "He was not an easy young man and even now he has some strange ideas." "As it is in the lines without fresh blood." "Foltest had a sister, Adda." "She died when giving birth, together with a child." "She was buried in a tomb in the castle." "After 7 years the child grown and a strzyga came out of the tomb." "Very bad strzyga." "Very blood-thirsty." "Pity that you didn't see what left of her victims." "I see, the princess is a strzyga." "Did anyone see her after birth?" "Yes." "Better don't ask." "And a father, who was he?" "Don't you know?" "Foltest" "What's the problem, Comes?" "It would be enough to have some good archers and several men with axes." "Good point." "Unfortunately, there was one clown." "A twisted eremite." "With a big hat on his bold head." "And he invented that the curse can be broken." "He said that it enough to go to the tomb for a night and wait there." "And imagine, this halfwit went underground." "There wasn't much left." "A hat and a stick, I think." "Since then Foltest has forbidden any attempts to kill the strzyga." "He moved to a new castle." "And so it lasts, 7 years now." "Was here any witcher before?" "There were a few, sure." "Usually, when they heard that a strzyga has to be freed from the spell they shrugged and left." "One tried." "He was very young." "We found his remainings even after the gate." "All of them?" "There was another one." "You see, this story discredits all of us." "Paralyzes the country." "Derides us." "There is rumor that several important and wise people made a deal with a witcher." "They promised him a substantial amount of money for killing the princess and that they will defend him before the king." "It's normal thing, an accident during work." "But it didn't work." "He went there." "He saw the strzyga, it is said." "The same night he left, without saying goodbye." "Are these wise people still in Wyzima?" "I think so." "I want to see the castle and the tomb." "Will you show me?" "Hell sent you!" "The full moon is near." "Still three days left." "What do you want?" "Strzygas often come out before the full moon, I count on that." "I want to frighten her." "You are mad." "Don't worry, she should not attack tonight." "Is it here?" "Yes." "That's the entrance to the tomb." "She is not in the tomb." "She hides somewhere here." "Be honest." "Could you kill her tonight?" "Kill?" "Yes." "And... break the curse?" "No." "On the full moon, if it is possible at all." "It is said that it is possible." "I don't know the nature of this magic." "I don't know who and why cursed her" "Why did you go there?" "To check if the curse can be broken and if so, what will be after that." "Because after that she could be a strzyga in human shape, what would be even worse." "She made it." "So it is possible?" "Yes." "But she must be frighten." "The fear of a child will help to beat the fury of a monster." "Don't ask why, I won't explain." "Can I... keep?" "I will need it." "Do it, witcher, and the price is yours." "I can even add some more." "But my daughter has to be safe." "I won't let her death pass." "Doesn't it seem strange to you, my lords, that for 7 years nothing could be done." "Until tonight, when a passing witcher entered the castle, screamed at my daughter, took her doll and came out." "Doesn't it make you wonder?" "Or maybe there is somebody who would have it as it is?" "So, what do you want to know?" "Ask!" "What exactly did the eremite say?" "It is enough to spend a night, from the sunset to the third bird's scream." "In the tomb or by the tomb." "In the tomb, next to Adda'a body." "Hell, hide this puppet." "Tell me, don't you fear?" "I have to control the fear." "That somebody has to fear me more that I fear him." "Was there anybody who survived her attack?" "A peasant." "She got him by the well." "He knows nothing." "How was it?" "Didn't you see anything?" "No!" "She got me from behind." "And I - hop!" "To the well." "Show me!" "Don't rise." "When are you going?" "Tonight." "Tell me..." "If it works..." "What will she be like?" "A fourteen-year-old." "But..." "But what?" "Physically." "Because mentally, I suspect she will be like a three-year old child." "Master." "I am sure you have been talked to." "Right?" "To kill the strzyga and tell the king there was no choice." "The king won't pay, we will." "It is a trick." "A convenient and cheap trick." "Because nobody will stand in witcher's defense, quite the opposite." "Don't count on it, Geralt." "They will cheat you." "I intend to do what is in my power." "But if it goes wrong" "I will defend my life." "That's clear." "But your sword is too fast to come out the sheath." "As it was in the inn." "No, my lord." "They had a choice, their own evil killed them." "Your daughter never had a choice." "She was hurt." "That's why she deserves help." "You seem trustworthy." "Tell me..." "Does she suffer?" "If you decide... it is a helpless case..." "You will kill her." "If you break the curse and the girl... will not be normal..." "I believe you." "That's you!" "One thousand orens." "Take it and leave now." "On king's order." "I don't want you killing her." "Now you are wealthy, without any risk." "Go away!" "I've taken the job and I will do it." "I have nothing to do with your plots." "What are you talking about?" "Take it and go." "I know you want to remove king Foltest" "It will come easier if the princess is still hunting people." "And I've promised." "You go, it is getting dark." "I have a turtle stone." "I will kill you, you wizard." "Your tricks won't do you any good!" "You tramp!" "You'll leave me here for death!" "No." "I will let you go, but not now." "To draw the strzyga off!" "Yes." "That's true I've wanted to destroy Foltest." "I've wanted him dead more that anybody in the world." "I loved Adda." "And then she turned away from me I mated with her own brother." "I begged her, I asked her but she didn't want me any more." "Then, one time, I was blinded by the anger." "I screamed into her face what will happen to her, what I wish for her." "Was it me?" "Take back the curse." "Never." "Let these bastrads suffer for my hurt." "Stay down." "Don't move." "Where are my swords?" "They are here, they are." "And 5000 orens." "A treasure." "What is it with me?" "You have four deep injuries and few blood." "And the princess?" "She weeps all the time." "Stupid or something." "But king Foltest is happy." "I don't feel it." "I can't use my hand." "The medic was afraid of that." "You have something torn inside." "We cannot heal it here." "But a few days from here there is a temple of the goddess Melitele." "They can make miracles!" "Foltest has already sent a message to a healer, priestess Nenneke." "Sleep now." "Don't fear me." "I won't hurt you." "Welcome to the temple of Melitele." "I come from Wyzima, from king Foltest's court." "I am Geralt of Rivvia, a witcher." "So, that's you." "I was expecting you." "And the boy?" "He's a orphan." "I've found him on the road." "You will take him to Kaer Morhen, won't you?" "I'm not sure." "You could take him, my lady." "What is your name?" "He does not speak, he saw to much." "I buried his parents." "I thought you are expected to kidnap children." "Especially boys." "To kidnap?" "No." "I have much to do, I cannot take care of him." "Make yourself comfortable." "I will take care of you in the evening." "The nerves are damaged." "Some magic, a lot of herbs, massages and a long rest." "Show me your eyes." "Can you widen the pupils?" "Oh, brother, you have to stop this run." "Too many fights, too many elixirs and injuries." "You won't do much with this hand for now." "I can do the same with the left one." "Fan away the flies with it." "Lie down." "You can head what I say and stay here for a while or go to finish yourself." "Your choice, your will." "If you understand what I am talking about..." "I suppose you don't." "You were taught only to kill." "Well, get ready." "I don't kill like that." "Almost never." "But I was going far, because I could not, I did not want." "But there is the Code." "Destiny." "What should I do?" "Mum..." "All right." "I will stay here" "All right, mum..." "Forgive me." "I should not be so hard on you." "Don't go away, don't go." "You've been away so long." "Do you speak already?" "I'm going to fish tomorrow." "Take me." "It's healing nicely." "How is your hand?" "No change." "It will last." "How long?" "I have to go to Cintra." "A month or two." "In Cintra there is a big mourning now, after the death of the royal couple." "What happened?" "It's about a year now since Duny and Pavetta went to Scellige." "There was a storm and the ship sunk." "Does Calanthe live?" "She lives, alone." "Her second husband died soon after the wedding." "An unlucky woman." "Duny and Pavetta had children." "Only one child." "But why are you interested in the court of Cintra?" "Do you know Calanthe?" "Yes." "I was going south for four months then I went over a big sea and there was a land there." "People are tan and black there, completely different." "How?" "They live closer to the nature." "They don't know property in our meaning, they have different gods." "Strange thing, there are not such monsters as here." "I wonder if the monsters are not connected to us." "In other words if a local man has not created monsters in his own image." "Yes." "In Wyzima I fought a strzyga, the king's daughter." "I was able to feel her hate, absorb the blind lust for murder and I was a real monster." "You've reached the edge." "Further there is only nothingness." "Blind lust, pure hate." "Many people are like that." "They want more and more power, money, even human souls." "To get it, they turned to magic, sorcery." "They reforge the energy of this land." "They've created the ideas of destiny, necessity, higher goals, good and bad wars, codes, madness." "Father Vesemir used to say that." "Because it is like that." "This land is not ours." "We are strangers here." "Instead of loving her, we rape her." "We behave as invaders." "Vesemir was right." "But he talked about the order and harmony of this world, too." "About coexistence of the world and humans." "Yes.There is always a choice to make." "A farmer, who ploughs, disturbs the order of the nature, but he can still coexist with her." "He has a choice." "He can do it wisely." "I have many doubts." "I haven't met anyone, my lady..." "Call me Mother." "It's the way of the temple." "You've already called me that." "But it was not meant for me." "Do you remember your mother?" "No." "Geralt." "We have been given a choice." "Why do I have to have more and more, that's one side." "And the other one:" "less and less." "Equally good." "And better." "Share what you have." "And when you have nothing left, the true wealth appears." "And you can share it without end." "It will never lessen." "And what is it?" "Love." "True love, not only for humans." "Enough of these weeds." "One moment." "One thing more." "And do we have a choice?" "We, the witchers?" "We have defended people for hundred years in the name of the good, because it was what destiny has demanded." "You were told so." "There is no such destiny, it's a lie." "It's a way to not think, to let you depend on the fate." "To justify the evil, the crime." "Those that were and those that will be." "To give you no choice." "Then you are an obedient tool and you are excused." "The circle is closed." "Do you understand?" "No." "Are you leaving?" "Take me with you." "I am a witcher." "I will help you." "Do you know, what is witchers' job?" "No." "They go around the world and fight monsters, sometimes people." "They often die." "Together it would be easier." "I would like it, but I cannot." "One has to be responsible for those close to him." "What would happen to you if I was killed?" "Do you feel bad here?" "Well." "We have to come back." "You are brave, thank you." "I have something to ask you for." "I'd like to give my last earning for the temple." "I don't need money, I never have." "And this boy..." "I like him very much." "I would like to ask you, Mother..." "I will take care of him, give him education." "Don't worry." "I'm leaving tomorrow." "To Cintra." "To fulfill The Law of Surprise." "So it's the destiny after all." "You've understood so little." "I've understood, I have." "I want to check it." "I have to see this child's face." "You've taught me to choose," "I want to choose." "Greetings, brother!" "I'm Hiradan." "A special unit of Kaer Morhen." "Greetings, I'm Geralt of Rivvia." "Who are you hunting?" "You." "Get off the horse and obey the will of the High Council." "And what is a will of the Council?" "I am to take your swords and the talisman." "If you resist, I am to kill you." "Aha." "That's all." "Don't you by any chance know, why?" "We've got reliable information from count Falvik of Moen and the Elder Herbolth that in the city of Aedd Gynvael you killed the ex-witcher" "Dermont Maranga and several men from City Guard." "Were you there, did you check it?" "As I said..." "No." "First check it, then we will meet." "Follow the rules of Kaer Morhen." "Our Code is older than the Council." "What have you to say?" "That I've never broken the witcher code." "I killed Maranga, a renegade, because he killed people for Herbolth's money." "He was a murderer for hire." "And Falvik, another renegade, organized mass killings." "I was a special unit there, since every witcher has an obligation to kill renegades." "Have you not been taught it?" "Give up the sword." "Falvik used to be called Gwidon, he was an elder in out gathering." "Then he was banished from Kaer Morhen for infamous deeds, don't you know that?" "Go to Aedd Gynvael." "The wizard Istredd was a witness, find some proofs." "You can't be such a fool." "I want to try you." "Some say you are invincible." "Pity." "Fools are sometimes worse than renegades." "Get ready." "Fight!" "I don't have who." "Do you know already?" "You've tried?" "Yes." "Will you go to Aedd Gynvael?" "The wizard Istredd." "Be careful, brother." "Your blood is too hot." "Which if them is Calanthe's grandchild?" "Surrender, surrender" "I cannot talk about it." "Be careful with the queen." "Pavetta and the Hedgehog died on the sea, there was no children from her marriage with Heist." "There is only one child left, the last of the bloodline." "How will she have me?" "Badly." "She is an unhappy woman, Geralt." "Come on." "Be welcome, queen Calanthe." "So many years have passed and still you are here." "There were moments I was deluding myself that you would forget that, since the death was following you, so maybe..." "But you are here." "What do you want?" "I won't give you the child!" "You have to kill me, I won't!" "Calanthe, hear me out," "I want to explain something." "I beg you, don't take this child from me." "The only child, the heir to the throne, you cannot demand that." "It's inhuman." "Look." "Look, how my pride has been punished." "I've lost everything and Nilfgaard..." "There are boys in the moat." "Take anyone you want." "Take all of them." "Be a human for once." "None of the children playing in the moat will make a witcher." "The son of Pavetta is not there." "What?" "Don't you know that..." "Silence!" "Say no more!" "Not a word." "Hear me out." "There is no son of Pavetta in the court." "I won't take any child then." "Don't say anything, please." "Do you understand?" "Yes." "Yes." "I cannot give thanks, but if the destiny is not a myth, can it take revenge?" "I don't know." "But it is me who stands against the destiny." "Don't worry." "Now I go into the far lands, for long, maybe forever." "Farewell" "Queen Calanthe." "Think about who you are." "Draw conclusions." "Don't you understand?" "You are not a witcher." "Translated and synchronized by Eda (eda@endore.org)"