"ARAGON:" "A year younger than I was for my first." "TRISTAN:" "When can I have a stag?" "ARAGON:" "A stag?" "TRISTAN:" "Come on!" "[ARAGON SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]" "[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]" "I caught him!" "I caught him!" "TRISTAN:" "Why would they join against the Irish?" "ARAGON:" "Someone has to stand up to them." "TRISTAN:" "You?" "ARAGON:" "Me, Marke, all the tribes." " We can't resist alone." "TRISTAN:" "I could." "ARAGON:" "My little warrior." "We have to be careful." "ARAGON:" "Wilfred." "Come home without something for your lady, you'll have hell to pay." " Can I?" "MAN:" "Of course you can." "The Angles have arrived, my lord." "As well as some Celts, our fellow Jutes, and the Saxons." "Good." "Good, Marke." " We'll all be here." " Yeah." "It's a great day." " Let us hope so." " Yeah." "Thanks." "WOMAN:" "We heard the news." "Pray for a son." "TRISTAN:" "Mother." "ARAGON:" "Welcome to Tantallon." "I made this for you." "[BANGING]" "Friends." "Look at us." "The tribes of Briton." "Divided... weak, just as the Irish like us." "But if we were one land... united... we would outnumber them two to one." "We could defeat them once and for all." "That's why we're here today." "To sign this treaty of unification." "Who would be king?" "The strongest among us..." "Lord Marke." "Look, if you're happy sending all your gold to Ireland... living as slaves, by all means, do nothing." "If we were happy doing that... we would never have risked coming here." "[MEN CHATTERING]" "Friends, my wife is with child." "My heart tells me it's a boy." "I want him to grow old in a land where all of us... all the tribes:" "Pict, Celt, Angle, Jute, Saxon... are at peace." "[GRUNTS]" "This island has not known unity since the Romans left." "That is why I sign this treaty." "And why should we follow you?" "Perhaps, Wictred, because your last attempt to form an alliance... without the knowledge of half the barons in this room has failed." "[MEN LAUGHING]" "[GUARD YELLS]" "The Irish are here!" "Take all your men." "Guard the women." " You won't have enough men." " Go!" "Quickly, Tristan!" "Back this way." "Hurry." "How did they know?" "[BANGING ON DOOR]" "[SOLDIERS YELLING]" "Tristan!" "TRISTAN:" "Let me fight." "[ARAGON GRUNTS]" "[TRISTAN GASPS]" "[YELLS]" "Aah!" "Tristan." "[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]" "She's with the gods now, Isolde." "You'll see her again someday." "Will I?" "Morholt returns." "What news of the treaty?" "Good, Morholt." "Good." "BRAGNAE:" "Your mother loved you so much, Isolde." "Why did she die, Bragnae?" "Why?" "It was an ill vapor that took her." "Fever." "No." "It was her heart." "[EDYTH SOBBING]" "Your husband?" "Sister, I'm so sorry." "EDYTH:" "Executions lasted a day." "They made sport of us." "MARKE:" "A whole generation of men." "Who's this?" "MARKE:" "Tristan, son of Aragon." "We're his family now." "I have a son about your age." "Melot?" "Melot?" "Melot, this is Tristan." "What shall we do, my lord?" "Rebuild." "MARKE:" "Don't hold back." "Come on!" "BOY:" "Tristan won't fight me." "Look, he's scared." "MAN:" "One, two, three..." " Still won't fight." "KURSEVAL:" "He's got the heart of a lion." "Just needs some time." "MELOT:" "Why did you take off your helmet?" "You going to cry?" "My father died, too, but you don't see me crying." " Melot." "MELOT:" "That's right, run." "Find another trap door to hide under." "Coward." "Tristan!" "SIMON:" "Tristan." "Tristan." "We found something." "Come on, this way." " You are gonna love this." " You'll love it." "I found this trap door." "Who found a trap door?" "MELOT:" "All right, Simon." "Will you tell us how you found it?" "Look at that." "Where does this lead?" "MELOT:" "You'll see." "SIMON:" "I like that vase." "I think I'll have that." "MELOT:" "We always knew the castle was built on Roman foundations." "But we didn't think anything was left." "TRISTAN:" "Must be a burial crypt or something." "Here we are:" "Bottom of the keep." "Who else knows about this?" " Nobody." " Good." "MAN:" "These savages have rebuilt the castle in Cornwall, only now... it's made of stone." "Of Cornwall's next tribute, I want slaves." "Young ones." "Their future." "If Marke resists, have Morholt crush him." "My king." "Morholt." "I've lead your armies to victories far and near." "I've made you rich and powerful." "DONNCHADH:" "Yes, you have." "You have been most loyal." "When I return from Cornwall, I was hoping..." "What would please you?" "A wife." "It's dark in an hour." "What do you think is really out there?" "Britannia." "The old Roman lands." "A world full of evil and grief." "I want to see it." "Do you know what the future looks like, Bragnae?" "BRAGNAE:" "I see the life you were meant for." "Your father will speak with you." "Am I just a chattel to be traded at your pleasure?" "Do I have no say in my own life?" "You have a duty to your king." " You are my father." " Then obey me, daughter." "Your father has given you the news?" "And you welcome it?" "I accept it." "You know, we're more alike than you might guess." "How so?" "I, too, dabble in elixirs." "Poison." "It's from the livers of puffer fish." "Just a taste... paralyzes all the senses." "So if the blade doesn't kill..." "Rendered safe by thistle and bark." "And you know the antidote for this?" "Yohimbine." "Makes a hard man... even harder." "The only cure:" "Wild abandon." "Till our wedding day." "I'm to Cornwall, to deal with rebels." "Release them." "SOLDIER:" "Now." "[WOMEN YELLING]" "WOMAN:" "Help me." " Go find Tristan." "MAN:" "Leave her!" "Take him there." "Get a rope." "Anyone foolish enough to interfere in any way... shall suffer the same fate." "No." "No." "Take me." "No." "No!" "[MAN CHOKING] [WOMAN SCREAMING]" "BODKIN:" "If there are any more attacks... we shall put our guests to death and raze this entire land." "Take the horses." "MARKE:" "When would you strike?" " At once." " Throw everything we have at them." " They're hoping you'll do that." "On horse, they outnumber us two to one." "You'll lead the men to their deaths." "So we do nothing?" "!" "Donnchadh would like that even more." "Me to lose face in front of the other tribes." "No, we must act." "We must be decisive." "But we cannot act alone." "So have the good men of York come to fight with us?" "Hm?" "The Saxons of Wessex?" "My men don't want to follow a Pict into battle." "Let alone one leading a pack of Angles and Celts." "Then why are you here?" "I thought Tristan should let me command his men." " I make it my habit to follow no one." " Except Marke." "Marke delivered me from that palace when I was a boy." "You ran." "So you can understand when I think of kings, I think of him." "When I think of cowards..." "MARKE:" "They're one day from their boats on the old Roman road." "Now, who will ride out with Tristan to fight them?" "What is your plan, Tristan?" "Need our two fastest runners." "SOLDIER:" "There they go." "Catch them!" "No more." "Go around!" "SOLDIER 1:" "Morholt." "They're back." "Got a head." "[MEN CHEERING AND CHATTERING]" "SOLDIER 2:" "It's a trap." "Kill the slaves!" "SOLDIER 3:" "Get them!" "[HORSE NEIGHS]" "Simon." "[PRISONERS SCREAMING]" "KURSEVAL:" "Gonna get you home." "TRISTAN:" "Simon." "SIMON:" "I don't want to die." "[SIMON WHEEZES]" "Tristan." "I can't feel my legs or my hands." "Poison." "A second boat." "Tristan." "MELOT:" "He shall have a king's service." "Farewell, Tristan of Aragon." "Death to the Irish." "When the Irish came to Cornwall and my father surrendered... you spared a dozen out of a hundred." "I am even less kind." "The leader and three will take this message home." "As for the rest..." "[THUNDER CRASHES]" "Victory." "Tristan?" "Simon too." "Did I love him like a son... or did I misuse him for my own purposes?" "He knew." "He knew." "[GASPS]" " Where are we going?" " Away." "Child, speak to me!" "Your father will find us and have my head." "You are my charge." "Please!" "I am no one's charge." "You are." "And you will be Morholt's lady." "And live a loveless life like my mom." "What's that?" "Where?" "Isolde, wait." "Don't." "[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]" "Isolde, don't." "Isolde." "It's a man." "Dead?" "Alive!" "Bragnae, help me." " Help me!" "Quickly!" "BRAGNAE:" "Isolde." "Start a fire." "Quickly." "His heart falters." " What are you doing?" " He needs heat." "Now." "Get your clothes off, quickly." "Hurry." "Quickly." "Smell that?" "Smell the poison?" "When he warms, we'll need thistle and bark." "I've not been naked with a man for 15 years." "ISOLDE:" "Hello." "You've been sleeping a long time." "You're in Ireland." "Did you know that?" "Shh." "It's all right." "You're safe here." "No one knows." "Don't be scared." "Just sleep." "Sleep." "[HORSES APPROACHING]" "No, no, no!" "It's all right." "You don't need that." "I forgot to tell him about you." "I'll wait outside with the other beasts." " You said no one else knew." " Sorry." "She's my maid, sworn to silence." "Urn, lie down, please." "Please." "It's good you're remembering things." "This might sting." "Do you remember anything else?" "The boat I found you in?" "How you got this?" "Too many questions." "There, keep that dry." "Here are clothes, bread." "You have water and fire." "The ocean's outside if you wish a bath." "You won't know where you're going so please don't try to leave." "Just trust me." "Why are you doing this?" "I'll be back." "This is a dangerous game you're playing." "He's English, Isolde." "Then we've got him prisoner." "Under no circumstances tell him your name." "You hear me?" "I thought you wished to escape this place." "Do you hear me?" "BRAGNAE:" "No such thing!" " He'll need more food tomorrow." "It's none of your concern." "You've been away." "Oh, you noticed." " Yes, I have a bit." " Where?" "Bragnae and I were spying the convent at Brittas." " Seeking sanctuary?" " Some women need it." "You'll find no refuge in a new religion." "Your place is here." "With Morholt." "Any word of my betrothed?" "Overdue." "But comforted, no doubt, that you yearn for him." "What's your name?" "Oh, I think it's better we don't bother with names." "How can I thank you if I don't have your name?" "You just did." "If you insist, my name is Bragnae." "I'm a lady-in-waiting at the court." "My parents are dead." "My mother, she's the source of the kindness you find so puzzling." "My father would've left you where you fell." "Tristan of Aragon." "Well, Tristan of Aragon..." "I'd guess about you, too, but I think I've already seen everything." "Sir, I'd hope you appreciate the risks we are taking... and will honor us by leaving as soon as you are able." "She likes me." "She's right, though." "You do risk." "ISOLDE:" "There." "And what of your parents?" "They also died when I was a child." "Of what?" "A different type of Irish kindness." "Sorry." "Tomorrow, then?" "Tomorrow." "ISOLDE: "There she who bore you brought you forth."" "Set me as a seal upon your heart... as a seal upon your arm..." ""...for love is as strong as death."" "Ridiculous." "Happen to believe what that says." "Don't you think there's more to life?" "TRISTAN:" "Than what?" " Something more than duty and death." "Why are we capable of feelings if we're not to have them?" "Why long for things if they're not meant to be ours?" "Well, don't listen to me." "You're so sure of things." "Your certainty, it's- It's like armor." "I wish I had that." "Why would you need it?" "Joy of being a lady?" "Wanting something I can't have:" "A life of my own." "BRAGNAE:" "It's time." "You must leave now." "I'll follow you later." "You'll need a rest." "In case your betrothed would want to see you." "TRISTAN:" "You're promised?" "Yes." "What's he like?" "Dark." "Tall." "Nearly twice your size." "An absolute gentleman." "I thought..." "Earlier, when you spoke of wanting something you can't have..." "I didn't know what I was talking about." "Outside, just past that bluff, there is a boat." "That's how you should go when you leave." "You should go soon." "How do you feel?" "I don't know." "ISOLDE:" "Tristan!" "They found your boat." "At this very moment, the king is scouring the coast." "He'll find you." "He finds everyone." "The tide is coming." "You must go." "Come with me." "Come with me." " I can't." " Why not?" " Please." " Tristan..." "We both know this can't be." "We've known it from the start." "That doesn't mean it isn't true." "It is." "It just cannot be." "I want to know that you're alive somewhere... and thinking of me from time to time." "I want to know that there's more to this life... and I can't know that if they kill you." "Please." "Go." "A Cornish warrior may be ashore." "Be aware." "We seek him as I speak." "Hopefully, it's just his rotted corpse we'll find... for he has slain your betrothed." "Morholt is dead, fallen in battle." "Isolde." "Bragnae, catch and comfort her." " She is stunned." " As am I by her grief." "We should assault the British straight away." "Crush them with maximum force." "Maximum force?" "The one butchered by Marke's tribes, would that be the force you speak of?" "We'll not confront them again until our numbers are refreshed." "And until then... we'll have cunning divide them." "What nature?" "A prize perhaps." "MELOT:" "What's this about a tournament?" "Donnchadh." "He's offered his daughter and the Lands of Leonith... as dowry to whichever English tribe wins." "It's a clever way of setting us against each other." "Well, the other barons will see through that." "As baron of Wessex... it's my duty to fight in this tournament for my people." "For yourself, you mean." "And what of the support you promised Tristan?" "Tristan's dead." "My people have suffered enough." "They see the wealth of Leonois on offer." "That seems more real than any alliance." "My mind is set." "And ours as well." "So be it." "You're weary." "Let me rally our friends." "I'll lead" "Melot, Melot, Melot, Melot." "You're my blood." "And you're a noble presence but..." "[MAN YELLING INDISTINCTLY]" "MAN:" "He's back!" "WOMAN:" "He's alive!" "MAN 1:" "Lord Marke, Lord Marke!" "It's Tristan!" "LEON:" "Can't be." "I saw you dead." "I am delivered." "MARKE:" "How?" "How?" "[MUSIC PLAYING]" "MAN 1:" "Please, Tristan." "Tell us more." "MAN 2:" "Tell us." "MAN 3:" "Tristan, there must be a story." "A toast." "Tristan." " Back from the dead." "MAN 4:" "Back from the dead." "KURSEVAL:" "Tristan, the Irish king offers his daughter... in tournament and divides all our tribes." "For the power or the wealth, half the barons have champions fighting for them." "Tristan." "God knows what happened to him." "ISOLDE [IN VOICEOVER]:" "My face in thine eyes." "Thine in mine appears." "And true plain hearts Do in the faces rest." "Whatever dies Was not mixed equally." "If our two loves be one Or thou and I." "Love so alike That none can slacken." "None can die." "MARKE:" "What?" "TRISTAN:" "It's the only way to keep the alliance alive." "I fail to see how fighting with our partners keeps us allies." "Well, they're all going to the tournament anyway." "By announcing you'll share the dowry with every baron who remains loyal... while, in turn, offering support to whomever prevails... the others will be compelled to follow you when you win." "If we win." "If we lose, we could end up following Wictred." "I'd need an infallible champion." "Me." "[MARKE CHUCKLES]" "You're not yet healed." "Well, this trip will be my tonic." "I'll be ready." "You know I will." "Who's the source of this fervor?" "Let me go and win you a wife." "She can make peace without spilling one drop of blood." "Maybe heal a wound from which you still ache." "Truce." "You have safe passage." "MAN:" "You all go over there." "TRISTAN:" "How do I look?" "How do you look?" "Where's this princess?" "What's her name?" "Isolde?" "I want to see what she looks like." "There." "Almost done." "No, not quite." "If I'm a present, I should be fully wrapped." " Name?" "MAN 1:" "Lebourne of Bracht." "MAN 2:" "Don't believe you." "MAN 3:" "It's true." "OFFICIAL:" "Name?" "See how the bees come to the honey." " Name?" " Tristan of Aragon." "So he lives." " For the moment." " Name?" "OFFICIAL:" "Name?" " Wictred of Glastonbury." "I fight with no champion in my stead." "Know that." "Why Wictred?" "DONNCHADH:" "Because the barons will never unite behind him." "[HORN BLARES]" "[CROWD APPLAUDING AND CHEERING]" "Do you think she's got the pox?" "Since the dawn of time..." "[CRIER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]" "Warriors, begin!" "He's got him there." " Make it look real." " Like what?" "I yield!" "Real enough, I hope." "Water?" "You look great." "[CHEERING]" "Hey, you can't do that." "Allow it." "CRIER:" "Hanwald yields to Tristan of Aragon." "Anwick of Wessex will fight Kensington." "KURSEVAL:" "That was too easy for you." "LEON:" "Good, Tristan." "Good." "So much for a fair draw." "KURSEVAL:" "Be sure." "Choose the right time." "Wear him down first." "Yeah!" "[CRIER YELLING INDISTINCTLY]" "CRIER:" "Kensington yields to Anwick of Wessex." "Lord Wictred of Glastonbury will fight Sir Hall." "Lord Wictred of Glastonbury will fight Pollock." " Tristan of Aragon..." " Mace." "From the house of Cornwall will fight Hanwald." "Hanwald yields to Tristan of Aragon." "MELOT:" "Well done." "You have this." "LEON:" "It's as well as yours." "You have one more fight." "Take deep breaths." "One more and you win." "[CROWD CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]" "CRIER:" "Wictred..." "Lord of Glastonbury." "Tristan, champion of D'Or and Cornwall." "Warriors, begin!" "CROWD:" "Tristan!" "Tristan!" "Tristan!" "[YELLING]" "Aye, Tristan." "[TRISTAN GRUNTS]" "Aah!" "[BOTH PANTING]" "Yield." "Yield!" "You did it!" "An impressive victory." "Of course, the man who defeats Morholt... might be expected to triumph here." "On behalf of Cornwall..." "I offer your daughter a place on our throne." "The throne of England... united behind one leader." "Isolde." "Perhaps it is just that he who took a husband provides one." "I'm yours." "DONNCHADH:" "No." "Tristan of Aragon has won you... on behalf of Lord Marke of Cornwall." "Let's go." "BRAGNAE:" "Isolde, come." "MELOT:" "You've done it." "Huh?" "Let them take her across the sea." "DONNCHADH:" "After the wedding, I'll disavow Isolde." "This alliance will crumble." "Tristan... the princess wants to speak to you." "You risked your life to give me to another man." "You said your name was Bragnae." "Why did you do that?" "Oh, what have I done?" "You can stop this thing." "Say something." "I can't." " I won you in my king's name." " But I'm yours." " You touched me and I knew" " It doesn't matter." "It's the only thing that matters." "Leave with me, I'll go anywhere." "Your marriage will end 100 years of bloodshed." "My marriage to another man." "Isolde, we will live with this." "We must." "Don't do this to me." "Tristan, we've made shore." "What if she's a hag?" "Or she simply won't have me?" "She will, brother." "You're the prize." "My lord." "Isolde." "Welcome." "[CROWD APPLAUDING]" "[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]" "[MUSIC PLAYING]" "LEON:" "Couldn't be happier." "If things were different... if we lived in a place without duty, would you be with me?" "That place does not exist." "I'll pretend it's you then." "MARKE:" "You're trembling." "You're far from home." "I'm a stranger still and I understand." "But you mustn't fear me." "Hm?" "My only wish is to make you happy." "As a wife." "As a woman." "And hopefully, one day, the fact that I'm not whole... will not offend you." "That's pretty." "Did you make it?" "It was a present." "Tristan." "Might I stay here a while?" "Of course." "[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]" "[ISOLDE LAUGHS]" "EDYTH:" "Tristan." "I've never seen him like this before." "Perhaps someone his own age should speak with him." "Perhaps." "Marke and Edyth say you're distant." "They're worried about you." " So am I." " I can tell." "Laughing at the market." "Holding hands." "A caress on the neck when he pours your wine." "He's my husband." "I remember whose kingdom I'm in and why." "Well, I must confess..." "I thought you might have the tiniest difficulties performing your duty." "Am I not permitted a single moment without mourning?" "I'm living with this, Tristan, as you said we must." "I live in torture thinking of these moments." "Every look he gives you, I get sicker and sicker." "There's a burning in me, I feel on fire... and there's guilt and I can't get rid of either." "Does it make you happy to know that?" "The Roman bridge." "I can get to it without being seen." "And I would go there anytime to be with you." "MARKE:" "Welcome barons of Anglia, Rothgarand Orick." "Wessex, Kaye and Wictred." "As you will be king, and his daughter queen... does that mean Donnchadh will be coming to the coronation?" "It does." "On the next full moon." "All will attend." "A lot can happen in a month." "Bearing that in mind, and given the instabilities... of our new land... shall be naming a second." "My sister has raised one, capable of guiding you should the need arise." "He's a man of passion... fierce in battle... who has learnt to tame his heart with his head." "I give you Tristan of Aragon." "For the first time since the Romans, this country stands united." "I can't be your second." "Melot must be." "He's blood." "Besides, I wish to journey north." "You no longer sleep at D'Or, and now you don't want to be my second." "Do you find no comfort in your home?" "These stone walls that you helped build?" " I find these walls a prison." " Why?" "Everything I wanted seems meaningless." "Ever since you were a boy, you've sacrificed everything for me." "All for one dream." "Now you've reached that dream, it's natural that you'll feel some loss." "It doesn't matter if you want to be second." "You are." "I will only be king if you are my second." "I'd put it more gently if I could." "Then I am your second." " Perhaps it's time you took a wife." " No." " You can't live alone forever." " I can." "Isolde." "I was trying to explain to Tristan the importance of love." " Seems he might live without it." " Why?" "There are other things to live for." "Duty." "Honor." "They are not life, Tristan." "They are the shells of life." "And empty ones if, in the end, all they hold are days... and days without love." "Love is made by God." "Ignore it and you suffer as you cannot imagine." "Then I will no longer live without it." "[ISOLDE CLEARS THROAT]" "Good." " Very good." "Come, we'll be late." " Late?" "The warriors ride out on the full moon." "It's an old ritual." "I shall miss you tonight." "[BIRD CAWING]" "How many did you love before me?" "None." "And after me?" "None." "[BOAR SQUEALS]" "[HORSE NEIGHS]" "Lord Marke!" "Are you all right?" "Nothing hurt but my pride." "[MUSIC PLAYING]" "[PEOPLE CHATTERING]" " Tristan, I need to speak with you." " Aye." "We haven't even had a coronation and Marke and Wictred are already at odds." "Now he breaks tradition and scares all the barons by naming you his second." "I tried to convince him you'd be better." "Yes, well, peace can be just as treacherous as war... and I feel that Marke doesn't really" "Listen to me!" "Our attention must be on Cornwall now..." " ...more than ever." " Melot." "I'm sorry he didn't choose you." "I am." "Can I speak to you?" "Uncle, you don't seem to understand what you've done here." "I'm sick of your moaning!" "What do you think became of them?" "They were lives, just lived." "I find myself imagining things in this place." "I decorate it." "Books, harp there..." "A child." "Would it be his or mine?" "I'd have no way to tell, would I?" "He's a kind man, Tristan." "I cannot hate him." "Yesterday at the market, I saw a couple holding hands... and I realized we'll never do that." "Never anything like it." "No picnics or unguarded smiles." "No rings." "Just stolen moments that leave too quickly." "ISOLDE:" "This one's pretty." "MARKE:" "Is there something wrong with my eyes?" "Do you like this one?" "Tristan." "[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]" "About time" " Where's Isolde?" " I don't know for sure." "She was having a walk in the garden before... and I'm afraid I grew tired, so I returned." "It's my fault." "Want to get caught, the both of you?" "He's looking for you right now." "Not to the castle, he'll see you." "I told you this was going to happen." "There's another door here, forgotten." "This comes up in the bottom chamber of the keep." " I hate this." " Hurry." "Go on." "BRAGNAE:" "I'm tired of this." "I'm tired of lying for you." "I'm sick of it." "ISOLDE:" "Then don't." "[BOTH GRUNTING]" "ISOLDE:" "There's a servant's child." "Quite ill." "Doing better now." "I didn't ask you where you went." "Your heart's beating so fast." "Is it?" "Isolde, is there anything I can do to make you happier?" "I want to make you happy." "I'm fine." "WICTRED:" "She's in love with Tristan." "They're intimates." "If I expose them, it'll break Marke's heart and his hold on the other barons." "How?" "With Marke's champion in chains, I'll take Castle D'Or." "You can land your armies unopposed." "There will be no one defending the inland waters." "And your price?" "I want Marke's throne." "DONNCHADH:" "In a few years when his reign falls apart... we'll go over and pick up the pieces." "Tristan?" "May I speak with you?" "Is it possible, do you think, a man blinded by love...?" "Is it possible that man might not see treachery right in front of him?" "I found this hidden among Isolde's things." "Do you think she has a lover?" "Has she said anything to you?" "No." "Perhaps you could follow her." "I" " I can't ask anyone else." "I know..." "I know what you think:" "I'm acting like a child." "Normally, I can read faces." "With hers I feel..." "I can't be objective." "So delicate." "I just look..." "You really love her?" "Oh, I do." "Terribly." "I didn't know how empty I was." "She sustains me." "She thrills me." "When I see this ring, it's a ring of thorns." "The ring is nothing." "She's loyal to you." "I'm sure of it." "Well, if you say so." "I count nine." "If they move in, have your squires fly a black flag." "MARKE:" "You bring an entourage?" "I can't go sailing all alone in my position, Lord Marke." "Don't worry, they'll stay offshore." "Daughter, I've missed you." "MARKE:" "My nephew, Melot, governor of Cornwall." "And Tristan, slayer of my best general, winner of Isolde, defender of the alliance." " You are a fortunate man." " Indeed." "[CHORUS SINGING]" "[PRIEST SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]" "[MUSIC PLAYING]" "MARKE:" "Tristan!" "Seems I worry for nothing." "May I dance with the queen?" " Or is Tristan to have the next one?" " No." "MARKE:" "That's right." "You've never danced with Isolde before." "A new song for Tristan." "Slow." "MARKE:" "All right." "[CROWD APPLAUDING]" "Why did you burn it?" "You know." "Meet me there an hour or I'll die." "I can still tutor you a thing or two." "Dancing being one of them." " Accuse him now." " No, no, no." "We'll have more than accusations." "Is something the matter?" "No." "I'm just feeling a little weary, that's all." " Might just go and have a lie down." " Of course." "Friends." "Friends, hear me." "We've forgotten the full moon." "Isn't it time to ride out?" "No, no, no." "This night calls for an exception." "Oh, but the coronation should uphold tradition." "Surely, do we neglect it already?" "We honor it." "With half a night." "Ride out!" "Where's Tristan?" "I miss Ireland." "Isolde, this must end." " It's like asking me to stop breathing." " It cannot be." "[YELLING]" "Over here!" "Through here!" "Please don't leave me." "Please." "[HORSES APPROACHING]" "MARKE:" "Isolde." "Tristan, what are you-?" "No." "I see how it is in Cornwall." "My money is good enough." "My alliance is good enough!" "But my daughter... you pass among your lieutenants like a whore!" " It's not like" " I see no relation to me here." "There is no peace with this king!" "WICTRED:" "I pledge no allegiance to shame." "I won't fight for this." "Seize them." "Seize them." "Behold your hero, uncle." "I'll have my own heroes now." "They're ashore." "Prove your worth." "BARON 1:" "When a man can't rule his woman... how can he govern an entire kingdom?" "ORICK:" "He can't." "BARON 2:" "Yeah." "We should sue for peace." "It's all been coming apart." "I can feel it." "WICTRED:" "You're right." "There's very little time." "Fortunately, Donnchadh has no quarrel with anyone here." "He's asked me to give you a message." " What's this?" " It's compensation... for the men you'll lose attacking D'Or with Donnchadh tomorrow." "Let's be honest." "Our people need a stronger chief." "Who might that be, Wictred?" "Melot." "For too long, the ablest among us has been denied his rightful place." "Pledge you my allegiance." "And offer my services as your second." "I like this plan." "[DOOR OPENS]" "[DOOR CLOSES]" "Came to apologize." "I've been selfish." "Arrogantly thinking that perhaps I'd given enough... over these past nine years to merit if not your love then... at least your respect." "A home." "A kingdom, your very life." "Why was it not enough?" "Tell me." "Tell me!" "You don't know what you have done!" "Everything is destroyed!" "Everything!" "All because you did not have enough!" ""She's loyal to you." "I am sure of it."" "You bloodsucker." "What I could have been... had I not stretched out this hand to save your wretched life." "How I curse that day." "How I curse it." "Now insult me with your defense?" "Then I will contemplate your punishment." "Donnchadh marches on us as we speak." "She's young." "And they were wrong." "But king or no king, I will not let you harm her." "How long?" "Since you thought he was dead." "I found him wounded on a beach in Ireland." "I hid him from my father." "And I told him my name is Bragnae." "So when he came to the tournament at Dunluce... to win Donnchadh's daughter, he didn't realize it was me." "All this time, my heart has been his." "And I'm sorry." "He tried harder than you can possibly imagine... because he loves you." "I will coax him out." "Make sure Donnchadh knows this." "Of course." "Of course, you know." "As things moved forward, I must confess..." "I suspected the both of them for some time." " Tristan and Isolde?" " You know what I could never work out?" "How it was conducted." "How she got in and out of D'Or unseen." "The tunnel." "The what?" " The Roman tunnel." " Show me." " What is this?" " The will of the king." "Farewell." "You two, run on." "Get them in the keep." "I told him about Ireland." "He's given us our freedom." "Why does loving you feel so wrong?" "Get in." "Tristan, if we do this..." "For all time, they'd say it was our love brought down a kingdom." "Remember us." "Tristan, no!" " Tristan!" " Stop!" "Stop!" "Stop!" " Tristan!" " Enough!" " Isolde!" " Tristan!" "Why?" "!" "Tristan!" "Tristan!" "Go." "Move." "Come on." "Close the gates." "WOMAN:" "Wait for us!" "Come on." "MAN:" "Bring them down." "He goes there, the rest by the door." "Come on." "Come on!" "MARKE:" "Get the livestock and fuel under cover." "Put some archers on the ramparts." "All the archers have deserted us." "As have half the household." "Yet you stay?" "If you're surprised, we're wounded already." "Come on!" "Come on, hurry!" "Come on, men!" "Hurry!" "Here, come!" "Come on!" "Up to the tower!" "Burn it." "Their will is as firm as milk." "The siege will unravel us." "Where's Wictred with his key?" "MELOT:" "It comes up to the Roman foundation to the lowest level." "WICTRED:" "This is a godsend." "MAN:" "Fire!" "[SOLDIERS YELLING]" "MAN 1:" "Shields up!" "MAN 2:" "Shields up!" "MAN 3:" "Take the walls!" "MAN 4:" "Take the walls!" "WICTRED:" "What will you say to him?" "I'll say he made unforgivable mistakes and it's time for him to step" "What's that?" "Quickly." "Alarum!" "MAN:" "Aim for the front of the line." "They're waiting." "[YELLING]" "[MEN YELLING]" "The Irish are inside!" "Follow me." "WICTRED:" "Take the stairs!" "KAYE:" "Guard the door!" " Make sure no one gets in!" "WICTRED:" "Help me!" "Break the chain!" "Here!" "Move away, here!" "Right here!" "You..." "What happened here?" "A reward for idiocy." "A dozen Irish have blazed your way." " Melot, I came to aid Marke." " Everyone lies." " I didn't lead them here." " No." "I did." "Why?" "I thought someone believed in me." "It will be undone." "Tristan, I'm for the worms." "Swear to me that you are true." "As we were brothers." "Build my boat." "WICTRED:" "Watch the stairs." "[METAL CLANGING]" "MAN:" "They're here!" "Keep them back!" "Keep them back!" "Watch the stairs!" "LEON:" "Wictred." "MARKE:" "Open the bridge." "LEON:" "Traitor!" "LEON:" "Marke, but you can't!" "MARKE:" "Get me a shield!" "LEON:" "You can't, come now." "MARKE:" "No!" "LEON:" "Stay there!" "MARKE:" "Bring me a shield!" "We're pinned down!" "Tristan?" "He's with them?" "MAN:" "Traitor!" "No." "He's with us!" "Tristan!" "Tristan." "How did you get in here?" "I know a secret." "Secrets." "It's in the past now." "In the past." "They've breached the palisades." "MARKE:" "Then we must be bold." "DONNCHADH:" "Make way!" "Make way!" "Make way!" "Let a man through!" "Ha-ha-ha!" "Rothgar!" "Behold!" "The head of a traitor!" "Will you always be little men that cannot see what was... and could be again?" "There is no middle ground!" "So slay us!" "Or slay him!" "Oblige them." "Oblige them!" "[YELLING]" "[GRUNTS]" "[ALL YELLING]" "Take me out of here." "Take me to the river." "KURSEVAL:" "Princess." "Hurry." "Bring her." "LEON:" "Marke, you must come." "The battle needs you." "We'll lose everything." "I must heed their call." "I am the king." "We've driven them back as far as we can but they held on the south road." "KURSEVAL:" "Goodbye, my friend." "[CRYING]" "Know that I love you, Tristan." "Wherever you go, whatever you see..." "I will always be with you." "You were right." "I don't know if life is greater than death." "But love was more than either." "ISOLDE [IN VOICEOVER]:" "My face in thine eyes." "Thine in mine appears." "And true plain hearts Do in the faces rest." "Where can we find Two better hemispheres." "Without sharp north Without declining west?" "Whatever dies Was not mixed equally." "If our two loves be one And thou and I." "Love so alike That none can slacken." "None can die"