Dracula Untold (2014) - full transcript

At the turn of the century, the young lord Vlad and his family live a peaceful life ruling over their small kingdom, but when a Turk warlord demands from Vlad a thousand boys and his son to create an army Vlad seeks a terrible power that will allow him to protect his kingdom and family from the Turks at a terrible cost.

INGERAS: In the year

of our Lord, 1442,

the Turkish sultan enslaved

1,000 Transylvanian boys

to fill the ranks

of his army.

(WHIP LASHING)

(BOY WAILS)

These child slaves were

beaten without mercy,

trained to kill

without conscience,

to crave the blood

of all who defied the Turks.

From among these boys,

one grew into

a warrior so fierce

that entire armies

would retreat in terror

at the mention of his name.

Vlad the Impaler.

Son of the Dragon.

Sickened by his

monstrous acts,

Vlad came to bury

his past with the dead

and returned to Transylvania

to rule in peace.

His subjects

called him Prince.

I called him Father.

But the world would

come to know him as...

(PEOPLE SCREAMING)

Dracula.

(WOMAN SCREAMING)

(FLOWING STREAM)

SHKELGIM:

I left it (EXHALES)

where I found it.

What do you think, Vlad?

Bring it to me.

This belongs to a scout.

One of Hamza Bey's men.

What the hell's

a lone Turk doing out here?

VLAD: Turkish scouts

never travel alone.

If there's one,

there's more.

And whatever they scout,

they conquer.

This was washed downstream.

Came from up there.

Broken Tooth Mountain.

Soon it will be night.

They'll seek refuge.

Dimitru, I need you to

return to the castle.

Alert the guards

and double the sentry.

What?

I'm not leaving you here.

For the Turks to cross

into my land unannounced

is a sign of war.

And what are you going to do

if you find them?

I'll do what

princes do best.

Negotiate.

Nicolae, Andrei, with me.

PETRU: (WHISTLES)

Fall in!

Anything?

(COUGHS)

Smells like your feet.

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

(BOTH GASP)

(PANTING)

VLAD: They're inside.

How do you know?

Bats don't come out

during the day.

Something's disturbed them.

Come on.

What is it, My Lord?

The floor.

It's crushed bone.

The Turks didn't do this.

(SHUDDERING BREATH)

(GROWLING)

What's that?

(SCREAMS)

We leave, now.

(SCREAMS)

(GROWLS)

(VLAD GRUNTS)

(GROWLING)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(PANTING)

(GROWLING)

(PANTING)

(URGING HORSE)

LUCIAN: The creature

you encountered

was no accident,

My Prince.

Four nights ago,

every brother in our order

awoke from

an identical dream.

I would not have

thought it possible

had I not suffered the same

vision myself that night.

Of a creature laying

siege to this holy place.

The Roman mystics prophesied

the coming of a great evil.

A vampire.

From the Greek

word pi, to drink.

The beast was

once a mortal man

who summoned a demon

from the depths of hell

to trade for his dark power.

The demon tricked the man,

granting his wish,

but his price

was an eternity

condemned to the darkness

of that cave,

where he remains

until he finds another

to set him free.

Now you know its true face.

The people of Transylvania

live in enough fear

of the Turks' return.

Promise me you'll

guard this secret, brother.

(BOTH GRUNTING)

(CHUCKLING)

(SIGHING)

Papa!

(VLAD LAUGHS)

I missed you.

VLAD: And I, you.

My big soldier.

(LAUGHING)

What? An embrace

but no kiss?

Are we going to argue?

With you always leaving,

I need my fill.

I've missed you.

Something troubles you.

What is it?

Only the impossible

depth of your beauty.

(LAUGHS) Puts the rest

of the world to shame.

Pay no attention to

your father, lngeras.

Flattery is a cheap

distraction from truth.

She knows all my tricks.

You're a terrible liar.

It's one of your most

endearing qualities.

You're just in time

for bed.

(GRUNTS)

(BOTH LAUGH)

Can we go riding

tomorrow, Papa?

Of course we can.

You most certainly cannot.

Why not?

Because tomorrow is

the day of our risen Lord.

Oh, of course.

That's Easter.

(WHISPERING)

What was I thinking?

So what attacked you?

Wolves?

I suppose.

All I know

is that I've lost

two good men today.

(SIGHING)

There's something more.

I was the same age

as lngeras

when I was sent to

live with the Turks.

To fight for them.

If I never saw another,

it would be too soon.

You're home now.

For almost as many years

as you were gone.

I just want peace.

That's all.

(MIRENA SHRIEKS)

(LAUGHING)

(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

(GLASS CLINKING)

My fellow Transylvanians,

an Easter toast.

Ten years of

peace and prosperity

ever since our prince

came back to us.

My old friend,

here's to 20 more.

MAN: To 20 more!

(ALL CHEERING)

Mmm.

Hamza Bey.

Welcome.

We were not

expecting you so soon.

Sultan Mehmed ll offers his

salutations to you and your son.

Thank him.

I have his tribute ready.

Hmm.

I'm afraid

there's something more

than a tribute to discuss.

The Turks have

no enemies here.

HAMZA BEY: Did you think

we would not notice

a battalion of

our scouts missing?

I did not kill them.

(SPEAKING TURKISH)

It still lives inside you,

Lord Impaler.

Locked in a dark cage,

hidden away.

But you and I...

we both know it's there.

The sultan's tribute.

Take it and leave.

Ah!

There is one last thing.

The sultan requires

1,000 boys

to join his

Janissary Corps.

(CROWD CLAMORING)

(GASPING)

No!

Never!

VLAD: Janissaries?

He ended that

practice years ago.

When a soldier is

plucked as a child

and raised to

know no other life,

they will kill

without question and

die without complaint.

Any who are 15 years

of age or older

will fight in Hungary.

Those 10 to 14

will be made ready

for the siege on Vienna.

The sultan

expects your obedience.

After all,

did not your own father

give you up without a fight?

(WHIMPERING)

(SPEAKING TURKISH)

Soft, but they'll do.

Don't. Please.

(GRUNTING)

(SPEAKING TURKISH)

Do you know who I am?

You mean who you were.

You have no army and

no choice, Prince.

Follow our command,

or suffer the consequences.

(MAN COMMANDING IN TURKISH)

It must be done.

Courage, anger,

even love.

None of these can

matter to a prince.

All that matters is

his duty to his people.

INGERAS: What does it mean

to be a royal hostage?

My father gave me to the

sultan to prove his loyalty.

Were you scared there?

With them?

I wanted to make

my father proud.

Would you ever

give me to the sultan?

That was a long time ago.

You have nothing

to worry about.

Do you understand?

Good.

VLAD: If I defy the order,

they'll kill 100

for every one I save.

You told me

you and Mehmed

were once like brothers.

Were you to ask,

isn't it possible he might

show you some mercy?

(HORSE NEIGHS)

(SOLDERS TAUNTMG)

You ever seen

the like of it?

Soon the entire

world will be Turk.

Lord Impaler,

my oldest of friends.

I miss our days together.

All I miss from my time

with you is the coffee.

It's true, my father's

palace was a cruel place

for a young boy

far from home.

But soon you

talked like us,

prayed like us,

fought like us.

Speaking of which,

I am owed 1,000 boys.

Why have I not seen them?

Mehmed, my brother,

I will grant

you anything else.

I need soldiers,

brother.

Then take me.

I'm worth 1,000 boys,

and you know it.

Those kings would

tremble if they knew.

Then accept my offer.

When we were boys,

how I longed to

fight side by side.

But now I am sultan,

what need have I

for one more soldier?

I will have my 1,000 boys.

And one more.

MEHMED: Your son will be

raised under my roof,

just as you were raised

under the roof of my father.

You may retain

your throne.

But General Ismail will remain to

see that my orders are fulfilled.

(SPEAKING TURKISH)

Please.

Do not do this.

MEHMED: What is one son?

If you are virile,

you'll make plenty more.

Whoa, there.

(SHUDDERING BREATH)

You promised me this

would never happen.

Mirena, listen.

The day you asked

for my hand,

do you remember

what I said?

You said no.

DIMITRU: Stay,

my young friend.

MIRENA: I knew what happens

to the sons of the queen.

You said things

would be different.

You said if I loved you,

I should trust you.

I love you!

Then trust me.

It's this

or we start a war.

(MIRENA SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

(SPEAKING TURKISH)

The Great Impaler

can't please his woman.

DIMITRU:

Everything's fine, boys.

They're just saying

their goodbyes is all.

Mirena.

I won't let you...

You promised me my family!

Mirena, please!

MIRENA: Stop it!

Don't touch me!

I won't!

I won't let them do this!

MIRENA: Vlad, don't!

Don't do this!

No! No!

(TALKING INDISTINCTLY)

No, I won't let you do this!

I'll go.

I won't! No!

I'll go!

I can do it.

You're proud of me,

aren't you?

Of course I am.

You have chosen wisely.

Yeah, I have to say,

we are a little disappointed.

Frankly, I expected more

resistance from you.

(SHUDDERING BREATH)

Run to your mother.

What?

Now!

(GRUNTING)

MIRENA: Come here!

(YELLING)

Don't look!

(GRUNTING)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

Mehmed will punish

all of Transylvania

for what you have done.

It's not a child's place

to save his country.

Get my family

to the castle.

CAZAN: Mehmed will be

sending others soon enough.

War will come.

You can't protect us.

I'll find a way.

Vlad!

Where are you going?

Whatever haunts Broken Tooth,

I know it kills Turks.

(URGES HORSE)

(NEIGHING)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

MASTER VAMPIRE:

You returned.

No one has ever returned.

It seems no one has ever had the

privilege of leaving, either.

(GROWLING)

Neither will you.

(SHRIEKING)

(WINGS FLAPPING)

(PANTING)

(GASPS)

(SNIFFING)

Those whom enter

reek of fear.

In you.

I sense hope.

Your silver offends me.

Cloak it from my sight.

What kind of man

crawls into his own grave

in search of hope? Hmm?

A desperate one.

The Turks threaten

to destroy my kingdom.

With power like yours,

I could stop them,

save my people,

save my family.

How supremely noble,

Lord Impaler.

House Dracul,

Son of the Devil.

You're mistaken.

It means

"son of the dragon."

"Protector of the innocent."

Do your people know

how many innocents

you have killed?

Was it hundreds?

Yes.

(GASPS)

Lie to me again

and I'll open you from

your belly to your brain

and feed you

your intestines.

Thousands.

And when you put

them to the stake,

what did you feel?

Shame? Horror?

Power?

Answer me!

Nothing!

I felt nothing.

A greater crime

than the act itself.

Then why spill blood

if not for the pleasure of it?

Because men do not

fear swords.

They fear monsters.

They run from them.

By putting one

village to the stake,

I spared 10 more.

Sometimes the world

no longer needs a hero.

Sometimes what it needs

is a monster.

And you believe you know

what it is to be

a monster? Hmm?

(GROANS)

(GROWLING)

You have no idea.

But I'm going

to show you.

For centuries,

these moldering walls

have been my gallows.

For I'm bound to this cave,

condemned by

one who turned me.

Oh, and I have

waited an eternity

for a man of your strength,

your gifts, your will.

A man worthy of the dark

and all its powers.

For if I am your salvation,

you are mine.

Drink.

You will have

a taste of my power.

The strength of 100 men.

The speed

of a falling star.

Dominion over the night

and all its creatures.

To see and hear

through their senses.

Even heal grievous wounds.

At what price?

Once you drink,

your thirst

for human blood

will be insatiable.

But if you can

resist for three days,

you will return to

your mortal state

having sampled my power,

and perhaps,

saved your people.

And if I feed?

The price would

be worse than

if you'd never

stepped in here.

For I will be set free

Having granted the darkness

a worthy offering.

You will become

its vessel as I am.

A scourge on this earth

destined to destroy

everything you hold dear.

Your lands, your people,

even your

precious wife and son.

I would die

before I harmed them.

Indeed you will,

I'm afraid.

I, however,

will at last be free

to unleash my wrath against

the one who betrayed me.

And one day,

I will call on you

to serve me, my pawn,

in an immortal

game of revenge.

This is not a game!

Ah, but what better way

to endure eternity?

For this, little prince,

is the ultimate game.

Light versus dark,

hope versus despair.

And all the world's

fate hangs in the balance.

Then it will be

my great pleasure

to disappoint you.

Drink.

Let the games begin.

(INHALING)

(EXHALES DEEPLY)

(GRUNTS)

What now?

Now,

you die.

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(GASPING)

(GROWLING SOFTLY)

INGERAS: Papa!

(GASPING)

(PANTING)

(CRUSHING)

(GRUNTS)

That's useful.

(SCRAPING)

(BIRD CALLING)

(BARKING)

(METAL RESONATING)

(GROANS)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

Prepare to fire!

Light!

(SCREAMING)

(CLAMORING)

You came back.

I always will.

Where were you?

Searching for

the strength I needed.

You're back!

(EXPLOSIONS)

(CLAMORING)

VLAD: They wanted our sons!

We can't fight.

A good prince would

have given them up.

A good prince would have

paid that price for peace.

(RUMBLING)

(WOMAN WHIMPERING)

But I give you my word,

we will not be defeated!

They've brought

war to our land.

And they will

pay dearly for it.

Fire!

Charge!

(ALL SHOUTING)

(KNUCKLES CRACKING)

(SOLDIERS SHOUTING)

(GROWLING)

(GRUNTING)

(GRUNTING)

(GROANING)

(GROWLING)

(SOLDIERS SCREAMING)

(PANTING)

SOLDIER: (WHISPERING)

What? Wait.

Negotiations failed.

Do not ask me

what happened on

this field tonight.

Trust only that I will use

all I have to keep us safe.

But we will not be

safe if we stay here.

VLAD: We must leave

directly for Cozia Monastery.

It's high in the mountains,

too remote for cannon fire.

It's our best

chance of survival.

We'll take

enough of our people

so that our

absence is noticed.

That way,

when Mehmed learns

what has happened here,

he will come

hunting for us.

OMER:

Word from Castle Dracula.

Vlad has defeated

1,000 of our men.

MEHMED: Then send 100,000.

I will lead them.

When I march into Europe,

I will have his head

upon my spear

and his child at my side.

DIMITRU: We can fight the way

our great-grandfathers fought.

Use the forests,

the mountains

around the Borgo Pass.

Four or five months

of that.

Not months.

I'm gonna win this war

in three days.

Why not two?

That'd really impress us.

(SOLDIERS CHATTERING)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(HEART BEATING)

MASTER VAMPIRE: Feed.

(GASPS)

MIRENA: What is it?

(PANTING)

I need some air.

I'm sorry.

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

Don't think

I haven't noticed

you following me.

You're mistaken.

I follow them.

They recognize

one of their own.

The night is their kingdom.

Blood, their sustenance.

And some, they say,

have lived for as long

as there have been

prey to devour.

Spare me your ravings.

They say the one who

escaped the mountain

hides behind

the face of a man.

Well, if that man is me,

you'll know a knife

will not do you any good.

Of course not.

Why do you think I stayed?

I know there is only so far

on this earth we can run,

and it is not far enough.

Let me serve you.

(GRUNTS)

(YELLS)

Stay away from me.

Yes, master.

(VOICES WHISPERING)

MASTER VAMPIRE:

Fulfill your destiny.

Set me free.

(WHIMPERING)

(WOMAN WHIMPERING)

(VOICES LAUGHING)

(GRUNTS)

OMER: We found him

in the field.

He asked for you.

(ISMAIL WHIMPERING)

A message from Prince Vlad.

He hopes you enjoy the view.

(QUIVERING BREATH)

(SHIVERING)

(SIZZLING)

Mirena!

(GASPS)

Your scars are gone.

What's happening to you?

I'm the thing men

fear on Broken Tooth.

Not a ghost.

Something else.

(UNSHEATHING KNIFE)

(CRACKLING)

No! Stop it!

May God strike down

whoever did this to you.

I chose this.

This is

the strength you sought?

But why?

Because I sent corpses

back to Mehmed

instead of our son.

You did this for us?

In two days,

I'll be restored.

I just have to resist.

Resist what?

Resist what, Vlad?

Tell me!

A thirst

for blood.

And if you were to

give in?

Then I become

this for eternity.

You will undo this,

won't you'?

Yes.

I swear it.

I will not give in.

Then God will forgive you.

DIMITRU: Vlad.

Mehmed is getting closer.

We might want

to move out soon.

I need you to get

to the monastery

as quickly as you can.

Mehmed's men will be close by.

No.

Listen to me.

I will reach you

after sundown.

I promise you.

(SIZZLING)

I love you.

My husband agrees

with your counsel.

We will depart now under

your temporary command.

What? And where's Vlad

going to be?

Spying on the Turks.

He insists on doing

his own reconnaissance.

No. I won't have it.

It's too late.

He's already gone.

All right, everyone.

Prepare to move out.

SOLDIER: Prepare the horses.

Tell the sultan where his

enemies will be buried.

(GROWLING)

Listen.

We're nearly there.

(SOLDIERS YELLING)

(WOMAN SCREAMING)

Cover the rear!

Mirena!

(GRUNTING)

(SCREAMS)

Mirena! lngeras!

Couldn't these

monks have built

their gates

a little bit closer?

Stay behind me.

(SCREAMING)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

Don't the Turks

teach you anything new?

I saw your

blade coming from...

lngeras, run.

BRIGHT EYES:

Where is your prince now,

My Lady?

(EXHALES SHARPLY)

(GROWLS)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(PANTING)

VLAD: Dimitru.

It's okay.

It's okay.

Vlad.

Dimitru, listen.

Listen!

No!

(INGERAS WHIMPERING)

Come here. Come here.

Never leave us again,

Papa.

Never.

I will always

watch over you.

(BELL TOLLING)

PETRU: Through the gates!

Keep moving along!

This way!

(STRAINING)

You should never

have strayed from us,

whatever your reasons

for leaving were...

Quiet.

Get these men

off their knees.

Stand up, do you hear me?

Stand up!

The Turks are coming!

Prayers will not

defend these walls!

(DOOR OPENS)

(UNSHEATHING SWORDS)

PETRU: Do you believe

we can do this?

VLAD: Mehmed's men will

be coming from the north.

Double our sentries

on the perimeter walls.

Go. Do it now.

What's in there?

Something I hope

to never use again.

Come now.

(MEN SHOUTING)

OMER: The men say that

Vlad has become a monster.

I fear this will only

inflame the rumors of

the Prince's dark magic.

Only if we allow it.

Men cannot fear

what they cannot see.

MEHMED: Remember when

you first joined my army.

You wanted to pick up

your sword and fight!

When my generals

blindfolded you,

you did not believe

that you could march

without seeing.

But you could.

Now march with me!

Your sultan

will guide you!

Prince Vlad,

the vampire is

vulnerable to daylight.

And to pure silver.

Yet the holy cross

exerts no power over you.

That can only

mean you have yet

to seal your fate

with human blood.

Let me kill you now,

My Prince.

Please.

Before your people do.

Rumor has spread of

what you have become.

You can still repent.

You'd do well to run,

Lucian.

(SCREAMING)

(WOMEN SCREAMING)

MAN: It's true!

He's a monster!

MIRENA: No!

Please! Listen!

He is your prince!

He has earned

the chance to explain.

Stop!

MAN: Kill the monster!

He's your prince!

Satan lives in his heart!

Vlad!

(VLAD SCREAMING)

(SCREAMING)

Mirena!

He was trying

to save us all!

(VLAD GROWLING)

Take him to my room

and shut the door.

Do not let him

look outside!

Okay.

Mama!

VLAD: This is your loyalty?

Your gratitude?

Fools.

Do you think you are alive

because you can fight?

Come on.

You are alive

because of me!

Because of what

I did to save you!

This is not who you are.

Return to your stations.

Believe me,

there is still more to fear!

Lord, if you've

not yet forsaken me,

grant me your strength that

I may resist the darkness.

Allow me to endure

this test one more day.

I beg you.

Please.

Are you sick?

If you were sick,

I thought it might

make you feel better.

Thank you.

Come.

You'll make

a great leader someday.

You think of others

before yourself.

When the Turks

came to take me,

you stopped them.

It's why you got sick,

isn't it?

To save me.

Yes.

And I would

do it all again.

(SOBBING)

VLAD: They're almost here.

Dawn will be breaking soon.

And with it,

the loss of my powers.

If we've not won

this war by then...

I will fight

beside you until death.

Your death would

end my fight.

We have done the duty

of any good parent.

Protected our child.

Protected all the children

in the kingdom.

Perhaps our destiny was

not to rule in this life.

Do you remember

our wedding vow?

"Why think separately

of this life and the next..."

"When one is

born from the last?"

Time is always too short

for those who need it.

But for those who love,

it lasts forever.

(BAT SCREECHING)

(SCREECHING)

(SCREECHING LOUDLY)

(SOLDIERS SCREAMING)

(YELLING)

(SCREAMING)

SOLDIER: No!

MEHMED: Hold your ground!

Stand your ground!

Hold fast!

Hold your ground!

CAZAN: Fire!

(GROWLING)

Mehmed!

No.

Where is he?

Where is he?

CAZAN: Fire!

Draw!

CAZAN: Fire!

(MIRENA GASPS)

(GRUNTING)

Find your father! Go!

Where is he?

You can keep

running if you like.

(GROANS)

INGERAS: Let me go!

No!

Mirena.

No! Please!

Ingeras!

(STRAINING)

No!

Vlad!

No!

(INAUDIBLE)

No, Mirena.

Please, stay with me.

I cannot do this

without you.

Mirena.

There's still time

for you to stop them.

Drink my blood.

No.

I cannot take your life.

My life is lost already.

But our son's is not.

(SOBBING) No.

I love you.

Do it now!

Please.

(HEART BEATING)

Do it now.

(VOICES WHISPERING)

(MIRENA GROANS)

Vlad!

(GROWLING)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(VLAD WAILING)

(SOBBING)

(SCREAMING) No!

Do you want vengeance?

Drink.

(MOANS)

(WOMAN WHIMPERING)

(LABORED BREATHING)

VLAD: I now know

hell is real.

So I know

there's a heaven.

Neither this world

or the next

shall keep us apart.

I will honor your sacrifice

and I vow that

our son shall be safe.

MEHMED:

Of all of my lands,

this is the one

I love the least.

Look to the east.

The sun should be risen

by now, should it not?

(HORSES WHINNYING)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

(ALL MURMURING)

What is that?

It is the Prince.

He is coming.

(GROWLS)

(GRUNTING)

(SCREAMING)

(PANTING)

I used to think there

were too many of you.

Now there's not enough.

(GROWLS)

(SCREAMS)

(GRUNTING)

(YELLS)

(GASPS)

(LABORED BREATHING)

(SCREAMING)

(SWORD UNSHEATHING)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

I understand

you have a weakness

for silver.

(SIZZLING)

INGERAS: Papa!

He's waiting for you.

(GRUNTING)

(BOTH GRUNTING)

MEHMED: You are

slower, brother.

And weaker.

(GRUNTS)

(SIZZLING)

Aww...

MEHMED: Go on, take it.

Is this the monster

that terrified my men?

Hmm?

You grow more

weary by the moment.

Tell me,

how long can you

bear it in here? Huh?

Long enough to

strike your name

from the history books.

(GRUNTING)

(BOTH GRUNTING)

(SCREAMING)

INGERAS: Papa!

MEHMED: Take a last look

at your father, lngeras.

No!

Look how pathetic he is.

No, stop!

Please!

(GROANS)

(GRUNTS)

(WOOD SNAPS)

if I put a stake

through your heart,

(GRUNTING)

it will kill you

like any other man.

A fitting death

for Lord Impaler.

INGERAS: No! No!

INGERAS: Papa!

(YELLS)

That is no longer my name.

My name is Dracula.

Son of the Devil.

(MEHMED GROANING)

(ROARING)

(INGERAS SOBBING)

VLAD: It's all right.

I'm here.

(DISTANT SCREAMING)

You old goat.

I don't feel old.

How many are left?

None, except for

your son, of course.

A distraction we can now

dispense with.

What have I taught you?

Repeated over and over

since you were a boy?

All that matters is a

prince's duty to his people.

GOVERNESS:

(WHISPERING) lngeras.

CAZAN: Don't you realize?

They're all our enemies now.

When he's gone,

you'll be free.

(GROWLING)

You forget who I am.

(GROWLING)

(GRUNTING)

(SCREAMING)

(ALL GROWLING)

Leave him.

(ALL GROANING)

Come with me, child.

Come.

Please.

Be gone!

The time has come.

Please.

Please, you must come.

I don't want to leave you!

You have to go with him.

No!

Do not leave his side.

(SOBBING)

Please. Know I will

always love you.

Always.

Go!

No!

Go!

No!

You take care of him.

No!

Papa!

No!

He's safe now, Mirena.

(ALL SCREAMING)

(PANTING)

(INAUDIBLE)

(GROANING)

(SCREAMING)

INGERAS: The Turks never conquered

the capitals of Europe.

Prince Vlad Dracula

was a hero.

But there are no

pictures or statues of him.

I am his legacy.

His sacrifice taught me that

even after the darkest night,

the sun will rise again.

Drink, master.

INGERAS: For if the heart

is strong enough,

the soul is reborn

(GASPS)

with each new day.

In life after life.

Age after age.

Forever.

MINA: Lovely.

Which markets are

you at this week?

WOMAN:

Portobello Road next.

See you there?

Beautiful.

The flowers, my lady.

My lady?

Where are you from?

A long way from here.

Well, good night.

"Why think separately

of this life and the next

"when one is born

from the last?"

That's my favorite poem.

It speaks to you

of yearning,

of one soul

pleading for another.

I'm Mina.

Vlad.

Let the games begin.