Kings (2009): Season 1, Episode 11 - Javelin - full transcript
David stands trial for treason as succession to the throne approaches a climax.
DAVID :
Previously on Kings...
You'II get no respect
in this court.
You accept it
and you move on.
By marrying me.
I always wanted
to be royalty.
(CLEARS THROAT)
You're nervous.
You wanted my answer,
I'm in. Deep as you need me.
Could you imagine
if your father
saw these?
He'd have
my head.
DAVID : Then, I should tell
your father about us now.
MICHELLE: You can't.
I already Iive
with God's disappointment.
I can't Iive with my father's.
What is your deepest secret?
I could keep nothing
from my king.
I've been Iying to you.
I told my dad everything.
PERRY: It began
with the Charter,
stolen.
(GLASS SHATTERING)
(ALARM BLARING)
It contained our history,
signed by our elders,
telling the story of our
liberties and our pride,
and it was taken.
From that day on, it was
as if a new story had begun.
By the order of the King,
I endeavor to write it.
(CHATTERING ON POLICE RADIO)
Times have already changed.
OFFICER: Y es, sir.
New relationships born
in hope now challenged.
Sixth grade, we took
a class trip to see
the Charter.
Who would have stolen it?
I don't know,
but I hate them.
HANSON: The people
will be devastated.
Who could have done this?
THOMASINA: Southern tribes
have always remained
hostile to the Crown.
RAINES: Wiretaps suggest
the Charter is en route to
the Ekron BIack Market hub.
Our national pride
in the hands of thugs.
We've gone to war
for Iess insult.
If it's a fight they want,
we'II bring it to them,
won't we, Captain Shepherd?
Leave us.
Perry, stay.
Step up, Captain.
My advisor.
You and I
are going to make
this tragedy into
an opportunity.
You will go south and
do whatever is necessary
to bring back what was stolen.
Sir, I know I Iied to you
about me and Michelle.
I know that was wrong.
I'd do whatever it takes
to earn your forgiveness.
Prove you're
better than a Iie.
The Charter was stolen.
Bring it back.
As you ask.
You will go now,
telling no one.
Not your family,
not Michelle.
Supported only
by your wits, a gun,
some money, and a phone,
should you wish to call
and declare failure.
Succeed, and history
will remember you,
and you will have
my forgiveness
and my daughter.
But come back empty-handed,
and that's all we'II see,
empty hands.
Yes, sir.
Well, then. Off you go.
PERRY: A dangerous journey,
embarked on with bravery.
PROSTITUTE:
Hey, baby.
Days passed without word
of the Charter.
THOMASINA: Two weeks,
and no news from
Captain Shepherd.
Dangerous country,
our southern border. Perhaps
he doesn't return at all.
You don't sound concerned.
Your faith was misplaced?
AII faith is misplaced.
His Iie belies his ambition,
whether he knows it or not.
But I see it.
What of the Charter?
To hell with the Charter.
Today, we start a new one.
It's time for me
to be the hero of
my country again.
No, sit. Sit.
I owe my country an apology.
The theft of
a national treasure
reflects not only on
security, but on me.
The Ioss, a Iesson
not to Iet stagnate
a country that should Iead.
Today, I make amends.
The Charter spoke of ideals.
Perry, Article Five.
"Never to mistake yesterday's
glory for tomorrow's security,
but to always exercise
"genius, judgment, and hope,
never to rest assured
"of what we have,
but to imagine...
"But to imagine what
we have yet to achieve."
So, Iet us imagine.
Example, energy.
How do we achieve
a 1 00% self-sufficient
clean energy-fueled Gilboa?
Don't be shy. Give me...
Give me some ideas.
Resume renovation
at Pella Dam.
A plan for wind farms
on the PIains of Dan is
in research stages.
Resume. Accelerate.
Talk to the young.
Learn to think how they think.
(INAUDIBLE CHATTERING)
Perry? Start a new book,
one to be read
1 000 years from now
about what began
here today.
How we found and
followed a vision.
The Book of Silas!
(CHEERING)
Stitch the waistline tighter.
I want to Iead
with my best assets.
(EXCLAIMS)
KATRINA: What do
you think, darling?
I don't. Isn't
that the point of
being the groom?
AII you have
to do is show up
and slide on the ring.
Speaking of which,
I should have a proper rock.
We have plenty
of stones in
the treasury.
I already found
a suitable diamond
my Iast trip to Austeria.
Twenty carats.
Perfect for when they
announce the engagement.
ROSE: Seeing the gown
before the wedding.
(SCOFFS)
No mind for superstition.
Well, young wives have nothing
to fear from old wives' tales.
They Iook
at her and Iaugh.
Hmm?
You had an eye on greatness
and the grip to hold it,
and you'd Iet
a quarrel with me
pair you to a Iaughingstock.
You had a more interesting
weakness than spite.
KATRINA: Hmm. Did I Iose
more weight? It just drops
off me when I'm happy.
You blackmailed him into this.
Jack accepted
my proposal freely,
happily,
once he saw the damage
it would do you.
It will never happen.
Of course, it will.
I'm his only chance
at happiness Ieft.
I know exactly what Jack is,
and I don't care.
With me,
Jack can be King by day
and a bad boy with whatever
boy he wants at night.
I might even join in.
When I marry Jack
and knock out an heir,
that will make you...
What? The royal granny?
While I take
your place as queen.
I'm off to Austeria
to buy a ring.
Perhaps I'II pick you up
something, Mother.
(BOTTLE SHATTERING)
Bourbon.
You hear a Iot tending bar.
People pay twice that
to keep me quiet.
I used to work in a garage.
I know what it's Iike
to be invisible.
People forget you're there.
They say things.
Trust me,
you're not that anonymous.
Errand boy for Silas,
combing the South
Iooking for the Charter.
Hitting every place
that moves product.
Go home
before you get hurt.
What you're Iooking for?
You're asking the
wrong people.
Are you the right one?
I'II talk to them. Let them
know you're shooting straight.
Don't worry.
Nobody here Iikes trouble.
(SIGHS)
GIRL: This is that guy
I was telling you about.
He's got a Iot of cash.
MAN: Call Ashkelon
before we deliver
the shipment.
(MAN SNIFFING)
How much?
Do you have the Charter?
No. We don't talk
until we know what you have.
Okay. Okay.
Do you have it?
Maybe I have it.
Maybe I don't.
(GRUNTING)
(DAVID GASPS)
MAN: (LAUGHS) Some hero.
SILAS: You see how much
we can accomplish?
AII it takes is a clear mind
and a path cleared
of obstruction.
My country is content.
Jack, engaged
to be respectable.
The engagement tonight,
you didn't ask me to get
your gift yet.
Oh, I have better
than a gift to offer.
(LAUGHS)
SILAS: Thomasina.
Who is that woman?
She's there every day,
just standing there.
Like a bitter
almond in the cake.
That's David Shepherd's
mother.
What does she want?
Do you wish her removed?
It's a public space.
OWEN: You haven't
eaten in days.
Take it.
You need your strength.
Eat. Have some coffee.
DAVID: You followed me
to the docks?
I couldn't just Iet you die
because you're an idiot,
but I don't see any sign
of that abating,
since you're
determined to find Ashkelon.
Ashkelon.
Is that who has
the Charter?
Just the word
that's where it went,
but you shouldn't
concern yourself with that.
Silas, he sent me
to find it.
Silas? He isn't worth
your next trip to the toilet.
Why?
Because of what he did
to your father.
My father? He fought
in Silas' army.
The 808th.
I was on the Southern front
when he was wounded at Somas.
No.
My dad...
He fought on
the Northern front.
Wounded at Foxland.
We fought up North
until we got the order.
A few border towns
were sympathetic to Gath.
Silas wanted an example made,
so he sent our unit
to torch a village
and scare the rest.
To kill your own?
We refused the order.
Silas wouldn't Iet that stand.
We had to die.
We were dropped,
defenseless and alone,
in the middle of heavy combat.
Your father got shot
while tying off my Ieg.
(KNOCKING ON PROSTHETIC LEG)
Silas would never do that.
Silas sent your father
to get killed, David,
just Iike he sent you
out on this mission
to get killed.
Now, you think about that
before you do anything
else for that bastard.
(SIGHS)
I'm going to need
something stronger
than coffee.
You have anything?
I'm a bartender.
(DOOR CLOSING)
Your son keeps us waiting
for his own engagement party.
Or perhaps it's
the future princess.
Let her have her moment.
Ah.
(APPLAUDING)
At Iong Iast,
I present to you
my future bride,
Lucinda Wolfson.
A shame what happened
to Katrina Ghent.
Oh, it's a tragedy.
Hmm.
But anyone foolish enough to
drive those mountain roads in
Austeria...
Uh-huh.
Or underestimate
the mother-in-Iaw.
(LAUGHS) Jack and Lucinda.
(VIOLINS PLAYING)
We are all terribly envious.
Not because you're royal
and beautiful and in Iove,
but because you are
just beginning.
And what's more
enviable than that?
May your every day
be a beginning.
We wouldn't be here
without you, Mother.
If I wake up and this is
a dream, I'm never going
to sleep again.
PHOTOGRAPHER: Sir?
Lucinda. You reset
the bar on Iovely.
Welcome to the family.
You'II find we're very warm.
Jack?
I'm glad to see
you're thinking
about your future.
It will come
before you know it.
(GLASSES CLINKING)
SILAS: Your mother ordered
the picture redone
three times.
Too dark
under the eyes.
It's a powerful Iikeness.
Your sacrifices haven't
gone unnoticed.
Or your new discipline.
We've had difficult
conversations.
I bade you retouch
your image the same,
feign Iikeness under
the eyes, and you did.
I answer to you, sir.
It can't have been easy,
fabulizing on that scale,
taking a new fianc?e
when you could have been free.
It wasn't for nothing,
or for shame,
or a Iesson on the cruelty
of being a king.
Well, you'II experience
that soon enough.
Sir?
You heard me.
An engagement gift.
On the day
of your wedding,
I will stand before all
and designate this country
a blood dynasty,
with you as my heir,
the future King.
That's if you want it so.
With all that I am.
They'II get your Iikeness
right the first time
and it will hang here,
King Jonathan of Gilboa.
Trouble sleeping?
The bed just feels too empty.
Red wine makes me sleep hard
for an hour, and then toss
and turn for seven after.
I'd take the hour.
Is something weighing on you?
There was a woman in
the Iobby in Unity Hall
today, just standing there.
And what did she want?
No idea.
I can't shake the image.
Don't Iet anything
bring you down.
You've been
a new man recently.
Your new advisor has
made you young again,
and once he's back,
you'II be able to
accomplish even more.
David.
I pass you and you're
born, flailing in blood.
I pass you again, and
you're at an age for Iove.
I never got to thank you
for taking care of David.
Sending him
on diplomatic training. I...
Just want you happy.
You've been telling me
for years to Iive my Iife.
You were right.
No regrets? For your vow?
Dolls and stories,
scared of the dark.
I couldn't stay
a Iittle girl forever.
I thought you might.
His heir.
Without supplication
or request.
A gift to be announced
on the day of my wedding.
Hardly a present,
to finally get what's owed,
but surely changes
our fortune.
And how is that?
I'II be King on my own
soon enough.
Your coup, we don't
need to ally ourselves
with the enemy.
No innocent people
have to die.
It may take more than
a month, Iike we want,
but it will happen.
We save all that blood.
You'II still be
by my side, as planned.
If you only had
half as much mind as charm.
Your father has no intention
of announcing anything
or going anywhere,
heaven or hell.
You've seen his Iies.
This is different.
He's different.
Hey!
No one ever changes.
You were given an offer
and you accepted.
In exchange, you ceded
your right to whim.
The change of power
happens on my clock.
Not his. Not yours.
With you at my side.
Silas falls, and soon.
And be sure, there will be
all the blood required.
The only turning back now
Ieaves you in the same ditch.
Go back to your fianc?e.
(SIGHS)
Get used to your Iife.
You're engaged now.
PERRY: There were times
the only answer would
have been to end the toil
and be done with it,
go back to what was,
but he pushed on
and progress was made,
steps taken against the wind
with hopes on success
despite everything.
(S IG HS)
(ENGINE FALTERING)
A-S-H
K-E-L-0-N.
(CELL PHONE BEEPS)
MAN: Edom Railyards.
I'm trying to track a shipment
that came in from Shiloh
a few weeks ago.
Yeah, we just got
a big shipment from Shiloh.
It came through Ekron.
You got a tracking number?
(CELL PHONE BEEPS)
(VEHICLE APPROACHING)
MAN: You got a problem
with your bike?
I need a ride
to the railyards.
JACK: God.
JACK: God, you're...
Jack.
(BOYS LAUGHING)
Lulu.
Stu and I were
just discussing
some security issues.
I'm sorry. We just got
the wedding invitations.
I wanted to show you.
That works.
Anything else?
DAVID: You guys from Ekron?
Gath.
I know. Wrong country.
We dodged the draft
a few years back.
Keeps us on the road.
Good boy.
Drinks all his milk.
Someone's yanking your Ieash.
Your neck must be rubbed raw.
Mmm. You're a mess.
Feels Iike nobody's
touched you in weeks.
You should ride with us.
(MOANS)
I made promises.
I'm trying to get someone
to trust me again.
If he was someone you
should trust, would you
be all the way out here,
cold and Ionely?
DAVID: I can't.
It's okay.
The rail yards.
Suit yourself.
(CLEARS THROAT)
What was that?
A goodbye.
Don't worry
about it. Rest.
You're on your way.
(PIANO MUSIC PLAYING)
(INHALES) One, two...
One and two and one
and two and...
Dad?
One and two and one
and two and one and two.
Follow the time, David.
You know the meter.
One and two.
One and two.
One and two.
One and two.
JUDAH: One and two.
One and two.
One and two. One...
Dad. Is it really you?
You haven't Iearned
your Iesson, David.
My Iesson?
Keep playing. If you stop,
I'II have to go.
One and two.
One and two. One and two.
Look at you.
You have practiced.
But I failed.
Remember what
I always told you.
If you find yourself Iost,
follow the time.
You'II find your way.
(DAVID GASPS)
(SIGHS)
It's time you Iearned
your Iesson, David.
Follow the time.
(TRAIN HORN BLARING)
Edom.
Which one?
(DAVID PANTS)
Where's the Charter?
Where is it?
Go to hell!
Where is it?
It's shipping out any minute.
You're too Iate.
You'II never find it.
ROSE: Your scores in protocol
training were impressive.
A gift for remembering names.
Now, that's good.
You also have appointments
this week. Medical exam,
psychological evaluation
and background check.
It's all routine,
but if there is
anything rattling
in your cupboard,
spare us the
embarrassment.
Dear, you're blushing.
(SIGHS) I flush when
I talk about myself.
(LAUGHS) Oh.
Well, it's hard to stay
shy in this home.
A Ievel of public exposure
is to be expected.
Your periods regular?
I beg your pardon?
Your fertility.
At issue,
front and center.
Have you ever
been pregnant?
No. Well,
I thought, once.
I'II be a good wife to Jack.
No. You're mistaken.
You're not marrying Jack.
You're marrying this country.
You accept that ring,
you become a vessel for
the propagation of his kind.
If you can't manage that,
you will have failed
your only employment.
The chef is waiting
in the kitchen.
Your choice on
the wedding cake.
She's sweet.
Sweet people try hard.
You're taking a cudgel
to an infant.
No. I'm being
honest with her.
We have three turbines
down, sir.
Faulty placement caused
stress from directional
cross-currents.
Faulty?
Initial research indicated
wind patterns since found
atypical for the area.
It's recommended
we tear down
existing turbines,
rebuild further east.
How can this not be
the right thing?
This may not be the change
the country needs.
Consider Iooking
elsewhere for your success.
No. No, no. Push on.
I want this done.
The mother of the hero.
The hero of my son.
You've been waiting here
some time. Can I help you?
I only wait for David.
We wait on him, too.
I'd be happy to send you
word of his return,
should he forget his
upbringing and neglect
to tell his mother.
You sent him somewhere.
I know it. You've done
something to him.
If David was charged somehow,
I can assure you
it was for a good cause
and you'II be proud.
You don't have good causes.
You pretend to be a good man.
Like you pretend
to be a young man.
But I don't wait here
out of worry,
but to see it when he
comes home victorious,
which he will.
His course is
set on something.
I tried to change it.
You set that monster Ioose.
And the shame of it is,
you and I,
we'II be the only ones
who will wish it never
happened,
and we'II have to watch.
(PANTING)
(PIANO MUSIC PLAYING FAINTLY)
JUDAH: If you find yourself
lost, follow the time.
You'll find your way.
You know the meter.
One and two.
(GASPING)
Geothermal drilling also
on hold, due to seismic
disturbance.
Construction on
the wind farms halted
pending assessment.
At this time, a timetable
for the King's Renewal
Initiative remains...
Indefinite.
You can still
renew the Iand.
Perhaps it is not
our energy that needs
to be cleaned first.
What, then?
Why does he reject
all my offerings?
(WHISPERS)
What is it?
It's the Charter.
It's back.
How?
Mom. You're here.
I just needed
to see you.
I'm fine.
(ALL CHEERING)
(CAMERAS CLICKING)
Let all know
I sent Captain David Shepherd
to bring back what
we had Iost. Our pride.
(CROWD CHEERING)
You called it
the price of worthiness
to be seen
with your daughter.
I did.
Much to discuss.
CIear the boardroom!
Call the Historical Archives.
Perry, stay.
Must have been
a hell of an adventure.
It tested my faith
in many things.
Did you intend
for me to rescue your Charter?
Or to die trying?
As perhaps you've
sent others to die before.
I intended it
a test of mettle.
No Iess than I would ask
my own natural born son,
to come out deserving or dead.
Then, here I am.
Here you are.
My eyes opened.
To see my arms open wide,
rejoicing in your triumph
and giving you Ieave to press
any noble intentions
on my daughter.
Our country welcomes home
its Charter
and its hero.
PERRY: It is the historian's
compulsion to look at events
and see in them the story
as it needs to be remembered.
As charged by the King,
a new book did begin
and a new day did dawn.
And on that day, a leader rose
whose name would be carried
as long as there is wind.
One who suffered and stumbled,
but did not fall.
Not as Silas would have it,
but as fate or necessity
or God would.
It falls to me
to write his story.
Do it.
Sir.
(MICHELLE SIGHS)
Is it going to be Iike this?
You going off and not
being able to tell me
where and for how Iong?
(WHISPERING) No.
No more secrets.
(DOG BARKING)
Hey, hey, hey.
Easy. Easy.
KING'S OWN: David Shepherd,
you're under arrest.
Has to be some mistake!
KING'S OWN: There's no
mistake. Writ from the Crown.
You come with us,
and now.
On what charge?
Treason.
(LAUGHS) This is a mistake.
Michelle, this is a mistake!
MICHELLE: David!
Previously on Kings...
You'II get no respect
in this court.
You accept it
and you move on.
By marrying me.
I always wanted
to be royalty.
(CLEARS THROAT)
You're nervous.
You wanted my answer,
I'm in. Deep as you need me.
Could you imagine
if your father
saw these?
He'd have
my head.
DAVID : Then, I should tell
your father about us now.
MICHELLE: You can't.
I already Iive
with God's disappointment.
I can't Iive with my father's.
What is your deepest secret?
I could keep nothing
from my king.
I've been Iying to you.
I told my dad everything.
PERRY: It began
with the Charter,
stolen.
(GLASS SHATTERING)
(ALARM BLARING)
It contained our history,
signed by our elders,
telling the story of our
liberties and our pride,
and it was taken.
From that day on, it was
as if a new story had begun.
By the order of the King,
I endeavor to write it.
(CHATTERING ON POLICE RADIO)
Times have already changed.
OFFICER: Y es, sir.
New relationships born
in hope now challenged.
Sixth grade, we took
a class trip to see
the Charter.
Who would have stolen it?
I don't know,
but I hate them.
HANSON: The people
will be devastated.
Who could have done this?
THOMASINA: Southern tribes
have always remained
hostile to the Crown.
RAINES: Wiretaps suggest
the Charter is en route to
the Ekron BIack Market hub.
Our national pride
in the hands of thugs.
We've gone to war
for Iess insult.
If it's a fight they want,
we'II bring it to them,
won't we, Captain Shepherd?
Leave us.
Perry, stay.
Step up, Captain.
My advisor.
You and I
are going to make
this tragedy into
an opportunity.
You will go south and
do whatever is necessary
to bring back what was stolen.
Sir, I know I Iied to you
about me and Michelle.
I know that was wrong.
I'd do whatever it takes
to earn your forgiveness.
Prove you're
better than a Iie.
The Charter was stolen.
Bring it back.
As you ask.
You will go now,
telling no one.
Not your family,
not Michelle.
Supported only
by your wits, a gun,
some money, and a phone,
should you wish to call
and declare failure.
Succeed, and history
will remember you,
and you will have
my forgiveness
and my daughter.
But come back empty-handed,
and that's all we'II see,
empty hands.
Yes, sir.
Well, then. Off you go.
PERRY: A dangerous journey,
embarked on with bravery.
PROSTITUTE:
Hey, baby.
Days passed without word
of the Charter.
THOMASINA: Two weeks,
and no news from
Captain Shepherd.
Dangerous country,
our southern border. Perhaps
he doesn't return at all.
You don't sound concerned.
Your faith was misplaced?
AII faith is misplaced.
His Iie belies his ambition,
whether he knows it or not.
But I see it.
What of the Charter?
To hell with the Charter.
Today, we start a new one.
It's time for me
to be the hero of
my country again.
No, sit. Sit.
I owe my country an apology.
The theft of
a national treasure
reflects not only on
security, but on me.
The Ioss, a Iesson
not to Iet stagnate
a country that should Iead.
Today, I make amends.
The Charter spoke of ideals.
Perry, Article Five.
"Never to mistake yesterday's
glory for tomorrow's security,
but to always exercise
"genius, judgment, and hope,
never to rest assured
"of what we have,
but to imagine...
"But to imagine what
we have yet to achieve."
So, Iet us imagine.
Example, energy.
How do we achieve
a 1 00% self-sufficient
clean energy-fueled Gilboa?
Don't be shy. Give me...
Give me some ideas.
Resume renovation
at Pella Dam.
A plan for wind farms
on the PIains of Dan is
in research stages.
Resume. Accelerate.
Talk to the young.
Learn to think how they think.
(INAUDIBLE CHATTERING)
Perry? Start a new book,
one to be read
1 000 years from now
about what began
here today.
How we found and
followed a vision.
The Book of Silas!
(CHEERING)
Stitch the waistline tighter.
I want to Iead
with my best assets.
(EXCLAIMS)
KATRINA: What do
you think, darling?
I don't. Isn't
that the point of
being the groom?
AII you have
to do is show up
and slide on the ring.
Speaking of which,
I should have a proper rock.
We have plenty
of stones in
the treasury.
I already found
a suitable diamond
my Iast trip to Austeria.
Twenty carats.
Perfect for when they
announce the engagement.
ROSE: Seeing the gown
before the wedding.
(SCOFFS)
No mind for superstition.
Well, young wives have nothing
to fear from old wives' tales.
They Iook
at her and Iaugh.
Hmm?
You had an eye on greatness
and the grip to hold it,
and you'd Iet
a quarrel with me
pair you to a Iaughingstock.
You had a more interesting
weakness than spite.
KATRINA: Hmm. Did I Iose
more weight? It just drops
off me when I'm happy.
You blackmailed him into this.
Jack accepted
my proposal freely,
happily,
once he saw the damage
it would do you.
It will never happen.
Of course, it will.
I'm his only chance
at happiness Ieft.
I know exactly what Jack is,
and I don't care.
With me,
Jack can be King by day
and a bad boy with whatever
boy he wants at night.
I might even join in.
When I marry Jack
and knock out an heir,
that will make you...
What? The royal granny?
While I take
your place as queen.
I'm off to Austeria
to buy a ring.
Perhaps I'II pick you up
something, Mother.
(BOTTLE SHATTERING)
Bourbon.
You hear a Iot tending bar.
People pay twice that
to keep me quiet.
I used to work in a garage.
I know what it's Iike
to be invisible.
People forget you're there.
They say things.
Trust me,
you're not that anonymous.
Errand boy for Silas,
combing the South
Iooking for the Charter.
Hitting every place
that moves product.
Go home
before you get hurt.
What you're Iooking for?
You're asking the
wrong people.
Are you the right one?
I'II talk to them. Let them
know you're shooting straight.
Don't worry.
Nobody here Iikes trouble.
(SIGHS)
GIRL: This is that guy
I was telling you about.
He's got a Iot of cash.
MAN: Call Ashkelon
before we deliver
the shipment.
(MAN SNIFFING)
How much?
Do you have the Charter?
No. We don't talk
until we know what you have.
Okay. Okay.
Do you have it?
Maybe I have it.
Maybe I don't.
(GRUNTING)
(DAVID GASPS)
MAN: (LAUGHS) Some hero.
SILAS: You see how much
we can accomplish?
AII it takes is a clear mind
and a path cleared
of obstruction.
My country is content.
Jack, engaged
to be respectable.
The engagement tonight,
you didn't ask me to get
your gift yet.
Oh, I have better
than a gift to offer.
(LAUGHS)
SILAS: Thomasina.
Who is that woman?
She's there every day,
just standing there.
Like a bitter
almond in the cake.
That's David Shepherd's
mother.
What does she want?
Do you wish her removed?
It's a public space.
OWEN: You haven't
eaten in days.
Take it.
You need your strength.
Eat. Have some coffee.
DAVID: You followed me
to the docks?
I couldn't just Iet you die
because you're an idiot,
but I don't see any sign
of that abating,
since you're
determined to find Ashkelon.
Ashkelon.
Is that who has
the Charter?
Just the word
that's where it went,
but you shouldn't
concern yourself with that.
Silas, he sent me
to find it.
Silas? He isn't worth
your next trip to the toilet.
Why?
Because of what he did
to your father.
My father? He fought
in Silas' army.
The 808th.
I was on the Southern front
when he was wounded at Somas.
No.
My dad...
He fought on
the Northern front.
Wounded at Foxland.
We fought up North
until we got the order.
A few border towns
were sympathetic to Gath.
Silas wanted an example made,
so he sent our unit
to torch a village
and scare the rest.
To kill your own?
We refused the order.
Silas wouldn't Iet that stand.
We had to die.
We were dropped,
defenseless and alone,
in the middle of heavy combat.
Your father got shot
while tying off my Ieg.
(KNOCKING ON PROSTHETIC LEG)
Silas would never do that.
Silas sent your father
to get killed, David,
just Iike he sent you
out on this mission
to get killed.
Now, you think about that
before you do anything
else for that bastard.
(SIGHS)
I'm going to need
something stronger
than coffee.
You have anything?
I'm a bartender.
(DOOR CLOSING)
Your son keeps us waiting
for his own engagement party.
Or perhaps it's
the future princess.
Let her have her moment.
Ah.
(APPLAUDING)
At Iong Iast,
I present to you
my future bride,
Lucinda Wolfson.
A shame what happened
to Katrina Ghent.
Oh, it's a tragedy.
Hmm.
But anyone foolish enough to
drive those mountain roads in
Austeria...
Uh-huh.
Or underestimate
the mother-in-Iaw.
(LAUGHS) Jack and Lucinda.
(VIOLINS PLAYING)
We are all terribly envious.
Not because you're royal
and beautiful and in Iove,
but because you are
just beginning.
And what's more
enviable than that?
May your every day
be a beginning.
We wouldn't be here
without you, Mother.
If I wake up and this is
a dream, I'm never going
to sleep again.
PHOTOGRAPHER: Sir?
Lucinda. You reset
the bar on Iovely.
Welcome to the family.
You'II find we're very warm.
Jack?
I'm glad to see
you're thinking
about your future.
It will come
before you know it.
(GLASSES CLINKING)
SILAS: Your mother ordered
the picture redone
three times.
Too dark
under the eyes.
It's a powerful Iikeness.
Your sacrifices haven't
gone unnoticed.
Or your new discipline.
We've had difficult
conversations.
I bade you retouch
your image the same,
feign Iikeness under
the eyes, and you did.
I answer to you, sir.
It can't have been easy,
fabulizing on that scale,
taking a new fianc?e
when you could have been free.
It wasn't for nothing,
or for shame,
or a Iesson on the cruelty
of being a king.
Well, you'II experience
that soon enough.
Sir?
You heard me.
An engagement gift.
On the day
of your wedding,
I will stand before all
and designate this country
a blood dynasty,
with you as my heir,
the future King.
That's if you want it so.
With all that I am.
They'II get your Iikeness
right the first time
and it will hang here,
King Jonathan of Gilboa.
Trouble sleeping?
The bed just feels too empty.
Red wine makes me sleep hard
for an hour, and then toss
and turn for seven after.
I'd take the hour.
Is something weighing on you?
There was a woman in
the Iobby in Unity Hall
today, just standing there.
And what did she want?
No idea.
I can't shake the image.
Don't Iet anything
bring you down.
You've been
a new man recently.
Your new advisor has
made you young again,
and once he's back,
you'II be able to
accomplish even more.
David.
I pass you and you're
born, flailing in blood.
I pass you again, and
you're at an age for Iove.
I never got to thank you
for taking care of David.
Sending him
on diplomatic training. I...
Just want you happy.
You've been telling me
for years to Iive my Iife.
You were right.
No regrets? For your vow?
Dolls and stories,
scared of the dark.
I couldn't stay
a Iittle girl forever.
I thought you might.
His heir.
Without supplication
or request.
A gift to be announced
on the day of my wedding.
Hardly a present,
to finally get what's owed,
but surely changes
our fortune.
And how is that?
I'II be King on my own
soon enough.
Your coup, we don't
need to ally ourselves
with the enemy.
No innocent people
have to die.
It may take more than
a month, Iike we want,
but it will happen.
We save all that blood.
You'II still be
by my side, as planned.
If you only had
half as much mind as charm.
Your father has no intention
of announcing anything
or going anywhere,
heaven or hell.
You've seen his Iies.
This is different.
He's different.
Hey!
No one ever changes.
You were given an offer
and you accepted.
In exchange, you ceded
your right to whim.
The change of power
happens on my clock.
Not his. Not yours.
With you at my side.
Silas falls, and soon.
And be sure, there will be
all the blood required.
The only turning back now
Ieaves you in the same ditch.
Go back to your fianc?e.
(SIGHS)
Get used to your Iife.
You're engaged now.
PERRY: There were times
the only answer would
have been to end the toil
and be done with it,
go back to what was,
but he pushed on
and progress was made,
steps taken against the wind
with hopes on success
despite everything.
(S IG HS)
(ENGINE FALTERING)
A-S-H
K-E-L-0-N.
(CELL PHONE BEEPS)
MAN: Edom Railyards.
I'm trying to track a shipment
that came in from Shiloh
a few weeks ago.
Yeah, we just got
a big shipment from Shiloh.
It came through Ekron.
You got a tracking number?
(CELL PHONE BEEPS)
(VEHICLE APPROACHING)
MAN: You got a problem
with your bike?
I need a ride
to the railyards.
JACK: God.
JACK: God, you're...
Jack.
(BOYS LAUGHING)
Lulu.
Stu and I were
just discussing
some security issues.
I'm sorry. We just got
the wedding invitations.
I wanted to show you.
That works.
Anything else?
DAVID: You guys from Ekron?
Gath.
I know. Wrong country.
We dodged the draft
a few years back.
Keeps us on the road.
Good boy.
Drinks all his milk.
Someone's yanking your Ieash.
Your neck must be rubbed raw.
Mmm. You're a mess.
Feels Iike nobody's
touched you in weeks.
You should ride with us.
(MOANS)
I made promises.
I'm trying to get someone
to trust me again.
If he was someone you
should trust, would you
be all the way out here,
cold and Ionely?
DAVID: I can't.
It's okay.
The rail yards.
Suit yourself.
(CLEARS THROAT)
What was that?
A goodbye.
Don't worry
about it. Rest.
You're on your way.
(PIANO MUSIC PLAYING)
(INHALES) One, two...
One and two and one
and two and...
Dad?
One and two and one
and two and one and two.
Follow the time, David.
You know the meter.
One and two.
One and two.
One and two.
One and two.
JUDAH: One and two.
One and two.
One and two. One...
Dad. Is it really you?
You haven't Iearned
your Iesson, David.
My Iesson?
Keep playing. If you stop,
I'II have to go.
One and two.
One and two. One and two.
Look at you.
You have practiced.
But I failed.
Remember what
I always told you.
If you find yourself Iost,
follow the time.
You'II find your way.
(DAVID GASPS)
(SIGHS)
It's time you Iearned
your Iesson, David.
Follow the time.
(TRAIN HORN BLARING)
Edom.
Which one?
(DAVID PANTS)
Where's the Charter?
Where is it?
Go to hell!
Where is it?
It's shipping out any minute.
You're too Iate.
You'II never find it.
ROSE: Your scores in protocol
training were impressive.
A gift for remembering names.
Now, that's good.
You also have appointments
this week. Medical exam,
psychological evaluation
and background check.
It's all routine,
but if there is
anything rattling
in your cupboard,
spare us the
embarrassment.
Dear, you're blushing.
(SIGHS) I flush when
I talk about myself.
(LAUGHS) Oh.
Well, it's hard to stay
shy in this home.
A Ievel of public exposure
is to be expected.
Your periods regular?
I beg your pardon?
Your fertility.
At issue,
front and center.
Have you ever
been pregnant?
No. Well,
I thought, once.
I'II be a good wife to Jack.
No. You're mistaken.
You're not marrying Jack.
You're marrying this country.
You accept that ring,
you become a vessel for
the propagation of his kind.
If you can't manage that,
you will have failed
your only employment.
The chef is waiting
in the kitchen.
Your choice on
the wedding cake.
She's sweet.
Sweet people try hard.
You're taking a cudgel
to an infant.
No. I'm being
honest with her.
We have three turbines
down, sir.
Faulty placement caused
stress from directional
cross-currents.
Faulty?
Initial research indicated
wind patterns since found
atypical for the area.
It's recommended
we tear down
existing turbines,
rebuild further east.
How can this not be
the right thing?
This may not be the change
the country needs.
Consider Iooking
elsewhere for your success.
No. No, no. Push on.
I want this done.
The mother of the hero.
The hero of my son.
You've been waiting here
some time. Can I help you?
I only wait for David.
We wait on him, too.
I'd be happy to send you
word of his return,
should he forget his
upbringing and neglect
to tell his mother.
You sent him somewhere.
I know it. You've done
something to him.
If David was charged somehow,
I can assure you
it was for a good cause
and you'II be proud.
You don't have good causes.
You pretend to be a good man.
Like you pretend
to be a young man.
But I don't wait here
out of worry,
but to see it when he
comes home victorious,
which he will.
His course is
set on something.
I tried to change it.
You set that monster Ioose.
And the shame of it is,
you and I,
we'II be the only ones
who will wish it never
happened,
and we'II have to watch.
(PANTING)
(PIANO MUSIC PLAYING FAINTLY)
JUDAH: If you find yourself
lost, follow the time.
You'll find your way.
You know the meter.
One and two.
(GASPING)
Geothermal drilling also
on hold, due to seismic
disturbance.
Construction on
the wind farms halted
pending assessment.
At this time, a timetable
for the King's Renewal
Initiative remains...
Indefinite.
You can still
renew the Iand.
Perhaps it is not
our energy that needs
to be cleaned first.
What, then?
Why does he reject
all my offerings?
(WHISPERS)
What is it?
It's the Charter.
It's back.
How?
Mom. You're here.
I just needed
to see you.
I'm fine.
(ALL CHEERING)
(CAMERAS CLICKING)
Let all know
I sent Captain David Shepherd
to bring back what
we had Iost. Our pride.
(CROWD CHEERING)
You called it
the price of worthiness
to be seen
with your daughter.
I did.
Much to discuss.
CIear the boardroom!
Call the Historical Archives.
Perry, stay.
Must have been
a hell of an adventure.
It tested my faith
in many things.
Did you intend
for me to rescue your Charter?
Or to die trying?
As perhaps you've
sent others to die before.
I intended it
a test of mettle.
No Iess than I would ask
my own natural born son,
to come out deserving or dead.
Then, here I am.
Here you are.
My eyes opened.
To see my arms open wide,
rejoicing in your triumph
and giving you Ieave to press
any noble intentions
on my daughter.
Our country welcomes home
its Charter
and its hero.
PERRY: It is the historian's
compulsion to look at events
and see in them the story
as it needs to be remembered.
As charged by the King,
a new book did begin
and a new day did dawn.
And on that day, a leader rose
whose name would be carried
as long as there is wind.
One who suffered and stumbled,
but did not fall.
Not as Silas would have it,
but as fate or necessity
or God would.
It falls to me
to write his story.
Do it.
Sir.
(MICHELLE SIGHS)
Is it going to be Iike this?
You going off and not
being able to tell me
where and for how Iong?
(WHISPERING) No.
No more secrets.
(DOG BARKING)
Hey, hey, hey.
Easy. Easy.
KING'S OWN: David Shepherd,
you're under arrest.
Has to be some mistake!
KING'S OWN: There's no
mistake. Writ from the Crown.
You come with us,
and now.
On what charge?
Treason.
(LAUGHS) This is a mistake.
Michelle, this is a mistake!
MICHELLE: David!