Tut (2015): Season 1, Episode 3 - Part Three: Destiny - full transcript

Previously, on tut...

within his own palace,
we maneuver against him.

King of kings...
He has risen.

You told me at the pyramids

You want to be remembered
as a great pharaoh.

The mitanni
are still a threat.

You cannot defeat them
without me.

I will have to.

We both think we know
how this is going to end,

And one of us is wrong.

Stay close the vizier.
He must be handled.



We are running out of options.

More and more of my people
succumb to this illness.

It must end here.

Your parents
have come to thebes.

Then i must
find them.

Only if sete is with you.

Go inside.

I trust you will reveal
to no one.

You have my word.

May the gods honor you.

Sete! Sete!

death awaits us all.

no...No.

Whom can i trust?



No one.

* *

* *

Apologies, my lord.

Suhad hasn't been seen
in several hours.

Several hours?

The palace
has been searched.

Perhaps she went into the city
to another market?

No, no, she knows better than
to leave without my permission.

Exactly the reason
she would have done so.

This isn't her world.

She's shown in the past
her independence.

I'm sorry to interrupt.

- What is it?
- There's a guard.

He saw suhad leaving
the queen's chamber earlier.

Where is she?

Where is who?

Suhad.

She was seen
leaving your chamber.

Hours ago, yes.

She spoke to me
about seeing her parents,

But i told her that it could
wait until the crisis was over.

In amurru?

The girl was swept
from her village

With little time
for good-byes.

Perhaps feeling the pressure
of so much expectation...

Why would she come to you?

Because you are the pharaoh,
and i didn't think

That you should be bothered
with such trivial matters

When thousands of your citizens
are about to be burned alive.

Was i wrong, brother?

No, you weren't.
As i said before...

Silence.

Have the elite guards
search every street in thebes.

Every market,
every temple, everywhere.

I want every guard
in this palace questioned,

Including the queen's.

I'll lead the effort myself.

Physician, why am i still
being held prisoner?

You are not.

You are well enough to go,

But your father
wants you to stay.

He doesn't control me.

What are you doing here?

do you know where she is?

- Go back to sleep.
- Is she in trouble?

- She's of no importance.
- I like her.

I'm not in the mood.

She's the only one
in the palace

Who isn't scheming
to be someone she's not.

I include myself in that...

And you.

she's with child,

And you know
there cannot be an heir.

Then you've answered
my question.

No, i haven't.

I don't know
what's happened to her.

That's the truth.

Your truth
has always been

A matter of perception,
father.

* *

General horemheb,

You carried out
your massacre flawlessly.

Choose your words
carefully, high priest.

They were chosen
deliberately.

Enough.

The people must know
we stand together on this,

That it was not done
without purpose.

If that is your wish,
pharaoh,

Then that is how
they will perceive it.

You saved lives,
the city, the very kingdom.

Hold it.

Some of them
are still alive.

And still infected.

Orders are to burn them
and bury them in pits.

By order of the pharaoh,

Help me get this woman
off this cart now.

king tushratta
knows this game well.

If you are right
about his numbers,

He will move
his forces out

Into the open desert
where i cannot defeat him.

You're certain he's allied
himself with hittites?

Yes, lagus said he witnessed
kadesh assembling as well.

These are nomadic tribes

Concerned only
for their own interests.

Which they will now have
in common, to destroy egypt.

They will follow him
to that end.

There may be another way.

Why not at least
prepare what we have?

As i've said, the mitanni will
only respect a show of force.

the disease took so many.

We have no force to show them.

My lord.

Inside.

What is it?

She is in grave condition,
my lord.

Hardly any breath,

But she is alive.

What happened to her?

She was in the quarantine

About to be carted off
to the pits

With the other bodies.

I've treated the burns
as best i could,

But her lungs have been
scorched from the inside.

I see little chance
she will survive.

The baby, for the moment,
still lives.

Did you know about this?

No.

Expand your interrogation to
anyone near the quarantine area.

Someone knows.

You cannot afford
any more chances.

I cannot afford?

I did not send her
into the flames, my queen.

Yes, you've insulated yourself
as you always do.

Can sete be trusted?

Can you?

I'll always protect you,

You know that,

But this must be done my way,
no loose ends.

No, ay.

Sete would give his life
for me.

I will see to it
that the pharaoh's guards

Do not get to him.

Do you understand?

But why must i leave
the palace?

The pharaoh is determined,
sete.

But i'm trying
to protect you.

No one else knows.

Who?

Someone with the power
to silence you.

The vizier?

The man will
have me killed.

I've arranged for you to go

Without the vizier or any
of the pharaoh's men knowing.

No one will ever know
what you've done.

Thank you.

Your queen
will always be grateful.

You have served your kingdom.

Tonight you will be
with the gods.

* *

My lord, prince tis'ata
of the mitanni.

I am here as the voice
of my father,

The great king tushratta
of the mitanni empire.

- He has requested words.
- Granted.

The mitanni and its allies
outnumber your army five to one.

With great compassion,
my king has withheld invasion.

He feels it's senseless
to waste so many lives.

You are aware,
as is my king,

That you have no chance
of defending your kingdom.

Outnumbered or not,

I have an army
that will fight to the death.

That's exactly
what it would be.

To the death.

You know that.

King tushratta knows it,

But he is willing to offer
terms of peace.

And what is his offer?

Relinquish your capital.

All territories
south remain yours,

But thebes and the great river
it rests upon

Will no longer carry the weight
of egyptian rule.

The citizens of egypt
will be treated with respect

And may stay within the new
mitanni empire if they choose.

If you do not agree
to these terms, however,

King tushratta and his allies

Will obliterate the city
and kill them all.

I will consider
the king's terms.

Silence.

In the meantime,
the pleasures of thebes

Will be yours as long as
you remain my guest.

Leave us.

You as well.

General horemheb.

He speaks the truth
about his numbers.

I know of no strategy
to defeat him in open battle.

You advise we capitulate?

No, but it will be a fight
to the death, as he said.

Then they will take thebes,

By their terms or by force.

Which means
whatever choice i make,

The light of this kingdom
will be extinguished.

I wonder if she is not
in the more enviable position.

What is it that makes you
so drawn to her?

There is no answer for that,
not unlike you and ka.

Then you must love her

More than anything
in all the world.

You are not here
out of concern for her.

No.

What's your answer
to the mitanni?

I will reveal that
to the prince.

Am i no longer
your confidante?

This is our kingdom,
brother, not just yours.

You will have to learn
to trust my judgment.

I'm trying to.

I have debated
with my advisors,

The gods,

And most importantly, myself.

King tushratta
holds the advantage,

I cannot deny that,

But we are proud people,

And i would rather let
the nile river run with blood

Before ceding it to you
without a fight.

Silence.

So instead,

I offer
my own peace terms.

We have suffered from illness,
that much is true,

But the mitanni
have suffered worse

From drought
and starvation.

Your people are suffering
and dying.

Inform your king

That he will receive 100 carts
stocked with bread,

Millet, and wine...

Enough to feed his people
until the rains come again.

Your last gift was not received
as well as you had hoped.

My last gift was for you,
prince tis'ata.

This one is not.

This is for your people.

Tell your father
he has misjudged me.

If he refuses,

Egypt will stand against
all the armies of the world,

And when we can no longer stand,

I will burn the fields.

I will burn our grain.

I will burn the water itself.

Ask him if he wants a war

With no victor.

I make no promises.

Tell your father
i have made mine.

See him from this room.

Have the carts made ready.

What?

And feed the very army
he intends to send against us?

Yes.

You intend to poison them?

No.
He'll test the food.

It must be clean.

Oh, so you intend to hide
my men under the bread and grain

Or march up to his gate
before the gift gets there?

Tell me, what is your plan

Now that you have eliminated
their one disadvantage?

It is not their only
disadvantage.

Bring me your best commanders,
general, no more than 40.

What good are 40 men
going to do against a...

I know another way
into the mitanni palace.

They will not see us coming.

Have your men made ready.

Lagus,

Arrange for plenty of wine

Among my gift
to the mitanni.

Pardon, pharaoh,

The gods must be satisfied
before you face this challenge.

You speak to the pharaoh
of tribute

When we face annihilation?

The gods watch you.
They know your thoughts.

They know your heart.

They give you rain, sun,

The very crops
you now give away,

But most of all,
they will give you victory

If you prove
your devotion to them.

When this war is over,

High priest,

The gods themselves
will be devoted to me.

That will be all.

Lagus, a moment.

Yes, my lord?

What is your counsel?

The high priest moves
against you in your absence.

He should be arrested.

That will not quell
his influence.

It might only prove his words.

The high priest and his army

Are more powerful
than horemheb's entire infantry.

I will deal with him
soon enough, carefully.

One enemy at a time.

The high priest,

He's right.

The gods and past pharaohs

Will watch as i leave
for battle tomorrow.

They'll see if i'm the first
to lose this sacred land.

Yet here, here is my tomb.

Tell me, am i deserving
of such a monument?

The gods favor our victory.

You will be considered
the greatest pharaoh

Egypt has ever known.

Tell me the truth,

Not what you think
i want to hear.

Truth is a matter
of perception, my king,

And in this case there's no way
to answer your question.

Only history will tell.

That one there, being built
for a wealthy nobleman,

A man of common blood,

And no matter how it is dressed
or fashioned for the gods,

1,000 years from now
it will have vanished.

The ground will cover it.

Another tomb will be built
over it.

No one will know
it was here.

No one will know
he was here.

Now, should he be forgotten
and not i?

Yes.

Yes.

The gods decided that long ago,
long before you were born,

Long before your grandfather
was born.

Your blood is theirs.

I will be sent to the gods
in a tomb such as that.

You will be risen as a god.

Who will guard me
in the afterworld?

The gods
of the high priest amun?

Or aten,
like my father wished?

You're treading
a dangerous path.

Not if amun
and his army of priests

Are no longer able
to manipulate my people.

You will
see this through, ay,

Whether i return or not.

Exiling the high priest
will not be enough.

How bold, that he remains so
confident of his resting place

When he is on the verge
of losing the entire kingdom.

This can no longer
be settled peacefully.

That won't be an easy task.

It's been done before.

Akhenaten's support
had diminished.

Tutankhamun's popularity
grows.

The will of the people is
controlled by the gods, vizier.

The gods speak through me.

You would do well to remember
that when you take his place.

* *

I must leave you,
my love.

When i return,
i will make you my wife,

And we will raise our son
as heir to my throne...

And we will once again
visit the pyramids.

* *

Tutankhamun.

Pharaoh of egypt.

To conquest.

To victory.

To make our kingdom whole.

But our nation
cannot be whole

If tutankhamun fulfills
his promise

To honor aten as himself.

The fields will become dry.

The great river
will cease to flow.

Your people,

Who pay tribute by the blood
of their hands, will perish.

* *

the pharaoh will strip
the temples of your wealth.

The pharaoh will strip
you of your power and influence.

The pharaoh
will remove your gods

From the people of egypt.

amun-ra has spoken through me.

Tutankhamun is not a god
amongst the living.

He cannot be allowed
to commit this blasphemous act.

The festival of ra
awaits him.

It is then, when the people
are delirious with drink,

That amun-ra
will speak to all.

It is then that he will
strike down this heathen lord

Through you,
his true believers.

It is then

That tutankhamun
will be removed

From this world!

* *

I have mourned,
and he has sacrificed what?

Nothing!

He continues to gain
while i continue to bleed.

Wounds that will heal.

No, ay, wounds that will be
ripped open when she wakes.

She shows no signs.

The gods will take her,
my queen.

Calm yourself.

You cannot expose
yourself again.

Ah!

My queen.

My queen, do not.

It just happened,
my lady.

I'll find the doctor.

Leave us.

What's...what's happened?

Why am i here?

You were badly injured.

- Injured?
- You don't remember?

Your baby is fine.

Then what happened to me?

You were found
in the quarantine, the fire.

Do you have any idea
why you would have been there?

Why would i possibly be
in the quarantine?

There's been no answer
to that question.

Lie down, my child.

There, now.

The gods have answered
the pharaoh's prayers.

Where is he?

He'll be back soon.

Rest,
do as the doctor says.

You're safe now.

It isn't the first time
i've bled.

Let the girl rest.

Let her mind clear.

Then we will know
what memories pose a threat.

She is a threat
regardless.

Yes,
but if she can't remember,

Then we do not need
to act in haste.

Do not expose
yourself needlessly again.

Do you understand?

Yes.

It's already beginning
to heal...

My queen.

* *

* *

The boy king
feeds the very army

That will soon destroy
his kingdom.

Allow the men to feast.

* *

* *

This one is spoiled.

Stop!

Resin.

Fire.

* *

Fire.

* *

It's the egyptians.

Send in the guards.

* *

Fire.

We know now how this ends.

Fight like a god.

* *

* *

can you still fight?

I'm fine.

Then go finish this,
my lord.

Finish it!

* *

I was expecting you,

But your sword will soon
be dripping with your own blood

As well as mine.

It is all lost.

The mitanni people
will never bow to you.

They will never have to.

We must return to thebes.

Thebes can wait.

You think
the high priest waits?

My lord,
that bone is broken.

Without proper medicine
it will become infected.

No.

No, we will ride
through dawn,

And you will
help me stand.

You have your army now,
my lord.

You have us all.

Rise, my friend.

My lady,
you're still too weak.

I will get you the water.

I want to see sete.

Sete's gone.

Gone?

I was told he went to care
for his family in koptos.

Then please tell the vizier
that i would...

Madam?

Vizier.

I need to tell you...

I remember what happened.

It was you.

I'm sorry?

You were trying to protect me.

My parents came to see me
here in thebes.

You offered to look
for them yourself,

Bring them back
to the palace,

But that the pharaoh
should know nothing about it,

That he wouldn't approve.

Are my parents here?

No, but there was
a misunderstanding.

To be certain,
i sent a messenger to amurru,

And they're there.

They're safe.

Then why would i think that
they were in thebes, vizier?

I believe
the message was simply

That they intended to come,
another misunderstanding.

I left the palace
to find them.

I...

I remember
being mistaken for others

Who were being taken
into the quarantine.

After that
i can't remember anything.

If you're concerned
that the pharaoh

Will hold you responsible,

I will tell him the truth.

The pharaoh
will be angry with you

If he learns you put yourself
in harm's way.

I will tell him
i encouraged you to go.

I will pray for mercy.

He will grant it,

And that will
be the end of the matter.

I know why you're doing this,

To once again
try and protect me.

When the pharaoh returns,

I will say nothing
about any of it.

It will remain a mystery.

That will be the end of it.

Out.

She knows.

She told you?

No, she's too clever for that.

She puts the blame on herself,
but she was testing me.

She knows what happened.

She's going to reveal it all
to the pharaoh.

Are you sure that you're
not being paranoid?

Did she implicate me?

Perhaps she's telling the truth
and she knows nothing.

I saw it in her eyes.

As you so valiantly
told me...

We mustn't expose
ourselves needlessly.

I don't think
she's that clever.

my lady?

Nahkt.

I didn't mean to scare you.

What are you doing here?

You'd rather i leave?

No.

No, i'm happy to see you.

I'm just surprised.

I wanted to see
how you were feeling.

We're friends, i thought.

We are.

Nahkt, will you help me?

Anything.

I need to deliver
a message to the pharaoh

Before his return.

Only my father
has permission

To send correspondence
to the pharaoh.

But you could find a way.

You're the vizier's son.

What is the message
that's so important

That it has to be sent now?

I don't want to tell you.

Does your father
really control you

The way he controls
everyone else?

Of course he does.

Not if you
don't want him to.

I carry the pharaoh's heir.

I'll be made queen.

Nahkt, please.

You will not tell him?

I will not tell
the vizier most of all.

You seek prayer?

You've made
your proclamation.

It is the will of the gods.

It is the will of the people.

My priests are ready, vizier.

Are you?

I am here to reaffirm
past promises.

Akhenaten's religion
dies with tutankhamun.

You will keep your temples
and your priests.

They will be yours to command.

This pleases the gods.

You will be well rewarded.

But this cannot
be done alone.

Others have reason to see
the pharaoh removed from power,

Others who can be used
to our advantage.

You speak of general horemheb.

His ambitions are not
consistent with my own.

Once it is done,
he too can be removed.

You have the general's ear?

I will.

Do not make a move
until i say it is time,

You understand?

The festival of ra
will be in place?

A day we will all celebrate
for years to come.

Suhad asked me to have
this delivered to the pharaoh.

Do you know what it says?

Should i read it to you?

Lies.

No, they're not.

Then why didn't you send it?

Are you going to kill her,
like she says,

To ensure there is no heir
when you kill the pharaoh?

You think i would plot
to kill our king?

Are you going to kill her?

Yes, i am.

For reasons
you fully understand.

Like you killed my mother.

I loved your mother.

Did you kill her?

No, son.

You despised her
for what she did.

I despised myself for
not giving her the happiness

Of a child.

She hated herself more
for what then happened.

She took poison.

That's how she died.

She took her own life.

She wouldn't have left me.

She wasn't of sound mind.

She was not of sound mind.

You're still my son.

You'll be by my side,

Together.

What are you going to do?

I was raised by you, father.

Do you really think
i was her friend?

I liked her,

But how could i
be her friend

When she carries an heir?

The queen will never
have a child,

Which leaves only me
when you are pharaoh.

I will need your help.

* *

* *

Yah!

Yah!

Ohh!

* *

* *

No.
No.

No.

* *

I am so sorry, my lord.

She passed from this world
only a short time ago.

This cannot be.

This cannot be the will
of the gods.

What happened?

What happened, ay?

Look at me!

You will get on your feet.

Get on your feet!

I've been repeating

A thousand lies
to myself, brother.

But i'm tired of lying.

I was protecting us.

You were protecting us?

Our blood,

Our dynasty,

Just as you did
when you killed ka.

Ka left me for dead.

She did
the same thing to me

The moment she came
into this palace.

She was with my child.

Were you to have
a mitanni heir?

Was that to be your dynasty?

I loved her.

When has that ever mattered?

You know in your heart

That you could never
be with her.

You are wrong.

She was all i had left
in my heart.

Imprison her.

When the festival is concluded
and the people of this city

Once again bask
in the glory of their kingdom,

They will bear witness
to your execution.

No! No! No.

No, no.

Lagus.

Stay close to him,
please.

I will not leave
his side again.

Such a thin line

Between life and death...

A reminder
of just how fragile we are.

So much vibrancy,
youthful energy.

Seems so little
next to the will of the gods.

If this was indeed
the will of the gods,

All the more reason
to abandon them.

Or to heed their wrath.

This is proof
they do not sit idle.

Nor will i, while you
turn my people against me.

They are not against you,
my lord.

They merely stand for something
that transcends us all.

And soon they will be free
from your subjugation.

Protection,
pharaoh tutankhamun.

Shame it was
not offered to her,

But then...

She was not
a person of faith, was she?

Yes, she was,

But it was her own...

Not imposed
by a false prophet.

You speak blasphemy.

Then tell your gods
to strike me down!

Tell them i am waiting!

Until they do,

Continue your preparations
for the festival.

And pray to those gods
for your own protection.

No.

I will pray for yours,

As i always have.

He would have known...

Even if he hadn't seen
the bruises.

I said
i would protect you.

Protect what?

He'll never look at me
the same way again.

Soon that may not matter.

Whatever you're scheming...

There are forces at work
beyond even my control.

You did
what you had to do.

So must i.

Do not hurt him, ay.

He's already a wounded man.

There are some wounds
that cannot be healed.

You cannot continue to stand
on this leg, my lord.

I have little choice.

Then you are choosing
between life and death.

He's right.
You must rest.

Let the medicine work.

He will be carried.

The pharaoh
is in grave danger.

Yes, he is.

There can be no delay.

Is everything in order?

Yes.

The people yearn to celebrate
their king's victory.

They need to see you
are unscathed from battle.

Except he's not.

Ay is right, lagus.

This only works
when the high priest

Makes his move.

I cannot show
any weakness.

By nightfall,
this will be over.

By nightfall,
you will be dead.

I'll have the litter ready.

Cover the wound.

No one can know.

I don't share
your trust in him.

I know his ambitions,

But we cannot do this
without him.

Now come, help me dress.

It's a very simple question,
general.

Do you want him dead?

That's not
a simple question, priest.

You will bleed
if he remains in power.

You've heard
what the vizier said.

He has not forgiven
you for treason.

He intends
to move on us both,

And we must strike first.

Once he's gone,
you'll have your army.

The question remains.

Do you want him dead?

Do you want me
to kill him?

It will not be enough
to kill only tutankhamun.

Everyone loyal to him...

Ministers,
personal guards, servants...

They must all be eliminated
simultaneously.

Do you agree?

General?

Agreed.

you will strike
against the palace.

My priests will converge
on the pharaoh.

He will see you coming.

I don't think
you appreciate

My unique position
within this city.

My priests are one
with the people.

But the pharaoh
must be exposed.

I've already seen to that.

Will your men
carry this out?

Will yours?

It's one thing to take
a man's soul, priest.

Quite another
to take his life.

My priests are more versed
than you think.

The festival begins shortly.

Try and stay sober.

Timing is everything.

* *

* *

* *

* *

Creator of the staff of life,

Arbiter of the final breath,

Dread lord of extinction.

Your greatness,
the pharaoh has arrived.

Secure the entrance.

Report to me
when he's in position.

* *

Blade of endings,

Judgment of the true gods.

* *

It is done, my lord.

They're all dead,
high priest.

- My priests!
- All of them.

My priests!

all of them.

My people are no longer
under your control.

I speak for the gods.

I am their voice.

You are...

You no longer speak
for anyone.

As your life
slips away from you,

Know that your body will be
disposed without ceremony,

Exiling you
to eternal darkness.

Stay here.

Find the physician.

You stay with us, my lord.

It's not your time.

We've gone too far.

Stay with me.

There is no way
to save him?

He is in the hands
of the gods.

Then give him peace.

You as well, lagus.

I will not leave him.

Bring me ankhesenamun.

Do this for me,
my friend.

My lord.

If it is time for you
to join the gods,

Then know...

That you have left
this kingdom

Free from all her enemies.

The most treacherous
enemy of all

Is the one no one knows.

I asked you
whom i can trust.

Do you remember
what you said?

No one.

I am soon to face
that truth.

You will face it as well.

There is no real truth
in this world...

Only one's perception of it.

There is not much time.

I know you
haven't forgiven me.

But i'm grateful
that i'm allowed to see you.

You are still my blood.

You are still my sister.

What have i left
for this world?

For what purpose?

I was not a builder
of great monuments,

Not a conqueror
of great lands.

I will be forgotten

In the sand and time.

You will be remembered
as a pharaoh

Who understood
the dignity of other men,

A pharaoh
who would not waste

The blood of his own

To steal the riches
of others,

A pharaoh...

Who ruled
not for himself

But for his people.

That is the ideal

Of a great
and lasting king,

And that is how you,

Pharaoh tutankhamun...

My brother...

Will be remembered.

Will you stay with me
until the end?

Yes.

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