Bullies

I fled the field of battle. I've brought shame on the whole city.

Alexander isn't coming back.

What about the search parties?

We've called them off.

My husband isn't dead.

Achilles and the Myrmidons are refusing to fight.

That's 500 of their best men.

Then we have to move quickly.

Enlist more men over 14 and under 40.

One hour, or you know what they'll do to her.

The horses! They're gone from the stables.

- What? - Greeks! Attacking!

Get the men out there. Now!

To the wall! Move!

Lord Pandarus is a determined man.

He will find out the truth...

..unless you open that door.

Aphrodite, why have you done this to me?

I won't let you take him.

No!

*TROY : Fall of a City* Season 01 Episode 06

Episode Title : "Battle on the Beach"

Are you all right, son?

I saw you...

..as-as a boy...

..at the city games.

You wrestled your brother.

It was a good fight.

Did I fight well?

What did you do before you became a soldier?

Blacksmith's apprentice.

For your father?

I am an orphan.

No.

No, you are a son of Troy.

I'm ready to give my life for her.

What's your name?

Astyanax.

What was it like?

Did you fight near Hector?

Did you kill any Greeks?

I wish I could have been there with you.

- They slaughtered us. - What?

You are not a soldier, you're a boy.

And you are not going out there.

I will fight for my city if I want to!

Like you.

Like all men.

The young were supposed to be kept in reserve.

I ordered it.

The enemy cut through our lines.

There was no choice but to send in the reinforcements.

The Greeks celebrate outside our walls.

They can see victory on the horizon.

Pissing distance from the wall, and still we can't get in.

Not without the Myrmidons, no.

When this is over,

I want 1,000 songs written about the craven Myrmidons.

One thousand tales of how they sat on their arses

while we did the fighting.

As long as you aren't expecting me to sing any of them.

She watched.

I sent Paris running like a scared child from my sword.

And still she stays behind her wall.

Odysseus has been sent back to speak to Achilles.

Perhaps he can work his magic.

How come you're alive?

Are you dangerous?

So am I.

Penthesilea.

Our Amazon Queen.

How'd you come to be in the river?

What's your name?

You're a soldier.

You're a long way from any battlefield.

You think it's barbaric.

I had him searching for the man who was betraying us.

As it turned out, that man was him.

Perhaps it is barbaric.

But the war isn't just outside these walls.

It is in here.

It's with us.

It's in the streets, in the houses, in the shadows of Troy.

Let him be a lesson to us all...

..that treachery wears a friendly face.

And this is how it ends.

Helen.

You found me.

I told you to get him out of the city, not kill him.

I tried, but he would not be persuaded.

You're lying.

He was going to take it to the King with a letter of accusation.

You know I can get you out.

I wouldn't need long.

A night's preparation, that's all.

I didn't ask for that.

You don't need to.

Draw.

Loose!

We found this.

Do Troy's common soldiers carry weapons like this?

I am Alexander, son of Priam.

Prince of Troy.

My fate and that of the city are entwined.

So it was nobility that led you to jump.

There's a prophecy.

There always is with boys like you.

As long as I live, Troy is doomed.

So if I killed you now, I'd be doing Troy a service.

I'm not afraid to die.

Just not very good at it.

So you say you come to fight for Troy?

I come to fight for whoever wants to kill Greeks.

What did the Greeks do to you?

Most of them, nothing.

I'll kill them anyway.

I'll kill any man that fights under the banner of the Myrmidons.

So you wish to kill Achilles.

I wish to try.

We ride for the city tomorrow.

Come with us and fight for your people.

If it makes you feel any better,

you'll almost certainly die in the process.

You miss it.

I know you do.

The adrenaline...

..the taste of metal on your tongue...

..the sound...

..the chaos.

I miss the hush.

When I meet an opponent worthy of me...

..everyone around us stops to watch.

The din of battle drains away like a wave.

And for a few moments, it's just the two of us.

And then I kill him.

And then everyone gets back to what they were doing.

Then come and do it.

Come and fight.

End this.

My honour prevents it.

I tried.

You should eat.

You'll need your strength.

We leave at sunrise.

What will you do?

If you're going to kill yourself, just do it.

Why does your queen hate Achilles?

He killed her daughters,

her sisters, soldiers.

There's a price to pay.

He has not paid it yet.

For luck.

The Greeks camp outside our walls.

Our people are starving.

My brother is gone.

Your son is kicking me.

I've known Pandarus since I was a boy.

I would never have believed he was capable of betraying us.

No.

Aphrodite.

Allow me to find a way through the darkness...

..to hold the walls of my city together.

Let the children of Troy play in the sun again.

Let them taste bread.

Let fathers grow old with their young ones,

with their wives...

..their brothers.

Why do you play with me?

Why didn't you tell me about the prophecy?

It was not mine to tell.

We sent our son away to die.

And then we let him back..

..even though we knew what damage it would do.

It's true.

Troy will fall while Paris lives.

But the curse has been broken,

and what was promised will not come to pass.

Your heart stopped when you hit the water.

I'm not dead.

But you were.

And the women warriors brought you back.

When you left the mortal realm, the prophecy was completed.

Death took you

and now you start afresh.

A second chance.

A chance for what?

For fathers to grow old with their children...

..and their brothers.

Do you remember choosing me?

Yes.

If we replayed that day a thousand times again,

you'd choose me a thousand times more.

Yes.

Yes.

Hector?

My brother's alive.

I thought you were never coming back.

Why?

Why did you leave me?

I was in disgrace.