Excalibur

Uther.

- Merlin! - Uther.

Merlin, I am the strongest.

I am the one.

The sword. You promised me the sword.

And you shall have it. But to heal, not to hack.

Tomorrow...

a truce. We meet at the river.

Talk! Talk is for lovers, Merlin.

I need a sword to be king.

Show the sword.

Behold the sword of power.

Excalibur.

Excalibur!

Forged when the world was young...

and bird and beast and flower were one with man...

and death was but a dream.

Speak the words.

One land, one king!

That is my peace, Cornwall.

Lord Uther, if I yield to the sword of power...

- ...what will you yield? - Me, yield?

He has given. Now you must.

The land from here to the sea shall be yours...

if you enforce the king's will.

Done!

Good.

King Uther, let us feast together. To my castle.

My wife will dance for us.

Igrayne, dance!

You may be king, Uther...

but no queen of yours could ever match her.

- I must have her. - Are you mad? The alliance.

I must have her.

And risk everything you've won?

King Uther.

Safe!

You'll never batter this down...

and you'll never have lgrayne!

- Never! - Merlin? Where are you?

- Have you found him? - I haven't.

He's here, all right.

He won't show himself.

Where have you been?

I have walked my way since the beginning of time.

Sometimes I give, sometimes I take.

It is mine to know which and when.

- You must help me, Merlin! - Must I?

I am your king.

So you need me again, now that my truce is wrecked.

Years to build and moments to ruin, and all for lust.

For lgrayne.

One night with her.

You don't understand. You're not a man.

Use the magic. Do it!

Igrayne.

You will swear by your true kingship...

to grant me what I wish.

Then you shall have it.

By Excalibur, I swear it.

What issues from your lust shall be mine.

- Swear it again. - I swear it!

They have given up. It's over.

Not quite.

When night falls, we'll follow them and finish them.

Give me a hand here.

I dreamt of the dragon.

I have awoken him.

Can't you see, all around you, the dragon's breath?

We have drawn him out.

The duke is off to pursue your men.

There he goes.

Good.

Mount your horse.

I will transform you into the semblance of the duke.

Igrayne will think her husband has returned.

But the cliff, the sea?

Your lust will hold you up.

You will float on the dragon's breath.

Ride!

Ride!

Take on the outer shape of the duke.

Change!

Transform!

Now!

That's it.

It's the duke.

The duke has returned. Open the gates.

Have the horse ready. I ride out before sunrise.

Uther!

Find the king. Find Uther.

Uther. Uther.

Uther?

Uther, come out and fight.

We're under attack. It's Cornwall.

My father is dead.

Hush, Morgana, hush.

There.

My father... My father is dead.

Look. Here's your father.

It was just a dream, little one.

Come, lgrayne.

Go to sleep. Shh.

Hush.

My lord.

The future has taken root in the present.

It is done.

When? Where?

In the camp of Uther, my lady...

just after nightfall.

It can't be.

He came to me...

to his bed, last night.

What shall become of us?

Lord Uther, my lady.

It will be for him to say.

Oh, Morgana.

The king. The king.

Wait.

Out!

- What is it, lady? - A boy, sir.

- Send the girl away. - She's only a child.

- Out! - Go, Morgana.

She watches me with her father's eyes.

Is it mine or his?

A man came to me...

and loved me...

and made this child.

I thought it was my husband...

but he was already dead.

All I know is how to butcher men.

From now on, I shall learn to love them.

I am weary of battle.

I shall stay by his side...

and his mother's.

He's hungry.

Merlin, you come when you're not asked and pay no heed when I call you.

Oh, I have slept for nine moons.

What I did for you wasn't easy.

Now you must pay me.

The child is mine.

You made an oath.

They were hasty words, Merlin.

This is flesh and blood.

Uther, is this true?

Don't let him take the child.

I swore an oath, lgrayne.

I made a pact with Merlin.

It was you.

You came to me that night.

You are the father!

It's not for you, Uther...

hearth and home, wife and child.

To kill and be king, is that all?

Perhaps not even that.

You strike me with words hard as steel.

You betrayed the duke, you stole his wife...

you took his castle. Now no one trusts you.

You're not the one, Uther.

Give me the child.

I will protect him.

No!

Why?

Take him.

Take the devil child.

No!

Why a baby?

Go after him!

That's it. Sleep now.

Go after him! Get him back!

Are you the mother and father of the baby now, Merlin?

I want my baby!

Get him back!

Merlin!

Where are you?

Merlin!

I want my son.

King Uther. Attack!

Ambush!

Help me, Ulfius. Help!

The king's bodyguard! Look out!

KNlGHT 1: The king! The king is ambushed!

Excalibur.

The sword! The king's sword.

Merlin, where are you?

Call your dragon...

to weave a mist...

to hide us.

Merlin, where are you?

Nobody shall have the sword.

Nobody shall wield Excalibur but me!

Uther.

He who draws the sword from the stone, he shall be king.

Arthur...

you're the one.

Now, remember, my sons, what I've told you...

and pay no heed to these robber knights.

You, Kay, be brave and honest and merciful...

as a knight should be.

And you, Arthur, be modest and true...