Tut

Paraneffer...

reveal who paid for your treachery

against Pharaoh Akhenaten.

Refuse, and your soul,

like your flesh,

will rot for eternity.

You hold their fate.

The gods of our fathers...

Horus, Osiris, and Amun-Ra... Shine upon us.

I will worship them to my death!

I will worship them all... till your death.

Come closer, my son.

The poison Paraneffer gave me is irreversible.

My last decree is to ensure the bloodline is preserved.

You will wed your sister Ankhesenamun immediately.

The bloodline will be pure,

but are you ready to lead your people?

I am.

Vizier.

All of Paraneffer's blood must be spilt for his treachery.

You will wield the knife yourself.

Show your father you're ready.

You are weak.

Do this. Do it now!

No.

It's all right, my boy. In time.

I will serve you as I did your father,

I will protect you,

but you must learn from this.

This is what it means to be Pharaoh.

This is how it will always be.

You cover your flank well, My Lord,

nearly as swift as myself,

a compliment I don't render lightly.

We're alone, Ka. Dispense with the formalities.

If I have to remind you again, I'll have your head.

Vizier Ay will have it himself

if he learns of these excursions.

He won't have any say in it.

Doesn't he have a say in everything?

Ay is a trusted and loyal advisor,

as he was to my father.

But to what end?

The priests still take advantage of your people.

The Mitanni steal food and crops from our borderlands.

The people long for a Pharaoh who leads

from outside the shadows.

Ah!

I've yet to see you do anything.

You've never even been out amongst your own people.

I'll not have my grandfather's blood

chiseled from history because of my father's mistakes

or my own.

So do not think I sit idle.

Oh. Oh.

You still have much to learn of this world.

Forgive me, Pharaoh...

for disrupting your...

pleasuring.

You are forgiven, High Priest.

Villages in the Eastern Lands

have failed to pay proper tribute.

With your permission, I shall see that such payments

are now obligatory, as they are in the cities.

Make it so.

High Priest...

The East continues to suffer from a terrible drought.

Even here in the capital, crops are hardly edible.

Is this not the reason for their lack of tribute?

Tributes are the one true way for a man to show

his devotion to the gods.

It is precisely their failure to pay

that has caused the drought.

Your request has been granted, High Priest.

Thank you, Pharaoh.

General Horemheb. Hmm?

Go. Go.

I have heard rumors that the Mitanni

continue to maneuver near Amurru.

What is being done to stop this threat?

Threat?

I will vanquish the Mitanni from the map

as easily as I vanquish a trough of beer.

The Mitanni play games,

attempting to draw me out into battle before I'm ready.

There's no threat to Amurru.

You will be advised, as always.

Carry on, Vizier.

Look.

This is the best you're going to find.

No.

Thank you.

- Hey! - Leave her be.

Go.

Go!

You all right?

Hey!

Ah!

What is your business here?

I'm from Koptos. I'm seeking work.

Well, keep in the light at these hours.

Our patrols are thin.

You seem tired this morning.

- Do I? - Yes.

I was up well into the night.

Where did you get that?

I'll speak to Ka.

If he's going to train you, he needs to be more careful.

The Vizier will have his skin and yours.

I have enough people watching over me.

What's troubling you?

I'm not just your queen.

I'm your sister.

I know when your mind is elsewhere.

It's a discussion we've had before.

Then we'll have it again.

We have no rightful heir.

I'm the last of the male bloodline.

This gives others reason

to claim their right to the throne.

I have no doubt they maneuver even now.

I pray every morning at Temple to Taweret for fertility.

I know.

But we must have a child if you're going to survive, sister.

We've both sacrificed far too much not to.

The Pharaoh is restless.

There's word he even ventures out alone into Thebes.

He's curious, that's expected.

The boy believes the kingdom is his own.

He is Pharaoh.

He is asking the same questions his father did.

Akhenaten consolidated too much power,

at great expense to the kingdom and its people.

Agreed.

The boy has benefitted from your counsel.

Keep him in your sights...

and in the palace, where he belongs.

Could you give a hand, please?

What are these?

Seeds. What else?

For buying beer?

The proprietor has goods we can't grow or buy in Amurru.

You act as though you've never made trade before.

I haven't.

Thank you.

You've purchased beer before?

No.

It's strong?

A bit, yeah.

Thank you...

for the beer.

You're welcome.

Let me go.

I'll take whoever I want.

Choose another.

Commander...

General Yuya is asking after you.

Now?

What about my goods?

I suggest you leave with thanks you're not among his.

Your choice of women seems to be improving.

Hold it.

A man with no work, but still manages to purchase beer,

raises suspicions.

The beer wasn't purchased by me.

Ah, then she wasn't a stranger.

Or at least you're hoping she won't remain one,

by the look of you.

Thank you, for the, uh, help once again, friend.

I'm not your friend.

There's word of Mitanni spies frequenting beer halls,

listening and watching.

I'm no Mitanni.

No, I don't get the impression you are,

but we have a report of a small encampment

who move towards Thebes... An hour's ride...

And I'm looking for a volunteer.

Well, best of luck to you.

Leave me.

It's okay, Sete.

I can't do this. You know I can't.

And I cannot bear it any longer.

Do you think it has somehow changed now,

when it hasn't in ten years?

It can if you want it to.

What I want doesn't matter.

I'm the Pharaoh's wife.

Our chance of a future ended the day I married Tutankhamun.

He has other women, Ankhe.

And you don't?

My heart belongs to only one.

I too dream of what might have been.

Those dreams have no purpose anymore.

He is your best friend.

And he is our king.

- You're mocking him? - No, but others do.

They wonder whether he even exists at all.

Then you will assure them he does.

I will not wait for the next life to be with you.

Mitanni like to keep one in the dark.