- How many? - An entire army.
And the only way out is to the south?
East.
There is a trail heading east across the mountains.
It means we have to cross behind Saxon Iines, but that's the one we shouId take.
Arthur, who are all these peopIe?
They're coming with us.
Then we'll never make it.
- Come on, get back to work! - Back to work!
Move.
Move!
- What is this? - You cannot go in there.
No one goes in there. This pIace is forbidden.
What are you doing? Stop this!
Arthur, we have no time.
Do you not hear the drums?
Dagonet.
- Key. - It is Iocked.
From the inside.
You, you... go.
Move!
- Gawain. - Exaudi orationem meam.
Exaudi orationem meam.
In nomine Dei Patris omnipotentis et in virtute Spiritus Sancti.
Who are these defiIers of the Lord's tempIe?
Out of the way.
The work of your god.
Is this how he answers your prayers?
See if there's any still aIive.
How dare you set foot in this hoIy pIace?
- There was a man of God. - Not my god!
- This one's dead. - By this smell, they are all dead.
And you. You even move, you join him.
Arthur!
You must not fear me.
Water! Give me some water!
His arm is broken.
And his famiIy?
She's a Woad.
I'm a Roman officer.
You're safe now.
- You're safe. - Stop what you are doing!
What is this madness?
- They're all pagans here! - So are we.
They refuse to do the task God has set for them!
They must die as an exampIe!
You mean they refused to be your serfs!
You are a Roman.
You understand.
And you are a Christian.
You! You kept her aIive!
- My Iord! - No! No, stop!
When we get to the wall you will be punished for this heresy.
Perhaps I shouId kill you now and seaI my fate.
I was willing to die with them.
Yes, to Iead them to their rightfuI pIace.
It is God's wish that these sinners be sacrificed.
OnIy then can their souIs be saved.
Then I shall grant his wish.
- Wall them back up. - Arthur.
I said wall them up!
Don't you see it is the will of God that these sinners be sacrificed?
- Unhand me, defiI... They're sinners! - Get in there!
We're moving too sIow.
The girI's not gonna make it, and neither is the boy.
The famiIy we can protect, but we're wasting our time with all these peopIe.
We're not Ieaving them.
If the Saxons find us, we will have to fight.
Then save your anger for them.
Is this Rome's quest or Arthur's?
- Arthur. - How is he?
He burns.
Brave boy.
Some of your fingers are out of pIace.
I have to push them back.
If I don't do this, there's a chance you may never use them again.
They tortured me.
With machines.
To make me tell them things that... that I didn't know to begin with.
And then...
I heard your voice in the dark.
I am Guinevere.
You are Arthur...
of the Knights from the Great Wall.
I am.
The famous Briton who kills his own peopIe.
I found tracks coming from the south, but none going back.
Horsemen traveIing Iight and fast.
CouId be Roman cavaIry.
CouId be knights.
They know we're after them.
They'll head east now, through the mountains.
God's hoIy work has been defiIed. I am a servant of God!
No, pIease, I...
He says they walled him up in a buiIding and took the famiIy.
Someone who goes by the name of Artorius.
It's him.
It's Arthur.
Take your men east. Hunt them down.
I'll take the main army to the wall. Bring the famiIy there.
- And the monks? - Put them back where you found them.
I am a servant of God!
PIease, I... I am a servant of God!
Unhand me, you defiIer!
Burn it all.
My father toId me great taIes of you.
Really?
And what did you hear?
Fairy taIes.
The kind you hear about peopIe so brave, so seIfIess, that they can't be reaI.
Arthur and his knights.
A Ieader both Briton and Roman.
And yet you chose your allegiance to Rome.
To those who take what does not beIong to them.
That same Rome that took your men from their homeIand.
Listen, Iady, do not pretend you know anything about me or my men.
How many Britons have you killed?
As many as tried to kill me. It's the natural state of any man to want to live.
Animals live! It's a natural state of any man to want to live free in their own country.
I belong to this land.
Where do you belong, Arthur?
How's your hand?
I'll live, I promise you.
Is there nothing about my land that appeals to your heart?
Your own father married a Briton.
Even he must have found something to his liking.
We'll sleep here. Take shelter in those trees.
- Tristan. - You wanna go out again? Yeah.
'Tis a beautiful country, is it not?
If you say so.
And where do you come from that compares?
The Black Sea?
This is heaven for me.
I don't believe in heaven. I've been living in this hell.
But if you represent what heaven is, then take me there.
Rain and snow at once.
A bad omen.
It is here, given to us by the Pope. These people, they send an army for us.
What was it like, your home?
We sacrificed goats, drank their blood, danced naked round fires.
What I do remember...
Home...
Oceans of grass from horizon to horizon, further than you can ride.
The sky, bigger than you can imagine.
No boundaries.
Some people would call that freedom.
That's what we fight for - our land, our people.
The right to choose our own destiny.
So you see, Lancelot, we are much alike, you and I.
And when you return home, will you take a wife, have sons?
I have killed too many sons.
What right do I have to my own?
No family, no religion.
Do you believe in anything at all?
I would have left you and the boy there to die.
You betrayed me.
He means you no harm.
Peace between us this night, Arthur Castus.
So Rome is leaving. The Saxon is come.
The world we have known and fought for is ended.
Now we must make a new world.
Your world, Merlin, not mine. I shall be in Rome.
To find peace? The Saxon will come to Rome.
My knights trust me not to betray them to their enemy.
Rome was my enemy, not Arthur.
We have no fight between us now.
You tell that to the knights you killed before my eyes,
whose bones are buried in this earth.
We have all lost brothers.
You know nothing of the loss I speak!
Shall I help you remember?
An attack on a village. The screams of an innocent woman.
Mother!
Artorius!
Mother!
I ran to the burial mound of my father to free her.
To kill you.
Father, please let loose your sword.
I feel the heat of that fire on my face even now.
I did not wish her dead.
She was of our blood, as are you.
If you were so determined to leave us to slaughter, why did you save so many?
My men are strong, but they have need of a true leader.
They believe you can do anything.
To defeat the Saxon we need a master of war.
Why do you think I spared you in the forest?
That sword you carry is made of iron from this earth, forged in the fires of Britain.
It was love of your mother that freed the sword, not hatred of me.
Love, Arthur.
- It is your destiny. - There is no destiny.
There is only free will.
And what of the free will of your knights?
Did they die in vain?
Seize him!
No!
No...
I have the boy!
- Kill him! - No, don't! Let him go!
Kill him now!
Down!
Your hands seem to be better.
Artorius!
Do we have a problem?
Huh?
You have a choice.
You help or you die.
Put down your weapons.
- Do it now! - Yeah!
- How many did you kill? - Four.
Not a bad start to the day!
Armor-piercing. They're close. We have no time.
You ride ahead.
I'm sorry for your loss.
My father lost his way.
He used to say the Church is there to help us stay on our path.
It didn't help those he made suffer.
The path he chose was beyond the reach of the church
But not of Rome, what my father believes or Rome believes
What, that some men are born to be slaves? No, that isn't true.
lt is so! He told me so.
Pelagius, a man as close to me as any, is there now,
teaching that all men are free, equal.
And that each of us has the right to choose his own destiny.
Teach? How?
They killed Pelagius a year past.
Germanius and the others were damned by his teachings.
They had him excommunicated and killed.
The Rome you talk of doesn't exist,
except in your dreams.
- ls there any other way? - No. We have to cross the ice.
Get them all out of the carriages. Tell them to spread out.
- Knights... - Well, l'm tired of running.
And these Saxons are so close behind my ass is hurtin'.
Never liked looking over my shoulder anyway.
- Be a pleasure to put an end to this racket. - And finally get a look at the bastards.
Here. Now.
Jols!
You two, take the horses.
Ganis, l need you to lead the people.
The main Saxon army is inland,
so if you track the coast line till you're well south of the wall, you'll be safe.
- But you're seven against 200? - Eight.
You could use another bow.
- l'd rather stay and fight. - You'll get your chance soon enough.
This man is now your captain. You do as he says. Am l understood?
- Yes, sir. - Go. Go!
Right. Come on, then! Move on!
l am able. l can fight.
No. You must bear witness to all you have seen.
There's one thing you must do, and that's get back to Rome.
Hold until l give the command.
You look frightened.
There's a large number of lonely men out there.
Don't worry, l won't let them rape you.
Archer!
- We're out of range. - l can see that!
l believe they're waiting for an invitation. Bors, Tristan.
They're far out of range.
Aim for the wings of the ranks. Make them cluster.
- Hold the ranks! - Hold the ranks! Hold the ranks!
- Hold the ranks! - Hold the ranks!
Hold the ranks! Hold the ranks, or l kill you myself!
lt's not gonna break. Back.
Fall back!
Prepare for combat.
- Dag! - Cover him.
- Archers move! Move! - Forward!
Move! Move! Kill him!
The ice is breaking!
Kill him!
Dag!
Back! Back!
Dag!
Pull back! Arthur!
Kill him!
Help us!
Stay with me.
Dagonet! Stay with me!
Ah, God!
Christ be praised. Against all the odds Satan could muster.
Alecto, let me see you.
- Kindly get out of my way! - You have triumphed!
Young Alecto, let me see you.
You are here.
- Lucan! - You, boy! Stop!
Our great knights.
You are free now!
Give me the papers. Come, come.
Your papers of safe conduct throughout the Roman Empire.
Take it, Arthur.
Bishop Germanius.
Friend of my father.
You are free now.
You can go.
Bors.
Bors!
For Dagonet.
This doesn't make him a free man.
He's already a free man.
He's dead!
Goodbye, old friend.
We'll be along soon.
Let's drink.
Get drunk.
A grave with no sword.
lt was my father's wish that if he died on this island,
he would be buried with his knights.
He died in battle?
lt's a family tradition.
l can see why you believe that you have nothing left here.
Except what you and your knights have done.
You have your deeds.
Deeds in themselves are meaningless unless they're for some higher purpose.
We have waged a war to protect a Rome that does not exist.
ls that the deed l am to be judged by?
You stayed and fought when you didn't have to.
You bloodied evil men when you could have run.
You did all that for no reason?
Pelagius told me once there is no worse death
than the end of hope.
You and l are not the polite people that live in poems.
We are blessed and cursed by our times.
Perhaps the curse is of our own making.
And the blessing.
What are you afraid of, Arthur?
You're like this country -
Britons with a Roman father.
Rome is dead.
This place, this land - your home -
is the last outpost of freedom, of everything you hold dear.
These are your people.
Father, l have failed.
You've lost the respect of the enemy.
l offer my life for my disgrace.
No.
No, Son.
Raewald.
You're second in charge now.
Yeah. You're like a son to me.
What tomorrow brings...
we cannot know.
Arthur, come to the wall now.
- The Saxons are here. - Make way! Make way!
Knights, my journey with you must end here.
May God go with you.
Arthur, this is not Rome's fight.
lt is not your fight.
Stand fast!
All these long years we've been together,
the trials we've faced, the blood we've shed.
What was it all for, if not for the reward of freedom?
And now when we are so close, when it is finally within our grasp...
Look at me!
- Does it all count for nothing? - You ask me that?
You who know me best of all?
Then do not do this. Only certain death awaits you here.
Arthur, l beg you! For our friendship's sake, l beg you!
You be my friend now and do not dissuade me.
Seize the freedom you have earned and live it for the both of us.
l cannot follow you, Lancelot.
l now know that all the blood l have shed, all the lives l have taken
have led me to this moment.
Straight ahead!
Artorius!
Rus!
The Roman Auxiliary has left the wall.
- And the horsemen? - Leading a caravan away from the fort.
They're running south... with their tails between their legs.
- So there will be no resistance. - A few dozen villagers.