No. Give me the towel.
Give me the towel. Give me the towel.
A man who, in France, had not a house...
is, in the Holy Land, the master of a city.
Stop.
You're hurting him.
Whoa. Whoa.
Where's your master?
I have none.
Give me some water.
Thank you for the drink.
If you happen to see Balian, the son of Godfrey...
tell him that Sibylla called.
So, how find you Jerusalem?
God does not speak to me.
Not even on the hill...
where Christ died.
I am outside God's grace.
I have not heard that.
At any rate, it seems...
I have lost my religion.
I put no stock in religion.
By the word "religion"...
I've seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of God.
I've seen too much religion in the eyes of too many murderers.
Holiness...
is in right action...
and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves.
And goodness-
what God desires-
is here and here.
By what you decide to do every day, you will be a good man.
Or not.
Come.
The king has made a peace with Saladin these past six years.
He holds Jerusalem as a place for prayer for all faiths...
as the Muslims did before we came.
These men are Templars. They killed Arabs.
So they are dying...
for what the pope would command them to do.
Yes. But not Christ, I think.
Nor this king.
Who says I raid?
That witness...
all of Jerusalem...
holy God and me.
That witness, if you call him that, is a Saracen. He lies.
There will come a day, Reynald de Chatillon...
when you are not protected by your title.
Oh? When will that be?
Alert me, Tiberias, when men are equal...
and the kingdom of heaven has arrived.
Those Templars have been hung for a raid that I know you commanded.
Prove it.
I will wait at Kerak until you do.
The king will take your castle of Kerak, Reynald.
Try to take it, Tiberias.
I'll be there.
I cannot protect your caravans unless you agree to be escorted by our soldiers.
I trade to make money...
not to offend God by associating with Christians.
- But you will take Christian gold. - Gold is gold.
Mmm. Of course.
My lord Tiberias.
My lord.
It's true.
You're your father's son.
He was my friend.
I am yours.
Godfrey dead.
It could have come at a better time. Come.
It was shouted in the streets that you killed a great lord of Syria.
Saladin himself sent word...
that your fight did not breach the peace...
that you had cause.
What know you of Saladin?
That he is king of the Saracens...
and that he surrounds this kingdom.
He has 200,000 men in Damascus alone.
He could win a war if he goes to war...
and he's daily given cause for war by fanatics newly from Europe...
by Templar bastards like Reynald de Chatillon.
Here, from this room, I keep the peace, so far as it can be kept.
But Saladin and the king between them...
would make a better world.
If it lives only for a while, Tiberias, it still has lived.
All right.
What did your father tell you of your... obligations?
That I was to be a good knight.
I pray the world...
and Jerusalem...
can accommodate such a rarity...
as a perfect knight.
Have you dined?
The Princess Sibylla of Jerusalem...
and her husband, Guy de Lusignan.
So, how many knights did you find in France?
Fifty.
They've sworn allegiance to the king?
Of course, Tiberias.
Obviously.
You sit at my table?
- Is it not the king's table? - Is it? I have not seen a king at it for some years.
I cannot eat. I- I am finicky about company.
In France this could not inherit.
But here there are no civilized rules.
I have business in the East.
My wife does not lament my absences.
That is either the best of wives...
or the very, very worst.
- Do you go to meet Reynald? - No, my lord. He is in disfavor.
I am a member of this court.
Why should I make league with that... troublemaker?
To the very best of wives.
God bless Jerusalem.
My lord, the king will see him now.
The king would see Godfrey's son.
I'll take him.
This morning I spoke without knowing who you were.
I knew who you were. It's unmistakable.
I loved your father...
and I shall love you.
Do you fear being with me?
No.
And yes.
A woman in my place has two faces.
One for the world...
and one which she wears in private.
With you I'll be only Sibylla.
Tiberias thinks me unpredictable.
I am unpredictable.
No. There.
Come forward. I am glad to meet Godfrey's son.
He was one of my greatest teachers.
He was there when, playing with the other boys, my arm was cut.
And it was he, not my father's physicians, who noticed that I felt no pain.
He wept when he gave my father the news...
that I am a leper.
The Saracens say that this disease...
is God's vengeance against the vanity of our kingdom.
As wretched as I am...
these Arabs believe that the chastisement that awaits me in hell...
is far more severe and lasting.
If that's true, I call it unfair.
Come. Sit.
- Do you play? - No.
The whole world is in chess.
Any move can be the death of you.
Do anything except remain where you started...
and you can't be sure of your end.
Were you sure of your end once?
- I was. - What was it?
To be buried a hundred yards from where I was born.
And now?
Now I sit in Jerusalem and look upon a king.
When I was 16 I won a great victory.
I felt, in that moment, I would live to be 100.
Now I know I shall not see 30.
None of us know our end, really...
or what hand will guide us there.
A king may move a man.
A father may claim a son.
That man can also move himself.
And only then does that man truly begin his own game.
Remember, how so ever you are played...
or by whom, your soul is in your keeping alone...
even though those who presume to play you be kings or men of power.
When you stand before God, you cannot say...
"But I was told by others to do thus"...
or that virtue was not convenient at the time.
This will not suffice.
Remember that.
I will.
You know what this is?
- A fortification. - What do you think of it?
You disapprove. Well, how would you improve it?
A cross. Or better, a star, like this.
That way no part of the fortress may be approached...
without being exposed to fire from another part.
Yes, I like this. Your walls are more difficult to address.
Very good.
You will go to your father's house at Ibelin, your house now...
and then from there you will protect the pilgrim road.
Safeguard in particular the Jews and the Muslims.
All are welcome in Jerusalem.
Not only because it's expedient, but because it is right.
Protect the helpless.
And then maybe one day, when I am helpless...
you will come and protect me.
There, my lord.
Ibelin.
Quod sumus...
hoc eritis.
Such as we are, you will be.
Your father was important.
His lands were not.
That will suit me.
My lord, you have a thousand acres...
a hundred families.
You have Christians, Jews, Muslims.
You have 50 pairs of oxen.
This is a poor and dusty place.
What we do not have is water.
Right. Stone the walls.
I'm on my way to Cana.
Where Jesus changed water to wine.
But a better trick would be to change you to a nobleman.
That should be easy. In France a few yards of silk can make a nobleman.
I expect your hospitality.
It is given.
- Latif.
But this isn't adultery. It's washing.
But if it were adultery...
which it isn't...
the Commandments are not for people like us.
They are for the others.
Did they give you something to eat?
They said to wait until the master returned.
My cook will prepare something while you wash.
What?
It seems years since I've seen a woman eat.
Truly?
I was watching you today.
You've been given a patch of dirt, and it seems...
you will build a new Jerusalem here.
It is my land.
Who would I be if I did not try to make it better?
They try to be one-
one heart...
one morality.
Their prophet says, "Submit."
Jesus says...
"Decide."
Did you decide on Guy?
Guy was chosen by my mother.
My first husband died before our son was born.
I was only 15.
I've met your son.
I could stay here forever.
This house is yours.
Why do you think I'm here?
I know that Ibelin is not on the way to Cana.
What else do you know, my lord?
I know that you are a princess...
and I am no lord.
You're a knight.
Neither earned nor proved.
I'm not here with you because I'm- I'm bored or wicked.
I'm here because-
because in the East...
between one person and another...
there is only light.
Halt!
This caravan is armed, Reynald.
Good. No sport otherwise.
They've seen us.
Go after them.
- A rider is getting away. - It's a broad desert. Nothing'll come of it.
- I prefer not to be hanged before my wife is queen. - Don't worry.
"Who but Reynald?" they'll say.
It's always me. They'll believe it in Jerusalem, I assure you.
- You were at Nazareth, praying. - You're a dangerous man.
If the war's to be now or later, I would have it now.
- How long can the leper last? - God wills it. God wills it!
- God wills it! - Jerusalem!
Charge!
It's you! Ha!
This is from France.
I've never been there.
This from my brother.
This to remind us of death.
And this...
I put the day I saw you.
You lie.
Guy de Lusignan and Reynald de Chatillon, with the Templars...
have attacked a Saracen caravan.
Liar!
Silence!
It was no caravan.
It was an army headed for Bethlehem to desecrate the birthplace of our Lord!
Reynald, with the Templars, have broken the king's pledge of peace.
Saladin will come into this kingdom-
Tiberias knows more than a Christian should about Saladin's intentions.
That I would rather live with men than kill them...
is certainly why you are alive.
That sort of Christianity has its uses, I suppose.
We must not go to war with Saladin!
- We do not want it, and we may not win it. - Blasphemy!
Blasphemy!
An army of Jesus Christ, which bears his holy cross, cannot be beaten.
Does the count of Tiberias suggest that it could be?
There must be war. God wills it!
- God wills it! - God wills it!
God wills it!
Silence!
Saladin has crossed the Jordan with 200,000 men.
He will make first for Kerak and Reynald de Chatillon.
My lord-
We must meet him before he reaches Kerak.
I will lead the army.
My lord, if you travel, you'll die.
Send word to Balian to protect the villagers.
Assemble the army.
What becomes of us?
The world will decide.
The world always decides.
My lord! The king is marching on Kerak.
Let's go! Hurry. Straight on!
Saracen cavalry. They're coming to close Reynald in.
These people are not safe outside the walls.
Saladin will certainly come behind him.
Go into the fortress now.
Hyah! Hah!
- Hyah! Hyah! - Hyah!
- Hyah!
Visitors!
My lord Balian! My lord Balian!
My lord Reynald prays you bring your force into Kerak.
Thank you, but no. If we do, these people will die.
We'll hold the Saracen cavalry until the king arrives.
So be it. Hyah!
We cannot attack that and live.
- My lady. - What do you look at?
A knight.
His men.
Are you with me?
Forward!
Divide!
Your quality will be known among your enemies...
before ever you meet them, my friend.
You were not that man's servant.
No. He was my servant.
- What becomes of us? - As you deserve.
You reap what you sow.
You have heard of this, no?
Get up.
You may go into Kerak...
but you will die there.
My master is here.
Tell my lord Saladin that Jerusalem has come.
Saladin.
I pray you'll pull back your cavalry and leave this matter to me.
I pray you'll retire unharmed to Damascus.
Reynald of Chatillon will be punished.
I swear it.
Withdraw, or we will all die here.
Do we have terms?
We have terms.
I will send you my physicians.
- Salaam alaikum. - Alaikum salaam.
I am Reynald of Chatillon!
On your knees.
Lower.
I... am Jerusalem.
And you, Reynald...
will give me the kiss of peace.
Guard.
- What are you looking at? - A dead man.
Reynald de Chatillon, you are arrested...
and condemned.
Come.
If you continue like this...
I shall have to find a use for you.
If God can spare you, that is.
God does not know me.
Yes, but I do.
I need you in Jerusalem.