1 00:00:45,045 --> 00:00:48,006 Amends must be made for your father's crime. 2 00:00:48,090 --> 00:00:49,258 I understand. 3 00:01:44,104 --> 00:01:46,815 Left to my vice regent, Yusuf, or myself, 4 00:01:46,899 --> 00:01:49,734 your father's punishment would be certain. 5 00:01:49,818 --> 00:01:52,321 His thief heart would now be still. 6 00:01:55,699 --> 00:01:58,243 I know the pain this would cause you. 7 00:02:04,124 --> 00:02:06,710 I know compassion. 8 00:02:06,793 --> 00:02:09,588 And you know our customs. 9 00:02:09,671 --> 00:02:11,214 Khagan's law. 10 00:02:11,298 --> 00:02:14,343 You will choose your father's punishment. 11 00:02:14,426 --> 00:02:16,469 And then you shall find sleep. 12 00:03:51,898 --> 00:03:52,982 Don't kill him! 13 00:03:53,067 --> 00:03:55,735 We must find out who he serves. 14 00:06:15,667 --> 00:06:18,044 How is he? 15 00:06:18,127 --> 00:06:20,004 Poison of the yellow scorpion. 16 00:06:20,088 --> 00:06:23,132 The healers do not know if he will survive the night. 17 00:06:23,217 --> 00:06:26,761 - How many assassins? - Three. 18 00:06:26,845 --> 00:06:29,639 Where were his knights? 19 00:06:29,723 --> 00:06:31,516 Many fell this evening, Jingim. 20 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:33,017 Against three assassins? 21 00:06:38,315 --> 00:06:40,858 I will convene the war assembly. 22 00:06:48,116 --> 00:06:52,412 Our Great Khan wavers between this life and the next... 23 00:06:52,496 --> 00:06:54,080 and we stand here... 24 00:06:54,163 --> 00:06:57,292 violated within our own walls and wonder whether we should avenge. 25 00:06:57,376 --> 00:07:00,670 We do not yet know who violated us. 26 00:07:01,671 --> 00:07:03,798 Is there anyone here aside from my friend Yusuf who cannot... 27 00:07:03,882 --> 00:07:07,843 You overstep your office... my Minister of Finance. 28 00:07:07,927 --> 00:07:10,472 Our Lord battles the coward's poison. 29 00:07:12,849 --> 00:07:14,558 I say this... 30 00:07:14,643 --> 00:07:19,105 I shall stand for him... as he has for each of you. 31 00:07:19,188 --> 00:07:20,606 Prince... 32 00:07:20,690 --> 00:07:24,068 we do not know if this is the tip of Sidao's sword. 33 00:07:24,152 --> 00:07:27,572 At this very moment, his army could be descending upon us. 34 00:07:27,656 --> 00:07:32,203 We have received no notice from our outposts 35 00:07:32,286 --> 00:07:34,704 of any upcoming armies. 36 00:07:34,788 --> 00:07:37,206 Well, perhaps they have been eliminated. 37 00:07:41,044 --> 00:07:45,715 Thousands of imperial guards... Mongol knights... 38 00:07:45,799 --> 00:07:47,967 a moat, deep and wide, 39 00:07:48,051 --> 00:07:51,179 dogs... walls! 40 00:07:51,263 --> 00:07:55,016 How did this scum penetrate our defenses? 41 00:07:57,185 --> 00:08:00,480 Walls and guards, dogs and moats. 42 00:08:00,564 --> 00:08:01,606 Prince... 43 00:08:01,690 --> 00:08:06,152 the answer to the assassins' identity rests in your question. 44 00:08:07,487 --> 00:08:10,823 They moved underwater and through walls... 45 00:08:10,907 --> 00:08:14,661 sensed only by the Khan's horses. 46 00:08:14,744 --> 00:08:18,789 Their tools were climbing hook and shadow. 47 00:08:18,873 --> 00:08:24,087 These demons were trained by the Old Man in the Mountain. 48 00:08:24,170 --> 00:08:26,130 They were Hashshashin. 49 00:08:31,511 --> 00:08:33,054 The Hashshashin... 50 00:08:33,137 --> 00:08:37,392 were crushed by my uncle Hülegü long before my birth. 51 00:08:37,476 --> 00:08:38,727 The Old Man and his martyrs 52 00:08:38,810 --> 00:08:42,855 are nothing more than phantoms and fables told to frighten children! 53 00:08:42,939 --> 00:08:47,361 If they were not Hashshashin, they were trained in their ways. 54 00:08:47,444 --> 00:08:52,491 Yusuf is correct in his counsel. These men are mercenaries. 55 00:08:52,574 --> 00:08:56,118 They could have been hired by anyone for any reason. 56 00:08:56,202 --> 00:09:00,499 Do you advise I send warriors in search of a myth 57 00:09:00,582 --> 00:09:04,627 when our true and very real enemy lies in Xiangyang? 58 00:09:04,711 --> 00:09:08,757 I suggest you open your eyes to the possibility... 59 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:11,217 as your father would. 60 00:09:11,300 --> 00:09:13,802 How many of our guards were slain? 61 00:09:13,887 --> 00:09:17,264 Can we afford not to search out such a potent adversary? 62 00:09:17,349 --> 00:09:21,978 We can, blind man... because the Old Man is dead! 63 00:09:22,061 --> 00:09:24,313 Our demons lie south! 64 00:09:24,398 --> 00:09:26,815 With deference, Prince Jingim... 65 00:09:28,234 --> 00:09:30,319 that may not be true. 66 00:09:30,404 --> 00:09:33,948 Who allowed you access to this assembly, Latin? 67 00:09:34,032 --> 00:09:35,866 Jingim. 68 00:09:39,788 --> 00:09:41,080 Speak. 69 00:09:42,874 --> 00:09:44,250 On my journey to Cambulac, 70 00:09:44,333 --> 00:09:46,378 I passed a village two weeks ride from here 71 00:09:46,461 --> 00:09:48,212 named Kochkor. 72 00:09:48,296 --> 00:09:52,175 My guide... told of a lone way station. 73 00:09:52,258 --> 00:09:55,011 He was clear that those who speak the name of Hashshashin... 74 00:09:55,094 --> 00:09:57,388 were offering their heads to these assassins 75 00:09:57,472 --> 00:09:59,724 who are very much alive. 76 00:09:59,808 --> 00:10:01,559 What is your point? 77 00:10:01,643 --> 00:10:05,604 If this was the Hashshashin... we will find them there. 78 00:10:06,981 --> 00:10:09,443 You say you know where this place rests? 79 00:10:09,526 --> 00:10:11,152 I do. 80 00:10:11,235 --> 00:10:12,403 Byamba... 81 00:10:12,487 --> 00:10:15,740 you will ride there with a company under the banner of the Khan. 82 00:10:15,824 --> 00:10:17,992 If Master Polo is correct... 83 00:10:18,076 --> 00:10:21,912 track the assassins and confirm the Song rebels' complicity. 84 00:10:21,996 --> 00:10:25,374 In this answer, the scale of war will be balanced. 85 00:10:32,507 --> 00:10:35,301 Steady your heart, Marco. You are of... 86 00:10:43,810 --> 00:10:45,519 Prince Jingim! 87 00:10:48,773 --> 00:10:51,025 If a band of Mongolian soldiers travel as they are, 88 00:10:51,109 --> 00:10:53,319 the Hashshashin will see danger... 89 00:10:53,402 --> 00:10:58,282 but... if they ride as escorts for a merchant searching for poppy, 90 00:10:58,366 --> 00:11:01,786 the flower by which the Hashshashin are said to draw their strength... 91 00:11:01,870 --> 00:11:03,495 It might play a helpful ruse. 92 00:11:03,580 --> 00:11:07,834 And you, Polo, might get sliced into fine white meat in the process. 93 00:11:08,835 --> 00:11:10,544 Prepare your horse. 94 00:11:10,629 --> 00:11:12,338 Prince... 95 00:11:12,421 --> 00:11:14,923 the Khan and I came to terms before the attack. 96 00:11:15,008 --> 00:11:18,802 My father and uncle are to be spared. I beg you to heed... 97 00:11:18,887 --> 00:11:23,682 Tonight... your father and uncle are the least of my concerns. 98 00:11:23,767 --> 00:11:26,853 I make no promises for tomorrow. 99 00:11:33,527 --> 00:11:35,778 An attempt has been made on the Khan's life. 100 00:11:38,072 --> 00:11:42,368 - Is he alive? - Some say yes. Some no. 101 00:11:42,451 --> 00:11:46,205 A party rides to find those responsible. 102 00:11:46,289 --> 00:11:49,667 Master Polo is among them. 103 00:11:51,711 --> 00:11:54,589 I have taught you to blend with every attack. 104 00:11:54,673 --> 00:11:56,174 Absorb your opponent. 105 00:11:56,257 --> 00:11:59,551 - When water is poured into a vessel... - It becomes the vessel. 106 00:11:59,636 --> 00:12:03,598 But the Hashshashin are not common warriors. 107 00:12:03,682 --> 00:12:09,187 The Old Man trains them to enter the shadow-self, the demon-self. 108 00:12:09,270 --> 00:12:12,273 That is their art. 109 00:12:12,356 --> 00:12:14,984 How does one absorb such darkness 110 00:12:15,068 --> 00:12:17,903 and yet return to the light? 111 00:12:17,987 --> 00:12:21,073 Especially one unsure of his place in the world? 112 00:12:22,576 --> 00:12:28,414 If you seek and find the assassins, you will need to become the vessel. 113 00:12:28,497 --> 00:12:32,584 If you don't go deep enough, they will smell you and kill you. 114 00:12:33,587 --> 00:12:35,421 Go too deep... 115 00:12:35,504 --> 00:12:38,883 and you will not return from Eagle's Teaching. 116 00:12:38,967 --> 00:12:40,342 What marks the balance? 117 00:12:40,426 --> 00:12:43,262 Certainty of self. 118 00:12:44,013 --> 00:12:46,850 I do not go for myself, Sifu. 119 00:12:46,933 --> 00:12:48,142 I go for my father. 120 00:12:50,519 --> 00:12:52,856 Ride beneath the skyline. 121 00:12:52,939 --> 00:12:54,898 The Hashshashin do not wish to be found. 122 00:12:54,983 --> 00:12:58,235 They will find you. 123 00:13:06,452 --> 00:13:09,538 Master Marco... a moment, please. 124 00:13:28,016 --> 00:13:32,812 Byamba will travel with a golden tablet. All gates will open before you. 125 00:13:32,896 --> 00:13:34,396 Why are you telling me this? 126 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,358 If the Lord Khan dies while you're gone... 127 00:13:37,441 --> 00:13:39,485 so does your only advocate. 128 00:13:39,569 --> 00:13:42,029 Take this tragedy for what it is. 129 00:13:42,113 --> 00:13:44,740 Opportunity. Run. 130 00:14:21,485 --> 00:14:23,111 This... 131 00:14:24,113 --> 00:14:27,533 is what happens when we barter with barbarians. 132 00:14:27,617 --> 00:14:31,120 Cruelty must be met with cruelty. 133 00:14:31,204 --> 00:14:35,416 We must lay waste to their cities, their women and children. 134 00:14:35,499 --> 00:14:39,838 We must drive them back into the savage hole from which they slid. 135 00:14:41,630 --> 00:14:43,131 It is time for war. 136 00:14:44,884 --> 00:14:49,138 The Emperor's army is yours to do with as you please... 137 00:14:49,222 --> 00:14:51,139 my Chancellor. 138 00:15:07,531 --> 00:15:10,742 You understand it takes time to gather the troops, 139 00:15:10,827 --> 00:15:13,872 - to prepare for battle... - Do you forget who I am? 140 00:15:16,124 --> 00:15:18,542 I humbly ask that you give the order to mobilize. 141 00:15:22,130 --> 00:15:24,631 If you do not prepare to strike... 142 00:15:24,716 --> 00:15:27,426 worse... prepare to be struck. 143 00:15:27,510 --> 00:15:30,888 The Latin may prove Jia Sidao innocent of the attempt. 144 00:15:38,354 --> 00:15:40,689 It may. 145 00:15:40,774 --> 00:15:43,484 Do you not find it odd, Prince... 146 00:15:43,567 --> 00:15:47,030 that Master Marco spoke so surely of the assassins' whereabouts? 147 00:15:47,113 --> 00:15:49,198 So quick to return? 148 00:15:49,282 --> 00:15:51,867 He does so for the sake of his own father's head. 149 00:15:51,951 --> 00:15:54,037 And that is my point. 150 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:57,039 What would you not do to realize the dreams of your father? 151 00:15:59,292 --> 00:16:00,711 Nothing. 152 00:16:00,794 --> 00:16:04,338 The Khan continues to embrace this boy we know so little about. 153 00:16:05,381 --> 00:16:09,510 The West is not ignorant to the Khan's designs. 154 00:16:09,593 --> 00:16:12,596 Would we not plant rot within the foundation of their house 155 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:14,725 and let it fester and collapse upon itself? 156 00:16:14,808 --> 00:16:17,977 You think he travels to cover transgressions? 157 00:16:20,313 --> 00:16:21,855 I don't know. 158 00:16:22,816 --> 00:16:24,816 Perhaps grief invades my thoughts. 159 00:16:48,925 --> 00:16:53,346 Has anyone thanked you... for saving my father's life? 160 00:16:55,264 --> 00:16:58,769 Had you and Hundred Eyes not arrived, the Khan would be dead... 161 00:16:58,852 --> 00:17:02,396 as would I. So... my thanks to you. 162 00:17:03,940 --> 00:17:05,566 Jingim as Khan... 163 00:17:07,193 --> 00:17:11,114 - You believe he is not fit? - I never said that. 164 00:17:11,197 --> 00:17:12,907 Do you? 165 00:17:12,991 --> 00:17:15,786 This is not my home. I'm a guest. 166 00:17:15,869 --> 00:17:17,869 It's not my place to judge my host. 167 00:17:21,582 --> 00:17:23,208 I hated these as a boy. 168 00:17:23,292 --> 00:17:25,920 Rotten, sour. 169 00:17:26,004 --> 00:17:27,587 My mother made me eat them. 170 00:17:27,671 --> 00:17:30,216 She said they kept me healthy. 171 00:17:30,299 --> 00:17:31,425 And now? 172 00:17:31,509 --> 00:17:33,594 A superstition before battle. 173 00:17:33,677 --> 00:17:37,639 Of course, she meant they were good for my teeth. 174 00:17:37,723 --> 00:17:40,351 Were you close to her? 175 00:17:40,434 --> 00:17:41,810 I had to be. 176 00:17:41,895 --> 00:17:45,398 Son of a consort is never fully accepted in court. 177 00:17:45,481 --> 00:17:48,817 Will they let me spill blood on the battlefield? Yes. 178 00:17:51,404 --> 00:17:52,612 You? 179 00:17:52,696 --> 00:17:54,908 Were you close to your mother? 180 00:17:54,991 --> 00:17:57,243 She died when I was young. 181 00:17:57,326 --> 00:17:59,745 I was raised by my aunt. 182 00:17:59,828 --> 00:18:02,831 I didn't know my father until three years ago. 183 00:18:04,417 --> 00:18:06,585 Son of an adventurer. 184 00:18:08,254 --> 00:18:11,423 Fathers are destined to disappoint sons, and sons, their fathers. 185 00:18:11,507 --> 00:18:13,341 The Khan has disappointed you? 186 00:18:14,052 --> 00:18:16,636 I'm able to find the difference between the Khan and the man. 187 00:18:18,056 --> 00:18:19,431 Didn't know that was allowed. 188 00:18:20,433 --> 00:18:22,185 What is locked behind the doors of the heart 189 00:18:22,268 --> 00:18:23,977 is no one's business but one's own. 190 00:18:24,062 --> 00:18:26,438 So, let's talk about the man, and not the Khan. 191 00:18:26,522 --> 00:18:28,441 Make no mistake... 192 00:18:28,524 --> 00:18:32,110 even if we meet under the Blue Sky, I will never open those doors to you. 193 00:18:33,196 --> 00:18:35,322 And I would never knock. 194 00:18:36,532 --> 00:18:38,992 You think by doing this, you can save your father's life? 195 00:18:40,954 --> 00:18:43,246 I avenge the Khan and hope he shows him favor. 196 00:18:44,958 --> 00:18:47,293 The point of all this was to thank you. 197 00:18:47,376 --> 00:18:50,337 So... thank you. 198 00:20:01,367 --> 00:20:03,869 Ride swift. Sidao must know. 199 00:20:03,953 --> 00:20:07,497 If he does not know that already. Have you not considered that? 200 00:20:10,251 --> 00:20:13,964 The Mongols will look for spies now, seek out conspirators. 201 00:20:14,047 --> 00:20:18,217 You must escape. Deliver this message yourself. 202 00:20:19,843 --> 00:20:22,846 If Sidao did not give the command... 203 00:20:22,930 --> 00:20:24,975 I must stay. 204 00:20:25,058 --> 00:20:28,310 My daughter lives or dies by my decision. 205 00:20:28,394 --> 00:20:29,811 I remain. 206 00:21:05,431 --> 00:21:08,517 Who hired you to kill the Khan? 207 00:21:08,601 --> 00:21:10,978 I am destined for Paradise. 208 00:21:11,062 --> 00:21:14,481 That is all I know and all I will ever claim to know. 209 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,578 You don't want to do that. 210 00:21:30,373 --> 00:21:33,667 If you scream... you tear your mouth. 211 00:21:35,169 --> 00:21:38,797 And the more you scream... the more damage you do to yourself. 212 00:21:39,923 --> 00:21:42,760 Who hired you? 213 00:21:42,843 --> 00:21:46,264 I am destined for Paradise. 214 00:21:46,347 --> 00:21:50,850 That is all I know and all I will ever claim to know. 215 00:21:50,934 --> 00:21:52,270 Very well. 216 00:21:54,272 --> 00:21:55,564 Anything? 217 00:21:56,607 --> 00:21:59,277 He may know nothing. 218 00:22:01,195 --> 00:22:03,071 May know nothing or knows nothing? 219 00:22:04,072 --> 00:22:05,282 May. 220 00:22:05,366 --> 00:22:09,870 Then flay the skin from his bones until you know. 221 00:22:22,966 --> 00:22:25,302 You heard the Prince. 222 00:22:25,386 --> 00:22:30,516 Let us announce to Paradise... your pending arrival. 223 00:23:12,891 --> 00:23:15,602 How did you come to name your son? 224 00:23:16,395 --> 00:23:18,939 I did not name Marco. 225 00:23:20,358 --> 00:23:21,900 His mother had that honor. 226 00:23:21,984 --> 00:23:23,361 Why? 227 00:23:25,028 --> 00:23:27,865 I was not present at his birth. 228 00:23:27,948 --> 00:23:28,948 Where were you? 229 00:23:30,368 --> 00:23:32,952 In the world. 230 00:23:35,664 --> 00:23:39,167 So, you abandoned him before he was even born? 231 00:23:41,211 --> 00:23:44,172 I was trying to make a name for my family. 232 00:23:45,591 --> 00:23:47,885 Although I did not know him... 233 00:23:47,968 --> 00:23:50,804 everything I have done in my life has been for him. 234 00:23:51,805 --> 00:23:55,100 I wanted the world to know the Polo name. 235 00:23:55,183 --> 00:23:57,102 So, for legacy? 236 00:23:57,186 --> 00:23:59,146 Yes. 237 00:23:59,229 --> 00:24:00,606 His legacy? 238 00:24:02,775 --> 00:24:04,150 Yes. 239 00:24:05,152 --> 00:24:07,946 Do you think that is what he wanted? 240 00:24:08,030 --> 00:24:10,991 Do you think that was what he needed from his father? 241 00:24:11,074 --> 00:24:12,785 Legacy? 242 00:24:12,868 --> 00:24:16,121 Do you know what your son asked of me just before he left? 243 00:24:16,204 --> 00:24:19,124 "Keep them alive until I return. 244 00:24:19,207 --> 00:24:22,044 Keep them alive." 245 00:24:22,127 --> 00:24:23,921 Even after you had abandoned him, 246 00:24:24,004 --> 00:24:25,673 after he could have died for your transgressions, 247 00:24:25,756 --> 00:24:28,050 he was still concerned for you. 248 00:24:30,093 --> 00:24:32,220 What a fool. 249 00:24:40,896 --> 00:24:43,441 Never the matter. 250 00:24:43,524 --> 00:24:45,859 Marco will fall and you with him. 251 00:25:31,029 --> 00:25:35,743 All right, my merchant friend. Let us go peddle your wares. 252 00:25:36,869 --> 00:25:39,663 We ride below the skyline. 253 00:25:39,747 --> 00:25:43,250 That is not how we attract the buyers we need. 254 00:26:29,838 --> 00:26:30,964 Done. 255 00:26:39,347 --> 00:26:43,142 The Chinese say... "You can name a price for gold... 256 00:26:43,226 --> 00:26:47,564 but not for the white jade from the Kingdom of Khotan." 257 00:26:49,567 --> 00:26:53,737 I do not lie when I say it's the most precious of all gems... 258 00:26:53,821 --> 00:26:57,490 and sought by the imperial court. 259 00:26:57,575 --> 00:27:00,410 What do you wish for this... white stone? 260 00:27:01,495 --> 00:27:05,248 The flower that guides the way to Paradise. 261 00:27:07,125 --> 00:27:08,543 I wish to speak with the Old Man. 262 00:27:22,390 --> 00:27:24,685 I guess we said something wrong. 263 00:27:45,706 --> 00:27:47,124 Where are you? 264 00:27:47,207 --> 00:27:51,670 Wherever he has gone... he will return. 265 00:28:06,059 --> 00:28:10,105 I realize now that I had no idea the pressure one is under... 266 00:28:10,188 --> 00:28:12,399 turning a son into a man. 267 00:28:14,527 --> 00:28:17,905 Forget all the citizens in the realm. 268 00:28:17,988 --> 00:28:21,824 The responsibility parents have for that one soul. 269 00:28:22,910 --> 00:28:25,996 It is a great challenge... 270 00:28:26,079 --> 00:28:29,082 and... a greater honor. 271 00:28:35,589 --> 00:28:37,675 You are so at peace. 272 00:28:39,259 --> 00:28:43,096 Peace is found in the heart of the faithful. 273 00:28:43,931 --> 00:28:46,307 How can you be so sure he will wake? 274 00:28:46,391 --> 00:28:50,520 My faith is rooted in what is next for him should he not awaken. 275 00:28:50,604 --> 00:28:53,816 I think too much on this life, Mother... 276 00:28:53,899 --> 00:28:56,150 to consider what lies beyond. 277 00:29:28,516 --> 00:29:29,809 May I sit? 278 00:29:31,937 --> 00:29:33,604 If your intent is on trade. 279 00:29:33,689 --> 00:29:38,235 It remains unclaimed. Perhaps your price is too high. 280 00:29:38,318 --> 00:29:42,071 Everything is open to barter. What are you offering? 281 00:29:42,155 --> 00:29:44,115 Opportunity. 282 00:29:45,117 --> 00:29:46,118 For? 283 00:29:47,119 --> 00:29:50,204 Leaving through that door still standing upright. 284 00:29:53,667 --> 00:29:56,002 And here I was being so gracious. 285 00:29:56,086 --> 00:29:59,338 As am I. I haven't leaned in yet. 286 00:29:59,965 --> 00:30:00,965 Who are you? 287 00:30:01,967 --> 00:30:04,344 There are two answers to that question. 288 00:30:04,427 --> 00:30:06,138 The first is... 289 00:30:06,221 --> 00:30:08,347 I am the owner of the chair upon which you sit. 290 00:30:10,142 --> 00:30:11,350 And the second? 291 00:30:11,434 --> 00:30:14,687 The last face you will see before descending into darkness. 292 00:30:18,025 --> 00:30:19,484 Look around you. 293 00:30:25,532 --> 00:30:26,659 Over the generations, 294 00:30:26,742 --> 00:30:31,079 these eaves have shielded the backs of every culture known to man... 295 00:30:31,163 --> 00:30:35,124 and as such... I know man... 296 00:30:35,208 --> 00:30:37,376 the strong and the weak, 297 00:30:37,460 --> 00:30:41,547 the bold and the cowardly, the keen and the foolish... 298 00:30:41,632 --> 00:30:44,926 and you are strong... bold... 299 00:30:45,010 --> 00:30:49,388 and far from foolish enough to track this trouble across my floor... 300 00:30:49,472 --> 00:30:53,226 unless you have convinced yourselves through conditioning... 301 00:30:53,310 --> 00:30:55,520 that no harm will befall you. 302 00:30:57,105 --> 00:30:58,272 Show me. 303 00:31:08,575 --> 00:31:11,994 The Khan of Khans grants the golden tablet to poppy dealers? 304 00:31:12,079 --> 00:31:13,580 No... 305 00:31:13,664 --> 00:31:16,707 a bureaucrat in the Secretariat with a liking for hashish. 306 00:31:16,792 --> 00:31:19,085 I do not carry the product you seek. 307 00:31:19,169 --> 00:31:21,838 Then what kind of seller are you? 308 00:31:23,090 --> 00:31:25,508 I am the man in the middle. 309 00:31:25,592 --> 00:31:27,844 We want the Gatekeeper of Paradise. 310 00:31:28,846 --> 00:31:31,014 That man... 311 00:31:31,098 --> 00:31:32,891 is far too deadly. 312 00:31:35,227 --> 00:31:36,477 Let us weigh the stakes. 313 00:31:38,438 --> 00:31:40,357 I misread you. 314 00:31:41,649 --> 00:31:43,234 You are a fool. 315 00:32:12,389 --> 00:32:13,848 Continue. 316 00:32:30,908 --> 00:32:32,783 Sidao slaughtered his ambassadors. 317 00:32:33,786 --> 00:32:34,785 My Prince? 318 00:32:34,870 --> 00:32:38,540 The Song ambassadors we parleyed with... 319 00:32:38,623 --> 00:32:39,666 the warriors we freed, 320 00:32:39,750 --> 00:32:41,918 they were all butchered returning to Xiangyang. 321 00:32:42,002 --> 00:32:46,255 Sidao lays the blame at our doorstep. His army prepares for battle. 322 00:32:47,632 --> 00:32:49,927 Diplomacy is dead. 323 00:32:52,137 --> 00:32:54,514 You negotiated a true peace. 324 00:32:54,597 --> 00:32:55,973 Empress Dowager would've embraced it. 325 00:32:56,058 --> 00:32:59,686 Sidao has rejected our truce with steel and blood. 326 00:33:01,313 --> 00:33:02,480 This is a good sign. 327 00:33:02,564 --> 00:33:04,024 Find for me the good in this. 328 00:33:04,107 --> 00:33:05,816 We have clarity of the inevitable. 329 00:33:05,901 --> 00:33:08,403 We know now Xiangyang is divided. 330 00:33:08,486 --> 00:33:12,324 War is how this will end... and now is a time to strike. 331 00:33:12,407 --> 00:33:15,076 We do not know if Sidao moved against my father. 332 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,620 We do not know if the Song mobilize to attack or to defend. 333 00:33:17,704 --> 00:33:19,456 - We know nothing... - My Prince! 334 00:33:19,539 --> 00:33:23,668 My brother, yes, we need not march, but... at least marshal our forces. 335 00:33:23,751 --> 00:33:25,670 We must prepare. 336 00:33:25,753 --> 00:33:28,340 In this, you must not fail. 337 00:33:28,423 --> 00:33:29,883 Gather your generals. 338 00:33:29,967 --> 00:33:31,093 Speak to them as warriors 339 00:33:31,176 --> 00:33:34,096 and they will follow you past the gates of death. 340 00:33:34,179 --> 00:33:36,098 As they followed me at Wuchang? 341 00:33:36,181 --> 00:33:37,975 The army respects you. 342 00:33:38,058 --> 00:33:40,185 You attacked at Wuchang against greater numbers. 343 00:33:40,268 --> 00:33:41,728 And I failed. 344 00:33:41,812 --> 00:33:44,774 But only while daring greatly. 345 00:33:44,857 --> 00:33:47,608 You advanced on a larger army as Genghis would. 346 00:33:48,861 --> 00:33:51,404 Soldiers understand losing is part of the journey... 347 00:33:51,488 --> 00:33:54,908 so long as their leader does not believe it the destination. 348 00:33:54,992 --> 00:33:56,450 Your father understands this. 349 00:33:57,369 --> 00:33:58,703 He did not act as if he did. 350 00:33:58,786 --> 00:34:01,123 Would you have him savor defeat? 351 00:34:03,083 --> 00:34:05,502 No... 352 00:34:05,585 --> 00:34:08,088 but to speak as you do... 353 00:34:08,171 --> 00:34:09,463 once. 354 00:34:09,547 --> 00:34:11,801 He feels as I do... 355 00:34:11,884 --> 00:34:14,844 and he would say it now, had he voice. 356 00:34:14,928 --> 00:34:17,722 Lend him your voice. 357 00:34:17,805 --> 00:34:22,144 Speak for Father now... and command as Khan. 358 00:34:43,916 --> 00:34:46,709 Who is the Old Man in the Mountain? 359 00:34:46,793 --> 00:34:49,962 You certainly are not fond of your throat, are you? 360 00:34:50,047 --> 00:34:52,465 You will not speak his name... 361 00:34:52,549 --> 00:34:57,304 and once I have taken you to him... you will never return again. 362 00:34:57,387 --> 00:35:01,975 We have no reason to... unless we are invited by you. 363 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:05,770 You learn well, Europa. 364 00:35:10,275 --> 00:35:12,026 Which way? 365 00:35:12,110 --> 00:35:14,195 To Eagle's Teaching? 366 00:35:15,197 --> 00:35:18,616 One can only enter through Paradise. 367 00:35:24,789 --> 00:35:26,541 A secret order 368 00:35:26,624 --> 00:35:29,586 formed at the time of the First Crusade. 369 00:35:29,669 --> 00:35:32,463 The Old Man has always lived among them... 370 00:35:32,547 --> 00:35:35,174 granting access to Paradise. 371 00:35:38,053 --> 00:35:39,762 Is he a magic man? 372 00:35:39,846 --> 00:35:41,472 He is a holy man. 373 00:35:41,556 --> 00:35:45,227 I think you trade in black market fables. 374 00:35:45,310 --> 00:35:47,895 That's what I think. 375 00:35:47,980 --> 00:35:52,609 You have a much more genteel personality than your friend. 376 00:35:52,692 --> 00:35:56,946 It takes time... but he will soften... eventually. 377 00:35:57,030 --> 00:35:58,989 I will not. 378 00:36:17,300 --> 00:36:19,386 Byamba, do you see? 379 00:36:26,726 --> 00:36:29,104 It is not the sun. 380 00:36:29,187 --> 00:36:34,775 It's a... golden passage... into the heavens. 381 00:36:34,859 --> 00:36:38,112 Marvelous description. 382 00:36:50,083 --> 00:36:52,001 Are they watching us now? 383 00:36:52,085 --> 00:36:55,713 They have been watching you since before we exchanged names. 384 00:40:13,495 --> 00:40:14,870 You are the Old Man. 385 00:40:14,955 --> 00:40:19,000 Some call me by that name, yes... 386 00:40:19,084 --> 00:40:24,465 but I've lived more lives than any man under the sun... 387 00:40:24,548 --> 00:40:29,093 and will live many more beyond this day. 388 00:40:29,178 --> 00:40:33,515 And this... is a place of hidden knowledge? 389 00:40:33,599 --> 00:40:37,394 This is a place of freedom... 390 00:40:37,478 --> 00:40:42,439 where no one questions who you are, where you come from, 391 00:40:42,524 --> 00:40:45,194 what tongue you speak. 392 00:40:45,277 --> 00:40:49,321 You are welcome as you are, son. 393 00:40:49,406 --> 00:40:53,034 I can return you to Paradise if you wish. 394 00:40:53,118 --> 00:40:54,701 What have you done with our men? 395 00:40:55,454 --> 00:40:58,664 It is their choice to stay or leave. 396 00:40:58,749 --> 00:41:01,166 Some prefer to stay. 397 00:41:01,250 --> 00:41:04,380 So, tell me, Marco Polo... 398 00:41:04,463 --> 00:41:06,171 why did you come? 399 00:41:06,923 --> 00:41:09,800 To discover or to destroy? 400 00:41:09,885 --> 00:41:12,261 Give me my men and I will give you the answer. 401 00:41:15,098 --> 00:41:17,601 Discovery. 402 00:41:17,684 --> 00:41:20,437 I came to learn who hired your assassins. 403 00:41:21,938 --> 00:41:23,564 Offer me this knowledge... 404 00:41:23,649 --> 00:41:27,486 and you will gain favor with the most powerful man on earth. 405 00:41:27,569 --> 00:41:29,653 The Great Khan lives, then. 406 00:41:29,738 --> 00:41:32,073 And your disciples do not. 407 00:41:34,368 --> 00:41:36,119 Kill us... 408 00:41:37,246 --> 00:41:41,039 and the Khan will finish what his ancestors began. 409 00:41:41,124 --> 00:41:43,794 He must find us first. 410 00:41:43,877 --> 00:41:45,586 If I could find you... 411 00:41:46,422 --> 00:41:49,341 the Mongols will find you. 412 00:41:49,425 --> 00:41:53,262 They will rain fire, black out the sun. 413 00:41:53,345 --> 00:41:56,473 You will have no peace, no sanctuary... 414 00:41:56,557 --> 00:41:59,933 and my Great Khan will prove you mortal. 415 00:42:00,018 --> 00:42:05,524 You are precisely the kind of young man I welcome here. 416 00:42:07,150 --> 00:42:09,318 Clever... spirited... 417 00:42:09,403 --> 00:42:14,865 and deserving of Paradise, however you define it. 418 00:42:22,248 --> 00:42:26,919 We do not deal in name and faces... 419 00:42:28,547 --> 00:42:31,256 only in coin and anonymity. 420 00:42:31,340 --> 00:42:34,259 And how much coin did the Song Chancellor give you? 421 00:42:35,095 --> 00:42:40,851 The hand that dropped the purse lives far closer to home, son. 422 00:42:52,361 --> 00:42:55,031 Safe journey, Marco Polo. 423 00:43:13,299 --> 00:43:16,345 How many more days and nights will this continue? 424 00:43:17,554 --> 00:43:21,683 What do you hope to get from a man... we know can give you nothing? 425 00:43:23,352 --> 00:43:25,771 Nothing but hope... 426 00:43:25,854 --> 00:43:29,400 that he might give me anything to use to avoid your war. 427 00:43:32,361 --> 00:43:36,448 You and I are not Mongols. We are servants. 428 00:43:36,532 --> 00:43:38,031 This is not my war. 429 00:43:38,116 --> 00:43:40,951 Yet you fight for it so rabidly. 430 00:43:41,036 --> 00:43:43,288 And you so rabidly against it. 431 00:43:43,372 --> 00:43:44,371 Why? 432 00:43:45,374 --> 00:43:48,794 The rebels have not once set foot outside Xiangyang... 433 00:43:48,877 --> 00:43:51,128 for any purpose but trade and travel. 434 00:43:51,212 --> 00:43:52,506 They stage raids 435 00:43:52,589 --> 00:43:54,756 and they attack my collectors as they ride the realm. 436 00:43:54,841 --> 00:43:59,388 The price of doing business in a treacherous world. 437 00:43:59,471 --> 00:44:03,725 Their army hides behind walls for fear of extermination, 438 00:44:03,809 --> 00:44:07,644 a wall that has defied and denied us for 70 years. 439 00:44:07,729 --> 00:44:10,816 Our men will die for no reason... 440 00:44:10,899 --> 00:44:14,235 save the ego of the man ordering the breach. 441 00:44:15,612 --> 00:44:17,531 Ego... 442 00:44:17,614 --> 00:44:20,241 not armies, destroys empires. 443 00:44:21,702 --> 00:44:26,039 Our Khan is chased to the wall by the ghost of Genghis. 444 00:44:29,710 --> 00:44:31,837 Our Khan still breathes. 445 00:44:37,843 --> 00:44:40,927 The man will soon join his brothers... 446 00:44:41,012 --> 00:44:44,265 and if you have your way, Ahmad... 447 00:44:44,349 --> 00:44:46,435 so shall we all. 448 00:45:07,163 --> 00:45:10,041 Word from my sister. 449 00:45:10,125 --> 00:45:13,504 Someone has attempted to kill the barbarian king. 450 00:45:20,301 --> 00:45:22,929 We're not alone in our loathing of the Khan. 451 00:45:27,976 --> 00:45:31,479 The devil sleeps soundly tonight. 452 00:45:31,563 --> 00:45:32,979 It displeases me. 453 00:45:33,982 --> 00:45:37,484 But he will survive. He's fated to do so. 454 00:45:45,326 --> 00:45:49,080 Someone has foolishly stepped upon my path... 455 00:45:49,164 --> 00:45:52,499 endeavoring to forge a tributary and force me down it. 456 00:45:53,501 --> 00:45:55,837 The Khan will awaken. 457 00:45:55,921 --> 00:45:58,840 The Mongol horde will descend upon my wall... 458 00:45:58,924 --> 00:46:00,842 and my blade... 459 00:46:00,926 --> 00:46:04,345 will find its destiny in the barbarian's heart. 460 00:46:09,810 --> 00:46:12,769 You are the only one I might speak freely to... 461 00:46:12,854 --> 00:46:15,148 the only one I can trust. 462 00:46:19,611 --> 00:46:22,698 It makes me happy to know I have this with you. 463 00:46:26,743 --> 00:46:28,952 This is my father's private quarters. 464 00:46:29,037 --> 00:46:32,165 The traitor is someone in his service... 465 00:46:32,248 --> 00:46:33,457 someone he trusts. 466 00:46:34,459 --> 00:46:36,587 I may know the hand that made these marks. 467 00:46:36,670 --> 00:46:37,878 Whose hand? 468 00:46:38,714 --> 00:46:40,924 Someone who has passed on. 469 00:46:56,648 --> 00:46:58,566 Two months to the Hindu Kush. 470 00:46:58,650 --> 00:47:02,068 Up, down, give or take a year and you're in Venice. 471 00:47:02,153 --> 00:47:05,323 You have time before the snows fall. 472 00:47:05,406 --> 00:47:07,783 You were killed by the Hashshashin. 473 00:47:09,786 --> 00:47:11,077 You would let me go? 474 00:47:11,162 --> 00:47:13,123 You are a guest in someone else's home. 475 00:47:13,206 --> 00:47:14,958 You should leave when you wish. 476 00:47:15,041 --> 00:47:18,418 Upon our return, your host may be gone and you would be friendless. 477 00:47:18,502 --> 00:47:20,670 Are we not now friends, Byamba? 478 00:47:20,754 --> 00:47:22,923 I cannot save you in Cambulac. 479 00:47:30,598 --> 00:47:32,350 Would you defy the Khan? 480 00:47:32,433 --> 00:47:33,600 No... 481 00:47:33,685 --> 00:47:36,021 but this is my home... 482 00:47:36,104 --> 00:47:39,272 and if someone were keeping me from it, I would kill to return. 483 00:48:27,155 --> 00:48:28,572 Jingim! 484 00:48:28,656 --> 00:48:30,241 Our father wakes. 485 00:48:32,744 --> 00:48:34,579 Welcome news, brother. 486 00:48:35,747 --> 00:48:37,332 I will join him. 487 00:49:12,325 --> 00:49:14,535 My head is weak. 488 00:49:15,787 --> 00:49:17,497 It will strengthen. 489 00:49:18,790 --> 00:49:21,709 Perhaps it's best if it did not. 490 00:49:21,793 --> 00:49:25,005 My son seems to have that side well under control. 491 00:49:26,422 --> 00:49:29,717 You could easily have rushed into war. 492 00:49:29,801 --> 00:49:32,637 Few would have questioned the move. 493 00:49:32,720 --> 00:49:34,638 Your control guided you. 494 00:49:36,224 --> 00:49:38,725 I never felt in control, Sire. 495 00:49:45,942 --> 00:49:47,692 Curse of the Khanate. 496 00:49:49,154 --> 00:49:51,364 The kingdom must know that I'm alive and well 497 00:49:51,447 --> 00:49:53,574 before we march into war. 498 00:49:53,658 --> 00:49:55,869 Get me to my throne. 499 00:50:58,681 --> 00:51:00,851 It has details of your inner chamber 500 00:51:00,934 --> 00:51:03,103 few would know, Lord Khan. 501 00:51:03,186 --> 00:51:06,647 I spend my Khanate embracing enemy cultures. 502 00:51:06,731 --> 00:51:11,152 Treachery grows well in the fertile soil of contempt I've tilled. 503 00:51:11,236 --> 00:51:12,652 Who else knows of this map? 504 00:51:12,737 --> 00:51:16,449 No one... but Byamba, myself, and its creator. 505 00:51:16,532 --> 00:51:18,159 Circle must remain small. 506 00:51:18,243 --> 00:51:19,409 What of Jingim? 507 00:51:20,453 --> 00:51:23,373 I do not wish to burden him as of yet. 508 00:51:23,456 --> 00:51:25,165 You say you recognize the scratch? 509 00:51:26,167 --> 00:51:29,753 I wish to confirm this belief before I tarnish his name any further. 510 00:51:32,340 --> 00:51:34,675 I trust you both to do so. 511 00:51:34,759 --> 00:51:38,094 Follow the map, where it leads, under my aegis. 512 00:51:38,179 --> 00:51:40,096 Bring answers back to your Khan. 513 00:51:51,109 --> 00:51:52,986 Hold, Latin. 514 00:52:00,368 --> 00:52:04,746 You defended me courageously... even in the face of death. 515 00:52:05,748 --> 00:52:07,500 I was one of many... 516 00:52:07,583 --> 00:52:10,210 and it pleases me greatly to return and find you well. 517 00:52:12,172 --> 00:52:14,299 Have you made your decision... 518 00:52:14,382 --> 00:52:16,549 regarding the fate of your father and uncle? 519 00:52:17,552 --> 00:52:20,221 No, Lord Kublai. 520 00:52:20,305 --> 00:52:22,890 I thought... I hoped... 521 00:52:24,100 --> 00:52:25,725 you might pardon them. 522 00:52:26,519 --> 00:52:28,228 Is pardon punishment? 523 00:52:29,730 --> 00:52:33,608 I wished... you would spare them. 524 00:52:34,527 --> 00:52:36,362 Why would I do that?