1 00:02:27,523 --> 00:02:29,233 The troops are quartered. 2 00:02:29,316 --> 00:02:34,321 Burial preparations are underway for those we were able to retrieve. 3 00:02:34,405 --> 00:02:38,952 I have ordered scouting parties to sweep the grasslands a week's ride away 4 00:02:39,035 --> 00:02:40,619 in case Sidao is... 5 00:02:41,537 --> 00:02:44,415 audacious enough to siege Cambulac. 6 00:02:47,001 --> 00:02:50,837 Finally, we are conscripting new troops from the north. 7 00:02:50,921 --> 00:02:52,881 I have begun preparations for training. 8 00:02:52,965 --> 00:02:55,717 I fear they may be less compliant now, 9 00:02:55,801 --> 00:02:59,305 but we shall do what is necessary to bend the willful. 10 00:03:03,225 --> 00:03:04,601 My Lord. 11 00:03:06,979 --> 00:03:08,521 Is that truly all? 12 00:03:11,900 --> 00:03:14,486 Do you not wish to discuss your counsel? 13 00:03:15,487 --> 00:03:17,531 And my disregard of it? 14 00:03:26,165 --> 00:03:29,668 The Polo matter, are you prepared to proceed? 15 00:03:55,027 --> 00:03:57,071 Master Marco, 16 00:03:57,154 --> 00:03:59,739 in his infinite wisdom and compassion, 17 00:03:59,823 --> 00:04:05,370 the Khan of Khans grants you a final audience to plead for mercy. 18 00:04:15,089 --> 00:04:17,424 I will not plead for mercy. 19 00:04:18,342 --> 00:04:20,177 But I will defend myself. 20 00:04:21,928 --> 00:04:25,223 May I seek clarity as to the charges levied against me? 21 00:04:25,307 --> 00:04:26,683 Treason. 22 00:04:39,696 --> 00:04:41,781 I take no pleasure in this, Master Marco. 23 00:04:41,865 --> 00:04:44,160 But it seems great misfortune 24 00:04:44,243 --> 00:04:46,995 has descended upon our kingdom on your arrival. 25 00:04:47,079 --> 00:04:49,290 I did not choose to remain here. 26 00:04:49,373 --> 00:04:51,249 I chose to be released to my father. 27 00:04:51,333 --> 00:04:53,543 Your time in the Kochkor region. 28 00:04:53,627 --> 00:04:56,713 Your ability to enter and leave without repercussion. 29 00:04:56,797 --> 00:04:59,007 And do you suspect Byamba, son of the Khan, 30 00:04:59,090 --> 00:05:00,800 to have blood on his hands? 31 00:05:00,884 --> 00:05:03,094 We traveled side by side. 32 00:05:04,638 --> 00:05:06,222 Is that accurate, Byamba? 33 00:05:06,307 --> 00:05:08,850 Were you always at the Latin's side on your journey? 34 00:05:08,934 --> 00:05:11,603 I was asked to be here and I came. 35 00:05:11,687 --> 00:05:14,272 But you cannot compel me to be party to this. 36 00:05:19,986 --> 00:05:23,323 No, we were not side by side. 37 00:05:25,367 --> 00:05:28,036 There was a point where he was negotiating for my life 38 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:31,415 while I sat captive, preparing to die. 39 00:05:32,541 --> 00:05:36,211 And if I remember, you sent the Latin with me on my journey. 40 00:05:36,295 --> 00:05:38,296 After he convinced me to do so. 41 00:05:38,380 --> 00:05:40,882 How does your body stand straight without a spine? 42 00:05:40,966 --> 00:05:42,884 Xiangyang. 43 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:46,054 The loss. 44 00:05:46,138 --> 00:05:48,141 Your journey there. 45 00:05:48,224 --> 00:05:50,016 Your time with the whore's whore-friend. 46 00:05:51,935 --> 00:05:54,187 Sanctioned by the Khan of Khans. 47 00:05:54,271 --> 00:05:55,897 You alerted the Song to our pending attack. 48 00:05:55,981 --> 00:05:58,399 You conspired to lead us into the slaughter. 49 00:05:58,484 --> 00:06:01,194 What need would they of warning? 50 00:06:02,738 --> 00:06:05,615 They knew we were descending at a week's distance. 51 00:06:07,284 --> 00:06:09,244 As to the wall... 52 00:06:09,328 --> 00:06:10,829 I am guilty. 53 00:06:13,123 --> 00:06:17,168 I founder in the blood of the thousands who perished for my error. 54 00:06:18,337 --> 00:06:20,381 I have no defense. 55 00:06:24,092 --> 00:06:29,764 But right or wrong, I have done nothing but serve my captor and Khan. 56 00:06:32,100 --> 00:06:33,309 And only him? 57 00:06:37,314 --> 00:06:38,481 Yes. 58 00:06:43,904 --> 00:06:45,406 Is that all? 59 00:06:46,448 --> 00:06:50,368 Nothing you have presented is punishable by the laws of the Khan of Khans. 60 00:06:53,580 --> 00:06:55,290 I had this translated. 61 00:06:59,545 --> 00:07:01,463 Would you care to share with the Khan 62 00:07:01,547 --> 00:07:04,925 the words that you keep so closely to your still-beating heart? 63 00:07:07,761 --> 00:07:10,764 "All kings shall fall before him." 64 00:07:12,182 --> 00:07:16,436 "All kings... shall fall before him." 65 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:17,854 It was a gift. 66 00:07:17,938 --> 00:07:19,439 From father to son? 67 00:07:19,523 --> 00:07:21,066 Yes. 68 00:07:21,149 --> 00:07:26,154 A verse from the scriptures of a religion welcomed, like all the others, 69 00:07:26,237 --> 00:07:27,947 within the walls of Cambulac. 70 00:07:28,031 --> 00:07:30,283 A faith with designs on our kingdom. 71 00:07:30,367 --> 00:07:32,328 I know nothing of that. 72 00:07:34,079 --> 00:07:37,123 But I do believe you have designs on the Vatican. 73 00:07:37,207 --> 00:07:38,458 What of it? 74 00:07:40,294 --> 00:07:43,380 Respectfully, Lord Khan... 75 00:07:43,464 --> 00:07:45,089 we reap what we sow. 76 00:07:45,173 --> 00:07:46,674 You speak recklessly. 77 00:07:46,758 --> 00:07:48,385 I speak honestly. 78 00:07:49,386 --> 00:07:52,430 You deserve honesty. 79 00:07:52,514 --> 00:07:56,059 You believe I should not conquer the West? 80 00:07:57,436 --> 00:08:00,356 On the contrary, Lord Khan. 81 00:08:01,898 --> 00:08:05,319 The most common law of nature and of man... 82 00:08:06,445 --> 00:08:10,198 is to take what has been mandated 83 00:08:10,281 --> 00:08:11,742 by God 84 00:08:11,825 --> 00:08:14,745 or by the swords and arrows you command. 85 00:08:15,746 --> 00:08:17,914 You claim both. 86 00:08:17,998 --> 00:08:21,709 But you must be prepared for the resistance of the lionhearted. 87 00:08:22,711 --> 00:08:25,213 And the West is not weak. 88 00:08:38,268 --> 00:08:41,771 Have you nothing more to say to champion your cause? 89 00:08:43,565 --> 00:08:47,944 It seems my end is guaranteed no matter what words I sound. 90 00:08:49,279 --> 00:08:50,488 Indeed. 91 00:10:02,018 --> 00:10:05,063 The Imperial Seal is yours, Chancellor. 92 00:10:05,146 --> 00:10:07,398 And with it, the dynasty. 93 00:10:09,485 --> 00:10:12,403 Chancellor... even still? 94 00:10:12,488 --> 00:10:14,948 Unless your birthright has altered. 95 00:10:18,326 --> 00:10:20,244 The Seven Families are arriving. 96 00:10:20,328 --> 00:10:23,832 Songs of your victory have carried far and wide. 97 00:10:23,915 --> 00:10:28,086 How you eviscerated the Mongol horde, body and soul. 98 00:10:29,671 --> 00:10:33,258 They are prepared to pledge their fealty to the Emperor. 99 00:10:35,469 --> 00:10:37,679 They're going to want to see the boy. 100 00:10:38,764 --> 00:10:40,848 That is assured. 101 00:10:40,932 --> 00:10:44,143 No one truly believes the boy guides his own hand. 102 00:10:45,812 --> 00:10:48,106 Yet the sheep elevate him. 103 00:10:50,358 --> 00:10:52,277 I must stand behind him. 104 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:54,028 A wise tactic, my Chancellor. 105 00:10:56,907 --> 00:11:00,410 I suppose I couldn't simply imprint this on his skull 106 00:11:00,494 --> 00:11:02,120 and float him down the Yangtze? 107 00:11:07,751 --> 00:11:09,419 Tell me your name. 108 00:11:10,378 --> 00:11:12,130 You need not fear me. 109 00:11:12,214 --> 00:11:15,049 It is Judar, my Princess. 110 00:11:16,509 --> 00:11:18,052 You may call me Kokachin. 111 00:11:19,262 --> 00:11:20,763 No, Princess. 112 00:11:20,847 --> 00:11:21,973 Do you defy me? 113 00:11:23,433 --> 00:11:25,393 In this, I do. 114 00:11:26,352 --> 00:11:29,022 If you defy this simple request, 115 00:11:29,105 --> 00:11:31,733 how am I to know you will not defy a greater one? 116 00:11:31,817 --> 00:11:35,403 The truest of servants knows our needs better than we do. 117 00:11:35,487 --> 00:11:37,030 Leave us. 118 00:11:40,826 --> 00:11:44,328 I was your age when I was promised to Kublai. 119 00:11:44,412 --> 00:11:46,330 It was terrifying. 120 00:11:46,414 --> 00:11:50,836 I knew he would be Khan even if he himself did not. 121 00:11:52,212 --> 00:11:56,174 At the time... I felt as if I was unworthy, 122 00:11:56,258 --> 00:11:58,511 that a mistake had surely been made 123 00:11:58,594 --> 00:12:02,180 and at a moment's notice someone would unveil me as a fraud. 124 00:12:05,642 --> 00:12:08,978 It was not until Kublai's mother gifted me this, 125 00:12:09,062 --> 00:12:13,191 the finest of silks, to be woven into my presentational gown, 126 00:12:13,274 --> 00:12:15,443 that I knew it was true. 127 00:12:15,526 --> 00:12:19,906 I kept what remained to one day gift to a daughter of my own. 128 00:12:26,329 --> 00:12:28,081 It is lovely. 129 00:12:28,164 --> 00:12:31,668 A mere reflection of the beauty who wears it. 130 00:12:34,545 --> 00:12:39,967 I also come to pay condolences and to inquire as to your heart. 131 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:44,472 I lost a good friend. 132 00:12:44,556 --> 00:12:48,059 Your only friend, if I recall. 133 00:12:49,728 --> 00:12:52,146 I hope it's no longer the case, my Queen. 134 00:12:53,649 --> 00:12:55,191 If you speak of me... 135 00:12:56,902 --> 00:12:58,694 speak with certainty. 136 00:13:03,909 --> 00:13:07,829 I'm afraid loss has infected the kingdom of late. 137 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,374 With more on the horizon. 138 00:13:13,501 --> 00:13:15,544 So I've heard. 139 00:13:15,628 --> 00:13:17,588 You've heard? 140 00:13:19,925 --> 00:13:22,551 The Latin is to be executed. 141 00:13:28,141 --> 00:13:29,309 At dawn. 142 00:13:30,477 --> 00:13:33,563 A seamstress will pay you a visit shortly. 143 00:13:40,278 --> 00:13:42,238 Master Polo. 144 00:13:42,322 --> 00:13:45,116 I came to inquire as to your state of mind. 145 00:13:46,868 --> 00:13:49,787 My thanks for your concern, Jingim. 146 00:13:49,871 --> 00:13:51,081 Prince. 147 00:13:52,165 --> 00:13:54,042 Prince Jingim. 148 00:13:58,588 --> 00:14:00,757 I know this seems unjust, 149 00:14:00,841 --> 00:14:03,885 and it's hard for you to see, sitting where you are. 150 00:14:05,261 --> 00:14:10,266 But understand... that this is entirely for the good of the kingdom. 151 00:14:15,105 --> 00:14:16,522 Do you hunt? 152 00:14:19,025 --> 00:14:24,197 In our culture, your first hunt, as in many things in life, 153 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:26,657 is a very lonely enterprise. 154 00:14:28,284 --> 00:14:32,622 You're cast into the wilderness with nothing more than a bow and an arrow 155 00:14:32,706 --> 00:14:35,541 and instructed not to return without meat. 156 00:14:36,877 --> 00:14:38,336 For the kingdom. 157 00:14:39,337 --> 00:14:42,590 It can take a day, a week. 158 00:14:43,674 --> 00:14:45,719 Some never return. 159 00:14:51,141 --> 00:14:55,394 What do you think is the most vital trait for the hunter to possess? 160 00:14:55,478 --> 00:14:59,065 Please, Jingim, do not mar my final hours. 161 00:15:01,567 --> 00:15:02,986 Patience. 162 00:15:06,865 --> 00:15:09,575 I saw its horns first. 163 00:15:09,659 --> 00:15:14,164 Grand, stretching to the heavens and catching the morning light. 164 00:15:15,165 --> 00:15:16,875 A mighty trophy. 165 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:22,380 I set my arrow, took aim. 166 00:15:24,007 --> 00:15:25,091 He was gone. 167 00:15:29,262 --> 00:15:31,472 But I had a feeling about him... 168 00:15:32,515 --> 00:15:34,768 and so I waited another night. 169 00:15:35,811 --> 00:15:39,732 It was so cold, I wanted to run home. 170 00:15:39,815 --> 00:15:43,359 A handful of kills passed me by. 171 00:15:43,443 --> 00:15:47,238 I could have slain them all, returned triumphant, 172 00:15:47,322 --> 00:15:49,991 dipped my finger in the fat of the kill, 173 00:15:50,075 --> 00:15:53,244 been deemed a man and slept in my own bed. 174 00:15:56,331 --> 00:15:58,041 But I waited. 175 00:16:01,878 --> 00:16:04,965 As I felt the sun warm me the next morning... 176 00:16:07,425 --> 00:16:11,262 there it was, passing between the trees. 177 00:16:16,226 --> 00:16:18,311 My father was so proud. 178 00:16:38,957 --> 00:16:40,416 Patience. 179 00:16:42,418 --> 00:16:45,838 Patience to ensure that true aim finds the true target. 180 00:16:47,548 --> 00:16:49,550 An innocent target, 181 00:16:49,634 --> 00:16:53,596 whose offense was crossing paths at the wrong time, 182 00:16:54,973 --> 00:16:56,432 with the wrong person. 183 00:17:14,825 --> 00:17:15,867 Death. 184 00:17:17,453 --> 00:17:19,164 Another lonely enterprise. 185 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,002 May your God accompany you, Master Polo. 186 00:17:31,051 --> 00:17:32,968 You will need it more than I. 187 00:17:42,020 --> 00:17:45,148 Let us not build strife where none should exist. 188 00:17:45,231 --> 00:17:47,691 Pride and hope have filled the coffers of the people's spirits. 189 00:17:47,775 --> 00:17:50,863 Those coffers were never depleted. 190 00:17:50,946 --> 00:17:54,908 You simply convinced yourself otherwise to support your own machinations. 191 00:17:54,991 --> 00:17:56,451 Why am I your enemy 192 00:17:56,534 --> 00:18:00,914 when you're the one prepared to bury our culture in history's potter's field? 193 00:18:00,997 --> 00:18:03,749 The landed gentry of the south prepare to meet. 194 00:18:03,833 --> 00:18:06,627 Are these the same landed gentry whose land you stripped 195 00:18:06,711 --> 00:18:08,881 against my husband's wishes not long ago? 196 00:18:08,964 --> 00:18:12,592 The proceeds from the fields helped fund our defenses. 197 00:18:12,675 --> 00:18:15,761 And each now pledges their support for an assault on Cambulac. 198 00:18:15,845 --> 00:18:18,931 My compliments, Jia Sidao. 199 00:18:19,015 --> 00:18:20,432 Insincerity still. 200 00:18:20,516 --> 00:18:22,726 I am nothing but sincere. 201 00:18:22,810 --> 00:18:27,857 You set out to undermine the council and retain the chancellorate. 202 00:18:27,941 --> 00:18:29,107 Fang Zhen fell. 203 00:18:30,526 --> 00:18:32,861 You sought to repel the Mongol horde 204 00:18:32,946 --> 00:18:37,325 and masterfully lured them into a hornet's nest of sharpened steel. 205 00:18:37,408 --> 00:18:42,330 You wish to gather Southern China into one indomitable force 206 00:18:42,413 --> 00:18:45,375 and gird them for the final unification. 207 00:18:45,458 --> 00:18:48,294 I have no doubt you will succeed in that as well. 208 00:18:48,378 --> 00:18:53,007 But you will do so without the support you are about to ask of me. 209 00:18:53,091 --> 00:18:55,759 How might I convince you of the folly of your decision? 210 00:18:55,843 --> 00:18:57,553 Stop tinkering with that and look at me. 211 00:19:02,350 --> 00:19:04,852 There is nothing you might say or do. 212 00:19:04,935 --> 00:19:06,061 Ever. 213 00:19:08,106 --> 00:19:10,608 I assumed that would be your answer. 214 00:19:10,691 --> 00:19:11,734 Very well. 215 00:19:11,818 --> 00:19:15,487 I shall go it alone. Yet again. 216 00:19:15,571 --> 00:19:19,617 You need the Emperor in order to accomplish your final design. 217 00:19:19,701 --> 00:19:22,912 You cannot lock me away from him forever. 218 00:19:22,996 --> 00:19:24,455 My dear Empress... 219 00:19:25,665 --> 00:19:27,667 I never considered that an option. 220 00:19:57,739 --> 00:20:00,408 You're here to defend him? 221 00:20:00,491 --> 00:20:04,453 Lord Khan, years ago, you took my eyes. 222 00:20:04,537 --> 00:20:08,624 Today... I offer you the rest of me. 223 00:20:08,708 --> 00:20:10,751 What do you speak of? 224 00:20:10,835 --> 00:20:14,505 If the boy is culpable as you say, 225 00:20:14,589 --> 00:20:19,302 and I have no reason to doubt the Khan's good judgment on such matters, 226 00:20:19,385 --> 00:20:22,305 then I am equally culpable. 227 00:20:22,388 --> 00:20:24,932 You entrusted the Latin to me. 228 00:20:25,015 --> 00:20:28,186 I trained him, fought beside him. 229 00:20:28,269 --> 00:20:30,604 How can you not believe me complicit? 230 00:20:30,688 --> 00:20:32,107 - Get out! - Lord Khan... 231 00:20:32,190 --> 00:20:35,818 Guards! Escort the monk out of my sight. 232 00:20:35,902 --> 00:20:38,320 Do not allow him to return. 233 00:21:01,886 --> 00:21:04,056 - Where do you intend to go? - The Ministry of Justice. 234 00:21:04,139 --> 00:21:06,182 - For what purpose? - None of your concern. 235 00:21:08,810 --> 00:21:11,520 My apologies, but you may not leave, Princess. 236 00:21:11,604 --> 00:21:13,188 Pardon me? 237 00:21:13,273 --> 00:21:14,732 I cannot allow you to leave. 238 00:21:14,816 --> 00:21:16,109 You're my servant. 239 00:21:16,192 --> 00:21:18,361 As well as your defender. 240 00:21:19,612 --> 00:21:20,988 Whom do you take orders from? 241 00:21:21,071 --> 00:21:24,491 The Blue Princess commands me as dictated by the Great Khan. 242 00:21:24,575 --> 00:21:27,370 You had best remember that. 243 00:21:27,453 --> 00:21:28,704 Stand aside! 244 00:21:36,879 --> 00:21:40,799 Empress Chabi has instructed that you remain in your quarters. 245 00:21:42,802 --> 00:21:45,763 - Until? - We receive further orders. 246 00:22:15,710 --> 00:22:16,752 Hello, Ling Ling. 247 00:22:20,215 --> 00:22:25,678 I appreciate your regard, child, but sit with me. 248 00:22:31,601 --> 00:22:34,103 You're beyond your years in grace and training. 249 00:22:35,313 --> 00:22:39,190 Regrettably, that is found far too infrequently in children your age. 250 00:22:39,275 --> 00:22:42,237 My thanks, My Lady. 251 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:43,821 When I was a young girl, 252 00:22:43,905 --> 00:22:48,160 my mother told me it was as if I had been raised by wild yaks, 253 00:22:48,243 --> 00:22:50,953 spitting and kicking everyone around me. 254 00:22:54,457 --> 00:22:56,083 How are you feeling? 255 00:22:57,752 --> 00:23:00,255 My feet hurt less, My Lady. 256 00:23:01,213 --> 00:23:03,006 Good news. 257 00:23:04,342 --> 00:23:06,426 How are you finding your time in Cambulac? 258 00:23:06,511 --> 00:23:08,513 I enjoy it greatly. 259 00:23:10,723 --> 00:23:13,475 You miss your home? Your family? 260 00:23:17,605 --> 00:23:19,023 Tell me of your mother. 261 00:23:20,441 --> 00:23:24,069 To have a daughter such as yourself, she must be lovely. 262 00:23:25,070 --> 00:23:27,657 She is. She's a dancer. 263 00:23:30,618 --> 00:23:31,827 A dancer? 264 00:23:32,828 --> 00:23:34,747 Does she dance for you? 265 00:23:34,830 --> 00:23:36,332 For my father. 266 00:23:37,750 --> 00:23:40,878 I am quite sure he enjoys that. 267 00:23:40,962 --> 00:23:43,505 She was his favorite. 268 00:23:47,009 --> 00:23:48,218 His favorite? 269 00:23:51,597 --> 00:23:54,517 Did your father have many dancers? 270 00:24:04,444 --> 00:24:06,069 Does your father still live? 271 00:24:11,826 --> 00:24:15,330 Did your father sit on a throne? 272 00:24:18,749 --> 00:24:20,292 We own Chinese royalty? 273 00:24:21,168 --> 00:24:25,130 That's more precious than anything that surrounds us in this moment. 274 00:24:25,214 --> 00:24:27,216 The question is, how best to use it? 275 00:24:27,299 --> 00:24:29,719 We own nothing. 276 00:24:29,802 --> 00:24:33,265 The daughter rightfully does not trust me. The mother less so. 277 00:24:33,348 --> 00:24:36,350 Her mother's like a wounded animal, desperate for kindness. 278 00:24:36,434 --> 00:24:40,812 One which will lick your hand simply to get a taste before biting. 279 00:24:40,896 --> 00:24:43,566 Some men pay good coin for such pleasures. 280 00:24:45,067 --> 00:24:48,070 I wonder sometimes about that mind of yours. 281 00:24:48,154 --> 00:24:50,740 Clear in intent, Lady Empress. 282 00:24:51,741 --> 00:24:54,117 Then be intent on this matter. 283 00:24:54,827 --> 00:24:59,957 To tame an animal, it must fear the raising of your hand. 284 00:25:00,041 --> 00:25:02,042 I may be just ahead of you at this moment. 285 00:25:04,294 --> 00:25:05,505 How so? 286 00:25:05,588 --> 00:25:07,839 I planted a seed in the mother's head 287 00:25:07,923 --> 00:25:10,134 that her daughter is... 288 00:25:10,217 --> 00:25:13,178 closer than she first envisioned. 289 00:25:13,262 --> 00:25:15,555 I imagine it may have sprouted as a weed. 290 00:25:30,279 --> 00:25:32,865 I value your friendship, Sifu. 291 00:25:33,908 --> 00:25:38,037 As I have stated time and again, I am not your friend. 292 00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:40,080 Far from it. 293 00:25:40,164 --> 00:25:42,667 I know you wish to believe that, 294 00:25:42,750 --> 00:25:47,004 but you cared for me, taught me, protected me. 295 00:25:48,130 --> 00:25:50,883 What would you call that, if not friendship? 296 00:25:50,966 --> 00:25:52,760 An onerous burden. 297 00:25:54,637 --> 00:25:57,515 In few hours' time, that burden will be lifted. 298 00:25:58,849 --> 00:26:01,811 And I will have lost a friend. 299 00:26:01,894 --> 00:26:03,813 Is there no escape? 300 00:26:03,896 --> 00:26:05,981 From you leaving this mortal body? 301 00:26:07,107 --> 00:26:08,400 Yes. 302 00:26:08,484 --> 00:26:09,860 None. 303 00:26:09,944 --> 00:26:12,196 Unless you can find something to gift to him 304 00:26:12,279 --> 00:26:14,990 that is more valuable than your life. 305 00:26:49,775 --> 00:26:50,943 Why? 306 00:26:51,026 --> 00:26:53,278 She missed your father so much. 307 00:26:53,362 --> 00:26:58,533 Sometimes, hearts are broken and they cannot be pieced together again. 308 00:26:58,618 --> 00:27:00,702 Will mine break? 309 00:27:00,786 --> 00:27:03,789 No... because you do not need her. 310 00:27:04,665 --> 00:27:09,169 You do not need me or anyone. You need only this. 311 00:27:16,969 --> 00:27:18,053 What do you see? 312 00:27:19,514 --> 00:27:20,722 A bug. 313 00:27:20,806 --> 00:27:24,142 You're most correct, but it is so much more. 314 00:27:24,226 --> 00:27:26,144 This mantis that I give to you 315 00:27:27,062 --> 00:27:30,774 was one of 300 nymphs, babies... 316 00:27:30,858 --> 00:27:31,983 about this big. 317 00:27:32,777 --> 00:27:34,986 Imagine that, 300. 318 00:27:35,070 --> 00:27:37,906 The strongest among them kill the weakest among them 319 00:27:38,658 --> 00:27:40,492 until the very best are left. 320 00:27:40,576 --> 00:27:41,994 A mere handful. 321 00:27:42,995 --> 00:27:47,040 Now, this mantis will leave this life within 10 months of today. 322 00:27:49,334 --> 00:27:53,130 You must take this time as an opportunity to learn everything you can. 323 00:27:53,213 --> 00:27:55,423 To study, to practice, 324 00:27:55,507 --> 00:27:58,470 to absorb all the lessons of the mantis, 325 00:27:58,553 --> 00:27:59,636 for there are many. 326 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:04,432 Patience, speed, adaptability, ruthlessness. 327 00:28:05,225 --> 00:28:07,269 The traits of a warrior king. 328 00:28:08,478 --> 00:28:10,147 Heed my words, my Emperor... 329 00:28:11,356 --> 00:28:13,776 and you will become as the mantis. 330 00:28:30,835 --> 00:28:32,044 Judar? 331 00:28:33,128 --> 00:28:34,589 Yes, Princess? 332 00:28:36,799 --> 00:28:40,094 Fetch me some sandalwood for my bath. 333 00:28:40,177 --> 00:28:42,012 Yes, Princess. 334 00:29:31,604 --> 00:29:33,022 What are your thoughts? 335 00:29:35,024 --> 00:29:36,817 I do not know. 336 00:29:41,947 --> 00:29:43,323 Is it my doing? 337 00:29:44,617 --> 00:29:46,368 Are you frustrated with me? 338 00:29:46,451 --> 00:29:49,288 No. No, never. 339 00:29:53,458 --> 00:29:55,085 I need you here. 340 00:30:00,716 --> 00:30:01,801 I am. 341 00:30:07,222 --> 00:30:09,308 Why am I not relieved? 342 00:30:12,519 --> 00:30:17,357 You are sensitive to the grief of others, no matter their transgressions. 343 00:30:18,776 --> 00:30:22,071 Every breath the Latin takes is a burden on your soul. 344 00:30:23,823 --> 00:30:28,577 At sun's light... you will find relief. 345 00:30:43,926 --> 00:30:46,470 Did I introduce a curse into our bed? 346 00:30:50,265 --> 00:30:52,852 You are the son of a Khan... 347 00:30:54,353 --> 00:30:56,856 a Khan in waiting. 348 00:30:59,149 --> 00:31:02,611 The fault rests with me and me alone. 349 00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:28,011 Do not make your presence known. 350 00:31:31,056 --> 00:31:35,060 I wanted you to see that she lives. As you wished. 351 00:31:36,228 --> 00:31:38,272 She will always be here, 352 00:31:38,355 --> 00:31:41,734 under my watchful eye, under my tutelage. 353 00:31:42,777 --> 00:31:45,029 I will care for her as my own. 354 00:31:51,535 --> 00:31:54,830 Look at her, remember her. 355 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:57,332 You will never see her again. 356 00:31:59,459 --> 00:32:02,797 But if you do what I say, when I say it, 357 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:07,592 you can be secure in the knowledge that her days will stretch long before her. 358 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:19,687 Come now. 359 00:32:44,629 --> 00:32:47,049 What is the benefit of being a princess 360 00:32:47,132 --> 00:32:50,427 if your lord requires you to perform your own labor? 361 00:32:50,510 --> 00:32:53,388 We will do the same to our children one day. 362 00:32:54,389 --> 00:32:55,975 Where are your belongings? 363 00:32:56,809 --> 00:33:01,396 I looked for what I should pack and realized everything I need is here. 364 00:33:03,398 --> 00:33:05,818 In a week's time, we will be home. 365 00:33:08,737 --> 00:33:11,114 Is this as foreign to you as it is to me? 366 00:33:11,198 --> 00:33:12,491 More so. 367 00:33:13,742 --> 00:33:15,995 Do you think we will ever settle into it? 368 00:33:16,078 --> 00:33:17,746 I hope not. 369 00:33:42,312 --> 00:33:43,730 Minister. 370 00:33:57,870 --> 00:34:00,539 Is this what you summoned me down here for? 371 00:34:00,622 --> 00:34:02,707 You oversee war. 372 00:34:04,126 --> 00:34:06,921 And I am going to tell you how to win it. 373 00:34:09,756 --> 00:34:11,466 Thank you for coming. 374 00:34:12,759 --> 00:34:15,720 Do you think I would deny a dying man an audience? 375 00:34:15,804 --> 00:34:17,555 I know nothing of you. 376 00:34:17,639 --> 00:34:20,725 In this, you are at a decided advantage. 377 00:34:22,561 --> 00:34:23,562 Your journal. 378 00:34:24,939 --> 00:34:26,606 It is most enlightening 379 00:34:26,690 --> 00:34:30,818 when one has unfettered access inside a person's thoughts. 380 00:34:32,362 --> 00:34:34,656 Warrantless access. 381 00:34:34,740 --> 00:34:37,034 To be fair, you were an enigma. 382 00:34:38,035 --> 00:34:39,912 One that had grown close to my Khan. 383 00:34:39,995 --> 00:34:43,916 You could have sat with me prior to my last night of life... 384 00:34:43,999 --> 00:34:45,083 and asked. 385 00:34:46,751 --> 00:34:51,048 I am certain you would not have granted me the insight I required. 386 00:34:53,258 --> 00:34:54,259 But... 387 00:34:55,469 --> 00:34:56,678 I procured the journal 388 00:34:56,762 --> 00:34:59,598 prior to your writing of one curiosity. 389 00:35:00,599 --> 00:35:03,477 What made you cease your attempts at escape? 390 00:35:05,062 --> 00:35:06,312 Was it her? 391 00:35:11,901 --> 00:35:16,197 Under the circumstances, you need not hold your tongue. 392 00:35:21,786 --> 00:35:23,163 Partially. 393 00:35:24,831 --> 00:35:26,458 Significantly. 394 00:35:28,085 --> 00:35:30,003 But not entirely. 395 00:35:38,887 --> 00:35:39,929 Tell me. 396 00:35:47,562 --> 00:35:49,982 The walled Phoenician city of Tyre. 397 00:35:51,233 --> 00:35:53,901 It defied Alexander for 13 long years. 398 00:35:56,113 --> 00:35:59,241 Built on an island, Tyre was walled to the sea, 399 00:35:59,324 --> 00:36:02,910 an insurmountable fortress that was key to all of Persia. 400 00:36:02,995 --> 00:36:06,665 He attempted to breach the walls using common instruments of war, 401 00:36:06,748 --> 00:36:10,752 arrows, battering rams, catapults. 402 00:36:10,835 --> 00:36:15,215 But three dozen men are needed to load and fire one. 403 00:36:17,301 --> 00:36:22,263 Alexander employed... the trebuchet, 404 00:36:22,347 --> 00:36:27,226 a siege engine powered not by men but by a counterweight. 405 00:36:28,062 --> 00:36:31,648 Imagine the weight of 6,000 pounds on one end 406 00:36:31,732 --> 00:36:34,233 and a 300-pound rock set on the other. 407 00:36:35,735 --> 00:36:39,238 Imagine firing 1,000 in a single day. 408 00:36:44,828 --> 00:36:50,249 Imagine what even three of these engines could do to the walls of Xiangyang. 409 00:36:51,418 --> 00:36:55,755 And at a distance that keeps the army safe from archers. 410 00:36:55,839 --> 00:36:57,006 Correct. 411 00:37:01,511 --> 00:37:03,304 Altruism still? 412 00:37:04,389 --> 00:37:07,642 Even in the face of your execution? 413 00:37:07,726 --> 00:37:09,103 Not purely. 414 00:37:10,729 --> 00:37:12,522 I'm not afraid to die... 415 00:37:13,732 --> 00:37:17,860 but I'm terrified to do so while branded a traitor. 416 00:37:24,701 --> 00:37:27,329 What is the entirety you spoke of earlier? 417 00:37:28,747 --> 00:37:30,456 What else made you stay? 418 00:37:34,878 --> 00:37:39,216 The moment the Khan gave me the choice to deliver my father from death. 419 00:37:40,717 --> 00:37:43,052 He is a good man. 420 00:38:02,114 --> 00:38:05,658 Grandfather, why couldn't you have taken that? 421 00:38:05,742 --> 00:38:08,953 Why couldn't you have taken that wall? 422 00:38:33,019 --> 00:38:37,108 My Emperor, these men are all that remain of the Red Lotus. 423 00:38:37,191 --> 00:38:40,234 Traitors within the kingdom determined to undermine the Emperor's mission, 424 00:38:40,944 --> 00:38:44,113 determined to destroy the Emperor and his dynasty. 425 00:38:44,198 --> 00:38:47,201 They are your enemy. 426 00:38:47,284 --> 00:38:49,828 They are weak. They must be punished. 427 00:38:51,788 --> 00:38:55,457 What does the strong mantis do to its weaker brothers and sisters? 428 00:38:59,045 --> 00:39:00,547 Kill them. 429 00:39:08,888 --> 00:39:10,265 A catapult? 430 00:39:11,266 --> 00:39:12,726 Waste of my time. 431 00:39:13,727 --> 00:39:17,522 Lord Khan, with respect, this may very well be the key... 432 00:39:17,606 --> 00:39:20,358 The key to Xiangyang, finally! 433 00:39:21,485 --> 00:39:25,780 If only my Vice Regent had attained this key years ago! 434 00:39:25,864 --> 00:39:27,490 Some magical solution? 435 00:39:27,574 --> 00:39:31,452 Why did you bring this to me when I know you crave my failure? 436 00:39:31,536 --> 00:39:33,747 If that is what you believe, 437 00:39:33,830 --> 00:39:35,790 then you have not been listening to anything... 438 00:39:35,874 --> 00:39:38,417 Enough of your insolence! 439 00:39:40,128 --> 00:39:41,295 You... 440 00:39:43,089 --> 00:39:46,092 beg for my pardon, is that your scheme? 441 00:39:47,219 --> 00:39:50,888 No, Sire. Begging is for the guilty. 442 00:39:57,687 --> 00:40:01,858 I've seen stronger men than you weep before the rug. 443 00:40:03,402 --> 00:40:07,155 When the time comes, be brave and sure. 444 00:40:08,782 --> 00:40:11,034 For it is coming at dawn... 445 00:40:12,369 --> 00:40:14,621 no matter how loud you cry. 446 00:40:16,602 --> 00:40:18,207 Lord Khan... 447 00:43:02,664 --> 00:43:03,748 Liar! 448 00:43:03,832 --> 00:43:04,874 You're a liar! 449 00:43:06,042 --> 00:43:09,504 Remove yourself. We speak of this lunacy no more. 450 00:43:09,588 --> 00:43:11,089 Tell the kheshig to jail me. 451 00:43:11,172 --> 00:43:15,218 You made your point, take your leave. There is honest work to be done. 452 00:43:15,301 --> 00:43:17,971 This is merely a statement of facts. 453 00:43:18,619 --> 00:43:20,181 You hired the assassins? 454 00:43:20,807 --> 00:43:23,017 You manipulated that whore, Mei Lin. 455 00:43:23,101 --> 00:43:26,938 You instructed my brother to withhold his troops from Wuchang? 456 00:43:27,021 --> 00:43:28,565 You conspired with Jia Sidao? 457 00:43:28,648 --> 00:43:30,941 I conspired for and with the Khanate. 458 00:43:31,025 --> 00:43:34,612 And you think, what? The Khanate does not guide my heart? 459 00:43:34,696 --> 00:43:36,072 Your mind. 460 00:43:36,823 --> 00:43:39,700 But minds can be easily persuaded of anything. 461 00:43:39,784 --> 00:43:43,955 The reason you do not sleep is because of a longing in your heart 462 00:43:44,038 --> 00:43:46,749 - that will never be sated. - And why should it? 463 00:43:47,542 --> 00:43:50,629 - I know you believe Xiangyang will fall. - It will. 464 00:43:50,712 --> 00:43:55,383 And you fear that once conquered, I turn my aims to lands far reaching? 465 00:43:55,467 --> 00:43:57,010 - I do. - Why should I not? 466 00:43:57,093 --> 00:43:59,845 Because you know how this will end. 467 00:44:01,180 --> 00:44:03,307 As all other dynasties have. 468 00:44:04,559 --> 00:44:06,435 Am I not different? 469 00:44:07,604 --> 00:44:09,440 I once believed so. 470 00:44:09,523 --> 00:44:11,857 It is why I stand before you this evening. 471 00:44:11,941 --> 00:44:13,984 Yusuf, you did not do this. 472 00:44:14,986 --> 00:44:17,071 My confession stands. 473 00:44:17,155 --> 00:44:22,285 Be it betrayal by my hands or by my heart, 474 00:44:22,368 --> 00:44:23,995 I am guilty. 475 00:44:25,121 --> 00:44:26,498 What do you want from me? 476 00:44:28,041 --> 00:44:30,084 To give up Xiangyang? 477 00:44:30,168 --> 00:44:32,962 - You know the answer is yes. - I cannot. 478 00:44:33,046 --> 00:44:34,756 I know that as well. 479 00:44:36,049 --> 00:44:38,301 I should hide behind my wall? 480 00:44:38,384 --> 00:44:41,179 Take pleasure in the present state? 481 00:44:41,262 --> 00:44:44,265 While away my days and bury myself here when they're done? 482 00:44:44,349 --> 00:44:46,475 Where is the fault in that? 483 00:44:47,686 --> 00:44:49,895 How many lands must be reaped? 484 00:44:50,605 --> 00:44:55,901 How many vaults must be filled and young spirits extinguished? 485 00:45:02,617 --> 00:45:04,743 One. One last game. 486 00:45:12,460 --> 00:45:14,295 Taken the pieces away. 487 00:45:33,815 --> 00:45:35,650 The boy is guilty. 488 00:45:38,612 --> 00:45:41,739 His only guilt is his blind desire for your love. 489 00:45:52,876 --> 00:45:55,754 You know who he reminds me of? 490 00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:01,134 Yusuf... my crazed cripple of Khazaria. 491 00:46:03,427 --> 00:46:05,764 Not in mindless bloodletting... 492 00:46:07,056 --> 00:46:09,433 but in dedication to your cause. 493 00:46:12,061 --> 00:46:13,437 He does. 494 00:46:14,605 --> 00:46:18,026 You need that dedication at your service 495 00:46:18,109 --> 00:46:19,985 at all times. 496 00:46:23,281 --> 00:46:27,869 I am no longer capable of it, nor am I willing. 497 00:46:32,123 --> 00:46:36,377 You have the finest engineers in all the world. 498 00:46:36,460 --> 00:46:39,839 My final counsel to you is that you put them to work. 499 00:46:41,132 --> 00:46:43,801 Construct the Latin's siege engine. 500 00:46:56,147 --> 00:47:00,234 As your Khan, I do not accept your confession. 501 00:47:07,366 --> 00:47:12,371 I have sent messages to every corner of the kingdom outlining my complicity. 502 00:47:13,622 --> 00:47:18,377 In doing so, I have weakened your position before Karakorum and throughout China. 503 00:47:19,545 --> 00:47:22,256 You will be challenged in the Kurultai. 504 00:47:22,340 --> 00:47:23,925 You will lose. 505 00:47:25,426 --> 00:47:26,886 And in that... 506 00:47:26,970 --> 00:47:30,181 a dream of this place may endure. 507 00:47:33,727 --> 00:47:36,187 You have no choice, Kublai. 508 00:48:35,079 --> 00:48:37,539 I thought I had until dawn. 509 00:48:49,635 --> 00:48:51,637 The final battle looms. 510 00:48:52,638 --> 00:48:54,808 Be decisive in your victory. 511 00:49:05,193 --> 00:49:07,528 You are released from this prison. 512 00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:12,075 But I am truly free.