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The troops are quartered.

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Burial preparations are underway
for those we were able to retrieve.

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I have ordered scouting parties to sweep
the grasslands a week's ride away

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in case Sidao is...

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audacious enough
to siege Cambulac.

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Finally, we are conscripting
new troops from the north.

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I have begun preparations for training.

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I fear they may be less compliant now,

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but we shall do what is necessary
to bend the willful.

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My Lord.

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Is that truly all?

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Do you not wish to discuss your counsel?

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And my disregard of it?

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The Polo matter,
are you prepared to proceed?

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Master Marco,

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in his infinite wisdom and compassion,

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the Khan of Khans grants you
a final audience to plead for mercy.

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I will not plead for mercy.

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But I will defend myself.

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May I seek clarity as to
the charges levied against me?

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Treason.

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I take no pleasure in this,
Master Marco.

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But it seems great misfortune

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has descended upon our kingdom
on your arrival.

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I did not choose to remain here.

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I chose to be released to my father.

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Your time in the Kochkor region.

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Your ability to enter and leave
without repercussion.

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And do you suspect Byamba,
son of the Khan,

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to have blood on his hands?

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We traveled side by side.

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Is that accurate, Byamba?

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Were you always at the Latin's side
on your journey?

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I was asked to be here and I came.

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But you cannot compel me
to be party to this.

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No, we were not side by side.

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There was a point where
he was negotiating for my life

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while I sat captive,
preparing to die.

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And if I remember,
you sent the Latin with me on my journey.

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After he convinced me to do so.

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How does your body
stand straight without a spine?

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Xiangyang.

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The loss.

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Your journey there.

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Your time with the whore's whore-friend.

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Sanctioned by the Khan of Khans.

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You alerted the Song
to our pending attack.

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You conspired to lead us
into the slaughter.

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What need would they of warning?

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They knew we were descending
at a week's distance.

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As to the wall...

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I am guilty.

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I founder in the blood of the thousands
who perished for my error.

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I have no defense.

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But right or wrong, I have done nothing
but serve my captor and Khan.

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And only him?

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Yes.

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Is that all?

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Nothing you have presented is punishable
by the laws of the Khan of Khans.

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I had this translated.

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Would you care to share with the Khan

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the words that you keep
so closely to your still-beating heart?

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"All kings shall fall before him."

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"All kings... shall fall before him."

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It was a gift.

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From father to son?

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Yes.

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A verse from the scriptures of a religion
welcomed, like all the others,

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within the walls of Cambulac.

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A faith with designs on our kingdom.

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I know nothing of that.

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But I do believe
you have designs on the Vatican.

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What of it?

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Respectfully, Lord Khan...

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we reap what we sow.

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You speak recklessly.

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I speak honestly.

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You deserve honesty.

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You believe I should not conquer the West?

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On the contrary, Lord Khan.

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The most common law
of nature and of man...

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is to take what has been mandated

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by God

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or by the swords and arrows you command.

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You claim both.

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But you must be prepared
for the resistance of the lionhearted.

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And the West is not weak.

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Have you nothing more to say
to champion your cause?

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It seems my end is guaranteed
no matter what words I sound.

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Indeed.

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Mmm.

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The Imperial Seal is yours, Chancellor.

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And with it, the dynasty.

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Chancellor... even still?

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Unless your birthright has altered.

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The Seven Families are arriving.

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Songs of your victory
have carried far and wide.

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How you eviscerated the Mongol horde,
body and soul.

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They are prepared
to pledge their fealty to the Emperor.

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They're going to want to see the boy.

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That is assured.

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No one truly believes
the boy guides his own hand.

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Yet the sheep elevate him.

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I must stand behind him.

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A wise tactic, my Chancellor.

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I suppose I couldn't simply
imprint this on his skull

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and float him down the Yangtze?

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Tell me your name.

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You need not fear me.

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It is Judar, my Princess.

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You may call me Kokachin.

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No, Princess.

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Do you defy me?

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In this, I do.

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If you defy this simple request,

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how am I to know
you will not defy a greater one?

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The truest of servants
knows our needs better than we do.

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Leave us.

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I was your age
when I was promised to Kublai.

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It was terrifying.

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I knew he would be Khan
even if he himself did not.

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At the time...
I felt as if I was unworthy,

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that a mistake had surely been made

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and at a moment's notice
someone would unveil me as a fraud.

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It was not until Kublai's mother
gifted me this,

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the finest of silks, to be woven
into my presentational gown,

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that I knew it was true.

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I kept what remained
to one day gift to a daughter of my own.

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It is lovely.

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A mere reflection of the beauty
who wears it.

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I also come to pay condolences
and to inquire as to your heart.

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I lost a good friend.

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Your only friend, if I recall.

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I hope it's no longer the case,
my Queen.

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If you speak of me...

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speak with certainty.

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I'm afraid loss has infected
the kingdom of late.

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With more on the horizon.

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So I've heard.

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You've heard?

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The Latin is to be executed.

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At dawn.

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A seamstress will pay you a visit shortly.

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Master Polo.

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I came to inquire
as to your state of mind.

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My thanks for your concern, Jingim.

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Prince.

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Prince Jingim.

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I know this seems unjust,

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and it's hard for you to see,
sitting where you are.

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But understand... that this is entirely
for the good of the kingdom.

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Do you hunt?

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In our culture, your first hunt,
as in many things in life,

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is a very lonely enterprise.

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You're cast into the wilderness
with nothing more than a bow and an arrow

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and instructed not to return without meat.

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For the kingdom.

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It can take a day, a week.

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Some never return.

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What do you think is the most vital trait
for the hunter to possess?

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Please, Jingim,
do not mar my final hours.

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Patience.

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I saw its horns first.

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Grand, stretching to the heavens
and catching the morning light.

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A mighty trophy.

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I set my arrow, took aim.

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He was gone.

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But I had a feeling about him...

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and so I waited another night.

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It was so cold,
I wanted to run home.

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A handful of kills passed me by.

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I could have slain them all,
returned triumphant,

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dipped my finger in the fat of the kill,

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been deemed a man
and slept in my own bed.

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But I waited.

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As I felt the sun warm me
the next morning...

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there it was,
passing between the trees.

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My father was so proud.

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Patience.

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Patience to ensure that
true aim finds the true target.

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An innocent target,

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whose offense was crossing paths
at the wrong time,

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with the wrong person.

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Death.

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Another lonely enterprise.

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May your God accompany you,
Master Polo.

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You will need it more than I.

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Let us not build strife
where none should exist.

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Pride and hope have filled
the coffers of the people's spirits.

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Those coffers were never depleted.

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You simply convinced yourself otherwise
to support your own machinations.

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Why am I your enemy

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when you're the one prepared to bury
our culture in history's potter's field?

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The landed gentry of the south
prepare to meet.

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Are these the same landed gentry
whose land you stripped

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against my husband's wishes
not long ago?

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The proceeds from the fields
helped fund our defenses.

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And each now pledges their support
for an assault on Cambulac.

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My compliments, Jia Sidao.

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Insincerity still.

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I am nothing but sincere.

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You set out to undermine the council
and retain the chancellorate.

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Fang Zhen fell.

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You sought to repel the Mongol horde

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and masterfully lured them into
a hornet's nest of sharpened steel.

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You wish to gather Southern China
into one indomitable force

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and gird them for the final unification.

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I have no doubt
you will succeed in that as well.

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But you will do so without the support
you are about to ask of me.

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How might I convince you
of the folly of your decision?

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Stop tinkering with that
and look at me.

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There is nothing
you might say or do.

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Ever.

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I assumed that
would be your answer.

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Very well.

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I shall go it alone. Yet again.

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You need the Emperor
in order to accomplish your final design.

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You cannot lock me
away from him forever.

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My dear Empress...

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I never considered that an option.

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You're here to defend him?

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Lord Khan, years ago,
you took my eyes.

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Today... I offer you the rest of me.

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What do you speak of?

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If the boy is culpable as you say,

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and I have no reason to doubt
the Khan's good judgment on such matters,

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then I am equally culpable.

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You entrusted the Latin to me.

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I trained him, fought beside him.

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How can you not
believe me complicit?

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- Get out!
- Lord Khan...

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Guards!
Escort the monk out of my sight.

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Do not allow him to return.

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- Where do you intend to go?
- The Ministry of Justice.

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- For what purpose?
- None of your concern.

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My apologies,
but you may not leave, Princess.

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Pardon me?

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I cannot allow you to leave.

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You're my servant.

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As well as your defender.

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00:21:19,679 --> 00:21:21,055
Whom do you take orders from?

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The Blue Princess commands me
as dictated by the Great Khan.

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You had best remember that.

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Stand aside!

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00:21:36,946 --> 00:21:40,950
Empress Chabi has instructed
that you remain in your quarters.

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- Until?
- We receive further orders.

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Hello, Ling Ling.

249
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I appreciate your regard, child,
but sit with me.

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You're beyond your years
in grace and training.

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Regrettably, that is found
far too infrequently in children your age.

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My thanks, My Lady.

253
00:22:42,387 --> 00:22:43,888
When I was a young girl,

254
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my mother told me it was as if
I had been raised by wild yaks,

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spitting and kicking
everyone around me.

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00:22:54,524 --> 00:22:56,150
How are you feeling?

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My feet hurt less, My Lady.

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Good news.

259
00:23:04,409 --> 00:23:06,494
How are you finding
your time in Cambulac?

260
00:23:06,578 --> 00:23:08,580
I enjoy it greatly.

261
00:23:10,790 --> 00:23:13,626
You miss your home? Your family?

262
00:23:17,672 --> 00:23:19,090
Tell me of your mother.

263
00:23:20,508 --> 00:23:24,136
To have a daughter such as yourself,
she must be lovely.

264
00:23:25,137 --> 00:23:27,724
She is. She's a dancer.

265
00:23:30,685 --> 00:23:31,894
A dancer?

266
00:23:32,895 --> 00:23:34,814
Does she dance for you?

267
00:23:34,897 --> 00:23:36,399
For my father.

268
00:23:37,817 --> 00:23:40,945
I am quite sure he enjoys that.

269
00:23:41,028 --> 00:23:43,656
She was his favorite.

270
00:23:47,076 --> 00:23:48,370
His favorite?

271
00:23:51,664 --> 00:23:54,584
Did your father
have many dancers?

272
00:24:04,511 --> 00:24:06,220
Does your father still live?

273
00:24:11,893 --> 00:24:15,397
Did your father sit on a throne?

274
00:24:18,816 --> 00:24:20,443
We own Chinese royalty?

275
00:24:21,235 --> 00:24:25,197
That's more precious than anything
that surrounds us in this moment.

276
00:24:25,281 --> 00:24:27,283
The question is,
how best to use it?

277
00:24:27,366 --> 00:24:29,786
We own nothing.

278
00:24:29,869 --> 00:24:33,330
The daughter rightfully does not trust me.
The mother less so.

279
00:24:33,415 --> 00:24:36,418
Her mother's like a wounded animal,
desperate for kindness.

280
00:24:36,501 --> 00:24:40,880
One which will lick your hand
simply to get a taste before biting.

281
00:24:40,963 --> 00:24:43,633
Some men pay good coin
for such pleasures.

282
00:24:45,134 --> 00:24:48,137
I wonder sometimes
about that mind of yours.

283
00:24:48,220 --> 00:24:50,807
Clear in intent, Lady Empress.

284
00:24:51,808 --> 00:24:54,268
Then be intent on this matter.

285
00:24:54,894 --> 00:25:00,024
To tame an animal,
it must fear the raising of your hand.

286
00:25:00,107 --> 00:25:02,193
I may be just ahead of you
at this moment.

287
00:25:04,361 --> 00:25:05,572
How so?

288
00:25:05,655 --> 00:25:07,907
I planted a seed in the mother's head

289
00:25:07,990 --> 00:25:10,201
that her daughter is...

290
00:25:10,284 --> 00:25:13,245
closer than she first envisioned.

291
00:25:13,329 --> 00:25:15,665
I imagine it may have
sprouted as a weed.

292
00:25:15,748 --> 00:25:16,874
Hmm.

293
00:25:30,346 --> 00:25:32,932
I value your friendship, Sifu.

294
00:25:33,975 --> 00:25:38,104
As I have stated time and again,
I am not your friend.

295
00:25:38,187 --> 00:25:40,147
Far from it.

296
00:25:40,231 --> 00:25:42,734
I know you wish to believe that,

297
00:25:42,817 --> 00:25:47,071
but you cared for me,
taught me, protected me.

298
00:25:48,197 --> 00:25:50,950
What would you call that,
if not friendship?

299
00:25:51,033 --> 00:25:52,827
An onerous burden.

300
00:25:54,704 --> 00:25:57,582
In few hours' time,
that burden will be lifted.

301
00:25:58,916 --> 00:26:01,878
And I will have lost a friend.

302
00:26:01,961 --> 00:26:03,880
Is there no escape?

303
00:26:03,963 --> 00:26:06,048
From you leaving this mortal body?

304
00:26:07,174 --> 00:26:08,467
Yes.

305
00:26:08,551 --> 00:26:09,927
None.

306
00:26:10,011 --> 00:26:12,263
Unless you can find
something to gift to him

307
00:26:12,346 --> 00:26:15,057
that is more valuable than your life.

308
00:26:49,842 --> 00:26:51,010
Why?

309
00:26:51,093 --> 00:26:53,345
She missed your father so much.

310
00:26:53,429 --> 00:26:58,601
Sometimes, hearts are broken
and they cannot be pieced together again.

311
00:26:58,685 --> 00:27:00,770
Will mine break?

312
00:27:00,853 --> 00:27:03,856
No... because you do not need her.

313
00:27:04,732 --> 00:27:09,236
You do not need me or anyone.
You need only this.

314
00:27:17,036 --> 00:27:18,204
What do you see?

315
00:27:19,581 --> 00:27:20,790
A bug.

316
00:27:20,873 --> 00:27:24,210
You're most correct,
but it is so much more.

317
00:27:24,293 --> 00:27:26,295
This mantis that I give to you

318
00:27:27,129 --> 00:27:30,842
was one of 300 nymphs, babies...

319
00:27:30,925 --> 00:27:32,134
about this big.

320
00:27:32,844 --> 00:27:35,054
Imagine that, 300.

321
00:27:35,137 --> 00:27:38,057
The strongest among them
kill the weakest among them

322
00:27:38,725 --> 00:27:40,559
until the very best are left.

323
00:27:40,643 --> 00:27:42,061
A mere handful.

324
00:27:43,062 --> 00:27:47,191
Now, this mantis will leave this life
within 10 months of today.

325
00:27:49,401 --> 00:27:53,197
You must take this time as an opportunity
to learn everything you can.

326
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,491
To study, to practice,

327
00:27:55,574 --> 00:27:58,535
to absorb all the lessons of the mantis,

328
00:27:58,620 --> 00:27:59,704
for there are many.

329
00:27:59,787 --> 00:28:04,583
Patience, speed,
adaptability, ruthlessness.

330
00:28:05,292 --> 00:28:07,419
The traits of a warrior king.

331
00:28:08,545 --> 00:28:10,214
Heed my words, my Emperor...

332
00:28:11,423 --> 00:28:13,843
and you will become as the mantis.

333
00:28:30,902 --> 00:28:32,111
Judar?

334
00:28:33,195 --> 00:28:34,656
Yes, Princess?

335
00:28:36,866 --> 00:28:40,161
Fetch me some sandalwood
for my bath.

336
00:28:40,244 --> 00:28:42,079
Yes, Princess.

337
00:29:31,671 --> 00:29:33,089
What are your thoughts?

338
00:29:35,091 --> 00:29:36,884
I do not know.

339
00:29:42,014 --> 00:29:43,390
Is it my doing?

340
00:29:44,684 --> 00:29:46,435
Are you frustrated with me?

341
00:29:46,518 --> 00:29:49,355
No. No, never.

342
00:29:53,525 --> 00:29:55,152
I need you here.

343
00:30:00,783 --> 00:30:01,868
I am.

344
00:30:07,289 --> 00:30:09,375
Why am I not relieved?

345
00:30:12,586 --> 00:30:17,424
You are sensitive to the grief of others,
no matter their transgressions.

346
00:30:18,843 --> 00:30:22,138
Every breath the Latin takes
is a burden on your soul.

347
00:30:23,890 --> 00:30:28,644
At sun's light... you will find relief.

348
00:30:43,993 --> 00:30:46,537
Did I introduce a curse
into our bed?

349
00:30:50,332 --> 00:30:52,919
You are the son of a Khan...

350
00:30:54,420 --> 00:30:56,923
a Khan in waiting.

351
00:30:59,216 --> 00:31:02,678
The fault rests with me
and me alone.

352
00:31:25,367 --> 00:31:28,162
Do not make your presence known.

353
00:31:31,123 --> 00:31:35,127
I wanted you to see that she lives.
As you wished.

354
00:31:36,295 --> 00:31:38,339
She will always be here,

355
00:31:38,422 --> 00:31:41,801
under my watchful eye,
under my tutelage.

356
00:31:42,844 --> 00:31:45,096
I will care for her as my own.

357
00:31:51,602 --> 00:31:54,897
Look at her, remember her.

358
00:31:56,107 --> 00:31:57,483
You will never see her again.

359
00:31:59,526 --> 00:32:02,864
But if you do what I say,
when I say it,

360
00:32:02,947 --> 00:32:07,743
you can be secure in the knowledge that
her days will stretch long before her.

361
00:32:18,587 --> 00:32:19,839
Come now.

362
00:32:44,696 --> 00:32:47,116
What is the benefit
of being a princess

363
00:32:47,199 --> 00:32:50,494
if your lord requires you
to perform your own labor?

364
00:32:50,577 --> 00:32:53,455
We will do the same
to our children one day.

365
00:32:54,456 --> 00:32:56,042
Where are your belongings?

366
00:32:56,876 --> 00:33:01,463
I looked for what I should pack
and realized everything I need is here.

367
00:33:03,465 --> 00:33:05,885
In a week's time, we will be home.

368
00:33:08,804 --> 00:33:11,182
Is this as foreign to you
as it is to me?

369
00:33:11,265 --> 00:33:12,558
More so.

370
00:33:13,809 --> 00:33:16,062
Do you think we will ever settle into it?

371
00:33:16,145 --> 00:33:17,813
I hope not.

372
00:33:42,379 --> 00:33:43,797
Minister.

373
00:33:57,937 --> 00:34:00,606
Is this what you
summoned me down here for?

374
00:34:00,689 --> 00:34:02,774
You oversee war.

375
00:34:04,193 --> 00:34:06,988
And I am going to tell you how to win it.

376
00:34:09,823 --> 00:34:11,617
Thank you for coming.

377
00:34:12,826 --> 00:34:15,787
Do you think I would deny
a dying man an audience?

378
00:34:15,871 --> 00:34:17,623
I know nothing of you.

379
00:34:17,706 --> 00:34:20,876
In this, you are at a decided advantage.

380
00:34:22,628 --> 00:34:23,629
Your journal.

381
00:34:25,006 --> 00:34:26,673
It is most enlightening

382
00:34:26,757 --> 00:34:30,970
when one has unfettered access
inside a person's thoughts.

383
00:34:32,429 --> 00:34:34,723
Warrantless access.

384
00:34:34,806 --> 00:34:37,101
To be fair, you were an enigma.

385
00:34:38,102 --> 00:34:39,979
One that had grown close to my Khan.

386
00:34:40,062 --> 00:34:43,983
You could have sat with me
prior to my last night of life...

387
00:34:44,066 --> 00:34:45,234
and asked.

388
00:34:46,818 --> 00:34:51,115
I am certain you would not have granted me
the insight I required.

389
00:34:53,325 --> 00:34:54,326
But...

390
00:34:55,536 --> 00:34:56,745
I procured the journal

391
00:34:56,828 --> 00:34:59,665
prior to your writing of one curiosity.

392
00:35:00,666 --> 00:35:03,544
What made you cease
your attempts at escape?

393
00:35:05,129 --> 00:35:06,463
Was it her?

394
00:35:11,968 --> 00:35:16,348
Under the circumstances,
you need not hold your tongue.

395
00:35:21,853 --> 00:35:23,230
Partially.

396
00:35:24,898 --> 00:35:26,525
Significantly.

397
00:35:28,152 --> 00:35:30,154
But not entirely.

398
00:35:38,954 --> 00:35:40,081
Tell me.

399
00:35:47,629 --> 00:35:50,049
The walled Phoenician city of Tyre.

400
00:35:51,300 --> 00:35:54,053
It defied Alexander for 13 long years.

401
00:35:56,180 --> 00:35:59,308
Built on an island,
Tyre was walled to the sea,

402
00:35:59,391 --> 00:36:02,978
an insurmountable fortress
that was key to all of Persia.

403
00:36:03,062 --> 00:36:06,732
He attempted to breach the walls
using common instruments of war,

404
00:36:06,815 --> 00:36:10,819
arrows, battering rams, catapults.

405
00:36:10,902 --> 00:36:15,282
But three dozen men
are needed to load and fire one.

406
00:36:17,368 --> 00:36:22,331
Alexander employed... the trebuchet,

407
00:36:22,414 --> 00:36:27,378
a siege engine powered not by men
but by a counterweight.

408
00:36:28,129 --> 00:36:31,715
Imagine the weight of
6,000 pounds on one end

409
00:36:31,798 --> 00:36:34,385
and a 300-pound rock set on the other.

410
00:36:35,802 --> 00:36:39,390
Imagine firing 1,000 in a single day.

411
00:36:44,895 --> 00:36:50,401
Imagine what even three of these engines
could do to the walls of Xiangyang.

412
00:36:51,485 --> 00:36:55,822
And at a distance that keeps
the army safe from archers.

413
00:36:55,906 --> 00:36:57,158
Correct.

414
00:37:01,578 --> 00:37:03,455
Altruism still?

415
00:37:04,456 --> 00:37:07,709
Even in the face of your execution?

416
00:37:07,793 --> 00:37:09,170
Not purely.

417
00:37:10,796 --> 00:37:12,589
I'm not afraid to die...

418
00:37:13,799 --> 00:37:18,011
but I'm terrified to do so
while branded a traitor.

419
00:37:24,768 --> 00:37:27,396
What is the entirety you spoke of earlier?

420
00:37:28,814 --> 00:37:30,607
What else made you stay?

421
00:37:34,945 --> 00:37:39,283
The moment the Khan gave me the choice
to deliver my father from death.

422
00:37:40,784 --> 00:37:43,204
He is a good man.

423
00:38:02,181 --> 00:38:05,726
Grandfather, why couldn't
you have taken that?

424
00:38:05,809 --> 00:38:09,020
Why couldn't you have taken that wall?

425
00:38:33,086 --> 00:38:37,173
My Emperor, these men
are all that remain of the Red Lotus.

426
00:38:37,258 --> 00:38:40,386
Traitors within the kingdom determined
to undermine the Emperor's mission,

427
00:38:41,011 --> 00:38:44,180
determined to destroy
the Emperor and his dynasty.

428
00:38:44,265 --> 00:38:47,268
They are your enemy.

429
00:38:47,351 --> 00:38:49,895
They are weak.
They must be punished.

430
00:38:51,855 --> 00:38:55,609
What does the strong mantis do
to its weaker brothers and sisters?

431
00:38:59,112 --> 00:39:00,614
Kill them.

432
00:39:01,323 --> 00:39:02,449
Hmm.

433
00:39:08,955 --> 00:39:10,332
A catapult?

434
00:39:11,333 --> 00:39:12,793
Waste of my time.

435
00:39:13,794 --> 00:39:17,589
Lord Khan, with respect,
this may very well be the key...

436
00:39:17,673 --> 00:39:20,509
The key to Xiangyang, finally!

437
00:39:21,552 --> 00:39:25,847
If only my Vice Regent
had attained this key years ago!

438
00:39:25,931 --> 00:39:27,558
Some magical solution?

439
00:39:27,641 --> 00:39:31,520
Why did you bring this to me
when I know you crave my failure?

440
00:39:31,603 --> 00:39:33,814
If that is what you believe,

441
00:39:33,897 --> 00:39:35,857
then you have not
been listening to anything...

442
00:39:35,941 --> 00:39:38,569
Enough of your insolence!

443
00:39:40,195 --> 00:39:41,447
You...

444
00:39:43,156 --> 00:39:46,242
beg for my pardon,
is that your scheme?

445
00:39:47,286 --> 00:39:51,039
No, Sire.
Begging is for the guilty.

446
00:39:57,754 --> 00:40:01,925
I've seen stronger men than you
weep before the rug.

447
00:40:03,469 --> 00:40:07,222
When the time comes,
be brave and sure.

448
00:40:08,849 --> 00:40:11,101
For it is coming at dawn...

449
00:40:12,436 --> 00:40:14,688
no matter how loud you cry.

450
00:40:16,357 --> 00:40:18,359
Lord Khan...

451
00:43:02,731 --> 00:43:03,815
Liar!

452
00:43:03,899 --> 00:43:05,025
You're a liar!

453
00:43:06,109 --> 00:43:09,571
Remove yourself.
We speak of this lunacy no more.

454
00:43:09,655 --> 00:43:11,156
Tell the kheshig to jail me.

455
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:15,285
You made your point, take your leave.
There is honest work to be done.

456
00:43:15,368 --> 00:43:18,038
This is merely a statement of facts.

457
00:43:18,121 --> 00:43:20,331
Oh! You hired the assassins?

458
00:43:20,874 --> 00:43:23,084
You manipulated that whore, Mei Lin.

459
00:43:23,168 --> 00:43:27,005
You instructed my brother
to withhold his troops from Wuchang?

460
00:43:27,088 --> 00:43:28,632
You conspired with Jia Sidao?

461
00:43:28,715 --> 00:43:31,009
I conspired for and with the Khanate.

462
00:43:31,092 --> 00:43:34,680
And you think, what?
The Khanate does not guide my heart?

463
00:43:34,763 --> 00:43:36,222
Your mind.

464
00:43:36,890 --> 00:43:39,768
But minds can be easily
persuaded of anything.

465
00:43:39,851 --> 00:43:44,022
The reason you do not sleep
is because of a longing in your heart

466
00:43:44,105 --> 00:43:46,900
- that will never be sated.
- And why should it?

467
00:43:47,609 --> 00:43:50,696
- I know you believe Xiangyang will fall.
- It will.

468
00:43:50,779 --> 00:43:55,450
And you fear that once conquered,
I turn my aims to lands far reaching?

469
00:43:55,534 --> 00:43:57,077
- I do.
- Why should I not?

470
00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,996
Because you know how this will end.

471
00:44:01,247 --> 00:44:03,374
As all other dynasties have.

472
00:44:04,626 --> 00:44:06,587
Am I not different?

473
00:44:07,671 --> 00:44:09,505
I once believed so.

474
00:44:09,590 --> 00:44:11,925
It is why I stand before you this evening.

475
00:44:12,008 --> 00:44:14,135
Yusuf, you did not do this.

476
00:44:15,053 --> 00:44:17,138
My confession stands.

477
00:44:17,222 --> 00:44:22,352
Be it betrayal by my hands
or by my heart,

478
00:44:22,435 --> 00:44:24,062
I am guilty.

479
00:44:25,188 --> 00:44:26,565
What do you want from me?

480
00:44:28,108 --> 00:44:30,151
To give up Xiangyang?

481
00:44:30,235 --> 00:44:33,029
- You know the answer is yes.
- I cannot.

482
00:44:33,113 --> 00:44:34,823
I know that as well.

483
00:44:36,116 --> 00:44:38,368
I should hide behind my wall?

484
00:44:38,451 --> 00:44:41,246
Take pleasure in the present state?

485
00:44:41,329 --> 00:44:44,332
While away my days
and bury myself here when they're done?

486
00:44:44,415 --> 00:44:47,669
Where is the fault in that? Hmm?

487
00:44:47,753 --> 00:44:50,046
How many lands must be reaped?

488
00:44:50,672 --> 00:44:56,052
How many vaults must be filled
and young spirits extinguished?

489
00:45:02,684 --> 00:45:04,895
One. One last game.

490
00:45:12,527 --> 00:45:14,362
Taken the pieces away.

491
00:45:33,882 --> 00:45:35,717
The boy is guilty.

492
00:45:38,679 --> 00:45:41,890
His only guilt
is his blind desire for your love.

493
00:45:52,943 --> 00:45:55,821
You know who he reminds me of?

494
00:45:56,947 --> 00:46:01,201
Yusuf... my crazed cripple of Khazaria.

495
00:46:03,494 --> 00:46:05,831
Not in mindless bloodletting...

496
00:46:07,123 --> 00:46:09,500
but in dedication to your cause.

497
00:46:12,128 --> 00:46:13,588
He does.

498
00:46:14,672 --> 00:46:18,093
You need that dedication
at your service

499
00:46:18,176 --> 00:46:20,136
at all times.

500
00:46:23,348 --> 00:46:27,936
I am no longer capable of it,
nor am I willing.

501
00:46:32,190 --> 00:46:36,444
You have the finest engineers
in all the world.

502
00:46:36,527 --> 00:46:39,906
My final counsel to you
is that you put them to work.

503
00:46:41,199 --> 00:46:43,952
Construct the Latin's siege engine.

504
00:46:56,214 --> 00:47:00,385
As your Khan,
I do not accept your confession.

505
00:47:07,433 --> 00:47:12,438
I have sent messages to every corner of
the kingdom outlining my complicity.

506
00:47:13,689 --> 00:47:18,444
In doing so, I have weakened your position
before Karakorum and throughout China.

507
00:47:19,612 --> 00:47:22,323
You will be challenged in the Kurultai.

508
00:47:22,407 --> 00:47:23,992
You will lose.

509
00:47:25,493 --> 00:47:26,953
And in that...

510
00:47:27,037 --> 00:47:30,248
a dream of this place may endure.

511
00:47:33,794 --> 00:47:36,254
You have no choice, Kublai.

512
00:48:35,146 --> 00:48:37,690
I thought I had until dawn.

513
00:48:49,702 --> 00:48:51,704
The final battle looms.

514
00:48:52,705 --> 00:48:54,875
Be decisive in your victory.

515
00:49:05,260 --> 00:49:07,595
You are released from this prison.

516
00:49:10,306 --> 00:49:12,142
But I am truly free.

517
00:51:00,250 --> 00:51:02,210
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