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Marco Polo 2014 SEASON 1 EPISODE 7
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00:00To be continued...
00:29It makes you laugh.
00:31I'm happy. You make me happy.
00:46A little extra for you this week, sunflower.
00:59Come in now.
01:09You were long today.
01:11Go watch your face and hats.
01:17Give it back.
01:22How much do we have?
01:24I'm busy.
01:25When I'm finished counting, I will tell you.
01:29Do we have enough to go to the festival?
01:34You're not smart. You never were.
01:36Mother and father said so.
01:38Don't talk to me like that.
01:39I'm your older brother.
01:41In years only.
01:42If it weren't for my work,
01:43you would starve to death in the streets.
01:45All I sinned was that I want to go to the festival.
01:48Play for a little while only.
01:50And what do we buy food with?
01:52Look at all these coins.
01:53I'm sure we could spare a few.
01:55Go then, but do not return looking for more.
01:59Maybe you aren't as stupid as I can't see it out.
02:03I'm sorry, Mei Lin.
02:04Great Khan, please.
02:05Lower your eyes when you speak to the Khan of Khans.
02:08I never meant to harm you.
02:09No.
02:10Only my beloved.
02:11Who sent you?
02:12Church Lajasita.
02:13He instructed you to kill the Empress.
02:14At first I was to gather knowledge of your court.
02:15But he sent an emissary the Night of the White Moon with new orders.
02:21Why the Empress, not the Khan?
02:22Who knows my brother's mind?
02:23Who knows my brother's mind?
02:24No.
02:25No.
02:26No.
02:27No.
02:28No.
02:29No.
02:30No.
02:31No.
02:32No.
02:33No.
02:34Right.
02:35No.
02:36Not exactly.
02:37No.
02:39Brodark?
02:41Who is your emissary the Night of the White Moon and you'll tell me who is the Emperor?
02:46Oh look, no...
02:48Yes.
02:49You know who's my brother's mind.
02:53Brother?
02:56Who is the emissary you speak of?
02:58A concubine within the court.
03:00A friend.
03:01Does she lay in wait in Kembalak?
03:03To strike as you did?
03:04No.
03:05She fled.
03:06As soon as she arrives in Xiaoyang with news of my failure,
03:09Jia Si Dao will kill my daughter.
03:13I did this.
03:14All of this to save my little girl.
03:18Empress.
03:19You have given birth.
03:21You know the bond between mother and child.
03:23What would you not do to protect them?
03:28No.
03:29How do you speak to me of love?
03:36I know the wall of city.
03:38I know the song court.
03:40My words can save so many lives.
03:43All I ask is that you save one.
03:48Remove her.
03:50Remove her.
03:51Remove her.
03:53Leave her.
03:54Remove her.
03:55No.
03:56No.
03:57No.
04:01No.
04:02No.
07:03Let your vengeance fly exactly, Kublai.
07:12There is a better way.
07:14You need not fear.
07:25If you wanted you dead, you wouldn't have awoken.
07:31I've heard the songs I sing about you, how your brother crawled up and into the imperial court through the wet spot in your bed.
07:45Who's prisoner am I?
07:49You are the prisoner of the Grand Khan.
07:54Then why am I in your quarters?
07:56All currency is my jurisdiction.
08:00And whores are bought and sold.
08:04Why does your brother want Empress Chabi dead?
08:09To defeat Kublai in the shadow of the walled city would win Sidao great fame and save the Song dynasty.
08:18If Khan leaves these gates, he brings the wrath of Chinggis.
08:22Does your brother know wisdom?
08:24Does your brother know wisdom?
08:25Some men have mastered wisdom.
08:28Some devilry.
08:31Does the Tao hide devilry behind the walls of Shang Yong?
08:35Of course.
08:39If you knew and surrendered that information, you'd be out of currency, wouldn't you?
08:48Why do this?
08:50Pretend to care.
08:56You will heal.
08:58Fully, I expect.
09:05I want to see you.
09:14Ling!
09:25I missed you.
09:27I've missed you too, sweet one.
09:29I'm gonna speak to the Empress.
09:31We will play later, yes?
09:35Something pains you, my child.
09:43What I'm about to confess could lose me my head.
09:46Are you certain I'm an appropriate confessor?
09:49I can only hope.
09:51For I have nowhere else to turn.
09:58I have lied to the Chancellor.
10:01A word of truth lasts forever.
10:06A lie lasts only a moment, my child.
10:10Darcy Thao sent me to Kembilak.
10:12To find Mei Lin and charge her to assassinate the Mongol Queen.
10:16Lady Chab, he's dead?
10:18No Empress.
10:20Mei Lin failed.
10:22But I reported otherwise.
10:24It's only a matter of time before the Chancellor discovers my deceit.
10:31I have signed my own decree of death.
10:33And things too, I fear.
10:35Then a lie must last one day longer.
10:37When the sun sets tomorrow, so we'll see it out of service.
10:39He's done.
10:41And a lie must last one day longer.
10:43When the sun sets tomorrow, so we'll see it out of service.
10:45He's done.
10:47And a lie must last one day longer.
10:49When the sun sets tomorrow, so we'll see it out of service.
10:52He's done.
10:55And Lin, we all must bide our time.
10:59Keep her from the Chancellor until after the coronation.
11:05Be strong, young one.
11:07For your charge.
11:09And for your future.
11:09You are a Daoist monk, permitted to eat meat, drink wine, enjoy a woman.
11:24Yet, you've never taken a wife.
11:29I devoted my life to the service of the great Khan and his empire.
11:33I only have so much time on this earth.
11:35I've never taken a wife because I do my best to avoid disappointment.
11:43My second wife, she has her golden tongue.
11:47You are blessed, Lord Kublai.
11:51You have a gold to keep it in the abyss she calls a mouth.
11:56My third wife,
11:57just small and wrinkled teats like the dried fruit on a fig tree.
12:02But Charbi, she's an irreproachable gift from the eternal blue sky.
12:13Had someone taken her from me?
12:15You all go to Shang-Yang and kill Chancellor Jia Si-Do.
12:32So may question the wisdom of sending a blind monk to assassinate the prime minister.
12:37A blind monk who once killed 25 of my best soldiers.
12:43Wudang warrior said to be able to pass through walls unseen.
12:49Suddenly you were lame.
12:54And should I pass through the open gates of Kambalak?
12:57What makes you think I will ever return?
12:59What makes you think I want you to?
13:04The latin.
13:06Is he accomplished?
13:08For someone who has no accomplishments.
13:11Good.
13:12He will be your eyes and escort.
13:15You do not listen, do you?
13:17Oh, I do listen.
13:20Then I hear what I want to.
13:21Princess, Empress Charbi has summoned you to court.
13:30Has she summoned all the women of the whole fragrance?
13:36Only you.
13:38She has never invited me for a private audience.
13:41Be calm.
13:43Lady Charbi knows nothing of your past.
13:45You are the blue princess of Bayot.
13:48No one will challenge this.
13:49I challenge it.
14:00Worry not, princess.
14:05I will make you regal.
14:18What is the reach of the highest wall in Italy?
14:21The upper church of the Basilica Papality San Francesco.
14:26Stands five stories.
14:28To bring your people that much closer to your garden.
14:32Or further from our demons.
14:35Now imagine a wall stretching far closer to the sky.
14:39Shang-Yang.
14:40I present to you the Geary.
14:44With this golden tablet, gates will open before you as you ride to the south.
14:53You will infiltrate the Song Fortress.
14:57While Hundred Eyes attends to his test, you will gather information as to the defenses of the rebels.
15:02May I inquire as to Hundred Eyes tusks?
15:07You will kill Chancellor Ja Sidao.
15:11Sidao's sister has an ally within the walls.
15:14Another whore by the name of Jingfei.
15:17She also utilized the treacherous stable boy from our slums to send messages to Shang-Yang.
15:22That is all we have learned at this time.
15:23The song coronation draws near.
15:25In that moment, Empress Dowager will preside over a shift in power.
15:32Sidao seeks to secure war before that happens.
15:35Securing war secures his power.
15:38His death averts it.
15:41Ride swiftly, Master Marco.
15:55Meilin has a message she would like delivered to Jingfei.
16:02I do not know these names you speak.
16:25Your family, their village, is it far from here?
16:33No, Chancellor.
16:35You do not need to call me that brightness.
16:39Not anymore.
16:42What would you have me call you?
16:46What do you like?
16:48You are my Chancellor.
16:50Which village is it?
16:57I do not know it.
16:59It is quite insignificant.
17:01Impossible.
17:03It produced you.
17:07Do you see them?
17:08Your parents?
17:12Why?
17:15They do not approve of me.
17:17They are ashamed.
17:27There are so many rules.
17:31It is the rules that build the walls.
17:37To keep us apart.
17:42And no matter how we wish to break those walls down.
17:47The rules allow no margin.
17:53So there we are.
17:55Resting our hands on either side of the divide.
18:01No matter the size.
18:02We are just people.
18:06That's why I did what I did.
18:09For you people.
18:09Do you believe that to be true?
18:18I believe your heart and your mind are true to one another.
18:21In this moment.
18:28You are most significant to me.
18:42Do you wish to take me?
18:44My Chancellor.
18:53I need you to tell me.
18:57Tell me once again.
18:57The God's wife is dead.
19:07Meilin announced her cause and you, her master, she slew the Empress.
19:12Do you wish to take me?
19:16Do you wish to take me?
19:26I wish to pay a visit to your parents' house.
19:30To try to correct their way of thinking.
19:39To try and get out of here.
19:41The prinial dormir with our masters siblings have killed them.
19:42Hold it.
19:43Please.
19:44You will wear the
20:04What's the one, vele.
20:08This is Bathur.
20:22Care for him well.
20:23Until my return.
20:26We've got to keep moving.
20:34The scum
20:35have attacked our father.
20:38The Lord Khan.
20:39The vermin have attacked the empress.
20:43The Song have vowed to destroy
20:45everything that we prize and hold dear.
20:49Do the sons of Chinggis accept this quietly.
20:55My men
20:56and the men who follow Princess Kotalan
20:58become one force
21:00with one purpose
21:01to teach the Song Devils
21:04that we are Mongols
21:05and the world is ours.
21:09Why should we follow the Princess?
21:11I understand your apprehension.
21:14What does a girl know of battle?
21:16One of your great grandmothers
21:18who rode into war with Chinggis Khan
21:20to raise your doubts
21:22and ease your fears.
21:23I will wrestle
21:25the best of you.
21:26The best of you.
21:27The best of you.
21:33The best of you.
21:35Let's go.
22:05You're not the butterfly I expected.
22:29And you are not the lioness.
22:35You're not the butterfly.
23:06Is the Hall of Fragrance suitable to your comfort?
23:10Yes.
23:12It is most pleasing.
23:14Tell me about the palace in which you were raised.
23:18It pales beside the palates of the Lord Khan.
23:21You miss it?
23:22I miss the fresh blue leg and my friend Negui.
23:27What became of her?
23:29She died.
23:31During the siege?
23:33Yes.
23:34It must be difficult living amongst those who massacred your people.
23:40My people had the opportunity to surrender.
23:43They chose to fight.
23:44You have friends here in Kambila.
23:52My eunuch cast me well.
23:56What of your sisters in the Hall of Fragrance?
23:59They have little understanding of the people or of the land.
24:07You find them unworthy?
24:08They're worthy in their ways.
24:11But no, not of the wholesome though.
24:15Life's truest pleasures.
24:16Empress, my days of riding unfettered have long since passed.
24:24We were raised in very similar fashion.
24:27Perhaps we might ride together one day, Empress.
24:30Tell me, Princess.
24:31How do you see your future?
24:36Lady?
24:37You know that you will not inhabit the Hall of Fragrance forever.
24:41I never really think about it.
24:44You may open your heart to me.
24:47I was once your age.
24:49I know the dreams that cloud a royal virgin's head.
24:54I may have wondered.
24:57Who is the lucky man of your thoughts?
24:58Is he a prince?
25:02A king?
25:04Power and prestige are the concern of the other girls, Lady Chubby.
25:08Surely, when you close your eyes at night,
25:12you'll pray for a man of noble character.
25:14To give my future husband many sons.
25:18That is all I pray for.
25:21We shall talk much, Princess.
25:28My father sent Polo to assassinate our enemy.
25:32Why can I not understand this?
25:33Please, explain this to me.
25:34Your father has his reasons.
25:36I have this terrible recurring thought.
25:39Perhaps the wrong brother fell blood in the dirt all those months ago.
25:42Do not repeat those words aloud, my prince.
25:45I will forget them myself.
25:46Make no mistake, Akhmad.
25:48But I love my father.
25:49I revered him.
25:50Revered?
25:52The kingdom has turned its eyes away as it relates to my father's pets.
25:56But no other has risen so quickly or closely to his side than the Latin.
26:01Open the gates to outsiders and secrets will spill.
26:05My uncle said those words to me when I traveled to Karakoram.
26:07He may not have been referring specifically to the round-eyed rat, but he could sense it.
26:13My advice?
26:14Let us see what transpires.
26:16If Jasadaw falls in the war with him,
26:19then the boy is beyond reproach.
26:20Your father's plan would have succeeded.
26:22But if he fails,
26:24and if the Khan is not motivated to push the boy's side by his own hand,
26:28then we will guide it for him.
26:37The death of Empress Charby puts us in a position of power.
26:43It was the act of a coward and a scoundrel.
26:46What lives will our people have when they're enslaved by the Mongol hordes?
26:52I'm so tired of this conversation.
26:55The coronation is upon us.
26:56You will be filled with vigor soon enough.
26:59And in the end, you may have achieved what you set out to.
27:03Our position at the negotiating table
27:05has been weakened by your foolish play against the Khan.
27:08And this is why I suggest, once more,
27:11that we postpone the transfer of power until certainty dawns.
27:14No.
27:21Did your sister fall?
27:24One can only assume.
27:27Is there no hole in your heart?
27:29Do you not fear the admission to a daughter
27:31who must face a life without a mother?
27:35Life will continue.
27:39And I hope, as a memory phase,
27:41Ling will only remember Mei Lin for what she was.
27:45A whore.
27:48After you've packed your porcelain,
27:51we will clean up the shambles you've left behind.
27:54What choice do I have?
27:56You have succeeded in your mission, Empress.
27:58May I remain, after the ink has dried,
28:03to bear witness to the outcome of your bargains with the devil?
28:08You are a free man, Chasidao.
28:11Free from responsibility.
28:13Free from blame.
28:15Free to stake your claim wherever you see fit.
28:20Outside the palace.
28:21You will always be a citizen of the song.
28:27If only that were true.
28:28It is as if the gates of hell have opened.
28:43It is the warm embrace of home.
28:45When did you last fill it?
28:50Be mindful of our mission, Master Polo.
28:52It is a hard thing we do.
28:54Certainly.
28:56A hard thing you do, Sifu.
28:57I draw pictures while you draw blood.
29:03The Kami's considerations for my failure
29:05and entrust you with them,
29:08that is no small thing.
29:16This may not end well.
29:18You continue on, however.
29:21One death,
29:23wait against a massacre.
29:25And should we fail,
29:26we fail for a true cause.
29:27Did I say something to amuse you?
29:34I fear your mind has followed your body into bondage.
29:39You do not believe in the cause.
29:43What one chooses to believe in
29:45and what one is compelled to believe in,
29:47there is a difference.
29:48Don't stop.
30:10Don't stop.
30:11Get look up.
30:12If you don't join the children.
30:12Wait,
30:16why are you going?
30:16Come on.
30:17Go,
30:18go,
30:18go.
30:18Go, go.
30:19Go, go, go!
30:20Go, go, go!
30:21Go, go!
30:22Go, go, go, go!
30:23Go!
30:23Go, go!
30:24Go, go!
30:27Go, go!
30:30Go, go!
30:32Go, go, go!
30:33Go!
30:34Go, go!
30:34I don't know.
31:04Stop.
31:12What is your purpose here?
31:15Open up. Show me.
31:19Get away. Go. Go.
31:21Hey.
31:23You want to see?
31:24Here.
31:26In honor of the emperor.
31:28You wish to confiscate the food of his holiness?
31:34Where is she?
31:51She's favored by the chancellor.
31:53I will not bring her on to light of day.
31:55If I sense you have raised an alarm, I will find you before my days are done.
32:00Do you believe me?
32:03I could have left you at the gate, monk.
32:06Once I finish, I will no longer be at your service.
32:11Yes?
32:14Meet me here when the moon is low.
32:16My son, poem from the hunt.
32:42I see your new hope proves well.
32:46A fruitful and welcome diversion.
32:50Were you on the grasslands?
32:51Your mother is a lovely rider.
32:53I can only assume the princesses as well.
32:57It was difficult to discern through all the dust kicked in my face.
33:00He stands several hands higher than a mongo pony.
33:06Mongolian cross with warmer blood.
33:09Quite handsome.
33:11Isn't he?
33:13Mother.
33:15Do I embarrass you?
33:17He is quite handsome.
33:19My daughter.
33:21Princess.
33:23Shall we continue?
33:24Are you planning on whittling her down to a skewer for the open fire?
33:47I think you're ready.
33:50I'm more than ready.
33:51War is easy.
33:54The waiting will kill you.
33:58How do you call your shiny friend?
34:03Decisive.
34:04It's a beneficial trait for the one who will tell.
34:07As well as for the one about to receive its sharpened end.
34:12Do you wish to talk about it?
34:15What is there to talk about?
34:17Was it merely theater in front of the troops the other day?
34:20You beat me.
34:23Why do you doubt?
34:24I've seen you defeat far more proficient wrestlers than me.
34:27I do not have the skills.
34:28Or the balls to marry me.
34:31So it was a ploy.
34:33You lost by design in order to secure my hand in marriage.
34:37You think much of yourself, Fiamber.
34:39If I wanted you, I would have had you years ago.
34:45But for now, I am engaged to decisive.
34:48I would never sever you from your blade.
34:55You needn't sacrifice one for the other.
34:58The other.
35:01We are warriors.
35:04Yes.
35:06Battle me.
35:07I've done my cut.
35:29As promised.
35:30You said I would be released from my service.
35:32You are.
35:43Stop it.
35:44Stop.
35:45We need to speak about Mei Lin.
35:46She is dead.
35:53She was spared.
35:55For the sake of her daughter.
35:57She said you could help us.
35:59I do not know you far enough.
36:01How can I trust you?
36:02I do not have the time to earn it.
36:04Your choice.
36:06Step aside, Hunter Dois.
36:08Let her run, if she wishes.
36:09I come from Camrylok with news of the great Khans bending a soul on your city.
36:27Thousands from the barbarian hold will descend.
36:32Some blood will flow like the Yangtze.
36:33And you want me to help you bring this about.
36:38I want you to help us prevent it.
36:40I want you to help us prevent it.
37:03You must listen to me, Toga.
37:06Our lives are in jeopardy.
37:07Empress Chapi asks many questions.
37:09It has become clear that she seeks another bride for the prince.
37:12That is fine.
37:13We run.
37:14It is different now.
37:15How is it different?
37:16We can be miles away before she notices you are gone.
37:19That is impossible.
37:20What are you saying?
37:22You must leave this place without me.
37:24Then at least you will be safe.
37:26I will not.
37:28Someday we shall be as one in the blue sky if not before.
37:30For now, you must leave.
37:33Do not contact me again.
37:57Where were you?
37:58I came to you earlier.
38:04My apologies, my Chancellor, for not being present for you.
38:12A gift from our brothers in arms in Chinsai for our emperor's coronation.
38:18A peculiar substance.
38:32Where were you?
38:33At the pleasure house, I lay with no man.
38:48But I will never lie to you.
38:52I fear for my future in this house when you are gone.
38:55I sought assurance from the madam that I might return to service.
38:58I will not have it.
38:59I will not have it.
39:00I have no choice.
39:06My meager skills demand it.
39:09I did not say that.
39:15I was mistaken.
39:19I did not know your heart at the time.
39:20I was mistaken.
39:34We carry this holy edict in name of our benevolent emperor.
39:39On this, his coronation day.
39:41May his virtue extend to the boundaries of heaven.
39:46May his benevolence sustain the world.
40:00I will be here with horses when you finish, Sifu.
40:04Godspeed.
40:11To exalt virtue, so that all should cherish the spirit of kindness and meekness.
40:28And that they should all enjoy a reign of eternal peace.
41:11I hear and I forget
41:28I see and I remember
41:30I do and I understand
41:33Do you know this proverb?
41:37All too well
41:38Do you believe in it?
41:41I do not judge
41:45The decisions you have made
41:47And I will not understand
41:49Until you see the scholars
41:51Departement
41:53May his righteousness guide
41:59The teeming multitudes of Song Dynasty
42:01With great reverence
42:03And by the sixteen maxims
42:06Of the sacred edict
42:08And by the scientist
42:10And by theững
42:15The fortune of God
42:18of the divine
42:19And by the
42:27I don't know.
42:57I don't know.
43:27I don't know.
43:57I don't know.
44:27I don't know.
44:57I don't know.
45:27I don't know.
45:28I'm with us.
45:29The Empress needs an ally.
45:30I'm all that remains.
45:31Don't be scared.
45:32He'll take you to your mother.
45:33He'll keep you safe.
45:34I'll miss you.
45:35I miss you.
45:36We must ride.
45:37Do you think?
45:40Okay, let's go.
45:47Okay.
45:50Okay?
45:51We'll be there.
45:56Are you prepared to take your throne, my emperor?
46:18Yes.
46:56The worker pays to repair it, but as of now, that is our way.
47:05The great Genghis, here of the wolf, dreamed of a Mongol empire stretching throughout all of China.
47:29I have sought to realize history without spilling Mongol blood.
47:37I have been patient.
47:39My patience has been rewarded.
47:41With the severed heads of men who have marched beside you.
47:48My scholars, ministers, advised me to choose peace over war.
47:54But I am a proud Mongol.
47:59At times, peace can only be achieved through cruel war.
48:05We begin the expedition to fulfill our destiny.
48:13You, noble men, willing to die for a cause greater than yourselves,
48:20who will return not with wealth, nor slaves, but with honor.
48:27Those of you who do not return will have your names carved in the secret history of the Mongols.
48:37The wives, children, and parents will hold their heads above other Mongols.
48:45Because in their hearts, their husbands, fathers, their sons, gave their lives a pursuit of the last dream of our great Genghis.
49:02Poling us! Poling us! Poling us! Poling us!
49:07Mark!
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