Robin and Marian

Now!

See anything?

You think it's deserted?

If they've gone off with the treasure, Richard isn't gonna be pleased.

If there ever was a treasure.

One more flight.

- John. - Cease firing!

I speak for Richard Lionheart...

...King of England. Lord of half of France...

...and thereby overlord of this domain.

I'm up here speaking for myself.

- Where are your soldiers? - Run off.

- And the Lord of Chaluz? Where is he? - He led them.

Ask him if he knows about the treasure.

Left me here with all the women and children and no weapons any place.

Here am I with only half an eye, collecting arrows.

And you think I've got a bow to shoot them with? Pshew. Ha-ha.

My king thinks your lord is keeping treasure from him.

It's my orders to get it.

That will be the treasure people say was found by Jean the Ploughman.

Great gold statue, 3-foot long, they tell you?

That's the one.

I was with him when they found the thing. What we dug up was a rock.

We're fighting for a rock?

You wanna look? Out there in the turnip field.

We couldn't lift it, so we left it lay.

What I've come to say is, if there's got to be a fight, I'm all there is...

...so come and get me.

You're a mad old man.

What now?

I want to give that rock to Richard.

Let's find the turnip field.

John.

What kind of siege is this?

Where's the Lord of Chaluz and where is my treasure?

Gone.

My treasure? Gone?

The lord is gone. Your treasure never was.

A gold statue, 3-foot long. I want it.

- Captain. - Yes, my lord.

I ordered you to take this castle.

- Yes, my lord. - Well, take it.

Bring it down and get my statue.

They surrender, and your statue is a rock.

I want it done.

- There is no treasure. - Do it.

There are no soldiers in there. Just some children and a mad old man.

And what is that to me?

Well, it should mean something.

...Is that disapproval, Robin? Am I in the wrong?

I followed you 20 years.

I fought for you in the Crusades and France.

Show me a soldier, and I'll fight him now...

...but I won't slaughter children for a piece of gold that never was.

I ordered it.

I command you.

You do it! You're a bloody bastard, you'll enjoy it.

Damn right, I'll do it! Mercadier!

Arrest those two! I'll have their heads on pikes.

I want these walls down. I want every damned head in the place.

Lionheart.

Lionheart!

You are a pig!

Good God!

Well...

...so it was a stone.

- Is this a barber surgeon? - Yes, my lord.

I follow your men, sire. I only look after them.

- With much success? - Yes.

- You've seen to John and Robin? - Under guard.

- They're on their way to Chaluz. - Good, good. Come on, come on.

The patient's cold, and the doctor sweats.

The arrow will be hard to reach, sire.

That should make it all the more worthwhile.

Well, you heard it, Mercadier.

I told him to attack, he told me no. I ought to kill him for it.

- Will you? - I don't know.

I'm such a moody fellow. It depends on my mood.

I killed them all this afternoon, all except the old man. I let him go.

I liked his eye.

But Robin...

We've been friends, you see, for 20 years.

I met him in Nottingham near Sherwood for the first time.

I needed men for the Crusade. Robin was the best that ever came to me.

Well, get on with it. I'll die of old age at this rate.

So off we went to do great things.

We led 300,000 men to the Holy Land, and came back on a boat with 50.

Not at all what we intended.

Christ!

I do what has to be done.

I have no choice.

But Robin judges me. He always does.

The peasant bastard!

Judge a king!

Butcher.

I'll show you how it's done.

King's blood.

Remember it.

It's cold.

I don't like the dark.

Mercadier, how long to the town of Chaluz? Half a league?

Sire.

A little rest, and then I'll attend to John and Robin.

What would you have done? You tell me.

Kill the old man, kill the women and children?

You didn't save them, did you?

- They're dead, we're in here. - I didn't force you to come.

- You looked at me. - You nodded.

What do you want me to do?

I know.

What did I get us into?

I could've talked to Richard. I could've tried.

Well, he is a bloody bastard.

Are we any better? We serve him.

He's our king.

I took him for a great king...

...when we were in Sherwood...

...robbing abbots, giving pennies to the poor.

It didn't seem much compared to rescuing the Holy Land.

How can you eat?

I'm hungry.

I reckon it's a good life to have reached 40.

We've both passed it, and look at us!

My poor old dad and all the dads before him...

...lived in Barnesdale.

All they ever knew was one small town.

I've known a king...

...traveled half the world, seen Jerusalem.

The sand was blowing, and the walls were miles away, but...

I think I've had a good life.

Do you think Richard will kill us?

I don't know him anymore.

I don't know the man.

Well, if we go, we go.

Is that your idea of dying?

I don't know.

You'd think I'd learn. I've seen enough of it.

I'll tell you something. I won't go quietly.

Come here.

Bend down.

If I had not met you, think what I'd have missed.

The king will see you now. Come on.

Your Majesty.

We are celebrating our demise.

I always fancied leaving from a larger stage.

But my physician, a funny fellow, my physician...

I've already had him hanged. It seemed a fair exchange.

Wine! A bucket of it.

But you, you're not for hanging. You're for cutting up.

I would've done it already, but for this.

- Will that be all, my lord? - All?

Damn your "all"!

All done.

All over.

My father cursed me when he died.

I killed him, and he felt resentful. He'd have loved all this.

- I said a bucket. - Err--

A bucket!

John, the next king.

You remember John.

John Lackland, they used to call him. Now he gets all the land.

Christ, why did I have no children?

Never gave a damn about England.

Never really there.

Not even as a corpse!

They're planting me in France, by my father!

Take something, Robin.

Nothing, sire.

He sulks.

He pouts. He gives his life to Richard, and he's sorry.

You don't know what sorrow is.

I was a king.

My mother...

She'll be 80 soon, the bitch.

I've sent for her. Do you think she'll come?

Bucket.

Clever fellow, death is.

I've tried to find him on my terms. God knows I've tried.

Ask for something, damn you!

It's too late. There's nothing left.

There's still your life.

You take me as an equal. You always did.

I'll carve you yet, you peasant bastard.

Mercadier!

My sword!

While I'm still king of England, I'll... Unh.

Richard.

Richard.

Richard, it's me.

I know it's you.

You couldn't leave me, could you?

You're free of me.

I'll let you go.

What will you do without me now, jolly Robin...

...now I'm dead?

That's that.

What now?

We watched him die. He saw us there.

He won't mind if we miss the funeral.

Where do we go? Which way?