03x04 - The Big Vision

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'The following programme contains
strong language and violence

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MAN: Hope is the daughter
of a blind father.

[SCREAMING]

SAWYER: If you hadn't done it,
then I'm not the blind father,

and the prophecy is
not the prophecy.

Cait, you can't escape
this! None of us can!

f*ck the gods.

AULUS: I'll go to the underworld
and speak to the sister.

- Who are you?
- I'm Rain. It is the new Veran I guard.

Do you know how to prepare
for the deep sleep?

"The" deep sleep.

What did you mean last time

when you said I was your baby?

ANTEDIA: Go to your General Aulus,
tell him Queen Antedia is coming.

[SCREAMING]

Hello.

[NEIGHING] [MAN SHOUTING]

Ya!

Look where you're going. The
Roman camp, five miles North,

there's not one bit left
standing on another.

Burnt they were, all of them.

- What the f*ck could do that?
- Thunderbolt? - Giants.

Whatever it is, they are
in serious f*cking trouble.

Right.

Who's going first? I'm Antedia,

Queen of the Regni,
daughter of Bok the Dread,

ruler of 100 hills,
scourge of all foe, or was.

I've heard of you.
Everyone's heard of me.

How have you heard of me?

I'm Cantii, or was.

You're Cantii?

Before the Romans came, I...

Cantii... Cantii scum!

You drank the blood of your foe,

who had two heads, a
demon horn for a sword,

and rode a chariot of fire.

Takes me right back.

Who's that winged
serpent? What's his name?

It's, uh, Scraggleback.
Scraggleback, the fiery serpent.

Winged serpent. That's
him. Winged Serpent.

I think a smart move
could catch him.

So, Cantii, do you have a name?

Cait. What are you
running from, Cait?

I genuinely don't know.
Start at the beginning.

CAIT: Have you heard of
a Druid called Veran?

Maybe.

Veran thinks I'm
part of a prophecy.

And are you? No.

And if I was, I'm not any more.

Good, if you ask me.

Prophecy's like everything
that Druids spout,

a bucket of dangerously
sloppy sh*t.

[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]

You know what I think? Despite
your unfortunate provenance,

- we make a fine team. We should.
- Stick together.No. - Oh, come on.

You're looking for the General.
Who m*rder*d your family.

I'm sorry, the answer's no.

Well, I'm glad we met.

Look after yourself.
Keep your wits about you.

And don't forget, whatever else
happens, boys are just for fun.

[CAIT CHUCKLING]

I'll try and remember that.

It was the gods.

The gods have come to save us.

[WHISPERING] Go, gods.

MAN: Go on then! Go
on! [HORSE NEIGHING]

sh*t!

Dad?

Hello, pretty boy.

♪ Well, you can bump and grind

♪ It is good for your mind

♪ Well, you can twist and shout

♪ Let it all hang out

♪ But you won't fool the
children of the revolution

♪ No, you won't fool

♪ The children of the revolution

♪ No, no, no

♪ Well, you can Terraplane

♪ In the falling rain

♪ I drive a Rolls-Royce

♪ Cos it's good for my voice

♪ But you won't fool the
children of the revolution

♪ No, you won't fool

♪ The children of the revolution

♪ No, no, no

♪ Wow ♪

DIVIS: Paws up!

Not getting squirrel.

[SCREAMS AND GRUNTS]

[GROANING]

[CHUCKLES]

My journey to the below
filled me with sadness.

Sadness and fear.

It's not the same place, Quane.

You'd not recognise it.

Our dead have suffered much.

Perhaps too much.


walked these same lands,

heard the same songs
on the same breezes.

Now, everything is changing.

Underworld is dying, Quane.

Voices of our gods get
weaker with each sunrise.

But you saw it.

I did.

If the spear of the
silver dawn is come,

then hope remains.

There was someone else there.

Who?

[GRUNTS]

You wish to visit the dead.

[PANTING]

[AULUS BREATHING HEAVILY]

So, what makes a
top-brass warrior,

the General's right-hand
bobbin, Mr swagger bollocks,

what makes him
suddenly up and desert,

then instead of
hopping the ship home,

hang around chasing
some batshit Druid's



Who told you about
that? Take a wild one.

How did you find
me? Weren't easy.

Made me all jump. Been searching
in these hills for days.

And last night, we saw this ruddy
great expl*si*n on the horizon.

I say, "We." He saw it.

And then we looked
at each other,

I say "We."

How are you, girl?

Not good. I don't
need eyes to see that.

[CRYING]

ANTEDIA: So, then
you blinded him?

Yes.

- Then you went back to the beach.
- And there he was. - The same beach.

[SIGHS]

All I know is this is my path.

This is what I'm
here for, only this.

When your mother died,
one thing kept me going,

I had a job to do.

A task, you and Islene.

I had a task and I'm now...

I'm not going back.

Cait. I mean it.

I'm finished.

A friend out there has
been talking about a spear.

- A spear?
- Says he brought it with him from the East

and he said you'd know
what he was talking about.

Do you, Cait? Do you know
anything about this spear?

The Druids call it the
spear of the silver dawn.

It will come from the East.

[STABBING]

The prophecy says

that when the Chosen
One possesses it,

she will unite the tribes,

drive the demon
back into the sea.

Watch it.

These two won't hang themselves.

Ah.

I could m*rder a pint.

Hey, isn't that
our old Praefectus?

The one that did a runner?

Well, pretty boy, I'd
say it's a toss-up,

either you've lost your mind

or you're caught up in something,
true or not, stuck in something

that's gonna drive you stark
bollock berserk sooner or later.

What's in this for you?
Nothing, I have no choice.

You can do better than
that. It's out of my hands.

Just... Just what?

I want to f*ck him up.

You sly b*stard.

Now you're talking.

FELIX: That's him, all right.

Felix, mate,

the gods may just
have smiled on us.

[BOTH SHOUTING]

You need to go, now.

If what he's saying
makes any sense,

if it means anything to
you... There's something

I haven't told you.

What?

Veran.

What about him?

Cait, what about Veran?

He's dead.

How do you know that?

Cait, how do you
know Veran's dead?

Get away from me.

What's happening?

[GRUNTS] MAN: f*ck!

[GRUNTS] f*cking traitor!

Get off me!

SAWYER: Cait? [ALL GRUNTING]

[GRUNTS] You f*cking b*stard!

What's happening, Cait?

CAIT: Come on! Let's
get out of here.

This way, Dad!

f*ck off!

[GROANS]

[MUTTERS]

Dad, over here! I'm with you.

[SHOUTS]

Dad! Wait!

Run! Wait! No!

Dad! Dad!

[GROANS]

No!

[SCREAMS]

Dad!

[PANTING]

Where's my wife?

Uh, yes, well,
it's a small world.

So what the f*ck does that mean?
You mean the High Priestess?

When you went roving,
she went roving too.

[GROANS]

Where's my wife? [GRUNTS]

[INHALES SHARPLY]

Who are you?

A friend.

Where's the Witch? [BARKING]

The Witch.

The Witch?

The Witch caught a sniffle,
the sniffle became a cold,

the cold became a
fever, the Witch died.

Stay where you are.

Before she died,
she sent a message,

my message reached the
Druid, I told him to come.

Where is he? You do
not summon the Veran.

A moment ago you asked who
I was, I said, "A friend."

That was a lie,
I'm not a friend.

I'm as far from a friend
as you could possibly get.

You may not know me,
Veran does, of old.

And when I say old, I mean, old.

My name is Hemple.

Now, when Veran gets
a message from Hemple,

the first thing he
does, sh*t his pants.

The second thing
is get on his knees

and beg his gods to
get him out of this.

The third thing is to get
on his horse and come here,

because he is too
afraid to do otherwise.

He knows how angry
Hemple will be

if he ignores her message.

So, if Veran got
Hemple's message,

then Veran would be here.

Which begs the only question,

what's wrong with Veran?

Did he catch a sniffle?
Veran is not afraid of you.

And neither am I. Then
why are you shaking?

[LAUGHING] Or, or
is it the wind?

Oh, don't tell me you're
going to catch a sniffle?

Whoops.

ANTEDIA: Come on, Cantii.

I've seen more fat
on a butterfly.

No?

Suit yourself.

You asked me earlier why I
wanted revenge on the General.

It's not because
he took my throne.

See, my father, Bok the Dread

was only king, because
he boiled his father,

Bok the Fearless
in a vat of oil.

Thrones come and go. No, no.

No, no, that's not why
I hate the General.

[CAIT WEEPING] I had a son.

He was my world.

General Aulus m*rder*d him.

He took me, lied to me,
betrayed me, and then

he m*rder*d my only child.

I don't miss the
power, I miss my boy.

[INHALES SHARPLY] And I will not
rest until I've had vengeance.

It will make what
happened back there

look like a spit in a spark.

Until then all I
have is this fire,

[SNIFFLES]..this
crappy, rotten bacon,

this breeze.

[SOBBING]

Cait.

He's gone. [CRIES]

You have to accept that.

[SNIFFLES] Or you'll
go mad like me.

[CRYING] I went mad
a long way back.

Hello, squirt. [GASPS]

[KNOCK AT DOOR]

You summoned me, Your Majesty.

So, he was lying there,
you had him powerless,

- could've cut his throat, why didn't.
- You? - I thought you loved him.

Don't piss me about,
we don't have time.

To ask that shows you know nothing
about him, about his power.

So he controls you?

Then why did you
plot to k*ll him?

Who says I did?

Vitus, the Praefectus,
told me everything.

Oh, really? Where
did that get him?

You were planning to k*ll the
General and then she showed up.

He told me, Willa, he told me.

I'm cursed.

I can do nothing
myself to harm him

- any more than I can leave.
- You once told me we should stick together.

- I told you, can't harm him.
- I can!

What about the High
Priestess? f*ck her.

By the time she's back, we're gone.
That's why it has to be today.

Yes or no?

Dad's dead.

He came to find me,

to get me to go back.

Dad is at peace now. He
knows he played his part.

Islene, have I gone mad?

[LAUGHING] Stop it!

I had such big plans.

I was gonna have six daughters,

teach 'em all how
to hunt, fight.

Turns out all I ever
did was for one thing.

I know why they chose you, Cait.

You may not, but I do.

Even if I wanted to
go back, I can't.

You mean Veran?

You know? Are you serious?

Oh, everyone down there knows.
Veran's dead. Islene, I k*lled him.

Says who?

Don't get me wrong. It was
touch and go for a while. But

if he is dead...

I haven't seen him.

♪ Oh, the waters flow

♪ Windy wind so cold

♪ Oh, the rivers flow so old

♪ Oh, the rivers flow so old

♪ O'er the rivers fly

♪ Stately kingfishers

♪ Through the waters swim

♪ Stickleback fishes

♪ Oh, the rivers flow so old

♪ Through the rivers swim so old

[SIGHS]

♪ Oh, the rivers flow so old ♪

ANTEDIA: Well, who it isn't?

I'd given you up for dead.

You said we'd make a good team.

And? Will you help me?

Pretty boy. What's his name?

Told me about this spear thingy.

Said you'd be interested.

Tell me everything you know.

Three drops in his
wine, no less, no more,

or he'll spot it.

[KNOCK AT DOOR]

Boo!

You've been a quiet one lately.

Hardly stepped outside.

What have you been up to?

AULUS: Research.

Fruitful?

Very.

Care to share?

Fine, if you don't want to.

Here's something that
might interest you.

Uh, what's his name? Blaine...

My wife's intolerable,
utterly useless lapdog.

Turns out he has
a use after all.

He was out there
today farting about

and he saw something.

What? The Witch

paying you a visit.

"Golly," he said,

"I wonder what those
two are hatching?"

And you believed
him? Oh, search me.

He is a bit of a snake.

Well, in this case, the
snake was telling the truth.

The Witch did come to see me.

Why? I asked her to.

Why?

The prophecy of Veran and
the lore of Lokka overlap.

I wanted to know
what the Druids know,

think, make of our master.

Oh.

He's our master now, is he?

You have no idea what
he will ask of you.

No idea at all.

Stick around.

He'll show you what
real sacrifice is.

I'll have a drop of that.
Priestess. You returned.

Yes, this afternoon.
Welcome back.

I trust your journey was
fruitful. Thank you, pretty t*ts.

Oh, you look nice this
evening. Thank you.

I'd say you're looking
especially delicious.

Wouldn't you say? You
know what? I would.

What's for supper?
That's just the thing.

I didn't know you were
gonna be back so soon, so...

Well, there must be
something we could pick at.

I'm sure we can find something.
Well, we'll just have to make do.

Just like that.

No! What could I do?

[THEY CONTINUE CONVERSING]

I shan't bore you...

How was your little journey?

- Find anything useful?
- Oh, extremely. And I met with a Druid.

You sneaky rabbit.
Well, I did tell you.

These people can
be tricky buggers.

Sometimes you just have
to sneak up on them.

And as chance would have it, our
friend here has been busy too.

Really? What have
you been up to?

She met with the Witch. I
thought she hated the Witch.

Oh, down to her green bones.

But there she was.

The question is, why?

Well, I imagine it was
perfectly innocent.

Nothing to do with "Seizing
the day while the cat's away,".

"Striking while
the iron is hot."

You want to know what I
was up to, I will tell you.

But first, a toast.

To safe homecomings.

[LAUGHS] Ohh. [LAUGHS]

Oh, that is perfect.
Unimprovable.

I tell you what, let's
bloody do it. f*ck it, let's.

To safe homecoming.
Safe homecomings.

Try it.

Yummy. Fabulous.

- Isn't it?
- I don't think there's anything better

than a good drop of
plonk. Oh, me too. Me too.

[EXHALES]

Well, Come on, then, sweetie.

Spill the beans.

Oh!

Hello.

What's this?

I have it on very
good authority,

if you swallow just one
drop before you can say,

"Hello, this tastes
a bit funny",

your kidneys boil, your eyes,
tongue, teeth turn to lard,

and your arse drops
out of your arse.

Oh.

I didn't see this
coming. No, me neither.

Well, come on, then.

Where on earth did you get it?

Surprise!

Who's hungry?

[INDISTINCT CHATTERING] Higher.

Look at the idiot.

[YELLS]

[GRUNTING] Better. One more.

Hey, there. Maybe I can help.

f*ck off.

What news, Druid?

I waited at the horse.
The Witch did not come.

What? [VOICES IN THE DISTANCE]

Someone's coming! [MAN WHISTLES]

PHELAN: I'll say
this, she's got ba*ls.

I mean, I've messed things
up before... royally.

But who does that and
then walks back in here?

She does.

I'm not sorry.

If I had the chance to go back,
I wouldn't change a moment,

because if I hadn't done it,

I wouldn't know what I know.

Which is?

That this is my path.

I can't change it.

There's no other one for me

and I'll walk it to the end.

We're just pawns
in this mad game.

Well, let's play.

Let's play the game.

Your move, Cait.

Whoa! Why aren't
you f*cking dead?

Hi, I'm Quant. Knackers. Cantii.

Prince f*cking Phelan.
Once. Not any more.

- No more than you're still.
- Queen Antedia. - I am still queen.

I'll let you guys catch up.

The Chosen One asked for you.

Cantii w*nk*r.

I'm not finished with you.
No probs, I'll be right here.

I hate the Druids.

Oh, how the wheel turns.

This is my friend
Antedia. We've met.

Sit. And catch what you've got?

No, thank you. I'd rather stand.

Tell me what the Roman soldier
told you about the prophecy.

Phelan.

Rolf.

Quant.

What next?

He's buried it. Didn't say where.
If you want to find out where it is,

you're gonna have to free
pretty boy and ask him.

May I go now? Smells like
a badger's ba*ls in here.

VERAN: 'I will speak
to all, young and old.

Bring them to the
sacred stones.'

Gather the Druids.

MAN: Gather the Druids!

I know many of you
have doubted me.

Doubted the prophecy.

But now the Chosen
One is returned

and destiny calls.

There is one come to
these lands from the East.

He brought with him a spear.

Your ancestors

and their ancestors,
and their ancestors.

They know its name.

It is the spear of
the silver dawn.

Only once the spear is found

can the Chosen One
lead us into the light.

She will choose among you a band

to walk with her, protect
her, and learn from her.

This is the first
day of a new age.

I want to say something.

I don't know who I am.

I don't know where I'm
going, but I know why.

Not for some prophecy
or him or you.

I'm doing this for me, for Cait.

I am not the Chosen One.

I choose this myself.

[CHEERING]

Hm. A bit selfish.

[BEES BUZZING]

- You summoned me.
- Time to prepare, they're waiting inside.

Of course.

You too, Quant. OK.

What the f*ck?

On your feet, Druid.

- I'm not a Druid.
- You are now.

[BUZZING]

Well, well, well. I haven't
seen you in such a long time.

- Queen Antedia.
- Well, at least someone here knows what's what.

You'll have to
enlighten me one day

as to how you ended
up with all these

weirdos. It's a long story.

Well, it could be
worse, I suppose.

You could be married to a
Cantii right now.[CHUCKLES]

Excuse me.

Uh.

Yeah.

Erm, basically, why me?

Because you know what
it's like to be lost.

So you chose me?

I chose all of you.

Hi.

Oh. Hi.

What's wrong?

What? Nothing.

You sure? Absolutely.

Excited. Raring to go.

OK. I don't like horses.

I'm not good with horses.

Well, you better learn.

Yeah. By the way...

It happened.

What happened?

The Great Vision.

That's why I came back.

Couldn't have done
it without you.

So tell me, who is he?

No idea.

- He just looked fun.
- Listen, sweetie. I'm not sure about this.

About what? Oh, it's just...

I'm not sure that this
is my kind of quest.

It's not a quest.

It's cold-blooded revenge.

Find the spear, Cait.

Before Rome.

What spear?

The spear of the silver dawn.

I'll just follow
you, then, shall I?

So, there's this farmhand
who goes to work on a farm

and he's in the yard and he sees
this pig with only three legs.

He asks the farmer, "What's
with the pig there?"

The farmer says,
"Well, a few years ago,

the farmhouse caught
fire and that pig ran in,

raised the alarm, saved me,
my wife and all three kids.

We'd have burnt to a crisp
if it wasn't for that pig."

The farmhand says, "But
how did he lose the leg?"

And the farmer says, "Oh, right.
Well, with a pig that useful",

you don't eat him all
at once." [LAUGHTER]

[LAUGHTER CONTINUES]

Oh, in all the excitement,

I forgot to say, I've
been a clever girl.

Oh, yeah? How's that?

HEMPLE: Eeny

meeny

miny

moe.

I caught a Druid.

By the toe.
[LAUGHING MANIACALLY]

I like it.

[VOICES OF MAN AND CHILD]

Oh, I am vanquished!

'Kneel, General Aulus.'