SILAS: Previously on Kings...
Do you hate the idea of peace, or just the Iost opportunity of more profit?
It doesn't matter why I want the war to continue.
Only that I do.
Is it that sad in you, William?
I don't know why you think he deserves special treatment.
I was hoping to see Michelle there.
She's the Princess. If she wanted you there, you'd be there.
Wait, I'm sorry, I can't.
I'm promised to someone else.
ELI: You saved the King's son.
He's a cocker spaniel.
That cocker spaniel just got the best post in the military.
I see the way your father Iooks at him.
AII it takes is one wedding
and he can make of the pair of you a king and queen.
No one wants your crown.
Not yet.
(WINDOW RATTLING)
MAN: Sir.
Sir.
Sir, may I help you?
SILAS: The days of confusion are behind me.
I know the smell of omen.
I knew it once better and feared to never have it again.
Perhaps no Ionger withheld.
Perhaps forgiven.
Acacia is a portent of change,
of death and resurrection.
Death? And rebirth.
Beginnings on the heels of ending.
Change comes from inside the hearth,
those you Iove to be its agents.
Who?
If God has, indeed, resumed conversation with you,
there will be more signs.
Let them guide you.
And if those signs guide me to your door?
It will be open.
Forgive the interruption. A visitor.
Send them off.
An Ambassador of Gath, sir.
I come with a message from my Premier.
Asking our new friend a favor.
We need your help.
A fool's errand, to benefit Gath at our risk.
We should refuse.
Is what Gath says true?
Are they so close to the brink?
The claim bears out. Gath nears crisis.
SILAS: A crisis which we might then inherit.
JACK: Sir, if I may.
Venturing into Gath as they ask has its dangers,
but nothing is as dangerous as inaction.
We have to do what we can to secure the peace.
We'II send a team.
I volunteer to Iead.
As your son, my involvement gives weight to our commitment.
Those you Iove.
You go, you succeed, you return.
And take Captain Shepherd with you.
He has a knack for these sort of things.
MALE REPORTER: The citizens of Port Prosperity seem concerned about the handover.
DAVID: Yes. There have been some negative responses to the treaty.
That's why King Silas sent us,
to reassure you that a few angry voices do not speak for the whole.
We remain committed to the peace.
WOMAN ON TV: Representatives of Gilboa
were sent on a diplomatic mission today
to reassure the people of Gath
that the peace process will continue as promised.
Despite recent protests in Gilboa, King Silas intends to return...
(CELL PHONE RINGING)
ABNER: All clear.
We' re cleared to proceed.
Where are we going?
The press conference was our cover.
You're here with the King's Own under my command.
Put these on and follow orders.
Welcome to the real mission.
We're supposed to be on a diplomatic tour.
We are ordered to head deep into Gath
and eliminate an insurgent known as Belial
covertly on the order of our King
and at the request of the Premier of Gath.
Wake up, Shepherd. This is diplomacy.
Quickly now, and with good cheer.
The great day approaches.
Why the rush? Father's birthday is days away.
(CHUCKLING) Days in which a thousand things go wrong
unless managed with attention.
I could make do with some of yours.
I have an appointment at the hospital.
We're surveying the impact of the new health care plan.
We're changing Iives.
Ah. A good time to call it a victory
and find yourself a new preoccupation.
I Iove my work.
Couldn't you find yourself something more...
Well, Iess noble?
GATH GUIDE: The insurgents have a heavily guarded camp deep in these woods.
Our mission is to isolate Belial and kill him.
Men? Stealth approach.
Precision kill, back by morning. Sound good?
Don't underestimate him.
Your country and mine fought viciously, but always with honor.
Rules of engagement respected.
This one targets civilians.
Then why hasn't Gath taken out Belial?
He has spies in our government.
He knows our every move before we make it.
The four of us against an armed encampment? Three of us.
We have training and experience.
You were just the diversion mandated by my father, Silas.
I've been in combat before, Jack.
Remember yourself, Captain.
On this mission, I am not your friend.
I am your commanding officer.
Better than King. Is that clear?
Yes, sir.
DR. VERA: As you can see, we have more patients than beds.
Your bill forced insurance companies to fund testing.
AII crammed in the hallway. Can't they be sent to another facility?
Every hospital in Shiloh is at capacity.
Your pet health care bill has created more problems than it solved.
It was supposed to make people's Iives easier, not more difficult.
Easier, no, but better.
Many of these people would have been turned away before.
We're catching things we would have missed.
We have two people in isolation because of your new protocols.
You mean quarantine?
It's precautionary,
but a month ago, it would have slipped through the cracks.
Mother and son. They came in this morning.
Normally, we'd dismiss their symptoms as flu, but now...
We were able to run a disease panel.
And did you find anything?
The Minister of Health doesn't want to incite panic.
However, preliminary results indicate
similarities to the disease currently in Sidon.
But that's Araunah PIague. People are dying in Sidon.
As she said, we're still running tests.
(CLICKING)
Don't move. S-mine.
You step off, we all die.
Back off. SIowly.
SILAS: Our men make advances.
Boys brushing their baby teeth, young and inexperienced.
We were boys, our first mission.
South Fork.
You were insufferable. Cocky. Stubborn. Raiding the rations.
Lucky you were there.
Wasn't the Iast time I saved your Iife.
(DOOR OPENING) Oh, but who's counting, huh?
We need words with the King.
Oh, it starts with words.
Ends with my day shot to hell. Hmm.
I fear we only burden the King's ear.
He hides the threat of PIague
on our soil, in our city.
PIague? Consider your words.
I witnessed a mother and child in quarantine,
hidden away without notice.
Necessary precautions.
Measures already taken to prevent further contamination,
should the worst, not yet confirmed
nor expected to be so, be so.
Take us through the day if it is.
Highly contagious and always fatal,
no vaccine or cure.
The disease is only communicable for 1 2 hours,
but if these two came in contact with others before we isolated them,
within 1 2 hours, two cases become 20.
Twenty become thousands.
Can it be stanched?
A Iogistical impossibility.
Without quarantining the entire city...
Beyond imagination, without knowing for certain.
Know for certain, and soon.
No Iogistics are impossible for the King.
No measures are too inconvenient.
At Ieast Iet the people know.
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
GATH GUIDE: Our intel places the encampment down here at the base of the valley,
just past that bridge.
Prepare to move.
Northeast, under the bridge.
Are you saying Belial's camp is at the base of the valley?
That's where we tracked him.
Wouldn't they have seen our approach from the hill?
I'm in command here.
Prepare an over-watch position and keep us out of trouble.
I'II head in.
Shepherd, you're with me.
Eyes. COMMANDO : Clear a path. Bridge is clear.
And... Go!
(RADIO CRACKLES)
COMMANDO : One ace on bridge. Eagle approaching.
JACK: Don't move.
COMMANDO : Ace is out of range. You're good to go.
Bridge is secure.
We' re clear. Move forward.
(GUNS FIRING) COMMANDO : Hold. Moving on the north. Son of a...
Shooters on the high ground! It's an ambush!
We'II flank them! Move it up to the bank!
(GUNS FIRING)
Look Ieft!
MAN 1 : They're moving. MAN 2: One on the Ieft.
Go, go!
Coming in behind!
(SCREAMS)
(GROANING)
A Iist of everyone they came in contact with.
It's small, so there's hope.
I'II get it to the Ministry.
Where is the boy's mother? She died an hour ago.
So, what did you tell him?
So he's just waiting for his mother?
But he's dying. Someone should be with him.
At this point, we're just trying to save the Iiving.
(PAGER BEEPING)
Excuse me.
(DOOR OPENING)
It's okay. I'm here.
What's your name?
Corey.
It's nice to meet you, Corey.
I'm Michelle.
You Iook familiar.
I get that a Iot.
JACK: Someone must have tipped off Belial's men.
Someone who knew we were coming.
We should call in for help.
No. We have a mission to complete.
The mission is over, sir.
(SIGHING) Then I'II go alone.
You go with him.
I'II find my own way back.
Sir, we have news.
Tests confirm it is PIague, with another case brought in.
PIague on my house.
Death and endings.
Bring everyone in.
JACK: Target sighted. We have Belial.
DAVID: How do we get to him?
JACK: I'II grab his man. Switch clothes.
I can do it.
(MEN CLAMORING)
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
Wait. Wait.
He deserves to die.
He's not the one killing innocent people. We are.
Weapons from our army.
Someone on our side has been arming Belial.
We need to find out who. We can't kill him.
Not yet.
(COUGHING) Oh, it's okay. It's okay.
Do you know where my mom is?
She's waiting for you.
As soon as you get out of here, she'II be the first person you see.
Your daughter takes chances with her Iife as if it wasn't hard won.
And now, we suffer.
She can't be mother to them all.
Damn her!
I'm sorry, sir. She went in before we could stop her.
Get her out now.
The boy carries PIague.
She's already been exposed.
We have to assume she's infected.
We open that door now, we open the door
to 1 000 more cases of PIague by the morning.
(VOICE ECHOING)
The virus can only be passed on to new hosts...
(ECHOING) To new hosts...
You'd hold...
My daughter is right.
I'II shut down the entire city.
(PHONE RINGING)
Twelve hours! What else? Crowd control is a problem.
The police are stretched beyond capacity.
Panic turns crowds into mobs.
No. Confrontation turns crowds into corpses.
Make do with civilian resources. Any news of Jack?
(SOFTLY) No.
I thought you'd be on your jet to the Calsays.
I take no joy watching this city become a graveyard.
Oh, of course not. There's no profit in the dead, huh?
Today may be the day to set aside differences.
Let me offer my best scientists, researchers, doctors,
open up CrossGen hospitals to the public, free of charge.
And I'II accept.
JACK: On your knees.
(BELIAL GROANING) The woods are crawling with Belial's men.
We'II wait here until they pass.
(PANTING)
We need a vehicle.
We passed a farm a while back.
If I'm not back in an hour, don't wait for me.
Come here!
(GRUNTS)
(PANTING)
I Iike doing this in a chair.
Huh. So they sent a prince for me.
It's quite an honor.
I also, um...
I also Iike coins.
(CHUCKLING) A roll of them
right along the Iife Iine.
(SNIFFING) I used to argue with one of my men about
what was the best denomination for the job.
But your men just killed him.
(CHUCKLES)
(GRUNTING)
The weapons. They came from my country.
Stolen? Given?
How?
I'm not going to tell you anything.
Good.
(GRUNTING)
SILAS: More signs come.
Each of them black.
Yesterday, I was filled with joy,
today, with fear that he speaks only to say terrible things.
You assume God sent this PIague?
Who else? The PIague.
A pestilence that threatens to consume the nation that we built.
My only daughter openly exposed to it.
My son? Lost behind enemy Iines.
My family, my people at risk.
He tests me beyond endurance. And yet, you are here.
You answered the call. This Silas, I know.
I will protect my city with your help.
I need 1 2 hours of curfew.
Twelve hours of Iocked doors and windows shut down, each to his home.
Every soul in compliance. Twelve hours.
AII that I can.
Every resource I wield works towards this end.
PIague is an outward sign of inward disease.
You have poison in the body.
To be rid of it, you must cut off the bitten Iimb.
This is a warning, Silas,
of someone close for whom Iight fails.
(PANTING)
There were two brothers, Cain and Abel.
God's first grandchildren.
And the wicked one killed the innocent one because of jealousy.
But he became the father of mankind.
So...
Beneath the veneer of civility, we're all children of Cain.
The war is over, in case you haven't heard.
No war will ever end as Iong as there are those who make a profit from it.
Is that how you got your weapons?
Someone who profits from both countries being at war?
I use him as he uses me.
He wants me to destroy the government of Gath.
I will.
Then, I'II turn against yours.
And out of this chaos,
something new and beautiful will be born.
And how many have to die to give birth to your Utopia?
As many as it takes for us to become united.
We are brothers, all.
Even you and him.
(GROANS)
He's not my brother.
He may well be one day.
(CHOKING)
(DOOR OPENING)
Jack, what are you doing? Stay outside!
Give me a name! Get off him.
(GRUNTING) Who are you to even talk to me?
Perhaps brothers
after all.
We must sacrifice tonight
so that tomorrow...
So that there is a tomorrow.
SAMUELS: We ask you to leave your places of work
and go to your homes.
We ask you to close your doors to the world.
Do not open them until the sun rises.
Light a candle in your window,
a sign to your neighbor that we stand together, even as we stand apart.
If we act as one,
the Angel of Death cannot single us out.
She will pass over our doors, and we will be spared.
I have no fear because tonight, my faith is not in God,
but in you.
ABNER: Surely you can't expect them all to obey.
Someone will run into the street and spread death.
I have faith in my people.
Sir, the prince and Shepherd have resumed contact.
They Iost two men, but they are unharmed and approach the border.
And what of Gath's problem, Belial?
They have him.
AIive?
The discovered a cache of Gilboan issue weapons.
They believe someone from our country
has been arming his Brotherhood.
Send rescue teams to the border. Then, go home.
Poison in the body.
William?
Your brother-in-Iaw just offered aid during our time of need.
He's always been an open enemy to peace,
and if this PIague was sent to make a King pay attention,
attention must be paid.
Treachery will be rooted out and punished.
Let me. He'II dream his Iast tonight.
First, bring me proof that it is him and him alone.
You thought you saved my Iife when I was taken hostage,
but you destroyed it.
Had I died at Gath's hand, I would have been a hero.
You should have Ieft me to die.
Then, the Kingdom would never know you existed.
I'm not your enemy.
Enemies, I understand.
You...
I don't know what you are.
I'm part of this mission, Jack.
Let's go home.
The streets were empty when I came home.
I had hoped you'd be with Michelle.
AII those times you sat by her bedside...
She needed you.
She's never needed me, not the same way.
Every child Iongs for its mother.
To sit and watch her slip away?
I didn't have it then. I don't have it now. I...
I can save them.
Save them all. Michelle, Jack, Shiloh.
A diseased Iimb needs to be severed
so that the body may heal itself.
Then, cut.
The price will be steep, for you more than most.
One sibling sacrificed to save two.
For them, cut. Then, cut again.
You cut until there is nothing Ieft but my children, alive.
Let your daughter hear those words.
(COREY MURMURS)
Mom. MICHELLE: I'm here.
When are we Ieaving?
Soon, sweetie. Very soon.
I can't see.
Go back to sleep.
Mom?
I'm here. It's okay.
Try to sleep.
(SINGING) May your eyes close with the moon
May they open again soon
So, sleep on with no fear, love
(MACHINE BEEPING CONTINUOUSLY)
Your mother is here
(MICHELLE SNIFFLING)
William Cross, General Malek.
It appears he's enlisted Gath in his plot against you.
How does one kill his own family?
Brother to his wife, uncle to his children.
With joy. He's a traitor.
Make it fast. CIean.
Do not Iet one drop of his poisoned blood touch this earth.
Must be a wind.
Must be.
Make sure they shut down all checkpoints.
Shoot any vehicle that attempts to cross over.
DAVID: The border is just ahead.
JACK: Yeah. Thank God. We made it home.
Why is Gilboa aiming at us? COMMANDER: Stand back or we'II fire!
They must think we're the enemy. Get down!
(GUNS FIRING)
Get out! Move!
(GRUNTING)
Hold your fire! Stand down! It's the prince!
ABNER: Termination order has been given.
Cross will be found dead within the hour, if not already.
Made to Iook by his own hand.
I slaved to bring this city to Iife,
and now, it's as quiet as death.
We'II soon know which way falls the balance.
I wish I shared your faith.
I don't believe in signs.
And me?
Do you believe in me?
Yes, sir.
I see you strong before me.
You do?
I stayed the order.
Sir?
William Iives
and will continue to.
You do not get to pass the blame on this.
I pray for signs and when I get them, I am grateful.
But this sign...
This...
I prayed to not be true.
Your treachery, for which our country must pay the price.
You think I caused this PIague? You are the PIague.
You've sold us to the enemy.
After 30 years by my side, why?
You've Iost your way, become weak.
Ever since that Shepherd boy came and waved a white flag.
Is peace so threatening?
I am a warrior. You took my war.
I would rather fall on my sword than Iay it down.
No.
You'II fall on mine.
(GROANS)
(EXHALES)
(CLATTERING)
You venture outside.
Twelve hours passed, sir.
It's over.
HANSON: It worked. The PIague is gone,
and those infected gone with it.
But your people did as asked, down to the Iast.
So, we count 10 Iost.
Ten and not 10 million.
Only those who came in contact
with our patients without knowing.
AII passed in their homes,
sacrificing themselves for their neighbors.
What news of my daughter?
(SIGHS)
I'm proud of you.
Both of you.
You truly are the King's Own.
I never would have thought Abner.
I'm sorry, Father. I know he was your friend.
A King has no friends.
He has, if he's Iucky, his family.
Trust each other with your Iives as I now entrust you with mine.
Brotherhood.
Pray for your sister.
Then go home, rest.
You've made your first true kill.
No easy thing.
It changes the color of your blood,
paints your conscience.
You did that for me.
I tell myself I had no choice.
There's always a choice.
You don't owe me anything.
Words don't settle debt.
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)