Mystery!: Cadfael (TV Series)

The Leper of St. Giles (1994)

Derek Jacobi: Brother Cadfael

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Brother Cadfael : Remember, my lord de Massard... God sees not with the eyes of man. Man beholds only the outward appearance. God looks on the heart.

  Lazarus the Leper : Then he shall find it here.

  Brother Cadfael : And he shall find it beautiful. As I do.

• Brother Cadfael : You know, I sometimes think that the senses are the gateway to the soul. We should celebrate them more.

  Avice of Thornbury : Sounds rather heretical, Cadfael.

  Brother Cadfael : Sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith.

• [examining a dead body] 

  Brother Cadfael : But the most interesting aspect of this matter--

  Prior Robert : Interesting? We don't all share your morbid propensities, Brother.

  Brother Cadfael : Revealing, then.

• Brother Cadfael : But your leprosy is no longer contagious! You are a danger to no man or woman, and whatever name you've been using these past years you are still Guimar de Massard. Iveta would revere you and delight in you... why not give her hand in marraige to young Joscelyn?

  Lazarus the Leper : Brother, you speak of what you do not understand! Leave my bones and my grave and my legend alone! I am a dead man!

  Brother Cadfael : But there was one Lazarus who did rise again from his tomb, to the great joy of his kinswomen.

  Lazarus the Leper : Is *this* the face that made his sisters glad?

  [He pulls aside his veil to reveal his horribly disfigured face] 

  Lazarus the Leper : Let me remain dead, Brother Cadfael.

• Brother Cadfael : Iveta and Joscelyn intend coming here to see you.

  Lazarus the Leper : Well, we wandering lepers are notoriously vague. Relics, we drift from shrine to shrine staying nowhere long. The fit takes us and the wind blows us away like dust. Tell them all is well with me... for with the dead, all is very well. Pray for me, brother... I shall come no more to Shrewsbury.

• Brother Cadfael : [reviewing the death of Godfrid Picard]  A man dies, strangled... yet he was armed. And he'd had time to draw his dagger... to draw but not strike; it lay by his side, unbloodied. Now those who kill with their hands do so because they have no other weapon.

  Hugh Beringar : Who, then? Who would engage with an armed man with nothing but his bare hands? None but a fool.

  Brother Cadfael : [pause, then]  Or one with little left to lose.

• Avice of Thornbury : We all need companionship, don't you think?

  Brother Cadfael : Yes, I do.

  Avice of Thornbury : Have you ever sought the companionship of another human being?

  Brother Cadfael : I have, yes, but it was not to be. Now I have the company of my fellow brothers and the companionship of Christ.

  Avice of Thornbury : That gives you joy?

  Brother Cadfael : Contentment, yes. That is all I ask for.

  Avice of Thornbury : You've no regrets?

  Brother Cadfael : Which of us can say that?

• Lazarus the Leper : You speak only of Domville. What of the second murder? I hope that no innocent man has been accused of that.

  Brother Cadfael : Godfrid Picard was not murdered.

  Lazarus the Leper : What do you mean?

  Brother Cadfael : He was stopped in the forest, and challenged to single combat. He was armed with a dagger, his opponent had only his bare hands. Picard must have thought it would be so easy, but he didn't know that his opponent possess the lion's heart.

  Lazarus the Leper : It must have been some very grave quarrel between these two.

  Brother Cadfael : The oldest and the gravest: the shameful mistreatment of a lady.

• Lazarus the Leper : Take me one step further, Brother, and tell me his name.

  Brother Cadfael : It was you... Guimar de Massard.

  Lazarus the Leper : Should I know that name?

  Brother Cadfael : My Lord de Massard, I was present at the fall of Jerusalem, twenty years ago, I saw you breach the gate. I was at Ascalon too, against the Fatimids of Egypt. Why, after that, did you let yourself be given up for dead?

  Lazarus the Leper : [chuckles]  Brother, I think you ask what you already know. The Fatimids have excellent physicians, wiser than any here. They recognized the first bitter signs. I had to protect my wife and my son from contagion. I went to live in a hermitage, and sent my sword and my shield back.

  Brother Cadfael : Iveta treasures them.

  Lazarus the Leper : I returned, when I heard that my son had died, leaving behind an orphaned child. My granddaughter, Iveta. I wanted to see her enjoy her fortune. Instead, I found that Picard was ruining her life! So I ended his.