Robin Hood (TV Series)
A Good Day to Die (2007)
Sam Troughton: Much
Quotes
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Robin Hood : Let's get the weapons ready. As soon as there's light to see by, we go.
Little John : NO. No.
Robin Hood : John, we agreed on this!
Little John : You have not spoken, Robin. It's your turn.
Robin Hood : We have a few moments left on this earth. Let me have my thoughts to myself. I'll share them with you in the next life.
Djaq : Robin, if there is a heaven, yours is different from mine.
Much : And if there isn't a heaven...
Robin Hood : It's almost light.
Little John : Robin.
Robin Hood : You know my thoughts. They are for the poor. They are for you. And they're for Marian, the woman I love. The woman who I recently gave a ring to.
Djaq : ...you're engaged?
Robin Hood : ...the woman who makes me believe that by a twist of fate we might just be able to see this through. And Much, I have betrayed your friendship. But I think you know why. You see, I can't face the terrors we saw, I can't. Because I'm not as strong as you. I have to put them out of my mind, because if I don't, I wouldn't be able to lead. I mean, I wouldn't even be able to...
[pauses, laughs]
Much : ...what?
Robin Hood : It doesn't matter.
Little John : ...to shoot.
Much : Shoot? Of course he can shoot!
Robin Hood : No. No, John's right. In the Holy Land, the men we saw in bits... screaming... every time I raise my bow, I see them. I hear them. And I know now whether it was right or wrong, what we did in the holy land, it makes no difference. So I have to try not to kill. I have to avoid killing. I mean, God gave me a gift with bow. I can kill with my eyes closed. I mean, I can kill a man from a thousand yards, and I have to try everything in my power not to. And that's why I wasn't there for you in your hour of need, my friend. Because I have to let those memories go. I just have to be free.
Much : ...why didn't you say?
Robin Hood : It doesn't matter now. In a few moments, we'll be free forever.
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Djaq : So I admire you. All of you. You are good men. Brave... generous... kind, decent men, and I am proud to be amongst you.
Much : Is this what this is, everyone just sayin' that they love each other?
Djaq : Wait! And you're filthy. And you really stink. And you have no souls.
Little John : We live in the forest!
Djaq : I have to be honest! I have to be honest.
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Robin Hood : [exasperated, after Much accidentally led them into a trap] Much?
Much : Sorry!
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Robin Hood : [trying to lift their spirits as they're trapped] Once a few determined Spartans held a pass against a vast Persian army.
Much : Really?
Robin Hood : Strategy.
Will Scarlett : And they lived?
Robin Hood : No. But... they did well.
Will Scarlett : [dissapointed] Oh.
Much : I hate that story too.
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Robin Hood : They're just gonna wait till we come out.
Much : And then kill us. Not even a conversation.
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Little John : A good day to die.
Much : Will you just shut up! Why does he always say that? Don't even know what it means!
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Much : Good to have you back.
Allan A Dale : Good to be back.
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Robin Hood : Lads... I've got a proposal. If they don't come to us, we go to them.
Little John : When?
Robin Hood : First light.
Will Scarlett : There's too many!
Djaq : We'll die.
Much : Suicide!
Little John : [after Robin nods] ... a good day to die!
Much : Will you shut up? He always says that! I don't even know what it means!
Robin Hood : We'll all most certainly die. But at least we'll die fighting.
Will Scarlett : Yeah. I'm in.
Djaq : Me too.
Little John : Yes.
Much : ...and me.
Robin Hood : [Nods] Good. Good.
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Djaq : John?
Little John : No.
Will Scarlett : John, come on.
Djaq : Who do you love?
Little John : You. All of you. Even him.
[gestures to Much]
Little John : I love you all, all right? And Alice. I shouldn't have let her go. And my boy, little Little John. I should have made them stay.
Robin Hood : John, you didn't have a choice.
Little John : Let me speak. Leaving Alice, running to the forest, was wrong. Wrong. That's why I'm a huge, ugly, stupid, useless coward.
Will Scarlett : John!
Little John : That's why I'm always saying it, Much. "Today is a good day to die," because for me, it is. I deserve to die. I left the people that loved me, the two people that should have depended on me, my own child! God... what was I thinking?
Robin Hood : John, I'll not let you talk like this.
Little John : I'm going now. I won't wait until tomorrow.
Robin Hood : JOHN!
Little John : Let's move this cart. Move this thing! I need to die. I want to die! Let me die! Let me die!
Will Scarlett : [Hugging Little John] John!
Little John : [Sobbing] Let me die. I want to die!
Much : Is this normal, this Kalmina thing? Because it's weird.
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Much : Look, I'm not doing this.
Djaq : Fine.
Much : Good. Because I don't hate myself, and I'm not in love with anyone else, so...
Djaq : ...fine.
Much : [bristling after Robin chuckles] What?
Robin Hood : ...what?
Much : You're smiling.
Robin Hood : I'm smiling because usually it's a struggle to shut you up.
Much : You think I talk too much. Well, I know that's what you think. Much talks too much, and eats too much, worries too much. It's easy for you to say, because if I don't do it, then who does? It's all right for you because you can just breeze through life and be everyone's hero and not have to worry about the simple things like the fire, or the food, or the hole in your cape or your birthday, because good old, dependable old Much will take care of that. Well, I'll tell you something: you take me for granted. You're sniggering at me...
Robin Hood : Much, I'm just saying...
Much : YOU SHOULDN'T! And I'm angry. And just because I love you doesn't mean I can't hate you, too. And I hate you because in the holy land there was two of us, and we were a team, and the things we went through and the horrors we saw, we went through them together. And when we came home, we were like brothers. Brothers in arms, and where is that now, eh? It's gone, that's where! You never talk. It just don't. You made me a free man, and we're meant to be equals. We're not equals. The only thing that's changed around here is you still treat me like a servant, you don't treat me like your friend.
Robin Hood : That's not true... is it true?
Much : [Nods] Oh Kalila.
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Much : This is it. This is really it. Forget what I said, I don't want you to die remembering me that way.
Robin Hood : Hey. I'll remember you as my loyal friend.
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Much : Well! Here's to freedom.
Will Scarlett : ...here's to the poor! Here's to the good people we leave behind.
Little John : We are Robin Hood!
[all echo]
Robin Hood : ...thank you, my friends.
