Robin Hood (TV Series)

Something Worth Fighting For: Part 1 (2009)

Gordon Kennedy: Little John

Quotes 

• Robin Hood : We take the castle. We claim it under King Richard. We put Isabella under house arrest, we release the supplies, we release the men. And we hold that castle till King Richard returns.

  Much : We can't take a castle!

  Guy of Gisborne : We can if we go down the tunnel. When the old Sheriff returned from his failed mission in the holy lands, he became paranoid about repercussions. So he built himself an escape route. A tunnel. The diggers were silenced, I made sure of that. So no one else knows about the tunnel, especially not Isabella. It starts here, in a derelict churchyard outside the west gate, and it leads directly into the heart of the castle. I say we go down the tunnel, we seize Isabella, and we force her to dismiss her guards. If we take Isabella, we take the castle.

  Robin Hood : If we time the break-in to coincide with the supply train leaving, most of the guards will be busy with the convoy anyway.

  Kate : Count me out. I don't trust him!

  Little John : How do we know this isn't a trap?

  Guy of Gisborne : Because we want the same thing.

  Kate : Since when have you cared about our people?

  Guy of Gisborne : I don't. I just want Isabella. She betrayed me to Prince John and I intend to make her pay.

  Kate : Now THAT sounds more like the Gisborne we all know and loathe!

  Robin Hood : That's enough! We go through the tunnel! And that's my final word. Gisborne is one of us now. Our fate is his.

• Little John : TRAITOR!

  [Choking Allan] 

  Little John : What did you tell them, Judas?

  Tuck : It's all over Nottingham. Allan's been pardoned by the Sheriff for services rendered.

  Allan A Dale : WHAT?

  Robin Hood : John, let him go.

  Allan A Dale : Let me speak!

  Little John : Oh, yeah, you're good at that, aren't you? Speaking, lying...

  Robin Hood : John! John, come on! Let him go.

  Tuck : Come on.

  Little John : [as he's pulled off Allan]  Liar!

  Robin Hood : [to Allan]  All right?

  Allan A Dale : I have done anything! I swear, I haven't betrayed you! Much!

  [Much stares stony faced] 

  Allan A Dale : ... You believe me, Guy. Tuck? Robin. So you think I'm a coward? Is that it, yeah? What, that I've... sold you out to save myself somehow, yeah?

  Much : You've done that before.

  Allan A Dale : I know. And EVERY DAY I wish I could take that back, you know that! None of you? None of you believe me?... I'll be off, then.

  Much : No. You tell her about the tunnel?

  Allan A Dale : I told you, I haven't said...

  Robin Hood : Tie him up!

  Allan A Dale : What? No, no, no, no.

  Robin Hood : I can't take the risk.

  Allan A Dale : Robin.

  Robin Hood : Once we have secured the castle we will come back and we will sort this out.

  Allan A Dale : John, don't do this.

  Robin Hood : ...get it done.

• Tuck : Those of you who can fight must help us intercept the supply train. Those are your crops inside the castle, your livestock. Your brothers! Damn it, men, it's time to stand up and fight! Take back what's rightfully yours!

  Little John : Brother Tuck...

  Tuck : They've been trodden on, John, and they're taking it! If they would only stand together, they can defeat the Sheriff.

  Little John : Defeating the Sheriff is our job, Tuck! Even if it is the last thing we ever do.

• Tuck : Nearly time.

  Little John : It's quiet, isn't it? Calm. Like when you're hunting. The moment you spot your prey, your stag, there's a... stillness. Just for a moment. You wonder whether you can go through with it, whether you can slaughter this beast with so much...

  Tuck : Dignity?

  Little John : Yeah. Dignity.

• Little John : They're brave, but they can't fight, Tuck. Look at them, it'll be a massacre.

  Tuck : They're not going to fight, John.

  Little John : What?

  Tuck : Gentlemen. These gates will open soon. Now, it is our task to stop the supply train in it tracks, and that is exactly what we're going to do. As an army, as a militia, we would be crushed. The Sheriff's men would hack us down like weeds. But it's harder to cut the spirit with a blade. When these gates open, when the supply train pulls out, we are going to sit down. Just sit. In silence. My friends, we are going to turn the other cheek.

  Little John : They will be - WE will be crushed.

  Tuck : Dignity, John, dignity! Even when everything has been taken from us, we still have that. And the Sheriff's men will be faced with a choice - stand aside or carry out a massacre.

  Little John : These are the Sheriff's men. I think we know what choice they're going to make.

  Tuck : They may be soldiers, John, but they are still men. Just men. And faced with the power of truth, a man can change. If we all stand together, we can have that power. We can be unstoppable.