Merlin (TV Series)

The Kindness of Strangers (2012)

Richard Wilson: Gaius

Quotes 

• Gaius : She's drawing you in, Merlin. It's a trap. She knew your real name. There's only one explanation for that. Alator told Morgana who you really are and she has sent this woman to lure you to her.

  Merlin : But I looked into her eyes. She meant no harm.

  Gaius : You think a sorceress of her power couldn't feign any look she wished?

• Gaius : [reading]  "Let loose the hounds of war. Let the dread fire of the last priestess rain down from angry skies, for brother will slaughter brother, for friend will murder friend as the great horn sounds a cold dawn at Camlann. The prophets do not lie. There, Arthur will meet his end upon that mighty plain."

  Merlin : So many have suffered so that I may hear this.

• Gaius : [at the body of a murdered knight]  The disfigurement is not as a result of disease or infection. It's the result of powerful magic. In the old days there was a punishment known as ragaid, the ultimate warning from the high priestess to her enemies.

  Arthur : Why was this knight chosen? What had he done?

  Gaius : He'd done nothing... except be a knight of Camelot. It's a warning, sire. A warning to the whole kingdom. Morgana has declared war.

• Gaius : Don't you understand? If something happened to you we would all be lost.

• Gaius : I think I know what's going through your mind, Merlin. That your destiny is too much for one man to bear.

  Merlin : Yes. You always did know me best, Gaius.

  Gaius : Be assured of one thing. There was never anyone more capable than you, Merlin. You will not fail.