Kings (TV Series)

Brotherhood (2009)

Eamonn Walker: Reverend Ephram Samuels

Quotes 

• Rev. Ephram Samuels : [in a broadcast address to the city]  We must sacrifice tonight, so that tomorrow... so that there *is* a tomorrow. We ask you to leave your places of work, and go to your homes. We ask 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 can not single us out. He 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.

• King Silas Benjamin : 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.

  King Silas Benjamin : [giving Rev. Samuels an envelope containing a twig with small leaves]  ... Perhaps no longer withheld...

  Rev. Ephram Samuels : [cautiously, as he examines the twig]  Perhaps forgiven.

  [Silas presses his hands together before his face, prayerfully] 

  Rev. Ephram Samuels : Acacia is a portent of change... of death and resurrection.

  King Silas Benjamin : Death?

  Rev. Ephram Samuels : And rebirth - beginnings on the heels of ending.

  Rev. Ephram Samuels : [he removes a small leaf and presses it into Silas' hand]  Change comes from inside the heart... those you love to be its agents.

  King Silas Benjamin : Who?

  Rev. Ephram Samuels : If God has indeed resumed conversation with you... there will be more signs. Let them guide you.

  King Silas Benjamin : And if those signs guide me to *your* door?

  Rev. Ephram Samuels : ...It will be open.

• Rev. Ephram Samuels : Plague is an outward sign of inward disease; you have poison in the body. To be rid of it, you must cut off the bitten limb... This is a warning, Silas - of someone close, for whom light fails.