Scenes with Robin Hood 188
[After being offered a meal of roast pork in return for digging a ditch for a weaver]
Master, we could, could we?
Robin
Much, we are nearly home!
[Robin looks to Nathan, the weaver and Nathan throws the shovel to Robin who gives it to Much]
I love you. Have I ever said that?
[Robin nods gestures over to the ditch]
[As they run away from the weaver's home]
I said no stopping! Why do you never ever listen?!
Robin
Faster! Go!
[Next scene - night and Robin has lit a fire and stands up next to Much, both wrapped in blankets]
[Robin, in a childish manner mimics Much's words]
[holding a bow and arrow at Robin, after he has disturbed her father] You heard my father. Leave!
Robin
Marian. It is me, Robin.
[She moves closer, still pointing the bow and arrow]
Robin
How are you? I thought of you.
[Marian and Edward return to their house and Edward is closing the door]
Robin
Edward, if you do not remember me, then remember Nottingham! Remember your people!
[Edward closes the door]
Robin
Interesting.
Interesting? It was unbelieveable! And he used to treat us like... like sons!
Robin
She is still unmarried.
Oh, and I thought you had come to see the old sheriff!
Robin
I did!
My father seems to think he should see you. Our house is watched. Come after midnight tonight.
Robin
Very well. You're looking...striking. And if you're still living with your father, then that must mean...
Take care not to be seen.
Robin
Don't worry, I can look after myself.
I don't care about you, I care about my father. Are you really as naive as you seem? You think you can pick fights with these people and get away with it? You think you can slight them in public? You are a fool.
[She turns around and starts to walk away]
Robin
Marian...wait. This is not the time I know, but I must say, you are, more than ever...your eyes, even when you look at me in anger...I feel you. [places his hand on her cheek] And I still believe, even after all this time...you can see into my soul.
[He tries to kiss her, but she stops him]
Five years and you're still peddling the same old drivel. Does it ever work?
Robin
You'd be surprised.
[She pushes past him and walks away. Robin looks at her]
Robin
What is your crime?
Living in the wrong place at the wrong time. Living under an evil Sheriff. Where do our taxes go? They go to Nottingham, to the Sheriff.
Robin
What rumours?
That you are weak. That you have returned weakened from your exertions in the Holy Land.
My master returns with honours, honours from the King!
Mmm. Well, the greater honour would have been to have stood and fought with him, surely?
Robin
[sternly] I have visited my peasants in your dungeons. They have committed grave crimes...
Robin
... which would make all the more compassionate your gesture of pardoning them!
Pardoning them? I will see them hang in the morning. You yourself said that we risk rebellion. We must have order.
Robin
It is custom for the Sheriff to hear his nobles' requests for clemency--!
La-di-da-di-da! Oh, by the way, in your absence we nominated you to oversee tomorrow's entertainment.
Robin
No.
Oh, you don't want these rumours of weakness to spread, hm? Better scotch them now, otherwise we'll all pay.
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I love you, Will! Love you, Luke! I'll see you in heaven!
[Robin has flashbacks of returning to Locksley and of Will and Luke Scarlett]
Robin
People of Nottingham!
[He shoots through one of the hangman's nooses, freeing Allan]
Robin: These men have committed no crime worth more than a spell in the stocks.
[He shoots through another hanging rope, freeing Will]
Robin
Will you tolerate this injustice? I, for one, will not!
[He shoots through the two remaining nooses with two arrows at the same time, freeing Luke and Benedict]
Yield, Locksley, or say farewell to your little Mulch.
Robin
His name...is Much.
Well, he'll be mulch in a moment.
Robin
[About the Sheriff.] Stop him. I'm going to stop him.
We can't... stop... the Sheriff. Only the Crown can withdraw his license.
Robin
When the King returns, he will have his comeuppance. Until then we will scupper his sadistic punishments. We will stop his insane taxes and give them back to the poor, where they belong!
Robin
We will rob him! And if you dead men had had spines in your backs, that's what you would've been doing for the last five years.
I also told you confronting the Sheriff wouldn't work. You didn't listen to that.
Robin
I didn't have much choice.
Everything is a choice, everything we do! Grow up.
Ugh, what is it with men and glory? Glory above sense and above reason?
Robin
It is principle.
Principle is about making a difference and you can't do that if you're dead. You could have stayed here in the first place instead of following your king to the Holy Land if you cared so much about your precious people. But you didn't. You chose war. You chose glory.
Robin
[softly] What is this about?
It is about you saying that you care about the people of Locksley when the truth is you ran off to battle thousands of miles away.
[Grabbing onto Robin's sleeves.] Master, no! You cannot go back in there. If you go back in and die, then I will die. Of grief. So you must come now, if only to save me.
Robin
[Likewise holding Much's arms.] Yes, and that is why I love you. [To Roy] You, I need your help. It will be dangerous.
[Roy looks at Little John, who nods]
[They walk off]
Him. Why him when you love me?
Stop! STOP! Do not harm those men, they're free to go. I have an announcement to make.
Robin
I...
I, Vaisey, Sheriff of Nottingham...
Robin
In recognition...
Robin
Of my...
Of my illegal actions yesterday in Locksley...
Robin
Do humbly apologise...
Do humbly apologise to the innocent people who have suffered... at my hands!
Robin
I promise to pay £500.
[Robin slips away]
I promise to pay... No. No! I cannot. Go on. [turning to Robin] You will have to kill-- [notices Robin has gone] GUARDS! GUARDS! HERE! [goes back to the window] STOP THOSE MEN!
[The guards continue fighting Robin's men]
That arrow hurt, lavender boy.
Robin
Heartbreaking.
Let's go. What are you waiting for?
Robin
Nothing.
Oh, please. You want to see the look on her face. You want to see the gratitude.