Robin Hood (2025) s01e02 Episode Script

VOICE:
Previously on "Robin Hood."
You've got talent, my boy.
The Normans can
put their castles
all over this land.
These woods are
as old as the Earth,
that man will never own them.
- Why is he coming, Father?
- He is a Norman lord.
It is my duty
to grant him an audience.
- What are you doing here?
- That used to be our home.
But my father made that house.
He didn't make it.
He took it.
- [arrow whooshing]
- [man grunting]
It's a man.
SHERIFF:
Bring them to Nottingham.
Young Locksley shall be
marked with the prey.
It's them
who should be blooded.
Lower your sword,
Huntingdon, damn you!
Locksley has offended me
on this day.
It shall not be forgotten.
JOAN: You do know
whose daughter she is.
Now, where were you?
Hugh of Locksley,
you're under arrest.
JOAN: No!
[neighing]
SHERIFF:
When I heard it was you,
I wanted to be lenient,
to show mercy.
But all that is over now.
In the morning, he shall be
hanged by the neck until dead.
No! No, he's innocent!
[thud, crack]
[ominous music]
[somber music]
[carriage rattling]
[somber music]
We've been looking for you
everywhere.
[sobbing]
I'm not leaving him.
[wheezing sobs]
Come on.
Come on, boy.
[thunder rumbling]
[horse snickering]
[somber music]
[thunder crashing]
[distant chatter]
[knocking on door]
Is that how you greet a lady,
Captain Lefors?
I could easily
take off your head.
And what would you do with it?
Keep it in a box
with the others.
Take off your shirt.
[gasping]
[gasping]
[rhythmic panting]
[rhythmic grunting]
You would die for me,
wouldn't you, Captain?
If I had to.
I serve the Sheriff.
- No.
- [groaning]
You serve me.
Let's get you up, boy.
[groaning]
You should see Joan.
She's been up
all night, waiting.
[Joan shrieking]
[heaving sobs]
[soft shushing]
[somber music]
The baptism
symbolizes Christ
rising from the dead.
We bury the old life
and rise to walk in a new one.
You will become Norman.
Did you ask Huntingdon
about my land?
Three fields,
as he promised?
[speaking French]
[continuing in French]
[choking]
[continuing in French]
Amen.
[coughing]
Huntingdon holds
a busy office.
But as a Norman,
you must learn patience
and servitude.
Rob can go
to London with Will.
Make a life
for himself in court.
Best to keep him busy.
- Matilda agrees, don't you?
- Yes.
Grieving is
a wretched business.
- Nothing for a young lad.
- What do you say, Joan?
I'll write to the Sheriff,
whom I'm sure,
under the circumstances,
will help.
The Sheriff be damned.
This is no time
for dark thoughts
of retribution, Joan.
You must think
of Rob's future.
Your turn.
I'll shoot for you, then.
I'm the best shot
this side of Nottingham.
I'll win at the next fair.
He doesn't breathe.
[dramatic music]
[tense music]
Captain Lefors.
[dramatic music]
My Lord.
[sighing]
Come now, some wine.
May I introduce my sons
Aronne and Aleppo.
They've now come of age.
Venetian names?
Named after
the Crusade in Malta.
They will soon begin
their training as squires.
- [chuckling]
- They look like they need
some time in the saddle.
Shall we?
Straight down to business,
as always, Huntingdon.
Bernard.
[clearing throat]
Minted in Paris,
150 as agreed.
Do you have the deed?
It covers all the particulars
of the arrangement.
The appointment
of your earldom
by order of His Majesty,
King Henry II.
Executed by
the Royal Seal of Nottingham.
Marian, please.
No finer thing
than an educated daughter.
A free-minded one, perhaps.
[clearing throat]
It is as he says.
Congratulations, Father,
you've become an earl.
But the money
there's no mention of it
in the deed.
Your father has made a--
a generous donation
to the Church.
Such matters do not
require account.
If we are finished,
Marian and I shall retire
to my chamber.
I trust you are satisfied.
Locksley is
out of your hair for good.
Providence for you
that he should murder a man
- whilst in custody.
- Locksley was a traitor
- and deserved to be hanged.
- No matter.
Now that he's gone,
now that you are an earl,
no one can challenge
your lands and title.
- They're yours forever.
- Did you inquire
- on the other matter I asked?
- Yes.
Marian will be accepted
into the court of Eleanor.
The Queen? Scullery maid is
more than suitable.
[chuckling]
The Queen's
high steward insisted.
I thought you'd be pleased.
With your daughter close
to Eleanor,
grants you
an heir to the king.
Unless
you have reason
not to trust Marian.
Well, of course not.
She is my daughter.
[Marian sighing]
Why was my father
made an earl?
"Why?" For his generous
donation to the Church.
- You read the deed.
- My father would never
give away money.
- It was to buy something.
- Oh, please.
- A man's death, perhaps.
- Come and sit, Marian.
I'm bored by politics.
Again?
If my father touched me,
I would poison him,
and he knows it.
I couldn't.
[sighing]
What was his excuse
this time?
I went
- to a wedding.
- A wedding?
- In the forest.
- In the forest?
A pagan wedding.
A pagan wedding.
And with whom did you go
to this pagan wedding, Marian?
[faint echoing whispers]
[stirring music]
There was dancing
and drinking and
- a lot of fighting.
- [gasping]
Fighting.
At a wedding.
Is it strange that I find that
incredibly arousing?
Yes, it is.
[knocking on door]
Come in.
[sighing]
[door closing]
Captain of the garrison?
- You aren't.
- I am.
Your father would have
his head.
Exactly, do you have
any idea how much power
that gives me over him?
Tell me more about this wedding.
It was the most beautiful thing
I ever saw. So alive.
Did he kiss you?
Yes.
- And more?
- No.
- Why?
- I'm not you.
And no pagan either,
by the sounds of it.
Marian,
why must you be so boring?
You were alone in the woods
with a Saxon
and you had no love-making.
You are quite disappointing.
And you won't even
tell me who it is.
You met him.
The son of Locksley.
His father was just hanged.
I know.
How is he now?
I don't know.
I haven't seen him since.
You want to, son?
That's it.
Nice and slow.
[faint echoing whispers]
- What're you doing?
- Shoot.
No.
No.
- What're you doing?!
- Rob!
Let him go!
Not this one.
[groaning]
Might be your last hunt
for a while, Will.
Will's heading to court soon,
to begin his apprenticeship
as a page.
I, uh
spoke to your mother.
Might be that
you can go with him, Rob.
You can read and write
as fine as any young lord.
I don't want to be a page.
It's a fine calling
for a young man.
[sighing]
And there are
some fine ladies there, too.
[laughing]
WILL: Rob already has
a girl here.
GAMEWELL: The lass
you brought to the wedding?
Who was she again?
Huntingdon's daughter, Marian.
We should get back.
[horse nickering]
[cottage door opening]
[gasping]
It's your mother.
- What happened?
- I don't know.
She's just
[weak groaning]
- [approaching footsteps]
- [door opening]
Mom
lie down
Just just listen to me.
You have a life
ahead of you.
Every pain
that you're feeling
right now
is not a burden.
It is your shield.
Wear it like a crown.
You want to avenge
your father's death--
no, don't.
You could kill the Sheriff
a thousand times over,
but it will destroy you.
Make you hate.
You must choose love
over hate.
One day you'll be faced
with that decision.
We all are,
sooner or later.
Do not let the Sheriff decide
who you become.
- Who you are.
- Mother.
I know who I am.
I am Saxon.
Just like my father.
Just like you.
You are more than that.
More than them.
Mother Mother
no, no, no
[sobbing]
Come on, Rob.
Let her rest.
[sobbing]
[sobbing, coughing]
[haunting music]
[haunting music rises]
[exhaling]
[birds chirping]
[birds chirping]
No.
No!
[sobbing]
[sobbing continues]
[elegiac music]
[elegiac music continues]
[stirring music]
[soft music]
[sheep bleating]
I'd stop there if I were you.
I'd like to see Earl Huntingdon.
What about?
What he owes me.
Wait there.
[door opening, closing]
What do you mean,
coming here like this?
I've come to collect
what's mine.
He made an oath to me.
I said what Locksley did,
swore it to the Sheriff.
I want what's mine.
Locksley was never
supposed to be hanged!
It wasn't supposed
to happen like this.
Let your cousin chop,
or we'll be cold this winter.
[sighing]
[approaching horse hooves]
[horse neighing]
Rob.
[horse nickering]
I bid you a good day.
And a fine day it is, too.
Please, wait!
I'm sorry
for disturbing you,
I came
to offer my sympathies.
I heard about your father.
What happened?
He was arrested
for protecting poachers.
He wouldn't be
hanged for that.
They said
he murdered a man.
I can't believe
he would do such a thing.
No.
No, my father couldn't've
done such a thing.
I'm
truly sorry.
Where is your mother?
She's with my father now.
I'm so sorry.
Rob.
I couldn't save him.
It's normal to think that,
but it's not your fault.
Is it normal
to see your father hanged,
before your own eyes?
No that is not something
anyone should ever see.
Now they are both gone
and nothing is
the same anymore.
I thought about you
every day.
That is the same.
That has not changed.
You should go.
I will pray
for your mother and father.
That they are at peace.
Marian
I will pray for you.
See, Father?
I told you
she'd brighten up his day.
[chuckling]
What does that mean?
Nothing.
Just that it's good
Marian came.
Don't talk about Marian.
I wasn't talking about Marian,
I was talking about you.
- He meant nothing by it, Rob.
- Yes, he did.
- I didn't.
- Yes, you did.
You've been riding me.
- Riding you.
- Drop it, Will.
I've been putting up with you.
There's nothing
I haven't done for you, Will.
Now, how many times have
I saved you from your own mouth?
You saved me, really?
Only you would ask
such a question.
You're the one
that needs saving, Rob.
I'm not the enemy.
I didn't kill your father.
Stop it!
Stop it, both of you!
[both grunting]
Put it down, boy.
Stop!
- No! No-no-no, no!
- [straining]
[groaning]
Uncle. Uncle,
I didn't mean to!
Get out, Rob!
Get out of our house!
Rob!
[birds chirping]
Eat, boy.
Father, why was
Hugh of Locksley hanged?
Well, he was a murderer
and a traitor to the crown.
Those Saxons are
all lawless troublemakers.
It's in their blood.
Did you have something to do
with his arrest?
[sniffing]
So now you turn
your brothers against me.
Poison their minds
with your childish thoughts.
I said nothing.
You'll be perfect
for the Queen.
She surrounds herself with
duplicitous women just like you.
And your mother before you.
[door creaking]
[wind whistling softly]
YOUNG MARIAN:
[echoing] Mother, look.
[melancholic music]
MARIAN'S MOTHER:
[echoing] Who do you have there?
I don't know his name.
Can we have a look?
[gasping]
Well, look at him.
He's very handsome.
- Mister Leggit of Locksley.
- Locksley?
Well
he was here before us.
Ssh.
Don't tell your father.
[soft laughter]
[coughing]
[sighing]
[ominous music]
You'll be hungry
by the time you reach London.
These won't make it
past Coventry.
I've never been past Sherwood.
Not since
I left Castile, anyway.
And Sherwood's
all the better for it.
Now, remember, lad,
when you reach Nottingham,
take Watling Street
all the way to London.
I know, Father.
Come here.
[sighing]
Did you see Rob?
No.
[sighing]
Rob?
Will is leaving.
He knows where to find me.
You're like brothers.
You shouldn't part
on bad terms.
Well, on the contrary,
I wish him well
and that he prospers.
There's still time, Rob.
You can still go with him.
What, to the court?
Will is a Christian.
I am not.
Besides, what is there
for me, Uncle?
To them, I'm just
the son of a murderer now.
Will is Saxon.
As are many folk there.
Saxon and Norman do not
have to be enemies.
We're two cultures,
but we live together.
How? They take what is ours,
and we survive on what's left.
How is that living, Uncle?
[horse neighing]
You're scaring
the animals.
Take your bow to the forest.
MAN:
Farewell, Will.
[dramatic music]
Will!
Will Gamewell!
Will
[sighing]
Aedric be with you.
[cattle bleating]
[cattle bleating]
Marian.
What are you doing here?
Are you mad?
I-- I wanted to see you.
I have money.
Look, look.
Will you come away with me?
- Away with you?
- Will you?
- I can't.
- You said you thought about me.
- I do.
- Then be with me.
I want to.
More than anything.
- But-- But what?
- But how?
We just leave.
- And go where?
- Anywhere, anywhere.
My father would
never allow it.
He'd come for us
and he'd kill you.
No, he won't find us,
not in the forest.
I know every part of it.
It goes to the end of the Earth,
and there,
we can live and be happy.
Everything I had is gone,
except you.
Marian,
will you come with me?
Yes, Rob.
I will leave with you.
Will you, now?
- Father.
- Be quiet!
What are you doing here?
I mean to leave
with your daughter.
Bernard, take Marian
to the house.
- Father, please, wait--
- Go with Bernard now!
Rob! No!
Ow! Father,
don't hurt him!
- Out of the way, come on.
- No! Aah! No!
Rob, help!
It's enough for Marian
and I to start a life,
or it's yours as a dowry.
Give it to me.
Her life
is already decided.
[grunting]
[coughing]
[grunting]
[laughing]
[grunting]
I spent my life
fighting infidels,
and now one wants to make off
with my daughter.
- No!
- Stay here.
- If you care about him at all--
- No!
- stay here and let me go back!
- No!
Rob!
[gasping]
Sire! Don't!
You don't want
a murder on your hands,
- even if it's a Saxon--
- [groaning]
Marian!
Bernard, clear the way!
Aah! Aah!
Stop! Stop, Father!
You bring this
into our home?
A Saxon dog?!
I can't wait
to be rid of you.
[leaves rustling in the wind]
[melancholic music]
[sighing]
[whooshing, rustling leaves]
[thunder rumbling]
[thunder rumbling]
[rain pattering]
- DRIVER: Hyah!
- [cracks whip]
[horse neighing]
[melancholic music]
Driver, stop the carriage.
Marian, get back
in the carriage.
- I have to see him.
- No.
Bernard, you're a better man
than my father deserves.
- I know it.
- Marian, no.
Please.
I beg you.
[horse nickering]
Wait here.
Rob!
Wha What are you doing here?
I'm here to say goodbye.
I'm leaving for London.
To the court of Queen Eleanor.
Why?
Because I have to.
Have to or want to?
What do you think?
Well-- I don't know!
You are Norman.
- Is that all you see in me?
- What else can I see?
Do you resent me
for being Norman?
Well, I resent everything
that is Norman!
Even me?!
My father was
behind your father's death.
He arranged his arrest,
I'm sure of it.
Why are you telling me this?
Because I hate my father
and I hate being Norman.
Perhaps even as much as you.
But I can't change that.
So, I will go to the palace,
where I will serve
and survive.
But my thoughts
will be with you,
whether you want them or not.
In my dreams
I will always be with you
in the forest.
[dramatic music]
[groaning]
[groaning continues]
[sobbing]
[horse nickering]
[dramatic music crescendo]
When Will's mother passed
there were many days I did not
leave that very same bed.
But it can't go on forever.
You must make peace
with your grief.
With your anger.
Make it your companion,
not your curse.
You're heading
for oblivion, my boy.
You don't turn your life around,
you're betraying your father
even more than they did.
You continue on this path,
either you'll do
some evil
or some evil will be
done to you.
[door opening]
[gentle music]
[gentle music continues]
[door opens]
My Lord,
I wasn't expecting you.
Who were you expecting?
No one, sir.
Will you go hunting?
Yes, My Lord,
two days.
I'll take Gerold
and a few of the new ones.
When you return, we will speak
on the matter of discipline.
It has grown slack.
As captain,
it falls to you to ensure
the garrison is
incorruptible.
This is something
you will learn,
Captain Lefors.
Even if I must
beat it into you.
Yes, My Lord.
[ominous music]
Enjoy your hunt.
[anxious chuckling]
MATILDA:
Why didn't you ask him?
I didn't know
he was ready.
He ate my broth.
Yeah, something changed.
I'd say he made peace with it.
Well, go and ask him then.
- Is there something wrong?
- No.
Just that the fair is coming
to Leicester.
And there'll be
an archery competition.
Finest archers
in the county to compete,
and, well, mark my words
if you wouldn't be
the best of them.
- What, archery?
- A competition.
Best archer of the day
wins a royal appointment
as a forester.
Not ready for that.
I, um
I broke my bow.
Well, if you have
a like mind to enter,
I'm sure
we can find you a new bow.
- Do you get to choose?
- How's that?
Where they appoint you
as a forester?
Why, Sherwood, of course.
[laughing]
[soft music]
[approaching footsteps]
I washed and dried it.
Ah, here.
As good as my word.
[soft gasp]
[laughing]
Come on,
let's see you try.
[sighing]
[soft exhale]
[Gamewell chuckling]
That far?
[breathing in]
Sweet Aedric's balls.
[laughter]
[laughter]
[sighing]
Your mother and father
will be watching.
I'll make them proud.
[insects scuttling]
[soft music]
[ethereal whispers echoing]
[distant chatter]
[distant laughter]
VOICE: The Sheriff's
on the warpath.
I think the Locksley business
riled him up.
- [chuckling]
- And did you?
Mm, I understood.
[laughter]
No more
Sheriff's daughter for me.
- Screw him.
- [laughter]
MAN: Oi.
Where are you going
with that fancy bow, laddie?
GEROLD: Off to prick
a ferret at the fair, I bet.
- [laughter]
- Should've stayed home
and fed the chickens.
Bah-kaw!
My bow's as good as yours,
and my aim finer.
Ooh
LEFORS: A challenge
from the fancy boy.
All right, laddie.
Two pennies.
Leave him to the fair.
- Five pennies?
- Oh
Five pennies for what?
[sighing]
That you
can hit
a mark of my choice.
I have to go.
Ten.
Ten pennies.
- Or are you too afraid?
- [laughter]
And if I miss?
Then I take
that bow of yours,
and you go
back to your farm.
Pick your mark.
[men laughing]
- [laughing]
- All right.
Do I know you?
[laughter]
GEROLD: Oi that's
more than five-score yards.
Exactly.
- Ready?
- No, they're the king's deer.
[chuckling]
- You're not gonna hit one.
- But if I do?
Hah!
You won't.
[dramatic music]
[deer groaning]
[man gasping]
FULKE: Mary, Mother,
and Joseph
What have you done?
- You owe me ten pennies.
- You just shot a king's deer!
Fool I am,
to meddle with you.
- Go on, get out of here.
- What?
Don't ever let me
see you again!
What-- no,
you owe me ten pennies!
Go, or you will owe
the king your head!
You're the one
who took my father.
Locksley
Earl Huntingdon's
looking for you.
Another Saxon thief,
aren't you?!
Norman murderer!
Give me that.
Lefors?
Help!
[coughing]
[gasping, groaning]
[dramatic crescendo]