El Turco (2025) s01e04 Episode Script

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From Prince Bishop
Francesco di Paolo
Prince of the Autonomous
Province of Trento
and Bishop of the Holy Roman
Empire to the orphan Marco.
There have been disturbing
reports from Moena
the village I entrusted you.
I have learned that one of my men
was burned alive by the villagers.
I demand information and results.
Marco, remember that everything
my generous heart gives you
a word out of my true lips
can take away.
My future father-in-law should have
been a poet, not a prince.
- Are we responding, commander?
- Yes, naturally.
Write this.
You royal highness, excellency
high mighty prince
whichever title you prefer
your authority here is unshaken
and all is calm.
Have they arrived?
They haven't changed a bit.
Still that pack of wild wolves.
I don't understand what
you are doing, Marco.
Our camp was raided
but by whom?
A bastard and tree clownish Turks.
Look around you, Knight.
Tell me what you see.
An army preparing for their siege.
I am not going back to the city
a simple soldier.
I am going back
a victorious general.
- We can start the siege today.
- Not yet.
Turks are ruthless enemies.
Before we take them head on
we have to creep in
and tear out their hearts.
"Wake up, my eyes
wake up from ignorance"
"Wake up, my too
sleepy eyes wake up"
"Azrael only claims lives
believe me"
"Wake up, my eyes
wake up from ignorance"
What is going on?
Why are they not working?
They didn't like his hymn.
"Wake up, my sleepy eyes
wake up"
The wall has to be
finished tonight.
- We are not touching those posts.
- Why not?
The giant over there.
He is casting a spell.
Look, he is blowing onto the posts.
Whoever touches them
will become a Muslim.
- You can't be serious.
- He can't trick us.
Decebal, do that without chanting.
"Wake up, my eyes"
Listen.
Your lives are in danger.
- Get going.
- Enough.
You can't touch me.
Maybe I haven't been
in forty wars like you
but I've been down
these fields for forty years.
You shout and sing
like you own the place.
Ordering us around.
This is our village, not yours.
You are helping us.
Thanks.
We're poor people
but we have got our pride.
Our families've been praying in that
church for three hundred years.
We sing chants there together.
That's what we sing.
We are ignorant peasants.
We don't know how to fight.
But we are not children
you can push around.
Of course you are not children
You're grown men
and you're sitting here
letting a girl doing your work
She is not one of us.
She is a Sciagurato!
"Hail, O Queen of heaven
enthroned!"
Executioner.
"Hail, by Angels
Mistress owned"
"Root of Jesse, Gate of morn"
"Whence the world's
true Light was born"
"Hail, O Queen
of heaven enthroned!"
"Hail, by Angels
Mistress owned!"
"Root of Jesse, Gate of morn"
"Whence the world's
true Light was born"
"Glorious Virgin, joy to thee"
"Loveliest whom
in heaven they see"
- Stop fooling around.
- Sorry.
"Fairest thou where all are fair"
"Plead with Christ our sins to spare"
Wait there.
We are by the camp.
Put this on.
I see you haven't changed
in all these years.
What do you want from me?
What kind of a question is that?
Wasn't I always your favorite?
Do you want the entire village
to know that?
Then get to work.
You know whom
to approach and kill?
This man you are going to kill
is the very heart of Claws.
You might want
to bear this in mind.
I used to be his favorite, too.
Yedder saw it from the hill.
They are getting ready
for the siege.
So, stop doodling.
Let's get back to work.
Then what?
We got villagers and farmers.
They got soldiers
who know nothing but that.
But you know that life
is not just about fighting.
They can't beat you, cause
you'll be fighting for that life.
Right?
Yedder.
You are going to clean
that up when we are done.
This is Moena.
This is our main gate.
You'll be in charge of
our first line of our defense.
First we'll hammer some stakes
outside for the horses.
We need more than
wooden fence posts.
I am gonna make metal clamps
and tie them together.
You two!
Give me more iron.
Wait, let me finish it.
You'll teach the archers
how to take aim.
I'll get them ready.
Release.
Shit!
What matters in aiming
is not the target
but how much you want to hit it.
So, how badly do you wanna
kill a Turk today?
Decebal, we need bombs.
Mind the colors.
Red goes with green.
Strike!
Aim!
First position, strike!
Aim.
Now, we do all blindfolded.
I am just kidding.
Father, the church will be
an emergency shelter.
But most important
it's our alarm tower.
- Let's go.
- Come on. Move!
Come on!
Attack!
That all sounds great to me.
But what the hell
am I supposed to do?
Your job isn't to kill.
It's to heal.
We'll turn the inn into a clinic.
You tend the wounded.
And you won't so much
as poke your head outside.
We'll be ready.
When Marco attacks, people
will die but victory will be ours
because we'll be fighting
for each other.
We'll be fighting for a dream.
I meant it.
Clean up that table.
We'll see
If they need us to.
Elda!
Decebal.
- Does he know?
- Who?
- Know what?
- Your executioner.
Does he know that you are
in love with him, too?
What are you talking about
you lunatic?
What he did today
he did it for you.
I call that, love.
What difference
would it make anymore?
I am a Sciagurate.
He is a boy.
This is the symbol of our unit.
Me, Mete, Balaban
Yedder and Guido.
Do you know what makes us
Claws, Elda?
- How would I know?
- Because, we love each other.
Oh, you are being stupid now.
- There is no such thing.
- There is little, Miss.
Look and listen.
I am on the endless steps.
With the Bogatyr warriors.
I am scared and shivering.
The Ottomans have come.
They are going
to take me away.
- Did they kidnap you?
- They did, my little one.
They took me to a huge city.
There was a barracks there.
It was full of boys.
They have been taken
from their families.
All around us were knives, swords
daggers, bows and arrows.
They'll never accept me.
Because, like you
I am Sciagurato.
- I am cursed.
- No, you're not cursed.
One night, in the dark
four little hands
reached for mine.
Five kids clung onto each other.
We held all to each others' hands
and we never let go.
What I want to say is
- Guido!
- What?
- I love you, brother.
- Me, too, Decebal.
- Yedder!
- Yes, yes, me, too, brother!
I love you, too, you crazy lads!
Sleep now! We have
too much to do tomorrow.
You are not cursed. You deserve
love as much as anyone.
And if you love someone
Then, you have to tell them.
Don't be deceived by his looks.
He has a soft heart.
Always trying
to save someone.
When?
Tonight.
First, hone the knife
then, smear poison on it.
And then inject our poison
into the very heart of Claw.
These are made
of real Christian steel.
Throw these from
the top of the fence.
It pierces armor.
Look. This doesn't
have an iron tip.
The iron is inside.
That way it is faster
and more deadly.
This shield was used
in the Crusades.
Turks' maces
bounced right off it.
You don't just stab.
Give it a twist.
If you twist, it doesn't matter
how big they are.
Down they go. The Crusaders
don't know these tricks.
Which is why
we kept beating them.
Hey, that sword you are touching.
It's made by the finest
swordsmith in Austria.
- Who?
- Me.
You dumb fuck, it was me!
You are being handed
a sword by a master.
I wish all the proper decorum
of this momentous occasion.
Get down.
May the Lord give strength
to your wrist.
If you just take that and go
that means a lack of respect
for the master.
Is that what you want?
Good job!
May your campaign
be victorious!
Gunther, Gunther!
Easy! Easy! Easy!
Hey! Hey!
Easy!
You talk a big game.
Come on, Janissary.
Let's see if you got
what it takes.
By God, El Turco.
Swing through the air
and the enemy
will take a step back
Meet a knight's blow!
What the
What the hell is that?
This, El Turco, is the last sword
forged by the finest
sword smith in the land.
It was made
for a gallant Turk.
If you try to kiss me
then, I'll slap you.
It has begun.
I expected.
God save us all.
Gloria.
She went home
to get some herbs.
I told her not to go.
Go, I got this.
Go!
People of Moena!
I can see them arming up
ready to attack.
They are in large numbers and
much better equipped than we are.
They deem us weak.
They are coming
to steal our homes.
But they are wrong.
We know how to fight.
We have spent a lifetime
battling cold, hunger
and disease.
Now we are all fighting again
and once again
we will fight together!
- Together!
- Yeah!
I just wanted to take a rest.
This isn't the kind of place
to take anything.
- Aren't you spooked?
- Why would I be?
- Three lettered ones.
- What three letters?
"Cinler"
The djinn.
Don't make me
talk about them.
They roam graveyards.
They possess people.
- Gives me the shivers!
- Scardy cat.
Of course I am scared.
Courage comes
out of fear, Elda.
You are doing it again.
Not making any sense.
You can't be brave
if you are scared.
If you're afraid
then you are a coward.
Not being scared
makes you a fool.
You can't be brave unless
you learn to live with fear.
- You can't live with fear.
- Yes, you do.
You'll find a friend, you tell him
how scared you are.
Is that what you all did.
The Claw?
No.
But I wish we had.
Tell me more.
Gloria!
- Gloria!
- What's the matter?
- Man, this is hard.
- What?
Love
Love is a real pain in the ass.
A silent arrow pierced
one of us in the heart.
But he didn't die.
He fooled you.
Come.
I'll hold them off.
Go and get help.
Okay. Okay.
Okay.
Hey, fuckers!
I just realized something.
I am not scared of you!
No.
Decebal!
No!
I am sorry.
I don't wanna die.
I am sorry.
That's okay.
You'll be okay.
I came to help.
What side are you on?
I have never killed
anyone before, never.
Aren't you the executioner?
Don't you chop off people's heads?
That doesn't count.
It's not me.
That's not my hands.
It's the hand of God, not me.
What are you doing here?
Did you follow me?
No.
She wasn't in the village.
I looked but
Who wasn't there?
Elda.
Elda wasn't in the village.
So, he thought
she could be here.
What's the deal with that?
You know
The pain in the ass thing.
You know, for a moment there
I thought you were a traitor.
I'll go and tell the people.
Thanks, Father.
Forgive me.
You Christians
can't stop being sorry.
Thank God
it's not a serious injury.
I lied to you.
About what?
- I've never told anyone that
- Never told anyone what?
That I really am a Sciagurato.
There is a curse on me.
- No, little one.
- No, you don't understand.
Everyone I loved dies.
My mother
I killed my mother
and I am cursed.
And if I tell him that I love him
he'll die, too.
And then, so will Gloria.
And I tried to help you
and now you'll die, too.
Get away from here. Please
Please, leave this place.
Get away from me.
I am serious.
Stay away from me.
I am serious.
Let me tell you a secret, too.
I lied to you, too, Elda.
I said "Marco kept
his silence to the end".
In fact, he spoke to me that day.
Yes, yes, you are right.
I am not dead, Decebal.
You will be the only one
who knows this.
My name is Marco
son of an Italian family.
I am tired
of being someone else.
Either I go home now
or this is over
and I die in my homeland.
Only you can set me free
my big-hearted friend.
Okay, now you are free.
Farewell, old friend.
Mete, I love you brother.
We are not cursed, little miss.
It's just that our hearts
are too weak.
It's your own fault.
You should never have
let that Satan free.
Help!
Help!
Something has happened
to the Turk.
Someone tried to kill him.
Help!
Hasan!
What happened?
- What happened?
- Decebal.
A group breached in.
They cornered him
at the graveyard.
Elda was wounded.
So, Decebal fought them off
and carried her to safety.
The Father went out
to let us know.
That's when
You should see the graveyard.
He took all of them head-on.
He would have taken the world on
for those he loved
and all it took
was a coward from behind.
Get out.
Leave us.
Heal him.
Use your herbs and potions
Make him better.
I can't.
He is gone.
Decebal.
My brother
- It's not your fault.
- But it is.
I should have been there.
I wasn't. I looked away.
I let them kill my brother just
because I fell for a silly dream.
Take that ugly thing off.
Why him?
I owed him.
A debt I could never repay.
Decebal was Claw's conscience
and beating heart.
We just tore out that heart.
May I go now?
Did it never occur to you
that one day, that little boy
would turn into this dragon?
"Darling, you would be
so proud of me tonight"
"My beloved, in Moena, everything
is going just as we planned"
"They are so desperate."
"They have joined forces
with Turks and witches."
"They think that would save them.
Poor things"
"We now have an uprising
on our hands"
"The past and the future have
come together in my little village."
"The sinners will now be punished."
"It is now time to burn and
destroy everything from my past."
Ready!
"This is just a start.
Together we will rule Trento."
Aim!
"We will set the world on fire
my love"
"and in those flames
we will forge our home."