One Night with the King (2006)

Jonah Lotan: Jesse

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Quotes 

• Jesse : [finding Esther by the garden pool]  They tell you're called Esther now.

  Queen Esther : [turning around and hugging him]  Oh Jesse.

  Jesse : [correcting]  Hatack.

  Queen Esther : Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were pagan names too. We're in good company.

  Jesse : [very stricken]  The names were Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. They were thrown into the furnace.

  Queen Esther : [laughing]  But than what happened?

  Jesse : Come on. I've found a way out and there's a caravan leaving for Jerusalem tonight... So we can get out of here.

  Queen Esther : Escape?... Jesse, I... I can't leave... What if... What if I am chosen?

  Jesse : What if you're chosen what? What if you are chosen Queen? Look what they's done to us? What good could come of any of this?

  Queen Esther : Perhaps, instead of asking questions of our trials, our trials are ment to ask questions of ourselves.

  Jesse : They cut me!... I know we can't be what I hope, but...

  Queen Esther : [as he leaves]  Jesse... I can't leave. I'm sorry. Sorry.

• Jesse : [catching Esther as she runs in the street]  Looking for someone?

  Queen Esther : I'm fine. Thank you. You can run back to Rebecca now.

  Jesse : [inquiring]  Oh, I'm sure you're fine. Tell me Hadassah or who ever you are, how do you intend to get into the palace?

  Queen Esther : [relieved]  You didn't come to take me back?

  Jesse : [laughing with her]  Come or I shall you, Hadassah the mouse!

• Queen Esther : [on the balcony, watching the feast]  They go to fetch the Queen. She must be lovely, reigning in a place such as this.

  Jesse : None is more lovely then you, my queen.

  [kissing her hand] 

  Queen Esther : My thanks, fair prince.

  Jesse : Prince?... Why is it for years you threaten to join the caravan for Jerusalem, yet you never do? What holds you back?

  Queen Esther : [forlorn]  Perhaps the courage to face it alone.

  Jesse : [aspirant]  What if you had someone to join you?