Kings (TV Series)
Judgment Day (2009)
Ian McShane: King Silas Benjamin
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Quotes
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Queen Rose Benjamin : Make do with your egg whites.
King Silas Benjamin : Eggs without yolks - sacrilege. Prometheus on the rock gave better breakfasts.
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King Silas Benjamin : Whereas we made law, where there was none; we mined justice from sand. Whereas we have courts - civil and criminal - presided over by a tribunal of judges, who all apply good law with study, intelligence, and compassion.
[cut away to a judge calling Ethan's case]
King Silas Benjamin : A system of appeals ensures justice decreed is justice deserved. And today, the last recourse for those of you who feel themselves denied fair address of grievance: Ten cases, here selected - I alone will adjudicate, divine wisdom my only counsel, and my gavel sound only after my words correct what is *not* right.
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David Shepherd : [overwhelmed by Silas' decision to spare Ethan] You'd do this?
King Silas Benjamin : Not for favor. I am justice - impartial, not blind. But when a court sentences in such an extreme, it validates the sovereign's right of oversight.
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Vesper Abaddon : Is this my last meal, then? Before execution? Goodness - it's not my birthday, is it? By my count, I have over a week.
King Silas Benjamin : Four months ago. I don't need occasion to extend courtesy to a prisoner.
Vesper Abaddon : Oh, dear... the king is bored. I felt that gloom, I'd rape a serving girl.
King Silas Benjamin : So sure of yourself.
Vesper Abaddon : I got nothin' to do. I think a lot about *you*. There's clarity in solitude. And you think I don't see, uh, loneliness when it's eating in front of me? You're a king - and every second you aren't miserable is a second stolen.
King Silas Benjamin : It's a long time since you've been a king.
Vesper Abaddon : Our lives... not much different. Though I somehow make do, without self-pity.
King Silas Benjamin : Watch yourself.
Vesper Abaddon : You expect to rule the world and be happy? Being a king's a *terrible* job - joyless, no comfort or heat. No silky lover who wants nothing back. You'd sooner find the ark as a true friend. God won't allow it; you still try... and he mocks you for it.
King Silas Benjamin : What did I ever do to God?
Vesper Abaddon : ...You asked to be king. Macaroon?
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Helen : I am here on account of my son, Seth. Dr. Nayar has saved his life countless times, and his kindness and caring are second only to the boy's father, whose visits have been less frequent of late... he works.
King Silas Benjamin : ...Is your son well at the present time?
Helen : Yes, thanks to his doctor, and the hope of better days.
King Silas Benjamin : You're asking me to forgive... a fatal crime, to soothe one boy.
Helen : Dr. Nayar has provided my son with the presence of stability, safety, of strength - a strength my son *needs* to stay alive. You are acting as God today, sir; I ask you: How much more can God demand?
King Silas Benjamin : I'm sure Dr. Nayar deserves gratitude... As much as it will cause pain, I must do what God and law require.
