- Queen Rose Benjamin: Make do with your egg whites.
- King Silas Benjamin: Eggs without yolks - sacrilege. Prometheus on the rock gave better breakfasts.
- David Shepherd: [to Silas] I wasn't sure about God... or how He deals with any of this. Now I see... God works through *you*.
- 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.
- David Shepherd: I'm not supposed to use this as a place to talk about personal things... but I find I have to. This is the first time I've experienced how justice *really* works... live, not on TV. I see now how lucky we are to have a king who knows the difference between what is right and what is expedient... who understands the sacrifices that must be made in order to pursue the true course, so that we... so that *I*... can learn from him.
- David Shepherd: I tried... I can't. Manipulating the system, dirty justice? I can't speak against him.
- Jack Benjamin: Even without him denouncing the king, and with his brother's head on the chop, he won't stay. Either way, I'm rid of him.
- Katrina Ghent: Only at the cost of tar on your soul.
- Jack Benjamin: Don't you worry about my immortal soul; it's been starved. Maybe you want to feed it, or lecture me sternly, somewhere private?
- [she gets up to leave]
- Jack Benjamin: You, of all people - judging me?
- Katrina Ghent: Well, that can't tell good when someone like *me* won't even have you.
- Katrina Ghent: I came here, greedy for all the trappings position could provide. Someone here had all that... and turned it down.
- 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.
- Michelle Benjamin: You'd let his brother die, for jealousy? What, one too many magazine covers?
- Jack Benjamin: I'm not jealous; he can have all the magazine covers he wants.
- Michelle Benjamin: Then *why* ruin him... risk someone dying?
- Jack Benjamin: To save myself! Don't you get it? I'm fighting for my right to exist!
- Michelle Benjamin: Whose life is more secure than yours? You're the prince!
- Jack Benjamin: And you're the princess - born first by four minutes; eldest by a hair. Are you really that innocent? That you haven't thought about it yourself? Or are you just too ashamed to admit you have?
- Michelle Benjamin: No one wants your crown.
- Jack Benjamin: Not yet; you can't produce an heir, so what? You could still take pride of place. I see the way you look at Shepherd; I see the way your father looks at him. All it takes is one wedding, and he can make of the pair of you king and queen... and me, suddenly the court jester? I will not sit by and be plowed into obscurity by someone else's ambition... not after all I sacrificed.
- 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?
- Ethan Shepherd: I stood up to the king for what I believe; why would I want to live a life that's saved by a lie? As much as you believe in Silas, I know that he's wrong. I know that he's not the one in God's heart.
- David Shepherd: I don't even know if there *is* a God! But I know that *we* can change things - you and I; *we're* the ones here. We're the ones who can save you.
- Ethan Shepherd: Can't you see, David? I'm already saved.
- 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.