Kings (TV Series)

Chapter One (2009)

Sebastian Stan: Jack Benjamin

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• King Silas Benjamin : Your sacrifices haven't gone unnoticed - or your new discipline. We've had difficult conversations; I bade you retouch your image the same - feign lightness under the eyes, and you did.

  Jack Benjamin : I answer to you, sir.

  King Silas Benjamin : Can't have been easy - fabulising on that scale... taking a new fiancée when you could have been free. It wasn't for nothing - or for shame, or a lesson on the cruelty of being a king; well, you'll experience that soon enough.

  Jack Benjamin : Sir?

  King Silas Benjamin : You heard me - an engagement gift. On the day of your wedding, I will stand before all and designate this country a blood dynasty, with you as my heir - the future king... That's if you want it so.

  Jack Benjamin : With all that I am.

• Jack Benjamin : I'll be king on my own soon enough; your coup - we don't need to ally ourselves with the enemy. No innocent people have to die. It may take more than a month, like we want, but it will happen. We save all that blood. You'll still be by my side - as planned.

  William Cross : If you only had half as much mind as charm. Your father has no intention of announcing anything - or going anywhere, heaven or hell. You've seen his lies.

  Jack Benjamin : This is different; he's...

  William Cross : [he slaps Jack in the head, startling him]  Hey! No one *ever* changes. You were given an offer, and you accepted; in exchange, you ceded your right to whim. The change of power happens on *my* clock - not his, not yours - with *you* at *my* side. Silas falls - and soon. And be sure there will be all the blood required. The only turning back now leaves you in the same ditch. Go back to your fiancée; get used to your life - you're engaged now.