Marco Polo (TV Series)

Let God's Work Begin (2016)

Rick Yune: Kaidu

Quotes 

• Kaidu : [gruffly to Orus]  Bow to your Khan.

  Kaidu : [to Khan]  I take blame for nothing - other than raising an idiot.

• Kaidu : You'd take the word of a round eye over blood?

  Kublai Khan : Sad, isn't it? But his words have proven true.

• Kublai Khan : What is it about progress that makes you squeal like a pig in heat?

  Kaidu : Sight of my origins. Purity of my ancestors' intent. Lose that and I lose my soul.

  Kublai Khan : Purity is cried by those who follow. Leading is putting your soul on the line, so others may have the freedom to ponder theirs. It's an onus like no other.

  Kaidu : If you so resent it, why not relinquish it?

  Kublai Khan : So that you could tear down everything I built? You really want to be remembered for ruining an empire on the cusp of ruling over all?

  Kaidu : I want to be the one remembered for saving it. From you.

  Kublai Khan : Rhetoric is easy. But it masks envy, lust, greed. Or is just a desire to finally still your old mother's nagging?

  Kaidu : Spoken by the son of a murderous, thieving bitch!