- Much: Prince John and his soldiers have made camp down there.
- Robin Hood: What? How many men has he got?
- Much: Thousands!
- Little John: No!
- Much: Hundreds!
- Kate: Much.
- Much: I didn't stop and actually count them! I can't actually count!
- Guy of Gisborne: You're the reason Marian is dead! You poison everyone!
- Sheriff of Nottingham: All this for a woman?
- Sheriff of Nottingham: [to Gisborne] Gisborne... don't trust him. You hear me? Nothing... is what it seems. Nothing.
- Guy of Gisborne: You represent everything that's loathsome in a man!
- Sheriff of Nottingham: I thought that's why you liked me! I was always fond of you Gisborne. Not overly fond, but fond.
- Prince John: Why do the people not love me as you love me, Isabella?
- Isabella: You burnt their church to the ground with them in it.
- Prince John: Yes. And?
- Robin Hood: So. Will you go back to Nottingham?
- Isabella: To ruin my brother.
- Robin Hood: Right. Well, you know where I am if you need my help, eh?
- Isabella: You're Robin Hood. Shouldn't you be robbing me, not helping me?
- Robin Hood: Yeah, you're right, I am, give me your necklace.
- Isabella: You're robbing me?
- [Robin smiles and starts to take of the necklace]
- Isabella: See, I like this necklace.
- Robin Hood: Are you going to help me?
- Isabella: Help you? This is not the way to go about it.
- Robin Hood: Give me your rings. Because you don't want Prince John to think we've cooperated, do you?
- Isabella: Anything else you might want?
- Robin Hood: Mmm-hmm. I want to undermine Prince John's claim to be the legitimate King of England, and humiliate his ambition. And I'm prepared to die to stop him.
- Isabella: You might be more effective alive.
- Robin Hood: Will you help me?
- Isabella: Yes.
- [pulls out bag of money]
- Isabella: Give this to the people of Locksley to help them rebuild their church.
- Robin Hood: So you defy Prince John?
- Isabella: He begs my defiance.
- Robin Hood: So... is there anything else... that I might steal?
- Isabella: ...perhaps.
- Prince John: You're still alive.
- Sheriff of Nottingham: Yes, of course.
- Prince John: How surprising. I don't particularly like surprises. What's your name?
- Isabella: Isabella.
- Prince John: Lovely. Italian or Spanish?
- Isabella: Which do you prefer?
- Robin Hood: You're a Gisborne. You should be burning it down, not trying to save it, shouldn't you?
- Isabella: I judge people by what I find.
- Prince John: Why didn't you tell me?
- Benjamin Palmer: Because you put me... Because the Sheriff put me in this cage.
- Prince John: What does the Sheriff think he's doing? The man's my physician!
- Prince John: It is with great sadness that I must announce the death of the Sheriff of Nottingham. He has been murdered by the villainous Robin Hood. These outlaws must be stopped!
- Sheriff of Nottingham: [to Gisborne] You know I loved you like a son. And you love me like a father once. I know you did.
- Prince John: Say it. Like you said it before, say it.
- Isabella: King John.
- Prince John: It DOES sound good!
- Sheriff of Nottingham: Humanity is a weakness, Gisborne. It's always been your failing. I tried to teach you.
- Sheriff of Nottingham: Did Prince John put you up to this? He asked you to kill me, do you hear me, Gisborne? This is nothing but sport for him. Putting us up against each other. Unity, Gisborne.
- Guy of Gisborne: This isn't for Prince John! This is for me!
- [attacks Vasey]
- Guy of Gisborne: I will be rid of you!
- Sheriff of Nottingham: Quickly, Gisborne. I beg you. Have mercy on me.
- Guy of Gisborne: You have no idea how much please this is going to give me. You're going to die slowly, and I'm going to watch the venom drain from your body as you die.
- Sheriff of Nottingham: Oh, Gisborne, please. Don't disgrace me. Kill me quickly.
- Prince John: Do you love me, Gisborne?
- Guy of Gisborne: Yes, Sire.
- Prince John: I'm so pleased to hear it, because I don't think the Sheriff loves his Prince. No, I don't think he does at all. My time is almost here, Gisborne. You know, my father, Henry, God rest his soul, wanted me to be king, not my brother, Richard. Me. King. That was his wish. And I will be, soon. My father taught me to surround myself with only those most loyal, with only those who love me. You'd make a fine sheriff, Gisborne. I'm confidant in that. Does it please you that I have such confidence in you?
- Guy of Gisborne: Yes, Sire.
- Prince John: Hmm. Robin Hood isn't dead. I told you, I told the Sheriff I wanted Robin Hood dead. His blood is a gift I covet, and yet no one gives it me. If the Sheriff loves Prince John, he would give it me. And yet I do not have it. Ergo, he doesn't love me. Well, I will have blood. The Sheriff's blood. You will kill the Sheriff for me, Gisborne. Discreetly. Only the two of us will know. A private secret we can share. And you will do this for me, Gisborne... because you love me.
- Allan A Dale: [referencing Prince John and his men] What are they doing in the forest?
- Robin Hood: Well, it's obvious, isn't it?
- Allan A Dale: Yeah, all right...
- Robin Hood: When they break camp, they use the north road to get to Nottingham.
- Little John: Why is he coming?
- Tuck: He's visiting all the nobles throughout England to grease their palms.
- Robin Hood: He's trying to buy their loyalty before King Richard returns, isn't he?
- Allan A Dale: What, he thinks it can be bought?
- Tuck: He knows it can. He's buying the nobles and their men to seize the throne, so that King Richard returns to King John's England.
- Robin Hood: Every noble he buys will bring us closer to a civil war, and a war between Prince John and King Richard... it'll tear this country apart.
- Little John: If he's going to buy them, he'll be carrying gold.
- Tuck: More then a little.
- Robin Hood: Well, we stop him stealing the crown by stealing his gold.
- Allan A Dale: [everyone laughs] This is mad!
- Little John: Yes, it is. Utterly mad!
- Much: The King's evil!
- Much: Prince, Tuck. Prince is evil.
- Tuck: Oh, no no no no no no no. Price John is searching for a victim of scrofula.
- Robin Hood: So he repeat that same feat. Prove his divine right to the throne, yeah?
- Tuck: We can give him a victim - I can make a potion which brings out red blisters on the neck which looks exactly like scrofula!
- Robin Hood: So the nobles all assemble in the great hall. In comes Prince John with his victim. He touches him...
- Tuck: ...fails.
- Robin Hood: Then we humiliate him!
- Little John: Which distracts the nobles while we steal the gold.
- Much: That might work.
- Robin Hood: [to angry gang] She said she can help us.
- Isabella: Look, I can get you into the castle.
- Tuck: You want us to trust her with our lives?
- Little John: Gisborne's sister?
- Robin Hood: Yes. I trust her with mine.
- Allan A Dale: All right, so she gets us in the castle. Then what?
- Much: Then we get captured and I presume, killed.
- Robin Hood: Well. There's nothing about you that resembles your brother, is there?
- Isabella: There's nothing about my brother I wish to be. I hate him. I will always hate him.
- Robin Hood: Well, that's something we share then isn't it? Hatred.
- Isabella: That's nothing to be proud of, is it, to share hatred?
- Isabella: Do you want them to love you?
- Prince John: Of course! And I think they do love me. But I will have respect as well as love.
- Isabella: Any landowner can subjugate his surf but only a King can liberate them. A benevolent king is loved!
- Prince John: But I AM benevolent.
- Little John: We're already too late, the gold is in the castle.
- Robin Hood: Then we'll steal it back.
- Much: It's dangerous!
- Robin Hood: It's too dangerous not too!
- Prince John: You're being punished for intolerable disloyalty to me! For harboring and assisting Robin Hood and his outlaws! And may God forgive you!
- Prince John: They are sad little creatures, really, aren't they?
- [pause]
- Prince John: I sense disagreement.
- Isabella: One cannot disagree with one's king.
- Prince John: King? You see me as your King? How delightful of you. I wish others accepted me as readily as you do.
- Isabella: Perhaps I've had the good fortune to know you better then most.
- Prince John: Perhaps. And perhaps you'd like to get to know me better still.
- [Isabella chuckles]
- Prince John: Ah, you'll make me work for my conquest.
- Isabella: Was not France more valuable because it was fought for?
- Prince John: You make this such good sport.
- Robin Hood: Who are you?
- Benjamin Palmer: Benjamin Palmer, physician to Prince John. But neither his supporter, nor his apologist.
- Prince John: Do you love me, Sheriff?
- Sheriff of Nottingham: With all my heart, Sire.
- Prince John: Would you give your life for me?
- Sheriff of Nottingham: My life? Is that all? Of course.
- Prince John: Would you take a life for me?
- Sheriff of Nottingham: Even easier to answer.
- Prince John: Gisborne has so disappointed me...
- Sheriff of Nottingham: Disappointed us both, Sire.
- Prince John: Obedience. Loyalty. Love. Is it too much to ask? A king requites all three. Who's more loyal to me, Sheriff? You or Gisborne?
- Sheriff of Nottingham: Of course I am, Sire. My loyalty is infinite.
- Prince John: Good. Then prove it to me. Rid me of Gisborne, Sheriff. Quickly, discreetly. We don't want to disturb our noble guests with this messy business. Kill him for me, Sheriff.
- Sheriff of Nottingham: A privilege, Sire.
- Prince John: And where were you attacked?
- Benjamin Palmer: Near a village.
- Sheriff of Nottingham: Locksley village.
- Benjamin Palmer: We fought courageously, but we were dreadfully outnumbered.
- Sheriff of Nottingham: No doubt the villagers helped the outlaws.
- Benjamin Palmer: And eventually, I was captured, by Robin Hood himself!
- Sheriff of Nottingham: Or so he said. I mean, we've all been proved wrong in the past, haven't we, Gisborne?
- Benjamin Palmer: But this time Robin Hood was fooled. Yes, Your Highness.
- Prince John: Excellent! And was he angry that I'd made such a fool of him?
- Benjamin Palmer: Very angry!
- Prince John: He did curse us?
- Benjamin Palmer: Fulsomely.
- Prince John: Wonderful! What did he say?
- Benjamin Palmer: I couldn't tell, Your Highness.
- Prince John: Oh please, tell me exactly what he said.
- Benjamin Palmer: But, Your Highness...
- Prince John: Do you not love me?
- Benjamin Palmer: Of course.
- Prince John: Well, then say!
- Benjamin Palmer: He called you a coward. He said only a coward would have a double.
- Prince John: ...arrest him.
- [Him meaning Palmer]
- Sheriff of Nottingham: Gisborne? Gisborne!
- Guy of Gisborne: My Lord.
- Sheriff of Nottingham: You're here, I've been looking for you. I've, uh, been thinking about out relationship. We should work on it, don't you think? It's been a little strained in the past, I admit. But in the light of Prince John's visit, well, I think unity is the best way forward. Unity between you and me, hmm? Standing strong, together, don't you think? The past is the past. We should leave it behind us. The man is a tyrant, Gisborne, we both know that. And he's dangerous. The only way we're going to survive is... unity.
- Sheriff of Nottingham: [after accidentally shooting an attacking peasant with an arrow instead of Gisborne and Gisborne notices] Oh bother.