Labyrinth (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.1 (2012)

Tom Felton: Viscount Trencavel

Quotes 

• Viscount Trencavel : One year ago, His Holiness, Pope Innocent III, preached a crusade against what he called "the cancer of heresy". These pious and humble men, he said, were the enemies of God. I have recently received news that a northern host of more than 20,000 men was preparing to invade these free Christian lands. They are advancing south and may be with us in under a week. They are determined to persecute and destroy the Cathar people. I have heard that two of the most powerful barons of northern France are amongst their number. Guy D'evreux and the Fifth Earl of the Leicester, Simon de Montfort. But I promise you this: for as long as I rule, no man in the Languedoc will be condemned for his honest beliefs!

  Oriane Congost : [watching, hidden, with Alais]  All this fuss over a ragged band of heretics. How much simpler would it be to have done with it and make a bonfire of them all.

  Alais Pelletier Du Mas : These people are my friends.

  Oriane Congost : Perhaps... but they will lead us to ruin.

• Friar : Eradicate the Cathar heresy and you may yet be spared God's wrath, Lord Trencavel.

  Viscount Trencavel : I will not betray a single one of my loyal subjects to persecution and death.

  Friar : You are young, Messire. Perhaps you should listen to older heads and wiser counsel.

  Viscount Trencavel : In your case, father, I fear age has brought only cruelty, not wisdom.

  Friar : I will pray that you yet discover the truth path to God, even if it be through blood and fire.

  Viscount Trencavel : I am a faithful servant of the Catholic Church, but this hatred of violence is not God's work. The Pope's crusade is about conquest, not faith.

  Bertrand Pelletier : Amen to that. It is our rich and fertile land the Northerns want. Religion is merely their excuse.

  Viscount Trencavel : [the friar leaves]  We shouldn't have insulted him, Messire. But it was worth it for the look on his face.

• Viscount Trencavel : Du Mas, my friend. You seem troubled.

  Guilhem du Mas : Uh, forgive me, my, uh, thoughts are elsewhere.

  Viscount Trencavel : [seeing her down in the street]  Go home to Alais. Take comfort in her arms. It's good to remind ourselves what we are fighting for.

• Viscount Trencavel : I assume work to dismantle the choir stalls in the cathedral has begun?

  Bertrand Pelletier : Yes. Bishop Rochefort is not pleased. He is unused to sleeping on a stone floor.

  Viscount Trencavel : The city's fortifications are more important than the bishop's comfort.

  Bertrand Pelletier : True.

  Viscount Trencavel : We need every piece of timber we can lay our hands on.

• Viscount Trencavel : [as Crusaders lay siege to the castle]  If this continues, Carcassona will be nothing more than rubble! We will strike swiftly, we will destroy the trebuchets, and be back through the gate before they even know it. We must teach these barbarians a lesson. We fight for our tradition! We fight for our honor! We fight!

• Viscount Trencavel : [seeing the Crusader army approaching]  God preserve us all.