Marco Polo (TV Series)

Rendering (2014)

Benedict Wong: Kublai Khan

Quotes 

• Kublai Khan : Crush the foot and the body will fall. We take the city. Sidao will dirty his knees before me.

• [last lines] 

  Prince Jingim : We advanced, slaughtering every rebel who crossed our path. We reached the wall and pushed towards the weakness, the one the Latin described. We breached the wall with little more than battering rams. But our men were wedged into a dead end. Death rained down upon us. Oil, fire, arrows. Men died. Mongols died, because Master Marco pointed our army into a trap.

  Marco Polo : [on his knees]  It was bait, Sire, the weakness in the wall. Jia Sidao drew us into a trap. I am sorry, Great Khan

  Prince Jingim : Why do you feign contrition, Latin? Why are you not at the breast of your master, Jia Sidao? Huh? You delivered us to the devil! You betrayed us! You brought us to our knees at the wall!

  Prince Jingim : Father he has brought us nothing but ruin. You can see it. You can all see it!

  Marco Polo : I devote myself to you, Great Khan.

  Prince Jingim : [drawing his sword]  Enough of your twisted talk! You would protect him?

  Byamba : [deflects Jingim's sword] 

  Prince Jingim : He is not one of us, brother! He is the rot within our bones.

  Byamba : He reported what he saw as he was asked to do.

  Prince Jingim : Father what shall we do?

  Kublai Khan : Retreat.

• Jia Sidao : You ask for parley as you stand with an army outside my city walls. How am I to take this?

  Kublai Khan : On bended knee, if you're wise.

  Jia Sidao : I have a wall.

  Kublai Khan : I will obliterate your wall. I will take your fraudulent crown. I will spike your corpse to the gates of my new palace. Or, I will walk through the wall after it is freely opened, accept your surrender, and offer gracious terms for the deposed Chancellor of Xiangyang, and his rebel army. You have power yet to save your people, Sidao.

  Jia Sidao : [clicks tongue]  It's unfortunate that it has come to this. So deep into war that we make attempts on each other's lives, and those most sacred to us. I've heard of your favored wife's beauty. Such luminescence should not be taken from us this way. So repugnant. Even your own Vice Regent is against this war. This tactics.

  Jia Sidao : [rising]  When an honest man says nothing, you see his heart. I don't question his loyalty to you, but an absence of words speaks loudly. Perhaps he sees something we do not.

  Jia Sidao : [threateningly]  I trust I'll find you on the field, Jia Sidao.

• Kublai Khan : My fierce Mongol warriors, so many will perish tomorrow.

  Empress Chabi : Yes. You must rest, Kublai.

  Kublai Khan : Mmm. Genghis said, There's no good in anything until it's finished. Tomorrow the wall that turned back the Mongols for 80 years will fall.

  Empress Chabi : Your men are prepared. And behind them, Mongol women ready to fight if needed.