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- You have done well.

Merlin's spell is weakening.

I can feel the bonds on my cage breaking.

- Your suggestions were useful,

the theories all check out.

Now it's just a matter of practical work

setting up the machines.

A few days, a week at most, and we'll be ready.

- Excellent, hmm.

Good.

There had better not be any mistakes.

- We have a deal.

As long as you stick to it, there won't be any mistakes.

- Of course.

- What's happened? How is it going?

Is Maxwell ready for us?

- Don't grief, Mother.

Why don't you give me a chance to catch my breath?

This isn't easy, you know.

- Wine, bring wine, quickly.

You, Guinevere, revere us and pass that wine.

- Yes, wine, yes, yes, yes.

Merlin.

- Merlin.

- Stop him!

- Run, Merlin!

- Help me up.

Get him.

- Are you all right?

Would you like something to drink?

- Oh, no, thank you.

Did I get through to the spirits this time?

- I'm afraid not, mother's being a little stubborn.

- I'm sorry, Ms. Maxwell, I don't understand,

normally I get through without any trouble.

- Don't worry yourself, Megan, we'll try again.

Hi, Kate, how are you?

- Fine, thank you.

- Kate!

- It's all right.

- Kate, that was not very polite.

- Well, I don't like her and I don't like her upsetting you.

- That is no excuse for bad manners.

- I am too old for this.

Oh, no!

- Guinevere.

- Lancelot.

- What's going on?

- Merlin's here.

- Merlin?

- Yes.

- You're joking?

- No.

Maybe he's come to free us.

- Free us after all this time, what's changed?

- Maxwell.

- Maxwell?

Come on.

- Hello, Merlin.

Caught you like a rat in a trap.

- Merlin!

Merlin, come on, Merlin!

- After them.

- Well, Richie, what do you think of our mountains?

Bet you got nothing like them in Iowa,

you'll just love it here, there's never a dull moment.

Pity your father isn't here.

- Everlyn, Hank's dead,

he didn't decide to go to Hawaii.

Oh, no!

- Stupid woman.

- Merlin.

- Guinevere.

- Come on, we've all got jobs to do.

- Everlyn, look.

- Come on, Merlin, stop being so pompous.

- Pull it, Merlin, we need to start,

we don't have much time.

- Thank you.

- You are welcome.

- Wow.

- What are you doing?

- Keeping an eye on Mordred.

- What, after all this time, don't you ever give up?

- How can I, my spell is breaking, dark forces stir,

the world balance is on the brink of disaster.

- What, again?

- Yes, again.

- Just because you've given up fighting Mordred

doesn't mean we all have.

- What, come on, quick, we must go now.

- This way, Guinevere, come on.

- Well, that's taken care of them,

but I don't know how to get you out of here.

- That's all right, I can take care of myself,

now that I have a few moments to concentrate.

- Can't you take me with you?

- I'm sorry.

So far the spell's only weakened,

it still holds you all here.

- But I so want to see the sky again.

- Oh, I think you might.

In fact, if I can't stop Mordred and Maxwell

from completely wrecking my spell

everyone here will see the sky.

Now, I must go.

- No, wait.

- What, what is it?

- How's Arthur?

- Well, asleep, I hope.

Though, the spell holding him

is weaker than the spell holding Mordred.

To tell you the truth, I don't know.

I must check.

Thank you.

- Give him my...

Love.

- Mary, dear, you remember Merlin?

- Oh, yeah, hi.

- I'm too old for this.

- See, dear, nothing's changed, welcome home.

- How are you feeling now?

- Better.

What's going on outside?

- Everlyn nearly run down Merlin.

He was out jogging in his underwear.

See you later, mum.

- Bye.

- What do you think, Gawain?

The young beast is large.

- Aye, sire, and stronger.

- Strong, but slow.

And my muscles ache for action.

- Had we better just lie low until we know where we are?

- Get the others ready.

Come on, get him, get him.

No.

No, Gawain, stop.

- The beast didn't feel a thing, it just kept going.

Sire, look.

- What is it?

- What's going on there?

- I don't know.

- You don't think that...

- What?

- They will attack us.

- You don't think it could be the big beast's cub.

- Aye, maybe.

- I think we'd better go.

- Okay.

- Well, go on, hurry up.

- All right. - Hurry up.

- I'm doing my best.

- Pump it, they're coming down here now.

Why don't you put it in gear?

- Merlin.

- Arthur.

- Everything okay, honey?

- Yeah, great.

- I know it's hard, Richie, but give things a go,

you'll like it here, I promise.

- I'm hungry.

- Everything's wrong

and if you're awake, Mordred's almost free,

and the whole village thinks I'm some crazy old man.

- Hurry up, Merlin.

- I'll be with you in a minute.

I'll be with you in a minute.

Dammit.

It's Maxwell I blame,

meddling in things she doesn't understand,

her damn experiments messing up all my spells,

then look at my robes, no one knows which-

- Stop dithering, Merlin, and pick one,

they're all the same.

- You and your damn fool knights could've killed me.

- I still might if you don't tell me what's going on.

- What do you remember?

- Camelot.

Lancelot.

Guinevere.

Mordred.

Stonehenge.

I was dying.

- So you were.

Mordred had all but won.

Our army was routed, it's remnants dispersed.

We were trapped.

Only the power of the stones was keeping Mordred at bay.

Mordred's magic was too strong.

- Can you hold, Merlin?

- No.

They come.

- Why do they wait?

- They wait for their lord.

Death.

Mordred.

- Ah, Arthur.

You look surprised, Merlin.

Did you really think your pathetic efforts

could keep me out?

- Leave, Mordred, you'll destroy us all.

- I thought I learned to control the spell

but what cared he if he destroyed the world.

- Looks like we were just in time.

- In time to die, witch.

- You fool.

Haven't you learned anything yet?

Your day is over, you're finished.

- Guinevere.

- Yes, that's right, Arthur, Guinevere,

and she's mine now, she's all mine.

- No.

- The powers I hold in my staff,

I released at Mordred,

but in vain.

- Bravo, Merlin, bravo.

Just a few days ago, that blast would've killed me,

but not now.

Not now.

I have this.

- Excalibur.

How did you?

- Never trust a lady, Arthur, least of all a queen.

- What?

- Arthur.

What's a queen to do on long cold nights

when her husband is away playing king?

- Lancelot.

- Explain to your king, Sir Knight.

- All seemed lost.

Again, I released the energies I had gathered at Mordred,

but Mordred had Excalibur.

- Merlin, hold.

Hold.

- No, I can't.

- You'll never defeat Excalibur, Merlin.

No!

- No!

- For the dragon!

- Stonehenge was broken.

It's been broken for 1500 years.

- 15?

- Just be grateful that Lancelot did what he did.

- Lancelot.

I'll kill him.

- I trusted him with my wife and Excalibur.

- He saved your life.

I couldn't destroy Mordred.

He's too powerful, but

thanks to Lancelot's little diversion,

I managed to banish Mordred to another dimension.

- And Guinevere?

- She's with Mordred.

I'm afraid he's using his magic and a medium

to make contact with a scientist from this world.

- Scientist?

- Oh, alchemist.

She's been experimenting

with the magnetic flows of the earth

which is where I get my power.

It's bad enough that she's already broken

the spell holding you, if we don't stop her,

she'll break the spell holding Mordred, too.

- 1500 years and nothing's changed.

If we couldn't defeat them then,

how are we going to defeat them now?

- I wish I knew.

- We need Excalibur.

What happened to Excalibur?

- Mordred has it.

- So, how are we doing?

Yes, that's good, good.

Oh, Roz, I've got a meeting,

make sure we stay on schedule.

- Yeah, sure.

- Your mum seems happy to be back home, don't you think?

It's not easy for her, Richie.

She misses your dad, she needs her family.

You can't blame her for wanting to come home.

- Not easy for her, what about me?

I didn't ask to come here.

This place is a dump, I've got no friends.

- You'll soon make new friends, Richard.

- Oh, sure, where?

- Hi.

- Hi.

- Mom asked if you could post these for her.

- No problem.

- It should come to three pounds 87.

I think that's the right money.

- Thank you.

Kate, meet my nephew, Richie.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- Dungeon Keeper, I've got Breakup on my PlayStation.

- Yeah?

- Yeah, you fancy a game?

- Sure, there's nothing else to do around here.

- Everlyn, you're a genius.

- How long are you staying for?

- For good, I guess, my mom was born here.

Aunt Everlyn's the only family we've got.

- Rats.

- What's wrong

- Mum's working.

- What does she do?

- Oh, she's a medium.

- Cool.

What's wrong?

- Shh, something's not right.

- Do you think that's a good idea?

What is it, what?

- Look.

- I don't believe it, what is it?

- Shh, can't you be quiet?

- I hope you have good reason for this,

I'm needed at the lab.

- Quiet, wench.

How ready are you, can you complete it tonight?

- No, I don't know, why the rush?

- There are other forces at work.

If I am to move my army through the gate unopposed,

it has to be now.

- I'll try, it won't be easy, there's a lot to do.

- If you want the power that you crave,

you will do more than try.

- We have to stop them.

Come on.

- What are you doing?

- I told you we have to stop Maxwell.

Are you coming or not?

- All right, my pet, you'll soon be at your room,

just think how good it'll be

when you switch places with Arthur leaving him to rot.

- Put a sock in it.

- What, sweetheart?

Will Maxwell open the gate tonight?

- Yes.

- Don't you get touchy with me?

- Just shut up.

- Those two deserve each other.

- We must warn Merlin and Arthur.

- I don't think Arthur will believe

anything we have to say, do you?

- Maybe.

Maybe not.

We've got to try.

There's too much at stake not to.

- Believe me, when that gate opens tonight,

we're going through.

On that you have my word.

Come.

- Will the lady of the lake come if you call her?

- No, I can't reach her.

I have no idea whether Lancelot destroyed,

all I know he destroyed Stonehenge.

- So, what do we do?

- Trust in luck, jump.

- And hope she catches me?

- The sword is in Mordred's throne room

embedded in the lodestone, just where Lancelot left it.

Neither he nor Mordred can pull it free,

only you can do that.

You are the chosen one for Excalibur.

- Gawain.

I leave you in charge whilst I'm gone.

- Is this necessary?

- I can't stop Mordred without Excalibur.

It's our only defense against him.

And don't do anything rash.

Are you sure there's no other way?

- Fairly sure.

- She didn't catch him.

- No.

But she let him in.

- Merlin.

- Morning, Ms. Maxwell.

- Where are we?

- Maxwell's lab.

- Well, it should be happening next week sometime.

- Yeah, can we talk about it then?

Get the rotors sorted out.

- Right.

- What's he doing here?

- Don't know,

but he sure has a habit of popping up

in the strangest of places.

- I knew we couldn't trust him.

- You don't know that.

- Anyway, if he wasn't working for Maxwell,

why would he be here?

- Shh!

Come on.

This way.

- There's Maxwell.

- What is that?

- Shh!

- Okay, Sherri, now.

Oh my god, it's working.

- What's happening?

- You.

Stop him.

Get him.

Get him, someone.

- We have to help him, come on.

This will stop them.

Turn it.

- Get them.

- You can't stop me.

My strength has grown tenfold since my imprisonment.

No!

No!

You little runt.

- Now.

- Stop them.

Protect the gate.

- Go.

- Merlin.

- Guinevere.

Good luck.

- No!

Stop them.

Stop them, you idiots. - Come on, come on.

- Someone. - Let's go.

- They're ruining everything.

Stop them.

- Throw it at them.

Come on.

- Oh, you'll pay for that.

- Really, how?

Guinevere's gone.

Hello, mother.

- Look at that.

- Yes.

Yes.

The old man is weakened.

He cannot close the rift.

Mother, dear, I will take every spell maker

and witch here now.

- God, it's good to be free, to drink fresh water,

to feel the wind, to see the trees.

So green.

Look at the stars.

They're beautiful.

- If Mordred gets out, the trees won't stay green for long.

- Well, we'll just have to make sure

that he won't get out.

- How?

- I don't know.

Maybe Arthur will.

- I'm afraid Arthur isn't here.

- He's not?

- No, he went to go get Excalibur.

- You mean I've come here to warn him about Mordred

and he's gone in to get the sword.

- Yes.

- We sure gave Mordred a shock

when we hit him with the water.

- First bath he's had in a thousand years.

- Listen, Merlin.

- Yes?

- I owe you an apology.

I thought you were on Maxwell's side.

- Oh, that's all right, Kate.

I've always been misunderstood.

There's no harm done.

Well, it's been a long day.

I suggest we all get some sleep.

And decide what to do tomorrow.

- Cheer up, at least your mom will be all right now.

Maxwell won't come near her.

- Yeah, guess you're right, see you tomorrow.

- See ya.

Hey, aunt.

- Richie, are you all right?

- Fine, just great.

You were right, aunt, it ain't so bad here.

Goodnight.

- What's got into him?

- Who cares, as long as it lasts.

- Mom.

- You know what to do.

Do not fail me.

- Hey. - Hi.

- Drink this.

- Thank you.

- Get warm, I won't be long.

Edmund?

- Mom.

Mom.

- Let me go.

- Quit stalling, woman.

- Hold it right there.

- Kate!

Let me go, take whatever you want, but let me go.

- Kate!

What?

What?

- Get off me, get off me.

- Oh, no, Kate.

What are you doing?

Let go of me.

Help, stop it.

What do you want?

- I want you to help me.

- Never.

- Never?

Never?

My young friend, you have absolutely no idea

how long never can be.

- Why, why should we help you?

- Well, that's a very good question, very good question.

How about because you have misunderstood

shall we say my point of view?

No?

Well, then what about out of respect for your betters?

Well, then I guess that leaves us with the obvious choice,

blackmail, imprisonment.

Torture.

I see I'm getting closer to what motivates you.

- You'll never make us do anything.

- There's that never again.

I would love to teach you about never,

but I haven't the time.

That's a joke, Richie, my god, don't you get anything?

Time, never.

Have a look at this, Richie.

- Mom!

- Mom!

Look at your face now.

Shall I have her killed?

- No, let her go, please.

- Help me, please, Richie.

- Richie, help me, please.

- Let her go.

- Your mother's life belongs to me now.

- What do you want us to do?

- It's very simple really.

I just want you to kill Merlin.

- Here.

- What is it?

- Well, for what it's worth,

it's an irregular magnetic pulse switcher.

You push this button here as you point it

and it releases a frequency

that causes waves in the earth's magnetic field.

I'm rather proud of it.

Careful, you could cause a small earthquake.

- So, what's it for?

- Well, you wait until Merlin's casting spell,

preferably a big one, then you point this at him.

As it's the earth's magnetic field that powers his spells,

this little gadget will disrupt the flow,

the spell will turn back on itself,

poof, Merlin goes up in smoke.

- Well, if it's that simple, why haven't you used it?

- I'm not a murderer.

- Of course, he could always turn it on Mordred instead.

- I'm sure his dear mother would thank him for that.

- I knew you'd come.

- So, traitor.

You didn't have the nerve to stab me in the back.

- I betrayed no one.

I fell in love.

- I trusted you.

You were my friend.

- I'm sorry.

- Sorry?

- Yes.

- Sorry?

- Yes, I'm sorry.

Arthur.

- I'm gonna kill you, piece by piece.

- If you do, you won't reach Excalibur, will you?

Listen to me.

I was right.

- Not only to me, but the whole round table.

- You need my help.

You need me.

- Never.

- Arthur, listen to me.

- Stop it.

Does she still love you?

- No.

- Oh, all right, then.

- Missed.

Shh!

- All right.

You had to tell them.

- You didn't want it easy, did you?

Arthur!

- We're trapped.

- We can jump it.

- We'd never make it.

- Do you wanna live forever?

- Yeah.

Okay.

- When the flame drops.

You first.

- I'm your king.

- Mordred!

Mordred.

Mordred.

King Arthur's here.

- What?

- Arthur's here.

- I know, mother.

- You don't seem to be too bothered about it.

- Look around you.

Do you really think a couple of tired old has-beens

can make their way through my whole army?

- What if he gets the sword?

- Don't you listen to anything I say?

Arthur's no threat to us

and if he's here, he can damn well stay here.

But let's not fall out.

Get out!

Get out now.

My plan is going well.

We will soon be free.

- Force the rat to kill Merlin.

- Precisely.

- Ye gods, Merlin,

can't I even eat without you badgering me?

- I didn't say anything.

- The sleep has addled his brain.

- How many times do I have to say this?

Arthur left me in charge not you.

- I am queen.

- In name.

- Will you two stop wasting time?

We have to find Mordred.

- What are we going to do?

- I don't know, but we mustn't let on about this, not yet.

We need time to think.

Come on.

- Mordred is not going to wait for Arthur to get Excalibur,

we have to stop Maxwell ourselves now.

- Merlin!

- Now, what?

- Mordred's attacked the village,

he's taken everyone prisoner.

- I know, I was just explaining that to Gawain.

- Well, are you going to help

or leave it to me, Merlin, and two children?

- All right, all right.

Do you know where they've taken them?

- Stonehenge.

- Stop this.

It's all right, you'll be okay.

- Are you all right?

I've been a fool, Merlin.

Mordred's power may corrupt,

but it will never again cloak my mind, I'm with you.

Can you save her?

Oh, I think she'll live.

- Bury these men with full honors,

t'was Mordred's demons we fought not the men they possessed.

Rouse the camp.

We know our enemy and he awaits our swords.

- Yeah!

- You look pleased with yourself.

- Of course, why shouldn't I be?

Things are going well.

Mordred's plans will soon see him free and Merlin dead.

- Really?

And how do you think you're going to fit in

with Mordred's plans once he's free that is?

- We have a deal.

I'm a scientist.

Mordred will give me free reign with my research

and all the help I'll need for my experiments,

soon I'll be free of all the small-minded fools

who think science should controlled by rules.

- Of course you can trust Mordred to keep his word.

It wouldn't worry him that your science

might one day become a threat to him.

- I think I'm needed.

- Just something to think about.

- Where are you, where are you, where are you?

Oh, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.

Oh, it's always the same.

You can never find something when you want it.

- What?

- I said you can't-

- Oh, yeah, sorry, I heard, is it important?

- Is it important?

Interesting question.

Is anything important?

It depends on the circumstances

and to what it relates, I suppose.

To a man who's drowning, air is important,

to a fish that's watching, the water.

Good question.

- Well, can I help you?

- Help what?

- Tell me what you're looking for

and I can help you find it.

- No, no, no, no, no, that's all right, I'll find it.

- Penny for them.

- I was thinking how strange life can be.

And how short.

- What do you mean short?

- Well, I was thinking of all the friends I had

when Arthur was king,

their hopes, their children, their dreams,

all crammed into a few short years of furious living.

- You didn't have that with Lancelot,

you had all the time you could ever need.

- Yes, perhaps too long.

- Have you seen Richie?

- Yes, he left with Merlin to collect a few things

from Merlin's house before we leave.

- He's been acting quite strange,

think I'd better go and fetch him.

- Kate.

Think about what I said, life is short,

you make the most of it.

- Well, if it's not in there, it's gotta be in here

and of course it's not.

- Is that magic?

- What?

- Your staff, have you cast a spell to make shine?

- Yes.

- Is it a large spell, does it take a lot of power?

- All spells take a lot of power,

but how much depends on the person casting them.

It can't be in there, so it has to be there,

and it can't be in here because it's never in here.

Come on, come on, no, no, no, no.

Found it.

- That's it?

A pipe?

Is that what all the fuss was about?

- I keep a pipe, but I never smoke it.

It's my little test to myself, so far I've passed,

but tomorrow is a new day, a new test.

Like you, Richie, I will have a choice to make.

Now.

I think we will both make the right one.

- Merlin, Richie, are you there?

- Shall we go?

- Are you in there?

- Oh, he knows.

- Come in, Kate.

- God, he knows.

- He knows what?

- About this?

- How can he?

- I don't know.

- Shall we go?

- There's Maxwell.

- Carbon dating results are ready.

- This is gonna be a great day for science.

- Yeah, as soon as you can, please.

- Yes, this is a big night.

- Make the most of your next hour, Maxwell,

when Mordred arrives he might see to it being your last.

- Oh, I don't know,

I may have an ace or two up my own sleeve.

How are the levels?

Are we close?

- Radio online.

- All right, everyone, here we go.

- Mordred.

Look.

It's working.

Your magic's working.

- Everyone in place.

- We're free.

- Not this time, Merlin.

You're getting old, Merlin.

- And tired.

- Not so fast.

- We have the machine, Merlin.

- Good.

Good.

- Lancelot.

Look, they're through, gotta cut 'em off from the gate.

- Sire, forgive me, but that's a bad idea.

- Trust me.

- Are you sure?

- Yeah, wanna live forever?

- Yes! I got ya.

Boy, your time's up.

I'll take care of Mordred,

you, don't let anyone through that gate.

- Ready, now.

Cover me.

- We have to do something.

- I know.

- Do it now.

- What about you?

- Come on.

- Richie, wait.

- No, Richie, it's too dangerous.

- Richie!

- Come back.

- Quiet!

- No, stop that, no.

Rat, I knew you couldn't be trusted.

- Richie, do it, quick.

- Your mother dies.

Off with her head.

- Richie, help me.

- Let her go now.

- Kill Merlin now or she dies.

- Oh, no.

- Arthur, just do it.

- Arthur.

- Guinevere.

- Richie.

- Give me the sword or the woman dies.

- Take it.

- I'm sorry.

- Everything is ready.

- Are you sure about taking your knights through to there?

- We are men out of our time, Richie, where else can we go?

And besides, there's a whole new dimension

out there for us to conquer.

Kneel.

Arise, Sir Richard,

the youngest and last knight of the round table.

- Bravo, young man.

- Aye!

- Well done.

- Kate.

This was, is my wedding ring.

You be careful who you give it to.

- Thank you.

Will you be okay?

- I think so, it won't be easy, but I am a queen.

I belong with the king.

- You always have.

You are my queen.

Sire.

- Are you still adamant about staying?

- Yes.

Well, I've had 1500 years to think about it.

That's long enough for any man.

Hope you can look after yourself without me around.

Good luck to you, sire.

- Good luck.

- It is time, clear the stone.

- Don't worry.

We're going to have lots of fun.

- For the dragon.