Alexander the Great Page #4

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of the entire populace,

I'll proclaim you regent in Macedonia.

- I'll go and tell the others.

- Alexander.

There's work to do. Farewell, Aristotle.

Farewell. Take these words with you,

and use them for what they're worth.

Alexander is many things.

He's logic and he's dreams.

He's warrior and he's poet.

He's man and he's spirit.

He's your son, but he's also hers,

and he believes himself to be a god.

(dog barks)

(women's laughter and music)

Alexander!

The night was a thousand years.

When I heard last night that you...

You heard last night that I was coming?

From whom?

Oh, a man... a soldier... a messenger.

I don't remember.

I couldn't wait.

I wanted to come to you, to warn you.

- To what?

- No. No, not to warn you. To beg you.

- To warn me? To beg me?

- I vowed to the gods that...

Mother, say what you want to say.

He's gone mad.

No one was safe in Pella this night.

Philip has gone mad.

- Send them away.

- They're my friends, here for safety.

Send them away!

What's all this about my father?

To the sword, the cross, the rack,

men that have been his friends for years.

Now everyone is his enemy. He accuses

everyone of conspiring against him.

Even me. You'll hear that story,

Alexander. You'll hear it from him.

But you mustn't believe it.

You mustn't. You don't, do you?

Why should he accuse you?

He wants to get rid of me.

He's been wanting to for years.

He wants to marry again.

- Who?

- Attalus's niece.

You be careful of Attalus.

You be careful of all of them.

She's no fool.

She won't let him throw her away like

he's done with all the others. She's young.

Mother!

Whatever he asks of you, do.

Whatever he says, agree with.

For when you're regent...

When you're regent, then... we'll rule.

We?

Your father will see you now.

Have you seen your mother?

Yes.

An act of revolt

against the state is treason.

In giving you the regency,

I give you power.

Power is absolute -

if you don't use it, you lose it.

- My father always spoke bluntly.

- Did he?

That's not what people say.

They say "Philip, the cunning", "the fox".

- Speak bluntly now.

- I do not choose to.

- Then I do not choose to answer.

- Who says choice is yours? Alexander!

All I ask is truth.

- I've been at Mieza all this time.

- You saw her. Many times you saw her.

- Whenever I could.

- And never did you hear about this plot?

It's your choice as king

to put me on the rack.

There's a man on the rack now,

a kinsman of your mother's,

who, before he died, screamed her name.

Torture makes men scream blasphemies.

- Is it blasphemy to speak her name?

- In foul lies, yes.

And if I brought you proof

that this revolt was brewed by her?

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