Samson and Delilah Page #4

I'll never know how

to please a loose woman.

Our requests of a man

are very modest.

That is the principal part

of our charm.

Only by very modest request...

... could any man

meet your expectations.

Except perhaps this Israelite hero.

Men like him are either

quickly forgotten...

... or never forgotten.

- Nothing certain, eh?

Nothing but death.

Is that it? It seems very little.

And encompasses everything.

No!

Strong, yes,

but with a sweet modesty.

Did you see how he ran?

Like a gazelle.

A woman would die for a man like that.

Out of the way, fool.

A gazelle is so much more graceful

than a baboon, is it not?

General?

If the future of our people

is to be secured...

... perhaps the time has come

to think of different stratagems.

Such as?

The greatest victory

any general can achieve.

Peace.

I knew something had happened.

You haven't been fighting

over a woman, have you?

All the single girls are in love with you.

Some of the married ones too.

- It wasn't a fight over Naomi, was it?

- No.

- Who then?

- No one.

- I saw...

- Saw what?

A woman...

... like no other.

- No woman gave you these wounds.

Samson, be careful.

Father.

- Father...

- Now, wait.

- General, continue.

- Well, it would take time.

But once they saw how a lasting treaty

would benefit them...

... we could focus

our attention elsewhere.

- A treaty? With who? What is this?

- This is something kings must learn...

... and princes must practice.

- It's called listening.

- No one in this royal house should listen...

... to any proposal for a treaty

with the tribes of Israel.

Their subjugation is their treaty.

It's only by listening that one hears.

The general's proposals have merit.

- Continue.

- Lf we might consider...

... making official peace with them,

turning them into independent allies...

Allies? The Israelites?

Better to plunge your hand

into a basket of vipers.

The art of making a decision

is firstly to know what your choices are.

General.

What would we achieve by having

a vassal state on our eastern borders?

Nothing but a breeding ground

for rebellion, draining my manpower...

... and your treasury.

- Our treasury.

You always know

where I'm vulnerable, eh?

But we would allow them access

to the sea and allow them to trade.

My experience of life,

beginning with my own family...

... is that by giving some

of what is wanted...

... only whets the appetite for more.

- We would continue...

... to maintain complete control, Majesty.

The illusion of independence.

It would take a magician

mightier than any I've met.

And their religion? No, no, general.

Beliefs are more dangerous

than a hundred armies.

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