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Achilles
- Achilles: I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
- [Priam kneels and kisses Achilles' hands]
- Achilles: Who are you?
- Priam: I have endured what no one on earth has endured before. I kissed the hands of the man who killed my son.
- Achilles: [realizes, stands abrubtly] Priam? How did you get in here?
- Priam: I know my country better than the Greeks, I think.
- Achilles: [walks forward, lifts Priam] You are a brave man. I could have your head on a spit in the blink of an eye.
- Priam: Do you really think death frightens me now? I watched my eldest son die, watched you drag his body behind your chariot. Give him back to me. He deserves a proper burial, you know that. Give him to me.
- Achilles: He killed my cousin.
- Priam: He thought it was you. How many cousins have you killed? How many sons and fathers and brothers and husbands? How many, brave Achilles? I knew your father, he died before his time. But he was lucky not to live long enough to see his son fall
- Achilles: [to his men] Myrmidons! My brothers of the sword! I would rather fight beside you than any army of thousands! Let no man forget how menacing we are, we are lions! Do you know what's waiting beyond that beach? Immortality! Take it! It's yours!
- Achilles: Go home, prince. Drink some wine, make love to your wife. Tomorrow, we'll have our war.
- Hector: You speak of war as if it's a game. But how many wives wait at Troy's gates for husbands they'll never see again?
- Achilles: Perhaps your brother can comfort them. I hear he's good at charming other men's wives.
- Messenger Boy: Are the stories true? They say your mother was an immortal godess. They say you can't be killed.
- Achilles: I wouldn't be bothering with the shield then, would I?
- Messenger Boy: The Thesselonian you're fighting... he's the biggest man i've ever seen. I wouldn't want to fight him.
- Achilles: Thats why no-one will remember your name.
- Hector: I've seen this moment in my dreams. I'll make a pact with you. With the gods as our witnesses, let us pledge that the winner will allow the loser all the proper funeral rituals.
- Achilles: There are no pacts between lions and men.
- [stabs spear into ground, and takes off helmet, throwing it to the side]
- Achilles: Now you know who you're fighting.
- Hector: [takes off helmet and throws it aside] I thought it was you I was fighting yesterday. And I wish it had been, but I gave the dead boy the honor he deserved.
- Achilles: You gave him the honor of your sword. You won't have eyes tonight; you won't have ears or a tongue. You will wander the underworld blind, deaf, and dumb, and all the dead will know: This is Hector. The fool who thought he killed Achilles.
- [Eyes closed, Briseis has blade against his throat]
- Achilles: Do it.
- [Briseis doesn't do anything, but only stares at him. Achilles opens his eyes]
- Achilles: Do it. Nothing is easier.
- Briseis: Aren't you afraid?
- Achilles: Everyone dies, whether today or fifty years from now.
- Briseis: If I don't, you'll kill more men.
- Achilles: Many.
- Achilles: At night I see their faces. All the men I've killed. They're standing there on the far bank of the river Styx. They're waiting for me. They say, 'Welcome, brother'.
- Achilles: What's your name?
- [no reply]
- Achilles: Did you not hear me?
- Briseis: You killed Apollo's priests!
- Achilles: I've killed men in five countries, never a priest.
- Briseis: Well, then your men did. The sun god will have his vengeance.
- Achilles: What's he waiting for?
- Briseis: The right time to strike.
- Achilles: His priests are dead, and his acolyte's a captive. i think your god is afraid of me.
- Briseis: Afraid? Apollo is master of the sun, he fears nothing.
- Achilles: Where is he?
- Briseis: You're nothing but a killer! You wouldn't know anything about the gods!
- Achilles: I know more about the gods than your priests. I've seen them. You're royalty, aren't you? Spent years talking down to men.
- [sniffs her hair]
- Achilles: You must be royalty. What's your name? Even the servants of Apollo have names.
- Briseis: Briseis.
- Achilles: Are you afraid, Briseis?
- Briseis: Should I be?
- Eudorus: [poking head through door flaps] My lord, Agamemnon requests your presence. The kings are gathering to celebrate the victory.
- Achilles: You fought well today.
- Eudorus: My lord.
- Briseis: What do you want here in Troy? You didn't come for the Spartan queen.
- Achilles: I want what all men want, I just want it more. You don't need to fear me, girl. You're the only Trojan who can say that.