All language subtitles for Rob Roy

(WHlSTLES)

(PANTlNG)

(SPlTS)
How long?

A day, maybe two.

They're away and gone, Rob,
and the beasts sold.

There's a wee glen
on the other side
of Ben Duh.

lf l were tinkers with
a two-day start, l'd lie out
there and kill me some meat.

We'd not get there
before dark, Rob.

Not stood here,
we won't.

(MEN LAUGHlNG)

(MEN CHATTERlNG)

You can smell them
through the meat.

Aye, if they
fought as strong
as they smelled,

we'd be in trouble.

They're there right enough,
just like you said, Rob.

(CATTLE MOOlNG)

We can rush them
when they're asleep.

Ten of them to six of us.

Nine.
One of them's a woman.

Half of them would be dead
before they were awake.

ALASDAlR:
How are we going
to take them, Rob?

l'll go
and talk to them
in the morning.

l'm getting
too old for this,

lying wet-arsed
in the heather,
chasing other men's cattle.

Come away
to the Americas
with me.

They say
there's fine acres for
the clearing in Virginia.

Aye, and they'll
likely be as hard
as these to sleep on.

Why are you going in
to talk to them?

l know one of them.

(MOOlNG)

Up!

Get up, you bunch
of ragged-arsed
tinker cow thieves!

This is Robert Roy MacGregor
come to reclaim the 32 beasts

stolen from His Lordship
James Graham,
Marquis of Montrose.

Tam Sibbald.

Still at your thieving.

Throw down now
and l'll spare you,
all but one.

There's a price to being
a leader of men, Tam.

(CHUCKLlNG)

By God, MacGregor,

if there's any
killing to be done,
you're the first.

Who do you think you are,
acting the great chief?

And l know
you're a bigger thief
than any of us.

Aye, but if l had stolen
His Lordship's cattle,

you would not have
come walking into
my dreams so easy.

l can call the Gregorach
and kill the half of you,

or it can be between us
and nothing more.

(SCOFFS)
Think on it, man.

Would you not rather
be dead this morning

after a good hump
and a belly
full of stolen beef,

or would you have me
march you back to Montrose

so you can shit yourself
on the gallows a month hence?

(GROANS)

Throw down ! Now!

And you have my word
no one else will die!

Come, lads.

And any man with a blade
in his hands, cut him down.

Are you men,
or what are you?

He killed Tam,
and you stand and live!

And him as much
an outlaw
as any of you !

(GRUNTS)

No man among you !
Your mothers curse you !

You're spittle!
You're leavings!

(MUFFLED SCREAMlNG)

ROBERT: Listen to me well,
and remember this,

or l'm going
to remember you,
every last one.

When next you think
to steal cattle,

have a care they're not
under my protection.

But if they are,
you're not stealing
from their owners.

You're stealing from me,
Robert Roy MacGregor.

And no man
who steals my beasts
makes a profit.

lf you doubt me,
ask Tam Sibbald.

What are you going
to do with her?

Be on your way,
and tell no man
you fared ill at our hands.

Go on.

(GROWLS)

(LAUGHlNG)

(CROWD CHEERlNG)

(CHATTERlNG)

MAN 1 : Cut him down !
MAN 2: Slash him !

Go on.

Yeah !

ANNOUNCER: Ladies
and gentlemen, the winner
of the contest is Guthrie!

Montrose, come hotfoot
from the court to the cockpit.

May l present
Archibald Cunningham.

His Grace,
the Duke of Argyll.

l am Your Grace's
humble servant.

Another of your
likely lads?

(CHUCKLlNG)
Archibald is sent me
by his mother,

in the hope that
our climate might cool
the fever in his blood.

So, Mr. Cunningham,

what are these
principal sins that
distress your mother?

Dice? Drink?

Or are you
a buggerer of boys?

lt is years, Your Grace,
since l buggered a boy.

And in my own defense,
l must add,

l thought him a girl
at the moment of entry.

(LAUGHS)

What say you, Guthrie,
that Archie could not
tell arse from quim?

l've heard that
many Englishmen have
that same difficulty.

Spoken as well
as you fought.

Did you see
Guthrie here at work,
Mr. Cunningham?

He has a fair hand
with the cleaver,
it must be said.

You do not
think much of our
Highland tools, then?

lf l had to kill an ox,
a claymore would be
my first choice, Your Grace.

You best use a musket
and save the beast
a slow dying.

l would not need
a musket for you,
Guthrie.

Splendid !

l'll wager 1 00 of what
you like on Guthrie
and his cleaver.

At odds?

Now, come, James,
you're a fox.
What odds?

Three?
Two.

English pounds.

There's more of
a jingle to guineas.

Guineas it is.
Excellent, excellent.

A bumper of Rhenish
for my Lord Montrose
and myself,

and show Mr. Cunningham
what blades we have.

You honor me, sir,
to serve me
with your own hand.

l tell you, James,

l forget how much
you dislike me until
l'm in your presence.

So, what news at court?

What else
but the succession?

Our poor queen
cannot find the time
to die in peace.

l fear she may
pass over and leave
the matter unresolved.

Would that she had seen
a child of hers live
to comfort the kingdom.

Aye. One might have
hoped that a field
so regularly ploughed

might have yielded
one good crop.

ln truth, l have seen
healthier graveyards
than that woman's womb.

(CROWD CHEERlNG)

(CROWD LAUGHlNG)

Come on !

l am asked continually
on what side Your Grace
will declare himself.

Where Argyll goes,
the path must be
firm and broad.

And now all watch
to see which way to jump.

One cannot go
to the closet

but what some adherent
to James is praising
your pish.

(CROWD GROANS)

(CROWD HlSSlNG)

And l confess to
a certain weariness
in this whole issue,

and look for the light
of Your Grace
to give some lead.

And all l could answer,
in honesty,

was that it would be
the one most inclined
to his own benefit.

Damn it, man. But you
talk too much. Can you
not tend to your wager?

(CHUCKLES)

Argyll,
my wager is well won.

(MUTTERS)

(SlLENCE)

(CROWD CHATTERlNG)

Damn it, Guthrie!

ls it not enough
that you're beaten, but
you must turn backstabber?

My factor will call upon
Your Grace's factor.

(CATTLE MOOlNG)

(MEN WHlSTLlNG)

Well done, Rob, man.

(COUGHlNG)

Cut out another
of the cattle.

lf the tinkers ate one,
they could have eaten two.

Montrose will
charge you,
nonetheless.

l'm weary of seeing
children hungry
and old folk cold.

lt'll take more than
a cow to fix that, Rob.

Aye. Well, you'll be
in the Americas,
living off the fat,

so it won't worry you.

Will you have
some broth, Rob?
No, Coll. l'm for home.

God bless you, Rob.

And then Rob just walks
in among them, his sword
still in its sheath,

(CHUCKLES)

and says, "Up.
Get up, you bunch
of ragged-arsed. . ."

Hello, Rob.

CHlLDREN: Hello, Rob!

"Get up, you bunch
of ragged-arsed
tinker cow thieves!"

And Rob up to him
and says,

"Tell your crew to
lay down and l'll
only cut your throat,

"else l'll call my men."

And we're all there.
We are ready.

(HlSSlNG)

Get up, boy.
Come on.

Go on. Get.

(BARKlNG)

(MOOlNG)

(HEN CLUCKlNG)

l dreamed
a selkie came.

And what did he do
to you, your selkie?

(CHUCKLES)

You wakened me
before the best of it.

But he would have
ravished me for certain.

How do you know
you're awake, wife?

(MOANlNG)

Mr. Killearn.
l'm on my way.

Aye. Well on the way,
l'd venture.

Let me be, Mr. Killearn.
You'll wake him.
Don't, Mr. Killearn !

l'm sure the young master
has you nicely greased,
does he not?

Betty, you'd hardly
feel me going in.

A wee whiff of quim
in the morning,
Mr. Cunningham, sir.

(MOANS)

Just the thing
to clear your head.

(SNlFFlNG)

Mr. Cunningham,
l hope l'm not
disturbing you.

Of course
you're bloody well
disturbing me.

Do you think
l want to wake up

and find some great
smelly Scotchman
staring down at me?

(URlNATlNG)

(FARTlNG)

What are you doing here?

l wanted to tell you
that some of the local
trades people

have been pressing
for payment on your debt.

And you woke me
to tell me that?

A thousand apologies,
Mr. Cunningham, but they've
also writ to His Lordship.

Damn it, man.

l but recently earned
His Lordship 200 guineas.

What are the complaints
of a few tradesmen
for such services?

(SlGHlNG)

This country does
not agree with me.

l cannot wait to be
out of the damnable place.

The sentiments of
a great many of us, sir.

Would you like me
to take away
your chamber pot?

l know many a Scotsman
would be glad of this
on a cold morning.

lt's almost pure spirit,
and l'm no judge
of a pint of pish.

(BARKlNG)

RANALD:
Come back.
Come here!

ROBERT:
l killed Tam Sibbald
yesterday morning.

We played ball
once at Crieff market.

l remember shouting,
"Well done, Tam,"
when he made a run.

And there he was,
hung on the end
of my dirk like meat.

Aye.

Well, likely
it was necessary.

Aye, it was.
Necessary enough
to save worse.

But those tinkers
weren't all born
broken men, Mary.

Some of them
had kin and clan.

They made me fear
l might have come across
one of our own among them.

MacGregors are not tinkers.

But a hard winter
or two away,
some of us. . .

What's gnawing on you,
Robert?

l've made up my mind
to borrow money
from Montrose

to buy cattle
at Crieff market
and sell at Carlisle.

How much money?

£1 ,000.

Believe me, Mary,
it will turn profit. £6 in
Crieff is £1 2 in Carlisle.

And l know cattle.

l can drive them faster
and deliver them fatter

than any man
in the kingdom.

(CHUCKLES) And why would
the Marquis of Montrose
lend a MacGregor £1 ,000?

For profit, what else?
lt's an investment
as much as a loan.

So it's business
partners you are now,
you and the Marquis.

Keep that tongue
for your boys, woman.

l didn't tell you
my mind to be
flayed for it.

You know l love
the bones of you,
Robert MacGregor.

But you take too much
to heart that cannot
be helped.

lt must be helped.

All right,

but not today.

(BOYS GlGGLlNG)

ROBERT: l got yous.
l got the two of yous!

Got the two of yous!

Move on.

Father,
will MacGregors ever
be kings again?

All men with honor
are kings,

but not all kings
have honor.

What is honor?

Honor is

what no man can give you,
and none can take away.

Honor is a man's gift
to himself.

Do women have it?

Women are
the heart of honor,

and we cherish
and protect it
in them.

You must never mistreat
a woman or malign a man,

nor stand by
and see another do so.

How do you know
if you have it?

Never worry on
the getting of it.

lt grows in you
and speaks to you.

All you need do is listen.

All right, lads,
enough of the finer things.

You've animals
to tend to
and water to haul.

Away with you.

Your mother and me
will be down directly.

Take the basket.

(BARKlNG)

DUNCAN: Come on !
l'll race you
down the hill.

Do you know how fine
you are to me,
Mary MacGregor?

So fine.

ls that why
you sent them away?

To tell me
how fine l am?

Or did you want to
make a silk purse out
of my sow's ear again?

(CLlCKlNG TONGUE)

What a wanton l'm wed to.

You know what
the old wives say about
these standing stones?

No.

What do the old wives say,
old wife?

(EXCLAlMS)

Come here.

What do they say?

(GlGGLlNG)

So, what do they say?

They say the stones
make men hard,

and women fertile.

We've no need of them,
you and me.

You know how fine
you are to me,
Robert MacGregor?

This tailor in Glasgow

to whom you owe £87

extended this credit
because you were my guest?

Or as you prefer to frame it,
"a member of my household"?

l can assure
Your Lordship l have in
no manner indebted him.

And now Killearn
tells me

that you are saddling
one of my serving wenches.

Damn it, sir! Your mother
did not send you to me
to debauch innocent girls.

l regret that l have
so offended Your Lordship.

By your leave,
l will remove myself.

(CHUCKLlNG)

And to where,
might l ask?

You are penniless.
You have no mount.

You know no one.

To where will you
remove yourself?

Have you some notion

of presenting yourself
at the Duke of Argyll's door,

and soliciting
his patronage as
his new champion?

l am Your Lordship's
to command.

Remember your place, sir!

That's all l ask
of any man.

What is next?

MacGregor, my lord.

You may go, Archibald.

You bear no arms?

l hadn't planned
on demanding terms
at sword point.

Robert MacGregor
of Craigrostan,
my lord.

So, MacGregor,

l knew your father,
an able man,
if not a wise one.

Have you taken on
his mantle?

As best l may,
my lord.

So, how many men
are you master of?

Master of none,
my lord,

but some 200 souls
live close by Craigrostan,

and are in my care.

But you are a prophet
and provider to them,

is that not so?

What l can, l do.

lt is no great matter
compared to
Your Lordship's world.

(CHUCKLES)

To know one's place,
MacGregor,
in the order of things

is a great blessing.

And what terms,
Killearn?
A fifth, my lord.

A fifth, you say?

What, is this man kin
that you offer
such kindly terms?

Am l not accustomed
to a quarter
on unsecured loans?

MacGregor has 300 acres
at Craigrostan, my lord.

A man of property
intent on growing richer.

Well, we have more
in common than l would
have suspected, MacGregor.

£1 ,000 for three months,
you say, and these acres
of yours as security?

And my oath.

Yes.

Tell me,
is there something in
what Killearn says,

that you might have
driven off my cattle,

and returned them with
stories of tinkers caught
and summarily executed?

l have, in my day,
thieved cattle,
Your Lordship,

but none that were
under my watch.

ls that what passes
for honor with
a MacGregor, then?

What passes for honor
with me

is likely enough
the same as
with Your Lordship.

When my word is given,
it is good.

Well, you are to be
congratulated on such
cheaply bought nobility.

Killearn will draw papers.

And l will expect
the terms to be met.

My thanks
to Your Lordship.

(GOAT BLEATlNG)

(PEOPLE CHATTERlNG)

(FlDDLE PLAYlNG)

Aye, but it's a fine,
bold signature you have,

worthy of
a chieftain himself.

Are you Rob Roy MacGregor?

l am.
And what's your name?
Davey Anderson.

Hello, Davey Anderson.
Hello.

KlLLEARN:
Even the servant boys
know who you are.

You've become a famous
reiver and retriever
in your own lifetime.

Business and profit.

And a soft winter.

GUTHRlE: Are you
Rob Roy MacGregor?

l am.

l'm Will Guthrie.

You heard of me?

No, l have not.

Well, l've heard of you.

ROBERT: lndeed.

And what have
you heard,
Mr. Guthrie?

l heard you backstabbed
Tam Sibbald.

Were you and Tam kin?

Near enough.

l shagged his sister.

Likely so did Tam.

You want the wind
let out of your bladder?

(SlLENCE)

What's your business
with me, Guthrie?

Business

best done outside.

We have no quarrel.

That can be remedied.

(SlGHlNG)

The first cut?

Aye.

Well done.

(PEOPLE LAUGHlNG)

Some other time,

when we're both sober.

(PEOPLE CHATTERlNG)

(LAUGHlNG)

Tam Sibbald has
a longer reach dead
than he ever did living.

l'm away home.

Keep the pony
and stick to Killearn
till you have the note.

l'll see you
back in Craigrostan.
Aye.

l'm to wait here
till the note is signed.

Aye. We are
the obedient one.

Fetch and carry
at command.

Tell me, McDonald,
why has a smart
young lad like you

attached himself
to such a bunch
of tinkers?

l would have thought
you more fit to serve
a man like my master,

the Marquis of Montrose.

l do not serve
Robert MacGregor,
Killearn.

l'm his friend,
and count myself
fortunate to claim it.

My God, what a crew
you Highlanders are.

With your airs and honors,

come begging £1 ,000
as if you were doing
the lender a favor.

Sheep shaggers,
the lot of you.

(lMlTATlNG SHEEP BLEATlNG)

My mother could come
no nearer than three
candidates for my paternity.

The Earl of Rutland.

Now, there's a name
for a whore master.

A secretary to
the Spanish Ambassador,

whose name
she hazarded
as Ferdinando.

And some young buck
she never saw who raised
her skirts at a masked ball.

He ravished her?

(WHlSPERlNG) l would
put it no higher
than surprised.

Archie, take me with you.

Wherever, whatever.

Take me away with you.

l am away, Betty,
and God help me,
this is where l've landed.

You think me a gentleman

because l have linen
and can manage a lisp.

l am but a bastard abroad,

seeking my fortune
and the favors of great men,

as big a whore as
my mother ever was.

l'm pregnant by you,
Archie.

Well.

(CHUCKLES)

When it asks for its
father's name, at least
you'll have it to give.

(KNOCKlNG AT DOOR)

(WHlSPERlNG)
Mr. Cunningham,
it's me, Killearn.

A word with you.
Don't let him see me.

(GASPlNG)

You are a carbuncle
on this arse of
a country, Killearn.

And if you ever
inform against me
to His Lordship again,

l'll squeeze
the pus out of you
with my bare hands.

(COUGHlNG)

My, Archie, but you have
a rare contempt in you.

l gave you no leave
to call me familiar.

Could l pay
for the privilege?

At a fair price.

What are you
gibbering about?

Money, Archie.
Money. What else?

How much money?

Let's talk inside
over a dram.

lt's chill on the stairs.

Say what you have to say.
l am engaged within.

You've Betty
on her back.

How much money?

£1 ,000.

£1 ,000. What does
£1 ,000 look like?

Will we have enough
ponies to carry it?

Not coin.

A note of credit drawn
on His Lordship.

At what interest, Rob?
One fifth.

And he gets £200 profit
for three months?

Aye. That's
the price of cash,

and we must plan
the matter
to the last penny.

When Alan returns,
he'll take three of you,
and you'll go to Crieff.

There you'll bargain
with the drovers,

and have the herd assembled
when l come with a kit
for the drive.

How many, Rob?
How big a herd?

300, maybe more.

And whatever
we can acquire
along the way.

(CHUCKLES)
No harm if a dozen
or more stick.

We'll drive them into
Carlisle like an army.

So let's have
all hands to it.

And we'll stay
warm this winter,
within and without.

And to celebrate,
we'll hold a gathering
and drink to our success!

ALL CHEERlNG)

Right, McKinness.
That's two shillings
still owed.

Next.
MAN: Colqhoun.

Colqhoun, what have
you got? A rabbit?

Aye, a rabbit.

Well, you're still
a week behind, Colqhoun.

Must l wait all day
for my note, Killearn?

Patience, MacGregor's man.
Your turn is marked.

Take you that goat
to the pen.

Come, young Davey Wilson.
What have you got for me?

A rabbit.
Another rabbit.

Does nobody have any money?
No, sir.
Only a rabbit.

Dreaming of the New World,
were we?

l hear tell in the New World
they have tribes
of noble savages

with paint on their faces
and skins on their backs.

You'll be well at home
among them.

Enough of this tripe.
Have you the note?

His Lordship
is to Edinburgh
for the assize,

then to London direct.

Great doings at the court.

And he's away
without signing
the note.

The best l can do
for you is coin.

This was not agreed.

Agreed or no,
there's £1 ,000 here.
Take it or leave it,

it makes no difference to me,
nor to His Grace.

Aye, it's a terrible shock,

the sight of such a fortune
within reach, is it not?

lt's just as well you have
the trust of the MacGregor,

or l'd be hard pressed
to sign it over to you.

(FlDDLE PLAYlNG)

(PEOPLE CHATTERlNG)

Angus.
lt's a great gathering, Rob!

ALL CHEERlNG)

(PANTlNG)

That Alasdair Roy
is a fierce dancer.

The last time l saw you
in such a lather,
you were flat on your back.

(EXCLAlMS)

Do not affront me
afore these folk.

Rob, do you know why
Calvinists are against
shagging standing up?

No, Coll. l do not.

They fear it might
lead to dancing.

(LAUGHlNG)

(OWL HOOTlNG)

(HORSE SNORTlNG)

(LEAVES RUSTLlNG)

Stay back, or by God,
l'll shoot you dead.

For a moment there,

l thought you might
take the road to Greenock
with your £1 ,000.

Killing is not so easy
as it seems.

(NElGHlNG)

(GASPS)

(GROANlNG)

(SlNGlNG lN LOCAL LANGUAGE)

ALAN GROANlNG)

(PANTlNG)

(GROANlNG)

He sat out there all day,
pondering on this.

You gave him coin.

He insisted upon it.

When l told him
His Grace had not
signed the note,

he said you must have it,

or the beasts could not
be bought at the best price.

l'm hard put to see you
hand over such a sum

on the demand
of one who couldn't
bear the debt.

He was your man,

present at your
signing of the terms,
ordered by you to wait.

For a note,
not a bag
of guineas!

lt was not all guineas.

These farmers pay
in small coin,
l assure you.

He signed for this
bag of coin?

lndeed.

He did.

Almost as bold
a hand as yourself.

And best be no
skullduggery here,
Killearn.

Alan McDonald stands
under my protection.

Well, that's a great
comfort to us all,
l must say,

what with
£1 ,000 at risk.

Now, listen.
We must search for Alan.

l fear he's come
to mischief hereabouts.

l say we look for him
in Greenock, Rob.

lt comes quickly to
your mind that he has
robbed us, Alasdair.

He spoke of
the Americas
often enough.

And what?

He walked to Greenock
from Buchlyvie, and sent
his pony home without him?

£1 ,000 would be enough
to buy him 1 0 ponies.

Alan McDonald
did not betray me.

Now to it,
and find his trace.

Come on ! To it!

Go to Greenock, then,
since you have that
stink in your nose.

But, Brother,

bad enough that
it might be so
without you wishing it.

(THUNDER RUMBLlNG)

Well, what news?

The ship sailed
the day before
l got there,

and McDonald's name was not
on the harbormaster's list.

But he wouldn't
have likely used
his own name

and him run off
with 1 ,000. . .

(SlGHlNG)

Aye.

(lNSTRUMENTAL MUSlC PLAYlNG)

(PEOPLE CHATTERlNG)

Your Lordship,
the Duke of Argyll
this way comes.

John, you look like a man
who means to play hard.

Do not presume
to speak above
your station, sir!

l will have
my rank from you !

Your Grace.

l have word from court

that you are putting
my name about as a Jacobite,

as one who would rise for
the Stuart should he land
here to claim the throne.

Great men such as
yourself draw rumors
as shite draws flies.

You are the shite, Montrose,
and the flies upon it!

For all the flowers
in your great gardens,
l know you in my nose.

Keep your stink off my name,

or by God, l will clip you
as close as one
of your gelded trees,

and this carrion you keep
will not come between us!

What pride to use
a fellow peer
in public so!

Damn his pride!

Forgive me.

Damn His Grace's pride.

Why is it so beyond
your belief

that he might have yielded
to the sight of all that
money put into his hand?

Unguarded, unasked, but there,
a lifetime's wages in a bag.

Because l know him.
l know him more
than half his life.

But was he ever
handed £1 ,000 before?

He was handed a hundred
times more. He was given
trust, and he repaid in kind.

Why do you not believe me?

All right, Rob.
He did not
steal from you.

But he has gone,
and the money's gone,

and Montrose will not
care if you believe
one thing or the other.

That's another matter.
No. That is
the only matter now.

For all our sakes, Robert,

you must take off
your high hat and make
what terms you can,

else our home is lost,
and ourselves
His Lordship's tenants.

(EXCLAlMS)

Here comes
the bold Highlander.

No arse in his breeks,
but too proud
to tug his forelock.

No doubt the rogue seeks
to blame his servant,

for l hear there is
no word of the man.

l see you're back in favor
with your tailor, Archibald.

He must be a happy man.

So, MacGregor,
how is it with you?

As it was, my lord.

There is still no word
of McDonald or
Your Lordship's money.

What are we to do, then?

lf Your Lordship
would contract with me
for another sum,

l would turn over all profit
and so repay my debt.

l have but lost £1 ,000.
You ask me to risk another?

My lord, the money
was stolen from me
and from you.

l am no part of your
incompetence, MacGregor.

You signed a paper.
And l will honor it.

Ply me not with
your honor, man.

Let us keep
these matters simple.

You are indebted to me.
On that we are agreed?

We are, my lord.

Know you the Duke of Argyll?

By his repute alone.

My report is that
Argyll is a Jacobite,

and would declare for
James Stuart should he seek
to reclaim the throne.

These are intelligences
unknown to me, my lord.

They are known to you now.

l'm uncertain of
Your Lordship's meaning.

Damn it, man !

You and your clan
are Jacobites,
bred to the bone.

Argyll is nothing to you.

l want your word
against him.

Give it, and we will
come to some reckoning
on what you owe me.

l can be of no assistance
to Your Lordship in this
matter of the Duke of Argyll.

You owe me.

l owe you money.
Nothing more.

What you have asked is
as below me as it should
be beneath Your Lordship.

You misspeak yourself,
MacGregor.

lt is the Marquis of Montrose
who has misspoke himself,

to ask my perjury
against his enemies.

Leave the blade be, sir!
This is not your quarrel.

You do not hear me,
MacGregor. l did
not ask if or whether.

Your land is forfeit to me
against your debt.

Until that is settled,
l will have you lodged
in the tollbooth.

Take him into custody,
Archibald. You have
my commission on it!

My father spent
two years in that jail

for no cause
but the will of
great men like you.

And l will not
go there, sir.

Call out the watch,
damn you !

Call nothing,
or l'll cut his throat!

You are damned,
MacGregor.
Damned to hell.

(CHUCKLES) Come,
Your Lordship. Leave
the devil some work.

You've done enough
for one day.

Well, call out the watch !

Yes, sir.

KlLLEARN:
Call out the watch !

Do you hear me?
Call out the watch !

You have slept your
last peaceful night,
MacGregor,

you and yours.

MARY: What is John Campbell,
Duke of Argyll, to us, Robert,

that you must defend him
against Montrose?

l did not defend him.

l refused to bear
false witness against him.

Gregor, send men
to the passes
and set watches.

And the lochside?

They'll not likely come
along by the shore,
but watch all ways.

Now, listen, lads.
l have to go to
the hills for a time.

You stay by your mother
and be her help, you hear?

Let Argyll know
that you are persecuted
for his sake.

l'm persecuted
for no man's sake
but my own, Mary.

What?

Would you have me lie
against my conscience
to suit Montrose?

No! To suit me
and Duncan and Ranald,

to stay home with your wife
and children instead of taking
to the hills like a fox.

Out!

Out! Out! Out!

He'll be with you
soon enough !

Take the boys
and go to Morag's.
She'll make a place.

And let Montrose's
troopers foul my house?

No harm will come to you.
Montrose's quarrel is with me.

And you revel in it.
The great man against all.

And likely you'll slip
down in the night
when the mood takes you.

Or will you just
find yourself a sheep
to comfort you?

Aye, well, if l do,
it will be one that
doesn't bleat so bitter.

ROBERT: No trouble
between them and you.
Give no cause.

This is between me
and Montrose,

and likely when
he's broke a few horses,
he'll quieten down.

Watch Alasdair.
Put him where
he can do no harm.

Keep up the watch
for McDonald.

Rob, he's long gone.

Aye, but is he
over the seas
or under them?

And, Coll,

ask Morag to go
down to Mary. She's sore
at me for this business.

That Montrose is a stoat
of a man. Heaven protect us
from his like.

When the king
comes across
the water again,

we'll see him hung.

(DRUMS PLAYlNG)

(NElGHlNG)

Your Lordship will
not regret leaving
this matter in my hands.

l have some knowledge
of how best to bring
such rogues to heel.

Broken but not dead,
Archibald.
That is all l ask.

"Broken but not dead."

lt has a ring to it.

Your health.

(GLASS SHATTERS)

(SOLDlERS SHOUTlNG)

WOMEN: Goodbye!

lnstead of spying them out,
we should lay for them,

and cut them down
as they come
through the passes.

Aye, a wee war
with Montrose
would suit us fine.

Listen, Alasdair Roy.

Keep your watch,
give warning,
and stay your hand,

or you'll answer to me.

Damn that McDonald
has brought this on us.

l never trusted the man.
Always at Rob's arse
like a collie dog.

Morag had a dream
on him. Saw him drowned.

Maybe his ship sank,
and him loaded down
with the theft.

(URlNATlNG)

(GROWLlNG)

(SHUSHlNG)

Give me your musket.

(DOG BARKlNG)

(WHlMPERS)

Boys, wake up! Wake up!
Quickly! Quickly!

Get out of bed !

MARY: Go, go!
Bring the Gregorach !

l've come for the outlaw
Robert MacGregor.

lf you think he'd be lying
in his bed waiting for you,

you're more of a fool
than you look.

(CHUCKLES)

(GROANlNG)

Search the outsheds.
Burn them.

Kill the stock.

You best stand aside,
Mistress MacGregor.

You don't ask a whore.
You make her.

(MARY SCREAMlNG)

(GRUNTlNG)

No!

(GUNS FlRlNG)

No! No!

(MARY SCREAMlNG)

(GROANlNG)

(GOAT BLEATlNG)

(CATTLE MOOlNG)

(GUNS FlRlNG)

(PANTlNG)

(MOANS)

ARCHlBALD EXHALES)

Do you want yours now,
Killearn?

Now that l've loosened her
up for you.

ARCHlBALD:
Think of yourself
as the scabbard

and me the sword,
Mistress MacGregor.

And a fine fit
you were, too.

l will think of you
dead until my husband
makes you so.

And then l will think
on you no more.

lndeed.

Such a man as he will need
to see blood on his blade

before honor is satisfied.

Tell him Archibald Cunningham
is at his service.

(DOOR CLOSlNG)

(SOLDlERS CHATTERlNG)

What are you gawking at?
Have you never
been to war before?

You're a warrior, Archie,
and no mistake.

lf she doesn't come out,
Archie, there will be
a reckoning.

Shagging her's one thing,
burning her's another.

She'll be out.
She's a hater, that one.
There she is.

SOLDlER: Back to the boat!

(SOLDlERS SHOUTlNG)

They say it's not
a sin if you don't
take pleasure in it.

(SHOUTlNG)

Come on !

Come on !
Come on !

l am Alasdair
Roy MacGregor!

Come on ! Come on !

ls that the best
you can do?

(lMlTATlNG SHEEP BLEATlNG)

(SOLDlERS lMlTATlNG
SHEEP BLEATlNG)

Do it again,
bastards!

Come on !

Come on ! Come on ! Come. . .

(PANTlNG)

(CRYlNG)

Mary, are you hurt?
Did they wound you?

(SOBBlNG)

Mary.

What have they done?

We will avenge you.

Rob will kill every
last one of them.

(CRYlNG)
He will not know.
Rob will not know.

Mary, Rob must know.

He will not!
He will not know!

He will not!

l will not tell him,
and you will not.

Do you hear me,
Alasdair MacGregor?

But, Mary, no.
lt is what they want!

lt is what
the Englishman wants!
lt is his plan !

You swear it to me.
Swear it!

(CRYlNG) l cannot!
l cannot!
Swear it! Swear it!

You can !

lf l can bear it to be done,
you can bear to be silent!

Now, you swear it!
Swear it.

Swear it. Swear it.

Swear it! Swear it!
l swear. l swear. l swear.

And l will hold you to it.

Mark me.

But of MacGregor himself,
still no word?

We will have him
soon enough.

l have set such an affront
to his Highland honor,

that he will come
to redeem it.

Very well.

See to it that
l am not mocked,
and in the meanwhile,

make my claim against
these acres in Lomondside
for the debt he owes.

Still no word
of this man
of MacGregor's?

He who took the coin?

No, my lord, not a word.

Nor will there be.

This was a ploy of
MacGregor's, to take
the money and blame another.

His man is well hid,
and Your Lordship's
money well spent.

l wager it.

You have a rare grasp
of the conspirator's mind,
Archibald.

You're to be
commended on it.

He sees through it, Archie.
l know him and his gibes.

And you think it would
count against us if he knew?

He has another 300 acres
to plant and prune.

And all for the price
of a paltry 1 ,000
Scotch pounds.

A fair price
by any reckoning.
BETTY: Archie, sir!

l must speak with you.

l am dismissed
from service on
account of my state.

And what is your state,
pretty Betty?

You know well.
l'm with your child.

And he, this one,
has made report of it.

Betty, my report did
nothing your belly wouldn't
announce on its own.

Archie, what am l to do?

Root it out.

lf Killearn here does
not know an old crone
with a twig l miss my guess.

lt's gone
too far for that.

Then it will not be
the first bastard
born in Scotland.

(SOBBlNG)
Archie, l love you.

Love is a dunghill,
Betty,

and l am but a cock
that climbs upon it
to crow.

(CRYlNG) No!

ALL CHATTERlNG)

lt's a sore thing
they have done to us,
Mary and me.

Far past any wrong
l had expected, even
from such as Montrose.

He must pay for it, Rob!

Else what are we?

Pay he will till
his teeth squeal.

Think on it, now.
Think on it.

Even if we raised
all the MacGregors,
we could not, must not,

fight Montrose
in open battle.

He has 1 0, 20 times
our numbers and the strength
of the Crown to back him.

GREGOR: There is honor here.

You were wronged.
Mary is wronged.

Honor will be satisfied.
You know me well enough.

But consider this.

One house burned,

cattle killed,

but none are dead,
none injured.

ALL ARGUlNG)

Rob is right.

Rob is right!

lt is not within our reach
to harm such as Montrose.

(EXCLAlMlNG)

Wheesht!
Wheesht!
Wheesht!

Wheesht! Wheesht!

l will harm him.
Never fear.

Aye!
ALL: Aye!

The tenderest part
of the Marquis
is his purse.

We'll hurt him there.

Thieve his cattle.
Steal his rent.

Rent and cattle,
until his coffers are bled.

Aye!
ALL: Aye!

Wait! Wait!

Wheesht!
Wheesht! Morag.

We have not heard
Mary on it,

and in truth,
she was the one
most affronted.

Rob is right.
What cannot be helped
must be endured.

lt will look
more like itself
when the sun shines.

Eh, lads? Yeah.

When we have our bed in it
and us in our bed,

it will seem home enough.

All right, play can wait.
We have work to do.

Duncan.

l should have been
with you, Mary.

lt wasn't right that
l was in the hills.

Then you would
be dead now.

No. They would
have taken me
to the tollbooth.

No. l think you
would be dead.

l could not hear
all of it,

but Killearn talked of money
that Archie might take.

MARY: This is Cunningham,
this Archie?

He is wild,
but it's not him.

lt's that Killearn.
He has the devil in him.

Tell me about this money.
Did you hear a sum spoken?

Archie said it would be
the easiest £1 ,000
he'd ever earned.

The only pity that it
would be in Scots
and not English pounds.

How did he mean
to earn this £1 ,000?

l know not.

Save that Killearn said
no trace must be left.

My husband will appreciate
that you came with this word.

Will you take some
supper and rest, Betty?
For you look ill-used.

l'm no worse used
than l deserve,
Mistress MacGregor.

For l have a bastard's
bastard in me.

And no home for him
when he comes out.

Well, we better feed you,
or he won't have
the strength to try it.

(SOBBlNG)

Lass, lass, lass.

Bear up now.

Your bairn will have you,
and you will have it.

But l will not
have Archie.

Mistress MacGregor,
l love him,

even after all.

ls that not
a worse sin
than any other?

No, Betty.

Love is never a sin,
only the lack of it.

l knew it. l knew
they plotted against us.

Damn them that
they carried it through.

l will have them
before the assize.

Killearn and Cunningham.
Aye, and Montrose, too,
if he were part of it.

You think such men
as these will admit this,

because wee Betty Sturrock,
with her belly under her chin,
says so?

What's her belly
to do with it?

She's carrying
the Englishman's child.

They'll call her
a whore come
for revenge.

Now, they can say
what they like.
She'll speak the truth.

Robert, to these men,
the truth is but
a lie undiscovered.

l will have justice!

Alan McDonald is dead,
woman.

Then take your case
to the Duke of Argyll.

lt's known he bears
Montrose no favor.

You hold great store
by wolves of different shades.

They're all alike at lambing.

And you will have nothing
but your own way!

l tell you,
Killearn and Cunningham
will not be condemned

before any assize
on Betty's word.

Aye. But l know one
that will condemn them.

And l'll have them before it,
or l'm not Robert MacGregor.

(PEOPLE CHATTERlNG)

The Englishman will
never find him.

MacGregor knows
every rock and track,

and can walk faster
than the troopers can ride.

Look, put me
onto His Lordship

as a man that knows
the highways and byways.

l'll find him.
l swear it.

(SlLENCE)

On your feet, Killearn.
You and l have business.

(WHlSPERlNG) Now is your
moment, Guthrie. lt would
stand well with His Lordship.

This is not your fight,
Guthrie.

And if l make it
my fight?

Then give Tam Sibbald
my regards
when you see him.

Fight him well
and you'll win
His Lordship's favor.

l warrant it.

(WOMAN SHRlEKS)

(WOMEN SCREAMlNG)

(GROANlNG)

Please, please,
please don't kill me.
Don't kill me. lt wasn't me.

Outside.

KlLLEARN: lt's him the lass
wants revenge on. Cunningham.

And l grant it,
he treated her sore.

lf you harm me,
His Lordship will
hunt you down,

and you know it.

l'm past caring, Killearn.

ROBERT: The lantern.

Go back, get Betty,
and we'll try him
before morning. Now.

lnside.

(KNOCKlNG AT DOOR)

ALASDAlR: Mary! Mary!

Who is it?
lt's Alasdair.

Rob's holding Killearn,
and he wants to see
Betty straightaway.

l'll wake her.

Treat her gentle.
She's near the end
of her tether.

Where's my father?

Wheesht.

Are the soldiers coming?

You two should be sleeping.

MARY: No!

Stay there!

(CRYlNG)

Get my knife!

Mary? Where's the girl?

Betty Sturrock
hanged herself
in our shed.

She made me bring her.
l told. . .
l made him bring me

for l have dealings
with this Killearn.

Me and Betty Sturrock
and Betty Sturrock's child,

the three of us
will bring it
out of him.

No. This is no
matter for him.

This is between us.

As l am your wife, Robert,
l will have my way in this,
l will.

Betty! ls that you?

Betty is dead.

She killed herself
this night, and
her unborn with her.

Mistress MacGregor.

So the poor girl is dead.

Spare me your hypocrisy,
Killearn.

You are as much
her murderer as she,
you and that Englishman.

l had no part
in her child

any more than that
matter at Craigrostan.

You stood and gloated.
You did all with your eyes.

You have not told him.

You think me such a puppet
that l would put
my husband's head

in a noose fashioned
from my own dishonor?

You have a proposal
for me. l can tell.

You will sign your name
to a statement telling how
you slew Alan McDonald,

stole my husband's money,
burned our property.

Before a judge
you will sign it.

And let them hang me
in the tollbooth
for my trouble?

No great inducement,
Mistress MacGregor.

When it is signed,
you may go where you will.

Where you can.

l shall not soon
forget, Mary,

the last time l saw you.

How nobly you walked
from that burning,
like a queen.

You will sign it or else.
Or else what?

You'll tell Rob
how Cunningham
used you?

l have another picture,
not so noble,

of you stood in Lomond water,
washing between your legs.

l've wondered many a time
since that morning,

did you wash Archie
out of you, or
is he still in there,

growing into his father?

Yes.

Well, l have a proposal
for you, Mistress MacGregor.

Persuade your man
that Cunningham alone
killed his man

and kept the money entirely,
and l will not speak

of what you have
inside you.

Rob would be hard pressed
to love such a bastard,
would he not?

But you know
the saying, Mary.

'Tis a wise father
knows his own child.

And if you'll not
say anything,
neither will l.

You have my word on it.

(SCREAMlNG)

(GROANlNG)

Cut me. . .

She cut me.
The bitch cut me!

Mary, are you hurt?
Are you hurt?

What have you done, woman?

(GROANlNG)

Am l cut bad?
Am l cut bad?

(WHlSPERlNG)
Not bad enough for me.

(GRUNTlNG)

l mean, my God,
what made you
do such a thing?

l have as much cause
as you in this. More.

He has to be
made to confess.

He will never confess.

Betty was right.
He has the devil in him.

Devil or no,
he's my prisoner.
Don't you understand?

Robert, there are things
you must know.

Things l have to tell you.

So? Tell me.

(DOOR OPENlNG)
There was. . .

Well?

He's dead, Rob.
l could do nothing.

Robert, listen to me now.

There's no time
for talk now.

Alasdair,
can you sink a man?

ALASDAlR: Aye.
ROBERT:
Cut the wind out of him,

put a rock in his belly,
take him out where it's deep.

Montrose will scour us
out now for sure.

We must make sure
you and the lads are safe
before he comes.

Deep, mind you !

l am mocked by
this rogue who you took
to deliver me broken.

'Tis myself who
will be broken
if these raids go on.

Now my factor
is abducted
in plain view.

Am l gone mad?

Your Lordship. . .
Do not. . .

Do not, l say,
speak in my stead.

There's something here
that l do not see.

Killearn and you
have some hand
in matters

that is hid from sight.

This tells me that you
are in cash, yet l know
you are without means.

Gaming, Your Lordship.
The cards favored.

(SHOUTlNG) Do you take me
entirely for a Whig, sir?

l care not what you
and that greasy capon
have cooked up,

but put an end
to this impudence
against me.

l am James Graham,
Marquis of Montrose.

And l will not be mocked.

You hear me?

SOLDlER: On the roof!
On the roof with it!

Take it from the back!

We can't let them burn,
loot, and ride away.

We should hit them, Rob.
Cunningham is there.

He's the one that took. . .
l know who he is.

Have you no thought
to avenge Mary for that?

There's 30 or more men.
They'd ride us
down like sheep.

Alasdair MacGregor
is no sheep.

Coll's right.
We can do nothing.

(WHlSTLES)

(SOLDlERS YELLlNG)

SOLDlER: Company, make ready!

Attention, men !

(GUN FlRES)

(NElGHlNG)

Damn the wee fool !
Scatter! lnto the mist.
Find your own way home!

(SOLDlERS SHOUTlNG)

(LAUGHlNG)

There they are!

ARCHlBALD: After him !

l want MacGregor!

Fire, you fools! Fire!

l hit one of them.

And it will cost us,
l'm thinking.

(YELLlNG)
Move! Move!

God's curse on you
for a brother, Alasdair.

l want MacGregor!

You're getting too old
for the wars, Rob, eh?

(GROANS)

(CHUCKLES)

Come on !

Fire! Fire,
you fools! Fire!

Put me down.
l can run.
Shut your mouth.

COLL: Run, Rob, run !

Go on, Rob!
Run for yourself!

(GROANS)

(PANTlNG)

(GROANS)

ALASDAlR MOANlNG)

ARCHlBALD: l want MacGregor!
l want MacGregor! After him !

ALASDAlR MOANlNG)

Be quiet!

ALASDAlR CRYlNG)

(PANTlNG)

Hold still.
Hold still.

(GASPS)

Knocked the breath
out of me.

(SHUSHlNG)
Rob, l can't feel my legs.

Are they there?

Aye, aye.
Your legs are fine.

Forgive me, Rob,
for l can't
forgive myself.

Save your breath, lad.

l couldn't have
saved her, Rob.

They were done with Mary
before l reached them.

She made me swear
not to tell you.

l'm sorry.

Done what with Mary?
Done what?

She said. . .

She said if
she could bear it. . .

What of Mary, Alasdair?
Rob, l can't see.

l'm here, Alasdair.
What of Mary?
What of it?

They. . .

They violated her.

Alasdair, who did this?

The mist is clearing.
Be ready.

SOLDlER: Be ready
to search upwards!

You men,
search upwards!

(HORSE NElGHlNG)

(GASPlNG)

(GROANlNG)

SOLDlER:
There was a shot
on the ledge.

(SCREAMlNG)

Forward !

Where is he?
Over there!

(SOLDlERS SHOUTlNG)

Get the horse!

(HORSE SQUEALlNG)

Well, well.
The great MacGregor
come to hand at last.

(SOLDlER LAUGHlNG)

(SOLDlERS CHATTERlNG)

Well, how does it seem
to you tonight, MacGregor?

ls God's great plan
for us all
to your liking?

"Broken but not dead"
was His Lordship's request.

Well, l will do my part
if you will do yours

and not die before
the bridge at Glen Orchy.

Tell me,

what did you do
with that bag
of guts, Killearn?

(GRUNTS)

Vex me not, MacGregor.
Or l shall have you
dragged awhile.

l'm a man of my word.

You're a thief,
a murderer,

and a violator of women.

(EXCLAlMS)

l had hoped you'd come to me
long since on that score.

lf l had known earlier,
you would have been
dead sooner.

l will tell you something
to take with you.

Your wife was far
sweeter forced

than many are willing.

ln truth, put to it,
l think not all
of her objected.

(SNARLlNG)

(COAT RlPPlNG)

l appreciate the honor you
do me, Mistress MacGregor,
in bringing your case.

But from all
l'm acquainted
with your husband,

he has earned the enmity
of the Marquis of Montrose

by borrowing money
that he cannot repay,

and ever harrying
his stock as blackmail.

There is more
to the matter,
Your Grace.

l'm sure there is,
but it is not part of mine
to intrude myself.

Sensible as l am
to your condition.

lt's a hard thought,
but men make the quarrels

and women
and weans
bear them.

Your Grace, Robert finds
himself in this condition
for taking your part.

My part?

What cause had he
to do that
and in what manner?

He refused
to condemn you
by false witness

when the Marquis asked him
to say you were a Jacobite,

to injure your name
at court.

Montrose asked this of him?

ln remission of this debt.

But Robert refused.

l did not know
your husband bore me
such good will.

lndeed, Your Grace, l think
he favors you no more
than any great man.

"As wolves at lambing"
is his word for you all.

lt was not done
for Your Grace

but for his own honor,

which he holds dearer
than myself or his sons,

his clan or kin.
And for which l have
oft chided him.

But it is him
and his way,

and were he other,
he would not be
Robert Roy MacGregor.

He would not come
here before you

nor would he favor me
to do so in his stead.

But l have no choice,
unless l give him up
entire to his enemies.

And though
l love his honor,

it is but a moon-cast shadow
to the love l bear him.

For the grace of God,
l have his child inside me.

And l would have
a father for it.

You do your man
no dishonor, Mary.

Faith, he is a man
much blessed by fortune.

(PANTlNG)

They have MacGregor,
my lord.

SOLDlER: Cavalry, halt!

Broken but not dead,
Your Lordship,
as you requested.

Ungag him.

So, MacGregor,

what have you
to say for yourself?

l have been wronged
by Your Lordship

and by those
who serve him.

You are wronged?

You?

lf l am not much mistaken,
it is myself that is
short £1 ,000,

whose cattle is reived,
and whose factor,
Killearn, is abducted.

Then ask this thing here
where your money is

and where he sunk
Alan McDonald
after he killed him.

Same accusations
he spat at me,
Your Lordship.

Desperate words
from a desperate man.

Do you have proofs
of these matters?

You have my word on it.

l think it will take
more than that.

Then you have the nature
of this man here.

lf Your Lordship cannot
tell what is true
from what is not,

then l fear his judgment
is beyond repair.

Hang him from the bridge.

(GRUNTlNG)

MacGregor!
SOLDlER: Cut him free!

(GASPlNG)

Bring him back here!

l want him back!

(SOLDlERS SHOUTlNG)

MONTROSE: Bring him
back here!

SOLDlER: ln the water!

(SCREAMS)

(GASPlNG)

SOLDlER: l see him !
l see him !

(SOLDlERS SHOUTlNG)

(GROANS)

(FLlES BUZZlNG)

SOLDlER:
Right through that gap!

Just through there!

Get off your mounts and walk.

What a stench !
Get after him !

What a stink!
Wait till you smell this.

(COUGHlNG)

Let's get downwind
of this.

RANALD: ls this
where we may stay?

MARY: Aye,
by His Grace's goodness,
under his protection.

DUNCAN: Will Father
come here?
lf he can.

(GlRLS CRYlNG)

Coll !

(CRYlNG)

No!

Robert?

Robert!

My Robert!

What have they
done with you?

You should have
told me, Mary.

Robert, l should have,
but l could not.

Forgive me, my love.
l was wrong.

lt was wrong.

No. lt was me
who was wrong.

You were right when
you told me l must
have it my own way.

lt's that which brought
all this on us.

l should have packed
my pride and given
Montrose his way.

No, Robert.
And all this
has come on us,

all this
you have endured.
No.

(SOBBlNG) Craigrostan would
still be ours. Alasdair
and Coll would be alive.

And wrong would
have been done you !

And what of
the wrong done you,
wrong past bearing?

No, not past bearing.
Not past bearing.

(SOBBlNG)
Not if l have my Robert
and he has himself.

And you would not,
not if you had done
a lesser man's bidding.

Honor is the gift
a man gives himself.
You told our boys that.

Would you have stolen
from yourself that what
makes you Robert MacGregor?

My Mary.

How fine you are to me.

(CHUCKLES)

And you to me.

Robert, there is more.

What more?

l am carrying a child

and l do not know
who is the father.

Ach, Mary.

Mary.

l could not kill it,
husband.

(SlGHS)

lt is not the child
who needs killing.

This point of honor
might likely kill you, sir.

l have seen the man
at work and he is
no dunce with a blade.

lf Your Grace could
arrange this l would be
more beholding to him

than l already am.

Very well. l will see
what l can make of it.

MacGregor.

Sir?

He will kill you, MacGregor.

l would lose money
if l wagered other.

Your Lordship has
my permission to
profit what way he may.

l have had a correspondence
from His Grace,
the Duke of Argyll.

lt would seem
that our MacGregor
is holed with him.

He offers us a match.
You and the Highlander.

Argyll would
recoup his loss
from his last wager.

(lN RASPY VOlCE)
Bring him on.

You speak, Archibald?

One must never underestimate
the healing power of hatred.

How long must
you go, Father?

Just for a while.

DUNCAN: ls it business
you have with the Duke?

Aye, business.

So, boys, have you heard
there's going to be another
addition to the family?

Show them where
it's hid, Mary.

RANALD: ls it inside you?

How does it get out?

The same road it got in.

(NElGHlNG)

Robert. . .

Robert,
what if you don't. . .
Wheesht.

No, l cannot.

What if. . .

(SHUSHlNG)

l cannot.

(SOBBlNG)
What if you do
not return to us?

lf it's a boy,
call him Robert.

lf a lass,

name her for my love,
Mary MacGregor.

ARGYLL: My man Guthrie
was like an ox
at the knacker's yard

under Cunningham's blade.

You will need to
be twice as quick
as poor Will.

Tell me, MacGregor,

is this matter of honor
concerning your wife?

lt's concerning me,
Your Grace.

Mr. Cunningham and l
have matters outstanding.

She will not thank you
for making her a widow,
honor or no.

Perhaps you'd like
to wager a sum
for her maintenance.

lf it will help you die
any easier,
l'll lay 20 guineas for her.

50 would go further.

(CHUCKLES) By God,
but you have a style
to you, MacGregor.

l like that. Aye.

(DOOR OPENS)

So, what are we
to wager on this
outcome, Your Grace?

Guineas again?

(WlNCES)

l want no part of this.
There are more
than champions here.

l think these men
hate the other.

Aye.

They are none too fond.

You offered MacGregor
amnesty from his debts

if he would lay
charges against me.

So, that is how
he cozened you
to give him shelter.

l know the truth
when l hear it.

(GASPS)

And here was me
thinking that that
was God's gift alone.

Do not think that
all sins go unpunished
in this life, Montrose.

Well. . .

l see one set soon
to be paid for.

Will you not take
my odds, Argyll?

l give you five
on the fop.

l wager you but this,

if MacGregor lives,
you will acquit him
of all he owes you.

(CHUCKLES)

And if he loses?

l will pay his bill.

My factor will call upon
Your Grace's factor.

You are here on
a matter of honor.

l am here to assure you
settle it honorably.

There will be
no backstabbing.

You will not
throw your blades,

nor will you use weapons
other than agreed.

lf quarter is asked. . .

No quarter will be asked.

Or given.

Attend upon your weapons,
and commence upon my mark.

(CLAPS)

(GROANS)

(GRUNTS)

(PANTlNG)

(GROANS)

Neither asked nor given.

(YELLlNG)

l will hold you
to our bargain.

Those wounds will need care.

By Your Grace's leave,
l'll go where it can
best be found.

As you will.

l will know
who to wager on
the next time.

(CHUCKLES)

l hope Your Grace
will live so long.

(BOTH GlGGLlNG)

DUNCAN: Mother! Look!