[Inside the Wooden Horse]
ODYSSEUS:
Absolute silence, everyone.
DOCTOR:
Well, but I, I
ODYSSEUS:
That includes you, Doctor.
DOCTOR:
Oh.
(The Horse jolts violently as the Trojans begin to haul it towards the city.)
ODYSSEUS:
Well, this time Troy will be destroyed.
[Priam's palace]
(Troilus escorts Vicki to see King Priam.)
PRIAM:
Come on in, Cressida. Come in, both of you.
Has Troilus told you the news?
VICKI:
Yes, it's marvellous, isn't it? I'm so pleased.
PRIAM:
Pleased? I should just say you are. You did it.
VICKI:
I...
PRIAM:
Oh, yes you did. I don't know how, but that's your own business, I suppose.
Now, why on earth couldn't you tell us this was going to happen?
You would have saved yourself all those hours in the cells, and us a great deal of worry.
CASSANDRA:
She didn't tell you because it's some form of treachery. Don't trust her, father.
PRIAM: Oh, stuff and nonsense. Oh, go and feed the sacred serpents or something. If you can't be pleasant at a time like this, Cassandra, I don't want to see you. Oh, Paris! Have the Greeks really gone?
PARIS: Every last one of them, or so it seems.
PRIAM:
There you are, Cassandra. I told you so.
Oh, do for goodness sake, smile.
PARIS:
But, more important, I think I've just found the Great Horse of Asia.
PRIAM:
You've done what?
PARIS:
Something uncommonly like it, anyway.
PRIAM:
What on earth are you talking about?
PARIS:
The Great Horse of Asia.
Standing all by itself in the middle of the plain, about forty foot high and made of wood.
PRIAM:
Whereabouts in the middle of the plain?
PARIS:
Near the Grecian line.
Look. You can just see it from here.
PRIAM:
Great heavens, I do believe you're right.
It is the Great Horse of Asia.
CASSANDRA:
It's an omen. An omen of disaster.
VICKI: (sotto)
It is the Trojan Horse. But I thought you
TROILUS:
What was that?
CASSANDRA:
Yes, ask her! Go on, ask her!
She knows what it is.
It's our doom!
It's the death of Troy, brought upon us by that cursed witch!
PARIS:
Now understand me, Cassandra.
I will not have one word said against that horse.
TROILUS:
And neither will I against Cressida.
CASSANDRA:
Will you not?
Then woe to the House of Priam.
Woe to the Trojans.
PARIS:
I'm afraid you're a bit late to say 'whoa' to the horse.
I've just given instructions to have it brought into the city.
Episode Four - Horse of Destruction
[Priam's palace]
CASSANDRA:
Of all the idiocy, to have it brought into the city.
PARIS:
Why? That horse is in the image of one of our gods.
CASSANDRA:
It's a trick. My dreams have always been right and they foretell disaster.
PARIS:
Now were they right about that little temple?
That has brought us nothing but good luck.
CASSANDRA:
Good luck you call it. The whole family besotted by that sorceress.
PRIAM:
Oh, I do wish you'd stop calling Cressida that.
And I would call it luck to have the entire Greek army removed from our shores.
Peace at last.
Though the arrival of the horse is a little puzzling.
PARIS:
Well, Cressida probably arranged it, and the very sight of it just, just frightened the Greeks away.
TROILUS:
Where is Cressida?
PARIS:
Oh, she's probably down in the square watching them bring in the horse.
TROILUS:
Oh, then I'd better go look for her.
I don't like her to go wandering round the city on her own.
PRIAM:
No, bring her back up here again.
She'll get a better view.
CASSANDRA:
Katarina, go and look for the sorceress.
I don't trust my lovesick brother.
KATARINA:
But, great priestess, the auguries said that
CASSANDRA:
Do you dare to question me?
KATARINA:
No.
CASSANDRA:
Very well, then.
Go and watch for that girl.
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