Marco Polo (TV Series)

Prisoners (2014)

Amr Waked: Yusuf

Quotes 

• Yusuf : You are released from this prison. But I am truly free.

• [first lines] 

  Yusuf : The troops are quartered. Burial preparations are underway for those we were able to retrieve. I have ordered scouting parties to sweep the grasslands, a week's ride away in case Sidao is audacious enough to siege Cambulac. Finally, we are conscripting new troops from the north. I have begun preparations for training. I fear they may be less compliant now, but we shall do what is necessary to bend the willful. My Lord.

  Kublai Khan : Is that truly all? Do you not wish to discuss your counsel? And my disregard of it?

  Yusuf : The Polo matter, are you prepared to proceed?

• Yusuf : Altruism still? Even in the face of your execution?

  Marco Polo : Not purely. I'm not afraid to die, but I'm terrified to do so while branded a traitor.

  Yusuf : What is the entirety you spoke of earlier? What else made you stay?

  Marco Polo : The moment the Khan gave me the choice to deliver my father from death. He is a good man.

• Yusuf : [concerning Marco]  You need that dedication at your service at all times. I am no longer capable of it, nor am I willing. You have the finest engineers in all the world. My final counsel to you is that you put them to work. Construct the Latin's siege engine.

• [last lines] 

  Marco Polo : I thought I had until dawn.

  Yusuf : The final battle looms. Be decisive in your victory. You are released from this prison. But *I* am truly free.

  [steps inside the cell]