go home. some of us are in this, i can't help that now. but you can help yourselves. go home.
on your way somewhere, m'lord?
my name is william wallace. i am no bandit who hides his face.  find this man a horse.
give him a horse.
not this horse. that one.
today we will spare you, and every man who has yielded. go back to england. tell them scotland's daughters and her sons are yours no more. tell them scotland is free.
hamish, i.  thank.
thinking.
what do we do when longshanks sends his whole northern army against us? they have heavy cavalry. armored horses, that shake the very ground. they'll ride right over us.
we make spears. a hundred spears. fourteen feet long.
stand up, man, i'm not the pope.
thank her for me.
that's my friend, irishman. and the answer's yes. you fight for me, you kill the english.
stop here and rest.
marion! is.  is it you?
i'm dreaming.
i don't want to wake. i want to stay with you.
i need you so much! i love you!
he's right, hamish! campbell! divide them and run!
split again!
no matter how we go, they follow. they have our scent. my scent.
they've tricked us.
the dogs have a scent. my scent. someone must have given it to them.
exactly.
no english lord would trust an irishman!
do the nobles rally?
for presenting yourselves on this battlefield, i give you thanks.
i give homage to scotland. and if this is your army, why does it go?
sons of scotland!.  i am william wallace!
yes, i have heard! he kills men by the hundreds! and if he were here, he would consume the english with fireballs from his eyes, and bolts of lightning from his ass!
i am william wallace. and my enemies do not go away. i saw our good nobles hanged. my wife.  i am william wallace. and i see a whole army of my countrymen, here in defiance of tyranny. you have come to fight as free men. and free men you are! what will you do with freedom? will you fight?
yes. fight and you may die. run and you will live, at least awhile. and dying in your bed many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that, for one chance to come back here as young men, and tell our enemies that they make take our lives, but they will never take our freedom?
no! they will not!
and i will.
bring out our spearmen and set them in the field.
i have an offer for you.
from his king? absolutely. here are scotland's terms. lower your flags and march straight to england, stopping at every scottish home you pass to beg forgiveness for a hundred years of theft, rape, and murder. do that, and your men shall live. do it not, and every one of you will die today.
i'm not finished. before we let you leave, your commander must cross that bridge, stand before this army, put his head between his legs, and kiss his own ass.
be ready, and do exactly as i say.
steady! hold.  hold.  now!
form!
here i am, english coward! come get me!!
tell mornay to ride to the flank and cross upstream. wait! tell him to be sure the english see him ride away!
lifts his sword.
for scotland!
you are robert the bruce.
my father fought in support of yours.
i will invade england. and defeat the english on their own ground.
listen to me! longshanks understands this! this!
there is a difference between us. you think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. i think your position exists to provide the people with freedom. and i go to make sure they have it.
and the common man who bleeds on the battlefield, does he risk less?
we all end up dead. it's only a question of how. and why.
nobles? what does that mean -- to be noble? your title gives you claim to the throne of our country. but men don't follow titles, they follow courage! your arm speaks louder than your tongue. our people know you. noble and common, they respect you. if you would lead them toward freedom, they would follow you. and so would
back! wait for it to burn!
stop! not yet! listen to me! they wish to frighten us! or goad us into attacking too soon! don't look away! look!
behold the enemy we fight! we will be more merciful than they have been. we will spare women, children, and priests. for all else, no mercy.
longshanks! i have come.
wife of edward, the king's son?
it's battle i want, not talk.
i have been given nothing. god makes men what they are.
york was the staging point for every invasion of my country. and that royal cousin hanged a hundred scots, even women and children, from the city walls.
longshanks did far worse, the last time he took a scottish city.
i am no bandit. and i do not lie.
or in french if you prefer that: certainmous et ver! ask your king to his face, and see if his eyes can convince you of the truth.
a lordship. and gold. that i should become judas.
slaves are made in such ways!
she was my wife. we married in secret because i would not share her with an english lord. they killed her to get to me. and she was pregnant.
i've never told anyone. i don't know why i tell you -- except because you look.  much like her. and someday you will be a queen, and you must open your eyes! tell your king that william wallace will not be ruled. nor will any scot, while i live.
a thousand. you have made me guardian of scotland. so i tell you this is what we face.
peace?!
with cavalry -- not heavy, like the english, but light, fast horsemen, like you nobles employ -- we could outmaneuver their bowmen!
we won at stirling and still you quibbled! we won at york and you would not support us! then i said nothing! now i say you are cowards!
war finds me willing. i know it won't bring back all i have lost. but it can bring what none of us have ever had -- a country of our own. for that we need a king. we need you.
then tell me what a king is! is he a man who believes only what others believe? is he one who calculates the numbers for and against him but never weighs the strength in your own heart? there is strength in you. i see it. i know it.
and i will consult with mine.
remember when the english turned their hounds on us? maybe we should introduce them to our dogs.
mornay has come. so will the bruce.
stephen ready?
irish troops!
it's only a faint to shield the crossbows!
now! give 'em the dogs!
now! charge! charge them!
hamish! ham --
get him away!
a charge! form up! form up!
you.  were like my father.
thanks for the food and drink. and for bringing 'em yourselves.
a meeting in a barn. it had to be a trap. and only you would know i would be aware of it.
why did you?
you have.  you have a husband.
i cannot love you for the sake of revenge.
i rest.
aye. but it won't let me dream.
you've all sworn to longshanks.
so let the council swear publicly.
i will meet you, but only one way -- if robert the bruce is there, and puts his hand on my bible, and swears his loyalty to scotland.
probably. but we can't win alone. we know that. this is the only way.
nor i! i want to live! i want a home and children and peace. i've asked god for those things. but he's brought me this sword. and if he wills that i must lay it down to have what he wants for my country, then i'll do that too.
we've lived a dream together. a dream of freedom!
my dreams of marion are gone. i killed them myself. if i knew i could live with her on the other side of death, i'd welcome it.
no. one of us is enough.
treason. against whom?
never, in my whole life, did i swear allegiance to your king --
-- while many who serve him have taken and broken his oath many times. i cannot commit treason, if i have never been his subject!
i do not confess.
i am so afraid.  give me strength.
m'lady.  what kindness of you to visit a stranger.
will he show mercy to my country? will he take back his soldiers, and let us rule ourselves?
if i swear to him, then everything i am is dead already.
your people are lucky to have a princess so kind that she can grieve at the death of a stranger.
every man dies. not every man really lives.
it will numb my wits, and i must have them all. if i'm senseless, or if i wail, then longshanks will have broken me.
that.  will.  clear your sinuses.
freeeee-dommmmmm!