Kings (TV Series)

First Night (2009)

Eamonn Walker: Reverend Ephram Samuels

Quotes 

• King Silas Benjamin : That laughter at my expense?

  Rev. Ephram Samuels : Merely appreciating the evening; but I can't say I support what you have done - offering away our lands?

  King Silas Benjamin : You don't support peace? After all your words, you'd rather war?

  Rev. Ephram Samuels : I'd rather an undivided nation, as planned - as *promised*.

  King Silas Benjamin : Those plans, those promises, weren't vouchsafed by treaty, by action - *I* did that. You come to my house, drink my scotch, criticize me?

  Queen Rose Benjamin : I thought we agreed to no politics.

  King Silas Benjamin : This is beyond politics. The reverend has recently made this... personal.

  Rev. Ephram Samuels : Ma'am - you have brought art to Shiloh and music to hearts. You have raised the level. *This* is why we end wars. And perhaps it's best I take my leave.

• King Silas Benjamin : Things usually go well for me... of late, my plans are frustrated. I can't lose what's threatened tonight, and it hangs by threads, by minutes. What does He want from me? Why does He act my enemy? Port Prosperity - is that the cost? I'll take it back; I'll rescind the offer.

  Rev. Ephram Samuels : I can not tell you of God's mind; He shares with me at his pleasure... and on the subject of Silas, He is silent.

  King Silas Benjamin : ...I did right by him. This land was once a place where men of faith feared to walk the streets, and prayers came in whispers. *I* made it safe for men like you.

  Rev. Ephram Samuels : So God owes *you*?

  King Silas Benjamin : If not him, you. Tell me what's the fair trade.

  Rev. Ephram Samuels : One offers sacrifice according to the offense; only you can name that.

  King Silas Benjamin : Sacrifice? Has He not moved past that yet?... Give him my best; tell him I've given too much.

  Rev. Ephram Samuels : We make amends, Silas - the pure, the unblemished - for our sin.

  King Silas Benjamin : He wants what I will not let him take. I will not leave this on the altar, and live...

  Rev. Ephram Samuels : Then you find another lamb.

  King Silas Benjamin : No... not even God is that cruel.