Legend of the Seeker (TV Series)

Hunger (2010)

Tabrett Bethell: Cara Mason

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Quotes 

• Arina : [approaching on horseback]  Please, wait!

  [dismounts hurriedly, is in panicking state] 

  Arina : Are you the Seeker?

  Richard Cypher : Yes.

  Arina : Thank the Spirits! The constable in Dewith told me you were headed this way.

  Richard Cypher : It's all right. Catch your breath. Come on, sit down. What happened?

  Arina : Two days ago, men kidnapped my husband. They took other people from our village too.

  Richard Cypher : Who were these men?

  Arina : I don't know. We were in the field, bringing in the harvest. They came with swords and clubs. Grabbed as many as they could and rode off with them in a wagon.

  Cara Mason : Maybe you haven't heard, but the Seeker is on a quest. Perhaps this constable of yours can help you.

  Richard Cypher : [admonishing]  Cara!

  Arina : The constable can't help us. He's got his hands full fighting the banelings.

  Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander : [alarmed]  Banelings?

  Arina : There seem to be more of them in our valley every day.

  Kahlan Amnell : Could banelings have abducted these people for some reason?

  Cara Mason : Banelings don't kidnap people, they kill them.

  Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander : Yes, but they have to do it every single day to stay alive. Maybe they're stocking up on victims.

  Richard Cypher : [to Arina]  If you take us to where your husband was grabbed, we'll pick up the trail of the wagon.

  Cara Mason : [impatiently]  That will take days!

  Richard Cypher : We'll get back to looking for the Stone of Tears. Right now, this woman needs our help.

  [Cara is annoyed] 

• Darken Rahl : [Cara's in the sickeningly green hell of the Underworld]  So... you want to be a baneling?

  Cara Mason : Send me back... and I'll serve the Keeper.

  Darken Rahl : [clearly savoring his prospects]  And miss out on the pleasure... of tormenting you for an eternity?

  Cara Mason : I'm only one soul. Think of all the others I could provide for you.

  Darken Rahl : Yes... you always had a nose for blood, Cara. But perhaps you're forgetting the fact that you betrayed me. You helped the Seeker to kill me. And now you want me to trust you to uphold your end of the bargain?

  Cara Mason : If I don't honor the agreement, you can call me back here to face the Keeper's wrath.

  Darken Rahl : True. But if I give you a second life, you will just go back to helping Richard. He and I aren't exactly on friendly terms.

  Cara Mason : You know I kill people to protect Richard. Many. What does it matter why I do it, as long as I do it?

  Darken Rahl : Yes, the Seeker and his merry band are some of the Keeper's finest suppliers of souls. But you delude yourself into believing you're killing to defeat evil. My banelings have to kill every day. What happens when you run out of bad people? I don't think the Seeker would appreciate you killing the good ones.

  Cara Mason : That will be my problem.

  Darken Rahl : It certainly will. Do you understand the rules?

  Cara Mason : If I keep killing, I stay alive.

  Darken Rahl : Only living people. No banelings. Their souls already belong to the Keeper. And you can't... get ahead.

  Cara Mason : [puzzled]  Ahead?

  Darken Rahl : I'm sure it's occurred to you that you can kill six or seven irredeemable miscreants and stay healthy for a week at a time. But it doesn't work that way. Every time you kill, the clock begins to tick again. And don't think because you're a Mord-Sith you will have a special advantage. As a baneling, you will no longer have the Breath of Life. You won't be able to kill someone only to revive them.

  Cara Mason : I understand. Now send me back.

  Darken Rahl : [almost lovingly]  Patience... never was one of your strong suits, Cara.

  Cara Mason : Do we have a deal... or not?

• Cara Mason : [to the corpse of the slave cart driver]  You couldn't at least stay alive long enough for me to come back and kill you!

  [kicks carcass through the face]