Marco Polo (TV Series)

The Heavenly and Primal (2014)

Lorenzo Richelmy: Marco Polo

Quotes 

• Marco Polo : We run, as you say. We make it past the guards, the gate, the mountains and praise our good fortune every day we awaken. Because there will not be a single night in which we are fully certain that a Mongol blade will not find us in our sleep. There is nothing beyond those walls but doubt and fear. All we can change is here in this place.

• Jia Sidao : A round-eye? What stake do you have in this fight?

  Marco Polo : Come down and surrender to your Khan.

  Jia Sidao : Surrender the Song dynasty to a Mongol, by order of a European?

• [first lines] 

  Engineer : [proudly]  The aim could not be more true.

  Marco Polo : [making notes]  If the tree line is the wall, and we are two arrow flights scarce, true aim does not matter, does it?

  Engineer : We need to bring the engine closer.

  Marco Polo : Bring it closer, we will become pin cushions. We need a longer arm.

  Engineer : Longer arm is bigger frame. Bigger frame is giant wheel. Bigger rocks. You are making me to build a monster.

  Marco Polo : You were the finest engine builder in Damascus, no?

  Engineer : Yes.

  Marco Polo : Then build me a monster.

• Marco Polo : Kaidu did not ride with the Khan. If we lose tomorrow, he will become Khan.

  Byamba : Of what? There will be nothing left to rule when Chinese loyalty returns to Jia Sidao. In truth, I fear what may happen should we win.