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  • MORDECAI: From whence comes the purpose of a person's life?

  • Come it by chance, a casting of the lot,

  • or does a call of destiny beckon to each of us?

  • sah

  • and why a simple Jewish orphan

  • was chosen to stand against the annihilation of her people.

  • And yet the mystery of the girl most know as Esther

  • begins not where one might think,

  • but 500 years earlier

  • with a single act of disobedience.

  • King Saul of the Israelites

  • had been sent by the Prophet Samuel

  • to wipe out an ancient child-sacrificing enemy.

  • So pervasive was their evil

  • that not even their oxen nor sheep were to be spared,

  • and above all, no survivors left breathing.

  • My lord, I give you Agag, king of the Amalekites.

  • We have also seized for you his livestock.

  • Even his queen.

  • What dark portent bid me haste to cross this land of ours?

  • How would you accuse me now, O Prophet?

  • I carried out your lord's command.

  • ears ring

  • with the lowing of oxen and the bleating of sheep?

  • Your Majesty, the Amalekite queen,

  • she escaped.

  • We have the king.

  • What is one woman?

  • You fool,

  • she is with child.

  • MORDECAI: While the Prophet Samuel put a swift end to King Agag,

  • Agag's queen,

  • fleeing with the seed of vengeance growing within her,

  • the Jews never found.

  • HADASSAH: Uncle Mordecai!

  • Rebecca, what kind of housekeeper do you think you are?

  • Serves you right for bringing home your work.

  • HADASSAH: The caravan arrived this morning.

  • Well, Susa is the capital of the new world.

  • Caravans arrive every day.

  • Not from Jerusalem.

  • Well, perhaps you ought to go back and ask them

  • if they'll arrive the same time next year.

  • Next year? You promised.

  • Rebecca! REBECCA: Fight your own battles.

  • You don't pay me enough to fight the battle for you.

  • Good morning, Hadassah.

  • And where have you been?

  • I'm sorry, Grandmother, the markets were really busy.

  • There's a new caravan in from...

  • (SHUSHING) Sore subject.

  • Uncle Mordecai,

  • does not your own heart long to see our people restored to glory?

  • It does.

  • Did not Cyrus the Great conquer Babylon

  • and free our people from captivity?

  • He did.

  • But do we embrace our freedom and leave this pagan empire

  • to embrace our destiny?

  • Of course not.

  • MORDECAI: Lord,

  • I pray to you day and night

  • to give me the patience of Job,

  • give me the wisdom of Solomon.

  • And what do you give me?

  • You give me the endless equivocations

  • of a beautiful, young woman.

  • Look.

  • Hadassah, always dreaming.

  • Maybe...

  • Here, then, you be the princess.

  • While many Jews had forgotten the acts of centuries past,

  • the descendants of Agag had not.

  • For Agag's queen did indeed survive

  • and gave birth to a son.

  • And she forged for him a mark,

  • prophesying that one day an Agagite would arrive,

  • a descendant of Agag,

  • who would finally exact vengeance upon the Jews.

  • GIRL 1: Hadassah, read us a story!

  • GIRL 2: Read us a story!

  • A story? You want a story?

  • GIRL: Hadassah, help!

  • Over here.

  • Are y

  • HADASSAH: "And King Saul said to David,

  • "'You cannot go before this Goliath

  • "'for you are but a youth.'

  • "David replied,

  • "'While keeping my father's sheep, there came a l

  • "'And I slew them both.

  • "'This Goliath

  • "'for he defied the armies of the Lord.'"

  • As will Jesse Ben-Joseph,

  • should he but take one step closer.

  • With peace, Haman.

  • There's little but random news I bear.

  • I judge that.

  • Rumor has it

  • Queen Vashti plans not

  • the King's banquet this evening,

  • in protest of the war.

  • Apparently the King has no idea.

  • Some see random news.

  • Others, opportunities.

  • Of course, this is why you are a dispatch rider,

  • and I am a prince of the Fars.

  • Tell me, Agagite,

  • what do you do with the extra darics you connive from me?

  • I have 10 sons, my lord,

  • and a wife that makes many demands.

  • (CHUCKLES)

  • Ten sons?

  • You serve the great king well.

  • Come, come. Go you now.

  • Speak of me as you lavish your wife and sons.

  • ABIHAIL: Happy birthday, Hadassah!

  • HADASSAH: A stone ball?

  • Remember, Hadassah, it is the glory of God

  • to conceal a matter,

  • the honor of kings to seek it out.

  • It's from the Promised Land.

  • Your great-grandmother brought it with her.

  • And like you, its true treasure

  • is etched within.

  • PRIEST: Reconsider my proposition.

  • There is much ed for leadership

  • More stew, my lord?

  • I don't suppose that in your entire caravan

  • you have a cook one half as good

  • as our Rebecca.

  • Here you are but a poor palace scribe,

  • one who passes as a Persian, at that.

  • Are you a Jew?

  • Or have you become a Gentile?

  • We're a small people

  • caught up in a vast and violent empir.

  • We have capricious princes

  • who could order our annihilation with the flick of a finger.

  • And your presence in the palace might prevent it?

  • Probably not.

  • Look, tell me what I want to hear about.

  • Tell me about the Temple.

  • What ecstasy to stand in the presence

  • Like the intimate embrace of a husband and wife.

  • It's so much deeper than mere mortal love.

  • Oh, hello.

  • MORDECAI: Now, it came to pass in the days of King Xerxes,

  • who ruled over the empire of the Medes and Persians,

  • from Ethiopia to India,

  • that in the third year of his reign,

  • he decreed a season of feasting.

  • Rumors of war were in the wind, however,

  • and some thought this the King's way

  • of stalling off a much-debated decision

  • to march on Greece in retaliation for his father's death

  • four years before.

  • MAN: Queen Vashti, Your Maje

  • Enter.

  • The night's festivities hold not your interest, dear?

  • It is long since you summoned me here.

  • Your hands have not been idle.

  • Not idle,

  • not gifted either.

  • MORDECAI: Later, Hadassah, we'll discuss this later.

  • I have run out of laters.

  • The caravan leaves tomorrow.

  • Did not the priest even say it would be good for me?

  • me?

  • You have so much er

  • And perhaps I'm just being a very selfish old man.

  • Do you really want to go to Jerusalem?

  • Truly.

  • Then go with my blessing.

  • Rebecca!

  • Yes, well, I will be late coming back tonight.

  • The feasting has been extended.

  • All Susa is invited.

  • All of Susa?

  • A drunken brawl is no place for a young lady of purity.

  • Then why is a good Jew like you going?

  • All the scribes have to go!

  • There is war in the air!

  • (ALL CHATTERING)

  • The Queen indeed holds her own feast in protest.

  • All is prepared as you have asked.

  • You do know why the princes have asked you to extend the feast another night.

  • You are too late if you seek me to deny them.

  • Especially now.

  • Such clamoring to march upon Greece and avenge my father's death.

  • How long have you dreamt of molding Persia

  • int and

  • A flame to make eve but

  • as I,

  • this is not something that is won in battle

  • but in the hearts of men.

  • You would have me do nothing, then?

  • You're no warrior,

  • no soldier.

  • I'd have you stay,

  • enhance your kingdom,

  • preserve your throne.

  • Looking for someone?

  • hank you.

  • You can run back to Rebecca now.

  • Oh, I'm sure you're fine.

  • Only tell me, Hadassah,

  • or whoever you are,

  • how do you intend ace?

  • You didn't come to take me back?

  • Come, or I shall call you Hadassah the mouse.

  • Wait!

  • I appear to you by the gracious command

  • of the great king of kings,

  • the emperor of the world, Xerxes, son of Darius.

  • Great king.

  • (ALL CHEERING)

  • We drink.

  • We drink also to my guard, the immortal 10,000,

  • but I fear I would soon have to send them out

  • to conquer new vineyards for me.

  • (

  • Then let us drink to Queen Vashti,

  • the most beautiful in the land.

  • Bring forth Vashti!

  • Vashti!

  • (ALL CHANTING)

  • Bring forth Vashti!

  • They are serious? They demand Vashti be here before all?

  • Already rumors circulate as to why the Queen holds her own feast

  • instead of attending yours.

  • They sound riotous, my lord.

  • They fear a divided kingdom.

  • My lord, you know the Queen's position on the war.

  • They go She mus

  • reigning in a place such as this.

  • None is more lovely than you, my queen.

  • My thanks, fair prince. Prince?

  • Why is it for years you threatened to join the caravans to Jerusalem,

  • yet you never do?

  • What holds you back?

  • Perhaps the courage to face it alone.

  • What if you had someone to join you?

  • MAN: The herald returns!

  • The Queen asks the King's forgiveness.

  • She cannot leave her guests.

  • VASHTI: I'm queen, not a pawn,

  • and I will not lower my dignity

  • or shame my reign

  • by wearing the royal crown before your drunk

  • and thinly veiled war council.

  • MAN 1: What news of the Queen?

  • MAN 2: Where is our queen?

  • MAN 3: Queen Vashti!

  • Am I to be a mockery before my subjects?

  • Or Greece as well?

  • Continue, Cousin.

  • Might not this

  • deed of refusal

  • travel abroad to all women,

  • making their husbands contemptible in their eyes?

  • Will not it be said by all,

  • "Xerxes commanded his wife to come before him,

  • "but she came not"?

  • Vashti's guilty not only the crown

  • but against the protocol of our fathers.

  • And tell me,

  • what dictates the protocol?

  • A royal edict must be issued

  • and written

  • that Vashti...

  • That Vashti come no more before the King,

  • but that her royal position be given to a new queen,

  • more worthy

  • than her.

  • My lord, what answer do I send the Queen?

  • (ALL CHANTING) Vashti!

  • Vashti!

  • The land has no more queen!

  • I wish not to be queen here any longer.

  • Mordecai is giving me his blessing.

  • Let us leave tomorrow,

  • together.

  • MORDECAI: Thus the scris were assembled,

  • and a decree sent forth.

  • The princes did indeed press upon Xerxes,

  • war,

  • "Leave behind a queen

  • "to keep the people unified."

  • Every maiden was to be considered,

  • the choicest of whom to be brought from across the empire

  • and into the palace.

  • In accordance with the protocol,

  • young men were also rounded up

  • to become eunuchs

  • who would serve the queen's candidates

  • during their time of preparation.

  • MORDECAI: There's no need for alarm.

  • In all likelihood they will not come for you.

  • And not all that are taken will be chosen.

  • Doubtless, the queen has already been selected

  • through bribery or chicanery.

  • How do I keep our laws?

  • How do I pray?

  • What excuse do I offer God for not keeping his commandments?

  • Oh, Hadassah.

  • God sees the inward observance.

  • The court is a dangerous place.

  • I think it will be better

  • if you forgot that you were a Jew.

  • If this is a sin, then...

  • Then let it be on my head.

  • Promise me that you will do that if you're taken.

  • Promise me that!

  • If I am taken,

  • I will do as you say.

  • I should give you t name.

  • Hadassah is too Jewis.

  • Esther.

  • Esther is a good Babylonian name.

  • Yes. That's what we shall call you from now on.

  • usa.

  • Promise me.

  • Promise me if en.

  • I said, "If I am taken."

  • If, if, if.

  • But for now,

  • you should look for me in the streets of Jerusalem,

  • dancing

  • like David before the glory of the Lord.

  • Hadassah!

  • Who?

  • Uncle Mordecai!

  • (GASPS)

  • MORDECAI: Is this the way the King's orders are carried out?

  • Senseless brutality in the middle of the night?

  • Father, please show us favor

  • and turn these dungeons into someplace wonderful.

  • Is this the dungeon part or the wonderful part?

  • (ALL GASP)

  • Look!

  • Sarah, it matches your eyes.

  • Have you ever found anything so wonderful in your life?

  • And Hannah,

  • was it not made for you?

  • Am I never going to see my mother again?

  • Only if you wish not to.

  • Two, three days, and who knows?

  • Home you go.

  • Do you think we're not beautiful enough

  • to be asked to stay, Hadassah?

  • Welcome to a brand-new life.

  • The method of your arrival was not of my choosing.

  • I am Hagai, His Majesty's Royal Eunuch.

  • I have been assigned to oversee your preparation.

  • All right, it's okay.

  • (GIRL SCREAMS)

  • MAN: Don't let them escape. Kill

  • Which way to the quarter of the Jews?

  • (GIRL SCREAMS)

  • (GIGGLING)

  • You have a very bad habit.

  • The palace is no place for children.

  • You think of me as a child?

  • Well, you're wrong.

  • I am much younger than that.

  • How do they call you?

  • Esther.

  • Curious name.

  • From where do you come?

  • I am of the wind

  • whose sound is heard, yet none can tell

  • from whence it comes or where it goes.

  • Well, we gather within the hour.

  • Try not to blow away before then.

  • Another 4,000 talents for metal, weapons, armor.

  • And we must not forget the pay of the mercenarie.

  • I know this is not a favored opinion,

  • but if used for peaceful purposes,

  • such amounts could serve many needs.

  • Two different ways of life are involved.

  • The Greeks have no king and they want none.

  • It is one thing to beat our chests and parade our boldness

  • pretending this is still the empire of our fathers.

  • But you hear the costs of an actual campaign!

  • If we are not honest with ourselves,

  • I fear we lose much more than just our stature.

  • Then, let us sit back and do nothing?

  • Let the Greeks conquer.

  • Let them establish democracy.

  • Would not the King be the first to suffer,

  • Or does the memory of his father's death

  • not stir as deep in his bones as it does in ours?

  • I speak to you as one not without empathy.

  • I, too, have stood in the battle

  • and stared into the unknown.

  • For the very sword that took my eye

  • took from me my manhood as well.

  • But be at peace.

  • This is no warfare that you embark upon.

  • This is only the life

  • or at least it can be,

  • if you so choose to embrace it.

  • Think not I heard your whispered orchestrations that night?

  • And how you drew even me into your schemes?

  • In these troubled times it is easy to name any man traitor.

  • I even recall a certain campaign

  • in Ionia under King Darius,

  • where someone allowed the defeated Greeks

  • to keep their own form of government,

  • their democracy,

  • instead of placing the protocol of the empire in control.

  • Favoring democracy.

  • The very doctrine to which all Persia is opposed.

  • I followed orders!

  • Come. Come, come, come.

  • (CHUCKLES)

  • We trouble ourselves w h things.

  • The King asked me to speak. I did.

  • I obeyed. As you obeyed.

  • MORDECAI: With suspicion and mistrust creeping into palace halls,

  • Haman the Agagite

  • found the opportunity he had been waiting for.

  • He began to strike out more openly

  • at the Jews living in the outlying land,

  • painting them as the true Greek sympathizers,

  • setting the stage for his ultimate act of vengeance.

  • Look.

  • I am curious

  • to whether you frustrate me out of sincerity

  • or to ensure that you're never chosen queen.

  • You assume I actually care about being chosen queen.

  • I am serious.

  • Serious of what?

  • Finding a real queen?

  • Is that why you subject us to these beauty treatments,

  • these classes?

  • You do not like our fine inst

  • They simply neglect to teach us some things.

  • Such as?

  • Well, seemingly

  • anything to do with actually being queen:

  • the thought well thought, the word well spoken

  • and the deed well done.

  • As it is said in the great books.

  • You read?

  • Many tongues.

  • (LAUGHS)

  • Before I received your "invitation",

  • I was reading of Gilgamesh the Babylonian.

  • ESTHER: And Utanapishtim spoke to Gilgamesh, sayin,

  • " and ut

  • "What can I do so that you can return to your land?

  • "I will tell you a thing that is hidden.

  • "There is a plant whose thorns

  • "will prick your hand like a rose.

  • "If your hands reach this plant,

  • "you will become a young man again."

  • Gilgamesh in the original.

  • I read translation,

  • never the original.

  • You read?

  • There are few pleasures left to one such as I.

  • You offer us Hagai's position, my lord,

  • if we grant you the privilege of picking a queen?

  • Misgath of Persepolis.

  • Misgath?

  • Of unusual beauty.

  • But up here,

  • empty as a beggar's bowl.

  • Consider her family.

  • Daughter of a rug merchant?

  • Will they not also shower you

  • MORDECAI: While there were certainly worse ways

  • for the candidates to have spent their days

  • than myrrh baths and beauty treatments,

  • none of the rumors of riches and glory stirred more excitement

  • than the thought of gaining entry to the royal treasury itself.

  • Whatever you chose for your one night with the King

  • will be yours for the keeping.

  • Candidates, choose wisely.

  • (ALL GIGGLING EXCITEDLY)

  • You stand not impressed?

  • It matters not what impresses me.

  • How is one to choose when they know not what impresses the King?

  • Will you teach me?

  • I will do far more than that. Come.

  • A recent acquisition.

  • One, I believe, the King will find most pleasing.

  • Esther of Susa,

  • come.

  • Seat yourself on the stool

  • and read the scroll.

  • It is the chronicles of the King,

  • the royal diary.

  • Through these doors you are no longer a candidate.

  • You are a servant.

  • Remember the protocol.

  • To approach uninvited

  • is death.

  • I read for the King,

  • alone?

  • Like this?

  • "Daily entry 23.

  • "Egyptian wheat reserves

  • "were reported at half the normal levels due to a recent drought."

  • "Admiral Xtes was honored

  • "for serving 20 years in the Royal Fleet.

  • "After a lengthy speech, he promptly keeled over and died."

  • "Twenty-five. Three herd of sheep were stolen from Dirmalmirah,

  • "Satrap of Midea.

  • "He requests that the crown send out the proper authority."

  • And so Jacob,

  • also a sh de,

  • was sent off into the far, far-off land

  • where he came across the fair Rachel tending her father's sheep.

  • He wa an

  • from the well, and watered her flock for her.

  • Then Jacob kissed Rachel

  • and lifted up his voice and wept with joy.

  • When Laban, Rachel's father, heard of this,

  • he said to Jacob, "Should you serve me for nothing?

  • "Tell me, what shall your wages be?"

  • Jacob said, "I will serve you seven years for your daughter Rachel."

  • So Jacob served seven years tending Laban's sheep.

  • And they only seemed but a few days, for the love he had for her.

  • Then Jacob said to Laban,

  • "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled."

  • So Laban threw a great wedding feast,

  • dark

  • Laban brought his older daughter in to Jacob.

  • And, behold, in the morning it was Leah, not Rachel.

  • Jacob was shocked. He said to Laban,

  • "What is this thou hast done unto me?

  • rve with thee

  • "Why, then, have you beguiled me?"

  • XERXES: Why, then, have you beguiled me?

  • I must admit that never before has such a tale been found

  • in the pages of a royal diary.

  • Here I expect to be lulled to sleep by tedious reports,

  • And how ends your tale?

  • This Jacob, he's able to have his bride?

  • He's able to have her?

  • Uh...

  • Only after serving

  • seven more years for her, my lord King.

  • Believeth you in such?

  • Love?

  • Is it not the greatest commandment?

  • No matter what God one serves.

  • How do they call you?

  • Esther of Susa.

  • Susa? No.

  • Nothing good ever comes out of Susa.

  • Look at me.

  • Come. Come, if you wish to see what I do.

  • The Greeks, they have a god of similar form.

  • His arms will hold the bow, whose arrows they say

  • are tipped with love.

  • Some archers' arrows are tipped with poison, my lord.

  • Sometimes

  • it's hard to tell the difference.

  • The symptoms are the same.

  • Perhaps in another time.

  • Some other place.

  • You will read to me again.

  • You must tell no one of this night.

  • (GASPS)

  • (TRUMPETS)

  • (ALL CHEE

  • XERXES: My Captain.

  • Blame me not for this, my lord,

  • but the princes have ordered us

  • to begin bringing you candidates

  • by the end of the week.

  • jest.

  • I am in the middle of...

  • At least you'll get it over with.

  • Besides, these men might enjoy see No? ladies around.

  • (ALL LAUGHING)

  • They tell me you' er now.

  • Oh, Jesse.

  • ch.

  • Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were pagan names, too.

  • We're in good company.

  • Their names were Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.

  • They were thrown into the furnace.

  • But then what happened?

  • Come on, I found a way out.

  • And there's a caravan leaving for Jerusalem tonight.

  • So we can get out of this place.

  • Escape?

  • Jesse, I... leave.

  • What if...

  • What if I'm chosen?

  • What if you're chosen what?

  • What if you're chosen queen?

  • Look what they've done to us.

  • What good could come out of any of this?

  • Perhaps, instead f asking questions of our trials...

  • Trials are meant to ask questions of ourselves.

  • They cut me!

  • I know

  • we can't be what I hoped,

  • but...

  • Jesse.

  • I can't leave. I'm sorry.

  • I'm sorry.

  • HAGAI: Today it begins.

  • Each of you will be given one night with the King.

  • We gather first to honor Misgath of Persepolis.

  • Here we go.

  • (WHINNYING)

  • Steady her.

  • I'm so sorry...

  • Oh!

  • Almost there.

  • XERXES: By the looks of it, I must be allowing the candidates

  • jewelry.

  • Perhaps a horseback ride is not the best idea, my lord.

  • (GRUNTS)

  • (EXCLAIMS)

  • You weep not for the candidates ng.

  • My throat is sore.

  • your heart?

  • It has only been a few days since you read for him.

  • A few days is a thousand years.

  • If Xerxes had found pleasure in me, surely he would've...

  • You think a eunuch cannot know love?

  • Back before I was a cripple of a man,

  • there was one that held my heart.

  • What becam

  • I never found the courage to return to face her again.

  • She is beautiful but delicate, Your Majesty.

  • Just one more moment, please.

  • You may approach.

  • How do they call you?

  • (GAGGING)

  • (CHITTERING)

  • Esther.

  • This is your day.

  • We gather to honor Esther of Susa.

  • You enter as a peasant and leave a princess.

  • You can let go of my arm now.

  • He will be the fortunate one to choose you.

  • He will be the one to whom congratulations are due.

  • Esther, my arm.

  • XERXES: The scroll is on the stool.

  • You whe ady.

  • Is there a problem?

  • Did they not tell you I weary at this procession of candidates?

  • I simply wanted someone to...

  • Wait.

  • You are the one who read to me before.

  • You tried to beguile me with love stories.

  • Did you not think I had the sense

  • to see through your little parable?

  • The arrogance! You speak to me as if I was this Rachel

  • in need of help to look after my father's sheep.

  • My lord, I meant no...

  • And this is how you come to see me?

  • Your only adornment before your

  • one night with the King.

  • It is, Your Majesty.

  • You consider yourself worth

  • that I can purchase your love so cheaply?

  • I was taught

  • that when you visit a king, rather than expect a gift,

  • one should bring one to lay at his feet.

  • This is my most valuable possession in the world.

  • It is my past, my present, and my future.

  • And all of it is yours.

  • Some would call you foolish indeed,

  • cob.

  • Of all commodities, love is the easiest,

  • and most cheaply purchased.

  • If it is for sale, my lord,

  • it is not love.

  • Even you.

  • Even you must have a price.

  • I am neither a buyer

  • nor a seller of love.

  • Suppose, my lady,

  • a man offered you a more treasured gift,

  • say, a kingdom.

  • (CRYING)

  • The o I would accept

  • is your heart.

  • Then it is yours.

  • And you did not serve seven years to get it.

  • T w ,

  • Tell me of your people.

  • Teach me of your ways.

  • My father taught me

  • it takes the glory of God

  • and the honor of kings to search it out.

  • Then marry me.

  • And we shall spend an eternity discovering this...truth,

  • together.

  • Persians, your queen!

  • (ALL CHEERING)

  • Know you how many times I tried to come for you after t t?

  • How many evenings I spent counting the stars

  • to keep my mind off of you?

  • How many excuses I created

  • just to avoid the other candidates?

  • Fools.

  • Misfits.

  • Donkey-brained caricatures of men,

  • you guaranteed me that Misgath would be chosen queen.

  • Who is she? From whence did she come?

  • Who are her people?

  • There is little known about her, my lord.

  • She is c An orpha

  • We should've stuck to our first plan and poisoned Hagai ourselves.

  • Quiet. Poison?

  • He did not, my lord.

  • He is far too impetuous. Far too...

  • about poison.

  • Of course you do.

  • You were once the royal cupbearers.

  • Suppose in theory, you wanted to poison another.

  • Suppose... Suppose this other remained nameless,

  • but was, in effect, one whom you had once vowed to protect.

  • My lord prince...

  • Come, come. Don't look so distressed.

  • We plot nothing here.

  • My lord.

  • (PEOPLE CHANTING)

  • From India to Babylon,

  • my sword has spilt the blood of traitors against the crown.

  • Proud, arrogant "chosen ones".

  • Allowed to return to their homeland.

  • Do they?

  • (MURMURS GREETING)

  • Thank you.

  • How wonderful are the ways of the Lord

  • that he should have raised up my little Hadassah

  • and made her queen.

  • Have you told anyone our secret?

  • No.

  • If you continue to call me Hadassah, it will no longer matter.

  • Will you not join me in the palace?

  • I could have you named to any post you desire.

  • My Lord will take care of me.

  • Do you take care of your lord?

  • Remember not his orders? Procure it not from the palace,

  • so nothing can be traced back to us.

  • The Jews have apothecaries.

  • Where is he now?

  • You, over there...

  • Why cannot a truce be arranged?

  • Truce?

  • That devil Memucan has beaten me twice in a row.

  • I fear losing you.

  • I gave an oath

  • to my father.

  • He's the one I fear losing you to.

  • You must dream. You'll be gone much in the coming months.

  • Keep this for me.

  • But it is yours. I...

  • Then be at peace.

  • I always return e.

  • Will thou sit there all day, my lord?

  • Uh-huh.is one.

  • MORDECAI: Why would they buy belladonna off you?

  • Maybe they seek to poison someone.

  • Very deadly, very quick.

  • You sold them poison?

  • A Jew sells poison to the King's food tasters?

  • Have you any idea for whom it might've been intended?

  • Please, just allow me to see it.

  • The scribe says it is for the Queen's eyes only.

  • (GIRLS GIGGLING)

  • That is what she told.

  • A plot to kill the King.

  • The King should be notified at once, my lady.

  • He and Memucan are a day's ride away at the training grounds.

  • Then it would be better, my lady,

  • if I send for the captain of the guard to investigate.

  • Who else is closest to the King?

  • Admantha.

  • This is treachery.

  • If my lady will permit,

  • I myself will bring these two eunuchs to you.

  • I'm armed, so I doubt the need for force.

  • That will not be necessary.

  • The King's new captain of the guard has gone to investigate.

  • Time was of the essence, my lady.

  • If only all shared your loyalty to the King, my prince.

  • Captain of the guards.

  • Master Haman, my lady.

  • What of the eunuchs?

  • They are being led to the gallows as we speak.

  • I found this about their person.

  • I interrogated them both.

  • I'm convinced they plotted alone.

  • Make sure Mordecai's name is entered in the chronicles

  • and w

  • so he may be properly rewarded by the King.

  • ADMANTHA: Please, help yourself.

  • Only a bite.

  • Now I no longer ride the highways, e suffers.

  • Then may I assume

  • that your fee for spying for me ?

  • may be less,

  • not of my sons,

  • my wife.

  • Well, that may cost you more, my prince.

  • Much,

  • much more.

  • What might you have done?

  • I would save the King for last.

  • As in the palace board game. Rid yourself first

  • of all of those pieces that are closest to him.

  • HAGAI this

  • I go with or without you.

  • There are too many rumors drifting through the palace,

  • and not enough answers.

  • These hinges are well-oiled.

  • There must be plenty who use it.

  • Lovers always find a way, my lady.

  • HAMAN: The time has come, my brothers and sisters,

  • where we must root out those amongst our midst

  • who seek our wreck and ruin!

  • When a field of crops is defiled by disease,

  • do we not set it on fire?

  • (ALL CHEERING)

  • I am asked why I choose to speak against these foreigners

  • and strangers in our midst.

  • ALL: (CHANTING) The Jew!

  • The Jew!

  • No, not the Jew.

  • I, myself, know many an individual Jew

  • who I am proud to call friend,

  • but put these individual Jews together, and what are Egypt,

  • ake?

  • Lead me away from here, quickly.

  • You want proof?

  • Pulled from ry,

  • the great scheme of the Greeks and the Jews

  • to conquer the world!

  • For let me tell you, the Greeks and the Jew

  • both live by the same evil doctrine.

  • All men are created equal.

  • Do you believe you are equal to a slave?

  • ALL: No!

  • HAMAN: And you believe neither in the Jewish God, nor in Greek democracy,

  • but there are others in the palace that do.

  • Let me now speak of Memucan.

  • Prince. General.

  • Arch traitor!

  • "For services rendered to King Darius.

  • "Pacification of the Babylonian provinces.

  • "Payments made to Haman the Agagite."

  • When? When?

  • Ask of Memucan

  • why he allowed the Greeks of Ionia to retain their democracy.

  • Ask whose voice is loudest against the war today

  • and you will find out it is he!

  • "Common year."

  • 13 years ago.

  • HAMAN: My lady.

  • Are you alone?

  • Highly unsafe.

  • I--I was just finishing.

  • Please.

  • Allow me.

  • Shall I return this for you?

  • Thank you.

  • Something must weigh heavy on my art

  • in order to be kept up at this hour, reading.

  • My queen.

  • Is her Highness unwell?

  • I'm fine.

  • Perhaps I should retire.

  • (COUGHS)

  • MEMUCAN: You're not scheduled at the palace for more than two weeks.

  • She'll be wonderfully surprised, think you not?

  • Here, read this, my lord.

  • You do not appear to be a traitor, Memucan.

  • Return with me, and I'll have Admantha investigate

  • Haman's accusations immediately.

  • Haman is my appointment.

  • And we do need him e.

  • Truly, Memucan, at one moment you sulk,

  • you say your name has been slurred,

  • .

  • I have enough lives on my conscience.

  • Chastise him mildly, and he will perform his duty well

  • and be more grateful to you for your leniency.

  • rue Persia.

  • Never judging a man before all the good and all the bad are weighed.

  • Ride with me.

  • MORDECAI: So you burnt the evidence?

  • Worry not, action will still be taken.

  • Lest you forget, this Haman is now head of internal protection.

  • And lest you forget, I'm still queen.

  • Yes, but queen subject to an ancient protocol that no doubt Haman

  • knows how to manipulate far better than you do.

  • Go not by the main gate.

  • I wish not for the Queen to be alerted to my coming.

  • (COMMANDS HORSE)

  • You must promise me

  • that you will not reveal this to anyone.

  • Any more such promises and I shall have to take a vow of silence.

  • Rusty old lovers' gate.

  • I trust you used it much in your youth, Memucan.

  • Who do you think had it installed?

  • Go now.

  • My love. Oh, how I've missed you.

  • Have you?

  • Now, what is that supposed to mean?

  • You looked flushed. Busy morning?

  • Not as busy as it could get.

  • No visitors?

  • You sent for me, Your Highness?

  • It appears you have misplaced our necklace.

  • I wonder if that is all you have misplaced.

  • (WOMAN EXCLAIMING PLAYFULLY)

  • Perhaps Your Majesty would like to send for one of the concubines.

  • Perhaps not.

  • You look so much like your father.

  • Sometimes I forget how different you truly are.

  • Makes me wonder all the more

  • why you feel such need to follow in his steps.

  • Give her a few more nights,

  • and then have her brought to me.

  • ADMANTHA: You call that public tirade subtle?

  • You mock me, Agagite.

  • I need but report but once to the King of your arrogance.

  • And your dreams of kingship die with me.

  • You might be less harsh on the Jews.

  • You should make yourself a laughing stock.

  • The Jews, my prince,

  • will be your chief weapon by which you attain power to the throne.

  • Think, we plan to take the crown by force

  • when the King is deep in Greece.

  • What excuse will you use?

  • Who attacks the land?

  • Well, no one, actually.

  • Unless, of course, you claim it was

  • Memucan expects an apology, as you predicted.

  • Well, an apology is a cheap enough price to pay for a kingdom.

  • Invite, then, Memucan to your estate.

  • Presumably so In apologize to him.

  • On the way, however, he will be ambushed.

  • ADMANTHA: By whom?

  • By my Jews, of course.

  • Jews who slew him for being coupled with them as a traitor.

  • And what of Memucan's own guard?

  • It's merely an apology.

  • Perhaps you can suggest to Memucan

  • that if he arrive with a large number,

  • he'

  • One or two guards my men can handle.

  • And who'll handle you?

  • Who but you,

  • my king.

  • Prepare to die, Greek-lover.

  • Thank the gods you are unharmed, my lord.

  • XERXES: Come.

  • My queen...

  • MAN: Your Highness,

  • blood has been spilled.

  • You are needed at once.

  • But lord King, an accusation by a dispatch ride.

  • Why did you wait so long to inform anyone of Admantha's plot?

  • Surely you don't...

  • My lord, I had to but play the traitor

  • to catch the traitor.

  • Where are his witnesses, my lord?

  • What were my motives?

  • Let this Haman prove his words or be forever silent.

  • But what would he have me show, my lord?

  • There are no witnesses to plans forged in secret.

  • You will not act like that, Admantha.

  • And was it not even Admantha who stirred the crowd

  • ance,

  • knowing she would not come?

  • All lies. That's lies.

  • Lies. I stand in a crumbling house of lies.

  • Remember before whom you plead.

  • Plead for what?

  • For your life, Admantha.

  • (CRICKETS CHIRPING)

  • Is it my foolish desire to believe these stories I hear

  • or my glaring inability to perceive their mysteries?

  • Perhaps you...

  • You placed them back upon the shelf to collect dust

  • without ever truly completing them.

  • Who is the one that gathers dust?

  • I believed I was your Rachel.

  • But it appears I'm only Leah, and you serve time with me for another.

  • No, my lord. It's not what you think.

  • Nothing is as I think anymore.

  • Plots slither through the night.

  • Trust, it decays like secret gates left to rust.

  • Admantha is carried to torture even as we speak.

  • This Jacob and Rachel, they are no mere story to you.

  • Give me some incentive to believe in who you really are.

  • Give me some honor.

  • For if it is truly the honor of kings to seek out truth in lie,

  • I am a man of scorn.

  • I will answer you, my lord,

  • irst answer me.

  • Answer you what?

  • Why did you summon Vashti

  • when you knew she would not come?

  • I am king.

  • And I need answer to no one.

  • (CRYING)

  • MORDECAI: After many days of torture, Admantha, the g ian prince,

  • and was dealt with according to the protocol of the land.

  • For his brave and valorous services, Haman the Agagite

  • Fars

  • to inherit Admantha's house, wealth, prestige and power.

  • Pieces are falling into place

  • we've spoken of, one by one.

  • Soothsaying does not become you, Haman.

  • No, my darling, I speak of the truth, not of stars.

  • My burden I would not wish on any man.

  • The blood of my forefathers will be avenged.

  • And the gods will smile down on our son through our obedience.

  • And are you mad? This is your plan?

  • It is not that our allies are unwilling, my lord,

  • but they have not fared well.

  • A storm has robbed the Phoenicians of a good part of their fleet.

  • Carthage finds herself short in timber

  • with which to complete our warships...

  • Surely the fate of the empire does not hinge on money?

  • Are you ready to furnish it, then?

  • No, not I, my lord.

  • But I'm aware of traitors within our borders tha

  • The Jews?

  • We are not children.

  • Nevertheless, the money may be raised

  • by the confiscation of Jewish wealth and property.

  • And the Jews will just hand it over without a fight?

  • No, of course not.

  • First we must kill them all.

  • Every last one of them.

  • It is the only way to ensure they do not rise up

  • He speaks of women and children, my lord.

  • Yes, women and children.

  • I know.

  • What is your solution?

  • Or would you rather, my dear Memucan, t unite

  • and, hand in hand, murder us in our beds while we sleep?

  • Is the past so mighty that we must destroy our brothers

  • to be free of its grasp?

  • No kingdom was ever so grand as the Jews' own King Solomon.

  • He fought not one battle, toiled through not one war,

  • but prospered upon the peace handed down by his father.

  • Do not make void what your own father's death has purchased.

  • By picking back up...

  • Mind your tone, General.

  • are

  • when we can drink so deeply of peace?

  • You speak of peace, let us speak of the Jews.

  • They would rather bow down to their own God

  • than obey the laws of protocol.

  • Their prophets even speak of a coming king.

  • A king who will reign over all kings and set all men free.

  • Is that not the very essence of democracy, my dear Memucan?

  • I do believe, under your guidance, we are undone.

  • If we are undone, we are undone from within, indeed.

  • March upon Greece, if you wish.

  • But you march with no general in your lead.

  • Then it has not yet been signed into law?

  • Not as yet, my lady.

  • Perhaps guilt stirs men too hotly at times,

  • and they seek the salve of the law

  • to ease the burning.

  • And what would you have me do?

  • I cannot seek him in the library unless summoned.

  • If you arrived first,

  • then he in effect would be seeking you,

  • How came you pass my guard?

  • I demanded none use

  • I seek that which you seek, my lord.

  • Truth.

  • Perhaps the truth of what exists between us?

  • I have come on matters of state.

  • Matters of state.

  • I see.

  • And what matters of state might that be?

  • You desire more perfumes?

  • You

  • Surely as queen of the kitchen, you need not await me here.

  • You know as well as I how quickly word travels throughout the palace.

  • Especially when murder's involved.

  • You are... You are learned, well-read.

  • Offer me a story that answers my dilemma.

  • I have never pretended with you.

  • Never pretended?

  • Think you not that I see Memucan's strings

  • You care more for these Jews than you do for me.

  • Do you enquire of my burdens, do you offer me solutions?

  • No.

  • You just complain.

  • As Vashti did?

  • Away from me!

  • And come before me no longer, no matter what pretense you seek,

  • or your fate shall be worse than Vashti.

  • Love has failed me.

  • Knowledge has failed me, thus I bind myself to the protocol

  • of my fathers and to my empire.

  • By the next moon, I leave for war.

  • And whatever my fate, it shall no longer be shared with you.

  • This was once your favorite reading.

  • And though it may no longer bear the story of love,

  • it bears that of one Mordecai the Jew.

  • One of whom you wish to destroy saved your life.

  • And you never even honored him for it.

  • The casting of the lot, the Pur...

  • It has determined upon which day

  • he kingdom .

  • This day is to be the 13th day of the month of Adar

  • acc the s.

  • Prince...

  • The annihilation of a people

  • can only be authorized by one who bears the signet of the King himself.

  • (PEOPLE SCREAMING)

  • MORDECAI: And those letters were sent into all the lan,

  • to slay and annihilate all the Jews

  • on the 13th of Adar, some six weeks hence.

  • Both young and old, men, women and even childre.

  • And to plunder all of their possessions for the sake of the crown.

  • The scribe insists that all is dependant upon you, my queen.

  • Dependant upon me?

  • My queen might wish to go before the King and intercede

  • for...those that have no other hope.

  • My lady...

  • Have you forgotten your protocol?

  • To approach the King unsummoned is death.

  • Perhaps in court.

  • But surely you can visit him in private.

  • Surely I cannot.

  • I have been.

  • I walk before you with a loyal heart.

  • And now I stand in the hour of trouble

  • precisely because of my obedience.

  • I beseech you, Father,

  • let there be another way.

  • Rise up a deliverer and let this pass.

  • Let this pass.

  • MORDECAI: "'Comfort,

  • "'comfort my people,' says your God.

  • "Cry unto Israel

  • "that her warfare is finished,

  • "that her iniquity is removed.

  • "The everlasting neither faints nor is weary.

  • "His understanding no one can fathom.

  • "He gives strength to the weary and power to the weak.

  • "Even the youth shall faint and be weary,

  • "and young men shall utterly fai.

  • "But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength."

  • Lord, we wait on thee.

  • Renew our strength.

  • MAN: Clear the way for he who comes.

  • Kneel before the great prince.

  • Clear the way for he who comes.

  • Kneel for the great prince.

  • You...

  • Lower yourself to honor the great Prince Haman. Kneel!

  • I said kneel.

  • Stop!

  • Why do you not kneel?

  • I kneel before my king.

  • I abase myself only before the God of my fathers.

  • What's his name, this God?

  • The great I AM.

  • The one true God, the maker of heaven and earth.

  • The God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob.

  • A Jew.

  • Mordecai Ben-Yair.

  • Mordecai...

  • I shall name my prize pig after you.

  • Perhaps I may give you other reasons to remember my name.

  • You will remember mine

  • for this!

  • Move on.

  • MAN: What good did that do?

  • You still ended up on the ground

  • But I did not kneel.

  • Come, now, you are a mere three days from being handed a kingdom.

  • We must not let one Jew rob us of our joy.

  • That is not good enough.

  • Then seek permission to honor the King's departure

  • with a public execution of a rebel

  • (ECHOING) a symbol of your authority over those that remain.

  • A gallows, 50 cubits high with Mordecai right...

  • The chronicles.

  • XERXES: Rise.

  • A matter disturbs me.

  • You may be of assistance.

  • I am most pleased, my lord, for I, too, desire your counsel on a matter.

  • eat service

  • He has received many honors amongst his people,

  • but he once saved my life.

  • I feel, despite everything, full recognition

  • has not yet been given him.

  • What think you, shall be done for this man in whom the King delights

  • to honor?

  • Let a royal robe be sent for,

  • one his Majesty has donned in public.

  • And a horse

  • on whose head a royal crest is set.

  • Deliver them to one of the noblest princes of the Fars,

  • so that he can array the man in whom the King delights.

  • And then parade this man through the streets, proclaiming,

  • "Thus shall it be done to the man

  • "in whom the King delights to honor."

  • Most excellent proposal.

  • Go yourself now and do all you have suggested.

  • My lord.

  • To a one Mordecai,

  • the scribe who sits within the King's gates.

  • Mordecai?

  • The Jew?

  • My lady.

  • And who is this honored man?

  • A scribe.

  • A Jewish scribe, who claims to have saved the King's life.

  • I should think you would be honored

  • by such a privilege given by the King.

  • Honored?

  • The prestige of Persia is at stake.

  • What will it be said of your husband, the king, that he commands

  • his highest prince to lead a Jew through the streets?

  • A Jew, my lady!

  • And how is a Jew any different than you or I?

  • They are our enemy.

  • They must be destroyed.

  • They may be your enemy, but not mine.

  • From the way that you defend them,

  • one might almost think...

  • One might think what,

  • my prince?

  • One might think. That is all, my lady.

  • One might think.

  • HAMAN: Make your way for Mordecai, the Jew.

  • (CROWD CHEERING)

  • Make your way for Mordecai, who saved the King's life.

  • .

  • All hail for Mordecai, the Jew, honored of the King.

  • Beloved of the Queen.

  • All hail for Mordecai, the Jew.

  • Honored of the King. Beloved of the Queen.

  • (THUNDER CRASHING)

  • Guards...

  • My queen, I bring you word from Mordecai.

  • You've run out of time.

  • When the King leaves for Greece tomorrow,

  • he will appoint Haman as his regent.

  • It is our last chance to stop this edict of death.

  • He made me vow to speak his words.

  • You will indeed risk if yo g...

  • MORDECAI: ...but do not thik that if you keep silent

  • your position will save you alone from this edict.

  • For if you keep silent, deliverance for the Jews

  • will arise from someplace else,

  • but you

  • will surely perish.

  • Who knows whether you have come to the palace

  • for such a time as this?

  • .

  • Tell Mordecai to assemble the Jews.

  • Ask them to fast and pray.

  • I will do the same.

  • And in the morning, arrange for me a litter.

  • I will array myself as queen and go before the King unsummoned,

  • even though it is against the law.

  • And if I perish,

  • I perish.

  • (THUNDER CRASHING)

  • XERXES: People of Persia, servants of the crown,

  • today we embrace our destiny

  • to raid and rule the world over and stand against the Greeks

  • and all who would rob us of our glory.

  • MAID: Her crown, quickly.

  • The litter will be here any moment.

  • No litter is coming.

  • What?

  • I do not know what you plan, but...

  • The King leaves for the outpost within the hour.

  • I have not time to wait out this rain.

  • I am not going to allow you to kill yourself.

  • No...

  • Please tell me you did not.

  • What possible assurance do you have

  • he to his scepter

  • You do not go into a bedroom of a man,

  • you go into the hall of a king.

  • This is not you against him.

  • .

  • Then I... I go as

  • David did before Goliath and the Philistines.

  • Th Es tories,

  • Do you hear me? Just stories.

  • Know you what I love most about the story of David and Goliath?

  • David's victory came not because he fought well

  • but because he believed well.

  • Thus I leave you on this day, your regent, in my absence,

  • Lord Haman, prince of the Fars.

  • It is my will that each of you obey him in every way,

  • exactly as you would regard your king.

  • Unsummoned she comes before the King.

  • She does.

  • Is protocol not broken?

  • Yes, protocol has been broken.

  • Guards!

  • (INAUDIBLE)

  • (INAUDIBLE)

  • (ALL CLAMORING)

  • ...before the King.

  • (SIGHS)

  • We have not time to waste.

  • What did he say to your request?

  • The timing, the faces... I could not ask it.

  • Not there, not in court.

  • What then? ?

  • We have but one last chance.

  • You must help me prepare.

  • A king may lower his scepter to whoever he wishes.

  • My lord,

  • this day your kingdom has all but been ripped from your hands.

  • This Esther has dishonored you more than Vashti ever could.

  • See not you now how she has trapped you?

  • Inviting us to a banquet to hear her request?

  • If you go, the people will deem you to be a pawn.

  • If you refuse,

  • a coward.

  • (DOOR SLAMS SHUT)

  • There is but one way to proceed.

  • Is the meal to your satisfaction, my lord?

  • The night draws late.

  • Once more I ask for your petition, my queen.

  • My petition,

  • is that you allow me to finish a story.

  • One that I began many nights ago.

  • The story of Jacob, my lord,

  • does not finish with marrying Rachel.

  • Well, they go on to have 12 sons.

  • And like these 12 pillars that surround us,

  • they became the pillars of a people.

  • Surely...

  • Surely you do not delay an army

  • only to finish a children's tale?

  • If I still find favor in your sight,

  • let my life be given me, at my petition.

  • And my equest.

  • You demand of me your life and that of your people?

  • My dear girl,

  • I know not of your people.

  • You have yet to tell me who they are.

  • Had we been merely sold as slaves, I would have held my tongue.

  • This--This Haman wanted our blood,

  • my blood, the blood of Jacob, your Jacob.

  • Your Jacob was given a new name.

  • Israel.

  • As, too, was I.

  • You, Esther?

  • A Jew?

  • Not Esther, my lord.

  • Hadassah Bat-Abihail,

  • daughter of the tribe of Benjamin,

  • child

  • Never have I heard a more pathetic story in my entire life.

  • She is no Jew.

  • She's another Vashti.

  • Seems it not convenient to you?

  • An army marches,

  • and suddenly she is a Jew.

  • Esther is a Jew.

  • Your Vashti but protested the notion of war.

  • This queen seeks to counter the very authority of your rule.

  • A Jew? If such were true, why did she hide it till now?

  • Pray, do tell us.

  • The Almighty has indeed ordained

  • that my words speak not truth unto you.

  • At least allow my heart.

  • For this

  • which I have offered you, my most precious in all the w

  • the very identity etched within me.

  • Well, is something supposed to be happening here?

  • The stars... Do you not see them?

  • Do you not see them?

  • A mockery.

  • Perhaps not how you had hoped it would end?

  • Imagined you that I would beg?

  • Think you I will beg?

  • Beg for my life?

  • Beg like my forefather Agag before your sword?

  • Would you like me to beg for you?

  • Oh,

  • please, my lady.

  • Please, Your Highness.

  • Please spare me.

  • Spare me my life. You are a lady of mercy.

  • Spare me.

  • I beg for forgiveness.

  • Spare me

  • (GRUNTS)

  • Would he also assault the Queen,

  • my wife,

  • while I am in my house?

  • Harbonah has informed me that the gallows post stands in Haman's yard

  • even as we speak. Apparently intended for one Mordecai the Jew.

  • No!

  • No!

  • (GROANS)

  • What made you come back?

  • I saw them.

  • I saw the stars.

  • (RELIEVED CHUCKLE)

  • MORDECAI: Thus with one faithful act

  • has a new generation redeemed the time of centuries past

  • and stepped into their destiny.

  • On this day, I give you your new princ, and master of audiences,

  • Mordecai Ben-Yair.

  • On the day appointed for their destruction,

  • all Jews shall have the right

  • to protect themselves

  • and shall be entitled to take all the property of their attackers.

  • And I send forth this story

  • enjoining all to keep a day of feasting and gladness.

  • A celebration to be passed on and retold through every generation,

  • or the casting of the Pur that determined its time.

  • While we continue onward in the face

  • of a world filled with uncertainty,

  • we can rejoice, for hidden within its mysteries

  • is the honor of a king.

  • Thus dictated, I order this decree sent out

  • under the great seal of Mordecai,

  • prince of Persia,

  • a Jew.

  • One nig h the king

  • ♪♪ Changes everything

  • One day in his courts

  • Could forever change my course

  • One moment

  • sence

  • And I'll never be the same

  • One night with the king

  • Changes everything

  • One night with the king

  • Changes everything

  • ♪ s

  • Could forever change my course

  • In his presence

  • And I'll never be the same

  • ♪♪ One night with the king

  • Changes everything

  • ♪♪ From a peasant to a queen

  • It had been my destiny

  • To be chosen for such a time as this

  • ♪ I didn't know that all my dreams

  • Could become reality

  • Until I saw his face

  • His love captured me

  • One night with the king

  • Oh, changes everything

  • One day in his courts

  • Could forever change my course

  • One moment

  • In his presence

  • One moment

  • In his presence

  • Oh, one moment

  • In his presence

  • And I'll never be the same

  • One night with the king

  • One day in his courts

  • Changes

  • One night with the king

  • ♪♪ Changes

  • Everything

MORDECAI: From whence comes the purpose of a person's life?

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