Robin Hood (TV Series)

Cause and Effect (2009)

Jonas Armstrong: Robin Hood

Quotes 

• Robin Hood : My name is Robin Hood and this is an ambush! While there's people going hungry... While there's injustic in this land... Me and my men will fight for what's right and we take from the rich to give to the poor. For a fairer world. Now, you took that money from people who can ill aford it. So we'll take it back.

  [Soldiers emerge from carriage] 

  Sergeant : You're outnumbered!

  Robin Hood : And what makes you think that?

  Sergeant : Take cover!

  [Arrows rain down] 

  Robin Hood : Now... you're outnumbered, you're out-armed so get out of here. Go on, run!

• Robin Hood : [to mouse in dungeon]  ... I'm never fitting through there, anyways...

• Robin Hood : A visitor? I'll not shake your hand, if you don't mind.

  Finn : They tell me you were once a nobleman. That you gave up your title. Lost your lands, lost all your wealth.

  Robin Hood : The people have endured far worse.

  Finn : They tell me you lost the woman you loved.

  Robin Hood : [chuckles]  What do you want from me, Irishman?

  Finn : We're the same, you and me. We both have cause. But you, Robin. You inspire men. I've seen it right here. You see, my people - well, my people are as oppressed by this Prince John as your people. And yet, they will not rise at the call of Finn MacMurrough.

  Robin Hood : ...and you want my help.

  Finn : I want you to join forces with me. We can learn from each other, you and me. Together, we can smash this Prince John and the Sheriff, all of them. I'll help you free England, You help me free Ireland. We could both be Kings. Now, what do you say to that?

  Robin Hood : England already has a King.

  [attacks Finn, puts him in headlock] 

  Robin Hood : RICHARD. His name is Richard.

  Finn : I only have to shout. There's half a battalion out there.

  [Robin releases him] 

  Finn : You think over what I've said to you. Perhaps you don't want a crown, but a just and fair country. If that's what you want... I might be the only chance you have left.

• Robin Hood : My friends, lie low here until it's safe to return to your villages. You're marked men, but I swear to you that brand you wear will one day become a badge of honor. And believe me when I aw that the day is coming when the Sheriff will be held to account for what he's done to you and your villages. And on that day, my men and I will call on you. We will call on your strength. We will call on your courage. We will call on the love you bear your families to stand with us and fight, and overthrow the cruel injustice that infects this land! Are you with me?

  [Men cheer] 

• Sheriff of Nottingham : We call this room the vault. One door, solid oak, 3 locks. No windows, just... lots of stone.

  Robin Hood : ...a challenge.

  Guy of Gisborne : This is the last room you'll ever know. You should have killed me when you had a chance. I'm going to make you suffer before you die.

  Robin Hood : Just like you're suffering, Gisborne? You know, you could kill me a 100 times over, but the pain you're feeling now, the hatred, the self-loathing, it's never going to go away. You'll never hate me as much as you hate yourself!

  Sheriff of Nottingham : [Gesturing towards Gisbornes drawn sword]  Oh, put it away. Always in such a rush, hmm? Sometimes I don't think you appreciate the poetry of pain. Something clearly, Robin Hood does.