Marco Polo (TV Series)

Rendering (2014)

Chin Han: Jia Sidao

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Attendant : [entering]  Wuchang has fallen.

  Jia Sidao : As expected. Wise to withdraw our troops when we did.

• Jia Sidao : My apologies, Empress, for taking so long to come and visit. I trust your accommodations have been to your liking?

  Empress Dowager : [bitterly]  A cell is a cell, no matter the decor.

  Jia Sidao : I could put you in a real cell, Empress, and prove that assumption so very wrong.

  Jia Sidao : [melodramatically]  I feel as if I may have sprained my wrist. That's what your champion took out of me. The blind man was more agile, truth be told. Interesting choice for an assassin. I would have selected someone with eyes. Even Fang Zhen seemed surprised by him. Someone had to allow him inside.

• Jia Sidao : You are the military emissary to the Great Kublai Khan?

  Yusuf : I have that honor, Chancellor. I am Vice Regent of the Secretariat.

  Jia Sidao : And a foreigner. You must be as wise as you're ugly and odd.

  Yusuf : Have you ever seen an image of the Roman emperor Claudius? Or the Hunnic ruler Attila?

  Jia Sidao : No. But you're now going to tell me of the accomplishments of ugly men who were underestimated.

  Yusuf : I would not presume to educate you on the wiles of political men, comely or otherwise, Chancellor.

• Jia Sidao : You ask for parley as you stand with an army outside my city walls. How am I to take this?

  Kublai Khan : On bended knee, if you're wise.

  Jia Sidao : I have a wall.

  Kublai Khan : I will obliterate your wall. I will take your fraudulent crown. I will spike your corpse to the gates of my new palace. Or, I will walk through the wall after it is freely opened, accept your surrender, and offer gracious terms for the deposed Chancellor of Xiangyang, and his rebel army. You have power yet to save your people, Sidao.

  Jia Sidao : [clicks tongue]  It's unfortunate that it has come to this. So deep into war that we make attempts on each other's lives, and those most sacred to us. I've heard of your favored wife's beauty. Such luminescence should not be taken from us this way. So repugnant. Even your own Vice Regent is against this war. This tactics.

  Jia Sidao : [rising]  When an honest man says nothing, you see his heart. I don't question his loyalty to you, but an absence of words speaks loudly. Perhaps he sees something we do not.

  Jia Sidao : [threateningly]  I trust I'll find you on the field, Jia Sidao.