Tom Glynn-Carney credited as playing...
Hotspur
- Hotspur: Cousin Mortimer is held by the rebels of Wales. Why do you refuse to pay his ransom?
- King Henry IV: I refuse to pay Mortimer's ransom because I refuse to believe Mortimer a prisoner. I rather believe Mortimer to be a traitor. Your victory over the Scots was a most heroic one, heroic because improbable. Our most recent loss to the Welsh, however, should not have been suffered. Our strength should have had it staved. And I must conclude only that it was suffered with Mortimer's help, that Mortimer has joined the Welsh rebels, that he has betrayed England and that far from being a prisoner, your cousin is now an enemy of mine and, therefore, of yours. Do you agree with my précis, good Hotspur?
- Hotspur: No.
- Northumberland: My son.
- Hotspur: I believe yours to be the ramblings of a crazy old demon.
- Northumberland: Harry. Please. Stop this.
- King Henry IV: Let him speak. I wish to hear him.
- Northumberland: My liege...
- Hotspur: Yours are the ramblings of an old man so saturated with malice and mistrust that he no longer knows up from down, who can no longer see beyond the walls of his own monstrous schloss. My family has served you. My father, my uncle. We aided you in your ascension. And still we fight for you. Cousin Mortimer has fought for you - hard and for many years. And yet while you now slobber over that chicken's wing, he shivers in a western prison awaiting mutilation at the hands of Welsh witches.
- Northumberland: My liege, you must forgive my son. He needs rest. We come only to advocate for your help in securing Mortimer's release.
- Hotspur: All that we have done for you we have done for the good of England, but I fear now that we have made a terrible mistake. I fear the battles we have fought have been fought only to indulge your hateful madness. Our lands are now more riven with war than ever before. You have rebellion stewing in all corners. The Scots are not finished. The Welsh have only just begun. And for what? Why do you think this might be, old man? Who do you imagine might be to blame for this?
- Northumberland: My liege...
- King Henry IV: You are right, young Percy. I owe you much. I owe your family still more. You have fought nobly for me. You carry wounds fresh for me to see. And your grievances too - they have been heard. But if the Scottish traitors you have taken prisoner are not brought to me as speedily as they might travel, I will hang you by your fucking neck. Has this been heard, Percy?