- Uther Pendragon: Could somebody tell me what happened?
- Merlin: Well...
- Uther Pendragon: Someone with a brain.
- Uther Pendragon: If this was a time of war, I would have you flogged.
- Merlin: [hopefully] And since it's not we'll let it go just this once?
- [new scene finds him in the stocks]
- Merlin: I forgot how much fun this was.
- Arthur: [waking up after being unconcious] What happened? Where am I?
- Merlin: Can you remember anything?
- Arthur: Ah... Oh, my head.
- [thinks sluggishly]
- Arthur: There was a girl. Sophia. She, uh... I asked my father something about her. I asked him...
- [remembers and sits up, a look of disgust on his face]
- Arthur: What was I thinking?
- Merlin: Well, we did wonder. Ecspecially when you eloped with her last night.
- Arthur: I did *what*?
- Gaius: Merlin had to bring you back to Camelot.
- Arthur: I don't recall any of this!
- Gaius: Must have been some blow.
- Arthur: [tightly] *What blow?*
- Merlin: Well once I caught up with you, I couldn't persuade you to return. You were beyond reason. So I had to make you.
- Arthur: [angrily] You managed to knock me out?
- Merlin: [cheerfully] Yep. With a lump of wood.
- Gaius: He only did it to bring you back safely.
- Arthur: [stabs a finger in their faces, dead serious] No one can know about this. Any of this. Is that understood.
- [they nod and Arthur falls back on the bed, groaning]