- Richard Cypher: Zed, what I did...
- Zeddicus Zul Zorander: That wasn't you. Man doesn't possess the power of Orden so much as the power of Orden possesses the man.
- Richard Cypher: No, it was me. I felt that anger, that hatred. I still do.
- Zeddicus Zul Zorander: If you didn't, you'd be a statue, not a man. We all have dark desires, yearnings for vengeance; and you must remember how those feelings stirred your blood... because what marks the line between good and evil is the choice not to act on them.
- Darken Rahl: [entering dungeon] Denna.
- Denna: [lightly clad, suspended by her wrists] My Lord.
- Darken Rahl: Why do you make me hurt you like this?
- Denna: I'm sorry I failed you, my Lord.
- Darken Rahl: So you claim to me many times. The fact remains, you let the Seeker slip from your grasp.
- Denna: I deserve my punishment.
- [shakes her head]
- Denna: And more.
- [he kisses her, his toxic kiss causes her mouth to burn]
- Denna: Release me, and I will show you such pleasure that all will be forgiven.
- Darken Rahl: Pleasure, alas, must wait. I have learned the exact location of the Third Box of Orden, but my men have failed to retrieve it.
- Denna: Send me. I will succeed.
- Darken Rahl: I should never have send men to do a Mord-Sith's job.
- [strokes her face in a brutal way]
- Darken Rahl: But you would not want to disappoint me again, Denna.
- Denna: [suffering] I will return with the box.
- Darken Rahl: Yes. But you will not be able to do it alone. First, you need to capture the one person... that I fear the most in all the world.
- Denna: The Seeker will not escape me again.
- Darken Rahl: No, no, no. Someone far more fearsome than he.
- [Denna lays out plans for Jennsen to break into the People's palaces and get the two Boxes of Orden. As Denna speaks, we see Jennsen carry out those plans]
- Denna: The People's palace is surrounded by a tree line that acts as a magical barrier. Only those who have been spelled by Rahl's sorcerers can pass in and out of the barrier without being instantly killed by it. Richard will have to wait for you on the other side. There will be alarms, but you won't set them off. Just make sure the archers patrolling the battlements don't see you. They shoot on sight. There's a secret entrance on the south end of the palace that leads to an escape tunnel. As Lord Rahl's personal bodyguards, only the Mord-Sith know of its existence. You'll see the opening. But make sure no one is watching you. Because what they will see is someone walking through a solid wall. Follow the tunnel to the staircase. At the top is an archway guarded by a lone sentry. He passes every 90 seconds. Wait until he goes by and then run straight ahead to the entrance to Rahl's ceremonial chamber. Rahl trusts no one, so there are no living guards watching over the chamber itself. It's protected only by magic. The final magical shield, the one closest to the boxes, allows only Rahl himself to get through. Of course, you're the exception. But be very careful. Even if you make it past all the shields and guards, Darken Rahl has an uncanny ability to sense when things are awry.
- D'Haran Guard: I'm not here to fight. I'm here to deliver a message from Mistress Denna. She holds the girl's mother at the Cave of Sorrows. You bring the box or she dies. You have until nightfall.
- Jennsen: We have to go. Now.
- Zeddicus Zul Zorander: I'm sorry, child, but we cannot forfeit the final Box of Orden for one person's life.
- Richard Cypher: That's easy for you to say. She's not your mother.
- Zeddicus Zul Zorander: No. She's my daughter.
- [a few seconds of silence]
- Zeddicus Zul Zorander: Yes, I'm your grandfather.
- [turns to Jennsen]
- Zeddicus Zul Zorander: And apparently yours as well, child.
- General Egremont: Lord Rahl, Mistress Denna has sent word by Journey Book. She'll arrive by nightfall tomorrow with the third Box of Orden.
- Darken Rahl: Tell her she'll be greeted with the strumming of harps and the blast of trumpets.
- General Egremont: You doubt her, my lord?
- Darken Rahl: I doubt the very sun at noon, Egremont.