Arthur and Merlin stay alone in that big room. The king still stands at his place at the round table. Slowly he truns arround to face his friend: "Merlin, I.." His friend shakes his head, he fights upcoming tears. He doesn't move, he is paralyzed. Arthur takes heart and walks over to his servant: "Merlin, I know how you must feel.." This is the moment Merlin's sadness turns into pure anger: "You know how I must feel? You know nothing!" He shouts at his king: "You don't know anything about me! You have absolutely no idea, how it feels to hide yourself all the time. You can't imagine, how it feels to be a fool, just to be able to disappear in the shadow. You don't even think about how it feels to deny yourself every single day. You know, how I must feel? You don't know me at all!"

Arthur puts his hands on his friend's shoulders, but Merlin doesn't calm down: "And this members of the council or table round, they have, what they refuse for all who have magic: their freedom! This is all I ever wanted. They sentence people to death because of prejudices! They don't know that sorcerer or anyone else! All they knew, were Morgana and Mordred! This is called clan liability! I'm not responsible for what Morgana did, as you aren't responsible for what your father did." Stunned Merlin shakes his head. Arthur tries to reach him: "Merlin, I tried. You saw that magic has no acceptance in Camelot." Merlin looks up into his king's eyes: "That makes it that easy for you. The others are to blame. You are the king! You make the decisions! Sometimes a man has to do, what he believes is right and damn the consequences. You have told me that! Where is this man I once knew? Today you hide yourself behind your laws and your council. You should know it better! You know that there is no evil in magic only in the heart of men! You decided about a man's destiny! That old man, it could have been me. Have you thought about that? What if they had seen me using my magic to show you the snowflakes? But it is easier the way it is. It is always easier to execute a man you don't know." Helpless looks Arthur into Merlin's eyes: "I'm sorry." Merlin despairs: "You are sorry? This is everything you have to say?" Sadly he looks up to his king: "Can you imagine, what I have done for you and Camelot? And what I got in return? Everything I wanted was your acceptance. I wanted, you to see I'm not the fool, you always believed I'm. But now, I feel more lonely as before. For the people of Camelot I'm still a monster. Nothing has changed. I'm still the outsider I always was. And the fact that you know that, hurts me more as I can say. I'm lonely, since you know who I'm, even more as before." With this words Merlin turns arround and leaves his king alone.