User blog comment:Longlivemerlin/The Kindness of Strangers: Who was that? and dialogue teasers/@comment-4892425-20121203043518

Here's a new set of teasers for 5 x 10:

You continue to waste your time Morgana.

» He sends you greetings and a warning! » Of course the personal touch. » The great battle is nearing! » Don’t you understand? If something happened to you, we would all be lost. » Not even you can separate your mind from your mind! » No matter what you do, you cannot break me. » A problem shared… » You will remember me! » Come alone – or not at all! » What was it you used to say? The victim always talks…eventually.

» There are some things even a warlock as great as you cannot overcome

@this girl that I know - I think Merlin will be outed in 5 x 10. Morgana's hacked that Emyrs has wrecked her plans:



So she gets Alator to make him talk, thanks to the Nathair. I think he gives up Merlin, then Morgana and her new batch of minions attack Camelot not to take the throne right away, but to expose Merlin. By knocking out the kingdom's main line of defense Camelot would be more vunerable to magical attacks.

I agree with @Lurker; it looks like Merlin is running  from the knights here:



Arthur and the knights would feel betrayed. They have known Merlin for years and they learn this in the most ugly way. They are going to think he's been working for Morgana all this time, waiting for the moment to fight. Arthur is going to really feel it because of what has recently happened to Gwen and the advice Merlin gave about the Disir deal. Arthur is going to think Merlin advised him to say no so to throw suspicion off him.

The last line of the teaser made me think of this:  "There are some things even a warlock as great as you cannot overcome". I think for this episode the things are prejudice and mistrust. For over twenty years the people of Camelot have been taught by Uther that sorcery is evil. Such attitudes cannot change overnight. After lying all these years no one is going to believe what Merlin says.

Merlin should have came clean earlier or none of this would have happened.