1 00:00:48,581 --> 00:00:49,582 [arrow whistling] 2 00:00:52,952 --> 00:00:55,655 [faint whinnying] 3 00:00:57,390 --> 00:00:58,491 [steel clanging] 4 00:01:05,532 --> 00:01:06,366 [roaring] 5 00:01:11,404 --> 00:01:13,640 [faint crowd roar] 6 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:18,111 [men chanting, indistinct] 7 00:01:31,758 --> 00:01:32,859 ...salute you. 8 00:01:46,406 --> 00:01:48,108 [roaring faintly] 9 00:03:35,648 --> 00:03:37,984 [birds chirping] 10 00:03:38,985 --> 00:03:42,222 [chickens clucking] 11 00:03:47,894 --> 00:03:49,896 [woman] Be gentle, Hanno. 12 00:03:51,698 --> 00:03:53,233 [goat bleating nearby] 13 00:04:06,279 --> 00:04:08,214 [grunts] 14 00:04:13,753 --> 00:04:16,356 [loud horn blowing] 15 00:04:16,523 --> 00:04:18,525 [men shouting in distance] 16 00:04:22,495 --> 00:04:25,265 [horn continues blowing] 17 00:04:54,694 --> 00:04:56,563 [seagulls calling] 18 00:05:02,135 --> 00:05:04,137 [wood creaking] 19 00:05:09,609 --> 00:05:12,278 [man] We invoke you by your great names 20 00:05:12,445 --> 00:05:14,114 to come to our aid. 21 00:05:14,280 --> 00:05:15,882 Defeat the Romans. 22 00:05:16,490 --> 00:05:17,550 Destroy their ships, 23 00:05:17,717 --> 00:05:19,252 their engines of war, 24 00:05:19,419 --> 00:05:21,187 and their soldiers. 25 00:05:21,388 --> 00:05:24,290 We will prevail. 26 00:05:29,329 --> 00:05:31,131 Ozalsces. 27 00:05:33,733 --> 00:05:35,268 Arishat. 28 00:05:44,210 --> 00:05:46,513 [faint shouting] 29 00:05:49,649 --> 00:05:50,917 [man] Hanno. 30 00:05:54,354 --> 00:05:57,290 You did not make an offering today. 31 00:05:57,457 --> 00:05:59,759 I prefer to sacrifice a Roman. 32 00:05:59,926 --> 00:06:00,994 [chuckles] 33 00:06:15,642 --> 00:06:17,100 [Arishat] Where you are, 34 00:06:18,111 --> 00:06:19,112 I am, too. 35 00:06:23,116 --> 00:06:24,684 [Hanno] And where you are, 36 00:06:24,884 --> 00:06:27,687 I am, too, forever. 37 00:06:27,887 --> 00:06:29,322 My wife. 38 00:06:37,230 --> 00:06:40,266 [man shouts indistinctly] 39 00:06:40,433 --> 00:06:43,236 [excited chattering] 40 00:06:52,445 --> 00:06:54,547 [muffled drums beating] 41 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:01,554 [mast creaking] 42 00:07:02,922 --> 00:07:05,458 The wind is too strong. Furl sail and strike water. 43 00:07:05,658 --> 00:07:07,927 Furl sail, strike water! 44 00:07:08,940 --> 00:07:09,996 [man] Furl sail and strike water! 45 00:07:10,163 --> 00:07:12,932 [men shout in reply][drums thudding] 46 00:07:15,100 --> 00:07:18,171 [grunting with effort] 47 00:07:18,371 --> 00:07:20,373 Strike water! 48 00:07:23,576 --> 00:07:26,146 [horn trumpeting] 49 00:07:30,383 --> 00:07:34,721 [men chanting rhythmically] 50 00:07:47,767 --> 00:07:50,637 [Hanno] They have no lands but the ones they've stolen. 51 00:07:50,837 --> 00:07:53,440 Wherever they go, they leave destruction 52 00:07:53,606 --> 00:07:55,208 and call it peace. 53 00:07:57,177 --> 00:07:59,879 This is the last free city in Africa Nova. 54 00:08:01,810 --> 00:08:04,840 Today, we go into battle. 55 00:08:05,518 --> 00:08:09,989 Pray that your god is with you. If he is not, he is no god. 56 00:08:10,156 --> 00:08:12,192 [men chuckling] 57 00:08:13,226 --> 00:08:15,328 We've nothing to fear. 58 00:08:15,495 --> 00:08:17,330 Where death is, we are not. 59 00:08:18,298 --> 00:08:19,766 Where we are, 60 00:08:21,434 --> 00:08:22,602 death is not. 61 00:08:25,305 --> 00:08:26,806 Stay together and listen for my commands. 62 00:08:27,700 --> 00:08:28,441 [men mutter assent] 63 00:08:30,610 --> 00:08:33,246 [Hanno] Your eyes up and your head out. 64 00:08:38,651 --> 00:08:41,921 [overlapping shouts] 65 00:08:48,695 --> 00:08:51,310 [indistinct chatter] 66 00:08:57,570 --> 00:08:59,639 [man shouting commands] 67 00:09:08,581 --> 00:09:10,684 Fire! 68 00:09:15,588 --> 00:09:18,858 [men screaming][man] Ready your weapons! 69 00:09:19,590 --> 00:09:20,160 Again! 70 00:09:26,266 --> 00:09:28,101 We're ablaze on the right! 71 00:09:29,402 --> 00:09:31,171 Keep formation! 72 00:09:34,874 --> 00:09:36,509 Pull! 73 00:09:42,949 --> 00:09:44,451 [man] Archers ready. 74 00:09:44,617 --> 00:09:46,152 Release! 75 00:09:47,954 --> 00:09:50,423 [arrows hissing] 76 00:09:53,326 --> 00:09:54,394 Nock! 77 00:09:54,561 --> 00:09:56,763 Draw! 78 00:09:56,963 --> 00:09:58,164 Loose! 79 00:10:05,271 --> 00:10:06,406 [man] Archers! 80 00:10:09,442 --> 00:10:10,977 [grunts] 81 00:10:11,144 --> 00:10:12,545 [screaming] 82 00:10:14,547 --> 00:10:16,149 Fire! 83 00:10:20,420 --> 00:10:22,789 [all screaming] 84 00:10:27,660 --> 00:10:30,630 - Raise the tower! - Raise the tower! 85 00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:49,150 - Back astern! - Back astern! 86 00:10:49,182 --> 00:10:51,484 [all chanting] 87 00:10:56,189 --> 00:10:58,240 Keep cranking. 88 00:11:02,595 --> 00:11:04,664 [all grunting] 89 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:09,703 Drop drawbridge! 90 00:11:09,903 --> 00:11:11,371 The drawbridge is stuck! 91 00:11:11,538 --> 00:11:13,273 [grunting] 92 00:11:17,110 --> 00:11:18,945 [screaming] 93 00:11:21,810 --> 00:11:22,482 Sir! 94 00:11:24,984 --> 00:11:26,119 [Hanno] Loose! 95 00:11:37,931 --> 00:11:39,499 Back. 96 00:11:44,700 --> 00:11:46,706 [all yelling] 97 00:11:49,409 --> 00:11:50,643 [exhales] 98 00:11:50,810 --> 00:11:53,790 [all yelling] 99 00:11:55,415 --> 00:11:57,450 [battle grunts] 100 00:12:22,342 --> 00:12:23,543 [yells] 101 00:12:40,260 --> 00:12:41,261 [gurgling] 102 00:12:42,262 --> 00:12:43,630 Archers! 103 00:12:43,797 --> 00:12:44,864 There! 104 00:12:45,310 --> 00:12:46,299 Kill her! 105 00:12:47,167 --> 00:12:48,468 Arishat! 106 00:13:01,715 --> 00:13:03,783 [muffled roar] 107 00:13:45,492 --> 00:13:48,610 [faint echoing rumble] 108 00:13:49,963 --> 00:13:51,498 [thunderclap] 109 00:13:58,538 --> 00:14:00,507 [faint, echoing] Arishat. 110 00:14:11,851 --> 00:14:15,955 [faintly] Arishat! 111 00:14:20,460 --> 00:14:22,996 [panting] 112 00:14:23,163 --> 00:14:25,310 [Arishat, whispering] I'll wait for you. 113 00:14:39,546 --> 00:14:42,582 [screaming] 114 00:15:00,767 --> 00:15:03,737 [gasping for breath] 115 00:15:03,903 --> 00:15:05,305 [coughs] 116 00:15:08,141 --> 00:15:09,876 [Roman officer] Check all the bodies! 117 00:15:10,430 --> 00:15:11,845 Leave nothing! 118 00:15:42,776 --> 00:15:45,512 [gasping] 119 00:15:48,248 --> 00:15:50,183 [sobs] 120 00:16:14,407 --> 00:16:17,100 [horn pealing] 121 00:16:17,210 --> 00:16:20,113 [people shouting, crying] 122 00:16:53,980 --> 00:16:56,249 [people exclaiming, wailing] 123 00:17:00,754 --> 00:17:02,422 [loudly] I claim this city... 124 00:17:05,258 --> 00:17:07,127 for the glory of Rome. 125 00:17:09,290 --> 00:17:10,730 Vae victis. 126 00:17:13,633 --> 00:17:15,201 [quietly] Woe to the conquered. 127 00:17:28,481 --> 00:17:30,483 [people wailing in distance] 128 00:17:33,286 --> 00:17:34,187 [flesh sizzles][man screams in pain] 129 00:17:34,354 --> 00:17:35,355 [Roman soldier] Next! 130 00:17:35,555 --> 00:17:38,240 [pained grunt] 131 00:17:38,191 --> 00:17:39,192 [man] Move it! 132 00:17:43,630 --> 00:17:44,931 [Hanno grunting] 133 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:48,601 [gulls calling] 134 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:58,111 - Down the stairs! - Downstairs! 135 00:17:59,679 --> 00:18:01,681 [men coughing, groaning] 136 00:18:08,655 --> 00:18:10,390 [hull creaking] 137 00:18:18,980 --> 00:18:20,333 [draws shuddering breath] 138 00:18:27,774 --> 00:18:30,430 [waves splashing] 139 00:18:45,358 --> 00:18:48,294 [softly] Hey.[groans] 140 00:18:48,495 --> 00:18:50,563 What damage have they done you, eh? 141 00:18:50,730 --> 00:18:52,932 [chuckles bitterly] 142 00:19:03,443 --> 00:19:05,378 Lift it up. Easy, easy.[groans] 143 00:19:05,545 --> 00:19:07,747 Hold that. 144 00:19:07,947 --> 00:19:09,182 [pained groan] 145 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:15,210 Arishat? 146 00:19:18,425 --> 00:19:19,759 I am sorry, my son. 147 00:19:23,329 --> 00:19:24,964 I have not long. 148 00:19:26,332 --> 00:19:28,301 This galley 149 00:19:28,468 --> 00:19:30,770 is sailing us to something I cannot endure. 150 00:19:30,970 --> 00:19:34,700 I am ready... to be taken to another place. 151 00:19:34,174 --> 00:19:36,176 Stay here a while longer.[chuckles] 152 00:19:36,343 --> 00:19:38,110 [light chuckle][pained grunt] 153 00:19:39,612 --> 00:19:44,184 I remember well when you first were brought to us. 154 00:19:44,351 --> 00:19:47,354 A lonely boy from the desert. Guileless. 155 00:19:47,554 --> 00:19:48,722 Afraid. 156 00:19:49,889 --> 00:19:52,992 You embraced everything we taught you. 157 00:19:55,295 --> 00:19:59,332 You found Arishat's love. Your soul was replenished. 158 00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:03,870 [chuckles] When I die, 159 00:20:04,370 --> 00:20:06,806 my ancestors will meet me in the next world. 160 00:20:08,942 --> 00:20:10,176 Who will meet you? 161 00:20:10,343 --> 00:20:12,479 Hanno, 162 00:20:12,645 --> 00:20:14,481 I am done. 163 00:20:14,647 --> 00:20:17,917 Do not let them change what you are. 164 00:20:22,188 --> 00:20:23,456 [young Hanno panting] 165 00:20:23,623 --> 00:20:27,270 [boys chattering] 166 00:20:27,193 --> 00:20:28,962 [horses whinnying] 167 00:20:44,911 --> 00:20:46,680 [horses snorting][hoofbeats approaching] 168 00:20:49,616 --> 00:20:50,650 Have you seen this boy? 169 00:20:50,817 --> 00:20:53,520 [panting] 170 00:20:56,890 --> 00:20:58,258 Eama! Eama! 171 00:21:03,697 --> 00:21:06,990 [woman] You must go alone now, Hanno. 172 00:21:09,803 --> 00:21:11,671 Never let them find you. 173 00:21:13,573 --> 00:21:16,209 [woman's breath trembling] 174 00:21:16,376 --> 00:21:18,244 Go. Go. 175 00:21:44,971 --> 00:21:47,273 [bell ringing] 176 00:21:59,586 --> 00:22:01,588 [men murmuring] 177 00:22:26,780 --> 00:22:29,616 [people cheering] 178 00:22:31,284 --> 00:22:34,487 [overlapping, excited chatter] 179 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:46,766 [crowd roaring] 180 00:23:11,358 --> 00:23:14,527 [crowd chanting] Acacius! Acacius! Acacius! 181 00:23:14,694 --> 00:23:15,929 Emperor Geta. 182 00:23:18,231 --> 00:23:19,866 Emperor Caracalla. 183 00:23:21,501 --> 00:23:23,690 General Acacius. 184 00:23:23,236 --> 00:23:26,139 I have taken Numidia in your names 185 00:23:26,339 --> 00:23:28,740 that your dominion may eclipse that 186 00:23:28,241 --> 00:23:30,343 of every emperor that came before you. 187 00:23:30,510 --> 00:23:32,946 Crown him with laurels, brother. 188 00:23:39,352 --> 00:23:41,721 [crowd cheering] 189 00:23:41,888 --> 00:23:45,250 [all chanting] Acacius! Acacius! Acacius! 190 00:23:46,793 --> 00:23:48,361 [monkey hooting softly] 191 00:23:50,663 --> 00:23:52,532 [Geta] In honor of your conquest, 192 00:23:53,533 --> 00:23:55,602 there will be games in the Colosseum. 193 00:23:56,870 --> 00:23:59,406 I require no games in my honor. 194 00:23:59,572 --> 00:24:03,900 Serving the Senate and the people of Rome 195 00:24:03,176 --> 00:24:04,844 is honor enough for me. 196 00:24:05,110 --> 00:24:07,714 You are too modest, Acacius. 197 00:24:07,881 --> 00:24:10,984 It does not suit a general as accomplished as yourself. 198 00:24:13,253 --> 00:24:15,989 The glory is yours, not mine. 199 00:24:16,156 --> 00:24:19,159 I only ask for some respite from war 200 00:24:19,325 --> 00:24:20,760 to spend time with my wife. 201 00:24:20,927 --> 00:24:23,296 Your wife, yes. [sniffs] 202 00:24:23,463 --> 00:24:25,310 Remember the privileges we have granted her? 203 00:24:25,198 --> 00:24:26,499 [sword scraping] 204 00:24:26,700 --> 00:24:28,702 Where is she now to ignore such an occasion? 205 00:24:28,868 --> 00:24:31,504 There are victories yet still to come. 206 00:24:33,206 --> 00:24:34,708 Persia. 207 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:36,943 India. 208 00:24:37,143 --> 00:24:38,211 [chuckles] 209 00:24:38,411 --> 00:24:41,848 Both... must be conquered. 210 00:24:43,783 --> 00:24:46,286 Rome has so many subjects. 211 00:24:46,453 --> 00:24:48,321 She must feed them. 212 00:24:49,589 --> 00:24:51,791 They can eat war. [laughs] 213 00:24:54,728 --> 00:24:57,797 Your triumphs will be celebrated 214 00:24:58,665 --> 00:25:01,670 as a tribute to the greatness 215 00:25:01,868 --> 00:25:03,169 of the Roman people. 216 00:25:10,310 --> 00:25:13,613 [men shouting][horses whinnying] 217 00:25:25,525 --> 00:25:26,559 [man] Go to hell! 218 00:25:27,260 --> 00:25:29,763 [people jeering] 219 00:25:41,574 --> 00:25:43,343 [piercing animal shrieks] 220 00:25:43,510 --> 00:25:45,512 [men shouting] 221 00:25:46,813 --> 00:25:49,149 [announcer] Macrinus of Thysdrus, 222 00:25:49,349 --> 00:25:51,418 master of gladiators![horn playing fanfare] 223 00:25:51,584 --> 00:25:53,953 [crowd roars] 224 00:25:54,854 --> 00:25:56,256 [animal screeching nearby] 225 00:26:05,598 --> 00:26:08,835 [animal snarling] 226 00:26:10,737 --> 00:26:13,840 [screeching continues][loud thumping] 227 00:26:14,700 --> 00:26:15,842 Stay close. 228 00:26:16,900 --> 00:26:18,178 [snarling, thumping continue][chains rattling] 229 00:26:18,378 --> 00:26:19,979 [door thudding] 230 00:26:24,851 --> 00:26:27,420 [crowd roaring] 231 00:26:29,255 --> 00:26:32,125 [shouting, jeering] 232 00:26:32,292 --> 00:26:36,290 [announcer] Aediles and the town councilors, 233 00:26:36,763 --> 00:26:39,332 distinguished guests, 234 00:26:40,433 --> 00:26:42,302 citizens of Antium, 235 00:26:42,469 --> 00:26:44,471 [jeering continues] 236 00:26:46,390 --> 00:26:48,408 behold the fate 237 00:26:49,776 --> 00:26:52,345 of the conquered enemies of Rome: 238 00:26:53,747 --> 00:26:58,451 The barbarian Numidians and their chieftain, 239 00:26:59,285 --> 00:27:02,880 Jugurtha! 240 00:27:02,288 --> 00:27:03,990 [loud thudding] 241 00:27:04,157 --> 00:27:05,859 [snarling][teeth snapping] 242 00:27:26,446 --> 00:27:28,348 [man shouting, indistinct] 243 00:27:30,450 --> 00:27:32,919 [blows][baboon shrieks] 244 00:27:36,356 --> 00:27:37,757 [screeches] 245 00:27:40,794 --> 00:27:42,128 [yells] 246 00:27:50,103 --> 00:27:51,638 [screeches][Hanno yells] 247 00:27:58,780 --> 00:27:59,846 [growling] 248 00:28:02,849 --> 00:28:04,851 [guttural hooting] 249 00:28:18,932 --> 00:28:21,501 [screeching in agony] 250 00:28:22,435 --> 00:28:23,703 This one is interesting. 251 00:28:23,870 --> 00:28:25,138 [all cheering] 252 00:28:25,805 --> 00:28:27,640 [grunts] 253 00:28:28,641 --> 00:28:29,976 [spits] 254 00:28:33,546 --> 00:28:35,810 [yelling] 255 00:28:46,593 --> 00:28:49,129 [baboon choking] 256 00:28:50,563 --> 00:28:51,965 I'll buy him. 257 00:28:52,132 --> 00:28:54,334 [crowd chanting] 258 00:29:12,986 --> 00:29:16,189 [horse approaching] Halt! Who goes there? 259 00:29:17,757 --> 00:29:18,992 General. 260 00:29:40,780 --> 00:29:43,216 [woman murmuring softly] 261 00:29:54,494 --> 00:29:56,620 My lady. 262 00:30:04,337 --> 00:30:06,639 I thank the gods that brought you back home safe. 263 00:30:06,806 --> 00:30:09,809 Thank the Army. They protected me. 264 00:30:11,611 --> 00:30:12,746 Mm. 265 00:30:13,813 --> 00:30:15,482 Let me feed you. 266 00:30:22,856 --> 00:30:25,225 [indistinct chatter] 267 00:30:25,392 --> 00:30:28,395 [men grunting][weapons clashing] 268 00:30:43,209 --> 00:30:44,210 [trainer] Go. 269 00:30:44,944 --> 00:30:46,279 To the wall. 270 00:30:57,123 --> 00:30:59,392 [trainer] The arena is a sacred temple. 271 00:30:59,559 --> 00:31:01,127 For the bravest of you, 272 00:31:01,294 --> 00:31:04,970 the road to glory runs through the arena. 273 00:31:04,264 --> 00:31:06,232 The arena turns slaves into gladiators 274 00:31:06,399 --> 00:31:08,234 and gladiators into free men. 275 00:31:15,542 --> 00:31:17,430 You have worms. 276 00:31:21,470 --> 00:31:24,317 I know this one. He eats monkeys. 277 00:31:24,484 --> 00:31:26,820 [men laughing] 278 00:31:29,689 --> 00:31:31,725 [indistinct chatter] 279 00:31:38,598 --> 00:31:40,867 [trainer] Go. Sit. Eat. 280 00:31:55,382 --> 00:31:57,384 [groans softly] 281 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:08,928 [man hoots quietly] 282 00:32:10,630 --> 00:32:12,665 [men hooting] 283 00:32:14,734 --> 00:32:16,736 [men mimicking baboons] 284 00:32:21,741 --> 00:32:23,810 [hooting continues, louder] 285 00:32:31,384 --> 00:32:32,786 [chuckles] 286 00:32:41,528 --> 00:32:42,562 You. 287 00:32:43,997 --> 00:32:46,366 [trainer] Hanno, get up. 288 00:32:52,372 --> 00:32:56,409 What is your native language? I speak them all. 289 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,216 You don't answer because you can't or because you won't? 290 00:33:05,418 --> 00:33:06,553 Mm, all right. 291 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:10,423 Violence... is the universal language. 292 00:33:10,590 --> 00:33:13,226 Viggo, put him through his paces. 293 00:33:13,393 --> 00:33:17,163 He can fight an ape. Let's see if he can fight a man. 294 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:28,842 [grunts] 295 00:33:29,943 --> 00:33:31,444 [Hanno groans] 296 00:33:39,719 --> 00:33:41,421 [Hanno exhales heavily] 297 00:33:47,961 --> 00:33:50,430 [both grunting] 298 00:34:04,644 --> 00:34:06,513 [groans heavily] 299 00:34:06,713 --> 00:34:08,481 [chuckling] 300 00:34:21,995 --> 00:34:23,229 [explosive grunt] 301 00:34:27,670 --> 00:34:28,168 [Macrinus] Enough! 302 00:34:29,469 --> 00:34:32,172 [panting] 303 00:34:32,739 --> 00:34:33,907 Very good. 304 00:34:35,442 --> 00:34:36,776 Very good. 305 00:34:38,812 --> 00:34:40,180 Hose him down. 306 00:34:44,170 --> 00:34:45,385 Bring him to me. 307 00:34:49,550 --> 00:34:50,123 [grunts] 308 00:34:52,392 --> 00:34:53,693 Ah! 309 00:34:56,663 --> 00:34:58,365 A strong jaw. 310 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:01,534 Good arms. 311 00:35:01,701 --> 00:35:03,360 [sniffs] 312 00:35:03,203 --> 00:35:04,404 Better smell. 313 00:35:04,571 --> 00:35:06,506 [chuckles lightly] 314 00:35:07,540 --> 00:35:09,420 You will do well. 315 00:35:09,843 --> 00:35:11,644 It is an art, 316 00:35:11,811 --> 00:35:13,646 choosing gladiators. 317 00:35:15,115 --> 00:35:17,283 Some choose entertainers. 318 00:35:17,484 --> 00:35:19,419 Some choose brute force. 319 00:35:19,586 --> 00:35:21,540 I choose rage. 320 00:35:21,821 --> 00:35:23,390 [Macrinus chuckles] 321 00:35:25,558 --> 00:35:27,600 Crowd loves blood. 322 00:35:27,227 --> 00:35:28,862 And they love those who love blood as much as they do. 323 00:35:29,620 --> 00:35:31,431 And you, my friend, rage 324 00:35:32,232 --> 00:35:34,401 pours out of you like... 325 00:35:35,869 --> 00:35:37,404 like milk... 326 00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:40,306 from a *****'s tit. 327 00:35:41,408 --> 00:35:43,760 You will be quite the fighter. 328 00:35:43,243 --> 00:35:44,711 Not for you. 329 00:35:44,878 --> 00:35:46,880 You're right, you do not fight for me. 330 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:49,315 I put you in the ring, you fight or you die. 331 00:35:49,516 --> 00:35:50,583 The choice is yours. 332 00:35:50,750 --> 00:35:53,620 But whose head could I give you 333 00:35:53,820 --> 00:35:57,323 that would satisfy this fury? 334 00:35:57,524 --> 00:35:59,325 The entire Roman Army's. 335 00:35:59,526 --> 00:36:01,528 [hearty laugh] 336 00:36:02,896 --> 00:36:03,963 Too much. 337 00:36:04,130 --> 00:36:05,632 Mm. 338 00:36:05,832 --> 00:36:07,834 The general will do. 339 00:36:08,100 --> 00:36:08,902 General? 340 00:36:10,337 --> 00:36:12,272 - General Acacius? - Mm. 341 00:36:14,641 --> 00:36:17,143 Use your rage in my service, 342 00:36:17,310 --> 00:36:21,470 and you will have his head ready for your sword. 343 00:36:22,349 --> 00:36:25,352 Serve me and I will serve you. Deny me... 344 00:36:26,753 --> 00:36:29,222 and you will die. 345 00:36:29,422 --> 00:36:31,224 [thunder rumbles in distance] 346 00:36:32,325 --> 00:36:33,993 There are times I wished you'd abandoned me 347 00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:35,862 rather than fight their wars. 348 00:36:36,290 --> 00:36:37,997 I've made my choice. 349 00:36:40,330 --> 00:36:41,901 I can live with it. 350 00:36:46,720 --> 00:36:48,942 But my patience with those two is at an end. 351 00:36:51,778 --> 00:36:53,913 Leta? 352 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,517 You may go to your quarters now. We need nothing more. 353 00:37:04,758 --> 00:37:06,259 To hear wives and mothers mourning their dead 354 00:37:06,459 --> 00:37:08,940 on that beach at Numidia... 355 00:37:10,663 --> 00:37:12,265 Lucilla. 356 00:37:17,470 --> 00:37:18,905 No more. 357 00:37:21,341 --> 00:37:23,376 I will not waste 358 00:37:23,543 --> 00:37:27,470 another generation of young men for their vanity. 359 00:37:29,282 --> 00:37:32,786 If I fight another campaign, it must be to depose them. 360 00:37:34,721 --> 00:37:36,790 When will your troops arrive? 361 00:37:37,657 --> 00:37:39,926 They land at Ostia in ten days. 362 00:37:40,930 --> 00:37:43,997 How many of them will be loyal to you alone? 363 00:37:45,699 --> 00:37:47,670 All of them. 364 00:37:49,202 --> 00:37:52,706 The emperors do not have the support of the people. 365 00:37:52,872 --> 00:37:57,544 The people are weary of the madness, the tyranny. 366 00:37:58,978 --> 00:38:00,513 [sighs] 367 00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:04,684 What is the dream of Rome if her people are not free? 368 00:38:05,885 --> 00:38:07,387 [chuckles softly] 369 00:38:10,990 --> 00:38:12,592 [whimpers] 370 00:38:14,828 --> 00:38:17,597 [excited chatter] 371 00:38:23,703 --> 00:38:25,472 [laughing] 372 00:38:27,173 --> 00:38:29,542 [man] Enjoy yourself, everyone, 373 00:38:29,709 --> 00:38:31,611 to excess! 374 00:38:31,778 --> 00:38:34,681 Thank you. Thank you. 375 00:38:54,100 --> 00:38:55,568 What is my purpose here? 376 00:38:55,769 --> 00:38:57,103 You'll find out soon enough. 377 00:39:01,808 --> 00:39:03,910 What's this we hear about you being interested 378 00:39:04,770 --> 00:39:07,681 in standing for election to the Senate, Macrinus? 379 00:39:07,847 --> 00:39:10,283 Me? No, I'm, uh... 380 00:39:10,450 --> 00:39:12,852 I don't even know how to use an abacus. 381 00:39:13,190 --> 00:39:14,721 But I do understand that 382 00:39:16,220 --> 00:39:17,257 it's customary for your guests 383 00:39:17,424 --> 00:39:19,959 to make wagers at these affairs? 384 00:39:20,126 --> 00:39:22,295 How large a sum did you have in mind? 385 00:39:23,963 --> 00:39:25,365 A thousand gold denarii? 386 00:39:25,532 --> 00:39:26,833 Two. 387 00:39:28,802 --> 00:39:29,969 Two? 388 00:39:31,971 --> 00:39:34,174 Denarii.[chuckles] 389 00:39:37,410 --> 00:39:38,378 [sighs deeply] 390 00:39:38,545 --> 00:39:40,547 [knife scraping] 391 00:39:50,156 --> 00:39:52,859 Stand back! Stand back! 392 00:39:54,561 --> 00:39:55,962 My emperors. 393 00:39:56,129 --> 00:40:00,660 Lords, ladies and gentlemen, and senators. 394 00:40:00,266 --> 00:40:02,502 For your entertainment, 395 00:40:03,269 --> 00:40:05,505 the art of combat! 396 00:40:07,273 --> 00:40:09,275 the barbarian versus, 397 00:40:09,476 --> 00:40:13,513 from my own stable, the mighty Vichek! 398 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:15,648 [applause, cheers] 399 00:40:20,820 --> 00:40:23,390 - This is your gladiator? - It is. 400 00:40:26,860 --> 00:40:29,362 [Thraex] Three rounds, hand to hand. 401 00:40:29,529 --> 00:40:31,970 Swords! 402 00:40:31,264 --> 00:40:34,501 We want swords. A fight to the death. 403 00:40:35,869 --> 00:40:38,772 No quarter to be offered... or given. 404 00:40:38,938 --> 00:40:40,974 Fight now![swords scraping] 405 00:40:46,446 --> 00:40:47,580 Brother, 406 00:40:48,782 --> 00:40:50,417 let's not kill each other for their amusement. 407 00:40:50,583 --> 00:40:51,885 [Vichek yells, grunts] 408 00:40:52,850 --> 00:40:54,421 [excited murmuring] 409 00:40:54,587 --> 00:40:56,322 [both yell, grunt] 410 00:41:05,965 --> 00:41:06,966 [cackling] 411 00:41:20,130 --> 00:41:21,715 [Vichek panting] 412 00:41:24,284 --> 00:41:26,152 [yells] 413 00:41:28,855 --> 00:41:30,690 [sword clattering] 414 00:41:32,125 --> 00:41:33,593 [scattered cheers, applause] 415 00:41:37,364 --> 00:41:39,650 [Hanno groans] 416 00:41:46,940 --> 00:41:49,242 [scattered cheers] 417 00:41:49,409 --> 00:41:51,770 [applause] 418 00:41:52,545 --> 00:41:54,114 [Geta] Remarkable! 419 00:41:54,814 --> 00:41:56,483 [giggling] 420 00:41:56,649 --> 00:41:58,151 Remarkable! 421 00:41:59,419 --> 00:42:01,388 Thraex, he looked expensive.[dry chuckle] 422 00:42:02,722 --> 00:42:04,924 - Congratulations. - Thank you. 423 00:42:05,925 --> 00:42:07,260 Remarkable. 424 00:42:11,831 --> 00:42:13,366 From where do you hail? 425 00:42:19,105 --> 00:42:20,373 Speak. 426 00:42:24,770 --> 00:42:25,178 I said speak. 427 00:42:25,378 --> 00:42:26,980 He is from the colonies, Your Majesty. 428 00:42:27,147 --> 00:42:29,449 His native tongue is all he understands. 429 00:42:35,989 --> 00:42:38,958 "The gates of hell are open night and day. 430 00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:45,565 Smooth is the descent, and easy is the way. 431 00:42:48,301 --> 00:42:50,603 [laughing] But... 432 00:42:52,906 --> 00:42:54,774 to come back from hell 433 00:42:54,974 --> 00:42:56,710 and view the cheerful skies, 434 00:42:56,876 --> 00:43:01,414 in this the task and mighty labor lies." 435 00:43:02,315 --> 00:43:05,510 [panting] 436 00:43:07,987 --> 00:43:09,289 Virgil, Your Majesty. 437 00:43:10,423 --> 00:43:11,324 [Caracalla] Poetry! 438 00:43:11,491 --> 00:43:13,493 [laughter] 439 00:43:14,794 --> 00:43:17,364 - Very clever, Macrinus. - Thank you. 440 00:43:18,765 --> 00:43:21,000 I've grown so bored, but you surprise me. 441 00:43:21,167 --> 00:43:24,137 To amuse you is my only wish. 442 00:43:24,304 --> 00:43:26,390 We are amused, we are amused. 443 00:43:28,141 --> 00:43:29,376 We are amused. 444 00:43:30,877 --> 00:43:33,913 And we all look forward to seeing your poet 445 00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:36,316 perform in the arena. 446 00:43:36,483 --> 00:43:39,352 As do I, Your Majesties. 447 00:43:40,186 --> 00:43:41,187 Thank you. 448 00:43:41,821 --> 00:43:42,655 Viggo? 449 00:43:44,157 --> 00:43:45,492 [Viggo] Come with me. 450 00:43:58,905 --> 00:44:01,307 You fought well today, but you were lucky, too. 451 00:44:03,743 --> 00:44:06,179 The lines you recited. 452 00:44:06,346 --> 00:44:08,782 You didn't learn that in Africa, I know that. 453 00:44:09,783 --> 00:44:11,885 - A good verse travels far. - Mm. 454 00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:13,920 Who taught you poetry? 455 00:44:14,870 --> 00:44:16,222 A captured Roman officer. 456 00:44:16,423 --> 00:44:19,526 I was posted guard over him and he used to tell us tales 457 00:44:19,726 --> 00:44:21,528 to pass the time. 458 00:44:22,529 --> 00:44:23,663 And what became of this prisoner? 459 00:44:23,863 --> 00:44:25,298 Oh, we ate him. 460 00:44:26,666 --> 00:44:27,667 As barbarians do. 461 00:44:27,867 --> 00:44:30,103 [chuckling] As barbarians do. 462 00:44:30,303 --> 00:44:32,205 And where were you born? 463 00:44:32,372 --> 00:44:34,607 Why does my past matter if it is my future 464 00:44:34,774 --> 00:44:36,910 to die for you in the arena? 465 00:44:43,683 --> 00:44:45,785 Tell me what use have I for Roman money. 466 00:44:49,550 --> 00:44:50,557 A gladiator 467 00:44:51,524 --> 00:44:53,226 can buy his own freedom. 468 00:44:54,327 --> 00:44:56,960 His liberty.[chuckles] 469 00:44:57,630 --> 00:44:58,765 The Roman dream. 470 00:44:58,932 --> 00:45:00,834 No, the slave dreams not of freedom 471 00:45:01,340 --> 00:45:03,403 but of a slave to call his own. 472 00:45:04,337 --> 00:45:05,772 Cicero. 473 00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,342 Is that what you were raised on, Macrinus? 474 00:45:11,111 --> 00:45:13,580 What did you have to do for Roman money? 475 00:45:14,948 --> 00:45:16,416 You promised me a head. 476 00:45:16,583 --> 00:45:19,352 Earn your keep and you can have anyone's head. 477 00:45:28,161 --> 00:45:29,829 [stone scraping] 478 00:45:29,996 --> 00:45:31,698 [door unlatches, opens] 479 00:45:38,738 --> 00:45:40,173 [thunder rumbling] 480 00:45:43,610 --> 00:45:45,378 [Lucilla] Father, 481 00:45:45,545 --> 00:45:47,981 protect us and guide us. 482 00:46:01,861 --> 00:46:03,196 Senators. 483 00:46:03,863 --> 00:46:05,310 My lady. 484 00:46:11,171 --> 00:46:14,607 My lady, I wish we were meeting in better times. 485 00:46:15,475 --> 00:46:17,477 Better times will come. 486 00:46:18,778 --> 00:46:21,114 And why are we here? 487 00:46:21,281 --> 00:46:23,116 [Acacius] To take back the city. 488 00:46:25,180 --> 00:46:28,555 And restore Rome to where she should be. 489 00:46:29,989 --> 00:46:31,858 An exciting venture. 490 00:46:33,159 --> 00:46:35,562 - When? - On the final day of the games. 491 00:46:36,563 --> 00:46:39,232 My army waits for my command at Ostia. 492 00:46:39,432 --> 00:46:42,680 Five thousand soldiers loyal to me... 493 00:46:43,636 --> 00:46:45,939 will enter Rome and then the Colosseum, 494 00:46:46,139 --> 00:46:47,941 where they will arrest the emperors 495 00:46:48,141 --> 00:46:49,676 for their crimes against the Senate 496 00:46:50,610 --> 00:46:52,145 and their people. 497 00:46:53,146 --> 00:46:58,510 Uh, this plan is ambitious and risky. 498 00:46:58,218 --> 00:47:00,887 Rome will be yours to administer and to-- 499 00:47:01,540 --> 00:47:05,625 Marcus Aurelius talked of restoring power to the Senate, 500 00:47:05,792 --> 00:47:10,300 but that was a generation ago. Much has changed. 501 00:47:10,196 --> 00:47:14,340 The people have not seen hope 502 00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:15,502 for many years. 503 00:47:15,668 --> 00:47:19,239 But with time... and guidance... 504 00:47:19,406 --> 00:47:20,807 [sighs sharply] 505 00:47:20,974 --> 00:47:24,277 Lucilla, you are the daughter of Marcus Aurelius. 506 00:47:24,477 --> 00:47:26,479 He had my loyalty. 507 00:47:28,248 --> 00:47:30,183 And so do you. 508 00:47:32,519 --> 00:47:33,953 Senator Thraex? 509 00:47:35,722 --> 00:47:39,920 Politics follows power, my lady. 510 00:47:40,260 --> 00:47:43,229 Take back what is rightfully yours... 511 00:47:44,264 --> 00:47:46,266 and the Senate will support you. 512 00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:48,568 Thank you. 513 00:48:04,718 --> 00:48:06,119 Food! Food! 514 00:48:10,757 --> 00:48:13,930 When I was told of this place, 515 00:48:13,259 --> 00:48:15,395 they never mentioned the stink. 516 00:48:17,397 --> 00:48:18,531 That would be Hanno. 517 00:48:18,698 --> 00:48:21,768 [laughter] 518 00:48:21,968 --> 00:48:24,671 Well, you'll have to put up with me as I am. 519 00:48:24,838 --> 00:48:26,239 [laughing] 520 00:48:29,976 --> 00:48:33,130 And what's that up there? A wolf? 521 00:48:34,781 --> 00:48:37,917 The twins there, they were outcasts. 522 00:48:38,118 --> 00:48:39,753 Left in the hills to die. 523 00:48:41,321 --> 00:48:44,891 That wolf found them and she suckled them on her milk. 524 00:48:46,259 --> 00:48:48,461 Raised by an animal. It's in their blood. 525 00:48:48,628 --> 00:48:51,431 How do you know this place? 526 00:48:52,632 --> 00:48:54,601 I know the chaos they brought. 527 00:48:55,902 --> 00:48:58,605 This city infects everything it touches. 528 00:48:58,772 --> 00:49:00,774 I never dreamt it would be so big. 529 00:49:00,940 --> 00:49:02,609 Don't fall for it. 530 00:49:02,776 --> 00:49:04,744 This city is diseased. 531 00:49:06,790 --> 00:49:08,181 [peasants] Food! Food! 532 00:49:10,717 --> 00:49:13,153 [children chattering] 533 00:49:16,220 --> 00:49:17,390 [elephant trumpeting] 534 00:49:17,590 --> 00:49:19,592 [indistinct chatter, laughter] 535 00:49:31,971 --> 00:49:34,374 [man] You! Barbarian scum! 536 00:49:35,775 --> 00:49:37,977 [grunts][people yelling] 537 00:49:40,347 --> 00:49:42,315 [woman] Help me. Please, help me! 538 00:49:44,417 --> 00:49:46,486 [all pleading] 539 00:49:49,422 --> 00:49:51,558 [horses whinnying] 540 00:49:59,532 --> 00:50:01,501 [crows squawking] 541 00:50:19,119 --> 00:50:20,353 - Ah! - Thraex. 542 00:50:24,224 --> 00:50:25,158 About our wager. 543 00:50:25,358 --> 00:50:27,270 Ah. The barbarian. 544 00:50:27,227 --> 00:50:28,428 Yes, I haven't forgotten, I always repay my debts. 545 00:50:28,595 --> 00:50:30,397 I was merely going to suggest 546 00:50:30,563 --> 00:50:32,432 that perhaps your luck might change. 547 00:50:32,599 --> 00:50:34,968 Shall we say double or quits? 548 00:50:39,539 --> 00:50:40,607 - Ah. - Ah. 549 00:50:40,807 --> 00:50:42,709 [both laughing] 550 00:50:47,414 --> 00:50:49,683 [people shouting, indistinct] 551 00:50:52,986 --> 00:50:54,320 [man] Get back! 552 00:51:08,635 --> 00:51:10,170 Fresh meat. 553 00:51:14,207 --> 00:51:16,760 Line up! Line up! 554 00:51:30,156 --> 00:51:32,325 [faint crowd cheering] 555 00:51:34,594 --> 00:51:37,970 [cheering continues, louder] 556 00:51:46,740 --> 00:51:49,309 Play! Play! 557 00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:53,346 [playing simple fanfare] 558 00:52:04,524 --> 00:52:06,793 Emperor Caracalla. 559 00:52:07,527 --> 00:52:09,362 Emperor Geta. 560 00:52:09,529 --> 00:52:12,650 Citizens of Rome! 561 00:52:12,232 --> 00:52:13,933 [crowd cheering] 562 00:52:14,100 --> 00:52:17,103 These sacred games 563 00:52:17,270 --> 00:52:20,407 are held to honor the victory of Rome 564 00:52:20,573 --> 00:52:23,576 over the barbarians of Numidia. 565 00:52:23,777 --> 00:52:24,778 [crowd booing] 566 00:52:24,944 --> 00:52:27,480 Go! Go! 567 00:52:30,417 --> 00:52:33,820 [announcer] And to honor Rome's legionary commander, 568 00:52:33,987 --> 00:52:36,122 General Justus Acacius! 569 00:52:36,289 --> 00:52:38,858 [crowd cheering][man] Long live Acacius! 570 00:52:39,250 --> 00:52:40,427 [announcer] And with him 571 00:52:40,593 --> 00:52:45,165 Lucilla, the daughter of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. 572 00:52:45,365 --> 00:52:46,933 [crowd cheering] 573 00:52:47,100 --> 00:52:50,537 [woman, faintly] Lucilla![man] Mother of Rome! 574 00:52:51,538 --> 00:52:52,839 Acacius. 575 00:52:53,540 --> 00:52:54,541 General. 576 00:52:59,879 --> 00:53:02,115 [crowd roars] 577 00:53:02,282 --> 00:53:05,518 [chanting] Acacius! Acacius! Acacius! 578 00:53:05,685 --> 00:53:10,690 Acacius! Acacius! Acacius! 579 00:53:11,691 --> 00:53:12,625 Speak to them. 580 00:53:12,826 --> 00:53:15,195 [man faintly] Speak to us! 581 00:53:20,633 --> 00:53:23,303 [cheering ebbs] 582 00:53:23,470 --> 00:53:26,172 I am not an orator 583 00:53:26,339 --> 00:53:27,874 or a politician. 584 00:53:29,175 --> 00:53:30,777 I am a soldier. 585 00:53:33,313 --> 00:53:38,485 I have seen bravery in men and women during war. 586 00:53:39,285 --> 00:53:41,210 And even once in this arena. 587 00:53:42,622 --> 00:53:44,290 So if you ask anything of the gods... 588 00:53:46,226 --> 00:53:48,561 ask for that same bravery. 589 00:53:50,897 --> 00:53:52,999 Because Rome needs it now. 590 00:53:54,340 --> 00:53:56,690 [applause, cheers swelling] 591 00:53:57,170 --> 00:53:59,906 [crowd chanting] Acacius! Acacius! Acacius! 592 00:54:00,730 --> 00:54:03,243 Acacius! Acacius! Acacius! 593 00:54:05,245 --> 00:54:07,313 [chanting continues] 594 00:54:15,922 --> 00:54:18,358 [announcer] From the South Gate, 595 00:54:18,525 --> 00:54:23,496 fighters from the stable of Macrinus of Thysdrus! 596 00:54:36,109 --> 00:54:38,440 From the stables 597 00:54:38,211 --> 00:54:41,681 of Emperors Caracalla and Geta themselves, 598 00:54:41,848 --> 00:54:44,351 the undefeated champion: 599 00:54:44,517 --> 00:54:48,880 Glyceo the Destroyer! 600 00:54:48,254 --> 00:54:50,560 [crowd roars] 601 00:54:54,794 --> 00:54:55,662 Hold. 602 00:54:55,829 --> 00:54:57,664 [growling] 603 00:55:02,268 --> 00:55:04,104 [grunting] 604 00:55:09,109 --> 00:55:11,378 [roaring cheers] 605 00:55:15,150 --> 00:55:17,830 [rhino roaring] 606 00:55:18,585 --> 00:55:20,420 [Hanno] Hold. 607 00:55:21,721 --> 00:55:23,323 Hail Caesars! 608 00:55:24,991 --> 00:55:28,294 [crowd chanting] Glyceo! Glyceo! Glyceo! 609 00:55:28,461 --> 00:55:30,463 [chanting continues] 610 00:55:34,834 --> 00:55:37,570 [rhino roars] 611 00:55:40,106 --> 00:55:43,176 Hold together and when it charges, break for the wall. 612 00:55:43,343 --> 00:55:44,177 [man] Why should I? 613 00:55:48,448 --> 00:55:49,315 [Hanno] Hold! 614 00:55:50,483 --> 00:55:51,551 Hold! 615 00:55:51,718 --> 00:55:52,585 Break! 616 00:55:53,687 --> 00:55:54,921 Cowards! 617 00:55:57,290 --> 00:55:58,491 [yells] 618 00:55:59,626 --> 00:56:01,127 [groaning] 619 00:56:04,330 --> 00:56:05,565 [yells][axe clattering] 620 00:56:06,900 --> 00:56:08,868 [huffing] 621 00:56:09,350 --> 00:56:11,710 To the wall! 622 00:56:12,205 --> 00:56:13,373 [grunts heavily] 623 00:56:15,208 --> 00:56:16,576 [rhino groaning loudly] 624 00:56:16,743 --> 00:56:18,178 [grunts] 625 00:56:23,149 --> 00:56:24,170 Come on! 626 00:56:24,184 --> 00:56:25,385 [roars] 627 00:56:30,156 --> 00:56:31,958 [grunts] 628 00:56:32,492 --> 00:56:33,927 [screaming] 629 00:56:34,940 --> 00:56:37,300 [cheering] 630 00:56:37,197 --> 00:56:38,631 [giggling] 631 00:57:15,101 --> 00:57:17,303 [guttural roaring] 632 00:57:38,558 --> 00:57:41,940 [rhino bellowing] 633 00:57:42,729 --> 00:57:44,397 [excited cheering] 634 00:57:45,165 --> 00:57:47,333 [rhino groaning] 635 00:57:54,307 --> 00:57:55,442 [gasps] 636 00:57:57,310 --> 00:57:58,712 [both grunting] 637 00:58:06,152 --> 00:58:07,287 [roaring] 638 00:58:07,454 --> 00:58:10,323 Brother, it's that poet, is it not? 639 00:58:11,157 --> 00:58:13,590 I can't remember. 640 00:58:13,259 --> 00:58:14,894 That night was a blur. 641 00:58:16,329 --> 00:58:18,898 "The gates of hell are open night and day. 642 00:58:19,650 --> 00:58:22,680 Smooth the desc--" I forget. 643 00:58:22,268 --> 00:58:23,937 "Smooth the descent..." 644 00:58:24,838 --> 00:58:26,873 "Smooth is the descent, 645 00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:29,750 easy is the way." 646 00:58:36,850 --> 00:58:37,784 Shield! 647 00:59:05,512 --> 00:59:06,946 [yelling] 648 00:59:14,540 --> 00:59:17,524 [crowd chanting] Mercy! Mercy! Mercy! 649 00:59:19,359 --> 00:59:20,560 Blood. 650 00:59:23,630 --> 00:59:24,764 Lucilla, 651 00:59:25,432 --> 00:59:26,666 shall we show mercy? 652 00:59:26,833 --> 00:59:28,435 Mercy. 653 00:59:30,637 --> 00:59:32,639 [chanting continues] 654 00:59:43,817 --> 00:59:45,785 No mercy! 655 00:59:45,952 --> 00:59:47,721 Your life has been spared by the gods-- 656 00:59:47,887 --> 00:59:51,858 I would sooner face your blade than accept Roman mercy! 657 00:59:57,230 --> 00:59:59,232 [both grunting] 658 01:00:01,668 --> 01:00:02,702 [attacking yell] 659 01:00:02,869 --> 01:00:03,737 [grunts] 660 01:00:03,903 --> 01:00:06,306 [crowd roaring] 661 01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:11,378 [chanting] Kill! Kill! Kill! 662 01:00:11,544 --> 01:00:14,681 Kill! Kill! Kill! 663 01:00:19,619 --> 01:00:22,288 [yelling] 664 01:00:26,159 --> 01:00:31,131 [crowd chanting] Hanno! Hanno! Hanno! 665 01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:39,472 [cheering intensifies] 666 01:00:43,309 --> 01:00:44,711 [rhino groaning] 667 01:00:59,292 --> 01:01:01,895 The road to freedom doesn't run through the arena. 668 01:01:02,729 --> 01:01:04,230 It leads to this. 669 01:01:08,768 --> 01:01:10,670 Go to your cells. 670 01:01:13,390 --> 01:01:14,441 [all cheering, clapping] 671 01:01:14,607 --> 01:01:18,780 Hanno! Hanno! Hanno! 672 01:01:20,547 --> 01:01:22,349 [panting] 673 01:01:31,358 --> 01:01:33,590 [dog whimpers] 674 01:01:34,994 --> 01:01:36,363 Come on, let's go. 675 01:01:49,642 --> 01:01:52,846 "Gates of hell are open night and day. 676 01:01:53,913 --> 01:01:55,482 [voice wavering] Smooth is the descent... 677 01:01:55,648 --> 01:01:57,517 [crying] ...easy is the way." 678 01:02:01,654 --> 01:02:03,957 [boy] There, there, there, there. 679 01:02:04,124 --> 01:02:05,392 And I've got you. 680 01:02:05,558 --> 01:02:08,128 I'm Maximus, the savior of Rome! 681 01:02:27,747 --> 01:02:29,749 Scatto and Argento. 682 01:02:31,985 --> 01:02:34,688 [people cheer, echoing] 683 01:02:38,124 --> 01:02:39,859 [gasping softly] 684 01:02:43,530 --> 01:02:44,864 Lucius is safe? 685 01:03:02,716 --> 01:03:03,750 [Lucilla] Lucius! 686 01:03:14,940 --> 01:03:15,628 [horse whinnies] 687 01:03:16,463 --> 01:03:18,298 [Lucilla] Lucius, 688 01:03:18,465 --> 01:03:21,368 you're the sole heir to the throne now. 689 01:03:23,203 --> 01:03:24,437 There are men who want to kill you 690 01:03:24,604 --> 01:03:26,390 so they can take power. 691 01:03:27,774 --> 01:03:30,910 I promise I'll bring you back as soon as it's safe. 692 01:03:31,770 --> 01:03:34,614 Mother, why can't you come with me? 693 01:03:34,781 --> 01:03:37,117 [crying] I... I have to stay here for your sake. 694 01:03:37,317 --> 01:03:39,219 [sniffles] And for the sake of Rome. 695 01:03:39,386 --> 01:03:41,788 Remember who you are. 696 01:03:41,955 --> 01:03:43,823 And that I love you. 697 01:03:44,591 --> 01:03:45,925 I love you. 698 01:03:46,826 --> 01:03:47,894 [man] Come. 699 01:03:51,131 --> 01:03:52,499 Give me your leg. 700 01:03:54,367 --> 01:03:56,360 Go. Go! 701 01:03:56,202 --> 01:03:57,537 [horse whinnies] 702 01:04:02,776 --> 01:04:04,244 [doctor] So... 703 01:04:05,645 --> 01:04:06,846 [Hanno grunts] 704 01:04:07,614 --> 01:04:09,490 What's your name? 705 01:04:10,684 --> 01:04:11,685 [exhales] 706 01:04:11,851 --> 01:04:14,387 I'm Ravi. I'm a doctor. 707 01:04:15,655 --> 01:04:19,920 Because... more men die of infected wounds 708 01:04:19,259 --> 01:04:21,795 than out there, in the arena. 709 01:04:23,229 --> 01:04:25,999 This needs to be cleaned, it needs to be stitched and 710 01:04:26,166 --> 01:04:28,735 [exclaims softly] it is going to hurt. 711 01:04:28,935 --> 01:04:30,700 Mm. 712 01:04:30,236 --> 01:04:33,239 This is Devil's Breath and opium. 713 01:04:33,873 --> 01:04:35,375 It's for the pain. 714 01:04:36,376 --> 01:04:38,780 You should breathe in. 715 01:04:39,312 --> 01:04:40,180 [inhales sharply, grunts] 716 01:04:40,380 --> 01:04:42,315 [deep inhale] 717 01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:45,518 [Ravi] I've been here so long now, 718 01:04:45,685 --> 01:04:48,880 I don't even notice anymore. 719 01:04:48,254 --> 01:04:50,957 I've done more amputations than I can count. 720 01:04:52,158 --> 01:04:54,694 Where'd you - learn your trade? - Why do you ask? 721 01:04:54,861 --> 01:04:56,463 You've got a heavy hand. 722 01:04:57,897 --> 01:04:59,299 I used to be a gladiator myself. 723 01:04:59,466 --> 01:05:00,767 Ah. 724 01:05:00,967 --> 01:05:02,969 And would you have bested me?[Ravi chuckles] 725 01:05:03,136 --> 01:05:04,604 In your prime, of course. 726 01:05:05,839 --> 01:05:08,441 In your current state, I could best you now. 727 01:05:08,608 --> 01:05:10,143 [laughs] 728 01:05:10,310 --> 01:05:13,446 Luckily for you, I have put down my sword. 729 01:05:13,613 --> 01:05:15,749 So now I spend my days[groaning] 730 01:05:15,915 --> 01:05:18,418 saving lives instead of taking them. 731 01:05:18,585 --> 01:05:19,853 [inhales, grunts] 732 01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:22,455 And why such a change so late in life? 733 01:05:23,356 --> 01:05:25,492 What we do in life 734 01:05:25,692 --> 01:05:28,280 echoes in eternity. 735 01:05:28,194 --> 01:05:30,300 [panting softly] 736 01:05:31,765 --> 01:05:33,333 I feel like I know those words. 737 01:05:33,500 --> 01:05:36,200 [Ravi chuckles] I can't take credit. 738 01:05:36,169 --> 01:05:38,638 It's written on one of the tombs. 739 01:05:38,805 --> 01:05:41,441 Over the bones of a gladiator. 740 01:05:41,608 --> 01:05:42,809 [sharp grunt of pain][Macrinus] My champion! 741 01:05:43,900 --> 01:05:45,780 I smell Devil's Breath! 742 01:05:45,245 --> 01:05:47,447 [laughing] 743 01:05:47,614 --> 01:05:50,950 My... champion. 744 01:05:51,951 --> 01:05:53,653 Did you hear that crowd? 745 01:05:56,723 --> 01:05:58,892 - Did you hear that crowd? - Mm-hm. 746 01:06:00,460 --> 01:06:02,962 You have something. I knew it from the start. 747 01:06:03,163 --> 01:06:06,966 - Did you now? - Yes. The Greeks call it... 748 01:06:07,767 --> 01:06:09,235 thymos. 749 01:06:09,402 --> 01:06:10,737 Smoke. 750 01:06:11,471 --> 01:06:12,806 Rage. 751 01:06:13,807 --> 01:06:15,842 That rage is your gift. 752 01:06:16,543 --> 01:06:19,279 Like the great Achilles. 753 01:06:19,479 --> 01:06:21,748 Never let it go. 754 01:06:21,915 --> 01:06:24,651 It will carry you to greatness, 755 01:06:24,818 --> 01:06:26,619 my champion. 756 01:06:34,928 --> 01:06:37,864 [horses whinny, snort] 757 01:06:46,720 --> 01:06:48,740 Thank you 758 01:06:48,241 --> 01:06:50,110 for inviting me. 759 01:06:50,276 --> 01:06:52,245 This is truly an honor. 760 01:06:57,384 --> 01:06:59,219 I hear you are the talk of the court. 761 01:06:59,386 --> 01:07:00,653 [kissing hand] 762 01:07:01,588 --> 01:07:02,589 Yes. 763 01:07:03,523 --> 01:07:04,958 We've met before. 764 01:07:05,692 --> 01:07:07,694 - Have we? - Long ago. 765 01:07:09,162 --> 01:07:10,697 Where? 766 01:07:10,864 --> 01:07:12,699 I was in the service of your father's army 767 01:07:12,866 --> 01:07:14,868 on his African campaign. 768 01:07:16,136 --> 01:07:18,138 You served with my father? 769 01:07:18,705 --> 01:07:20,340 [groaning] 770 01:07:21,841 --> 01:07:22,976 Mm. 771 01:07:23,677 --> 01:07:25,679 I had the privilege 772 01:07:26,713 --> 01:07:28,248 of reading his "Meditations." 773 01:07:28,415 --> 01:07:29,616 Mm. 774 01:07:32,619 --> 01:07:34,554 "The best revenge 775 01:07:35,722 --> 01:07:38,925 is to be unlike him who performed the injury." 776 01:07:41,261 --> 01:07:43,730 I hear you've been arming half the legions 777 01:07:43,897 --> 01:07:48,902 in the entire empire, and here, now, in Rome... 778 01:07:50,270 --> 01:07:53,139 you're gaining influence by sponsoring gladiators. 779 01:07:53,306 --> 01:07:55,308 I do it for the love of the sport. 780 01:07:55,475 --> 01:07:58,445 And where did you find these gladiators? 781 01:07:59,446 --> 01:08:02,182 They're usually prisoners of war. 782 01:08:03,149 --> 01:08:06,519 Or vagrants. Why do you ask? 783 01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:09,389 A man can choose to fight... 784 01:08:11,324 --> 01:08:12,926 and stay alive. 785 01:08:13,930 --> 01:08:16,196 It's the same in life as it is in the arena, is it not? 786 01:08:18,665 --> 01:08:20,233 Who is this? 787 01:08:20,400 --> 01:08:22,769 That is my father as a youth. 788 01:08:25,972 --> 01:08:27,173 [Macrinus] She had a child? 789 01:08:27,340 --> 01:08:29,420 Mm. [swallows] 790 01:08:29,209 --> 01:08:31,511 It's common knowledge. When Commodus was killed, 791 01:08:31,678 --> 01:08:33,413 - the boy disappeared. - Mm. 792 01:08:33,613 --> 01:08:35,548 - But who would care? - Lucilla would care. 793 01:08:35,749 --> 01:08:38,351 - More wine! - More wine! 794 01:08:39,753 --> 01:08:43,223 He was of the royal bloodline, after all. 795 01:08:44,958 --> 01:08:46,226 And his father? 796 01:08:46,393 --> 01:08:51,640 [senator] Ostensibly, Lucius Verus. 797 01:08:51,231 --> 01:08:52,899 See, it was an arranged marriage. 798 01:08:53,660 --> 01:08:54,100 She was 14. 799 01:08:54,267 --> 01:08:57,537 - Mm. - Females were not his taste. 800 01:08:57,704 --> 01:08:58,972 - Nor mine, some days. - Nor yours! 801 01:08:59,139 --> 01:09:00,573 [both laugh] 802 01:09:00,774 --> 01:09:04,911 No, no, no. By rumor, you see, she took lovers. 803 01:09:05,780 --> 01:09:09,215 And by rumor, the real father... was Commodus. 804 01:09:10,216 --> 01:09:12,552 Brotherly love, - you see? - Yeah. 805 01:09:12,719 --> 01:09:14,387 If he died, 806 01:09:15,422 --> 01:09:17,791 - there has to be remains. - Mm. 807 01:09:17,957 --> 01:09:21,227 And if he lived, that would make him about... 808 01:09:21,394 --> 01:09:23,396 Um, well, let's work it out. 809 01:09:23,563 --> 01:09:26,866 He was about 12 - when he died? - Yes. 810 01:09:27,330 --> 01:09:31,304 So that would make him... 811 01:09:33,740 --> 01:09:36,176 [heavy door rumbling] 812 01:09:39,679 --> 01:09:41,715 [squeaking] 813 01:09:49,155 --> 01:09:51,157 [hoofbeats thudding] 814 01:10:06,973 --> 01:10:07,774 My lady. 815 01:10:08,441 --> 01:10:09,309 Gracchus. 816 01:10:10,443 --> 01:10:12,312 - Please come. - Thank you. 817 01:10:31,970 --> 01:10:32,465 Gladiator... 818 01:10:34,340 --> 01:10:35,100 do you know me? 819 01:10:43,443 --> 01:10:44,744 Do you have a family? 820 01:10:47,247 --> 01:10:50,483 A wife. Arishat. 821 01:10:52,520 --> 01:10:53,453 Arishat. 822 01:10:53,620 --> 01:10:56,790 She was killed under your husband's command. 823 01:10:59,559 --> 01:11:01,661 [sighing] Rome drowns in its own blood. 824 01:11:01,828 --> 01:11:04,970 And yet you enjoy the pleasures of the Colosseum. 825 01:11:05,465 --> 01:11:08,268 There is much you do not understand. 826 01:11:15,750 --> 01:11:16,142 Lucius. 827 01:11:16,343 --> 01:11:18,345 I do not know who you think I am. 828 01:11:18,511 --> 01:11:19,846 [Lucilla's breath trembles] 829 01:11:20,714 --> 01:11:22,549 My name is Hanno, 830 01:11:22,716 --> 01:11:25,118 and I have no mother, or none that I can remember. 831 01:11:28,288 --> 01:11:29,789 [sniffles] 832 01:11:31,858 --> 01:11:33,827 [crying] I'm so sorry. 833 01:11:33,993 --> 01:11:35,995 If your son were here, I feel sure he would tell you 834 01:11:36,162 --> 01:11:37,997 not to grieve him. 835 01:11:38,164 --> 01:11:39,833 For he would not be the boy that you sent away. 836 01:11:39,999 --> 01:11:41,968 That boy is dead. 837 01:11:44,404 --> 01:11:46,506 You may think I have little worth. 838 01:11:48,141 --> 01:11:50,143 You may think I betrayed you. 839 01:11:52,145 --> 01:11:53,880 But I need you to know... 840 01:11:55,382 --> 01:11:58,251 if you will not have your mother's love, 841 01:11:58,418 --> 01:12:01,254 then take your father's strength. 842 01:12:02,455 --> 01:12:03,823 You need it. 843 01:12:06,159 --> 01:12:10,330 His name was Maximus Decimus Meridius. 844 01:12:11,731 --> 01:12:13,133 And I see him in you. 845 01:12:13,299 --> 01:12:14,634 Get out. 846 01:12:16,836 --> 01:12:19,272 [Gracchus] My lady, we must go at once! 847 01:12:20,600 --> 01:12:21,474 [Lucilla sobs] 848 01:12:22,742 --> 01:12:25,111 Lucius, you were loved 849 01:12:25,278 --> 01:12:28,314 by myself and by your father. 850 01:12:28,481 --> 01:12:29,449 [sniffles] 851 01:12:29,616 --> 01:12:30,984 Your name was on his lips-- 852 01:12:31,151 --> 01:12:32,919 Get out! 853 01:12:37,857 --> 01:12:39,590 [panting] 854 01:12:39,225 --> 01:12:41,127 [door shuts] 855 01:12:50,336 --> 01:12:51,805 [Lucilla exhales] 856 01:12:59,120 --> 01:13:00,880 Lucius is alive. 857 01:13:03,249 --> 01:13:04,951 Are you certain? 858 01:13:05,151 --> 01:13:06,453 Yes. 859 01:13:07,387 --> 01:13:08,688 I know my son. 860 01:13:11,791 --> 01:13:13,626 I spoke to him tonight. 861 01:13:17,630 --> 01:13:20,100 He may be lost to me for what I did, 862 01:13:21,368 --> 01:13:23,360 but he lives. 863 01:13:24,270 --> 01:13:26,806 The third day of the games is tomorrow. 864 01:13:26,973 --> 01:13:28,475 Most fighters won't survive. 865 01:13:28,641 --> 01:13:29,976 Acacius, 866 01:13:31,378 --> 01:13:32,846 you must help him. 867 01:13:33,713 --> 01:13:35,615 Help him?[crying] Yes. 868 01:13:38,118 --> 01:13:40,620 I failed him then. 869 01:13:41,187 --> 01:13:42,655 I know I did. 870 01:13:44,491 --> 01:13:46,626 I cannot fail him now. 871 01:13:49,262 --> 01:13:50,630 The army is in Ostia. 872 01:13:50,797 --> 01:13:53,500 If we wait a few days... 873 01:13:53,666 --> 01:13:55,668 He could be dead by then. 874 01:13:57,737 --> 01:13:59,500 Acacius, 875 01:13:59,205 --> 01:14:02,742 I would willingly give my life for Rome, 876 01:14:03,977 --> 01:14:06,379 but I will not give my son's. 877 01:14:12,585 --> 01:14:14,821 [Viggo] And one. 878 01:14:15,689 --> 01:14:17,424 And two. 879 01:14:17,590 --> 01:14:20,226 And one.[all groaning with effort] 880 01:14:20,393 --> 01:14:23,229 Together. Timing, timing, timing! 881 01:14:24,531 --> 01:14:27,567 And one. And two. 882 01:14:28,234 --> 01:14:30,136 And one. 883 01:14:30,303 --> 01:14:32,172 Pause, pause! 884 01:14:35,410 --> 01:14:36,242 We won't get far like this. 885 01:14:36,409 --> 01:14:37,844 [all laughing] 886 01:14:38,110 --> 01:14:40,313 Just him. You go. 887 01:14:40,480 --> 01:14:42,182 Go! 888 01:14:42,349 --> 01:14:45,752 Let's see how far you can go on your own without your team. 889 01:14:47,487 --> 01:14:48,922 Ready? 890 01:14:49,122 --> 01:14:50,323 One! 891 01:14:51,257 --> 01:14:52,125 And two! 892 01:14:52,292 --> 01:14:54,327 Timing, timing! 893 01:14:55,610 --> 01:14:56,429 Come on, more! 894 01:14:57,797 --> 01:14:58,732 [grunts] 895 01:15:01,735 --> 01:15:03,269 [Viggo] More! 896 01:15:11,770 --> 01:15:13,460 [Lucius groans loudly] 897 01:15:16,182 --> 01:15:17,917 [heavy grunt] 898 01:15:20,186 --> 01:15:21,321 Leave him. 899 01:15:21,488 --> 01:15:23,490 [indistinct chatter] 900 01:15:24,524 --> 01:15:26,393 [huffs, grunts] 901 01:15:36,669 --> 01:15:37,904 [cork pops] 902 01:15:40,306 --> 01:15:43,677 [stammering] It's just vinegar, my friend. 903 01:15:44,411 --> 01:15:45,545 [pained groan] 904 01:15:45,745 --> 01:15:48,181 There will be no more opium for you. 905 01:15:49,549 --> 01:15:53,186 There is plenty of pain waiting for you in the next life. 906 01:15:53,353 --> 01:15:56,656 I don't know why you are so greedy for it in this one. 907 01:16:01,394 --> 01:16:02,762 Are you a free man, Ravi? 908 01:16:02,929 --> 01:16:04,764 [dry chuckle] "Free." 909 01:16:06,433 --> 01:16:08,802 I am. Mm. 910 01:16:08,968 --> 01:16:10,437 I laid down my sword 911 01:16:10,637 --> 01:16:12,539 and I swore never to pick it up again. 912 01:16:12,706 --> 01:16:14,140 And yet you choose this hell? 913 01:16:14,341 --> 01:16:15,875 Mm-hm. 914 01:16:16,760 --> 01:16:17,377 What was your home before? 915 01:16:18,645 --> 01:16:19,979 Varanasi. 916 01:16:20,146 --> 01:16:22,349 And why don't you go back? 917 01:16:22,515 --> 01:16:23,883 I wish I could. 918 01:16:24,840 --> 01:16:25,785 [breath hissing] But... 919 01:16:28,355 --> 01:16:30,357 I met a woman. [laughs] Ah. 920 01:16:31,257 --> 01:16:33,593 - It's always a woman. - Always. 921 01:16:33,793 --> 01:16:37,597 She is from Londinium. Britannia. You know. 922 01:16:37,797 --> 01:16:39,566 So now... 923 01:16:39,733 --> 01:16:42,602 our sons, they speak only Latin. 924 01:16:42,802 --> 01:16:45,105 My daughter's eyes, they are as blue as yours. 925 01:16:45,271 --> 01:16:46,673 [chuckles lightly] 926 01:16:47,874 --> 01:16:49,409 We are Romans now. 927 01:16:49,576 --> 01:16:53,179 I grew up hearing stories at my grandfather's knee. 928 01:16:54,414 --> 01:16:57,717 He used to talk of the dream that was Rome. 929 01:17:00,530 --> 01:17:03,923 It was so fragile, you could only whisper it... 930 01:17:06,292 --> 01:17:08,280 or it would vanish. 931 01:17:08,928 --> 01:17:10,397 [whispering] So, 932 01:17:10,563 --> 01:17:12,165 what was this dream? 933 01:17:12,332 --> 01:17:16,836 A Rome where all could live under fair law and be protected. 934 01:17:17,771 --> 01:17:19,639 A Rome of the Senate. 935 01:17:21,307 --> 01:17:22,842 A Rome of hope. 936 01:17:25,945 --> 01:17:30,183 Your grandfather, he sounds like a dangerous man. 937 01:17:30,350 --> 01:17:31,584 Hm. 938 01:17:34,320 --> 01:17:36,456 The odds are against you. 939 01:17:36,623 --> 01:17:37,957 [light chuckle] 940 01:17:38,858 --> 01:17:40,860 The odds are always against me. 941 01:17:41,795 --> 01:17:42,929 Don't worry, old man. 942 01:17:43,960 --> 01:17:44,864 Eh?[both laughing] 943 01:17:45,310 --> 01:17:46,866 [muttering] 944 01:17:48,435 --> 01:17:50,537 You should - get some rest. Hm? - Mm. 945 01:17:51,671 --> 01:17:54,740 Your men will need you to lead them tomorrow. 946 01:18:01,915 --> 01:18:04,918 [gates rumbling open] 947 01:18:05,850 --> 01:18:07,787 [crowd cheering][drums thudding] 948 01:18:10,457 --> 01:18:12,125 This is about survival. 949 01:18:13,259 --> 01:18:14,561 Survive! 950 01:18:14,761 --> 01:18:18,465 [announcer] In the name of Poseidon, 951 01:18:18,631 --> 01:18:22,702 we celebrate the glory of naval war. 952 01:18:22,902 --> 01:18:24,537 [Lucius] They have archers. 953 01:18:24,704 --> 01:18:27,730 Be ready. Listen for my commands. 954 01:18:27,240 --> 01:18:29,909 Stay together and pull as one, yes? 955 01:18:30,760 --> 01:18:30,844 [all] Yes! 956 01:18:31,110 --> 01:18:33,346 - Yes? - Yes! 957 01:18:35,682 --> 01:18:37,851 [hull creaking] 958 01:18:40,220 --> 01:18:42,856 [announcer] Today we relive 959 01:18:43,230 --> 01:18:46,493 the Battle of Salamis! 960 01:18:46,659 --> 01:18:47,694 [crowd cheering] 961 01:18:47,861 --> 01:18:52,399 The Trojans versus the Persians! 962 01:18:56,970 --> 01:18:58,538 Oars out![all] Oars! 963 01:18:59,305 --> 01:19:01,374 And... pull! 964 01:19:01,541 --> 01:19:03,109 [all grunting explosively] 965 01:19:21,270 --> 01:19:22,996 Archers![men yelling] 966 01:19:23,163 --> 01:19:24,300 Archers! 967 01:19:26,199 --> 01:19:27,200 Pull! 968 01:19:36,142 --> 01:19:37,777 Pull! 969 01:19:37,977 --> 01:19:40,447 [all grunting][screams] 970 01:19:40,613 --> 01:19:41,614 Pull! 971 01:19:42,582 --> 01:19:44,718 [grunts, screams] 972 01:19:50,190 --> 01:19:51,791 [muffled screaming] 973 01:19:53,493 --> 01:19:54,728 [all yelling] 974 01:19:54,894 --> 01:19:57,230 Pull! To my time! 975 01:19:58,310 --> 01:19:59,299 And... now! 976 01:20:01,935 --> 01:20:04,237 Left side! Ready, and 977 01:20:04,437 --> 01:20:06,306 ship oars now! 978 01:20:06,473 --> 01:20:08,508 Oars in! Oars in! 979 01:20:10,430 --> 01:20:10,910 Get down! 980 01:20:13,213 --> 01:20:14,247 [screams] 981 01:20:15,615 --> 01:20:17,830 [straining] 982 01:20:19,619 --> 01:20:21,688 [crowd cheering] 983 01:20:27,930 --> 01:20:30,964 And pull! And pull! 984 01:20:31,131 --> 01:20:33,666 [men grunting rhythmically] 985 01:20:33,833 --> 01:20:35,935 [man] Don't stop! 986 01:20:36,102 --> 01:20:38,104 [grunting] 987 01:20:38,271 --> 01:20:39,472 Pull! 988 01:20:39,639 --> 01:20:41,141 [men shout in unison] 989 01:20:42,108 --> 01:20:43,510 And right! 990 01:20:49,149 --> 01:20:50,550 Ready to ram! 991 01:20:50,717 --> 01:20:52,652 [Romans shouting, indistinct] 992 01:20:52,819 --> 01:20:55,288 And brace! Brace! 993 01:20:55,488 --> 01:20:57,257 [all yelling] 994 01:21:03,396 --> 01:21:04,798 [all shouting] 995 01:21:09,536 --> 01:21:12,539 [cheering] 996 01:21:20,447 --> 01:21:22,315 [all grunting] 997 01:21:27,253 --> 01:21:28,388 [gasping] 998 01:21:35,395 --> 01:21:36,763 [soldier] Everyone regroup! 999 01:21:41,167 --> 01:21:42,702 [screaming] 1000 01:21:42,869 --> 01:21:44,704 [fighting grunts] 1001 01:22:09,362 --> 01:22:11,310 [grunts] 1002 01:22:11,197 --> 01:22:12,899 [crowd exclaiming] 1003 01:22:13,660 --> 01:22:15,680 Praetorians! 1004 01:22:16,436 --> 01:22:18,805 [crowd chanting] Hanno! Hanno! Hanno! 1005 01:22:19,500 --> 01:22:19,873 Move, move. 1006 01:22:20,400 --> 01:22:22,475 [chanting continues] 1007 01:22:26,880 --> 01:22:29,949 [announcer] In the name of the emperors... 1008 01:22:30,150 --> 01:22:34,688 the victor is Hanno! 1009 01:22:37,390 --> 01:22:39,626 [all chanting in support] 1010 01:22:46,399 --> 01:22:48,268 Who did this? 1011 01:22:51,710 --> 01:22:53,273 Who did this?! 1012 01:22:53,973 --> 01:22:56,109 - It was me! - I did it! 1013 01:22:56,276 --> 01:22:58,111 - I did it! I did it! I did it! - It was me! 1014 01:23:02,682 --> 01:23:04,784 Geta will want retribution for all of you. 1015 01:23:05,852 --> 01:23:07,530 Did you learn to shoot in the same place 1016 01:23:07,220 --> 01:23:08,621 you learned to recite poetry? 1017 01:23:08,788 --> 01:23:09,856 Be glad it wasn't me, 1018 01:23:10,560 --> 01:23:11,291 or that arrow would have found you. 1019 01:23:11,491 --> 01:23:13,526 [men laughing] 1020 01:23:15,228 --> 01:23:17,230 [indistinct chatter] 1021 01:23:17,397 --> 01:23:19,733 [faint music playing] 1022 01:23:27,207 --> 01:23:28,641 Be seated. 1023 01:23:31,144 --> 01:23:32,545 I have news for you. 1024 01:23:37,830 --> 01:23:38,518 He's here, sir. 1025 01:23:39,452 --> 01:23:41,521 [door opens] 1026 01:23:41,688 --> 01:23:43,656 [Macrinus] Oh, still here. 1027 01:23:44,391 --> 01:23:45,658 [Thraex laughs nervously] 1028 01:23:45,825 --> 01:23:47,160 Macrinus. 1029 01:23:47,327 --> 01:23:49,429 [Macrinus chuckles] Welcome. 1030 01:23:51,310 --> 01:23:53,266 Yes, I'm listening. 1031 01:23:53,433 --> 01:23:55,969 You know this is my house now. 1032 01:23:56,136 --> 01:23:58,338 Your debt to me is over 10,000 denarii. 1033 01:23:58,538 --> 01:23:59,839 You know that. 1034 01:24:00,600 --> 01:24:02,542 [chuckles, stammers] I have other things. Uh... 1035 01:24:02,709 --> 01:24:04,411 Cattle. Art! 1036 01:24:04,577 --> 01:24:06,112 Truth, then. 1037 01:24:06,279 --> 01:24:07,781 What do you... want? 1038 01:24:07,981 --> 01:24:10,583 Truth. That's what I want. 1039 01:24:10,750 --> 01:24:15,155 Nothing happens in Rome without your knowledge. 1040 01:24:16,322 --> 01:24:18,324 You have the senators' trust. 1041 01:24:19,192 --> 01:24:21,327 You have Lucilla's trust. 1042 01:24:21,494 --> 01:24:24,164 More importantly, you have my trust. 1043 01:24:26,199 --> 01:24:30,700 You wish my... loyalty? 1044 01:24:30,270 --> 01:24:31,905 I own... 1045 01:24:33,340 --> 01:24:35,141 your house. 1046 01:24:35,308 --> 01:24:37,911 I want your loyalty. 1047 01:24:41,715 --> 01:24:43,830 I... 1048 01:24:44,317 --> 01:24:46,190 - Tell me. - I have heard... 1049 01:24:46,186 --> 01:24:48,822 of a plot... 1050 01:24:49,756 --> 01:24:52,359 - to dethrone the emperors. - Yes. 1051 01:24:52,525 --> 01:24:54,928 But the plan has been delayed, uh... 1052 01:24:55,950 --> 01:24:58,164 A gladiator is to be rescued from the arena. 1053 01:24:58,331 --> 01:24:59,666 - Tonight. - Mm. 1054 01:24:59,833 --> 01:25:02,936 - I don't know why. - I know why. I know who. 1055 01:25:05,338 --> 01:25:06,373 Pack. 1056 01:25:10,430 --> 01:25:11,544 Quickly. 1057 01:25:39,506 --> 01:25:40,573 [pounding on gate][man] Open up! 1058 01:25:40,774 --> 01:25:42,809 [rats squeaking] 1059 01:25:55,855 --> 01:25:57,424 [mastiffs growling] 1060 01:26:00,727 --> 01:26:02,696 [man] Open for the emperors' guard! 1061 01:26:02,862 --> 01:26:04,397 [pounding on door] 1062 01:26:27,120 --> 01:26:28,588 [heavy knocking] 1063 01:26:30,256 --> 01:26:33,693 My Lady, come with us. 1064 01:26:44,504 --> 01:26:46,172 [all grunting with impact] 1065 01:27:19,720 --> 01:27:21,241 Thanks to the civic virtue 1066 01:27:21,441 --> 01:27:23,977 of men like Thraex and Macrinus, 1067 01:27:25,311 --> 01:27:26,980 your insurrection 1068 01:27:27,747 --> 01:27:29,649 has been revealed. 1069 01:27:31,551 --> 01:27:32,886 The honor, 1070 01:27:33,987 --> 01:27:37,824 the dignitas that Rome has bestowed upon you... 1071 01:27:40,360 --> 01:27:43,329 all this you have forfeited by your treachery. 1072 01:27:43,496 --> 01:27:45,465 Please, Emperor Geta. 1073 01:27:46,132 --> 01:27:47,967 Torture me if you want, 1074 01:27:48,935 --> 01:27:50,236 but do not lecture me. 1075 01:27:50,403 --> 01:27:53,807 Your name will be forgotten! 1076 01:27:54,941 --> 01:27:57,944 Lost... to history. 1077 01:27:59,946 --> 01:28:01,247 You are damned, General. 1078 01:28:01,414 --> 01:28:03,149 [laughing] 1079 01:28:04,840 --> 01:28:05,985 [Geta] - You laugh. - You damn me? 1080 01:28:07,153 --> 01:28:08,822 I don't care. 1081 01:28:08,988 --> 01:28:12,392 Everything is forgotten in time. Empires fall. So do emperors. 1082 01:28:12,559 --> 01:28:14,227 [Caracalla] Why wait? 1083 01:28:14,394 --> 01:28:17,497 - I will gut him right now! - No, no, no! 1084 01:28:17,664 --> 01:28:20,867 Let them be. Come! Come! 1085 01:28:21,340 --> 01:28:22,802 His death must be public. 1086 01:28:22,969 --> 01:28:24,404 Public? [grunts] 1087 01:28:24,571 --> 01:28:27,307 Hang his entrails from the city gates! 1088 01:28:27,507 --> 01:28:29,420 And crucify her! 1089 01:28:29,809 --> 01:28:31,177 Crucify her! 1090 01:28:31,378 --> 01:28:33,246 Take them away! 1091 01:28:33,413 --> 01:28:36,716 [Caracalla yells][Geta] Shh! Shh! Shh! 1092 01:28:49,896 --> 01:28:51,310 Thank you, Macrinus. 1093 01:28:57,404 --> 01:28:58,705 Come on. 1094 01:29:02,175 --> 01:29:03,977 In these last days, 1095 01:29:04,144 --> 01:29:07,280 I have come to think of you not as a subject 1096 01:29:07,447 --> 01:29:09,582 but as a true friend. 1097 01:29:09,749 --> 01:29:11,351 Thank you. 1098 01:29:11,551 --> 01:29:14,870 Thank you so much. But as a friend, 1099 01:29:14,287 --> 01:29:16,923 I must counsel caution. 1100 01:29:17,900 --> 01:29:20,600 Acacius is a hero of Rome. 1101 01:29:20,927 --> 01:29:24,330 Crucifixion is for thieves. 1102 01:29:24,497 --> 01:29:25,632 Christians. 1103 01:29:26,800 --> 01:29:29,669 - It's too common. - He is a traitor. He must die. 1104 01:29:29,869 --> 01:29:31,171 I agree. 1105 01:29:31,337 --> 01:29:37,430 Let the gods decide his fate in the Colosseum. 1106 01:29:43,450 --> 01:29:45,510 Let the gods decide. 1107 01:29:47,921 --> 01:29:51,891 You know, last night I woke, dreaming of a dark river. 1108 01:29:53,493 --> 01:29:55,328 This time, for the first time, 1109 01:29:55,495 --> 01:29:56,963 I was crossing it. 1110 01:29:57,797 --> 01:29:59,399 [Ravi] Hm. 1111 01:29:59,599 --> 01:30:01,968 Well, you know, where I come from, 1112 01:30:02,135 --> 01:30:05,710 crossing a river, it represents forgiveness. 1113 01:30:05,238 --> 01:30:08,141 Represents... salvation. 1114 01:30:08,341 --> 01:30:11,277 Where I come from, it means you're already dead. 1115 01:30:11,478 --> 01:30:14,147 [chuckles] 1116 01:30:19,686 --> 01:30:22,155 But as I saw it, I was not afraid. 1117 01:30:23,923 --> 01:30:25,525 For... 1118 01:30:25,692 --> 01:30:28,528 For someone was waiting for me on the other side. 1119 01:30:30,163 --> 01:30:31,865 There. [sniffs] 1120 01:30:42,175 --> 01:30:43,677 Who is this man? 1121 01:30:45,780 --> 01:30:46,513 Scratched out? 1122 01:30:47,414 --> 01:30:49,449 Maximus. 1123 01:30:52,252 --> 01:30:54,187 I saw him fight once. 1124 01:30:55,288 --> 01:30:56,823 - He was magnificent. - Mm. 1125 01:30:56,990 --> 01:30:59,859 Yeah. My time in the arena, it was after his, 1126 01:31:00,260 --> 01:31:04,164 but many still talked of him in whispers, you know? 1127 01:31:04,330 --> 01:31:06,566 Spoke of him. 1128 01:31:07,333 --> 01:31:09,200 What he did. 1129 01:31:09,169 --> 01:31:11,370 I met him once. 1130 01:31:12,872 --> 01:31:14,407 He was kind. 1131 01:31:16,710 --> 01:31:18,578 He bowed to no one. 1132 01:31:22,480 --> 01:31:23,616 Come with me. 1133 01:31:23,783 --> 01:31:26,786 - Hmm? - Come. With me. 1134 01:31:45,939 --> 01:31:50,430 When a rebel gladiator dies, we bury them here. 1135 01:31:50,210 --> 01:31:54,614 "What we do in life echoes in eternity." 1136 01:32:12,332 --> 01:32:14,100 This is Argento. 1137 01:32:14,267 --> 01:32:15,769 This is Scatto. 1138 01:32:22,942 --> 01:32:25,845 [cheering, applause] 1139 01:32:28,948 --> 01:32:31,518 [drums thudding] 1140 01:32:39,125 --> 01:32:42,128 [metal clanking] 1141 01:32:51,237 --> 01:32:53,239 [horns playing fanfare] 1142 01:32:56,209 --> 01:32:57,811 Cheers. 1143 01:32:58,511 --> 01:32:59,879 And stop. 1144 01:33:01,581 --> 01:33:05,585 For his treason against the lives 1145 01:33:05,785 --> 01:33:09,723 of the emperors and the Roman state, 1146 01:33:09,889 --> 01:33:13,259 General Justus Acacius, 1147 01:33:14,694 --> 01:33:17,597 an enemy of the people! 1148 01:33:17,797 --> 01:33:20,166 [all chanting] Acacius! Acacius! Acacius! 1149 01:33:20,333 --> 01:33:22,702 - [man] We love you, Acacius! - You are a hero! 1150 01:33:24,300 --> 01:33:27,700 Acacius! Acacius! Acacius! 1151 01:33:27,173 --> 01:33:30,410 [chanting continues] 1152 01:33:34,114 --> 01:33:36,349 [crowd roaring] 1153 01:33:50,363 --> 01:33:53,333 [crowd jeering loudly] 1154 01:33:58,505 --> 01:34:01,141 [Acacius] Vae victis.[soldiers] General. 1155 01:34:01,307 --> 01:34:03,777 [all shouting, grunting] 1156 01:34:07,647 --> 01:34:08,948 [pained yell] 1157 01:34:09,149 --> 01:34:11,184 [grunts] 1158 01:34:19,292 --> 01:34:21,270 [crowd cheering] 1159 01:34:21,194 --> 01:34:23,630 [panting heavily] 1160 01:34:23,229 --> 01:34:25,165 [scattered shouts] Acacius! 1161 01:34:26,399 --> 01:34:30,537 [crowd chanting] Acacius! Acacius! Acacius! 1162 01:34:30,737 --> 01:34:34,174 [all continue chanting] 1163 01:34:36,609 --> 01:34:40,613 [announcer] From the vanquished city of Numidia, 1164 01:34:41,815 --> 01:34:46,953 the victor of two conquests in the Colosseum... 1165 01:34:47,120 --> 01:34:49,656 Go now. Vae victis. 1166 01:34:53,993 --> 01:34:56,763 [crowd chanting] Hanno! Hanno! Hanno! 1167 01:34:56,930 --> 01:34:59,199 Hanno![crowd cheering] 1168 01:34:59,366 --> 01:35:02,102 Oh, Lord, any honor I have, 1169 01:35:02,268 --> 01:35:03,903 - I will give it to you! - It's too late. 1170 01:35:04,700 --> 01:35:07,240 [announcer] The Roman traitor or 1171 01:35:07,407 --> 01:35:09,676 the barbarian hero. 1172 01:35:10,443 --> 01:35:12,145 Let the gods decide. 1173 01:35:12,345 --> 01:35:13,980 Lucius... wait. 1174 01:35:15,515 --> 01:35:16,649 Wait! Wait! 1175 01:35:16,816 --> 01:35:19,190 [both grunting heavily] 1176 01:35:23,723 --> 01:35:26,526 [overlapping cheers and jeers] 1177 01:35:26,693 --> 01:35:29,429 I am a vessel. 1178 01:35:30,797 --> 01:35:32,999 Fill me with vengeance 1179 01:35:34,000 --> 01:35:36,236 and vanquish the betrayer. 1180 01:35:39,172 --> 01:35:42,409 [attacking grunts] 1181 01:35:54,540 --> 01:35:56,322 - We love you, Acacius! - Move it! 1182 01:36:00,460 --> 01:36:02,280 Pick it up! 1183 01:36:02,195 --> 01:36:04,497 [woman] Bravo, Hanno! 1184 01:36:04,698 --> 01:36:06,320 [man] We love you, Acacius! 1185 01:36:06,199 --> 01:36:07,133 [man 2] What are you waiting for? 1186 01:36:07,300 --> 01:36:08,268 [man 3] You will die! 1187 01:36:08,435 --> 01:36:11,404 [cheering and booing] 1188 01:36:15,709 --> 01:36:17,444 [crowd whooping] 1189 01:36:20,513 --> 01:36:22,148 [both grunting heavily] 1190 01:36:25,850 --> 01:36:27,520 [crowd groaning] 1191 01:36:35,795 --> 01:36:37,464 [pained grunting] 1192 01:36:37,630 --> 01:36:39,165 [panting] 1193 01:36:39,332 --> 01:36:40,600 [Acacius] I know who you are. 1194 01:36:42,435 --> 01:36:44,437 Lucius Verus Aurelius. 1195 01:36:51,440 --> 01:36:53,346 [crowd groaning] 1196 01:36:55,315 --> 01:36:57,617 [crowd exclaiming] 1197 01:36:57,784 --> 01:36:59,753 Acacius has raised his hand! 1198 01:37:00,787 --> 01:37:03,230 He has surrendered. 1199 01:37:03,189 --> 01:37:05,525 [all muttering] 1200 01:37:10,663 --> 01:37:12,632 Let the gods decide. 1201 01:37:20,940 --> 01:37:23,143 [monkey screeching] 1202 01:37:30,250 --> 01:37:33,860 The gods have rendered their judgment. 1203 01:37:36,222 --> 01:37:37,691 Do what you must. 1204 01:37:38,825 --> 01:37:41,161 But on my death, you have to know... 1205 01:37:43,960 --> 01:37:44,998 I love your mother, Lucilla. 1206 01:37:46,499 --> 01:37:47,834 And your father... 1207 01:37:50,603 --> 01:37:51,604 Maximus. 1208 01:37:52,972 --> 01:37:55,800 I would have died for him. 1209 01:37:55,175 --> 01:37:56,976 Kill him! 1210 01:37:57,143 --> 01:37:59,846 [man] Let him live! Please! 1211 01:38:00,980 --> 01:38:04,170 [crowd chanting] Live! Live! Live! Live! 1212 01:38:10,990 --> 01:38:12,692 Kill him! 1213 01:38:14,694 --> 01:38:15,528 [grunts][Geta] Kill him! 1214 01:38:15,695 --> 01:38:16,863 Archers! 1215 01:38:17,300 --> 01:38:18,832 No![Geta] Kill him! 1216 01:38:18,998 --> 01:38:21,434 [crowd chanting] Acacius! Acacius! 1217 01:38:21,601 --> 01:38:23,203 [Caracalla] Kill him! 1218 01:38:23,403 --> 01:38:24,738 Kill him! 1219 01:38:24,904 --> 01:38:26,272 Kill him! Kill him! 1220 01:38:26,439 --> 01:38:28,341 [crowd continues chanting] 1221 01:38:28,541 --> 01:38:29,843 [sobbing] Acacius! 1222 01:38:32,779 --> 01:38:33,913 [arrow whistling] 1223 01:38:34,114 --> 01:38:35,115 [crowd exclaiming] 1224 01:38:35,281 --> 01:38:37,283 [grunting] 1225 01:38:39,986 --> 01:38:40,987 [Lucilla] No! 1226 01:38:41,588 --> 01:38:43,230 No! 1227 01:38:43,189 --> 01:38:44,791 Acacius! 1228 01:38:47,360 --> 01:38:49,295 Damn you! 1229 01:38:49,462 --> 01:38:51,131 [breath heaving] 1230 01:38:51,297 --> 01:38:53,166 Death will be too good for you! 1231 01:38:58,738 --> 01:39:01,875 Is this how Rome treats its heroes? 1232 01:39:05,879 --> 01:39:07,347 Tell me! 1233 01:39:09,516 --> 01:39:13,953 If his life has no value, what are yours worth? 1234 01:39:14,154 --> 01:39:19,920 The gods have spoken! 1235 01:39:19,259 --> 01:39:21,828 [crowd booing loudly] 1236 01:39:24,300 --> 01:39:26,666 [shouting, jeering] 1237 01:39:33,173 --> 01:39:36,776 [crowd chanting] Hanno! Hanno! Hanno! Hanno! 1238 01:39:41,348 --> 01:39:43,917 [crowd booing] 1239 01:39:52,258 --> 01:39:55,228 For our own safety, we should return to the palace. 1240 01:39:56,563 --> 01:40:00,500 [crowd booing loudly] 1241 01:40:03,636 --> 01:40:06,806 [crowd] Hanno! Hanno! Hanno! 1242 01:40:14,180 --> 01:40:16,383 [all jeering] 1243 01:40:16,549 --> 01:40:18,885 [soldier] Stay back! Stay back! 1244 01:40:45,712 --> 01:40:48,348 [booing and jeers, echoing] 1245 01:40:53,453 --> 01:40:55,422 [crowd noise fades] 1246 01:41:05,999 --> 01:41:07,000 [thunder rolling] 1247 01:41:07,167 --> 01:41:11,504 [Lucius, faintly] Arishat! 1248 01:41:14,240 --> 01:41:16,760 [door opens] 1249 01:41:29,890 --> 01:41:30,623 We had a bargain. 1250 01:41:34,327 --> 01:41:37,497 I gave him to you. You let him live. 1251 01:41:37,664 --> 01:41:39,265 And you got what you wanted. 1252 01:41:39,466 --> 01:41:41,968 I always get what I want. Why did you let him live? 1253 01:41:42,168 --> 01:41:44,971 You bought a gladiator, not a slave. 1254 01:41:46,740 --> 01:41:48,475 My will is my own. 1255 01:41:50,744 --> 01:41:52,450 Ah... 1256 01:41:52,212 --> 01:41:54,814 How blue is your blood? 1257 01:41:54,981 --> 01:41:57,484 Perhaps the heart of a Roman 1258 01:41:57,650 --> 01:41:59,853 beats in that chest. [chuckles] 1259 01:42:05,558 --> 01:42:08,361 The greatest temple Rome ever built. 1260 01:42:08,528 --> 01:42:09,996 The Colosseum. 1261 01:42:10,196 --> 01:42:12,399 Because this is what they believe in. 1262 01:42:12,565 --> 01:42:14,134 Power. 1263 01:42:14,300 --> 01:42:16,936 They gather here to watch the strong strike down the weak. 1264 01:42:17,103 --> 01:42:18,872 There has to be - something else. - There is nothing else. 1265 01:42:19,720 --> 01:42:21,808 There has to be - another Rome. - There is no other Rome. 1266 01:42:23,309 --> 01:42:24,844 - The "dream"? - Mm. 1267 01:42:25,110 --> 01:42:26,846 The dream of Rome? 1268 01:42:27,130 --> 01:42:28,515 It's an old man's fantasy. 1269 01:42:30,316 --> 01:42:31,685 Who are you? 1270 01:42:34,821 --> 01:42:37,791 What was your name before you traded it for a Roman one? 1271 01:42:38,858 --> 01:42:40,293 You'll never know. 1272 01:42:43,129 --> 01:42:44,698 I have a destiny. 1273 01:42:48,234 --> 01:42:50,537 The gods delivered you to me. 1274 01:42:53,573 --> 01:42:55,241 You will be my instrument. 1275 01:42:55,408 --> 01:42:58,678 I will never be your instrument, in this life or the next. 1276 01:43:06,986 --> 01:43:10,156 [door opening] That will not be my destiny. 1277 01:43:12,192 --> 01:43:13,760 But I will see your end. 1278 01:43:13,927 --> 01:43:16,429 [people shouting, yelling in distance] 1279 01:43:32,645 --> 01:43:34,714 [monkey chittering] 1280 01:43:34,881 --> 01:43:36,649 What else could I do? 1281 01:43:36,850 --> 01:43:38,585 He and his ***** were plotting to kill us. 1282 01:43:38,752 --> 01:43:41,321 Don't you hear them? They're calling for our heads! 1283 01:43:41,488 --> 01:43:43,456 The Praetorians will put down this crowd. 1284 01:43:43,623 --> 01:43:45,291 - Like they have every other. - You brought this on us. 1285 01:43:45,458 --> 01:43:47,861 Filthy ape![monkey squeaking in fear] 1286 01:43:51,531 --> 01:43:54,200 [Macrinus] Perhaps you should, uh, 1287 01:43:54,367 --> 01:43:58,671 take Dondus elsewhere to comfort him? 1288 01:44:08,314 --> 01:44:10,517 Forgive my brother's outburst. 1289 01:44:12,485 --> 01:44:13,920 The disease that infects his loins 1290 01:44:14,870 --> 01:44:15,955 has spread to his brain. 1291 01:44:16,122 --> 01:44:19,125 - Every day he gets worse. - I will reason with him. 1292 01:44:20,794 --> 01:44:22,662 [all yelling, shouting] 1293 01:44:28,268 --> 01:44:30,704 [Dondus hooting] 1294 01:44:35,508 --> 01:44:38,545 [singsong] I see you. 1295 01:44:38,712 --> 01:44:40,714 I see you. 1296 01:44:42,148 --> 01:44:44,250 Caracalla, Caracalla! 1297 01:44:44,417 --> 01:44:45,985 Come on, stand up. 1298 01:44:46,152 --> 01:44:48,154 Get up, get up. Not you. 1299 01:44:48,355 --> 01:44:50,900 All right, there you go. 1300 01:44:51,825 --> 01:44:54,940 Now, listen to me. 1301 01:44:54,260 --> 01:44:55,729 What's the matter? 1302 01:44:55,929 --> 01:44:58,465 [panting] Nothing's ever mine. 1303 01:44:58,665 --> 01:45:00,934 Everything is ours, always. 1304 01:45:01,101 --> 01:45:04,270 Even in the womb... [stammering] he tried... 1305 01:45:05,138 --> 01:45:08,408 to cut my umbilicus 1306 01:45:08,575 --> 01:45:10,310 so that I couldn't have any more air. 1307 01:45:10,477 --> 01:45:12,679 You remember that, - do you? - Certainly. 1308 01:45:12,846 --> 01:45:15,115 - Come, sit. - One cannot forget. 1309 01:45:15,281 --> 01:45:17,417 My conscience compels me. 1310 01:45:17,584 --> 01:45:18,952 What? 1311 01:45:19,119 --> 01:45:20,253 Sit. 1312 01:45:20,420 --> 01:45:21,755 Your brother 1313 01:45:22,689 --> 01:45:24,157 means to blame you 1314 01:45:25,191 --> 01:45:27,494 in front of the entire Senate... 1315 01:45:27,694 --> 01:45:28,995 But I did not do it! 1316 01:45:29,162 --> 01:45:30,630 ...for what's happening in the streets. 1317 01:45:30,830 --> 01:45:33,133 - The chaos! - He's lying! 1318 01:45:33,299 --> 01:45:35,350 No testimony can be more damning 1319 01:45:35,201 --> 01:45:38,571 than one brother against another. 1320 01:45:38,738 --> 01:45:41,307 That's a lie! He always lies! 1321 01:45:41,474 --> 01:45:43,877 He can be very persuasive. 1322 01:45:44,440 --> 01:45:46,713 So? What will they do to me? 1323 01:45:46,880 --> 01:45:49,516 Oh, I don't dare imagine. But imagine this: 1324 01:45:49,716 --> 01:45:51,718 What will they do to Dondus? 1325 01:45:54,888 --> 01:45:57,624 What will they do 1326 01:45:57,791 --> 01:45:59,920 to Dondus? 1327 01:45:59,292 --> 01:46:01,361 [Dondus chittering softly] 1328 01:46:01,528 --> 01:46:02,796 It's your decision. 1329 01:46:12,372 --> 01:46:14,874 [people shouting angrily] 1330 01:46:27,487 --> 01:46:31,124 [angry shouts continue] 1331 01:46:40,667 --> 01:46:41,534 Brother. 1332 01:46:45,205 --> 01:46:46,906 Put down the blade. 1333 01:46:47,730 --> 01:46:48,108 You lie. 1334 01:46:48,274 --> 01:46:49,976 - Give it to me. - You always lie! 1335 01:46:50,143 --> 01:46:51,440 Give it-- [grunts] 1336 01:46:51,211 --> 01:46:52,779 [chuckles] 1337 01:46:53,780 --> 01:46:54,848 [Geta exclaiming] 1338 01:46:55,480 --> 01:46:57,217 Look at me. Look at me. Look at me. 1339 01:46:57,384 --> 01:46:59,686 - Lie! - Listen to me. Break the spell. 1340 01:46:59,853 --> 01:47:01,821 - Lie! - Break the spell! 1341 01:47:01,988 --> 01:47:05,910 I've always protected you. Because I love you. 1342 01:47:05,792 --> 01:47:07,794 Come back. Help me. 1343 01:47:17,370 --> 01:47:18,872 [blade plunges] 1344 01:47:19,973 --> 01:47:21,374 [faint, indistinct chatter] 1345 01:47:21,541 --> 01:47:23,276 [keys jingling] 1346 01:47:30,450 --> 01:47:31,818 Lucius. 1347 01:47:38,425 --> 01:47:40,593 [hinges creaking] 1348 01:47:53,606 --> 01:47:56,142 Never could have imagined the fates would lead us here. 1349 01:47:56,309 --> 01:47:58,178 [Lucius chuckles dryly] 1350 01:47:58,345 --> 01:48:00,113 And yet here we are. 1351 01:48:01,848 --> 01:48:03,483 Everything has brought us full circle. 1352 01:48:03,650 --> 01:48:06,653 You sent me away and yet fate 1353 01:48:06,853 --> 01:48:09,289 brought me back to the very ground where he died. 1354 01:48:12,325 --> 01:48:13,293 [Lucilla] This ring... 1355 01:48:15,195 --> 01:48:16,863 belonged to my father. 1356 01:48:21,000 --> 01:48:23,937 He gave it to your father, Maximus, 1357 01:48:24,137 --> 01:48:25,939 as a token of trust. 1358 01:48:27,374 --> 01:48:30,343 I gave it to Acacius for his valor. 1359 01:48:34,881 --> 01:48:37,500 This ring belonged to my wife. 1360 01:48:40,530 --> 01:48:41,521 I shall wear it next to yours. 1361 01:48:55,802 --> 01:48:58,238 I am truly sorry for Acacius. 1362 01:48:59,606 --> 01:49:02,242 I could not see the man. 1363 01:49:02,409 --> 01:49:03,777 [sniffles] 1364 01:49:04,611 --> 01:49:06,413 He was a soldier of Rome. 1365 01:49:08,415 --> 01:49:09,783 There was a plan. 1366 01:49:11,840 --> 01:49:12,385 He was readying troops at Ostia 1367 01:49:12,552 --> 01:49:15,522 under the command of Darius ***tus. 1368 01:49:15,689 --> 01:49:18,692 Troops he was to lead against the emperors. 1369 01:49:20,794 --> 01:49:25,980 Acacius. Maximus. Marcus Aurelius. 1370 01:49:26,266 --> 01:49:28,635 They lived and died for Rome. 1371 01:49:29,369 --> 01:49:30,804 We all do. 1372 01:49:32,872 --> 01:49:35,208 Is it true they intend to kill you? 1373 01:49:36,409 --> 01:49:38,780 [chuckles lightly] 1374 01:49:38,244 --> 01:49:40,146 One man or another has had a sword against my neck 1375 01:49:40,313 --> 01:49:42,649 since the day my father died. 1376 01:49:45,885 --> 01:49:47,821 But now that I've found you, 1377 01:49:48,688 --> 01:49:50,457 it doesn't matter. 1378 01:49:51,858 --> 01:49:53,560 I am not afraid. 1379 01:49:53,727 --> 01:49:56,763 I've become well versed in losing the things that I love. 1380 01:49:59,666 --> 01:50:00,834 But now that I've found you, 1381 01:50:01,000 --> 01:50:02,669 I have no desire to lose you again. 1382 01:50:02,836 --> 01:50:05,380 [exhales shakily] 1383 01:50:05,839 --> 01:50:08,800 - You stand like him. - Mm. 1384 01:50:08,775 --> 01:50:10,143 Alert. 1385 01:50:11,440 --> 01:50:12,145 Proud. 1386 01:50:14,414 --> 01:50:16,916 I do not have his strength. 1387 01:50:17,884 --> 01:50:19,986 I wish that were true. 1388 01:50:21,421 --> 01:50:24,457 I wish I were telling you to flee this place. 1389 01:50:24,624 --> 01:50:26,159 [keys jingling] 1390 01:50:29,696 --> 01:50:31,898 [door unlocks] 1391 01:50:33,333 --> 01:50:34,434 Go now. 1392 01:50:39,339 --> 01:50:41,274 [Lucilla sighs] 1393 01:50:42,742 --> 01:50:43,877 Strength and honor. 1394 01:50:46,446 --> 01:50:48,480 Strength and honor. 1395 01:50:58,792 --> 01:51:00,593 [thunder rumbling faintly] 1396 01:51:00,760 --> 01:51:02,762 [Caracalla] As Emperor, 1397 01:51:02,929 --> 01:51:04,531 I have convened 1398 01:51:05,532 --> 01:51:08,735 the Senate to appoint my First Consul 1399 01:51:08,902 --> 01:51:12,105 and bestow upon him the power to administer the military 1400 01:51:12,305 --> 01:51:15,508 and civic functions of the Empire. 1401 01:51:19,379 --> 01:51:20,747 I name... 1402 01:51:21,848 --> 01:51:24,250 Citizen Dondus! 1403 01:51:24,417 --> 01:51:26,119 [Senate murmuring] 1404 01:51:26,319 --> 01:51:28,755 [Dondus chittering] 1405 01:51:31,324 --> 01:51:32,926 [Caracalla] Hail Dondus! 1406 01:51:36,396 --> 01:51:37,864 Hail Dondus! 1407 01:51:39,933 --> 01:51:42,502 [clearing throat] - Hail Dondus. - Hail Dondus! 1408 01:51:42,669 --> 01:51:45,138 [all] Hail Dondus! 1409 01:51:49,409 --> 01:51:51,244 As Second Consul... 1410 01:51:53,213 --> 01:51:54,681 I name... 1411 01:51:57,830 --> 01:51:58,351 Citizen... 1412 01:52:00,653 --> 01:52:02,220 Macrinus! 1413 01:52:04,457 --> 01:52:06,920 Hail Macrinus! 1414 01:52:06,259 --> 01:52:07,660 Hail Macrinus! 1415 01:52:07,827 --> 01:52:09,729 [all] Hail Macrinus! 1416 01:52:11,598 --> 01:52:14,100 There will be a triumphal parade to celebrate. 1417 01:52:14,267 --> 01:52:15,802 There will be games 1418 01:52:16,569 --> 01:52:18,438 and mass executions. 1419 01:52:18,605 --> 01:52:21,410 [chittering] 1420 01:52:21,708 --> 01:52:24,377 Long live the Empire! 1421 01:52:25,979 --> 01:52:27,681 [Macrinus] Long live the Empire! 1422 01:52:27,847 --> 01:52:29,449 [all] Long live the Empire! 1423 01:52:32,385 --> 01:52:34,540 [applause subsides] 1424 01:52:35,855 --> 01:52:37,230 Sit down. 1425 01:52:40,460 --> 01:52:43,129 I happen to have... 1426 01:52:46,733 --> 01:52:50,403 with good fortune and not a little skill... 1427 01:52:52,138 --> 01:52:55,275 the remaining emperor's ear. 1428 01:52:57,444 --> 01:53:00,800 [all gasping, murmuring] 1429 01:53:02,482 --> 01:53:04,751 I can speak logic to it... 1430 01:53:09,522 --> 01:53:12,250 and tame the madness in the street. But... 1431 01:53:14,961 --> 01:53:16,596 to restore order... 1432 01:53:18,665 --> 01:53:20,500 I must have power... 1433 01:53:24,237 --> 01:53:26,239 and command 1434 01:53:26,973 --> 01:53:28,942 over the Praetorian Army. 1435 01:53:34,814 --> 01:53:36,549 Ballot... 1436 01:53:38,752 --> 01:53:40,860 or hand? 1437 01:53:42,255 --> 01:53:44,791 Aye![all] Aye! 1438 01:53:48,940 --> 01:53:49,696 Your humble servant. 1439 01:53:53,833 --> 01:53:55,368 Put your hands down. 1440 01:53:58,710 --> 01:53:59,539 You can sit down. 1441 01:54:13,119 --> 01:54:14,721 [Macrinus] Rome must fall. 1442 01:54:17,490 --> 01:54:19,492 I need only give it a push. 1443 01:54:22,562 --> 01:54:24,731 [Lucilla] And after Rome falls... 1444 01:54:25,699 --> 01:54:28,101 [dry chuckle] ...what then? 1445 01:54:30,236 --> 01:54:32,238 You are your father's child. 1446 01:54:34,274 --> 01:54:37,677 His dream of Rome was never a dream. 1447 01:54:37,844 --> 01:54:39,746 It was a fiction. 1448 01:54:39,946 --> 01:54:42,182 "The best revenge is 1449 01:54:42,382 --> 01:54:46,152 to become unlike the one who did the injury." 1450 01:54:46,319 --> 01:54:51,191 I have made myself unlike your father. 1451 01:54:51,391 --> 01:54:54,861 He spoke of dreams, I speak of truth. 1452 01:54:55,280 --> 01:54:57,430 And the only truth in my Rome 1453 01:54:59,320 --> 01:55:01,340 is the law of the strongest. 1454 01:55:03,336 --> 01:55:04,704 I was owned 1455 01:55:06,172 --> 01:55:07,707 by an emperor. 1456 01:55:10,710 --> 01:55:12,779 Now I control an empire. 1457 01:55:13,880 --> 01:55:17,150 Where else but in Rome can a man do that? 1458 01:55:22,455 --> 01:55:26,926 Do you recognize your father's mark on me? 1459 01:55:31,765 --> 01:55:33,660 If there is anything 1460 01:55:33,767 --> 01:55:35,168 you need... 1461 01:55:36,903 --> 01:55:38,571 in these last hours, 1462 01:55:39,572 --> 01:55:41,207 we will provide. 1463 01:55:46,946 --> 01:55:49,649 Your death will clear my path to the throne. 1464 01:55:51,584 --> 01:55:54,487 Tomorrow there will be games. 1465 01:55:54,654 --> 01:55:56,222 And at them... 1466 01:55:57,123 --> 01:55:58,825 I will prevail. 1467 01:56:04,497 --> 01:56:06,660 [door clangs shut] 1468 01:56:06,232 --> 01:56:07,934 [keys jingling] 1469 01:56:12,505 --> 01:56:13,973 Ravi! 1470 01:56:20,613 --> 01:56:22,782 Can you get me a message to Ostia by morning? 1471 01:56:22,949 --> 01:56:24,617 What is in Ostia? 1472 01:56:24,784 --> 01:56:26,219 There is an army. 1473 01:56:28,488 --> 01:56:30,900 I'm asking you to risk yourself, my friend, 1474 01:56:30,256 --> 01:56:32,359 in the service of something greater. 1475 01:56:35,261 --> 01:56:36,663 Ride to Ostia. 1476 01:56:37,964 --> 01:56:39,966 Take this ring to General Darius ***tus. 1477 01:56:40,133 --> 01:56:41,534 Are you listening? 1478 01:56:42,168 --> 01:56:44,804 Darius ***tus. 1479 01:56:44,971 --> 01:56:46,973 He will know it as Acacius's ring. 1480 01:56:49,943 --> 01:56:52,780 [clears throat] And, uh, 1481 01:56:52,979 --> 01:56:54,314 who shall I say has 1482 01:56:55,150 --> 01:56:56,683 sent me with this ring? 1483 01:57:00,860 --> 01:57:02,389 I am Lucius Verus Aurelius. 1484 01:57:03,656 --> 01:57:05,158 The Prince of Rome. 1485 01:57:06,393 --> 01:57:07,827 Tell him I am summoning the army 1486 01:57:07,994 --> 01:57:10,263 to the defense of a new Republic. 1487 01:57:13,433 --> 01:57:14,868 [inhales] 1488 01:57:18,905 --> 01:57:20,400 - Should I trust you? - Yes. 1489 01:57:20,206 --> 01:57:22,275 Should I?Yes. 1490 01:57:29,182 --> 01:57:31,885 Ravi! I need your keys. 1491 01:57:37,991 --> 01:57:39,693 Thank you. 1492 01:58:17,530 --> 01:58:19,966 Stop! Come back! 1493 01:58:32,479 --> 01:58:34,514 [panting] 1494 01:58:41,688 --> 01:58:42,856 [inhales sharply] 1495 01:58:50,764 --> 01:58:51,865 Who gave you this? 1496 01:58:52,866 --> 01:58:55,100 Lucius Verus Aurelius. 1497 01:58:56,236 --> 01:58:57,437 The Prince of Rome. 1498 01:59:18,958 --> 01:59:20,960 [horses snort, whinnying] 1499 01:59:26,320 --> 01:59:28,401 [crowd cheering in distance] 1500 01:59:50,623 --> 01:59:53,693 [whispering] Must we kill Lucilla? 1501 01:59:55,328 --> 01:59:59,650 [quietly] Until she dies, you will never know peace. 1502 02:00:00,934 --> 02:00:02,100 Ever. 1503 02:00:05,710 --> 02:00:07,173 [horns playing fanfare] 1504 02:00:12,912 --> 02:00:15,448 The people love her. Her death will incite the mob. 1505 02:00:15,615 --> 02:00:18,840 If she dies and the streets rise up in anger, 1506 02:00:18,284 --> 02:00:19,652 I shall deliver them Caracalla's head 1507 02:00:19,853 --> 02:00:21,187 and the people shall acclaim me. 1508 02:00:21,354 --> 02:00:24,924 That, my friend, is politics. 1509 02:00:27,761 --> 02:00:29,596 - Shall we? - Yes. 1510 02:00:44,844 --> 02:00:46,946 Today will be your last fight, champion. 1511 02:00:48,810 --> 02:00:49,683 And our master has bestowed on you... 1512 02:00:52,850 --> 02:00:54,487 the wooden sword of freedom. 1513 02:00:58,491 --> 02:01:00,427 But you have to earn it first. 1514 02:01:00,627 --> 02:01:02,929 Today, you're gonna defend your mother. 1515 02:01:09,636 --> 02:01:11,771 [soldier shouting][grunting] 1516 02:01:11,938 --> 02:01:14,140 [all yelling] 1517 02:01:22,649 --> 02:01:25,685 [grunting explosively] 1518 02:01:25,852 --> 02:01:28,688 Wood or steel, a point is still a point! 1519 02:01:31,224 --> 02:01:32,892 [arrows whistling] 1520 02:01:55,982 --> 02:01:57,484 [Lucius] Wait for me. 1521 02:02:16,302 --> 02:02:18,400 In honor 1522 02:02:18,171 --> 02:02:22,442 of the acclamation of Emperor Caracalla, 1523 02:02:22,609 --> 02:02:28,481 First Consul Dondus and Second Consul Macrinus, 1524 02:02:28,648 --> 02:02:33,153 and as punishment for her conspiracy against the empire, 1525 02:02:33,319 --> 02:02:37,657 for her calumnies against the emperor's imperial bloodline 1526 02:02:37,857 --> 02:02:40,260 and for fomenting military mutiny 1527 02:02:40,193 --> 02:02:41,594 along with her husband, 1528 02:02:41,761 --> 02:02:45,365 the queen will face divine justice 1529 02:02:45,532 --> 02:02:49,602 at the hands of the Praetorian Guard. 1530 02:02:53,873 --> 02:02:56,309 [crowd cheering faintly] 1531 02:03:14,940 --> 02:03:15,628 I am not a general. 1532 02:03:17,330 --> 02:03:20,800 But we are all soldiers. 1533 02:03:22,802 --> 02:03:24,537 And up until now, 1534 02:03:24,704 --> 02:03:28,908 we have fought for nothing more than another day's survival. 1535 02:03:29,750 --> 02:03:30,910 What will you have us do? 1536 02:03:32,245 --> 02:03:33,413 Well, you can return to your cells 1537 02:03:33,580 --> 02:03:35,515 if you do not wish to fight this battle. 1538 02:03:35,682 --> 02:03:37,984 [all laughing] Or... 1539 02:03:39,719 --> 02:03:41,870 you can join me. 1540 02:03:42,389 --> 02:03:44,691 And fight for a freedom far beyond these walls. 1541 02:03:44,858 --> 02:03:46,393 [all] Aye! 1542 02:03:46,559 --> 02:03:50,697 There once was a time when honor meant something in Rome. 1543 02:03:52,399 --> 02:03:53,933 In this Rome 1544 02:03:54,834 --> 02:03:56,936 I no longer believe that exists. 1545 02:03:57,103 --> 02:03:59,500 We must find it! 1546 02:03:59,172 --> 02:04:01,174 [all murmuring in agreement] 1547 02:04:01,374 --> 02:04:03,900 [Lucius] And know this: 1548 02:04:04,377 --> 02:04:08,114 Where death is, we are not. 1549 02:04:10,116 --> 02:04:12,180 Where we are, 1550 02:04:12,752 --> 02:04:14,521 death is not! 1551 02:04:17,524 --> 02:04:18,758 By my sword. 1552 02:04:20,694 --> 02:04:22,395 Strength and honor. 1553 02:04:22,562 --> 02:04:24,397 [all] Strength and honor! 1554 02:04:24,564 --> 02:04:26,166 Strength and honor! 1555 02:04:26,332 --> 02:04:28,168 Strength and honor! 1556 02:04:37,744 --> 02:04:40,280 [indistinct shouting] 1557 02:04:40,447 --> 02:04:42,315 [growling] 1558 02:04:47,587 --> 02:04:49,723 [snarling] 1559 02:04:52,892 --> 02:04:54,928 Let it not be said 1560 02:04:55,950 --> 02:04:58,164 that the emperor is not merciful. 1561 02:04:58,331 --> 02:05:03,770 The queen will be granted a single gladiator 1562 02:05:03,937 --> 02:05:07,607 to defend her against the Praetorian Guard. 1563 02:05:07,774 --> 02:05:09,943 [crowd jeering] 1564 02:05:17,650 --> 02:05:21,588 The champion, Hanno! 1565 02:05:21,755 --> 02:05:23,757 [crowd roars] 1566 02:05:25,525 --> 02:05:29,290 [people chanting] Hanno! Hanno! Hanno! 1567 02:05:48,381 --> 02:05:50,550 [all booing] 1568 02:06:22,115 --> 02:06:23,983 [all shouting] 1569 02:06:32,692 --> 02:06:34,461 [grunting] 1570 02:06:34,661 --> 02:06:36,396 Yes! 1571 02:06:40,600 --> 02:06:42,435 Summon the cavalry. Put this down at once. 1572 02:06:43,970 --> 02:06:46,339 This is war! Real war! 1573 02:06:51,344 --> 02:06:54,714 The army of Acacius is advancing just outside of Rome, sir. 1574 02:06:57,350 --> 02:06:58,752 We can still outflank them. 1575 02:06:58,918 --> 02:07:01,221 They have only 5,000 troops, no more. 1576 02:07:02,589 --> 02:07:04,240 How many are we? 1577 02:07:04,190 --> 02:07:05,492 Six thousand. Perhaps more. 1578 02:07:05,692 --> 02:07:07,227 Ride to the gate and hold them. 1579 02:07:07,427 --> 02:07:09,329 [aggressive grunting] 1580 02:07:17,370 --> 02:07:18,805 [cheering] 1581 02:07:32,752 --> 02:07:34,540 [screams] 1582 02:07:34,220 --> 02:07:36,322 [yelps, whimpering] 1583 02:07:42,328 --> 02:07:43,263 [screams] 1584 02:07:43,463 --> 02:07:45,932 [all shouting angrily] 1585 02:07:49,836 --> 02:07:51,171 [screams] 1586 02:07:53,506 --> 02:07:55,241 [arrow whistles][grunts] 1587 02:07:59,790 --> 02:08:00,113 Filthy scum! 1588 02:08:13,993 --> 02:08:15,528 [Lucilla] Lucius! 1589 02:08:17,297 --> 02:08:18,365 Give me the bow. 1590 02:08:21,768 --> 02:08:23,370 [bow creaking] 1591 02:08:27,974 --> 02:08:30,760 [both gasp] 1592 02:08:42,155 --> 02:08:44,591 Go, my son. Lucius-- 1593 02:08:44,791 --> 02:08:45,825 Shh-sh-sh-sh... 1594 02:08:45,992 --> 02:08:47,394 Horse! 1595 02:08:47,560 --> 02:08:49,696 [people shouting, clamoring] 1596 02:08:54,734 --> 02:08:56,803 [yelling furiously] 1597 02:09:09,416 --> 02:09:11,284 [indistinct shouts] 1598 02:09:12,419 --> 02:09:14,254 [feet marching] 1599 02:09:14,421 --> 02:09:16,890 [man shouting cadence] 1600 02:10:20,186 --> 02:10:22,222 Will nothing kill this barbarian? 1601 02:10:22,389 --> 02:10:24,891 My name is Lucius Verus Aurelius! 1602 02:10:25,580 --> 02:10:27,327 [Macrinus] A man does not become emperor by bloodline alone. 1603 02:10:27,494 --> 02:10:30,130 It must be taken by force and kept by force. 1604 02:10:30,330 --> 02:10:32,980 Are you such a man as this? 1605 02:10:32,265 --> 02:10:33,633 [Lucius] I don't fight for power. 1606 02:10:33,800 --> 02:10:36,436 I fight to free Rome from men like you 1607 02:10:36,636 --> 02:10:38,710 and to return it to them. 1608 02:10:38,238 --> 02:10:40,974 The gods themselves want Rome reborn. 1609 02:10:41,141 --> 02:10:44,100 They sent me... to fulfill that task. 1610 02:10:44,210 --> 02:10:47,647 And what if your gods sent me here to kill you? 1611 02:10:47,814 --> 02:10:48,848 Huh? 1612 02:10:50,160 --> 02:10:52,218 It's time to end this, Macrinus! 1613 02:10:52,385 --> 02:10:54,287 [aggressive yell] 1614 02:11:00,293 --> 02:11:02,362 [horses bellowing] 1615 02:11:12,739 --> 02:11:15,375 [both grunting] 1616 02:11:16,976 --> 02:11:18,378 [swords clashing] 1617 02:11:18,545 --> 02:11:20,113 [both yelling] 1618 02:11:28,288 --> 02:11:30,490 Hah![screams] 1619 02:11:31,591 --> 02:11:32,459 [grunts] 1620 02:11:48,608 --> 02:11:50,276 [blade clanging against breastplate] 1621 02:11:57,217 --> 02:12:00,220 [metallic clangs echoing] 1622 02:12:00,420 --> 02:12:01,888 [Lucilla] Strength and honor, 1623 02:12:02,489 --> 02:12:04,240 my son. 1624 02:12:06,359 --> 02:12:07,427 [grunts] 1625 02:12:20,940 --> 02:12:22,175 [yelling] 1626 02:12:24,440 --> 02:12:25,178 [groans in pain] 1627 02:12:52,572 --> 02:12:53,840 [panting] 1628 02:12:54,400 --> 02:12:55,842 [pained groan] 1629 02:13:37,384 --> 02:13:39,119 You look to me to speak. 1630 02:13:41,321 --> 02:13:42,956 I know not what to say other than 1631 02:13:43,123 --> 02:13:45,125 we have all known too much death. 1632 02:13:46,393 --> 02:13:49,863 Let no more blood be spilt in the name of tyranny. 1633 02:13:53,833 --> 02:13:56,302 My grandfather, Marcus Aurelius, 1634 02:13:56,469 --> 02:13:59,272 talked of a dream that would be Rome. 1635 02:14:00,306 --> 02:14:02,208 A dream that my father, 1636 02:14:03,443 --> 02:14:06,179 Maximus Decimus Meridius, 1637 02:14:06,346 --> 02:14:07,881 died for. 1638 02:14:09,115 --> 02:14:10,717 An ideal. 1639 02:14:13,486 --> 02:14:17,757 A city for the many and a refuge for those in need. 1640 02:14:17,924 --> 02:14:20,427 A home worth fighting for. 1641 02:14:21,561 --> 02:14:25,799 A home that Maximus spent his life defending. 1642 02:14:27,901 --> 02:14:29,736 That dream is lost. 1643 02:14:35,675 --> 02:14:37,310 But dare we... 1644 02:14:38,878 --> 02:14:41,481 rebuild that dream together? 1645 02:14:53,393 --> 02:14:55,195 What say you? 1646 02:15:01,534 --> 02:15:03,370 Aye! 1647 02:15:04,537 --> 02:15:05,839 Aye! 1648 02:15:06,606 --> 02:15:07,774 Aye! 1649 02:15:07,941 --> 02:15:12,278 [all] Aye! Aye! Aye! Aye! 1650 02:15:14,614 --> 02:15:17,984 [all chanting] 1651 02:16:16,976 --> 02:16:18,178 Mother. 1652 02:17:10,764 --> 02:17:12,932 Speak to me, Father.