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<i>EDECO: We lived in an age when
the Roman Empire was divided in two.</i>

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<i>One Emperor ruled the West,</i>

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<i>another the East.</i>

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<i>But both sides were weak
and easy prey for an invader,</i>

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<i>because the empire was dying.</i>

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<i>Hordes of barbarian tribes
came swooping in from Asia,</i>

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<i>and of them all,
we, the Huns, were the fiercest.</i>

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<i>United only by our lust for Roman gold
and our leader.</i>

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<i>He was the greatest warrior I ever saw.</i>

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<i>I would fight alongside him,
love him and hate him.</i>

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<i>Brutal and brilliant...</i>

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<i>... he would bring Rome to its knees.</i>

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<i>His name?</i>

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<i>Attila the Hun.</i>

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ZERCON: You've come a long way.

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I expect you're hungry.

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Relax. He only wants you
up in the saddle.

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We negotiate on horseback.

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I think he likes you.

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I am the emissary of Flavius Aetius,

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Supreme General
of the Western Roman Empire,

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travelling as ambassador plenipotentiary
from the court of His Imperial Majesty,

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the Emperor Valentinian, at Ravenna.

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That's easy for you to say.

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On behalf of General Aetius,

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I offer my condolences for
the death of King Rua.

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I carry letters
for the new King of the Huns.

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There's two kings here.

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Myself and my brother Attila.

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- We rule on equal terms.
- And not just the Huns.

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No, we rule the Ostrogoths, the Rugi,
the Heruli, the Sarmatians, the Gepids.

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Not to mention the Scirians.

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Maybe that's why he looks confused.

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ROMULUS: The Emperor wishes
to know Your Majesties' intentions.

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He wants to know if the Western Empire
is safe from the Huns.

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Not so confused as he looks.

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He seeks reassurance
that the West is safe.

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And in earnest of
His Majesty's good intentions,

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he returns to you these tribal leaders,

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who fled into our territory
looking for Roman protection.

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He understands that these Hun fugitives
are your political rivals.

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It's all right. It's all right.
It's all right.

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It's all right. It's all right.

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Hey, hey.

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It's all right.

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BLEDA: Inform the Emperor that

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we are grateful for
the return of the fugitives,

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and that Bleda and Attila
wish to make plain one thing...

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Our business is now in the East!

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The Western Empire has nothing to fear.

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<i>EDECO: My lords were true to their word.</i>

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<i>We ignored the West
and headed across the Danube</i>

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<i>into the Eastern Roman Empire.</i>

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<i>Our aim was simple,
to grab as much gold as we could.</i>

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<i>And for months we looted
Roman settlements almost unopposed,</i>

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<i>as half their army was away,
trying to win back Carthage, in Africa.</i>

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<i>But then we came to
the garrisoned fortress of Naissus.</i>

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<i>No barbarian, not even the Huns,
had ever taken a city so well defended.</i>

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Siege towers. It's what the Romans use.

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Could we do this?

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What do you mean, "Could we do this?"
We're surrounded by wood.

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I'll need good men to lead the assault.

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- Meaning?
- Meaning, you and the Scirians.

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If we succeed,
I'll make it worth your while.

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And if we fail?

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If we fail, Edeco, then you can kill me.

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Imagine the shock
when the news reaches the Emperor.

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We take Naissus?

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The Emperor will be so terrified,
he'll bury us in gold.

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BLEDA: You'd better be right.

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Wait!

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Wait!

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Get them off the wall! Clear the wall!

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Loose!

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The moment they clear the wall,
bring out the ram.

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Catapult! Catapult! Catapult!

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Wait!

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Go! Go! Go!

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Idiots, they'll all be killed.

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Come on! Come on! Come on!

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Again!

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One more and we're through.

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BLEDA: Here you go, boys!

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A wee present from
the people of Naissus.

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Come on, boys!

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<i>EDECO: Just as Attila had predicted,</i>

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<i>the sacking of Naissus
was like an earthquake</i>

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<i>through the Eastern Roman Empire.</i>

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<i>If we now had siege towers,
then no city was safe.</i>

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<i>The Emperor was forced to make an offer
just to get rid of us.</i>

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I am ambassador plenipotentiary

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from the court of
His Supreme Highness, Theodosius,

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ruler of the Eastern Roman Empire.

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- I carry...
- I can see.

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His Majesty offers terms
for a lasting treaty.

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You're still harbouring Hun traitors,
people I want returned.

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We're open to discussion.

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We also offer a doubling
of our annual tribute

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to 1,400 pounds of gold.

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In exchange for what?

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An assurance that
the Eastern Empire is safe,

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and that your army
withdraws across the Danube.

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1,400 pounds?

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- You're serious?
- Serious?

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You think that's serious?

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You don't want to see
1,400 pounds of gold?

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I want to see an inch of skin
stripped off his stinking carcass

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for every one of my dead men.

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My Lord Edeco
offers his own terms.

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We speak for the Huns.

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Do nothing till I return.

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How did it go again?

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"Take Naissus,
and I'll make it worth your while."

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- I'm keeping that promise.
- No, you're not.

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Where was Bleda
when my men were getting killed?

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And now the fool is
going to sell us short.

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You're forgetting one of kingship's
golden rules, "A king must deliver".

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Is that all we're worth to you?

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1,400 pounds of gold?

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Well, it's not enough.

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And you call yourself a king.

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Is that a problem?

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It's not enough.

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Where are you going?

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Where are the Romans?

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Their army is already
on its way back from Carthage.

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- We've been living on borrowed time.
- You struck a deal?

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I told you to wait.

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Wait for what?

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We've got 1,400 pounds of Roman gold.
Now, let's go home!

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You not drinking?

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You've been doing
nothing else for months.

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This is my wife.

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Put her down!

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Would you like to see something better?

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- Yes.
- No.

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My lords, I give you the tale
of the two divided tables.

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A tragic epic of divided opinion between
two brothers who, while close,

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could never want the same thing.

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They struggled with one another,

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pulling their people every which way.

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His Majesty's not laughing.

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Because, unlike my brother,
I don't find you funny.

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My noble lord Bleda finds me funny.

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But the other king,
my lord Attila, does not.

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How is a poor Hun puppet to know
who to please?

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You're right. There's a problem.

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What?

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Wasn't there a problem?

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I thought you wanted riches.

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Our business in the East isn't over.

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We're going to finish what we started.

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By order of Attila, King of the Huns.

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<i>EDECO: For some reason,
he showed mercy to the dwarf.</i>

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<i>He wasn't skewered on a stick.</i>

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<i>He wasn't even killed,
just banished forever.</i>

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<i>Then we headed back East.
The pressure was now on Attila.</i>

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<i>He had justified
the murder of his brother</i>

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<i>by promising even greater riches.</i>

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<i>Now he had to deliver.</i>

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<i>His plan was to terrorise
the Emperor into doubling his offer</i>

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<i>of 1,400 pounds of gold.</i>

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<i>Unfortunately, this time,
we ran into their entire army.</i>

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ATTILA: How many do you see?
EDECO: I lost count after 20 legions.

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That's got to be 30,000 men.

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The army must have
come back from Carthage.

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We can't do this, it'd be suicide.

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So, shut up while I try
and work something out!

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We have to fire from the saddle,
hit him while we're out of range.

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Soften him up,
only then go in for the kill.

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The trick will be to play hit and run.

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Get too close, too soon, and we're dead.

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- I'll need your...
- Men.

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I can't do this without you.

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On the grounds that
I must be getting used to it?

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On the grounds that
this is going to be hard.

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EDECO: We won!

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It worked. We won. It was easy.

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You think that was easy?
You think it's easy?

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You have no idea, have you?

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Grinning your stupid head off.

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Of course we won, because if we hadn't,

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you'd be crawling back to whatever
farmyard hovel your mother came from

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and I'd be having my throat slit
by my own men.

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You know what all of this is, Edeco?

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It's an act.

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We're a travelling circus, not an army.

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Why do you think
my brother kept a dwarf?

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It's not easy. It's planned!

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I like you, Edeco.

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I like you, Edeco. I really like you.

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Get yourself cleaned up.

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I want someone to
give the Emperor his bill.

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Get yourself to Constantinople.

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<i>EDECO: Sending me to Constantinople
wasn't a reward, it was a test.</i>

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<i>Come back with more gold, or else.</i>

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So, now I'm hiding in a closet
like a slave in a third-rate comedy.

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Your Majesty, observing our friend
may be more useful than you think.

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He may have beaten us
on the battlefield,

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but he can barely keep
his paws off our trinkets.

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Strip away the swagger,
this man's a common thief.

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And like all thieves,

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he can be bought.

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His Imperial Highness...

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... is pleased to give you audience.

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"Is pleased," my arse.

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Resisting my lord Attila's army at Utus
took some courage.

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In recognition of which,

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you have a demand for
an increase in the tribute.

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We believe you owe us
6,000 pounds of gold.

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Is there anything else?

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You're harbouring fugitives
from my lord Attila's justice.

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He wants them back.

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And he won't waste time
yakking with Roman slaves.

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He'll negotiate with
those of the highest rank only.

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We will consider it.

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Well,

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that takes care of the introductions.

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I understand that you're a Scirian,

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and that you bore the brunt
of the fighting at Naissus.

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6,000 pounds of gold
divided by, say, 20,000?

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Let me see, that works out

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at less than five and a half ounces
per dead Scirian.

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We pay more for our household slaves.

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Your loyalty to Attila
must be very great indeed.

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Perhaps you're like a brother to him?

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Oh, what am I saying?

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What are you saying?

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That if gold's at issue here,
there may be an easier way.

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All you'd have to do is kill Attila.

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What about when he's out riding?

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Could someone get to him?

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Only if you want to
fight through his bodyguards.

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Could his bodyguards be bribed?
Twenty pounds of gold, split evenly.

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They'd laugh in your face,
and then they'd kill you.

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All right, 40, 50...

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I really don't care,
as long as they'll look the other way.

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- Long enough for what?
- A man to reach Attila with a knife.

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Come on, there must be somewhere.

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You could try his northern palace.
He relaxes there, feels safe.

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Meaning, you could get in close?

242
00:28:09,682 --> 00:28:13,118
Did I say that? I can get you in close,

243
00:28:13,242 --> 00:28:15,073
but I'm not the one
who's going to murder him.

244
00:28:15,202 --> 00:28:17,557
- I thought you said...
- No.

245
00:28:17,682 --> 00:28:20,037
You're looking for
someone prepared to kill him?

246
00:28:20,162 --> 00:28:22,153
Good luck.

247
00:28:23,602 --> 00:28:25,911
- The deal's off.
- I'll do it.

248
00:28:29,402 --> 00:28:30,801
I'll do it.

249
00:28:36,562 --> 00:28:38,996
<i>EDECO: And so, the plan was hatched.</i>

250
00:28:39,522 --> 00:28:43,879
<i>Only myself and my accomplice, Vigilas,
would know the true reason for our trip.</i>

251
00:28:45,482 --> 00:28:47,950
<i>We headed back to Attila
with a train of tribal leaders</i>

252
00:28:48,082 --> 00:28:50,516
<i>who had fled east,
looking for protection.</i>

253
00:28:50,642 --> 00:28:54,157
<i>Everyone else, including
the Roman ambassador who accompanied us,</i>

254
00:28:54,282 --> 00:28:56,193
<i>was unaware of the plan.</i>

255
00:28:57,442 --> 00:29:01,640
<i>We'd only send for the gold to bribe
the guards when we knew it was safe.</i>

256
00:29:12,067 --> 00:29:13,785
- BOY: Attila!
- Ah!

257
00:29:15,547 --> 00:29:19,256
There's a party of Romans back there
and they're bringing fugitives.

258
00:29:36,347 --> 00:29:38,383
Have you brought the gold?

259
00:29:48,267 --> 00:29:51,703
He'll have a banquet tonight.
He'll let his guard down.

260
00:29:54,707 --> 00:29:57,938
The first time he gets up to leave,
make your move.

261
00:30:56,427 --> 00:30:58,383
What are you doing here?

262
00:30:59,907 --> 00:31:01,977
I've come back for my wife.

263
00:31:02,507 --> 00:31:04,498
EDECO: He's been waiting for you,

264
00:31:04,627 --> 00:31:06,822
and he's walked hundreds of miles
to get here.

265
00:31:09,267 --> 00:31:15,183
That's funny. That's funny.
I said he was funny!

266
00:31:33,787 --> 00:31:37,382
You should drink something, Vigilas.
It gets better.

267
00:31:47,627 --> 00:31:49,265
Where's the dwarf?

268
00:31:57,987 --> 00:32:02,856
ATTILA: You were telling me you came
all the way from Italy to see your wife?

269
00:32:02,987 --> 00:32:04,466
I'm moved.

270
00:32:05,667 --> 00:32:08,261
You clearly love her very much.

271
00:32:16,626 --> 00:32:20,175
If I see you
in my lands ever again, I will kill you.

272
00:33:14,106 --> 00:33:17,098
Strike up, Vigilas.

273
00:33:17,226 --> 00:33:20,502
If you were a soldier,
you would know when you strike down,

274
00:33:20,626 --> 00:33:23,379
the man you're trying to kill
would block.

275
00:33:45,866 --> 00:33:47,538
Who am I?

276
00:33:48,426 --> 00:33:49,700
Who am I!

277
00:33:49,826 --> 00:33:51,976
Attila. Attila. Attila.

278
00:33:58,186 --> 00:34:02,225
Am I frightening? Am I frightening!

279
00:34:06,826 --> 00:34:09,784
Did you really think
that you could kill me?

280
00:34:11,146 --> 00:34:13,785
I am Attila!

281
00:34:13,906 --> 00:34:16,181
And you... Look at you.

282
00:34:19,706 --> 00:34:21,059
Look at me.

283
00:34:25,066 --> 00:34:27,102
It's all right. It's all right.

284
00:34:41,106 --> 00:34:44,781
I'm glad this has happened.
No, I really am.

285
00:34:47,306 --> 00:34:50,423
Your Emperor's finally shown
what he really is -

286
00:34:50,546 --> 00:34:54,619
my slave, skulking around with a dagger,
trying to stab his master.

287
00:34:56,546 --> 00:35:02,416
I'm finished with the East,
because the East is finished.

288
00:35:05,786 --> 00:35:07,060
It's over.

289
00:35:18,746 --> 00:35:20,179
<i>EDECO: I had told Attila about the plot</i>

290
00:35:20,306 --> 00:35:23,537
<i>the moment I returned
from Constantinople.</i>

291
00:35:23,666 --> 00:35:25,736
<i>Now, as far as he was concerned,</i>

292
00:35:25,866 --> 00:35:28,300
<i>he'd got all he could
from the Eastern Empire.</i>

293
00:35:28,426 --> 00:35:31,338
<i>He had humiliated the Emperor
and bled him dry.</i>

294
00:35:36,306 --> 00:35:38,581
<i>But if Attila wanted to
continue being the King</i>

295
00:35:38,706 --> 00:35:41,266
<i>who always delivered for the Huns,</i>

296
00:35:41,386 --> 00:35:45,155
<i>he now had no choice
but to look elsewhere for gold.</i>

297
00:35:45,345 --> 00:35:47,222
We're going to go West!

298
00:35:49,545 --> 00:35:52,343
You remember the Western Roman Empire?

299
00:35:52,465 --> 00:35:56,219
And don't worry, we're not going to
bump into the Roman army.

300
00:35:57,465 --> 00:36:00,821
Instead of making for Italy,
we'll head north,

301
00:36:00,945 --> 00:36:04,858
pick off those Northern tribes,
like the Franks and the Alans,

302
00:36:04,985 --> 00:36:08,739
those collaborators with Rome.
They are stagnant with gold.

303
00:36:11,065 --> 00:36:13,499
Food and rations for three months.

304
00:36:16,345 --> 00:36:17,539
We'll take Metz!

305
00:36:18,785 --> 00:36:20,741
We'll take Trier!

306
00:36:20,865 --> 00:36:24,983
And press on to Orléans!

307
00:36:25,105 --> 00:36:28,814
HUNS: Attila! Attila! Attila!

308
00:36:30,345 --> 00:36:31,824
Any questions?

309
00:36:36,825 --> 00:36:40,898
<i>EDECO: Attila was proposing the biggest
smash-and-grab raid in Hun history.</i>

310
00:36:41,025 --> 00:36:46,338
<i>We were to travel further, for longer
than ever before, with 35,000 men.</i>

311
00:36:51,945 --> 00:36:54,937
<i>And it wasn't long before
this news reached Ravenna,</i>

312
00:36:55,065 --> 00:36:58,501
<i>home of the one good soldier
in the Western Roman Empire,</i>

313
00:36:58,625 --> 00:37:01,139
<i>General Flavius Aetius.</i>

314
00:37:01,265 --> 00:37:03,984
<i>Ten years earlier,
he'd been our hostage.</i>

315
00:37:05,265 --> 00:37:08,223
<i>He knew us and our methods well.</i>

316
00:37:11,905 --> 00:37:15,420
Sir, I thought you'd want to
know right away.

317
00:37:15,545 --> 00:37:17,740
The Huns are invading.

318
00:37:19,545 --> 00:37:21,183
Call my senior staff together.

319
00:37:26,225 --> 00:37:29,820
<i>EDECO: For two months, Attila rampaged
across the Western Empire.</i>

320
00:37:29,945 --> 00:37:31,697
<i>In the end,
some cities were so frightened,</i>

321
00:37:31,825 --> 00:37:34,293
<i>they just opened their gates
and let us in,</i>

322
00:37:34,425 --> 00:37:36,893
<i>hoping to spare themselves suffering.</i>

323
00:37:37,025 --> 00:37:39,095
<i>They were wrong, of course.</i>

324
00:37:44,025 --> 00:37:45,936
They didn't even put up a fight.

325
00:37:47,258 --> 00:37:49,455
More of this,
and I'll get bored.

326
00:37:51,506 --> 00:37:54,339
Take this message
to the Emperor in Ravenna.

327
00:37:55,106 --> 00:37:58,223
We outnumber Aetius' army
by three-to-one.

328
00:37:58,346 --> 00:38:01,656
When the Emperor gets that message,
he'll be so terrified,

329
00:38:01,786 --> 00:38:04,858
Aetius won't be going anywhere.

330
00:38:04,986 --> 00:38:08,103
Fear, Edeco. Fear.

331
00:38:11,306 --> 00:38:13,661
<i>ATTILA: It works like witchcraft.</i>

332
00:38:25,726 --> 00:38:27,842
That's for the Emperor.

333
00:38:31,766 --> 00:38:34,838
"Get the palace ready. I'm coming."

334
00:38:36,886 --> 00:38:38,524
This is a trick.

335
00:38:38,766 --> 00:38:41,917
He wants us to dig ourselves in,
think he's unbeatable.

336
00:38:42,046 --> 00:38:44,765
But no single army in the world
can face him.

337
00:38:44,886 --> 00:38:49,596
That's true, Romulus, true.
But that strength is also his weakness.

338
00:38:49,726 --> 00:38:52,798
Attila's made more enemies than friends.

339
00:38:53,766 --> 00:38:56,838
All those tribes sick of being raided.

340
00:39:01,006 --> 00:39:02,997
We don't have to be a single army.

341
00:39:04,486 --> 00:39:07,637
<i>Send messages to the Franks
and the Burgundians,</i>

342
00:39:07,766 --> 00:39:11,759
<i>the Saxons, the Alans,
even the Visigoths.</i>

343
00:39:11,886 --> 00:39:14,958
<i>All those tribes
Attila's abused over the years.</i>

344
00:39:49,624 --> 00:39:51,979
EDECO: How long have we been here?

345
00:39:52,104 --> 00:39:55,255
- We're going to starve them out.
- Starve them out?

346
00:39:56,384 --> 00:39:59,182
We are the ones who are starving.
There's no food left.

347
00:39:59,304 --> 00:40:03,138
People are deserting.
We need to turn back while we still can.

348
00:40:04,584 --> 00:40:06,302
SOLDIER: Over there!

349
00:40:14,304 --> 00:40:16,454
It's Aetius.

350
00:40:16,584 --> 00:40:19,337
ATTILA: Those aren't just Roman legions.

351
00:40:19,464 --> 00:40:21,056
I'll get the men ready.

352
00:40:21,184 --> 00:40:24,733
We can't fight a battle
spread out like this.

353
00:40:24,864 --> 00:40:27,424
We need to regroup.

354
00:40:27,544 --> 00:40:30,934
- Order the withdrawal to Troyes.
- Come on! Move, move!

355
00:40:47,219 --> 00:40:52,977
We're going to intercept him
at the Catalonian fields.

356
00:40:55,019 --> 00:40:57,135
There's a ridge there.

357
00:40:58,379 --> 00:41:01,849
Whoever occupies that ridge
controls the battlefield.

358
00:41:01,979 --> 00:41:04,812
I know how Attila thinks.

359
00:41:04,939 --> 00:41:07,658
Everything he does relies on speed.

360
00:41:07,779 --> 00:41:10,247
We're going to use that against him.

361
00:41:10,379 --> 00:41:15,055
We're going to march through the night.
We're going to beat him to that ridge.

362
00:41:44,819 --> 00:41:47,208
Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!

363
00:41:48,699 --> 00:41:51,497
- What's wrong?
- Aetius, he's on the move!

364
00:42:01,859 --> 00:42:05,613
ATTILA: Aetius is nobody's fool.
I know what he's up to.

365
00:42:09,339 --> 00:42:13,343
I don't care what it takes, you have to
get your men on that ridge first.

366
00:42:14,179 --> 00:42:16,010
Look! Over there!

367
00:42:18,139 --> 00:42:21,575
- Go now.
- Scirians, on me!

368
00:42:36,859 --> 00:42:38,053
Come on!

369
00:42:54,659 --> 00:42:56,138
Take the ridge!

370
00:43:16,579 --> 00:43:17,773
Come on.

371
00:43:21,139 --> 00:43:23,175
Come on, come on, come on, come on.

372
00:43:37,019 --> 00:43:41,092
We're all going to die here.
Retreat! Retreat!

373
00:43:51,419 --> 00:43:56,129
We can't do it. There's no way up.

374
00:43:56,259 --> 00:43:58,773
We tried. They cut us to pieces.

375
00:44:22,579 --> 00:44:27,573
On the crest of that ridge
lies our greatest ever victory!

376
00:44:28,459 --> 00:44:34,136
You can sit here, waiting to die,
while I throw the first spear,

377
00:44:34,259 --> 00:44:37,456
or you can share that victory with me!

378
00:45:29,299 --> 00:45:30,527
Come on!

379
00:45:44,299 --> 00:45:45,937
Aetius!

380
00:45:52,539 --> 00:45:54,450
Aetius!

381
00:46:57,099 --> 00:46:58,771
Retreat!

382
00:47:00,739 --> 00:47:02,536
Retreat!

383
00:47:06,499 --> 00:47:10,014
Retreat!

384
00:47:16,619 --> 00:47:19,338
I want lookouts on the perimeters!

385
00:47:19,459 --> 00:47:22,417
Load the gold and the wounded
into the carts!

386
00:47:38,059 --> 00:47:39,492
You're alive.

387
00:47:45,179 --> 00:47:47,977
Build my funeral pyre.

388
00:47:48,099 --> 00:47:52,297
- We've got to go.
- Build it! Build it!

389
00:47:54,019 --> 00:47:55,338
Let me die.

390
00:47:57,459 --> 00:47:59,495
Build my funeral pyre!

391
00:48:01,499 --> 00:48:03,330
Build my funeral pyre!

392
00:48:15,579 --> 00:48:16,728
No.

393
00:48:16,859 --> 00:48:18,656
No, no!

394
00:48:21,099 --> 00:48:22,168
No.

395
00:48:24,779 --> 00:48:28,328
EDECO: It's over. It's over, it's over.

396
00:48:29,659 --> 00:48:32,810
Load him up! Get him out of here!

397
00:48:32,939 --> 00:48:34,611
ATTILA: No!

398
00:48:43,539 --> 00:48:47,293
<i>EDECO: My lord Attila didn't die
at the Catalonian fields,</i>

399
00:48:48,779 --> 00:48:50,929
<i>but he may as well have done.</i>

400
00:48:51,059 --> 00:48:54,176
<i>The myth of his invincibility
had been shattered.</i>

401
00:48:55,219 --> 00:48:59,451
<i>The following year, he invaded Italy,
looking for revenge.</i>

402
00:48:59,579 --> 00:49:03,288
<i>But again, after initial success,
was driven back by Aetius.</i>

403
00:49:06,979 --> 00:49:10,369
<i>Two years later,
Attila died on his wedding night.</i>

404
00:49:13,899 --> 00:49:17,653
<i>I, Edeco, became king
of an independent Sciri.</i>

405
00:49:17,779 --> 00:49:20,452
<i>Without Attila,
the Hun empire collapsed.</i>

406
00:49:20,579 --> 00:49:24,254
<i>No one else could hold
the different tribes together.</i>

407
00:49:24,379 --> 00:49:27,291
<i>But even though his empire
was short-lived,</i>

408
00:49:27,419 --> 00:49:30,377
<i>Attila achieved something far greater,</i>

409
00:49:30,659 --> 00:49:32,331
<i>immortality.</i>

410
00:49:33,179 --> 00:49:37,457
<i>After all, who has not heard of the name</i>

411
00:49:37,579 --> 00:49:39,456
<i>"Attila the Hun?"</i>