1 00:00:20,771 --> 00:00:21,814 Ursus! 2 00:00:22,523 --> 00:00:23,441 Ursus! 3 00:00:55,431 --> 00:00:56,474 What! 4 00:00:56,891 --> 00:00:58,058 What have you done? 5 00:00:58,142 --> 00:00:59,518 You little fuckers! 6 00:01:06,859 --> 00:01:07,902 Open up! 7 00:01:09,528 --> 00:01:11,363 Please, come on! Help! 8 00:01:11,447 --> 00:01:13,491 Don't do this today! 9 00:01:13,824 --> 00:01:16,327 Hey! Hey! 10 00:01:16,952 --> 00:01:18,370 Hey! 11 00:01:27,755 --> 00:01:28,839 Ursus! 12 00:01:31,425 --> 00:01:32,510 Ursus! 13 00:02:08,712 --> 00:02:10,214 I'll open up. 14 00:02:12,049 --> 00:02:13,801 We need more slates. 15 00:02:17,179 --> 00:02:19,682 And another clerk to handle the swing bets. 16 00:02:22,601 --> 00:02:24,436 - Did you hear me? - Yes. 17 00:02:55,426 --> 00:02:57,052 This was left at the door. 18 00:02:57,386 --> 00:02:59,889 - Read it to me. - It might be personal, I... 19 00:02:59,972 --> 00:03:00,890 Just... 20 00:03:02,308 --> 00:03:03,183 Do it. 21 00:03:06,395 --> 00:03:07,771 Don't be ashamed. 22 00:03:08,355 --> 00:03:11,650 My people had no written language for a thousand years. 23 00:03:12,109 --> 00:03:13,110 Our past is silent. 24 00:03:13,652 --> 00:03:14,862 I'm not ashamed. 25 00:03:16,864 --> 00:03:17,948 Just read it. 26 00:03:27,207 --> 00:03:28,334 Out loud! 27 00:03:30,252 --> 00:03:31,253 To me. 28 00:03:33,589 --> 00:03:34,673 "All of your winnings, 29 00:03:35,132 --> 00:03:36,926 at the end of each race day, 30 00:03:37,009 --> 00:03:40,220 put in the corner room, second floor, in your insula at Cispian Hill." 31 00:03:40,304 --> 00:03:43,140 "It's the price of my silence..." 32 00:03:49,772 --> 00:03:51,023 No one learns of this. 33 00:05:42,259 --> 00:05:43,302 The one 34 00:05:43,385 --> 00:05:44,928 who bet the little gold horse. 35 00:05:45,220 --> 00:05:47,306 Big, with the burn scars on his face... 36 00:05:48,307 --> 00:05:49,141 Find him. 37 00:05:49,224 --> 00:05:52,269 - We've been keeping our eyes... - I said find him, now! 38 00:05:52,644 --> 00:05:54,897 Look in every betting tavern, 39 00:05:54,980 --> 00:05:58,317 every brothel, every gutter, every shithole. 40 00:05:58,776 --> 00:05:59,818 Find him! 41 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:01,737 You wait for me out there. 42 00:06:05,616 --> 00:06:06,617 Eat. 43 00:06:08,952 --> 00:06:09,787 Hey! 44 00:06:10,329 --> 00:06:12,289 You're the best out of this lot. 45 00:06:12,664 --> 00:06:14,208 I've got something for you to do. 46 00:06:14,583 --> 00:06:17,961 There's an apartment on Cispian Hill, second floor, corner room. 47 00:06:18,212 --> 00:06:19,046 I know it. 48 00:06:19,546 --> 00:06:22,549 Go there, take a look around, see what you can see. 49 00:06:22,633 --> 00:06:24,343 Who's watching. Be... 50 00:06:24,426 --> 00:06:25,427 invisible. 51 00:06:26,345 --> 00:06:28,055 Hey. Eat first. 52 00:06:32,226 --> 00:06:33,644 The Subura first, 53 00:06:33,852 --> 00:06:35,896 I've some ideas where he might be hiding. 54 00:06:42,152 --> 00:06:44,530 Sister, I got this for you. 55 00:06:45,072 --> 00:06:46,240 Thank you. 56 00:06:50,994 --> 00:06:51,829 Tenax. 57 00:06:52,371 --> 00:06:53,205 I found him. 58 00:06:53,539 --> 00:06:54,873 The big scarred man. 59 00:06:55,082 --> 00:06:56,083 This way! 60 00:07:02,297 --> 00:07:03,465 Hey! 61 00:07:03,882 --> 00:07:05,050 Shhh. 62 00:07:16,061 --> 00:07:17,271 Welcome... 63 00:07:43,297 --> 00:07:44,256 Please, please! 64 00:07:44,923 --> 00:07:46,466 Don't kill me. Don't kill me! 65 00:07:47,050 --> 00:07:48,010 Keep looking. 66 00:08:51,448 --> 00:08:52,574 Come on! 67 00:08:57,371 --> 00:08:58,956 Xenon! 68 00:09:02,501 --> 00:09:03,710 Not Scorpus! 69 00:09:16,682 --> 00:09:17,766 Come on! 70 00:09:17,849 --> 00:09:18,892 Come on! 71 00:09:27,943 --> 00:09:28,819 Yes! 72 00:09:33,657 --> 00:09:34,783 Xenon! 73 00:09:35,575 --> 00:09:36,660 Yes! 74 00:09:48,338 --> 00:09:49,548 Yes! 75 00:09:49,881 --> 00:09:51,717 - God! - Yes! 76 00:10:01,351 --> 00:10:03,270 It seems Xenon is earning his salary. 77 00:10:03,353 --> 00:10:05,147 He most certainly is. 78 00:10:06,940 --> 00:10:08,317 Thank you! Thank you all. 79 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:10,652 A victory both noble and deserved. 80 00:10:11,570 --> 00:10:13,530 Thank you. Thank you. 81 00:10:20,912 --> 00:10:22,080 Congratulations. 82 00:10:22,706 --> 00:10:23,874 Shut your mouth. 83 00:10:23,957 --> 00:10:25,876 Oh come on! Third place! 84 00:10:26,126 --> 00:10:29,463 That's much better than one would expect with those old nags. 85 00:10:30,672 --> 00:10:32,424 Can't really say I miss them. 86 00:10:37,971 --> 00:10:39,806 Didn't go so well for you today. 87 00:10:42,809 --> 00:10:43,935 Piss off. 88 00:10:44,394 --> 00:10:45,729 Why are you angry with me? 89 00:10:46,229 --> 00:10:48,357 I'm not angry that you signed for the White. 90 00:10:49,649 --> 00:10:50,609 I'm hurt... 91 00:10:51,276 --> 00:10:52,527 Hurt you didn't trust me. 92 00:10:56,073 --> 00:10:58,241 Something has happened. You need to come! 93 00:11:38,323 --> 00:11:39,574 Nica... 94 00:11:42,035 --> 00:11:45,330 Come... Come... Nica... 95 00:11:46,498 --> 00:11:47,749 I'm sorry. 96 00:11:53,630 --> 00:11:54,881 Scorpus... 97 00:11:55,590 --> 00:11:56,842 comes in third. 98 00:12:03,515 --> 00:12:05,475 Scorpus, fucking third! 99 00:12:11,356 --> 00:12:12,983 Fucking third! 100 00:12:15,902 --> 00:12:17,028 Fucking... 101 00:12:52,355 --> 00:12:55,108 Sleep safe. One eye open. 102 00:13:01,072 --> 00:13:02,532 I never knew my mother. 103 00:13:03,533 --> 00:13:04,409 Felix... 104 00:13:04,951 --> 00:13:07,078 he remembered her before she got sick. 105 00:13:07,829 --> 00:13:09,206 He said she was really pretty. 106 00:13:10,248 --> 00:13:11,416 Like you... 107 00:13:13,793 --> 00:13:15,003 Your mother... 108 00:13:17,380 --> 00:13:19,633 she's up there in the clouds. 109 00:13:20,509 --> 00:13:21,843 Watching you. 110 00:13:25,889 --> 00:13:27,265 I sent him there. 111 00:13:28,808 --> 00:13:30,101 I should've known. 112 00:13:48,119 --> 00:13:49,329 Are you sure about this? 113 00:13:52,874 --> 00:13:54,167 He killed a child. 114 00:13:57,963 --> 00:13:58,838 Hurry up. 115 00:14:01,007 --> 00:14:02,092 Come. 116 00:14:02,676 --> 00:14:03,552 Hey. 117 00:14:14,646 --> 00:14:15,855 That's all of it. 118 00:14:17,482 --> 00:14:18,358 Listen to me. 119 00:14:20,485 --> 00:14:23,488 Two of you watch this place, at all times. 120 00:14:24,239 --> 00:14:25,740 Hide better than Felix did. 121 00:14:26,324 --> 00:14:27,826 You saw what happened to him. 122 00:14:29,369 --> 00:14:31,454 If the big scarred man comes, 123 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,292 one of you follows him and the other one comes to find me. 124 00:14:36,751 --> 00:14:37,711 Be... 125 00:14:38,461 --> 00:14:39,296 very... 126 00:14:40,171 --> 00:14:41,172 careful. 127 00:15:00,525 --> 00:15:02,235 A praying Tenax? 128 00:15:02,902 --> 00:15:04,195 I'm a gambling man. 129 00:15:04,779 --> 00:15:06,281 I'll try anything once. 130 00:15:08,575 --> 00:15:09,534 Why are you up? 131 00:15:10,619 --> 00:15:11,870 I couldn't sleep. 132 00:15:37,979 --> 00:15:40,398 Felix was me, twenty years ago. 133 00:15:42,233 --> 00:15:44,611 I lived in the underbelly, near the stables. 134 00:15:46,404 --> 00:15:47,238 A stray? 135 00:15:49,658 --> 00:15:52,202 I always liked horses. So, when I got to Rome, 136 00:15:52,285 --> 00:15:53,745 it felt like the place to go. 137 00:15:55,538 --> 00:15:56,790 Near the stables. 138 00:15:58,416 --> 00:16:00,460 We slept in a big pile, 139 00:16:00,543 --> 00:16:04,464 thirty, or forty of us, for warmth and for safety... 140 00:16:07,384 --> 00:16:09,010 as if there was such a thing. 141 00:16:11,137 --> 00:16:13,473 But you crawled your way out of it. 142 00:16:18,561 --> 00:16:19,938 I scavenged... 143 00:16:20,647 --> 00:16:22,565 one bit of food at a time. 144 00:16:23,650 --> 00:16:25,193 One ugly errand, 145 00:16:25,527 --> 00:16:29,572 one beating taken, one beating given, one knife to the ribs, 146 00:16:29,656 --> 00:16:32,701 one fixed race, one apartment bought, 147 00:16:33,284 --> 00:16:35,912 one step at a time. 148 00:16:42,627 --> 00:16:44,587 Rise or die. 149 00:16:46,715 --> 00:16:47,966 The Roman way. 150 00:16:53,763 --> 00:16:55,223 And before Rome? 151 00:16:57,726 --> 00:16:58,977 What does he know, 152 00:16:59,352 --> 00:17:01,479 this one who demands the money? 153 00:17:09,446 --> 00:17:11,990 Something to do with this, I'll wager. 154 00:17:15,243 --> 00:17:16,161 Healed well. 155 00:17:16,494 --> 00:17:18,788 If there is such a thing. 156 00:17:29,632 --> 00:17:30,717 Sleep. 157 00:17:51,571 --> 00:17:52,947 Are we racing, Xenon? 158 00:17:53,031 --> 00:17:54,407 There is no race today! 159 00:17:59,496 --> 00:18:00,914 You never have any fun? 160 00:18:01,539 --> 00:18:02,791 And end up like you? 161 00:18:05,335 --> 00:18:06,961 Doesn't seem like fun to me. 162 00:18:08,922 --> 00:18:09,881 Well... 163 00:18:10,715 --> 00:18:11,758 it is. 164 00:18:19,474 --> 00:18:21,267 That's a big trunk for a small boy. 165 00:18:21,643 --> 00:18:23,520 Running off to join the legions, are we? 166 00:18:24,062 --> 00:18:26,439 Mother says we're moving into a big house. 167 00:18:27,106 --> 00:18:28,775 I'm going to have my own room. 168 00:18:28,858 --> 00:18:31,236 Then let me help you with that, your eminence. 169 00:18:38,618 --> 00:18:39,619 Saddle up. 170 00:18:52,215 --> 00:18:53,132 Fonsoa... 171 00:18:53,550 --> 00:18:55,510 I see my son has put you to work. 172 00:18:56,052 --> 00:18:57,846 Big man, I need your help. 173 00:18:57,929 --> 00:18:58,847 Oh yes. 174 00:19:01,224 --> 00:19:02,517 So, where to? 175 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:03,768 The Esquiline. 176 00:19:03,852 --> 00:19:06,229 It's a big house, with a cistern and a garden. 177 00:19:07,063 --> 00:19:09,232 It's just the home of a friend of my mother. 178 00:19:09,315 --> 00:19:11,442 Just knowing that you are where you belong. 179 00:19:12,610 --> 00:19:14,571 And have you found where you belong? 180 00:19:15,613 --> 00:19:18,074 Isn't your beautiful Baetica calling to you? 181 00:19:19,284 --> 00:19:20,118 It was. 182 00:19:23,580 --> 00:19:26,624 Well, I thank you for making this place bearable for him. 183 00:19:27,584 --> 00:19:29,377 I had practice with my little brother. 184 00:19:29,627 --> 00:19:31,254 My mother died giving birth. 185 00:19:31,504 --> 00:19:33,882 And our older brother was always off with horses. 186 00:19:34,215 --> 00:19:35,341 So it fell to me. 187 00:19:37,468 --> 00:19:39,679 There were tough times, even in paradise. 188 00:19:42,599 --> 00:19:43,725 Fonsoa. 189 00:19:45,184 --> 00:19:47,020 Did you forget about me? 190 00:19:51,900 --> 00:19:53,026 We should be going now. 191 00:19:53,109 --> 00:19:55,653 - Let me help. - No please, you've done enough already. 192 00:19:55,737 --> 00:19:56,696 Please. 193 00:20:01,701 --> 00:20:03,578 - Jump on. - Oh. 194 00:20:06,289 --> 00:20:07,540 - Ready? - Yes. 195 00:20:22,972 --> 00:20:25,266 Are you going to tell me what's on your mind? 196 00:20:26,017 --> 00:20:28,645 You are telling everybody that I will be returning home. 197 00:20:28,895 --> 00:20:32,815 Yes, once we've earned enough for your passage to Leptis Magna. 198 00:20:32,899 --> 00:20:34,484 Wouldn't it be better if I waited? 199 00:20:35,735 --> 00:20:38,237 - We could return as a family. - No. 200 00:20:38,947 --> 00:20:42,533 Only the gods can say how long it will take to free your brother and sister. 201 00:20:42,617 --> 00:20:45,536 And I need you to run to trading post in my absence. 202 00:20:45,620 --> 00:20:46,829 Seeno can do that! 203 00:20:47,372 --> 00:20:48,665 Oh, you'd rather stay here, 204 00:20:48,748 --> 00:20:50,750 in this den of serpents? 205 00:20:50,833 --> 00:20:52,710 Rome is far too dangerous a place. 206 00:20:56,756 --> 00:20:57,590 Mm-mm. 207 00:20:57,674 --> 00:20:58,883 I'm surprised 208 00:20:58,967 --> 00:21:02,136 I even have to tell you this given our experience. 209 00:21:02,553 --> 00:21:04,597 Do I have no say in this matter? 210 00:21:05,306 --> 00:21:09,018 Mother, we have come all this way to the centre of the world, 211 00:21:09,102 --> 00:21:11,562 I just wish to see some of it for myself. 212 00:21:11,771 --> 00:21:14,357 Your brother and sister are fighting for their lives, 213 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,818 and you talk as if this is some great adventure. 214 00:21:17,068 --> 00:21:19,237 I had to come here to save you from 215 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,280 ending up a whore in a stall! 216 00:21:22,073 --> 00:21:23,241 Kwame may very well die 217 00:21:23,324 --> 00:21:25,576 in the arena because of your foolishness. 218 00:21:31,708 --> 00:21:32,667 I'm sorry. 219 00:21:33,418 --> 00:21:34,419 I'm sorry. 220 00:21:34,836 --> 00:21:36,004 I'm sorry. 221 00:21:36,295 --> 00:21:38,673 It is not my intention to be cruel. 222 00:21:39,632 --> 00:21:43,761 My oldest daughter has a responsibility to this family. 223 00:21:44,929 --> 00:21:46,973 I won't suffer selfishness. 224 00:21:48,975 --> 00:21:51,811 You are not the only one who is suffering, mother. 225 00:21:54,188 --> 00:21:55,023 Aura! 226 00:22:06,701 --> 00:22:09,078 I could have sent slaves for your belongings. 227 00:22:11,247 --> 00:22:12,290 It was no trouble. 228 00:22:12,582 --> 00:22:13,541 Thank you. 229 00:22:13,666 --> 00:22:15,293 My people will take it from here. 230 00:22:18,588 --> 00:22:20,590 Good luck to you. To you both. 231 00:22:20,673 --> 00:22:22,759 Thank you. To you as well. 232 00:22:45,364 --> 00:22:46,199 You're late. 233 00:22:46,282 --> 00:22:48,826 Listen, one of the grooms, the skinny one, 234 00:22:49,285 --> 00:22:52,205 said the Red Faction is looking to hire a reserve driver. 235 00:22:52,538 --> 00:22:54,415 We work for the Gold faction, brother. 236 00:22:54,499 --> 00:22:55,583 What Gold faction? 237 00:22:55,666 --> 00:22:57,043 Tenax said he'll fix it. 238 00:23:00,338 --> 00:23:01,631 What if he doesn't? 239 00:23:03,549 --> 00:23:06,094 Alright. We'll go with your plan. 240 00:23:06,344 --> 00:23:07,804 We get hired by the Red Faction, 241 00:23:08,346 --> 00:23:11,307 have Tenax keep our horses and kill us for the insult. 242 00:23:11,390 --> 00:23:12,350 Great idea! 243 00:23:15,895 --> 00:23:17,188 Xenon is great at this. 244 00:23:26,697 --> 00:23:28,241 Yeah, he is. 245 00:23:40,086 --> 00:23:43,089 Strange that the crowd didn't demand he get the wooden sword. 246 00:23:43,214 --> 00:23:45,424 They did. Three times. 247 00:23:45,883 --> 00:23:49,428 Each time they granted him freedom, he told them to shove it up their asses. 248 00:23:51,055 --> 00:23:53,432 What type of man chooses to stay in the arena? 249 00:23:55,393 --> 00:23:57,019 One who's not worried about losing. 250 00:24:11,868 --> 00:24:12,910 Gladiators... 251 00:24:13,661 --> 00:24:14,495 Come closer. 252 00:24:17,331 --> 00:24:21,002 To celebrate the wedding of our Emperor Titus. 253 00:24:22,336 --> 00:24:24,714 Special games have been called. 254 00:24:25,339 --> 00:24:26,549 When is the wedding? 255 00:24:26,883 --> 00:24:27,967 Am I to attend? 256 00:24:28,926 --> 00:24:31,846 It happened already, in the dead of night, they say. 257 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:36,058 None the less, it calls for games of celebration. 258 00:24:36,809 --> 00:24:39,020 Flamma will lead the spectacle. 259 00:24:40,188 --> 00:24:45,568 His opponent, chosen personally by the Aedile Ludi, Flavius Domitianus, 260 00:24:45,735 --> 00:24:49,739 is no other than our little Lion Killer... 261 00:24:50,156 --> 00:24:51,365 Kwame. 262 00:24:54,243 --> 00:24:58,164 He will, of course, need some help to make it last long enough 263 00:24:58,247 --> 00:25:00,166 to be called entertainment. 264 00:25:01,083 --> 00:25:02,168 Ozzi, 265 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:04,045 Prizzi, 266 00:25:04,337 --> 00:25:06,297 you will have the honor of dying 267 00:25:06,380 --> 00:25:08,799 with Kwame at Flamma's hands. 268 00:25:30,404 --> 00:25:31,697 I am sorry, brother. 269 00:25:36,994 --> 00:25:37,954 Come. 270 00:25:38,955 --> 00:25:40,164 Back to training. 271 00:25:41,624 --> 00:25:44,252 I would hate for my death to disappoint a new Empress. 272 00:25:45,753 --> 00:25:47,546 How could you desert the Whites? 273 00:25:47,630 --> 00:25:49,382 Xenon drives for the Blues now. 274 00:25:49,674 --> 00:25:52,468 And where's your loyalty to our faction? 275 00:25:52,551 --> 00:25:55,096 My loyalty is with my man Xenon. 276 00:25:55,179 --> 00:25:57,056 Where he goes, I go. 277 00:25:57,139 --> 00:25:57,974 Well, 278 00:25:58,432 --> 00:26:02,311 you two will make a lovely couple. 279 00:26:02,728 --> 00:26:04,855 This race is a sure thing. 280 00:26:05,147 --> 00:26:08,526 The Greens run only Maremano mares, unbeatable after rainfall. 281 00:26:09,568 --> 00:26:12,613 If Jupiter opens the skies tonight, which he will, 282 00:26:12,697 --> 00:26:14,073 you'll triple your money. 283 00:26:14,156 --> 00:26:15,908 So why tell me all this? 284 00:26:16,284 --> 00:26:19,412 No betting tavern will take my credit. But if you front me 285 00:26:19,495 --> 00:26:21,289 - twenty sesterces... - Right, right... 286 00:26:21,664 --> 00:26:23,124 Cato, I'm trying to help you. 287 00:26:23,207 --> 00:26:25,960 Like you helped your wife, gambling away her fortune. 288 00:26:26,419 --> 00:26:28,921 Anybody with eyes, knows that race was a fix. 289 00:26:30,089 --> 00:26:32,425 Tenax fucked me to get those shares. 290 00:26:34,468 --> 00:26:36,345 I warned you about that sort of talk. 291 00:26:36,429 --> 00:26:38,973 How did he get Scorpus to hold back? I'll never know. 292 00:26:39,473 --> 00:26:41,684 Tenax fucked me to get those shares. 293 00:26:42,143 --> 00:26:43,894 Stain another floor with your blood. 294 00:27:03,247 --> 00:27:05,916 So, I hear you lost your faction shares to Tenax. 295 00:27:07,126 --> 00:27:08,669 Someone wants to speak to you. 296 00:27:09,962 --> 00:27:10,838 Come. 297 00:27:26,062 --> 00:27:26,937 Welcome. 298 00:27:28,189 --> 00:27:29,482 It's Rufus, yes? 299 00:27:31,734 --> 00:27:34,695 I am told you've had dealings with Tenax. 300 00:27:35,404 --> 00:27:37,531 The one they call the King of the Subura. 301 00:27:38,157 --> 00:27:39,158 Please sit. 302 00:27:44,330 --> 00:27:45,539 Forgive my appearance. 303 00:27:46,290 --> 00:27:49,126 I wasn't expecting an audience with the Queen of the Jews. 304 00:27:50,002 --> 00:27:53,714 I'm told he rigged a race and stole your shares of the Blue Faction. 305 00:27:54,423 --> 00:27:57,218 The shame in Salena's eyes when she saw what I'd done. 306 00:28:00,846 --> 00:28:02,014 My beautiful son. 307 00:28:06,185 --> 00:28:09,480 It occurred to me that we may be able to help one another. 308 00:28:11,065 --> 00:28:12,233 A question: 309 00:28:12,316 --> 00:28:15,277 have you seen this Tenax in the company of the Emperor's brother? 310 00:28:16,070 --> 00:28:17,405 Not with my own eyes. 311 00:28:18,114 --> 00:28:20,074 But I'm told Tenax is Domitian's client. 312 00:28:21,117 --> 00:28:24,537 Rumour has it that it was Domitian who approved Tenax's Gold Faction. 313 00:28:26,580 --> 00:28:28,249 Is this where you give me a dagger 314 00:28:29,291 --> 00:28:31,127 and ask me to slit Tenax's throat? 315 00:28:32,086 --> 00:28:34,797 I assure you there are more competent men for that task. 316 00:28:35,131 --> 00:28:36,882 I don't want you to kill Tenax... 317 00:28:38,801 --> 00:28:40,678 I want you to ask him for work. 318 00:28:52,606 --> 00:28:53,899 It is alright. 319 00:28:54,483 --> 00:28:55,568 Tell me your name. 320 00:29:03,367 --> 00:29:04,410 Ahren! 321 00:29:05,953 --> 00:29:07,204 Where have you been? 322 00:29:09,206 --> 00:29:10,666 You're getting big. 323 00:29:16,839 --> 00:29:17,923 Kwame... 324 00:29:18,841 --> 00:29:19,842 any sleep? 325 00:29:20,634 --> 00:29:22,636 Why waste my last moments on sleep? 326 00:29:24,138 --> 00:29:27,725 My wife, Linza, and my... my son, Ahren. 327 00:29:28,392 --> 00:29:30,227 - You would honour us? - Please. 328 00:29:30,311 --> 00:29:31,604 Please, come. Sit. 329 00:29:38,194 --> 00:29:40,988 I have two sisters also in Rome. 330 00:29:42,364 --> 00:29:43,657 I won't see them again. 331 00:29:49,747 --> 00:29:51,248 Your husband fights well. 332 00:29:52,666 --> 00:29:54,460 He will win the wooden sword. 333 00:29:54,877 --> 00:29:56,170 So I pray. 334 00:29:56,795 --> 00:29:58,172 And when I do... 335 00:29:58,756 --> 00:30:01,091 the three of us will return to Buri. 336 00:30:01,717 --> 00:30:05,054 My father left me a farm there with geese, a couple of goats. 337 00:30:05,930 --> 00:30:08,224 Me and Linza will breed both, 338 00:30:08,307 --> 00:30:11,977 and ourselves as well, making more babies, lots of them. 339 00:30:12,353 --> 00:30:14,063 Would you like to be a big brother? 340 00:30:14,438 --> 00:30:16,482 Yes, you'd be a good big brother. 341 00:30:18,442 --> 00:30:20,277 A good thing to ask the Gods for. 342 00:30:21,445 --> 00:30:23,113 Babies, geese and goats. 343 00:30:25,741 --> 00:30:26,659 No, I... 344 00:30:28,285 --> 00:30:31,330 I ask the Gods to protect you, my brother. 345 00:30:37,336 --> 00:30:41,090 You waste an entreaty to the Gods... for me? 346 00:30:42,091 --> 00:30:43,175 Not waste it... 347 00:30:48,222 --> 00:30:52,977 Perhaps one day, I will visit your farm and meet your children. 348 00:30:55,062 --> 00:30:56,689 And don't forget the goats. 349 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:07,783 The madness of it! 350 00:31:08,576 --> 00:31:10,369 Titus married his cousin... 351 00:31:12,413 --> 00:31:13,998 A provincial nothing. 352 00:31:19,712 --> 00:31:21,422 If only I knew a man 353 00:31:22,298 --> 00:31:24,300 with undiluted Patrician blood 354 00:31:25,301 --> 00:31:27,469 who might ascend the Curule Chair. 355 00:31:28,512 --> 00:31:31,473 Someone with a brilliant military record, 356 00:31:32,266 --> 00:31:33,934 comfortable with command. 357 00:31:34,727 --> 00:31:36,937 We've done this dance before, Antonia. 358 00:31:37,229 --> 00:31:41,108 Every Patrician from here to Alexandria has done this dance and is doing it now. 359 00:31:41,483 --> 00:31:44,111 The Senate turns to you in moments of crisis. 360 00:31:44,361 --> 00:31:46,864 Many of them would kill to see you on the Curule Chair. 361 00:31:46,947 --> 00:31:49,533 Careful! What we say inside our own home is one thing, 362 00:31:49,617 --> 00:31:53,245 but such a conversation, outside these walls, is a die that cannot be uncast. 363 00:31:54,580 --> 00:31:57,374 Are you unsure if I would make a good empress? 364 00:31:57,625 --> 00:32:01,211 That, my dear, is the one thing of which I am sure. 365 00:32:01,295 --> 00:32:04,340 Empress, what a lovely word. 366 00:32:04,965 --> 00:32:06,925 Not as lovely as Emperor. 367 00:32:07,009 --> 00:32:07,926 Shhh... 368 00:32:08,844 --> 00:32:10,346 Civil war comes at a cost. 369 00:32:11,513 --> 00:32:14,183 Senators, even those in my camp, remember that. 370 00:32:14,642 --> 00:32:17,311 The Senate and the mob turned against Nero after the fires. 371 00:32:17,394 --> 00:32:18,479 Fires? 372 00:32:19,271 --> 00:32:22,024 You'd put a torch to Rome to satisfy our ambition? 373 00:32:23,192 --> 00:32:24,902 For you and for our son. 374 00:32:25,569 --> 00:32:26,904 And for our family... 375 00:32:27,279 --> 00:32:29,907 I'd burn down the entire fucking Empire. 376 00:32:31,825 --> 00:32:34,662 What kind of Emperor would I be if I sacrificed the city 377 00:32:35,162 --> 00:32:36,538 to obtain dominion over it. 378 00:32:38,707 --> 00:32:39,875 We don't need a fire... 379 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:43,337 we just need a spark. 380 00:32:47,591 --> 00:32:48,676 I'll have 20. 381 00:32:54,682 --> 00:32:55,974 Thank you, my dear. 382 00:33:02,898 --> 00:33:04,400 - Get out! - May we speak? 383 00:33:04,483 --> 00:33:06,527 - I said get out. - Please... 384 00:33:06,610 --> 00:33:09,905 If this is about the shares and whatever you think I did to get them, 385 00:33:10,614 --> 00:33:11,782 don't waste your breath. 386 00:33:11,865 --> 00:33:13,867 - I'm here to ask for work. - Doing what? 387 00:33:14,118 --> 00:33:16,537 Anything you need. Nobody else will hire me. 388 00:33:17,121 --> 00:33:18,205 For a good reason. 389 00:33:18,580 --> 00:33:20,332 I'll drink less and never steal. 390 00:33:22,668 --> 00:33:23,919 At least from you. 391 00:33:24,712 --> 00:33:27,381 I've heard that from much stronger men than you. 392 00:33:27,589 --> 00:33:28,882 I swear it on my son. 393 00:33:29,341 --> 00:33:30,551 A good oath. 394 00:33:31,343 --> 00:33:32,636 But not from a fool. 395 00:33:33,095 --> 00:33:34,888 No, Tenax, please... 396 00:33:35,931 --> 00:33:36,974 I beg you! 397 00:33:37,641 --> 00:33:38,684 Please. 398 00:33:48,527 --> 00:33:50,195 Three sesterces a day. 399 00:33:50,279 --> 00:33:52,448 And you do whatever she says. 400 00:33:53,115 --> 00:33:54,199 Thank you, Tenax, I... 401 00:33:54,283 --> 00:33:56,034 If you steal from me... 402 00:33:56,368 --> 00:33:57,995 I will cut off your hands, 403 00:33:58,203 --> 00:33:59,538 and sell them to Carpo. 404 00:34:03,917 --> 00:34:04,960 Thank you. 405 00:34:12,593 --> 00:34:13,510 Mother! 406 00:34:17,890 --> 00:34:20,642 - No, no, no... - What is it? What is it? 407 00:34:21,894 --> 00:34:23,896 Flamma and Kwame. 408 00:34:26,523 --> 00:34:27,691 Kwame... 409 00:34:28,734 --> 00:34:30,277 Did you know about this? 410 00:34:30,903 --> 00:34:31,737 No. 411 00:34:33,030 --> 00:34:34,239 What can I do? 412 00:34:34,323 --> 00:34:35,824 There's no stopping it. 413 00:34:35,991 --> 00:34:37,159 Not now. 414 00:34:38,076 --> 00:34:40,788 It's been posted, they'll already be at the staging area. 415 00:34:40,871 --> 00:34:42,331 Everything has a price. 416 00:34:42,414 --> 00:34:44,208 Not this, Not now. 417 00:34:44,583 --> 00:34:47,544 But you know people, you have influence. And you can do it... 418 00:34:47,628 --> 00:34:51,840 Were I the Emperor himself, I couldn't stop this now. 419 00:34:54,635 --> 00:34:56,094 The mob smells blood. 420 00:35:03,018 --> 00:35:04,228 Can I see him? 421 00:35:22,496 --> 00:35:24,832 We hail the Emperor Titus, 422 00:35:25,082 --> 00:35:27,209 and his new wife, the Empress Marcia. 423 00:35:29,670 --> 00:35:31,880 The Emperor is pleased to announce 424 00:35:31,964 --> 00:35:33,674 that after weeks of famine, 425 00:35:33,757 --> 00:35:35,425 he has filled the granaries. 426 00:35:35,926 --> 00:35:40,556 The citizens of Rome will go hungry no more! 427 00:35:41,098 --> 00:35:44,101 And in honour of his new wife Marcia, 428 00:35:44,184 --> 00:35:48,063 he offers a special day of games. 429 00:35:49,398 --> 00:35:50,858 Cousin, good to see you again. 430 00:35:50,941 --> 00:35:54,319 You arrived just in time to watch Flamma slay three men in your honour. 431 00:35:54,778 --> 00:35:57,531 Also, in your honour, I've suspended Domitian's confinement. 432 00:35:58,156 --> 00:36:00,242 Together we can enjoy a glorious day of games. 433 00:36:01,034 --> 00:36:02,286 My thanks. 434 00:36:02,369 --> 00:36:04,580 And I get to keep my two watch dogs by my side. 435 00:36:04,663 --> 00:36:05,664 By the way... 436 00:36:07,791 --> 00:36:09,251 that's my wife's seat. 437 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:25,642 Boo! 438 00:36:36,737 --> 00:36:37,821 Let her through. 439 00:36:45,370 --> 00:36:46,413 Son... 440 00:36:48,582 --> 00:36:49,750 Mother. 441 00:36:53,545 --> 00:36:55,797 Aura, she's free. 442 00:36:56,632 --> 00:36:58,300 Soon, Jula will be too. 443 00:36:58,592 --> 00:36:59,593 Good. 444 00:37:00,052 --> 00:37:00,928 You... 445 00:37:01,845 --> 00:37:04,097 You are going to win this fight. 446 00:37:04,723 --> 00:37:07,184 Then we can all go home together. 447 00:37:07,309 --> 00:37:08,477 Whatever happens, 448 00:37:08,977 --> 00:37:10,604 I will make the best of things. 449 00:37:11,063 --> 00:37:13,231 No! No, no, no. 450 00:37:14,024 --> 00:37:15,734 Look at me... me! 451 00:37:18,528 --> 00:37:19,821 The day you were born, 452 00:37:20,072 --> 00:37:22,658 your father took one look at you, and said... 453 00:37:23,325 --> 00:37:26,912 "The spirit of Apedemak, the lion headed God 454 00:37:26,995 --> 00:37:28,872 lives in our Son." 455 00:37:31,500 --> 00:37:34,252 He was always more superstitious than me. 456 00:37:35,045 --> 00:37:37,756 Honestly, I thought that was utter nonsense. 457 00:37:41,885 --> 00:37:43,720 But now I can see it. 458 00:37:48,225 --> 00:37:49,476 I see it. 459 00:37:51,061 --> 00:37:54,064 As clearly as that trident in your hand. 460 00:37:56,233 --> 00:38:01,405 It is a terrible thing they expect you to do, but you must do it. 461 00:38:02,948 --> 00:38:03,949 I know, mother. 462 00:38:04,032 --> 00:38:05,701 When you reach the sand, 463 00:38:06,326 --> 00:38:07,911 do not stop. 464 00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:10,622 Do not give up until they pull you off him. 465 00:38:11,415 --> 00:38:12,541 I won't stop. 466 00:38:13,333 --> 00:38:15,877 Then we will see each other again. 467 00:38:21,967 --> 00:38:23,385 Say it, Kwame. 468 00:38:26,972 --> 00:38:28,056 Gates! 469 00:38:31,268 --> 00:38:33,437 - I will see you again. - Say it. 470 00:38:34,813 --> 00:38:35,731 I'll see you again. 471 00:38:36,857 --> 00:38:37,774 Say it! 472 00:38:42,029 --> 00:38:43,155 I will see you again! 473 00:38:45,115 --> 00:38:46,033 We must go! 474 00:38:46,450 --> 00:38:47,409 Go! 475 00:38:50,245 --> 00:38:51,079 You... 476 00:38:51,621 --> 00:38:54,082 are the lion that protects the family. 477 00:39:36,333 --> 00:39:38,001 We, who are about to die, 478 00:39:38,668 --> 00:39:40,087 salute you! 479 00:39:45,759 --> 00:39:46,676 Chain them. 480 00:39:48,220 --> 00:39:49,304 What is this? 481 00:39:50,764 --> 00:39:51,973 Come. Come, come. 482 00:39:52,057 --> 00:39:53,850 Flamma! Flamma! 483 00:39:56,853 --> 00:39:58,188 Stay in the middle. 484 00:39:58,396 --> 00:40:00,816 For our final bout today, 485 00:40:01,399 --> 00:40:02,776 the great Flamma 486 00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:04,611 will do battle, 487 00:40:04,694 --> 00:40:07,656 with a force known only in myth. 488 00:40:08,990 --> 00:40:11,743 The wicked net men from the Siren Islands. 489 00:40:34,516 --> 00:40:35,851 Gladiators! 490 00:40:38,728 --> 00:40:39,855 Ready! 491 00:40:42,315 --> 00:40:43,358 Engage! 492 00:40:47,612 --> 00:40:49,906 Hey, hey! Easy, brother. 493 00:40:50,448 --> 00:40:51,533 Stay together. 494 00:41:59,935 --> 00:42:01,478 Steady, my little friend. 495 00:42:02,479 --> 00:42:03,521 Steady. 496 00:42:32,759 --> 00:42:34,803 The Gods show their favour. 497 00:42:35,345 --> 00:42:36,263 I knew it. 498 00:43:01,746 --> 00:43:02,956 No, no! 499 00:43:03,039 --> 00:43:04,249 I'm sorry brother! 500 00:43:13,258 --> 00:43:14,342 Water. 501 00:43:15,302 --> 00:43:16,928 The Empress is looking rather pale. 502 00:43:17,512 --> 00:43:19,723 Perhaps someone to fan my brother as well. 503 00:43:29,524 --> 00:43:30,525 No! 504 00:43:31,484 --> 00:43:34,487 The small one shows great valour in the face of certain defeat. 505 00:43:34,571 --> 00:43:36,781 It's a pity to see such virtue wasted on sport. 506 00:43:36,865 --> 00:43:40,660 We'll see how virtue serves him when Flamma puts a sword through his heart. 507 00:44:12,484 --> 00:44:16,488 You are the lion that protects our family. 508 00:46:14,772 --> 00:46:17,150 The games are so beneath you, yet now you way in. 509 00:46:17,442 --> 00:46:19,235 Perseverance deserves recognition. 510 00:46:21,237 --> 00:46:22,906 No matter how lowly the venue. 511 00:46:23,323 --> 00:46:27,660 I'm curious, what martial virtue does cutting your comrade's leg off fall under? 512 00:46:40,256 --> 00:46:41,466 What's going on? 513 00:46:42,258 --> 00:46:45,512 Winning the favour of the mob in his first contest is no small feat. 514 00:46:46,596 --> 00:46:47,514 It bodes well. 515 00:46:48,181 --> 00:46:49,432 Might they free him? 516 00:46:50,266 --> 00:46:51,100 No. 517 00:46:51,809 --> 00:46:54,062 They'll want to watch him fight again and again. 518 00:46:55,146 --> 00:46:57,023 If he's lucky he'll build a following... 519 00:46:58,107 --> 00:47:01,778 better opponents, better odds. Perhaps I was hasty to bet against him. 520 00:47:02,111 --> 00:47:04,322 You had blood money on my son? 521 00:47:04,781 --> 00:47:05,907 This is Rome... 522 00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:08,576 it's all blood money. 523 00:47:31,391 --> 00:47:33,017 Closer than usual today. 524 00:47:33,768 --> 00:47:35,353 Especially for you, no? 525 00:47:36,771 --> 00:47:37,855 My Emperor. 526 00:47:38,648 --> 00:47:39,649 Empress. 527 00:47:41,234 --> 00:47:45,655 Brother, why do you not bestow the loser with his consolation prize. 528 00:48:34,871 --> 00:48:36,205 - Take cover! - Mother! 529 00:49:00,897 --> 00:49:03,149 You asked the Gods for a spark. 530 00:49:04,525 --> 00:49:06,277 There is your spark.