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[quiet footsteps]

[suspenseful music playing]

[Quintus breathing fitfully in sleep]

[Quintus] Ursus!

Ursus!

[Ursus exhales]

[man breathes heavily in sleep]

[suspenseful music continues]

[boys breathing quietly]

[Ursus grunts]

- [footsteps pattering] - [boys breathing heavily]

[suspenseful music continues]

[man breathing heavily in sleep]

[suspenseful music intensifies]

[flames combusting]

[boys panting heavily]

[Older man] What!

What have you done?

You little fuckers!

- [Ursus and Quintus panting] - [Older man grunting]

[door slams]

[Older man knocking on door] Open up!

[knocking on door continues]

[Older man] Please, come on! Help!

Don't do this today!

- [suspenseful music playing] - [Older man] Hey! Hey!

[knocking on door continues] Hey!

[man screams desperately]

[timber cracking]

[timber crashing]

[boys screaming]

[Quintus] Ursus!

[ominous music playing]

[Quintus] Ursus!

- [music fades] - [Quintus panting]

[door opens]

[timber crashing]

- [quiet suspenseful music playing] - [Quintus panting]

[Tenax panting, terrified]

[Tenax's heavy breathing slows down]

[ominous music starts playing]

[Tenax exhales heavily]

[Tenax grunts]

[Tenax sighs heavily]

I'll open up.

- We need more slates. - [Tenax breathes heavily]

[Tenax sighs]

[Cala] And another clerk to handle the swing bets.

- Did you hear me? - Yes.

[door creaking]

- [Cala gasps] - [suspenseful music playing]

[suspenseful music continues]

[door creaking]

[Cala gasps]

[Tenax sighs]

[intriguing music playing]

This was left at the door.

- Read it to me. - It might be personal, I...

[Tenax] Just...

Do it.

Don't be ashamed.

My people had no written language for a thousand years.

Our past is silent.

I'm not ashamed.

[Tenax inhales] Just read it.

[Tenax inhales nervously]

Out loud!

[softly] To me.

"All of your winnings,

at the end of each race day,

put in the corner room, second floor, in your insula at Cispian Hill."

[Cala inhales] "It's the price of my silence..."

[tense music playing]

[flames crackling]

No one learns of this.

[ominous music playing]

[music intensifies]

[eerie silence]

[dog barking in distance]

[quiet eerie music playing]

[dog barking in distance]

[eerie music intensifies]

- [music stops] - [indistinct chatter in background]

[inhales] The one

who bet the little gold horse.

Big, with the burn scars on his face...

Find him.

- We've been keeping our eyes... - I said find him, now!

[Tenax] Look in every betting tavern,

every brothel, every gutter, every shithole.

[inhales nervously] Find him!

You wait for me out there.

[Tenax sighs]

- [Tenax] Eat. - [boys laughing]

Hey!

[inhales] You're the best out of this lot.

I've got something for you to do.

There's an apartment on Cispian Hill, second floor, corner room.

I know it.

Go there, take a look around, see what you can see.

Who's watching. Be...

invisible.

Hey. Eat first.

[Texax sighs]

[Tenax] The Subura first,

I've some ideas where he might be hiding.

[Felix] Sister, I got this for you.

Thank you.

[upbeat suspenseful music playing]

[upbeat music continues]

[Noro] Tenax.

I found him.

The big scarred man.

This way!

[insistent knocking on door]

- [man] Hey! - [door slams]

- [both men grunt] - Shhh.

[metallic swish]

[man and woman groaning]

[groaning intensifies]

[prostitute inhales] Welcome...

[man groans]

[suspenseful music playing]

[man and woman panting rapidly]

[rhythmic drum beating]

[man groaning intensifies]

[man yells]

[woman screams]

[man grunting and gasping]

[panting] Please, please!

[gasping] Don't kill me. Don't kill me!

Keep looking.

- [thud] - [woman screams]

[dramatic music intensifies]

- [music stops] - [indistinct chattering in background]

[metal banging in background]

[indistinct chattering in background]

[low ominous music starts]

[indistinct chattering in background]

[ominous rumble]

[ominous music playing]

[heavy, menacing footsteps]

[crowd chanting Xenon]

- [dramatic music playing] - [hooves thundering]

[Xenon yells] Come on!

[Scorpus yells]

[crowd] Xenon!

[crowd continues chanting Xenon]

Not Scorpus!

- [crowd continues chanting] - [tense music playing]

- [Scorpus yells] - [horses whinnying]

Come on!

[laughing]

[dramatic music playing]

[Scorpus yells]

- [Marsus laughing] - Yes!

[both men grunting]

[hooves thundering]

[Xenon laughs.]

Xenon!

- [Scorpus grunting] - [Marsus] Yes!

[dramatic music continues]

[Scorpus yells]

[Xenon yells]

[Scorpus grunts]

Yes!

- God! - [Marsus] Yes!

[Scorpus yelling]

- [crowd chanting Xenon] - [gentle music playing]

It seems Xenon is earning his salary.

He most certainly is.

[Marsus] Thank you! Thank you all.

A victory most noble and deserved.

[Antonia] Thank you. Thank you.

- [Marsus chuckling] - [Antonia sighs]

- [indistinct background chatter] - [Scorpus sighs]

Congratulations.

[Scorpus] Shut your mouth.

Oh come on! Third place!

That's much better than one would expect with those old nags.

[sighs] Can't really say I miss them.

[Tenax inhales] Didn't go so well for you today.

Piss off.

Why are you angry with me?

I'm not angry that you signed for the White.

I'm hurt...

Hurt you didn't trust me.

[Woola panting]

[Woola] Something has happened. You need to come!

[Scorpus sighs]

[sad music playing]

[women weeping gently]

[children whimpering]

- [weeping continues] - [sad music intensifies]

[sobbing]

[woman gasps and screams]

[breathing fitfully]

- [Cala] Nica... - [Nica sobbing]

- [Cala] Come... Come... Nica... - [both sobbing]

[Cala] I'm sorry.

[ominous music intensifies]

[Scorpus grunts]

[Scorpus] Scorpus...

comes in third.

[exhales]

[glass bangs down]

Scorpus, fucking third! [gasps]

[grunts]

[slurping]

Fucking third! [gasps]

[gentle emotional music playing]

Fucking... [gasps]

[sighs]

[groans and sighs]

- [glass falls with a bang] - [drink trickles]

- [suspenseful music playing] - [Scorpus snoring]

- [owl hooting] - [child panting]

[emotional music playing]

[Nica sobbing quietly]

[sobbing quietly]

Sleep safe. One eye open.

[Nica sobbing quietly]

I never knew my mother.

Felix...

he remembered her before she got sick.

He said she was really pretty.

- [Nica sighs] - Like you...

Your mother...

she's up there in the clouds.

Watching you.

[sobbing quietly]

I sent him there.

I should've known.

- [gentle music playing] - [night insects chirping]

[heavy thud of coins]

[Cala] Are you sure about this?

He killed a child.

[footsteps retreating]

[Tenax] Hurry up.

- [coins clinking] - [Dacia] Come.

Hey.

[footsteps and indistinct voices in background]

[wheels grinding]

That's all of it.

Listen to me.

Two of you watch this place, at all times.

Hide better than Felix did.

You saw what happened to him.

[inhales] If the big scarred man comes,

one of you follows him and the other one comes to find me.

[Nica exhales]

Be...

very...

careful.

[owl hooting]

[gentle music playing]

- [door opens] - [music stops]

[door creaking and softly shutting]

A praying Tenax?

I'm a gambling man.

I'll try anything once.

Why are you up?

I couldn't sleep.

[Tenax sighs]

[liquid pouring]

Felix was me, twenty years ago.

I lived in the underbelly, near the stables.

[owl hoots in distance]

A stray?

[gulps]

I always liked horses. So, when I got to Rome,

it felt like the place to go.

Near the stables.

We slept in a big pile,

thirty, or forty of us, for warmth and for safety...

as if there was such a thing.

But you crawled your way out of it.

[inhales]

I scavenged...

one bit of food at a time.

One ugly errand,

one beating taken, one beating given, one knife to the ribs,

[inhales] one fixed race, one apartment bought,

one step at a time.

[Tenax exhales]

Rise or die.

The Roman way.

[gentle music playing]

And before our Rome?

What does he know,

this one who demands the money?

[inhales tensely]

[inhales tensely]

Something to do with this, I'll wager.

[exhales] Healed well.

If there is such a thing.

[gentle music continues]

Sleep.

- [footsteps retreating] - [door opening]

[indistinct chatting in background]

Are we racing, Xenon?

There is no race today!

[scoffs]

You never have any fun?

And end up like you?

Doesn't seem like fun to me.

Well...

it is.

[burps and trills his lips]

[Otho grunting]

[Fonsoa] That's a big trunk for a small boy.

Running off to join the legions, are we?

Mother says we're moving into a big house.

I'm going to have my own room.

Then let me help you with that, your eminence.

[gentle emotional music playing]

Saddle up.

[Otho laughs]

[emotional music playing]

[indistinct chattering in background]

Fonsoa...

I see my son has put you to work.

Big man, I need your help.

[Otho] Oh yes.

So, where to?

The Esquiline.

It's a big house, with a cistern and a garden.

It's just the home of a friend of my mother.

Just knowing that you are where you belong.

And have you found where you belong?

Isn't your beautiful Baetica calling to you?

It was.

Well, I thank you for making this place bearable for him.

I had practice with my little brother.

My mother died giving birth.

And our older brother was always off with horses.

So it fell to me.

[emotional music playing]

There were tough times, even in paradise.

Fonsoa.

Did you forget about me?

We should be going now.

- Let me help. - No please, you've done enough already.

Please.

[emotional melody playing]

- Jump on. - Oh.

[Otho grunts]

- Ready? - Yes.

[emotional music playing]

Are you going to tell me what's on your mind?

You are telling everybody that I will be returning home.

Yes, once we've earned enough for your passage to Leptis Magna.

Wouldn't it be better if I waited?

- We could return as a family. - [Cala scoffs] No.

Only the gods can say how long it will take to free your brother and sister.

And I need you to run to trading post in my absence.

[scoffs] Seeno can do that!

Oh, you'd rather stay here,

in this den of serpents?

Rome is far too dangerous a place.

[tuts]

[Aura slams the box down, tuts]

[Cala] Mm-mm.

I'm surprised

I even have to tell you this given our experience.

[Aura] Do I have no say in this matter? [sighs]

Mother, we have come all this way to the centre of the world,

I just wish to see some of it for myself.

Your brother and sister are fighting for their lives,

and you talk as if this is some great adventure.

I had to come here to save you from

- ending up a whore in a stall! - [Aura exhales]

[gasps] Kwame may very well die

in the arena because of your foolishness.

[Aura breathes fitfully]

I'm sorry.

- [Cala] I'm sorry. - [Aura sniffs]

I'm sorry.

- It is not my intention to be cruel. - [Aura sniffs]

My oldest daughter has a responsibility to this family.

I won't suffer selfishness.

[sniffs and inhales]

You are not the only one who is suffering, mother.

Aura!

- [cart wheels rattling] - [indistinct chatter in background]

I could have sent slaves for your belongings.

[Fonsoa grunts]

It was no trouble.

Thank you.

My people will take it from here.

[Fonsoa] Good luck to you. To you both.

Thank you. To you as well.

[Andria grunting]

[indistinct chattering in background]

You're late.

[Fonsoa] Listen, one of the grooms, the skinny one,

said the Red Faction is looking to hire a reserve driver.

We work for the Gold faction, brother.

What Gold faction?

Tenax said he'll fix it.

[scoffs] What if he doesn't?

Alright. We'll go with your plan.

We get hired by the Red Faction,

have Tenax keep our horses and kill us for the insult.

Great idea!

[leather creaking]

Xenon is great at this.

[Andria huffs and grunts]

[Fonsoa giggles and inhales deeply]

Yeah, he is.

[fast paced music playing]

[men grunting]

- [fast paced music continues] - [men grunting]

Strange that the crowd didn't demand he get the wooden sword.

They did. Three times.

Each time they granted him freedom, he told them to shove it up their asses.

[Flamma yells]

What type of man chooses to stay in the arena?

[Viggo chuckles]

One who's not worried about losing.

- [Flamma grunting] - [loud thud]

- [bones crunching] - [man yells]

- [Flamma yells] - [loud thud]

[tense music playing]

[both men grunt]

[breathing heavily]

- [music stops] - [men panting]

Gladiators...

Come closer.

To celebrate the wedding of our Emperor Titus.

Special games have been called.

When is the wedding?

- Am I to attend? - [chuckling]

It happened already, in the dead of night, they say.

None the less, it calls for games of celebration.

Flamma will lead the spectacle.

His opponent, chosen personally by the Aedile Ludi, Flavius Domitianus,

is no other than our little Lion Killer...

- Kwame. - [dramatic music playing]

He will, of course, need some help to make it last long enough

to be called entertainment.

Ozzi,

Prizzi,

you will have the honor of dying

with Kwame at Flamma's hands.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Flamma growls]

[Flamma sighs]

[ominous music playing]

I am sorry, brother.

[emotional music playing]

Come.

[inhales] Back to training.

I would hate for my death to disappoint a new Empress. [snorts]

How could you desert the Whites?

Xenon drives for the Blues now.

And where's your loyalty to our faction?

My loyalty is with my man Xenon.

Where he goes, I go.

Well,

- you two will make a lovely couple. - [crowd laughs]

- This race is a sure thing. - [Cato sighs]

The Greens run only Maremano mares, unbeatable after rainfall.

[Cato sighs]

If Jupiter opens the skies tonight, which he will,

you'll triple your money.

So why tell me all this?

No betting tavern will take my credit. But if you front me

- twenty sesterces... - Right, right...

Cato, I'm trying to help you.

Like you helped your wife, gambling away her fortune.

Anybody with eyes, knows that race was a fix.

Tenax fucked me to get those shares.

I warned you about that sort of talk.

How did he get Scorpus to hold back? I'll never know.

- Tenax fucked me to get those shares. - [thud]

Stain another floor with your blood.

[laughter]

[Rufus sighs]

[indistinct chattering in background]

- [gentle music playing] - [Rufus sighs]

[Giselda] So, I hear you lost your faction shares to Tenax.

Someone wants to speak to you.

Come.

- [gentle music continues] - [dog barks in distance]

[gentle music continues]

[Berenice] Welcome.

It's Rufus, yes?

I am told you've had dealings with Tenax.

The one they call the King of the Subura.

Please sit.

[gentle suspenseful music playing]

Forgive my appearance.

I wasn't expecting an audience with the Queen of the Jews.

I'm told he rigged a race and stole your shares of the Blue Faction.

The shame in Salena's eyes when she saw what I'd done.

My beautiful son.

[liquid pouring]

[sobbing]

It occurred to me that we may be able to help one another.

A question:

have you seen this Tenax in the company of the Emperor's brother?

Not with my own eyes.

But I'm told Tenax is Domitian's client.

Rumour has it that it was Domitian who approved Tenax's Gold Faction.

[uneasy music playing]

Is this where you give me a dagger

and ask me to slit Tenax's throat?

I assure you there are more competent men for that task.

I don't want you to kill Tenax...

I want you to ask him for work.

[uneasy music continues]

[scraping]

[door creaks]

[uneasy music continues]

It is alright.

Tell me your name.

[door creaks]

- [Viggo] Ahren! - [man grunts]

[Viggo] Where have you been?

[Ahren laughing]

You're getting big.

[both laughing]

[Viggo laughs]

Kwame...

any sleep?

Why waste my last moments on sleep?

[inhales] My wife, Linza, and my... my son, Ahren.

- You would honour us? - Please.

[Viggo] Please, come. Sit.

I have two sisters also in Rome.

I won't see them again.

Your husband fights well.

He will win the wooden sword.

[Linza] So I pray.

And when I do...

the three of us will return to Buri.

My father left me a farm there with geese, a couple of goats.

Me and Linza will breed both,

and ourselves as well, making more babies, lots of them.

Would you like to be a big brother?

Yes, you'd be a good big brother.

A good thing to ask the Gods for.

Babies, geese and goats.

[gentle music playing]

No, I...

I ask the Gods to protect you, my brother.

You waste an entreaty to the Gods for me?

Not waste it...

[emotional music playing]

Perhaps one day I will visit your farm and meet your children.

And don't forget the goats.

- [Linza exhales, amused] - [Viggo chuckles]

[rhythmic drum beat in distance]

[Viggo sighs]

[Antonia] The madness of it!

Titus married his cousin...

[Antonia sighs irritably]

A provincial nothing.

[Antonia sighs irritably]

[Antonia exhales]

If only I knew a man

with undiluted Patrician blood

who might ascend the Curule Chair.

Someone with a brilliant military record,

comfortable with command.

We've done this dance before, Antonia.

Every Patrician from here to Alexandria has done this dance and is doing it now.

The Senate turns to you in moments of crisis.

Many of them would kill to see you on the Curule Chair.

Careful! What we say inside our own home is one thing,

but such a conversation, outside these walls, is a die that cannot be uncast.

[upbeat music playing]

[Antonia] Are you unsure if I would make a good empress?

[snickers] That my dear is the one thing of which I am sure.

Empress, what a lovely word.

Not as lovely as Emperor.

Shhh...

Civil war comes at a cost.

Senators, even those in my camp, remember that.

The Senate and the mob turned against Nero after the fires.

Fires?

You'd put a torch to Rome to satisfy our ambition?

For you and for our son.

And for our family...

I'd burn down the entire fucking Empire.

What kind of Emperor would I be if I sacrificed the city

to obtain dominion over it.

We don't need a fire...

we just need a spark.

[rhythmic drumbeat intensifies]

[man 1] I'll have 20.

[indistinct chattering in background]

[man placing bet in background]

[man grunts]

[man 1] Thank you, my dear.

[indistinct chattering in background]

- [Tenax] Get out! - May we speak?

- I said get out. - Please...

If this is about the shares and whatever you think I did to get them,

don't waste your breath.

- I'm here to ask for work. - [Tenax] Doing what?

Anything you need. Nobody else will hire me.

For a good reason.

I'll drink less and never steal.

At least from you.

I've heard that from much stronger men than you.

I swear it on my son.

A good oath.

But not from a fool.

No, Tenax, please...

I beg you!

Please.

[Tenax sighs]

Three sesterces a day.

And you do whatever she says.

Thank you, Tenax, I...

If you steal from me...

I will cut off your hands,

and sell them to Carpo.

Thank you.

[footsteps descending ladder]

[gasps] Mother!

[Aura pants frantically]

- [sighs] No, no, no... - What is it? What is it?

[breathing fitfully] Flamma and Kwame.

Kwame...

Did you know about this?

No.

[bell ringing]

[gasps] What can I do?

[Tenax] There's no stopping it.

- [Cala whimpers] - Not now.

It's been posted, they'll already be at the staging area.

Everything has a price.

- Not this, Not now. - [Cala whimpers]

But you know people, you have influence. And you can do it...

Were I the Emperor himself, I couldn't stop this now.

[ominous music playing]

The mob smells blood.

[Cala gasps]

- [dramatic music intensifies] - [Cala breathes fitfully]

Can I see him?

[Cala sighs heavily, inhales]

[indistinct chattering in background]

[dramatic music starts]

[Passus] We hail the Emperor Titus,

and his new wife, the Empress Marcia.

[crowd applauding and cheering]

[Passus] The Emperor is pleased to announce

that after weeks of famine,

he has filled the granaries.

[Passus continues] The citizens of Rome will go hungry no more!

And in honour of his new wife Marcia,

he offers a special day of games.

Cousin, good to see you again.

You arrived just in time to watch Flamma slay three men in your honour.

Also, in your honour, I've suspended Domitian's confinement.

Together we can enjoy a glorious day of games.

- [ominous music playing] - My thanks.

And I get to keep my two watch dogs by my side.

[Titus] By the way...

that's my wife's seat.

[suspenseful music playing]

[ominous music playing]

[chains rattling]

Boo!

[grunts and cackles menacingly]

[Flamma growls]

[Tenax] Let her through.

[crowd clamouring in the distance]

[Cala exhales] Son...

- [Cala gasps] - [Kwame] Mother.

[Cala sobs]

Aura, she's free.

Soon, Jula will be too.

Good. [breathing rapidly]

You...

You are going to win this fight.

Then we can all go home together.

Whatever happens

I will make the best of things.

[breathes fitfully] No! No, no, no.

Look at me... me!

[emotional music playing]

The day you were born,

your father took one look at you, and said...

"The spirit of Apedemak, the lion headed God

lives in our Son."

[emotional music playing]

He was always more superstitious than me. [inhales]

Honestly, I thought that was utter nonsense.

[emotional music continues]

But now I can see it.

I see it.

As clearly as that trident in your hand.

It is a terrible thing they expect you to do, but you must do it.

I know, mother.

When you reach the sand,

do not stop.

Do not give up, until they pull you off him.

[exhales] I won't stop.

Then we will see each other again.

[Cala whimpering]

[emotional music continues]

[Cala breathing fitfully]

Say it, Kwame.

[crowd chanting in distance]

Gates!

[gates creaking open]

[crowd clamouring]

- I will see you again. - [Cala] Say it.

I will see you again.

[shouts] Say it!

[sniffs] I will see you again!

We must go!

- [Cala gasps] - Go!

[breathing fitfully] You...

are the lion that protects the family.

[crowd chanting]

[emotional music playing]

[doors slam]

[rhythmic drum beating]

[choking sob]

[crowd reacts]

[trumpet blasting]

[crowd chanting Flamma]

[Flamma grunting]

[Flamma] We, who are about to die,

salute you!

[crowd roars]

Chain them.

What is this?

- [Flamma grunts] - Come. Come, come.

- [Flamma] Flamma! Flamma! - [crowd cheering]

Stay in the middle.

[Passus] For our final bout today,

the great Flamma

will do battle,

- with a force known only in myth. - [Flamma cackles]

The wicked net men from the Siren Islands.

[ominous music starts]

[ominous music continues]

[Cala breathing fitfully]

[door opens]

[gasping]

[door slams]

[dramatic music intensifies and fades]

[Passus] Gladiators!

Ready!

[exhales and grunts]

[Passus] Engage!

[crowd cheering]

- [dramatic music playing] - [men grunting]

Hey, hey! Easy, brother.

[Kwame] Stay together.

[men grunting]

[Flamma yells]

[men grunting]

[yells]

[men grunting]

- [man yells] - [crowd cheering]

[men grunting]

[crowd jeering]

[grunting and yelling]

[Kwame grunting]

[Flamma laughing]

[coughing]

[crowd chanting Flamma]

[laughing]

- [Flamma yells] - [Domitian laughs]

[dramatic music playing]

- [Flamma grunts] - [gasping]

- [choking] - [Flamma yelling]

- [Flamma roars] - [crowd chanting Flamma]

[man yells]

[Flamma laughing]

[laughing]

- [Cala sobbing] - [crowd chanting Flamma in background]

[dramatic music playing]

[Kwame gasping]

[Flamma grunts]

[dramatic music continues]

[both men grunting]

[both men grunting]

[Viggo] Steady, my little friend.

Steady.

[both men grunting]

[Flamma yells]

[Flamma chuckles]

[Kwame breathes heavily]

[Flamma grunts]

[Flamma grunts]

- [Flamma chuckles] - [Kwame wheezes]

[dramatic music crescendos]

- [Kwame gasps] - [crowd yelling]

- [crowd screaming] - [loud rumbling]

[ominous music intensifies]

[Viggo pants] The Gods show their favour.

[exhales] I knew it.

- [Viggo exhales heavily] - [dramatic music playing]

[Kwame exhales]

[Kwame grunts]

[dramatic music continues]

[rumbling intensifies]

[crowd reacts]

[dramatic music playing]

[crowd screaming]

[rumbling continues]

- [Kwame breathes heavily] - [dramatic music intensifies]

[Flamma groans]

No, no!

I'm sorry brother!

- [Kwame grunts] - [Prizzi yells]

[growd gasps]

- [Prizzi yelling] - [Kwame grunts]

- [dramatic music continues] - Water.

The Empress is looking rather pale.

Perhaps someone to fan my brother as well.

[Flamma grunts]

[Kwama panting heavily]

[crowd chanting Kwame]

[tense music playing]

[Flamma] No!

The small one shows great valour in the face of certain defeat.

It's a pity to see such virtue wasted on sport.

We'll see how virtue serves him when Flamma puts a sword through his heart.

[Kwame breathing heavily]

[Kwame grunts]

[both men grunting]

- [Flamma yells] - [crowd reacts]

[dramatic music playing]

[Flamma grunts]

[Kwame coughs]

[Kwame grunts]

- [Kwame yells] - [Flamma boos]

[disappointed reactions]

[tense music playing]

[Cala exhales and sobs]

[Aura panting heavily]

- [Cala wailing] - [Aura sniffs]

[Cala] You are the lion that protects our family.

- [Aura panting] - [Cala wailing]

- [Flamma grunts] - [Kwame yells]

[loud rumbling]

[crowd screaming]

[dramatic music playing]

[dreamy, eerie sigh]

[heavy footsteps]

[Flamma yells]

[Kwame grunts]

[Flamma cries out]

[crowd cheering]

[Flamma yells]

[crowd chanting Kwame]

[Kwame yells]

[Kwame yells]

[Flamma groaning]

[crowd chanting Kwame]

[dramatic music intensifies]

[both grunting]

[Flamma grunts]

[Kwame yells]

[dramatic music continues]

[Kwame yells]

[Cala gasps]

[Flamma yells]

[dramatic music playing]

[Flamma grunts]

[Domitian scoffs and laughs]

[Flamma grunts]

[Flamma cackles evilly]

[Kwame gasps]

[Kwame grunts and coughs]

[Kwame yells]

[bones creaking]

[dramatic music playing]

[crowd chanting Kwame]

[chanting intensifies]

[crowd booing]

[Flamma roars]

[Kwame chokes]

[crowd continues booing]

[tense music playing]

[Kwame choking]

[booing continues]

[crowd yelling happily]

[emotional music playing]

[chains rattling]

- [Flamma yells] - [Kwame panting]

[Flamma exhales]

[Cala exhales joyfully]

[Aura gasps]

[emotional music playing]

The games are so beneath you, yet now you way in.

Perseverance deserves recognition.

No matter how lowly the venue.

I'm curious, what martial virtue does cutting your comrade's leg off fall under?

- [Flamma yells] - [Kwame gasps]

[both women gasping and sobbing]

[panting] What's going on?

Winning the favour of the mob in his first contest is no small feat.

It bodes well.

[gasping breath] Might they free him?

[Tenax] No.

They'll want to watch him fight again and again.

If he's lucky he'll build a following...

better opponents, better odds. Perhaps I was hasty to bet against him.

[gasps] You had blood money on my son?

This is Rome...

[tense music playing]

it's all blood money.

[Kwame breathing heavily]

[tense music intensifies]

- [Kwame breathing heavily] - [tense music continues]

[Kwame breathing heavily]

[Kwame grunts]

[suspenseful music playing]

Closer than usual today.

Especially for you, no?

My Emperor.

[Flamma] Empress.

[ominous music playing]

Brother, why do you not bestow the loser with his consolation prize.

[ominous music fades]

[gentle music playing]

- [ominous music playing] - [Domitian inhales]

[Domitian sighs]

[ominous music playing]

[low rumbling]

[rumbling intensifies, crashing]

[dramatic music playing]

[crowd yelling]

[dramatic music playing]

[rumbling and crashing]

[crowd screaming]

[Cala screams]

- Take cover! - [Aura] Mother!

- [rumbling] - [dramatic music playing]

[Aura shouts]

[dramatic music continues]

[woman crying out]

[dramatic music playing]

[women crying]

[lion roars]

- [lion roars] - [dramatic music playing]

[music intensifies and fades]

[gasping] You asked the Gods for a spark.

There is your spark.

[dramatic music playing]