1 00:02:25,938 --> 00:02:27,396 Come on! 2 00:02:28,190 --> 00:02:30,608 This way! 3 00:02:30,734 --> 00:02:32,819 Come on, quickly! 4 00:02:32,945 --> 00:02:35,154 Move! Move! 5 00:03:00,764 --> 00:03:01,806 No! 6 00:03:05,269 --> 00:03:07,895 Out of the way! Move! 7 00:03:10,774 --> 00:03:13,860 Evil inside. Evil... 8 00:03:13,986 --> 00:03:15,695 Vai! 9 00:03:30,544 --> 00:03:33,796 - Give us a kiss, then. - You shave, I kiss. 10 00:03:38,802 --> 00:03:41,053 You talk to him? 11 00:03:41,179 --> 00:03:43,180 I said I would, and I will. 12 00:03:43,307 --> 00:03:45,016 We cannot stay here forever. 13 00:03:45,142 --> 00:03:46,434 It's not right. 14 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:49,687 - This place is a house of death. - I know. 15 00:03:49,813 --> 00:03:54,317 What if we make a baby here? Gods forbid. It would be a monster. 16 00:03:56,695 --> 00:03:58,946 I said I'd talk to him. 17 00:04:11,501 --> 00:04:15,671 How are you, brother? Good day out? 18 00:04:15,797 --> 00:04:18,174 Good day for a walk in the country maybe? 19 00:04:18,300 --> 00:04:20,009 No. 20 00:04:20,135 --> 00:04:23,220 Spring's here, blossom on the trees, 21 00:04:23,347 --> 00:04:25,222 lambs in the meadows. 22 00:04:26,308 --> 00:04:29,852 Brother, the full moon has come and gone. 23 00:04:29,978 --> 00:04:33,356 Maybe it's time to cut off these mourning beards? 24 00:04:34,733 --> 00:04:36,692 Life must continue. 25 00:04:40,530 --> 00:04:42,490 You're right. 26 00:04:42,908 --> 00:04:45,409 - You should go. - And leave you here like this? 27 00:04:45,535 --> 00:04:48,704 - Good friend I'd be. - I'm past need of friends. 28 00:04:48,830 --> 00:04:51,582 Now what's that mean? What are you going to do? 29 00:04:51,708 --> 00:04:53,292 You can't sit here the rest of your life. 30 00:04:53,418 --> 00:04:55,962 I've caused the death of my wife. 31 00:04:56,088 --> 00:04:58,589 I've caused the death of my children. 32 00:04:58,715 --> 00:05:01,008 I have caused the death of Caesar. 33 00:05:01,134 --> 00:05:03,594 What would you have me do now? 34 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,180 What? Run a butcher's shop? 35 00:05:06,306 --> 00:05:09,809 Fine, fine. Sorry I spoke. 36 00:05:09,935 --> 00:05:12,561 Eat your damn porridge. 37 00:05:17,734 --> 00:05:19,819 What sort of woman is she? 38 00:05:19,945 --> 00:05:22,446 - Who? - The Egyptian girl. 39 00:05:22,572 --> 00:05:25,866 Oh, her. I barely met her. 40 00:05:25,993 --> 00:05:29,078 Skinny thing. Talks too much. 41 00:05:29,204 --> 00:05:30,913 Well, she must have something 42 00:05:31,039 --> 00:05:33,165 to lure a cold fish like Caesar. 43 00:05:33,291 --> 00:05:35,126 She's a queen. 44 00:05:35,252 --> 00:05:38,754 Caesar would've fucked Medusa if she'd worn a crown. 45 00:05:40,090 --> 00:05:41,090 You jealous, flower? 46 00:05:41,216 --> 00:05:43,342 Of course. I don't mind your whores, 47 00:05:43,468 --> 00:05:46,012 but I don't want you making love to her sort. 48 00:05:46,138 --> 00:05:48,556 Meaning younger women of higher rank than... 49 00:05:48,682 --> 00:05:50,016 you? 50 00:05:50,142 --> 00:05:52,059 That's a good general rule. 51 00:05:52,185 --> 00:05:53,811 I shall remember it. 52 00:05:53,937 --> 00:05:55,938 I love you. 53 00:06:01,111 --> 00:06:02,445 Antony? 54 00:06:04,740 --> 00:06:06,157 A word, if I may. 55 00:06:06,283 --> 00:06:07,992 What is it, dear boy? 56 00:06:08,118 --> 00:06:10,995 About my money, Caesar's money. 57 00:06:11,121 --> 00:06:12,621 You assured me I'd have it by now. 58 00:06:12,748 --> 00:06:15,958 I'm so sorry. It slipped my mind. I will see to it. 59 00:06:16,084 --> 00:06:18,836 Good, only that is what you've said several times now. 60 00:06:18,962 --> 00:06:21,338 Well, these things take time. 61 00:06:21,465 --> 00:06:24,759 We are talking vast sums of money. 62 00:06:24,885 --> 00:06:29,013 There's a great deal of paperwork and lawyering to be done and... 63 00:06:29,139 --> 00:06:31,307 So when can I expect transfer to my control? 64 00:06:31,433 --> 00:06:32,391 What's the rush? 65 00:06:32,517 --> 00:06:35,311 Some wicked woman giving you the squeeze? 66 00:06:35,437 --> 00:06:37,938 Don't worry. I'll see to it. 67 00:06:45,655 --> 00:06:47,198 Tolerable voyage? 68 00:06:47,324 --> 00:06:50,242 - It was. - Myself... 69 00:06:50,368 --> 00:06:53,537 I cannot abide ships and boats. 70 00:06:53,663 --> 00:06:56,040 Too much like cages, ne? 71 00:06:56,166 --> 00:06:59,126 With the added risk of drowning. 72 00:07:02,297 --> 00:07:04,381 You've changed since we last met. 73 00:07:05,509 --> 00:07:07,927 Have I seen you before? 74 00:07:08,512 --> 00:07:10,679 Yes. 75 00:07:10,806 --> 00:07:14,183 In Alexandria, with Caesar. 76 00:07:14,309 --> 00:07:18,229 It's those uniforms you wear. You all look alike. 77 00:07:18,355 --> 00:07:20,397 When I saw you then, you seemed... 78 00:07:20,524 --> 00:07:21,941 happier. 79 00:07:23,610 --> 00:07:24,568 Is something wrong? 80 00:07:24,694 --> 00:07:28,322 A strange question. Caesar is dead. 81 00:07:29,407 --> 00:07:31,325 He was as a husband to me. 82 00:07:32,869 --> 00:07:35,037 I was as a wife to him. 83 00:07:36,039 --> 00:07:38,833 - I amuse you. - Forgive me. 84 00:07:38,959 --> 00:07:40,960 It's an odd thought. 85 00:07:41,878 --> 00:07:45,673 A Roman consul with a 'Gyptian wife. 86 00:07:45,799 --> 00:07:48,884 - Wouldn't do, you know? - I fail to see why. 87 00:07:49,010 --> 00:07:52,221 I believe we may begin negotiations. 88 00:07:52,347 --> 00:07:54,598 Here is the text of our proposal. 89 00:07:54,724 --> 00:07:57,726 We would read it into the Senate record. 90 00:07:59,813 --> 00:08:02,773 "I Mark Antony, Consul of Rome, 91 00:08:02,899 --> 00:08:05,234 "guarantee that our armies will continue 92 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:08,279 "to protect and preserve the throne of Cleopatra, 93 00:08:08,405 --> 00:08:10,614 "child of Ptolemy, Queen of Egypt, 94 00:08:10,740 --> 00:08:12,783 "mistress of sedge and bee, et cetera." 95 00:08:12,909 --> 00:08:16,162 - What is your price? - Her majesty will guarantee 96 00:08:16,288 --> 00:08:18,706 ten grain shipments a month at the standard rate, 97 00:08:18,832 --> 00:08:23,252 from which revenues the Consul will accept as a personal gift 98 00:08:23,378 --> 00:08:25,629 48,000 denarii a month. 99 00:08:25,755 --> 00:08:27,298 - 35. - 45. 100 00:08:27,424 --> 00:08:29,800 42. 101 00:08:31,094 --> 00:08:34,263 42, delivered on the calends. 102 00:08:39,561 --> 00:08:41,562 Are we done, then? 103 00:08:44,774 --> 00:08:46,901 One more thing. 104 00:08:47,027 --> 00:08:50,279 My son by Caesar is near four years old. 105 00:08:50,906 --> 00:08:53,365 He has begun to ask questions about his father. 106 00:08:53,491 --> 00:08:55,576 How touching. 107 00:08:55,702 --> 00:08:57,661 He's too young to understand now, 108 00:08:57,787 --> 00:08:59,246 but soon I must tell him 109 00:08:59,372 --> 00:09:02,082 that his father's people do not accept him. 110 00:09:03,418 --> 00:09:05,586 Not as a true legal son. 111 00:09:05,712 --> 00:09:08,756 It will never happen. The people wouldn't like it. 112 00:09:08,882 --> 00:09:11,091 We have no political design, 113 00:09:11,927 --> 00:09:14,136 merely the happiness of my boy. 114 00:09:15,680 --> 00:09:19,183 A simple public declaration 115 00:09:19,309 --> 00:09:21,101 of paternity will suffice. 116 00:09:21,228 --> 00:09:23,938 And what would I profit by that? 117 00:09:24,981 --> 00:09:27,358 You would have my eternal gratitude. 118 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:34,114 Promise me... 119 00:09:42,832 --> 00:09:44,792 That's possible. 120 00:09:53,718 --> 00:09:57,554 Declare my boy a lawful son of Caesar, 121 00:09:57,681 --> 00:09:59,139 then we shall be friends. 122 00:09:59,266 --> 00:10:01,141 - You don't trust me? - Not so much. 123 00:10:01,268 --> 00:10:03,560 You have a changeable look about you. 124 00:10:03,687 --> 00:10:05,688 You're mistaken. 125 00:10:05,814 --> 00:10:08,399 Steady as a priest of Saturn, me. 126 00:10:08,525 --> 00:10:09,984 Come now. 127 00:10:12,362 --> 00:10:14,989 It is not permitted to touch. 128 00:10:19,577 --> 00:10:21,787 Nice manners... 129 00:10:21,913 --> 00:10:23,872 for a whore. 130 00:10:32,674 --> 00:10:34,466 If I must prostitute myself 131 00:10:34,592 --> 00:10:37,761 for the good of my country and my family, 132 00:10:37,887 --> 00:10:40,264 I will. 133 00:10:40,390 --> 00:10:43,392 But the customer pays first, does he not? 134 00:10:44,144 --> 00:10:46,437 Your son will eat shit and die 135 00:10:46,563 --> 00:10:48,397 before I make him legal. 136 00:10:50,275 --> 00:10:51,900 You see? 137 00:10:52,027 --> 00:10:53,485 Very changeable. 138 00:10:55,322 --> 00:10:57,740 Sorry we couldn't agree. 139 00:10:57,866 --> 00:11:00,576 Perhaps you'll change your mind. 140 00:11:00,702 --> 00:11:04,580 We'll see you at dinner tomorrow, I believe. 141 00:11:33,276 --> 00:11:35,152 He wasn't Apollo, by no means, 142 00:11:35,278 --> 00:11:38,197 but when Erastes Fulmen was alive 143 00:11:38,323 --> 00:11:40,324 there was peace on the Aventine. 144 00:11:40,450 --> 00:11:44,661 Now every gang in the city's fighting for control of the hill. 145 00:11:44,788 --> 00:11:47,956 Every day there's violence, every day there's... 146 00:11:48,083 --> 00:11:49,750 hoo-ha. 147 00:11:49,876 --> 00:11:52,002 - It's killing commerce. - I will see to it. 148 00:11:52,128 --> 00:11:55,798 And is not commerce the root of civic virtue? 149 00:11:55,924 --> 00:12:00,052 Can Rome long survive if commerce is... 150 00:12:01,137 --> 00:12:02,137 You may go. 151 00:12:07,102 --> 00:12:08,185 Something... 152 00:12:08,311 --> 00:12:10,854 Something must be done on the Aventine. 153 00:12:10,980 --> 00:12:14,066 Yes, yes, I know. I hear of nothing else. 154 00:12:14,192 --> 00:12:16,485 The gangs will not stop fighting of their own accord. 155 00:12:16,611 --> 00:12:18,612 It is too rich a prize. Whoever controls the Aventine 156 00:12:18,738 --> 00:12:20,572 controls the docks and the grain supply... 157 00:12:20,698 --> 00:12:23,033 - I am aware! - The violence will spread. 158 00:12:23,159 --> 00:12:25,494 If it is not stopped, the whole city will swift descend 159 00:12:25,620 --> 00:12:29,665 into chaos and famine and you will be blamed, I'm afraid. 160 00:12:29,791 --> 00:12:32,876 Though it'd be none of your fault, of course. Still... 161 00:12:33,002 --> 00:12:34,586 I will handle it. 162 00:12:35,839 --> 00:12:37,714 Now... 163 00:12:37,841 --> 00:12:38,966 what can I do for you? 164 00:12:39,092 --> 00:12:41,760 - You sent for me. - Oh, yes, that. 165 00:12:41,886 --> 00:12:43,554 Show him. 166 00:12:52,063 --> 00:12:54,982 It appears to be a list of every dishonest rascal in the city. 167 00:12:55,108 --> 00:12:56,608 Very droll. 168 00:12:56,734 --> 00:12:59,069 It is a list of candidates for next year's elections 169 00:12:59,195 --> 00:13:02,573 drawn up by our beloved Caesar just before he was taken from us. 170 00:13:02,699 --> 00:13:05,200 Posca found it amongst his papers. 171 00:13:05,326 --> 00:13:08,954 Another lucky find? You are prodigious, Posca. 172 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:12,124 I want your endorsement of the names. 173 00:13:12,250 --> 00:13:16,253 For the sake of unity and amity, et cetera, et cetera. 174 00:13:16,379 --> 00:13:18,464 Isn't that being just a little too brazen? 175 00:13:18,590 --> 00:13:21,091 Who would believe that Caesar chose such wretches? 176 00:13:21,217 --> 00:13:25,053 Surely you don't think those men paid me to put their names on the list? 177 00:13:25,180 --> 00:13:26,805 Not at all. 178 00:13:26,931 --> 00:13:28,432 I expect they have paid Posca. 179 00:13:28,558 --> 00:13:31,435 - So, what's the problem? - My endorsement will be worthless. 180 00:13:31,561 --> 00:13:34,730 People will merely assume I've been intimidated by you. 181 00:13:34,856 --> 00:13:37,316 - Are you not intimidated? - Not especially. 182 00:13:37,442 --> 00:13:39,610 At present, you cannot afford to kill me. 183 00:13:39,736 --> 00:13:42,070 You need me to run the Senate. 184 00:13:42,197 --> 00:13:44,615 Today, I need you. 185 00:13:44,741 --> 00:13:47,576 - Tomorrow... - Then tomorrow I will worry. 186 00:13:47,702 --> 00:13:50,787 Today, I suggest you let me strike the worst scoundrels off this list. 187 00:13:50,914 --> 00:13:52,414 Then I will endorse it. 188 00:13:52,540 --> 00:13:55,375 Fine, fine. Do as you like. 189 00:13:56,211 --> 00:13:58,086 A pleasure as always. 190 00:14:02,258 --> 00:14:04,510 Next there is a delegation... 191 00:14:04,636 --> 00:14:07,763 No, enough. Enough of this. Call my guard. 192 00:14:07,889 --> 00:14:09,431 Immediately. Before you go, 193 00:14:09,557 --> 00:14:12,142 if I might raise the matter of my recompense and commission? 194 00:14:12,268 --> 00:14:15,395 No! No, you might not, you wretched Greek thief! 195 00:14:15,522 --> 00:14:17,356 Money, money, money. 196 00:14:17,482 --> 00:14:20,108 I'm surrounded by money-grubbers. 197 00:14:25,365 --> 00:14:27,574 Mark Antony, sir! It's me, sir! 198 00:14:27,700 --> 00:14:29,284 Titus Pullo of the 13th! 199 00:14:29,410 --> 00:14:30,994 Legionary Pullo? 200 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:32,621 Hold it. Let him through. 201 00:14:32,747 --> 00:14:34,456 Sir! 202 00:14:34,582 --> 00:14:35,958 What are you doing here? 203 00:14:36,084 --> 00:14:39,169 Requiring advice and counsel regarding Lucius Vorenus, sir. 204 00:14:39,295 --> 00:14:41,171 Go on. 205 00:14:41,297 --> 00:14:42,965 He has gone awry, sir. 206 00:14:43,091 --> 00:14:46,301 I don't know what's to be done with him. 207 00:14:50,890 --> 00:14:53,809 Vorenus! Officers afoot! 208 00:14:53,935 --> 00:14:56,770 Centurion Vorenus. 209 00:14:56,896 --> 00:14:59,523 - As was. - Sir? 210 00:15:03,069 --> 00:15:05,529 Look at the fucking state of you. 211 00:15:05,655 --> 00:15:08,156 - It's mourning dress, sir... - Mourning? 212 00:15:08,283 --> 00:15:10,617 You may well mourn. 213 00:15:10,743 --> 00:15:12,369 Caesar is dead, 214 00:15:12,495 --> 00:15:15,330 and it was you as good as held the knife. 215 00:15:15,456 --> 00:15:18,500 Stand to fucking attention when I'm talking to you! 216 00:15:22,547 --> 00:15:26,633 You know that your name is disgraced forever? 217 00:15:26,759 --> 00:15:29,553 I do, sir. 218 00:15:29,679 --> 00:15:32,097 "I do, sir." 219 00:15:33,975 --> 00:15:36,768 Why, then, are you still alive? 220 00:15:41,858 --> 00:15:45,110 Why have you not done your damn duty 221 00:15:45,236 --> 00:15:47,946 and opened your stomach? 222 00:15:49,490 --> 00:15:52,034 I would like that above all things, sir. 223 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:55,579 But Dis is my master, 224 00:15:55,705 --> 00:15:57,956 and he will take me when he chooses. 225 00:16:00,084 --> 00:16:04,087 At present, he wishes me to suffer here on this earth. 226 00:16:06,549 --> 00:16:09,551 You are wrong, Centurion. 227 00:16:10,887 --> 00:16:13,722 Dis is not your master. 228 00:16:15,725 --> 00:16:18,393 I am your master. 229 00:16:19,354 --> 00:16:22,648 By sacred oath under the standards 230 00:16:22,774 --> 00:16:24,316 of the 13th. 231 00:16:24,442 --> 00:16:25,942 Sir. 232 00:16:41,167 --> 00:16:44,378 And this, I take it, was Erastes Fulmen. 233 00:16:44,504 --> 00:16:45,837 I told him to get rid, 234 00:16:45,963 --> 00:16:48,632 but it calms him to look at the thing. 235 00:16:48,758 --> 00:16:51,510 Not content to let our great father die, 236 00:16:51,636 --> 00:16:54,137 you start a damn war on the Aventine 237 00:16:54,263 --> 00:16:57,933 that threatens to engulf the whole fucking city. 238 00:17:06,734 --> 00:17:08,402 Now... 239 00:17:14,117 --> 00:17:17,828 would you like a chance to redeem yourself, Centurion? 240 00:17:22,625 --> 00:17:24,793 There's no redemption. 241 00:17:28,297 --> 00:17:31,299 No man is beyond redemption, Lucius. 242 00:17:36,848 --> 00:17:38,849 Not even you. 243 00:17:53,906 --> 00:17:55,782 And so? 244 00:18:00,246 --> 00:18:01,163 And so? 245 00:18:01,289 --> 00:18:03,248 The Egyptian girl. Tell all. 246 00:18:03,374 --> 00:18:05,375 Well, she was naked 247 00:18:05,501 --> 00:18:07,461 before the priests had left the room. 248 00:18:07,587 --> 00:18:09,838 I had to call my people to pull her off me. 249 00:18:10,965 --> 00:18:12,340 Seriously. 250 00:18:12,467 --> 00:18:13,800 She was in mourning. 251 00:18:13,926 --> 00:18:17,637 She was very grey and formal. 252 00:18:17,764 --> 00:18:19,014 She was quite the little mouse. 253 00:18:19,140 --> 00:18:22,017 On Jupiter's stone? 254 00:18:22,143 --> 00:18:23,685 On Juno's cunt. 255 00:18:24,771 --> 00:18:28,356 Nothing at all interesting happened. 256 00:18:28,483 --> 00:18:31,902 Oh, she did ask me to formally recognize 257 00:18:32,028 --> 00:18:33,945 her bastard as Caesar's son. 258 00:18:34,071 --> 00:18:35,739 Blasted impudence! 259 00:18:35,865 --> 00:18:38,033 You refused, of course. 260 00:18:38,159 --> 00:18:39,785 Octavian is the only... 261 00:18:39,911 --> 00:18:41,953 Yes, yes, of course I refused. 262 00:18:42,079 --> 00:18:44,289 Which set off a great flood 263 00:18:44,415 --> 00:18:46,708 of royal whining. 264 00:18:49,170 --> 00:18:51,755 No, it's been a pig of a day all around. 265 00:18:51,881 --> 00:18:55,342 Running this damn city isn't nearly as amusing as I thought it would be. 266 00:18:55,468 --> 00:18:56,468 Poor lamb. 267 00:18:58,137 --> 00:18:59,596 More tedium to follow 268 00:18:59,722 --> 00:19:01,932 at this damn dinner tomorrow, no doubt. 269 00:19:02,892 --> 00:19:04,768 Is Servilia coming, by any chance? 270 00:19:04,894 --> 00:19:05,977 Yes. 271 00:19:07,271 --> 00:19:09,564 Good. 272 00:19:12,860 --> 00:19:15,111 Have you ever been bitten 273 00:19:15,238 --> 00:19:17,572 by a moray eel? 274 00:19:17,698 --> 00:19:18,949 I should think not. 275 00:20:10,751 --> 00:20:12,878 Where's your mother? 276 00:20:16,883 --> 00:20:19,885 - Something wrong? - Possibly. 277 00:20:26,642 --> 00:20:29,644 Juno's mercy. What's she doing here? 278 00:20:29,770 --> 00:20:32,731 I suppose Antony wants a show of unity 279 00:20:32,857 --> 00:20:34,691 for the Egyptians. 280 00:20:34,817 --> 00:20:37,652 Servilia, my love, it's good of you to come. 281 00:20:38,112 --> 00:20:41,531 I am here under protest. Mark Antony's insistence. 282 00:20:41,657 --> 00:20:44,367 He's a terrible bully, isn't he? 283 00:20:44,493 --> 00:20:46,578 You must be very scared. 284 00:20:46,704 --> 00:20:48,580 Not in the slightest. 285 00:20:48,706 --> 00:20:51,124 Well, you need have no fear of me. 286 00:20:51,250 --> 00:20:53,835 I wish you no harm, truly. 287 00:20:53,961 --> 00:20:57,297 It's enough for me to know that I have won and you've been humbled. 288 00:20:57,423 --> 00:20:58,924 We've both suffered enough. 289 00:20:59,050 --> 00:21:01,509 You are mocking me, I believe. 290 00:21:01,636 --> 00:21:05,221 Not at all. I'm offering you friendship 291 00:21:05,348 --> 00:21:07,098 and reconciliation. 292 00:21:07,975 --> 00:21:09,976 What do you say? 293 00:21:10,102 --> 00:21:12,854 Two friends together? 294 00:21:16,525 --> 00:21:18,777 I cannot honorably refuse. 295 00:21:18,903 --> 00:21:20,904 I'm so happy. 296 00:21:24,742 --> 00:21:26,368 Kiss me, my dear. 297 00:21:31,415 --> 00:21:33,375 Enjoy the party. 298 00:21:38,881 --> 00:21:41,967 Did you see the look on her face? Priceless. 299 00:21:42,093 --> 00:21:45,553 Mother, I saw Timon and some of his men in the yard. 300 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:47,430 Knife-and-hatchet men. 301 00:21:47,556 --> 00:21:49,808 - So? - I was wondering what they're doing here. 302 00:21:49,934 --> 00:21:51,935 Security, what else? 303 00:21:52,061 --> 00:21:54,729 Their obvious purpose would be the abduction and killing of Servilia 304 00:21:54,855 --> 00:21:57,148 - as she leaves this evening. - That's absurd. 305 00:21:57,274 --> 00:21:59,943 There's a truce ratified by priests. 306 00:22:00,069 --> 00:22:02,195 - You can't harm her. - A truce? Priests? 307 00:22:02,321 --> 00:22:03,613 You think that bitch cares? 308 00:22:03,739 --> 00:22:07,117 Mother, there is more at stake here than your desire for vengeance. 309 00:22:07,243 --> 00:22:09,786 The political situation is extremely delicate. 310 00:22:09,912 --> 00:22:11,788 Her death would throw the Republic into uproar. 311 00:22:11,914 --> 00:22:14,582 - I don't care. - You're being childish. 312 00:22:14,709 --> 00:22:16,710 Does Antony know of this? 313 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:19,421 Of course he does. 314 00:22:20,464 --> 00:22:23,800 All right, he doesn't, obviously. And don't you dare tell him. 315 00:22:24,427 --> 00:22:26,511 I'm sorry, Mother. 316 00:22:26,637 --> 00:22:28,096 You little bastard. 317 00:22:40,860 --> 00:22:44,112 I won't be needing you. You can go now. 318 00:22:47,658 --> 00:22:50,910 Where is your damned Egyptian? It's time to serve dinner. 319 00:22:51,037 --> 00:22:53,496 I have a good mind to cancel the whole damn thing. 320 00:22:53,622 --> 00:22:56,499 Don't sulk, you know you're in the wrong. 321 00:23:07,470 --> 00:23:09,846 Just as you described her. 322 00:23:09,972 --> 00:23:12,849 Quite the little mouse. 323 00:23:19,482 --> 00:23:21,691 Cleopatra Philopator, 324 00:23:21,817 --> 00:23:25,278 mistress of sedge and bee, 325 00:23:25,404 --> 00:23:27,697 queen of both upper and lower kingdoms. 326 00:23:27,823 --> 00:23:29,699 Please... 327 00:23:30,743 --> 00:23:32,410 We shall be informal. 328 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:37,624 We shall act as if we were all equals. 329 00:23:38,834 --> 00:23:42,545 It's much more fun that way, don't you think? 330 00:23:42,671 --> 00:23:47,133 Now, who are all these lovely people? 331 00:23:49,053 --> 00:23:50,720 Our hostess, 332 00:23:50,846 --> 00:23:52,639 Atia of the Julii. 333 00:23:53,641 --> 00:23:54,724 Atia. 334 00:23:54,850 --> 00:23:56,518 Your Highness. 335 00:23:57,436 --> 00:23:59,062 Nice... 336 00:23:59,188 --> 00:24:00,814 just as you said. 337 00:24:04,485 --> 00:24:06,027 Come here, boy. 338 00:24:08,656 --> 00:24:12,283 This is my darling Caesarion. 339 00:24:13,494 --> 00:24:17,122 Does he not look exactly like his noble father? 340 00:24:18,332 --> 00:24:19,582 Uncanny. 341 00:24:19,708 --> 00:24:22,460 Looks nothing like him. 342 00:24:25,047 --> 00:24:26,798 Shall we eat? 343 00:25:35,117 --> 00:25:37,327 You're back. I thought you'd be late. 344 00:25:37,453 --> 00:25:39,495 - Here I am. - You'll never guess... 345 00:25:43,125 --> 00:25:45,501 - Tevye! - Levi? 346 00:25:45,628 --> 00:25:47,837 Release me now, children. Let me hug your father. 347 00:25:47,963 --> 00:25:49,297 Why are you here? 348 00:25:49,423 --> 00:25:51,216 So happy to see your brother. 349 00:25:51,342 --> 00:25:52,759 You gave me a start, that's all. 350 00:25:52,885 --> 00:25:55,345 I'm very happy to see you. You could've written. 351 00:25:55,471 --> 00:25:56,763 Forgive me. 352 00:25:56,889 --> 00:25:59,265 I caught a ship on the tide's turn. Here I am. 353 00:25:59,391 --> 00:26:01,768 Look at you! How long's it been? Eight years? 354 00:26:01,894 --> 00:26:03,895 Nine. What brings you here? 355 00:26:04,021 --> 00:26:07,315 My partners and I are setting up a new business. 356 00:26:07,441 --> 00:26:08,900 I'm to run the office here. 357 00:26:09,026 --> 00:26:11,361 - You'll be staying a while, then? - If you'll have me. 358 00:26:11,487 --> 00:26:13,529 Of course. Our house is your house. 359 00:26:13,656 --> 00:26:15,365 Why haven't you made him dinner? 360 00:26:15,491 --> 00:26:17,283 No, that's all right. I'm not hungry. 361 00:26:17,409 --> 00:26:18,534 We're not kosher. 362 00:26:18,661 --> 00:26:21,704 Already we're not good enough? 363 00:26:21,830 --> 00:26:25,166 - Well, have some wine at least. - Now you're talking. 364 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:27,710 So, you're still in spices? 365 00:26:27,836 --> 00:26:30,380 Spices, cloth, oil. Thank you. 366 00:26:30,506 --> 00:26:34,884 - Goes well, I hope? - Oh, up, down, up, down. 367 00:26:35,010 --> 00:26:36,636 It goes. 368 00:26:37,596 --> 00:26:40,306 And you? Deborah tells me you're doing very well. 369 00:26:40,432 --> 00:26:42,475 Oh, up, down. 370 00:26:45,521 --> 00:26:47,355 Horses? 371 00:26:49,024 --> 00:26:50,900 Horses. 372 00:26:54,863 --> 00:26:57,949 Consul, farewell. 373 00:26:58,075 --> 00:27:00,493 Your vassal queen shall weep 374 00:27:00,619 --> 00:27:02,704 till she sees you again. 375 00:27:02,830 --> 00:27:06,332 I shall see you soon, then, I hope. 376 00:27:06,458 --> 00:27:07,917 Atia, 377 00:27:08,043 --> 00:27:11,004 I have made a friend for life. 378 00:27:11,130 --> 00:27:12,213 I feel it. 379 00:27:13,299 --> 00:27:14,507 Indeed. 380 00:27:16,719 --> 00:27:17,802 Kiss me. 381 00:27:22,516 --> 00:27:25,518 Die screaming, you pig-spawn trollop. 382 00:27:28,355 --> 00:27:30,898 Safe journey, Your Highness. 383 00:27:41,118 --> 00:27:42,327 Well, I'm glad that's... 384 00:27:42,453 --> 00:27:46,581 Party's over! Everybody can go home now! 385 00:28:06,602 --> 00:28:09,687 So tell me the truth now. 386 00:28:09,813 --> 00:28:11,147 Why are you here? 387 00:28:11,273 --> 00:28:13,066 I told you, I'm just setting up a new business. 388 00:28:13,192 --> 00:28:16,986 You hate Rome. You hate Romans. 389 00:28:17,112 --> 00:28:19,697 How many times did you tell me what scum they are? 390 00:28:19,823 --> 00:28:22,909 Vile oppressors, Babylonian whores. 391 00:28:23,035 --> 00:28:26,079 And now you've come to live amongst them. I don't think so. 392 00:28:26,205 --> 00:28:29,248 Business is business. This is where the money is. 393 00:28:34,421 --> 00:28:38,299 Things were getting a little hot for me in Jerusalem. 394 00:28:38,425 --> 00:28:39,926 Better I leave for a while. 395 00:28:40,052 --> 00:28:42,303 - Things? What things? - Politics. 396 00:28:43,597 --> 00:28:45,264 Nothing serious. 397 00:28:45,391 --> 00:28:47,058 Maybe I spoke a little too freely. 398 00:28:47,184 --> 00:28:50,311 - Oh, brother. - How is a man to stay silent? 399 00:28:50,437 --> 00:28:53,356 Our so-called leaders lick the boots of Roman soldiers. 400 00:28:53,482 --> 00:28:55,608 - The Pharisees are... - You listen to me. 401 00:28:55,734 --> 00:28:58,945 You're in Rome now. In my house. I've a wife and children to think of. 402 00:28:59,071 --> 00:29:01,489 You keep that cack to yourself. Do you hear me? 403 00:29:04,118 --> 00:29:05,827 I hear you. 404 00:29:08,664 --> 00:29:10,665 All right, then. 405 00:29:13,001 --> 00:29:15,002 Hold him down. 406 00:29:25,013 --> 00:29:26,514 Take him out. 407 00:29:31,937 --> 00:29:33,604 He's dead. 408 00:29:56,545 --> 00:29:58,921 Would you do me a small favor? 409 00:29:59,047 --> 00:30:00,965 Go back and tell my friend 410 00:30:01,091 --> 00:30:03,259 that I have given up trying to reason with him. 411 00:30:03,385 --> 00:30:06,345 Everything on the Aventine above Persephone's Oak 412 00:30:06,472 --> 00:30:08,181 is my territory now. 413 00:30:08,307 --> 00:30:09,765 If he touches any man of mine again, 414 00:30:09,892 --> 00:30:13,102 there's a grave danger that I will become irate, and if I do... 415 00:30:13,228 --> 00:30:16,481 Captains and men of the collegia. 416 00:30:17,733 --> 00:30:19,775 Under the auspices of Mother Concord, 417 00:30:19,902 --> 00:30:22,778 a sanctified truce is declared. 418 00:30:22,905 --> 00:30:27,408 Violence shall cease until the waxing of the moon. 419 00:30:29,244 --> 00:30:30,953 At the sixth hour 420 00:30:31,079 --> 00:30:33,623 all captains are summoned 421 00:30:33,749 --> 00:30:35,416 to attend a parley 422 00:30:35,542 --> 00:30:38,252 at the Aventine collegium. 423 00:31:34,851 --> 00:31:36,477 What the fuck's all this, then? 424 00:31:36,603 --> 00:31:39,689 - I don't know. - Who called a parley? 425 00:31:39,815 --> 00:31:42,316 - Nobody knows. - The priest must know. 426 00:31:42,442 --> 00:31:44,735 - You can't talk to a priest of Concord. - Why not? 427 00:31:44,861 --> 00:31:47,697 Because you can't, you fucking savage. 428 00:31:48,824 --> 00:31:50,658 Foreigners. 429 00:31:53,787 --> 00:31:55,997 What's going on? 430 00:32:14,016 --> 00:32:16,267 My name is Lucius Vorenus. 431 00:32:16,393 --> 00:32:19,270 I speak to you under the authorization 432 00:32:19,396 --> 00:32:22,231 of Mark Antony, Consul of Rome. 433 00:32:22,357 --> 00:32:25,776 Captains, follow me. 434 00:32:25,902 --> 00:32:29,030 You'll hear something to your benefit. 435 00:32:30,282 --> 00:32:32,074 Come on, then. 436 00:32:54,222 --> 00:32:56,390 Consul Mark Antony declares your contest 437 00:32:56,516 --> 00:32:58,434 for control of the Aventine is finished. 438 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,312 - All violence will cease. - He can declare what he likes. 439 00:33:01,438 --> 00:33:02,563 It doesn't make it so. 440 00:33:02,689 --> 00:33:04,899 As killer of Erastes Fulmen, 441 00:33:05,025 --> 00:33:07,902 I claim his captaincy of the Aventine collegium 442 00:33:08,028 --> 00:33:09,945 as my rightful spoils. 443 00:33:10,072 --> 00:33:12,114 The Aventine is now mine. 444 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,992 - You can't do that. - Yet here I am. 445 00:33:15,118 --> 00:33:18,120 You can have this old rat's nest if you like, but you've got no men. 446 00:33:18,246 --> 00:33:20,748 They're all dead or run away. 447 00:33:20,874 --> 00:33:22,291 I'll find men. 448 00:33:22,417 --> 00:33:24,293 Rome has no shortage of criminal scum. 449 00:33:24,419 --> 00:33:26,671 Maybe I'll take some of yours. 450 00:33:26,797 --> 00:33:29,173 Brothers, remember the lady. 451 00:33:30,634 --> 00:33:32,802 We all know of you, Lucius Vorenus. 452 00:33:32,928 --> 00:33:36,639 We know you're a man of gravity and we're duly respectful. 453 00:33:36,765 --> 00:33:39,266 You would do well to return that respect. 454 00:33:39,393 --> 00:33:42,061 I can't do that, but I can give you coin instead. 455 00:33:42,187 --> 00:33:44,146 Once order is restored, 456 00:33:44,272 --> 00:33:48,067 all collegia will receive a monthly stipend of 5,000 denarii 457 00:33:48,193 --> 00:33:51,153 directly from Consul Mark Antony under my supervision. 458 00:33:51,279 --> 00:33:52,238 In return, 459 00:33:52,364 --> 00:33:55,991 he expects you will limit yourself to your traditional liberties and malpractices. 460 00:33:56,118 --> 00:33:58,994 Nothing that will disrupt trade or politics. 461 00:33:59,121 --> 00:34:00,496 Anything else? 462 00:34:00,622 --> 00:34:03,082 Naturally, should there be civil violence, 463 00:34:03,208 --> 00:34:05,501 you and your people will be called upon 464 00:34:05,627 --> 00:34:08,796 to defend the rights of the Consul. 465 00:34:08,922 --> 00:34:11,298 I require your acknowledgement 466 00:34:11,425 --> 00:34:13,676 and acceptance of these terms. 467 00:34:13,802 --> 00:34:15,594 5,000 denarii... 468 00:34:16,805 --> 00:34:18,055 that's not bad. 469 00:34:18,181 --> 00:34:19,223 In cash or grain? 470 00:34:19,349 --> 00:34:21,267 - As you like. - Are you women? 471 00:34:21,393 --> 00:34:25,646 One bark from this red dog and you bend your neck. 472 00:34:25,772 --> 00:34:26,981 What's your name? 473 00:34:27,107 --> 00:34:29,525 Gaius Ignus Acerbo, 474 00:34:29,651 --> 00:34:31,694 Captain of the Oppian colleges. 475 00:34:31,820 --> 00:34:36,490 Tell us, why would sane and respectable men like ourselves 476 00:34:36,616 --> 00:34:41,787 do business with a poor, cursed, hounded beast like you? 477 00:34:42,789 --> 00:34:45,750 Gaius Ignus Acerbo, 478 00:34:45,876 --> 00:34:48,085 you ask a fair question. 479 00:34:48,211 --> 00:34:52,089 Those of you who will not do business with me are my enemy. 480 00:34:52,841 --> 00:34:53,841 And so? 481 00:34:53,967 --> 00:34:56,218 They will die much sooner than they expect. 482 00:34:56,344 --> 00:34:58,554 Steady on. Remember blessed Concord. 483 00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:00,389 No menaces. 484 00:35:04,853 --> 00:35:06,812 Concord. 485 00:35:46,269 --> 00:35:49,438 I am a son of Hades! 486 00:35:50,607 --> 00:35:54,068 I fuck Concord in her arse! 487 00:36:07,165 --> 00:36:09,792 - The truce is raised! - Brother! 488 00:36:16,675 --> 00:36:18,926 Acerbo, will you do business with me? 489 00:36:24,975 --> 00:36:26,141 Yes, it's funny, isn't it? 490 00:36:26,309 --> 00:36:30,646 I warn you, woman, another word about that damn girl and I will... 491 00:36:30,772 --> 00:36:33,148 You will what? What will you do? 492 00:36:36,236 --> 00:36:38,320 Fighting again? 493 00:36:38,446 --> 00:36:40,489 How tiresome. 494 00:36:40,615 --> 00:36:43,659 I never touched that woman! 495 00:36:43,785 --> 00:36:46,328 So you keep saying. 496 00:36:46,454 --> 00:36:49,456 - Good morning. - Good morning. 497 00:36:55,672 --> 00:36:57,339 Antony, about my money... 498 00:36:57,465 --> 00:36:59,717 Oh, gods beneath us. I... 499 00:36:59,843 --> 00:37:02,887 - Not now, Octavian. - Has the matter moved forward at all? 500 00:37:03,013 --> 00:37:05,306 Tell me, boy, if I did give you the money, 501 00:37:05,432 --> 00:37:09,268 what on Gaia's great arse would you do with it? 502 00:37:09,394 --> 00:37:10,352 That's a complex question, 503 00:37:10,478 --> 00:37:13,898 but I'd certainly start by giving the plebs the money that Caesar promised them. 504 00:37:14,024 --> 00:37:15,357 Then you're a fool. 505 00:37:15,483 --> 00:37:18,277 Basic politics, lad. 506 00:37:18,403 --> 00:37:21,697 Once they have the money and spend it, 507 00:37:21,823 --> 00:37:23,866 then they will want more money. 508 00:37:23,992 --> 00:37:25,659 And what are you gonna do then? 509 00:37:25,785 --> 00:37:28,454 I was afraid you'd take this attitude, so I've engaged a lawyer. 510 00:37:28,580 --> 00:37:30,122 A lawyer. 511 00:37:30,248 --> 00:37:33,500 He can help Posca expedite the delay in transferring the money to me. 512 00:37:33,627 --> 00:37:35,836 What were you thinking? Antony's family. 513 00:37:35,962 --> 00:37:37,880 He's not, actually. 514 00:37:38,006 --> 00:37:39,548 All right, boy, 515 00:37:39,674 --> 00:37:41,884 you can tell your lawyer 516 00:37:42,010 --> 00:37:44,386 to shove a taper up his arse 517 00:37:44,512 --> 00:37:45,971 and set himself alight. 518 00:37:46,097 --> 00:37:49,433 You'll not get one brass obol of that money. 519 00:37:49,559 --> 00:37:50,643 Nothing. 520 00:37:50,769 --> 00:37:53,187 Come on, my love. 521 00:37:56,399 --> 00:37:59,276 Brother, will you pass the fruit salad? 522 00:38:03,198 --> 00:38:04,698 See what you've done? 523 00:38:04,824 --> 00:38:06,951 I'm sorry if I've disturbed your love affair. 524 00:38:07,077 --> 00:38:09,036 - I merely... - Oh, shut up, you fool. 525 00:38:09,162 --> 00:38:10,913 Love affair be damned. 526 00:38:11,039 --> 00:38:15,084 You will apologize and promise to stop all this talk about money. 527 00:38:15,210 --> 00:38:18,545 Tell him that you're perfectly happy for him to administer Caesar's estate. 528 00:38:18,672 --> 00:38:21,340 - But I'm not happy. - Do you think I am? 529 00:38:21,466 --> 00:38:23,884 What choice do we have? 530 00:38:24,010 --> 00:38:27,054 Don't you see we're dependent on Antony now? 531 00:38:28,223 --> 00:38:30,432 Who will protect us if you drive him away from me? Who? 532 00:38:30,558 --> 00:38:33,686 - I'm perfectly capable. - Please don't. 533 00:38:33,812 --> 00:38:37,022 Mark Antony buggers boys like you for a morning snack. 534 00:38:38,358 --> 00:38:41,235 You will apologize, and there's an end on it. 535 00:38:46,449 --> 00:38:48,617 There's not enough figs in this salad. 536 00:39:10,390 --> 00:39:12,141 That's enough! 537 00:39:12,267 --> 00:39:14,727 Vai. Vai! 538 00:39:14,853 --> 00:39:17,771 Off with you! Vai! 539 00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:21,400 Thank you, sir. 540 00:39:24,446 --> 00:39:27,322 Please, sir, I need work. 541 00:39:27,449 --> 00:39:29,158 I'll do anything. 542 00:39:30,410 --> 00:39:32,953 I'll suck your cock. 543 00:39:34,247 --> 00:39:37,750 Why are you making all this fuss over the money? 544 00:39:37,876 --> 00:39:39,752 It was obvious he'd never give it to you. 545 00:39:39,878 --> 00:39:43,088 All you're doing is making Mother anxious. 546 00:39:44,466 --> 00:39:45,841 Sister, 547 00:39:45,967 --> 00:39:49,261 you must promise me never to speak of what I tell you now. 548 00:39:49,387 --> 00:39:50,596 Oh, gods. 549 00:39:53,558 --> 00:39:55,476 I promise. 550 00:39:56,811 --> 00:39:59,563 The Republic is on the brink of an abyss. 551 00:39:59,689 --> 00:40:02,399 Antony... Antony's a destructive brute. 552 00:40:02,525 --> 00:40:04,651 The Senate is weak and cowardly, 553 00:40:04,778 --> 00:40:07,696 and the plebs are roiling in want and anger. 554 00:40:07,822 --> 00:40:10,240 Rome is in need of new leadership. 555 00:40:10,366 --> 00:40:12,367 I can provide that leadership. 556 00:40:12,494 --> 00:40:15,329 Now, I already have several initiatives un... 557 00:40:28,176 --> 00:40:31,845 It'll come to no good, this Hades business. 558 00:40:31,971 --> 00:40:35,432 Worked though, didn't it? The bastards fell into line. 559 00:40:35,558 --> 00:40:37,643 You scared the fuck out of them right enough, 560 00:40:37,769 --> 00:40:39,937 but that's not the point. 561 00:40:40,063 --> 00:40:42,022 You're no son of Hades. You're a mortal man. 562 00:40:42,148 --> 00:40:44,024 The gods don't like this sort of shit from mortal men. 563 00:40:44,150 --> 00:40:47,236 I'm following the orders of a consul of Rome, my master by oath, 564 00:40:47,362 --> 00:40:52,282 for the sake of peace and public order, for the good of the Republic. 565 00:40:54,619 --> 00:40:56,411 Are you with me or not? 566 00:40:58,581 --> 00:41:00,624 I'm with you. 567 00:41:15,140 --> 00:41:19,101 By grace of Jupiter, Gaius Octavian Caesar, 568 00:41:19,227 --> 00:41:21,854 lawful son of Gaius Julius Caesar, 569 00:41:21,980 --> 00:41:23,856 makes this his pledge 570 00:41:23,982 --> 00:41:26,441 that he personally will fulfil the terms 571 00:41:26,568 --> 00:41:31,113 of his beloved father's bequest to the people. 572 00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:34,491 In the fields of Mars next nine days, 573 00:41:34,617 --> 00:41:37,870 all eligible citizens and soldiers 574 00:41:37,996 --> 00:41:41,081 will receive 300 sestertii 575 00:41:41,207 --> 00:41:44,543 from the hands of Octavian Caesar himself! 576 00:41:45,336 --> 00:41:49,840 Let it be known that Caesar's son has sold away 577 00:41:49,966 --> 00:41:51,675 all his own property 578 00:41:51,801 --> 00:41:53,844 to honor his father's wishes. 579 00:41:53,970 --> 00:41:58,015 May such piety bring blessings upon him. 580 00:41:59,684 --> 00:42:02,769 - What have you done? - Wake up! 581 00:42:04,189 --> 00:42:05,606 Wake up at once! 582 00:42:05,732 --> 00:42:07,107 What is the meaning of this? 583 00:42:07,233 --> 00:42:08,525 - What? - The money! 584 00:42:08,651 --> 00:42:10,611 You're giving the plebs their money! 585 00:42:11,196 --> 00:42:13,655 Is it so late already? 586 00:42:14,741 --> 00:42:15,991 I've overslept. 587 00:42:16,117 --> 00:42:18,285 I don't care. What about the money? 588 00:42:18,411 --> 00:42:20,329 I've promised it. 589 00:42:20,455 --> 00:42:22,247 I'm sorry I didn't tell you before now. 590 00:42:22,373 --> 00:42:25,292 But I knew you'd object. 591 00:42:25,418 --> 00:42:27,336 I've decided to enter public life. 592 00:42:27,462 --> 00:42:30,881 This seemed the best way to introduce myself to the people. 593 00:42:31,007 --> 00:42:35,093 That will be seen as a direct challenge to me. 594 00:42:35,220 --> 00:42:38,430 Yes, but that isn't my intention at all. 595 00:42:38,556 --> 00:42:41,892 I suggest we make a public display of unity to quash such notions. 596 00:42:42,018 --> 00:42:44,311 A public display of unity! 597 00:42:44,437 --> 00:42:47,814 It makes sense. Our interests are conjoined. 598 00:42:47,941 --> 00:42:50,525 While you are consul, my name will lend weight to yours. 599 00:42:50,652 --> 00:42:52,236 And when your consulship is over, 600 00:42:52,362 --> 00:42:54,655 and you retire from politics as you have promised, 601 00:42:54,781 --> 00:42:56,907 I will step in as leader of the Caesarian party. 602 00:42:57,033 --> 00:42:58,242 I see. 603 00:42:58,368 --> 00:43:01,119 You will need protection from your enemies in the Senate, 604 00:43:01,246 --> 00:43:03,664 and I can provide that. 605 00:43:06,584 --> 00:43:09,294 Just who the fuck do you think you are? 606 00:43:09,420 --> 00:43:12,631 - I'm Caesar's rightful heir. - Now just stay calm. 607 00:43:12,757 --> 00:43:16,218 He doesn't have the money, so he can't give it away, can he? 608 00:43:16,344 --> 00:43:17,844 This is all just childish talk. 609 00:43:17,971 --> 00:43:19,680 The money is legally mine. 610 00:43:19,806 --> 00:43:22,057 I was able to borrow against it. 611 00:43:22,183 --> 00:43:24,601 - Borrow? - Borrow? 612 00:43:24,727 --> 00:43:26,561 How much did you borrow? 613 00:43:26,688 --> 00:43:30,232 It's not so much in the great scheme of things. 614 00:43:30,358 --> 00:43:31,858 How much? 615 00:43:32,527 --> 00:43:34,194 Three million sestertii. 616 00:43:35,071 --> 00:43:37,531 Juno's cunt! 617 00:43:43,663 --> 00:43:47,207 You stupid, stupid boy! 618 00:43:49,210 --> 00:43:51,211 You... 619 00:44:06,269 --> 00:44:08,061 You stupid little shit! 620 00:44:08,187 --> 00:44:09,771 Fucking whore! 621 00:44:18,531 --> 00:44:19,948 Apologize! Apologize. 622 00:44:20,074 --> 00:44:21,658 That's it, now. Just leave it now. 623 00:44:21,784 --> 00:44:23,952 - Apologize! - No! 624 00:44:26,789 --> 00:44:29,541 No, enough. 625 00:44:37,550 --> 00:44:39,051 Little fuck. 626 00:44:43,723 --> 00:44:45,599 Antony! 627 00:44:46,601 --> 00:44:48,810 Stop it! 628 00:44:48,936 --> 00:44:50,604 Antony, leave him! 629 00:44:52,148 --> 00:44:54,316 Leave him. Leave him. Leave him. Look at me! 630 00:44:54,442 --> 00:44:56,693 Look at me! Look at me! 631 00:44:56,819 --> 00:44:58,737 Stop it! 632 00:44:58,863 --> 00:45:00,238 Stop it. 633 00:45:00,365 --> 00:45:02,324 Juno's mercy! 634 00:45:03,284 --> 00:45:05,786 What's the matter with you? 635 00:45:06,788 --> 00:45:08,497 You're lucky you're breathing! 636 00:45:08,623 --> 00:45:10,207 - Do you hear me, boy? - Come on. 637 00:45:10,333 --> 00:45:12,667 - You're lucky you're breathing! - Animal! 638 00:45:12,794 --> 00:45:14,711 You're not fit to lead Rome! 639 00:45:31,062 --> 00:45:32,396 Who are you, then? 640 00:45:34,148 --> 00:45:37,526 Slave of the college brothel over by three bells. 641 00:45:37,652 --> 00:45:39,694 Sorry, love, we've plenty of whores. 642 00:45:39,821 --> 00:45:42,322 No, I'm no whore. 643 00:45:43,449 --> 00:45:44,533 You gonna make me guess? 644 00:45:44,659 --> 00:45:49,621 Supervisor. I handle the girls, keep the customers in line. 645 00:45:49,747 --> 00:45:50,914 Name? 646 00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:52,624 Romans call me Gaia. 647 00:45:52,750 --> 00:45:55,210 What do your own people call you? 648 00:45:55,336 --> 00:45:58,130 - Not your business. - Fair enough. 649 00:45:58,256 --> 00:46:01,049 I get my own room, I eat what I want. 650 00:46:01,175 --> 00:46:04,344 Every 500 coins that comes through the brothel, I get one. 651 00:46:04,470 --> 00:46:07,222 - Saving up to buy your freedom, are you? - No. 652 00:46:07,348 --> 00:46:08,723 A fur coat. 653 00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:13,770 Sign her up. 654 00:46:14,981 --> 00:46:16,314 Thanks, boss. 655 00:46:38,212 --> 00:46:39,421 Brother Mascius. 656 00:46:41,549 --> 00:46:43,925 Pullo, you black dog. 657 00:46:44,051 --> 00:46:46,178 You're still alive? 658 00:46:47,555 --> 00:46:49,055 You've come to join up, then? 659 00:46:50,349 --> 00:46:51,641 I heard you were hiring. 660 00:46:51,767 --> 00:46:54,644 Oh, I thought you were well set, farm and all. 661 00:46:54,770 --> 00:46:57,022 Oh, crooked dice done for that. 662 00:46:57,148 --> 00:46:59,441 - Shame. - What can you do? 663 00:46:59,567 --> 00:47:02,110 Didn't like farming much anyway. 664 00:47:03,196 --> 00:47:06,031 Be sure about this, brother. It's a dark road we're on. 665 00:47:06,157 --> 00:47:08,241 No one knows where it will lead. 666 00:47:08,367 --> 00:47:10,327 All roads lead to the same place, don't they? 667 00:47:10,453 --> 00:47:11,786 That they do. 668 00:47:12,580 --> 00:47:14,539 Glad to have you with us. 669 00:47:14,665 --> 00:47:16,416 Come through the back and say hello to Vorenus, 670 00:47:16,542 --> 00:47:19,085 - cheer up the old bastard. - Is it true what they say? 671 00:47:19,212 --> 00:47:21,630 - About the wife and children? - True enough. 672 00:47:21,756 --> 00:47:24,382 Not a fucking word. 673 00:47:35,144 --> 00:47:38,563 - Brother Vorenus. - Mascius, how are you? 674 00:47:43,194 --> 00:47:44,319 I'm fair. Fair. 675 00:47:44,445 --> 00:47:46,029 Come to join our merry band. 676 00:47:47,323 --> 00:47:48,657 You tried to warn him off, did you? 677 00:47:48,783 --> 00:47:50,325 I did. 678 00:47:50,451 --> 00:47:52,452 This isn't the army, brother. 679 00:47:52,578 --> 00:47:55,664 We here, we're pimps, 680 00:47:55,790 --> 00:47:57,832 knifemen, thieves. 681 00:47:57,959 --> 00:47:59,793 Are you sure you've sunk so low? 682 00:48:01,128 --> 00:48:04,005 I walked here from Capua. I slept in ditches. 683 00:48:04,131 --> 00:48:07,926 When I get here, I hear people talking. 684 00:48:09,136 --> 00:48:10,679 They say a black-hearted villain 685 00:48:10,805 --> 00:48:12,597 has taken over the Aventine college. 686 00:48:12,723 --> 00:48:16,393 He's in league with the gods below, they say. 687 00:48:16,519 --> 00:48:19,437 And his name is Lucius Vorenus. 688 00:48:19,564 --> 00:48:23,316 Well, I thought to myself, "Mascius, old boy, 689 00:48:23,442 --> 00:48:25,360 "your luck has changed." 690 00:48:27,029 --> 00:48:28,989 See, Pullo, I told you I know what I'm about. 691 00:48:29,115 --> 00:48:32,033 It's not right. The gods don't like it. 692 00:48:32,159 --> 00:48:33,618 Yeah. 693 00:48:33,744 --> 00:48:36,413 What more can the gods do to me? 694 00:48:36,539 --> 00:48:38,206 How can they punish me now? 695 00:48:39,208 --> 00:48:40,625 Don't know. 696 00:48:40,751 --> 00:48:42,752 Don't wanna find out. 697 00:48:47,133 --> 00:48:49,134 Have you heard the good news? 698 00:48:51,178 --> 00:48:52,887 I have. 699 00:48:53,014 --> 00:48:55,056 This is the beginning of the end for them. 700 00:48:55,182 --> 00:48:58,226 From your lips to the ears of the gods. 701 00:48:58,352 --> 00:49:00,812 A fool like Antony was sure to blunder. 702 00:49:00,938 --> 00:49:03,732 They'll fight among themselves and destroy each other. 703 00:49:03,858 --> 00:49:06,443 I doubt the boy will be more than a nuisance to Antony. 704 00:49:06,569 --> 00:49:08,236 He cannot hope to rival him. 705 00:49:08,362 --> 00:49:10,697 Caesar did not choose the boy on a whim. 706 00:49:10,823 --> 00:49:13,325 - He'll surprise you, I think. - We can hope. 707 00:49:14,368 --> 00:49:17,954 The Senate should ask my son to return. 708 00:49:18,831 --> 00:49:19,914 The time is ripe. 709 00:49:20,041 --> 00:49:22,417 Brutus return? 710 00:49:24,045 --> 00:49:26,004 No. 711 00:49:26,130 --> 00:49:29,966 Not yet. Not quite yet, I think. 712 00:49:30,092 --> 00:49:31,760 When? 713 00:49:31,886 --> 00:49:34,888 We must wait and see how things develop. 714 00:49:35,014 --> 00:49:37,223 Wait and see? 715 00:49:40,019 --> 00:49:41,311 A noble strategy. 716 00:49:41,437 --> 00:49:44,397 Not noble, perhaps, but sensible. 717 00:49:44,523 --> 00:49:47,108 In any case, tell your son that I... 718 00:49:47,234 --> 00:49:50,236 No, not I... 719 00:49:52,073 --> 00:49:53,657 His friends in Rome 720 00:49:53,783 --> 00:49:56,242 look forward to seeing him again 721 00:49:56,369 --> 00:50:00,789 at some point in the near future. 722 00:50:07,171 --> 00:50:08,755 I will tell him. 723 00:50:19,767 --> 00:50:21,810 "My dear mother, 724 00:50:21,936 --> 00:50:24,979 "I write to bid you farewell. 725 00:50:25,106 --> 00:50:27,691 "I'm very sorry you chose to act as you did. 726 00:50:29,151 --> 00:50:33,697 "I hope in time you will understand the gravity of your mistake. 727 00:50:33,823 --> 00:50:36,491 "Be assured, I'm as determined as ever 728 00:50:36,617 --> 00:50:39,744 "to pursue a political career. 729 00:50:40,788 --> 00:50:43,498 "Do not be concerned for my safety. 730 00:50:43,624 --> 00:50:46,000 "I'm on the road south to Campania 731 00:50:46,127 --> 00:50:50,755 "where I'll stay with my friend Agrippa, who is well established there. 732 00:50:52,007 --> 00:50:55,844 "I remain your respectful son, Octavian."