1 00:00:48,799 --> 00:00:51,217 It is a heavy thing, 2 00:00:51,385 --> 00:00:54,971 to see a father so strong in life unable to rise. 3 00:00:55,139 --> 00:00:57,557 The weight of it keenly felt. 4 00:00:57,725 --> 00:01:00,518 Titus was much loved by this city. 5 00:01:00,686 --> 00:01:02,895 Hold comfort in the knowledge. 6 00:01:11,113 --> 00:01:14,198 The magistrate himself pays respects? 7 00:01:14,366 --> 00:01:16,325 It's a great honor. 8 00:01:16,493 --> 00:01:18,745 For my father. 9 00:01:18,912 --> 00:01:21,706 Years I wished for blistering tongue to cool, 10 00:01:21,874 --> 00:01:24,959 only to long for it to scorch ear once more. 11 00:01:26,211 --> 00:01:29,130 I know you did not wish him gone in such a manner. 12 00:01:29,298 --> 00:01:32,592 Nor did I, despite our many differences. 13 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:36,220 And yet the gods have willed it. 14 00:01:36,388 --> 00:01:38,973 The gods had no fucking hand in this. 15 00:01:39,141 --> 00:01:42,643 Tullius alone inflicts injury. 16 00:01:43,854 --> 00:01:46,814 And how shall it be answered? 17 00:01:46,982 --> 00:01:50,276 Apologies. Unwelcome guest makes appearance. 18 00:01:54,698 --> 00:01:56,365 Vettius. 19 00:01:57,910 --> 00:02:00,161 Temper emotion and greet him with measured voice. 20 00:02:00,329 --> 00:02:02,455 It would serve no purpose to have confrontation 21 00:02:02,623 --> 00:02:04,582 here in front of the magistrate. 22 00:02:04,750 --> 00:02:07,210 Good Batiatus. 23 00:02:07,377 --> 00:02:10,213 My sympathies for the passing of your father. 24 00:02:10,380 --> 00:02:14,091 A titan, standing far above all who follow. 25 00:02:14,259 --> 00:02:15,301 You come absent Tullius? 26 00:02:15,469 --> 00:02:17,887 I thought nothing could keep the man from observance of such a tragedy. 27 00:02:18,055 --> 00:02:21,307 Well, he confers with dignitaries from Antioch. 28 00:02:21,475 --> 00:02:24,018 - Antioch? - He's engaged in business there, 29 00:02:24,186 --> 00:02:26,437 to the further glory of the Republic. 30 00:02:26,605 --> 00:02:28,981 He sends his regrets that he could not be present, 31 00:02:29,149 --> 00:02:31,651 and a reminder 32 00:02:31,819 --> 00:02:34,987 that a bargain was struck with your father before he passed 33 00:02:35,155 --> 00:02:37,824 concerning the sale of Gannicus. 34 00:02:37,991 --> 00:02:41,494 You dare broach subject on such a fucking day? 35 00:02:41,662 --> 00:02:45,623 We have respectfully waited for eight of them to pass. 36 00:02:46,667 --> 00:02:49,627 Your period of mourning comes to conclusion. 37 00:02:49,795 --> 00:02:52,004 Tomorrow the sun greets a ninth day 38 00:02:52,172 --> 00:02:54,632 and with it we expect delivery of Gannicus. 39 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,052 Turn desire to piss and shit 40 00:02:58,220 --> 00:03:00,555 and see yourself well satisfied. 41 00:03:00,722 --> 00:03:03,558 Then Tullius will be forced to withdraw offer to include your men 42 00:03:03,725 --> 00:03:06,269 in the opening games of the new arena. 43 00:03:06,436 --> 00:03:08,688 And all that follow. 44 00:03:20,742 --> 00:03:23,619 Titus condemns our brothers to the mines. 45 00:03:23,787 --> 00:03:25,872 Now we fucking honor him? 46 00:03:26,039 --> 00:03:28,708 He was the dominus of this house 47 00:03:28,876 --> 00:03:30,835 and deserves no less. 48 00:03:31,003 --> 00:03:33,629 Spoken as a true champion. 49 00:04:00,824 --> 00:04:02,742 Apologies. 50 00:04:02,910 --> 00:04:04,869 Batiatus summons the men. 51 00:04:16,006 --> 00:04:18,591 You will see her ashes beneath the ground? 52 00:04:19,718 --> 00:04:22,386 As is her people's custom. 53 00:04:23,555 --> 00:04:25,556 I did not know of them. 54 00:04:25,724 --> 00:04:29,101 There are many things that I did not pause to ask of her. 55 00:04:29,269 --> 00:04:32,396 Now I'm but filled with questions. 56 00:04:32,564 --> 00:04:35,483 Speak of her in quiet moments 57 00:04:35,651 --> 00:04:37,777 and see them answered. 58 00:04:39,988 --> 00:04:42,448 Oenomaus... 59 00:04:45,494 --> 00:04:47,995 she was the rarest of women, 60 00:04:48,163 --> 00:04:53,626 a flower of beauty and compassion in a world full of shit. 61 00:04:53,794 --> 00:04:59,090 I would assume her place, so that her laugh may once again fill solemn air. 62 00:04:59,257 --> 00:05:01,801 She would not wish it. 63 00:05:04,346 --> 00:05:06,847 She loved you. 64 00:05:08,642 --> 00:05:10,851 As a brother. 65 00:05:11,019 --> 00:05:14,230 As I loved her. 66 00:05:19,111 --> 00:05:23,239 We stand upon sacred ground, watered with tears of blood. 67 00:05:23,407 --> 00:05:27,451 Words I have often heard in my youth... by my father, 68 00:05:27,619 --> 00:05:30,538 by his father before him. 69 00:05:30,706 --> 00:05:33,958 Yet only now do I truly understand them. 70 00:05:35,377 --> 00:05:38,212 We've all felt the bitter sting of loss. 71 00:05:39,256 --> 00:05:41,132 Yet here we stand. 72 00:05:42,843 --> 00:05:47,513 We have known the agony of heart ripped yet beating from sundered chest. 73 00:05:47,681 --> 00:05:51,809 And yet here we stand. 74 00:05:51,977 --> 00:05:55,479 The House of Batiatus is no stranger to misfortune, 75 00:05:55,647 --> 00:05:57,982 to the cruel whims of the gods 76 00:05:58,150 --> 00:06:00,735 and base men who would position themselves as such. 77 00:06:00,902 --> 00:06:04,030 And yet here we stand! 78 00:06:06,825 --> 00:06:10,244 This house is built atop unshakable foundations 79 00:06:10,412 --> 00:06:13,330 of honor and respect. 80 00:06:13,498 --> 00:06:17,334 And in no man were these qualities more evident 81 00:06:17,502 --> 00:06:21,047 than Titus Lentulus Batiatus. 82 00:06:21,214 --> 00:06:24,133 I will laud my father's memory 83 00:06:24,301 --> 00:06:26,135 by seeing the House of Batiatus 84 00:06:26,303 --> 00:06:29,722 elevated beyond the imaginings of my ancestors. 85 00:06:29,890 --> 00:06:32,641 I will need all of you to see it done... 86 00:06:32,809 --> 00:06:36,228 men of hard purpose and desire. 87 00:06:36,396 --> 00:06:39,607 Let previous decisions fall aside. 88 00:06:39,775 --> 00:06:43,944 None of you will be sent to the mines, regardless of standing! 89 00:06:50,660 --> 00:06:52,787 The sun has set on an era. 90 00:06:52,954 --> 00:06:57,333 Let us celebrate the name Titus Lentulus Batiatus 91 00:06:57,501 --> 00:07:02,963 with drink and the clash of swords to carry my father to the afterlife! 92 00:07:08,136 --> 00:07:10,387 Take position! 93 00:07:12,849 --> 00:07:15,768 Will you fight your man to conclusion or drop your defense 94 00:07:15,936 --> 00:07:19,146 and allow for hollow victory, as you did with me before Titus? 95 00:07:19,314 --> 00:07:23,400 You are champion now. Do not broach fucking subject again. 96 00:07:24,694 --> 00:07:26,946 Spill blood upon the sands, but live 97 00:07:27,114 --> 00:07:31,784 to one day die with glory and honor in the arena! 98 00:07:54,182 --> 00:07:55,307 Begin. 99 00:08:37,893 --> 00:08:40,060 This is all that remains... 100 00:08:40,228 --> 00:08:43,689 when the smoke clears and the embers die... 101 00:08:46,026 --> 00:08:48,819 the sum total of a man's life. 102 00:08:54,201 --> 00:08:59,079 This was my father's last act before his death: 103 00:08:59,247 --> 00:09:01,665 A bill of sale transferring your ownership. 104 00:09:02,959 --> 00:09:05,211 The cause that moved you to seek audience on the day 105 00:09:05,378 --> 00:09:07,963 - I watched my father burn? - Apologies, Dominus. 106 00:09:08,131 --> 00:09:10,049 I could wait no longer. 107 00:09:12,510 --> 00:09:16,222 We again find ourselves in unpleasant position. 108 00:09:17,933 --> 00:09:21,852 To honor my father's wishes sees you fall to control of a man most hated, 109 00:09:22,020 --> 00:09:25,272 to defy them sees this house forever excluded from the new arena. 110 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:28,150 A cock in the ass, from either direction. 111 00:09:29,736 --> 00:09:33,197 Speak, and give reason to see this join my father's ashes. 112 00:09:33,365 --> 00:09:35,407 I have no words towards such an end. 113 00:09:35,575 --> 00:09:37,743 I come to see agreement honored. 114 00:09:40,372 --> 00:09:42,289 You wish to leave this house? 115 00:09:42,457 --> 00:09:44,667 I wish to see blood. 116 00:09:44,834 --> 00:09:46,794 See me delivered to Tullius's care 117 00:09:46,962 --> 00:09:49,421 and I will see his life for your father's. 118 00:09:50,548 --> 00:09:52,383 Noble offer. 119 00:09:52,550 --> 00:09:55,886 Yet I fear your life would be forfeit in such attempt. 120 00:09:56,054 --> 00:09:58,722 A small price to pay. 121 00:09:59,724 --> 00:10:03,519 My father never aimed a favored word towards you, 122 00:10:03,687 --> 00:10:06,605 yet you entreat to be the instrument of his vengeance? 123 00:10:08,191 --> 00:10:10,234 Or is it another you seek it for? 124 00:10:14,114 --> 00:10:17,283 You would sacrifice your life in the memory of hers? 125 00:10:17,450 --> 00:10:20,202 I would sacrifice a thousand, if I'd but had them. 126 00:10:21,955 --> 00:10:23,831 If you had such stirrings for Melitta, 127 00:10:23,999 --> 00:10:27,209 why did you not fight harder in the contest before my father? 128 00:10:27,377 --> 00:10:29,962 You could have taken Crixus and remained here, 129 00:10:30,130 --> 00:10:31,672 close to your heart's desires. 130 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:33,966 The match was lost before sword was ever raised. 131 00:10:34,134 --> 00:10:36,214 The same could be said of your plans against Tullius. 132 00:10:36,303 --> 00:10:38,470 He is forever surrounded not only by his own men, 133 00:10:38,638 --> 00:10:42,016 but by good citizens who would quickly come to the aid of such a "noble" Roman. 134 00:10:42,183 --> 00:10:45,102 - Then they too shall fall. - You do not fucking think! 135 00:10:45,270 --> 00:10:49,648 This grants ownership to Tullius' lapdog Vettius. 136 00:10:49,816 --> 00:10:52,318 You'll be sent to the boy's Ludus in fucking Nola. 137 00:10:52,485 --> 00:10:55,321 A year could pass before you find yourself close enough to Tullius. 138 00:10:55,488 --> 00:10:58,115 I would suffer a lifetime but to have the chance to strike. 139 00:10:58,283 --> 00:11:00,784 This house would be the one that suffers! 140 00:11:00,952 --> 00:11:03,829 A year of the greatest gladiator in the Republic 141 00:11:03,997 --> 00:11:07,082 fighting for those shits!? A year of you needing to win 142 00:11:07,250 --> 00:11:09,752 each fight against my fucking men 143 00:11:09,919 --> 00:11:14,214 in the hopes of gaining an audience with Tullius. 144 00:11:14,382 --> 00:11:17,926 Will he not wish to see the man he has fought so hard to gain 145 00:11:18,094 --> 00:11:21,055 - when so delivered? - In chains, absent weapons. 146 00:11:21,222 --> 00:11:23,265 Then I will use my hands! 147 00:11:23,433 --> 00:11:25,768 Your desires are well noted. 148 00:11:27,354 --> 00:11:30,272 I will weigh argument and come to an answer in the balance. 149 00:11:32,359 --> 00:11:34,443 Dominus. 150 00:11:40,784 --> 00:11:42,618 Fetch more wine. 151 00:11:44,329 --> 00:11:46,372 Vettius's appearance was ill-timed. 152 00:11:46,539 --> 00:11:49,208 He is a dog, untrained where not to shit. 153 00:11:49,376 --> 00:11:52,419 The hand that grips his leash is of greater concern. 154 00:11:52,587 --> 00:11:54,922 Has Quintus voiced thought towards Tullius? 155 00:11:55,090 --> 00:11:56,715 He has not. 156 00:11:57,967 --> 00:12:02,262 Yet what would any of us do to see the death of one so loved avenged? 157 00:12:02,430 --> 00:12:05,015 The very heart of my concern. 158 00:12:05,183 --> 00:12:08,143 To take action against Tullius is to invite mortal consequence. 159 00:12:08,311 --> 00:12:11,231 He has made repeated attacks against this house. You'd have us do nothing? 160 00:12:11,272 --> 00:12:12,898 I would have you live. 161 00:12:13,066 --> 00:12:16,777 If the situation with Tullius turns to further disadvantage, 162 00:12:16,945 --> 00:12:20,114 know that you may always seek refuge beneath my roof. 163 00:12:23,535 --> 00:12:26,829 - As friend. - Where is the fucking wine? 164 00:12:26,996 --> 00:12:30,082 Naevia brings more. 165 00:12:30,250 --> 00:12:31,583 I should take my leave. 166 00:12:31,751 --> 00:12:33,919 No stay. I would have your counsel. 167 00:12:34,087 --> 00:12:36,797 Gannicus presses to honor terms towards his sale. 168 00:12:36,965 --> 00:12:39,466 - Then the matter is resolved. - Fuck resolution. 169 00:12:39,634 --> 00:12:41,802 The man only desires close proximity to Tullius 170 00:12:41,970 --> 00:12:43,650 and the villain's throat beneath his hands. 171 00:12:43,763 --> 00:12:47,224 He would kill Tullius for us? Do you believe it possible? 172 00:12:47,392 --> 00:12:49,017 You speak of madness! 173 00:12:49,185 --> 00:12:51,812 Tullius is far too cautious to ever lower guard, 174 00:12:51,980 --> 00:12:55,274 especially in the presence of a man loyal to the House of Batiatus. 175 00:12:55,442 --> 00:12:57,860 And what would brave Solonius do in my fucking position?! 176 00:12:58,027 --> 00:13:00,237 Turn blind eye towards the murder of his father? 177 00:13:00,405 --> 00:13:03,073 He would be certain to strike appropriate target. 178 00:13:03,241 --> 00:13:05,909 What if Tullius had no hand in this? 179 00:13:06,077 --> 00:13:08,078 His gift of wine was tainted with death. 180 00:13:08,246 --> 00:13:12,332 But was it by Tullius's hand? Or another moved by equal grievance? 181 00:13:12,500 --> 00:13:15,294 What if Vettius is the true cause of this? 182 00:13:15,462 --> 00:13:17,463 The boy's hatred for you is well known. 183 00:13:18,715 --> 00:13:19,882 You are right. 184 00:13:20,049 --> 00:13:22,929 Vengeance would stand a hollow vessel were it not filled with retribution 185 00:13:23,094 --> 00:13:26,597 against all who have injured this house, including young Vettius. 186 00:13:26,764 --> 00:13:29,266 - You twist my intention. - He but straightens purpose. 187 00:13:29,434 --> 00:13:31,768 Is this not what set tragedy in motion? 188 00:13:31,936 --> 00:13:34,855 Arrogance and impatience? You're forever reaching beyond grasp, 189 00:13:35,023 --> 00:13:37,065 and dragging those beside you as you fall. 190 00:13:37,233 --> 00:13:39,151 And you have never had the stomach to do what it takes 191 00:13:39,319 --> 00:13:40,944 to make a fucking name in this world! 192 00:13:41,112 --> 00:13:44,406 Good Solonius, forever bowing and scraping in the shit of his betters. 193 00:13:44,574 --> 00:13:47,159 Is it any wonder no woman would have you? 194 00:13:47,327 --> 00:13:49,870 Emotion carries us beyond reason. 195 00:13:50,038 --> 00:13:52,414 Solonius has been as a brother to us. 196 00:13:54,167 --> 00:13:56,752 It has been a trying day in a long succession of many. 197 00:13:56,920 --> 00:13:59,588 Apologies. 198 00:13:59,756 --> 00:14:02,508 I have asked much of our friendship, with little reward. 199 00:14:02,675 --> 00:14:05,636 Yet I must seek more 200 00:14:05,803 --> 00:14:08,889 if we are to see injuries against our house redressed. 201 00:14:12,852 --> 00:14:14,228 What are your thoughts? 202 00:14:14,395 --> 00:14:16,813 They yet stand clouded. 203 00:14:16,981 --> 00:14:19,983 Come. Let us put our minds together and see them cleared. 204 00:14:41,839 --> 00:14:44,841 This mark carries great honor, 205 00:14:45,009 --> 00:14:48,428 and even greater responsibility. 206 00:14:49,472 --> 00:14:53,016 Melitta held many years as my body slave... 207 00:14:54,811 --> 00:14:58,146 and shall be missed beyond the measure of words. 208 00:15:01,859 --> 00:15:05,153 I expect equal loyalty from you now. 209 00:15:05,321 --> 00:15:09,533 You are always to stand by my side, never to leave it. 210 00:15:09,701 --> 00:15:12,661 Or this house, as Diona chose. 211 00:15:14,330 --> 00:15:16,790 Oh, I understand why she fled. 212 00:15:18,376 --> 00:15:22,963 It was an unfortunate thing to be so used by men for base entertainment. 213 00:15:23,131 --> 00:15:26,341 I understand it, yet cannot forgive. 214 00:15:26,509 --> 00:15:29,136 Yes, Domina. 215 00:15:31,055 --> 00:15:35,934 What I can do is make promise 216 00:15:36,102 --> 00:15:39,563 that no one will ever lay hands upon you for sport. 217 00:15:39,731 --> 00:15:43,442 Your maidenhood will be preserved as a precious gift 218 00:15:43,610 --> 00:15:45,485 and given only to the most worthy, 219 00:15:45,653 --> 00:15:47,738 as Melitta was given to Oenomaus. 220 00:15:57,290 --> 00:16:00,292 There. 221 00:16:00,460 --> 00:16:02,628 We are forever bound to each other. 222 00:16:02,795 --> 00:16:04,838 Bring oil and a sharpened blade. 223 00:16:05,006 --> 00:16:07,049 I would be rid of this fucking beard. 224 00:16:07,216 --> 00:16:08,592 Solonius? 225 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:10,844 Courage hardened and hands set to task. 226 00:16:11,012 --> 00:16:12,721 Then you've come to decision. 227 00:16:12,889 --> 00:16:14,973 One that not even good Tullius will see coming. 228 00:16:15,141 --> 00:16:17,059 Gather my father's ashes and tell Oenomaus 229 00:16:17,226 --> 00:16:19,436 to prepare Gannicus to leave these walls. 230 00:16:39,624 --> 00:16:41,667 Brother. 231 00:16:41,834 --> 00:16:44,252 You are too late. 232 00:16:44,420 --> 00:16:46,213 I have finished the wine. 233 00:16:46,381 --> 00:16:50,509 Would that I had enough to sink to the fucking bottom. 234 00:16:55,098 --> 00:16:58,392 Dominus orders you prepared for transport. 235 00:16:58,559 --> 00:17:00,602 I am to be sold then? 236 00:17:00,770 --> 00:17:02,854 What seizes Batiatus... 237 00:17:03,022 --> 00:17:05,440 to give you to Tullius after what he has done? 238 00:17:05,608 --> 00:17:08,193 The man has lost fucking sense. 239 00:17:08,361 --> 00:17:10,070 Then question mine as well. 240 00:17:10,238 --> 00:17:12,614 You wish this? 241 00:17:12,782 --> 00:17:15,283 I wish to stand before Tullius 242 00:17:15,451 --> 00:17:17,619 and have his fucking life. 243 00:17:17,787 --> 00:17:20,914 You would have better chance flinging yourself from the cliff 244 00:17:21,082 --> 00:17:22,874 and praying to land upon him. 245 00:17:23,042 --> 00:17:24,918 It was his fucking wine. 246 00:17:25,086 --> 00:17:26,795 If she had... 247 00:17:29,298 --> 00:17:31,758 all those who had hand in her passing must pay, 248 00:17:31,926 --> 00:17:34,094 regardless of cost. 249 00:17:38,391 --> 00:17:43,979 It was a gift for Titus... Tullius's wine. 250 00:17:44,147 --> 00:17:47,023 How did it come to pass her lips? She was no thief. 251 00:17:47,191 --> 00:17:49,568 What answer would matter now? 252 00:17:49,736 --> 00:17:52,195 She is gone and the men that took her soon to follow. 253 00:17:52,363 --> 00:17:55,949 I would rather you join her now than see another so close to me fall to Tullius. 254 00:17:56,117 --> 00:17:57,743 The choice is removed from your hands. 255 00:17:57,910 --> 00:18:00,954 - I will break words with Batiatus. - Oenomaus, this is how it must be. 256 00:18:01,122 --> 00:18:03,290 She would not have wanted this. 257 00:18:05,209 --> 00:18:07,794 When I meet her in the afterlife, 258 00:18:07,962 --> 00:18:13,049 I do not wish to explain why I allowed a man we both loved to forfeit his life. 259 00:18:14,802 --> 00:18:17,846 I have lost my wife. 260 00:18:20,433 --> 00:18:23,226 I do not want to see my brother follow. 261 00:18:26,522 --> 00:18:28,106 He deserves no less. 262 00:18:33,821 --> 00:18:37,032 Oenomaus... The time for words has passed. 263 00:18:38,659 --> 00:18:40,202 - Dominus. - Prepare the wagon. 264 00:18:40,369 --> 00:18:42,704 We leave at once. 265 00:18:52,048 --> 00:18:54,007 What words were you about to fucking speak? 266 00:18:54,175 --> 00:18:56,343 - Ones weighted with truth. - Towards what purpose? 267 00:18:56,511 --> 00:18:57,636 He deserves to know. 268 00:18:57,804 --> 00:18:59,971 This is not about him. 269 00:19:00,139 --> 00:19:02,974 It is about Gannicus and his fucking conscience. 270 00:19:03,142 --> 00:19:06,978 Speak it, and see memory of beloved wife forever tainted. 271 00:19:07,146 --> 00:19:09,481 I cannot keep buried what I have done. 272 00:19:09,649 --> 00:19:12,150 Then see it remain in shallow grave but a while longer. 273 00:19:12,318 --> 00:19:16,363 How am I to unearth it once I have been sold to Tullius? 274 00:19:16,531 --> 00:19:21,326 I do not sell you to fucking Tullius. 275 00:19:26,541 --> 00:19:28,792 Batiatus again spits in my face? 276 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:30,877 News absent surprise. 277 00:19:31,045 --> 00:19:34,339 A snake by nature favors maneuvering upon its belly. 278 00:19:34,507 --> 00:19:37,133 I would stand upright among honorable men. 279 00:19:40,012 --> 00:19:41,638 Where does he take Gannicus? 280 00:19:41,806 --> 00:19:43,932 Batiatus sent me to secure sale 281 00:19:44,100 --> 00:19:46,059 to the Syrian trader Galeagra. 282 00:19:46,227 --> 00:19:49,813 By morning Gannicus will be on a ship sailing towards points unknown, 283 00:19:49,981 --> 00:19:52,232 forever beyond your reach. 284 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:56,027 You aided Batiatus in this? 285 00:19:56,195 --> 00:19:58,029 I have known the man for many years. 286 00:19:58,197 --> 00:19:59,948 I was conflicted. 287 00:20:00,116 --> 00:20:01,491 As am I... 288 00:20:03,536 --> 00:20:06,496 on whether to strip flesh from your fucking face. 289 00:20:06,664 --> 00:20:08,373 Wait! I came to you with this. 290 00:20:08,541 --> 00:20:09,541 After the fact. 291 00:20:09,709 --> 00:20:12,878 There is still time. He meets the Syrian at the edge of the city. 292 00:20:16,883 --> 00:20:18,383 Gather the men. 293 00:20:20,011 --> 00:20:23,096 I cannot believe even Batiatus so thick 294 00:20:23,264 --> 00:20:25,682 as to imagine concealing such an act. 295 00:20:25,850 --> 00:20:28,602 He will spin the story of Gannicus escaping... 296 00:20:28,769 --> 00:20:32,355 to perhaps follow his slave girl Diona, who recently went to foot. 297 00:20:32,523 --> 00:20:35,609 He thinks me the fool, to accept the tale? 298 00:20:35,776 --> 00:20:39,029 Batiatus knows you will summon him to meeting to discuss the matter. 299 00:20:39,196 --> 00:20:42,198 He lays plans to see much coin in your men's hands, 300 00:20:42,366 --> 00:20:46,286 payment in aid against your life when he stands before you. 301 00:20:46,454 --> 00:20:49,331 The fucking cock on him. 302 00:20:53,586 --> 00:20:56,713 Batiatus has always thought himself above those around him... 303 00:20:56,881 --> 00:20:59,507 even closest friend. 304 00:21:01,469 --> 00:21:04,054 I shall prove the notion false 305 00:21:04,221 --> 00:21:08,350 and see fucking son join his father. 306 00:21:25,159 --> 00:21:27,160 Where are they? 307 00:21:27,328 --> 00:21:28,828 I'll search ahead. 308 00:21:28,996 --> 00:21:32,123 Stay where you are. I will not have you from my fucking side. 309 00:21:32,291 --> 00:21:35,543 If you had sold me to Tullius, no one else's life would be at risk. 310 00:21:35,711 --> 00:21:37,963 With great risk comes great reward. 311 00:21:38,130 --> 00:21:39,798 And I would have mine. 312 00:21:41,968 --> 00:21:44,636 The Syrians arrive. 313 00:21:52,103 --> 00:21:55,981 I grow weary of these games, Batiatus, 314 00:21:56,148 --> 00:21:59,526 and would see them to bitter end. 315 00:21:59,694 --> 00:22:01,653 As would l. 316 00:22:15,751 --> 00:22:20,630 Come. Let us embrace, you fucking cunt. 317 00:22:25,094 --> 00:22:27,303 Come on! 318 00:22:57,209 --> 00:22:59,294 Ashur! 319 00:23:00,963 --> 00:23:02,922 Fucking kill him, Barca! 320 00:23:09,346 --> 00:23:11,222 You! 321 00:23:11,390 --> 00:23:14,684 Fuck you, you fucking shit. You fuck! 322 00:23:28,949 --> 00:23:30,075 Wait, hold! 323 00:23:31,077 --> 00:23:33,244 I said hold. 324 00:23:37,416 --> 00:23:41,044 Such a death would be far too quick. 325 00:23:43,714 --> 00:23:45,882 Bind him. 326 00:23:53,390 --> 00:23:55,934 And you. 327 00:23:58,521 --> 00:24:01,731 You played your part to fucking perfection! 328 00:24:04,485 --> 00:24:07,904 It was not difficult. When passion for vengeance overtakes caution, 329 00:24:08,072 --> 00:24:10,657 even the keenest of minds is easily deceived. 330 00:24:10,825 --> 00:24:12,492 Modest to the fucking last. 331 00:24:12,660 --> 00:24:15,411 See these bodies put to grass and get yourself to the medicus. 332 00:24:15,579 --> 00:24:17,122 You're sure to your purpose? 333 00:24:17,289 --> 00:24:19,749 My path has never been clearer. 334 00:24:22,128 --> 00:24:24,170 Good Tullius. 335 00:24:26,507 --> 00:24:28,383 Let us have final words 336 00:24:28,551 --> 00:24:30,844 before you depart this life. 337 00:24:39,937 --> 00:24:42,605 Ah, the lamb finally wakes. 338 00:24:42,773 --> 00:24:45,692 Calm yourself. 339 00:24:45,860 --> 00:24:48,194 I merely wish to break words. 340 00:24:49,947 --> 00:24:52,240 Seek to raise alarm and find throat slit 341 00:24:52,408 --> 00:24:54,993 well in advance of aid. We are clear? 342 00:25:00,583 --> 00:25:02,625 You are fucking dead. 343 00:25:02,793 --> 00:25:06,171 Threats absent form without Tullius to support them. 344 00:25:06,338 --> 00:25:09,007 What have you done to him? 345 00:25:09,175 --> 00:25:11,050 Not me. I have done nothing. 346 00:25:11,218 --> 00:25:15,096 In all of this, I have never known quarrel with good Tullius. 347 00:25:15,264 --> 00:25:18,933 Yet Batiatus... he is of a contrary nature. 348 00:25:19,101 --> 00:25:22,812 And moves even as we speak to end his conflict with your man. 349 00:25:22,980 --> 00:25:24,522 Forever. 350 00:25:24,690 --> 00:25:26,733 The opening of the arena is upon us. 351 00:25:26,901 --> 00:25:31,029 Tullius' absence will be noted, and your part in it quick upon heel. 352 00:25:31,197 --> 00:25:35,491 You are mistaken. No one will suspect Tullius has left this world... 353 00:25:35,659 --> 00:25:39,120 not when trusted Vettius heralds news that he has unexpectedly 354 00:25:39,288 --> 00:25:43,166 set sail abroad to tend to pressing matters in Antioch. 355 00:25:43,334 --> 00:25:46,252 What would move tongue to voice such fucking lie? 356 00:25:46,420 --> 00:25:50,048 It would more easily forms words to see you and Batiatus 357 00:25:50,216 --> 00:25:51,883 executed for your crimes. 358 00:25:52,051 --> 00:25:54,177 Based upon what evidence? 359 00:25:54,345 --> 00:25:57,388 We were not found knife in hand, kneeling beside body. 360 00:25:57,556 --> 00:26:01,851 A body which even now Batiatus conceals beyond reach of human eyes. 361 00:26:02,019 --> 00:26:06,481 No, my concern rests with your safety. 362 00:26:08,442 --> 00:26:10,944 Attempt to raise unwarranted suspicion, 363 00:26:11,111 --> 00:26:14,697 and Batiatus would be sure to take offense. 364 00:26:14,865 --> 00:26:17,575 And without Tullius to protect you... 365 00:26:20,287 --> 00:26:24,040 Ah. Youth finally matures. 366 00:26:25,709 --> 00:26:27,293 Now we have settled issue, 367 00:26:27,461 --> 00:26:30,755 let us turn to other matters of a more personal nature. 368 00:26:35,427 --> 00:26:37,345 All things change. 369 00:26:37,513 --> 00:26:41,099 What we hold close to our hearts eventually pass from this world. 370 00:26:44,353 --> 00:26:47,272 And what we once turned from in disgust... 371 00:26:48,983 --> 00:26:50,733 we embrace as necessity. 372 00:26:54,989 --> 00:26:56,489 Raise your eyes. 373 00:26:59,785 --> 00:27:01,744 What do you see? 374 00:27:01,912 --> 00:27:03,663 The domina of the house. 375 00:27:03,831 --> 00:27:05,707 Is that all? 376 00:27:05,874 --> 00:27:08,418 I see a woman 377 00:27:08,585 --> 00:27:10,545 unlike any I have seen before. 378 00:27:11,588 --> 00:27:13,381 Better. 379 00:27:13,549 --> 00:27:16,050 I did not think I had pleased you 380 00:27:16,218 --> 00:27:19,012 when last called to your chambers. 381 00:27:20,931 --> 00:27:23,725 I love my husband beyond all men 382 00:27:23,892 --> 00:27:27,478 and I would do anything for him 383 00:27:27,646 --> 00:27:30,356 and his legacy. 384 00:27:33,694 --> 00:27:37,155 I did not seek pleasure. I need only your cock. 385 00:27:37,323 --> 00:27:40,992 But speak of this and see it parted from your body. 386 00:27:48,375 --> 00:27:50,335 Yes, Domina. 387 00:27:51,837 --> 00:27:55,381 Your hair and your beard 388 00:27:55,549 --> 00:27:58,426 give the appearance of a fucking animal. 389 00:27:58,594 --> 00:28:01,471 I would have you reformed into the semblance of a man 390 00:28:01,638 --> 00:28:05,266 to make the lie I must tell myself more convincing. 391 00:28:44,390 --> 00:28:46,307 A game well played, Batiatus. 392 00:28:46,475 --> 00:28:51,020 Now let us come to terms. 393 00:28:53,148 --> 00:28:56,359 Your man Gannicus obviously means a great deal to you, 394 00:28:56,527 --> 00:28:59,320 to press to such extremes. 395 00:28:59,488 --> 00:29:02,949 I will cease my pursuit of him. 396 00:29:03,117 --> 00:29:04,367 Offer more. 397 00:29:04,535 --> 00:29:07,578 I will see your house take prominence in all upcoming games. 398 00:29:07,746 --> 00:29:09,956 More. 399 00:29:10,124 --> 00:29:12,375 Speak desire and see it attended. 400 00:29:12,543 --> 00:29:14,836 I desire to see you suffer 401 00:29:15,003 --> 00:29:17,463 as I have suffered at your fucking hands. 402 00:29:17,631 --> 00:29:20,466 Your suffering has only begun, Lanista, 403 00:29:20,634 --> 00:29:23,678 when it is discovered what you have done to me! 404 00:29:23,846 --> 00:29:26,806 You will not be discovered, nor missed. 405 00:29:26,974 --> 00:29:29,100 Solonius moves young Vettius 406 00:29:29,268 --> 00:29:32,770 towards offering proper explanation for your disappearance. 407 00:29:32,938 --> 00:29:34,063 Vettius? 408 00:29:34,231 --> 00:29:36,441 Oh, the city will mourn. 409 00:29:36,608 --> 00:29:39,610 Soon your name will be spoken of less and less, 410 00:29:39,778 --> 00:29:42,530 until it is lost to history. 411 00:29:42,698 --> 00:29:47,285 I should have had your life at the beginning of this. 412 00:29:47,453 --> 00:29:51,581 The mistake is mine, having stayed hand 413 00:29:51,748 --> 00:29:53,958 in respect of your father. 414 00:29:54,126 --> 00:29:55,668 Respect? 415 00:30:03,719 --> 00:30:06,888 Pay it to the remains of the man himself. 416 00:30:07,890 --> 00:30:10,183 Tell him! Tell him 417 00:30:10,350 --> 00:30:13,644 how high you hold him even as your poisoned wine 418 00:30:13,812 --> 00:30:17,690 robbed him of fucking life! Tell him. Tell him, you fucking shit! 419 00:30:19,026 --> 00:30:22,695 Why should I strike against your father? 420 00:30:22,863 --> 00:30:25,448 He was an honorable Roman... 421 00:30:26,742 --> 00:30:29,535 a man who knew his place. 422 00:30:29,703 --> 00:30:32,246 As I know yours. 423 00:30:32,414 --> 00:30:36,042 There will be an accounting, Batiatus... 424 00:30:38,128 --> 00:30:41,506 for this and everything that follows. 425 00:30:43,258 --> 00:30:45,593 The gods will see to it someday. 426 00:30:45,761 --> 00:30:48,429 Yes, but not this one. 427 00:31:43,652 --> 00:31:46,821 This arena was your life... 428 00:31:46,989 --> 00:31:48,489 add to its foundations. 429 00:32:14,391 --> 00:32:16,726 Capua! 430 00:32:22,608 --> 00:32:25,109 Have eyes ever beheld such a sight? 431 00:32:25,277 --> 00:32:27,528 The laurel crown of the Republic. 432 00:32:27,696 --> 00:32:30,656 Its majesty even more evident when viewed from the pulvinus. 433 00:32:30,824 --> 00:32:33,326 Oh, a great honor to be invited by Tullius. 434 00:32:33,493 --> 00:32:37,163 One I fear undeserved, yet he is a difficult man to turn from, huh? 435 00:32:37,331 --> 00:32:40,541 A fact well known to all present. 436 00:32:40,709 --> 00:32:42,376 I am surprised by his delay. 437 00:32:42,544 --> 00:32:44,670 The opening of the arena has been the only subject on his tongue. 438 00:32:44,838 --> 00:32:47,173 Now he stands late to his own celebration. 439 00:32:55,057 --> 00:32:56,891 Apologies. 440 00:32:57,059 --> 00:33:01,062 Tullius regrets he will be absent altogether. 441 00:33:01,229 --> 00:33:04,065 What could wrest him from so high a perch? 442 00:33:04,232 --> 00:33:06,525 Pressing concerns abroad in Antioch. 443 00:33:06,693 --> 00:33:09,779 His departure was unexpected. 444 00:33:09,946 --> 00:33:12,865 The arena would not exist without Tullius. 445 00:33:13,033 --> 00:33:15,951 We would not be standing here if it weren't for his actions. 446 00:33:16,119 --> 00:33:18,537 We should halt the celebrations until his return. 447 00:33:18,705 --> 00:33:20,498 Agreed. I shall address the crowd. 448 00:33:20,666 --> 00:33:23,834 No, Tullius sends hard instruction for ceremony to carry without him. 449 00:33:25,379 --> 00:33:27,922 This arena was a gift to his beloved city. 450 00:33:28,090 --> 00:33:32,301 He would not see misfortune stand in the way of the giving of it. 451 00:33:32,469 --> 00:33:36,889 A most gracious offer, well received. Come. 452 00:33:37,057 --> 00:33:40,393 Haunt Tullius' place by my side, possessing his spirit for the occasion. 453 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,603 Again I must offer apology. 454 00:33:42,771 --> 00:33:45,690 I make preparations to follow Tullius to Antioch. 455 00:33:45,857 --> 00:33:48,317 And what of your ventures here? Your Ludus? 456 00:33:48,485 --> 00:33:51,654 I am retiring from the lowly call of the Lanista 457 00:33:51,822 --> 00:33:56,367 in favor of station more befitting a man of breeding. 458 00:33:56,535 --> 00:33:59,245 What will become of your men? They fight this very day. 459 00:33:59,413 --> 00:34:02,039 I would not see your brief labors turn to naught. 460 00:34:02,207 --> 00:34:05,459 Solonius and I can make fair offer to divide them. 461 00:34:05,627 --> 00:34:07,878 Deeply appreciated, yet unnecessary. 462 00:34:08,046 --> 00:34:10,965 Solonius and I have already come to terms. 463 00:34:11,133 --> 00:34:12,591 Terms? 464 00:34:12,759 --> 00:34:16,637 I've transferred deed to all my gladiators to Solonius, 465 00:34:16,805 --> 00:34:19,932 under whose noble banner they will fight this day. 466 00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:22,518 You are indeed blessed, Solonius. 467 00:34:22,686 --> 00:34:26,313 Well, your Ludus now stands above all others in sheer numbers. 468 00:34:26,481 --> 00:34:28,357 May the gods continue to show favor. 469 00:34:28,525 --> 00:34:31,152 - Huh. - I must take my leave. 470 00:34:31,319 --> 00:34:34,989 Give good Solonius all consideration towards future games. 471 00:34:35,157 --> 00:34:38,826 Tullius and I will have it so. 472 00:34:41,037 --> 00:34:43,706 You are overly generous. Come. I would see you away. 473 00:34:48,044 --> 00:34:50,004 The boy all but runs from us. 474 00:34:53,967 --> 00:34:57,178 Vettius has always been little more than Tullius' pet. 475 00:34:57,345 --> 00:35:00,347 Is it any wonder he runs to heel when leash is jerked? 476 00:35:00,515 --> 00:35:02,475 Batiatus speaks truth. 477 00:35:02,642 --> 00:35:04,810 Let us put absent friends from mind 478 00:35:04,978 --> 00:35:07,438 and turn towards the glories of the day. 479 00:35:14,613 --> 00:35:16,071 You have done well. 480 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,199 I but dance to the yank of strings. 481 00:35:18,366 --> 00:35:20,159 Avoid them forming a noose, 482 00:35:20,327 --> 00:35:23,245 and never return to Capua while I draw breath. 483 00:35:23,413 --> 00:35:25,831 I pray for the day it ceases. 484 00:35:28,251 --> 00:35:30,503 We were supposed to divide Vettius' men among us. 485 00:35:30,670 --> 00:35:32,213 What the fuck are you doing? 486 00:35:32,380 --> 00:35:34,840 What it takes to make a name in this world... 487 00:35:35,008 --> 00:35:37,885 after years of "bowing and scraping in shit." 488 00:35:38,053 --> 00:35:41,388 Is that what this is about? A few words spoken in anger absent thought? 489 00:35:41,556 --> 00:35:42,932 A few words? 490 00:35:43,099 --> 00:35:45,184 You name me friend and brother, 491 00:35:45,352 --> 00:35:48,312 yet at every turn remind that I lack this trait or that. 492 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,732 You take information given in aid and move against Tullius, 493 00:35:51,900 --> 00:35:55,027 absent regard of the difficult position it places me. 494 00:35:55,195 --> 00:35:56,695 You talk of nothing! 495 00:35:56,863 --> 00:35:59,532 Every tongue that is not your own is accused of the same. 496 00:35:59,699 --> 00:36:02,159 It has taken years 497 00:36:02,327 --> 00:36:05,579 and the price of blood, but at last I see you for what you are... 498 00:36:05,747 --> 00:36:09,458 a man who holds no one in esteem beyond himself. 499 00:36:11,127 --> 00:36:12,920 I owe you gratitude. 500 00:36:13,088 --> 00:36:15,214 Without you to show the way, 501 00:36:15,382 --> 00:36:18,384 I would never have raised the nerve to betray those closest to me. 502 00:36:31,815 --> 00:36:33,566 What excuse does Solonius give? 503 00:36:33,733 --> 00:36:36,151 None that merit consideration. 504 00:36:40,115 --> 00:36:41,907 What has the crowd in such a state? 505 00:36:42,075 --> 00:36:45,327 Sextus announces executions before the games begin. 506 00:37:05,765 --> 00:37:08,183 Is that not one of yours, Batiatus? 507 00:37:08,351 --> 00:37:12,146 The girl on the end. What was her name? 508 00:37:17,068 --> 00:37:19,403 Diona. 509 00:37:23,241 --> 00:37:26,243 Diona, yes. 510 00:37:26,411 --> 00:37:28,245 Apologies, Batiatus. 511 00:37:28,413 --> 00:37:30,539 The girl was only rounded up this morning. 512 00:37:30,707 --> 00:37:33,459 If you wish her removed to be dealt with personally... 513 00:37:35,295 --> 00:37:38,672 No, let her death stand as a warning 514 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,258 to all others who would seek to betray me. 515 00:37:52,354 --> 00:37:55,731 Caburus is your man now, Solonius. 516 00:37:55,899 --> 00:37:58,275 Rise and see him to purpose. 517 00:37:58,443 --> 00:38:00,110 As you wish. 518 00:39:30,410 --> 00:39:35,998 Pity, to lose one so... fetching. 519 00:39:36,166 --> 00:39:38,417 Soon you join cunt. 520 00:39:41,046 --> 00:39:43,672 Doctore! 521 00:39:45,175 --> 00:39:48,093 I can fight. Have word with Dominus. 522 00:39:50,472 --> 00:39:52,306 I already have. 523 00:39:52,474 --> 00:39:54,683 Now aid your brothers in preparing for the day. 524 00:39:54,851 --> 00:39:57,811 You will fight again when you are able. 525 00:39:57,979 --> 00:40:00,147 Yes, Doctore. 526 00:40:06,946 --> 00:40:10,949 You will face Tasgetius and Synetos in the match before the primus. 527 00:40:13,244 --> 00:40:15,120 Our days have been filled. 528 00:40:15,288 --> 00:40:18,957 Show all of Capua why you are considered such a prize. 529 00:40:19,125 --> 00:40:22,127 Fight, and honor the House of Batiatus. 530 00:40:22,295 --> 00:40:24,505 There are many things I would die for... 531 00:40:24,672 --> 00:40:27,883 many things I deserve to die for... 532 00:40:28,051 --> 00:40:31,595 yet this house is no longer among them. 533 00:40:31,763 --> 00:40:34,098 Then fight for her. 534 00:40:35,683 --> 00:40:38,727 Every life you take, the blood you shed, 535 00:40:38,895 --> 00:40:41,522 she will see it from the afterlife. 536 00:40:46,194 --> 00:40:48,403 Then I shall fill her eyes. 537 00:40:52,367 --> 00:40:53,951 Crixus! 538 00:40:54,119 --> 00:40:55,619 You are first. 539 00:40:55,787 --> 00:40:57,412 Ready. 540 00:41:12,262 --> 00:41:14,429 The sands have been moistened 541 00:41:14,597 --> 00:41:17,224 with our first offerings of blood. 542 00:41:17,392 --> 00:41:20,894 But more is demanded on such a day. 543 00:41:21,062 --> 00:41:23,939 And you shall have it! 544 00:41:26,359 --> 00:41:28,986 The Houses of Solonius and Batiatus 545 00:41:29,154 --> 00:41:32,447 will battle each other in deadly contest. 546 00:41:32,615 --> 00:41:34,825 No mercy shown. 547 00:41:34,993 --> 00:41:37,035 No quarter given. 548 00:41:37,203 --> 00:41:41,999 The victors all to face each in the primus! 549 00:41:48,339 --> 00:41:51,967 You will school that little shit in the ways of a true Lanista. 550 00:41:52,135 --> 00:41:54,219 A lesson to be remembered. 551 00:41:54,387 --> 00:41:56,680 It shall be a spectacle 552 00:41:56,848 --> 00:42:00,767 the likes of which the gods themselves have never witnessed! 553 00:42:00,935 --> 00:42:02,769 Glory to Capua! 554 00:42:02,937 --> 00:42:04,855 Glory to Rome! 555 00:42:29,172 --> 00:42:30,172 Yes! 556 00:42:40,683 --> 00:42:41,934 Nice. 557 00:43:27,981 --> 00:43:29,481 Yes. 558 00:44:17,780 --> 00:44:19,406 Yes! 559 00:44:19,574 --> 00:44:23,327 Once more Gannicus proves himself a god of the arena! 560 00:44:23,494 --> 00:44:27,289 Ah, were that Tullius here to witness such a triumph! 561 00:44:28,666 --> 00:44:31,501 Yet I fear the numbers stand against you in the primus. 562 00:44:31,669 --> 00:44:34,004 Solonius still holds twice your men. 563 00:44:34,172 --> 00:44:36,381 Eh. Numbers are meaningless. 564 00:44:36,549 --> 00:44:39,301 A lesson good Solonius is about to discover. 565 00:44:39,469 --> 00:44:40,552 Ha! 566 00:44:45,850 --> 00:44:49,144 We want more, we want more! 567 00:44:52,148 --> 00:44:55,067 Fast we see approaching night. 568 00:44:55,234 --> 00:44:57,694 You shall stand above all others, 569 00:44:57,862 --> 00:45:01,698 eclipsed only by the gods themselves... 570 00:45:01,866 --> 00:45:04,785 So at last we meet upon the sand. 571 00:45:04,952 --> 00:45:07,245 Two among many. 572 00:45:07,413 --> 00:45:09,331 I give no shit about other men. 573 00:45:09,499 --> 00:45:11,833 I shall prove myself against you in proper contest. 574 00:45:12,001 --> 00:45:14,503 We face Solonius's men, not each other. 575 00:45:14,670 --> 00:45:16,713 Only until they have fallen. 576 00:45:16,881 --> 00:45:19,674 Then we shall stand alone, absent thought of brotherhood. 577 00:45:19,842 --> 00:45:22,427 Attend. 578 00:45:22,595 --> 00:45:24,346 The dominus would have words. 579 00:45:29,519 --> 00:45:31,812 Everything we have dreamed of, 580 00:45:31,979 --> 00:45:34,481 suffered and died for, 581 00:45:34,649 --> 00:45:38,819 the worth of it all turns upon this single moment. 582 00:45:38,986 --> 00:45:42,531 You face the House of Solonius and his ill-gotten men. 583 00:45:42,698 --> 00:45:45,367 You stand outnumbered. 584 00:45:45,535 --> 00:45:50,080 But not outmatched. Only one man will claim victory this day 585 00:45:50,248 --> 00:45:52,874 and earn the title the Champion of Capua. 586 00:45:53,042 --> 00:45:57,838 And by the gods that man will be from the fucking House of Batiatus! 587 00:46:36,294 --> 00:46:39,296 Gladiators, form! 588 00:47:56,165 --> 00:47:59,042 Many have fought this day. 589 00:47:59,210 --> 00:48:01,253 Many have died, 590 00:48:01,420 --> 00:48:03,547 their blood staining the sands. 591 00:48:03,714 --> 00:48:08,552 Yet this arena towers above all others in the Republic. 592 00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:13,974 It is a vast beast, and it yet hungers! 593 00:48:16,018 --> 00:48:18,520 Two great houses face each other. 594 00:48:18,688 --> 00:48:22,732 Yet every man must ultimately stand for himself 595 00:48:22,900 --> 00:48:25,443 and himself alone. 596 00:48:37,623 --> 00:48:40,584 - What are they doing? - It matters not. 597 00:48:44,797 --> 00:48:47,632 Fire burns within their breasts. 598 00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:51,803 And it is fire that shall bind them in final contest! 599 00:49:06,652 --> 00:49:08,445 Fall to the sands beyond the flames 600 00:49:08,613 --> 00:49:11,448 and find yourself removed from the primus. 601 00:49:11,616 --> 00:49:13,783 Fall within them 602 00:49:13,951 --> 00:49:16,786 and be removed from this world. 603 00:49:16,954 --> 00:49:19,372 Take position. 604 00:49:41,145 --> 00:49:44,564 Do not die before we meet. 605 00:49:47,735 --> 00:49:51,821 Split heaven with the sound of your fury! 606 00:49:59,121 --> 00:50:00,288 Begin! 607 00:50:38,703 --> 00:50:40,578 - First blood to Solonius! - Yes. 608 00:50:55,678 --> 00:50:56,886 Yes. 609 00:51:41,891 --> 00:51:43,975 Yes! 610 00:52:02,953 --> 00:52:04,120 Yes! 611 00:52:04,288 --> 00:52:07,415 It is a pity you did not land more men in the primus, Solonius. 612 00:52:07,583 --> 00:52:10,126 I fear you may be eliminated prematurely. 613 00:52:21,013 --> 00:52:23,097 Dagan, you crazy fuck! 614 00:52:27,061 --> 00:52:29,312 Batiatus's men think so little of his house 615 00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:31,689 they seek to kill each other? 616 00:52:59,134 --> 00:53:01,970 Who stands cunt now? 617 00:53:47,641 --> 00:53:49,893 Capua! 618 00:53:51,353 --> 00:53:53,187 Fuck! 619 00:54:20,007 --> 00:54:21,883 Let us press advantage, brother! 620 00:54:22,051 --> 00:54:24,260 Kill Gannicus, 621 00:54:24,428 --> 00:54:27,221 and decide who is champion between us, huh? 622 00:54:35,356 --> 00:54:38,441 Your men again set upon each other before common foe is defeated. 623 00:54:38,609 --> 00:54:41,319 To be expected when animals are not properly trained. 624 00:54:43,530 --> 00:54:45,740 Gannicus is mine. 625 00:55:19,858 --> 00:55:21,609 It appears odds have shifted. 626 00:55:44,091 --> 00:55:45,800 The odds return to balance. 627 00:56:48,489 --> 00:56:49,864 Yes yes. 628 00:57:55,514 --> 00:57:58,141 Yes! 629 00:58:17,369 --> 00:58:22,123 Yes! The House of Batiatus stands fucking triumphant! 630 00:58:23,208 --> 00:58:25,168 Whoa! Apologies. 631 00:58:25,335 --> 00:58:28,546 None required. A most impressive showing. 632 00:58:28,714 --> 00:58:30,423 I do but honor this city 633 00:58:30,591 --> 00:58:32,925 and my champion continues to do the same. 634 00:58:33,093 --> 00:58:36,095 I have mind towards your man for my own games. 635 00:58:36,263 --> 00:58:39,640 As do l. Listen to how he ignites the crowd. 636 00:58:43,061 --> 00:58:46,022 Gannicus! Gannicus! Gannicus! 637 00:58:49,985 --> 00:58:52,028 Gannicus! Gannicus! Gannicus! 638 00:58:52,196 --> 00:58:56,157 Would they not forever remember this day and the men responsible for it 639 00:58:56,325 --> 00:58:58,451 if Gannicus were granted freedom? 640 00:58:59,661 --> 00:59:01,412 Freedom? 641 00:59:01,580 --> 00:59:03,998 I would have granted the same in deference to the crowd 642 00:59:04,166 --> 00:59:06,751 - had my man survived. - An excellent suggestion. 643 00:59:06,919 --> 00:59:09,629 You can always train another gladiator. 644 00:59:09,796 --> 00:59:14,091 Yet to conclude the opening ceremonies with such a blessing... 645 00:59:14,259 --> 00:59:17,470 As I said, I but honor this city. 646 00:59:30,984 --> 00:59:34,237 Gannicus has proven himself to the city of Capua. 647 00:59:35,489 --> 00:59:39,784 Let him be rewarded... with freedom. 648 00:59:47,125 --> 00:59:50,503 Gannicus! Gannicus! Gannicus! 649 00:59:50,671 --> 00:59:53,631 Gannicus! Gannicus! Gannicus! 650 00:59:53,799 --> 00:59:56,884 Gannicus! Gannicus! Gannicus! 651 00:59:57,052 --> 01:00:00,304 Gannicus! Gannicus! Gannicus! 652 01:00:00,472 --> 01:00:02,848 Gannicus! Gannicus! Gannicus! 653 01:00:03,016 --> 01:00:06,185 Gannicus! Gannicus! Gannicus! 654 01:00:06,353 --> 01:00:09,397 Gannicus! Gannicus! Gannicus! 655 01:00:09,564 --> 01:00:12,400 Gannicus! Gannicus! Gannicus! 656 01:00:12,567 --> 01:00:15,861 Gannicus! Gannicus! 657 01:00:18,156 --> 01:00:21,158 After all we have suffered, Gannicus is still lost to us. 658 01:00:21,326 --> 01:00:23,411 I offered the man coin, 659 01:00:23,578 --> 01:00:26,956 freedom to come and go as he pleases, if he would yet fight for our house. 660 01:00:28,875 --> 01:00:31,669 Memories haunt the man 661 01:00:31,837 --> 01:00:33,921 and drive him from our walls. 662 01:00:35,757 --> 01:00:38,676 Crixus afforded himself well in the games. 663 01:00:38,844 --> 01:00:41,721 Let us turn our hope towards him, 664 01:00:41,888 --> 01:00:44,974 that he may bring us honor 665 01:00:45,142 --> 01:00:47,393 and good fortune. 666 01:00:51,273 --> 01:00:52,815 Yes. 667 01:00:52,983 --> 01:00:55,526 Let us place our stock in the Gaul 668 01:00:55,694 --> 01:00:58,362 and see what ends he may service. 669 01:00:58,530 --> 01:01:00,614 I'm real proud of you, brother. 670 01:01:03,493 --> 01:01:08,581 I shall join you one day, you mad fuck. 671 01:01:08,749 --> 01:01:10,291 Of that there is no doubt. 672 01:01:24,014 --> 01:01:26,432 We have not yet had proper contest. 673 01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:30,144 Win your own freedom and seek me out. 674 01:01:36,735 --> 01:01:38,986 Crixus. 675 01:01:40,655 --> 01:01:43,741 I was given this when I became champion of this house. 676 01:01:51,166 --> 01:01:53,542 Wear it with more honor than I have. 677 01:02:24,449 --> 01:02:26,742 You have earned the rudis... 678 01:02:26,910 --> 01:02:30,121 proof you no longer stand a slave. 679 01:02:38,922 --> 01:02:41,382 A lifetime of blood. 680 01:02:41,550 --> 01:02:43,217 And victory. 681 01:02:43,385 --> 01:02:46,804 It lifts troubled heart to see my brother gain his freedom. 682 01:02:46,972 --> 01:02:49,432 Melitta would have been proud. 683 01:02:54,980 --> 01:02:56,689 Oenomaus... 684 01:03:04,281 --> 01:03:08,868 she loved you above all others. 685 01:03:12,581 --> 01:03:14,457 The thought shall keep me warm 686 01:03:14,624 --> 01:03:16,625 till I join her in the afterlife. 687 01:03:16,793 --> 01:03:19,503 And I shall meet you both there. 688 01:04:27,239 --> 01:04:29,406 Doctore. 689 01:04:30,575 --> 01:04:32,159 Begin the day's training. 690 01:04:42,712 --> 01:04:44,755 First position! 691 01:04:53,348 --> 01:04:56,183 I would not hear the name Gannicus spoken within these walls. 692 01:04:56,351 --> 01:04:59,228 Or that of Tullius or his cock-eating apprentice. 693 01:04:59,396 --> 01:05:02,648 Such things are of the past. 694 01:05:04,776 --> 01:05:07,736 Let us look towards a brighter future. 695 01:05:07,904 --> 01:05:11,031 My eyes are firmly fixed. 696 01:05:16,746 --> 01:05:19,873 We will see this house elevated... 697 01:05:20,041 --> 01:05:25,170 beyond my father, beyond Solonius, beyond the fucking gods themselves. 698 01:05:25,338 --> 01:05:28,716 We will leave our mark upon this city. 699 01:05:28,883 --> 01:05:31,302 And one day 700 01:05:31,469 --> 01:05:34,930 we will see proper reward for all we have done. 701 01:05:38,226 --> 01:05:41,061 I have done this thing because it is just. 702 01:05:42,272 --> 01:05:44,857 Blood demands blood. 703 01:05:45,025 --> 01:05:47,818 We have lived and lost 704 01:05:47,986 --> 01:05:51,322 at the whims of our masters for too long. 705 01:05:51,489 --> 01:05:54,408 I would not have it so. 706 01:05:56,494 --> 01:06:00,205 Your lives are your own. Forge your own path... 707 01:06:00,373 --> 01:06:02,791 or join with us 708 01:06:02,959 --> 01:06:06,712 and together we shall see Rome tremble!