[MUSIC PLAYING]
Be gentle, Hannah.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
We invoke you by your great names to come to our aid.
Defeat the Romans.
Destroy their ships, their engines of war, and their soldiers.
We will prevail.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Hannah.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
You did not make an offer today.
I prefer to sacrifice a Roman.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Where you are, I am too.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
And where you are, I am too, forever, my wife.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
The wind is too strong.
Furl sail and strike water.
Furl sail, strike water.
Furl sail and strike water.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Strike water.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
They have no lands but the ones they've stolen.
Wherever they go, they need destruction and call it peace.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
This is the last free city in Africa, Nova.
Today, we go into battle.
Pray that your God is with you.
If he is not, he is no god.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
We've nothing to fear.
But death is, we are not.
But we are.
Death is not.
Stay together and listen for my command.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Rise up with your head out.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[INAUDIBLE]
Release.
[MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING]
Raise the tower.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Back in front.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[INAUDIBLE]
Let's run with your stuff.
[MUSIC PLAYING] [SCREAMING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[INAUDIBLE]
Killer.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[INAUDIBLE] [MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
I'll wait for you.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[SCREAMING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[INAUDIBLE]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[SCREAMING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[SCREAMING]
I claim this city for the glory of rule.
Pray, Victus.
Go to the Concord.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[SCREAMING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
What damage have they done you?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
What's up?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Other shots?
I'm sorry, my son.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
I have not long.
This galley is sailing us to something I cannot endure.
I am ready to be taken to another place.
A year a while longer.
[LAUGHING]
I remember well when you first were brought to us.
A lonely boy from the desert, guileless, afraid.
You embraced everything we taught you.
You found Arishat's love.
Your soul was replenished.
When I die, my ancestors will meet me in the next world.
Who will meet you?
I know.
I am done.
Do not let them change what you are.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
I can see this boy.
The mob!
You must go alone now, Hanuk.
Never let them find you.
Go.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Emperor Gator.
Emperor Karakon.
General Acasis.
I have taken you, Midian, your names.
But your dominion may eclipse that of every emperor that came before you.
And I'm with Laurel's brother.
[APPLAUSE]
[CHEERING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
In honor of your conquest, there will be games in the colosseum.
A requirement of games in my honor.
Serving the Senate and the people of Rome is honor enough for me.
You are too modest, Acasis.
It does not suit a general as accomplished as yourself.
The glory is yours, not mine.
I only ask for some respite from Rome to spend time with my wife.
Your wife? Yes.
Remember the privileges we have granted her?
Where is she now to ignore such an occasion?
There are victories yet still to come.
Persia.
India.
Both must be conquered.
Rome has so many subjects.
She must feed them.
They can eat more.
Your triumphs will be celebrated as a tribute to the greatness of the Roman people.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[CHEERING]
Madness of beasts, master of gladiators.
[CHEERING]
[CHEERING] Ye gods and the town councilors.
Distinguished guests.
Got high on the back citizens of Antia.
Behold the fate of the conquered enemies of Rome.
The Popalian, you idiots and their chief term,
you gods!
[BARKING]
[CHEERING]
This one is interesting.
[CHEERING]
[BARKING]
[CHEERING]
I'll fire.
[CHANTING]
Hope, go to that.
General.
[CHANTING]
My lady.
[CHANTING]
I thank the gods that brought you back home safe.
I thank the army they protected me.
Let me feed you.
[CHANTING]
Go.
[CHANTING]
The arena is a sacred temple.
For the bravest of you, the road to glory runs through the arena.
The arena turns slaves into gladiators and gladiators into free men.
[CHANTING]
You have worms.
I know this one.
He eats monkeys.
[CHANTING]
Go, sit. Eat.
[CHANTING]
You.
I know. Get up.
[CHANTING]
What is your native language? I speak them all.
You don't answer because you can't, because you won't.
All right.
Violence is the universal language.
For ego, put him through his paces.
He can fight an ape. Let's see if he can fight a man.
[CHANTING]
Very good.
Close him down.
Bring him to me.
Ah!
A strong jaw.
Good arms.
Better smell.
You will do well.
It is an art.
Choosing gladiators.
Some choose entertainers.
Some choose brute force.
I choose rage.
Crowd loves blood, and they love those who love blood as much as they do.
And you, my friend, rage,
pours out of you like...
like milk.
From a horse tit.
You will be quite the fighter.
Not for you.
You're right. You do not fight for me.
I put you in the ring. You fight or you die. The choice is yours.
But whose head could I give you
that would satisfy this fury?
The entire Roman armies.
[CHUCKLES]
Too much.
The general rule will do.
General.
General Ocasio.
Use your rage in my service,
and you will have his head ready for your sword.
Serve me and he'll serve you. Deny me.
And you will die.
At times I will wish you to bend on me rather than fight their wars.
I've made my choice.
I can live with it.
But my patience with those two is at an end.
Later.
You may go to your quarters now.
We need nothing in.
To hear wives and mothers mauling their dead on that beach at New Midian.
Silla.
No more.
I will not waste another generation of young men for their vanity.
If I fight another campaign, it must be to depose them.
When will your troops arrive?
We landed austere in ten days.
How many of them will be loyal to you alone?
All of them.
The empress do not have the support of the people.
The people are weary of the madness, the tyranny.
What is the dream of Rome?
If our people are not free?
We are free.
To excess.
Thank you.
We are free.
Thank you.
Thank you. Excuse me, my goodness.
I knew the provinces were not enough for you.
I'm just here for the gays.
You won't be disappointed?
Rome has all the gangs that men like you like to play.
Men like me, frags, men like us.
I know nothing happens in Rome unless you tasted it first.
That's my purpose here.
We'll find out so you know.
What's this we hear about you being interested in
standing for an election to the Senate, my friend?
Me?
You know who I am, Bob?
I don't even know how to use an abacus, but I do understand that.
It's customary for your guests to make wages at these favors.
How large a sum did you have in mind?
Thousand gold in honor.
Two.
Two?
Denial.
[LAUGHS]
Stand back!
My emperors, lords, ladies and gentlemen, and
senators, for your entertainment, the art of combat.
May I present the barbarian versus from my own stable, the mighty Vincen!
[APPLAUSE]
This is your la
Three rounds, hand to hand.
Swords!
We want swords to fight to the death.
No quarter to be offered or given.
Fight now!
Brother, let's not kill each other for their amusement.
[LAUGHTER]
[YELLING]
[APPLAUSE]
Remarkable!
Trax, you looked expensive for her.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Remarkable.
From my detail.
Speak.
I said speak is from the colonies, Your
Majesty, his native tongue is all he understands.
The gates of hell are open night and day.
Smooth is the descent and easiest away.
But to come back from hell and to view the
cheerful skies in this, the task and mighty labor lies.
Vergil, Your Majesty.
Poetry!
Very clever, my goodness.
Thank you.
I'm so bored, but you surprised me.
To amuse you is my only wish.
We are amused.
And we all look forward to seeing your poet perform in the arena.
As do I, Your Majesties.
Thank you.
Bego.
Come with me.
You fought well today, but you were lucky too.
The lines you recited.
You didn't learn that in Africa, I know that.
A good verse travels far.
Who taught you poetry?
A captured Roman officer.
I was posted guard over and he used to tell us tales to pass the time.
And what became of this prison?
How we ate him.
As barbarians do.
And where were you born?
Why does my past matter if it is my future to die for you in the arena?
Telling what you survived for Roman money.
A gladiator can buy his own freedom.
His liberty.
The Roman dream.
The slave dreams not of freedom, but of a slave to call his own.
Cicero.
Is that what you were raised on, Macrimus?
What did you have to do for Roman money?
You promised me a head.
Earn your keep and you can have anyone's head.
[door opens]
Father, protect us and guide us.
[music]
Senators.
My name.
I lay think I wish you a meeting in better times.
Better times will come.
And why are we here to take back the city?
And restore Rome to where she should be.
An exciting venture.
When, on the final day of the games, my army waits for my commanded austere.
Five thousand soldiers loyal to me.
Will enter Rome and then the coliseum where they will arrest the emperors for their
crimes against the senate and their people.
This plan is ambitious and risky.
Rome will be yours to administer and to...
Marcus Aurelius talked of restoring power to the
senate, but that was a generation ago, much as change.
The people have not seen hope for many years.
But with time and guidance.
Lucilla, you are the daughter of Marcus Aurelius. He had my loyalty.
And so do you.
Senator Thraxx.
Politics follows power, my lady.
Take back what is rightfully yours and the senate will support you.
Thank you.
[MUSIC]
When I was told of this place, I never mentioned the stink.
That would be Hannah.
Well, you'll have to put up with me as I act.
No one saw up there. A wolf.
The twins there, they were outcasts. Left from the hills to die.
That wolf found them, she suffered them on a mill.
Raised by an animal, it's in their blood.
How do you know this place?
I know the chaos they brought.
This city infects everything it touches.
I never dreamt it would be so big.
Don't fall for it. This city is diseased.
[MUSIC]
Ah, Thraxx.
About our wages.
Ah, the barbarium. I haven't forgotten. I always repay my wages.
I'm merely going to suggest that perhaps your
luck might change, shall we say, double or quits.
[LAUGHTER]
[MUSIC]
Line up. Line up.
[MUSIC]
Line, line.
[MUSIC]
Emperor Katicala.
Emperor Gator.
Citizens of Rome.
These sacred games are held to honor the victory of Rome over the fans of humanity.
Go! Go!
And to honor Rome's knee-degree commander, General Yosuf Akasiel.
And with him, Yosilah, the daughter of Emperor Marcus O'Ladius.
cases
General
I am not an orator or a politician.
I am a soldier.
I have seen bravery in men and women during war, and even once in this arena.
So if you ask anything of the gods, ask for that same bravery.
Because Rome needs it now.
[APPLAUSE]
[MUSIC]
From the mountains,
from the snails,
from the macronuts,
from the mistress.
[MUSIC]
From the snails of Emperor Katicala and Gator themselves,
the undefeated champion,
Giselle the Destroyer.
[MUSIC]
[APPLAUSE]
Hail, Caesars!
[APPLAUSE]
Hail, Caesars!
Hold together and win a charges break for the wall.
Where's Shula?
Hold!
Cows!
[MUSIC]
Brother, is that poet, is it not?
I can't remember, and I was a blur.
The gates of hell are open night and day.
Smooth as the descent, I forget.
Smooth as the descent.
Smooth as the descent, he sees the way.
[MUSIC]
[NOISE]
Blood.
[NOISE]
Who's that?
Shall we shall mercy?
Mercy.
[MUSIC]
No mercy.
Your life has been spared by the gods.
I will soon efface your blade, and accept broken mercy.
[NOISE]
The road to freedom doesn't run through the arena, leads to this.
[NOISE]
Go to yourselves.
[NOISE]
[MUSIC]
Gates of hell are open night and day.
Smooth as the descent, he sees the way.
[MUSIC]
Gates of glass is the figure alone.
[MUSIC]
It's going to end our agenda.
[MUSIC]
Lucius is safe.
[MUSIC]
Lucius.
Lucius, you're the soul who add to the throne now.
There are men who want to kill you so they can take power.
I promise I'll bring you back as soon as I'm safe. Mother, why can't you come with me? I have to stay here for your sake, and for the sake of Rome.
Remember who you are, and that I love you.
I love you.
Come on. [MUSIC] Come on.
[MUSIC]
So, what's your name?
I'm Riley, my daughter.
Of course, more men die of infected wounds than they are in the arena.
This needs to be cleaned, needs to be stitched, and it's going to hurt.
This is Deborah's breath and opium.
It's for the pain.
You should breathe in.
And the pain is so long now, they don't even notice anymore.
There are more amputations than I can count.
How did you learn your trade?
What did you ask?
I got a heavy hand.
I used to be a gladiator myself.
What would you have bested me in your prime force?
In your current state, I could best you now.
Luckily for you, I have put down my sword, so I
will spend my days saving lives instead of taking them.
My voice has changed so late in life.
What we do in life echoes in eternity.
I feel like I know who those were.
My captain credit is written on one of the tombs.
With the bones of a gladiator.
My champion, I shall never rest.
My champion, did you hear that crowd?
Did you hear that crowd?
You have something.
I know it from the start.
The jalapenos.
Yes, the Greeks call it thymos, smoke, rage.
And rage is your gift.
Like the great Achilles, never let it go.
It will carry you to greatness, my champion.
Thank you for inviting me.
This is truly an honor.
I hear you have talked the court.
Yes, we met before.
Have we?
Long ago.
Where?
I was in the service of your father's army on this African campaign.
You served with my father.
Oh.
I had the privilege of reading his meditations.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
I hear you've been arming half the legions of the entire empire.
You've been here, now, in Rome.
You're gaining influence by sponsoring gladiators.
I do it for the love of the sport.
And where did you find these gladiators?
They're usually prisoners of war or vagrants.
What do you ask?
A man can choose to fight and stay alive.
It's the same in life as it is in the arena, is it not?
Who is this?
That is my father as a youth.
She had a child.
It's common knowledge.
When commonness was killed, the boy disappeared.
Boy would care.
Silla would care.
More wives!
He was of a royal bloodline, after all.
And his father?
Ostensibly, Lucius Verus.
You see, it was an arranged marriage.
She was 14.
Females were not his taste.
No mind, some days.
No, no, no.
By room, you see, she took lovers.
And by room, the real father was commonness.
It's probably love, you see.
If he died, there has to be remains.
And if he lived, that would make him about...
Well, let's work it out.
He was about 12 when he died.
Yes.
So that would make him...
Bye, lady.
practice.
I used to go.
Thank you.
Lady, do you know me?
[coughing]
You have a family.
A wife.
A Rishan.
A Rishan?
She was killed under your husband's command.
From drowns in the turf blood.
And yet you enjoy the pleasures of the cotton ceiling.
There's much you do not understand.
Duchess.
I do not know who you think I am.
My name is Harlow, and I have no mother or mother I can remember.
I'm so sorry.
If you were somewhere here, I feel sure he would tell you not to grieve him.
For he would not be the boy that you sent away.
That boy is dead. You may think I have little worth.
You may think I betrayed you.
But I need you to know,
if you will not have your mother's love
and take your father's strength,
you need it.
His name was Maximus,
and Decimus moved me. His name was Maximus,
and Decimus moved me.
And I see him in you.
Get out.
I say to you, we must go at once.
It's just you were loved.
By myself and by your father.
Your name was on his list.
Get out!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
There's just this alive.
Are you certain?
Yes.
I know my son.
I spoke to him tonight.
He may be lost to me for what I did.
But he lives.
The third day of the game is tomorrow.
Most fighters won't survive.
Okay, so you must help.
Help him. Yes.
I failed him then.
I know I did.
I cannot fail him now.
Naomi's an austere.
If we wait a few days...
He could be dead by then.
My kisses.
I would willingly give my life from...
But I will not give my sons.
One.
Two.
And one.
And two.
And one.
Go, go.
One can fall like this.
Just him.
You go.
Go.
Let's see how far you can go on your own without your team.
Ready?
One.
Two.
Got it.
Come on. More.
More.
Just vinegar, my friend.
There will be no more opium for you.
There is beauty of pain waiting for you in the next life.
I don't know why you are so pretty for eating this one.
Are you a free man, Robbie?
No. I'm not a free man. Are you a free man, Robbie?
Free.
I am.
I lay down my sword and I swore never to pick it up again.
Didn't you choose this now?
Yeah.
What was your home before?
But I'm not.
Why don't you go back?
Wish I could.
I'm not a woman.
It's always a woman, for once.
She's from Bloombdino, in Italy.
So now, our sons, they speak only Latin.
My daughter says, "Ah, it's there, it's blue as yours."
We are robots now.
I grew up hearing stories of my grandfather's knee.
He used to talk of the dream that was wrong.
It was so fragile, you could only whisper it.
What a vanish.
What a sister.
A wrong where all could live on the foul lawn, be protected.
Wrong with the Senate.
A wrong of hope.
Your grandfather, he sounds like a dangerous man.
The odds are against you.
The odds are always against me.
Don't worry, old man.
Hey?
You should get some rest.
Your men will need you to lead them tomorrow.
[music]
Survival! Survival!
In the name of the Lord, we celebrate the glory of the new moonwalk.
May the Lord just be ready to listen for my command.
Stay together with
Today, we relive the Battle of Salamis.
The serpent passes the Persian.
O'sell!
And Poole!
Whoa!
(yelling)
(crashing)
(yelling)
(crashing)
(yelling)
Let's start, ready?
And two more more times!
Over here!
Get down!
(crashing) (yelling)
(yelling)
(crashing)
(yelling) (crashing)
(crashing)
Over here!
Ready to run!
(crashing)
Let's run!
Run!
(yelling)
(crashing)
(yelling)
One, two, three!
(crashing)
(yelling)
(crashing)
(yelling)
(crashing)
(yelling)
Kridoria!
(yelling)
In the name of the Emperor,
the victor is Hanover!
(yelling)
(speaking in foreign language)
Who did this?
It was me!
I did it!
(yelling)
Gaeta will want retribution for all of you.
Did you learn to shoot the same place
you learned to escape, why three?
Be glad it wasn't me or that, I would have found you.
(laughing)
(yelling)
Is it?
I have news for you.
He's here, sir.
(yelling)
Oh, still here.
Back to that.
(laughing)
Well.
Yeah, something is new.
You know this is my house now.
Your debt to me is over 10,000 denarii.
You know that.
I have other things, cattle.
Truth.
Death.
What do you want?
Truth, that's what I want.
Nothing happens in Rome without your knowledge.
You have the senator's trust.
You have the sinner's trust.
More importantly, you have my trust.
You wish my loyalty?
I own your house.
Your house.
I want your loyalty.
I, I have heard of a plot to dethrone the elixir.
Yes.
But the plan has been delayed.
I'm glad the ater is to be rescued from the arena tonight.
I know no one.
I know why, I know who.
Pat.
Quickly.
(dramatic music)
(d Here Will you)
Open for the first job!
Open for the second job! (dramatic music)
My lady, come with us.
(dramatic music)
(footsteps)
Thanks to the civic virtue of men
like Thrax and Macronus,
your insurrection has been revealed.
The honor, the dignitas that Rome has bestowed
upon you, all this you have forfeited by your treachery.
Please, ever, Gator, torture me if you want,
but do not lecture me.
Your name will be forgotten!
Lost to history.
You are damned, General.
(laughing)
You're loved.
You damned me.
I don't care.
Everything is forgotten in time.
Empires fall, so do emperors.
Why wait?
I will cut him.
(gurgling)
Come, come.
His death must be public.
Public?
(grunting)
Hang!
His death fails, and his city takes
a cruise of my heart.
Truth, survive, or I will take them away!
(grunting)
Yes.
Thank you, Macronus.
God.
In these last days, I have come to think of you
not as a subject, but as a true friend.
Thank you.
Thank you so much, but as a friend,
I must counsel caution
that cases are a hero of Rome,
whose fiction is for thieves, Christians.
It's too common.
He is a traitor.
He must die.
I agree.
But the gods reside.
His fate, in the cause of you.
Let the gods decide.
You know, last night I woke dreaming of the dark river.
This time, the first eye was crossing it.
Hmm.
You know where I come from.
Oh, crossing a rewrite represents forgiveness,
represents salvation.
Oh, where I come from, it means you're already dead.
(chuckling)
As I saw it, I was not afraid.
For someone who was waiting for me, I'm here on this side.
(chuckling)
Who is this man?
Scratched out.
Maximus.
I saw the fire once.
It was magnificent.
Hmm, you know, my time at the unrenewed was after his,
but when he still talked of him in his bus,
spoke of him, what he did.
I met him once.
He was kind.
Bowed to no one.
Come with me.
(ominous music)
Well, a rebel gladiator dies.
We bury them here.
What we do in life, that cause an ontology.
(ominous music)
Mrs. Argento, Mrs. Starter.
(singing in foreign language)
(audience applauding)
(ominous music)
(audience cheering)
There.
Hands up.
For his treason against the lives of the emperors
and the Roman state general Eustace Acacia,
an enemy of the people.
(audience cheering)
(audience chanting)
(dramatic music)
(audience cheering)
(dramatic music)
Be victors.
General.
(dramatic music)
(audience cheering)
(dramatic music) (audience cheering)
(audience chanting)
From the vanquished city of New Medea,
the victor was two conquests in the connoisseur.
Go now.
Be victors.
(dramatic music)
Come on!
Oh Lord, any honor I have, I will give it to you.
It's too late.
The Roman traitor or the barbarian hero.
Let the gods decide.
Wait.
Wait, wait!
Wait!
(dramatic music)
I am a vessel.
Fill the infonjings.
And fight with the betrayer.
(dramatic music)
Oh God.
(dramatic music)
Pick it up!
(audience cheering)
(dramatic music)
I know who you are.
Lucius Varevis.
(audience cheering)
Lucius has raised his hand.
He has surrendered.
Let the gods decide.
(audience cheering)
(dramatic music)
The gods have rendered their judgment.
Do what you ask.
But on my death you have to know,
I love you, Mother Yusef.
And your father.
Lucius, I would have died for him.
Get out!
Help!
(audience chanting)
Get out!
(audience cheering)
I'm gonna kill him.
I can't!
No! Kill him!
(audience chanting)
Kill him!
(audience chanting)
Kill him!
Tell him!
(audience chanting)
I got a fuse!
(audience chanting)
(screaming)
No!
I got a fuse!
I got you!
That's what be too good for you.
Is this our own truth, it's here all!
Tell me!
If his life has no value, what in yours were?
The gods have spoken!
My death!
(audience chanting)
For our own safety, we should return to the palace.
(audience chanting)
Stay back, stay back!
(audience chanting) (audience chanting)
(audience chanting)
We had a bargain.
I gave him to you.
You let him live.
And you got what you wanted.
I always get what I want.
Why did you let him live?
You bought a gladiator, not a slave.
My will is my own.
How blue is your blood?
Perhaps the heart of a Roman feeds in that chest.
The greatest temple Rome ever built, the Colosseum,
because this is what they believe in, power.
They gather here to watch the strong strike down.
There has to be something else.
There is nothing else.
There has to be another Rome.
There is no other Rome.
The dream, the dream of Rome.
It's an old man's fantasy.
Who are you?
What was your name before you traded it for a Roman one?
You'll never know.
I have a destiny.
The gods delivered you to me.
You will be my instrument.
I will never be your instrument in this life for the next.
That will not be my destiny.
But I will see your end.
(dramatic music)
(crowd cheering)
What else could I do?
He and his bitch will cause him to kill us.
Don't you hear them?
They're calling for our heads.
The Petolians will put down this crap
like they have every other.
Who brought this all up?
Filthy guy!
Perhaps you should take Johness elsewhere
to comfort him.
I forgive my brother's outburst.
The disease that infects his loins is spread to his brain.
Every day gets worse.
I will reason with him.
(crowd cheering)
I see you.
Gotta go, gotta go.
Go on, stand up.
Get up, get up, not you.
All right.
Now, listen to me.
What's the matter?
Nothing's ever mine.
Everything is ours always, even in the womb.
He tried to get my umbilicus
so that I couldn't have any more hair.
You remember that, do you?
Certainly.
Sit.
One cannot forget.
My conscience compels me.
Why?
Sit.
Your brother means to blame you
in front of the entire Senate.
But I did not do it.
Well, what's happening in the streets is the chaos.
He's lying.
No testimony can be more damning
than one brother against another.
That's a lie.
He always lies.
He can be very persuasive.
So, what will they do to me?
I don't dare imagine, but imagine this.
What will they do to Thomas?
It's your decision.
Brother.
Put down the blade.
You lie.
Give it to me.
You always lie.
Give it to me.
Look at me.
Lie!
Let me break this spell.
Lie!
Break this spell.
I've always protected you.
Because I love you.
Come back.
Help me.
(dramatic music)
Thomas.
(door opens)
Never could have imagined the fates would lead us here.
And yet here we are.
Everything that's brought us full circle,
you set me away and he had faith.
You brought me back to the very ground where he died.
This ring belonged to my father.
He gave it to your father, Maximus, as a token of trust.
I gave it to Cassius for his valor.
This ring belonged to my wife.
I shall wear it next to yours.
I'm truly sorry for her cases.
But I could not see the man.
It was a soldier from...
There was a plan.
He was readying troops at Ostian to the Galant of Dereis Sextus.
Troops he was to lead against the emperors.
Aacacius, Maximus, Marcus Aurelius.
They lived and died for her own.
We all do.
Is it true they attempt to kill you?
One man or another has had a sword against my neck since the day my father died.
But now that I've found you, it doesn't matter.
I am not afraid.
I've become well versed in losing the things that I love.
But now that I've found you, I have no desire to lose you again.
Is time like him?
I live.
Proud.
I do not have the strength.
I wish that were true.
I wish I were telling you to flee this place.
Go now.
Stray for the moment.
A zebra! I have convened the senate to appoint my first consul
and bestow upon him the power to administer
the military and civic functions of the empire.
I name Citizen Dondas!
Hail Dondas!
Hail Dondas?
Hail Dondas!
As second consul, I name
Citizen
Macronus!
Hail Macronus!
There will be a triumphal parade to celebrate.
There will be games
and mass executions.
Long live the empire.
Sit down.
I happen to have
with good fortune and not a little skill.
The remaining emperors here.
I can speak logic to it.
And tame the madness in the street.
But,
we still order.
I must have power
and command over the Petrurian army.
Balak!
Or hand.
Your humble servant.
Put your hands down.
You can sit down.
(dramatic music)
Rome must fall.
I need to only give it a push.
And after Rome falls?
What then?
You are your father's child.
His dream of Rome was never a dream.
It was a fiction.
The best revenge is to become unlike the one who did the injury.
I have made myself unlike your father.
He spoke of dreams, I speak of truth,
and the only truth in my Rome
is the law of the strongest.
I was owned
by an emperor.
Now I control an empire.
Where else but in Rome can a man do that?
Do you recognize your father's mark on me?
If there is anything,
you need in these last hours,
we will provide.
Your death will clear my path to the throne.
Tomorrow there will be games,
and at them I will prevail.
(doorbell rings)
Robbie.
Can you get me the message to Osti by morning?
What is it, Osti?
There is an army.
I'm asking you to risk yourself, my friend,
on the surface of something greater.
Ride to Ostia.
Take this ring to General Darius Sextus, are you listening?
Darius Sextus, you will know as a Cacius' ring.
And, uh, what shall I say, sir?
Send me with this ring.
I am Lucius Ferris Aurelius.
Prince of Rome.
Tell him I am summoning the army to the defense of a new republic.
Shall I test you? Yes.
Shall I? Yes.
Robbie, I need your keys.
(dramatic music)
Go!
Come back!
(grunts)
(panting)
Who gave you this?
Lucius the Roserilius.
The Prince of Rome.
(dramatic music)
My street gift, sir.
Until she dies, you will never know peace.
Ever.
(dramatic music)
The people of Loughborough, death will incite the mob.
If she dies and the streets rise up and hang her,
I shall drill into them Caracalla's head,
and the people shall acclaim me that my friend is politics.
Shall we? Yes.
(dramatic music)
Today will be your last fight, champion.
And our master has bestowed on you
the wooden sword of freedom.
(dramatic music)
But you have to earn it first.
Today, you're going to defend your mother.
(dramatic music)
(yelling)
(dramatic music)
(yelling)
What a steal, a point, this is still a point.
(dramatic music)
Fight for me.
(dramatic music)
In honor of the accusations of Emperor Caracalla,
First Council, Dolos, and Second Council, Macronos,
and as punishment for her conspiracy against the Empire,
for her caliphes against the Emperor's imperial rabbi,
and for fomenting military mutiny,
along with her hope, the Queen will face divine justice
at the hands of the Praetorian Guard.
(dramatic music)
I'm not a general, but we are old soldiers.
And up until now, we have fought for nothing more
than another day's survival.
What will you have us do?
Well, you can return to yourselves if you do not wish
to fight this battle.
(laughing)
Or, you can join me and fight for a freedom
far beyond these walls.
(yelling)
There once was a time when honor met the enemy,
there once was a time when honor meant something in Rome.
(dramatic music) In this Rome, I no longer believe that exists.
We must find it.
(yelling)
And know this,
where death is, we are not.
Where we are, death is not.
Why my sword?
Straight to another!
(yelling)
(dramatic music)
(yelling)
(dramatic music)
(yelling)
(dramatic music)
(yelling)
(dramatic music)
(yelling)
(yelling) (dramatic music)
(yelling) (yelling)
Let it not be said that the emperor is not merciful.
The queen will be granted a single
gladiator to defend her against the praetorian god.
(dramatic music)
The champion, Hadam!
(dramatic music)
(sound of Dove)
(dramatic music)
( (crowd wrenching)
(crowd cheering)
Someone in the cavalry put this down at once.
This is the war, real war!
(ominous music)
The army of Arces is advancing just outside of Rome, sir.
We can still out-fight them.
They have only 5,000 troops, no more.
How many are we?
6,000, perhaps more.
Ride to the gate and hold us.
(crowd cheering)
Go for the escape!
eighteen?
Give me the ball. Go home, my son.
Will you see the sky?
Boss!
Will nothing kill this barbarian?
Name is Lucius Barris Aurelius.
A man did not become emperor by bloodline alone,
must be taken by force and kept by force.
Are you such a man as this?
I don't fight for power.
I fight to free Rome from men like you and to return it to them.
The gods themselves, what Rome reborn,
they sent me to fulfill that task.
And what of your bones, second here to kill you?
Ah!
It's time to end this, Baccarat!
D'ah!
Don't!
Stop!
Lec forecasts
Straight up.
My son.
[screaming]
[crash]
[screaming]
[footsteps]
[screaming]
[footsteps]
[clanging]
You look to me to speak.
I know not what to say other than we have all known too much, Dad.
But no more blood be spilled in the name of tyranny.
My grandfather Marcus Aurelius talked of the dream that would be wrong.
A dream that my father, Maximus Decimus Meridius, died for.
An ideal.
A city for the many and a refuge for those in need.
A home worth fighting for.
A home that Maximus spent his life defending.
A dream is lost.
A day awake.
We build that dream together.
What say you?
[crash]
[shouting]
[footsteps]
Nala.
[footsteps]
Speak to me, father.
[music]