1 00:00:06,081 --> 00:00:07,983 - [Lucretia] Wake. - [gasps] 2 00:00:08,083 --> 00:00:10,646 [blood splatters] 3 00:00:13,409 --> 00:00:16,432 [Ashur] You stand but first crude brick, laying foundation 4 00:00:16,532 --> 00:00:18,394 to the rise of the house of Ashur. 5 00:00:18,494 --> 00:00:19,755 All those before me shall fall. 6 00:00:19,855 --> 00:00:21,517 Enter the brothers Ferox! 7 00:00:21,617 --> 00:00:23,819 - Aargh! - [all grunt] 8 00:00:25,621 --> 00:00:28,524 That toad is pet to Marcus fucking Crassus. 9 00:00:28,624 --> 00:00:30,766 Apologies, Gabinius. We did not think. 10 00:00:30,866 --> 00:00:34,369 I shall redouble the effort to secure undiscovered spectacle 11 00:00:34,469 --> 00:00:36,772 and see rematch upon a day. 12 00:00:36,872 --> 00:00:38,573 [grunting] 13 00:00:38,673 --> 00:00:41,176 [Ashur] Let us gaze upon glorious future. 14 00:00:41,276 --> 00:00:45,580 Aargh! Pledge oath, call me Dominus and fight in the arena. 15 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:47,582 Earn your freedom upon the sands. 16 00:00:47,682 --> 00:00:49,885 - [Ashur] Achillia. - Dominus. 17 00:00:52,567 --> 00:00:54,589 [blades ring, blood splatters] 18 00:00:54,689 --> 00:00:57,212 [rapid percussive music, singing echoes] 19 00:01:00,735 --> 00:01:02,897 [dark, eerie music] 20 00:01:08,743 --> 00:01:10,905 [men grunt] 21 00:01:12,106 --> 00:01:13,208 Ay! 22 00:01:13,308 --> 00:01:15,610 Tarchon! You lower shield before you strike. 23 00:01:15,710 --> 00:01:19,174 See it raised- your brains upon the sands. 24 00:01:19,274 --> 00:01:21,276 Yes, Doctore. 25 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:27,962 [men grunt] 26 00:01:29,243 --> 00:01:31,145 You fight with vigour. 27 00:01:31,245 --> 00:01:33,708 Well, this house now stands absent champion- 28 00:01:33,808 --> 00:01:35,670 a position I would claim my own. 29 00:01:35,770 --> 00:01:37,672 [laughs] Well, to become champion, 30 00:01:37,772 --> 00:01:40,615 you must first defeat vaunted father. 31 00:01:41,856 --> 00:01:43,978 [men grunt] 32 00:01:47,862 --> 00:01:49,984 [men grunt] 33 00:01:52,426 --> 00:01:54,428 A venture yet beyond grasp. 34 00:01:56,430 --> 00:01:58,873 - For now, you withered corpse. - [chuckles] 35 00:01:59,193 --> 00:02:01,996 [men grunt] 36 00:02:04,919 --> 00:02:07,041 [men grunt] 37 00:02:08,402 --> 00:02:09,984 You mad fuck! 38 00:02:10,084 --> 00:02:12,646 - You lower your guard. - Towards good fucking reason. 39 00:02:15,929 --> 00:02:18,052 [men grunt] 40 00:02:18,892 --> 00:02:21,055 [intense music] 41 00:02:26,940 --> 00:02:29,062 ♪ 42 00:02:34,948 --> 00:02:37,070 [door creaks] 43 00:02:44,678 --> 00:02:46,680 We have felt the sting 44 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:49,242 of loss. 45 00:02:49,563 --> 00:02:50,744 Witnessed honoured champion 46 00:02:50,844 --> 00:02:52,346 fall upon the sands of the arena 47 00:02:52,446 --> 00:02:55,529 to the ill-thriven jackals of Proculus. 48 00:02:56,329 --> 00:02:59,473 Yet, as rising sun breaks dawn, 49 00:02:59,573 --> 00:03:01,074 so too shall the House of Ashur 50 00:03:01,174 --> 00:03:03,336 dispel darkest night of indignity. 51 00:03:04,658 --> 00:03:07,160 We shall no longer be bound by the shackles of history 52 00:03:07,260 --> 00:03:09,262 or fucking tradition! 53 00:03:10,263 --> 00:03:12,365 We set foot upon uncharted course 54 00:03:12,465 --> 00:03:14,467 to satisfy the crowd's desire 55 00:03:14,988 --> 00:03:17,150 with more exotic... 56 00:03:17,831 --> 00:03:19,833 offerings. 57 00:03:20,433 --> 00:03:23,276 But how shall rising thirst be quenched? 58 00:03:23,716 --> 00:03:25,979 There stands but one capable of satiating 59 00:03:26,079 --> 00:03:28,081 such ravenous mob! 60 00:03:29,082 --> 00:03:30,984 Behold, 61 00:03:31,084 --> 00:03:33,086 Achillia. 62 00:03:34,047 --> 00:03:36,049 The Goddess of Death. 63 00:03:37,090 --> 00:03:39,912 [men grumble] 64 00:03:40,012 --> 00:03:43,256 Silence fucking tongue, and attend your Dominus! 65 00:03:46,739 --> 00:03:48,821 Return to training, you simple fucks. 66 00:03:52,104 --> 00:03:54,106 Doctore, 67 00:03:54,467 --> 00:03:56,469 see Achillia to instruction. 68 00:03:57,029 --> 00:04:00,833 Dacus, sword and shield, towards style of murmillo! 69 00:04:01,514 --> 00:04:03,516 Yes, Doctore! 70 00:04:06,719 --> 00:04:08,701 The woman bears resemblance to my mother- 71 00:04:08,801 --> 00:04:10,983 a spiteful fucking whore. 72 00:04:11,083 --> 00:04:13,606 That explains much, you witless shit. 73 00:04:16,849 --> 00:04:19,491 - A fucking woman, father. - Turn thoughts. 74 00:04:20,172 --> 00:04:22,174 And raise guard! 75 00:04:22,895 --> 00:04:24,316 Erato! 76 00:04:24,416 --> 00:04:26,438 Pair with Achillia. 77 00:04:26,538 --> 00:04:29,882 I would see cock tangle with more worthy adversary. 78 00:04:29,982 --> 00:04:31,523 - [whip cracks] - [Erato grunts] 79 00:04:31,623 --> 00:04:33,625 Work the fucking log! 80 00:04:37,029 --> 00:04:39,031 [grunts] 81 00:04:41,914 --> 00:04:43,916 - Ay! - Tarchon! 82 00:04:44,876 --> 00:04:46,878 Pair with Achillia. 83 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:50,562 Yes, Doctore. 84 00:04:54,206 --> 00:04:55,267 Shall I treat her as opponent 85 00:04:55,367 --> 00:04:56,908 or something of delicate persuasion? 86 00:04:57,008 --> 00:04:59,010 [laughter] 87 00:05:00,772 --> 00:05:03,215 A question I was of mind to pose towards you. 88 00:05:04,176 --> 00:05:07,219 See idle words give way to clash of swords. 89 00:05:12,264 --> 00:05:14,386 [tense music] 90 00:05:17,509 --> 00:05:18,770 Begin! 91 00:05:18,870 --> 00:05:22,394 [both grunt] 92 00:05:26,718 --> 00:05:28,960 She is of a form, is she not? 93 00:05:31,242 --> 00:05:33,224 - Yes, Dominus. - Mm-hm. 94 00:05:33,324 --> 00:05:35,446 [both grunt] 95 00:05:41,332 --> 00:05:43,454 [tense music] 96 00:05:45,336 --> 00:05:47,458 [both grunt] 97 00:05:50,341 --> 00:05:52,463 [both grunt] 98 00:05:54,345 --> 00:05:56,247 [both grunt] 99 00:05:56,347 --> 00:05:58,349 [thud] 100 00:05:59,350 --> 00:06:01,472 [grunting continues] 101 00:06:02,994 --> 00:06:04,996 - [grunts] - Aargh! 102 00:06:08,959 --> 00:06:11,842 You have fought before, yet not against such as I. 103 00:06:12,603 --> 00:06:15,866 [laughter] 104 00:06:15,966 --> 00:06:17,968 Fucking shield weights intent. 105 00:06:23,894 --> 00:06:26,217 You will address me as Doctore. 106 00:06:27,097 --> 00:06:28,439 Retrieve the shield. 107 00:06:28,539 --> 00:06:31,242 It is not to my benefit, Doctore. 108 00:06:31,342 --> 00:06:34,184 [echoes] You will do as commanded! 109 00:06:36,427 --> 00:06:38,549 [whip crack echoes] 110 00:06:41,432 --> 00:06:43,173 [Ashur] Achillia, 111 00:06:43,273 --> 00:06:45,275 stand ground. 112 00:06:45,996 --> 00:06:47,998 And receive correction. 113 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:52,122 Dominus. 114 00:06:58,448 --> 00:07:02,572 [intense music] 115 00:07:04,895 --> 00:07:08,238 [music builds] 116 00:07:08,338 --> 00:07:10,340 The moment has fucking passed. 117 00:07:13,023 --> 00:07:15,025 Resume training. 118 00:07:19,309 --> 00:07:23,033 [tense music] 119 00:07:29,519 --> 00:07:31,681 [music continues] 120 00:07:33,523 --> 00:07:35,105 Begin! 121 00:07:35,205 --> 00:07:36,586 Aargh! 122 00:07:36,686 --> 00:07:39,549 She does not grant respect title of Doctore demands. 123 00:07:39,649 --> 00:07:41,911 Respect is not granted; it is taken. 124 00:07:42,011 --> 00:07:43,673 Instruct Achillia in our ways 125 00:07:43,773 --> 00:07:45,795 and see bared teeth give way to averted gaze. 126 00:07:45,895 --> 00:07:48,798 A lesson not easily grasped by rabid dog. 127 00:07:48,898 --> 00:07:51,241 Then respond with lash until tongue laps at heel. 128 00:07:51,341 --> 00:07:53,403 And what if beast cannot be tamed? 129 00:07:53,503 --> 00:07:55,365 Spartacus once stood as wild. 130 00:07:55,465 --> 00:07:58,007 Yet by will and teachings of Oenomaus, 131 00:07:58,107 --> 00:08:00,089 he was domesticated 132 00:08:00,189 --> 00:08:02,412 and became champion of fucking Capua- 133 00:08:02,512 --> 00:08:03,693 a result I would see mirrored. 134 00:08:03,793 --> 00:08:06,315 She reflects but promise of disappointment. 135 00:08:08,037 --> 00:08:10,059 - Do you stand fucking Dominus? - I do not. 136 00:08:10,159 --> 00:08:13,703 Yet you bleat as if exalted title cloaks you in such regard. 137 00:08:13,803 --> 00:08:16,425 I account what eyes behold through lens of experience. 138 00:08:16,525 --> 00:08:20,409 She is but fucking clay for your hands to mould. 139 00:08:20,970 --> 00:08:22,351 Forge her in the fires of this ludus, 140 00:08:22,451 --> 00:08:24,193 hardening her to swift purpose. 141 00:08:24,293 --> 00:08:26,896 Swift? Achillia has but only commenced training. 142 00:08:27,857 --> 00:08:29,598 A thing of minor consequence. 143 00:08:29,698 --> 00:08:32,501 I would see her ready for the games of the Ludi Apollinares. 144 00:08:33,542 --> 00:08:36,966 - You have secured position? - I manoeuvre towards such. 145 00:08:37,066 --> 00:08:40,129 [chuckles] So we but clutch at fanciful dream. 146 00:08:40,229 --> 00:08:42,451 As certain as waking upon each fucking day, 147 00:08:42,551 --> 00:08:45,294 I shall see it done and claim desired contest against 148 00:08:45,394 --> 00:08:47,396 the Brothers Ferox once more. 149 00:08:47,756 --> 00:08:50,599 You wager all that crowd will not turn upon us. 150 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:53,702 - For presenting novelty? - For breaking tradition, 151 00:08:53,802 --> 00:08:55,504 when fucking woman takes to the sands. 152 00:08:55,604 --> 00:08:57,586 Tradition is but a word revered by those 153 00:08:57,686 --> 00:08:58,987 who pursue mediocrity. 154 00:08:59,087 --> 00:09:01,310 The House of Ashur will carve its own path 155 00:09:01,410 --> 00:09:04,413 and fuck into oblivion all who stands in its way. 156 00:09:04,773 --> 00:09:07,456 Dominus, message has arrived from Rome. 157 00:09:08,697 --> 00:09:11,440 Ah! At last. 158 00:09:11,540 --> 00:09:14,443 Mighty Crassus deigns to respond. [laughs] 159 00:09:14,543 --> 00:09:17,005 Apologies. It is not from Crassus. 160 00:09:17,105 --> 00:09:19,107 Who, then? 161 00:09:20,388 --> 00:09:22,531 Julius fucking Caesar. 162 00:09:22,631 --> 00:09:25,413 A man of no worth beyond name granted by slipping 163 00:09:25,513 --> 00:09:26,975 from mother's cunt. 164 00:09:27,075 --> 00:09:29,538 He stands a quaestor, does he not? A position of some note. 165 00:09:29,638 --> 00:09:31,099 Fuck position. 166 00:09:31,199 --> 00:09:34,122 Caesar flings his own shit and declares it manna from heaven. 167 00:09:38,046 --> 00:09:39,227 [document slams shut] 168 00:09:39,327 --> 00:09:41,349 [Korris] He breaks words of some distress? 169 00:09:41,449 --> 00:09:43,451 Some. 170 00:09:43,812 --> 00:09:46,074 He sends us and our men upon Appian Way, 171 00:09:46,174 --> 00:09:48,576 towards unsavoury task. 172 00:09:49,217 --> 00:09:51,599 Do you not stand a free man, as Caesar? 173 00:09:51,699 --> 00:09:53,201 And as such, not bound by request? 174 00:09:53,301 --> 00:09:57,125 I stand free in the eye of the republic, yet not in coin. 175 00:09:57,225 --> 00:10:00,988 Crassus is honoured patron and Caesar his fucking will. 176 00:10:01,629 --> 00:10:05,533 We must part lips and swallow anointed cock. 177 00:10:05,633 --> 00:10:07,635 [document slams on ground] 178 00:10:11,839 --> 00:10:14,001 [crows caw] 179 00:10:19,527 --> 00:10:22,370 [Hedylus] Move cart further from fucking nose. 180 00:10:28,616 --> 00:10:30,618 [men coughing] 181 00:10:32,860 --> 00:10:34,762 [crow caws] 182 00:10:34,862 --> 00:10:37,024 [men grunt] 183 00:10:46,153 --> 00:10:48,155 It is a heavy sight... 184 00:10:48,595 --> 00:10:52,159 to witness so many hearts no longer beating beneath chest. 185 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:57,004 [Ashur] The rebel army that shook the mighty republic 186 00:10:58,085 --> 00:11:01,448 reduced to rotten flesh beneath vengeful sun. 187 00:11:01,849 --> 00:11:04,651 [grunts] Shit cock! 188 00:11:07,454 --> 00:11:10,797 We stand gladiators, not common fucking slaves. 189 00:11:10,897 --> 00:11:13,620 You stand as I fucking command! 190 00:11:15,942 --> 00:11:17,404 [laughter] 191 00:11:17,504 --> 00:11:18,926 - [flies buzz] - [Creticus vomiting] 192 00:11:19,026 --> 00:11:22,909 Creticus has mind equal to dazed child, yet breaks truth. 193 00:11:23,470 --> 00:11:25,932 [Korris] A gladiator's place is upon the sands of the arena- 194 00:11:26,032 --> 00:11:29,136 it is the duty of a quaestor to tend to the Appian Way. 195 00:11:29,236 --> 00:11:32,239 Caesar's tongue yet find purchase in Crassus' ass. 196 00:11:32,839 --> 00:11:34,541 We must endure one to gain benefit of more- 197 00:11:34,641 --> 00:11:36,643 Stop! 198 00:11:39,446 --> 00:11:41,448 That mark- 199 00:11:43,009 --> 00:11:47,173 this man stood Champion of the House of Batiatus. 200 00:11:50,096 --> 00:11:51,758 Gannicus. 201 00:11:51,858 --> 00:11:54,801 [crowd chanting] Gannicus! Gannicus! Gannicus! 202 00:11:54,901 --> 00:11:57,023 [Korris] I had occasion to cross paths with him once, 203 00:11:57,503 --> 00:11:59,205 after he claimed freedom in the arena, 204 00:11:59,305 --> 00:12:01,908 before he fell among Spartacus and his rebels. 205 00:12:02,629 --> 00:12:04,631 A drunken, disagreeable fellow, 206 00:12:06,072 --> 00:12:08,074 much to my liking. 207 00:12:08,755 --> 00:12:12,298 He embraced his fate, as all men must. 208 00:12:12,398 --> 00:12:13,620 His death a kindness 209 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:17,283 to one forever haunted by past transgressions. 210 00:12:19,565 --> 00:12:22,048 - See him to fucking wagon. - Dominus. 211 00:12:24,090 --> 00:12:27,373 [poignant music] 212 00:12:29,695 --> 00:12:32,378 This man stood a god of the arena, 213 00:12:32,938 --> 00:12:36,462 his skill rivalled only by the Bringer of Rain himself. 214 00:12:38,064 --> 00:12:40,146 Two legends, birthed from our ludus. 215 00:12:40,866 --> 00:12:44,310 Yet we now stand absent even lowly position in the games. 216 00:12:45,511 --> 00:12:47,513 How far this fucking house has fallen. 217 00:12:49,875 --> 00:12:51,056 [quietly] Come, come. 218 00:12:51,156 --> 00:12:53,058 [crow caws] 219 00:12:53,158 --> 00:12:55,321 [flies buzz] 220 00:12:57,162 --> 00:12:59,325 [dramatic music] 221 00:13:06,892 --> 00:13:08,894 [Hilara] You desecrate these walls? 222 00:13:11,056 --> 00:13:13,058 - I but enhance them. - Mm. 223 00:13:16,101 --> 00:13:18,243 This beast, 224 00:13:18,343 --> 00:13:19,765 he is of your homeland? 225 00:13:19,865 --> 00:13:21,206 Apedemak, 226 00:13:21,306 --> 00:13:23,308 god of war and conquest. 227 00:13:25,470 --> 00:13:27,472 You pray to him? 228 00:13:29,274 --> 00:13:32,417 - He would not listen. - Then why work his image? 229 00:13:32,517 --> 00:13:34,800 - As a reminder. - Towards? 230 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:37,682 What was lost. 231 00:13:40,405 --> 00:13:42,407 Pause labor and take water. 232 00:13:46,131 --> 00:13:48,133 [rock scrapes] 233 00:13:54,859 --> 00:13:56,861 [gulps] 234 00:14:00,705 --> 00:14:02,707 - Gratitude. - None required. 235 00:14:06,551 --> 00:14:08,553 [Hilara] Your scars- 236 00:14:09,274 --> 00:14:11,276 how did you come by them? 237 00:14:12,277 --> 00:14:15,079 A tale not for one so soft in form. 238 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:18,182 In battle? 239 00:14:18,282 --> 00:14:19,704 When captured by the Romans? 240 00:14:19,804 --> 00:14:21,265 I did not fall to those fucking shits. 241 00:14:21,365 --> 00:14:23,388 Marked by previous Dominus, then? 242 00:14:23,488 --> 00:14:24,589 Towards instruction of manners? 243 00:14:24,689 --> 00:14:26,431 I have never stood a slave. 244 00:14:26,531 --> 00:14:30,374 Yet here in this house, that is all you stand. 245 00:14:33,457 --> 00:14:35,900 Lay hands upon Dominus again... 246 00:14:37,141 --> 00:14:39,984 and I shall see you parted from fucking life. 247 00:14:42,186 --> 00:14:45,189 Little mouse squeaks, and I'm to shudder in fear? 248 00:14:45,790 --> 00:14:48,232 Make attempt and see talon part head from body. 249 00:14:49,994 --> 00:14:53,477 A certain end, if I were to move against you openly. 250 00:14:54,839 --> 00:14:57,882 Yet there are many ways a clever mouse 251 00:14:58,322 --> 00:15:00,684 may see vicious hawk to grass. 252 00:15:07,611 --> 00:15:09,973 - You taint fucking water? - [chuckles] 253 00:15:11,855 --> 00:15:13,917 I have not. 254 00:15:14,017 --> 00:15:16,820 Yet at any moment, I could snatch breath, 255 00:15:17,501 --> 00:15:19,583 absent suspicion. 256 00:15:23,667 --> 00:15:27,711 I shall leave you to your god, who ignores your prayers. 257 00:15:33,997 --> 00:15:36,560 [footsteps retreat] 258 00:15:38,642 --> 00:15:41,645 [men shouting] 259 00:15:42,886 --> 00:15:45,028 Seize fucking mind! 260 00:15:45,128 --> 00:15:46,790 - Doctore! - Salvius! 261 00:15:46,890 --> 00:15:50,674 [shouting continues] 262 00:15:50,774 --> 00:15:52,776 Well deserved, you fu-! 263 00:15:54,057 --> 00:15:56,439 - Enough! - Fuck! 264 00:15:56,539 --> 00:15:59,102 You fall to fucking quarrel! 265 00:16:00,263 --> 00:16:01,765 Blood boiling in ear, 266 00:16:01,865 --> 00:16:06,389 preventing voice of your Dominus to pierce thick fucking skull! 267 00:16:09,592 --> 00:16:11,955 Look upon your brothers. 268 00:16:12,395 --> 00:16:14,177 They too defy their master 269 00:16:14,277 --> 00:16:17,240 and now rot upon fucking cross. 270 00:16:18,321 --> 00:16:19,582 [crow caws] 271 00:16:19,682 --> 00:16:21,684 Continue to inflame... 272 00:16:22,205 --> 00:16:24,847 and see yourself nailed among them. 273 00:16:30,573 --> 00:16:32,735 [footsteps retreat] 274 00:16:35,538 --> 00:16:37,560 You lose control. 275 00:16:37,660 --> 00:16:39,282 The sun overheats passions, 276 00:16:39,382 --> 00:16:41,704 already roiled by Achillia's presence. 277 00:16:44,026 --> 00:16:46,589 [whispers] Fuck Jupiter's face. 278 00:16:47,430 --> 00:16:52,675 It lifts heart, to witness your men at last put to proper use. 279 00:16:56,679 --> 00:16:58,341 I but serve the republic on this day, 280 00:16:58,441 --> 00:17:00,723 at request of revered Caesar. 281 00:17:01,243 --> 00:17:03,065 Yet upon another, 282 00:17:03,165 --> 00:17:05,287 I would present latest acquisition in the arena 283 00:17:05,768 --> 00:17:10,012 and have contest revisited towards diminutive abortions. 284 00:17:10,332 --> 00:17:14,757 [laughs] At least we knew our mother, you fucking cunt! 285 00:17:14,857 --> 00:17:17,039 [laughter] 286 00:17:17,139 --> 00:17:18,761 [chuckles] 287 00:17:18,861 --> 00:17:23,545 Descend from lofty perch and broach subject of lineage again. 288 00:17:25,988 --> 00:17:30,112 Hold! We are for Pompeii, where we battle in the arena. 289 00:17:31,153 --> 00:17:34,436 Let us leave the House of Ashur to its labours- 290 00:17:35,357 --> 00:17:36,738 in the dirt. 291 00:17:36,838 --> 00:17:38,840 Form! 292 00:17:40,522 --> 00:17:41,863 Is it fear 293 00:17:41,963 --> 00:17:44,486 that stays hand from rematch upon next games in Capua? 294 00:17:44,806 --> 00:17:47,509 I welcome such entertainment. 295 00:17:47,609 --> 00:17:49,031 - Mm. - Yet station to decide 296 00:17:49,131 --> 00:17:52,214 who shall fight and who shall wallow in their own shit 297 00:17:52,774 --> 00:17:54,856 falls not to me but to good Gabinius. 298 00:17:56,097 --> 00:17:58,099 Gabinius? 299 00:17:58,700 --> 00:18:02,043 He hosts the game of the Ludi Apollinares? 300 00:18:02,143 --> 00:18:03,885 We are so honoured. 301 00:18:03,985 --> 00:18:06,868 Perhaps you may entreat him towards your cause. 302 00:18:08,149 --> 00:18:10,151 Or his beloved wife. 303 00:18:13,635 --> 00:18:16,738 ♪ Blood rains down from an angry sky! ♪ 304 00:18:16,838 --> 00:18:20,181 [all] ♪ My cock rages on! My cock rages on! ♪ 305 00:18:20,281 --> 00:18:23,104 ♪ Till death is found, my sword swinging hot! ♪ 306 00:18:23,204 --> 00:18:26,147 The gods you do not believe in shit upon us once more. 307 00:18:26,247 --> 00:18:28,189 They but present new obstacle. 308 00:18:28,289 --> 00:18:30,151 Cossutia orchestrated humiliation 309 00:18:30,251 --> 00:18:32,113 and the fall of our champion, Logas. 310 00:18:32,213 --> 00:18:35,456 She will poison husband towards granting position. 311 00:18:35,857 --> 00:18:38,640 - Uvidus may yet hold sway. - The aedile? 312 00:18:38,740 --> 00:18:42,663 The man fears Crassus and may provide necessary leverage. 313 00:18:43,664 --> 00:18:46,327 Would not equal trepidation fall towards Pompey, 314 00:18:46,427 --> 00:18:48,509 whose favour Gabinius holds? 315 00:18:49,310 --> 00:18:51,312 Set purpose towards Achillia's training. 316 00:18:51,993 --> 00:18:55,196 And leave machinations towards greater fucking minds. 317 00:19:01,922 --> 00:19:04,044 [grunts] 318 00:19:04,925 --> 00:19:07,047 [grunts] 319 00:19:08,929 --> 00:19:11,051 [all grunt] 320 00:19:15,376 --> 00:19:17,378 Good. 321 00:19:21,662 --> 00:19:24,104 You yet reek of rotting flesh from Appian Way. 322 00:19:24,585 --> 00:19:26,287 I but smell as a man. 323 00:19:26,387 --> 00:19:28,389 A man of piss and shit. 324 00:19:30,711 --> 00:19:32,813 Doctore! 325 00:19:32,913 --> 00:19:36,196 Perhaps the goddess of death should fall to proper contest. 326 00:19:36,677 --> 00:19:38,739 She would welcome such a diversion. 327 00:19:38,839 --> 00:19:42,242 A sentiment to be regretted. Take position. 328 00:19:43,804 --> 00:19:45,806 [chuckles] 329 00:19:46,927 --> 00:19:48,929 [Creticus] Dacus! Spear! 330 00:19:52,572 --> 00:19:54,735 [fighters grunting] 331 00:19:57,737 --> 00:20:00,200 I shall fuck salted words from mouth. 332 00:20:00,300 --> 00:20:02,302 Do you borrow cock to do so? 333 00:20:02,702 --> 00:20:04,684 [laughing] 334 00:20:04,784 --> 00:20:06,786 Tarchon... 335 00:20:07,387 --> 00:20:09,389 fall beside Creticus. 336 00:20:10,030 --> 00:20:11,451 I'm to face two opponents? 337 00:20:11,551 --> 00:20:12,792 [Korris] Should the gods favour you towards the arena, 338 00:20:12,872 --> 00:20:14,874 you shall face three- 339 00:20:15,355 --> 00:20:16,977 the Brothers Ferox. 340 00:20:17,077 --> 00:20:21,461 Vicious half-men, pulled from the ass of a rival lanista. 341 00:20:21,561 --> 00:20:23,183 [scoffs] Half-men? 342 00:20:23,283 --> 00:20:25,065 I could piss and they'd thank the gods for rain. 343 00:20:25,165 --> 00:20:27,507 She does not need sword and shield, Doctore; 344 00:20:27,607 --> 00:20:29,629 she'll cut them down with fucking tongue. 345 00:20:29,729 --> 00:20:32,812 Our honour stands no fucking jest! 346 00:20:33,813 --> 00:20:35,815 Nor do the Brothers Ferox. 347 00:20:36,936 --> 00:20:39,038 Nature twisted them into knotted lump. 348 00:20:39,138 --> 00:20:40,640 And in their anger and pain, 349 00:20:40,740 --> 00:20:43,963 they torment death with aggrieved hands. 350 00:20:44,063 --> 00:20:47,947 Misjudge them, and see your life forfeit. 351 00:20:50,229 --> 00:20:52,231 Take position. 352 00:21:00,159 --> 00:21:02,301 Begin! 353 00:21:02,401 --> 00:21:06,245 [rhythmic drumming] 354 00:21:09,168 --> 00:21:11,070 [growls] 355 00:21:11,170 --> 00:21:13,292 [both grunt] 356 00:21:18,657 --> 00:21:21,881 Focus on the one opponent and invite fucking from the other. 357 00:21:21,981 --> 00:21:23,002 [chuckles] 358 00:21:23,102 --> 00:21:24,884 Fucking shield again prevents movement. 359 00:21:24,984 --> 00:21:28,307 You face men, shield stands all between you and the afterlife. 360 00:21:29,028 --> 00:21:31,030 [Korris] Again. 361 00:21:35,474 --> 00:21:40,038 [percussive music] 362 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:42,361 Tarchon! 363 00:21:48,166 --> 00:21:49,628 Good! 364 00:21:49,728 --> 00:21:51,069 [Korris] Rid yourself of one adversary 365 00:21:51,169 --> 00:21:53,672 so you may advance upon other absent distraction. 366 00:21:53,772 --> 00:21:56,655 [grunting] 367 00:21:57,416 --> 00:21:59,698 You have not earned position in this fucking house. 368 00:22:01,219 --> 00:22:03,842 [echoes] Aargh! 369 00:22:03,942 --> 00:22:05,944 [grunts] 370 00:22:08,907 --> 00:22:11,069 [Achillia breathing heavily] 371 00:22:12,270 --> 00:22:14,292 Disappointing. 372 00:22:14,392 --> 00:22:17,796 Eat! We resume training after heat of midday sun. 373 00:22:20,839 --> 00:22:22,841 [gasps, pants] 374 00:22:23,802 --> 00:22:25,984 She is not absent skill. 375 00:22:26,084 --> 00:22:30,468 She is absent honour, striking Creticus upon manhood. 376 00:22:30,568 --> 00:22:33,731 An unfortunate blow, yet the fault is yours. 377 00:22:34,492 --> 00:22:35,954 Mine? 378 00:22:36,054 --> 00:22:38,957 Desire towards singular victory left valued friend exposed. 379 00:22:39,057 --> 00:22:43,501 Had this been the arena, both of you would have fallen. 380 00:22:47,225 --> 00:22:49,947 [grunting] 381 00:22:52,470 --> 00:22:55,313 [indistinct conversations] 382 00:22:59,877 --> 00:23:02,039 [laughter] 383 00:23:09,407 --> 00:23:11,529 [laughter continues] 384 00:23:13,170 --> 00:23:15,933 - [Salvius] That's fucking shit. - [grunts] 385 00:23:17,415 --> 00:23:19,937 [indistinct conversations] 386 00:23:21,859 --> 00:23:23,961 Regain seat. 387 00:23:24,061 --> 00:23:29,266 I did not spring from your cock, nor am I bound by fucking voice. 388 00:23:31,028 --> 00:23:33,030 The man presents sharpened point. 389 00:23:36,113 --> 00:23:38,395 Your sword will not find purchase once more. 390 00:23:39,036 --> 00:23:41,959 Why, do you never intend to fight again? 391 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:44,922 [bowl clatters] 392 00:23:46,723 --> 00:23:48,725 Dogs eat from fucking ground. 393 00:23:49,086 --> 00:23:53,570 [laughter, cheering] 394 00:23:55,292 --> 00:23:57,154 Creticus! 395 00:23:57,254 --> 00:24:00,317 You do not fight unless it is upon my fucking command. 396 00:24:00,417 --> 00:24:02,159 Apologies, Doctore. 397 00:24:02,259 --> 00:24:05,262 I but remind the woman of her place. 398 00:24:05,622 --> 00:24:07,624 [Korris] Return to training. 399 00:24:08,225 --> 00:24:10,227 All of you! 400 00:24:17,514 --> 00:24:20,837 [intense music] 401 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:27,184 Her presence incites disobedience and distraction. 402 00:24:27,284 --> 00:24:30,146 They cannot even break food without falling to quarrel. 403 00:24:30,246 --> 00:24:32,609 You pace like caged beast, 404 00:24:33,009 --> 00:24:35,331 rending tranquil mood. 405 00:24:35,692 --> 00:24:37,694 Apologies for disturbing fucking bath. 406 00:24:39,456 --> 00:24:43,760 Perhaps inflamed passion would be cooled by soothing waters. 407 00:24:43,860 --> 00:24:45,602 I prefer to bathe in solitude. 408 00:24:45,702 --> 00:24:47,704 Yet you do not fucking stand so. 409 00:24:48,064 --> 00:24:50,546 Wet cock and douse inferno 410 00:24:51,067 --> 00:24:53,069 with wine. 411 00:24:54,230 --> 00:24:56,232 Fill cup to overflowing. 412 00:25:13,289 --> 00:25:15,651 Does sun break through fucking cloud? 413 00:25:18,374 --> 00:25:20,376 It makes attempt. 414 00:25:21,257 --> 00:25:23,519 Achillia affords rarest opportunity. 415 00:25:23,619 --> 00:25:26,242 A sight never before witnessed in the arena. 416 00:25:26,342 --> 00:25:27,443 For good reason. 417 00:25:27,543 --> 00:25:29,765 She does not belong upon such sacred ground. 418 00:25:29,865 --> 00:25:32,748 Accusation hurled at retiarius when first introduced. 419 00:25:33,108 --> 00:25:36,172 Net and trident, how they laughed. 420 00:25:36,272 --> 00:25:38,854 Yet now, not a game passes absent their presence. 421 00:25:38,954 --> 00:25:41,577 Tradition is but a novel rite, aged to maturity. 422 00:25:41,677 --> 00:25:43,939 A thing I would see Achillia become. 423 00:25:44,039 --> 00:25:46,181 She cannot triumph against the Brothers Ferox. 424 00:25:46,281 --> 00:25:48,283 No, she cannot... 425 00:25:48,844 --> 00:25:49,985 yet. 426 00:25:50,085 --> 00:25:51,347 You hold too much faith in my instruction. 427 00:25:51,447 --> 00:25:54,069 - I hold what is necessary. - And what of the men? 428 00:25:54,169 --> 00:25:57,152 They must embrace the future or fall to memory. 429 00:25:57,252 --> 00:25:59,234 They will never welcome a woman as one of their own. 430 00:25:59,334 --> 00:26:03,338 They need not to welcome her, but they must fucking accept. 431 00:26:08,223 --> 00:26:10,405 It is a bitter herb you entreat them swallow. 432 00:26:10,505 --> 00:26:12,808 Then let us see it honeyed with wine and whores, 433 00:26:12,908 --> 00:26:15,110 to balm injured fucking pride. 434 00:26:15,791 --> 00:26:18,694 Such a gesture would aid in calming gathering tempest. 435 00:26:18,794 --> 00:26:21,716 With promise of more, towards falling to reason. 436 00:26:23,038 --> 00:26:26,561 Apologies, Dominus. Senator Gabinius has sent messenger. 437 00:26:28,163 --> 00:26:29,584 What word did he carry? 438 00:26:29,684 --> 00:26:32,367 He insists message be delivered only to your hands. 439 00:26:33,128 --> 00:26:35,510 - Materialise the fucking man. - Yes, Dominus. 440 00:26:35,610 --> 00:26:37,472 The aedile champions our cause to Gabinius? 441 00:26:37,572 --> 00:26:40,015 I have yet opportunity to broach subject. 442 00:26:40,815 --> 00:26:44,899 [suspenseful music] 443 00:26:50,225 --> 00:26:52,747 - You stand Gabinius' man? - Such is my charge. 444 00:26:53,067 --> 00:26:55,069 Hand over, then. 445 00:27:02,837 --> 00:27:04,999 [music continues] 446 00:27:08,363 --> 00:27:13,608 Um, inform honoured senator what he requests is agreeable. 447 00:27:17,371 --> 00:27:19,073 [sighs] 448 00:27:19,173 --> 00:27:21,596 [laughs] 449 00:27:21,696 --> 00:27:23,698 [squeals] 450 00:27:24,258 --> 00:27:27,642 Gabinius invites me to break meal at his villa! 451 00:27:27,742 --> 00:27:29,083 To what purpose? 452 00:27:29,183 --> 00:27:33,187 Unknown, yet I shall turn it to fucking advantage. 453 00:27:34,508 --> 00:27:36,590 Dominus has parted from sense. 454 00:27:36,951 --> 00:27:38,773 As Achillia parted you from yours. 455 00:27:38,873 --> 00:27:40,895 - [laughter] - It was but luck. 456 00:27:40,995 --> 00:27:43,197 And trust fucking Nubian held thread of honour. 457 00:27:43,717 --> 00:27:45,459 You place blame where it does not sleep. 458 00:27:45,559 --> 00:27:47,561 You place fault in my efforts? 459 00:27:48,082 --> 00:27:49,543 No. 460 00:27:49,643 --> 00:27:53,287 Upon mine. I was absent thought towards all but victory, 461 00:27:54,168 --> 00:27:55,469 leaving you exposed. 462 00:27:55,569 --> 00:27:57,631 I do not need you to come to aid, you fucking shit. 463 00:27:57,731 --> 00:28:00,874 - Your cock says otherwise. - [laughter] 464 00:28:00,974 --> 00:28:03,597 When paired in the arena, you must fight as one. 465 00:28:03,697 --> 00:28:05,799 Or fall divided. 466 00:28:05,899 --> 00:28:08,902 And when were you last upon the sands, old man? 467 00:28:12,065 --> 00:28:14,228 A lifetime ago, yet I... 468 00:28:15,108 --> 00:28:16,650 lived. 469 00:28:16,750 --> 00:28:19,853 Which is a victory I fear you may tumble well short of. 470 00:28:19,953 --> 00:28:22,115 A thing of no pressing concern. 471 00:28:22,996 --> 00:28:25,379 We are the House of Piss and Shit, 472 00:28:25,479 --> 00:28:27,821 denied opportunity of glorious death. 473 00:28:27,921 --> 00:28:29,182 Yours not so much, 474 00:28:29,282 --> 00:28:31,665 assuming opponent stood greater than small child. 475 00:28:31,765 --> 00:28:33,346 [laughter] 476 00:28:33,446 --> 00:28:35,348 Fill air with fucking laughter, 477 00:28:35,448 --> 00:28:38,271 as Capua does upon thought of this fucking house. 478 00:28:38,371 --> 00:28:40,373 [Korris] It is what we make it. 479 00:28:43,617 --> 00:28:45,559 See weighted spirits lifted. 480 00:28:45,659 --> 00:28:48,481 Your Dominus presents gift of wine and whores. 481 00:28:48,581 --> 00:28:51,484 [men cheer] 482 00:28:51,584 --> 00:28:54,447 Well, perhaps the gods yet favour this fucking House! 483 00:28:54,547 --> 00:28:55,729 Now remove yourselves 484 00:28:55,829 --> 00:28:58,111 so Achillia may bathe absent lingering gaze. 485 00:29:00,393 --> 00:29:01,654 Whores! 486 00:29:01,754 --> 00:29:03,736 Wine and whores! 487 00:29:03,836 --> 00:29:09,863 [indistinct conversations] 488 00:29:09,963 --> 00:29:13,026 He preens as if I've never witnessed cock bared and wet. 489 00:29:13,126 --> 00:29:15,728 Attend yourself and retire to cell for the night. 490 00:29:17,170 --> 00:29:20,253 Am I not to enjoy the pleasures of wine and whores? 491 00:29:21,174 --> 00:29:23,356 Such rewards are reserved for those who bear the mark 492 00:29:23,456 --> 00:29:24,997 of the brotherhood. 493 00:29:25,097 --> 00:29:27,099 An honour you have yet to earn. 494 00:29:30,743 --> 00:29:32,865 [footsteps retreat] 495 00:29:40,112 --> 00:29:43,135 - Perhaps this one. - You possess discerning eye. 496 00:29:43,235 --> 00:29:45,357 As I wish yours to such this night. 497 00:29:46,358 --> 00:29:50,262 I am to Gabinius' villa, not the arena. [chuckles] 498 00:29:50,362 --> 00:29:52,505 Does Cossutia yet stand his wife? 499 00:29:52,605 --> 00:29:54,727 As Cerberus guarding gate of the underworld, 500 00:29:55,047 --> 00:29:56,909 frothing and snapping. 501 00:29:57,009 --> 00:29:58,911 The target of my concern. 502 00:29:59,011 --> 00:30:01,333 She holds no sway, absent command of husband. 503 00:30:01,734 --> 00:30:04,917 And if she has moved him to her cause against you? 504 00:30:05,017 --> 00:30:06,999 Cheeks spread for deeper ramming. 505 00:30:07,099 --> 00:30:10,863 - Then why accept invitation? - I hold no fucking choice! 506 00:30:12,384 --> 00:30:14,386 [sighs] 507 00:30:16,829 --> 00:30:19,551 Calm troubled thoughts and realise, 508 00:30:19,992 --> 00:30:24,756 all men of power and position underestimate Ashur at own... 509 00:30:25,157 --> 00:30:27,159 fucking peril. 510 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,082 Prepare yourself for my return. 511 00:30:31,043 --> 00:30:32,464 You as well. 512 00:30:32,564 --> 00:30:34,566 [footsteps retreat] 513 00:30:40,051 --> 00:30:42,053 You worry over him beyond reason. 514 00:30:43,455 --> 00:30:45,457 He is our Dominus. 515 00:30:46,498 --> 00:30:48,700 Our fates tethered to his. 516 00:30:53,385 --> 00:30:55,567 Yet who worries over you? 517 00:30:55,667 --> 00:30:57,669 Hmm? 518 00:30:58,630 --> 00:31:02,253 Turn mind to task and see linens freshened, 519 00:31:02,353 --> 00:31:05,216 in anticipation of his triumphant return. 520 00:31:05,316 --> 00:31:09,480 [exotic music] 521 00:31:17,729 --> 00:31:20,291 Senator Gabinius shall join presently. 522 00:31:27,378 --> 00:31:29,540 [crickets chirp] 523 00:31:35,226 --> 00:31:37,348 [Gabinius] Ah! Here is our man. 524 00:31:38,069 --> 00:31:40,051 Gratitude for accepting invitation 525 00:31:40,151 --> 00:31:41,492 upon briefest of notice. 526 00:31:41,592 --> 00:31:43,594 I am swelled by august's request. 527 00:31:44,075 --> 00:31:46,137 You are familiar with cherished wife? 528 00:31:46,237 --> 00:31:48,339 We are so acquainted. 529 00:31:48,439 --> 00:31:51,302 In passing, in the streets, if I recall. 530 00:31:51,402 --> 00:31:52,863 Apologies for our delay. 531 00:31:52,963 --> 00:31:54,665 This business with the Cilician pirates 532 00:31:54,765 --> 00:31:57,148 vexes all affected by their savage attacks. 533 00:31:57,248 --> 00:31:59,510 Locusts plaguing our beloved republic. 534 00:31:59,610 --> 00:32:02,092 I pray harsh retribution awaits. 535 00:32:02,533 --> 00:32:04,535 We are of singular mind. 536 00:32:04,975 --> 00:32:07,097 I draft motion in the Senate... 537 00:32:07,498 --> 00:32:10,781 to see menace quelled by able hand of trusted Pompey. 538 00:32:11,622 --> 00:32:12,963 Pompey? 539 00:32:13,063 --> 00:32:14,805 He takes leave from Rome with his army? 540 00:32:14,905 --> 00:32:17,267 A small portion, adequate to task. 541 00:32:17,708 --> 00:32:19,049 The remainder counterbalanced 542 00:32:19,149 --> 00:32:21,592 towards fighting men loyal to Crassus. 543 00:32:24,434 --> 00:32:26,617 May the gods usher Pompey to victory, 544 00:32:26,717 --> 00:32:29,419 as Scipio Africanus against Hannibal at the gates. 545 00:32:29,519 --> 00:32:31,782 [chuckles] You are schooled in our histories? 546 00:32:31,882 --> 00:32:34,805 I am but babe, crawling through dewy morn. 547 00:32:35,285 --> 00:32:37,548 Then let us see you rise upon legs of knowledge, 548 00:32:37,648 --> 00:32:41,311 and stride upright as all men in midday of life. 549 00:32:41,411 --> 00:32:44,194 Hmm. Some yet stumble upon attempt, 550 00:32:44,294 --> 00:32:47,457 skull bashed upon unforgiving ground. 551 00:32:47,778 --> 00:32:49,559 I shall strive to remain surefooted. 552 00:32:49,659 --> 00:32:51,661 As most reliable goat. 553 00:32:52,382 --> 00:32:54,885 [Gabinius] Let us not veer towards pointed meaning. 554 00:32:54,985 --> 00:32:58,008 I would have all slights, genuine or fanciful, 555 00:32:58,108 --> 00:33:00,510 fall to past remembrance. 556 00:33:00,991 --> 00:33:03,753 - Memory has faded to obscurity. - Never to return. 557 00:33:04,074 --> 00:33:05,655 [Viridia] Apologies. 558 00:33:05,755 --> 00:33:07,377 Voices stirred interest. 559 00:33:07,477 --> 00:33:11,421 Viridia. It swells heart to see you stir from chambers. 560 00:33:11,521 --> 00:33:13,023 Effort rarely taken these days. 561 00:33:13,123 --> 00:33:15,705 Perhaps you might return after our esteemed guest has departed. 562 00:33:15,805 --> 00:33:17,807 Is this him? 563 00:33:18,208 --> 00:33:19,309 The Syrian? 564 00:33:19,409 --> 00:33:21,070 You are not properly dressed to receive- 565 00:33:21,170 --> 00:33:23,172 Are these the hands? 566 00:33:26,135 --> 00:33:28,858 The ones that saw Spartacus to deserved end? 567 00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:32,502 They, uh... 568 00:33:35,905 --> 00:33:37,407 T-they but aided 569 00:33:37,507 --> 00:33:38,888 in the effort. 570 00:33:38,988 --> 00:33:40,990 Gratitude. 571 00:33:42,031 --> 00:33:44,033 Rome is forever in your debt. 572 00:33:45,274 --> 00:33:47,597 - As am I. - Hour grows late. 573 00:33:48,317 --> 00:33:50,780 Retire to bath with loving mother so I may break words 574 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,963 with honoured guest absent distraction. 575 00:33:55,845 --> 00:33:59,408 Come. Let us leave the men to their folly. 576 00:34:02,531 --> 00:34:05,534 Forgive my daughter. She holds not herself. 577 00:34:06,615 --> 00:34:09,438 What affliction troubles her? 578 00:34:09,538 --> 00:34:12,761 [sighs] The most grievous, a wounded heart. 579 00:34:12,861 --> 00:34:14,863 Her husband, much beloved, 580 00:34:15,504 --> 00:34:18,247 fell to Spartacus and his rebels at Sinuessa en Valle, 581 00:34:18,347 --> 00:34:21,130 where he broached business with Laurus, the trader. 582 00:34:21,230 --> 00:34:26,435 Such loss sees the strongest of us absent mind when in its grip. 583 00:34:27,316 --> 00:34:29,318 Well formed. 584 00:34:29,678 --> 00:34:30,779 Yet, 585 00:34:30,879 --> 00:34:32,861 let us turn from shadowed past 586 00:34:32,961 --> 00:34:35,224 in favour of more promising days. 587 00:34:35,324 --> 00:34:37,326 Yes. 588 00:34:38,647 --> 00:34:41,890 [percussive music] 589 00:34:48,777 --> 00:34:50,939 [groaning, panting] 590 00:34:57,385 --> 00:34:59,548 [grunting] 591 00:35:00,428 --> 00:35:02,871 You stand well satisfied, old friend? 592 00:35:03,231 --> 00:35:05,313 Oh, I stand a fucking god. 593 00:35:07,876 --> 00:35:09,878 Do not fucking stop. 594 00:35:12,801 --> 00:35:14,963 [gasping, groaning] 595 00:35:19,928 --> 00:35:21,930 Throw dice, Salvius! 596 00:35:22,490 --> 00:35:25,073 [cheering] 597 00:35:25,173 --> 00:35:27,155 Bow to the champion of fucking dice! 598 00:35:27,255 --> 00:35:28,797 Yet not a champion of fucking! 599 00:35:28,897 --> 00:35:30,939 [men laugh] 600 00:35:37,305 --> 00:35:39,467 [laughter] 601 00:35:46,394 --> 00:35:48,676 Then I shall make you see the prince. 602 00:35:52,720 --> 00:35:54,882 [both pant] 603 00:35:56,924 --> 00:35:58,546 You deprive release of hardened cock! 604 00:35:58,646 --> 00:36:00,388 Shall deprive you of fucking teeth as well. 605 00:36:00,488 --> 00:36:02,270 - Tarchon. - The girl is mine. 606 00:36:02,370 --> 00:36:04,532 See humble offering inserted elsewhere. 607 00:36:05,933 --> 00:36:07,935 [laughs] 608 00:36:08,536 --> 00:36:10,598 I favour more heft to ass anyway. 609 00:36:10,698 --> 00:36:13,921 [groaning] 610 00:36:14,021 --> 00:36:17,605 Oh, Hedylus completes chore. Well, I shall swim upstream. 611 00:36:17,705 --> 00:36:23,110 [grunting] 612 00:36:27,554 --> 00:36:30,177 [grunting] 613 00:36:30,277 --> 00:36:32,780 You would pull me from services purchased by your Dominus? 614 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,082 I would wrest you from Mars himself. 615 00:36:38,926 --> 00:36:43,010 You warm heart, Elata. As sun above the earth below. 616 00:36:43,370 --> 00:36:44,631 [chuckles] 617 00:36:44,731 --> 00:36:47,734 You flatter, as all men stiff of cock. 618 00:36:49,536 --> 00:36:53,460 I know that you're forced to lie with men outside these walls. 619 00:36:54,301 --> 00:36:58,505 Yet within them, I would have no other hands upon you but mine. 620 00:37:02,389 --> 00:37:04,391 Then lay them upon me. 621 00:37:12,078 --> 00:37:14,200 [exotic music] 622 00:37:20,086 --> 00:37:22,208 [music continues] 623 00:37:28,134 --> 00:37:30,256 [music builds] 624 00:37:34,621 --> 00:37:37,463 [music continues] 625 00:37:44,150 --> 00:37:46,272 ♪ 626 00:37:55,161 --> 00:37:57,283 [pants] 627 00:37:58,164 --> 00:38:00,286 [both pant] 628 00:38:07,053 --> 00:38:08,634 [giggles] 629 00:38:08,734 --> 00:38:10,896 [grunts] 630 00:38:18,624 --> 00:38:21,066 You were commanded to remain in your cell. 631 00:38:21,547 --> 00:38:23,369 Slumber eludes with all the fucking noise 632 00:38:23,469 --> 00:38:25,471 and noise of fucking. 633 00:38:28,914 --> 00:38:31,036 [grunts] 634 00:38:31,757 --> 00:38:33,759 - What do you see? - [grunts] 635 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:35,421 I do not grasp meaning. 636 00:38:35,521 --> 00:38:37,523 When you strike, what do you see? 637 00:38:38,323 --> 00:38:40,325 A wooden fucking man. 638 00:38:43,088 --> 00:38:45,651 You unleash fury beyond simple form. 639 00:38:46,572 --> 00:38:49,454 What do you see, in mind's eye? 640 00:38:54,459 --> 00:38:56,461 Those who hold me unworthy. 641 00:38:56,982 --> 00:38:58,083 Within this ludus 642 00:38:58,183 --> 00:39:01,306 or upon the path that led you to such fate? 643 00:39:02,267 --> 00:39:04,389 [crickets chirp] 644 00:39:08,393 --> 00:39:11,616 [men yelling in distance] 645 00:39:11,716 --> 00:39:14,159 You do not partake in the pleasure of whores denied me? 646 00:39:17,402 --> 00:39:20,305 My taste is of a more discerning nature. 647 00:39:20,405 --> 00:39:23,528 One not sated by men who accept coin, 648 00:39:23,848 --> 00:39:25,871 in exchange for loving embrace. 649 00:39:25,971 --> 00:39:29,654 Hmm. Would that I were so blessed of choice. 650 00:39:31,176 --> 00:39:33,178 Hmm. 651 00:39:36,581 --> 00:39:38,283 Drink 652 00:39:38,383 --> 00:39:40,705 and dull pain of coming days. 653 00:39:47,792 --> 00:39:49,133 [[Yelling] 654 00:39:49,233 --> 00:39:53,277 You lower yourself, speaking to the Syrian as you did. 655 00:39:53,758 --> 00:39:55,940 I but expressed gratitude, keenly felt. 656 00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:59,624 You made him feel as equal, deserving of such praise. 657 00:39:59,724 --> 00:40:03,007 Does he not, for aiding in the fall of Spartacus? 658 00:40:03,488 --> 00:40:06,911 He but aided himself and desire to climb above his station. 659 00:40:07,011 --> 00:40:08,753 Should not all men seek to be so elevated? 660 00:40:08,853 --> 00:40:10,675 Yes, if they are of proper breeding. 661 00:40:10,775 --> 00:40:13,658 You froth as if personally aggrieved. 662 00:40:14,178 --> 00:40:16,320 The man himself is of slightest note. 663 00:40:16,420 --> 00:40:17,722 It is what he represents- 664 00:40:17,822 --> 00:40:20,144 those who would pollute pure waters of the republic, 665 00:40:20,464 --> 00:40:23,627 fancying themselves upon level with storied name and position. 666 00:40:24,308 --> 00:40:26,971 He must be made example, to be taken as warning 667 00:40:27,071 --> 00:40:29,233 to all those who would mistake themselves so. 668 00:40:29,834 --> 00:40:31,335 Father appears in disagreement. 669 00:40:31,435 --> 00:40:34,078 Husband will often stray from reason, if not closely attended. 670 00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:39,043 Would that I yet had one to give such counsel. 671 00:40:42,526 --> 00:40:44,528 Accept mine... 672 00:40:45,129 --> 00:40:47,131 in his place. 673 00:40:47,651 --> 00:40:51,055 Do not forfeit precious youth to grieving. 674 00:40:54,338 --> 00:40:56,660 - Wound is yet fresh. - And... 675 00:40:57,181 --> 00:40:58,722 will never heal... 676 00:40:58,822 --> 00:41:02,185 unless proper balm is applied. 677 00:41:02,986 --> 00:41:06,970 Life does not end when a husband falls from this world. 678 00:41:07,070 --> 00:41:09,253 Nor heart remained sundered, 679 00:41:09,353 --> 00:41:13,276 when cradled in hands of loving mother. 680 00:41:17,481 --> 00:41:19,663 [Gabinius] Tell me, Syrian, 681 00:41:19,763 --> 00:41:22,886 were you and your family brought to Rome as slaves? 682 00:41:23,687 --> 00:41:26,149 I alone. Mother and sister fell to disease, 683 00:41:26,249 --> 00:41:29,933 long before I fled Tigranes' army and found myself, uh... 684 00:41:31,174 --> 00:41:33,076 guest of the republic. 685 00:41:33,176 --> 00:41:35,178 [chuckles] And your father? 686 00:41:36,219 --> 00:41:37,801 I hold no memory of him. 687 00:41:37,901 --> 00:41:40,623 Absence of such robs a boy of proper direction. 688 00:41:41,424 --> 00:41:44,047 You must truly hold favour of your gods, 689 00:41:44,147 --> 00:41:47,771 to find yourself elevated from slave to current position 690 00:41:47,871 --> 00:41:49,973 of Dominus of own fucking house. 691 00:41:50,073 --> 00:41:52,435 [chuckles] I am indeed blessed, 692 00:41:52,876 --> 00:41:54,217 yet by labor of own hands 693 00:41:54,317 --> 00:41:56,940 and accomplishments beholden only to them. 694 00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,842 You hold no belief in the divinity guiding mortal man? 695 00:42:00,563 --> 00:42:02,946 My Dominus was known for oft-repeated refrain, 696 00:42:03,046 --> 00:42:05,308 one which I yet admire- 697 00:42:05,408 --> 00:42:06,429 "Fuck the gods." 698 00:42:06,529 --> 00:42:08,791 [chuckles] 699 00:42:08,891 --> 00:42:11,334 And to what end did such sentiment lead? 700 00:42:12,295 --> 00:42:13,836 Most unfortunate one. 701 00:42:13,936 --> 00:42:17,500 Well, one man's misfortune often falls to another's opportunity. 702 00:42:17,860 --> 00:42:20,203 How unseemly a role did your hands play 703 00:42:20,303 --> 00:42:22,565 in manufacturing such? 704 00:42:22,665 --> 00:42:24,727 I have done... 705 00:42:24,827 --> 00:42:26,829 questionable things... 706 00:42:28,310 --> 00:42:30,433 to arrive where I now sit. 707 00:42:31,594 --> 00:42:33,876 Who of worth can claim otherwise? 708 00:42:35,678 --> 00:42:36,899 And now? 709 00:42:36,999 --> 00:42:38,220 Upon this day? 710 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,322 - I walk a different path. - Oh. 711 00:42:41,083 --> 00:42:43,506 So the tiger has altered stripes? 712 00:42:43,606 --> 00:42:45,387 I am not the man I once was. 713 00:42:45,487 --> 00:42:47,790 Nor the man you yet desire to be. 714 00:42:47,890 --> 00:42:50,372 You are but faint spectre, 715 00:42:50,813 --> 00:42:54,176 caught between two worlds you do not belong in. 716 00:42:55,137 --> 00:42:59,441 It is a heavy thing, is it not, to be burdened with dreams 717 00:42:59,541 --> 00:43:01,543 made sudden reality? 718 00:43:04,947 --> 00:43:07,129 I am but a humble servant of the republic. 719 00:43:07,229 --> 00:43:10,132 [laughs] Why would you swear allegiance to a republic 720 00:43:10,232 --> 00:43:11,894 that despises you? 721 00:43:11,994 --> 00:43:15,397 Why lavish tongue upon those who yet hold you in naked contempt? 722 00:43:15,717 --> 00:43:18,981 You shall never stand equal in their eyes, 723 00:43:19,081 --> 00:43:23,805 forever condemned to be but rough-hewn tool to be used 724 00:43:24,486 --> 00:43:27,629 till blade is dulled by unkind years, then... 725 00:43:27,729 --> 00:43:29,731 [sighs] 726 00:43:30,892 --> 00:43:33,034 cast aside. 727 00:43:33,134 --> 00:43:35,297 What worth is a knife... 728 00:43:39,381 --> 00:43:41,383 if it lies absent use? 729 00:43:43,425 --> 00:43:47,249 So, mighty Crassus continues to sharpen intent, then? 730 00:43:47,349 --> 00:43:49,331 All the way from where he sits, with his army, 731 00:43:49,431 --> 00:43:50,852 outside the gates of Rome? 732 00:43:50,952 --> 00:43:54,135 We are as one, via messenger upon regular basis. 733 00:43:54,235 --> 00:43:57,358 Only a fool relies upon the benevolence of the rich. 734 00:43:57,759 --> 00:44:00,081 Their whims counsel but their own reflection. 735 00:44:02,243 --> 00:44:04,866 Coin afforded by Crassus admittedly thins 736 00:44:04,966 --> 00:44:07,428 with passing of days, yet debt mounts- 737 00:44:07,528 --> 00:44:11,652 water, grain, equipment. My stock drains fortune. 738 00:44:12,213 --> 00:44:14,035 And with it, hope of grander aspiration 739 00:44:14,135 --> 00:44:17,278 towards the games in the arena. A subject I would broach- 740 00:44:17,378 --> 00:44:20,021 You refer to your gladiators as stock? 741 00:44:20,822 --> 00:44:22,824 Do they not carry title of men? 742 00:44:23,744 --> 00:44:25,746 They are but slaves. 743 00:44:26,147 --> 00:44:28,049 As you once stood. 744 00:44:28,149 --> 00:44:30,091 A distant memory. 745 00:44:30,191 --> 00:44:32,233 Yet forgotten by none. 746 00:44:36,357 --> 00:44:38,359 Let eyes fall upon it. 747 00:44:42,683 --> 00:44:44,505 Your brand, 748 00:44:44,605 --> 00:44:46,627 marking you as property of the House of Batiatus- 749 00:44:46,727 --> 00:44:48,729 I would lay eyes. 750 00:44:54,214 --> 00:44:56,216 [sighs] 751 00:44:59,139 --> 00:45:03,223 [intense music] 752 00:45:04,945 --> 00:45:06,607 [Gabinius] Oh. 753 00:45:06,707 --> 00:45:08,889 Rumour proves truth. 754 00:45:08,989 --> 00:45:13,834 Crassus growls command, and loyal cur gnaws its own flesh. 755 00:45:14,875 --> 00:45:17,477 [music builds] 756 00:45:19,519 --> 00:45:22,522 Words fell from less noble heights. 757 00:45:23,203 --> 00:45:25,706 Gaius Claudius Glaber gave command, 758 00:45:25,806 --> 00:45:28,789 before he was dispatched from this world by Spartacus himself, 759 00:45:28,889 --> 00:45:30,550 in the shadow 760 00:45:30,650 --> 00:45:32,392 of Vesuvius. 761 00:45:32,492 --> 00:45:35,175 I had occasion to break meal with Glaber upon a time. 762 00:45:35,776 --> 00:45:39,519 A most unsettling cast of eye, absent blink- 763 00:45:39,619 --> 00:45:42,142 as a lizard, encumbered with human form. 764 00:45:42,822 --> 00:45:45,946 A most uncanny assessment of the man. [chuckles] 765 00:45:46,746 --> 00:45:48,568 And how gauge you the measure of the one you see 766 00:45:48,668 --> 00:45:50,670 seated before you? 767 00:45:51,471 --> 00:45:53,253 No, come, hold me as friend. 768 00:45:53,353 --> 00:45:57,517 Well, as semblance of such, as the moment requires. 769 00:45:59,119 --> 00:46:02,862 I see a most noble Roman, well regarded by deed and tongue- 770 00:46:02,962 --> 00:46:04,864 Flattery is of little worth 771 00:46:04,964 --> 00:46:06,746 to one laden with coin and privilege! 772 00:46:06,846 --> 00:46:09,529 I would have from you what others withhold- 773 00:46:09,889 --> 00:46:11,891 the fucking truth! 774 00:46:20,340 --> 00:46:22,782 I see a man of fading years... 775 00:46:24,023 --> 00:46:25,605 clinging to what time remains, 776 00:46:25,705 --> 00:46:29,589 in hopes of preserving tradition of beloved republic. 777 00:46:30,990 --> 00:46:32,532 Yet many within it increasingly 778 00:46:32,632 --> 00:46:34,654 find him more annoyance than benefit, 779 00:46:34,754 --> 00:46:38,317 save for those of low position who seek the borrowing of coin. 780 00:46:38,998 --> 00:46:43,122 I see a man possessed of serpent-tongued wife... 781 00:46:44,483 --> 00:46:47,246 who manoeuvres beyond his interests. 782 00:46:48,848 --> 00:46:53,652 [tense music playing] 783 00:46:55,014 --> 00:46:57,016 [laughs] 784 00:46:57,616 --> 00:46:59,939 - Words well broken. - [laughs] 785 00:47:02,581 --> 00:47:07,066 Now fall from fucking sight and remain so removed. 786 00:47:09,468 --> 00:47:11,630 [footsteps retreat] 787 00:47:17,836 --> 00:47:21,400 [intense music playing] 788 00:47:23,242 --> 00:47:25,404 [laughter] 789 00:47:29,087 --> 00:47:31,450 - [grunts] - Form improves. 790 00:47:32,691 --> 00:47:35,253 Moves from watery shit to firm. 791 00:47:36,375 --> 00:47:40,699 - [laughter] - [grunts] 792 00:47:44,503 --> 00:47:46,204 [sighs] 793 00:47:46,304 --> 00:47:48,867 [grunts] 794 00:47:50,228 --> 00:47:52,390 [grunts] 795 00:47:57,876 --> 00:48:00,238 Wooden man poses slight contest. 796 00:48:00,999 --> 00:48:04,122 Perhaps you would care to engage more fearsome opponent. 797 00:48:06,885 --> 00:48:08,887 I prefer larger challenge. 798 00:48:10,368 --> 00:48:11,710 Fuck what you prefer, woman. 799 00:48:11,810 --> 00:48:18,536 [both grunt] 800 00:48:21,059 --> 00:48:23,061 Stay down, you fucking cunt! 801 00:48:23,982 --> 00:48:25,283 Aargh! 802 00:48:25,383 --> 00:48:28,426 [both grunt] 803 00:48:32,390 --> 00:48:34,552 [both grunt] 804 00:48:35,393 --> 00:48:38,196 [both grunt] 805 00:48:38,756 --> 00:48:41,158 [groaning] 806 00:48:45,963 --> 00:48:47,965 The woman at last finds her place- 807 00:48:48,526 --> 00:48:49,867 on her back, 808 00:48:49,967 --> 00:48:51,969 with legs spread. 809 00:48:53,371 --> 00:48:55,513 [grunts] 810 00:48:55,613 --> 00:48:57,775 [high-pitched ringing] 811 00:48:58,816 --> 00:49:01,819 [distorted] Hold her! You fucking cunt! 812 00:49:02,179 --> 00:49:04,341 [both grunt] 813 00:49:07,464 --> 00:49:09,326 Aargh! 814 00:49:09,426 --> 00:49:11,629 - [grunts] - [whimpers] 815 00:49:12,469 --> 00:49:14,371 [whimpers] 816 00:49:14,471 --> 00:49:16,634 [screaming] 817 00:49:17,474 --> 00:49:20,337 [grunts] 818 00:49:20,437 --> 00:49:22,620 [grunts] 819 00:49:22,720 --> 00:49:24,501 - [grunts] - Aargh! 820 00:49:24,601 --> 00:49:25,983 Fucking bitch! 821 00:49:26,083 --> 00:49:28,505 - Aargh! - [grunts] 822 00:49:28,605 --> 00:49:31,749 [both grunt] 823 00:49:31,849 --> 00:49:33,670 - [grunts] - Aargh! 824 00:49:33,770 --> 00:49:35,973 - [thud] - Aargh! 825 00:49:41,298 --> 00:49:43,300 [both] Aargh! 826 00:49:46,583 --> 00:49:48,705 [grunts] 827 00:49:50,507 --> 00:49:52,529 - [whimpers] - [grunts] 828 00:49:52,629 --> 00:49:54,751 [screams] 829 00:49:59,916 --> 00:50:02,038 [scream echoes] 830 00:50:07,884 --> 00:50:09,886 Medicus! 831 00:50:10,647 --> 00:50:11,828 - Medicus! - The man, at last, 832 00:50:11,928 --> 00:50:15,111 finds his place- legs spread, absent cock. 833 00:50:15,211 --> 00:50:18,455 Medicus! Aargh! 834 00:50:18,935 --> 00:50:20,937 Medicus! 835 00:50:24,741 --> 00:50:27,423 [Hedylus] Ephesius? Why is he so stained with blood? 836 00:50:28,224 --> 00:50:30,206 Give way! Give... 837 00:50:30,306 --> 00:50:32,308 fucking... way! 838 00:50:38,634 --> 00:50:40,636 Life has fled. 839 00:50:40,997 --> 00:50:43,079 A blessing for one so rudely handled. 840 00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:46,442 [Korris] What has fucking happened? 841 00:50:47,523 --> 00:50:49,105 [Ephesius] The woman! 842 00:50:49,205 --> 00:50:50,466 She went mad! 843 00:50:50,566 --> 00:50:51,627 He breaks false words. 844 00:50:51,727 --> 00:50:52,789 I was but working palus, when they- 845 00:50:52,889 --> 00:50:55,011 I give no shit what they did. 846 00:50:55,691 --> 00:50:59,155 Only the Dominus of the house can claim life of one who stands 847 00:50:59,255 --> 00:51:00,676 among the brotherhood. 848 00:51:00,776 --> 00:51:02,678 Any man who lays hands upon me shall fall the same fate, 849 00:51:02,778 --> 00:51:04,200 regardless of fucking brand. 850 00:51:04,300 --> 00:51:06,462 - She does not belong here! - Do not speak! 851 00:51:08,584 --> 00:51:10,646 You believe you hold place among us? 852 00:51:10,746 --> 00:51:13,129 I did not ask to be in this fucking house, 853 00:51:13,229 --> 00:51:15,331 Yet I stand equal as any man within it. 854 00:51:15,431 --> 00:51:16,892 Then give proof. 855 00:51:16,992 --> 00:51:18,994 Dacus! Steel. 856 00:51:21,717 --> 00:51:23,819 We must stop this. I will alert villa guards. 857 00:51:23,919 --> 00:51:25,020 Hold. 858 00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:27,122 She makes bold claim. 859 00:51:27,963 --> 00:51:29,965 Let us see it defended. 860 00:51:33,529 --> 00:51:36,592 Doctore, should this matter not be attended by Dominus? 861 00:51:36,692 --> 00:51:38,694 Fall from fucking side. 862 00:51:40,776 --> 00:51:42,518 - Korris. - Hold ground. 863 00:51:42,618 --> 00:51:45,741 Or Dominus will hear you took wine and fell from fucking post. 864 00:51:49,985 --> 00:51:52,107 [footsteps retreat] 865 00:51:54,669 --> 00:51:57,672 Retrieve the shield and take position. 866 00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:07,162 You stand for a man absent honor? 867 00:52:07,682 --> 00:52:09,865 I stand for the brotherhood. 868 00:52:09,965 --> 00:52:12,327 Then thank the gods I am not a part of it. 869 00:52:17,492 --> 00:52:20,815 [tense music] 870 00:52:21,296 --> 00:52:22,917 [roars] 871 00:52:23,017 --> 00:52:25,620 [both grunt] 872 00:52:29,944 --> 00:52:32,907 [echoes] Make her suffer the point! 873 00:52:33,988 --> 00:52:37,952 - Fight her now! - [both grunt] 874 00:52:40,234 --> 00:52:42,257 Retreat as a coward would. Coward! 875 00:52:42,357 --> 00:52:43,858 [grunts] 876 00:52:43,958 --> 00:52:46,821 For the brotherhood! [roars] 877 00:52:46,921 --> 00:52:48,142 [both grunt] 878 00:52:48,242 --> 00:52:51,666 - You have learned nothing! - [grunts] 879 00:52:51,766 --> 00:52:53,808 Except how to die absent honour. 880 00:52:56,130 --> 00:52:58,112 Doctore, kill her! 881 00:52:58,212 --> 00:53:00,214 Fire will not aid you! 882 00:53:01,055 --> 00:53:03,858 [grunts] 883 00:53:05,980 --> 00:53:08,102 [grunts] 884 00:53:08,983 --> 00:53:11,105 [grunts] 885 00:53:11,986 --> 00:53:13,327 [both grunt] 886 00:53:13,427 --> 00:53:15,429 - Aargh! - [grunts] 887 00:53:18,592 --> 00:53:20,594 Die! 888 00:53:23,677 --> 00:53:25,259 [roars] 889 00:53:25,359 --> 00:53:26,300 Yes! 890 00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:28,402 Send her to the fuckin afterlife. 891 00:53:28,842 --> 00:53:31,005 [both grunt] 892 00:53:35,449 --> 00:53:37,451 Increase advantage, Doctore! 893 00:53:38,452 --> 00:53:41,855 [both grunt] 894 00:53:46,300 --> 00:53:48,122 Finish her. 895 00:53:48,222 --> 00:53:50,224 For our brother! 896 00:53:52,266 --> 00:53:54,428 [grunts, screams] 897 00:53:57,150 --> 00:53:59,152 Fucking kill her! 898 00:54:00,754 --> 00:54:04,277 You fought well, yet fall short of the brotherhood. 899 00:54:08,281 --> 00:54:10,443 [roar echoes] 900 00:54:12,486 --> 00:54:14,648 [pants] 901 00:54:28,702 --> 00:54:30,703 [softly] I stand mistaken. 902 00:54:32,866 --> 00:54:37,871 [poignant music] 903 00:54:42,595 --> 00:54:44,757 [both grunt] 904 00:54:46,679 --> 00:54:49,182 She took the life of a brother, yet you let her live? 905 00:54:49,282 --> 00:54:51,264 I am the champion of Akragas. 906 00:54:51,364 --> 00:54:54,607 Freedom won upon the sand, by my own fucking will. 907 00:54:55,128 --> 00:54:57,950 And yet this woman, absent experience, 908 00:54:58,050 --> 00:55:00,853 has achieved what none among you could dare dream of- 909 00:55:01,374 --> 00:55:03,356 she drew blood 910 00:55:03,456 --> 00:55:06,939 against opponent far outmatching her in skill and experience. 911 00:55:07,900 --> 00:55:09,902 She has earned my respect... 912 00:55:10,983 --> 00:55:12,845 if but for fleeting moment. 913 00:55:12,945 --> 00:55:16,549 And any man who lays undesired hand upon her... 914 00:55:17,309 --> 00:55:18,851 shall feel my own... 915 00:55:18,951 --> 00:55:20,953 at fucking throat. 916 00:55:23,956 --> 00:55:27,760 [poignant music continues] 917 00:55:35,688 --> 00:55:39,171 [music builds] 918 00:55:44,376 --> 00:55:48,420 [music continues] 919 00:55:54,306 --> 00:55:56,428 [music continues]