1 00:00:52,367 --> 00:00:54,358 I found it in that box. 2 00:00:55,487 --> 00:00:57,000 In there. 3 00:00:57,727 --> 00:01:01,436 The box was in my nephew Caligula's bedroom. 4 00:01:02,727 --> 00:01:05,685 This once belonged to his father, Germanicus. 5 00:01:07,287 --> 00:01:10,836 I said I would tell everything, and I shall 6 00:01:11,647 --> 00:01:14,923 I shall hide nothing. Nothing! 7 00:01:15,807 --> 00:01:19,595 And if what comes next may seam incredible... 8 00:01:20,607 --> 00:01:22,279 believe it. 9 00:01:23,047 --> 00:01:24,844 Believe it! 10 00:01:28,807 --> 00:01:33,278 Of the last five years of Tiberius’ reign, the less said the better. 11 00:01:33,447 --> 00:01:37,201 He remained at Capri, entirely given up to whisperers ones, 12 00:01:37,367 --> 00:01:41,679 until at last, when people began to think he would never die, 13 00:01:41,847 --> 00:01:43,917 he suffered a massive stroke. 14 00:01:44,087 --> 00:01:47,124 He had named Caligula his principal heir 15 00:01:47,287 --> 00:01:50,836 and Gemellus, who was his grandson and still a boy,, 16 00:01:51,007 --> 00:01:55,046 his second heir, in case Caligula should die before him. 17 00:02:05,167 --> 00:02:07,476 - He's dead. - Really?. 18 00:02:09,727 --> 00:02:11,604 Get me his ring. 19 00:02:27,247 --> 00:02:32,480 Let us tell the world that the world has a new Emperor. 20 00:02:50,887 --> 00:02:53,879 Senators, gentlemen... 21 00:02:54,807 --> 00:02:58,766 our beloved Emperor, Tiberius Claudius, is dead. 22 00:02:59,767 --> 00:03:04,124 I have left his room having closed those tired old ayes with this hand. 23 00:03:05,407 --> 00:03:09,446 Before he died, he took from his finger this ring... 24 00:03:10,007 --> 00:03:12,726 his own seal. and placed it on my finger. 25 00:03:12,887 --> 00:03:16,436 And he said, "I die in peace, little Gaius, 26 00:03:16,607 --> 00:03:19,280 "knowing that you rule in my place." 27 00:03:20,487 --> 00:03:22,842 Those were his last words. 28 00:03:23,807 --> 00:03:27,800 I wept. I feel to my knees and wept. 29 00:03:30,887 --> 00:03:36,723 Gentlemen, I stand before you now as your Emperor. 30 00:03:36,887 --> 00:03:40,004 - Master! - Long live Rome! 31 00:03:40,167 --> 00:03:42,397 Master! He's alive again! 32 00:03:43,047 --> 00:03:47,438 He's alive. He's calling for his supper and he wants his ring back. 33 00:03:52,487 --> 00:03:55,320 - Take it! I don't want it! - Wait a minute! 34 00:03:55,487 --> 00:03:58,047 Gentlemen, I'm sure there's bean a mistake. 35 00:03:58,207 --> 00:04:02,519 This stupid solve saw the wind stirring the clothes on the bed. 36 00:04:02,687 --> 00:04:06,680 - No. He's asking for beef cutlets! - Quiet! I'll make a cutlet of you! 37 00:04:06,847 --> 00:04:08,997 He's out of his wits. Can't you sea? 38 00:04:09,847 --> 00:04:12,407 You'd better go and look for yourself. 39 00:04:12,567 --> 00:04:16,879 Exactly. I suggest you all remain here until the matter's sorted out. 40 00:04:17,047 --> 00:04:18,400 Come on. 41 00:04:26,527 --> 00:04:28,518 I want my supper. 42 00:04:29,367 --> 00:04:32,803 And I want a beef... 43 00:05:08,567 --> 00:05:10,444 I told you he was dead. 44 00:05:10,607 --> 00:05:14,885 Typical! He wanted to sea what we'd do if we thought he was dead. 45 00:05:17,167 --> 00:05:20,955 I shan't forget this, Macro. I really shan't. 46 00:05:32,807 --> 00:05:37,278 Gentlemen, Tiberius Claudius is definitely dead. 47 00:05:37,967 --> 00:05:39,798 No question of it. 48 00:05:39,967 --> 00:05:43,801 When I entered his room, he was lying peacefully in his bed. 49 00:05:43,967 --> 00:05:48,597 We shall take the corpse to Rome and give him a magnificent funeral! 50 00:05:48,767 --> 00:05:51,201 - Hail Caesar! - Hail Caesar! 51 00:05:57,607 --> 00:05:59,518 Gentlemen! 52 00:05:59,687 --> 00:06:02,838 We are at the dawn of a new golden age. 53 00:06:03,007 --> 00:06:05,441 A son of Germanicus has come before us. 54 00:06:05,607 --> 00:06:10,237 Let us put ourselves in his hands and vote him supreme power. 55 00:06:10,407 --> 00:06:15,117 Let us cry, "Rome is saved!" Hail Caesar! 56 00:06:15,287 --> 00:06:17,039 Hail Caesar! 57 00:06:17,207 --> 00:06:18,959 Hail. Caesar! 58 00:06:21,967 --> 00:06:23,605 Herod Agrippa! 59 00:06:25,127 --> 00:06:26,640 Oh, Herod! 60 00:06:27,447 --> 00:06:31,645 I was wondering the other day where you were and what you were doing. 61 00:06:31,807 --> 00:06:35,277 If I wasn't trying to borrow money, I was thinking of you! 62 00:06:35,447 --> 00:06:37,119 Did you arrive together?. 63 00:06:37,287 --> 00:06:40,836 I went straight to Capua. I knew he was living there. 64 00:06:41,007 --> 00:06:46,127 I found him leaving for Rome and intending to call on you on his way. 65 00:06:46,887 --> 00:06:49,037 Nothing could have pleased me better. 66 00:06:49,207 --> 00:06:51,926 Sit down. You remember my grandson, Gemellus? 67 00:06:52,087 --> 00:06:56,603 - He's grown. - Mmm. He never stops eating. 68 00:06:56,767 --> 00:07:01,363 It's not good for you to eat all that p-pastry. It clogs the chest. 69 00:07:01,527 --> 00:07:03,358 If I'm scolded, I'll go inside. 70 00:07:03,527 --> 00:07:06,803 He's given himself such airs since Tiberius died. 71 00:07:06,967 --> 00:07:09,435 - He thinks he already rules. - I do. 72 00:07:09,607 --> 00:07:11,643 I was made ruler with Caligula. 73 00:07:11,807 --> 00:07:15,322 Quiet! The Senate have set that aside. You're much too young. 74 00:07:15,487 --> 00:07:19,036 People are not made emperors to have the run of baker's shops. 75 00:07:19,207 --> 00:07:22,677 I can't sea it's any worse to eat too much pastry 76 00:07:22,847 --> 00:07:24,917 than it is to drink too much wine. 77 00:07:26,447 --> 00:07:28,836 And a lot of grown-ups do that. 78 00:07:31,127 --> 00:07:35,996 He eats for comfort. Livilla ignored him. She had other interests. 79 00:07:36,167 --> 00:07:38,442 - I wrote to you about Livilla. - Yes. 80 00:07:38,607 --> 00:07:42,600 Let's not talk of it. She's dead, and at my hands. I'd do it again. 81 00:07:43,847 --> 00:07:48,079 Well. perhaps things will improve now that Caligula is in command. 82 00:07:48,247 --> 00:07:49,646 Let's hope so. 83 00:07:49,887 --> 00:07:53,800 I like all the titles you have for me, as does my sister, Drusilla. 84 00:07:53,967 --> 00:07:56,117 I shall probably use them all 85 00:07:56,727 --> 00:07:58,877 What about the Consulship, Lentulus? 86 00:07:59,047 --> 00:08:02,801 Your term is up. Have you chosen the Consul for the next term? 87 00:08:02,967 --> 00:08:05,003 The choice is obvious to us. 88 00:08:05,167 --> 00:08:07,920 The Senate begs you to accept the next term 89 00:08:08,087 --> 00:08:10,521 and to choose a colleague to share it. 90 00:08:10,687 --> 00:08:12,439 Accepted. 91 00:08:13,527 --> 00:08:16,280 I hereby proclaim that my first act as Consul 92 00:08:16,447 --> 00:08:20,042 will be to collect all criminal dossiers collected by Sejanus 93 00:08:20,207 --> 00:08:22,596 and have them burnt in the marketplace! 94 00:08:23,807 --> 00:08:28,005 And, in memory of my dear mother, Agrippina, 95 00:08:28,167 --> 00:08:32,160 there will be a new annual festival of horse racing and sword fighting. 96 00:08:34,447 --> 00:08:39,999 In future, September will be known as "Germanicus" after my father, 97 00:08:40,167 --> 00:08:44,160 as August was after my great... my great grandfather. 98 00:08:46,807 --> 00:08:50,117 And now I have a headache. This audience is at an end. 99 00:08:50,647 --> 00:08:53,320 - Is your head bad again? - Yes. 100 00:08:53,487 --> 00:08:56,126 Come to my room and I'll soothe it for you. 101 00:09:01,887 --> 00:09:03,240 Lentulus... 102 00:09:03,407 --> 00:09:07,195 here is my chosen colleague to share the Consulship with me. 103 00:09:07,367 --> 00:09:11,838 - Gemellus. An excellent choice. - No, no! Not Gemellus. Not him. 104 00:09:12,687 --> 00:09:16,316 - My Uncle Claudius. - Your Uncle Claudius? 105 00:09:16,487 --> 00:09:19,923 Who else should share it but my father's beloved brother?. 106 00:09:20,807 --> 00:09:25,164 Uncle, I appoint you my colleague as Consul for the first term. 107 00:09:25,327 --> 00:09:28,763 - M-m-me? A C-Consul?. - Yes. We'll rule together. 108 00:09:28,927 --> 00:09:32,237 B-but I've forgotten all the r-rules and p-procedures. 109 00:09:32,407 --> 00:09:35,399 I'll think of everything and you can do everything. 110 00:09:35,567 --> 00:09:36,886 B-b-b... 111 00:09:37,047 --> 00:09:41,040 Uncle, there's a galloping in my head and you're making it worse! 112 00:09:42,487 --> 00:09:44,318 The matter is closed. 113 00:09:46,807 --> 00:09:49,560 - What is the matter with him? - The matter?. 114 00:09:49,727 --> 00:09:53,800 - He keeps clearing his throat. - He's had a v-very bad cough. 115 00:09:53,967 --> 00:09:57,039 Can't he get rid of it?. It's very irritating. 116 00:09:57,207 --> 00:09:59,596 Well. he's taking a cough mixture. 117 00:10:00,367 --> 00:10:02,358 Oh. I sea. 118 00:10:02,527 --> 00:10:04,518 Well. let's hope it clears up soon. 119 00:10:04,687 --> 00:10:06,598 I have a weak chest. It's not my fault. 120 00:10:06,767 --> 00:10:08,803 No. But it's your chest! 121 00:10:13,407 --> 00:10:15,363 Is that your own hair?. 122 00:10:16,247 --> 00:10:19,125 - Pardon? - Is it your own hair or a wig? 123 00:10:20,647 --> 00:10:22,126 M-my own. 124 00:10:22,287 --> 00:10:25,518 Why have you got so much? I find that extremely irritating. 125 00:10:25,687 --> 00:10:27,484 You're much older than I am. 126 00:10:28,567 --> 00:10:32,116 Uncle, I've arranged a suite of rooms for you in the palace. 127 00:10:32,287 --> 00:10:36,166 You can come and live with me and my sisters. You'll like that. 128 00:10:36,327 --> 00:10:38,716 The whole family will be together. 129 00:10:38,887 --> 00:10:40,878 I'm very fond of my family... 130 00:10:41,407 --> 00:10:43,204 generally speaking. 131 00:10:45,127 --> 00:10:48,597 Uncle, your first official duty as Consul will be to have... 132 00:10:49,247 --> 00:10:52,956 two statues made of my late brothers, Drusus and Nero. 133 00:10:53,127 --> 00:10:56,722 They’ll be set up and consecrated in the marketplace. 134 00:10:56,887 --> 00:10:59,685 The ceremony will take place in early December. 135 00:10:59,847 --> 00:11:04,159 I know it'll cost a great deal of money, but there's plenty of money. 136 00:11:04,327 --> 00:11:07,364 Tiberius left 27 million gold pieces. 137 00:11:07,527 --> 00:11:10,644 M-may I ask how much is l-left?. 138 00:11:11,567 --> 00:11:14,400 Lentulus, how much is left?. 139 00:11:16,087 --> 00:11:18,203 Between eight and nine, Caesar. 140 00:11:19,367 --> 00:11:22,279 - Is that all?. - He left a lot of debts. 141 00:11:23,047 --> 00:11:27,245 That goody skinflint! He owed money and left me to pay for it all! 142 00:11:27,407 --> 00:11:30,205 I should have killed him when I had the chance! 143 00:11:32,207 --> 00:11:34,721 Oh, my headache's getting worse. 144 00:11:35,327 --> 00:11:37,921 Galloping inside it. Pounding of hooves. 145 00:11:38,087 --> 00:11:41,602 - Come to my room. - It's in my head. 146 00:11:58,687 --> 00:12:00,405 What was I saying? 147 00:12:00,567 --> 00:12:03,798 You should have k-killed him when you had the chance. 148 00:12:03,967 --> 00:12:07,323 Yes. Many times I had the chance and thought of doing it. 149 00:12:07,487 --> 00:12:09,717 Shall I take G-Gemellus to his room? 150 00:12:09,887 --> 00:12:12,924 No. I'm about to tell you a story. Let him hear. 151 00:12:13,087 --> 00:12:16,477 This will become, I'm sure, an historic anecdote. 152 00:12:16,647 --> 00:12:18,842 I want you to write it down later, Uncle. 153 00:12:19,007 --> 00:12:21,726 - Will you stop coughing?! - It's very difficult. 154 00:12:21,887 --> 00:12:23,240 Well. try! 155 00:12:30,487 --> 00:12:33,285 Lentulus, how much is left?. 156 00:12:33,527 --> 00:12:35,040 Of what?. 157 00:12:35,647 --> 00:12:37,444 Of Tiberius' fortune. 158 00:12:38,327 --> 00:12:40,716 Between eight and nine million, Caesar. 159 00:12:40,887 --> 00:12:43,959 - Is that all?. - He also left a lot of debts. 160 00:12:46,967 --> 00:12:51,006 We've had this conversation before, what's the matter with you? 161 00:12:56,927 --> 00:13:01,318 I know what I was about to say. I was going to tell you a story. 162 00:13:02,727 --> 00:13:05,560 It happened three, four years ago in Capri 163 00:13:05,727 --> 00:13:08,480 when I was nothing but an innocent young boy, 164 00:13:08,647 --> 00:13:12,765 shocked and shamed by the depravity to which the Emperor had fallen. 165 00:13:14,007 --> 00:13:17,636 More and more, in my precocious wisdom, 166 00:13:18,367 --> 00:13:23,282 I realised that the fate of Rome might rely on a single knife stroke. 167 00:13:23,447 --> 00:13:26,757 A knife in my hand. 168 00:13:27,647 --> 00:13:29,763 And the thought tormented me. 169 00:13:29,927 --> 00:13:32,760 I began to sea it as my inescapable destiny. 170 00:13:32,927 --> 00:13:35,157 "But why me?" I said. 171 00:13:35,327 --> 00:13:39,400 "Why me, who never had a single violent thought in his life? 172 00:13:39,567 --> 00:13:44,357 "Why should this onerous duty be thrust upon me?" 173 00:13:46,487 --> 00:13:53,040 Yet, one night, sleepless as usual with grief 174 00:13:53,207 --> 00:13:56,756 at the fate of my dear mother and my dear brothers... 175 00:13:58,367 --> 00:14:01,564 I decided, come what might... 176 00:14:03,167 --> 00:14:07,957 that I would be avenged, at last, upon their murderer. 177 00:14:10,047 --> 00:14:13,483 So I took a knife that belonged to my father, Germanicus, 178 00:14:13,647 --> 00:14:17,765 and I went into the Emperor's room where he lay tossing and groaning 179 00:14:17,927 --> 00:14:19,883 in a nightmare of guilt. 180 00:14:20,047 --> 00:14:23,084 There was a galloping in my head and a pounding... 181 00:14:24,527 --> 00:14:26,882 Yes. Yes, I remember. 182 00:14:27,767 --> 00:14:30,076 That was the first time I heard it. 183 00:14:30,967 --> 00:14:34,243 I lifted the dagger in order to strike... 184 00:14:35,487 --> 00:14:38,445 when a divine voice sounded in my ear. 185 00:14:38,607 --> 00:14:40,802 "Great grandson, stop! 186 00:14:40,967 --> 00:14:44,277 "Hold your hand. To kill him would be impious!" 187 00:14:47,327 --> 00:14:49,045 I froze. 188 00:14:49,807 --> 00:14:53,766 I turned to sea if I could find the owner of the voice, 189 00:14:53,927 --> 00:14:56,964 but there was no one there besides the Emperor and myself. 190 00:14:57,127 --> 00:15:00,915 And yet I felt the presence of the Divine Augustus. 191 00:15:01,607 --> 00:15:04,679 "Oh, God Augustus!" I cried. 192 00:15:05,647 --> 00:15:09,606 "He killed my mother and my brothers, your descendants. 193 00:15:09,767 --> 00:15:11,723 "Should I not avenge them 194 00:15:11,887 --> 00:15:16,517 "even at the risk of being shunned by all men as a parricide?" 195 00:15:22,567 --> 00:15:24,797 Augustus answered. 196 00:15:27,007 --> 00:15:32,718 "Oh, magnanimous son, who art to be Emperor hereafter, 197 00:15:32,887 --> 00:15:35,355 "there is no need to do what you would do. 198 00:15:35,527 --> 00:15:36,721 "By my orders, 199 00:15:36,887 --> 00:15:40,596 "the Furies nightly avenge your dear ones while he sleeps. 200 00:15:40,767 --> 00:15:42,120 (HOOFBEATS) 201 00:15:42,287 --> 00:15:46,166 "Leave them to their work and him to the torments of his dreams 202 00:15:46,327 --> 00:15:49,364 "and the torments to come in the hereafter. 203 00:15:50,887 --> 00:15:54,163 "He will suffer eternal agonies, I swear, 204 00:15:54,327 --> 00:15:57,603 "while you...while you, my son... 205 00:16:00,127 --> 00:16:04,439 "while...after a glorious reign... 206 00:16:04,607 --> 00:16:07,121 "will enter the bosom of Augustus." 207 00:16:08,447 --> 00:16:10,756 I threw the dagger aside. 208 00:16:12,367 --> 00:16:15,279 Father! Father! 209 00:16:15,447 --> 00:16:17,085 (HOOFBEATS) 210 00:16:17,247 --> 00:16:19,158 Help me! 211 00:16:20,487 --> 00:16:21,886 Help me! 212 00:16:23,207 --> 00:16:24,925 Stop it! 213 00:16:25,807 --> 00:16:28,002 STOP IT! 214 00:16:29,727 --> 00:16:31,046 Stop it! 215 00:16:31,207 --> 00:16:33,516 Stop it! Stop! 216 00:16:40,047 --> 00:16:42,800 The statues must be ready by the end of N-November. 217 00:16:42,967 --> 00:16:45,800 - I said I'd do my best... - I can take the work elsewhere! 218 00:16:45,967 --> 00:16:48,276 You'd lose time. We've already started. 219 00:16:48,447 --> 00:16:52,725 - You haven't started them! - I promise we'll start tomorrow. 220 00:16:52,887 --> 00:16:56,197 The way the Emperor is, he won't be ready for the ceremony. 221 00:16:56,367 --> 00:16:59,200 Never mind the Emperor, that's his business. 222 00:16:59,367 --> 00:17:02,165 You just make sure those statues are r-ready! 223 00:17:30,007 --> 00:17:34,205 The Emperor awoke this morning, but then relapsed into a coma. 224 00:17:34,367 --> 00:17:36,358 That's all I can tell you. 225 00:17:36,527 --> 00:17:39,121 I suggest that you return to your homes. 226 00:17:39,287 --> 00:17:42,677 Everything that can be done is being done. 227 00:17:49,487 --> 00:17:53,002 We pray for him hourly. Tell him that if he wakes. 228 00:17:53,167 --> 00:17:54,486 I shall 229 00:17:54,647 --> 00:17:58,925 I've offered my own life in place of his if the gods will spare him. 230 00:17:59,087 --> 00:18:03,444 If anything happens to him, it would be the worst calamity to befall Rome 231 00:18:03,607 --> 00:18:05,723 since the death of Germanicus. 232 00:18:05,887 --> 00:18:08,276 Your prayers will help him, I'm sure. 233 00:18:12,287 --> 00:18:16,326 Uncle Claudius, come quickly! He's awake and he wants to sea you. 234 00:18:16,487 --> 00:18:18,159 - What for?. - I don't know. 235 00:18:18,327 --> 00:18:20,318 For heaven's sake, humour him. 236 00:18:20,487 --> 00:18:23,285 He'll kill you if you don't say what he wants. 237 00:18:23,447 --> 00:18:25,961 - What does he want me to say?. - I don't know! 238 00:18:26,127 --> 00:18:28,197 But he just tried to kill me. 239 00:18:28,367 --> 00:18:30,244 He said I didn't love him. 240 00:18:30,407 --> 00:18:35,322 He made me swear over and over again that I did! Oh, do go, please! 241 00:18:45,047 --> 00:18:46,878 Hail C-Caesar. 242 00:18:47,607 --> 00:18:52,761 What a j-j-joy to sea you alive and to hear your voice again. 243 00:18:53,847 --> 00:18:57,362 D-dare I hope that you're better?. 244 00:18:58,207 --> 00:19:00,243 I've never really bean ill 245 00:19:00,727 --> 00:19:02,797 Oh. Really?. 246 00:19:03,407 --> 00:19:07,082 No. I've bean undergoing a metamorphosis. 247 00:19:07,247 --> 00:19:11,525 Oh. Was it p-p-painful?. 248 00:19:12,687 --> 00:19:18,125 It was like a birth in which the mother delivers herself. 249 00:19:18,287 --> 00:19:19,959 Oh, yes. 250 00:19:20,127 --> 00:19:23,199 Oh, that m-must have bean p-painful 251 00:19:24,207 --> 00:19:29,804 M-may I enquire what is the character 252 00:19:29,967 --> 00:19:36,076 of this g-glorious change which has come over you? 253 00:19:38,647 --> 00:19:40,478 Isn't it obvious? 254 00:19:47,287 --> 00:19:51,724 Y-you've b-become a g-g-god! 255 00:19:53,127 --> 00:19:55,004 Oh, my god. 256 00:19:55,167 --> 00:19:57,886 Oh, let me worship you! 257 00:19:58,047 --> 00:20:01,403 Oh, how could I have bean so blind?! 258 00:20:02,407 --> 00:20:05,558 Well. I am still in mortal disguise. 259 00:20:05,727 --> 00:20:07,718 No, I should have seen it at once. 260 00:20:07,887 --> 00:20:12,836 Your face shines, even in this light, like a l-lamp. 261 00:20:13,007 --> 00:20:14,360 Does it?. 262 00:20:15,647 --> 00:20:17,717 Get me that mirror. 263 00:20:27,767 --> 00:20:30,725 Oh. It is bright, isn't it?. 264 00:20:31,607 --> 00:20:34,440 I could r-read by it. 265 00:20:35,887 --> 00:20:38,196 I always knew that this would happen. 266 00:20:38,367 --> 00:20:40,676 I always knew I was divine. Think of it. 267 00:20:40,847 --> 00:20:46,046 When I was two, I put down a mutiny in my father's army and saved Rome. 268 00:20:46,207 --> 00:20:48,038 That was prodigious. 269 00:20:48,207 --> 00:20:51,358 It's like the stories they tell of M-Mercury as a child, 270 00:20:51,527 --> 00:20:56,078 or Hercules who s-s-strangled snakes in his cradle. 271 00:20:56,247 --> 00:21:00,081 Exactly. Only Mercury only stole a few oxen, 272 00:21:00,247 --> 00:21:03,603 whereas by the age of ten, I'd already killed my father. 273 00:21:04,367 --> 00:21:07,564 - You didn't know that, did you? - N-n-no... 274 00:21:09,567 --> 00:21:11,080 Divinity. 275 00:21:11,967 --> 00:21:15,482 Even Jove didn't do that. He merely banished the old man. 276 00:21:15,647 --> 00:21:21,040 Why, if you d-don't mind my asking, d-did you do that?. 277 00:21:21,207 --> 00:21:23,243 Well. he stood in my way. 278 00:21:23,887 --> 00:21:25,923 Me - a young god! 279 00:21:26,087 --> 00:21:30,444 He tried to discipline me. So I frightened him to death in Antioch. 280 00:21:30,607 --> 00:21:32,757 So it was you who did all that?. 281 00:21:33,367 --> 00:21:35,119 It's incredible. 282 00:21:35,287 --> 00:21:38,836 No, not at all Not for a god. It was very simple. 283 00:21:39,007 --> 00:21:41,475 Not only did I kill my natural father, 284 00:21:41,647 --> 00:21:46,277 I also killed my adoptive father, Tiberius. Jove never did that! 285 00:21:46,447 --> 00:21:49,166 No. I've never read that he did that. 286 00:21:49,327 --> 00:21:51,318 And you're a very well-read man. 287 00:21:51,487 --> 00:21:54,923 And whereas Jove only slept with one of his sisters, 288 00:21:55,087 --> 00:21:58,875 I've slept with all three of mine - all had a god in their beds. 289 00:21:59,047 --> 00:22:01,561 Martina told me it was right for a god. 290 00:22:01,727 --> 00:22:04,480 Oh, you knew Martina well?. 291 00:22:04,647 --> 00:22:07,480 Oh, yes, yes. Very well A very wise woman. 292 00:22:07,647 --> 00:22:12,675 In Egypt, she taught me about the gods - especially the Greek ones. 293 00:22:12,847 --> 00:22:15,236 She said that I was more like Zeus than Jove. 294 00:22:15,407 --> 00:22:18,604 Jove was just a pale Roman copy of Zeus. 295 00:22:20,567 --> 00:22:23,684 Zeus married his sister, didn't he? 296 00:22:23,847 --> 00:22:26,042 - Yes. - What was her name? 297 00:22:26,207 --> 00:22:28,562 - Hera. - Hera. That's it. 298 00:22:28,727 --> 00:22:31,321 And she became pregnant by him. 299 00:22:31,487 --> 00:22:34,047 No. That was Metis. 300 00:22:34,207 --> 00:22:38,200 And fearing that the child would become stronger than himself 301 00:22:38,367 --> 00:22:40,358 and r-rule the heavens, 302 00:22:40,527 --> 00:22:44,918 he took the child from her body and swallowed it whole, 303 00:22:45,087 --> 00:22:47,760 and Athena sprang from his head. 304 00:22:48,287 --> 00:22:50,642 Yes, something like that. 305 00:22:51,847 --> 00:22:55,556 I never used to believe that sort of story but, of course, now... 306 00:22:55,727 --> 00:22:57,763 I can sea that they’re true. 307 00:22:59,207 --> 00:23:03,405 Well. now you understand why I have always bean divine. 308 00:23:05,647 --> 00:23:07,683 Drusilla is divine too. 309 00:23:07,847 --> 00:23:11,635 I shall announce it at the same time I announce my own divinity. 310 00:23:11,807 --> 00:23:15,925 Oh, this is the most glorious hour of my life! 311 00:23:18,007 --> 00:23:22,683 Will you allow me to retire and s-sacrifice to you at once? 312 00:23:24,047 --> 00:23:28,802 The d-divine air you exhale is too strong for me. 313 00:23:28,967 --> 00:23:31,003 I'm fainting, D-Divinity. 314 00:23:38,167 --> 00:23:39,964 Go in peace. 315 00:23:40,127 --> 00:23:43,597 I was thinking of killing you, but I've changed my mind. 316 00:23:45,527 --> 00:23:47,199 Send Drusilla to me. 317 00:24:01,287 --> 00:24:03,278 He wants to sea you. 318 00:24:03,727 --> 00:24:06,878 He's become a god. Oh, you're a god too. 319 00:24:07,607 --> 00:24:09,165 We're not. 320 00:24:09,567 --> 00:24:11,797 A god? Which one? 321 00:24:11,967 --> 00:24:13,923 He thinks he's Zeus! 322 00:24:14,087 --> 00:24:17,124 - That sounds bad for us mortals. - Perhaps not. 323 00:24:17,287 --> 00:24:21,246 When he announces his divinity, they’ll all sea he's mad. 324 00:24:21,407 --> 00:24:23,443 We'll have the Republic back. 325 00:24:23,607 --> 00:24:28,556 My friend, this could be the b-best thing that aver happened to us. 326 00:24:32,007 --> 00:24:33,998 The Emperor is coming. 327 00:24:35,807 --> 00:24:39,004 There is something you ought to know before he arrives, 328 00:24:39,167 --> 00:24:41,806 so you won't be taken totally by surprise. 329 00:24:43,807 --> 00:24:48,483 We are privileged to be living during the most astonishing advent. 330 00:24:49,727 --> 00:24:54,323 The Emperor has undergone a transformation - 331 00:24:54,967 --> 00:24:58,562 a metamorphosis. 332 00:24:59,607 --> 00:25:02,565 He has become a god. 333 00:25:02,727 --> 00:25:04,638 (SOME LAUGHTER) 334 00:25:06,207 --> 00:25:08,846 That is unusual. to say the least. 335 00:25:09,567 --> 00:25:13,242 But that's the nature of miracles - to be unusual 336 00:25:14,167 --> 00:25:17,398 If it's the nature of some people not to believe in them... 337 00:25:17,567 --> 00:25:19,717 well. the more fool them. 338 00:25:21,847 --> 00:25:24,759 The Emperor doesn't want to make too much of it. 339 00:25:24,927 --> 00:25:27,395 He doesn't want any public announcements. 340 00:25:27,567 --> 00:25:30,320 He wants us all to behave normally. 341 00:25:30,887 --> 00:25:36,120 Although he is now a god, he is still the same lovable young man. 342 00:25:36,287 --> 00:25:38,198 I can attest to that. 343 00:25:38,367 --> 00:25:42,645 And to enable his relationships to continue as they always were, 344 00:25:42,807 --> 00:25:47,835 he has decided, for convenience, to retain his mortal form. 345 00:25:48,607 --> 00:25:52,646 By the way, his sister Drusilla's become a goddess. Any questions? 346 00:25:57,327 --> 00:26:02,640 Well. of course, it is unusual. but, as Sertorius Macro says 347 00:26:02,807 --> 00:26:05,275 that is the nature of miracles. 348 00:26:06,207 --> 00:26:10,120 Why, one must ask oneself, are gods made only after death? 349 00:26:10,847 --> 00:26:15,443 Sooner or later, a man was bound to be reborn a god in our very midst. 350 00:26:16,207 --> 00:26:19,438 If we worship the Divine Augustus after his death, 351 00:26:19,607 --> 00:26:23,646 doesn't it make sense to worship his great-grandson while he's alive? 352 00:26:23,807 --> 00:26:27,800 I think we should count ourselves fortunate to be living at this time. 353 00:26:27,967 --> 00:26:31,084 Gentlemen, posterity will envy us. 354 00:26:31,487 --> 00:26:34,206 Posterity will call you an ass, you idiot. 355 00:26:35,727 --> 00:26:37,524 The Emperor! 356 00:26:38,567 --> 00:26:41,240 (TRUMPET FANFARE) 357 00:26:53,007 --> 00:26:57,797 My sister and I are pleased to admit you into our presence again. 358 00:27:01,087 --> 00:27:04,716 - Your recovery is a miracle. - You prayed for it, Lentulus. 359 00:27:04,887 --> 00:27:08,197 Night and day. But our prayers are not always heard. 360 00:27:08,367 --> 00:27:10,642 Yes, but yours were very special 361 00:27:10,807 --> 00:27:14,800 You offered your life to the gods in place of mine. That was noble. 362 00:27:14,967 --> 00:27:17,435 It's true. I did. 363 00:27:18,287 --> 00:27:21,438 - What are you going to do about it?. - Do about it?. 364 00:27:22,087 --> 00:27:23,645 What do you mean? 365 00:27:23,807 --> 00:27:28,198 Well. I'm still here and so are you, but we oughtn't both to be here. 366 00:27:28,367 --> 00:27:31,598 Should we not give the gods the things we promise them? 367 00:27:31,767 --> 00:27:34,839 You're in danger of perjury. Think about it. 368 00:27:35,767 --> 00:27:40,682 But not too long. The gods won't wait for aver. I know them well 369 00:27:40,847 --> 00:27:45,523 We will walk to the forum and show ourselves to the people of Rome. 370 00:27:45,687 --> 00:27:48,759 Still coughing? We must do something about that. 371 00:27:48,927 --> 00:27:51,760 - You haven't forgotten my statues? - No. 372 00:27:51,927 --> 00:27:55,476 - Herod, you're back. - To bring you my congratulations. 373 00:27:55,647 --> 00:27:58,684 Come, walk with me a while. I want to talk to you. 374 00:28:05,567 --> 00:28:09,162 There's no one in all Rome man enough to strike him down like a dog?! 375 00:28:09,327 --> 00:28:12,444 It's v-very difficult, Mother. There are always guards. 376 00:28:12,607 --> 00:28:15,599 Anyway, I've never killed anyone before. 377 00:28:15,767 --> 00:28:19,555 Besides, everyone believes this madness can't last. 378 00:28:19,727 --> 00:28:22,639 Either he'll recover his senses or he'll die. 379 00:28:22,807 --> 00:28:26,959 - Couldn't you poison his food? - Mother! What am I, an assassin? 380 00:28:27,127 --> 00:28:30,403 - A living god among us! - And a goddess. 381 00:28:30,567 --> 00:28:32,444 I saw that coming a long time ago. 382 00:28:32,607 --> 00:28:36,680 To take a sister for a wife! They will both rot in hell for it. 383 00:28:36,847 --> 00:28:39,964 - I feel sorry for her. - You would! 384 00:28:40,127 --> 00:28:43,244 She's terrified of him, so she p-plays up to him! 385 00:28:43,407 --> 00:28:45,921 - I don't blame her. - I'd kill myself first! 386 00:28:46,087 --> 00:28:48,123 No one wants to die, Mother. 387 00:28:48,287 --> 00:28:52,519 I saw Lentulus' face when it dawned on him that the god wasn't joking. 388 00:28:52,687 --> 00:28:56,157 He waited hoping Caligula would forget it, but he didn't. 389 00:28:56,327 --> 00:29:00,479 He sent Macro with some guards to watch him while he opened his veins. 390 00:29:00,647 --> 00:29:05,516 He got what he deserved! You're all a pack of shameless cowards! 391 00:29:06,407 --> 00:29:09,797 When Germanicus died, there died the last of the Romans. 392 00:29:11,247 --> 00:29:13,317 It's good to get away from Rome. 393 00:29:13,487 --> 00:29:16,684 You're fortunate you don't have to live in the palace. 394 00:29:16,847 --> 00:29:21,284 - What goes on there at night... - I have heard enough! 395 00:29:23,167 --> 00:29:26,284 - Has he any money left?. - No, not much. 396 00:29:26,447 --> 00:29:30,679 He gave a charioteer 20,000 gold pieces the other day 397 00:29:30,847 --> 00:29:32,724 just for w=winning a race. 398 00:29:32,887 --> 00:29:35,959 When the money runs out, you'd all better watch out. 399 00:29:36,127 --> 00:29:38,118 I'll sea you both at supper. 400 00:29:41,607 --> 00:29:44,679 - She's very upset. - Well. what can I do? 401 00:29:45,687 --> 00:29:49,282 I've got a mad nephew, but I can't kill him. 402 00:29:49,447 --> 00:29:51,358 What's the matter with us, Herod? 403 00:29:51,527 --> 00:29:56,123 These are the children of Germanicus. How could it happen? 404 00:29:56,847 --> 00:30:00,078 You know what they say about the tree of the Claudians? 405 00:30:00,247 --> 00:30:03,922 It bears two kinds of fruit - the sweet and the bad. 406 00:30:04,087 --> 00:30:07,557 They’ve certainly had a t-terrifying crop this season. 407 00:30:39,647 --> 00:30:42,036 (CALIGULA) This isn't their house. 408 00:30:43,287 --> 00:30:45,323 This is our house. 409 00:30:45,607 --> 00:30:47,165 Yes. 410 00:30:47,327 --> 00:30:49,602 We shall spend most of our time here. 411 00:30:49,767 --> 00:30:53,077 I'll build a bridge to connect it to the palace. 412 00:30:53,247 --> 00:30:55,397 I'll hold my audiences here. 413 00:30:55,567 --> 00:30:57,000 Yes! 414 00:31:00,847 --> 00:31:03,281 Look at him. Jove! 415 00:31:03,447 --> 00:31:05,119 (BOTH LAUGH) 416 00:31:05,287 --> 00:31:09,326 - Does he look like a god? - An inferior god. 417 00:31:11,327 --> 00:31:14,876 Yes. An inferior god. 418 00:31:19,647 --> 00:31:21,603 Did you hear that?. 419 00:31:23,207 --> 00:31:25,960 You're not important enough for this temple. 420 00:31:28,007 --> 00:31:29,725 I beg your pardon? 421 00:31:29,887 --> 00:31:34,517 Be careful what you say to me or I'll have your face smashed in! 422 00:31:36,767 --> 00:31:38,917 Well. speak up! I can't hear you. 423 00:31:41,847 --> 00:31:46,318 Well. for now you may address me as Zeus, 424 00:31:46,487 --> 00:31:50,321 for in power he is the nearest who approaches me. 425 00:31:51,847 --> 00:31:55,840 You were created by the old Romans in his image, but you're nothing. 426 00:31:56,967 --> 00:31:58,958 Nothing, do you hear me? 427 00:31:59,127 --> 00:32:01,960 And this is Hera... 428 00:32:04,327 --> 00:32:09,196 out of whom the Romans created you! 429 00:32:10,687 --> 00:32:13,247 (DRUSILLA) We shall move you both to an annexe. 430 00:32:14,527 --> 00:32:16,677 You've bean here far too long. 431 00:32:17,927 --> 00:32:21,636 This is the temple in which I have chosen 432 00:32:21,807 --> 00:32:24,321 to bear the child of Zeus! 433 00:32:37,727 --> 00:32:39,240 A child? 434 00:32:43,407 --> 00:32:44,840 Mine? 435 00:32:45,687 --> 00:32:47,678 The child of Zeus. 436 00:32:48,767 --> 00:32:50,644 To rule the universe. 437 00:32:54,247 --> 00:32:55,885 Tell her. 438 00:32:57,447 --> 00:33:01,804 Tell her what it's like to be loved by Zeus. 439 00:33:02,687 --> 00:33:04,006 Tell her. 440 00:33:04,727 --> 00:33:08,197 It was like the sun bursting in my veins. 441 00:33:08,367 --> 00:33:10,801 It was like a shooting star! 442 00:33:11,807 --> 00:33:16,562 It was as if all the lights in the universe blazed at once in my womb! 443 00:33:17,687 --> 00:33:20,520 And a new universe was born. 444 00:33:30,367 --> 00:33:34,076 - But you promised they’d be ready! - Don't get excited. 445 00:33:34,247 --> 00:33:36,442 I said I'd do my best, that's all 446 00:33:36,607 --> 00:33:39,167 They must be ready for the ceremony tomorrow. 447 00:33:39,327 --> 00:33:41,761 - Nero's ready. - One's no good, you idiot! 448 00:33:41,927 --> 00:33:45,681 - There's no need to be offensive. - I'll have you thrown out of the city! 449 00:33:45,847 --> 00:33:49,840 The marble didn't arrive till last weak and my best sculptor's sick. 450 00:33:50,007 --> 00:33:53,397 - The marble was here last time! - It was? There was a crack in it. 451 00:33:53,567 --> 00:33:55,478 You used it for somebody else! 452 00:33:55,647 --> 00:33:58,115 I swear we never used it for anyone else. 453 00:33:58,287 --> 00:34:01,518 - Take Nero. Drusus will be a weak. - You can keep it. 454 00:34:01,687 --> 00:34:04,326 You've got me into a great deal of trouble. 455 00:34:04,487 --> 00:34:08,036 Keep it?. What am I going to do with a statue of Nero? 456 00:34:08,207 --> 00:34:11,244 You can stick it! And you know where you can stick it! 457 00:34:11,407 --> 00:34:14,240 I'll sea you in the courts for breach of contract! 458 00:34:14,407 --> 00:34:18,286 You'll sue me? I'll sue you! I'll sue you for damages. 459 00:34:18,447 --> 00:34:20,961 For misrepresentation. For fraud. 460 00:34:21,127 --> 00:34:23,595 You'll be hearing from my lawyers! 461 00:34:23,767 --> 00:34:26,406 (CRASH!) I'll charge you for that too! 462 00:34:29,287 --> 00:34:32,484 Caesar, there's something you should know. 463 00:34:34,607 --> 00:34:37,963 - Can you hear it?. - Hear what?. 464 00:34:39,047 --> 00:34:41,607 Gemellus coughing. 465 00:34:42,727 --> 00:34:44,797 Can't you hear it?. 466 00:34:45,727 --> 00:34:47,046 N-no. 467 00:34:48,167 --> 00:34:52,160 Oh, what it is to have the senses of a god. I can hear everything. 468 00:34:52,327 --> 00:34:56,081 Even a leaf falling on the other side of the world. 469 00:34:56,247 --> 00:34:58,886 Sometimes it's unbearable to hear so much. 470 00:34:59,807 --> 00:35:01,798 Can't you hear anything? 471 00:35:02,927 --> 00:35:04,679 N-not a thing. 472 00:35:05,687 --> 00:35:09,919 He was coughing all the way through dinner. Why weren't you at dinner?. 473 00:35:10,087 --> 00:35:12,521 I f-fell asleep. 474 00:35:12,687 --> 00:35:15,155 He was coughing all the way through dinner. 475 00:35:15,327 --> 00:35:19,320 Even from his room at the far side of the palace, I could hear him. 476 00:35:19,487 --> 00:35:23,116 No one else could. Not even Hera. 477 00:35:23,927 --> 00:35:25,326 Hera? 478 00:35:25,487 --> 00:35:27,398 Oh, yes, Hera. 479 00:35:29,167 --> 00:35:31,681 No, I don't think she would have heard him. 480 00:35:37,167 --> 00:35:38,600 It's stopped. 481 00:35:38,767 --> 00:35:40,405 Oh, I'm glad. 482 00:35:40,567 --> 00:35:42,876 Yes. You wanted to tell me something? 483 00:35:43,047 --> 00:35:46,517 Y-yes. It's about the s-statues. 484 00:35:46,687 --> 00:35:50,362 Yes, I wanted to talk to you about that. You've noticed too? 485 00:35:50,527 --> 00:35:52,165 Noticed what?. 486 00:35:52,327 --> 00:35:56,161 Well. that none of the statues of the gods in Rome look like me. 487 00:35:56,327 --> 00:35:58,124 I can't have that. 488 00:35:58,287 --> 00:36:01,359 I want you to collect the statues of the gods in Rome 489 00:36:01,527 --> 00:36:04,166 and replace their heads with one of my own. 490 00:36:04,327 --> 00:36:07,558 - Your own? - Yes. And Hera's too. 491 00:36:08,167 --> 00:36:14,959 You can put her head on the statue of Venus. 492 00:36:16,527 --> 00:36:18,518 Isn't she beautiful?. 493 00:36:18,687 --> 00:36:23,078 And she's pregnant. She carries my child in her womb. 494 00:36:23,247 --> 00:36:26,159 The thought torments me. What could it be like? 495 00:36:26,327 --> 00:36:30,878 Could it be greater than Zeus himself?. Could it rule the universe? 496 00:36:32,007 --> 00:36:36,000 The statues of N-Nero and D-Drusus 497 00:36:36,167 --> 00:36:39,682 w=won't be ready for the ceremony. 498 00:36:40,567 --> 00:36:41,920 What?. 499 00:36:42,727 --> 00:36:48,643 The statues of your b-brothers won't be ready in time. 500 00:36:49,367 --> 00:36:51,005 Won't be ready?. ! 501 00:36:51,167 --> 00:36:53,761 - It's not my fault... - You've bungled it! 502 00:36:53,927 --> 00:36:57,397 You're an idiot! I was a fool to have trusted you! 503 00:36:57,567 --> 00:37:01,355 I've a good mind to have your throat cut. In fact I'll do it now! 504 00:37:01,527 --> 00:37:03,085 No! No! No! 505 00:37:03,247 --> 00:37:05,966 - What is it?. ! - Who is it?. 506 00:37:10,447 --> 00:37:12,005 Gemellus. 507 00:37:12,967 --> 00:37:16,164 - I've cured his cough. - Oh, no. 508 00:37:16,327 --> 00:37:18,682 Oh, no! 509 00:37:20,887 --> 00:37:25,085 And you're not Consul any more! You are dismissed! 510 00:37:25,727 --> 00:37:27,877 I'll find somebody else! 511 00:37:33,047 --> 00:37:36,198 - Take it away. It looks horrible. - Yes, Caesar. 512 00:37:37,167 --> 00:37:40,159 Drusilla, wake up, please. 513 00:37:40,807 --> 00:37:44,561 Please, Drusilla, my head! 514 00:37:44,727 --> 00:37:46,046 Please. 515 00:37:55,047 --> 00:37:57,515 No one can be greater than Zeus. 516 00:37:59,807 --> 00:38:02,241 Not even the child of Zeus. 517 00:38:05,167 --> 00:38:08,125 There weren't many at the funeral. were there? 518 00:38:08,287 --> 00:38:11,996 What did you expect?. Caligula denounced him as a traitor. 519 00:38:12,167 --> 00:38:16,285 All the same, he was Tiberius' grandson, and still only a boy. 520 00:38:16,447 --> 00:38:18,597 How can people believe such nonsense? 521 00:38:18,767 --> 00:38:20,997 People will believe anything. 522 00:38:21,167 --> 00:38:25,285 We're fortunate he didn't celebrate the funeral with games. 523 00:38:28,967 --> 00:38:31,162 I want to speak to Claudius alone. 524 00:38:31,327 --> 00:38:33,397 Of course. I'll go. 525 00:38:38,167 --> 00:38:42,240 Is there something wrong, or has Gemellus' funeral upset you? 526 00:38:42,767 --> 00:38:44,439 It was the funeral 527 00:38:45,887 --> 00:38:48,685 - Goodbye, Herod. - Goodbye. 528 00:38:52,407 --> 00:38:55,240 - Are you going away somewhere? - Yes. 529 00:38:55,407 --> 00:38:58,717 At long last, I'm going to join your father. 530 00:39:02,687 --> 00:39:06,441 - What do you mean? - I'm going to kill myself. 531 00:39:07,767 --> 00:39:09,723 Don't start any nonsense. 532 00:39:10,967 --> 00:39:13,561 - But you can't. - Oh, yes, I can. 533 00:39:13,727 --> 00:39:16,241 My life's my own. It'll be a welcome release. 534 00:39:16,407 --> 00:39:18,967 I've no wish to go on living in this place. 535 00:39:19,127 --> 00:39:21,402 You don't have to pretend you'll miss me. 536 00:39:21,567 --> 00:39:25,845 Of course I'll miss you. You're my mother. 537 00:39:26,007 --> 00:39:29,886 That's very dutiful. considering I've never bean very loving to you. 538 00:39:30,047 --> 00:39:33,926 I'm sorry for that, but you've always bean a disappointment to me. 539 00:39:34,087 --> 00:39:38,080 - Oh, don't say that... - You sea? Crying at your age. 540 00:39:38,247 --> 00:39:41,683 - Well. why shouldn't I cry?. - There's no need. 541 00:39:41,847 --> 00:39:45,123 Keep your tears for yourself, you may need them. I shan't. 542 00:39:45,287 --> 00:39:48,438 - Don't do it, please. - My mind is made up. 543 00:39:48,607 --> 00:39:50,643 I don't want to stay here any more. 544 00:39:50,807 --> 00:39:55,119 I was born into a world of people. It's become a kennel of mad dogs. 545 00:39:55,287 --> 00:39:58,359 I've seen my splendid son, Germanicus, murdered, 546 00:39:58,527 --> 00:40:01,200 and my grandsons, Drusus, Nero, Gemellus. 547 00:40:01,367 --> 00:40:03,801 My grand-daughters are degenerate, 548 00:40:03,967 --> 00:40:06,879 and your sister, Livilla, died by my own hand. 549 00:40:07,047 --> 00:40:11,199 That was the worst. I should have died then myself. 550 00:40:11,367 --> 00:40:16,805 W-wait a while. Caligula's sick in his mind. Sooner or later... 551 00:40:16,967 --> 00:40:20,960 Rome is sick - sick to its heart. He's just the rash she's come out in. 552 00:40:21,127 --> 00:40:23,880 But he can't last f-forever. 553 00:40:24,047 --> 00:40:27,881 No. And I daresay you'll survive him. 554 00:40:29,407 --> 00:40:32,444 You'd survive the Great Flood, I know that now. 555 00:40:33,127 --> 00:40:34,719 But I've no wish to. 556 00:40:34,887 --> 00:40:39,005 I've stayed too long and it's good manners to know when to leave. 557 00:40:42,287 --> 00:40:44,676 You'll find all my affairs in order. 558 00:40:44,847 --> 00:40:48,886 Pay my debts and be good to my slaves - they’ve bean very loyal 559 00:40:49,247 --> 00:40:51,283 I shall go down to Antium and do it. 560 00:40:51,447 --> 00:40:53,836 Come in five hours, I shall be dead by then, 561 00:40:54,007 --> 00:40:58,159 but wait till Briseis confirms it in case you catch my dying breath. 562 00:40:59,007 --> 00:41:01,999 I count on you to pay me the last rites. 563 00:41:03,047 --> 00:41:06,676 Remember to cut off my hand for separate burial 564 00:41:06,847 --> 00:41:10,476 for this will be suicide. It'll be just like you to forget. 565 00:41:11,407 --> 00:41:15,036 And Claudius... Claudius. 566 00:41:17,407 --> 00:41:23,118 Please don't make a muddle of the valedictory. 567 00:41:26,527 --> 00:41:28,324 You may kiss me. 568 00:41:29,967 --> 00:41:31,639 Oh, Mother. 569 00:41:38,807 --> 00:41:41,480 (HE SOBS) 570 00:42:13,327 --> 00:42:16,558 She's dead, Master. You can go in. 571 00:42:18,887 --> 00:42:20,320 How was it?. 572 00:42:20,487 --> 00:42:23,001 Oh, so easy, Master. 573 00:42:23,887 --> 00:42:25,798 When life so wants to escape, 574 00:42:25,967 --> 00:42:30,040 it takes but the touch of the knife on the vein to let it flow away. 575 00:42:30,207 --> 00:42:32,357 She didn't cry out?. 576 00:42:33,247 --> 00:42:36,876 Only at the end. I heard her call to your father. 577 00:42:37,687 --> 00:42:41,999 "Drusus, Drusus," she said. "Forgive me, forgive me." 578 00:42:42,167 --> 00:42:43,759 Forgive me? 579 00:42:44,767 --> 00:42:47,600 Perhaps for keeping him waiting for so long. 580 00:42:49,487 --> 00:42:52,957 I've taken her out of the bath. She's covered with a sheet. 581 00:42:53,127 --> 00:42:55,163 You can go and sea her now. 582 00:42:55,327 --> 00:42:58,842 Yes. Yes. I'll come in a m-minute. 583 00:43:01,087 --> 00:43:02,998 Don't be surd, Master. 584 00:43:03,167 --> 00:43:05,601 She wanted to go. It was no effort. 585 00:43:07,127 --> 00:43:09,687 Calm as you like, and brave. 586 00:43:10,887 --> 00:43:15,165 Well. she was Mark Antony's daughter and Octavia's. You'd expect that. 587 00:43:19,167 --> 00:43:21,806 I've cut off her hand for separate burial 588 00:43:22,407 --> 00:43:24,363 Why did you do it?. 589 00:43:25,367 --> 00:43:27,358 She asked me to, Master. 590 00:43:29,207 --> 00:43:31,960 Perhaps she thought it might slip your mind. 591 00:43:37,607 --> 00:43:39,279 Zeus! 592 00:43:41,647 --> 00:43:43,285 Zeus! 593 00:43:43,847 --> 00:43:47,203 My husband! Where are you? 594 00:43:48,527 --> 00:43:51,599 Oh, you're not Zeus. 595 00:43:52,327 --> 00:43:54,795 You're not my husband, Zeus. 596 00:43:54,967 --> 00:44:00,360 You're just my silly old Uncle C-C-Claudius. 597 00:44:01,047 --> 00:44:06,075 It was your grandmother's funeral today. Couldn't you have attended? 598 00:44:08,447 --> 00:44:11,325 Gods don't attend funerals. 599 00:44:11,487 --> 00:44:12,886 You're drunk. 600 00:44:13,047 --> 00:44:14,400 No. 601 00:44:15,367 --> 00:44:18,996 My husband found this wonderful potion which we take. 602 00:44:19,927 --> 00:44:24,921 It makes you feel as if you're riding through the air! 603 00:44:26,207 --> 00:44:30,564 Have you seen him - my husband? He's hiding. 604 00:44:31,127 --> 00:44:33,322 Do you mean your b-brother?. 605 00:44:33,487 --> 00:44:35,876 Yes. My brother. 606 00:44:38,527 --> 00:44:42,406 My divine potent brother. 607 00:44:43,727 --> 00:44:45,080 Potent. 608 00:44:48,767 --> 00:44:51,201 Do you know he's to be a father?. 609 00:44:53,087 --> 00:44:56,159 Hera is with child by Zeus. 610 00:44:56,647 --> 00:44:59,207 Or Metis or Diana. 611 00:44:59,647 --> 00:45:03,925 Sometimes I'm one, sometimes I'm the other. He gets a bit confused. 612 00:45:04,087 --> 00:45:06,681 Why do you play up to him like this? 613 00:45:07,527 --> 00:45:12,317 Why do you? You play the clown, I play the goddess. 614 00:45:17,487 --> 00:45:19,318 You're disgusting! 615 00:45:20,247 --> 00:45:22,886 You wouldn't dare say that to him. 616 00:45:23,607 --> 00:45:29,079 You're afraid. Well. we're all afraid - even he is. 617 00:45:34,087 --> 00:45:36,237 Do you know what he's afraid of?. 618 00:45:37,807 --> 00:45:39,320 This. 619 00:45:39,927 --> 00:45:44,603 He's afraid it will be more powerful than he is and rule the heavens. 620 00:45:46,807 --> 00:45:49,446 Now I have something he's afraid of. 621 00:45:50,487 --> 00:45:52,239 Zeus! 622 00:45:53,247 --> 00:45:54,919 Zeus! 623 00:45:55,367 --> 00:45:58,598 Where are you? Zeus! 624 00:45:59,847 --> 00:46:03,726 Zeus, my treasure? Are you in there? 625 00:46:08,487 --> 00:46:09,806 Zeus! 626 00:46:10,567 --> 00:46:11,886 Ah! 627 00:46:12,527 --> 00:46:16,281 Oh, you frightened me. 628 00:46:19,167 --> 00:46:21,965 Oh, it's magnificent. 629 00:46:23,567 --> 00:46:25,398 It'll tickle a bit. 630 00:46:27,447 --> 00:46:29,438 Why are you hiding in here? 631 00:46:29,607 --> 00:46:31,837 I wanted you to find me in here. 632 00:46:34,047 --> 00:46:38,245 You sea, I've altered my whole room. 633 00:46:40,607 --> 00:46:42,199 Olympus. 634 00:46:43,167 --> 00:46:45,920 We gods like to live on mountain tops 635 00:46:46,087 --> 00:46:49,966 and while I live in this palace, this reminds me of my real home. 636 00:46:52,047 --> 00:46:53,765 And what's this? 637 00:46:53,927 --> 00:46:57,078 A chariot to draw you up to the clouds. 638 00:46:58,727 --> 00:47:00,160 Drink this. 639 00:47:00,327 --> 00:47:04,479 Oh, I think I've drunk enough. Is it the same? 640 00:47:04,647 --> 00:47:08,720 It's the same. We gods drink it before we perform a miracle. 641 00:47:08,887 --> 00:47:10,843 Drink it. Drink. Drink. Drink. 642 00:47:19,967 --> 00:47:22,003 You know I love you? 643 00:47:22,687 --> 00:47:25,042 More than anything in the whole world? 644 00:47:25,767 --> 00:47:29,646 Let me show you how you'll be drawn up into Olympus. 645 00:47:32,127 --> 00:47:33,526 You sea... 646 00:47:35,047 --> 00:47:39,165 Golden bracelets to help you. 647 00:47:41,407 --> 00:47:43,557 To help you... 648 00:47:44,967 --> 00:47:46,320 ride. 649 00:47:46,487 --> 00:47:48,318 Shall we ride together?. 650 00:47:49,647 --> 00:47:51,285 Who am I? 651 00:47:51,447 --> 00:47:55,042 Zeus, Lord of Heaven, my husband. 652 00:47:55,207 --> 00:47:58,517 - Who are you? - The Queen of Heaven, your wife. 653 00:47:58,687 --> 00:48:03,636 - Do you trust me? - Oh, utterly, my lover, my lord. 654 00:48:04,367 --> 00:48:07,404 - There'll be no pain, I promise. - Pain? 655 00:48:07,567 --> 00:48:10,639 Why, what do you want to do, my angel?. 656 00:48:10,807 --> 00:48:13,082 You know I can resist you nothing. 657 00:48:17,807 --> 00:48:19,604 What are you doing? 658 00:48:20,367 --> 00:48:22,437 What do you want to do? 659 00:48:22,607 --> 00:48:27,761 Oh, tell the Queen of Heaven what her lord and master wants. 660 00:48:29,487 --> 00:48:34,197 I must draw the child from the Queen of Heaven's womb 661 00:48:34,367 --> 00:48:39,122 and swallow it whole, so a new child may grow out of the head of Zeus. 662 00:48:39,287 --> 00:48:42,916 Oh, yes, darling. Draw it out. 663 00:48:43,087 --> 00:48:45,726 Let Zeus take the child and... 664 00:48:46,407 --> 00:48:49,843 Oh, let's go to bed. 665 00:48:50,607 --> 00:48:52,598 Your queen's very sleepy. 666 00:48:54,647 --> 00:48:58,003 What's that?. What are you going to do? 667 00:48:58,887 --> 00:49:01,799 There'll be no pain, I know it. 668 00:49:01,967 --> 00:49:03,639 Pain? But why should...? 669 00:49:03,807 --> 00:49:05,320 (HOOFBEATS) 670 00:49:05,487 --> 00:49:06,886 Caligula? 671 00:49:07,047 --> 00:49:10,323 We are immortal gods! 672 00:49:12,527 --> 00:49:16,805 (BLOOD-CURDLING SCREAMING) 673 00:49:21,407 --> 00:49:22,999 (BANGING) 674 00:49:23,167 --> 00:49:26,443 (CLAUDIUS) Open the door! 675 00:49:26,607 --> 00:49:29,280 (SCREAMING STOPS) 676 00:49:37,967 --> 00:49:39,958 (BOLT CLICKS) 677 00:49:47,927 --> 00:49:49,838 Don't go in there. 678 00:49:51,647 --> 00:49:54,241 Don't go in there. Vtg