1 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:28,520 Spartacus. 2 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:31,320 There's movement upon the path. 3 00:00:45,790 --> 00:00:47,130 Ashur! 4 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:57,600 A man must accept his fate... 5 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:04,730 ...or be destroyed by it. 6 00:01:33,380 --> 00:01:36,340 Ashur. Ashur. Ashur. 7 00:01:43,390 --> 00:01:46,140 Your life was forfeit upon Vesuvius, 8 00:01:46,890 --> 00:01:50,360 taken by one to whom you have done grave injustice. 9 00:01:51,230 --> 00:01:54,650 And now here you kneel, joining your domina and her child 10 00:01:54,860 --> 00:01:57,280 among the dead in the Underworld. 11 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:00,280 At what measure of a man stood you 12 00:02:00,490 --> 00:02:02,120 when heart beat within chest? 13 00:02:03,660 --> 00:02:04,790 A Syrian 14 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:06,210 despised by all; 15 00:02:06,790 --> 00:02:10,040 a slave to my husband, Batiatus... 16 00:02:11,590 --> 00:02:12,800 a gladiator... 17 00:02:14,590 --> 00:02:16,720 ...ever so briefly upon the sands of the arena... 18 00:02:18,470 --> 00:02:20,930 ...elevated to trusted conspirator, 19 00:02:21,550 --> 00:02:24,520 valued for your gifts of cunning and deceit. 20 00:02:25,850 --> 00:02:27,480 And when the House of Batiatus fell 21 00:02:27,690 --> 00:02:30,940 to the mad Thracian Spartacus and his rebels... 22 00:02:31,150 --> 00:02:35,030 Kill them all! 23 00:02:35,230 --> 00:02:37,110 ...you turned against your brothers... 24 00:02:37,950 --> 00:02:39,570 aiding Roman masters - 25 00:02:40,450 --> 00:02:43,530 an attempt to bring rebellious slaves to heel. 26 00:02:44,540 --> 00:02:48,790 And yet you had already fallen well in advance of Spartacus, 27 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:53,170 being struck from the world of the living by Roman spears. 28 00:02:54,250 --> 00:02:56,710 Yet the Fates weave many threads. 29 00:02:57,460 --> 00:02:59,720 Your untimely passing was but single path 30 00:02:59,930 --> 00:03:01,720 of what might have been. 31 00:03:01,930 --> 00:03:03,930 Do you desire to bear witness to another? 32 00:03:04,100 --> 00:03:06,020 A new reality, 33 00:03:06,430 --> 00:03:08,060 uncoupled from history... 34 00:03:08,730 --> 00:03:11,270 where you did not perish upon Vesuvius, 35 00:03:12,100 --> 00:03:14,520 where instead you aligned with mighty Crassus, 36 00:03:14,730 --> 00:03:17,230 the richest man in all the Republic, 37 00:03:17,570 --> 00:03:18,940 and his dog of war, 38 00:03:19,150 --> 00:03:21,530 Gaius Julius Caesar. 39 00:03:22,070 --> 00:03:24,870 A path where you hurled fatal spear 40 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:27,620 that claimed the life of Spartacus... 41 00:03:29,660 --> 00:03:32,040 ...and, in the act, saved Crassus, 42 00:03:32,790 --> 00:03:34,790 who rewards you with patronage... 43 00:03:35,630 --> 00:03:39,010 and all that once belonged to my noble husband. 44 00:03:39,210 --> 00:03:41,180 Embrace the path the gods have set you upon. 45 00:03:41,380 --> 00:03:43,300 Do you desire to know where that fate 46 00:03:43,510 --> 00:03:44,430 would have led? 47 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:46,010 Awake, then... 48 00:03:46,220 --> 00:03:47,640 The gods have brought you this far. 49 00:03:47,810 --> 00:03:50,020 ...and embrace a life that might have been. 50 00:03:50,230 --> 00:03:52,020 I believe we are not done with you yet. 51 00:03:53,100 --> 00:03:54,060 Wake! 52 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,200 Dominus? 53 00:04:06,030 --> 00:04:07,370 Are you unwell? 54 00:04:07,580 --> 00:04:10,410 A fleeting dream... 55 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,040 born of unfortunate meal in advance of slumber. 56 00:04:13,250 --> 00:04:16,250 What did Morpheus reveal upon his shores? 57 00:04:17,170 --> 00:04:18,920 It... 58 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:24,300 It... 59 00:04:25,340 --> 00:04:28,310 eludes grasp of waking mind. 60 00:04:34,730 --> 00:04:36,650 A thing of no importance. 61 00:04:40,110 --> 00:04:41,280 Bring food... 62 00:04:41,490 --> 00:04:42,860 and wine. 63 00:04:45,410 --> 00:04:47,200 I will greet morning sun. 64 00:04:49,450 --> 00:04:51,580 And what fortunes it carries. 65 00:04:51,790 --> 00:04:53,160 Ha! 66 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:25,150 Halt! 67 00:05:26,990 --> 00:05:29,830 Second position. 68 00:05:30,030 --> 00:05:31,540 Begin! 69 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:41,420 Watch footing, you fucking woman. 70 00:05:41,630 --> 00:05:43,630 Watch tongue, you fucking cunt. 71 00:05:44,300 --> 00:05:45,970 Logas! 72 00:05:50,430 --> 00:05:51,350 Tarchon! 73 00:05:54,430 --> 00:05:55,390 Use your mind! 74 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:57,020 Get him off! 75 00:05:57,440 --> 00:05:58,650 Yes! 76 00:05:58,850 --> 00:06:00,940 Doctore! 77 00:06:02,860 --> 00:06:04,440 Form the men. 78 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:06,700 I would have words. 79 00:06:10,780 --> 00:06:11,990 Attend. 80 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:16,710 You act as child 81 00:06:16,910 --> 00:06:19,670 with shit running down your leg. 82 00:06:21,540 --> 00:06:23,340 I act as my father would... 83 00:06:24,380 --> 00:06:25,550 in his youth. 84 00:06:26,010 --> 00:06:27,840 I should have never laid with your mother. 85 00:06:54,450 --> 00:06:57,000 What... is beneath your feet? 86 00:06:58,830 --> 00:07:02,500 Sacred ground watered with tears of blood. 87 00:07:03,670 --> 00:07:04,250 No, 88 00:07:04,460 --> 00:07:06,630 you simple fuck. 89 00:07:07,380 --> 00:07:11,090 What lies beneath your feet is opportunity - 90 00:07:12,300 --> 00:07:13,430 for coin, 91 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:17,180 and the respect such bounty presents. 92 00:07:18,890 --> 00:07:19,940 And... 93 00:07:20,350 --> 00:07:21,690 glory in the arena. 94 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:25,320 You stand but first crude brick laying foundation 95 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:27,610 to the rise of the House of Ashur! 96 00:07:27,780 --> 00:07:32,990 To ascend, you must train absent mirth or breaking of laughter. 97 00:07:33,740 --> 00:07:36,790 You must commit flesh to being forged into semblance 98 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:38,330 of the gods... 99 00:07:39,660 --> 00:07:40,870 to honor the man 100 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:43,670 who brought down the mighty Spartacus himself. 101 00:07:51,470 --> 00:07:53,090 You find issue in such thought? 102 00:07:54,140 --> 00:07:55,470 Apologies, Dominus. 103 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:59,520 Break words, absent threat of reprisal. 104 00:08:00,230 --> 00:08:02,310 Rumor bends ear. 105 00:08:03,350 --> 00:08:06,230 Speak... and see it straightened. 106 00:08:06,650 --> 00:08:07,520 That you 107 00:08:08,230 --> 00:08:10,570 hurled spear at the bringer of rain 108 00:08:10,940 --> 00:08:13,030 while his back was yet towards you. 109 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:20,250 Perhaps you think your dominus 110 00:08:20,450 --> 00:08:22,000 unworthy 111 00:08:22,210 --> 00:08:23,670 opponent. 112 00:08:30,420 --> 00:08:31,840 Bring me gladius. 113 00:08:32,590 --> 00:08:33,800 Dacus. 114 00:08:37,890 --> 00:08:39,640 No. 115 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:43,020 I would see wood give way to steel. 116 00:09:07,750 --> 00:09:09,540 Dominus strays from reason. 117 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:10,840 No. 118 00:09:11,420 --> 00:09:13,970 He but corrects those beneath him. 119 00:09:14,510 --> 00:09:15,590 Well? 120 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:19,300 Begin. 121 00:09:24,350 --> 00:09:26,770 Advantage of size means little when countered with skill 122 00:09:26,980 --> 00:09:28,190 and mind 123 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:30,320 fleet of purpose. 124 00:09:39,490 --> 00:09:42,540 He shifts weight to right leg, signaling intent. 125 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:54,130 Agh! 126 00:09:54,970 --> 00:09:57,630 He gathers breath before assault. 127 00:09:58,140 --> 00:10:00,350 Again, signaling intent. 128 00:10:06,890 --> 00:10:08,480 Give way to emotions, 129 00:10:08,900 --> 00:10:10,980 and fall upon the sands of the arena, 130 00:10:11,570 --> 00:10:14,860 presenting ass for fucking. 131 00:10:23,660 --> 00:10:24,700 That... 132 00:10:25,330 --> 00:10:26,790 was Falernian. 133 00:11:14,130 --> 00:11:16,670 And I was deemed lowest among the Brotherhood 134 00:11:17,420 --> 00:11:21,930 by most vexing doctore serving my own dominus, Batiatus. 135 00:11:23,100 --> 00:11:25,350 Yet even the lowest of a gladiator 136 00:11:25,510 --> 00:11:26,520 stands colossus 137 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,640 in regards to common men. 138 00:11:32,690 --> 00:11:35,230 Grasp words to fucking breast... 139 00:11:37,030 --> 00:11:39,190 or see heart torn from it. 140 00:11:43,700 --> 00:11:45,910 Bury him where he lies so I may water grave 141 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:48,870 with pressing need of each morning's piss. 142 00:12:04,850 --> 00:12:06,640 Grain delivery has been delayed. 143 00:12:07,060 --> 00:12:09,350 Cilicians fell upon ship and transport. 144 00:12:09,890 --> 00:12:11,890 I've instructed Messia to ration what we yet hold 145 00:12:12,100 --> 00:12:13,560 while other arrangements can be secured. 146 00:12:13,770 --> 00:12:17,940 What of dispatches from Rome? Have any been received? 147 00:12:19,730 --> 00:12:21,450 No, Dominus. 148 00:12:23,990 --> 00:12:26,780 See to the day's work, Hilara. 149 00:12:29,870 --> 00:12:31,790 And inform delicate fucking artist 150 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:34,040 to finish labors by nightfall! 151 00:12:34,250 --> 00:12:36,590 Or see hammer and chisel turn upon master. 152 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:37,750 Ashur! 153 00:12:41,210 --> 00:12:43,550 I would have fucking words. 154 00:12:46,260 --> 00:12:50,520 Have you lost fucking sense?! He was a man of great worth 155 00:12:50,680 --> 00:12:52,430 who held promise towards fucking arena! 156 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:55,850 I will not be addressed in such tone, you fucking goat. 157 00:12:56,560 --> 00:13:01,440 Cease tongue and see passions cool to more pleasing breeze. 158 00:13:02,530 --> 00:13:05,860 Apologies. Yet words carry sting of truth. 159 00:13:06,070 --> 00:13:08,120 The man's demise will be keenly felt. 160 00:13:08,330 --> 00:13:10,740 So shall lesson imparted upon remaining stock. 161 00:13:10,950 --> 00:13:13,620 There are less permanent ways of motivating them. 162 00:13:13,830 --> 00:13:14,920 Then why have you not summoned 163 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:17,290 such mystical powers of persuasion? 164 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:20,630 My doctore opens mouth, yet shit spews forth. 165 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:23,090 I am not one of your fucking slaves 166 00:13:23,260 --> 00:13:25,050 and shall not be treated as such. 167 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:26,970 I am a free man, 168 00:13:27,180 --> 00:13:29,010 an honor earned by my victories in the arena. 169 00:13:29,220 --> 00:13:32,930 No man is truly free if he yet finds himself in need of coin. 170 00:13:33,140 --> 00:13:35,850 You are well paid for your services. 171 00:13:36,060 --> 00:13:37,980 But if you hold belief a man of your advanced years 172 00:13:38,190 --> 00:13:41,020 may obtain a better position in another ludus, 173 00:13:41,570 --> 00:13:42,440 let us part 174 00:13:42,650 --> 00:13:44,440 fucking ways. 175 00:13:53,700 --> 00:13:55,370 I do not care for you. 176 00:13:55,830 --> 00:13:57,710 Nor I you. 177 00:13:59,210 --> 00:14:00,540 Yet we are bound 178 00:14:00,750 --> 00:14:01,840 by need. 179 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,260 Let us see our fortunes rise as one 180 00:14:04,460 --> 00:14:05,550 and forge a path 181 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:09,510 towards less tempestuous relations. 182 00:14:14,390 --> 00:14:15,640 Your will, my hands. 183 00:14:15,850 --> 00:14:18,140 Our hands. 184 00:14:23,730 --> 00:14:26,320 Gather yourself. We attend the games. 185 00:14:26,900 --> 00:14:29,320 We gain position to finally present our men? 186 00:14:31,450 --> 00:14:32,410 No. 187 00:14:32,910 --> 00:14:35,580 But words strike to heart of intent. 188 00:15:02,310 --> 00:15:03,730 Yeah! 189 00:15:09,990 --> 00:15:11,490 Fucking war hammer?! 190 00:15:11,910 --> 00:15:13,870 Thraex should be paired against spear of hoplomachus 191 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,660 - or sword of murmillo. - Attend the crowd. 192 00:15:16,870 --> 00:15:19,040 They give no shit towards tradition. 193 00:15:47,980 --> 00:15:49,690 A fine showing, 194 00:15:49,900 --> 00:15:51,570 yet the gods bless us 195 00:15:51,740 --> 00:15:54,160 with even greater spectacle 196 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:55,280 for primus 197 00:15:55,490 --> 00:15:57,450 to conclude the day, 198 00:15:57,660 --> 00:15:59,000 to honor Capua 199 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:01,040 and most deserving citizens! 200 00:16:04,170 --> 00:16:05,500 Good Opiter 201 00:16:05,710 --> 00:16:09,170 has seen fit to present most glorious offering. 202 00:16:09,380 --> 00:16:10,630 Come on! 203 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:14,970 Enter Pluton - hoplomachus! 204 00:16:15,180 --> 00:16:17,180 Make it hurt! 205 00:16:21,350 --> 00:16:22,440 Yeah! 206 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:25,860 Who shall face such formidable opponent? 207 00:16:27,230 --> 00:16:28,980 There can stand only one! 208 00:16:34,990 --> 00:16:38,490 - From the House of Proculus... - Ooooh... 209 00:16:38,700 --> 00:16:40,540 ...enter Ammonius - 210 00:16:40,750 --> 00:16:43,120 murmillo! 211 00:16:45,210 --> 00:16:47,590 Ha ha! 212 00:16:55,390 --> 00:16:57,850 Your man is well received, Proculus! 213 00:16:58,010 --> 00:17:00,470 He but claims laurels rightfully due. 214 00:17:00,890 --> 00:17:02,640 Perhaps the House of Opiter 215 00:17:02,850 --> 00:17:05,020 shall present surprising challenge. 216 00:17:05,230 --> 00:17:09,270 Would that voice graced with such beauty entreat the heavens. 217 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:10,530 Mmm. 218 00:17:19,450 --> 00:17:20,660 May the Gods 219 00:17:20,870 --> 00:17:23,250 favor our offerings. 220 00:17:23,910 --> 00:17:26,120 Begin! 221 00:17:51,150 --> 00:17:55,030 See how Ammonius draws his opponent in, lending false hope. 222 00:18:04,410 --> 00:18:05,750 Yes! 223 00:18:05,910 --> 00:18:07,960 He wields not only strength but sharpened strategy. 224 00:18:08,170 --> 00:18:10,210 Shall I seek to arrange for you to swallow his cock 225 00:18:10,420 --> 00:18:12,130 upon contest's end? 226 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:14,510 The man stands unrivalled upon the sands. 227 00:18:14,670 --> 00:18:18,930 It would be an honor to drink such potent a blessing. 228 00:18:27,810 --> 00:18:28,980 He is of form. 229 00:18:29,190 --> 00:18:31,110 If we can conjure an opponent of equal worth... 230 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:34,730 Oof! 231 00:18:52,590 --> 00:18:54,840 Jupiter himself would have to grace us with champion 232 00:18:55,050 --> 00:18:58,300 to give Ammonius slightest of pause. 233 00:19:02,470 --> 00:19:04,390 Come. Let us set foot upon path 234 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:07,270 and see you proved short of fucking sight. 235 00:19:16,610 --> 00:19:18,610 A most welcome diversion, 236 00:19:18,820 --> 00:19:21,700 easing encumbrance of ill-natured concerns. 237 00:19:21,910 --> 00:19:25,240 It lifts heart to hear it so, Cossutia. Let us-- 238 00:19:25,450 --> 00:19:26,450 Aedile! 239 00:19:26,950 --> 00:19:27,910 Ah! 240 00:19:28,870 --> 00:19:31,080 I would seize moment and beseech word. 241 00:19:31,290 --> 00:19:34,250 You accost me in the street now, Syrian, as common cutpurse? 242 00:19:34,630 --> 00:19:37,050 Apologies. I was unable to secure audience 243 00:19:37,260 --> 00:19:39,050 through traditional means and took initiative 244 00:19:39,260 --> 00:19:42,140 - through brighter prospects. - The man flaunts savage nature 245 00:19:42,340 --> 00:19:44,180 and presents it as shrewd navigation. 246 00:19:44,390 --> 00:19:46,850 Let us not stand in too harsh a reply. 247 00:19:47,350 --> 00:19:49,520 Did the Syrian not help quell rebellion, 248 00:19:49,730 --> 00:19:51,230 turning upon his own in the effort? 249 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:55,150 Such is said through parted lips and eager tongue. 250 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:56,770 I but serve the Republic. 251 00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:59,820 As does my husband - at times, to distraction. 252 00:20:00,030 --> 00:20:02,820 - His absence most deeply felt. - Mm. 253 00:20:03,030 --> 00:20:04,660 Duties yet hold him in Rome? 254 00:20:04,870 --> 00:20:08,620 He counsels Pompey in attempt to soothe inflamed relations 255 00:20:08,950 --> 00:20:10,120 with Crassus. 256 00:20:10,330 --> 00:20:11,830 Crassus yet stands your patron, does he not, 257 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:14,250 gifting you position and Batiatus' ludus? 258 00:20:14,460 --> 00:20:17,710 I stand so blessed... for services rendered. 259 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:20,170 Then surely you have his ear in the matter. 260 00:20:20,630 --> 00:20:22,470 I have dispatched messages regarding variety of 261 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,140 pressing concerns, not least among them 262 00:20:25,350 --> 00:20:27,720 rebuilding once mighty arena brought to ruin 263 00:20:27,930 --> 00:20:29,720 - by Spartacus and his rebel-- - Yes, a lofty ideal, 264 00:20:29,930 --> 00:20:31,680 to be sure. 265 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:36,650 Please give Crassus our wishes for continued prosperity. 266 00:20:39,940 --> 00:20:42,150 If you shout them loud enough, 267 00:20:42,360 --> 00:20:45,910 perhaps they will reach all the way to Rome, hm? 268 00:20:50,450 --> 00:20:52,040 Uvidus! 269 00:20:54,540 --> 00:20:59,000 Aedile. I would broach subject for position in future games. 270 00:20:59,170 --> 00:21:04,300 Position? Word travels upon wind of your men being... less than. 271 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,550 I assure you, they stand equal to any good Proculus 272 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:11,100 - could hope to offer. - Korris speaks out of turn... 273 00:21:11,310 --> 00:21:12,600 yet breaks truth. 274 00:21:12,810 --> 00:21:16,100 Let us grace the Syrian with reward equal to worth - 275 00:21:16,310 --> 00:21:19,940 if not swayed by my desire, then in name of honored husband? 276 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:21,280 Very well. 277 00:21:21,690 --> 00:21:23,440 One man... to be presented mid-month 278 00:21:23,650 --> 00:21:26,490 upon festival of Liber Pater. 279 00:21:26,700 --> 00:21:28,570 I eagerly await the day. 280 00:21:28,780 --> 00:21:29,950 As do I. 281 00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:45,130 Did I not tell you? We at last gain position! 282 00:21:45,340 --> 00:21:48,180 If you'd bowed any lower, your mouth would be filled with dirt. 283 00:21:48,390 --> 00:21:50,260 And I would gorge until bursting to gain advantage. 284 00:21:50,470 --> 00:21:53,060 Who stands most well-honed among our men? 285 00:21:53,270 --> 00:21:55,230 Rhodius, by wide fucking margin. 286 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,310 Rhodius? Which man is he? 287 00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:59,520 The one you buried this morning. 288 00:22:10,370 --> 00:22:12,370 You did not think to broach subject 289 00:22:12,580 --> 00:22:14,500 before I fell the fucking man?! 290 00:22:14,700 --> 00:22:17,210 I warned his absence would be keenly felt. 291 00:22:17,790 --> 00:22:19,540 After deed had been done! 292 00:22:19,750 --> 00:22:21,840 Oh, apologies... for not divining future where you 293 00:22:22,050 --> 00:22:26,170 fell from reason and took life with jug of fucking wine! 294 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:33,810 We have opportunity, Korris, and we must seize it. 295 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:42,940 Pit man against man at break of dawn. 296 00:22:43,150 --> 00:22:45,030 Whoever triumphs by fall of night shall stand 297 00:22:45,230 --> 00:22:46,990 our champion in the arena. 298 00:22:47,780 --> 00:22:49,990 - Your will-- - Go! 299 00:22:50,780 --> 00:22:52,740 - Dominus. - What?! 300 00:22:53,530 --> 00:22:54,540 Apologies. 301 00:22:55,290 --> 00:22:57,000 I thought you might take food. 302 00:22:58,210 --> 00:22:59,830 And perhaps warm bath. 303 00:23:01,460 --> 00:23:02,880 To temper mood. 304 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:06,840 Is it so foul a creature? 305 00:23:07,050 --> 00:23:08,720 For enraged bull? 306 00:23:09,590 --> 00:23:11,090 - No. - Mm. 307 00:23:13,550 --> 00:23:14,720 Lead way. 308 00:23:15,890 --> 00:23:18,100 And I shall attempt not to gore 309 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:19,810 with errant horn. 310 00:23:32,030 --> 00:23:34,030 What troubled thoughts lend burden? 311 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:36,870 None of worth. 312 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:43,130 Place them upon scale to be weighted by a less critical eye. 313 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:49,090 Many nights I would lay in my cell below us in the ludus, 314 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:50,720 dreaming... 315 00:23:51,340 --> 00:23:54,140 of a day I would hold title of dominus. 316 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:59,430 Absent concern to onus such title carried. 317 00:24:01,890 --> 00:24:04,560 Did former dominus share in reflection? 318 00:24:06,230 --> 00:24:07,360 Batiatus? 319 00:24:08,070 --> 00:24:10,320 The man stood constantly pressed, 320 00:24:11,070 --> 00:24:13,820 believing the gods themselves spread cheeks 321 00:24:14,030 --> 00:24:16,780 for frequent ramming. 322 00:24:19,660 --> 00:24:21,580 And how did he survive? 323 00:24:23,250 --> 00:24:25,670 Through cunning and deception. 324 00:24:29,460 --> 00:24:31,090 Benefit of my aid 325 00:24:31,300 --> 00:24:33,430 at every turn. 326 00:24:36,390 --> 00:24:37,970 Then you shall rise 327 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,930 through conviction of your own counsel... 328 00:24:47,730 --> 00:24:48,570 ...as your cock 329 00:24:48,770 --> 00:24:50,480 heralds way. 330 00:25:02,910 --> 00:25:04,120 Ah! 331 00:25:06,580 --> 00:25:08,500 Shall I summon Messia to join us? 332 00:25:08,670 --> 00:25:09,840 No. 333 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,720 I have desire for sweeter nectar. 334 00:25:15,340 --> 00:25:19,560 Wash day's bitter taste... 335 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:21,560 ...from mouth. 336 00:25:32,570 --> 00:25:35,490 Bless the gods. We... 337 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:38,740 are for the arena! 338 00:25:38,950 --> 00:25:41,080 You are for fucking shit, Erato. 339 00:25:41,740 --> 00:25:43,250 You fare no better. 340 00:25:43,450 --> 00:25:46,170 Place lips upon hole so I may impart more cloying breath 341 00:25:46,370 --> 00:25:47,790 than breaks from fucking mouth! 342 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,460 Oh, Tarchon. 343 00:25:50,670 --> 00:25:52,800 Your boy stands absent sense or concern. 344 00:25:53,510 --> 00:25:57,300 And you did not fall into quarrel during day's training? 345 00:25:57,470 --> 00:25:59,390 Passions overwhelmed upon the moment. 346 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,010 I should not have lashed out at my brothers... 347 00:26:03,220 --> 00:26:05,850 when true enemy stands Roman. 348 00:26:06,060 --> 00:26:07,270 - Oooh. - Logas! 349 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,520 - Oh, let him speak. - Towards what end? 350 00:26:09,730 --> 00:26:10,980 Of us fucking all 351 00:26:11,190 --> 00:26:14,360 if whimpering growl reaches ear of our dominus. 352 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:16,530 - The Syrian? - Mm? 353 00:26:16,740 --> 00:26:19,070 He stands a traitor to the Brotherhood - 354 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:20,990 something well known to Spartacus. 355 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,870 You would see us all nailed upon cross along Appian Way. 356 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,960 I would see us slip from beneath heel. 357 00:26:28,620 --> 00:26:30,460 What Spartacus began lives in the spirit 358 00:26:30,670 --> 00:26:33,420 of those who followed him. And rumors 359 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:35,010 the man himself 360 00:26:35,210 --> 00:26:36,550 may yet live. 361 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:38,840 If he yet drew breath, 362 00:26:39,050 --> 00:26:41,260 the Bringer of Rain would make presence known. 363 00:26:41,470 --> 00:26:43,760 No, no, no. More likely the mad fuck 364 00:26:44,470 --> 00:26:48,690 forever slumbers in unknown beds beneath fetid ground. 365 00:26:50,770 --> 00:26:51,900 Tarchon, 366 00:26:52,110 --> 00:26:53,440 fall to my side 367 00:26:53,650 --> 00:26:56,360 and let us remove ourselves from such foolishness. 368 00:27:00,610 --> 00:27:02,330 You clear fucking room. 369 00:27:02,530 --> 00:27:04,330 We are better served in their absence. 370 00:27:04,790 --> 00:27:07,580 The lesson of Spartacus is well learned... 371 00:27:08,500 --> 00:27:10,080 for those who dare embrace it. 372 00:27:10,250 --> 00:27:13,420 What fucking lesson? To die at the end of spear? 373 00:27:13,630 --> 00:27:15,050 That freedom is worth any cost, 374 00:27:15,250 --> 00:27:18,220 as is claiming the life of those who would oppress us. 375 00:27:18,420 --> 00:27:20,510 Whoever stands upon the sands of the arena 376 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,180 will have the opportunity in victory 377 00:27:23,550 --> 00:27:26,220 to shed the blood of our dominus 378 00:27:26,810 --> 00:27:29,730 and every Roman cock he kneels to suck. 379 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,200 You have been granted the greatest of honor 380 00:27:41,610 --> 00:27:44,370 to at last grace the sands of the arena! 381 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,500 To prove yourselves against the shit, Proculus, and his men. 382 00:27:48,660 --> 00:27:50,750 Some... 383 00:27:51,250 --> 00:27:52,750 would claim you've been 384 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,380 blessed by the gods. 385 00:27:56,300 --> 00:27:57,960 Fuck the gods! 386 00:27:58,710 --> 00:28:01,720 They give no shit towards the affairs of men, 387 00:28:01,930 --> 00:28:06,010 a thing I have witnessed countless times as a gladiator, 388 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,100 as a soldier... 389 00:28:08,890 --> 00:28:10,560 as a free man. 390 00:28:11,890 --> 00:28:14,150 We forge our own fate 391 00:28:14,690 --> 00:28:16,150 with our hands, 392 00:28:16,730 --> 00:28:17,780 with our will, 393 00:28:18,190 --> 00:28:20,820 and with our blood! Prove yourselves worthy - 394 00:28:20,990 --> 00:28:23,990 not to Jupiter and his fucking cock 395 00:28:24,910 --> 00:28:26,240 but to yourselves. 396 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,210 And to your dominus. 397 00:28:55,980 --> 00:28:57,730 Doctore. 398 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:09,540 Salvius! 399 00:29:12,870 --> 00:29:14,250 Hedylus. 400 00:29:22,210 --> 00:29:23,220 Begin! 401 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:45,610 Illugorus. Firmus. 402 00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:58,790 Logas. Helios. 403 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:05,800 Erato. Ephesius. 404 00:30:17,100 --> 00:30:19,190 Celadus. Tarchon. 405 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,290 Celadus, Logas... 406 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,000 take position for final contest. 407 00:31:00,150 --> 00:31:01,310 Mm. 408 00:31:03,860 --> 00:31:07,990 So, you stand above all others in the House of Ashur. 409 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,780 Logas has proven himself worthy of the arena. 410 00:31:11,370 --> 00:31:13,530 Were you not the one who spoke of sacred grounds 411 00:31:13,700 --> 00:31:15,540 watered with tears of blood? 412 00:31:15,910 --> 00:31:17,040 Yes, Dominus. 413 00:31:17,710 --> 00:31:19,580 Place thought aside. 414 00:31:20,170 --> 00:31:22,710 Proculus will not risk embarrassment. 415 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,670 He shall seek an opponent with deadly consequence, 416 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,840 perhaps even the champion Ammonius himself. 417 00:31:34,470 --> 00:31:39,770 All those before me shall fall, regardless of name or title. 418 00:31:44,060 --> 00:31:45,360 Mmm. 419 00:31:45,940 --> 00:31:46,900 See it so. 420 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,610 And be rewarded for fucking effort. 421 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,750 The crowd again favors your wares, Proculus. 422 00:32:39,910 --> 00:32:42,750 Gratitude. Yet I fear good Opiter may forfeit all coin 423 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:44,750 in attempts to restock his ludus. 424 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:46,920 Well, fortunes may yet shift 425 00:32:47,130 --> 00:32:50,170 - in my favor. - As I would see it so. 426 00:32:51,170 --> 00:32:52,970 Sun threatens zenith... 427 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,430 and, with it, promise of most anticipated contest. 428 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,640 May the gods grant spectacle to shake the very heavens. 429 00:32:59,850 --> 00:33:00,930 Mm. 430 00:33:07,190 --> 00:33:08,570 See our man ready... 431 00:33:08,730 --> 00:33:11,570 and first victory of the House of fucking Ashur. 432 00:33:43,390 --> 00:33:45,480 It is time to embrace your destiny. 433 00:33:46,190 --> 00:33:47,860 A thing that I have long dreamt of. 434 00:33:48,060 --> 00:33:50,820 Now I've imparted all I can in the days allowed us. 435 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:53,690 Bring honor to the name Logas. 436 00:33:54,450 --> 00:33:56,660 And if the gods will it, embrace the afterlife 437 00:33:56,860 --> 00:33:59,280 with a dignity befitting our brotherhood. 438 00:34:00,330 --> 00:34:03,160 It is not I who shall fall this day. 439 00:34:25,230 --> 00:34:27,190 - How stands our man? - Filled to overflowing 440 00:34:27,390 --> 00:34:28,690 with lust for blood. 441 00:34:28,850 --> 00:34:30,230 The gods may yet bless us this day. 442 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:31,820 I hold no stock in them, 443 00:34:32,020 --> 00:34:34,070 yet I would gladly stroke Jupiter's cock to completion 444 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:35,990 if it held promise towards our favor. 445 00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:37,650 The gods hear your plea. 446 00:34:37,860 --> 00:34:40,530 Gabinius returns from Rome to bear witness to our efforts. 447 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,790 Gabinius. You grace us with unexpected presence. 448 00:34:45,370 --> 00:34:47,540 I had not thought to see such a vision 449 00:34:47,750 --> 00:34:49,330 for yet a handful of days. 450 00:34:49,540 --> 00:34:52,170 Heart could not bear another fleeting moment... 451 00:34:52,380 --> 00:34:54,710 - ...absent from your embrace. - Mm. 452 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,970 Apologies. What news from Rome? 453 00:34:58,510 --> 00:35:00,090 None to lift heart. 454 00:35:00,260 --> 00:35:02,930 I entreated Pompey to offer disbanding his army garrison 455 00:35:03,140 --> 00:35:06,640 beyond city gates; in return, in kind from Crassus 456 00:35:06,810 --> 00:35:08,440 and his forces equally positioned. 457 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,360 Well, a reasonable solution to ease mounting tension. 458 00:35:11,810 --> 00:35:13,270 I fear reason has taken wing. 459 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,650 Love lost between the two consuls in recent months 460 00:35:15,860 --> 00:35:18,950 proves too great a divide to close with simple words. 461 00:35:19,150 --> 00:35:22,280 Slightest spark of temperament may ignite civil war. 462 00:35:22,450 --> 00:35:24,660 Replace concern of uncertain future 463 00:35:24,870 --> 00:35:27,080 with more joyful present. 464 00:35:27,290 --> 00:35:29,500 Wise counsel for all attending. 465 00:35:29,710 --> 00:35:31,170 And well received. 466 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:33,460 Viridia did not accompany? 467 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,760 The games serve only to reopen old wounds. 468 00:35:37,130 --> 00:35:38,130 I bear gifts from Rome 469 00:35:38,340 --> 00:35:39,840 - to aid in their healing. - Mm. 470 00:35:40,050 --> 00:35:42,470 Ah, let us not drag the day into morose reflection. 471 00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:43,970 I am for wine... 472 00:35:44,180 --> 00:35:46,180 - and the clash of swords. - Mm. 473 00:35:46,390 --> 00:35:48,810 As I would see desires satisfied. 474 00:35:55,270 --> 00:35:57,190 She at last finds fucking tongue. 475 00:35:57,610 --> 00:35:59,280 Citizens of Capua, 476 00:35:59,820 --> 00:36:03,240 honored guests and beloved husband... 477 00:36:03,950 --> 00:36:05,240 Liber Pater - 478 00:36:05,450 --> 00:36:07,120 benevolent god gracing us 479 00:36:07,330 --> 00:36:10,080 with most welcome discovery of honey 480 00:36:10,500 --> 00:36:12,170 and blessing us 481 00:36:12,370 --> 00:36:14,130 with fertility, 482 00:36:14,460 --> 00:36:15,500 harvest, 483 00:36:15,710 --> 00:36:18,300 and wine... 484 00:36:21,630 --> 00:36:23,430 ...has also seen fit 485 00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,930 to deliver most extraordinary spectacle... 486 00:36:27,140 --> 00:36:28,970 ...for those 487 00:36:29,180 --> 00:36:32,190 of faithful worship. 488 00:36:32,390 --> 00:36:33,770 For the first time 489 00:36:33,980 --> 00:36:36,360 in all of history, 490 00:36:36,570 --> 00:36:40,190 the House of Ashur presents upon the sands. 491 00:36:44,410 --> 00:36:47,700 And who shall the Syrian put forth? 492 00:36:48,490 --> 00:36:50,370 Enter... 493 00:36:51,290 --> 00:36:54,250 um... 494 00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:00,210 Logas. 495 00:37:00,710 --> 00:37:02,760 Enter Logas - 496 00:37:02,930 --> 00:37:04,220 murmillo! 497 00:37:28,410 --> 00:37:29,950 A momentous reception. 498 00:37:30,910 --> 00:37:33,500 The mob does not know what moves until motion has ceased. 499 00:37:33,710 --> 00:37:36,170 They sound pretty fucking moved to me. 500 00:37:38,750 --> 00:37:41,380 And who shall face such fearsome opponent? 501 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,680 Good Proculus has chosen carefully. 502 00:37:45,510 --> 00:37:46,590 Enter... 503 00:37:47,090 --> 00:37:50,180 the Brothers Ferox, thraex, murmillo and hoplomachus. 504 00:37:50,350 --> 00:37:52,390 Three?! 505 00:37:52,810 --> 00:37:55,520 Logas is to face three fucking men? 506 00:38:07,660 --> 00:38:10,490 What is this fucking shit?! 507 00:38:17,460 --> 00:38:19,880 Jest veers from proper contest. 508 00:38:20,090 --> 00:38:21,500 'Tis but slight amusement. 509 00:38:21,710 --> 00:38:24,840 See how the spirit of the crowd is so lifted by it. 510 00:38:27,470 --> 00:38:28,590 Whoo! 511 00:38:29,180 --> 00:38:30,850 What is that he wears upon his belt? 512 00:38:31,050 --> 00:38:33,350 Trophies taken from the lives he's claimed within 513 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,350 the arena... and beyond. 514 00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:36,520 Ah! 515 00:38:47,990 --> 00:38:52,200 May your sacrifice find favor among the gods. 516 00:38:54,790 --> 00:38:56,790 Begin! 517 00:39:08,630 --> 00:39:09,340 Mm. 518 00:39:09,550 --> 00:39:11,180 First blood to Satyrus. 519 00:39:15,890 --> 00:39:18,190 Recall training! They are but men! 520 00:39:18,390 --> 00:39:19,560 They are aborted demon, 521 00:39:19,730 --> 00:39:21,520 belched from fucking cunt of the Underworld. 522 00:39:42,460 --> 00:39:45,300 I pray the Syrian's man does not fall too quickly. 523 00:39:45,500 --> 00:39:47,170 I would see moment prolonged. 524 00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:52,390 Kill this cunt! 525 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:10,400 Yes! 526 00:40:11,660 --> 00:40:13,240 Brother! 527 00:40:16,540 --> 00:40:17,790 Balbus! 528 00:40:18,660 --> 00:40:19,910 Come. 529 00:40:20,500 --> 00:40:23,380 Let us see how you fare absent fucking brothers, little man. 530 00:40:25,540 --> 00:40:27,880 Ha! 531 00:40:36,470 --> 00:40:39,980 Is this the best that Proculus offers?! 532 00:40:43,190 --> 00:40:44,190 Ha! 533 00:40:46,690 --> 00:40:49,230 My cock stands larger threat. 534 00:41:05,580 --> 00:41:07,420 Fuck. 535 00:41:40,620 --> 00:41:42,910 One day... 536 00:41:57,550 --> 00:41:59,390 Yes! 537 00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:03,310 Yeah! 538 00:42:14,030 --> 00:42:16,150 No man stands above us 539 00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:18,820 when laid to fucking ground! 540 00:42:44,890 --> 00:42:46,060 They laugh. 541 00:42:46,390 --> 00:42:48,400 They fucking laugh at us. 542 00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:51,650 There sit mother of fucking jest. 543 00:42:54,690 --> 00:42:56,610 Regain your seat. 544 00:42:56,820 --> 00:42:59,610 Would you have us sit and bathe in fucking mockery? 545 00:42:59,820 --> 00:43:01,740 They desire us gone... 546 00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:06,120 a satisfaction I would see denied. 547 00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:13,000 Apologies, pressing concerns wrest me from position. 548 00:43:13,210 --> 00:43:14,460 Cossutia. 549 00:43:16,170 --> 00:43:19,590 Day is but half fallen, and I stand for Liber Pater. 550 00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,010 - I would remain. - And I would not. 551 00:43:22,300 --> 00:43:24,470 What turns such mood? 552 00:43:25,310 --> 00:43:28,770 Surely not amusement at expense of the Syrian toad. 553 00:43:28,980 --> 00:43:32,110 That toad is pet to Marcus fucking Crassus. 554 00:43:33,020 --> 00:43:35,360 I make overtures to temper smoldering resentment 555 00:43:35,570 --> 00:43:38,860 between the man and Pompey, only to find wife stoking flames! 556 00:43:39,070 --> 00:43:40,660 Apologies, Gabinius. We did not think-- 557 00:43:40,860 --> 00:43:42,030 No, you did not. 558 00:43:42,740 --> 00:43:44,660 If Crassus yet bore concern towards the Syrian, 559 00:43:44,870 --> 00:43:48,790 intentions would have been made known. He is forsaken 560 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:51,290 and soon shall fade from Capua 561 00:43:51,500 --> 00:43:55,210 as unpleasant memory upon passing of time. 562 00:43:55,590 --> 00:43:57,300 I pray words hold truth. 563 00:43:58,340 --> 00:43:59,510 Come. 564 00:44:02,590 --> 00:44:06,100 Gratitude... for most enjoyable day. 565 00:44:42,550 --> 00:44:47,390 Witness speed and ferocity unmatched upon the sands! 566 00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:50,640 Little shit! 567 00:44:55,020 --> 00:44:55,900 Oh! 568 00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:59,280 Most honored guest at last arrives. 569 00:44:59,650 --> 00:45:01,780 Behold the mighty Syrian - 570 00:45:01,990 --> 00:45:06,030 Dominus of the House of Asses. 571 00:45:16,130 --> 00:45:19,550 Pay him no heed. Satyrus drinks as man fully formed, 572 00:45:19,750 --> 00:45:21,710 overfilling flyspeck vessel. 573 00:45:22,130 --> 00:45:24,550 Voice so small to be barely of note. 574 00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:28,680 Yet louder than your man in the arena with throat slit 575 00:45:28,890 --> 00:45:30,270 by tiny hand. 576 00:45:30,470 --> 00:45:32,680 I shall compensate for your loss 577 00:45:32,890 --> 00:45:36,690 in hope that jest is received in manner intended. 578 00:45:37,230 --> 00:45:41,730 - It has been taken as intended. - Ah. Sentiment well met. 579 00:45:41,940 --> 00:45:44,740 I would not have Crassus believe otherwise. 580 00:45:44,950 --> 00:45:47,740 I find no reason to concern him with such matters. 581 00:45:48,070 --> 00:45:49,370 We are one in this regard. 582 00:45:49,580 --> 00:45:52,870 Perhaps more common ground may yet be claimed. 583 00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:54,620 Is the man incapable 584 00:45:54,830 --> 00:45:57,130 of speaking plainly? 585 00:45:58,040 --> 00:45:59,340 Apologies. 586 00:45:59,540 --> 00:46:04,470 I should reduce words so base intellect may grasp intent. 587 00:46:04,670 --> 00:46:06,380 I have born your jest absent complaint, yet 588 00:46:06,590 --> 00:46:10,810 the House of Ashur has not yet been afforded proper contest. 589 00:46:11,010 --> 00:46:13,390 You seek additional position in the arena? 590 00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:15,600 Crowd turns weary of repeated meal. 591 00:46:15,810 --> 00:46:18,730 They quench hunger by devouring new and unusual meat. 592 00:46:18,940 --> 00:46:21,770 Perhaps if you acquired something novel to offer. 593 00:46:21,980 --> 00:46:25,450 I shall redouble the effort to secure undiscovered spectacle 594 00:46:25,650 --> 00:46:27,700 and see rematch upon a day. 595 00:46:27,910 --> 00:46:30,580 A thing greatly anticipated. 596 00:46:32,540 --> 00:46:34,120 Ah, good Herennius has arrived. 597 00:46:34,330 --> 00:46:36,870 Let us greet him, lest Opiter bores the man to early grave. 598 00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:37,920 Hm. 599 00:46:39,170 --> 00:46:43,090 Herennius, I trust Opiter and noble wife have offered wine. 600 00:46:44,260 --> 00:46:49,140 There stood a time such insult would have been paid in blood. 601 00:46:49,340 --> 00:46:50,890 Would that sun reversed its course 602 00:46:51,100 --> 00:46:53,390 and return us to fucking moment. 603 00:46:54,270 --> 00:46:55,680 Come. 604 00:46:55,890 --> 00:46:58,770 We must secure stock matching purpose to regain footing. 605 00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:02,690 Are we to train men the size of children now? 606 00:47:02,900 --> 00:47:04,900 I would force sword into hand of newborn babe 607 00:47:05,110 --> 00:47:06,150 if the crowd desire such. 608 00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:08,530 The slaver Rusonius here in Capua 609 00:47:08,740 --> 00:47:10,160 holds none of exotic nature. 610 00:47:10,370 --> 00:47:13,160 We shall seek further abroad, to Neapolis or Cumae, 611 00:47:13,660 --> 00:47:15,660 and pray the gods you're forever moaning about 612 00:47:15,870 --> 00:47:18,080 at last present fucking selves. 613 00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:38,020 You shall behold no finer specimens within Republic. 614 00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:41,770 Each man stands fresh from journey across Tyrrhenian Sea. 615 00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:46,280 Breathe in intoxicating scent of future triumphs upon the sands. 616 00:47:46,860 --> 00:47:49,990 I have conjured more worthy shits from troubled bowels. 617 00:47:50,910 --> 00:47:53,320 What of the Gaul? He cuts a form towards promise. 618 00:47:54,530 --> 00:47:57,080 We possess a dozen yet carved in the man's image. 619 00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:01,500 We must present unknown delights to ignite the crowd 620 00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:04,420 and gain attention of fucking Aedile. 621 00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:07,630 - When's the next shipment due? - By month's end. Perhaps then-- 622 00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:12,050 You fill cup with warm piss and expect request for more? 623 00:48:12,720 --> 00:48:16,180 Let us to Cumae and hopes of more fragrant opportunity. 624 00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:18,180 You grasp gold from a sow's arse. 625 00:48:18,390 --> 00:48:20,600 And will plunge to fucking shoulders in the seeking of it. 626 00:48:20,810 --> 00:48:23,190 Cumae will provide even less for consideration. 627 00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:24,690 We should return to Capua... 628 00:48:24,900 --> 00:48:25,900 - Halt! - ...and then-- 629 00:48:27,110 --> 00:48:28,030 - Aargh! - Seize her! 630 00:48:33,950 --> 00:48:35,910 - Ah! - Aargh! 631 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:41,750 Aargh! 632 00:48:58,970 --> 00:49:00,270 - Aargh! - Aah! 633 00:49:01,850 --> 00:49:02,810 Move... 634 00:49:03,020 --> 00:49:04,690 and see life fucking forfeit. 635 00:49:04,900 --> 00:49:06,020 Halt! 636 00:49:08,940 --> 00:49:10,320 Ah! 637 00:49:10,490 --> 00:49:12,450 This one seems to have presented unfortunate complications 638 00:49:12,610 --> 00:49:14,780 to your day. I would remove her from concern, 639 00:49:14,950 --> 00:49:16,780 lest further embarrassment arise. 640 00:49:16,990 --> 00:49:18,280 She struck a Roman. 641 00:49:18,450 --> 00:49:19,910 I'll see her removed from this fucking life. 642 00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:22,750 Let us not fall to bloody disagreement. 643 00:49:22,910 --> 00:49:24,500 Give way, you fucking shit. 644 00:49:24,670 --> 00:49:27,460 This fucking shit holds favor of Marcus Licinius Crassus, 645 00:49:27,670 --> 00:49:28,800 Co-Consul of Rome, 646 00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:30,960 and I, his man in Capua. 647 00:49:31,510 --> 00:49:34,720 Lay hand upon me or those in my employ, 648 00:49:34,930 --> 00:49:37,180 and word shall reach him of offense. 649 00:49:37,390 --> 00:49:38,760 You are his Syrian, 650 00:49:38,970 --> 00:49:41,850 who aided the Republic against the rebel Spartacus. 651 00:49:43,310 --> 00:49:44,690 I stand the same. 652 00:49:45,690 --> 00:49:49,320 I believe this should more than balm wounded pride. 653 00:49:52,110 --> 00:49:54,780 We stand for Crassus against the butcher, Pompey. 654 00:49:54,990 --> 00:49:57,660 Relay allegiance if opportunity arises. 655 00:50:01,830 --> 00:50:03,660 Fall to fucking form! Move! 656 00:50:03,870 --> 00:50:06,500 You waste coin on another fucking house slave? 657 00:50:06,710 --> 00:50:08,080 No. 658 00:50:08,250 --> 00:50:11,670 The gods I do not believe in manifest unexpected gift, 659 00:50:12,300 --> 00:50:13,800 one I would see towards advantage. 660 00:50:14,010 --> 00:50:16,380 Move. 661 00:50:18,470 --> 00:50:20,850 You have truly fallen from fucking sense! 662 00:50:21,060 --> 00:50:22,560 I but rise above lesser minds. 663 00:50:22,770 --> 00:50:25,940 You would have me train a woman to stand in the arena. 664 00:50:26,140 --> 00:50:27,980 A woman? Upon the sands? 665 00:50:28,190 --> 00:50:29,770 The very notion of fucking perversion. 666 00:50:29,980 --> 00:50:32,360 Perversion not yet tasted by ravenous crowd. 667 00:50:32,570 --> 00:50:35,860 One that shall gain notice impossible to ignore. 668 00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:37,780 Hilara would present equal challenge 669 00:50:37,990 --> 00:50:39,490 pitted against fucking gladiator. 670 00:50:39,700 --> 00:50:41,740 I have witnessed many of breast and cunt 671 00:50:41,950 --> 00:50:43,660 far more deadly than their opposite. 672 00:50:43,870 --> 00:50:45,620 Among rank of Spartacus and his rebels, 673 00:50:45,830 --> 00:50:50,710 they stood as fierce as any possessed of cock and balls. 674 00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:52,420 Ha ha! 675 00:50:53,090 --> 00:50:54,710 You are set upon course? 676 00:50:55,170 --> 00:50:56,420 Mm. 677 00:50:57,930 --> 00:51:01,180 Have her bathed and brought to office chambers. 678 00:51:02,100 --> 00:51:05,140 Let us gaze upon glorious future. 679 00:51:07,060 --> 00:51:08,020 Ha! 680 00:51:41,930 --> 00:51:45,770 - Has she taken food? - As jackal upon wounded prey. 681 00:51:46,270 --> 00:51:47,600 Who could lay blame? 682 00:51:47,770 --> 00:51:49,060 Journey through the belly of a slave ship 683 00:51:49,270 --> 00:51:50,600 offers few comforts, 684 00:51:51,060 --> 00:51:54,190 as any who have survived such may attest. 685 00:51:57,150 --> 00:52:00,530 See this dispatched to Rome at first light to be delivered 686 00:52:00,740 --> 00:52:04,660 into no other hand than possessed of Crassus himself. 687 00:52:04,870 --> 00:52:06,410 Yes, Dominus. 688 00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:12,790 Are you able to break common tongue? 689 00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:16,630 Close gap. I would have closer inspection. 690 00:52:18,460 --> 00:52:20,510 Come. I bear no teeth... 691 00:52:20,930 --> 00:52:23,550 and would be greeted in kind. 692 00:52:34,020 --> 00:52:36,360 What name do you carry? 693 00:52:37,650 --> 00:52:38,820 Neferet. 694 00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:40,400 Neferet? 695 00:52:41,150 --> 00:52:42,740 Most pleasing upon tongue. 696 00:52:42,950 --> 00:52:46,830 Yet not upon Roman ear. They desire more familiar personage. 697 00:52:46,990 --> 00:52:49,950 Yes, one stirring reflection of ancient legends 698 00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:52,080 and impossible exploits 699 00:52:52,290 --> 00:52:53,880 of lore. 700 00:52:58,300 --> 00:52:59,460 Achillia. 701 00:53:00,460 --> 00:53:02,930 The name you will bear from this day forward - 702 00:53:03,300 --> 00:53:04,590 Achillia. 703 00:53:05,220 --> 00:53:06,800 Imagine the crowd chanting such, 704 00:53:07,010 --> 00:53:10,980 the sound assaulting the very heavens in your honor. 705 00:53:11,850 --> 00:53:13,100 Crowd? 706 00:53:13,310 --> 00:53:14,650 You're not without skill in way of combat, 707 00:53:14,850 --> 00:53:17,110 evident keenly presented upon shores of Neapolis, 708 00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:19,730 yet you stand as newly forged blade. 709 00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:21,820 Sound of steel... 710 00:53:23,240 --> 00:53:25,240 yet dull of edge. 711 00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:28,910 I will have you honed to deadly advantage 712 00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,200 and unleashed upon the sands of the arena... 713 00:53:31,410 --> 00:53:33,120 to the roar 714 00:53:33,330 --> 00:53:35,120 of the crowd. 715 00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:38,000 And you may reap benefits... 716 00:53:39,170 --> 00:53:41,260 such adulation provides. 717 00:53:49,970 --> 00:53:52,270 Do such benefits promise more wine? 718 00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:54,100 Ha! 719 00:53:54,770 --> 00:53:57,230 Enough to drown the gods if you so desire. 720 00:53:57,440 --> 00:53:59,020 You but need to fall to command-- 721 00:53:59,230 --> 00:54:00,610 Ugh! 722 00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:04,740 Move and see his fucking life forfeit. 723 00:54:04,950 --> 00:54:07,490 Hold ground. Hold... fucking ground. 724 00:54:07,700 --> 00:54:10,530 - Release him! - You cannot slip these walls. 725 00:54:10,740 --> 00:54:12,200 Then we fall from this world entwined. 726 00:54:12,410 --> 00:54:14,830 I will not die a fucking slave to men such as you. 727 00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:17,920 We are all of us but slaves to those of means and position 728 00:54:18,130 --> 00:54:20,040 who move us upon board, pieces in game, 729 00:54:20,250 --> 00:54:22,460 sacrificed upon whim or need-- 730 00:54:22,670 --> 00:54:25,840 Speak clearly while you yet have thought to form words. 731 00:54:26,050 --> 00:54:29,100 Even if you slip these walls, you will never be truly free. 732 00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:33,180 They will hunt you down for such offense and see life ended. 733 00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:35,810 A fate more desirable than one bound in chains. 734 00:54:35,980 --> 00:54:37,730 There is another way. 735 00:54:38,690 --> 00:54:41,690 Pledge oath. Call me dominus and fight in the arena. 736 00:54:42,070 --> 00:54:43,650 Earn your freedom upon the sands. 737 00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:47,490 A freedom the Romans can never seize 738 00:54:47,700 --> 00:54:49,660 from you. 739 00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:54,700 Such a thing is possible? 740 00:54:55,330 --> 00:54:57,250 I stand proof it is so. 741 00:54:58,080 --> 00:54:59,130 Let us, 742 00:54:59,580 --> 00:55:01,210 uncouple from history, 743 00:55:01,750 --> 00:55:02,880 and embrace, 744 00:55:03,380 --> 00:55:06,170 unknown tomorrow. 745 00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:10,470 Leave her! 746 00:55:12,970 --> 00:55:14,560 We struck a bargain. 747 00:55:20,020 --> 00:55:21,610 Have we not? 748 00:55:38,790 --> 00:55:40,000 Dominus.