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Burn, Rome! Burn!

2
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"If in the melancholy shades below

3
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"The flames of friends
and lovers cease to glow

4
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"Yet mine shall sacred last

5
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"mine, undecay'd

6
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"Burn on through death

7
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"and animate my shade

8
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[Nero laughing]

9
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"Lo, the blaze aspires!"

10
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Nero. Go away, Tigellinus.

11
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The fire is spreading.

12
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Look at this. I was in
excellent voice, too.

13
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The fire, I dare remind you...

14
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the fire is growing.

15
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The fire? I'd hoped it would.

16
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Rome will be destroyed when I die.

17
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Why not while I live and can see it...

18
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[Laughing]

19
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and enjoy it?

20
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But the palace is threatened. It will fall.

21
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Tigellinus, I will build another.

22
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A fabulous one...

23
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so that Nero can be housed like an emperor.

24
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And like a god, immortal
Caesar. Yes, now go away.

25
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Caesar...

26
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there are angry rumors that
you set fire to the city.

27
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Caesar might do well to avoid the blame.

28
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Blame?

29
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What are you jabbering about? Who
blames the master of the world?

30
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<i>Caesar, when thousands are perishing...</i>

31
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Let us hope that most of
the dead are Christians.

32
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They're increasing. Did you know that?

33
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We've hunted and killed them like rats.

34
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Yet the empire swarms with them.

35
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A dangerous superstition, Tigellinus...

36
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that teaches that the meek shall inherit
that which belongs to the mighty...

37
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that accepts another god
in place of myself.

38
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It shall not live, Caesar.

39
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[Softly] Tigellinus.

40
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Yes, divine Caesar.

41
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These rumors about my
setting fire to the city.

42
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<i>Couldn't we shift the blame to...</i>

43
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The Christians?

44
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If the populace could learn
to fear and hate them...

45
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they might destroy them...

46
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where my own minister has failed.

47
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Now go away.

48
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Caesar.

49
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"Lo, the blaze aspires!

50
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[Playing the lyre]

51
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"The glowing ocean reddens with the fires

52
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"Confessing Jove

53
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"Then swift from all sides pour

54
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"The hissing brands

55
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"The curling volumes rise

56
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"And sheets of rolling smoke

57
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"involve the skies"

58
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[Laughing]

59
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Devil's luck.

60
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How much now, Strabo?

61
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A couple of pig's eyes. All I got.

62
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Well, trap a Christian.

63
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They hide in their holes like rats.

64
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I got a nose for them.

65
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[Coins jingling]

66
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Nero's reward. Two hundred pieces.

67
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Who are you?

68
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Titus, a stranger in Rome.

69
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How do you know me?

70
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You were described to me.

71
00:10:39,438 --> 00:10:41,338
Where do you come from?

72
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Jerusalem.

73
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I was sent by Paul, apostle of... Wait.

74
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Not here.

75
00:10:50,383 --> 00:10:54,376
Since the great fire,
we have lived in terror.

76
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If they killed out all the Christian lice,
me and you would have to go back to work.

77
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Are you meeting tonight?

78
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Yes, near the Cestian Bridge.

79
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I'll tell them Paul's message and how...

80
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STRABO: Devil take them! You
put a Christian curse on them!

81
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Come.

82
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Lice!

83
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[Exclaiming in pain]

84
00:11:24,583 --> 00:11:25,811
[People laughing]

85
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Hey, those are mine.

86
00:11:29,689 --> 00:11:33,625
Hey, look out where you're throwing
those sheep knuckles, will you?

87
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Get your skinny shins out of here.

88
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Hey, Strabo!

89
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Look.

90
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The sign of the cross.

91
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GIRL: Flowers. Roses.

92
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Flowers. Roses. Flowers.

93
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You ought to close up shop
on a day like this, Tybul.

94
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Why today?

95
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Well, the rains are over and everybody's
out. You ought to give yourself a holiday.

96
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If I played, I'd bring the rains back.

97
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You would. MAN

98
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WOMAN

99
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WOMAN
dust. BOY: Come on, there are Christians!

100
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MAN

101
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MAN

102
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WOMAN

103
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Look, they caught some Christians!

104
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They got some Christians down here.
Come on.

105
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Come on. Hurry! Hurry!

106
00:13:01,614 --> 00:13:03,206
What's that? I don't know.

107
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[People clamoring outside]

108
00:13:04,450 --> 00:13:05,678
Sounds like a street fight.

109
00:13:05,751 --> 00:13:07,719
Good. Let's go and see.

110
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Come on.

111
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Come on, Philodemus.

112
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WOMAN: Come on! Come on! Look!

113
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Nero's lions are going to eat.

114
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Vile killers, that's what they are!

115
00:13:42,087 --> 00:13:44,954
The dirty Christian dogs!
They ought to kill all of them.

116
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STRABO: Come on, come on, let's stone them.

117
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Keep them back. If they kill
them, we won't get our money.

118
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Hang on to them!

119
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BOY: Christians! Stone them!

120
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Look, it's Marcus.

121
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You dirty Christians!

122
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I'll kill you.

123
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[Trumpet blowing]

124
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MAN: Marcus Superbus!

125
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MAN 2: Stand away!

126
00:15:12,544 --> 00:15:13,806
What have these old men done?

127
00:15:13,879 --> 00:15:15,779
We found them. There's
a reward coming to us.

128
00:15:15,848 --> 00:15:18,544
<i>What did they do? I tell
you, there was no...</i>

129
00:15:22,421 --> 00:15:25,413
Me and Strabo saw what they did.
Quiet, you!

130
00:15:26,492 --> 00:15:28,517
Well, go on.

131
00:15:29,428 --> 00:15:31,487
<i>Why did you stop? I...</i>

132
00:15:33,265 --> 00:15:34,892
I didn't know.

133
00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:36,092
What?

134
00:15:37,603 --> 00:15:39,400
That it was the Prefect of Rome.

135
00:15:39,471 --> 00:15:41,405
Well, all the better.

136
00:15:41,874 --> 00:15:46,538
You have the highest authority in Rome,
next to the Emperor, to judge this case.

137
00:15:46,612 --> 00:15:47,806
Aren't you pleased?

138
00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:50,440
Now watch justice go blind.

139
00:15:50,516 --> 00:15:52,108
What's your name?

140
00:15:52,618 --> 00:15:53,812
Mercia.

141
00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:57,684
And you? Favius Fontellus.

142
00:15:58,290 --> 00:16:00,758
This man is Titus, my friend.

143
00:16:01,727 --> 00:16:04,059
Is this girl your daughter? No.

144
00:16:04,196 --> 00:16:07,290
<i>Then why... She was trying to protect me.</i>

145
00:16:08,667 --> 00:16:11,329
<i>Well, I... I envy you.</i>

146
00:16:12,171 --> 00:16:13,729
What is this old man to you?

147
00:16:13,806 --> 00:16:15,637
She... She can talk.

148
00:16:15,741 --> 00:16:17,333
He's my teacher.

149
00:16:17,576 --> 00:16:20,477
Who are your father and mother?
They're dead.

150
00:16:20,546 --> 00:16:23,743
You live with him? Yes.

151
00:16:24,249 --> 00:16:25,841
May they go now?

152
00:16:30,122 --> 00:16:31,749
What's your faith?

153
00:16:31,824 --> 00:16:35,191
My friend and I are philosophers.

154
00:16:36,562 --> 00:16:38,723
He's lying. They're Christians.

155
00:16:38,797 --> 00:16:41,322
MAN: Yeah. BOY: Christians!

156
00:16:44,703 --> 00:16:46,933
Viturius, clear the street!

157
00:16:47,773 --> 00:16:50,833
There's a reward on them, Excellence.
They made the sign of the...

158
00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:56,641
I said, clear the street.

159
00:17:03,489 --> 00:17:05,218
Begone! Out of the way!

160
00:17:06,058 --> 00:17:07,582
Clear the way! Begone!

161
00:17:08,894 --> 00:17:10,987
Clear the way! Get out! Get out!

162
00:17:11,096 --> 00:17:13,496
Begone, there! Begone! Out! Out!

163
00:17:13,565 --> 00:17:15,624
Get out! Get out there!

164
00:17:16,068 --> 00:17:17,194
Out!

165
00:17:17,636 --> 00:17:19,103
<i>Well, you...</i>

166
00:17:19,705 --> 00:17:21,434
You are free to go.

167
00:17:23,375 --> 00:17:24,842
We thank you.

168
00:17:39,992 --> 00:17:43,894
Is there anything more I can do?

169
00:17:44,430 --> 00:17:46,193
Nothing, Excellence.

170
00:17:47,032 --> 00:17:48,624
We are grateful.

171
00:17:50,035 --> 00:17:51,502
Come, Mercia.

172
00:17:52,905 --> 00:17:54,270
Excellence.

173
00:18:12,958 --> 00:18:14,357
<i>Still, I...</i>

174
00:18:15,327 --> 00:18:17,090
I wish there were...

175
00:18:18,397 --> 00:18:19,921
something more.

176
00:18:22,468 --> 00:18:25,198
Follow them. Find out where they live...

177
00:18:26,438 --> 00:18:28,838
and find out which fountain she goes to.

178
00:18:28,907 --> 00:18:30,465
Yes, Excellence.

179
00:18:31,543 --> 00:18:33,875
Marcus, my illustrious friend...

180
00:18:34,246 --> 00:18:36,806
will you leave your trance for a moment?

181
00:18:36,882 --> 00:18:38,747
Dacia! Glabrio!

182
00:18:39,051 --> 00:18:42,145
GLABRIO: She was a rare
specimen, I needn't tell you.

183
00:18:43,155 --> 00:18:45,646
Your eyesight gets better with age.

184
00:18:46,625 --> 00:18:49,992
GLABRIO: A tasty dish for
your banquet tomorrow evening.

185
00:18:50,062 --> 00:18:52,257
Yes. Yes, I'll tell the cook.

186
00:18:53,966 --> 00:18:55,934
DACIA: Oh, Marcus? Yes.

187
00:18:56,235 --> 00:18:58,897
Someone expects you this afternoon.

188
00:19:00,139 --> 00:19:01,572
Yes, yes.

189
00:19:14,486 --> 00:19:18,388
Why, I never saw a man so distracted.

190
00:19:18,457 --> 00:19:20,982
I never saw a man with better reason to be.

191
00:19:22,327 --> 00:19:25,854
You mean that girl, of course.

192
00:19:26,265 --> 00:19:28,358
And you said Rome was dull.

193
00:19:28,901 --> 00:19:30,061
Did I?

194
00:19:30,435 --> 00:19:33,734
Well, I know exactly how
to stir up some excitement.

195
00:19:45,050 --> 00:19:47,075
[Men chanting]

196
00:20:52,050 --> 00:20:53,950
Which perfume, Empress?

197
00:20:54,319 --> 00:20:56,412
The jasmine and the acacia.

198
00:20:58,257 --> 00:21:00,054
We must hurry, Zona.

199
00:21:06,231 --> 00:21:07,255
No.

200
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,467
No, not yet.

201
00:21:09,534 --> 00:21:12,128
Another minute, and then we'll hurry.

202
00:21:13,138 --> 00:21:15,003
Empress, a visitor.

203
00:21:15,774 --> 00:21:18,766
Marcus already? No, lady.

204
00:21:26,285 --> 00:21:27,513
Empress.

205
00:21:27,753 --> 00:21:29,948
My dear Poppaea.

206
00:21:30,956 --> 00:21:33,584
Why, Dacia, you're perspiring with news.

207
00:21:33,659 --> 00:21:35,650
I was famished for a chat.

208
00:21:35,727 --> 00:21:38,287
I have a great deal of news.

209
00:21:38,363 --> 00:21:40,297
Well, I haven't time for a chat.

210
00:21:40,365 --> 00:21:41,923
Did you deliver the message?

211
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,901
Dear lady, of course I did.

212
00:21:46,672 --> 00:21:48,606
Of course you would.

213
00:21:49,241 --> 00:21:52,938
Such things are the breath of
your vicious little nostrils.

214
00:21:54,112 --> 00:21:55,909
Did he say anything? Nothing.

215
00:21:55,981 --> 00:21:57,312
Nothing at all.

216
00:21:57,382 --> 00:21:59,350
And what does "nothing" mean?

217
00:21:59,418 --> 00:22:03,616
<i>Perhaps all sorts of things, but...
But you haven't time for a chat.</i>

218
00:22:03,689 --> 00:22:06,453
I'll tell you when to go, dear Dacia.

219
00:22:09,161 --> 00:22:11,220
Zona, all of you, go away.

220
00:22:17,602 --> 00:22:19,502
Will Marcus be here or not?

221
00:22:19,571 --> 00:22:22,631
I told you, Majesty, he said nothing.

222
00:22:23,108 --> 00:22:25,440
Did he smile, or did he frown?

223
00:22:25,510 --> 00:22:28,070
Well, he didn't smile.

224
00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:29,806
[Sighing in discontent]

225
00:22:31,717 --> 00:22:33,685
It must be some other woman.

226
00:22:33,752 --> 00:22:38,519
And I told him the Empress wished
to see him alone, and immediately.

227
00:22:39,257 --> 00:22:41,054
Stop drooling, Dacia.

228
00:22:42,327 --> 00:22:44,852
Is it serious? I hope not...

229
00:22:45,697 --> 00:22:47,096
but you know Marcus.

230
00:22:47,165 --> 00:22:49,963
And there are so many
beautiful women in Rome.

231
00:22:51,236 --> 00:22:54,637
Dacia, you're a butterfly
with the sting of a wasp.

232
00:22:56,641 --> 00:22:58,472
Take off your clothes.

233
00:22:58,543 --> 00:23:00,670
Get in here and tell me all about it.

234
00:23:33,478 --> 00:23:36,811
Can't you think of a single
reason why he let them go?

235
00:23:36,882 --> 00:23:38,406
SERVILLIUS: No, Excellence.

236
00:23:42,854 --> 00:23:44,685
Very competent spies.

237
00:23:46,958 --> 00:23:50,416
<i>If your brains were as good
as your smell for money...</i>

238
00:23:52,831 --> 00:23:55,959
Go back to that bake shop. Ask for her.

239
00:23:56,034 --> 00:23:59,060
If you can't find out
anything, watch for her.

240
00:23:59,137 --> 00:24:00,365
Get out!

241
00:24:02,808 --> 00:24:05,743
Marcus letting Christians go free.

242
00:24:06,378 --> 00:24:07,470
Why?

243
00:24:11,616 --> 00:24:13,709
I don't know, yet.

244
00:24:22,093 --> 00:24:24,789
But this is what I've been waiting for...

245
00:24:25,997 --> 00:24:28,591
to break his favor with the Emperor...

246
00:24:31,269 --> 00:24:32,930
and restore mine.

247
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,031
I like that cup of yours.

248
00:25:12,077 --> 00:25:14,170
<i>Would you sell it? Why...</i>

249
00:25:24,022 --> 00:25:25,546
It's gold.

250
00:25:30,161 --> 00:25:31,685
Would you mind?

251
00:25:39,070 --> 00:25:40,401
Thank you.

252
00:25:44,976 --> 00:25:46,603
I'm very thirsty.

253
00:25:50,782 --> 00:25:54,149
In fact, I don't know when
I've ever been so thirsty.

254
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:57,654
In that case, you'd better
drink it, hadn't you?

255
00:25:57,722 --> 00:25:59,121
Yeah, that's right.

256
00:26:06,331 --> 00:26:08,322
Thanks. Thanks very much.

257
00:26:14,806 --> 00:26:17,274
Don't you remember me?

258
00:26:17,842 --> 00:26:19,173
Of course.

259
00:26:19,611 --> 00:26:21,101
Well, then why run away?

260
00:26:21,179 --> 00:26:23,579
You're not afraid of me, are you?

261
00:26:23,882 --> 00:26:24,906
No.

262
00:26:26,818 --> 00:26:28,945
You're harmless enough.

263
00:26:29,921 --> 00:26:31,650
<i>In fact, quite different...</i>

264
00:26:31,723 --> 00:26:33,247
Different? From what?

265
00:26:33,658 --> 00:26:36,183
What do you mean by that? I mean...

266
00:26:36,861 --> 00:26:40,092
many times I've seen you
riding through the streets...

267
00:26:40,165 --> 00:26:42,030
the Prefect of Rome...

268
00:26:42,434 --> 00:26:45,767
in your armor, with your
guard, and now you're so human.

269
00:26:45,837 --> 00:26:47,737
Didn't you know I was?

270
00:26:48,807 --> 00:26:51,537
<i>Well, yes, I've heard of your
reputation. What do you...</i>

271
00:26:51,610 --> 00:26:53,009
<i>You mean...</i>

272
00:26:53,378 --> 00:26:55,471
You mean, that I'm wicked?

273
00:26:56,181 --> 00:26:57,580
Well, yes, something like that.

274
00:26:57,682 --> 00:26:59,479
Well, not all of it's true.

275
00:27:00,518 --> 00:27:01,951
Perhaps not...

276
00:27:02,020 --> 00:27:04,853
<i>because your face doesn't
look like that. It's...</i>

277
00:27:04,923 --> 00:27:06,254
It's what?

278
00:27:06,691 --> 00:27:09,683
Oh, I don't know. It's
just different. No, wait.

279
00:27:10,895 --> 00:27:12,556
Is that a command?

280
00:27:13,031 --> 00:27:14,760
I wouldn't do that.

281
00:27:15,166 --> 00:27:17,828
You could, being Prefect of Rome.

282
00:27:17,902 --> 00:27:21,804
But I don't want to be Prefect
with you unless you try to leave me.

283
00:27:22,173 --> 00:27:24,198
You were too hard to find.

284
00:27:24,275 --> 00:27:27,438
Do you imagine you're just going
to walk away from me like this?

285
00:27:27,512 --> 00:27:30,675
But I will, eventually.
But that would be a sin.

286
00:27:30,749 --> 00:27:32,979
Didn't you know you'd see me again...

287
00:27:33,051 --> 00:27:35,611
and that I wouldn't let you go?

288
00:27:42,427 --> 00:27:45,419
I see your reputation
isn't altogether false.

289
00:27:45,830 --> 00:27:47,161
<i>Do you...</i>

290
00:27:47,298 --> 00:27:48,959
Do you dislike me?

291
00:27:50,301 --> 00:27:52,326
No. Well, you shouldn't.

292
00:27:52,704 --> 00:27:54,331
You must like me.

293
00:27:55,073 --> 00:27:58,770
In such things, I always have my way.

294
00:27:59,544 --> 00:28:00,568
No.

295
00:28:26,504 --> 00:28:30,338
The Emperor commanded me to
find you and deliver this myself.

296
00:28:32,010 --> 00:28:33,375
What is it?

297
00:28:33,578 --> 00:28:35,205
Who is this girl?

298
00:28:35,513 --> 00:28:36,844
I'm going.

299
00:28:37,415 --> 00:28:38,677
No, wait.

300
00:28:39,217 --> 00:28:41,344
You met her for the first
time today, didn't you?

301
00:28:41,419 --> 00:28:43,182
What is this message?

302
00:28:46,691 --> 00:28:48,158
I'll read it.

303
00:28:53,131 --> 00:28:55,031
"To my well-beloved Marcus.

304
00:28:57,235 --> 00:29:00,102
"The extermination of
Christians must continue.

305
00:29:00,171 --> 00:29:01,798
"None may escape.

306
00:29:02,607 --> 00:29:05,906
"Those who are dangerous
are instantly to be killed.

307
00:29:05,977 --> 00:29:09,174
"The others are to be held
for death in the arena.

308
00:29:09,914 --> 00:29:12,747
"This duty has long been entrusted to you.

309
00:29:13,818 --> 00:29:16,116
"I charge you to be faithful."

310
00:29:22,994 --> 00:29:24,894
And the Emperor's seal.

311
00:29:27,766 --> 00:29:29,097
I'm going.

312
00:29:29,667 --> 00:29:32,033
I'll go with you. I'd rather go alone.

313
00:29:32,103 --> 00:29:34,196
By this order, Marcus, any
person even suspected...

314
00:29:34,272 --> 00:29:36,035
I heard the order.

315
00:29:36,107 --> 00:29:37,267
Then that is all.

316
00:29:37,342 --> 00:29:39,333
Don't rush off like that.

317
00:29:39,944 --> 00:29:42,572
One would say you wanted
to follow that girl.

318
00:29:42,647 --> 00:29:44,274
At your age, too.

319
00:29:44,549 --> 00:29:45,743
Absurd!

320
00:29:45,950 --> 00:29:48,009
Why was this order given me in the street?

321
00:29:48,086 --> 00:29:51,317
Why were you so anxious to find
me? The Emperor was anxious.

322
00:29:51,389 --> 00:29:54,916
Did you make him that way?
I don't know what you mean.

323
00:29:56,461 --> 00:29:58,224
She's out of sight.

324
00:29:59,564 --> 00:30:01,429
Don't let me keep you.

325
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,405
And she's been in here many times...

326
00:30:18,750 --> 00:30:21,241
and you don't know where she lives.

327
00:30:21,419 --> 00:30:22,886
You're lying.

328
00:30:22,954 --> 00:30:25,047
No. No, I'm not.

329
00:30:26,191 --> 00:30:29,718
You know that it means
death to hide a Christian?

330
00:30:30,061 --> 00:30:33,189
I'm not hiding her. I've
told you all I know.

331
00:30:35,567 --> 00:30:38,502
Are you sure she paid for the bread? Yes.

332
00:30:39,404 --> 00:30:41,736
<i>And then... Then she ran out...</i>

333
00:30:42,140 --> 00:30:44,267
and didn't take it with her.

334
00:30:50,181 --> 00:30:51,512
Wait here.

335
00:30:52,650 --> 00:30:54,345
She may come back.

336
00:31:00,124 --> 00:31:01,557
[Mercia humming]

337
00:31:22,847 --> 00:31:26,681
Mercia, Bucco says he wonders
when he can have his soup bone.

338
00:31:26,951 --> 00:31:29,681
Tell Bucco, as soon as the soup's ready.

339
00:31:30,255 --> 00:31:33,588
Bucco, aren't you ashamed
to hurry Mercia like that?

340
00:31:36,961 --> 00:31:38,451
[Imitating panting]

341
00:31:40,331 --> 00:31:43,926
You know, Bucco, you and I
get hungry about the same time.

342
00:31:45,403 --> 00:31:46,597
Greedy!

343
00:31:55,413 --> 00:31:58,007
I wish you could stay longer with us.

344
00:31:58,816 --> 00:32:00,374
There's no time.

345
00:32:00,451 --> 00:32:04,012
I must take this letter of
Paul's to Spain and Africa.

346
00:32:04,188 --> 00:32:06,053
FAVIUS: It's an inspiration...

347
00:32:06,124 --> 00:32:09,616
to copy Paul's own word and keep it.

348
00:32:10,662 --> 00:32:12,027
[Pounding]

349
00:32:12,730 --> 00:32:14,925
Mercia! Mercia!

350
00:32:15,633 --> 00:32:20,366
If you'll wait until I have finished
writing, I'll help you chop the carrots.

351
00:32:21,139 --> 00:32:24,336
Mercia, water's dripping from that jug.

352
00:32:24,776 --> 00:32:26,243
Is it leaking?

353
00:32:30,114 --> 00:32:31,581
I dropped it.

354
00:32:32,717 --> 00:32:34,446
<i>But I didn't know that...</i>

355
00:32:43,528 --> 00:32:45,393
It was surprising today, wasn't it...

356
00:32:45,463 --> 00:32:47,897
to see what Marcus
Superbus was really like?

357
00:32:47,966 --> 00:32:49,866
In what way? I mean...

358
00:32:50,335 --> 00:32:52,200
as generous as that...

359
00:32:53,371 --> 00:32:54,838
and likeable.

360
00:32:56,107 --> 00:32:58,507
FAVIUS: Yes, and he used the whip.

361
00:33:00,345 --> 00:33:02,245
He was taught to use that.

362
00:33:02,313 --> 00:33:04,178
He should be untaught.

363
00:33:05,483 --> 00:33:08,145
Do they all know about the meeting tonight?

364
00:33:08,219 --> 00:33:10,312
All except a few.

365
00:33:10,621 --> 00:33:12,919
I'll send Stephan to tell them.

366
00:33:13,324 --> 00:33:14,951
Come on, come on.

367
00:33:17,362 --> 00:33:19,853
Why send a child on such an errand?

368
00:33:20,665 --> 00:33:23,099
He's less likely to be suspected.

369
00:33:23,468 --> 00:33:25,698
You saw today what can happen.

370
00:33:28,439 --> 00:33:31,636
Are they brother and sister? No.

371
00:33:32,577 --> 00:33:35,876
Their parents were coated with pitch...

372
00:33:36,447 --> 00:33:40,474
and burned as torches to
light up one of Nero's orgies.

373
00:33:41,586 --> 00:33:45,215
They died like hundreds of others lately...

374
00:33:46,657 --> 00:33:48,454
holding to the truth.

375
00:33:50,294 --> 00:33:52,694
Come here, Stephan. Yes, Father.

376
00:33:58,169 --> 00:34:00,194
Oh, I forgot the bread.

377
00:34:00,271 --> 00:34:03,104
You know we meet tonight, don't you? Yes.

378
00:34:04,876 --> 00:34:08,004
In the ruins, at the grove? I know, Father.

379
00:34:08,079 --> 00:34:11,014
Well, go and tell Melos and Caius.

380
00:34:12,817 --> 00:34:16,810
Keep to the narrowest streets and
be careful you are not watched.

381
00:34:19,557 --> 00:34:22,617
MERCIA: Stephan, you're not
too hungry to go before supper?

382
00:34:22,693 --> 00:34:24,718
No, it won't take me long.

383
00:34:25,863 --> 00:34:27,091
Stephan.

384
00:34:38,342 --> 00:34:40,742
Do you know why you must be careful?

385
00:34:40,912 --> 00:34:44,109
Yes. Because there is danger.

386
00:34:44,449 --> 00:34:47,612
Of what? Death.

387
00:34:48,986 --> 00:34:50,317
Stephan...

388
00:34:51,789 --> 00:34:53,848
I saw the Master.

389
00:34:56,060 --> 00:34:57,288
Did you?

390
00:34:57,962 --> 00:35:01,454
I was in Jerusalem by the
Damascus Gate when he passed.

391
00:35:02,834 --> 00:35:05,530
I saw him carrying the cross.

392
00:35:08,739 --> 00:35:10,866
You know what he did for us?

393
00:35:11,509 --> 00:35:14,307
He gave his life. Yes.

394
00:35:15,446 --> 00:35:18,813
If you had seen him, you
would love him as much as I.

395
00:35:20,818 --> 00:35:23,082
I would gladly die for him.

396
00:35:25,423 --> 00:35:28,415
Would you? Yes.

397
00:35:29,193 --> 00:35:31,491
You would not betray any of us?

398
00:35:31,963 --> 00:35:35,660
You would be faithful even unto death?

399
00:35:36,367 --> 00:35:37,425
Yes.

400
00:35:40,204 --> 00:35:41,728
MERCIA: Stephan, wait!

401
00:35:42,707 --> 00:35:45,938
I forgot the bread. Will you
stop for it? Yes. I'll need money.

402
00:35:46,010 --> 00:35:48,171
No, I paid for it. Just
tell him, he'll remember.

403
00:35:48,246 --> 00:35:50,771
He'll give it to me. Tybul knows me.

404
00:36:10,368 --> 00:36:12,427
STEPHAN: Tybul! Tybul!

405
00:36:12,870 --> 00:36:17,034
Mercia, told me to get...
Well, you're late today.

406
00:36:17,341 --> 00:36:19,775
But we... And you're lucky.

407
00:36:19,911 --> 00:36:23,108
There's a loaf of bread
left. But Mercia forgot.

408
00:36:24,115 --> 00:36:26,242
In a few minutes, I'd have gone home...

409
00:36:26,317 --> 00:36:28,945
and you'd have gone hungry, young man.

410
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,346
Money first. But Mercia paid for it.

411
00:36:32,590 --> 00:36:36,026
<i>Well... Don't you remember?
Of course you do.</i>

412
00:36:36,093 --> 00:36:38,220
She laid the money right here and ran out.

413
00:36:38,296 --> 00:36:41,390
Give it to me. We'll need
it for supper, please.

414
00:36:42,033 --> 00:36:43,227
Night.

415
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:51,102
Come on.

416
00:36:53,377 --> 00:36:56,039
I'm not certain of these words.

417
00:36:57,215 --> 00:37:00,912
"According to his mercy, he saved us."

418
00:37:01,686 --> 00:37:03,051
[Banging at door]

419
00:37:03,454 --> 00:37:06,890
Stephan? No, that isn't the knock we use.

420
00:37:15,199 --> 00:37:16,666
[Louder banging]

421
00:37:16,834 --> 00:37:18,563
Who's there? MARCUS: Open!

422
00:37:18,636 --> 00:37:20,866
FAVIUS: Who are you? Marcus Superbus.

423
00:37:24,041 --> 00:37:26,908
Better let him in. But,
without any evidence he may...

424
00:37:26,978 --> 00:37:28,775
Oh, why distrust him?

425
00:37:29,447 --> 00:37:30,505
[Banging] MARCUS: Open!

426
00:37:30,581 --> 00:37:33,243
Mercia, go into the other room.

427
00:37:44,829 --> 00:37:46,296
Good evening.

428
00:37:47,298 --> 00:37:49,732
A bolted door isn't very friendly.

429
00:37:50,034 --> 00:37:52,867
We never mean to bolt it against a friend.

430
00:37:55,673 --> 00:37:57,766
We are honored, Excellence.

431
00:37:58,442 --> 00:38:01,741
Is there something you want?

432
00:38:01,812 --> 00:38:05,213
Yes, but I don't see what I want.

433
00:38:09,053 --> 00:38:12,853
You were very kind today,
Excellence. We thank you again.

434
00:38:12,923 --> 00:38:14,515
Never mind that.

435
00:38:23,267 --> 00:38:24,859
Where is Mercia?

436
00:38:25,202 --> 00:38:27,796
May I ask what you want with her?

437
00:38:30,675 --> 00:38:32,939
You're too old to understand.

438
00:38:35,112 --> 00:38:36,841
It's only a letter.

439
00:38:37,748 --> 00:38:39,579
Yes. So, I see.

440
00:38:42,119 --> 00:38:46,385
I don't want to know what sort of
letter it is. At least, not tonight.

441
00:38:47,491 --> 00:38:50,051
If you are Christians, it won't
matter much to you, of course.

442
00:38:50,127 --> 00:38:54,120
You're old. You haven't long to live anyway.
Mercia has most of her life before her.

443
00:38:54,699 --> 00:38:56,929
Why haven't you sent her
away, out of danger?

444
00:38:57,001 --> 00:38:59,799
Is that what you've come to tell me? No.

445
00:39:00,338 --> 00:39:03,102
I'll save you the trouble
of sending her away.

446
00:39:03,174 --> 00:39:07,167
I have come to take her myself.

447
00:39:07,578 --> 00:39:10,376
What do you mean? Just what I say.

448
00:39:11,449 --> 00:39:14,247
Is it her safety you're concerned about?

449
00:39:15,019 --> 00:39:18,477
Well, that first, yes.

450
00:39:19,290 --> 00:39:22,191
Is she here, or shall I
find out for myself?

451
00:39:40,077 --> 00:39:41,271
Mercia.

452
00:39:49,053 --> 00:39:51,681
We didn't say goodbye at the fountain.

453
00:39:52,156 --> 00:39:53,783
Yes, I remember.

454
00:39:54,625 --> 00:39:56,525
Just as well we didn't.

455
00:40:00,498 --> 00:40:02,363
Strange for you to come here.

456
00:40:02,433 --> 00:40:05,300
Why? You might have known I would.

457
00:40:06,804 --> 00:40:09,329
Only because we didn't say goodbye?

458
00:40:11,475 --> 00:40:15,411
Perhaps so we'd never have to say it.

459
00:40:25,790 --> 00:40:29,021
You know, this jug broke
when we dropped it.

460
00:40:29,093 --> 00:40:31,323
Good. Good, I'll buy you a better one.

461
00:40:31,395 --> 00:40:32,885
FAVIUS: Mercia. Wait!

462
00:40:34,231 --> 00:40:36,631
The old man is alarmed, I think.

463
00:40:37,601 --> 00:40:41,628
You see, I told him the
real reason why I came.

464
00:40:42,006 --> 00:40:44,531
He doesn't understand, but you will.

465
00:40:44,642 --> 00:40:47,577
I want you to leave this
place, come with me.

466
00:40:47,912 --> 00:40:52,178
Why? Because you're in great danger here.

467
00:40:52,483 --> 00:40:54,110
Why? As long as you continue to live...

468
00:40:54,185 --> 00:40:58,019
with these Christians,
if they are, of course.

469
00:40:58,088 --> 00:41:00,488
Perhaps you don't know
what Christians really are.

470
00:41:00,558 --> 00:41:02,048
I know enough.

471
00:41:03,093 --> 00:41:06,290
They're so dissatisfied with the
world that they'd like to destroy it.

472
00:41:06,363 --> 00:41:10,197
I've heard they want to save it
by making men spiritually free.

473
00:41:10,267 --> 00:41:11,325
Yes.

474
00:41:12,102 --> 00:41:14,127
And would even kill Caesar to do it.

475
00:41:14,205 --> 00:41:17,197
I've heard they wouldn't kill
even such a monster as Nero.

476
00:41:17,274 --> 00:41:18,468
Titus!

477
00:41:22,146 --> 00:41:24,580
Either you must die for treason...

478
00:41:26,484 --> 00:41:28,918
or I must forget what you've said.

479
00:41:31,055 --> 00:41:33,095
Maybe you're not Christians,
but you're suspected...

480
00:41:33,157 --> 00:41:34,818
so Mercia cannot remain here.

481
00:41:34,892 --> 00:41:36,519
That's all I care about at the moment.

482
00:41:36,594 --> 00:41:38,926
She has a right to happiness.
Your kind of happiness...

483
00:41:38,996 --> 00:41:42,295
We're not discussing that
now. Oh, wait, Favius.

484
00:41:43,734 --> 00:41:47,170
I'm glad you came, that
you cared enough to come.

485
00:41:47,471 --> 00:41:50,702
But you don't understand.
I belong here with Favius.

486
00:41:50,774 --> 00:41:52,969
Because he wants you to stay?

487
00:41:53,043 --> 00:41:54,943
Because I want to stay.

488
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:58,713
Even if these men really... I belong here.

489
00:42:00,217 --> 00:42:02,378
You have strong convictions.

490
00:42:03,020 --> 00:42:04,681
Try to understand.

491
00:42:05,823 --> 00:42:08,485
Don't you value your
life any more than that?

492
00:42:08,559 --> 00:42:09,924
Perhaps...

493
00:42:11,595 --> 00:42:14,723
I hold my life more dearly
now than ever before.

494
00:42:16,333 --> 00:42:18,824
But I don't know danger.

495
00:42:19,603 --> 00:42:22,071
Oh, but it's not only danger
I want to take you away from.

496
00:42:22,139 --> 00:42:23,868
It's this poverty, this...

497
00:42:23,941 --> 00:42:24,941
[Tybul shouting]

498
00:42:25,576 --> 00:42:28,170
Favius, Stephan's arrested!

499
00:42:33,517 --> 00:42:36,384
<i>Who is Stephan? I...</i>

500
00:42:36,453 --> 00:42:37,784
A boy living with us.

501
00:42:37,855 --> 00:42:39,755
Why was he arrested? I don't know.

502
00:42:39,823 --> 00:42:42,087
Who arrested him? Licinius, his men.

503
00:42:42,159 --> 00:42:44,992
And where did they take
him? To the district prison.

504
00:42:45,062 --> 00:42:47,895
If that boy knows anything,
they'll make him talk.

505
00:42:49,700 --> 00:42:51,998
Help him. Why, of course.

506
00:42:52,570 --> 00:42:56,370
Because if he talks, they might
take you away before I could.

507
00:43:00,844 --> 00:43:02,436
Can't anything be done?

508
00:43:02,513 --> 00:43:06,540
If one of us falls by the
wayside, the others must go on.

509
00:43:06,617 --> 00:43:08,847
Hadn't you better change the meeting place?

510
00:43:08,919 --> 00:43:11,854
It's too late. But Stephan won't talk.

511
00:43:12,389 --> 00:43:14,289
Oh, poor Stephan!

512
00:43:30,474 --> 00:43:31,998
Answer!

513
00:43:46,557 --> 00:43:47,751
Answer!

514
00:43:50,260 --> 00:43:53,423
Do you follow this Christ?

515
00:43:55,633 --> 00:43:57,396
Are you a Christian?

516
00:44:08,212 --> 00:44:11,704
There's a meeting tonight.
Where is it to be?

517
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:18,645
For the last time, will you tell me?

518
00:44:21,959 --> 00:44:23,688
I'll make you talk.

519
00:44:33,671 --> 00:44:35,502
No. No.

520
00:44:53,791 --> 00:44:55,156
No. No.

521
00:45:15,612 --> 00:45:16,874
I didn't do anything.

522
00:45:18,382 --> 00:45:20,748
No. Let me go! Leave me.

523
00:45:22,152 --> 00:45:24,552
What are you going to do with me?

524
00:45:26,857 --> 00:45:28,154
[Chains clinking]

525
00:45:46,944 --> 00:45:49,742
Will you tell me where they meet tonight?

526
00:45:53,484 --> 00:45:55,975
[Stephan screaming]

527
00:45:56,987 --> 00:45:58,579
Will you answer?

528
00:46:02,826 --> 00:46:04,794
[Stephan screaming]

529
00:46:05,829 --> 00:46:07,456
TIGELLINUS: Will you answer now?

530
00:46:07,531 --> 00:46:11,365
STEPHAN: Please! Please, I can't stand it.

531
00:46:11,435 --> 00:46:12,902
Then answer.

532
00:46:13,904 --> 00:46:15,303
I won't.

533
00:46:18,742 --> 00:46:20,334
[Stephan screaming]

534
00:46:20,410 --> 00:46:22,537
Yes! Yes, I'll tell!

535
00:46:22,613 --> 00:46:23,944
I'll tell!

536
00:46:25,949 --> 00:46:27,974
Well, where's the meeting?

537
00:46:28,185 --> 00:46:30,119
The grove. The grove.

538
00:46:30,854 --> 00:46:32,287
The Cestian Bridge.

539
00:46:32,356 --> 00:46:35,723
And who are the others? This
Mercia, is she one of them?

540
00:46:35,793 --> 00:46:37,784
<i>Answer! I'm... I...</i>

541
00:46:38,896 --> 00:46:40,090
Answer!

542
00:46:40,230 --> 00:46:41,891
[Stephan screaming]

543
00:46:41,965 --> 00:46:43,057
Wait!

544
00:46:47,204 --> 00:46:48,671
He's fainted.

545
00:46:51,208 --> 00:46:52,675
Bring him up.

546
00:46:59,082 --> 00:47:01,073
Well, we've heard enough.

547
00:47:02,653 --> 00:47:04,120
Get your men.

548
00:47:07,958 --> 00:47:10,586
We'll destroy this band of Christians...

549
00:47:12,029 --> 00:47:15,897
and then let Marcus explain
to Nero why he didn't.

550
00:47:38,188 --> 00:47:40,748
What have you been doing with that boy?

551
00:47:40,824 --> 00:47:44,157
There's evidence he's a
Christian. What did he say?

552
00:47:44,428 --> 00:47:47,488
Nothing. Unfortunately, he fainted.

553
00:47:49,132 --> 00:47:51,896
If he hadn't, you would
have torn a lie out of him.

554
00:47:51,969 --> 00:47:55,302
It all comes from my zeal in Nero's behalf.

555
00:47:55,839 --> 00:47:57,500
You'll forgive me.

556
00:48:11,922 --> 00:48:14,550
Is it true that this boy said nothing?

557
00:48:15,225 --> 00:48:17,250
Tell me. What did he say?

558
00:48:18,228 --> 00:48:20,423
Answer me when I tell you to!

559
00:48:22,132 --> 00:48:25,533
What did this boy say? Pardon, Excellence.

560
00:48:26,136 --> 00:48:28,127
He cannot speak. He has no tongue.

561
00:48:28,505 --> 00:48:29,905
[Marcus mumbling in acknowledgment]

562
00:48:30,607 --> 00:48:32,131
Get some water.

563
00:49:20,357 --> 00:49:21,847
[All singing softly]

564
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:12,206
Why don't they sing loud?

565
00:50:16,213 --> 00:50:18,647
We can't. Why not?

566
00:50:32,963 --> 00:50:35,796
Titus has come from the shores of Galilee.

567
00:50:36,633 --> 00:50:40,228
He came with the Master's
blessing, and to talk to you.

568
00:50:40,303 --> 00:50:42,897
WOMAN: Oh, give us the
message. MAN: Give us the word.

569
00:50:42,973 --> 00:50:45,942
WOMAN
word. WOMAN

570
00:50:46,843 --> 00:50:48,470
MAN

571
00:50:57,487 --> 00:51:00,354
I am not a teacher, but one of you.

572
00:51:02,859 --> 00:51:05,054
I saw Jesus.

573
00:51:05,128 --> 00:51:06,823
MAN: You saw him? MAN

574
00:51:06,897 --> 00:51:08,558
I heard him speak.

575
00:51:09,399 --> 00:51:10,832
[Stephan moaning]

576
00:51:15,172 --> 00:51:16,969
Here. Here, drink this.

577
00:51:17,707 --> 00:51:20,369
I couldn't stand the pain, I couldn't.

578
00:51:20,444 --> 00:51:22,537
Here, you're all right now.

579
00:51:23,447 --> 00:51:26,280
I told Father Titus I'd never betray them.

580
00:51:26,650 --> 00:51:29,551
I don't want to live. I don't want to live.

581
00:51:29,619 --> 00:51:30,847
The men are ready, Excellence.

582
00:51:30,921 --> 00:51:32,912
What did you say to them?

583
00:51:34,558 --> 00:51:36,617
I don't want to live.

584
00:51:36,693 --> 00:51:39,685
Now listen to me. Did you
say anything about Mercia?

585
00:51:39,763 --> 00:51:41,355
Come on now, tell me. Don't be afraid.

586
00:51:41,431 --> 00:51:43,524
I want to help her. I don't believe you.

587
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:46,160
Do you want her killed? No, no.

588
00:51:46,236 --> 00:51:49,763
Well, then what did you tell
them? The meeting place tonight.

589
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:51,432
Will Mercia be there?

590
00:51:51,508 --> 00:51:54,807
Yes, everybody! Oh, I shouldn't have told.

591
00:51:55,245 --> 00:51:57,213
I should have died first.

592
00:51:58,748 --> 00:52:02,309
I can save her if you'll
tell me. Where is the meeting?

593
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:05,088
At the grove...

594
00:52:05,956 --> 00:52:09,119
by the Cestian Bridge in the temple ruins.

595
00:52:10,293 --> 00:52:11,988
Take care of that boy.

596
00:52:12,062 --> 00:52:14,257
Nothing I want so much
will get away so quickly.

597
00:52:14,331 --> 00:52:18,233
I shouldn't have told.
I shouldn't have told.

598
00:52:33,016 --> 00:52:34,415
[Trumpets blowing]

599
00:52:43,393 --> 00:52:48,057
"We are to become as
children," Jesus said...

600
00:52:49,032 --> 00:52:52,593
"with a child's simple loving vision."

601
00:52:56,907 --> 00:52:59,375
TITUS: If we have the simplicity...

602
00:52:59,976 --> 00:53:03,173
the faith, the trust of a child...

603
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:08,008
we accept that which we
do not fully understand.

604
00:53:13,256 --> 00:53:15,019
Keep your men quiet.

605
00:53:15,492 --> 00:53:17,119
Quiet, men, quiet.

606
00:53:27,437 --> 00:53:30,895
TITUS: For me, for all men...

607
00:53:31,508 --> 00:53:35,239
he lifted the black mist
from the face of God.

608
00:53:36,046 --> 00:53:39,311
And there was no longer the God of wrath...

609
00:53:40,483 --> 00:53:43,008
but only a loving father.

610
00:53:43,486 --> 00:53:47,684
All that we had been taught
before about the great Spirit...

611
00:53:47,958 --> 00:53:51,121
became suddenly a new understanding...

612
00:53:51,194 --> 00:53:55,130
a compassionate God to whom we could turn.

613
00:53:55,765 --> 00:53:58,962
The blood of these martyred
followers of Jesus...

614
00:53:59,035 --> 00:54:02,664
is not yet dry on the stones of Jerusalem.

615
00:54:16,186 --> 00:54:18,086
[Cheerful instrumental music]

616
00:54:33,603 --> 00:54:37,369
Another Helen of Troy, only more beautiful.

617
00:54:38,275 --> 00:54:40,038
Good night, Empress.

618
00:54:46,082 --> 00:54:49,415
Morpheus give you deep slumber. Thank you.

619
00:54:51,755 --> 00:54:54,451
I'd rather have exciting dreams.

620
00:54:54,758 --> 00:54:56,817
I'd love to share them.

621
00:54:59,963 --> 00:55:01,828
Look out! Get back! Get back!

622
00:55:13,310 --> 00:55:15,574
Careless, drunken dog!

623
00:55:15,979 --> 00:55:17,105
Arrest him!

624
00:55:20,483 --> 00:55:21,882
Why, Marcus.

625
00:55:22,852 --> 00:55:25,013
What an impetuous young man.

626
00:55:26,056 --> 00:55:27,387
Empress!

627
00:55:28,458 --> 00:55:30,119
Is this your carriage?

628
00:55:30,193 --> 00:55:31,558
It was.

629
00:55:33,963 --> 00:55:35,897
And I might have been in it.

630
00:55:35,965 --> 00:55:38,433
Oh, the gods forbid.

631
00:55:38,835 --> 00:55:41,065
I shall beg your pardon properly tomorrow.

632
00:55:41,137 --> 00:55:42,832
Why not tonight?

633
00:55:44,207 --> 00:55:48,200
Because I'm in great haste tonight,
on the Emperor's most urgent business.

634
00:55:48,278 --> 00:55:49,609
Come here.

635
00:55:51,081 --> 00:55:54,016
I'm the Emperor's most urgent business.

636
00:55:56,486 --> 00:55:58,113
Do as I tell you!

637
00:56:08,498 --> 00:56:11,399
Your wishes are sacred
to everyone, Empress.

638
00:56:11,768 --> 00:56:13,235
I doubt that.

639
00:56:14,070 --> 00:56:16,231
Where have you been for days?

640
00:56:16,439 --> 00:56:19,374
I expected you here at
Dacia's house tonight.

641
00:56:19,576 --> 00:56:23,171
Must I sacrifice a carriage in
order to catch a glimpse of you?

642
00:56:23,246 --> 00:56:25,840
Tomorrow you shall have a very
colorful account of everything.

643
00:56:25,915 --> 00:56:28,315
Where are you rushing to tonight?

644
00:56:29,919 --> 00:56:31,682
Is it a love affair?

645
00:56:32,055 --> 00:56:34,046
I hope it may end in one.

646
00:56:35,492 --> 00:56:38,120
I thought it was something of the sort.

647
00:56:40,363 --> 00:56:42,524
Where are you really going, Marcus?

648
00:56:42,599 --> 00:56:45,067
The Empress is romantic and
must understand that I...

649
00:56:45,135 --> 00:56:47,433
No, I don't. You must explain.

650
00:56:47,504 --> 00:56:49,233
I will. I will, tomorrow. Tonight, Marcus.

651
00:56:49,305 --> 00:56:51,865
And you will be amused.
And so, Empress... Marcus.

652
00:56:51,941 --> 00:56:54,409
Good night. Marcus, I insist.

653
00:57:09,492 --> 00:57:12,757
Follow them. Find out who she is.

654
00:57:25,642 --> 00:57:29,510
TITUS: Since knowing him and
since following the truth...

655
00:57:30,013 --> 00:57:32,607
old habits have slipped from my body.

656
00:57:33,149 --> 00:57:37,745
There are no longer any earthly
bonds confining my spirit.

657
00:57:38,988 --> 00:57:41,923
All is at peace within me.

658
00:57:42,392 --> 00:57:45,657
If every living man knew what I know...

659
00:57:46,029 --> 00:57:50,261
if I could be sure that the
message is in every heart...

660
00:57:50,467 --> 00:57:52,765
I could be wholly at peace.

661
00:57:54,003 --> 00:57:58,269
As Jesus loved God, so
he loved his brothers...

662
00:57:59,008 --> 00:58:01,408
who are also the children of God.

663
00:58:02,212 --> 00:58:05,045
With understanding, with faith...

664
00:58:05,648 --> 00:58:09,778
he held power over all things, even death.

665
00:58:10,787 --> 00:58:13,153
He proved there is no death...

666
00:58:13,223 --> 00:58:15,817
only a crossing over to the Father...

667
00:58:16,092 --> 00:58:18,060
and life everlasting.

668
00:58:19,028 --> 00:58:22,361
Jesus knew it. He lived it.

669
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:25,898
He walked the earth in goodness...

670
00:58:25,969 --> 00:58:30,201
telling that we're all
of his blood, his spirit.

671
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:34,241
Work for one another,
comfort one another...

672
00:58:34,744 --> 00:58:36,371
that was his cry.

673
00:58:36,546 --> 00:58:39,014
Love your neighbor as yourself.

674
00:58:40,083 --> 00:58:42,711
That is what he came to teach mankind.

675
00:58:43,620 --> 00:58:45,485
That message is heard.

676
00:58:45,855 --> 00:58:48,187
It will be carried to all men...

677
00:58:48,791 --> 00:58:51,385
to the farthest corners of the earth.

678
00:58:51,728 --> 00:58:53,992
And God will walk among us...

679
00:58:55,265 --> 00:58:57,859
and you will go out into the world...

680
00:58:58,535 --> 00:59:01,698
and you will carry to
your brothers a new life...

681
00:59:01,938 --> 00:59:04,133
and that new life is freedom.

682
00:59:04,340 --> 00:59:08,970
Freedom as vast and
beautiful as heaven is. And...

683
00:59:12,148 --> 00:59:13,945
WOMAN: Why, look!

684
00:59:14,517 --> 00:59:17,714
MAN: It's an arrow. He's hit.
Titus is shot.

685
00:59:18,988 --> 00:59:20,319
MAN: Where did it come from?

686
00:59:20,390 --> 00:59:22,483
WOMAN: Look! MAN
Emperor's soldiers!

687
00:59:22,559 --> 00:59:23,890
Flank out.

688
00:59:24,227 --> 00:59:25,717
We are betrayed.

689
00:59:25,795 --> 00:59:27,763
WOMAN: Oh, merciful Father!

690
00:59:28,097 --> 00:59:30,258
Titus! Titus!

691
00:59:31,668 --> 00:59:33,295
MAN: Put out the brands!

692
00:59:35,271 --> 00:59:37,432
Death is nothing to fear.

693
00:59:54,257 --> 00:59:56,851
WOMAN: Father, no! Father!

694
01:00:15,678 --> 01:00:19,478
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done...

695
01:00:19,549 --> 01:00:22,746
on earth as it is in heaven.

696
01:00:23,152 --> 01:00:26,212
Give us this day our daily bread...

697
01:00:26,289 --> 01:00:28,883
and forgive us our trespasses...

698
01:00:28,958 --> 01:00:30,755
as we forgive those...

699
01:00:30,827 --> 01:00:33,796
who trespass against us.

700
01:00:39,268 --> 01:00:43,068
Blessed are they who are persecuted for...

701
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:45,634
Favius!

702
01:00:54,917 --> 01:00:57,579
<i>Mercia, my dear. I...</i>

703
01:01:02,325 --> 01:01:03,485
[Trumpets blowing]

704
01:01:12,802 --> 01:01:14,929
MAN: It's Marcus! Marcus Superbus!

705
01:01:15,638 --> 01:01:17,765
Hark, the Prefect. Stop firing!

706
01:01:23,646 --> 01:01:26,046
[Trumpets blowing]

707
01:01:37,060 --> 01:01:38,254
Mercia.

708
01:01:38,861 --> 01:01:40,488
He's dying.

709
01:01:41,597 --> 01:01:43,531
Favius. Come with me. Quick.

710
01:01:43,599 --> 01:01:47,501
TIGELLINUS: Isn't that the girl you
were talking to at the fountain, Marcus?

711
01:01:47,570 --> 01:01:49,548
You couldn't have known
that she was a Christian...

712
01:01:49,572 --> 01:01:53,702
or you wouldn't have let her go
after hearing the Emperor's orders.

713
01:01:55,878 --> 01:01:58,176
Why was this execution stopped?

714
01:01:58,281 --> 01:02:01,808
Your apparent concern for
these Christians is traitorous.

715
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:05,810
Withdraw that.

716
01:02:07,256 --> 01:02:09,486
If I was too hasty, I'm sorry.

717
01:02:10,293 --> 01:02:11,555
Help him.

718
01:02:11,961 --> 01:02:13,861
Can't you do something?

719
01:02:18,034 --> 01:02:19,729
Peace be with you.

720
01:02:22,371 --> 01:02:23,895
With you both.

721
01:02:30,313 --> 01:02:34,147
MAN: Go and find them! If
you find them, make them talk!

722
01:02:36,152 --> 01:02:38,712
Well, what are the Prefect's orders?

723
01:02:39,822 --> 01:02:41,983
What's to be done with the Christians?

724
01:02:42,058 --> 01:02:43,548
WOMAN: Say you will lean on me.

725
01:02:43,626 --> 01:02:45,150
MAN: I can't hold on much longer.

726
01:02:45,795 --> 01:02:47,126
I'm dying.

727
01:02:47,997 --> 01:02:49,362
Viturius...

728
01:02:51,400 --> 01:02:53,391
look after the wounded...

729
01:02:53,503 --> 01:02:57,064
and take the others to the Martian prison.

730
01:02:57,240 --> 01:03:00,903
Why to the Martian prison?
Why not to the arena dungeon?

731
01:03:01,511 --> 01:03:03,411
Let it stand as I said.

732
01:03:03,513 --> 01:03:04,946
To the Martian prison!

733
01:03:05,014 --> 01:03:08,006
In God's name, be merciful to us!

734
01:03:08,084 --> 01:03:09,745
WOMAN: God is mercy.

735
01:03:12,588 --> 01:03:13,816
Come on.

736
01:03:32,675 --> 01:03:34,870
Viturius! Here, Excellence.

737
01:03:37,446 --> 01:03:41,075
At the change of watch tonight,
take the girl from prison.

738
01:03:41,250 --> 01:03:43,081
Bring her to my house.

739
01:03:43,152 --> 01:03:44,847
Put a woman servant with her.

740
01:03:44,921 --> 01:03:47,412
Excellence, that's dangerous sport.

741
01:03:48,157 --> 01:03:49,317
Do it.

742
01:03:50,393 --> 01:03:51,985
Yes, Excellence.

743
01:03:55,264 --> 01:03:57,232
[Christians singing softly]

744
01:03:59,535 --> 01:04:02,060
Daughter. Oh, Lord.

745
01:04:25,761 --> 01:04:27,524
Mama.

746
01:04:42,845 --> 01:04:45,678
Come, little sister. I'll take care of you.

747
01:04:46,782 --> 01:04:48,409
Come on, come on.

748
01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:52,785
Here's one you forgot.

749
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:34,448
You sent for me, Empress?

750
01:06:35,791 --> 01:06:40,228
Having to send for you hurt my
vanity a bit. Oh, I'm sorry, Empress.

751
01:06:40,463 --> 01:06:41,725
Leave us.

752
01:06:45,301 --> 01:06:47,735
You don't need to call me Empress.

753
01:06:48,704 --> 01:06:52,834
I should have been here earlier to
apologize for my rudeness last night.

754
01:06:52,908 --> 01:06:54,535
Oh, don't bother.

755
01:06:55,311 --> 01:06:58,371
I've since learned why
you had to be so abrupt.

756
01:06:59,715 --> 01:07:03,151
And you have these enemies
of Nero safely in prison.

757
01:07:03,886 --> 01:07:06,719
It's true, isn't it? Yes.

758
01:07:07,289 --> 01:07:08,688
All of them?

759
01:07:09,925 --> 01:07:10,983
Yes.

760
01:07:11,527 --> 01:07:15,088
Even this baby-faced Christian girl?

761
01:07:17,500 --> 01:07:18,728
Tell me.

762
01:07:18,934 --> 01:07:23,268
Even this girl who parades
as innocence and purity...

763
01:07:23,372 --> 01:07:25,806
and is the scum of Rome? Poppaea!

764
01:07:26,342 --> 01:07:28,936
Why, you're angry.

765
01:07:29,745 --> 01:07:32,213
You misunderstand.

766
01:07:33,149 --> 01:07:35,845
I have no serious interest in the girl.

767
01:07:36,218 --> 01:07:37,810
Oh, don't be stupid.

768
01:07:38,020 --> 01:07:40,215
All Rome knows that she's in your house...

769
01:07:40,289 --> 01:07:42,883
and Rome is laughing about it. Well?

770
01:07:47,496 --> 01:07:49,464
Sit close to me, Marcus.

771
01:07:59,708 --> 01:08:01,232
I've loved you.

772
01:08:02,578 --> 01:08:04,910
You've never returned that love.

773
01:08:05,314 --> 01:08:07,441
You've hardly been friendly.

774
01:08:07,583 --> 01:08:08,948
Oh, I know.

775
01:08:10,086 --> 01:08:13,647
You haven't wanted a vile
court intrigue with me.

776
01:08:14,256 --> 01:08:16,554
I haven't either, particularly.

777
01:08:17,293 --> 01:08:19,193
But what else is there?

778
01:08:22,665 --> 01:08:24,292
So I've waited...

779
01:08:24,400 --> 01:08:27,665
thinking you've kept away
out of loyalty to Nero...

780
01:08:28,604 --> 01:08:31,072
and that finally you would...

781
01:08:32,174 --> 01:08:34,199
comfort me in spite of it.

782
01:08:37,179 --> 01:08:38,806
So I've waited...

783
01:08:39,215 --> 01:08:41,740
being jealous and hurt...

784
01:08:42,351 --> 01:08:45,946
while you played with a
dozen less admirable women.

785
01:08:46,589 --> 01:08:48,216
But this is different.

786
01:08:48,824 --> 01:08:50,849
Knowing I cared for you...

787
01:08:51,160 --> 01:08:55,062
you've preferred to make a fool of
yourself over this Christian outcast.

788
01:08:55,131 --> 01:08:56,860
Yes, you are right.

789
01:08:57,867 --> 01:08:59,892
I am loyal to the Emperor.

790
01:09:02,071 --> 01:09:05,563
Too loyal to aspire to an
intrigue with the Empress.

791
01:09:07,343 --> 01:09:10,278
Is that evasion? No, it's the truth.

792
01:09:16,418 --> 01:09:20,115
Then I shall go on hoping to
make you forget that loyalty.

793
01:09:22,625 --> 01:09:25,890
If I can't, someday...

794
01:09:26,529 --> 01:09:28,019
to my shame...

795
01:09:28,898 --> 01:09:31,025
I may command you to forget.

796
01:09:39,375 --> 01:09:41,605
Your pardon, Empress. Marcus.

797
01:09:43,812 --> 01:09:46,906
Marcus. Do you love this girl?

798
01:09:49,952 --> 01:09:51,283
Answer me!

799
01:09:52,621 --> 01:09:54,213
<i>Well, then I...</i>

800
01:09:58,427 --> 01:09:59,894
I don't know.

801
01:10:02,131 --> 01:10:04,122
That says you perhaps do.

802
01:10:08,404 --> 01:10:12,033
I could laugh with Rome about
it if I didn't care so much.

803
01:10:13,008 --> 01:10:14,771
Marcus Superbus...

804
01:10:15,277 --> 01:10:17,973
caught at last by a Christian wanton.

805
01:10:18,914 --> 01:10:20,745
You've no right to call her that.

806
01:10:20,816 --> 01:10:23,842
Oh, very much in love.

807
01:10:24,153 --> 01:10:28,487
Well, why not? It's not so
impossible, so laughable.

808
01:10:29,124 --> 01:10:32,753
She's young, beautiful, virtuous.

809
01:10:33,729 --> 01:10:36,220
I find I'm sick of patrician women...

810
01:10:36,765 --> 01:10:38,699
who haven't heard of virtue.

811
01:10:39,535 --> 01:10:41,765
That's a direct enough insult.

812
01:10:42,938 --> 01:10:44,701
I couldn't avoid it.

813
01:10:45,975 --> 01:10:49,536
I never saw a man who
held his life so cheaply.

814
01:10:50,946 --> 01:10:52,971
That sounds like a threat.

815
01:10:56,285 --> 01:10:58,583
I've never threatened with you.

816
01:10:59,221 --> 01:11:01,746
I shan't, unless you drive me to it.

817
01:11:03,826 --> 01:11:06,920
The game is dangerous
enough without my threats.

818
01:11:07,296 --> 01:11:09,730
Tigellinus knows what you've done.

819
01:11:10,366 --> 01:11:13,460
No citizen can protect
a Christian from the law.

820
01:11:14,536 --> 01:11:16,527
<i>Well, in this case, I...</i>

821
01:11:17,172 --> 01:11:19,572
I can't stop to remember the law.

822
01:11:21,710 --> 01:11:24,406
Then I shall make you stop to remember me.

823
01:11:24,480 --> 01:11:26,880
You'll give up this girl, Marcus.

824
01:11:30,052 --> 01:11:32,418
Will I? Yes.

825
01:11:33,322 --> 01:11:35,813
You'll forget about her entirely.

826
01:11:36,725 --> 01:11:39,057
I've stayed too long.

827
01:11:40,529 --> 01:11:41,791
Empress.

828
01:12:09,258 --> 01:12:14,025
They were meeting openly, conspiring
openly against your life...

829
01:12:15,698 --> 01:12:18,690
and Marcus wouldn't
permit them to be killed.

830
01:12:24,606 --> 01:12:28,940
Do I make myself understood, Caesar? Yes.

831
01:12:29,878 --> 01:12:33,279
My head is splitting. The
wine last night, the music...

832
01:12:36,151 --> 01:12:38,142
the delicious debauchery.

833
01:12:42,458 --> 01:12:45,916
Caesar, will Marcus go so
far as your overthrow...

834
01:12:47,796 --> 01:12:49,320
and your death?

835
01:12:50,132 --> 01:12:52,191
Why are you always
frightening me like that?

836
01:12:52,267 --> 01:12:54,167
Plots against my life.

837
01:12:54,236 --> 01:12:57,364
Death rides in the street with
me, he eats out of my plate.

838
01:12:57,439 --> 01:13:01,967
Marcus took them to prison and there
released the most dangerous of them.

839
01:13:02,044 --> 01:13:05,241
That can't be true. How
much further will he go?

840
01:13:06,248 --> 01:13:09,411
I'll stop him right here.
I've been too lenient.

841
01:13:10,085 --> 01:13:12,383
I'll make an example of Marcus.

842
01:13:12,588 --> 01:13:14,579
I order him to be seized.

843
01:13:15,858 --> 01:13:20,022
I shan't rest until he's
dead. Until who is dead?

844
01:13:22,831 --> 01:13:24,059
Poppaea.

845
01:13:28,604 --> 01:13:31,266
Do you know what Marcus has done? Yes.

846
01:13:31,640 --> 01:13:34,074
<i>I think it's very amusing. You...</i>

847
01:13:34,410 --> 01:13:36,640
I'm telling you he's turned traitor.

848
01:13:36,712 --> 01:13:38,839
He's released some dangerous Christians.

849
01:13:38,914 --> 01:13:40,939
Oh, just one.

850
01:13:41,517 --> 01:13:45,317
A pretty little Christian
girl, not dangerous to anyone...

851
01:13:45,387 --> 01:13:47,878
except Marcus himself. But, beloved...

852
01:13:47,956 --> 01:13:52,017
Marcus is just a man
with a thrilling weakness.

853
01:13:55,531 --> 01:13:57,829
He took this girl to his house.

854
01:13:58,333 --> 01:14:01,461
He's such a willful, energetic boy.

855
01:14:02,438 --> 01:14:06,670
Rome is amused, and you're
alarmed. Shame on you.

856
01:14:06,809 --> 01:14:09,334
Caesar, the edict was not obeyed.

857
01:14:10,045 --> 01:14:12,036
Yes. Can you be amused at that, Poppaea?

858
01:14:12,114 --> 01:14:15,277
I can, because it was the girl's fault.

859
01:14:16,418 --> 01:14:18,079
Destroy the girl...

860
01:14:18,854 --> 01:14:21,948
not your most devoted, reliable officer.

861
01:14:23,091 --> 01:14:27,619
Simply give Tigellinus an order
to take her out of Marcus' hands.

862
01:14:28,430 --> 01:14:30,193
Nero, beloved...

863
01:14:32,367 --> 01:14:35,200
don't listen to everyone when you have me.

864
01:14:36,438 --> 01:14:40,431
You'll make a blunder someday that
will make people laugh at you...

865
01:14:40,742 --> 01:14:43,040
the same as they're laughing at Marcus now.

866
01:14:43,111 --> 01:14:47,445
I'm not at all well, Poppaea. I
know. You had such an exciting night.

867
01:14:47,883 --> 01:14:49,874
There now, relax.

868
01:14:50,853 --> 01:14:52,150
Caesar, if I...

869
01:14:52,221 --> 01:14:56,351
How can you disturb our beloved
Emperor when he's feeling so badly?

870
01:14:58,360 --> 01:15:01,591
If it's the order for the
girl you're concerned about...

871
01:15:01,663 --> 01:15:03,631
I'll dictate that myself.

872
01:15:05,133 --> 01:15:08,159
Beloved, there.

873
01:18:36,111 --> 01:18:38,636
MAN: Marcus! Marcus, where are you going?

874
01:18:42,384 --> 01:18:45,080
MAN
Ancaria won't let her go.

875
01:18:45,153 --> 01:18:48,486
MAN
Is it your heart or your stomach?

876
01:18:48,557 --> 01:18:51,355
MAN

877
01:18:51,426 --> 01:18:53,656
you haven't finished your cup!

878
01:18:55,363 --> 01:18:58,992
Something needs my attention,
something very personal.

879
01:18:59,167 --> 01:19:00,657
Keep it going!

880
01:19:10,912 --> 01:19:12,209
Bring her here.

881
01:19:12,280 --> 01:19:14,145
GLABRIO: What's all this about?

882
01:19:16,918 --> 01:19:19,045
Why have you left the table?

883
01:19:19,354 --> 01:19:23,085
Why eat stale bread when there's
luscious food in the house?

884
01:19:23,225 --> 01:19:26,388
You go on back. Go on
back and make my apologies.

885
01:19:32,601 --> 01:19:34,091
Luscious food?

886
01:19:35,403 --> 01:19:37,735
Oh! I see. Yes.

887
01:19:40,075 --> 01:19:41,474
Marcus. Yeah.

888
01:19:41,543 --> 01:19:44,410
I hear Christians aren't digestible.

889
01:19:45,046 --> 01:19:47,640
Never mind, never mind. Go on, go on.

890
01:20:03,231 --> 01:20:04,425
Marcus!

891
01:20:05,133 --> 01:20:06,623
I intended to see you sooner.

892
01:20:06,701 --> 01:20:09,169
Oh, Marcus. I couldn't
understand why you didn't.

893
01:20:09,237 --> 01:20:10,363
I was called to the palace.

894
01:20:10,438 --> 01:20:13,566
And then this banquet's
been raging since noon.

895
01:20:15,143 --> 01:20:18,203
Marcus, I told you last night...

896
01:20:18,814 --> 01:20:21,908
my life means more now than...
I haven't forgotten that.

897
01:20:21,983 --> 01:20:24,110
Suddenly everything changed.

898
01:20:24,452 --> 01:20:26,977
I wanted to live. You will, Mercia.

899
01:20:28,557 --> 01:20:30,047
How can I now?

900
01:20:31,393 --> 01:20:33,361
Some way, it will be done.

901
01:20:33,895 --> 01:20:35,863
You belong here with me, and you'll stay.

902
01:20:35,931 --> 01:20:39,890
Oh, you don't know what I'm saying.
I can't live if the others are killed.

903
01:20:39,968 --> 01:20:42,198
Something must be done for
them. No, it's impossible.

904
01:20:42,270 --> 01:20:43,794
Not to you. Isn't there something?

905
01:20:43,872 --> 01:20:45,183
No. No, you'll have to forget them.

906
01:20:45,207 --> 01:20:46,572
I couldn't.

907
01:20:47,008 --> 01:20:49,101
There'd be no happiness
for the rest of my life.

908
01:20:49,177 --> 01:20:51,475
Oh, that's absurd. Even with you.

909
01:20:51,613 --> 01:20:53,205
Try to help them.

910
01:20:53,548 --> 01:20:55,516
What do they mean to us?

911
01:21:01,189 --> 01:21:03,623
I'm one of them. Not anymore.

912
01:21:04,426 --> 01:21:06,087
I don't understand you.

913
01:21:06,161 --> 01:21:08,686
There's nothing to understand.
You're here, that's all.

914
01:21:08,763 --> 01:21:10,526
They don't exist anymore.

915
01:21:10,599 --> 01:21:12,226
Oh, wait, Marcus.

916
01:21:13,134 --> 01:21:15,500
An entirely new life begins for you.

917
01:21:15,570 --> 01:21:18,004
With me. Tonight.

918
01:21:24,679 --> 01:21:25,839
I see.

919
01:21:26,314 --> 01:21:27,679
Oh, Mercia.

920
01:21:28,316 --> 01:21:29,977
I was very simple.

921
01:21:30,285 --> 01:21:33,652
I thought there'd be something
better for you and me.

922
01:21:33,755 --> 01:21:34,949
Better?

923
01:21:35,223 --> 01:21:38,681
It doesn't matter to you what I
think or feel, so long as I'm here.

924
01:21:38,760 --> 01:21:40,455
It never did matter.

925
01:21:40,528 --> 01:21:41,995
Oh, Marcus...

926
01:21:42,297 --> 01:21:45,061
you never meant anything but
to make me one of your slaves.

927
01:21:45,133 --> 01:21:48,034
Don't think of it that way.
I want you here.

928
01:21:48,103 --> 01:21:50,571
You want to be with me,
you'll have everything with me.

929
01:21:50,639 --> 01:21:53,107
No, I'd rather go back to
them. We have a right to this.

930
01:21:53,174 --> 01:21:55,301
I can't see it like that, I can't.

931
01:21:55,377 --> 01:21:58,175
Well, then something has twisted
you out of all natural feeling.

932
01:21:58,246 --> 01:22:01,079
Your kind of life, your faith has done it.

933
01:22:01,716 --> 01:22:04,617
I've always believed
Christianity was merely stupid...

934
01:22:04,686 --> 01:22:07,519
but it's vicious if it can do this to you.

935
01:22:09,324 --> 01:22:11,485
Where is this luscious food?

936
01:22:11,559 --> 01:22:14,653
MAN: Careful, Marcus.
Ancaria has blood in her eye.

937
01:22:15,463 --> 01:22:18,626
MAN
guests, the guests shall find the host.

938
01:22:18,700 --> 01:22:20,292
And here we are.

939
01:22:32,447 --> 01:22:35,746
I hope never to rise again.

940
01:22:36,751 --> 01:22:39,652
MAN: Look out, Marcus. Here she comes.

941
01:22:39,721 --> 01:22:41,279
WOMAN: Ancaria!

942
01:22:43,291 --> 01:22:44,588
Marcus!

943
01:22:45,160 --> 01:22:48,596
Without you, there's no
flavor to the feast.

944
01:22:53,234 --> 01:22:54,565
Marcus...

945
01:22:55,437 --> 01:22:58,668
you and I are wasting the evening.

946
01:22:58,807 --> 01:22:59,933
<i>Why...</i>

947
01:23:03,511 --> 01:23:06,605
By the back of Venus, look!

948
01:23:06,948 --> 01:23:09,314
MAN: A Christian girl!
MAN

949
01:23:09,384 --> 01:23:12,478
WOMAN: Marcus plays host
all over the house.

950
01:23:12,821 --> 01:23:14,550
MAN

951
01:23:14,856 --> 01:23:16,653
MAN

952
01:23:18,593 --> 01:23:20,788
So this was the enchantment.

953
01:23:22,897 --> 01:23:24,626
Present us, Marcus.

954
01:23:26,601 --> 01:23:29,627
Or aren't we virtuous enough?

955
01:23:30,972 --> 01:23:34,169
It would, perhaps, help
you both to know each other.

956
01:23:34,242 --> 01:23:37,609
The lady Mercia, this is Ancaria...

957
01:23:38,213 --> 01:23:42,206
the most wicked and talented woman in Rome.

958
01:23:44,052 --> 01:23:48,250
And my friends, who are content with life.

959
01:23:50,258 --> 01:23:52,783
MAN: Come and join us.
MAN

960
01:23:54,662 --> 01:23:57,256
No. Leave her alone.

961
01:23:59,367 --> 01:24:02,063
Let's look at this model of purity.

962
01:24:02,137 --> 01:24:04,662
MAN: She looks ripe enough for any party.

963
01:24:08,209 --> 01:24:10,643
Tell us, Marcus, was she pleasant?

964
01:24:11,780 --> 01:24:14,374
Superior to me?

965
01:24:14,516 --> 01:24:17,644
Why, she's frozen with virtue.

966
01:24:18,319 --> 01:24:21,311
Couldn't you warm her into life?

967
01:24:21,489 --> 01:24:24,890
No. No, I tried, but I couldn't.

968
01:24:24,959 --> 01:24:26,551
[Guests laughing]

969
01:24:27,262 --> 01:24:29,273
See what you can do, Ancaria.
Try one of your songs.

970
01:24:29,297 --> 01:24:32,789
MAN: Yes. A song, Ancaria.
GLABRIO: Perfect.

971
01:24:32,867 --> 01:24:35,597
If that doesn't do it, she's dead.

972
01:24:37,238 --> 01:24:39,604
A love song, Ancaria...

973
01:24:40,275 --> 01:24:42,038
with the pantomime.

974
01:24:43,411 --> 01:24:46,938
Can you melt snow, Ancaria? Sing. Try it.

975
01:24:47,015 --> 01:24:49,609
<i>Dance, Ancaria. Dance the Naked Moon!</i>

976
01:24:50,085 --> 01:24:51,211
Start the music!

977
01:24:51,286 --> 01:24:54,119
MAN: The last time she danced
that... WOMAN: Don't tell!

978
01:24:54,189 --> 01:24:56,589
MAN: The moon would blush
at Ancaria's dancing.

979
01:24:56,658 --> 01:24:57,768
MAN

980
01:24:57,792 --> 01:25:00,522
<i>Play! Play the Naked Moon.</i>

981
01:25:03,298 --> 01:25:05,528
WOMAN: She's only got two.

982
01:25:06,868 --> 01:25:11,100
<i>[Singing] Under the naked moon</i>

983
01:25:12,273 --> 01:25:14,571
<i>I found you</i>

984
01:25:15,643 --> 01:25:17,304
<i>We meet</i>

985
01:25:18,246 --> 01:25:21,215
<i>I've seen you in my dreams</i>

986
01:25:29,791 --> 01:25:34,592
<i>In dreams indiscreet</i>

987
01:25:35,497 --> 01:25:38,432
<i>With torture so sweet</i>

988
01:25:45,140 --> 01:25:49,008
<i>I've loved you</i>

989
01:25:49,077 --> 01:25:51,443
<i>in dreams</i>

990
01:26:01,456 --> 01:26:04,619
<i>Breathe upon me</i>

991
01:26:05,160 --> 01:26:07,424
<i>Draw me</i>

992
01:26:10,665 --> 01:26:15,625
<i>Gently touch my heart</i>

993
01:26:17,805 --> 01:26:19,636
[Christians singing]

994
01:26:21,409 --> 01:26:22,876
What's that singing?

995
01:26:22,944 --> 01:26:26,744
MAN: The Christians, on their
way to the arena dungeon.

996
01:26:35,924 --> 01:26:38,916
I've danced to dirges, but
I couldn't dance to that.

997
01:26:38,993 --> 01:26:42,724
MAN: Go on, Ancaria. Go on. Why, you
haven't even started to undress the moon.

998
01:26:42,797 --> 01:26:44,230
[Guests cheering]

999
01:26:45,500 --> 01:26:47,968
I can't go on when they
are singing like that.

1000
01:26:48,036 --> 01:26:49,298
Drown them out!

1001
01:26:49,370 --> 01:26:52,396
A love song is stronger
than a fanatical dirge.

1002
01:26:52,473 --> 01:26:54,134
Keep on! Play!

1003
01:26:57,078 --> 01:27:00,514
<i>[Singing] Love will be warm</i>

1004
01:27:01,883 --> 01:27:04,647
<i>In the gold of your hair</i>

1005
01:27:08,957 --> 01:27:12,688
<i>Feed from your lips</i>

1006
01:27:12,760 --> 01:27:17,493
<i>Atremble with mysteries old</i>

1007
01:27:26,407 --> 01:27:29,968
<i>Persuasive, then bold</i>

1008
01:27:33,181 --> 01:27:36,844
<i>Until his madness outstrips</i>

1009
01:27:38,886 --> 01:27:41,218
<i>I breathe upon you</i>

1010
01:27:42,557 --> 01:27:44,752
<i>Draw unto you</i>

1011
01:27:46,461 --> 01:27:50,921
<i>And let love spread his wings</i>

1012
01:27:52,834 --> 01:27:54,802
<i>We have been two</i>

1013
01:27:55,737 --> 01:27:57,762
<i>We shall be one</i>

1014
01:27:57,839 --> 01:27:59,238
[Christians singing louder]

1015
01:27:59,307 --> 01:28:00,740
<i>Both throb</i>

1016
01:28:01,142 --> 01:28:03,007
They're coming closer!

1017
01:28:03,244 --> 01:28:06,407
They're louder. Why don't
you stop them, Marcus?

1018
01:28:06,481 --> 01:28:08,574
Then sing louder yourself!

1019
01:28:08,850 --> 01:28:09,976
Play!

1020
01:28:11,152 --> 01:28:13,382
<i>[Singing] Oh! We have been two</i>

1021
01:28:15,056 --> 01:28:17,217
<i>We shall be one</i>

1022
01:28:18,393 --> 01:28:20,327
What are you smiling at?

1023
01:28:22,864 --> 01:28:24,263
<i>Why, you...</i>

1024
01:28:24,399 --> 01:28:25,866
[Christian singing intensifying]

1025
01:28:27,502 --> 01:28:29,663
I told you to stop them! Get out!

1026
01:28:29,737 --> 01:28:30,965
I told you I couldn't stand...

1027
01:28:31,039 --> 01:28:33,974
All of you, get out! And
leave me alone with her.

1028
01:28:35,476 --> 01:28:37,808
MARCUS: You, take her out.
MAN: Good luck, Marcus.

1029
01:28:42,383 --> 01:28:45,875
You'll be back with me! Well,
right now I've got better sport.

1030
01:28:45,953 --> 01:28:47,477
Go on, get out!

1031
01:28:54,662 --> 01:28:56,493
Get out! WOMAN: I've heard of worse.

1032
01:28:56,564 --> 01:28:58,327
MAN: Stop that, Ancaria!

1033
01:29:04,072 --> 01:29:06,506
Remove the lights. Close the room.

1034
01:29:07,575 --> 01:29:10,669
Ancaria was frightened by
the Christians' singing...

1035
01:29:10,812 --> 01:29:12,677
but I'm not impressed.

1036
01:29:12,914 --> 01:29:15,314
Please send me back to them. No.

1037
01:29:15,683 --> 01:29:17,344
Not yet, at least.

1038
01:29:17,418 --> 01:29:20,046
Not until you live as
you were meant to live.

1039
01:29:20,121 --> 01:29:22,248
Marcus, listen to me.

1040
01:29:23,725 --> 01:29:27,161
I don't want to live like
this. I want to die with them.

1041
01:29:28,329 --> 01:29:31,230
You mean you'd give up life with me...

1042
01:29:31,566 --> 01:29:34,057
and would rather die for
a belief, for some vague...

1043
01:29:34,135 --> 01:29:36,330
It isn't vague. It's certain.

1044
01:29:36,504 --> 01:29:39,234
One man proved it. He changed men with it.

1045
01:29:39,307 --> 01:29:41,241
It's an illusion. It's madness, I tell you.

1046
01:29:41,309 --> 01:29:44,301
Rome and mankind will go
on as they are forever.

1047
01:29:44,379 --> 01:29:47,906
Your Christianity will be stamped
out and dead within a year.

1048
01:29:47,982 --> 01:29:49,074
I know better.

1049
01:29:49,150 --> 01:29:51,195
Mercia, don't you see what
this thing has done to you?

1050
01:29:51,219 --> 01:29:54,814
It hasn't let you live. It's deformed
you. It's made love impossible to...

1051
01:29:54,889 --> 01:29:57,255
As you look at love,
yes, not as I look at it.

1052
01:29:57,325 --> 01:29:59,919
I've no use for your kind of
happiness. Send me back to them.

1053
01:29:59,994 --> 01:30:03,361
No, you're not going to die with
them. You're going to live with me.

1054
01:30:03,431 --> 01:30:07,595
Did you think I'd share
you with this Christ?

1055
01:30:09,771 --> 01:30:10,897
Let me go.

1056
01:30:10,972 --> 01:30:13,532
Mercia, be honest. You want
to be with me. You love me.

1057
01:30:13,608 --> 01:30:15,633
I want to be with them. But with me first.

1058
01:30:15,710 --> 01:30:16,938
Marcus, let me go!

1059
01:30:17,011 --> 01:30:19,571
MAN: Excellence! Excellence!

1060
01:30:22,784 --> 01:30:24,684
Excellence. What is it?

1061
01:30:24,752 --> 01:30:26,379
From the Emperor.

1062
01:30:44,005 --> 01:30:45,097
What do you want?

1063
01:30:45,173 --> 01:30:47,266
That girl is a condemned Christian.

1064
01:30:47,341 --> 01:30:49,434
That's my concern. Get out!

1065
01:30:50,344 --> 01:30:51,936
Not without her.

1066
01:30:52,246 --> 01:30:56,774
She goes to the arena dungeon to die
with the rest of the Christians tomorrow.

1067
01:30:57,552 --> 01:30:58,814
Take her.

1068
01:30:59,253 --> 01:31:02,416
I tell you, she's not
leaving here. No, Marcus.

1069
01:31:08,863 --> 01:31:10,990
It's a pity she stopped you.

1070
01:31:11,999 --> 01:31:13,432
I like you so little...

1071
01:31:13,501 --> 01:31:17,198
I wish you had called your men
and prevented my taking her.

1072
01:31:18,172 --> 01:31:20,367
It would have cost your life.

1073
01:31:21,175 --> 01:31:23,268
I hold the Emperor's order.

1074
01:31:28,683 --> 01:31:29,775
GUARD: Face!

1075
01:31:38,292 --> 01:31:39,520
Forward!

1076
01:32:15,363 --> 01:32:16,921
[Christians singing]

1077
01:32:39,954 --> 01:32:43,253
Caesar, I pledge my honor...

1078
01:32:44,225 --> 01:32:46,887
that she shall never
menace the people of Rome...

1079
01:32:46,961 --> 01:32:49,486
nor your own most sacred life.

1080
01:32:50,164 --> 01:32:51,825
Only let her live.

1081
01:32:57,338 --> 01:33:01,741
It must be love that has made
Marcus so lenient of Christians.

1082
01:33:03,911 --> 01:33:05,071
Yes...

1083
01:33:06,547 --> 01:33:07,775
I do love her.

1084
01:33:07,848 --> 01:33:11,284
<i>If this one Christian life
will make our Marcus happy...</i>

1085
01:33:11,352 --> 01:33:16,051
Is Nero justice in the Roman
world, or merely a puppet Emperor?

1086
01:33:17,291 --> 01:33:19,486
What? If he is justice...

1087
01:33:19,660 --> 01:33:22,823
then not even one Christian
can be spared...

1088
01:33:23,297 --> 01:33:25,288
if Christians are to be killed.

1089
01:33:26,834 --> 01:33:28,802
Empress, have mercy.

1090
01:33:37,378 --> 01:33:40,711
Poppaea is right, Marcus.
I'm afraid it's impossible.

1091
01:33:40,781 --> 01:33:42,544
It must be possible, Caesar.

1092
01:33:42,617 --> 01:33:44,517
This must be made possible to me.

1093
01:33:44,585 --> 01:33:46,553
No faithful subject would ask it.

1094
01:33:46,621 --> 01:33:47,918
I do ask it.

1095
01:33:47,989 --> 01:33:50,685
And Nero has no more loyal subject than I.

1096
01:33:50,758 --> 01:33:51,986
You, Empress...

1097
01:33:52,059 --> 01:33:56,189
who knows better than you that I
have been faithful to the Emperor?

1098
01:33:57,198 --> 01:33:59,132
I have the right to ask.

1099
01:33:59,200 --> 01:34:00,895
I have obeyed and honored you.

1100
01:34:00,968 --> 01:34:03,163
I have risked my life in your service.

1101
01:34:03,237 --> 01:34:06,172
And all that I shall ever ask
for it, a small thing to you...

1102
01:34:06,240 --> 01:34:09,368
is that you give me the life of
this one girl whom I love, Caesar.

1103
01:34:09,443 --> 01:34:12,879
With my whole heart, I
plead with you to spare her.

1104
01:34:14,148 --> 01:34:15,513
[Sighing]

1105
01:34:21,489 --> 01:34:22,854
No, Marcus.

1106
01:34:23,324 --> 01:34:26,225
We do not want barbarians
laughing at Roman justice.

1107
01:34:26,293 --> 01:34:28,420
This thing I ask is justice.

1108
01:34:28,529 --> 01:34:32,329
To achieve it, I will take steps
to move the world of Caesar.

1109
01:34:32,767 --> 01:34:35,668
I demand that you spare this girl! Marcus!

1110
01:34:36,070 --> 01:34:37,628
You've gone too far.

1111
01:34:37,705 --> 01:34:39,070
Seize him!

1112
01:34:39,140 --> 01:34:41,165
Nero. Nero beloved.

1113
01:34:43,010 --> 01:34:45,001
Love has made him insane.

1114
01:34:49,917 --> 01:34:51,885
Caesar, forgive me...

1115
01:34:53,354 --> 01:34:57,415
but spare this girl if
you have any compassion.

1116
01:34:57,758 --> 01:34:59,749
Caesar is compassionate...

1117
01:35:01,228 --> 01:35:03,128
but he is also justice.

1118
01:35:05,132 --> 01:35:07,362
I must remain justice, Marcus.

1119
01:35:11,138 --> 01:35:13,470
If only she weren't a Christian.

1120
01:35:18,779 --> 01:35:20,041
Marcus...

1121
01:35:20,481 --> 01:35:22,745
if she would publicly renounce her faith...

1122
01:35:22,817 --> 01:35:24,444
Not even then.

1123
01:35:25,219 --> 01:35:28,211
If she renounced, then
justice can be merciful.

1124
01:35:28,422 --> 01:35:30,356
I can't stay any longer, Marcus.

1125
01:35:30,424 --> 01:35:33,393
But Caesar, she will not
renounce. Then she dies.

1126
01:35:33,461 --> 01:35:34,689
Hear me.

1127
01:35:34,862 --> 01:35:38,423
Have a little consideration. Would
you have me late for the games?

1128
01:35:38,499 --> 01:35:39,727
Caesar.

1129
01:36:13,834 --> 01:36:15,631
You harlot.

1130
01:36:18,839 --> 01:36:20,204
I love you.

1131
01:36:38,092 --> 01:36:40,026
WOMAN: We can't see a thing up this high.

1132
01:36:40,094 --> 01:36:42,995
I couldn't get anything better.
The Maiuses got better ones.

1133
01:36:43,063 --> 01:36:44,587
VENDOR: Honey! Figs!

1134
01:36:44,665 --> 01:36:47,828
They're in the second tier. We
won't see half what they see.

1135
01:36:47,902 --> 01:36:50,769
MAN: We won't smell half as
much Christian blood either.

1136
01:36:50,838 --> 01:36:54,296
MAN
Merius, the Gaul. He's unbeaten.

1137
01:36:54,375 --> 01:36:56,206
Well, I'll take the Greek for 200.

1138
01:36:56,277 --> 01:36:58,905
WOMAN
would, of all the times!

1139
01:36:58,979 --> 01:37:02,471
MAN
themselves this time, does anybody know?

1140
01:37:02,550 --> 01:37:04,984
MAN

1141
01:37:05,052 --> 01:37:07,384
Would you like to sit beside me?

1142
01:37:08,322 --> 01:37:11,553
MAN
MAN

1143
01:37:11,625 --> 01:37:12,785
Green is the favorite!

1144
01:37:12,860 --> 01:37:14,180
As much as I've got on the green!

1145
01:37:14,228 --> 01:37:16,093
MAN
him. VENDOR: Honey, figs.

1146
01:37:16,163 --> 01:37:19,428
MAN
waiting on the other side for the dead.

1147
01:37:19,500 --> 01:37:21,812
WOMAN
sink with the gladiators...

1148
01:37:21,836 --> 01:37:23,827
and revive for the Christians.

1149
01:37:23,904 --> 01:37:26,065
You'll miss some wonderful
things this time.

1150
01:37:26,140 --> 01:37:28,904
Three programs. You needn't get one for me.

1151
01:37:29,543 --> 01:37:31,170
I've changed my mind.

1152
01:37:31,245 --> 01:37:34,703
The only red liquid that
appeals to me is wine.

1153
01:37:35,716 --> 01:37:37,308
Oh, let him go.

1154
01:37:37,751 --> 01:37:41,118
He has a heart of cheese. Come on.

1155
01:37:41,188 --> 01:37:42,712
I've lost my tickets.

1156
01:37:42,790 --> 01:37:45,156
Well, don't you remember
the number of your seats?

1157
01:37:45,226 --> 01:37:46,750
I heard the lions all morning.

1158
01:37:46,827 --> 01:37:49,887
They're starved. All they've had for
days is the smell of bleeding meat.

1159
01:37:49,964 --> 01:37:51,192
VENDOR: Honey, figs.

1160
01:37:51,265 --> 01:37:54,962
MAN
MAN

1161
01:37:57,338 --> 01:38:00,603
MAN
to be the best that Rome ever saw.

1162
01:38:00,674 --> 01:38:01,971
MAN

1163
01:38:02,042 --> 01:38:05,341
The magnificent tradition of life
and death combat is going to the dogs.

1164
01:38:05,412 --> 01:38:09,348
MAN
of gladiators and only seven killings.

1165
01:38:10,484 --> 01:38:11,924
MAN

1166
01:38:11,986 --> 01:38:14,819
MAN
Christians. VENDOR: Honey, figs.

1167
01:38:14,922 --> 01:38:19,484
It doesn't say how they're to
be killed, just "execution."

1168
01:38:19,560 --> 01:38:22,290
We'll leave that to Nero. It
will be some interesting way.

1169
01:38:22,363 --> 01:38:24,661
And bloody enough. Thank you.

1170
01:38:26,700 --> 01:38:28,725
MAN: Blessed are the poor in sprit...

1171
01:38:28,802 --> 01:38:31,327
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

1172
01:38:31,739 --> 01:38:34,572
Blessed are they that mourn,
for they shall be comforted.

1173
01:38:34,642 --> 01:38:37,770
MAN
But come down and save me now.

1174
01:38:39,480 --> 01:38:42,210
Soon we'll stand before God to be judged...

1175
01:38:42,283 --> 01:38:46,185
to answer for our sin,
to stand before his wrath.

1176
01:38:46,453 --> 01:38:48,216
His mercy, Tyros.

1177
01:38:48,622 --> 01:38:51,352
There is none. Not anymore.

1178
01:38:51,425 --> 01:38:53,222
Mercy has only begun.

1179
01:38:53,727 --> 01:38:55,251
I tell you all... Tyros.

1180
01:38:55,329 --> 01:38:58,696
MAN: Blessed are the meek, for
they shall inherit the earth.

1181
01:39:00,634 --> 01:39:02,727
MAN

1182
01:39:03,203 --> 01:39:04,431
Stephan.

1183
01:39:13,814 --> 01:39:15,782
I wonder where Bucco is.

1184
01:39:21,655 --> 01:39:23,486
Where will he get his dinner?

1185
01:39:23,557 --> 01:39:26,492
Oh, Stephan, does that
mean you're so hungry?

1186
01:39:28,662 --> 01:39:30,562
No. Water.

1187
01:39:32,299 --> 01:39:33,527
Water.

1188
01:39:34,068 --> 01:39:37,526
WOMAN: I shall fear no
evil, for thou art with me.

1189
01:39:37,604 --> 01:39:38,730
Water!

1190
01:39:39,173 --> 01:39:41,141
No, I'll take it to him.
MAN: Blessed are ye...

1191
01:39:41,208 --> 01:39:44,735
when men shall revile you, persecute you...

1192
01:39:45,412 --> 01:39:49,314
and shall say all manner of
evil against you falsely...

1193
01:39:49,383 --> 01:39:50,611
for my sake.

1194
01:39:50,684 --> 01:39:53,744
We've called upon him to
spare us. To protect us.

1195
01:39:53,821 --> 01:39:55,721
Where, where is he?

1196
01:39:56,390 --> 01:39:59,052
He is closer to us now
than he has ever been.

1197
01:39:59,126 --> 01:40:03,256
MAN: Blessed are the merciful,
for they shall obtain mercy.

1198
01:40:05,933 --> 01:40:09,664
Walk out upon the sand
without fear, singing.

1199
01:40:12,439 --> 01:40:15,567
MAN: We have sinned.
Death is not the escape.

1200
01:40:16,377 --> 01:40:19,312
When even the thief upon
the cross beside him...

1201
01:40:19,380 --> 01:40:22,508
asked him to remember, Jesus said...

1202
01:40:22,583 --> 01:40:25,017
"This day shalt thou be with me."

1203
01:40:27,254 --> 01:40:29,745
WOMAN: Blessed are we.

1204
01:40:29,823 --> 01:40:31,518
[Girl giggling]

1205
01:40:35,396 --> 01:40:38,058
He threw him over his
head, didn't he? Yeah.

1206
01:40:44,271 --> 01:40:45,863
[Trumpets blowing]

1207
01:40:50,978 --> 01:40:52,309
Oh, God.

1208
01:40:55,382 --> 01:40:56,781
They are beginning.

1209
01:40:58,285 --> 01:40:59,965
[Band playing cheerful instrumental music]

1210
01:41:56,043 --> 01:41:58,273
ALL: Hail, Caesar!

1211
01:41:58,345 --> 01:42:02,008
We who are about to die salute thee.

1212
01:42:05,886 --> 01:42:08,047
[Trumpets blowing]

1213
01:42:35,549 --> 01:42:38,143
I'll wager 50 pieces on the Gaul.

1214
01:42:38,585 --> 01:42:40,712
I'll wager that on my Grecian.

1215
01:42:40,787 --> 01:42:43,881
I told you we couldn't
see anything up this high.

1216
01:42:43,957 --> 01:42:47,358
If it wasn't your wife you
were taking to the racecourse...

1217
01:42:47,427 --> 01:42:51,454
if it were some charming friend,
you'd sit down in the box seats.

1218
01:42:51,532 --> 01:42:54,501
But of course, anything is good
enough for your wife and child.

1219
01:42:54,568 --> 01:42:57,264
Well, the gallery was good
enough before we were married.

1220
01:42:57,337 --> 01:42:59,965
We were interested in each other then.

1221
01:43:24,932 --> 01:43:26,729
The Gaul has got him!

1222
01:43:27,701 --> 01:43:30,169
I'll wager 300 silver...

1223
01:43:30,237 --> 01:43:32,102
on Demos, the Thracian.

1224
01:43:32,172 --> 01:43:34,265
On the Thracian? Thracian there.

1225
01:43:34,341 --> 01:43:36,536
Done. I'll take the Gaul.

1226
01:43:46,887 --> 01:43:49,720
If I win, I'll give a feast. You'll lose.

1227
01:44:37,938 --> 01:44:40,463
Mercy! Have mercy!

1228
01:44:40,540 --> 01:44:42,531
Mercy, Caesar.

1229
01:44:42,843 --> 01:44:45,311
CROWD: Death! Death! Death!

1230
01:44:52,586 --> 01:44:54,850
Three hundred silver.

1231
01:45:05,999 --> 01:45:08,729
ALL: Hail, Caesar!

1232
01:45:10,837 --> 01:45:13,203
Hail, Caesar!

1233
01:45:17,811 --> 01:45:20,041
Hail, Caesar!

1234
01:45:22,949 --> 01:45:25,076
Hail, Caesar!

1235
01:45:25,886 --> 01:45:28,150
Hail, Caesar!

1236
01:45:55,916 --> 01:45:57,747
MAN: Come on! Come on!

1237
01:46:52,739 --> 01:46:54,969
Look! Look!

1238
01:46:56,510 --> 01:46:57,977
[Woman screaming]

1239
01:47:16,596 --> 01:47:18,393
MAN: He's got him. Look, he's got him.

1240
01:48:19,960 --> 01:48:21,086
[Screaming]

1241
01:49:10,544 --> 01:49:11,909
WOMAN: No, please.

1242
01:49:23,590 --> 01:49:25,524
[Band playing upbeat comical music]

1243
01:50:44,004 --> 01:50:47,064
Empress, she will enter alone.

1244
01:51:11,731 --> 01:51:14,791
Christ also was raised from the dead
through the glory of the Father...

1245
01:51:14,868 --> 01:51:17,428
so that we also might walk
in the newness of life.

1246
01:51:17,504 --> 01:51:18,562
Hallowed be thy name.

1247
01:51:18,638 --> 01:51:20,983
In the name of the Father and
of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

1248
01:51:21,007 --> 01:51:22,838
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done...

1249
01:51:22,909 --> 01:51:25,241
on earth as it is in heaven.

1250
01:51:25,645 --> 01:51:28,614
ALL: Give us this day our daily bread.

1251
01:51:29,115 --> 01:51:30,912
[Trumpets blowing]

1252
01:51:33,453 --> 01:51:36,752
Christ also was raised from the
dead through the glory of the Father.

1253
01:51:36,823 --> 01:51:39,023
Forgive us our trespasses.
So that we also might walk...

1254
01:51:39,092 --> 01:51:40,150
in the newness of life.

1255
01:51:40,226 --> 01:51:43,161
In the name of the Father and
the Son and the Holy Ghost.

1256
01:51:43,229 --> 01:51:45,697
It's our time. It's our time. Lord! Lord!

1257
01:51:45,765 --> 01:51:47,790
Yes, Tyros, but we're not afraid.

1258
01:51:50,670 --> 01:51:53,867
Christ also was raised from the
dead through the glory of the Father.

1259
01:51:53,940 --> 01:51:56,636
So that we also might walk
in the newness of life.

1260
01:51:56,710 --> 01:51:58,200
Stand up there!

1261
01:52:05,952 --> 01:52:07,078
[Woman screaming]

1262
01:52:09,022 --> 01:52:10,751
I want to be near you, Mercia.

1263
01:52:10,824 --> 01:52:13,418
GUARD: Come on, the rest of
you. GUARD

1264
01:52:18,364 --> 01:52:21,094
I'm not afraid. I'm not
afraid. Come on, get off there.

1265
01:52:28,508 --> 01:52:29,941
GUARD: Get out! Get out!

1266
01:52:30,944 --> 01:52:32,741
Where are we going?

1267
01:52:35,148 --> 01:52:38,481
We're going to your mother.

1268
01:52:43,723 --> 01:52:46,191
Go proudly, singing!

1269
01:52:46,960 --> 01:52:48,188
I can't.

1270
01:52:50,497 --> 01:52:53,694
I can't go on, I can't.

1271
01:52:54,234 --> 01:52:56,930
Titus said, "There is no death...

1272
01:52:57,270 --> 01:52:59,363
"only a crossing over to the Father."

1273
01:52:59,439 --> 01:53:00,667
Save us.

1274
01:53:02,509 --> 01:53:04,067
Are you Mercia?

1275
01:53:04,978 --> 01:53:07,606
Yes. You are to wait and go in alone.

1276
01:53:08,081 --> 01:53:11,107
But I want to be with them.
The order of the Empress.

1277
01:53:11,184 --> 01:53:12,947
Whip the vermin out!

1278
01:53:13,286 --> 01:53:16,187
Our sorrow shall be turned to joy.

1279
01:53:17,123 --> 01:53:18,317
Joy!

1280
01:53:21,094 --> 01:53:22,925
I believe!

1281
01:53:24,097 --> 01:53:25,587
I believe!

1282
01:53:26,499 --> 01:53:28,023
I'm not afraid.

1283
01:53:36,476 --> 01:53:38,410
I'm not afraid. I shall fear no evil.

1284
01:53:38,478 --> 01:53:41,811
Not death, but victory, victory.

1285
01:53:41,981 --> 01:53:43,846
GUARD: Go on! Go on!

1286
01:53:44,017 --> 01:53:47,817
Come unto me, all ye that
travel and are heavy laden...

1287
01:53:48,888 --> 01:53:51,049
and I will give you rest.

1288
01:53:53,159 --> 01:53:55,957
Thine is the kingdom,
the power and the glory.

1289
01:53:56,029 --> 01:53:57,826
Get on! Get on!

1290
01:54:39,906 --> 01:54:44,002
<i>[All singing] Blessing
to man, our Father's love</i>

1291
01:54:44,177 --> 01:54:46,509
<i>Hosanna</i>

1292
01:54:46,579 --> 01:54:50,015
<i>Glory to Christ</i>

1293
01:54:51,217 --> 01:54:53,583
<i>Glory and praise</i>

1294
01:54:53,653 --> 01:54:57,145
<i>to the Father's Son</i>

1295
01:54:57,624 --> 01:55:02,288
<i>Dear God is living on earth</i>

1296
01:55:03,863 --> 01:55:08,197
<i>Giving us the word</i>

1297
01:55:08,268 --> 01:55:12,967
<i>Giving us the faith</i>

1298
01:55:13,306 --> 01:55:17,640
<i>Telling us of life</i>

1299
01:55:17,977 --> 01:55:22,607
<i>Calling us to love</i>

1300
01:55:24,784 --> 01:55:29,744
<i>Glory over the earth and peace</i>

1301
01:55:29,822 --> 01:55:33,223
<i>Glory and peace of God</i>

1302
01:55:33,293 --> 01:55:36,751
O Lord my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

1303
01:55:36,829 --> 01:55:39,923
<i>Mercy over the earth</i>

1304
01:55:39,999 --> 01:55:42,467
<i>and life</i>

1305
01:55:42,535 --> 01:55:47,131
<i>Joy for the faithful son</i>

1306
01:55:48,241 --> 01:55:52,905
<i>Blessing to man, our Father's love</i>

1307
01:55:53,513 --> 01:55:55,981
<i>Hosanna</i>

1308
01:55:56,049 --> 01:55:59,450
<i>Glory to Christ</i>

1309
01:56:00,787 --> 01:56:03,119
<i>Glory and praise</i>

1310
01:56:03,189 --> 01:56:06,886
<i>to the Father's Son</i>

1311
01:56:07,226 --> 01:56:11,890
<i>Dear God is living on earth</i>

1312
01:56:17,003 --> 01:56:18,334
I want to live.

1313
01:56:20,173 --> 01:56:21,367
Stephan.

1314
01:56:21,708 --> 01:56:25,075
I can't help it, Mercia.
I wanna stay in the world.

1315
01:56:25,278 --> 01:56:28,179
But try to remember... I betrayed them all.

1316
01:56:28,514 --> 01:56:30,641
I'm sending them all to die...

1317
01:56:31,050 --> 01:56:32,677
and I don't wanna go.

1318
01:56:32,752 --> 01:56:35,949
I'm afraid to go. I'm a coward.

1319
01:56:36,189 --> 01:56:38,248
The Lord would hate me.

1320
01:56:38,324 --> 01:56:39,552
Stephan.

1321
01:56:40,660 --> 01:56:43,595
It was only your body
that was weak, not you.

1322
01:56:46,032 --> 01:56:47,090
Yes.

1323
01:56:48,368 --> 01:56:50,598
Yes, it was my body, wasn't it?

1324
01:56:50,903 --> 01:56:53,736
I tried, but I couldn't.

1325
01:56:53,806 --> 01:56:55,899
GUARD: Get that boy out. Stephan.

1326
01:56:56,976 --> 01:56:59,069
Try to remember his courage.

1327
01:57:00,246 --> 01:57:02,544
Look up, trust him.

1328
01:57:05,351 --> 01:57:06,841
I do trust him.

1329
01:57:09,288 --> 01:57:10,915
I will trust him.

1330
01:57:13,192 --> 01:57:14,523
I'm ready.

1331
01:58:00,506 --> 01:58:01,666
Mercia!

1332
01:58:11,517 --> 01:58:13,542
Stephan, look at me.

1333
01:58:15,755 --> 01:58:17,620
You said you loved me.

1334
01:58:17,824 --> 01:58:20,349
Don't you want to be with me always?

1335
01:58:20,893 --> 01:58:22,360
<i>Yes, but I...</i>

1336
01:58:23,463 --> 01:58:26,523
Then go without being
afraid, believing in him.

1337
01:58:27,533 --> 01:58:30,798
I'll be out there in a
little while to go with you.

1338
01:58:36,175 --> 01:58:39,338
Yes, Mercia. Come on,
get that boy out of here.

1339
01:58:41,814 --> 01:58:44,374
I'll be killed first...

1340
01:58:45,585 --> 01:58:48,952
but I'll wait for you if I can...

1341
01:58:50,256 --> 01:58:53,748
so we can go to him together.

1342
01:58:59,332 --> 01:59:01,232
I'll stand by the door.

1343
01:59:01,434 --> 01:59:02,958
And we'll sing.

1344
01:59:03,102 --> 01:59:05,730
And then you'll walk on by yourself...

1345
01:59:06,205 --> 01:59:07,695
still singing.

1346
01:59:09,909 --> 01:59:14,846
<i>[Singing] Glory over the earth and peace</i>

1347
01:59:15,681 --> 01:59:20,618
<i>Glory and peace of God</i>

1348
01:59:21,554 --> 01:59:26,389
<i>Mercy over the earth and light</i>

1349
01:59:27,560 --> 01:59:32,259
<i>Joy for the faithful son</i>

1350
01:59:32,665 --> 01:59:37,068
<i>Blessing to man, our Father's love</i>

1351
01:59:37,537 --> 01:59:40,028
<i>Hosanna</i>

1352
01:59:40,106 --> 01:59:43,542
<i>Glory to Christ</i>

1353
01:59:43,609 --> 01:59:46,305
<i>Glory and praise</i>

1354
01:59:47,380 --> 01:59:49,940
<i>to the Father's Son</i>

1355
01:59:56,455 --> 01:59:59,151
Dear Christ, why?

1356
02:00:08,968 --> 02:00:11,198
Mercia, you can't go out into that.

1357
02:00:11,270 --> 02:00:14,000
Mercia, we must act quickly.
I've brought the way to freedom.

1358
02:00:14,073 --> 02:00:16,064
I can save you. I knelt before Nero.

1359
02:00:16,142 --> 02:00:18,303
There's only one way to
escape this horrible death.

1360
02:00:18,377 --> 02:00:22,006
He'll spare your life on one condition,
if you'll renounce this faith.

1361
02:00:22,081 --> 02:00:23,981
Mercia, do you hear me?

1362
02:00:25,351 --> 02:00:28,184
Poor Marcus, your eyes are tortured.

1363
02:00:28,254 --> 02:00:30,832
Oh, come, Mercia, a thousand gods
have been called the true god...

1364
02:00:30,856 --> 02:00:31,880
but there is none.

1365
02:00:31,958 --> 02:00:33,619
Each one is only a fantasy.

1366
02:00:33,693 --> 02:00:36,628
Yours is just a mistaken belief.
Renounce it.

1367
02:00:37,063 --> 02:00:39,327
No. No, not this one.

1368
02:00:39,398 --> 02:00:42,094
Mercia, if you don't want to
live for yourself, then for me.

1369
02:00:42,168 --> 02:00:44,136
I love you. Can't you see it?

1370
02:00:44,237 --> 02:00:47,206
I know I told you so before,
and then tried to kill your soul.

1371
02:00:47,273 --> 02:00:50,834
I didn't know, I was confused.
I still am, except for one thing.

1372
02:00:50,910 --> 02:00:52,377
I know I love you...

1373
02:00:52,445 --> 02:00:55,005
beyond all doubt, beyond
all living without you.

1374
02:00:55,081 --> 02:00:56,548
<i>Mercia, I...</i>

1375
02:00:57,049 --> 02:00:58,880
I prayed last night...

1376
02:00:58,985 --> 02:01:01,215
as I imagined you always pray.

1377
02:01:01,287 --> 02:01:04,814
I called out to your God to
save you, to give you to me.

1378
02:01:05,258 --> 02:01:08,887
He wouldn't hear me because I
can't accept him in my heart.

1379
02:01:08,961 --> 02:01:10,656
I tried, but I can't.

1380
02:01:10,730 --> 02:01:13,995
So then I prayed to you.

1381
02:01:14,433 --> 02:01:16,867
I do now. Oh, Mercia, live.

1382
02:01:17,003 --> 02:01:20,063
Renounce your faith. Live and be my wife.

1383
02:01:22,208 --> 02:01:24,438
Live and be your wife.
If you love me, Mercia.

1384
02:01:24,510 --> 02:01:27,673
I do, Marcus. Then don't
leave me. Don't leave me.

1385
02:01:30,983 --> 02:01:32,712
I love you, Marcus.

1386
02:01:33,452 --> 02:01:35,249
Do you know how much?

1387
02:01:35,655 --> 02:01:37,418
And yet I can't stay.

1388
02:01:37,490 --> 02:01:39,981
Marcia, listen to me.
Renounce your God in name only.

1389
02:01:40,092 --> 02:01:42,237
Even though I can't believe
in him, I will respect him.

1390
02:01:42,261 --> 02:01:44,593
You'll not lose him, I swear
it, if you'll live as my wife.

1391
02:01:44,664 --> 02:01:47,360
No, Marcus, to know that you
love me is all I can have.

1392
02:01:47,433 --> 02:01:49,993
Mercia, how can you do this to both of us?

1393
02:01:50,069 --> 02:01:53,038
This is stronger than we are,
much greater than our love.

1394
02:01:53,105 --> 02:01:54,868
Mercia, live.

1395
02:01:55,341 --> 02:01:58,742
Didn't you see Stephan go out
there? Yes, yes. It was horrible.

1396
02:01:58,811 --> 02:02:01,177
I couldn't believe it.
But why should you go, too?

1397
02:02:01,247 --> 02:02:03,306
Didn't you hear my promise
that I would follow him?

1398
02:02:03,382 --> 02:02:05,009
You must live, Mercia.

1399
02:02:05,084 --> 02:02:06,745
No, Marcus, I must follow them.

1400
02:02:06,819 --> 02:02:11,119
Then if you die, I shan't
live either. You must live.

1401
02:02:11,557 --> 02:02:14,788
If only because someday you
may know what I know now.

1402
02:02:16,929 --> 02:02:19,693
I never will, not without you.

1403
02:02:20,299 --> 02:02:22,529
<i>You could teach me to know. Teach me to...</i>

1404
02:02:22,601 --> 02:02:23,727
[Trumpets blowing]

1405
02:02:25,404 --> 02:02:28,396
[Banging at door]

1406
02:02:31,911 --> 02:02:33,708
Come on. You're next.

1407
02:02:34,780 --> 02:02:36,748
Excellence! Oh, Mercia.

1408
02:02:37,083 --> 02:02:40,917
Marcus, beloved, someday you'll
know. I can't, I tell you. I can't.

1409
02:02:40,986 --> 02:02:42,954
I believe in you, not this Christ.

1410
02:02:43,022 --> 02:02:45,149
Excellence, they're waiting.

1411
02:02:47,426 --> 02:02:49,553
Oh, Mercia, tell me. This
is all true, isn't it?

1412
02:02:49,628 --> 02:02:52,290
An afterlife and happiness? Yes.

1413
02:02:52,365 --> 02:02:55,198
For me, too? Even I could
have it? Yes, Marcus.

1414
02:02:55,267 --> 02:02:57,098
I believe you. I believe what you tell me.

1415
02:02:57,169 --> 02:02:59,865
There, with this Christ,
we could always be together?

1416
02:02:59,939 --> 02:03:02,373
Promise me that? It's true.

1417
02:03:02,441 --> 02:03:04,500
Then I want to go with you.

1418
02:03:04,777 --> 02:03:06,540
Marcus! Yes, with you, now.

1419
02:03:06,612 --> 02:03:09,080
But it isn't fair to you. Yes
it is, it's merciful to me.

1420
02:03:09,148 --> 02:03:11,582
It's some hope. It keeps
you with me, maybe always.

1421
02:03:11,650 --> 02:03:14,915
Excellence, the Emperor...
Yes, yes, we're ready.

1422
02:03:14,987 --> 02:03:16,386
Come, Mercia.

1423
02:03:17,256 --> 02:03:20,817
Why, you're pitying me, and I'm happy.

1424
02:03:21,927 --> 02:03:25,294
I can't believe it. I'm
full of strange hope.

1425
02:03:25,965 --> 02:03:27,432
Much happier.

1426
02:03:28,167 --> 02:03:31,102
You want me to go with you, don't you? Yes.

1427
02:03:32,004 --> 02:03:33,369
I love you.

1428
02:03:34,440 --> 02:03:36,032
Well, come, then.

1429
02:03:38,978 --> 02:03:41,913
You'll have to go on
teaching me, leading me.

1430
02:03:42,214 --> 02:03:45,411
Sometime I'll know. But stay
close. Give me your hand.

1431
02:03:48,320 --> 02:03:50,185
I can't sing the hymn.

1432
02:03:52,358 --> 02:03:54,258
I shan't look up either.

1433
02:03:54,326 --> 02:03:56,089
I'll be looking at you...

1434
02:03:56,962 --> 02:03:59,157
and believing you're my wife.