1 00:00:05,661 --> 00:00:10,282 [rumbling] 2 00:00:10,362 --> 00:00:15,814 ♪ ♪ 3 00:00:15,894 --> 00:00:22,714 [explosion] 4 00:00:22,795 --> 00:00:27,015 [screaming and shouting] 5 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:32,232 [Praetorian] Everyone into the boat sheds. Now! 6 00:00:34,232 --> 00:00:37,286 [Amalthea] This isn't just an earthquake, is it? 7 00:00:37,365 --> 00:00:38,731 [screaming] 8 00:00:39,798 --> 00:00:44,819 [Tom Hiddleston] Pompeii isn't buried instantly. 9 00:00:44,899 --> 00:00:47,265 It took a day. 10 00:00:52,165 --> 00:00:56,018 So, by combining evidence... 11 00:00:56,098 --> 00:00:57,319 Wow! 12 00:00:57,399 --> 00:00:59,731 ...and imagination... 13 00:01:03,798 --> 00:01:09,484 ...I'm tracing three real Romans to see if they survive that day. 14 00:01:09,564 --> 00:01:10,751 A teenage boy. 15 00:01:10,831 --> 00:01:12,751 [Professor] Avianius was possibly apprenticed 16 00:01:12,831 --> 00:01:16,685 to bronzesmiths called the Masuri. 17 00:01:16,765 --> 00:01:19,685 [Claudia] Avi! I've got you. I've got you. 18 00:01:19,765 --> 00:01:22,453 [Tom] Julia Felix, the one I can't quite figure out. 19 00:01:22,533 --> 00:01:23,652 [Julia Felix] We are leaving Pompeii. 20 00:01:23,731 --> 00:01:24,918 [Cassius] I'm staying right here. 21 00:01:24,998 --> 00:01:27,385 [Julia] You haven't paid your bill since when? 22 00:01:27,465 --> 00:01:28,385 [Amalthea] A month. 23 00:01:28,465 --> 00:01:29,951 [Cassius] Impossible, woman. 24 00:01:30,031 --> 00:01:35,852 [Professor] Maybe it's her attachment to the people. 25 00:01:35,932 --> 00:01:38,951 [Tom] And the third, an old soldier 26 00:01:39,031 --> 00:01:43,819 who was once the best of the best. 27 00:01:43,899 --> 00:01:45,786 [Helvia] Not everyone is just out for themself. 28 00:01:45,865 --> 00:01:48,418 [Praetorian] Sweet fantasy, rich lady. 29 00:01:48,498 --> 00:01:52,986 [Julia] Hear me, Isis. I pray to you. 30 00:01:53,066 --> 00:01:54,885 [Darius] There seemed to have been some sort of attempt 31 00:01:54,965 --> 00:01:56,085 of an evacuation. 32 00:01:56,165 --> 00:01:58,786 [Praetorian] Get them going! Everyone is getting to safety! 33 00:01:58,865 --> 00:01:59,786 Come on! 34 00:01:59,865 --> 00:02:02,066 [Tom] Something did happen on this beach. 35 00:02:10,899 --> 00:02:14,519 [watch beeping] 36 00:02:14,598 --> 00:02:20,551 [watch beeping] 37 00:02:20,632 --> 00:02:22,651 So, is this it? 38 00:02:22,731 --> 00:02:24,086 Praetorian's out of time? 39 00:02:24,165 --> 00:02:25,218 [Chris] Unfortunately, yes. 40 00:02:25,299 --> 00:02:29,019 We've now entered the last phase of the eruption, phase 5, 41 00:02:29,098 --> 00:02:33,752 and it's the most deadly, what we call a pyroclastic surge. 42 00:02:33,831 --> 00:02:36,419 That eruption column, it's collapsing in on itself, 43 00:02:36,498 --> 00:02:39,451 generating these huge boiling clouds, 44 00:02:39,532 --> 00:02:43,752 these burning avalanches of rock and ash. 45 00:02:43,831 --> 00:02:45,519 They're hurtling down the mountainside 46 00:02:45,598 --> 00:02:48,985 at over 60 miles per hour. 47 00:02:49,066 --> 00:02:52,032 Herculaneum is first in the firing line. 48 00:02:54,332 --> 00:02:55,985 [Tom] They've helped hundreds evacuate, 49 00:02:56,066 --> 00:02:58,799 but there are still so many people on that beach. 50 00:03:01,265 --> 00:03:03,284 How long do they have? 51 00:03:03,365 --> 00:03:04,818 [Chris] Minutes. 52 00:03:04,899 --> 00:03:09,885 ♪ ♪ 53 00:03:09,966 --> 00:03:13,818 [explosion] 54 00:03:13,899 --> 00:03:16,951 [Praetorian] Into the boat sheds, now! 55 00:03:17,032 --> 00:03:20,152 [screaming and shouting] 56 00:03:20,233 --> 00:03:22,931 [Helvia] Let's go! 57 00:03:25,664 --> 00:03:28,651 [Praetorian] Now! Come on! Come on! 58 00:03:28,731 --> 00:03:32,919 [screaming and shouting] 59 00:03:32,998 --> 00:03:33,951 [Helvia] Hurry! 60 00:03:34,032 --> 00:03:35,353 [Praetorian] Shelter. 61 00:03:35,432 --> 00:03:39,485 ♪ ♪ 62 00:03:39,564 --> 00:03:41,451 [Chris] These flows are traveling fast, 63 00:03:41,532 --> 00:03:43,485 but they're also incredibly hot. 64 00:03:43,564 --> 00:03:45,585 Over 900 degrees Fahrenheit. 65 00:03:45,664 --> 00:03:48,252 [Tom] Wait. 900 degrees? 66 00:03:48,332 --> 00:03:49,685 [Helvia] Wait at the back! 67 00:03:49,764 --> 00:03:53,186 [Chris] It's hot enough to fuse metal to your bone. 68 00:03:53,265 --> 00:03:55,598 [shouting] 69 00:03:59,799 --> 00:04:02,086 Hot enough to even vaporize the blood 70 00:04:02,165 --> 00:04:04,598 in people's veins. 71 00:04:10,564 --> 00:04:13,132 [sobbing] 72 00:04:16,632 --> 00:04:23,451 [clock ticking] 73 00:04:23,531 --> 00:04:24,485 [clock ticking] 74 00:04:24,564 --> 00:04:29,966 [clock ticking] 75 00:04:35,398 --> 00:04:42,185 [clock ticking] 76 00:04:42,266 --> 00:04:48,918 [clock ticking] 77 00:04:48,999 --> 00:04:50,831 [clock ticking] 78 00:05:00,432 --> 00:05:07,185 ♪ ♪ 79 00:05:07,266 --> 00:05:10,786 ♪ ♪ 80 00:05:10,865 --> 00:05:12,886 [Tom] In those final moments, 81 00:05:12,966 --> 00:05:16,752 the boat sheds were the only option, 82 00:05:16,831 --> 00:05:20,819 but tragically, it wasn't enough. 83 00:05:20,899 --> 00:05:26,619 Although almost no remains were found in the town above, 84 00:05:26,699 --> 00:05:29,285 roughly 300 bodies were found 85 00:05:29,365 --> 00:05:34,119 when the boat sheds were excavated. 86 00:05:34,199 --> 00:05:36,685 So many people-- 87 00:05:36,764 --> 00:05:41,197 men, women, and children. 88 00:05:43,266 --> 00:05:46,351 The last citizens of Herculaneum, 89 00:05:46,432 --> 00:05:50,019 all huddled together, 90 00:05:50,098 --> 00:05:55,851 holding on to one another as they died. 91 00:05:55,932 --> 00:05:58,418 The archaeologists estimate that Herculaneum was home 92 00:05:58,497 --> 00:06:01,418 to roughly 5,000 people. 93 00:06:01,499 --> 00:06:04,218 So if it weren't for the evacuation, 94 00:06:04,298 --> 00:06:06,685 if it weren't for the sacrifice, 95 00:06:06,764 --> 00:06:10,899 the loss could have been so much more. 96 00:06:16,098 --> 00:06:20,552 The remains of the Praetorian guard were discovered here, 97 00:06:20,632 --> 00:06:24,619 where he fell on that beach. 98 00:06:24,699 --> 00:06:29,752 He was found with his military belt, his full pay, 99 00:06:29,831 --> 00:06:32,552 and of course, his sword. 100 00:06:32,632 --> 00:06:36,384 These personal possessions, as well as his physical remains, 101 00:06:36,464 --> 00:06:38,084 were all that was left of him, 102 00:06:38,165 --> 00:06:42,651 but they tell us so much about the man he was. 103 00:06:42,732 --> 00:06:48,019 ♪ ♪ 104 00:06:48,098 --> 00:06:54,886 ♪ ♪ 105 00:06:54,966 --> 00:06:58,584 ♪ ♪ 106 00:06:58,665 --> 00:07:02,685 We don't know his name. 107 00:07:02,764 --> 00:07:07,718 We know him only as a Praetorian. 108 00:07:07,798 --> 00:07:11,951 ♪ ♪ 109 00:07:12,031 --> 00:07:18,685 ♪ ♪ 110 00:07:18,764 --> 00:07:21,685 But I know what he did. 111 00:07:21,764 --> 00:07:25,153 I don't need his name. 112 00:07:25,233 --> 00:07:28,252 I found the man. 113 00:07:28,331 --> 00:07:33,985 ♪ ♪ 114 00:07:34,064 --> 00:07:40,918 ♪ ♪ 115 00:07:40,999 --> 00:07:47,851 ♪ ♪ 116 00:07:47,932 --> 00:07:51,584 ♪ ♪ 117 00:07:51,665 --> 00:07:55,485 So, is that the end of phase 5, Chris? 118 00:07:55,564 --> 00:07:56,619 [Chris] I'm afraid not. 119 00:07:56,699 --> 00:07:58,951 The pyroclastic surge that hit Herculaneum 120 00:07:59,031 --> 00:08:02,151 was just one in a series that would be unleashed 121 00:08:02,232 --> 00:08:03,786 by Vesuvius that day. 122 00:08:03,865 --> 00:08:06,851 [Tom] So the very same thing is coming for Pompeii, 123 00:08:06,932 --> 00:08:08,951 coming for Julia and Avianius? 124 00:08:09,031 --> 00:08:12,519 [Chris] Yes. The eruption column will continue to collapse, 125 00:08:12,598 --> 00:08:16,485 generating pyroclastic surge after pyroclastic surge. 126 00:08:16,564 --> 00:08:20,619 [Tom] So these surges are about to hit Pompeii. 127 00:08:20,699 --> 00:08:22,218 I can't imagine Avianius and Julia 128 00:08:22,298 --> 00:08:24,418 have more than an hour left 129 00:08:24,499 --> 00:08:27,031 before the city is completely buried. 130 00:08:31,130 --> 00:08:34,217 [Tom] If anyone's still alive down there, 131 00:08:34,298 --> 00:08:36,599 they're living in a nightmare. 132 00:08:40,532 --> 00:08:43,298 [screaming] 133 00:08:47,563 --> 00:08:49,785 [screaming] 134 00:08:49,865 --> 00:08:55,684 [screaming] 135 00:08:55,764 --> 00:09:00,451 This is Avianius' and his mother's last chance. 136 00:09:00,532 --> 00:09:03,217 Their window for survival is closing. 137 00:09:03,298 --> 00:09:05,184 [Claudia] Avi, are you ready? 138 00:09:05,264 --> 00:09:06,817 [Tom] They need to leave. 139 00:09:06,898 --> 00:09:10,118 And they need to leave now. 140 00:09:10,197 --> 00:09:13,018 [Claudia] We don't need Granddad's mask, love. 141 00:09:13,097 --> 00:09:13,985 Leave it. 142 00:09:14,065 --> 00:09:17,051 Just take what we need for the journey, okay? 143 00:09:17,130 --> 00:09:20,184 [Avianius] Alright, Mother. 144 00:09:20,264 --> 00:09:21,184 [Claudia] Okay, got everything? 145 00:09:21,264 --> 00:09:22,184 [Avianius] Yeah. 146 00:09:22,264 --> 00:09:24,099 [Claudia] Okay. Come. Here. 147 00:09:31,730 --> 00:09:34,631 [Tom] But escape isn't gonna be easy. 148 00:09:38,565 --> 00:09:40,764 Temperatures are still rising. 149 00:09:46,264 --> 00:09:50,264 [rumbling] 150 00:09:52,563 --> 00:09:56,719 Rocks are raining down in the darkness, 151 00:09:56,798 --> 00:09:59,197 blocking exits out of the city. 152 00:10:01,197 --> 00:10:02,884 [coughing] 153 00:10:02,965 --> 00:10:07,697 [explosion] 154 00:10:10,398 --> 00:10:13,650 And the air is so full of ash and gas, 155 00:10:13,730 --> 00:10:16,831 it's like being inside a burning black sandstorm. 156 00:10:23,030 --> 00:10:23,985 They wouldn't have been able to see 157 00:10:24,065 --> 00:10:27,231 more than a few feet in front of them. 158 00:10:30,532 --> 00:10:33,998 [rumbling] 159 00:10:35,563 --> 00:10:41,650 [coughing] 160 00:10:41,730 --> 00:10:44,217 [Claudia] Are you okay? Come here. Come here. 161 00:10:44,298 --> 00:10:47,184 Here, Avi. Hold this. Hold this over your mouth. 162 00:10:47,264 --> 00:10:49,932 Breathe. Breathe. 163 00:10:54,798 --> 00:11:01,051 ♪ ♪ 164 00:11:01,130 --> 00:11:06,798 ♪ ♪ 165 00:11:10,932 --> 00:11:13,965 Avi, don't look. Stay with me. 166 00:11:18,065 --> 00:11:21,664 [explosion] 167 00:11:29,599 --> 00:11:34,551 [Tom] This is the tipping point for human survival. 168 00:11:34,630 --> 00:11:38,831 But by now, Julia's household will be packed up. 169 00:11:42,231 --> 00:11:46,197 At last, she's ready to leave. 170 00:11:57,298 --> 00:11:59,152 [Julia] Is everything ready? 171 00:11:59,231 --> 00:12:01,951 [Amalthea] Everything is packed. 172 00:12:02,030 --> 00:12:04,951 [Julia] Do you have water? Enough blankets for the guests? 173 00:12:05,030 --> 00:12:07,051 [Amalthea] Of course. 174 00:12:07,130 --> 00:12:09,418 [Julia] Cassius? 175 00:12:09,499 --> 00:12:11,451 [Amalthea] Already complaining of blisters. 176 00:12:11,530 --> 00:12:13,130 [Julia] Mm-hmm. 177 00:12:15,065 --> 00:12:18,519 [explosion] 178 00:12:18,599 --> 00:12:20,931 Then we are ready to leave. 179 00:12:31,298 --> 00:12:35,951 ♪ ♪ 180 00:12:36,030 --> 00:12:38,317 [Amalthea] Come on. 181 00:12:38,397 --> 00:12:40,217 We have to leave! 182 00:12:40,298 --> 00:12:42,351 Head to the city gate. 183 00:12:42,432 --> 00:12:43,817 This way! 184 00:12:43,898 --> 00:12:50,384 ♪ ♪ 185 00:12:50,465 --> 00:12:53,051 Come on. Mind your step. Come on. 186 00:12:53,130 --> 00:12:54,251 ♪ ♪ 187 00:12:54,331 --> 00:13:00,384 ♪ ♪ 188 00:13:00,465 --> 00:13:01,817 [Amalthea] Julia! 189 00:13:01,898 --> 00:13:07,118 [Tom] So she lost everything, but she found a way to escape. 190 00:13:07,197 --> 00:13:09,051 I knew Julia would find a way. 191 00:13:09,130 --> 00:13:11,418 [Caitie Barrett] Well, I'm afraid I might have to 192 00:13:11,499 --> 00:13:13,085 correct you again on that one, Tom. 193 00:13:13,164 --> 00:13:14,484 [Tom] Oh, dear. 194 00:13:14,563 --> 00:13:16,750 Please tell me there was an evacuation. 195 00:13:16,831 --> 00:13:18,451 [Caitie] So that is consistent 196 00:13:18,532 --> 00:13:21,451 with how few human remains they found. 197 00:13:21,532 --> 00:13:22,683 [Tom] Okay. 198 00:13:22,764 --> 00:13:25,519 [Caitie] But also, I think there's something here 199 00:13:25,599 --> 00:13:30,417 you're gonna really want to see. 200 00:13:30,498 --> 00:13:33,817 [Tom] Wow. 201 00:13:33,898 --> 00:13:36,184 That's Julia's shrine to the goddess Isis. 202 00:13:36,264 --> 00:13:37,384 [Caitie] That's right. 203 00:13:37,464 --> 00:13:40,085 So, remember in the garden, I showed you where it used to be. 204 00:13:40,164 --> 00:13:42,451 Obviously, it's on its side at the moment 205 00:13:42,532 --> 00:13:45,351 because it's undergoing restoration. 206 00:13:45,432 --> 00:13:47,351 [Tom] It seems large for a shrine 207 00:13:47,432 --> 00:13:49,251 you'd have in your home, no? 208 00:13:49,331 --> 00:13:51,618 [Caitie] It's actually one of the largest domestic shrines 209 00:13:51,697 --> 00:13:52,784 excavated at Pompeii. 210 00:13:52,865 --> 00:13:53,850 [Tom] Wow. 211 00:13:53,931 --> 00:13:58,451 [Caitie] But when they excavated the shrine in 1952, 212 00:13:58,532 --> 00:14:00,717 they found a body. 213 00:14:00,798 --> 00:14:01,784 [Tom] You think it's Julia? 214 00:14:01,865 --> 00:14:03,418 [Caitie] We don't really know. 215 00:14:03,499 --> 00:14:06,551 The physical remains actually no longer survive. 216 00:14:06,630 --> 00:14:09,152 Archaeology has changed a lot since those days. 217 00:14:09,231 --> 00:14:15,484 But the excavators describe the remains as an adult woman 218 00:14:15,563 --> 00:14:17,684 wearing very expensive jewelry. 219 00:14:17,764 --> 00:14:20,297 It was found right near this shrine. 220 00:14:24,230 --> 00:14:25,784 [Tom] If that body was Julia's, 221 00:14:25,865 --> 00:14:27,784 what was she doing at the shrine? 222 00:14:27,865 --> 00:14:28,965 [sigh] 223 00:14:31,464 --> 00:14:36,018 What did I get wrong? 224 00:14:36,097 --> 00:14:40,484 She's smart. She's a leader. 225 00:14:40,563 --> 00:14:43,216 People listen to her. 226 00:14:43,297 --> 00:14:46,683 We know the horses and carts were gone from the household. 227 00:14:46,764 --> 00:14:49,351 She's organized an evacuation. 228 00:14:49,432 --> 00:14:53,451 She stays. 229 00:14:53,530 --> 00:14:55,118 It doesn't make any sense. 230 00:14:55,197 --> 00:14:56,152 ♪ ♪ 231 00:14:56,231 --> 00:15:02,918 ♪ ♪ 232 00:15:02,998 --> 00:15:04,717 [bell rings] 233 00:15:04,798 --> 00:15:07,918 Let's try that again, shall we? 234 00:15:07,998 --> 00:15:13,217 [rewinding] 235 00:15:13,298 --> 00:15:15,697 [rewinding] 236 00:15:16,664 --> 00:15:18,850 [distant screaming] 237 00:15:18,931 --> 00:15:19,884 [sobbing] 238 00:15:19,965 --> 00:15:26,317 [sobbing] 239 00:15:26,397 --> 00:15:31,231 [Julia] Isis. Isis, hear me. 240 00:15:36,898 --> 00:15:37,985 ♪ ♪ 241 00:15:38,065 --> 00:15:44,451 ♪ ♪ 242 00:15:44,532 --> 00:15:45,750 Is everything ready? 243 00:15:45,831 --> 00:15:49,317 [Amalthea] Everything is packed. 244 00:15:49,397 --> 00:15:51,831 [Julia] Then we are ready to leave. 245 00:15:54,865 --> 00:15:58,283 I have one final thing to do. 246 00:15:58,364 --> 00:15:59,764 Follow. 247 00:16:02,364 --> 00:16:06,618 [Tom] But I don't understand, Caitie, if that body was hers, 248 00:16:06,697 --> 00:16:07,850 why does she stay? 249 00:16:07,931 --> 00:16:11,118 [Caitie] Well, one possible reason could be 250 00:16:11,197 --> 00:16:14,284 right here in front of us. 251 00:16:14,365 --> 00:16:15,884 [Tom] What, Isis? 252 00:16:15,965 --> 00:16:18,085 [Caitie] Romans had many, many gods, 253 00:16:18,164 --> 00:16:21,150 including a lot that originally came from other cultures 254 00:16:21,230 --> 00:16:22,884 like Egypt, in this case. 255 00:16:22,965 --> 00:16:25,750 And individuals could pick and choose which ones 256 00:16:25,831 --> 00:16:28,351 they wanted to be most devoted to. 257 00:16:28,432 --> 00:16:31,317 Isis was a cosmic creator. 258 00:16:31,397 --> 00:16:34,284 She could embody all of the gods in one, 259 00:16:34,365 --> 00:16:36,051 and she was also a mother figure. 260 00:16:36,130 --> 00:16:39,850 So she's a protector, she could keep people safe. 261 00:16:39,931 --> 00:16:42,283 She's certainly a god you might want to have on your side 262 00:16:42,364 --> 00:16:46,317 during a natural disaster. 263 00:16:46,397 --> 00:16:50,518 Also, when the shrine was found, it was all set up for worship. 264 00:16:50,597 --> 00:16:53,951 There were sacred objects, offerings. 265 00:16:54,030 --> 00:16:57,650 If people were taking other valuables from the estate, 266 00:16:57,730 --> 00:17:01,216 it is striking these were left in place. 267 00:17:01,297 --> 00:17:05,817 [Tom] There was someone praying here during the eruption. 268 00:17:05,897 --> 00:17:07,483 [Julia] Give me your hands. 269 00:17:07,564 --> 00:17:10,617 [Tom] I don't know, it just feels so fatalistic 270 00:17:10,698 --> 00:17:13,384 for Julia not to leave. 271 00:17:13,463 --> 00:17:15,718 [Julia] Come to me, Isis. 272 00:17:15,798 --> 00:17:19,550 Hear me, lady of the flame. 273 00:17:19,631 --> 00:17:22,817 Mother. Protector. 274 00:17:22,897 --> 00:17:24,451 I revere you. 275 00:17:24,530 --> 00:17:27,584 I beg your favor and beseech you. 276 00:17:27,663 --> 00:17:29,718 Come to me, Isis. 277 00:17:29,798 --> 00:17:32,317 [Caitie] Could be the opposite of fatalistic. 278 00:17:32,397 --> 00:17:33,683 [Tom] How? 279 00:17:33,763 --> 00:17:36,651 [Caitie] The Romans had a really active approach to religion. 280 00:17:36,730 --> 00:17:39,483 They believed you could appeal to the gods directly. 281 00:17:39,565 --> 00:17:41,718 You could use offerings, prayers. 282 00:17:41,798 --> 00:17:45,917 We might imagine her feeling like she needed to intercede 283 00:17:45,998 --> 00:17:49,417 with a divine protector to save her household. 284 00:17:49,498 --> 00:17:50,483 [Tom] I see. 285 00:17:50,564 --> 00:17:55,416 So by appealing to Isis, because she believes 286 00:17:55,497 --> 00:17:57,250 that she can provide her household 287 00:17:57,330 --> 00:18:00,018 and the people she loves with safe passage. 288 00:18:00,097 --> 00:18:04,519 [Caitie] That's certainly a story that we can imagine. 289 00:18:04,598 --> 00:18:07,951 She's got a responsibility to protect people, 290 00:18:08,030 --> 00:18:11,151 and there weren't any other eruption victims found 291 00:18:11,230 --> 00:18:15,417 in domestic parts of the estate, so maybe it worked. 292 00:18:15,498 --> 00:18:17,097 Who can say? 293 00:18:23,397 --> 00:18:26,483 [Amalthea] You aren't coming? 294 00:18:26,565 --> 00:18:27,951 [Julia] You know I cannot. 295 00:18:28,030 --> 00:18:30,718 [Amalthea] Please. You must come. 296 00:18:30,798 --> 00:18:35,065 [Julia] Amalthea, you've always put your faith in me, hmm? 297 00:18:37,798 --> 00:18:41,217 Do so one more time, please. 298 00:18:41,297 --> 00:18:42,351 No, don't cry. Don't cry. 299 00:18:42,431 --> 00:18:43,351 [Amalthea] Please! 300 00:18:43,431 --> 00:18:44,384 [Julia] Ah. Shh. 301 00:18:44,463 --> 00:18:45,483 [Amalthea] I can't. 302 00:18:45,565 --> 00:18:47,584 [Julia] Oh, look. 303 00:18:47,663 --> 00:18:50,518 The clasp's come loose again. 304 00:18:50,597 --> 00:18:55,584 Can you fix it for me? 305 00:18:55,663 --> 00:18:58,830 [Caitie] This was found with the body in the garden. 306 00:19:07,964 --> 00:19:11,917 [Tom] It's like being in her presence. 307 00:19:11,998 --> 00:19:14,683 [Caitie] Such a personal object was there, 308 00:19:14,763 --> 00:19:18,085 touching this real person's skin. 309 00:19:18,164 --> 00:19:20,451 [Julia] Thank you. 310 00:19:20,530 --> 00:19:23,651 [Caitie] The crescent moon, there, it's an amulet. 311 00:19:23,730 --> 00:19:27,830 Represents protection, for women and girls especially. 312 00:19:31,763 --> 00:19:34,251 [Julia] Keep this with you. You'll need it. Mmm? 313 00:19:34,332 --> 00:19:35,518 [Amalthea] Thank you. 314 00:19:35,597 --> 00:19:38,085 [Julia] Now go, or Cassius will drink all my wine. 315 00:19:38,164 --> 00:19:40,785 [Amalthea] I'll make sure he gets the bill. 316 00:19:40,865 --> 00:19:43,998 [Julia] Go. Go, darling. Go. 317 00:20:03,497 --> 00:20:06,817 [Tom] I think I finally get it now. 318 00:20:06,897 --> 00:20:10,651 She was doing everything she could for them, 319 00:20:10,730 --> 00:20:13,750 so of course she stays. 320 00:20:13,830 --> 00:20:15,830 She was always gonna stay. 321 00:20:21,431 --> 00:20:22,384 ♪ ♪ 322 00:20:22,463 --> 00:20:28,483 ♪ ♪ 323 00:20:28,564 --> 00:20:32,351 [Julia] Hear me, Isis, lady of the flame. 324 00:20:32,431 --> 00:20:36,951 ♪ ♪ 325 00:20:37,030 --> 00:20:43,483 ♪ ♪ 326 00:20:43,565 --> 00:20:44,817 [Amalthea] Come on. Come on. 327 00:20:44,897 --> 00:20:48,584 We need to leave, and we need to leave quickly. 328 00:20:48,663 --> 00:20:50,518 You'll be alright. 329 00:20:50,597 --> 00:20:54,184 [Julia] Guide them and save them from the monster. 330 00:20:54,265 --> 00:21:01,117 ♪ ♪ 331 00:21:01,198 --> 00:21:08,049 ♪ ♪ 332 00:21:08,130 --> 00:21:14,317 ♪ ♪ 333 00:21:14,396 --> 00:21:19,284 ♪ ♪ 334 00:21:19,364 --> 00:21:25,683 ♪ ♪ 335 00:21:25,763 --> 00:21:27,451 [Amalthea] Come on. Come on. Come on. We're nearly there. 336 00:21:27,530 --> 00:21:29,451 Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. 337 00:21:29,530 --> 00:21:31,029 [Townsperson] I can see the gate! 338 00:21:36,029 --> 00:21:39,217 [Tom] If you look at the world through Julia's eyes, 339 00:21:39,297 --> 00:21:42,151 understand it the way that she did, 340 00:21:42,230 --> 00:21:45,565 her decision makes total sense. 341 00:21:51,931 --> 00:21:58,351 The final act of a woman who defied all conventions, 342 00:21:58,431 --> 00:22:01,798 lived her life on her terms. 343 00:22:06,030 --> 00:22:09,683 The final act of someone who history tells us 344 00:22:09,763 --> 00:22:11,865 should be impossible. 345 00:22:15,730 --> 00:22:21,130 The final act of impossible Julia. 346 00:22:27,130 --> 00:22:28,116 [rumbling] 347 00:22:28,196 --> 00:22:35,049 ♪ ♪ 348 00:22:35,130 --> 00:22:41,983 ♪ ♪ 349 00:22:42,065 --> 00:22:48,917 ♪ ♪ 350 00:22:48,998 --> 00:22:55,851 ♪ ♪ 351 00:22:55,931 --> 00:23:02,785 ♪ ♪ 352 00:23:02,865 --> 00:23:09,718 ♪ ♪ 353 00:23:09,798 --> 00:23:16,651 ♪ ♪ 354 00:23:16,730 --> 00:23:23,417 ♪ ♪ 355 00:23:23,498 --> 00:23:30,351 ♪ ♪ 356 00:23:30,431 --> 00:23:37,284 ♪ ♪ 357 00:23:37,364 --> 00:23:40,183 ♪ ♪ 358 00:23:40,263 --> 00:23:42,384 [Claudia] Okay. Here. 359 00:23:42,463 --> 00:23:43,717 Careful, careful. 360 00:23:43,797 --> 00:23:46,750 Okay, step, step, step. 361 00:23:46,830 --> 00:23:51,183 [Tom] These are literally Pompeii's final minutes now, 362 00:23:51,263 --> 00:23:54,384 in this total darkness. 363 00:23:54,463 --> 00:23:56,718 All the records, 364 00:23:56,798 --> 00:24:01,584 all archaeological evidence, vanishes. 365 00:24:01,663 --> 00:24:03,018 [Claudia] Okay, I've got you, I've got you. 366 00:24:03,097 --> 00:24:08,084 [Tom] The people of Pompeii completely fade from history. 367 00:24:08,163 --> 00:24:12,916 It's like a fog that we can't see through. 368 00:24:12,997 --> 00:24:15,884 [Claudia] Ah. 369 00:24:15,963 --> 00:24:18,817 Ah. 370 00:24:18,897 --> 00:24:20,498 Eh. 371 00:24:23,431 --> 00:24:28,698 Avi, I'm sorry, I, I think we took a wrong-- 372 00:24:31,497 --> 00:24:36,250 I don't know where we are. 373 00:24:36,330 --> 00:24:39,651 [Avianius] It's down there, Mum. 374 00:24:39,730 --> 00:24:40,650 [Claudia] Are you sure? 375 00:24:40,730 --> 00:24:43,183 [Avianius] Yeah. It's that way. 376 00:24:43,263 --> 00:24:46,130 Granddad built half the roads in this city, remember? 377 00:24:51,730 --> 00:24:55,263 [Claudia] Oh, I love you so much, my Avi. 378 00:24:59,530 --> 00:25:01,917 Lead the way. 379 00:25:01,998 --> 00:25:04,084 [Avianius] Come on. 380 00:25:04,163 --> 00:25:10,683 [Tom] Avianius completely fades from history, too. 381 00:25:10,763 --> 00:25:13,116 It's like a light that goes out. 382 00:25:13,196 --> 00:25:14,151 ♪ ♪ 383 00:25:14,230 --> 00:25:20,451 ♪ ♪ 384 00:25:20,530 --> 00:25:23,550 [typing] 385 00:25:23,631 --> 00:25:26,384 [Steven] Hmm, that's it. 386 00:25:26,463 --> 00:25:29,451 [printer whirring] 387 00:25:29,530 --> 00:25:30,451 [Tom] Steven? 388 00:25:30,530 --> 00:25:33,017 [Steven] Tom, is that you? 389 00:25:33,096 --> 00:25:35,916 I found it. 390 00:25:35,997 --> 00:25:37,284 [Tom] What? What, what, what have you found? 391 00:25:37,364 --> 00:25:38,750 [Steven] The missing piece of the puzzle. 392 00:25:38,830 --> 00:25:44,384 Evidence that tells us the end of Avianius' story. 393 00:25:44,463 --> 00:25:46,817 [Tom] So, what happened? 394 00:25:46,897 --> 00:25:50,884 [Steven] It's all there in that very short inscription. 395 00:25:50,963 --> 00:25:53,950 [Tom] Okay. 396 00:25:54,029 --> 00:25:56,049 Uh, dis manibus. 397 00:25:56,130 --> 00:25:57,049 Is that right? 398 00:25:57,130 --> 00:25:58,049 [Steven] Mm-hmm. 399 00:25:58,130 --> 00:26:00,416 [Tom] Dis manibus. 400 00:26:00,497 --> 00:26:02,017 To the spirits of the dead. 401 00:26:02,096 --> 00:26:03,250 [Steven] Mm-hmm. 402 00:26:03,330 --> 00:26:04,384 [Tom] This is a gravestone. 403 00:26:04,463 --> 00:26:06,416 [Steven] It is. 404 00:26:06,497 --> 00:26:07,851 [Tom] Avianius' gravestone. 405 00:26:07,931 --> 00:26:11,017 [Steven] But it's from long after the eruption 406 00:26:11,096 --> 00:26:13,451 and from a completely different community. 407 00:26:13,530 --> 00:26:14,584 [Tom] I don't follow. 408 00:26:14,663 --> 00:26:16,683 [Steven] It means he got out. 409 00:26:16,763 --> 00:26:20,717 It means he escaped Pompeii. 410 00:26:20,797 --> 00:26:22,217 [Tom] Avianius survives? 411 00:26:22,297 --> 00:26:26,284 [Steven] Yes. 412 00:26:26,364 --> 00:26:27,785 [Tom] We did it. 413 00:26:27,865 --> 00:26:30,084 We found a real survivor. 414 00:26:30,163 --> 00:26:31,049 Ha! 415 00:26:31,130 --> 00:26:33,250 This is a story of survival, after all. 416 00:26:33,330 --> 00:26:36,897 It's a story of Avianius' survival. 417 00:26:39,530 --> 00:26:41,183 Avianius Felicioni. Felicioni. 418 00:26:41,263 --> 00:26:42,917 That's the first time we've seen his full name. 419 00:26:42,998 --> 00:26:46,483 [Steven] It is, but there's more on there as well. 420 00:26:46,564 --> 00:26:47,482 [Tom] Okay. 421 00:26:47,564 --> 00:26:52,650 Alumno carrisimo masyri fecerunt. 422 00:26:52,730 --> 00:26:55,384 So, to carissimo, is "dearest," right? 423 00:26:55,463 --> 00:26:57,784 Dearest Avianius. 424 00:26:57,864 --> 00:27:00,983 Uh, alumno. 425 00:27:01,065 --> 00:27:01,817 Alumno. 426 00:27:01,897 --> 00:27:07,384 Um, alumno is "student," right? 427 00:27:07,463 --> 00:27:10,851 [Steven] Or... 428 00:27:10,931 --> 00:27:15,116 [Tom] No. 429 00:27:15,196 --> 00:27:21,017 The inscription reveals that Avianius was orphaned. 430 00:27:21,096 --> 00:27:24,518 That's the secondary meaning of alumno. 431 00:27:24,597 --> 00:27:29,263 He survives, but his mum does not. 432 00:27:32,163 --> 00:27:34,617 That's all it says. 433 00:27:34,698 --> 00:27:36,896 And we don't know what happened to her. 434 00:27:45,330 --> 00:27:50,950 Maybe there are some stories that are just too hard to tell. 435 00:27:51,029 --> 00:27:54,798 Some things you just can't even imagine. 436 00:27:59,864 --> 00:28:01,416 Like a child losing their mother. 437 00:28:01,497 --> 00:28:08,351 ♪ ♪ 438 00:28:08,431 --> 00:28:15,284 ♪ ♪ 439 00:28:15,364 --> 00:28:19,384 ♪ ♪ 440 00:28:19,463 --> 00:28:21,017 [Avianius] Please, please, please, please, 441 00:28:21,096 --> 00:28:22,797 please, please, please. 442 00:28:27,663 --> 00:28:30,830 [Tom] To lose the person who heard your first words. 443 00:28:34,630 --> 00:28:37,797 The person who picked you up when you fell. 444 00:28:41,431 --> 00:28:43,730 The person who is always there... 445 00:28:46,463 --> 00:28:49,217 ...who knows you better than you know yourself. 446 00:28:49,297 --> 00:28:55,983 ♪ ♪ 447 00:28:56,064 --> 00:28:57,151 ♪ ♪ 448 00:28:57,230 --> 00:29:03,217 ♪ ♪ 449 00:29:03,297 --> 00:29:08,116 And he's alone. 450 00:29:08,196 --> 00:29:12,163 Completely and utterly alone. 451 00:29:15,196 --> 00:29:18,263 Maybe imagination, like history, just runs out. 452 00:29:34,630 --> 00:29:40,451 [clock ticking] 453 00:29:40,530 --> 00:29:47,384 [watch beeping] 454 00:29:47,463 --> 00:29:51,983 [watch beeping] 455 00:29:52,064 --> 00:29:55,784 [Tom] That's it. 456 00:29:55,864 --> 00:29:59,482 Their time's up. 457 00:29:59,564 --> 00:30:03,196 Pompeii's last day is over. 458 00:30:05,330 --> 00:30:10,616 The eruption column finally collapses, and Pompeii is hit 459 00:30:10,696 --> 00:30:15,730 by wave after wave of pyroclastic surge. 460 00:30:18,163 --> 00:30:21,196 All that life is extinguished. 461 00:30:24,564 --> 00:30:30,084 The town is buried, along with its people. 462 00:30:30,163 --> 00:30:36,817 Their stories sealed in ash for millennia. 463 00:30:36,896 --> 00:30:43,717 ♪ ♪ 464 00:30:43,797 --> 00:30:50,450 ♪ ♪ 465 00:30:50,529 --> 00:30:57,351 ♪ ♪ 466 00:30:57,431 --> 00:31:00,451 ♪ ♪ 467 00:31:00,530 --> 00:31:06,784 ♪ ♪ 468 00:31:06,864 --> 00:31:10,916 [clock ticking] 469 00:31:10,997 --> 00:31:17,230 [clock ticking] 470 00:31:46,696 --> 00:31:48,151 [Tom] When I started this project, 471 00:31:48,230 --> 00:31:50,450 I had the idea that it was noble 472 00:31:50,529 --> 00:31:54,183 not to show the tragic plaster casts of the bodies 473 00:31:54,263 --> 00:31:56,316 from the people of Pompeii, 474 00:31:56,396 --> 00:31:59,064 people frozen in their final moments. 475 00:32:01,797 --> 00:32:03,215 They're known all over the world, 476 00:32:03,296 --> 00:32:10,029 and I worry that we have become desensitized to them. 477 00:32:12,430 --> 00:32:14,950 Desensitized to their lives, 478 00:32:15,029 --> 00:32:18,663 to the real people and their real suffering. 479 00:32:21,762 --> 00:32:23,451 But the only way you become desensitized 480 00:32:23,530 --> 00:32:27,982 is if you don't engage with their stories. 481 00:32:28,064 --> 00:32:32,983 By tracing Julia and by tracing the Praetorian and Avianius, 482 00:32:33,064 --> 00:32:36,482 we're engaged now, these aren't just plaster casts, 483 00:32:36,564 --> 00:32:41,696 they are people and these are their stories. 484 00:32:44,462 --> 00:32:49,497 And these people, they lived, they loved. 485 00:32:51,431 --> 00:32:54,529 They had families, they had homes. 486 00:32:56,663 --> 00:33:00,817 They had people who cared about them and in the aftermath, 487 00:33:00,896 --> 00:33:07,084 who, who searched for them, and when they couldn't find them, 488 00:33:07,163 --> 00:33:08,930 would have grieved for them. 489 00:33:14,696 --> 00:33:17,282 At the beginning of this project, 490 00:33:17,363 --> 00:33:22,750 I set out to tell the story of Pompeii that we don't know. 491 00:33:22,829 --> 00:33:27,215 Somehow, maybe stories of survival. 492 00:33:27,296 --> 00:33:30,183 Avianius might have made it out of the city alive. 493 00:33:30,263 --> 00:33:31,450 He might have survived physically. 494 00:33:31,529 --> 00:33:35,017 But what does it mean to survive 495 00:33:35,096 --> 00:33:37,717 if you lose everything in the process? 496 00:33:37,797 --> 00:33:44,450 ♪ ♪ 497 00:33:44,529 --> 00:33:51,351 ♪ ♪ 498 00:33:51,431 --> 00:33:57,884 ♪ ♪ 499 00:33:57,963 --> 00:34:00,084 [Sarita] You know, I think survival is not just about 500 00:34:00,163 --> 00:34:05,115 staying alive, and it's certainly not about forgetting 501 00:34:05,195 --> 00:34:07,849 or trying to erase the past, 502 00:34:07,930 --> 00:34:14,050 it's about continuing to live, to choose to live and to grow. 503 00:34:14,130 --> 00:34:19,983 And it's when trauma and growth can coexist in the same space 504 00:34:20,063 --> 00:34:25,717 that's going to allow for a way forward. 505 00:34:25,797 --> 00:34:29,650 Psychologists will talk about post-traumatic injury, 506 00:34:29,730 --> 00:34:31,717 but there is this related phenomena 507 00:34:31,797 --> 00:34:34,217 called post-traumatic growth, 508 00:34:34,297 --> 00:34:37,016 and that's what can lead to a future. 509 00:34:37,097 --> 00:34:38,949 [Tom] Hang on, is that a real thing, post-traumatic growth? 510 00:34:39,030 --> 00:34:40,750 [Sarita] Yeah, it's experienced by some people 511 00:34:40,829 --> 00:34:45,215 when they've been through a traumatic event, like Pompeii. 512 00:34:45,295 --> 00:34:49,382 People try to find meaning from what's happened to them, 513 00:34:49,463 --> 00:34:54,583 and that can lead to a deeper sense of appreciation of life, 514 00:34:54,663 --> 00:34:59,182 a new purpose. 515 00:34:59,262 --> 00:35:01,682 [Tom] Maybe Avianius can feel that. 516 00:35:01,762 --> 00:35:05,817 [Sarita] I think we do have reason to be hopeful for him. 517 00:35:05,896 --> 00:35:12,416 ♪ ♪ 518 00:35:12,496 --> 00:35:15,583 Trauma is always going to be part of his story, 519 00:35:15,663 --> 00:35:18,483 but it's not gonna be all of it. 520 00:35:18,563 --> 00:35:21,282 [Tom] Hmm. Thank you, Sarita. 521 00:35:21,362 --> 00:35:22,650 I think I'm learning that there's more 522 00:35:22,730 --> 00:35:26,184 to disaster psychology than just fire alarms and the amygdala. 523 00:35:26,264 --> 00:35:28,449 [Sarita] You know, I've never really been that keen 524 00:35:28,530 --> 00:35:31,048 on the term disaster psychologist, though. 525 00:35:31,130 --> 00:35:31,849 [Tom] Oh. 526 00:35:31,929 --> 00:35:33,382 [Sarita] I'd much rather be known 527 00:35:33,463 --> 00:35:35,516 as a survival psychologist. 528 00:35:35,597 --> 00:35:38,317 [Tom] I'm pretty sure I can help you with that. 529 00:35:38,396 --> 00:35:40,617 [rewinding] 530 00:35:40,697 --> 00:35:41,983 [Sarita] Aw, thanks. 531 00:35:42,063 --> 00:35:44,682 [Tom] That's okay. That's the least I could do. 532 00:35:44,762 --> 00:35:46,650 [Sarita] Ah, guess I'm a survival psychologist now. 533 00:35:46,730 --> 00:35:47,817 Thanks. 534 00:35:47,896 --> 00:35:50,164 [Tom] Just promise to not set off any more fire alarms. 535 00:35:57,663 --> 00:35:59,784 [Steven] You know, I think what people never consider 536 00:35:59,864 --> 00:36:06,063 about Pompeii is the immediate aftermath of the eruption. 537 00:36:09,396 --> 00:36:10,563 [Patient] Ah! 538 00:36:13,164 --> 00:36:18,530 [sobbing] 539 00:36:22,097 --> 00:36:27,016 Avianius is just one of so many stories 540 00:36:27,096 --> 00:36:29,150 of people that made it out. 541 00:36:29,231 --> 00:36:36,083 ♪ ♪ 542 00:36:36,164 --> 00:36:43,016 ♪ ♪ 543 00:36:43,097 --> 00:36:49,916 ♪ ♪ 544 00:36:49,996 --> 00:36:55,949 ♪ ♪ 545 00:36:56,030 --> 00:37:01,750 ♪ ♪ 546 00:37:01,829 --> 00:37:05,750 There could be thousands, maybe tens of thousands of evacuees 547 00:37:05,829 --> 00:37:09,382 from Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the other affected communities. 548 00:37:09,463 --> 00:37:11,496 [Tom] Mmm. 549 00:37:13,697 --> 00:37:16,682 [Steven] All displaced. 550 00:37:16,762 --> 00:37:21,150 All of them homeless. All desperate. 551 00:37:21,231 --> 00:37:22,996 [Amalthea] We can rest here. 552 00:37:25,498 --> 00:37:26,382 [Tom] God, I never thought about, 553 00:37:26,463 --> 00:37:28,048 I never thought about it like that. 554 00:37:28,130 --> 00:37:30,251 It's, um, it's so resonant, 555 00:37:30,331 --> 00:37:32,750 it's such a contemporary image as well. 556 00:37:32,829 --> 00:37:34,115 [Amalthea] Can you go and get some water? 557 00:37:34,195 --> 00:37:35,117 [Evacuee] Yes. 558 00:37:35,197 --> 00:37:36,717 [Amalthea] Thank you. 559 00:37:36,797 --> 00:37:40,117 [Tom] The aftermath of Vesuvius, in fact, 560 00:37:40,197 --> 00:37:45,717 would have been a full-blown humanitarian crisis. 561 00:37:45,797 --> 00:37:51,416 ♪ ♪ 562 00:37:51,496 --> 00:37:53,983 And there would have been temporary camps, 563 00:37:54,063 --> 00:38:00,784 there would have been lines for food, separated families. 564 00:38:00,864 --> 00:38:05,682 Whole communities of people fragmented and lost forever. 565 00:38:05,762 --> 00:38:10,730 [Steven] Wait. Not lost forever, Pompeii wasn't lost. 566 00:38:12,295 --> 00:38:13,916 [Tom] Steven, Pompeii was lost. 567 00:38:13,996 --> 00:38:16,849 It was buried in tons and tons of ash and pumice 568 00:38:16,929 --> 00:38:18,817 and waves of pyroclastic surge. 569 00:38:18,896 --> 00:38:20,117 Vesuvius has obliterated it. 570 00:38:20,197 --> 00:38:23,416 [Steven] That's fair. The city of Pompeii is buried, 571 00:38:23,496 --> 00:38:25,083 but a city is not just its buildings, 572 00:38:25,163 --> 00:38:28,884 it's not just its mosaics or frescoes, it's its community. 573 00:38:28,963 --> 00:38:32,717 The people escaped and they rebuilt their lives, 574 00:38:32,797 --> 00:38:36,983 and they prospered, they fell in love, they started families. 575 00:38:37,063 --> 00:38:41,983 Pompeii survived because its community, its people survived. 576 00:38:42,063 --> 00:38:47,215 [Tom] Pompeii isn't a place, it's a people. 577 00:38:47,295 --> 00:38:48,630 [Steven] Exactly. 578 00:38:52,896 --> 00:38:54,782 And I've even been able to trace patterns 579 00:38:54,862 --> 00:39:00,250 of post-eruption resettlement all across the Bay of Naples, 580 00:39:00,329 --> 00:39:03,215 communities and entire families. 581 00:39:03,295 --> 00:39:07,817 They relocated, rebuilt their lives, 582 00:39:07,896 --> 00:39:09,949 and they kept their faith, too. 583 00:39:10,028 --> 00:39:12,983 There's even evidence for new temples to Isis, 584 00:39:13,063 --> 00:39:16,697 built in the years following the eruption. 585 00:39:19,630 --> 00:39:23,916 [Tom] I suppose as devastating as these disasters can be, 586 00:39:23,996 --> 00:39:28,896 they're also opportunities for humanity to shine. 587 00:39:32,963 --> 00:39:35,264 [Steven] I think they are. They are indeed. 588 00:39:43,797 --> 00:39:45,416 But let's take another look at this inscription. 589 00:39:45,496 --> 00:39:50,115 I don't think you gave enough attention to that word, alumno. 590 00:39:50,195 --> 00:39:52,028 [Tom] What? 591 00:39:55,195 --> 00:39:56,115 [Aurelia] Can we stop? 592 00:39:56,195 --> 00:39:57,483 [Marcus] Oh, okay. We'll stop. 593 00:39:57,563 --> 00:39:58,483 [Aurelia] Yeah. Yeah. 594 00:39:58,563 --> 00:39:59,483 [Marcus] We can stop. 595 00:39:59,563 --> 00:40:00,817 [Aurelia] Uh-huh. 596 00:40:00,896 --> 00:40:03,949 [Tom] Um, alumno means "orphan," right? 597 00:40:04,030 --> 00:40:06,416 [Steven] Oh, you should brush up on your Latin, Hiddleston. 598 00:40:06,496 --> 00:40:08,650 Um, it has another meaning as well. 599 00:40:08,730 --> 00:40:12,416 Instead of orphan, try reading it as "foster." 600 00:40:12,496 --> 00:40:13,717 [Tom] To the spirits of the dead, 601 00:40:13,797 --> 00:40:18,063 the Masuri made this for Avianius Felicioni. 602 00:40:20,396 --> 00:40:22,097 Their dearest... 603 00:40:24,996 --> 00:40:26,864 ...foster son. 604 00:40:28,730 --> 00:40:32,449 That's what happened? 605 00:40:32,530 --> 00:40:36,182 The Masuri. 606 00:40:36,262 --> 00:40:40,682 [Aurelia] Avi. Avi! 607 00:40:40,762 --> 00:40:42,382 [Tom] The bronzesmith family. 608 00:40:42,463 --> 00:40:44,115 [Aurelia] Marcus, it's Avi! 609 00:40:44,195 --> 00:40:46,416 [Tom] They adopt Avianius. 610 00:40:46,496 --> 00:40:48,929 [Steven] That's how I read it. Yeah. 611 00:40:52,896 --> 00:40:54,195 [Aurelia] Avi! 612 00:40:57,329 --> 00:40:58,650 Avi! 613 00:40:58,730 --> 00:41:05,349 ♪ ♪ 614 00:41:05,429 --> 00:41:12,282 ♪ ♪ 615 00:41:12,362 --> 00:41:19,215 ♪ ♪ 616 00:41:19,295 --> 00:41:24,150 ♪ ♪ 617 00:41:24,230 --> 00:41:30,150 [sobbing] 618 00:41:30,230 --> 00:41:32,784 Oh, Avi! 619 00:41:32,864 --> 00:41:37,295 [Marcus] Alright, alright. We've got you. We've got you. 620 00:41:40,429 --> 00:41:44,115 You found us. 621 00:41:44,195 --> 00:41:45,929 [Tom] They've got him. 622 00:41:54,996 --> 00:42:00,681 History gives us facts-- names, dates, places-- 623 00:42:00,762 --> 00:42:05,048 and while all of this evidence is critical, 624 00:42:05,128 --> 00:42:08,715 it'll never give us the full picture. 625 00:42:08,795 --> 00:42:15,063 How people felt. How people lived. How people loved. 626 00:42:16,231 --> 00:42:19,349 And that's another kind of truth. 627 00:42:19,429 --> 00:42:21,750 It's the truth that comes from empathy 628 00:42:21,829 --> 00:42:24,548 and imagination and storytelling. 629 00:42:24,630 --> 00:42:26,715 [bell rings] 630 00:42:26,795 --> 00:42:30,516 I hope that by combining these two things, 631 00:42:30,597 --> 00:42:34,449 evidence and empathy, 632 00:42:34,530 --> 00:42:37,083 history and story, 633 00:42:37,163 --> 00:42:41,282 I hope I found a fuller truth. 634 00:42:41,362 --> 00:42:44,516 I know I found the people of Pompeii, 635 00:42:44,597 --> 00:42:51,215 and I hope I've told their historia. 636 00:42:51,295 --> 00:42:52,215 [knock on door] 637 00:42:52,295 --> 00:42:53,315 Yep? 638 00:42:53,396 --> 00:42:54,682 [David] Tom, they're ready for you on set. 639 00:42:54,762 --> 00:42:56,949 [Tom] Great. Thank you, David. I'll be right there. 640 00:42:57,028 --> 00:43:03,882 ♪ ♪ 641 00:43:03,963 --> 00:43:06,715 ♪ ♪ 642 00:43:06,795 --> 00:43:13,115 ♪ ♪ 643 00:43:13,195 --> 00:43:17,795 So, why do any of this? Why try to understand? 644 00:43:18,795 --> 00:43:20,016 [Actor] I'll see you at the wrap party. 645 00:43:20,096 --> 00:43:20,849 [Tom] I'll see you there. 646 00:43:20,929 --> 00:43:25,382 Connect with the people of the past? 647 00:43:25,463 --> 00:43:29,048 We've come all this way, gone to all this effort. 648 00:43:29,128 --> 00:43:30,682 Hey, Dario. Hi. 649 00:43:30,762 --> 00:43:34,983 And why use storytelling to travel in time? 650 00:43:35,063 --> 00:43:36,782 [Crew member] Okay, right. So, uh... 651 00:43:36,862 --> 00:43:39,250 [Tom] I think that we tell stories about the past 652 00:43:39,329 --> 00:43:41,382 to understand something about our present. 653 00:43:41,463 --> 00:43:47,615 It becomes a lens through which we can examine who we are, now, 654 00:43:47,695 --> 00:43:49,548 and maybe by listening to our ancestors... 655 00:43:49,630 --> 00:43:50,983 [Director] Okay, come on, quiet on set now. 656 00:43:51,063 --> 00:43:54,516 [Tom] ...empathizing with them, understanding them, 657 00:43:54,597 --> 00:43:55,882 we learn something about ourselves 658 00:43:55,963 --> 00:44:00,250 and perhaps even our future, so. 659 00:44:00,329 --> 00:44:02,163 [Director] I said quiet on set. 660 00:44:04,195 --> 00:44:05,916 [bell rings] 661 00:44:05,996 --> 00:44:07,083 And action. 662 00:44:07,163 --> 00:44:09,548 [Marcus] So what we do now, in this moment, 663 00:44:09,630 --> 00:44:12,083 forges what this bronze will become. 664 00:44:12,163 --> 00:44:14,016 [Avianius] Whoa! That's deep. 665 00:44:14,096 --> 00:44:15,849 We should put that on the sign outside. 666 00:44:15,929 --> 00:44:18,250 Marcus Masurius. Forging the future. 667 00:44:18,329 --> 00:44:19,250 [Marcus] Alright. 668 00:44:19,329 --> 00:44:20,282 [Avianius] No, seriously. 669 00:44:20,362 --> 00:44:21,483 Future generations will want to know. 670 00:44:21,563 --> 00:44:23,963 [Marcus] Alright. Very clever. 671 00:44:29,929 --> 00:44:31,548 I'm sorry, sorry, uh, I've forgotten. 672 00:44:31,630 --> 00:44:32,650 What's my line? 673 00:44:32,730 --> 00:44:34,250 [Director] Cut! It's alright, don't worry. 674 00:44:34,329 --> 00:44:35,583 [bell rings] 675 00:44:35,663 --> 00:44:37,416 Hold on. Let's get going again. 676 00:44:37,496 --> 00:44:38,416 [Marcus] Sorry. Sorry, everyone. 677 00:44:38,496 --> 00:44:40,315 [Director] Let's go again. 678 00:44:40,396 --> 00:44:43,449 [muffled voices] 679 00:44:43,530 --> 00:44:47,583 [Crew member] 242 take 58. 680 00:44:47,663 --> 00:44:51,817 [Tom] Let's try that again, shall we? 681 00:44:51,896 --> 00:44:53,016 [bell rings] 682 00:44:53,096 --> 00:44:59,949 ♪ ♪ 683 00:45:00,028 --> 00:45:06,882 ♪ ♪ 684 00:45:06,963 --> 00:45:13,815 ♪ ♪ 685 00:45:13,896 --> 00:45:20,715 ♪ ♪ 686 00:45:20,795 --> 00:45:27,650 ♪ ♪ 687 00:45:27,730 --> 00:45:34,416 ♪ ♪ 688 00:45:34,496 --> 00:45:41,349 ♪ ♪ 689 00:45:41,429 --> 00:45:48,282 ♪ ♪ 690 00:45:48,362 --> 00:45:55,215 ♪ ♪ 691 00:45:55,295 --> 00:46:02,150 ♪ ♪ 692 00:46:02,230 --> 00:46:09,083 ♪ ♪ 693 00:46:09,163 --> 00:46:13,215 ♪ ♪ 694 00:46:13,295 --> 00:46:19,483 ♪ ♪ 695 00:46:19,563 --> 00:46:21,648 Well, thank you, Steven. 696 00:46:21,728 --> 00:46:25,115 [Steven] You know, there's hope for you yet, young Hiddleston. 697 00:46:25,195 --> 00:46:27,715 If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, 698 00:46:27,795 --> 00:46:30,250 there's always room in the Pompeii Survivors' Project 699 00:46:30,329 --> 00:46:31,615 for somebody fluent in Latin. 700 00:46:31,695 --> 00:46:34,983 [Tom] Well, fortaus fortuna uvet. 701 00:46:35,063 --> 00:46:37,496 [laughing]