1 00:00:09,139 --> 00:00:10,793 Are you insane? 2 00:00:10,923 --> 00:00:12,664 Smashing every household shrine! 3 00:00:12,795 --> 00:00:14,840 Have you forgotten we're completely dependent 4 00:00:14,971 --> 00:00:16,277 on his charity? 5 00:00:16,407 --> 00:00:17,713 He's taken a risk sheltering us. 6 00:00:17,843 --> 00:00:19,367 Do you understand that? 7 00:00:19,497 --> 00:00:20,672 I've come back for my birth. 8 00:00:20,803 --> 00:00:22,718 But for that, I need a new husband. 9 00:00:22,848 --> 00:00:24,676 Someone with money and influence. 10 00:00:24,807 --> 00:00:27,288 Livia? 11 00:00:27,418 --> 00:00:29,681 - You're all grown up. - So are you. 12 00:00:29,812 --> 00:00:31,944 Get the chains off! 13 00:00:32,075 --> 00:00:34,730 Years of war, Gaius, struggle, and luck. 14 00:00:34,860 --> 00:00:36,645 ...brought you here. 15 00:00:36,775 --> 00:00:38,342 I'd be very sorry to see you throw it all away. 16 00:00:38,473 --> 00:00:39,952 Do you think he's a better bet than me? 17 00:00:40,083 --> 00:00:41,693 How long do you think he'll last 18 00:00:41,824 --> 00:00:43,565 sharing power with Marcus Antonius? 19 00:00:43,695 --> 00:00:46,089 - I'll never be your mistress. - Then state your terms. 20 00:00:46,220 --> 00:00:48,657 - I want my inheritance back. - In return, what do I get? 21 00:00:48,787 --> 00:00:51,399 You get to divorce Scribonia and marry Livia Drusilla 22 00:00:51,529 --> 00:00:52,574 of the Claudii. 23 00:01:28,914 --> 00:01:31,482 Good and beautiful Proserpina, 24 00:01:31,613 --> 00:01:33,658 queen of the dead and wife of Pluto, 25 00:01:33,789 --> 00:01:35,269 lord of the underworld. 26 00:01:35,399 --> 00:01:37,401 It's me, Scribonia, 27 00:01:37,532 --> 00:01:40,361 daughter of Lucius Scribonius Libo. 28 00:01:40,491 --> 00:01:42,450 Today I ask you to make burning pains 29 00:01:42,580 --> 00:01:44,365 in the womb of Livia Drusilla. 30 00:01:44,495 --> 00:01:46,758 Let the baby of Gaius Julius 31 00:01:46,889 --> 00:01:50,284 in the womb of Livia Drusilla die in writhing agony. 32 00:01:53,678 --> 00:01:56,899 Let the baby of Livia Drusilla and Gaius Julius 33 00:01:57,029 --> 00:01:58,770 slither out onto the floor, 34 00:01:58,901 --> 00:02:02,600 stinking and dead like those before it. 35 00:02:02,731 --> 00:02:05,560 Then let blood pour from the vagina of Livia Drusilla 36 00:02:05,690 --> 00:02:08,258 until she dies in grief and despair. 37 00:02:12,828 --> 00:02:17,833 Take mother and child into your underworld, kind Proserpina, 38 00:02:17,963 --> 00:02:20,270 and let them rot there in darkness 39 00:02:20,401 --> 00:02:22,185 for the rest of time. 40 00:02:23,926 --> 00:02:25,928 Do this for me, generous Proserpina, 41 00:02:26,058 --> 00:02:27,799 before the Ides of January, 42 00:02:27,930 --> 00:02:29,975 and in return I will give you red wine, dates, 43 00:02:30,106 --> 00:02:32,413 and a litter of pink piglets. 44 00:02:38,636 --> 00:02:43,815 The Saturnalia is an ancient, religious festival, 45 00:02:43,946 --> 00:02:46,383 not an excuse to get blind drunk. 46 00:02:46,514 --> 00:02:49,169 A day of freedom is a privilege, 47 00:02:49,299 --> 00:02:52,607 so this year anyone coming back after dark 48 00:02:52,737 --> 00:02:56,480 or soiling the floor will be dealing with me. 49 00:02:56,611 --> 00:02:59,353 The ladies Octavia and Scribonia are invited today, 50 00:02:59,483 --> 00:03:01,137 so those responsible 51 00:03:01,268 --> 00:03:03,400 will make sure the dinner is left out ready in the kitchen 52 00:03:03,531 --> 00:03:04,575 and the table is set. 53 00:03:04,706 --> 00:03:06,316 Thank you. 54 00:03:09,754 --> 00:03:10,712 Hey. 55 00:03:11,930 --> 00:03:13,497 Lord, forgive me, but... 56 00:03:14,803 --> 00:03:16,196 you've got visitors. 57 00:03:17,762 --> 00:03:18,763 It's a holiday. 58 00:03:20,112 --> 00:03:22,376 Senators. 59 00:03:22,506 --> 00:03:24,769 Corvinus and Crassus. 60 00:03:24,900 --> 00:03:26,206 Murena, too. 61 00:03:27,468 --> 00:03:28,904 The rest I don't know. 62 00:03:30,993 --> 00:03:33,604 We knew someone would come sooner or later. 63 00:03:37,042 --> 00:03:40,655 Didn't think Crassus would be one of them. 64 00:03:40,785 --> 00:03:42,265 Your enemies are coming out in the open. 65 00:03:43,701 --> 00:03:45,486 It's better that way. 66 00:03:49,794 --> 00:03:52,014 They haven't come to kill you, not here. 67 00:03:52,144 --> 00:03:54,495 Not now. 68 00:03:54,625 --> 00:03:56,801 Those two are smarter than that. 69 00:03:59,587 --> 00:04:01,502 That's what Caesar thought. 70 00:04:11,773 --> 00:04:13,470 Crassus. 71 00:04:13,601 --> 00:04:15,864 Murena. Corvinus. 72 00:04:15,994 --> 00:04:17,779 Welcome. 73 00:04:24,873 --> 00:04:26,701 Welcome. 74 00:04:26,831 --> 00:04:29,094 How's Livia? Will she be joining us? 75 00:04:29,225 --> 00:04:31,532 You're referring to the malicious rumor 76 00:04:31,662 --> 00:04:34,317 that my wife has opinions on politics. 77 00:04:35,971 --> 00:04:37,581 And that I actually listen to them. 78 00:04:41,019 --> 00:04:43,935 Forgive this intrusion on a public holiday, 79 00:04:44,066 --> 00:04:46,024 but we wanted to talk unofficially 80 00:04:46,155 --> 00:04:48,070 before the Senate reconvenes in the new year. 81 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:50,333 On behalf of the Senate as a whole, 82 00:04:50,464 --> 00:04:54,903 we were hoping to get some sense of your views on the future. 83 00:04:55,033 --> 00:04:58,733 - The future? - How you see things evolving. 84 00:04:58,863 --> 00:04:59,908 Or not. 85 00:05:00,038 --> 00:05:01,692 Huh. 86 00:05:04,391 --> 00:05:07,829 We've all lived through turbulent times. 87 00:05:07,959 --> 00:05:09,657 Since the killing of Caesar, 88 00:05:09,787 --> 00:05:13,356 an entire generation has known nothing but civil war. 89 00:05:13,487 --> 00:05:17,491 But now the wars are over and have been for a while. 90 00:05:17,621 --> 00:05:20,320 Yes, how time flies. 91 00:05:21,973 --> 00:05:24,802 Amazing to think it's been 15 years 92 00:05:24,933 --> 00:05:28,240 since you, Marcus Antonius, and Lepidus were granted 93 00:05:28,371 --> 00:05:31,983 complete and absolute powers over everything. 94 00:05:32,114 --> 00:05:34,203 By the Senate itself. 95 00:05:34,334 --> 00:05:37,989 For a certain fixed term which lapsed some time ago. 96 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:40,122 Well, special measures were necessary. 97 00:05:40,252 --> 00:05:42,211 And now Marcus Antonius is dead, 98 00:05:42,342 --> 00:05:44,648 and Lepidus may as well be. 99 00:05:44,779 --> 00:05:48,043 So, suddenly... there's just you. 100 00:05:48,173 --> 00:05:52,700 All of which the Senate has been wondering leaves us where? 101 00:05:52,830 --> 00:05:54,571 Legally. 102 00:05:54,702 --> 00:05:55,790 Constitutionally. 103 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:57,313 Practically. 104 00:05:57,444 --> 00:05:59,489 Now that the peace has been restored 105 00:05:59,620 --> 00:06:01,883 and your work is, well... 106 00:06:05,277 --> 00:06:06,496 done. 107 00:06:16,114 --> 00:06:18,029 You were right. 108 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:22,033 The Senate just told me to step down or else. 109 00:06:22,164 --> 00:06:24,166 Caesar chose "or else," and look what happened to him. 110 00:06:24,296 --> 00:06:26,516 I'm not fucking stepping anywhere. 111 00:06:30,781 --> 00:06:32,827 All right. 112 00:06:32,957 --> 00:06:35,656 But we can't make the same mistake. 113 00:07:32,364 --> 00:07:34,976 Father... 114 00:07:35,106 --> 00:07:38,849 this is the cheese you like from our old farm in Caperna, 115 00:07:38,980 --> 00:07:40,895 which did very well last year. 116 00:07:45,290 --> 00:07:47,162 Gaius won't give back power. 117 00:07:47,292 --> 00:07:50,121 Like Caesar, he's defying the Senate. 118 00:07:50,252 --> 00:07:51,732 Anything could happen. 119 00:07:53,951 --> 00:07:55,736 Gaius has been a good husband 120 00:07:55,866 --> 00:07:58,216 and a father to Tiberius and Drusus. 121 00:07:58,347 --> 00:08:00,480 You know I've come to love him. 122 00:08:07,312 --> 00:08:09,489 I don't want him to die like Caesar. 123 00:08:12,100 --> 00:08:15,059 Maybe there's still a way to restore the Republic. 124 00:08:22,980 --> 00:08:24,939 Help me find it. 125 00:08:27,289 --> 00:08:30,248 You ready? 126 00:08:30,379 --> 00:08:31,685 Come on, Romulus. Come on. 127 00:08:31,815 --> 00:08:33,338 Tiberius... 128 00:08:33,469 --> 00:08:35,166 you'll lose again. Come on. 129 00:08:35,297 --> 00:08:36,907 Oh, yes. Let's keep going, Remus! 130 00:08:37,038 --> 00:08:38,300 All the way, all the way, all the way. 131 00:08:38,430 --> 00:08:39,867 Romulus is catching up. 132 00:08:39,997 --> 00:08:41,521 That's cheating! 133 00:08:41,651 --> 00:08:43,261 Hey, you put him ahead at the start. 134 00:08:46,656 --> 00:08:48,702 Tell me who else knows about this. 135 00:08:48,832 --> 00:08:50,312 Maecenas. 136 00:08:50,442 --> 00:08:52,009 Ah! 137 00:08:56,318 --> 00:08:58,581 Agrippa. 138 00:08:58,712 --> 00:09:01,497 I was just saying, we should tell Crassus to fuck off. 139 00:09:01,628 --> 00:09:03,368 I know. I heard you from the garden. 140 00:09:03,499 --> 00:09:06,284 And I was just saying they are forcing him to choose. 141 00:09:06,415 --> 00:09:08,243 Either step down 142 00:09:08,373 --> 00:09:09,897 and formally hand everything back to the Senate, 143 00:09:10,027 --> 00:09:13,335 which is effectively restoring the Republic, 144 00:09:13,465 --> 00:09:18,035 or... tell the Senate to go formally fuck themselves, 145 00:09:18,166 --> 00:09:21,125 which would be admitting you're now a dictator. 146 00:09:22,562 --> 00:09:24,912 Why can't we just ignore them? 147 00:09:25,042 --> 00:09:27,175 Because they're right. 148 00:09:27,305 --> 00:09:30,744 My position is illegal and unconstitutional. 149 00:09:31,832 --> 00:09:33,268 So... fine. 150 00:09:35,313 --> 00:09:36,488 You'd make a great dictator. 151 00:09:36,619 --> 00:09:38,839 That was never the idea. 152 00:09:38,969 --> 00:09:41,145 Was it? 153 00:09:41,276 --> 00:09:43,147 Well, the minute we step down, we'll be vulnerable. 154 00:09:43,278 --> 00:09:44,845 We've made a lot of enemies. 155 00:09:44,975 --> 00:09:46,847 We'll make a lot more if you don't. 156 00:09:46,977 --> 00:09:48,892 Caesar was stabbed 23 times outside the Senate. 157 00:09:49,023 --> 00:09:51,895 Those mad-dog Republicans are all dead now. 158 00:09:54,245 --> 00:09:56,030 Sorry, Livia, I, uh... 159 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,772 I meant no disrespect to your father. 160 00:09:58,902 --> 00:10:01,078 It's all right, Agrippa. 161 00:10:01,209 --> 00:10:04,038 He was a mad-dog Republican. 162 00:10:04,168 --> 00:10:09,913 What I'm saying is, people are sick of war. 163 00:10:10,044 --> 00:10:12,394 They'll take a dictator in return for peace. 164 00:10:12,524 --> 00:10:14,309 For a while. 165 00:10:14,439 --> 00:10:16,224 Until suddenly they won't. 166 00:10:16,354 --> 00:10:18,095 All right. You're right. Let's kill them. 167 00:10:18,226 --> 00:10:20,010 Corvinus and Crassus and the rest of them. 168 00:10:20,141 --> 00:10:22,230 - That's not what I was saying. - Well, it worked before. 169 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:24,406 That sounds just like "Go fuck yourselves" to me. 170 00:10:24,536 --> 00:10:27,061 So what? You just want to give it all away. 171 00:10:27,191 --> 00:10:30,586 To an ambitious little fuck like Corvinus? 172 00:10:30,717 --> 00:10:32,327 He doesn't care about the Republic. 173 00:10:32,457 --> 00:10:34,285 He just wants to be you. 174 00:10:34,416 --> 00:10:36,374 And Crassus. 175 00:10:36,505 --> 00:10:39,334 He fought against us with Sextus and then with Antonius. 176 00:10:44,382 --> 00:10:48,256 We've been at war all our lives. 177 00:10:48,386 --> 00:10:51,389 We earned this the hard way. 178 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:53,217 Why should we hand it back? 179 00:10:53,348 --> 00:10:55,480 It's yours, Gaius. 180 00:10:55,611 --> 00:10:58,222 Take it. Take it now. 181 00:10:58,353 --> 00:11:00,355 You're better than that, Gaius. 182 00:11:00,485 --> 00:11:02,183 It's time to show it. 183 00:11:10,278 --> 00:11:12,280 They're both right. You have to choose. 184 00:11:12,410 --> 00:11:14,282 One or the other. 185 00:11:14,412 --> 00:11:16,153 And fast. 186 00:11:17,633 --> 00:11:19,722 Where are you going? 187 00:11:19,853 --> 00:11:21,811 I promised to take the boys to see their father... 188 00:11:21,942 --> 00:11:23,726 while you make your mind up. 189 00:11:23,857 --> 00:11:26,729 Oh, please don't stop there. Come on. 190 00:11:26,860 --> 00:11:29,427 No, he's gonna catch up. Quick! Keep going. Keep going. 191 00:11:29,558 --> 00:11:31,255 - Come on. - Tiberius, Drusus. 192 00:11:31,386 --> 00:11:33,388 Your mother's here. Quick. 193 00:11:40,395 --> 00:11:42,310 Are you gambling? 194 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:44,878 It's the Saturnalia, Antigone. 195 00:11:45,008 --> 00:11:46,749 We're allowed. 196 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:48,272 Yeah? 197 00:11:49,447 --> 00:11:50,840 Come! Quick! 198 00:11:50,971 --> 00:11:52,146 Come! Quiet. 199 00:11:54,365 --> 00:11:55,976 - Wait. Okay, go, go. - Go, go, go! 200 00:11:56,106 --> 00:11:58,935 Make sure it's Tiberius's terrapin. 201 00:11:59,066 --> 00:12:00,067 - Stop ordering me around. - Go! 202 00:12:00,197 --> 00:12:01,721 It's my plan! 203 00:12:05,072 --> 00:12:07,335 Let me see this. 204 00:12:07,465 --> 00:12:09,380 - Careful. Careful. - It's the right one. 205 00:12:09,511 --> 00:12:11,382 Let's go. Let's go. 206 00:12:16,387 --> 00:12:19,129 Iullus, wait. I'm not allowed to leave the house alone. 207 00:12:19,260 --> 00:12:20,870 You're with us. Come. 208 00:12:31,098 --> 00:12:32,752 Greet your father. 209 00:12:34,405 --> 00:12:36,190 Hello, Father. It's us. 210 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:38,061 Father, please accept this gift of wine 211 00:12:38,192 --> 00:12:40,411 - from our estate at Privernum. - He can have the cakes. 212 00:12:40,542 --> 00:12:42,152 They're stale. 213 00:12:42,283 --> 00:12:44,372 He'll like them that way. 214 00:12:44,502 --> 00:12:46,896 The wine's for your grandfather. 215 00:12:48,593 --> 00:12:50,987 You're always mean about Father. 216 00:12:51,118 --> 00:12:52,249 He betrayed the Republic. 217 00:12:54,774 --> 00:12:56,601 We keep that to ourselves. 218 00:12:56,732 --> 00:12:59,126 Marcellus said you poisoned him. Father. 219 00:12:59,256 --> 00:13:01,128 He says everyone knows 220 00:13:01,258 --> 00:13:03,130 that you invited him to dinner so you could poison him. 221 00:13:03,260 --> 00:13:04,305 Marcellus said that? 222 00:13:09,266 --> 00:13:10,790 Listen to me. 223 00:13:11,703 --> 00:13:13,444 Both of you. 224 00:13:13,575 --> 00:13:15,707 I had nothing against your father. 225 00:13:15,838 --> 00:13:17,579 But if I wanted to poison anyone, 226 00:13:17,709 --> 00:13:21,409 the last place I'd do it is my own dinner party. 227 00:13:21,539 --> 00:13:24,281 It was just some bad oysters. 228 00:13:24,412 --> 00:13:27,067 And you know how your father loved oysters. 229 00:13:29,330 --> 00:13:31,071 I told Marcellus he was a liar. 230 00:13:31,201 --> 00:13:32,550 Then he stuck your head in the toilet. 231 00:13:32,681 --> 00:13:34,117 No, he didn't! 232 00:13:34,248 --> 00:13:36,598 Tiberius! 233 00:13:36,728 --> 00:13:38,078 I got Marcellus back after. 234 00:13:38,208 --> 00:13:39,862 A Roman fights his own battles. 235 00:13:46,303 --> 00:13:48,653 I'd like to know where Marcellus heard that rumor. 236 00:13:48,784 --> 00:13:50,090 Why? It's not true. 237 00:13:50,220 --> 00:13:52,396 Exactly. 238 00:13:52,527 --> 00:13:54,572 Look at his little terra-penis. 239 00:13:54,703 --> 00:13:57,010 - No, it's a tail. - That is a terra-penis. 240 00:13:57,140 --> 00:13:58,620 Whoo! 241 00:14:01,144 --> 00:14:03,233 Now what? 242 00:14:03,364 --> 00:14:05,409 Well, now we just wait until Tiberius finds out it's gone. 243 00:14:05,540 --> 00:14:07,672 Right, and then it's, "Sorry, we stole your stupid terrapin." 244 00:14:07,803 --> 00:14:09,718 He's not coming out. 245 00:14:09,849 --> 00:14:11,285 No, Iullus, we'll just quietly put it back 246 00:14:11,415 --> 00:14:13,374 after he's spent ages looking for it. 247 00:14:13,504 --> 00:14:15,637 - And is that... funny? - It's the Saturnalia, stupid. 248 00:14:15,767 --> 00:14:17,247 People play jokes on pe... 249 00:14:17,378 --> 00:14:19,249 Marcellus! 250 00:14:20,685 --> 00:14:23,036 What did you do that for? 251 00:14:23,166 --> 00:14:24,472 Because it's Tiberius's. 252 00:14:26,822 --> 00:14:28,345 Antonia! 253 00:14:28,476 --> 00:14:31,479 Okay. Go, go, go. 254 00:14:31,609 --> 00:14:33,742 Vinnius is here. We're late for dinner! 255 00:14:33,873 --> 00:14:35,570 Where are Marcellus and Iullus? 256 00:14:35,700 --> 00:14:37,528 Behind you, Mother. 257 00:14:37,659 --> 00:14:39,487 Where have you... You have not been out alone? 258 00:14:39,617 --> 00:14:41,706 We saw a dead body. 259 00:14:41,837 --> 00:14:43,621 Well, Vinnius will get rid of it. What were you thinking? 260 00:14:43,752 --> 00:14:45,667 We will talk about this later. 261 00:14:45,797 --> 00:14:47,451 Julia, I shall tell your mother. 262 00:14:47,582 --> 00:14:50,106 Tell me what? 263 00:14:54,458 --> 00:14:56,591 Marcella, where's your husband? 264 00:14:56,721 --> 00:14:58,723 Agrippa's already here. Uncle Gaius called him over at dawn. 265 00:14:58,854 --> 00:15:01,857 - So who will? - I'm not scared of Livia. 266 00:15:01,988 --> 00:15:03,903 - Then you're stupid! - You're stupid. 267 00:15:05,513 --> 00:15:07,297 Why don't you kill him, too? 268 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:14,130 - Welcome, everyone! - Ah! 269 00:15:14,261 --> 00:15:15,697 Happy Saturnalia. 270 00:15:15,827 --> 00:15:17,307 So good to see you. These are for you. 271 00:15:17,438 --> 00:15:18,656 Thank you. 272 00:15:22,704 --> 00:15:25,750 - How's the bump? - I felt a kick this morning. 273 00:15:25,881 --> 00:15:28,362 - I've been praying for you. - Thank you. 274 00:15:31,452 --> 00:15:32,932 Oh, Julia. 275 00:15:37,719 --> 00:15:38,763 Don't worry. 276 00:15:38,894 --> 00:15:40,635 We'll find him. 277 00:15:53,778 --> 00:15:57,173 I heard a rumor today that I poisoned my first husband. 278 00:15:57,304 --> 00:15:58,783 Yes, I heard that, too. 279 00:15:58,914 --> 00:16:01,177 - I hope you did. - I wish I had. 280 00:16:01,308 --> 00:16:02,962 Can we please eat, Gaius? 281 00:16:06,661 --> 00:16:08,445 We ask great Saturn, 282 00:16:08,576 --> 00:16:10,795 to whom these days of freedom are devoted, 283 00:16:10,926 --> 00:16:14,190 to bring us health and prosperity. 284 00:16:14,321 --> 00:16:15,887 May he remember this family 285 00:16:16,018 --> 00:16:19,282 and keep us safe from our enemies. 286 00:16:19,413 --> 00:16:24,244 We are all of us here bound together forever by blood. 287 00:16:24,374 --> 00:16:25,506 And there is nothing greater than that. 288 00:16:27,247 --> 00:16:28,509 Family. 289 00:16:31,338 --> 00:16:33,253 Family. Family. 290 00:16:42,479 --> 00:16:44,220 Stop. Stop it. 291 00:16:44,351 --> 00:16:46,396 What did I tell you earlier? 292 00:16:46,527 --> 00:16:47,702 Marcellus! 293 00:16:49,573 --> 00:16:51,445 I don't know what you were thinking. 294 00:16:51,575 --> 00:16:53,838 Hello? Marcellus, Iullus, I'm talking to you. 295 00:16:53,969 --> 00:16:56,189 Taking Julia out in the street... 296 00:16:56,319 --> 00:16:57,886 Did you make up your mind yet? 297 00:16:58,017 --> 00:17:00,454 - He always takes forever. - I know. 298 00:17:00,584 --> 00:17:02,673 Wasting his time thinking about stuff. 299 00:17:02,804 --> 00:17:05,067 Huh! Exactly. 300 00:17:08,157 --> 00:17:09,985 We need to find Romulus whilst they're at dinner. 301 00:17:10,116 --> 00:17:13,162 I've already searched the house twice. 302 00:17:13,293 --> 00:17:15,077 Ugh! 303 00:17:16,513 --> 00:17:17,514 Mm. 304 00:17:20,343 --> 00:17:21,431 It's those kids again. 305 00:17:24,043 --> 00:17:25,827 Come on. Let's look outside. 306 00:17:25,957 --> 00:17:27,307 Mm. 307 00:17:36,446 --> 00:17:38,448 You all right? 308 00:17:42,452 --> 00:17:44,063 Yes. 309 00:17:45,629 --> 00:17:47,501 Just pregnant. 310 00:17:47,631 --> 00:17:50,591 I've made up my mind about the Senate. 311 00:17:53,681 --> 00:17:55,204 But I still want to know what you think I should do. 312 00:18:04,039 --> 00:18:06,389 You won the war, 313 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:10,828 made your fortune and brought honor to your family. 314 00:18:10,959 --> 00:18:15,616 You have nothing left to prove to me or anyone else. 315 00:18:15,746 --> 00:18:17,705 We have everything we'll ever need. 316 00:18:19,010 --> 00:18:20,490 Step back. 317 00:18:20,621 --> 00:18:22,275 Live life. 318 00:18:24,755 --> 00:18:27,541 And make history as the Roman who restored the Republic. 319 00:18:30,892 --> 00:18:35,288 The Republic was corrupt and lazy... 320 00:18:35,418 --> 00:18:36,506 and complacent. 321 00:18:38,465 --> 00:18:41,381 We can achieve so much more. 322 00:18:43,905 --> 00:18:46,212 So, a dictator, then? 323 00:18:46,342 --> 00:18:47,778 No, Livia. 324 00:18:49,824 --> 00:18:51,826 I don't want to be a dictator. 325 00:18:55,090 --> 00:18:56,700 I want to be a God. 326 00:19:11,454 --> 00:19:13,152 All right. 327 00:19:16,851 --> 00:19:18,679 Then that's what we'll do. 328 00:19:47,969 --> 00:19:50,058 We found Romulus. 329 00:19:50,189 --> 00:19:53,192 - What? - Tiberius's terrapin. 330 00:19:53,322 --> 00:19:55,933 Down a sewer opening in an alley near the house. 331 00:19:56,064 --> 00:19:58,545 They tried to hide the body there after they killed it. 332 00:19:58,675 --> 00:20:00,155 Who knows about this? 333 00:20:00,286 --> 00:20:03,941 - Only Tycho and me. - Keep it that way. 334 00:20:04,072 --> 00:20:08,555 I've been telling you to step in and stop them bullying Tiberius. 335 00:20:08,685 --> 00:20:09,991 He's nearly a man. 336 00:20:10,121 --> 00:20:12,080 He needs to stand up for himself. 337 00:20:12,211 --> 00:20:14,691 - It's gone too far. - This city will eat you alive. 338 00:20:16,171 --> 00:20:18,260 You need to speak to Octavia. 339 00:20:18,391 --> 00:20:21,524 I've spent the last ten years making friends with Octavia 340 00:20:21,655 --> 00:20:24,440 and pretending to do the same with Scribonia. 341 00:20:24,571 --> 00:20:26,703 I'm not blowing that over a fucking terrapin. 342 00:20:38,933 --> 00:20:40,891 We don't need to make an announcement. 343 00:20:41,022 --> 00:20:43,067 There's no point provoking the Senate. 344 00:20:43,198 --> 00:20:46,636 And we don't want to start another war, unless we have to. 345 00:20:46,767 --> 00:20:49,030 We already gave control of the treasury back to the Senate. 346 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:50,988 We re-opened the law courts. 347 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:53,121 They want their legions back, Gaius. 348 00:20:53,252 --> 00:20:55,515 That's what this is all about. 349 00:20:55,645 --> 00:20:57,081 You control the army, you control everything. 350 00:20:57,212 --> 00:20:58,822 You know that and so do they. 351 00:20:58,953 --> 00:21:00,911 You give the army back, you're nothing. 352 00:21:01,042 --> 00:21:04,263 - They know that, too. - I'm not giving the army back! 353 00:21:08,397 --> 00:21:11,139 I'll buy Crassus off with a big campaign. 354 00:21:11,270 --> 00:21:13,228 He can avenge his grandfather's defeat in Parthia, 355 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:15,448 get the lost army standards back. 356 00:21:16,927 --> 00:21:19,060 You promised me that campaign. 357 00:21:19,190 --> 00:21:21,758 I also need you to resign as consul for next year. 358 00:21:23,673 --> 00:21:25,762 I have to give it to someone else. 359 00:21:25,893 --> 00:21:27,808 Corvinus. Murena? 360 00:21:28,983 --> 00:21:30,332 Piso. 361 00:21:33,727 --> 00:21:35,772 Gaius, he was my father's closest friend. 362 00:21:35,903 --> 00:21:37,948 He fought against Caesar. 363 00:21:38,079 --> 00:21:39,950 He fought against you. 364 00:21:40,081 --> 00:21:41,474 He's the leader of the old Republican faction, 365 00:21:41,604 --> 00:21:42,649 such as it is now. 366 00:21:42,779 --> 00:21:44,215 Having him as the other consul 367 00:21:44,346 --> 00:21:47,218 will make everything feel very... reassuring. 368 00:21:47,349 --> 00:21:48,872 He'll know that. He won't take it. 369 00:21:49,003 --> 00:21:50,744 He will... 370 00:21:50,874 --> 00:21:53,007 if you ask him. 371 00:21:53,137 --> 00:21:55,618 Go to him privately. 372 00:21:55,749 --> 00:21:57,838 For me. 373 00:21:57,968 --> 00:22:01,145 - He loves you like a daughter. - He did till I married you. 374 00:22:01,276 --> 00:22:02,799 - He owes you his life. - He doesn't know that. 375 00:22:06,150 --> 00:22:09,458 If anyone can get him to be consul with me, 376 00:22:09,589 --> 00:22:11,330 it's you. 377 00:22:24,691 --> 00:22:26,127 Should you be riding? 378 00:22:26,257 --> 00:22:28,608 You did promise Agrippa that campaign. 379 00:22:42,883 --> 00:22:44,928 What do you want, Marcellus? 380 00:22:45,059 --> 00:22:47,757 Can we help you? 381 00:22:47,888 --> 00:22:51,805 We, um... we heard you were looking for your terrapin. 382 00:22:51,935 --> 00:22:54,329 We're very good at finding terrapins. 383 00:22:54,460 --> 00:22:56,636 You're not good at anything, Marcellus. 384 00:22:56,766 --> 00:22:58,072 What did you say? 385 00:22:59,987 --> 00:23:02,163 I said, "Fuck you." 386 00:23:08,299 --> 00:23:11,041 Let go of me! 387 00:23:11,172 --> 00:23:12,260 All right. Enough! 388 00:23:12,391 --> 00:23:15,263 I don't need your help. 389 00:23:15,394 --> 00:23:18,397 Leave my boys alone and get out! 390 00:23:21,138 --> 00:23:24,577 My father was a Roman consul. 391 00:23:24,707 --> 00:23:27,580 You were a slave and a whore. 392 00:23:30,670 --> 00:23:31,584 Don't! 393 00:23:33,107 --> 00:23:34,064 Drusus. 394 00:23:36,023 --> 00:23:37,720 Let's go. 395 00:23:45,989 --> 00:23:47,774 Crassus! You... 396 00:23:47,904 --> 00:23:49,863 You can come now. 397 00:23:51,299 --> 00:23:53,823 Mother! - Who's that? 398 00:23:53,954 --> 00:23:55,346 Your wife. Mother! 399 00:23:55,477 --> 00:23:58,045 What? Wait here. 400 00:24:08,577 --> 00:24:11,101 You'll never guess what Antigone just did. 401 00:24:18,544 --> 00:24:21,503 You fought together nobly. Like Romans. 402 00:24:28,858 --> 00:24:31,470 - It isn't over yet. - Yes, it is. 403 00:24:32,732 --> 00:24:34,603 No. 404 00:24:34,734 --> 00:24:36,475 It isn't. 405 00:25:30,790 --> 00:25:31,834 Ha! 406 00:25:32,966 --> 00:25:34,402 Livia Drusilla. 407 00:25:34,533 --> 00:25:36,709 Who taught you to ride a horse? 408 00:25:38,319 --> 00:25:41,801 He did. 409 00:25:41,931 --> 00:25:43,193 What? 410 00:25:51,332 --> 00:25:52,812 Livia Drusilla? 411 00:25:54,857 --> 00:25:57,991 Piso. How are you? 412 00:25:58,121 --> 00:25:59,906 The boys? 413 00:26:00,036 --> 00:26:01,298 Alive. 414 00:26:02,299 --> 00:26:03,257 You? 415 00:26:03,387 --> 00:26:05,564 Pregnant... again. 416 00:26:06,303 --> 00:26:07,870 Huh! 417 00:26:16,052 --> 00:26:17,576 Can I speak to you? 418 00:26:19,534 --> 00:26:21,405 In the new year, 419 00:26:21,536 --> 00:26:24,408 Marcus Agrippa will resign as the second consul. 420 00:26:24,539 --> 00:26:27,281 It is my husband's wish that you take Agrippa's place 421 00:26:27,411 --> 00:26:29,239 and serve Rome alongside him. 422 00:26:30,545 --> 00:26:32,852 Oh, he sent you. 423 00:26:32,982 --> 00:26:34,375 Well, he believes Rome would be lucky 424 00:26:34,505 --> 00:26:36,116 to have a man of your experience. 425 00:26:39,380 --> 00:26:43,166 Hunted through the sewers with a price on my head. 426 00:26:43,297 --> 00:26:45,429 Condemned to death without trial, 427 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,128 which is the right of every Roman citizen. 428 00:26:50,086 --> 00:26:52,045 You were pardoned. 429 00:26:52,175 --> 00:26:56,005 Anyone would be lucky to have my experience. 430 00:26:56,136 --> 00:26:57,572 You know the system of two consuls 431 00:26:57,703 --> 00:27:00,270 was devised to provide a balance. 432 00:27:00,401 --> 00:27:03,012 My husband knows your political views, and he respects them. 433 00:27:04,231 --> 00:27:05,972 The offer's genuine. 434 00:27:06,102 --> 00:27:08,191 But his mandate from the Senate ran out years ago. 435 00:27:08,322 --> 00:27:09,889 What, is he going to give back that power? 436 00:27:10,019 --> 00:27:11,760 Hand over control of the army? 437 00:27:11,891 --> 00:27:13,153 - He... - Oh, don't bother. 438 00:27:13,283 --> 00:27:15,546 - Piso. - You married a thief, Livia. 439 00:27:15,677 --> 00:27:18,941 And I won't stand next to him to make fools believe he isn't. 440 00:27:19,072 --> 00:27:21,465 Nobody can hold on to power legitimately 441 00:27:21,596 --> 00:27:24,904 unless the Senate of Rome chooses to grant it! 442 00:27:26,340 --> 00:27:28,429 Think of your sons, Piso. 443 00:27:28,559 --> 00:27:30,910 How it would help their prospects. 444 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,695 Is that a bribe or a threat? 445 00:27:39,048 --> 00:27:41,703 I embraced your father after Philippi. 446 00:27:43,662 --> 00:27:46,360 With his last words he asked me to look after you. 447 00:27:46,490 --> 00:27:49,102 But you betrayed him and everything he stood for. 448 00:27:49,232 --> 00:27:51,191 You married the man who destroyed him 449 00:27:51,321 --> 00:27:53,367 and everything he believed in. 450 00:27:53,497 --> 00:27:56,326 For the first time, truly... 451 00:27:58,677 --> 00:28:00,200 I'm glad my friend is dead. 452 00:28:05,161 --> 00:28:06,859 I betrayed him. 453 00:28:13,256 --> 00:28:15,302 You let him die. 454 00:28:15,432 --> 00:28:18,000 Did you take your life with his? 455 00:28:18,131 --> 00:28:21,482 No. You came crawling back to hide out here. 456 00:28:21,612 --> 00:28:24,050 I begged my husband for your life! 457 00:28:24,180 --> 00:28:26,487 On my fucking knees! 458 00:28:26,617 --> 00:28:29,446 And you took that pardon and you saved yourself. 459 00:28:31,535 --> 00:28:34,190 He should've come home. 460 00:28:34,321 --> 00:28:36,976 He put his honor before me. 461 00:28:41,197 --> 00:28:42,851 He left me on my own. 462 00:29:16,624 --> 00:29:18,452 Thank you for your support. 463 00:29:38,646 --> 00:29:40,300 What's wrong? 464 00:29:40,430 --> 00:29:42,432 Nothing. Just... Just get rid of her. 465 00:29:50,179 --> 00:29:51,050 Domina. 466 00:29:53,182 --> 00:29:55,576 You're not normally so timid with her. 467 00:29:55,706 --> 00:29:57,143 I hate it when you watch. 468 00:29:57,273 --> 00:29:59,101 I wasn't watching. 469 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:03,497 Why did you kill the terrapin? 470 00:30:05,542 --> 00:30:07,544 I don't know. I just did it. 471 00:30:07,675 --> 00:30:10,634 - I suppose Julia blabbed. - Listen to me. 472 00:30:10,765 --> 00:30:13,115 You are Marcus Claudius Marcellus. 473 00:30:13,246 --> 00:30:15,683 Your uncle is the most powerful man in Rome, 474 00:30:15,814 --> 00:30:18,468 and you are his favorite. You can't just do things. 475 00:30:18,599 --> 00:30:20,688 I'll try to make this go away, but... 476 00:30:20,819 --> 00:30:24,126 if it comes to it, you'll have to stand up straight, 477 00:30:24,257 --> 00:30:26,999 speak the truth and tell everyone it was Iullus. 478 00:30:27,129 --> 00:30:29,349 Iullus? But that's not the truth. 479 00:30:29,479 --> 00:30:31,220 Iullus is not our blood. 480 00:30:31,351 --> 00:30:33,309 He's the son of Marcus Antonius, 481 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,399 and if Octavia hadn't adopted him, he'd be dead. 482 00:30:36,530 --> 00:30:39,141 He's expendable. You are not. 483 00:30:39,272 --> 00:30:40,795 Do you understand? 484 00:30:40,926 --> 00:30:43,537 You have a brilliant future, Marcellus. 485 00:30:43,667 --> 00:30:47,976 Don't mess it all up. Not for Tiberius or anyone else. 486 00:30:49,673 --> 00:30:51,414 Iullus will understand. 487 00:30:52,763 --> 00:30:54,113 Mm? 488 00:30:55,462 --> 00:30:57,290 Okay? 489 00:31:03,339 --> 00:31:04,993 The Lady Octavia is here. 490 00:31:08,257 --> 00:31:11,260 I'm sorry to have to bring this to you. 491 00:31:11,391 --> 00:31:13,523 This morning, my son Marcellus, 492 00:31:13,654 --> 00:31:17,005 he offered to help Tiberius look for his missing terrapin. 493 00:31:18,354 --> 00:31:20,226 Both your sons assaulted him. 494 00:31:20,356 --> 00:31:22,532 Your freedwoman Antigone, she then stuck him, 495 00:31:22,663 --> 00:31:24,752 without provocation, on the face, 496 00:31:24,883 --> 00:31:26,275 and she scratched his eye. 497 00:31:28,974 --> 00:31:31,367 I'll... I'll talk to her, of course. 498 00:31:31,498 --> 00:31:34,936 No, no, no, Livia. I don't want you to talk to her. 499 00:31:35,067 --> 00:31:38,244 This behavior cannot be borne from a freewoman with her... 500 00:31:38,374 --> 00:31:39,549 past. 501 00:31:40,811 --> 00:31:42,465 She must be sent away. 502 00:31:47,862 --> 00:31:51,692 Well, this account as presented to me is clearly false. 503 00:31:51,822 --> 00:31:55,304 I'm sorry. Are you saying that my son is lying? 504 00:31:57,350 --> 00:31:59,352 You always look for the best in others, 505 00:31:59,482 --> 00:32:03,443 and Marcellus has nothing of your intelligence or character. 506 00:32:03,573 --> 00:32:05,924 You spoil him, but you don't seem to know him at all. 507 00:32:06,054 --> 00:32:08,622 Well, maybe if you hadn't neglected your son, 508 00:32:08,752 --> 00:32:10,189 he would've turned out normal 509 00:32:10,319 --> 00:32:11,973 and not an embarrassment to our family! 510 00:32:12,104 --> 00:32:14,758 A family such as yours is surely beneath embarrassment. 511 00:32:14,889 --> 00:32:17,022 Oh, you, you. 512 00:32:17,152 --> 00:32:20,373 You who seduced another woman's husband while you were pregnant. 513 00:32:20,503 --> 00:32:23,942 You're no better than an actress for all your heirs and graces. 514 00:32:29,034 --> 00:32:31,384 There is much in what you say, Octavia. 515 00:32:32,733 --> 00:32:36,650 But... while I live... 516 00:32:36,780 --> 00:32:39,958 Antigone will never be sent away from this house. 517 00:32:45,528 --> 00:32:46,616 Good night. 518 00:32:51,404 --> 00:32:53,580 You were right. 519 00:32:53,710 --> 00:32:57,584 I should've stopped them bullying Tiberius. 520 00:32:57,714 --> 00:33:00,108 Octavia won't help us now. 521 00:33:00,239 --> 00:33:01,501 No. 522 00:33:11,119 --> 00:33:13,600 One of our friends left the signal tonight. 523 00:33:13,730 --> 00:33:14,644 The German. 524 00:33:16,646 --> 00:33:18,170 Let me know what she has for us. 525 00:33:21,521 --> 00:33:24,263 And... what about Tiberius? 526 00:33:26,613 --> 00:33:30,182 Get Tycho to put some ash from the ovens in a box. 527 00:33:34,229 --> 00:33:35,622 Tiberius? 528 00:33:45,893 --> 00:33:48,200 Little Bear, Romulus is dead. 529 00:33:49,679 --> 00:33:51,551 Tycho found him in the kitchen. 530 00:33:51,681 --> 00:33:53,553 He must've eaten something bad. 531 00:33:53,683 --> 00:33:55,120 We didn't want to upset you. 532 00:33:55,250 --> 00:33:56,643 I'm so sorry. 533 00:33:56,773 --> 00:33:58,732 Here. 534 00:33:58,862 --> 00:34:01,039 We cremated him like a Roman. 535 00:34:18,056 --> 00:34:20,058 Go to your lessons. 536 00:34:24,323 --> 00:34:26,064 Sorry. 537 00:34:28,631 --> 00:34:31,373 - You offended my sister. - She offended me. 538 00:34:31,504 --> 00:34:32,722 And Piso? 539 00:34:37,858 --> 00:34:39,860 - You're losing your touch. - What? 540 00:34:39,990 --> 00:34:42,384 I told you to fix this with the Senate two years ago! 541 00:34:42,515 --> 00:34:44,473 - I would've looked weak! - How do you look now? 542 00:34:47,259 --> 00:34:49,652 We need to do something. Something they're not expecting. 543 00:34:49,783 --> 00:34:51,741 Like what? 544 00:34:51,872 --> 00:34:53,743 How would I know? I've lost my touch. 545 00:34:53,874 --> 00:34:55,267 I'm not in the mood for this, Livia. 546 00:34:55,397 --> 00:34:56,572 Ask me nicely. 547 00:35:02,012 --> 00:35:03,362 What? 548 00:35:05,538 --> 00:35:06,582 Very nicely. 549 00:35:10,238 --> 00:35:13,285 Piso's sheep have given Livia an idea. 550 00:35:13,415 --> 00:35:15,809 Piso refused... 551 00:35:15,939 --> 00:35:18,812 as I said he would. 552 00:35:18,942 --> 00:35:23,643 He also said nobody could ever hold power legally. 553 00:35:23,773 --> 00:35:27,429 Unless the Senate chose to grant it. 554 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,257 - So? - So... 555 00:35:30,606 --> 00:35:32,260 let's get them to do that. 556 00:35:34,088 --> 00:35:36,264 Let's get them to give it to you. 557 00:35:37,396 --> 00:35:38,875 Legally. 558 00:35:39,006 --> 00:35:42,401 And why would the Senate do that exactly? 559 00:35:42,531 --> 00:35:44,664 Because enough of them are sheep. 560 00:36:04,771 --> 00:36:06,251 How are you, Fortunata? 561 00:36:06,381 --> 00:36:08,601 I'm a slave, Lady. 562 00:36:08,731 --> 00:36:10,298 How are you? 563 00:36:10,429 --> 00:36:12,866 At your age, 564 00:36:12,996 --> 00:36:15,477 I was sold into a whorehouse. 565 00:36:19,525 --> 00:36:21,918 We look after all our friends. 566 00:36:26,358 --> 00:36:29,448 I can't believe you're even considering this. 567 00:36:29,578 --> 00:36:32,581 It's a totally insane risk! 568 00:36:32,712 --> 00:36:35,410 So is defying the Senate. 569 00:36:35,541 --> 00:36:37,499 This at least has the appearance of legitimacy... 570 00:36:37,630 --> 00:36:39,022 If it works. 571 00:36:39,153 --> 00:36:40,676 ...which makes him different from Caesar... 572 00:36:40,807 --> 00:36:42,678 If it fucking works! 573 00:36:42,809 --> 00:36:46,639 ...Who was stabbed to death outside the Senate. 574 00:36:46,769 --> 00:36:51,383 You want to gamble everything on a hunch about Piso's sheep? 575 00:36:52,688 --> 00:36:55,213 It's just too... clever! 576 00:36:57,258 --> 00:36:58,651 Why are we even listening to... 577 00:36:58,781 --> 00:37:00,218 A woman? 578 00:37:07,007 --> 00:37:08,965 The day before the battle at Actium, 579 00:37:09,096 --> 00:37:10,967 we found out he was planning 580 00:37:11,098 --> 00:37:12,752 to make a run for it with Cleopatra. 581 00:37:12,882 --> 00:37:15,842 I said, let them go, 582 00:37:15,972 --> 00:37:17,626 then their fleet will surrender, 583 00:37:17,757 --> 00:37:19,062 and we'll win without fighting. 584 00:37:19,193 --> 00:37:20,890 But you said... 585 00:37:21,891 --> 00:37:23,502 Bollocks to that. 586 00:37:23,632 --> 00:37:25,895 Let's end this now. Once and for all. 587 00:37:26,026 --> 00:37:29,377 One throw of the dice. All or nothing. 588 00:37:32,859 --> 00:37:36,558 You really want to gamble everything on this? 589 00:37:38,168 --> 00:37:39,822 We're loading the dice. 590 00:37:46,351 --> 00:37:48,918 I mean, why would Livia say such things? 591 00:37:49,049 --> 00:37:52,182 And Antigone. I mean, what's got into her? Of all people. 592 00:37:52,313 --> 00:37:54,620 Oh, Livia's just ambitious for her sons. 593 00:37:54,750 --> 00:37:57,187 What Roman mother isn't? 594 00:37:57,318 --> 00:38:00,016 I know for a fact she wants Julia to marry Tiberius 595 00:38:00,147 --> 00:38:02,497 - when the time comes. - I should talk to her. 596 00:38:02,628 --> 00:38:05,370 Not Marcellus or anyone else. 597 00:38:05,500 --> 00:38:06,936 I said some... 598 00:38:08,851 --> 00:38:12,768 I said some terrible things, Scribonia. 599 00:38:12,899 --> 00:38:15,554 If I were you, I wouldn't mention any of this again. 600 00:38:15,684 --> 00:38:18,948 Or maybe... maybe a small gesture 601 00:38:19,079 --> 00:38:20,863 to show you're bigger than she is. 602 00:38:20,994 --> 00:38:22,865 A new terrapin. A present... 603 00:38:22,996 --> 00:38:25,433 from Marcellus to his dear cousin Tiberius. 604 00:38:29,219 --> 00:38:31,918 We can expect about 500 to attend the session. 605 00:38:32,048 --> 00:38:33,963 The usual suspects. 606 00:38:34,094 --> 00:38:37,010 This list is the men that we can rely on. 607 00:38:37,140 --> 00:38:40,361 Either they owe you or they don't care about the Republic. 608 00:38:40,492 --> 00:38:43,016 They just want stability and some room at the trough. 609 00:38:43,146 --> 00:38:45,105 - A hundred plus. - Mm-hm. 610 00:38:45,235 --> 00:38:47,150 These are the men we cannot rely on, 611 00:38:47,281 --> 00:38:49,196 uh, for all sorts of reasons. 612 00:38:49,327 --> 00:38:51,154 Plus men who owe some allegiance 613 00:38:51,285 --> 00:38:53,156 to the families of Crassus and Corvinus. 614 00:38:53,287 --> 00:38:55,158 Just under a hundred. 615 00:38:55,289 --> 00:38:57,770 These men probably will oppose you 616 00:38:57,900 --> 00:39:00,120 because they want the Republic back in some form or another. 617 00:39:00,250 --> 00:39:02,644 Maybe 20. 618 00:39:02,775 --> 00:39:04,864 The rest of these men can go either way. 619 00:39:06,735 --> 00:39:08,476 Our sheep. 620 00:39:12,915 --> 00:39:14,700 Cheer up, Agrippa. 621 00:39:14,830 --> 00:39:18,051 If it doesn't work, you can always kill everyone. 622 00:39:18,181 --> 00:39:19,922 Do we have any kind of leverage on anyone? 623 00:39:20,053 --> 00:39:22,011 What about him? 624 00:39:22,142 --> 00:39:23,665 I mean, I know Taurus has gambling debts. We can get him. 625 00:39:31,847 --> 00:39:34,197 You asked to see me? 626 00:39:48,081 --> 00:39:52,694 Um, we're really sorry, Aunt Livia. 627 00:39:52,825 --> 00:39:55,393 It... It was Iullus that killed the terrapin, 628 00:39:55,523 --> 00:39:58,657 and we got Tiberius another one, just the same. 629 00:40:00,049 --> 00:40:02,530 It wasn't Iullus. It was me. 630 00:40:02,661 --> 00:40:03,792 And I'm not sorry at all. 631 00:40:06,752 --> 00:40:08,580 Well, can I go now? 632 00:40:13,019 --> 00:40:15,195 Poor Tiberius. 633 00:40:15,325 --> 00:40:18,546 You should've left him to die on that mountainside. 634 00:40:29,992 --> 00:40:30,950 I'm really sorry. 635 00:40:50,317 --> 00:40:52,580 Apartment block on fire. Look. 636 00:40:54,016 --> 00:40:55,975 Not one of mine. 637 00:40:56,105 --> 00:41:00,109 Did it occur to you, Agrippa, if this goes wrong tomorrow, 638 00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:02,111 we'll have the fucking Republic back by dinner? 639 00:41:07,290 --> 00:41:09,510 I sometimes wonder how much that would bother Livia. 640 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:14,733 Well, it's a bit late to question her loyalty. 641 00:41:16,299 --> 00:41:17,605 I'd never forgive her. 642 00:41:30,226 --> 00:41:31,619 ...ungrateful fucks! 643 00:41:32,968 --> 00:41:35,101 Never before has Rome... 644 00:41:51,073 --> 00:41:54,990 Cheer up, Gaius. If it doesn't work, you can always divorce me. 645 00:42:03,912 --> 00:42:06,480 Do you remember that time 646 00:42:06,611 --> 00:42:09,178 we stood outside the fucking tent... 647 00:42:11,137 --> 00:42:13,922 thinking we were going to get killed inside? 648 00:42:17,622 --> 00:42:20,015 Of course, I might be wrong about this. 649 00:42:53,266 --> 00:42:55,529 The augur pronounces the flight of the birds 650 00:42:55,660 --> 00:42:58,227 favorable to the business of this house. 651 00:42:58,358 --> 00:42:59,838 Senate is now in session. 652 00:43:07,367 --> 00:43:09,021 Conscript Fathers. 653 00:43:09,151 --> 00:43:10,936 Here we go. I call on the gods... 654 00:43:11,066 --> 00:43:14,417 I can't wait to see how he gets out of this. 655 00:43:14,548 --> 00:43:17,290 The dice are rolling. 656 00:43:17,420 --> 00:43:20,206 If it works, you may have just saved Rome from herself. 657 00:43:20,336 --> 00:43:22,904 I'll settle for saving Gaius. 658 00:43:25,254 --> 00:43:28,040 I have done what had to be done. 659 00:43:29,694 --> 00:43:32,479 I have avenged my father, Julius Caesar, 660 00:43:32,610 --> 00:43:36,135 and acted to save the state in time of war. 661 00:43:36,265 --> 00:43:40,443 Now Rome is at peace! 662 00:43:40,574 --> 00:43:42,141 The law courts are open. 663 00:43:42,271 --> 00:43:44,317 The treasury is full. 664 00:43:44,447 --> 00:43:47,233 Our seas are clear of pirates! 665 00:43:47,363 --> 00:43:49,496 Temples have been rebuilt. 666 00:43:49,627 --> 00:43:51,846 Roads and aqueducts repaired. 667 00:43:51,977 --> 00:43:54,109 Our borders are secure. 668 00:43:54,240 --> 00:43:57,286 Our enemies are crushed! Hear! Hear! 669 00:43:57,417 --> 00:44:02,857 Never before has Rome enjoyed such honor 670 00:44:02,988 --> 00:44:05,294 or faced so great a future. 671 00:44:09,995 --> 00:44:11,823 And that is why... 672 00:44:15,478 --> 00:44:17,785 I am resigning all powers... 673 00:44:20,353 --> 00:44:22,834 and returning absolute control 674 00:44:22,964 --> 00:44:25,706 of the city, the provinces... 675 00:44:27,316 --> 00:44:30,363 and the army to the Senate. 676 00:44:30,493 --> 00:44:33,279 And the people of Rome! 677 00:44:39,459 --> 00:44:40,939 What the fuck's he doing? 678 00:44:50,383 --> 00:44:51,210 Crassus. 679 00:44:54,474 --> 00:44:58,173 On behalf of the Senate and the people of Rome, 680 00:44:58,304 --> 00:45:01,350 we thank you for all your victories and achievements. 681 00:45:03,265 --> 00:45:04,963 And we thank you also for this... 682 00:45:05,093 --> 00:45:07,835 magnanimous and generous gesture. 683 00:45:21,283 --> 00:45:22,850 Libo. 684 00:45:22,981 --> 00:45:24,809 For 20 years, 685 00:45:24,939 --> 00:45:30,205 the terrible civil wars that tore us apart are finally over. 686 00:45:30,336 --> 00:45:33,339 Trade is returning slowly, but confidence it's... 687 00:45:33,469 --> 00:45:35,384 It's fragile. 688 00:45:35,515 --> 00:45:37,996 And so too is this hard-won peace, 689 00:45:38,126 --> 00:45:39,911 and we should not likely throw that away. 690 00:45:40,041 --> 00:45:41,651 Rome needs stability. 691 00:45:41,782 --> 00:45:44,916 Rome needs... It's true. 692 00:45:45,046 --> 00:45:46,308 Rome needs certainty. 693 00:45:46,439 --> 00:45:49,007 Now, there will be a time 694 00:45:49,137 --> 00:45:51,139 when it is right for you to step down, 695 00:45:51,270 --> 00:45:53,576 but that time has not yet come. 696 00:45:53,707 --> 00:45:55,578 On behalf of the Senate and the people of Rome, 697 00:45:55,709 --> 00:45:59,104 I beg you to reconsider. I beg you to stay. 698 00:45:59,234 --> 00:46:00,758 Asprenas. 699 00:46:00,888 --> 00:46:05,153 I don't think I have ever knowingly agreed 700 00:46:05,284 --> 00:46:06,546 with my fellow senator... 701 00:46:09,331 --> 00:46:11,029 ...but for once I think he may be right. 702 00:46:11,159 --> 00:46:13,031 Our troops are still fighting 703 00:46:13,161 --> 00:46:16,425 in Gaul, Spain, Germany, and Macedonia. 704 00:46:16,556 --> 00:46:20,255 The Senate must consider what our enemies in the provinces 705 00:46:20,386 --> 00:46:24,259 and the tribes massing on our frontiers will think 706 00:46:24,390 --> 00:46:27,001 when they see the man who has led Rome for so long 707 00:46:27,132 --> 00:46:28,655 suddenly giving up. 708 00:46:28,786 --> 00:46:32,006 What they will see is weariness and weakness. 709 00:46:32,137 --> 00:46:33,747 Sabrinus. 710 00:46:33,878 --> 00:46:36,576 Then let the Senate act and show their power. 711 00:46:36,706 --> 00:46:40,536 Let the Senate vote to give back to the consul 712 00:46:40,667 --> 00:46:44,366 command of those provinces where danger still threatens Rome! 713 00:46:44,497 --> 00:46:46,847 Where all the legions are stationed. 714 00:46:46,978 --> 00:46:49,458 - Oh, he's fucking us! - If the Senate is to consider 715 00:46:49,589 --> 00:46:52,287 that proposition, it must have a strict time limit 716 00:46:52,418 --> 00:46:56,857 to be renewed or not as the Senate sees fit. 717 00:46:58,728 --> 00:47:02,341 Stay, stay, stay, stay, 718 00:47:02,471 --> 00:47:04,430 stay, stay, stay... 719 00:47:11,611 --> 00:47:14,048 Stay, Stay, stay... 720 00:47:19,140 --> 00:47:21,534 You did it, Livia. 721 00:47:21,664 --> 00:47:26,234 Stay, stay, stay, stay, stay, 722 00:47:26,365 --> 00:47:29,672 stay, stay, stay, stay... 723 00:47:29,803 --> 00:47:31,239 Agrippa's right. 724 00:47:31,370 --> 00:47:33,633 He'll make a great dictator. 725 00:47:33,763 --> 00:47:36,331 Stay, stay, stay... 726 00:47:36,462 --> 00:47:38,029 I call for a vote. 727 00:47:55,176 --> 00:47:57,570 So I found a way. 728 00:47:57,700 --> 00:47:59,572 Gaius has to become a god. 729 00:48:01,879 --> 00:48:04,620 But the god will have a son. 730 00:48:04,751 --> 00:48:07,275 And I will teach him what needs to be done. 731 00:48:10,844 --> 00:48:13,629 Oh, we have time. We can wait. 732 00:48:16,676 --> 00:48:19,461 But to restore the Republic, we first have to destroy it. 733 00:48:22,682 --> 00:48:24,553 I need you to understand. 734 00:48:29,384 --> 00:48:31,038 And forgive me. 735 00:49:16,823 --> 00:49:19,304 Great and powerful Proserpina, 736 00:49:19,434 --> 00:49:20,740 with these humble gifts, 737 00:49:20,870 --> 00:49:24,091 I gratefully fulfill our contract. 738 00:49:30,619 --> 00:49:32,099 Hey. 739 00:49:37,887 --> 00:49:39,498 We won. 740 00:49:44,590 --> 00:49:46,113 It was a boy. 741 00:49:58,473 --> 00:50:00,388 We'll have other boys.