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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 0 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Ripped, corrected & synched by Fingersmaster. Enjoy! 1 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,407 Burn, Rome! Burn! 2 00:03:39,106 --> 00:03:42,143 "If in the melancholy shades below 3 00:03:42,443 --> 00:03:46,209 "The flames of friends and lovers cease to glow 4 00:03:51,919 --> 00:03:54,683 "Yet mine shall sacred last 5 00:03:55,556 --> 00:03:57,922 "mine, undecay'd 6 00:04:02,764 --> 00:04:04,755 "Burn on through death 7 00:04:05,099 --> 00:04:09,593 "and animate my shade 8 00:04:28,589 --> 00:04:31,524 "Lo, the blaze aspires!" 9 00:04:42,837 --> 00:04:45,337 - Nero. - Go away, Tigellinus. 10 00:04:48,409 --> 00:04:49,777 The fire is spreading. 11 00:04:49,877 --> 00:04:52,080 Look at this. I was in excellent voice, too. 12 00:04:52,180 --> 00:04:55,008 The fire, I dare remind you... 13 00:04:55,483 --> 00:04:56,973 the fire is growing. 14 00:04:58,486 --> 00:05:01,090 The fire? I'd hoped it would. 15 00:05:02,223 --> 00:05:04,492 Rome will be destroyed when I die. 16 00:05:04,592 --> 00:05:06,796 Why not while I live and can see it... 17 00:05:08,296 --> 00:05:09,763 And enjoy it? 18 00:05:10,431 --> 00:05:12,934 But the palace is threatened. It will fall. 19 00:05:13,034 --> 00:05:15,635 Tigellinus, I will build another. 20 00:05:16,037 --> 00:05:17,622 A fabulous one... 21 00:05:17,772 --> 00:05:22,141 so that Nero can be housed like an emperor. 22 00:05:22,310 --> 00:05:24,310 And like a god, immortal Caesar. 23 00:05:24,411 --> 00:05:25,997 Yes, now go away. 24 00:05:28,349 --> 00:05:29,577 Caesar... 25 00:05:30,284 --> 00:05:33,651 there are angry rumours that you set fire to the city. 26 00:05:35,223 --> 00:05:38,624 Caesar might do well to avoid the blame. 27 00:05:40,928 --> 00:05:42,148 Blame? 28 00:05:44,065 --> 00:05:45,428 What are you jabbering about? 29 00:05:45,529 --> 00:05:47,168 Who blames the master of the world? 30 00:05:47,268 --> 00:05:49,398 Caesar, when thousands are perishing... 31 00:05:51,706 --> 00:05:54,117 Let us hope that most of the dead... 32 00:05:54,418 --> 00:05:55,933 are Christians. 33 00:05:57,779 --> 00:05:59,881 They're increasing. Did you know that? 34 00:05:59,981 --> 00:06:02,417 We've hunted and killed them like rats. 35 00:06:02,517 --> 00:06:05,404 Yet the empire swarms with them. 36 00:06:07,288 --> 00:06:09,324 A dangerous superstition, Tigellinus... 37 00:06:09,424 --> 00:06:13,231 that teaches that the meek shall inherit that which belongs to the mighty... 38 00:06:13,461 --> 00:06:16,164 that accepts another god in place of myself. 39 00:06:16,264 --> 00:06:18,289 It shall not live, Caesar. 40 00:06:20,708 --> 00:06:22,116 Tigellinus. 41 00:06:22,436 --> 00:06:24,261 Yes, divine Caesar. 42 00:06:24,672 --> 00:06:27,735 These rumours about my setting fire to the city. 43 00:06:28,443 --> 00:06:31,813 Couldn't we shift the blame to... 44 00:06:31,913 --> 00:06:33,337 The Christians? 45 00:06:35,283 --> 00:06:38,483 If the populace could learn to fear and hate them... 46 00:06:38,886 --> 00:06:40,854 they might destroy them... 47 00:06:43,624 --> 00:06:46,124 where my own minister has failed. 48 00:06:48,162 --> 00:06:49,527 Now go away. 49 00:06:49,964 --> 00:06:51,158 Caesar. 50 00:06:58,272 --> 00:07:01,155 "Lo, the blaze aspires! 51 00:07:02,944 --> 00:07:05,713 "The glowing ocean reddens with the fires 52 00:07:05,813 --> 00:07:07,838 "Confessing Jove 53 00:07:08,449 --> 00:07:11,486 "Then swift from all sides pour 54 00:07:11,586 --> 00:07:13,349 "The hissing brands 55 00:07:13,788 --> 00:07:16,552 "The curling volumes rise 56 00:07:16,824 --> 00:07:19,884 "And sheets of rolling smoke 57 00:07:20,194 --> 00:07:22,856 "involve the skies" 58 00:09:02,396 --> 00:09:03,764 Devil's luck. 59 00:09:03,864 --> 00:09:05,733 How much now, Strabo? 60 00:09:06,133 --> 00:09:08,821 A couple of pig's eyes. All I got. 61 00:09:09,570 --> 00:09:11,470 Well, trap a Christian. 62 00:09:13,474 --> 00:09:15,965 They hide in their holes like rats. 63 00:09:17,445 --> 00:09:19,345 I got a nose for them. 64 00:09:23,084 --> 00:09:26,742 Nero's reward. Two hundred pieces. 65 00:10:28,749 --> 00:10:30,148 Who are you? 66 00:10:30,751 --> 00:10:33,219 Titus, a stranger in Rome. 67 00:10:34,822 --> 00:10:36,551 How do you know me? 68 00:10:36,824 --> 00:10:38,815 You were described to me. 69 00:10:40,494 --> 00:10:42,394 Where do you come from? 70 00:10:42,930 --> 00:10:44,261 Jerusalem. 71 00:10:44,732 --> 00:10:46,422 I was sent by Paul, 72 00:10:46,523 --> 00:10:48,390 - apostle of... - Wait. 73 00:10:49,370 --> 00:10:50,667 Not here. 74 00:10:51,439 --> 00:10:55,432 Since the great fire, we have lived in terror. 75 00:10:59,700 --> 00:11:01,935 If they killed out all the Christian lice, 76 00:11:02,036 --> 00:11:04,240 me and you would have to go back to work! 77 00:11:05,219 --> 00:11:07,187 Are you meeting tonight? 78 00:11:07,555 --> 00:11:10,163 Yes, near the Cestian Bridge. 79 00:11:10,491 --> 00:11:12,593 I'll tell them Paul's message and how... 80 00:11:12,693 --> 00:11:13,717 Devil take them! 81 00:11:13,818 --> 00:11:16,058 You put a Christian curse on 'em! 82 00:11:18,733 --> 00:11:19,791 Come. 83 00:11:23,137 --> 00:11:24,137 Lice! 84 00:11:26,941 --> 00:11:29,150 Hey, those are mine! 85 00:11:31,145 --> 00:11:34,749 Hey, look out where you're throwing those sheep knuckles, will you? 86 00:11:35,149 --> 00:11:37,283 Get your skinny shins out of here. 87 00:11:51,599 --> 00:11:53,066 Hey, Strabo! 88 00:11:55,269 --> 00:11:56,361 Look. 89 00:12:01,108 --> 00:12:02,769 The sign of the cross. 90 00:12:20,294 --> 00:12:22,519 Flowers. Roses. 91 00:12:23,931 --> 00:12:28,228 Flowers. Roses. Flowers. 92 00:12:29,537 --> 00:12:31,942 You ought to close up shop on a day like this, Tybul. 93 00:12:32,042 --> 00:12:33,273 Why, today? 94 00:12:33,607 --> 00:12:35,407 Well, the rains are over and everybody's out. 95 00:12:35,508 --> 00:12:37,008 You ought to give yourself a holiday. 96 00:12:37,211 --> 00:12:39,739 If I played, I'd bring the rains back. 97 00:12:40,981 --> 00:12:42,917 - You would. - Look, Christians! 98 00:12:43,017 --> 00:12:44,819 - Where? - Down there. 99 00:12:44,919 --> 00:12:47,955 - I know. There was a sign in the dust. - Come on, there are Christians! 100 00:12:48,055 --> 00:12:50,353 - Where? - Down there. Come on. 101 00:12:51,492 --> 00:12:53,527 Down there. Look. Come on. 102 00:12:53,627 --> 00:12:55,296 - Who are they? - Does anybody know? 103 00:12:55,396 --> 00:12:57,531 Look, they caught some Christians! 104 00:12:57,631 --> 00:13:00,038 They got some Christians down here. Come on. 105 00:13:00,568 --> 00:13:02,192 - Come on. - Hurry! Hurry! 106 00:13:02,670 --> 00:13:05,062 - What's that? - I don't know. 107 00:13:05,306 --> 00:13:06,707 Sounds like a street fight. 108 00:13:06,907 --> 00:13:08,775 Good. Let's go and see. 109 00:13:09,910 --> 00:13:11,138 Come on. 110 00:13:11,879 --> 00:13:13,442 Come on, Philodemus. 111 00:13:13,914 --> 00:13:15,882 Come on! Come on! Look! 112 00:13:33,467 --> 00:13:35,697 Nero's lions are going to eat. 113 00:13:40,908 --> 00:13:43,143 Vile killers, that's what they are! 114 00:13:43,243 --> 00:13:46,180 The dirty Christian dogs! They ought to kill all of them. 115 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:48,414 Come on, come on, let's stone them! 116 00:13:53,787 --> 00:13:56,690 Keep 'em back! If they kill 'em, we won't get our money! 117 00:13:56,790 --> 00:13:58,078 Hang on to 'em! 118 00:13:58,488 --> 00:13:59,488 Favius! 119 00:14:00,398 --> 00:14:01,398 Favius! 120 00:14:17,645 --> 00:14:19,670 Christians! Stone them! 121 00:14:35,362 --> 00:14:37,023 Look, it's Marcus. 122 00:14:43,904 --> 00:14:45,769 You dirty Christians! 123 00:14:48,108 --> 00:14:49,507 I'll kill you. 124 00:15:00,287 --> 00:15:01,879 Marcus Superbus! 125 00:15:02,056 --> 00:15:03,546 Stand away! 126 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:14,835 What have these old men done? 127 00:15:14,935 --> 00:15:16,904 We found 'em. There's a reward coming to us. 128 00:15:17,004 --> 00:15:18,900 What did they do? I tell you, there was no... 129 00:15:23,477 --> 00:15:25,769 - Me and Strabo saw what they did. - Quiet, you! 130 00:15:27,448 --> 00:15:29,903 Well, go on. 131 00:15:30,484 --> 00:15:32,543 - Why did you stop? - I... 132 00:15:34,321 --> 00:15:35,948 I didn't know. 133 00:15:36,056 --> 00:15:37,148 What? 134 00:15:38,659 --> 00:15:40,427 That it was the Prefect of Rome. 135 00:15:40,527 --> 00:15:42,561 Well, all the better. 136 00:15:42,930 --> 00:15:44,924 You have the highest authority in Rome, 137 00:15:45,025 --> 00:15:47,068 next to the Emperor, to judge this case. 138 00:15:47,568 --> 00:15:48,836 Aren't you pleased? 139 00:15:48,936 --> 00:15:51,562 Now watch justice go blind. 140 00:15:51,662 --> 00:15:53,164 What's your name? 141 00:15:53,704 --> 00:15:54,908 Mercia. 142 00:15:55,976 --> 00:15:58,840 - And you? - Favius Fontellus. 143 00:15:59,346 --> 00:16:02,014 This man is Titus, my friend. 144 00:16:02,783 --> 00:16:04,915 - Is this girl your daughter? - No. 145 00:16:05,252 --> 00:16:08,656 - Then why would... - She was trying to protect me. 146 00:16:09,723 --> 00:16:12,385 Well, I... I envy you. 147 00:16:13,227 --> 00:16:14,762 What is this old man to you? 148 00:16:14,862 --> 00:16:16,493 - She... - She can talk. 149 00:16:16,707 --> 00:16:18,299 He's my teacher. 150 00:16:18,632 --> 00:16:21,602 - Who are your father and mother? - They're dead. 151 00:16:21,702 --> 00:16:24,999 - You... You live with him? - Yes. 152 00:16:25,305 --> 00:16:26,897 May they go now? 153 00:16:31,178 --> 00:16:32,680 What's your faith? 154 00:16:32,780 --> 00:16:36,347 My friend and I are philosophers. 155 00:16:37,718 --> 00:16:39,753 He's lying. They're Christians. 156 00:16:39,853 --> 00:16:42,378 - Yeah. - Christians! 157 00:16:45,759 --> 00:16:48,289 Viturius, clear the street! 158 00:16:48,829 --> 00:16:50,530 There's a reward on them, Excellence. 159 00:16:50,631 --> 00:16:51,929 They made the sign of the... 160 00:16:55,536 --> 00:16:57,937 I said, clear the street. 161 00:17:04,645 --> 00:17:06,334 Begone! Out of the way! 162 00:17:07,114 --> 00:17:08,638 Clear the way! Begone! 163 00:17:09,950 --> 00:17:12,043 - Clear the way! - Get out! Get out! 164 00:17:12,152 --> 00:17:14,521 - Begone, there! Begone! - Out! Out! 165 00:17:14,621 --> 00:17:16,680 Get out! Get out there! 166 00:17:17,124 --> 00:17:18,250 Out! 167 00:17:18,592 --> 00:17:20,159 Well, you... 168 00:17:20,761 --> 00:17:22,490 You are free to go. 169 00:17:24,431 --> 00:17:25,898 We thank you. 170 00:17:40,948 --> 00:17:44,950 Is there anything more I can do? 171 00:17:45,486 --> 00:17:47,349 Nothing, Excellence. 172 00:17:48,088 --> 00:17:49,680 We are grateful. 173 00:17:50,991 --> 00:17:52,558 Come, Mercia. 174 00:17:53,961 --> 00:17:55,326 Excellence. 175 00:18:14,014 --> 00:18:15,413 Still, I... 176 00:18:16,383 --> 00:18:18,146 I wish there were... 177 00:18:19,453 --> 00:18:20,977 something more. 178 00:18:23,524 --> 00:18:26,254 Follow them. Find out where they live... 179 00:18:27,494 --> 00:18:29,863 and find out which fountain she goes to. 180 00:18:29,963 --> 00:18:31,521 Yes, Excellence. 181 00:18:32,599 --> 00:18:34,931 Marcus, my illustrious friend... 182 00:18:35,302 --> 00:18:37,838 will you leave your trance for a moment? 183 00:18:37,938 --> 00:18:39,803 Dacia! Glabrio! 184 00:18:40,107 --> 00:18:43,201 She was a rare specimen, I needn't tell you. 185 00:18:44,211 --> 00:18:46,702 Your eyesight gets better with age. 186 00:18:47,681 --> 00:18:51,018 A tasty dish for your banquet tomorrow evening. 187 00:18:51,118 --> 00:18:53,313 Yes. Yes, I'll tell the cook. 188 00:18:55,022 --> 00:18:56,990 - Oh, Marcus? - Yes. 189 00:18:57,291 --> 00:18:59,953 Someone expects you this afternoon. 190 00:19:01,195 --> 00:19:02,628 Yes, yes. 191 00:19:15,542 --> 00:19:19,413 Why, I never saw a man so distracted. 192 00:19:19,513 --> 00:19:22,038 I never saw a man with better reason to be. 193 00:19:23,383 --> 00:19:26,910 You mean that girl, of course. 194 00:19:27,321 --> 00:19:29,414 And you said Rome was dull. 195 00:19:29,957 --> 00:19:31,117 Did I? 196 00:19:31,491 --> 00:19:34,790 Well, I know exactly how to stir up some excitement. 197 00:20:53,106 --> 00:20:55,006 Which perfume, Empress? 198 00:20:55,375 --> 00:20:57,468 The jasmine and the acacia. 199 00:20:59,313 --> 00:21:01,110 We must hurry, Zona. 200 00:21:07,287 --> 00:21:08,311 No. 201 00:21:09,056 --> 00:21:10,490 No, not yet. 202 00:21:10,590 --> 00:21:13,184 Another minute, and then we'll hurry. 203 00:21:14,194 --> 00:21:16,059 Empress, a visitor. 204 00:21:16,830 --> 00:21:19,822 - Marcus already? - No, lady. 205 00:21:27,341 --> 00:21:28,569 Empress. 206 00:21:28,809 --> 00:21:31,004 My dear Poppaea. 207 00:21:32,012 --> 00:21:34,615 Why, Dacia, you're perspiring with news. 208 00:21:34,715 --> 00:21:36,683 I was famished for a chat. 209 00:21:36,783 --> 00:21:39,319 I have a great deal of news. 210 00:21:39,419 --> 00:21:41,321 Well, I haven't time for a chat. 211 00:21:41,421 --> 00:21:42,956 Did you deliver the message? 212 00:21:43,056 --> 00:21:45,957 Dear lady, of course I did. 213 00:21:47,728 --> 00:21:49,662 Of course you would. 214 00:21:50,297 --> 00:21:53,994 Such things are the breath of your vicious little nostrils. 215 00:21:55,168 --> 00:21:56,937 - Did he say anything? - Nothing. 216 00:21:57,037 --> 00:21:58,338 Nothing at all. 217 00:21:58,438 --> 00:22:00,324 And what does "nothing" mean? 218 00:22:00,474 --> 00:22:02,950 Perhaps all sorts of things, but... 219 00:22:03,051 --> 00:22:04,645 But you haven't time for a chat. 220 00:22:04,745 --> 00:22:07,629 I'll tell you when to go, dear Dacia. 221 00:22:10,117 --> 00:22:11,776 Zona, all of you, go away. 222 00:22:18,558 --> 00:22:20,427 Will Marcus be here or not? 223 00:22:20,627 --> 00:22:23,687 I told you, Majesty, he said nothing. 224 00:22:24,164 --> 00:22:26,466 Did he smile, or did he frown? 225 00:22:26,566 --> 00:22:29,246 Well, he didn't smile. 226 00:22:32,703 --> 00:22:34,538 It must be some other woman. 227 00:22:34,808 --> 00:22:38,058 And I told him the Empress wished to see him alone, 228 00:22:38,159 --> 00:22:39,765 and immediately. 229 00:22:40,313 --> 00:22:42,210 Stop drooling, Dacia. 230 00:22:43,383 --> 00:22:46,208 - Is it serious? - I hope not, but... 231 00:22:46,753 --> 00:22:48,221 you know Marcus. 232 00:22:48,321 --> 00:22:51,019 And there are so many beautiful women in Rome. 233 00:22:52,292 --> 00:22:55,793 Dacia, you're a butterfly with the sting of a wasp. 234 00:22:57,597 --> 00:22:59,399 Take off your clothes. 235 00:22:59,599 --> 00:23:01,626 Get in here and tell me all about it. 236 00:23:34,534 --> 00:23:37,838 Can't you think of a single reason why he let them go? 237 00:23:37,938 --> 00:23:39,462 No, Excellence. 238 00:23:43,810 --> 00:23:45,841 Very competent spies. 239 00:23:48,014 --> 00:23:51,522 If your brains were as good as your smell for money... 240 00:23:53,887 --> 00:23:55,574 Go back to that bake shop. 241 00:23:55,905 --> 00:23:56,990 Ask for her. 242 00:23:57,090 --> 00:23:59,773 If you can't find out anything, watch for her! 243 00:24:00,193 --> 00:24:01,421 Get out! 244 00:24:03,864 --> 00:24:06,799 Marcus letting Christians go free. 245 00:24:07,434 --> 00:24:08,526 Why? 246 00:24:12,672 --> 00:24:14,765 I don't know, yet. 247 00:24:23,149 --> 00:24:25,845 But this is what I've been waiting for... 248 00:24:27,053 --> 00:24:29,647 to break his favour with the Emperor... 249 00:24:32,325 --> 00:24:33,986 and restore mine. 250 00:25:10,096 --> 00:25:12,187 I... I like that cup of yours. 251 00:25:13,033 --> 00:25:14,926 - Would you sell it? - Why... 252 00:25:25,078 --> 00:25:26,602 It's gold! 253 00:25:31,217 --> 00:25:32,741 Would you mind? 254 00:25:40,126 --> 00:25:41,457 Thank you. 255 00:25:46,032 --> 00:25:47,659 I'm very thirsty. 256 00:25:51,838 --> 00:25:54,705 In fact, I don't know when I've ever been so thirsty. 257 00:25:56,776 --> 00:25:58,778 In that case, you'd better drink it, hadn't you? 258 00:25:58,878 --> 00:26:00,177 Yeah, that's right. 259 00:26:07,387 --> 00:26:09,378 Thanks. Thanks very much. 260 00:26:15,862 --> 00:26:18,330 Don't you remember me? 261 00:26:18,898 --> 00:26:20,229 Of course. 262 00:26:20,667 --> 00:26:22,135 Well, then why run away? 263 00:26:22,235 --> 00:26:24,635 You're not afraid of me, are you? 264 00:26:24,938 --> 00:26:25,962 No. 265 00:26:27,874 --> 00:26:30,161 You're... You're harmless enough. 266 00:26:30,977 --> 00:26:32,579 In fact, quite different... 267 00:26:32,779 --> 00:26:34,303 Different? From what? 268 00:26:34,714 --> 00:26:37,139 - What do you mean by that? - I mean... 269 00:26:37,787 --> 00:26:40,671 many times I've seen you riding through the streets... 270 00:26:41,221 --> 00:26:43,086 the Prefect of Rome... 271 00:26:43,490 --> 00:26:45,186 in your armour, with your guard, 272 00:26:45,387 --> 00:26:46,793 and now you're so human. 273 00:26:46,893 --> 00:26:48,693 Didn't you know I was? 274 00:26:49,703 --> 00:26:51,747 Well, yes, I've heard of your reputation. 275 00:26:51,848 --> 00:26:53,865 What do you... You mean... 276 00:26:54,434 --> 00:26:56,437 You mean, that I'm... wicked? 277 00:26:57,237 --> 00:26:58,636 Well, yes, something like that. 278 00:26:58,738 --> 00:27:00,435 Well, not all of it's true. 279 00:27:01,574 --> 00:27:02,976 Perhaps not... 280 00:27:03,076 --> 00:27:04,928 because your face doesn't look like that. 281 00:27:05,029 --> 00:27:06,830 - It's... - It's what? 282 00:27:07,747 --> 00:27:10,239 - Oh, I don't know. It's just different. - No, wait. 283 00:27:11,901 --> 00:27:13,402 Is that a command? 284 00:27:14,007 --> 00:27:15,516 I wouldn't do that. 285 00:27:16,022 --> 00:27:18,858 You could, being Prefect of Rome. 286 00:27:18,958 --> 00:27:20,939 But I don't want to be Prefect with you, 287 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:22,860 unless you try to leave me. 288 00:27:23,129 --> 00:27:25,131 You were too hard to find. 289 00:27:25,301 --> 00:27:28,408 Do you imagine you're just going to walk away from me like this? 290 00:27:28,568 --> 00:27:31,375 - But I will, eventually. - But that would be a sin. 291 00:27:31,805 --> 00:27:33,807 Didn't you know you'd see me again... 292 00:27:34,107 --> 00:27:36,667 and that I wouldn't let you go? 293 00:27:43,383 --> 00:27:46,185 I see your reputation isn't altogether false. 294 00:27:46,786 --> 00:27:48,117 Do you... 295 00:27:48,354 --> 00:27:50,015 Do you dislike me? 296 00:27:51,307 --> 00:27:53,312 - No. - Well, you shouldn't. 297 00:27:53,700 --> 00:27:55,307 You must like me. 298 00:27:56,129 --> 00:27:59,827 In such things, I... I always have my way. 299 00:28:00,500 --> 00:28:01,524 No. 300 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,673 The Emperor commanded me to find you... 301 00:28:29,774 --> 00:28:31,394 and deliver this myself. 302 00:28:33,066 --> 00:28:34,331 What is it? 303 00:28:34,634 --> 00:28:36,261 Who is this girl? 304 00:28:36,569 --> 00:28:37,900 I'm going. 305 00:28:38,401 --> 00:28:39,683 No, wait. 306 00:28:40,273 --> 00:28:42,375 You met her for the first time today, didn't you? 307 00:28:42,475 --> 00:28:44,038 What is this message? 308 00:28:47,747 --> 00:28:49,214 I'll read it. 309 00:28:54,187 --> 00:28:56,087 "To my well-beloved Marcus. 310 00:28:58,291 --> 00:29:01,127 "The extermination of Christians must continue. 311 00:29:01,227 --> 00:29:02,854 "None may escape. 312 00:29:03,663 --> 00:29:06,933 "Those who are dangerous are instantly to be killed. 313 00:29:07,033 --> 00:29:10,230 "The others are to be held for death in the arena. 314 00:29:10,970 --> 00:29:13,803 "This duty has long been entrusted to you. 315 00:29:14,874 --> 00:29:17,172 "I charge you to be faithful." 316 00:29:24,050 --> 00:29:25,950 And the Emperor's seal. 317 00:29:28,822 --> 00:29:30,053 I'm going. 318 00:29:30,723 --> 00:29:33,059 - I'll go with you. - I'd rather go alone. 319 00:29:33,159 --> 00:29:35,228 By this order, Marcus, any person even suspected... 320 00:29:35,328 --> 00:29:36,863 I heard the order. 321 00:29:37,163 --> 00:29:38,398 Then that is all. 322 00:29:38,498 --> 00:29:40,389 Don't rush off like that. 323 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,603 One would say you wanted to follow that girl. 324 00:29:43,703 --> 00:29:45,330 At your age, too. 325 00:29:45,605 --> 00:29:46,799 Absurd! 326 00:29:47,006 --> 00:29:49,042 Why was this order given to me in the street? 327 00:29:49,142 --> 00:29:50,942 Why were you so anxious to find me? 328 00:29:51,043 --> 00:29:52,344 The Emperor was anxious. 329 00:29:52,445 --> 00:29:55,472 - Did you make him that way? - I don't know what you mean. 330 00:29:57,517 --> 00:29:59,180 She's out of sight. 331 00:30:00,620 --> 00:30:02,385 Don't let me keep you. 332 00:30:16,936 --> 00:30:19,461 And she's been in here many times... 333 00:30:19,806 --> 00:30:22,297 and you don't know where she lives. 334 00:30:22,475 --> 00:30:23,910 You're lying. 335 00:30:24,010 --> 00:30:26,103 No. No, I'm not. 336 00:30:27,247 --> 00:30:30,774 You know that it means death to hide a Christian? 337 00:30:31,117 --> 00:30:34,245 I'm not hiding her. I've told you all I know. 338 00:30:36,423 --> 00:30:38,849 Are you sure she paid for the bread? 339 00:30:38,950 --> 00:30:39,958 Yes. 340 00:30:40,460 --> 00:30:42,792 And then... Then she ran out... 341 00:30:43,196 --> 00:30:45,323 and didn't take it with her. 342 00:30:51,237 --> 00:30:52,568 Wait here. 343 00:30:53,706 --> 00:30:55,401 She may come back. 344 00:31:24,003 --> 00:31:27,637 Mercia, Bucco says he wonders when he can have his soup bone. 345 00:31:28,007 --> 00:31:30,437 Tell Bucco, as soon as the soup's ready. 346 00:31:31,311 --> 00:31:34,644 Bucco, aren't you ashamed to hurry Mercia like that? 347 00:31:41,300 --> 00:31:42,447 You know, Bucco... 348 00:31:42,548 --> 00:31:45,155 you and I get hungry about the same time. 349 00:31:46,459 --> 00:31:47,653 Greedy! 350 00:31:56,469 --> 00:31:59,063 I wish you could stay longer with us. 351 00:31:59,872 --> 00:32:01,405 There's no time. 352 00:32:01,505 --> 00:32:05,145 I must take this letter of Paul's to Spain and Africa. 353 00:32:05,245 --> 00:32:07,051 It's an inspiration... 354 00:32:07,180 --> 00:32:10,772 to copy Paul's own word and keep it. 355 00:32:13,706 --> 00:32:15,991 Mercia! Mercia! 356 00:32:16,589 --> 00:32:18,845 If you'll wait until I have finished writing, 357 00:32:18,946 --> 00:32:21,452 I'll help you chop the carrots. 358 00:32:22,195 --> 00:32:25,492 Mercia, water's dripping from that jug. 359 00:32:25,832 --> 00:32:27,299 Is it leaking? 360 00:32:31,170 --> 00:32:32,637 I dropped it. 361 00:32:33,773 --> 00:32:35,502 But I didn't know that... 362 00:32:44,584 --> 00:32:46,419 It was surprising today, wasn't it... 363 00:32:46,519 --> 00:32:48,922 to see what Marcus Superbus was really like? 364 00:32:49,022 --> 00:32:51,022 - In what way? - I mean... 365 00:32:51,391 --> 00:32:53,396 as generous as that, and... 366 00:32:54,627 --> 00:32:55,894 likeable. 367 00:32:57,163 --> 00:32:59,763 Yes, and he used the whip. 368 00:33:01,401 --> 00:33:03,269 He was taught to use that. 369 00:33:03,369 --> 00:33:05,234 He should be untaught. 370 00:33:06,539 --> 00:33:09,175 Do they all know about the meeting tonight? 371 00:33:09,275 --> 00:33:11,368 All except a few. 372 00:33:11,677 --> 00:33:13,975 I'll send Stephan to tell them. 373 00:33:14,380 --> 00:33:16,007 Come on, come on. 374 00:33:18,418 --> 00:33:20,909 Why send a child on such an errand? 375 00:33:21,721 --> 00:33:24,155 He's less likely to be suspected. 376 00:33:24,524 --> 00:33:26,754 You saw today what can happen. 377 00:33:29,495 --> 00:33:32,692 - Are they brother and sister? - No. 378 00:33:33,633 --> 00:33:37,033 Their parents were coated with pitch... 379 00:33:37,503 --> 00:33:41,930 and burned as torches to light up one of Nero's orgies. 380 00:33:42,542 --> 00:33:46,431 They died like hundreds of others lately... 381 00:33:47,713 --> 00:33:49,610 holding to the truth. 382 00:33:51,350 --> 00:33:53,750 - Come here, Stephan. - Yes, Father. 383 00:33:59,225 --> 00:34:01,227 Oh, I forgot the bread. 384 00:34:01,327 --> 00:34:04,160 - You know we meet tonight, don't you? - Yes. 385 00:34:05,932 --> 00:34:09,035 - In the ruins, at the grove? - I know, Father. 386 00:34:09,135 --> 00:34:12,140 Well, go and tell Melos and Caius. 387 00:34:13,773 --> 00:34:17,856 Keep to the narrowest streets and be careful you are not watched. 388 00:34:20,613 --> 00:34:23,649 Stephan, you're not too hungry to go before supper? 389 00:34:23,749 --> 00:34:25,774 No, it won't take me long. 390 00:34:26,919 --> 00:34:28,147 Stephan. 391 00:34:39,398 --> 00:34:41,698 Do you know why you must be careful? 392 00:34:41,968 --> 00:34:43,067 Yes. 393 00:34:43,368 --> 00:34:45,265 Because there is danger. 394 00:34:45,505 --> 00:34:46,737 Of what? 395 00:34:47,738 --> 00:34:48,769 Death. 396 00:34:49,942 --> 00:34:51,373 Stephan... 397 00:34:52,845 --> 00:34:54,904 I saw the Master. 398 00:34:57,106 --> 00:34:58,334 Did you? 399 00:34:59,018 --> 00:35:01,522 I was in Jerusalem by the Damascus Gate... 400 00:35:01,623 --> 00:35:02,830 when he passed. 401 00:35:03,890 --> 00:35:06,690 I saw him carrying the cross. 402 00:35:09,795 --> 00:35:11,922 You know what he did for us? 403 00:35:12,565 --> 00:35:15,363 - He gave his life. - Yes. 404 00:35:16,402 --> 00:35:17,688 If you had seen him, 405 00:35:17,789 --> 00:35:19,869 you would love him as much as I. 406 00:35:21,874 --> 00:35:24,138 I would gladly die for him. 407 00:35:26,409 --> 00:35:29,471 - Would you? - Yes. 408 00:35:30,249 --> 00:35:32,547 You would not betray any of us? 409 00:35:33,019 --> 00:35:36,716 You would be faithful even unto death? 410 00:35:37,423 --> 00:35:38,481 Yes. 411 00:35:41,260 --> 00:35:42,784 Stephan, wait! 412 00:35:43,763 --> 00:35:45,565 I forgot the bread. Will you stop for it? 413 00:35:45,666 --> 00:35:47,066 Yes. I'll need money. 414 00:35:47,166 --> 00:35:49,202 No, I paid for it. Just tell him, he'll remember. 415 00:35:49,302 --> 00:35:51,127 He'll give it to me. Tybul knows me. 416 00:36:11,424 --> 00:36:13,483 Tybul! Tybul! 417 00:36:13,926 --> 00:36:15,328 Mercia, told me to get... 418 00:36:15,619 --> 00:36:18,200 Well, you're late today. 419 00:36:18,397 --> 00:36:20,681 - But we... - And you're lucky. 420 00:36:20,967 --> 00:36:22,600 There's a loaf of bread left. 421 00:36:22,701 --> 00:36:24,164 But Mercia forgot. 422 00:36:25,071 --> 00:36:27,273 In a few minutes, I'd have gone home... 423 00:36:27,373 --> 00:36:29,901 and you'd have gone hungry, young man. 424 00:36:30,376 --> 00:36:33,462 - Money first. - But Mercia paid for it. 425 00:36:33,565 --> 00:36:35,622 - Well... - Don't you remember? 426 00:36:35,744 --> 00:36:37,049 Of course you do. 427 00:36:37,149 --> 00:36:39,252 She laid the money right here and ran out. 428 00:36:39,352 --> 00:36:42,156 Give it to me. We'll need it for supper, please. 429 00:36:43,089 --> 00:36:44,283 'Night. 430 00:36:50,896 --> 00:36:52,158 Come on. 431 00:36:54,433 --> 00:36:57,195 I'm not certain of these words. 432 00:36:58,271 --> 00:37:01,968 "According to his mercy, he saved us." 433 00:37:04,410 --> 00:37:07,946 - Stephan? - No, that isn't the knock we use. 434 00:37:17,890 --> 00:37:19,592 - Who's there? - Open! 435 00:37:19,692 --> 00:37:21,922 - Who are you? - Marcus Superbus. 436 00:37:25,097 --> 00:37:27,984 - Better let him in. - But, without any evidence, he may... 437 00:37:28,084 --> 00:37:29,891 Oh, why distrust him? 438 00:37:30,533 --> 00:37:31,537 Open! 439 00:37:31,637 --> 00:37:34,299 Mercia, go into the other room. 440 00:37:45,785 --> 00:37:47,052 Good evening. 441 00:37:48,304 --> 00:37:50,788 A bolted door isn't very friendly. 442 00:37:51,090 --> 00:37:53,923 We never mean to bolt it against a friend. 443 00:37:56,729 --> 00:37:58,822 We are honoured, Excellence. 444 00:37:59,498 --> 00:38:02,768 Is there something you want? 445 00:38:02,868 --> 00:38:06,269 Yes, but I don't see what I want. 446 00:38:10,109 --> 00:38:13,909 You were very kind today, Excellence. We thank you again. 447 00:38:14,009 --> 00:38:15,291 Never mind that. 448 00:38:24,223 --> 00:38:25,815 Where is Mercia? 449 00:38:26,258 --> 00:38:28,852 May I ask what you want with her? 450 00:38:31,731 --> 00:38:33,995 You're too old to understand. 451 00:38:36,168 --> 00:38:37,897 It's only a letter. 452 00:38:38,704 --> 00:38:40,535 Yes. So, I see. 453 00:38:43,175 --> 00:38:45,389 I don't want to know what sort of letter it is. 454 00:38:45,590 --> 00:38:47,141 At least, not tonight. 455 00:38:48,547 --> 00:38:51,133 If you are Christians, it won't matter much to you, of course. 456 00:38:51,233 --> 00:38:53,044 You're old. You haven't long to live anyway. 457 00:38:53,145 --> 00:38:55,176 Mercia has most of her life before her. 458 00:38:55,755 --> 00:38:57,957 Why haven't you sent her away, out of danger? 459 00:38:58,057 --> 00:38:59,463 Is that what you've come... 460 00:38:59,564 --> 00:39:00,855 - to tell me? - No. 461 00:39:01,384 --> 00:39:03,590 I'll save you the trouble of sending her away. 462 00:39:04,230 --> 00:39:05,433 I... 463 00:39:06,504 --> 00:39:08,323 I've come to take her myself. 464 00:39:08,504 --> 00:39:11,512 - What do you mean? - Just what I say. 465 00:39:12,505 --> 00:39:15,303 Is it her safety you're concerned about? 466 00:39:16,075 --> 00:39:19,583 Well, that first, yes. 467 00:39:20,346 --> 00:39:22,947 Is she here, or shall I find out for myself? 468 00:39:41,033 --> 00:39:42,327 Mercia. 469 00:39:50,109 --> 00:39:52,737 We didn't say goodbye at the fountain. 470 00:39:53,212 --> 00:39:54,839 Yes, I remember. 471 00:39:55,681 --> 00:39:57,581 Just as well we didn't. 472 00:40:01,554 --> 00:40:03,389 Strange for you to come here. 473 00:40:03,489 --> 00:40:06,356 Why? You might have known I would. 474 00:40:07,860 --> 00:40:10,385 Only because we didn't say goodbye? 475 00:40:12,531 --> 00:40:16,467 Perhaps so we'd never have to say it. 476 00:40:26,846 --> 00:40:30,049 You know, this jug broke when we dropped it. 477 00:40:30,149 --> 00:40:32,351 Good. Good, I'll buy you a better one. 478 00:40:32,451 --> 00:40:33,941 - Mercia. - Wait! 479 00:40:35,287 --> 00:40:37,287 The old man is alarmed, I think. 480 00:40:38,657 --> 00:40:40,064 You see, I... 481 00:40:40,265 --> 00:40:42,784 I told him the real reason why I came. 482 00:40:43,062 --> 00:40:45,287 He doesn't understand, but you will. 483 00:40:45,688 --> 00:40:48,493 I want you to leave this place, come with me. 484 00:40:48,868 --> 00:40:50,818 - Why? - Because... 485 00:40:51,419 --> 00:40:53,434 you're in great danger here. 486 00:40:53,539 --> 00:40:55,141 - Why? - As long as you continue to live... 487 00:40:55,241 --> 00:40:59,044 with these Christians, if they are, of course. 488 00:40:59,144 --> 00:41:01,514 Perhaps you don't know what Christians really are. 489 00:41:01,614 --> 00:41:03,104 I know enough. 490 00:41:04,149 --> 00:41:07,319 They're so dissatisfied with the world that they'd like to destroy it. 491 00:41:07,419 --> 00:41:11,223 I've heard they want to save it by making men spiritually free. 492 00:41:11,323 --> 00:41:12,431 Yes. 493 00:41:13,158 --> 00:41:15,161 And would even kill Caesar to do it. 494 00:41:15,261 --> 00:41:18,330 I've heard they wouldn't kill even such a monster as Nero. 495 00:41:18,430 --> 00:41:19,524 Titus! 496 00:41:23,102 --> 00:41:25,636 Either you must die for treason... 497 00:41:27,540 --> 00:41:29,974 or I must forget what you've said. 498 00:41:32,111 --> 00:41:34,113 Maybe you're not Christians, but you're suspected... 499 00:41:34,213 --> 00:41:35,848 so Mercia cannot remain here. 500 00:41:35,948 --> 00:41:37,550 That's all I care about at the moment. 501 00:41:37,650 --> 00:41:39,952 - She has a right to happiness. - Your kind of happiness... 502 00:41:40,052 --> 00:41:42,341 - We're not discussing that now. - Oh, wait, Favius. 503 00:41:44,790 --> 00:41:46,452 I'm glad you came, 504 00:41:46,553 --> 00:41:48,427 that you cared enough to come. 505 00:41:48,527 --> 00:41:51,530 But you don't understand. I belong here with Favius. 506 00:41:51,830 --> 00:41:53,899 Because he wants you to stay? 507 00:41:54,099 --> 00:41:56,099 Because I want to stay. 508 00:41:56,936 --> 00:41:59,219 - Even if these men really... - I belong here. 509 00:42:01,273 --> 00:42:03,474 You have strong convictions. 510 00:42:04,076 --> 00:42:05,737 Try to understand. 511 00:42:06,879 --> 00:42:09,515 Don't you value your life any more than that? 512 00:42:09,615 --> 00:42:10,980 Perhaps... 513 00:42:12,651 --> 00:42:15,809 I hold my life more dearly now than ever before. 514 00:42:17,389 --> 00:42:19,990 But I don't know danger. 515 00:42:20,659 --> 00:42:23,095 Oh, but it's not only danger I want to take you away from. 516 00:42:23,195 --> 00:42:25,484 It's this... this poverty, this... 517 00:42:26,632 --> 00:42:29,326 Favius, Stephan's arrested! 518 00:42:34,573 --> 00:42:37,409 - Who... Who is Stephan? - I... 519 00:42:37,509 --> 00:42:38,911 A boy living with us. 520 00:42:39,011 --> 00:42:40,811 - Why was he arrested? - I don't know. 521 00:42:40,911 --> 00:42:43,111 - Who arrested him? - Licinius, his men. 522 00:42:43,215 --> 00:42:45,718 - And where did they take him? - To the district prison. 523 00:42:46,118 --> 00:42:48,551 If that boy knows anything, they'll make him talk. 524 00:42:50,786 --> 00:42:53,384 - Help him. - Why, of course. 525 00:42:53,626 --> 00:42:55,093 Because if he talks, 526 00:42:55,294 --> 00:42:57,526 they might take you away before I could. 527 00:43:01,900 --> 00:43:03,469 Can't anything be done? 528 00:43:03,569 --> 00:43:07,573 If one of us falls by the wayside, the others must go on. 529 00:43:07,673 --> 00:43:09,875 Hadn't you better change the meeting place? 530 00:43:09,975 --> 00:43:11,064 It's too late. 531 00:43:11,165 --> 00:43:13,165 But Stephan won't talk. 532 00:43:13,445 --> 00:43:15,445 Oh, poor Stephan! 533 00:43:31,530 --> 00:43:33,054 Answer! 534 00:43:47,613 --> 00:43:48,807 Answer! 535 00:43:51,316 --> 00:43:54,479 Do you follow this Christ? 536 00:43:56,689 --> 00:43:58,452 Are you a Christian? 537 00:44:09,268 --> 00:44:11,090 There's a meeting tonight. 538 00:44:11,191 --> 00:44:12,868 Where is it to be? 539 00:44:17,176 --> 00:44:19,701 For the last time, will you tell me? 540 00:44:23,015 --> 00:44:24,744 I'll make you talk. 541 00:44:34,727 --> 00:44:36,558 No. No. 542 00:44:54,847 --> 00:44:56,212 No. No. 543 00:45:16,668 --> 00:45:17,930 I didn't do anything. 544 00:45:19,438 --> 00:45:21,804 No. Let me go! Leave me. 545 00:45:23,208 --> 00:45:25,608 What are you going to do with me? 546 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,798 Will you tell me where they meet tonight? 547 00:45:58,043 --> 00:45:59,635 Will you answer? 548 00:46:06,885 --> 00:46:08,487 Will you answer now? 549 00:46:08,587 --> 00:46:12,391 Please! Please, I can't stand it. 550 00:46:12,491 --> 00:46:13,958 Then answer. 551 00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:16,359 I won't. 552 00:46:21,466 --> 00:46:23,569 Yes! Yes, I'll tell! 553 00:46:23,669 --> 00:46:25,000 I'll tell! 554 00:46:27,005 --> 00:46:28,830 Well, where's the meeting? 555 00:46:29,241 --> 00:46:31,375 The grove! The grove! 556 00:46:31,910 --> 00:46:33,412 The Cestian Bridge. 557 00:46:33,512 --> 00:46:36,749 And who are the others? This Mercia, is she one of them? 558 00:46:36,849 --> 00:46:38,940 - Answer! - I'm... I... 559 00:46:39,952 --> 00:46:41,146 Answer! 560 00:46:43,021 --> 00:46:44,113 Wait! 561 00:46:48,260 --> 00:46:49,727 He's fainted. 562 00:46:52,264 --> 00:46:53,731 Bring him up. 563 00:47:00,138 --> 00:47:01,939 Well, we've heard enough. 564 00:47:03,709 --> 00:47:04,996 Get your men. 565 00:47:08,984 --> 00:47:11,672 We'll destroy this band of Christians... 566 00:47:13,085 --> 00:47:16,953 and then let Marcus explain to Nero why he didn't. 567 00:47:39,244 --> 00:47:41,130 What have you been doing with that boy? 568 00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:44,763 - There's evidence he's a Christian. - What did he say? 569 00:47:45,484 --> 00:47:46,549 Nothing. 570 00:47:46,650 --> 00:47:48,744 Unfortunately, he fainted. 571 00:47:50,188 --> 00:47:52,825 If he hadn't, you would have torn a lie out of him. 572 00:47:53,025 --> 00:47:56,358 It all comes from my zeal in Nero's behalf. 573 00:47:56,895 --> 00:47:58,556 You'll forgive me. 574 00:48:12,978 --> 00:48:15,606 Is it true that this boy said nothing? 575 00:48:16,281 --> 00:48:18,106 Tell me. What did he say? 576 00:48:19,284 --> 00:48:21,479 Answer me when I tell you to! 577 00:48:23,188 --> 00:48:26,589 - What did this boy say? - Pardon, Excellence. 578 00:48:27,192 --> 00:48:29,183 He cannot speak. He has no tongue. 579 00:48:31,663 --> 00:48:33,087 Get some water. 580 00:50:10,896 --> 00:50:13,302 Why don't they sing loud? 581 00:50:17,269 --> 00:50:19,873 - We can't. - Why not? 582 00:50:34,019 --> 00:50:36,902 Titus has come from the shores of Galilee. 583 00:50:37,689 --> 00:50:41,259 He came with the Master's blessing, and to talk to you. 584 00:50:41,359 --> 00:50:43,929 - Oh, give us the message. - Give us the word. 585 00:50:44,029 --> 00:50:47,029 He brings us Paul's word. He comes from afar. 586 00:50:47,899 --> 00:50:49,526 Quiet, quiet. 587 00:50:58,543 --> 00:51:01,410 I am not a teacher, but one of you. 588 00:51:03,915 --> 00:51:06,084 I saw Jesus. 589 00:51:06,184 --> 00:51:07,853 - You saw him? - He saw him. 590 00:51:07,953 --> 00:51:09,614 I heard him speak. 591 00:51:16,228 --> 00:51:18,025 Here. Here, drink this. 592 00:51:18,763 --> 00:51:21,400 I couldn't stand the pain, I couldn't. 593 00:51:21,500 --> 00:51:23,593 Here, you're all right now. 594 00:51:24,503 --> 00:51:27,336 I told Father Titus I'd never betray them. 595 00:51:27,706 --> 00:51:30,575 I don't want to live. I don't want to live. 596 00:51:30,675 --> 00:51:31,877 The men are ready, Excellence. 597 00:51:31,977 --> 00:51:33,968 What did you say to them? 598 00:51:35,614 --> 00:51:37,749 I don't want to live. 599 00:51:37,849 --> 00:51:40,529 Now listen to me... Did you say anything about Mercia? 600 00:51:40,819 --> 00:51:42,387 Come on now, tell me. Don't be afraid. 601 00:51:42,487 --> 00:51:44,556 - I want to help her. - I don't believe you. 602 00:51:44,656 --> 00:51:47,192 - Do you want her killed? - No, no. 603 00:51:47,292 --> 00:51:48,897 Well, then what did you tell them? 604 00:51:48,998 --> 00:51:50,696 The meeting place tonight. 605 00:51:50,896 --> 00:51:52,464 Will Mercia be there? 606 00:51:52,564 --> 00:51:54,115 Yes, everybody! 607 00:51:54,216 --> 00:51:56,063 Oh, I shouldn't have told. 608 00:51:56,301 --> 00:51:58,909 - I should have died first. - Listen to me... 609 00:51:59,704 --> 00:52:01,766 I can save her if you'll tell me. 610 00:52:02,067 --> 00:52:03,665 Where is the meeting? 611 00:52:04,176 --> 00:52:06,144 At... At the grove... 612 00:52:06,912 --> 00:52:08,562 by the Cestian Bridge... 613 00:52:08,663 --> 00:52:10,275 in the temple ruins. 614 00:52:11,349 --> 00:52:13,018 Take care of that boy. 615 00:52:13,118 --> 00:52:15,287 Nothing I want so much will get away so quickly. 616 00:52:15,387 --> 00:52:19,289 I shouldn't have told. I shouldn't have told. 617 00:52:44,449 --> 00:52:49,113 "We are to become as children," Jesus said... 618 00:52:50,088 --> 00:52:53,649 "with a child's simple loving vision." 619 00:52:57,963 --> 00:53:00,431 If we have the simplicity... 620 00:53:01,032 --> 00:53:04,229 the faith, the trust of a child... 621 00:53:04,536 --> 00:53:09,064 we accept that which we do not fully understand. 622 00:53:14,312 --> 00:53:16,075 Keep your men quiet. 623 00:53:16,548 --> 00:53:18,175 Quiet, men, quiet. 624 00:53:28,493 --> 00:53:31,951 For me, for all men... 625 00:53:32,564 --> 00:53:36,295 he lifted the black mist from the face of God. 626 00:53:37,102 --> 00:53:40,367 And there was no longer the God of wrath... 627 00:53:41,539 --> 00:53:44,064 but only a loving father. 628 00:53:44,542 --> 00:53:48,740 All that we had been taught before about the great Spirit... 629 00:53:49,014 --> 00:53:52,150 became suddenly a new understanding... 630 00:53:52,250 --> 00:53:56,186 a compassionate God to whom we could turn. 631 00:53:56,821 --> 00:53:59,991 The blood of these martyred followers of Jesus... 632 00:54:00,091 --> 00:54:03,720 is not yet dry on the stones of Jerusalem. 633 00:54:34,659 --> 00:54:36,642 Another Helen of Troy, 634 00:54:36,743 --> 00:54:38,625 only more beautiful. 635 00:54:39,331 --> 00:54:41,094 Good night, Empress. 636 00:54:47,138 --> 00:54:50,471 Morpheus give you deep slumber. Thank you. 637 00:54:52,811 --> 00:54:55,507 I'd rather have exciting dreams. 638 00:54:55,814 --> 00:54:57,873 I'd love to share them. 639 00:55:01,019 --> 00:55:02,824 - Look out! - Get back! Get back! 640 00:55:14,366 --> 00:55:16,630 Careless, drunken dog! 641 00:55:17,035 --> 00:55:18,161 Arrest him! 642 00:55:21,539 --> 00:55:22,938 Why, Marcus. 643 00:55:23,908 --> 00:55:26,069 What an impetuous young man. 644 00:55:27,112 --> 00:55:28,443 Empress! 645 00:55:29,514 --> 00:55:31,149 Is this your carriage? 646 00:55:31,249 --> 00:55:32,614 It was. 647 00:55:35,019 --> 00:55:36,921 And I might have been in it. 648 00:55:37,021 --> 00:55:39,489 Oh, the gods forbid. 649 00:55:39,891 --> 00:55:42,093 I shall beg your pardon properly tomorrow. 650 00:55:42,193 --> 00:55:43,993 Why not tonight? 651 00:55:45,363 --> 00:55:47,221 Because I'm in great haste tonight, 652 00:55:47,322 --> 00:55:49,234 on the Emperor's most urgent business. 653 00:55:49,334 --> 00:55:50,735 Come here. 654 00:55:52,137 --> 00:55:55,142 I'm the Emperor's most urgent business. 655 00:55:57,542 --> 00:55:59,169 Do as I tell you! 656 00:56:09,554 --> 00:56:12,455 Your wishes are sacred to everyone, Empress. 657 00:56:12,824 --> 00:56:14,291 I doubt that. 658 00:56:15,126 --> 00:56:17,287 Where have you been for days? 659 00:56:17,495 --> 00:56:20,430 I expected you here at Dacia's house tonight. 660 00:56:20,632 --> 00:56:24,202 Must I sacrifice a carriage in order to catch a glimpse of you? 661 00:56:24,302 --> 00:56:26,871 Tomorrow you shall have a very colourful account of everything. 662 00:56:26,971 --> 00:56:29,371 Where are you rushing to tonight? 663 00:56:30,975 --> 00:56:32,738 Is it a love affair? 664 00:56:33,111 --> 00:56:35,102 I hope it may end in one. 665 00:56:36,548 --> 00:56:39,176 I thought it was something of the sort. 666 00:56:41,419 --> 00:56:43,555 Where are you really going, Marcus? 667 00:56:43,655 --> 00:56:46,160 The Empress is romantic and must understand that I... 668 00:56:46,260 --> 00:56:48,460 No, I don't. You must explain. 669 00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:49,765 I will. I will, tomorrow. 670 00:56:49,866 --> 00:56:51,505 - Tonight, Marcus. - And you will be amused. 671 00:56:51,606 --> 00:56:52,897 - And so, Empress... - Marcus. 672 00:56:52,997 --> 00:56:55,465 - Good night. - Marcus, I insist! 673 00:57:10,548 --> 00:57:13,813 Follow them. Find out who she is. 674 00:57:26,698 --> 00:57:30,566 Since knowing him and since following the truth... 675 00:57:31,069 --> 00:57:33,663 old habits have slipped from my body. 676 00:57:34,205 --> 00:57:38,801 There are no longer any earthly bonds confining my spirit. 677 00:57:40,044 --> 00:57:42,979 All is at peace within me. 678 00:57:43,448 --> 00:57:46,713 If every living man knew what I know... 679 00:57:47,085 --> 00:57:51,317 if I could be sure that the message is in every heart... 680 00:57:51,523 --> 00:57:53,821 I could be wholly at peace. 681 00:57:55,059 --> 00:57:59,325 As Jesus loved God, so he loved his brothers... 682 00:58:00,064 --> 00:58:02,464 who are also the children of God. 683 00:58:03,268 --> 00:58:06,101 With understanding, with faith... 684 00:58:06,704 --> 00:58:10,834 he held power over all things, even death. 685 00:58:11,843 --> 00:58:14,179 He proved there is no death... 686 00:58:14,279 --> 00:58:16,873 only a crossing over to the Father... 687 00:58:17,148 --> 00:58:19,116 and life everlasting. 688 00:58:20,084 --> 00:58:23,417 Jesus knew it. He lived it. 689 00:58:24,656 --> 00:58:26,925 He walked the earth in goodness... 690 00:58:27,025 --> 00:58:31,257 telling that we're all of his blood, his spirit. 691 00:58:31,896 --> 00:58:35,297 Work for one another, comfort one another... 692 00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:37,427 that was his cry. 693 00:58:37,602 --> 00:58:40,070 Love your neighbour as yourself. 694 00:58:41,139 --> 00:58:43,767 That is what he came to teach mankind. 695 00:58:44,676 --> 00:58:46,541 That message is heard. 696 00:58:46,911 --> 00:58:49,243 It will be carried to all men... 697 00:58:49,847 --> 00:58:52,441 to the farthest corners of the earth. 698 00:58:52,784 --> 00:58:55,048 And God will walk among us... 699 00:58:56,321 --> 00:58:58,915 and you will go out into the world... 700 00:58:59,591 --> 00:59:02,754 and you will carry to your brothers a new life... 701 00:59:02,994 --> 00:59:05,189 and that new life is freedom. 702 00:59:05,396 --> 00:59:10,026 Freedom as vast and beautiful as heaven is. And... 703 00:59:13,204 --> 00:59:15,211 Why, look! 704 00:59:15,573 --> 00:59:16,795 It's an arrow! 705 00:59:16,896 --> 00:59:18,980 He's hit. Titus is shot. 706 00:59:20,044 --> 00:59:21,346 Where did it come from? 707 00:59:21,446 --> 00:59:23,515 - Look! - The Emperor's soldiers! 708 00:59:23,615 --> 00:59:24,846 Flank out. 709 00:59:25,283 --> 00:59:26,751 We are betrayed. 710 00:59:26,851 --> 00:59:28,819 Oh, merciful Father! 711 00:59:29,153 --> 00:59:31,314 Titus! Titus! 712 00:59:32,724 --> 00:59:34,351 Put out the brands! 713 00:59:36,327 --> 00:59:38,488 Death is nothing to fear. 714 00:59:55,313 --> 00:59:57,907 Father, no! Father! 715 01:00:16,734 --> 01:00:20,505 Thy kingdom come, thy will be done... 716 01:00:20,605 --> 01:00:23,802 on earth as it is in heaven. 717 01:00:24,208 --> 01:00:27,245 Give us this day our daily bread... 718 01:00:27,345 --> 01:00:29,914 and forgive us our trespasses... 719 01:00:30,014 --> 01:00:31,783 as we forgive those... 720 01:00:31,883 --> 01:00:34,852 who trespass against us. 721 01:00:40,324 --> 01:00:44,124 Blessed are they who are persecuted for... 722 01:00:45,496 --> 01:00:46,690 Favius! 723 01:00:55,973 --> 01:00:58,635 Mercia, my dear. I... 724 01:01:13,858 --> 01:01:15,985 It's Marcus! Marcus Superbus! 725 01:01:16,694 --> 01:01:18,821 Hark, the Prefect. Stop firing! 726 01:01:38,116 --> 01:01:39,310 Mercia. 727 01:01:39,917 --> 01:01:41,544 He's dying. 728 01:01:42,653 --> 01:01:44,555 - Favius. - Come with me. Quick. 729 01:01:44,655 --> 01:01:47,856 Isn't that the girl you were talking to at the fountain, Marcus? 730 01:01:48,626 --> 01:01:50,628 You couldn't have known that she was a Christian... 731 01:01:50,728 --> 01:01:54,758 or you wouldn't have let her go after hearing the Emperor's orders. 732 01:01:56,934 --> 01:01:59,032 Why was this execution stopped? 733 01:01:59,337 --> 01:02:01,344 Your apparent concern for these Christians... 734 01:02:01,445 --> 01:02:02,664 is traitorous. 735 01:02:05,376 --> 01:02:06,866 Withdraw that. 736 01:02:08,312 --> 01:02:10,542 If I was too hasty, I'm sorry. 737 01:02:11,349 --> 01:02:12,611 Help him. 738 01:02:13,017 --> 01:02:14,917 Can't you do something? 739 01:02:19,090 --> 01:02:20,785 Peace be with you. 740 01:02:23,427 --> 01:02:24,951 With you both. 741 01:02:31,569 --> 01:02:32,857 Go and find them! 742 01:02:33,158 --> 01:02:35,403 If you find them, make them talk! 743 01:02:37,208 --> 01:02:39,768 Well, what are the Prefect's orders? 744 01:02:40,878 --> 01:02:43,014 What's to be done with the Christians? 745 01:02:43,114 --> 01:02:44,582 Say you will lean on me. 746 01:02:44,682 --> 01:02:46,306 I can't hold on much longer. 747 01:02:46,851 --> 01:02:48,182 I'm dying. 748 01:02:49,053 --> 01:02:50,418 Viturius... 749 01:02:52,456 --> 01:02:54,447 look after the wounded... 750 01:02:54,559 --> 01:02:58,120 and take the others to the Martian prison. 751 01:02:58,296 --> 01:03:01,959 Why to the Martian prison? Why not to the arena dungeon? 752 01:03:02,567 --> 01:03:04,467 Let it stand as I said. 753 01:03:04,569 --> 01:03:05,970 To the Martian prison! 754 01:03:06,070 --> 01:03:09,040 In God's name, be merciful to us! 755 01:03:09,140 --> 01:03:10,801 God is mercy. 756 01:03:13,644 --> 01:03:14,872 Come on. 757 01:03:33,781 --> 01:03:36,076 - Viturius! - Here, Excellence. 758 01:03:38,502 --> 01:03:42,131 At the change of watch tonight, take the girl from prison. 759 01:03:42,306 --> 01:03:44,108 Bring her to my house. 760 01:03:44,208 --> 01:03:45,877 Put a woman servant with her. 761 01:03:45,977 --> 01:03:48,568 Excellence, that's dangerous sport. 762 01:03:49,213 --> 01:03:50,373 Do it. 763 01:03:51,449 --> 01:03:53,041 Yes, Excellence. 764 01:04:00,591 --> 01:04:03,116 Daughter. Oh, Lord. 765 01:04:26,817 --> 01:04:28,580 Mama. 766 01:04:43,901 --> 01:04:46,734 Come, little sister. I'll take care of you. 767 01:04:47,838 --> 01:04:49,465 Come on, come on. 768 01:04:51,976 --> 01:04:53,841 Here's one you forgot. 769 01:06:32,376 --> 01:06:35,604 You... You sent for me, Empress? 770 01:06:36,747 --> 01:06:39,806 Having to send for you hurt my vanity a bit. 771 01:06:39,907 --> 01:06:41,384 Oh, I'm sorry, Empress. 772 01:06:41,519 --> 01:06:42,781 Leave us. 773 01:06:46,257 --> 01:06:48,791 You don't need to call me Empress. 774 01:06:49,760 --> 01:06:51,560 I should have been here earlier... 775 01:06:51,660 --> 01:06:53,863 to apologize for my rudeness last night. 776 01:06:53,964 --> 01:06:55,591 Oh, don't bother. 777 01:06:56,367 --> 01:06:59,427 I've since learned why you had to be so abrupt. 778 01:07:00,771 --> 01:07:04,207 And you have these enemies of Nero safely in prison. 779 01:07:04,942 --> 01:07:07,775 - It's true, isn't it? - Yes. 780 01:07:08,345 --> 01:07:09,644 All of them? 781 01:07:10,981 --> 01:07:12,139 Yes. 782 01:07:12,583 --> 01:07:16,244 Even this baby-faced Christian girl? 783 01:07:18,456 --> 01:07:19,684 Tell me. 784 01:07:19,990 --> 01:07:24,324 Even this girl who parades as innocence and purity... 785 01:07:24,428 --> 01:07:26,862 - and is the scum of Rome? - Poppaea! 786 01:07:27,398 --> 01:07:30,092 Why, you're angry! 787 01:07:30,701 --> 01:07:33,509 You... You misunderstand. I... 788 01:07:34,205 --> 01:07:36,901 I have no serious interest in the girl. 789 01:07:37,274 --> 01:07:38,866 Oh, don't be stupid. 790 01:07:39,076 --> 01:07:41,245 All Rome knows that she's in your house... 791 01:07:41,345 --> 01:07:43,939 - and Rome is laughing about it. - Well? 792 01:07:48,552 --> 01:07:50,520 Sit close to me, Marcus. 793 01:08:00,764 --> 01:08:02,288 I've loved you. 794 01:08:03,634 --> 01:08:05,966 You've never returned that love. 795 01:08:06,370 --> 01:08:08,497 You've hardly been friendly. 796 01:08:08,639 --> 01:08:10,004 Oh, I know. 797 01:08:11,142 --> 01:08:14,703 You haven't wanted a vile court intrigue with me. 798 01:08:15,312 --> 01:08:17,610 I haven't either, particularly. 799 01:08:18,349 --> 01:08:20,249 But what else is there? 800 01:08:23,721 --> 01:08:25,348 So I've waited... 801 01:08:25,456 --> 01:08:28,721 thinking you've kept away out of loyalty to Nero... 802 01:08:29,660 --> 01:08:32,128 and that finally you would... 803 01:08:33,230 --> 01:08:35,255 comfort me in spite of it. 804 01:08:38,235 --> 01:08:39,862 So I've waited... 805 01:08:40,271 --> 01:08:42,796 being jealous and hurt... 806 01:08:43,407 --> 01:08:47,002 while you played with a dozen less admirable women. 807 01:08:47,645 --> 01:08:49,272 But this is different. 808 01:08:49,900 --> 01:08:51,905 Knowing I cared for you... 809 01:08:52,216 --> 01:08:54,510 you've preferred to make a fool of yourself... 810 01:08:54,611 --> 01:08:57,616 - over this Christian outcast. - Yes, you are right. 811 01:08:58,903 --> 01:09:00,908 I am loyal to the Emperor. 812 01:09:03,127 --> 01:09:06,619 Too loyal to aspire to an intrigue with the Empress. 813 01:09:08,399 --> 01:09:11,334 - Is that evasion? - No, it's the truth. 814 01:09:17,474 --> 01:09:21,171 Then I shall go on hoping to make you forget that loyalty. 815 01:09:23,681 --> 01:09:26,946 If I can't, someday... 816 01:09:27,585 --> 01:09:29,075 to my shame... 817 01:09:29,954 --> 01:09:32,081 I may command you to forget. 818 01:09:40,431 --> 01:09:42,711 - Your pardon, Empress. - Marcus. 819 01:09:44,868 --> 01:09:45,919 Marcus. 820 01:09:46,320 --> 01:09:48,002 Do you love this girl? 821 01:09:51,008 --> 01:09:52,339 Answer me! 822 01:09:53,677 --> 01:09:55,269 Well, then I... 823 01:09:59,483 --> 01:10:00,950 I don't know. 824 01:10:03,187 --> 01:10:05,278 That says you perhaps do. 825 01:10:09,400 --> 01:10:13,089 I could laugh with Rome about it if I didn't care so much. 826 01:10:14,064 --> 01:10:15,827 Marcus Superbus... 827 01:10:16,333 --> 01:10:19,029 caught at last by a Christian wanton. 828 01:10:19,970 --> 01:10:21,772 You've no right to call her that. 829 01:10:21,872 --> 01:10:25,098 Oh, very much in love. 830 01:10:25,209 --> 01:10:26,454 Well, why not? 831 01:10:26,655 --> 01:10:29,743 It's not so impossible, so laughable. 832 01:10:30,180 --> 01:10:34,009 She's young, beautiful, virtuous. 833 01:10:34,705 --> 01:10:37,106 I find I'm sick of patrician women... 834 01:10:37,821 --> 01:10:39,755 who haven't heard of virtue. 835 01:10:40,591 --> 01:10:42,821 That's a direct enough insult. 836 01:10:43,994 --> 01:10:45,557 I couldn't avoid it. 837 01:10:46,931 --> 01:10:50,732 I never saw a man who held his life so cheaply. 838 01:10:51,902 --> 01:10:53,927 That sounds like a threat. 839 01:10:57,341 --> 01:10:59,639 I've never threatened with you. 840 01:11:00,277 --> 01:11:02,802 I shan't, unless you drive me to it. 841 01:11:04,882 --> 01:11:07,976 The game is dangerous enough without my threats. 842 01:11:08,352 --> 01:11:10,786 Tigellinus knows what you've done. 843 01:11:11,422 --> 01:11:14,516 No citizen can protect a Christian from the law. 844 01:11:15,592 --> 01:11:17,583 Well, in this case, I... 845 01:11:18,228 --> 01:11:20,628 I can't stop to remember the law. 846 01:11:22,766 --> 01:11:25,436 Then I shall make you stop to remember me. 847 01:11:25,536 --> 01:11:27,936 You'll give up this girl, Marcus. 848 01:11:31,108 --> 01:11:33,574 - Will I? - Yes... 849 01:11:34,378 --> 01:11:37,069 You'll forget about her entirely. 850 01:11:37,781 --> 01:11:40,013 I've stayed too long. 851 01:11:41,585 --> 01:11:42,847 Empress. 852 01:12:10,314 --> 01:12:12,123 They were meeting openly, 853 01:12:12,264 --> 01:12:15,321 conspiring openly against your life... 854 01:12:16,704 --> 01:12:19,996 and Marcus wouldn't permit them to be killed. 855 01:12:25,662 --> 01:12:28,913 Do I make myself understood, Caesar? 856 01:12:29,014 --> 01:12:30,097 Yes. 857 01:12:30,934 --> 01:12:32,447 My head is splitting. 858 01:12:32,548 --> 01:12:34,635 The wine last night, the music... 859 01:12:37,207 --> 01:12:39,198 the delicious debauchery. 860 01:12:43,514 --> 01:12:46,972 Caesar, will Marcus go so far as your overthrow... 861 01:12:48,852 --> 01:12:50,376 and your death? 862 01:12:51,188 --> 01:12:53,223 Why are you always frightening me like that? 863 01:12:53,323 --> 01:12:55,192 Plots against my life. 864 01:12:55,292 --> 01:12:58,495 Death rides in the street with me. He eats out of my plate. 865 01:12:58,595 --> 01:13:02,900 Marcus took them to prison and there released the most dangerous of them. 866 01:13:03,100 --> 01:13:04,440 That can't be true. 867 01:13:04,541 --> 01:13:06,397 How much further will he go? 868 01:13:07,304 --> 01:13:10,467 I'll stop him right here. I've been too lenient. 869 01:13:11,141 --> 01:13:13,039 I'll make an example of Marcus. 870 01:13:13,644 --> 01:13:15,645 I order him to be seized. 871 01:13:16,914 --> 01:13:18,972 I shan't rest until he's dead. 872 01:13:19,373 --> 01:13:21,378 Until who is dead? 873 01:13:23,887 --> 01:13:25,115 Poppaea. 874 01:13:29,560 --> 01:13:32,422 - Do you know what Marcus has done? - Yes. 875 01:13:32,696 --> 01:13:35,130 - I think it's very amusing. - You... 876 01:13:35,466 --> 01:13:37,468 I'm telling you he's turned traitor. 877 01:13:37,768 --> 01:13:39,870 He's released some dangerous Christians. 878 01:13:39,970 --> 01:13:42,255 Oh, just one. 879 01:13:42,573 --> 01:13:44,554 A pretty little Christian girl, 880 01:13:44,655 --> 01:13:46,343 not dangerous to anyone... 881 01:13:46,443 --> 01:13:48,912 - except Marcus himself. - But, beloved... 882 01:13:49,012 --> 01:13:53,213 Marcus is just a man with a thrilling weakness. 883 01:13:56,487 --> 01:13:58,785 He took this girl to his house. 884 01:13:59,389 --> 01:14:02,677 He's such a wilful, energetic boy. 885 01:14:03,494 --> 01:14:06,381 Rome is amused, and you're alarmed. 886 01:14:06,642 --> 01:14:07,726 Shame on you. 887 01:14:07,865 --> 01:14:10,670 Caesar, the edict was not obeyed. 888 01:14:11,101 --> 01:14:13,070 Yes. Can you be amused at that, Poppaea? 889 01:14:13,170 --> 01:14:16,433 I can, because it was the girl's fault. 890 01:14:17,474 --> 01:14:19,275 Destroy the girl... 891 01:14:19,910 --> 01:14:23,114 not your most devoted, reliable officer. 892 01:14:24,147 --> 01:14:28,675 Simply give Tigellinus an order to take her out of Marcus' hands. 893 01:14:29,486 --> 01:14:31,489 Nero, beloved... 894 01:14:33,323 --> 01:14:36,406 don't listen to everyone when you have me. 895 01:14:37,394 --> 01:14:41,287 You'll make a blunder someday that will make people laugh at you... 896 01:14:41,798 --> 01:14:44,067 the same as they're laughing at Marcus now. 897 01:14:44,167 --> 01:14:46,463 - I'm not at all well, Poppaea. - I know. 898 01:14:46,564 --> 01:14:48,601 You had such an exciting night. 899 01:14:48,939 --> 01:14:51,030 There now, relax. 900 01:14:51,909 --> 01:14:53,177 Caesar, if I... 901 01:14:53,277 --> 01:14:55,539 How can you disturb our beloved Emperor... 902 01:14:55,640 --> 01:14:57,647 when he's feeling so badly? 903 01:14:59,316 --> 01:15:02,319 If it's the order for the girl you're concerned about... 904 01:15:02,719 --> 01:15:04,927 I'll dictate that myself. 905 01:15:06,189 --> 01:15:09,215 Beloved, there. 906 01:18:37,167 --> 01:18:39,772 Marcus! Marcus, where are you going? 907 01:18:43,440 --> 01:18:46,109 Be careful, Marcus. Ancaria won't let her go. 908 01:18:46,209 --> 01:18:47,523 What ails you, Marcus? 909 01:18:47,624 --> 01:18:49,613 Is it your heart or your stomach? 910 01:18:49,713 --> 01:18:52,382 By Jupiter's thunderbolt, Marcus... 911 01:18:52,482 --> 01:18:54,512 you haven't finished your cup! 912 01:18:56,419 --> 01:19:00,108 Something needs my attention, something very personal. 913 01:19:00,303 --> 01:19:01,703 Keep it going! 914 01:19:11,968 --> 01:19:13,236 Bring her here. 915 01:19:13,336 --> 01:19:15,141 What's all this about? 916 01:19:17,974 --> 01:19:19,801 Why have you left the table? 917 01:19:20,410 --> 01:19:24,141 Why eat stale bread when there's luscious food in the house? 918 01:19:24,241 --> 01:19:25,241 You go on back. 919 01:19:25,341 --> 01:19:27,144 Go on back and make my apologies. 920 01:19:33,657 --> 01:19:35,347 Luscious food? 921 01:19:37,159 --> 01:19:38,991 - I see. - Yes. 922 01:19:41,131 --> 01:19:42,499 - Marcus. - Yeah. 923 01:19:42,599 --> 01:19:45,466 I hear Christians aren't digestible. 924 01:19:46,102 --> 01:19:48,296 Never mind, never mind. Go on, go on. 925 01:20:04,287 --> 01:20:05,481 Marcus! 926 01:20:06,189 --> 01:20:08,441 - I intended to see you sooner. - Oh, Marcus. 927 01:20:08,542 --> 01:20:10,193 I couldn't understand why you didn't. 928 01:20:10,293 --> 01:20:11,394 I was called to the palace. 929 01:20:11,494 --> 01:20:14,522 And then this banquet's been raging since noon. 930 01:20:16,199 --> 01:20:19,359 Marcus, I told you last night... 931 01:20:19,870 --> 01:20:22,939 - my life means more now than... - I haven't forgotten that. 932 01:20:23,039 --> 01:20:25,066 Suddenly everything changed. 933 01:20:25,508 --> 01:20:28,133 - I wanted to live. - You will, Mercia. 934 01:20:29,613 --> 01:20:31,103 How can I now? 935 01:20:32,449 --> 01:20:34,417 Some way, it will be done. 936 01:20:34,951 --> 01:20:36,987 You belong here with me, and you'll stay. 937 01:20:37,087 --> 01:20:38,488 You don't know what I'm saying. 938 01:20:38,589 --> 01:20:40,524 I can't live if the others are killed. 939 01:20:41,024 --> 01:20:43,326 - Something must be done for them. - No, it's impossible. 940 01:20:43,426 --> 01:20:44,828 Not to you. Isn't there something? 941 01:20:44,928 --> 01:20:46,163 No. No, you'll have to forget them. 942 01:20:46,263 --> 01:20:47,528 I couldn't. 943 01:20:48,064 --> 01:20:50,133 There'd be no happiness for the rest of my life. 944 01:20:50,233 --> 01:20:52,131 - Oh, that's absurd! - Even with you. 945 01:20:52,569 --> 01:20:54,161 Try to help them. 946 01:20:54,604 --> 01:20:56,412 What do they mean to us? 947 01:21:02,245 --> 01:21:04,779 - I'm one of them. - Not any more. 948 01:21:05,482 --> 01:21:07,067 I don't understand you. 949 01:21:07,217 --> 01:21:09,719 There's nothing to understand. You're here, that's all. 950 01:21:09,819 --> 01:21:11,555 They don't exist any more. 951 01:21:11,655 --> 01:21:13,182 Oh, wait, Marcus. 952 01:21:14,190 --> 01:21:16,476 An entirely new life begins for you. 953 01:21:16,626 --> 01:21:19,060 With me. Tonight. 954 01:21:25,735 --> 01:21:26,895 I see. 955 01:21:27,370 --> 01:21:28,735 Oh, Mercia. 956 01:21:29,372 --> 01:21:31,033 I was very simple. 957 01:21:31,341 --> 01:21:34,708 I thought there'd be something better for you and me. 958 01:21:34,811 --> 01:21:36,005 Better? 959 01:21:36,279 --> 01:21:38,370 It doesn't matter to you what I think or feel, 960 01:21:38,471 --> 01:21:39,716 so long as I'm here. 961 01:21:39,816 --> 01:21:41,384 It never did matter. 962 01:21:41,584 --> 01:21:42,991 Oh, Marcus... 963 01:21:43,353 --> 01:21:46,159 you never meant anything but to make me one of your slaves. 964 01:21:46,260 --> 01:21:49,060 Don't think of it that way. I want you here. 965 01:21:49,160 --> 01:21:51,586 You want to be with me, you'll have everything with me. 966 01:21:51,695 --> 01:21:54,130 - No, I'd rather go back to them. - We have a right to this. 967 01:21:54,230 --> 01:21:56,333 I can't see it like that, I can't. 968 01:21:56,433 --> 01:21:59,002 Well, then something has twisted you out of all natural feeling. 969 01:21:59,202 --> 01:22:01,635 Your kind of life, your faith has done it. 970 01:22:02,772 --> 01:22:05,572 I've always believed Christianity was merely stupid... 971 01:22:05,742 --> 01:22:07,975 but it's vicious if it can do this to you. 972 01:22:10,380 --> 01:22:12,605 Where is this luscious food? 973 01:22:12,705 --> 01:22:15,709 Careful, Marcus. Ancaria has blood in her eye. 974 01:22:16,519 --> 01:22:19,656 If the host deserts his guests, the guests shall find the host. 975 01:22:19,756 --> 01:22:21,348 And here we are. 976 01:22:33,703 --> 01:22:36,802 I hope never to rise again. 977 01:22:37,807 --> 01:22:40,677 Look out, Marcus. Here she comes! 978 01:22:40,777 --> 01:22:42,335 Ancaria! 979 01:22:44,347 --> 01:22:45,644 Marcus! 980 01:22:46,216 --> 01:22:49,652 Without you, there's no flavour to the feast. 981 01:22:54,290 --> 01:22:55,621 Marcus... 982 01:22:56,493 --> 01:22:59,694 you and I are wasting the evening. 983 01:22:59,863 --> 01:23:00,989 Why... 984 01:23:04,567 --> 01:23:07,661 By the back of Venus, look! 985 01:23:08,004 --> 01:23:10,430 - A Christian girl! - I've heard of her. 986 01:23:10,530 --> 01:23:13,534 Marcus plays host all over the house. 987 01:23:13,877 --> 01:23:15,606 A beauty, Marcus. 988 01:23:15,912 --> 01:23:17,709 Why hide her, Marcus? 989 01:23:19,649 --> 01:23:21,844 So this was the enchantment. 990 01:23:23,953 --> 01:23:25,682 Present us, Marcus. 991 01:23:27,657 --> 01:23:30,683 Or aren't we virtuous enough? 992 01:23:32,028 --> 01:23:35,198 It would, perhaps, help you both to know each other. 993 01:23:35,298 --> 01:23:38,665 The lady Mercia, this is Ancaria... 994 01:23:39,269 --> 01:23:43,362 the most wicked and talented woman in Rome. 995 01:23:45,108 --> 01:23:49,406 And my friends, who are content with life. 996 01:23:51,314 --> 01:23:53,839 - Come and join us. - Bring her out. 997 01:23:55,718 --> 01:23:58,312 No. Leave her alone. 998 01:24:00,423 --> 01:24:03,193 Let's look at this model of purity. 999 01:24:03,293 --> 01:24:05,818 She looks ripe enough for any party. 1000 01:24:09,265 --> 01:24:11,699 Tell us, Marcus, was she pleasant? 1001 01:24:12,836 --> 01:24:15,430 Superior to me? 1002 01:24:15,572 --> 01:24:18,700 Why, she's frozen with virtue. 1003 01:24:19,375 --> 01:24:22,367 Couldn't you warm her into life? 1004 01:24:22,545 --> 01:24:26,046 No. No, I tried, but I couldn't. 1005 01:24:27,818 --> 01:24:30,353 See what you can do, Ancaria. Try one of your songs. 1006 01:24:30,453 --> 01:24:33,823 - Yes. A song, Ancaria. - Perfect. 1007 01:24:33,953 --> 01:24:36,833 If that doesn't do it, she's dead. 1008 01:24:38,294 --> 01:24:40,660 A love song, Ancaria... 1009 01:24:41,331 --> 01:24:43,094 with the pantomime. 1010 01:24:44,467 --> 01:24:46,484 Can you melt snow, Ancaria? 1011 01:24:46,585 --> 01:24:48,071 Sing. Try it. 1012 01:24:48,171 --> 01:24:50,465 Dance, Ancaria. Dance the Naked Moon! 1013 01:24:51,241 --> 01:24:52,242 Start the music! 1014 01:24:52,342 --> 01:24:55,145 - The last time she danced that... - Don't tell! 1015 01:24:55,245 --> 01:24:57,614 The moon would blush at Ancaria's dancing. 1016 01:24:57,714 --> 01:24:59,581 - I must have missed that. - Play! 1017 01:24:59,782 --> 01:25:01,479 Play the Naked Moon. 1018 01:25:04,354 --> 01:25:06,284 She's only got two. 1019 01:25:07,924 --> 01:25:12,206 Under the naked moon 1020 01:25:13,329 --> 01:25:15,627 I found you 1021 01:25:16,699 --> 01:25:18,360 We meet 1022 01:25:19,302 --> 01:25:22,271 I've seen you in my dreams 1023 01:25:30,847 --> 01:25:35,648 In dreams indiscreet 1024 01:25:36,553 --> 01:25:39,488 With torture so sweet 1025 01:25:46,196 --> 01:25:50,033 I've loved you 1026 01:25:50,133 --> 01:25:52,499 in dreams 1027 01:26:02,512 --> 01:26:05,675 Breathe upon me 1028 01:26:06,216 --> 01:26:08,480 Draw me 1029 01:26:11,721 --> 01:26:16,681 Gently touch my heart 1030 01:26:22,465 --> 01:26:23,900 What's that singing? 1031 01:26:24,000 --> 01:26:27,800 The Christians, on their way to the arena dungeon. 1032 01:26:36,980 --> 01:26:39,949 I've danced to dirges, but I couldn't dance to that. 1033 01:26:40,049 --> 01:26:41,299 Go on, Ancaria. Go on. 1034 01:26:41,400 --> 01:26:43,680 Why, you haven't even started to undress the moon. 1035 01:26:46,556 --> 01:26:48,992 I can't go on when they are singing like that. 1036 01:26:49,092 --> 01:26:50,326 Drown them out! 1037 01:26:50,426 --> 01:26:53,429 A love song is stronger than a fanatical dirge. 1038 01:26:53,529 --> 01:26:55,190 Keep on! Play! 1039 01:26:58,134 --> 01:27:01,570 Love will be warm 1040 01:27:02,939 --> 01:27:05,703 In the gold of your hair 1041 01:27:10,013 --> 01:27:13,716 Feed from your lips 1042 01:27:13,816 --> 01:27:18,549 Atremble with mysteries old 1043 01:27:27,463 --> 01:27:31,024 Persuasive, then bold 1044 01:27:34,237 --> 01:27:37,900 Until his madness outstrips 1045 01:27:39,942 --> 01:27:42,274 I breathe upon you 1046 01:27:43,613 --> 01:27:45,808 Draw unto you 1047 01:27:47,517 --> 01:27:51,977 And let love spread his wings 1048 01:27:53,890 --> 01:27:55,858 We have been two 1049 01:27:56,793 --> 01:27:58,818 We shall be one 1050 01:28:00,363 --> 01:28:01,896 Both throb 1051 01:28:02,198 --> 01:28:03,883 They're coming closer! 1052 01:28:04,300 --> 01:28:05,560 They're louder. 1053 01:28:05,761 --> 01:28:07,437 Why don't you stop them, Marcus? 1054 01:28:07,537 --> 01:28:09,630 Then sing louder yourself! 1055 01:28:09,906 --> 01:28:11,132 Play! 1056 01:28:12,208 --> 01:28:14,438 Oh! We have been two 1057 01:28:16,112 --> 01:28:18,273 We shall be one 1058 01:28:19,449 --> 01:28:21,383 What are you smiling at? 1059 01:28:23,920 --> 01:28:25,319 Why, you... 1060 01:28:28,558 --> 01:28:30,693 - I told you to stop them! - Get out! 1061 01:28:30,793 --> 01:28:31,995 I told you I couldn't stand... 1062 01:28:32,095 --> 01:28:33,329 All of you, get out! 1063 01:28:33,430 --> 01:28:35,030 And leave me alone with her. 1064 01:28:36,532 --> 01:28:38,964 - You, take her out. - Good luck, Marcus. 1065 01:28:43,439 --> 01:28:45,042 You'll be back with me! 1066 01:28:45,143 --> 01:28:47,009 Well, right now I've got better sport. 1067 01:28:47,109 --> 01:28:48,533 Go on, get out! 1068 01:28:55,718 --> 01:28:57,520 - Get out! - I've heard of worse. 1069 01:28:57,620 --> 01:28:59,183 Stop that, Ancaria! 1070 01:29:05,188 --> 01:29:07,422 Remove the lights. Close the room. 1071 01:29:08,631 --> 01:29:11,435 Ancaria was frightened by the Christians' singing... 1072 01:29:11,868 --> 01:29:13,673 but I'm not impressed. 1073 01:29:13,970 --> 01:29:16,370 - Please send me back to them. - No. 1074 01:29:16,739 --> 01:29:18,324 Not yet, at least. 1075 01:29:18,474 --> 01:29:20,877 Not until you live as you were meant to live. 1076 01:29:21,177 --> 01:29:23,384 Marcus, listen to me. 1077 01:29:24,781 --> 01:29:28,217 I don't want to live like this. I want to die with them. 1078 01:29:29,385 --> 01:29:31,986 You mean you'd give up life with me... 1079 01:29:32,522 --> 01:29:35,091 and would rather die for a belief, for some vague... 1080 01:29:35,191 --> 01:29:37,386 It isn't vague. It's certain. 1081 01:29:37,560 --> 01:29:40,263 One man proved it. He changed men with it. 1082 01:29:40,363 --> 01:29:42,265 It's an illusion. It's madness, I tell you. 1083 01:29:42,365 --> 01:29:45,045 Rome and mankind will go on as they are forever. 1084 01:29:45,335 --> 01:29:48,938 Your Christianity will be stamped out and dead within a year. 1085 01:29:49,038 --> 01:29:50,206 I know better. 1086 01:29:50,306 --> 01:29:52,175 Mercia, don't you see what this thing has done to you? 1087 01:29:52,275 --> 01:29:54,379 It hasn't let you live. It's deformed you. 1088 01:29:54,480 --> 01:29:55,945 It's made love impossible to... 1089 01:29:56,045 --> 01:29:58,280 As you look at love, yes, not as I look at it. 1090 01:29:58,380 --> 01:30:01,180 I've no use for your kind of happiness. Send me back to them. 1091 01:30:01,280 --> 01:30:02,680 No, you're not going to die with them. 1092 01:30:02,781 --> 01:30:04,387 - You're going to live with me. - No. 1093 01:30:04,487 --> 01:30:07,210 Did you... Did you think I'd share you with this... 1094 01:30:07,311 --> 01:30:08,751 this Christ? 1095 01:30:10,827 --> 01:30:11,928 Let me go. 1096 01:30:12,028 --> 01:30:13,243 Mercia, be honest. 1097 01:30:13,344 --> 01:30:14,564 You want to be with me. You love me. 1098 01:30:14,664 --> 01:30:16,666 - I want to be with them. - But with me first. 1099 01:30:16,766 --> 01:30:17,967 Marcus, let me go! 1100 01:30:18,067 --> 01:30:20,627 Excellence! Excellence! 1101 01:30:23,840 --> 01:30:25,708 - Excellence. - What is it? 1102 01:30:25,808 --> 01:30:27,035 From the Emperor. 1103 01:30:45,061 --> 01:30:46,129 What do you want? 1104 01:30:46,229 --> 01:30:48,297 That girl is a condemned Christian. 1105 01:30:48,397 --> 01:30:50,490 That's my concern. Get out! 1106 01:30:51,400 --> 01:30:52,992 Not without her. 1107 01:30:53,302 --> 01:30:55,030 She goes to the arena dungeon... 1108 01:30:55,131 --> 01:30:57,730 to die with the rest of the Christians tomorrow. 1109 01:30:58,608 --> 01:30:59,770 Take her. 1110 01:31:00,309 --> 01:31:03,372 - I tell you, she's not leaving here. - No, Marcus. 1111 01:31:09,919 --> 01:31:12,046 It's a pity she stopped you. 1112 01:31:13,055 --> 01:31:14,457 I like you so little... 1113 01:31:14,557 --> 01:31:18,254 I wish you had called your men and prevented my taking her. 1114 01:31:19,228 --> 01:31:21,423 It would have cost your life. 1115 01:31:22,231 --> 01:31:24,324 I hold the Emperor's order. 1116 01:31:29,739 --> 01:31:30,831 Face! 1117 01:31:39,348 --> 01:31:40,576 Forward! 1118 01:32:41,010 --> 01:32:44,309 Caesar, I pledge my honour... 1119 01:32:45,281 --> 01:32:47,917 that she shall never menace the people of Rome... 1120 01:32:48,017 --> 01:32:50,642 nor your own most sacred life. 1121 01:32:51,220 --> 01:32:52,881 Only let her live. 1122 01:32:58,394 --> 01:33:02,797 It must be love that has made Marcus so lenient of Christians. 1123 01:33:04,967 --> 01:33:06,127 Yes... 1124 01:33:07,603 --> 01:33:08,804 I do love her. 1125 01:33:08,904 --> 01:33:12,308 If this one Christian life will make our Marcus happy... 1126 01:33:12,408 --> 01:33:17,107 Is Nero justice in the Roman world, or merely a puppet Emperor? 1127 01:33:18,347 --> 01:33:20,542 What? If he is justice... 1128 01:33:20,716 --> 01:33:23,879 then not even one Christian can be spared... 1129 01:33:24,353 --> 01:33:26,444 if Christians are to be killed. 1130 01:33:27,790 --> 01:33:29,808 Empress, have mercy. 1131 01:33:38,334 --> 01:33:41,737 Poppaea is right, Marcus. I'm afraid it's impossible. 1132 01:33:41,837 --> 01:33:43,573 It must be possible, Caesar. 1133 01:33:43,673 --> 01:33:45,541 This must be made possible to me. 1134 01:33:45,641 --> 01:33:47,577 No faithful subject would ask it. 1135 01:33:47,677 --> 01:33:48,945 I do ask it. 1136 01:33:49,045 --> 01:33:51,554 And Nero has no more loyal subject than I. 1137 01:33:51,814 --> 01:33:53,015 You, Empress... 1138 01:33:53,115 --> 01:33:54,625 who knows better than you... 1139 01:33:54,726 --> 01:33:56,945 that I have been faithful to the Emperor? 1140 01:33:58,254 --> 01:34:00,056 I have the right to ask. 1141 01:34:00,256 --> 01:34:01,874 I have obeyed and honoured you. 1142 01:34:02,024 --> 01:34:04,193 I have risked my life in your service. 1143 01:34:04,293 --> 01:34:07,096 And all that I shall ever ask for it, a small thing to you... 1144 01:34:07,296 --> 01:34:09,098 is that you give me the life of this one girl... 1145 01:34:09,199 --> 01:34:11,859 whom I love, Caesar, with my whole heart. 1146 01:34:11,960 --> 01:34:14,135 I plead with you to spare her. 1147 01:34:22,545 --> 01:34:23,910 No, Marcus. 1148 01:34:24,380 --> 01:34:27,249 We do not want barbarians laughing at Roman justice. 1149 01:34:27,349 --> 01:34:29,376 This thing I ask is justice. 1150 01:34:29,585 --> 01:34:33,385 To achieve it, I will take steps to move the world of Caesar. 1151 01:34:33,823 --> 01:34:36,624 - I demand that you spare this girl! - Marcus! 1152 01:34:37,126 --> 01:34:38,661 You've gone too far. 1153 01:34:38,761 --> 01:34:40,096 Seize him! 1154 01:34:40,196 --> 01:34:42,221 Nero. Nero beloved. 1155 01:34:44,066 --> 01:34:46,057 Love has made him insane. 1156 01:34:50,973 --> 01:34:52,941 Caesar, forgive me... 1157 01:34:54,410 --> 01:34:58,471 but spare this girl if you have any compassion. 1158 01:34:58,814 --> 01:35:00,805 Caesar is compassionate... 1159 01:35:02,284 --> 01:35:04,184 but he is also justice. 1160 01:35:06,188 --> 01:35:08,418 I must remain justice, Marcus. 1161 01:35:12,194 --> 01:35:14,526 If only she weren't a Christian. 1162 01:35:19,835 --> 01:35:21,097 Marcus... 1163 01:35:21,537 --> 01:35:23,773 if she would publicly renounce her faith... 1164 01:35:23,873 --> 01:35:25,500 Not even then. 1165 01:35:26,275 --> 01:35:29,267 If she renounced, then justice can be merciful. 1166 01:35:29,478 --> 01:35:31,380 I can't stay any longer, Marcus. 1167 01:35:31,480 --> 01:35:34,417 - But Caesar, she will not renounce. - Then she dies. 1168 01:35:34,517 --> 01:35:35,597 Hear me. 1169 01:35:35,918 --> 01:35:37,354 Have a little consideration. 1170 01:35:37,455 --> 01:35:39,355 Would you have me late for the games? 1171 01:35:39,455 --> 01:35:40,683 Caesar! 1172 01:36:14,890 --> 01:36:16,687 You harlot. 1173 01:36:19,895 --> 01:36:21,260 I love you. 1174 01:36:39,148 --> 01:36:41,050 We can't see a thing up this high. 1175 01:36:41,150 --> 01:36:44,119 - I couldn't get anything better. - The Maiuses got better ones. 1176 01:36:44,219 --> 01:36:45,621 Honey! Figs! 1177 01:36:45,721 --> 01:36:48,858 They're in the second tier. We won't see half what they see. 1178 01:36:48,958 --> 01:36:51,694 We won't smell half as much Christian blood either. 1179 01:36:51,794 --> 01:36:55,331 I'll wager 500 on Merius, the Gaul. He's unbeaten. 1180 01:36:55,431 --> 01:36:57,233 Well, I'll take the Greek for 200. 1181 01:36:57,333 --> 01:36:59,935 Come along. You would, of all the times! 1182 01:37:00,035 --> 01:37:02,235 Will they let the Christians defend themselves this time? 1183 01:37:02,335 --> 01:37:03,335 Does anybody know? 1184 01:37:03,606 --> 01:37:05,808 I've got two extra seats. 1185 01:37:06,008 --> 01:37:08,040 Would you like to sit beside me? 1186 01:37:09,378 --> 01:37:12,581 - How many chariot colours? - Blue, green and red. 1187 01:37:12,681 --> 01:37:13,816 Green is the favourite! 1188 01:37:13,916 --> 01:37:15,184 As much as I've got on the green! 1189 01:37:15,284 --> 01:37:17,119 - Blue to beat him. - Honey, figs. 1190 01:37:17,219 --> 01:37:20,456 I saw at least a thousand coffins waiting on the other side for the dead. 1191 01:37:20,556 --> 01:37:22,792 Do you know, I generally sink with the gladiators... 1192 01:37:22,892 --> 01:37:24,860 and revive for the Christians. 1193 01:37:24,960 --> 01:37:27,096 You'll miss some wonderful things this time. 1194 01:37:27,196 --> 01:37:29,760 - Three programs. - You needn't get one for me. 1195 01:37:30,599 --> 01:37:32,251 I've changed my mind. 1196 01:37:32,351 --> 01:37:35,759 The only red liquid that appeals to me is wine. 1197 01:37:36,772 --> 01:37:38,364 Oh, let him go. 1198 01:37:38,807 --> 01:37:40,691 He has a heart of cheese. 1199 01:37:41,492 --> 01:37:43,746 - Come on. - I've lost my tickets. 1200 01:37:43,846 --> 01:37:46,132 Well, don't you remember the number of your seats? 1201 01:37:46,282 --> 01:37:48,642 - I heard the lions all morning. - They're starved. 1202 01:37:48,743 --> 01:37:50,920 All they've had for days is the smell of bleeding meat. 1203 01:37:51,020 --> 01:37:52,221 Honey, figs. 1204 01:37:52,321 --> 01:37:55,818 It's a fine program today. The last two's pretty tame. 1205 01:37:58,394 --> 01:38:01,630 Nero's said this is going to be the best that Rome ever saw. 1206 01:38:01,730 --> 01:38:02,998 It's about time. 1207 01:38:03,098 --> 01:38:05,121 The magnificent tradition of life and death combat... 1208 01:38:05,222 --> 01:38:06,368 is going to the dogs. 1209 01:38:06,468 --> 01:38:08,898 Last time they had 40 pairs of gladiators... 1210 01:38:08,999 --> 01:38:10,504 and only seven killings. 1211 01:38:11,440 --> 01:38:13,042 It's warm inside. Get a fan. 1212 01:38:13,142 --> 01:38:15,875 - One hundred Christians! - Honey, figs. 1213 01:38:15,978 --> 01:38:18,185 It doesn't say how they're to be killed, 1214 01:38:18,746 --> 01:38:20,316 just "execution." 1215 01:38:20,616 --> 01:38:23,319 We'll leave that to Nero. It will be some interesting way. 1216 01:38:23,419 --> 01:38:25,717 - And bloody enough. - Thank you. 1217 01:38:27,756 --> 01:38:29,758 Blessed are the poor in spirit... 1218 01:38:29,858 --> 01:38:32,083 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 1219 01:38:32,795 --> 01:38:35,598 Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. 1220 01:38:35,698 --> 01:38:38,926 I believe, I believe. But come down and save me now. 1221 01:38:40,536 --> 01:38:43,239 Soon we'll stand before God to be judged... 1222 01:38:43,339 --> 01:38:47,241 to answer for our sin, to stand before his wrath. 1223 01:38:47,509 --> 01:38:49,272 His mercy, Tyros. 1224 01:38:49,678 --> 01:38:52,381 There is none. Not any more. 1225 01:38:52,481 --> 01:38:54,278 Mercy has only begun. 1226 01:38:54,783 --> 01:38:56,285 - I tell you all... - Tyros. 1227 01:38:56,385 --> 01:38:59,652 Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. 1228 01:39:01,690 --> 01:39:03,783 Daughter. Daughter. 1229 01:39:04,259 --> 01:39:05,487 Stephan. 1230 01:39:14,870 --> 01:39:16,838 I wonder where Bucco is. 1231 01:39:22,711 --> 01:39:24,513 Where will he get his dinner? 1232 01:39:24,613 --> 01:39:27,248 Oh, Stephan, does that mean you're so hungry? 1233 01:39:29,718 --> 01:39:31,718 - No. - Water. 1234 01:39:33,305 --> 01:39:34,585 Water. 1235 01:39:35,124 --> 01:39:38,660 I shall fear no evil, for thou art with me. 1236 01:39:38,760 --> 01:39:39,786 Water! 1237 01:39:40,229 --> 01:39:42,164 - Blessed are ye... - No, I'll take it to him. 1238 01:39:42,264 --> 01:39:44,148 when men shall revile you, 1239 01:39:44,449 --> 01:39:45,991 persecute you... 1240 01:39:46,468 --> 01:39:50,269 and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely... 1241 01:39:50,439 --> 01:39:51,640 for my sake. 1242 01:39:51,740 --> 01:39:54,777 - We've called upon him to spare us. - To protect us. 1243 01:39:54,877 --> 01:39:56,877 Where, where is he? 1244 01:39:57,446 --> 01:40:00,032 He is closer to us now than he has ever been. 1245 01:40:00,182 --> 01:40:04,312 Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. 1246 01:40:06,989 --> 01:40:10,720 Walk out upon the sand without fear, singing. 1247 01:40:13,495 --> 01:40:16,623 We have sinned. Death is not the escape. 1248 01:40:17,383 --> 01:40:20,066 When even the thief upon the cross beside him... 1249 01:40:20,436 --> 01:40:23,539 asked him to remember, Jesus said... 1250 01:40:23,639 --> 01:40:26,173 "This day shalt thou be with me." 1251 01:40:28,310 --> 01:40:30,801 Blessed are we. 1252 01:40:36,452 --> 01:40:38,054 He threw him over his head, 1253 01:40:38,155 --> 01:40:39,355 - didn't he? - Yeah. 1254 01:40:52,034 --> 01:40:53,365 Oh, God. 1255 01:40:56,438 --> 01:40:57,837 They are beginning. 1256 01:41:57,099 --> 01:41:59,301 Hail, Caesar! 1257 01:41:59,401 --> 01:42:03,064 We who are about to die salute thee. 1258 01:42:36,605 --> 01:42:39,199 I'll wager 50 pieces on the Gaul. 1259 01:42:39,641 --> 01:42:41,743 I'll wager that on my Grecian. 1260 01:42:41,843 --> 01:42:44,913 I told you we couldn't see anything up this high. 1261 01:42:45,013 --> 01:42:48,383 If it wasn't your wife you were taking to the racecourse... 1262 01:42:48,483 --> 01:42:52,488 if it were some charming friend, you'd sit down in the box seats. 1263 01:42:52,588 --> 01:42:55,524 But of course, anything is good enough for your wife and child. 1264 01:42:55,624 --> 01:42:58,293 Well, the gallery was good enough before we were married. 1265 01:42:58,393 --> 01:43:01,021 We were interested in each other then. 1266 01:43:25,988 --> 01:43:27,785 The Gaul has got him! 1267 01:43:28,757 --> 01:43:31,193 I'll wager 300 silver... 1268 01:43:31,293 --> 01:43:33,128 on Demos, the Thracian. 1269 01:43:33,228 --> 01:43:35,297 - On the Thracian? - Thracian there. 1270 01:43:35,397 --> 01:43:37,602 Done. I'll take the Gaul. 1271 01:43:47,943 --> 01:43:50,776 If I win, I'll give a feast. You'll lose. 1272 01:44:38,994 --> 01:44:41,496 Mercy! Have mercy! 1273 01:44:41,596 --> 01:44:43,587 Mercy, Caesar. 1274 01:44:43,899 --> 01:44:46,367 Death! Death! Death! 1275 01:44:53,642 --> 01:44:55,906 Three hundred silver. 1276 01:45:07,055 --> 01:45:09,785 Hail, Caesar! 1277 01:45:11,893 --> 01:45:14,259 Hail, Caesar! 1278 01:45:18,867 --> 01:45:21,097 Hail, Caesar! 1279 01:45:24,005 --> 01:45:26,132 Hail, Caesar! 1280 01:45:26,942 --> 01:45:29,206 Hail, Caesar! 1281 01:45:56,972 --> 01:45:58,803 Come on! Come on! 1282 01:46:53,795 --> 01:46:56,025 Look! Look! 1283 01:47:17,652 --> 01:47:19,349 He's got him. Look, he's got him. 1284 01:47:19,549 --> 01:47:20,549 He's got him. 1285 01:49:11,700 --> 01:49:12,965 No, please. 1286 01:50:45,000 --> 01:50:48,260 Empress, she will enter alone. 1287 01:51:12,287 --> 01:51:15,574 Christ also was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father... 1288 01:51:15,924 --> 01:51:18,460 so that we also might walk in the newness of life. 1289 01:51:18,560 --> 01:51:19,594 Hallowed be thy name. 1290 01:51:19,694 --> 01:51:21,963 In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. 1291 01:51:22,063 --> 01:51:23,865 - Thy kingdom come. - Thy will be done... 1292 01:51:23,965 --> 01:51:26,297 on earth as it is in heaven. 1293 01:51:26,701 --> 01:51:29,670 Give us this day our daily bread. 1294 01:51:34,509 --> 01:51:37,779 Christ also was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father. 1295 01:51:37,879 --> 01:51:39,379 - Forgive us our trespasses. - So that we also might walk... 1296 01:51:39,480 --> 01:51:40,714 in the newness of life. 1297 01:51:41,182 --> 01:51:43,785 In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. 1298 01:51:44,285 --> 01:51:46,621 - It's our time. It's our time! - Lord! 1299 01:51:46,721 --> 01:51:48,846 - Lord! - Yes, Tyros, but we're not afraid. 1300 01:51:51,026 --> 01:51:54,896 Christ also was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father. 1301 01:51:54,996 --> 01:51:57,666 So that we also might walk in the newness of life. 1302 01:51:57,766 --> 01:51:59,166 Stand up there! 1303 01:52:10,078 --> 01:52:11,780 I want to be near you, Mercia. 1304 01:52:11,880 --> 01:52:14,574 Come on, the rest of you. Onto the sand! 1305 01:52:19,420 --> 01:52:22,250 - I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid. - Come on, get off there. 1306 01:52:29,584 --> 01:52:31,017 Get out! Get out! 1307 01:52:32,000 --> 01:52:33,797 Where are we going? 1308 01:52:36,204 --> 01:52:39,537 We're going to your mother. 1309 01:52:44,779 --> 01:52:47,247 Go proudly, singing! 1310 01:52:48,016 --> 01:52:49,344 I can't. 1311 01:52:51,553 --> 01:52:54,850 I can't go on. I can't. 1312 01:52:55,290 --> 01:52:57,986 Titus said, "There is no death... 1313 01:52:58,326 --> 01:53:00,395 "only a crossing over to the Father." 1314 01:53:00,495 --> 01:53:01,723 Save us. 1315 01:53:03,565 --> 01:53:05,123 Are you Mercia? 1316 01:53:06,034 --> 01:53:07,443 - Yes. - You are to wait... 1317 01:53:07,544 --> 01:53:08,752 and go in alone. 1318 01:53:09,137 --> 01:53:10,639 But I want to be with them. 1319 01:53:10,740 --> 01:53:12,140 The order of the Empress. 1320 01:53:12,240 --> 01:53:13,903 Whip the vermin out! 1321 01:53:14,342 --> 01:53:17,243 Our sorrow shall be turned to joy. 1322 01:53:18,179 --> 01:53:19,373 Joy! 1323 01:53:22,150 --> 01:53:23,981 I believe! 1324 01:53:25,153 --> 01:53:26,643 I believe! 1325 01:53:27,555 --> 01:53:29,079 I'm not afraid. 1326 01:53:37,532 --> 01:53:39,534 - I'm not afraid. - I shall fear no evil. 1327 01:53:39,634 --> 01:53:42,867 Not death, but victory, victory. 1328 01:53:43,037 --> 01:53:44,902 Go on! Go on! 1329 01:53:45,073 --> 01:53:48,953 Come unto me, all ye that travel and are heavy laden... 1330 01:53:49,944 --> 01:53:52,105 and I will give you rest. 1331 01:53:54,215 --> 01:53:56,985 Thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory. 1332 01:53:57,085 --> 01:53:58,882 Get on! Get on! 1333 01:54:40,962 --> 01:54:45,058 ♪ Blessing to man, our Father's love ♪ 1334 01:54:45,233 --> 01:54:47,535 ♪ Hosanna ♪ 1335 01:54:47,635 --> 01:54:51,671 ♪ Glory to Christ ♪ 1336 01:54:52,273 --> 01:54:54,609 ♪ Glory and praise ♪ 1337 01:54:54,709 --> 01:54:58,201 ♪ to the Father's Son ♪ 1338 01:54:58,680 --> 01:55:03,744 ♪ Dear God is living on earth ♪ 1339 01:55:04,919 --> 01:55:09,224 ♪ Giving us the word ♪ 1340 01:55:09,324 --> 01:55:14,023 ♪ Giving us the faith ♪ 1341 01:55:14,362 --> 01:55:18,696 ♪ Telling us of life ♪ 1342 01:55:19,033 --> 01:55:23,663 ♪ Calling us to love ♪ 1343 01:55:25,840 --> 01:55:30,778 ♪ Glory over the earth and peace ♪ 1344 01:55:30,878 --> 01:55:34,249 ♪ Glory and peace of God ♪ 1345 01:55:34,349 --> 01:55:37,785 O Lord, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 1346 01:55:37,885 --> 01:55:40,955 ♪ Mercy over the earth ♪ 1347 01:55:41,055 --> 01:55:43,491 ♪ and life ♪ 1348 01:55:43,591 --> 01:55:48,187 ♪ Joy for the faithful son ♪ 1349 01:55:49,297 --> 01:55:53,961 ♪ Blessing to man, our Father's love ♪ 1350 01:55:54,569 --> 01:55:57,005 ♪ Hosanna ♪ 1351 01:55:57,105 --> 01:56:00,506 ♪ Glory to Christ ♪ 1352 01:56:01,843 --> 01:56:04,145 ♪ Glory and praise ♪ 1353 01:56:04,245 --> 01:56:07,942 ♪ to the Father's Son ♪ 1354 01:56:08,282 --> 01:56:12,946 ♪ Dear God is living on earth ♪ 1355 01:56:18,059 --> 01:56:19,590 I want to live. 1356 01:56:21,229 --> 01:56:22,323 Stephan. 1357 01:56:22,764 --> 01:56:25,831 I can't help it, Mercia. I wanna stay in the world. 1358 01:56:26,334 --> 01:56:28,835 - But try to remember... - I betrayed them all. 1359 01:56:29,570 --> 01:56:31,597 I'm sending them all to die... 1360 01:56:32,106 --> 01:56:33,708 and I don't wanna go. 1361 01:56:33,808 --> 01:56:37,005 I'm afraid to go. I'm a coward. 1362 01:56:37,245 --> 01:56:39,080 The Lord would hate me. 1363 01:56:39,380 --> 01:56:40,608 Stephan. 1364 01:56:41,716 --> 01:56:44,651 It was only your body that was weak, not you. 1365 01:56:47,088 --> 01:56:48,146 Yes. 1366 01:56:49,424 --> 01:56:51,654 Yes, it was my body, wasn't it? 1367 01:56:51,959 --> 01:56:54,762 I tried, but I couldn't. 1368 01:56:54,862 --> 01:56:56,865 - Get that boy out. - Stephan. 1369 01:56:58,032 --> 01:57:00,125 Try to remember his courage. 1370 01:57:01,302 --> 01:57:03,600 Look up, trust him. 1371 01:57:06,407 --> 01:57:07,897 I do trust him. 1372 01:57:10,344 --> 01:57:11,971 I will trust him. 1373 01:57:14,248 --> 01:57:15,579 I'm ready. 1374 01:58:01,562 --> 01:58:02,722 Mercia! 1375 01:58:12,573 --> 01:58:14,598 Stephan, look at me. 1376 01:58:16,811 --> 01:58:18,676 You said you loved me. 1377 01:58:18,880 --> 01:58:21,405 Don't you want to be with me always? 1378 01:58:21,949 --> 01:58:23,416 Yes, but I... 1379 01:58:24,519 --> 01:58:27,579 Then go without being afraid, believing in him. 1380 01:58:28,589 --> 01:58:31,794 I'll be out there in a little while to go with you. 1381 01:58:37,231 --> 01:58:38,671 - Yes, Mercia. - Come on, 1382 01:58:38,772 --> 01:58:40,394 get that boy out of here. 1383 01:58:42,870 --> 01:58:45,430 I'll be killed first... 1384 01:58:46,641 --> 01:58:50,008 but I'll wait for you if I can... 1385 01:58:51,312 --> 01:58:54,804 so we can go to him together. 1386 01:59:00,388 --> 01:59:02,188 I'll stand by the door. 1387 01:59:02,400 --> 01:59:03,824 And we'll sing. 1388 01:59:04,158 --> 01:59:06,186 And then you'll walk on by yourself... 1389 01:59:07,261 --> 01:59:08,661 still singing. 1390 01:59:10,705 --> 01:59:16,542 ♪ Glory over the earth and peace ♪ 1391 01:59:16,737 --> 01:59:21,774 ♪ Glory and peace of God ♪ 1392 01:59:22,610 --> 01:59:28,415 ♪ Mercy over the earth and light ♪ 1393 01:59:28,616 --> 01:59:33,315 ♪ Joy for the faithful son ♪ 1394 01:59:33,721 --> 01:59:38,124 ♪ Blessing to man, our Father's love ♪ 1395 01:59:38,593 --> 01:59:41,062 ♪ Hosanna ♪ 1396 01:59:41,162 --> 01:59:44,565 ♪ Glory to Christ ♪ 1397 01:59:44,665 --> 01:59:47,361 ♪ Glory and praise ♪ 1398 01:59:48,436 --> 01:59:50,996 ♪ to the Father's Son ♪ 1399 01:59:57,511 --> 02:00:00,311 Dear Christ, why? 1400 02:00:09,924 --> 02:00:12,326 Mercia, you can't go out into that. 1401 02:00:12,426 --> 02:00:15,029 Mercia, we must act quickly. I've brought the way to freedom. 1402 02:00:15,129 --> 02:00:17,398 I can save you. I knelt before Nero. 1403 02:00:17,498 --> 02:00:19,333 There's only one way to escape this horrible death. 1404 02:00:19,433 --> 02:00:20,951 He'll spare your life on one condition, 1405 02:00:21,052 --> 02:00:22,857 if you'll renounce this faith. 1406 02:00:23,137 --> 02:00:24,637 Mercia, do you hear me? 1407 02:00:26,407 --> 02:00:29,210 Poor Marcus, your eyes are tortured. 1408 02:00:29,310 --> 02:00:31,812 Oh, come, Mercia, a thousand gods have been called the true god... 1409 02:00:31,912 --> 02:00:32,914 but there is none. 1410 02:00:33,014 --> 02:00:34,649 Each one is only a fantasy. 1411 02:00:34,749 --> 02:00:37,684 Yours is just a mistaken belief. Renounce it. 1412 02:00:38,119 --> 02:00:40,354 No. No, not this one. 1413 02:00:40,454 --> 02:00:42,854 Mercia, if you don't want to live for yourself, then for me. 1414 02:00:43,224 --> 02:00:45,192 I love you. Can't you see it? 1415 02:00:45,293 --> 02:00:48,129 I know I told you so before, and then tried to kill your soul. 1416 02:00:48,329 --> 02:00:49,915 I didn't know, I was confused. 1417 02:00:50,016 --> 02:00:51,766 I still am, except for one thing. 1418 02:00:51,966 --> 02:00:53,401 I know I love you... 1419 02:00:53,501 --> 02:00:55,937 beyond all doubt, beyond all living without you. 1420 02:00:56,137 --> 02:00:57,344 Mercia, I... 1421 02:00:58,105 --> 02:00:59,936 I prayed last night... 1422 02:01:00,041 --> 02:01:02,243 as I imagined you always pray. 1423 02:01:02,343 --> 02:01:04,347 I called out to your God to save you, 1424 02:01:04,448 --> 02:01:05,870 to give you to me. 1425 02:01:06,314 --> 02:01:08,088 He wouldn't hear me because I... 1426 02:01:08,189 --> 02:01:10,017 I can't accept him in my heart. 1427 02:01:10,117 --> 02:01:11,686 I tried, but I can't. 1428 02:01:11,786 --> 02:01:15,191 So then I prayed to you. 1429 02:01:15,489 --> 02:01:17,923 I do now. Oh, Mercia, live. 1430 02:01:18,059 --> 02:01:21,119 Renounce your faith. Live and be my wife. 1431 02:01:23,264 --> 02:01:25,566 - Live and be your wife. - If you love me, Mercia. 1432 02:01:25,666 --> 02:01:27,094 - I do, Marcus. - Then don't leave me. 1433 02:01:27,195 --> 02:01:28,429 Don't leave me. 1434 02:01:32,039 --> 02:01:33,768 I love you, Marcus. 1435 02:01:34,508 --> 02:01:36,305 Do you know how much? 1436 02:01:36,711 --> 02:01:38,446 And yet I can't stay. 1437 02:01:38,546 --> 02:01:41,037 Marcia, listen to me. Renounce your God in name only. 1438 02:01:41,148 --> 02:01:43,217 Even though I can't believe in him, I will respect him. 1439 02:01:43,317 --> 02:01:45,620 You'll not lose him, I swear it, if you'll live as my wife. 1440 02:01:45,720 --> 02:01:48,389 No, Marcus, to know that you love me is all I can have. 1441 02:01:48,489 --> 02:01:51,025 Mercia, how can you do this to both of us? 1442 02:01:51,125 --> 02:01:54,061 This is stronger than we are, much greater than our love. 1443 02:01:54,161 --> 02:01:55,924 Mercia, live. 1444 02:01:56,397 --> 02:01:59,467 - Didn't you see Stephan go out there? - Yes, yes. It was horrible. 1445 02:01:59,767 --> 02:02:02,233 I couldn't believe it. But why should you go, too? 1446 02:02:02,333 --> 02:02:04,338 Didn't you hear my promise that I would follow him? 1447 02:02:04,438 --> 02:02:06,040 You must live, Mercia. 1448 02:02:06,140 --> 02:02:07,775 No, Marcus, I must follow them. 1449 02:02:07,875 --> 02:02:09,120 Then if you die, 1450 02:02:09,721 --> 02:02:11,153 I shan't live either. 1451 02:02:11,254 --> 02:02:12,513 You must live. 1452 02:02:12,613 --> 02:02:15,494 If only because someday you may know what I know now. 1453 02:02:17,985 --> 02:02:20,869 I never will, not without you. 1454 02:02:21,355 --> 02:02:23,635 You could teach me to know. Teach me to... 1455 02:02:32,967 --> 02:02:34,564 Come on. You're next. 1456 02:02:35,836 --> 02:02:37,804 - Excellence! - Oh, Mercia. 1457 02:02:38,139 --> 02:02:40,364 Marcus, beloved, someday you'll know. 1458 02:02:40,465 --> 02:02:41,942 I can't, I tell you. I can't. 1459 02:02:42,042 --> 02:02:43,978 I believe in you, not this Christ. 1460 02:02:44,078 --> 02:02:45,905 Excellence, they're waiting. 1461 02:02:48,382 --> 02:02:50,584 Oh, Mercia, tell me. This is all true, isn't it? 1462 02:02:50,684 --> 02:02:53,321 - An afterlife and happiness? - Yes. 1463 02:02:53,421 --> 02:02:55,064 For me, too? Even I could have it? 1464 02:02:55,165 --> 02:02:56,223 Yes, Marcus. 1465 02:02:56,323 --> 02:02:58,125 I believe you. I believe what you tell me. 1466 02:02:58,225 --> 02:03:00,895 There, with this Christ, we could always be together? 1467 02:03:00,995 --> 02:03:03,397 - Promise me that? - It's true. 1468 02:03:03,497 --> 02:03:05,156 Then I want to go with you. 1469 02:03:05,833 --> 02:03:07,668 - Marcus! - Yes, with you, now. 1470 02:03:07,768 --> 02:03:10,104 - But it isn't fair to you. - Yes it is, it's merciful to me. 1471 02:03:10,204 --> 02:03:12,606 It's some hope. It keeps you with me, maybe always. 1472 02:03:12,706 --> 02:03:15,943 - Excellence, the Emperor... - Yes, yes, we're ready. 1473 02:03:16,043 --> 02:03:17,242 Come, Mercia. 1474 02:03:18,312 --> 02:03:21,873 Why, you're pitying me, and I'm happy. 1475 02:03:22,983 --> 02:03:26,350 - I can't believe it. - I'm full of strange hope. 1476 02:03:27,021 --> 02:03:28,488 Much happier. 1477 02:03:29,223 --> 02:03:31,858 - You want me to go with you, don't you? - Yes. 1478 02:03:33,060 --> 02:03:34,325 I love you. 1479 02:03:35,496 --> 02:03:36,998 Well, come, then. 1480 02:03:40,034 --> 02:03:42,869 You'll have to go on teaching me, leading me. 1481 02:03:43,270 --> 02:03:44,337 Sometime I'll know. 1482 02:03:44,438 --> 02:03:46,070 But stay close. Give me your hand. 1483 02:03:49,376 --> 02:03:50,961 I can't sing the hymn. 1484 02:03:53,414 --> 02:03:55,222 I shan't look up either. 1485 02:03:55,382 --> 02:03:57,045 I'll be looking at you... 1486 02:03:58,018 --> 02:04:00,113 and believing you're my wife. 1487 02:05:43,000 --> 02:05:44,500 -- English -- 105349