All language subtitles for Those About to Die - 01x05

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Previously on Those About To Die...

Who was that man with Domitian?

- His name is Tenax.
- I need to know more about him.

Those shares were
stolen by your husband.

By order of Emperor Titus,

permission to run in Circus Maximus

is hereby withdrawn
from the Gold Faction.

What could you kill
with your bare hands?

Restrain!

I'll make a good show of his death.

I'm gonna take everything from you.

Ursus?

The boy you left to burn.

Ursus, Ursus.

What have you done?

You little fuckers!

Please! Come on! Help!

Don't do this today!

Ursus.

Ursus!

I'll open up.

We need more slates.

And another clerk to
handle the swing bets.

- Did you hear me?
- Yes.

This was left at the door.

Read it to me.

- It might be personal, I...
- Just...

Do it.

Don't be ashamed.

My people had no written
language for 1,000 years.

- Our past is silent.
- I'm not ashamed.

Just read it.

Out loud.

To me.

"All of your winnings at
the end of each race day,

put in the corner room, second floor,

in your insula at Cispian Hill.

It's the price of my silence."

No one learns of this.

The one who bet the little gold horse.

Big, with the burn scars on his face.

- Find him.
- We've been keeping our eyes...

I said find him, now! Look
in every betting tavern,

every brothel, every
gutter, every shithole.

Find him!

You wait for me out there.

Eat.

Hey, you're the best out of this lot.

I've got something for you to do.

There's an apartment on Cispian
Hill, second floor, corner room.

I know it.

Go there. Take a look
around. See what you can see,

who's watching. Be invisible.

Hey, eat first.

The Suburra first.

I've got some ideas
where he might be hiding.

Sister, I got this for you.

Thank you.

Tenax, I found him.

The big, scarred man. This way.

Please, please. Don't kill me.

Don't kill me!

Keep looking.

Xenon! Xenon! Xenon! Xenon!

Come on!

Xenon! Xenon! Xenon! Xenon!

Not Scorpus.

Come on!

Go!

Yes.

Hyah!

Hyah!

Yeah!

Yeah!

Xenon! Xenon!

It seems Xenon is earning his salary.

He most certainly is.

Thank you. Thank you, all.

A victory both noble and deserved.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Congratulations.

Shut your mouth.

Oh, come on, third place.

That's much better than one
would expect with those old nags.

I can't really say I miss them.

Didn't go so well for you today.

Piss off.

Why are you angry with me?

I'm not angry that you
signed for the White.

I'm hurt. Hurt you didn't trust me.

Something has happened.
You need to come.

Nica.

Come, come.

Nica.

I'm sorry.

Scorpus comes in third.

Scorpus fucking third!

Fucking third.

Fuck.

Sleep safe.

One eye open.

I never knew my mother.

Felix,

he remembered her before she got sick.

He said she was really pretty.

Like you.

Your mother...

she's up there in the clouds,

watching you.

I sent him there.

I should have known.

Are you sure about this?

He killed a child.

Hurry up.

Oh. Hey.

That's all of it.

Listen to me.

The two of you watch
this place at all times.

Hide better than Felix did.

You saw what happened to him.

If the big scarred man
comes, one of you follows him

and the other one comes to find me.

Be very careful.

A praying Tenax.

I'm a gambling man.

I'll try anything once.

Why are you up?

I couldn't sleep.

Felix was me 20 years ago.

I lived in the underbelly,
near the stables.

A stray?

I always liked horses.
So when I got to Rome,

it felt like the place to go.

Near the stables.

We slept in a big pile, 30 or 40 of us

for warmth and for safety.

As if there was such a thing.

But you crawled your way out of it.

I scavenged

one bit of food at a time.

One ugly errand,

one beating taken, one beating given,

one knife to the ribs, one fixed race,

one apartment bought,
one step at a time.

Rise or die,

the Roman way.

And before Rome,

what does he know?

This one who demands the money.

Something to deal with this, I wager.

Hmm, healed well.

If there is such a thing.

Sleep.

- Are we racing, Xenon?
- There is no race today.

You never have any fun?

And end up like you?

It doesn't seem like fun to me.

Well, it is.

That's a big trunk for a small boy.

Running off to join the legions, are we?

Mother says we're
moving into a big house.

I'm going to have my own room.

Then allow me to help you
with that, Your Eminence.

Saddle up.

Fonsoa, I see my son
has put you to work.

Big man, I need your help.

Oh, yes.

So, where to?

The Esquiline.

It's a big house with
a cistern and a garden.

It's just the home of
a friend of my mother.

Just knowing that you
are where you belong.

And have you found where you belong?

Isn't your beautiful
Baetica calling to you?

It was.

Well, I thank you for making
this place bearable for him.

I had practice with my little brother.

My mother died giving birth,

and our older brother was
always off with the horses.

So it fell to me.

There were tough
times, even in paradise.

Fonsoa,

did you forget about me?

We should be going now.

- Let me help.
- No, please.

You've done enough already.

Please.

- Jump on.
- Oh.

- Ready?
- Yes.

Are you going to tell
me what's on your mind?

You are telling everybody
that I will be returning home.

Yes.

Once we've earned enough for
your passage to Leptis Magna.

Wouldn't it be better if I waited?

We could return as a family.

No, only the God can say

how long it will take to
free your brother and sister.

And I need you to run the
trading post in my absence.

Seeno can do that.

Oh, you'd rather stay here,

in this den of serpents.

Rome is far too dangerous a place.

Mm-mm.

I'm surprised I even
have to tell you this,

given our experience.

Do I have no say in this matter?

Mother, we have come all this way

to the center of the world.

I just wish to see
some of it for myself.

Your brother and sister are
fighting for their lives,

and you talk as if this
is some great adventure.

I had to come here to save you from

ending up a whore in a stall.

Kwame may very well die in the arena

because of your foolishness.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

It is not my intention to be cruel.

My oldest daughter has a
responsibility to this family.

I won't suffer selfishness.

You are not the only one
who is suffering, Mother.

Aura.

I could have sent slaves
for your belongings.

It was no trouble.

Thank you.

My people will take it from here.

Good luck to you. To you both.

Thank you. To you as well.

You're late.

Listen, one of the
grooms, the skinny one,

said the Red Faction is looking
to hire a reserve driver.

We work for the Gold Faction, brother.

- What Gold Faction?
- Tenax said he'll fix it.

And what if he doesn't?

All right, we'll you go with your plan.

We get hired by the Red Faction,

have Tenax keep our horses
and kill us for the insult.

Great idea.

Xenon is great at this.

Yeah, he is.

It's strange that the crowd has not
demanded to get the wooden sword.

They did, three times.

Each time they granted him his freedom,

he told them to shove it up their arses.

What type of man chooses
to stay in the arena?

One who's not worried about losing.

Gladiators,

come closer.

To celebrate the wedding
of our emperor, Titus,

special games have been called.

When is the wedding?

Am I to attend?

It happened already in the
dead of night, they say.

Nonetheless, it calls
for games of celebration.

Flamma will lead the spectacle.

His opponent, chosen personally

by the Aedile Ludi, Flavius Domitianus

is no other than our little Lion Killer,

Kwame.

He will, of course, need some help

to make it last long enough
to be called entertainment.

Ozzi, Prizzi,

you will have the honor of dying
with Kwame at Flamma's hands.

I am sorry, brother.

Come,

back to training.

I would hate for my death to
disappoint the new empress.

How could you desert the Whites?

Xenon drives for the Blues now.

And where's your loyalty to our faction?

My loyalty is with my man Xenon.

Where he goes, I go.

Well, you two are going
to make a lovely couple.

But this race is a sure thing.

The Greens run only Maremano mares,

unbeatable after rainfall.

If Jupiter opens the skies tonight,

which he will, you'll triple your money.

So why tell me all this?

Well, nobody in the
tavern will take my credit.

- But if you front me 20 sesterces...
- Right, right.

I'm trying to help you.

Like you helped your wife
by gambling away her fortune.

Anybody with eyes knows
that race was a fix.

Tenax fucked me to get those shares.

I warned you about that sort of talk.

How did he get Scorpus
to hold back, huh?

I'll never know.

Tenax fucked me to get those shares.

Stain someone else's floor

with your blood.

So I hear you lost your
faction shares to Tenax.

Someone wants to speak to you.

Come.

Welcome.

It's Rufus, yes?

I'm told you've had dealings with Tenax,

the one they call the
King of the Suburra.

Please, sit.

Forgive my appearance.

I wasn't expecting an audience
with the Queen of the Jews.

I'm told he rigged the race and
stole your shares of the Blue Faction.

The shame in Salena's eyes
when she saw what I'd done.

My beautiful son.

It occurs to me that we may
be able to help one another.

A question.

Have you ever seen this Tenax in
the company of the Emperor's brother?

Not with my own eyes.

But I'm told that Tenax
is Domitian's client.

Rumor has it that it was Domitian

who approved Tenax's Gold Faction.

This is where you give me a dagger

and ask me to slit Tenax's throat?

I assure you there are more
competent man for that task.

I don't want you to kill Tenax.

I want you to ask him for work.

It is all right.

Tell me your name.

Ahren, where have you been?

Oh, you're getting big.

Kwame,

any sleep?

Why waste my last moments on sleep?

My wife, Linza, and my son Ahren.

You would honor us.

Please, please come, sit.

I have two sisters also in Rome.

I won't see them again.

Your husband fights well.

He will win the wooden sword.

So I pray.

And when I do,

the three of us will return to Buri.

My father left me a farm there.

Geese, a couple of goats.

Me and Linza will breed both,

and ourselves as well, making
more babies, lots of them.

Would you like to be a big brother?

Yes, you'd be a good big brother.

A good thing to ask the Gods for.

Babies, geese and goats.

No, I...

I ask the Gods to
protect you, my brother.

You waste an entreaty to the Gods

for me?

Not wasted.

Perhaps one day I will visit your farm

and meet your children.

And don't forget the goats.

The madness of it.

Titus married his cousin.

Provincial nothing.

If only I knew a man,

undiluted Patrician blood,

who might ascend the curule chair.

Someone with a brilliant
military record,

comfortable with command.

We've done this dance before, Antonia.

Every Patrician from here to Alexandria

has done this dance and is doing it now.

The Senate turns to you
in moments of crisis.

Many of them will kill to
see you on the curule chair.

Careful. What we say inside
our own home is one thing,

but such a conversation
outside these walls

is a die that cannot be uncast.

Are you unsure if I were
to make a good empress?

That, my dear, is the one
thing of which I am sure.

Empress. What a lovely word.

But not as lovely as Emperor.

Shh!

The Civil War comes at a cost.

Senators, even those in
my camp, remember that.

The Senate and the mob both turned
against Nero after the fires.

Fires?

You'd put a torch to Rome
to satisfy our ambition.

For you and for our son

and for our family,

I'd burn down the entire fucking empire.

What kind of emperor would
I be if I sacrificed the city

to obtain dominion over it?

We don't need a fire.

We just need a spark.

Thank you, my dear.

Get out.

- May we speak?
- I said get out.

- Please, I...
- If this is about the shares

and whatever you think
I did to get them,

don't waste your breath.

I'm here to ask you for work.

- Doing what?
- Anything you need.

Nobody else will hire me.

For a good reason.

I drink less and never steal.

At least from you.

I've heard that from much
stronger men than you.

I swear it on my son.

A good oath,

but not from a fool.

Tenax, please.

I beg you, please.

Three sesterces a day

and you do whatever she says.

Thank you, Tenax...

If you steal from me,

I will cut off your hands
and sell them to Carpo.

Thank you.

Mother!

What is it? What is it?

Mama, Kwame.

Kwame.

Did you know about this?

No.

What can I do?

There's no stopping it.

Not now.

It has been posted, they'll
already be at the staging area.

Everything has a price.

Not this. Not now.

But you know people.

You have influence and you can do it.

Were I the Emperor himself,
I couldn't stop this now.

The mob smells blood.

Can I see him?

We hail the Emperor Titus

and his new wife, the Empress Marcia.

The Emperor is pleased to announce

that after weeks of famine,

he has filled the granaries.

The citizens of Rome
will go hungry no more!

And in honor of his new wife, Marcia,

he offers a special day of games!

Cousin, good to see you again.

You arrived just in time to watch Flamma

slay three men in your honor.

Also in your honor, I have
suspended Domitian's confinement.

Together, we can enjoy
a glorious day of games.

My thanks.

I get to keep my two
watchdogs by my side.

By the way,

that's my wife's seat.

Let her through.

Son.

Mother?

Aura, she's free.

- Soon, Jula will be too.
- Good.

You...

You are going to win this fight.

Then we can all go home together.

Whatever happens, I want
to make the best of things.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Look at me. Me.

The day you were born,

your father took one
look at you and said,

"The spirit of Apedemak, the
lion-headed god, lives in our son."

He was always more
superstitious than me.

Honestly, I thought
that was utter nonsense.

But now I can see it.

I see it.

As clearly as that trident in your hand.

It is a terrible thing
they expect you to do,

but you must do it.

I know, Mother.

When you reach the sand,

do not stop.

Do not give up until
they pull you off him.

I won't stop.

Then we will see each other again.

Say it, Kwame.

Gates.

I will see you again.

Say it.

I will see you again.

Say it!

I will see you again.

We must go.

Go.

You are the lion that
protects our family.

Flamma! Flamma!

Flamma! Flamma!

Flamma! Flamma!

We who are about to die,

salute you.

Chain them.

What is this?

- Move!
- Come. Come.

Flamma! Flamma!

Stay in the middle.

For our final bout today,

the great Flamma

will do battle with a
force known only in myth.

The wicked net men
from the Siren Islands.

Gladiators...

Ready!

Engage!

Hey! Easy, brother!

Stay together.

Come on!

Here, come on.

Steady, my dear friend, steady.

The Gods show their favor. I knew it.

No, no.

I'm sorry, brother.

Water.

The Empress is looking rather pale.

Perhaps someone's found
my brother as well.

Kwame! Kwame! Kwame!

No!

The small one, he shows great valor

in the face of certain defeat.

It's pity to see such
virtue wasted in sport.

See how his virtue serves him

when Flamma puts a
sword through his heart.

You are the lion that
protects our family.

Come on!

Kwame! Kwame! Kwame!

The games are so beneath
you, yet now you weigh in.

Perseverance deserves recognition.

No matter how lowly the venue.

I'm curious.

What martial virtue does cutting
your comrade's leg off fall under?

What's going on?

Winning the favor of the
mob in his first contest

is no small feat.

Bodes well.

Might they free him?

No.

They'll want to watch
him fight again and again.

If he's lucky, he'll build a following,

better opponents, better odds.

Perhaps I was hasty to bet against him.

You had blood money on my son?

This is Rome,

it's all blood money.

Closer than usual today.

Especially for you, no?

My Emperor, Empress.

Brother, why do you not bestow the loser

with his consolation prize?

Take cover.

You ask the Gods for a spark.

There is your spark.

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