All language subtitles for Roman Mysteries - S1E09 - The Enemies of Jupiter 1

Not so many patients today, doctor.

The plague is passing.
I think we've seen the worst.

Thank the gods.

Great Jupiter! >

< Don't be scared.

They're just my relatives.

We bring the death masks out each
year during the Parentalia festival.

Father says it's good to be reminded
that one day we'll all die.

It helps us live each day
as though it were the last.

The plague means there's
a good chance of that.

But we've all had it and survived.
Thanks to your father.

That's my great-grandfather.

He bought the farm in Stabia.

This is my mother.
When she laughed, her curls jiggled.

I don't think I've ever heard
my mother laugh.

We all miss our mothers.

I know that.
But my mother's not dead.

I just have to pretend to father
and Miriam that she is.

All this time I know she's in Rome,
living with the Emperor.

She didn't have a choice, Jonathan.

She should be here.

Jonathan...

..Gaius and I
are to be married next week.

You're leaving home?

I was always going to.

I was hoping you could take over
assisting father with his patients.

But I faint at the sight of blood
and vomit at the smell of...

..vomit.

There's no one else.

What's he got on?

I have a growing number
of Roman patients.

They prefer a smarter,
"Roman-looking" doctor.

You look much younger.

I am making a house call tonight
to Helena Aurelia.

I may be back late.

THEY LAUGH

I don't think father's changed
his looks for all his patients.

What do you mean?

I think he's done it
for just one patient.

It's the third time father's visited
Helena Aurelia this week.

He's only 39. There's nothing
to stop him marrying again.

Yes, there is!
He's married to mother.

She's dead, Jonathan.

But he can't marry again.

I miss mother too.

It's difficult.

It's not difficult, it's impossible!

You could try and see it
from father's point of view.

He's lonely.

Well, I want father to be happy.

So do I, but not with her!

She's hardly Medusa!

If you're quick,
you might catch a look.

Look at what he's doing.

I can't let him marry her.
What am I going to do, Lupus?

Oh, it's you.

We're going to my mother's tomb.
Can you come?

You know I can't.

How's it going?

Up and down.

WHEEZING FROM INSIDE

Mostly up.

Is this the residence
of Doctor ben Ezra?

Yes. I am his son...and assistant.

I have a summons from
the Senator in charge of Health.

On the instructions
of the Emperor Titus himself,

the Senate wishes the Doctor to come
to Rome and work in the plague clinic.

I've a carriage waiting
by the Roman Gate.

It would be best if we could leave
within the hour.

You're going to Rome!
You lucky thing.

Poor Jonathan. You'll be with
sick people all day and all night.

Do you think your father
would let you come and help?

There would be far too many patients
for just one assistant.

One really bad doctor's assistant.

What? Without Doctor Mordecai
you would have died, father.

Now he needs us.

It's true,
we owe Mordecai a great deal.

We can stay at Aunt Cynthia's.

We really want to go. Please?

But if you say no
I promise to obey you.

Well, I appreciate that, Flavia.

I too must show my obedience.

To the Emperor.

So if you can help Rome,
then yes, you may go.

Thank you, thank you, Father!

It will be a very good experience.

I'm going to be a doctor's assistant
when I grow up!

Flavia.

It is my responsibility
to decide your future.

Please remember that.

I will, Father. But it's not my fault
you raised me like a boy!

Where exactly are we going?

Snake Island. The Temple of
Aesculapius, to be precise.

I've heard of Aesculapius.

He boasted that he brought
a man back from the dead.

It's extremely dangerous to boast.
It's hubris.

What is who-bricks?

It means thinking you can do things
better than others, or than the gods.

I expect Jupiter blasted Aesculapius
with one of his thunderbolts.

That's exactly what he did!

But Aesculapius came back
disguised as a snake,

and when he swam ashore in Rome,
a horrible plague stopped.

I expect the population became
resistant to that particular fever.

I agree with Jonathan.

I'm sure when we return to Ostia you
will have become a most able assistant.

WHEEZES AND MOANS

Easy there, steady.

Everybody off.
Far as I can go, I'm afraid.

Who are all those people?

They're your patients, Doctor.

Help me!

MOANS AND SHOUTS

Father, what is this place?

It's a living hell.

They're herding all those who can't
afford a doctor over here. To die.

But the authorities
are making it worse.

If you wanted to find the perfect
place to spread the fever,

then this is it.

STATELY MUSIC

Is it Titus?

Yes. The Emperor's come to ask
Aesculapius to stop the plague.

What is garland for?

Titus will wear it
when he's making the sacrifice.

Father, I need more herbs.

Don't worry, there will be
an apothecary here on the island.

Ephedra.

It's a hundred times
more effective if you drink it.

Really?
Hm.

What do I need to pay you?
Nothing.

I see you're wearing
the Emperor's ring.

The basket! It's moving!

Ah yes. Milking time.

There is only one cure
for a poisonous snake bite.

And that's the antivenin
from the snake itself.

I'm going to find Titus!

I don't think she likes snakes!

I am Flavia Gemina,
daughter of Captain Marcus Geminus,

captain of the Myrtilla,
of Delphina.

Stand aside. Didn't you hear her?

Flavia, this is a pleasure. Come in.

Bah!

I'm desperately worried
about this fever.

It's reached epidemic
proportions.

3,000 of my people
have died already.

Every day brings more bad news,
and no cure.

But the conditions are terrible,
the sick are crushed together!

People coughing over each other
just makes the fever spread.

That is an interesting observation,
Flavia, please sit.

Open up the Sacred Arches.

There'll be more space
there for the doctors

to treat the sick, and to
keep the sick isolated.

I pray you are right, Flavia.
I'll try anything.

All plagues run their course
and stop eventually.

In Ostia, the worst is over now.

I'm afraid it will end
differently here.

On the Kalends of January,
Jupiter appeared to me in a dream.

He said, "When a Prometheus opens a
Pandora's box, Rome will be devastated."

You had a premonition that
the fever's going to destroy Rome?

I think Jupiter was
warning me about a man.

A man with the power to ruin us.

By opening a Pandora's box?
What does that mean?

When someone opens
a Pandora's Box,

it means they set in motion
a whole series of bad events.

You see, Flavia, what if the plague
is just the beginning?

If you're right,
we have to stop this Prometheus,

before he does anything else.

I've got everyone working on it.

Astrologers, advisers,
the learned men of the Senate.

No-one is any closer
to identifying him.

Can I try?

I beg your pardon?

Can I try to solve your dream?

My friends are here too.
They can help. Please.

I'll try anything.

If you are successful,
you can expect a reward.

In the meantime, you and
your friends must be my guests

at the Golden House.

Flavia, Nubia - that is your room.

Boys, this is your room.

Jonathan, I hope your quarters
are more comfortable this time?

Your arm's healing?
Yes, thank you.

Well, I will take my leave of you.

Agathus?
Do you know where my mother is?

She is here in the Golden House.

Would you like to see her now?

Very much.

Be careful, Jonathan.
Remember why we're here!

Pandora and Pandora's Box.

Titus gave us this room deliberately.

He expects us to solve
dream in sleep?

That's Jupiter.

Titus told me the story.

Jupiter gave the box to Pandora
and told her never, ever to open it.

Well...did she?

What do you do when you're told
never, ever to do something?

Oh!

Look at you! You've really grown
in the last six months.

You need a new tunic,

and those sandals need cleaning.

I can look after myself.
Don't worry.

But I want to worry!

But you've done so much for me.

I know you gave up your freedom
for mine. Of course.

I love you.

Come on.

So what are you doing here? Jonathan?

Father's in Rome too.

You brought him to Rome?

You promised you would not tell him
I was alive.

I kept my promise. But things
were taken out of my hands.

Now I want to bring him to you.

Please can I?

No! No, you can't!

Do you still love him?

Of course I do.

Then please will you see him?
Please, just once?

Jonathan, there isn't a way.

I cannot see your father.

It would put us all in danger.

What kind of danger?

Titus is very jealous
and very powerful.

But it's all wrong,
you and father should be together.

There is no right and wrong,
just the Emperor's will.

You don't understand!
Father has met someone else.

That is...welcome news.

You don't mean that, you can't!

You must go.

Titus will be here soon.

I hate him.

SHE SOBS

Mother, don't cry.

That's Josephus, the historian.

If anyone knows about Pandora
and Prometheus, it'll be him.

Josephus, can we ask you something?

Questions are a historian's
constant companion.

We're trying to solve
the Emperor's dream

and we need to find
out about Prometheus.

And about Pandora's Box.

Ah, the box that let out
destruction into the world.

You think it was real?

I believe it was
the Ark of the Covenant.

A boat?

A box.

But for the Jews, it was the most
sacred box on earth, covered in gold.

What's inside it?

Many holy relics.

The Ten Commandments
and a cup of manna from heaven.

But holy relics are good, not
the nasty things in Pandora's Box.

That depends on who you are.

Once, according to legend,

our enemies captured the Ark
from the Temple of God in Jerusalem.

What happened to them?

They got boils and tumours
and died of the plague.

HE COUGHS

I feel peculiar,
I think it's the fever.

Where do you think the Ark is now?

Nobody knows.

Some say Berenice's
brother carried it away

before Titus's soldiers
set light to the Temple,

when he sacked Jerusalem.

But I think the Ark
was burnt up in that fire.

People are saying
it's because of that

the reign of Titus
has become blighted.

And that this year
is going to be the worst.

Now, if you'll excuse me.

I hope I have helped you
with Pandora's Box.

Yes, yes, you have. Thank you.

But what about Prometheus?

It's all there.

Greek and Latin.

I read dozens of scrolls, and I
know everything about Prometheus now.

He stole fire from Jupiter
to give it to man.

Prometheus thought he knew better
than Jupiter.

Yes, hubris again.

And he paid for it. Jupiter
nailed Prometheus to a mountain

and got a vulture to
peck out his liver.

That is really cruel.

It gets worse. Because
Prometheus is immortal,

every night his
liver grows back

and every day the vulture
pecks it out again.

He was tortured forever.

But you didn't come to the library.

Didn't need to.
It's all over our bedroom wall.

It's not exactly restful.

SHE SIGHS

Titus is desperate for someone
to work out his dream.

He's convinced that Prometheus
is going to destroy Rome.

Jonathan, why aren't you listening?

Don't you care?

Actually, not much.

I saw my mother.

She's so miserable.

I'm sorry.

What about you, Lupus?
Did you find anything?

Prometheus showed man
how to mix medicines.

That's good work, Lupus.
Prometheus was the first doctor.

Maybe that's it?
The new Prometheus is a doctor.

Why would a doctor start a plague?

If he cured people of it, he'd become
famous and make lots of money.

But if it got out of control,
it could devastate Rome.

I think we should go and talk to
some doctors over at Snake Island.

THEY CHATTER EXCITEDLY

Where are they going?

Come on!

Can you see him?

He's over there!

Who's here?

Who's coming?

Queen Berenice.

Berenice?

Why has she come back?

She was so jealous of my mother she
hired three assassins to kill her.

What if she's come back
to try again?

Perhaps Titus has decided
to marry Berenice after all.

Maybe it's a good thing she's here.

It's never a good thing
when Berenice is around.

This is what she did to me,

just because Titus looked at me!

I'm going to follow her.

You go to Snake Island without me.

THEY SPLUTTER AND GROAN

That smells nice. Is it jasmine?

You've got a good nose!

So have you! I'm sorry..

I mean...

Don't worry!

Everyone stares. I don't mind.

My nose is my livelihood. Come in.

Flavia Gemina.
Cosmos.

One of the Emperor's freed men,
and the best doctor in Rome.

I don't mean to be rude,
but isn't that hubris?

It's the truth.

HE INHALES DEEPLY

For breakfast, you had goat's
cheese on bread,

washed down with well-watered
spiced wine.

That's amazing, you're right!

You see! I sniff out disease
and sense the cure.

You smell healthy to me, Flavia.

I am. But suppose I got the fever,
what do you suggest I do?

Nothing.

Nothing?
I fast my patients.

Isn't that dangerous?

If someone is very young, or old?

My methods are both
proven and highly successful.

Well, thank you.

HE PRAYS

HE GARGLES

My medicine also cures jaundice,
leprosy and gangrene,

among hundreds of
other ailments!

What's the matter,
cat got your tongue?

Sorry, can't do much about that.

But I can make your teeth nicer
though, if you gargle with it.

Would you like to try?

This is particularly fresh.

Best is your own though.
First thing in the morning.

The mid-stream urine.

HE GULPS LOUDLY

COUGHING AND MOANING

I cannot bear this.

I must say, colleague,

that I am opposed to blood-letting
during this pestilence.

Blood-letting is a proven method.

It helps almost every condition.

But not, with respect, the fever.

Taking blood weakens those
already suffering.

If blood causes decay, blood is bad.

Where are you from?

Ostia.

Oh, the provinces.

I believe blood is good.

Our Holy Book says
that the life is in the blood.

When you pour out blood,
you pour out life.

Yes, well, I choose to believe
the work of respected physicans,

and not the writings
of holy men.

If Diaulus is right,

then why has the body-cart called at
his cell three times this morning?

Titus!

Why have you come back?

Please don't be angry with me.
Berenice...

I need to know for certain,
and I need to hear it from you.

Is there really no future for us?

You know there isn't.

But you are the Emperor!

Only because I have the support
of the Senate

and they refused to let us marry.
Nothing's changed.

Neither have my feelings.

Berenice, we agreed.

No, no, we did not.

You sent me away.

I still love you.

After you left,
I made a promise to the Senate.

I said I would
dedicate my life to Rome.

Only to Rome?

Yes.

And Susannah?

You obviously still
have your palace spies.

I have my loyal servants.

No, you have nothing anymore.

So, you do love her!

You took a great risk
in coming here.

Just tell me the truth.

The truth...

..is that I still care about you,
despite your absurd jealousy.

You waited many years
to become my wife,

and you were cruelly disappointed.

We both were.

I should have you punished

for plotting to kill Susannah
last year, but I won't.

Instead, I'm giving you two choices.

You can leave immediately
in your royal coach,

or I can have you escorted
out of Rome under armed guard.

The choice is yours.

I will go quietly.

Berenice...

..Goodbye.

Goodbye, Caesar.

We can rule out Lupus' doctor.

The worst Egnatius will do is
make his patients feel queasy.

Who knows, maybe it works.

Many of my doctor's patients die.

He bleeds the life out of them.

Mine just lets his patients die.
He starves them to death.

Hubris. Lupus is right.

For either of the doctors to be
the new Prometheus

they have to think
they know best.

Cosmos thinks he is one
step down from Jupiter.

Diaulus thinks he is one step up!

I think we should tell Titus.

You won't have to worry
about your mother anymore.

I still don't trust her.
She is up to something.

Who is this slave?

Susannah?

You will never see your mother
again!

Don't be afraid!

My mother's been poisoned!

The Ark Of The Covenant.

To open the secret books
is to be cursed.

I'm going to do it for Jonathan!

Rome will be destroyed!

One...

Is she going to die?
Two...

Yes.
Three!