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You're the third
emperor of Rome

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whom I've served.

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First there was Caligula,

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then Claudius,

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and now you, Nero.

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You send General Lucius
Caesennius Paetus

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to defend Armenia against
the might of Parthia?

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I'm the one who invaded
Armenia in the first place.

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I don't goddamn believe it.

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I don't fucking believe it!

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What's goin' on?

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I should be the one
to repel the Parthians,

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not that cocksure Paetus.

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And you order me
to safeguard what, Syria?

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From who?

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Parthians are besieging
our legions in Armenia.

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And there's a heavy
winter coming.

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You better hope, Emperor,
that the power of Rome

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rests solely, not in the hands
of your appointed generals,

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but in the hearts of those
anonymous soldiers

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who make up your legions.

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Oh.

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Proceed, Marcus.

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What is the latest?

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A new message
from the Parthians.

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They demand we surrender.

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They give us three days.

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They guarantee we will not
be killed if...

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Burn it.

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Surrender is not an option.

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- General...
- I said no!

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Damn it.

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The Parthians control
the pass.

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The Scythians have cut off
our supply route here.

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If we don't get help,
we'll die of starvation.

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Do you also think
that this is all my fault,

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for making camp

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in a place
that can easily be besieged?

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That this is all the result
of my incompetence?

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This is no time
to look back.

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We're in no position
to sustain a prolonged siege.

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Our own men remain loyal,
but the mercenaries

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- have deserted.
- God damn mercenaries.

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Any word from Corbulo?

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I sent three of my best men
as emissaries.

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They all chose
separate routes.

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But the mountains are thick

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with enemies familiar
with our plans.

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They all failed.

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There is one final option.

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Take the only route the enemy
will not expect us to take.

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A handful
of well-prepared men

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could scale the ravine.

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Once in the forest,
it's a seven-day

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forest march to Syria
and Corbulo's scouts.

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Are you telling me, Marcus,

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that a few of our men,

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exhausted and starving to death,

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will be able
to scale a cliff,

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walk and run
through the forest,

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battle the enemy,

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and reach Syria
in just a few days?

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Precisely.

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I can see that I'm not the
only one who has lost his head.

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It's the only route

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that will not be crawling
with the enemy.

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Meanwhile,
we can make them believe

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we're contemplating
the terms of the surrender.

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Corbulo, that bastard.

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I never imagined that
my greatest political foe

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would one day be
my only hope for survival.

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And what if,
after all this...

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he refuses to come
to our aid?

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It's a risk we have to take.

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The route is impossible.

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Have you already considered

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whom to entrust
with this lunacy?

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He is a soldier,

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raised in the mountains
of North Hispania.

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Excellent climber and fighter.

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Highly revered
by the auxiliary cohorts.

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Auxiliary cohorts?

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He might desert.

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He is a soldier.

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Loyal to Rome.

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There are others,
younger, stronger.

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But none with his capacity
to endure.

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What's his name?

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They call him Noreno.

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Do you think he will do it?

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If it's an order,
he'll obey it to the end.

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Yes, an order.

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Duty.

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A soldier's lot is nothing
but to obey orders,

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to fight and sacrifice
one's life

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without thinking.

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What is hard
is to make decisions.

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They must leave tonight.

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We are all already dead, Marcus.

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Your plan is impossible.

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I can already see Corbulo

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as he hears the news
of my defeat,

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the outcome
of my strategic blunder.

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His smile.

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We are going to need
great assistance from the gods,

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if we are basing our hopes

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on a mountain man.

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But if the gods
are willing...

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so be it.

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Sir,
Noreno the soldier is here.

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Noreno.

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You called for me, sir.

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You've been selected

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to deliver a message
to General Corbulo.

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The others failed

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because they chose
a wrong route.

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You'll go by one
the enemy does not expect.

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Through the ravine.

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Sir,

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what you ask of me
is impossible.

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Impossible or not,
that's our only chance

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to survive.

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I am aware
of your qualities.

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I didn't select you
for your obvious skills.

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You were chosen because of
your rare capacity to endure.

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If anyone can succeed...

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it's you.

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We have provisions
for only two more days.

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If the enemy doesn't
kill us, then...

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the lack of food
or the cold will.

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The entire Roman legion

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destroyed, disgraced.

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You must succeed.

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- When do I leave?
- Now.

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When you leave the camp,

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run straight for the ravine.

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Scale its walls.
Once in the forest, head southwest

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till you hit Syria
and Corbulo's scouts.

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Help me return to Rome.

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Help me see my son.

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I will do my best.

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When you reach Corbulo,
give him this.

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That parchment
bears Paetus' seal.

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Oh, may the gods
protect you.

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Go out from here and run

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as if Hades himself
were pursuing you.

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For Rome!

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I'm sorry, my friend!

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Go!

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Run!

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Come on.

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No!

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<i>Si?</i>

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Another idiotic Roman

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who believes he can cross
these terraces to seek help.

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What do I do with him, Saka?

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Damn proud Romans.

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When are they ever
going to stop?

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Their pride
is what makes them great.

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They can't go far.

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Look over there.

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Here.

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Here's the famous ravine.

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Go!

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Two of the Romans
are dead.

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The other scaled
the cliff face.

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That route is impossible.

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Nothing is impossible

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if you have the will
to survive.

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They're just deserters.

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They sacrificed themselves
so that he could succeed.

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He's making his way
to Corbulo.

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The Persians pay us to kill
Romans, not to let them escape.

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Madyes, you and Saulio
make your way to the river.

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He'll have to cross it
eventually.

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I'll send word
to the Persians.

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Yeah, for now.

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So Claudius, tell me,

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how far have you traveled
to arrive at the frontier?

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Hibernia.

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Hibernia?

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That's the edge
of the world.

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What's a Celt doing
at the Roman auxiliary?

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I heard the pay was good.

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Pay.

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Like most children...

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on the coast of Hibernia,
I was captured

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and taken to Britannia
as a slave.

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I was a game keeper's
ward but...

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they couldn't hold me.

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He says do you...
did you ever want to return home?

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I was away from home
too long.

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I wanted to see the world.

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So, I made my way to Gaul

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and joined the auxiliary.

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They've been the only family
I've ever known.

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And for that I'm thankful.

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He says you should've gone
to Hispania.

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It's his land.
Very beautiful there.

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Um, I was raised by
my grandfather in Hispania.

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And, uh, when he joined
the auxiliary,

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he was stationed
in Britannia.

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So I followed him
and fought alongside him.

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However, when he died,

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I decided I would return
to Hispania.

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I carried his body
to the top of the mountain

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and there I laid him down

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so the vultures could carry
his soul to the afterlife.

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However, when I returned
to the auxiliary,

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I met Marcus.

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He recognized
my ability and...

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well he gave me
a purpose.

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Oh, oh, I think he means,
uh, for Rome.

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- <i>Si? Si?</i>
- Uh, for Rome.

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- Yes.
- For Rome?

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- For Rome.
- Rome!

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For Rome!

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Let her go!

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Get out.

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Do you live here alone?

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Where is your family?

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Noreno.

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Duria.

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I wouldn't do it!

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Look! Let me go.

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I don't have anything
to give you.

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I know that you're
a deserter but...

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believe me when I say...

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I will not tell anyone
where you are.

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I will not betray you.

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Do you think
I'm actually afraid

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you'll tell someone
where I am?

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I'm not that important
that in...

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they'll need
to send soldiers after me.

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I have no interest
in what made you desert.

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But let me go.

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You will have helped save
an isolated legion

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that has no chance
of survival.

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I don't care about you

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or your damn legion.

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00:36:29,556 --> 00:36:32,627
Now let's see what
you've got in the bag.

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A message with a Roman
general's seal on it.

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I should be able to get
something nice for this.

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You take what you like,

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but you leave me that.

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Try to remember
that you were

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a legionnaire, too.

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Rome and all her glory

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can burn in hell,

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for all I care.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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<i>A soldier's life
is lived outdoors,</i>

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<i>in every damn
imaginable weather.</i>

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<i>I'm sure that's something
you can't imagine, Nero.</i>

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<i>But when you're
a Roman soldier...</i>

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you get used
to your hardships...

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<i>and what doesn't kill you</i>

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only makes you stronger.

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Look over there.

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Who the hell are you?

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Let me go.

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00:50:32,566 --> 00:50:34,234
Please. I beg of you.

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I'm a Roman soldier.

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I'm on a mission of mercy.

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00:50:37,805 --> 00:50:40,140
My men have no food
and no water.

267
00:50:40,273 --> 00:50:42,142
Nobody cares.

268
00:50:42,275 --> 00:50:43,745
Least of all me.

269
00:50:43,878 --> 00:50:45,145
I just wanna sell you.

270
00:50:45,278 --> 00:50:46,914
Scyles.

271
00:50:49,917 --> 00:50:52,754
How the hell did you get all
the way out here with just this?

272
00:50:53,353 --> 00:50:54,822
Scyles!

273
00:50:54,956 --> 00:50:56,223
Shit.

274
00:50:56,356 --> 00:50:58,626
That man belongs to me!

275
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:01,896
Yeah? Well these
bonds say otherwise!

276
00:51:03,131 --> 00:51:05,432
You're getting old
and slow, Medea.

277
00:51:06,968 --> 00:51:08,603
Turn around.

278
00:51:08,736 --> 00:51:10,772
Go back to your woman,
Solias.

279
00:51:12,940 --> 00:51:14,274
Oh, wait...

280
00:51:16,010 --> 00:51:17,511
You can't.

281
00:51:18,278 --> 00:51:19,546
I killed her.

282
00:51:22,249 --> 00:51:24,184
This world is mine.

283
00:51:24,317 --> 00:51:25,987
Anyone who comes
across this patch

284
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:27,822
belongs to me.

285
00:51:28,522 --> 00:51:31,258
She wandered too far!

286
00:51:31,391 --> 00:51:34,294
And now,
she paid the price.

287
00:51:35,429 --> 00:51:38,166
This bounty is mine.

288
00:51:38,298 --> 00:51:40,835
And I am claiming my reward!

289
00:54:12,385 --> 00:54:14,088
Take my hand.

290
00:54:16,324 --> 00:54:17,892
Take it!

291
00:55:53,654 --> 00:55:55,990
Steady, soldier.

292
00:55:56,123 --> 00:55:57,358
Stay calm.

293
00:55:57,524 --> 00:55:59,459
You're safe.

294
00:56:00,493 --> 00:56:02,363
Rest.

295
00:56:02,495 --> 00:56:04,932
No, I cannot rest.

296
00:56:05,598 --> 00:56:07,534
Where am I?

297
00:56:08,369 --> 00:56:09,536
How long have I been here?

298
00:56:09,670 --> 00:56:11,839
No one is following you.

299
00:56:13,341 --> 00:56:14,742
Stay still.

300
00:56:15,309 --> 00:56:17,845
You are safe here.

301
00:56:17,979 --> 00:56:18,913
Shh.

302
00:56:19,046 --> 00:56:20,181
You are safe.

303
00:56:21,581 --> 00:56:23,384
<i>"There was
nothing to animate</i>

304
00:56:23,516 --> 00:56:25,386
<i>the drooping spirits
of the army</i>

305
00:56:25,518 --> 00:56:27,221
but the example
of their general,

306
00:56:27,355 --> 00:56:28,488
who endured even more

307
00:56:28,622 --> 00:56:30,191
than the common
soldiers did."

308
00:56:31,659 --> 00:56:33,361
That was written about me,

309
00:56:33,493 --> 00:56:35,930
about my conquests
of Armenia,

310
00:56:36,063 --> 00:56:39,066
whose future Paetus
now holds in the...

311
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:42,003
in the palm
of his grubby little hand.

312
00:56:47,341 --> 00:56:49,877
When our long
arduous march

313
00:56:50,011 --> 00:56:51,412
took us through
hot, desolate

314
00:56:51,544 --> 00:56:53,280
and rugged countryside,

315
00:56:54,648 --> 00:56:58,419
with food
and water scarce,

316
00:56:58,551 --> 00:57:01,322
and the Armenians
likely to launch

317
00:57:01,455 --> 00:57:03,991
an obstinate defense...

318
00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:07,261
do you know what I did?

319
00:57:11,265 --> 00:57:14,301
I executed Vadandus,

320
00:57:14,435 --> 00:57:16,003
one of the nobles
I had captured,

321
00:57:16,137 --> 00:57:18,739
and I cut off
his fucking head.

322
00:57:20,474 --> 00:57:23,277
And then I took his head

323
00:57:24,478 --> 00:57:26,714
and I put it in
the ballista,

324
00:57:26,847 --> 00:57:28,548
and I sent it catapulting

325
00:57:28,682 --> 00:57:31,152
into the enemy's
fortifications.

326
00:57:32,653 --> 00:57:34,455
And they took it as a...

327
00:57:34,587 --> 00:57:35,689
a portent.

328
00:57:35,823 --> 00:57:37,625
They hastened to surrender.

329
00:57:43,464 --> 00:57:45,166
That's a true story.

330
00:57:46,801 --> 00:57:49,003
Would you have had
the wiles to act as I have?

331
00:57:53,007 --> 00:57:54,141
No.

332
00:57:54,275 --> 00:57:57,945
<i>Only a true soldier
has such an imagination.</i>

333
00:58:00,281 --> 00:58:01,581
Ah.

334
00:58:02,149 --> 00:58:03,284
You are awake.

335
00:58:07,855 --> 00:58:09,356
How long was I out?

336
00:58:10,124 --> 00:58:11,158
Almost a day.

337
00:58:11,292 --> 00:58:12,993
A day?

338
00:58:13,127 --> 00:58:14,695
I really must...

339
00:58:15,830 --> 00:58:18,365
Go. Yes.

340
00:58:22,570 --> 00:58:24,205
I heard a few mumblings.

341
00:58:24,338 --> 00:58:27,041
A name. Duria?

342
00:58:27,975 --> 00:58:30,444
Tell me,
from what do you run?

343
00:58:30,578 --> 00:58:31,579
Bandits?

344
00:58:31,712 --> 00:58:33,247
Other Romans, perhaps?

345
00:58:34,782 --> 00:58:36,817
Did you desert
your legion?

346
00:58:37,418 --> 00:58:38,586
I'm no deserter.

347
00:58:38,719 --> 00:58:40,855
I, too,
was a soldier of Rome.

348
00:58:42,723 --> 00:58:44,258
But that was
a long time ago.

349
00:58:46,093 --> 00:58:47,561
I have a mission
to complete.

350
00:58:47,695 --> 00:58:50,164
We each have
a mission to complete.

351
00:58:52,199 --> 00:58:53,400
Where are you headed,
soldier?

352
00:58:54,168 --> 00:58:55,970
To the Euphrates frontier.

353
00:58:57,071 --> 00:58:59,707
I carry a message
for General Corbulo.

354
00:59:01,275 --> 00:59:03,744
The lives of an entire
legion depend on my success.

355
00:59:03,878 --> 00:59:06,847
I see I am in the presence
of an uncommon man.

356
00:59:08,082 --> 00:59:09,583
Did you come across
the mountains

357
00:59:09,717 --> 00:59:11,152
from Paetus' encampment?

358
00:59:13,154 --> 00:59:14,255
Yes.

359
00:59:19,493 --> 00:59:21,262
And where did you serve Rome?

360
00:59:22,730 --> 00:59:25,232
In another life.

361
00:59:25,366 --> 00:59:26,767
A distant life.

362
00:59:28,836 --> 00:59:31,606
I served under
General Vespasian in Judea.

363
00:59:31,739 --> 00:59:33,941
- Vespasian?
- Mm-hmm.

364
00:59:34,808 --> 00:59:36,010
But, he was the only leader

365
00:59:36,143 --> 00:59:38,345
capable of putting down
the Jewish revolt

366
00:59:38,479 --> 00:59:39,780
against Nero.

367
00:59:40,649 --> 00:59:42,683
And his practice
of rewarding

368
00:59:42,816 --> 00:59:44,685
and releasing his oldest

369
00:59:44,818 --> 00:59:48,522
and most loyal
of soldiers is...

370
00:59:48,657 --> 00:59:50,057
well it's known by all.

371
00:59:50,758 --> 00:59:51,892
He's legendary, sir.

372
00:59:54,228 --> 00:59:55,829
I would have very much
liked to have served under

373
00:59:55,963 --> 00:59:56,997
such a great general.

374
00:59:57,131 --> 01:00:00,401
Now, I serve a great king.

375
01:00:01,569 --> 01:00:03,337
I do not understand.

376
01:00:03,470 --> 01:00:04,673
Come.

377
01:00:04,805 --> 01:00:06,440
Drink and eat.

378
01:00:07,308 --> 01:00:09,176
You need to regain
your strength.

379
01:00:36,837 --> 01:00:38,906
I know this country well.

380
01:00:39,940 --> 01:00:42,042
Your destination
is not far.

381
01:00:42,176 --> 01:00:44,979
The most direct route
is across a span of desert

382
01:00:45,112 --> 01:00:47,548
that lies between here
and the Euphrates River.

383
01:00:47,682 --> 01:00:49,850
I recommend staying out
of the sun,

384
01:00:49,984 --> 01:00:51,752
if you can,

385
01:00:51,885 --> 01:00:54,455
and stick to
the dry river gullies.

386
01:00:54,588 --> 01:00:57,726
Perhaps not the most direct
route across the desert, but...

387
01:00:57,891 --> 01:00:59,460
they will protect you.

388
01:00:59,593 --> 01:01:01,195
Sir, without knowing it,

389
01:01:01,328 --> 01:01:03,597
you've not only
saved my life,

390
01:01:03,732 --> 01:01:05,866
but the lives
of an entire legion.

391
01:01:06,635 --> 01:01:07,702
I am forever in your debt.

392
01:01:07,835 --> 01:01:09,036
Do not thank me.

393
01:01:09,169 --> 01:01:10,804
I would do this
for any man,

394
01:01:10,938 --> 01:01:13,340
Roman, Persian, Scythian.

395
01:01:13,474 --> 01:01:15,776
I'm glad I'm the only one
to hear you say this.

396
01:01:17,144 --> 01:01:20,147
It could be your death sentence
for betrayal against Rome.

397
01:01:21,048 --> 01:01:23,150
In the name of Rome,

398
01:01:23,917 --> 01:01:25,419
I killed many men.

399
01:01:27,187 --> 01:01:29,624
Now in my wildest
nightmares I recall

400
01:01:29,758 --> 01:01:33,762
how sometimes
I even enjoyed it.

401
01:01:33,894 --> 01:01:35,562
But I was the one
who died.

402
01:01:36,330 --> 01:01:37,766
Enemies?

403
01:01:37,898 --> 01:01:39,233
No.

404
01:01:39,366 --> 01:01:40,801
Men.

405
01:01:41,670 --> 01:01:43,470
In truth,
all of them equal.

406
01:01:43,605 --> 01:01:45,740
All of them
children of God.

407
01:01:45,873 --> 01:01:47,141
Equal?

408
01:01:49,910 --> 01:01:51,445
And how, may I ask,

409
01:01:51,578 --> 01:01:54,915
did you return to life
after being dead?

410
01:01:55,049 --> 01:01:58,352
By listening to the words
of a crucified man.

411
01:01:58,485 --> 01:02:00,854
You should not speak
this way to anyone,

412
01:02:00,988 --> 01:02:02,823
least of all
a Roman soldier.

413
01:02:03,924 --> 01:02:05,526
Are you not aware
that Nero has sentenced

414
01:02:05,660 --> 01:02:07,662
all Christians to death?

415
01:02:07,796 --> 01:02:09,830
I no longer fear anything.

416
01:02:09,963 --> 01:02:12,667
Not death.

417
01:02:12,801 --> 01:02:15,469
And, least of all, Nero.

418
01:02:15,603 --> 01:02:17,571
Without fear,

419
01:02:17,706 --> 01:02:19,173
we are free.

420
01:02:21,208 --> 01:02:23,944
Would you still be free
in a prison cell,

421
01:02:24,078 --> 01:02:26,046
condemned to the gallows,

422
01:02:26,180 --> 01:02:28,449
or in the Coliseum
facing wild beasts?

423
01:02:28,582 --> 01:02:30,117
More free than ever.

424
01:02:31,318 --> 01:02:34,488
And you, do you not
want to be free?

425
01:02:34,622 --> 01:02:35,923
Well...

426
01:02:36,990 --> 01:02:39,193
Well, as strange
as it may sound, sir...

427
01:02:41,095 --> 01:02:43,063
these last few days,

428
01:02:43,197 --> 01:02:45,933
I think I felt freedom
for the first time.

429
01:02:48,035 --> 01:02:50,404
Although I was pursued
by my enemies and...

430
01:02:51,773 --> 01:02:54,375
quickly chased down,
and they were ready to kill me,

431
01:02:56,243 --> 01:02:58,345
I've never felt so alive.

432
01:02:58,479 --> 01:03:01,515
I've really reveled in these last few
days, away from the army.

433
01:03:01,649 --> 01:03:04,619
Then it may be that one day
you will know real freedom,

434
01:03:04,753 --> 01:03:07,588
like me,
without killing.

435
01:03:08,623 --> 01:03:10,057
And perhaps someday,

436
01:03:11,091 --> 01:03:13,894
you will explain to me
this truth of yours,

437
01:03:14,027 --> 01:03:16,397
that makes all men equal,
and free.

438
01:03:18,633 --> 01:03:20,167
But for now I must go.

439
01:03:22,136 --> 01:03:24,238
I am very grateful
for your help.

440
01:03:25,472 --> 01:03:26,641
Saul.

441
01:03:27,541 --> 01:03:28,976
My name is Saul.

442
01:03:30,511 --> 01:03:31,646
I am Noreno.

443
01:03:41,955 --> 01:03:44,091
I packed
some provisions for you.

444
01:03:50,564 --> 01:03:52,299
You said that in life,

445
01:03:52,433 --> 01:03:54,368
we all have a mission
to complete.

446
01:03:56,170 --> 01:03:57,705
Have you completed yours?

447
01:04:00,474 --> 01:04:02,142
No.

448
01:04:04,879 --> 01:04:06,280
Wait.

449
01:04:07,548 --> 01:04:09,249
Here.

450
01:04:09,383 --> 01:04:10,652
Take this.

451
01:04:17,124 --> 01:04:19,026
God go with you, soldier.

452
01:04:21,796 --> 01:04:23,997
You are a good man, Saul.

453
01:04:24,131 --> 01:04:26,066
I will not forget you.

454
01:10:43,978 --> 01:10:45,545
I dream that your...

455
01:10:46,781 --> 01:10:49,416
your precious fool
of a general,

456
01:10:49,549 --> 01:10:52,787
Paetus, is close
to surrender.

457
01:10:55,455 --> 01:10:56,958
His men are starving.

458
01:10:59,727 --> 01:11:02,462
His mercenaries
are deserting.

459
01:11:02,596 --> 01:11:04,364
The enemies of Rome

460
01:11:04,497 --> 01:11:06,566
have surrounded him

461
01:11:06,701 --> 01:11:10,137
and have cut off
his supply of lines.

462
01:11:10,905 --> 01:11:12,240
Emperor,

463
01:11:12,372 --> 01:11:14,909
had I led the legion
to reclaim Armenia,

464
01:11:15,042 --> 01:11:16,277
for Rome,

465
01:11:16,409 --> 01:11:18,613
we would've been
victorious by now.

466
01:11:22,549 --> 01:11:25,485
Why hasn't he sent
for me for help?

467
01:11:27,221 --> 01:11:28,455
Too proud?

468
01:11:30,825 --> 01:11:32,159
Too vain?

469
01:11:33,261 --> 01:11:35,062
Too stupid?

470
01:11:41,802 --> 01:11:43,570
Yet I hear nothing.

471
01:11:45,072 --> 01:11:46,807
I hear nothing.

472
01:11:46,941 --> 01:11:48,142
Do you, Emperor?

473
01:11:51,345 --> 01:11:52,847
Nothing.

474
01:11:54,115 --> 01:11:55,683
No galloping hooves.

475
01:11:56,684 --> 01:11:59,486
No... there's no insistent
footsteps.

476
01:12:00,721 --> 01:12:03,523
No one... no one has come.

477
01:12:05,259 --> 01:12:07,028
No one, no one to help,

478
01:12:07,161 --> 01:12:09,496
not a single damn messenger.

479
01:12:12,465 --> 01:12:14,669
You ordered me here to...

480
01:12:16,070 --> 01:12:19,140
not to marshal my forces
unless Paetus himself

481
01:12:20,107 --> 01:12:22,944
sends word that I must
come to his aid.

482
01:12:26,747 --> 01:12:29,884
Three legions are at risk
of annihilation

483
01:12:31,886 --> 01:12:33,921
because of your poor judgment.

484
01:12:37,925 --> 01:12:42,196
And you've condemned your
most able general to wait.

485
01:12:43,331 --> 01:12:45,666
Well, I'm waiting.

486
01:13:11,325 --> 01:13:12,727
Not good enough.

487
01:13:42,923 --> 01:13:44,325
Get up!

488
01:14:05,545 --> 01:14:06,981
That's the spirit.

489
01:14:09,350 --> 01:14:11,218
Show me, Roman!

490
01:14:35,543 --> 01:14:36,677
You've done well,
better than anyone

491
01:14:36,811 --> 01:14:38,212
could've imagined.
But there comes a time

492
01:14:38,345 --> 01:14:41,515
between hunter and prey when
they both know it must end.

493
01:14:48,989 --> 01:14:50,791
You're better than this.

494
01:14:51,659 --> 01:14:53,327
Sand?

495
01:14:57,665 --> 01:14:59,100
I'm not done with you!

496
01:14:59,233 --> 01:15:01,001
Have my fun. Get up!

497
01:15:01,135 --> 01:15:03,070
You're gonna tell me
who taught you how to run.

498
01:15:20,821 --> 01:15:22,756
That's it!

499
01:15:22,890 --> 01:15:24,358
That's the fight
I'm looking for!

500
01:15:28,829 --> 01:15:31,732
We each have
a mission to complete.

501
01:15:51,018 --> 01:15:52,987
<i>Do you not want to be free?</i>

502
01:16:06,934 --> 01:16:08,135
Your mission is over.

503
01:16:08,269 --> 01:16:10,771
I will give you
the sweet release of death.

504
01:16:10,905 --> 01:16:13,340
Now tell me,
what is your name?

505
01:16:13,474 --> 01:16:16,243
I like to know the names of
things I'm going to kill.

506
01:16:32,661 --> 01:16:33,961
Do it!

507
01:16:34,728 --> 01:16:36,163
No.

508
01:16:36,297 --> 01:16:38,899
Your life
is meaningless to me.

509
01:16:40,301 --> 01:16:42,536
Now, you end
this macabre chase...

510
01:16:42,671 --> 01:16:45,039
or I swear,
it'll be your last!

511
01:17:38,792 --> 01:17:40,361
Permission to speak,
General.

512
01:17:47,401 --> 01:17:51,171
Well, what do we have today?
Is it urgent?

513
01:17:51,305 --> 01:17:54,341
Some of the patrolmen found a
legionnaire in the Euphrates.

514
01:17:54,475 --> 01:17:57,478
He claims to be
one of Paetus' men.

515
01:17:57,612 --> 01:17:59,146
Wow.

516
01:17:59,280 --> 01:18:01,482
Paetus.

517
01:18:01,616 --> 01:18:03,618
Well, he must be a deserter.

518
01:18:03,752 --> 01:18:05,853
It doesn't seem
to be the case.

519
01:18:05,986 --> 01:18:07,388
He says he's a messenger.

520
01:18:10,357 --> 01:18:12,960
Paetus dares
to send me a messenger?

521
01:18:14,561 --> 01:18:16,230
Where the fuck is he?

522
01:18:16,363 --> 01:18:17,965
Outside, waiting.

523
01:18:18,098 --> 01:18:19,967
He was armed only
with this.

524
01:18:21,435 --> 01:18:24,405
He insists that he alone
will hand you the message.

525
01:18:32,046 --> 01:18:33,547
Make him come in.

526
01:18:56,036 --> 01:18:57,639
What's your name, soldier?

527
01:18:58,572 --> 01:19:02,843
Legionnaire Quintus
Laberius Surus.

528
01:19:02,976 --> 01:19:04,713
Second cohort,

529
01:19:04,845 --> 01:19:06,547
fourth Scythia Legion, sir.

530
01:19:08,315 --> 01:19:10,719
I carry a message, sir...

531
01:19:10,851 --> 01:19:13,454
from General Paetus
to General Corbulo.

532
01:19:13,587 --> 01:19:16,256
So you're bringing me
a message from Paetus?

533
01:19:16,390 --> 01:19:17,324
Yes, sir.

534
01:19:34,676 --> 01:19:35,876
Oh, I'm sorry,

535
01:19:36,009 --> 01:19:38,011
but you've come here
for nothing.

536
01:19:38,145 --> 01:19:40,881
Valerius, see to it
that this man eats well,

537
01:19:41,014 --> 01:19:43,183
and reward his efforts.

538
01:19:43,317 --> 01:19:44,719
No, no, don't,
please, sir.

539
01:19:44,853 --> 01:19:46,086
You must help us.

540
01:19:48,055 --> 01:19:50,090
I'll not allow that tone,
soldier.

541
01:19:51,358 --> 01:19:53,862
That useless
fucking Paetus...

542
01:19:56,029 --> 01:19:58,165
the situation
is all his fault.

543
01:20:00,567 --> 01:20:03,137
Settling on such
a mountainous area

544
01:20:03,270 --> 01:20:05,439
so goddamned
easy to attack.

545
01:20:05,572 --> 01:20:07,241
But sir,

546
01:20:07,374 --> 01:20:09,878
won't you do it
for the soldiers' sake?

547
01:20:10,010 --> 01:20:11,512
They have no fault
in the poor decisions

548
01:20:11,646 --> 01:20:14,014
- of their general.
- Who do you think you are,

549
01:20:14,749 --> 01:20:16,250
talking to me like that?

550
01:20:19,987 --> 01:20:21,388
You speak insolently.

551
01:20:25,693 --> 01:20:26,694
Yes...

552
01:20:28,663 --> 01:20:29,997
you're right.

553
01:20:30,130 --> 01:20:33,267
The general's bad decisions
are not the men's fault.

554
01:20:34,034 --> 01:20:36,103
That's what war is like.

555
01:20:36,236 --> 01:20:39,173
I'm not gonna help Paetus.

556
01:20:40,040 --> 01:20:41,709
Valerius.

557
01:20:42,543 --> 01:20:44,044
- Come on.
- No.

558
01:20:46,213 --> 01:20:48,282
I'm sorry, soldier.

559
01:20:54,021 --> 01:20:55,289
Why won't he help us?

560
01:20:55,422 --> 01:20:57,424
Thousands of my men
will die.

561
01:21:15,309 --> 01:21:17,478
Oh, what is it, Amariah?

562
01:21:17,612 --> 01:21:18,880
What have I done now?

563
01:21:19,012 --> 01:21:21,048
I gather you've heard
my reply

564
01:21:21,181 --> 01:21:23,083
to the messenger,
didn't you?

565
01:21:23,217 --> 01:21:25,085
I have told you
that business of Rome...

566
01:21:25,219 --> 01:21:26,688
Is not my concern.

567
01:21:28,790 --> 01:21:30,157
Yes, you have.

568
01:21:30,290 --> 01:21:32,025
Especially as I am
your mistress,

569
01:21:32,159 --> 01:21:33,527
not your wife.

570
01:21:33,661 --> 01:21:36,196
Especially as
I'm not Roman-born.

571
01:21:37,431 --> 01:21:38,532
Amariah.

572
01:21:40,467 --> 01:21:43,170
Although
I was not born here,

573
01:21:43,303 --> 01:21:44,772
but this is my country.

574
01:21:44,906 --> 01:21:46,039
Your country,

575
01:21:46,173 --> 01:21:48,776
which is a claim
of the State of Rome.

576
01:21:50,077 --> 01:21:52,479
That should unite us,
not divide us.

577
01:21:55,182 --> 01:21:56,818
Well, all right,
it's true.

578
01:21:56,951 --> 01:21:58,987
I've refused
General Paetus'

579
01:21:59,119 --> 01:22:00,755
plea for help.

580
01:22:00,889 --> 01:22:02,657
And I've sent
his messenger back

581
01:22:02,790 --> 01:22:04,191
on his way, empty-handed.

582
01:22:04,324 --> 01:22:07,194
My orders from Emperor Nero
are clear.

583
01:22:07,327 --> 01:22:10,330
I'm to remain here on
the banks of the Euphrates

584
01:22:10,464 --> 01:22:14,468
to safeground the...
Syria on behalf of Rome.

585
01:22:14,602 --> 01:22:16,838
I do
not understand you, Gnaeus.

586
01:22:16,971 --> 01:22:20,340
For weeks you prowled the halls
of this palace at night...

587
01:22:20,474 --> 01:22:23,110
sleepless, agitated...

588
01:22:23,243 --> 01:22:26,547
awaiting General Paetus
to swallow his pride

589
01:22:26,681 --> 01:22:28,382
and ask for your help.

590
01:22:29,082 --> 01:22:30,885
No.

591
01:22:31,019 --> 01:22:32,519
Beg for your help.

592
01:22:33,353 --> 01:22:35,255
Then, when he finally does so?

593
01:22:37,424 --> 01:22:41,228
There's no glory in arriving
too late, Amariah.

594
01:22:47,936 --> 01:22:49,336
Oh.

595
01:22:56,778 --> 01:23:00,480
The young soldier boy,
he should be admired.

596
01:23:00,615 --> 01:23:03,183
I mean, look at the distance
that he traveled all alone,

597
01:23:03,317 --> 01:23:05,653
through no-man's-land,
wilderness,

598
01:23:05,787 --> 01:23:07,421
amuck with cutthroats

599
01:23:07,554 --> 01:23:10,090
and Parthian assassins...

600
01:23:10,223 --> 01:23:11,926
poor guy
went over mountains,

601
01:23:12,060 --> 01:23:14,696
through forests,
across desert land.

602
01:23:16,463 --> 01:23:18,599
It's astonishing
that he managed

603
01:23:18,733 --> 01:23:20,001
to make it at all.

604
01:23:20,133 --> 01:23:22,003
- He was desperate.
- No.

605
01:23:22,135 --> 01:23:23,871
He's a soldier
in service to Rome.

606
01:23:24,005 --> 01:23:26,273
He fulfilled his duty.

607
01:23:26,406 --> 01:23:28,208
I have been
always impressed

608
01:23:28,342 --> 01:23:30,612
by the willpower
certain men exhibit

609
01:23:30,745 --> 01:23:33,213
when faced
with an impossible mission.

610
01:23:33,347 --> 01:23:36,450
Well, which is why history
will be remembered

611
01:23:36,583 --> 01:23:38,953
such as generals
as great men.

612
01:23:39,087 --> 01:23:40,287
Generals?

613
01:23:40,420 --> 01:23:41,689
I'm talking about
simple soldiers

614
01:23:41,823 --> 01:23:43,992
like that messenger
who you dismissed

615
01:23:44,124 --> 01:23:45,660
without a second thought.

616
01:23:48,395 --> 01:23:49,831
He did his duty.

617
01:23:50,865 --> 01:23:52,232
You have told me many times

618
01:23:52,366 --> 01:23:55,103
of how you, above all
the other generals,

619
01:23:55,235 --> 01:23:56,638
particularly Paetus,

620
01:23:56,771 --> 01:23:59,339
appreciated the value
of good soldiers.

621
01:23:59,473 --> 01:24:02,342
And without them
and their stalwart strength,

622
01:24:02,476 --> 01:24:06,279
even the most...
best military commanders

623
01:24:06,413 --> 01:24:08,683
would have no chance
of victory.

624
01:24:12,219 --> 01:24:13,788
Are you saying

625
01:24:13,921 --> 01:24:15,857
I risk being forgotten
because I didn't come

626
01:24:15,990 --> 01:24:19,927
to the aid of a general
who's no better than a cur?

627
01:24:20,061 --> 01:24:21,561
No, my darling.

628
01:24:21,696 --> 01:24:24,699
Your place in history
is more than guaranteed

629
01:24:24,832 --> 01:24:28,636
in your celebrated single-handed
military victories.

630
01:24:28,770 --> 01:24:31,005
General Paetus
cannot fall further

631
01:24:31,139 --> 01:24:33,141
in esteem
than he already has.

632
01:24:33,273 --> 01:24:36,077
He's humiliated himself
in front of his men

633
01:24:36,209 --> 01:24:37,477
and, most importantly,

634
01:24:37,612 --> 01:24:39,914
in the eyes
of the Roman emperor.

635
01:24:40,982 --> 01:24:43,483
But, if he dies

636
01:24:43,618 --> 01:24:45,385
all alone in mountains
of Armenia...

637
01:24:45,519 --> 01:24:47,521
Then, good riddance.

638
01:24:47,655 --> 01:24:51,358
If he dies holed up
in the barren cold,

639
01:24:51,491 --> 01:24:53,161
under vicious attack,

640
01:24:53,293 --> 01:24:54,528
besieged,

641
01:24:54,662 --> 01:24:56,329
possibly fighting
for his life

642
01:24:56,463 --> 01:24:57,799
with his last breath...

643
01:24:57,932 --> 01:24:59,599
No. That's unlikely.

644
01:24:59,734 --> 01:25:01,736
There's always
the possibility

645
01:25:01,869 --> 01:25:03,938
he will become a martyr,

646
01:25:04,072 --> 01:25:06,040
even a posthumous hero.

647
01:25:06,174 --> 01:25:08,042
Paetus?

648
01:25:08,176 --> 01:25:10,210
- A hero?
- Yes.

649
01:25:10,343 --> 01:25:12,245
A martyr's hero,

650
01:25:12,379 --> 01:25:14,581
who gave his life for Rome.

651
01:25:16,349 --> 01:25:17,885
Legends, my love,

652
01:25:18,019 --> 01:25:19,252
do not necessarily rise

653
01:25:19,386 --> 01:25:21,488
from the facts of an event

654
01:25:21,622 --> 01:25:25,358
but from the most romanticized
version of a story...

655
01:25:25,492 --> 01:25:27,695
the story that people
most wanted to hear...

656
01:25:28,696 --> 01:25:31,431
the hero they wanted
to believe in.

657
01:25:33,034 --> 01:25:35,203
Oh, well,

658
01:25:35,335 --> 01:25:36,971
what would you have me do?

659
01:25:57,390 --> 01:25:59,861
Deny Paetus
his immortality.

660
01:26:01,896 --> 01:26:03,197
March to his aid.

661
01:26:03,330 --> 01:26:05,733
Do not grant him
a martyr's death.

662
01:26:08,169 --> 01:26:11,172
If Paetus returns
to Rome,

663
01:26:11,304 --> 01:26:14,307
he'll continue
his campaign to slander me.

664
01:26:14,441 --> 01:26:16,611
And the fucker
has the emperor's ear.

665
01:26:17,812 --> 01:26:20,181
Slander the man
who rescued him?

666
01:26:20,313 --> 01:26:22,216
- Uh-huh.
- His savior?

667
01:26:22,349 --> 01:26:23,450
The general
who liberated him

668
01:26:23,583 --> 01:26:25,987
from the jaws
of a certain death?

669
01:26:26,687 --> 01:26:28,321
No.

670
01:26:28,455 --> 01:26:31,291
Not even Paetus
is that stupid.

671
01:26:32,059 --> 01:26:33,393
And of me?

672
01:26:34,862 --> 01:26:37,799
What will be whispered
about me behind my back?

673
01:26:39,066 --> 01:26:40,968
They will say...

674
01:26:41,102 --> 01:26:42,804
"There goes...

675
01:26:42,937 --> 01:26:45,773
The great and honorable
General Corbulo,

676
01:26:45,907 --> 01:26:47,474
who was so moved

677
01:26:47,608 --> 01:26:50,077
by the courage
of a single soldier

678
01:26:50,211 --> 01:26:51,578
a messenger
who weathered

679
01:26:51,712 --> 01:26:53,281
an impossible journey

680
01:26:53,413 --> 01:26:55,482
to plead for help."

681
01:26:56,416 --> 01:26:58,619
My advice to you, General,

682
01:26:58,753 --> 01:27:01,956
is to praise this faithful
servant of Rome.

683
01:27:02,089 --> 01:27:03,891
Say nothing of Paetus.

684
01:27:04,025 --> 01:27:05,059
Instead...

685
01:27:07,128 --> 01:27:10,698
speak in complimentary terms
of unsung heroes.

686
01:27:10,832 --> 01:27:11,699
Do this.

687
01:27:11,833 --> 01:27:13,935
The legions will love you.

688
01:27:14,068 --> 01:27:16,536
No one will speak
a bad word against you.

689
01:27:17,672 --> 01:27:19,874
You have condemned
your political rival

690
01:27:20,007 --> 01:27:23,144
in a life sentence
of public gratitude

691
01:27:23,277 --> 01:27:25,545
of singing your praises

692
01:27:25,680 --> 01:27:27,682
through clenched teeth.

693
01:27:31,484 --> 01:27:32,854
Are you sure

694
01:27:32,987 --> 01:27:35,555
you're not secretly
Roman-born, Amariah?

695
01:27:37,258 --> 01:27:39,660
You speak with the wisdom

696
01:27:39,794 --> 01:27:41,494
of one with intimate knowledge

697
01:27:41,629 --> 01:27:45,365
of this political
machinations of the capital.

698
01:27:47,500 --> 01:27:50,537
Politics are the same
everywhere

699
01:27:50,671 --> 01:27:53,373
as is the quest for power,

700
01:27:53,506 --> 01:27:56,143
internal and universal.

701
01:27:56,277 --> 01:27:59,847
The only thing
that ever changes

702
01:27:59,981 --> 01:28:03,483
is the names of those
who wield the scepter

703
01:28:03,618 --> 01:28:05,119
or the sword.

704
01:28:06,320 --> 01:28:07,454
Go.

705
01:28:09,056 --> 01:28:09,991
Go.

706
01:28:14,561 --> 01:28:15,763
Valerius!

707
01:28:17,999 --> 01:28:19,800
Summon the tribunes!

708
01:28:19,934 --> 01:28:21,769
I want to see them immediately.

709
01:28:21,903 --> 01:28:25,139
The troops must be ready
to march at dawn.

710
01:28:42,422 --> 01:28:44,191
Congratulations, soldier.

711
01:28:45,458 --> 01:28:47,962
Do you know
what you're going to do now?

712
01:28:48,095 --> 01:28:51,265
Well, I'm going to return
to Armenia.

713
01:28:51,399 --> 01:28:53,533
You're gonna go back?

714
01:28:54,434 --> 01:28:56,503
But your mission
was a success.

715
01:28:57,004 --> 01:28:58,205
Yes.

716
01:28:58,339 --> 01:29:00,274
But when I was
on my way here,

717
01:29:00,408 --> 01:29:02,376
I met a man,

718
01:29:02,509 --> 01:29:05,512
and he said to me
that in life

719
01:29:05,646 --> 01:29:07,982
we all have a mission
that needs to be fulfilled.

720
01:29:09,183 --> 01:29:11,518
And I feel like I still
haven't fulfilled mine.

721
01:29:12,787 --> 01:29:16,190
And I'd like to think
that maybe...

722
01:29:16,324 --> 01:29:17,625
somewhere out there,

723
01:29:17,758 --> 01:29:19,694
there's a woman
waiting for me.

724
01:29:21,996 --> 01:29:23,998
And I can live a life
in peace.

725
01:29:25,166 --> 01:29:26,701
Well...

726
01:29:26,834 --> 01:29:29,737
may the gods help you
in your new life, soldier.