A NETFLIX SERIES
[brooding music playing]
[in Latin] This is it, Flavus.
For Rome.
Draw!
- Release! - [grunts]
[crowd groans]
[crowd gasps]
[Germanicus] Draw!
- Release! - [Thusnelda in English] Take cover!
- [crowd screaming] - [grunts]
[grunts]
[grunts, moans]
[grunts]
[in Latin] Draw!
Release!
[crowd screaming]
Draw!
Release!
Draw!
Release!
[screams]
[tense music playing]
[breathing heavily]
Gaius.
[Germanicus] Draw!
Release!
Draw!
Release!
[grunts]
Release!
[grunting]
[Germanicus] Adjust!
- [yells] - [groans]
- [grunting] - [groaning]
- [yells] - [gurgles]
[arrow whistles, thuds]
[soldier yells]
Stand down.
[groaning]
[grunts, groans]
[grunts]
- [bones crack] - [screaming]
Retreat!
[grunts]
- [groans] - [grunts angrily]
[soldier groaning]
- [screams] - [squelches]
[panting]
[tense music subsides]
[gentle music playing]
[breathing heavily]
- [arrow snaps] - [groans in pain]
[people moaning, coughing]
[sobs softly]
[theme music playing]
[panting]
- [brooding music playing] - [indistinct shouting]
[gasping]
[Talio in English] Odvulf, stay with us.
Stay with us, brother. Please.
[gasping] Gaius... he...
I know.
- [gasping for air] - [Ari shushing]
[Talio] Brother.
[Ari shushing]
[Talio] Stay with us, all right?
[gasping]
[Talio] Brother, stay with us.
Stay with us! [sobs]
- Let him go. Let him go. Let him go! - Stay with us! Brother!
- [cries] - Talio.
[screams]
[imperceptible]
[somber music playing]
[Gaius panting]
[crying]
[brooding music playing]
[breathing heavily]
[crying]
- [branch snaps] - [gasps]
[suspenseful music playing]
[cracking continues]
[grunts, moans]
[breathing heavily]
[soldier 1 shouts in Latin] Germanicus slaughtered the savages!
[soldiers cheering]
[soldier 2] Hail!
Hail Caesar!
[soldiers cheering]
Tell us, Proconsul, tell us! What happened?
We showed those savages whose lands these really are!
[cheering]
[soldiers shouting]
[brooding music playing]
[brooding music subsides]
[grunts]
[in English] You want me... you've got me.
[people sobbing, groaning in pain]
It was Marbod who couldn't see that Rome wouldn't keep its promises, right?
I knew something like this would happen.
But not so soon.
Just imagine if it hadn't been for Folkwin.
[Folkwin] Dido?
Where is she?
[Runa] She wanted me to tell you that you owe her nothing.
Nothing.
- So she's gone. - [sword thuds]
Where to?
She's settling a debt that has been long overdue.
For her own sake.
Anything else I should know?
Makes you wonder if this is because you're not keeping your bargain with the gods?
I am keeping my bargain with the gods.
The child is not mine anymore.
Then I hope that the gods also see it that way.
[Runa exhales]
For your own sake.
[Segestes] Reiks, warriors, women, Marbod's wife... They're all dead.
The tribes won't tolerate that.
That much is certain.
We'll stay here in the village for now.
You were banished, Segestes. You'll have to ask her.
No father would ever go to his daughter begging for permission.
So, what's your plan?
My plan?
My plan splattered onto the ground like the blood of the reiks!
They ruined everything!
If I was the reik, none of this would've happened.
You know, a good leader understands how to use a defeat to his advantage.
Are you capable of doing that, Segestes?
Or can you only sit and complain like an old washerwoman?
[in Latin] Proconsul Germanicus.
- Centurion Flavus. - Dominus.
I see... that you have made Caesar proud!
- [cheering] - [soldier 1] Hooray for Germanicus!
[soldier 2] Long live Gaius!
Now there are many things to be discussed.
[soldier 3] Hail Caesar!
[cheering]
Never have I been more ashamed to call you my son.
Father, but we...
With your thoughtless attack,
you've ruined the intricate illusion of peace
I've been building for months!
- We slaughtered them! - All of them?
Then you've only motivated them to retaliate.
Good. We're ready for them.
I should give you up to them. Buy us some time.
- Father... - Silence!
I preferred you when you were all talk.
You.
I'd like to explain his plan.
[Tiberius] I gave you clear orders when we last met.
Didn't I?
- I tried to... - Trying to accomplish something you can't...
That's the theme of your existence.
- That ends now. - Dominus?
- [Tiberius] Throw him in the pit. - General!
General! [grunts]
And strip him of that uniform. It's just a costume.
[soldier] Dominus!
Barbarians are approaching the camp. One's calling for you by name, Dominus.
[in English] Tiberius!
Tiberius!
Come down here!
What? No Latin?
I spoke Latin to show my respect towards you.
But apparently, that respect isn't reciprocal.
You have my respect, Marbod.
Do I? Tell that to my wife!
The attack wasn't endorsed by myself.
[in Latin] It was Flavus's idea.
And Germanicus bought into it.
[in English] Fine.
Then bring them to me.
[in Latin] I can't do that.
[in English] Send them out!
Send them out!
Or you can forget all about our peace accord.
[in Latin] I have no interest in discord, Marbod.
Go home, and let's renew our peaceful partnership.
It is too late for there to be peace, Tiberius.
No peace until both the heads of Germanicus and Flavus are on pikes!
[brooding music playing]
[soldier in Latin] Draw!
Release!
[arrows whooshing]
[brooding music continues]
[brooding music subsides]
[branch snaps]
[breathes deeply]
[chuckles softly]
[Thusnelda in English] Are his troops coming?
[man] Yes. He already gave the order on his way back.
[Ari] He can't ride out to fetch his troops in this condition.
You've got a point.
What about you?
My job is to make sure our reik is protected,
which means I can't leave his side.
Then I'll do it.
No.
Too risky.
I'll fetch the Marcomanni.
Whoever makes the trip will have to convince the army to come.
But...
Reik Ari of the Cherusci
isn't trusted in the east.
I'll make the trip and fetch them, then.
Right now, our tribe needs its reik.
But you're not riding out alone.
[horse whinnying]
You're leaving?
Yeah.
Where to?
Away. [sniffs]
It's a pity.
What do you want?
What do you two want?
[Ari] Thusnelda's heading off to fetch the Marcomanni army.
That is a four-day ride.
Three days.
If you know the way, but you don't.
- Precisely. - But you do.
No. No, no, no.
[splutters] Forget it.
One day could be critical.
Ask... ask someone else.
You were leaving anyway.
Yeah. But I don't wanna have to come back.
So ride with me, show me the way, then carry on riding.
One more ride, and you'll be rid of all this.
[Ari] We both know she'll head off anyway.
Whether you go with her or not.
[breathes deeply]
I'm begging you.
[Folkwin] Hmm?
[chuckles softly] Please.
We'll ride at dawn.
[chuckles softly]
[flint scraping]
- [branch snaps] - [bird chirping]
[flint scraping]
[flint scraping continues]
[wolf growls]
[brooding music playing]
[wolf snarling]
[snarling continues]
[growls]
[snarling]
[growling softly]
[pensive music playing]
[snarls]
[music fades]
[Thusnelda chuckles softly]
You should sleep.
Stay a bit longer.
[Ari breathes deeply]
[Thusnelda chuckles softly]
What if you don't come back?
[Thusnelda] That won't happen.
[moaning softly]
[gentle music playing]
[dramatic music playing]
[goading horse]
[music fades]
[ominous music playing]
[in Latin] Look at that.
A little boy, all alone in the woods.
[all laughing]
So...
[sniffing]
Hmm.
My nose tells me you might know something, my barbarian boy.
[Gaius exhales, sniffing]
And I can smell your breath, Roman.
It's horrible.
[tense music playing]
Grab him!
[Gaius panting]
[soldier 1] Quick!
Damn! Grab him!
Get that little barbarian bastard!
[tense music subsides]
[in English] If I'd done what she wanted, then we wouldn't be here now.
[Ari] I think...
we'd be here one way or another.
Once my army comes...
we won't spare a moment
until the last Roman has been driven out of our land.
Can you promise me that?
I promise.
[soldier in Latin] Find him! He ran off that way!
[brooding music playing]
[panting]
[indistinct shouting in distance]
[brooding music subsides]
[Talio in English] There are archers all along the front.
We can't get in from there.
And the other sides?
I'm not sure we can.
We'll take a closer look at the camp later before the troops arrive.
[Segestes] Ari?
Segestes.
Can we talk? Just the two of us?
- Boo! - [gasps]
What are you doing here, Segestes?
Here to peek at my plan?
So you can go running to Tiberius
and tell him everything?
[breathes deeply]
I've made mistakes.
Many mistakes.
I don't know any man as old as I am
who hasn't made any mistakes.
I want a fresh start.
I wanna return to my village. Here! I'm a Cheruscan.
Even if I were to agree to that,
I'd have to ask Thusnelda.
[chuckles softly]
I'll speak with her when she returns.
[Segestes] So she rode off today?
[clears throat]
Where to?
I'd be willing to let you stay because of something in which I believe.
You're Thusnelda's father.
I believe fathers deserve to be reconciled with their children.
No matter what they've done.
[breathes deeply]
Thank you for your compassion.
Segestes?
Just because I have compassion
doesn't mean I'm willing to tolerate just about anyone.
There will be war.
And to be in our tribe, you'll have to earn it.
You'll be a man of this tribe, and you should fight for it
like anyone else here.
Ari, I'm not a warrior.
I'm a leader.
I can help you lead this tribe. I have ideas for the future. Here. Here.
I'm not interested in them.
Show us you're an honorable man
and fight for the Cherusci.
Pack your things. We're leaving.
War is upon the tribes. Ari's lost his senses.
He's going to let the Romans slaughter his people like pigs.
[breathes deeply]
I have a feeling that he won't be safe here.
You cowardly, vile, miserable good-for-nothing!
[Irmina grunts]
Don't you dare speak to your husband like that again.
That's true.
You're my husband, Segestes.
I married you 'cause you used to have worth!
War is upon us, so now you wanna flee?
And go where?
To that shitty cave again?
No, Segestes!
You are going to make sure that we end up on the side of the winners.
You owe me that because I've given you everything I have.
Everything!
Everything?
Are you really prepared to give everything for it?
[Thusnelda] What?
You're lost?
No.
It's just that I'm not sure exactly...
You are lost.
No, I am not lo...
- [chuckles] - I am not lo...
If I were blind, I still wouldn't be lost, okay?
You see the hill up there?
Behind it is a clearing where I happened to kill my first warthog.
Uh, it was more like a piglet.
There's a river there.
We make our way across,
then we ride towards the sunset, and then we reach the foothills. There.
Lost, huh?
[Flavus in Latin] Germanicus.
I can help you.
Germanicus...
Help me?
[Flavus] Uh-huh.
- Help me? - Uh-huh.
How?
Marbod has 70,000 men.
I know Marbod.
I know Arminius.
We're all like brothers, born here and raised in Rome.
"Born here and raised in Rome"?
The focus shifts to whatever suits you best, no?
Germanicus,
I know the way these men think.
- It's in my blood! - Yes, your barbarian blood.
That's exactly the problem.
Tiberius is wrong.
You brought glory to Rome.
I helped you.
Help me now.
Tiberius is not wrong.
Rome is sacrosanct.
And I would die... [bangs wood] ...to protect it.
You are just protecting yourself,
and you despise what you are.
And so Rome despises you.
Know who you are, Flavus.
Arminius betrayed Rome.
Your blood betrayed Rome.
You said it yourself.
What's running through your veins is barbarian blood.
[whispers] You are a barbarian.
Get me out of here.
[chuckles softly]
[Flavus] Get me out of here!
Germanicus.
Get me out of here!
Germanicus!
Germanicus! [echoes]
[wind gusting]
[in English] Assuming we'll be able to get here unnoticed...
Of course we'll be able to do that.
Assuming we're able, we'd have to run across the clearing,
and the archers would shoot us all down immediately.
And then there's the palisades too.
- [soldier speaking indistinctly] - [shushes]
[horses hooves pattering]
That's the way.
We'll go in as soldiers.
We'll pretend we're a unit.
We need armor, uniforms, maybe a standard.
And then?
We'll open the gates from the inside.
And then?
[sighs] Let's go collect a few uniforms first.
- [Thusnelda breathes deeply] - [owl hooting]
[sniffles]
[exhales]
[Folkwin sighs]
No, thanks.
I'm glad that hasn't changed, at least.
What?
You act as if nothing's wrong.
Yeah, I get it.
You have to show confidence for your... tribe, but...
when it's just the two of us?
In the woods?
What do you want?
Ari...
[sighs]
...is... is right.
The Marcomanni will follow you.
Everyone will follow you.
But not for those reasons that Ari said.
They'll follow you 'cause...
you only start eating once everyone else is already full.
Is that what I do?
So this is about Ari.
No.
This is actually about...
understanding, after all these years, why you're built the way you're built.
[Folkwin sighs softly]
[Thusnelda] What is this?
[Folkwin] That is dirt.
No.
This is us.
Our ancestors.
For me, this is about what once was here.
And what's here today.
And what in 1,000 summers will be here if we do drive the Romans out.
Us, Folkwin.
All of us.
You really believe in... something greater, huh?
Is that why you chose Ari?
[Thusnelda chuckles softly]
Folkwin...
[gentle music playing]
No matter the place...
whether you hide in the furthest mountains, or even...
if you're on the other side of the world...
you'll always be the one who's the closest.
The one who knows me best.
I could never hide anything from you.
And you can't hide anything from me either.
Do you love him?
[gentle music continues]
[music fades]
[rhythmic drum music playing]
- [laughter] - [Indistinct chattering in Latin]
[soldier in Latin] No luck today.
[brooding music playing]
[muffled screaming]
[grunts]
- [brooding music continues] - [coins clinking]
[Germanicus moans, sighs]
Where'd you say you were from?
[Dido] Carthage.
[blade rasps]
[Dido sighs]
[in English] Ready to die, bastard?
[Germanicus grunts]
[Ari grunts]
[both grunting]
[both groan]
[both grunting]
[Dido panting, groaning]
[Ari] Calm down.
Calm down!
[both grunting]
[in Latin] Go! Go! Go! Go!
[both groaning, grunting]
[grunting]
- [Dido screams] - [blade rasps]
[in English] You can't kill him.
[Dido grunts]
He murdered my father!
- We need him. - Forget it.
[Dido grunting]
[soldier groans]
[both grunting, groaning]
[Dido grunts, groans]
- Easy! Easy, easy! Easy! - [Dido groans]
[Talio] Easy! Easy!
[Dido and Ari groan]
[Dido gasping]
[Ari shushing]
[ominous music playing]
[grunts]
- No, no! Wait! Wait! - [Folkwin] You?
I'll cut you open, you Roman rat.
Folkwin, he's Ari's son.
He's Ari's only son.
[Gaius panting]
- [Folkwin] Hmm. - Please.
What are you doing here?
I...
I need to show you something.
What do you need to show us?
Come. Quickly!
Why should we trust you?
Why should we?
Otherwise, we're all going to die.
[indistinct chatter, laughter]
[Germanicus grunts]
[grunts]
[in Latin] You filthy barbarians need to let me go.
And beg for mercy.
And why is that?
[Gaius in English] Come on! Come on!
[in Latin] Because more troops are headed our way.
More troops than you can count.
And they're going to wipe you off the map.
Bullshit.
[suspenseful music playing]
We have scouts watching every road.
They're not coming on the roads.
[suspenseful music continues]
[ominous music playing]
[breathing heavily]
[in English] It's the end for us.
[melancholy music playing]
[music fades]