1 00:00:36,995 --> 00:00:38,079 Sura. 2 00:00:46,171 --> 00:00:47,964 When the Romans came, 3 00:00:50,342 --> 00:00:51,843 l thought l'd never see you. . . 4 00:00:53,804 --> 00:00:55,847 l will always be with you. 5 00:00:56,932 --> 00:00:59,642 The gods themselves could not keep me from your side. 6 00:01:00,811 --> 00:01:02,145 l would kill them all for trying. 7 00:02:07,586 --> 00:02:10,004 Have him taken to the baths. 8 00:02:10,088 --> 00:02:12,882 But first attend to all that fucking hair. 9 00:02:31,777 --> 00:02:32,985 Dominus. 10 00:03:14,278 --> 00:03:16,779 -The pool's dry. -Yes, we need rain. 11 00:03:19,616 --> 00:03:21,659 Money would also see it filled. 12 00:03:21,743 --> 00:03:23,411 We need that, too. 13 00:03:25,163 --> 00:03:26,747 How fares your new pet? 14 00:03:26,832 --> 00:03:28,165 He breathes. 15 00:03:28,250 --> 00:03:30,751 His cost was enough for us to fill our pool for a month. 16 00:03:30,836 --> 00:03:32,086 You paid beyond the asking. 17 00:03:32,170 --> 00:03:34,171 l paid his worth, Lucretia. 18 00:03:34,506 --> 00:03:36,924 Spartacus is a corpse yet walking. 19 00:03:37,634 --> 00:03:39,427 How long before he takes his place in the grave, 20 00:03:39,511 --> 00:03:40,887 dragging your investment with him? 21 00:03:40,971 --> 00:03:43,347 Not before he serves his purpose. 22 00:03:44,975 --> 00:03:47,351 From the Legatus Claudius Glaber. 23 00:03:49,187 --> 00:03:50,313 His intentions? 24 00:03:50,397 --> 00:03:52,440 Nudging toward my desires. 25 00:03:53,901 --> 00:03:54,942 He comes here? 26 00:03:55,527 --> 00:03:56,819 Two days hence. 27 00:03:57,779 --> 00:03:59,780 Well, the reason for his visit is absent. 28 00:04:00,365 --> 00:04:03,034 ln words, but the meaning shines. He comes to thank me. 29 00:04:03,368 --> 00:04:06,787 For what? For paying too much for the Thracian? 30 00:04:07,539 --> 00:04:10,374 Spartacus defied Glaber's attempt at assassination in the arena. 31 00:04:10,792 --> 00:04:15,004 The people demanded freedom, an embarrassment for the Legatus. 32 00:04:16,965 --> 00:04:19,717 l offered an alternative, by purchasing him. 33 00:04:20,052 --> 00:04:21,469 At inflated price? 34 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,138 lf Spartacus survives to swear the oath, 35 00:04:24,222 --> 00:04:28,225 the arena will be his tomb as first intended. lf not. . . 36 00:04:28,310 --> 00:04:31,228 Then his passing becomes an early delight for the Legatus. 37 00:04:35,567 --> 00:04:37,360 Desires well nudged. 38 00:04:41,531 --> 00:04:43,240 There's yet more stroking needed. 39 00:04:45,702 --> 00:04:49,163 A simple gesture of gratitude from the Legatus falls short. 40 00:04:49,748 --> 00:04:51,832 Patronage is the reward we seek. 41 00:04:52,542 --> 00:04:53,626 Nothing less. 42 00:04:56,672 --> 00:04:58,297 With the Legatus as patron. . . 43 00:04:59,591 --> 00:05:02,176 His coins will fill our pool to overflowing. 44 00:05:02,844 --> 00:05:04,553 We need to prepare a feast. 45 00:05:04,638 --> 00:05:06,013 A small one. 46 00:05:07,057 --> 00:05:10,434 With wine. And water. Lots of water. 47 00:05:10,686 --> 00:05:13,771 Just enough to wet the tongue. 48 00:05:21,446 --> 00:05:24,073 l'll sacrifice a bull to appease the gods in our venture. 49 00:05:24,157 --> 00:05:27,535 Well, perhaps something smaller. 50 00:05:28,912 --> 00:05:30,329 A ram, then. 51 00:05:31,289 --> 00:05:35,835 To the gods. May they bless us with good fortune. 52 00:06:23,550 --> 00:06:27,178 Well, lick my hole. The pig-fucker's still alive. 53 00:06:28,889 --> 00:06:30,306 This is the one? 54 00:06:30,390 --> 00:06:33,684 The Spartacus everyone's been pissing about? 55 00:06:33,769 --> 00:06:36,395 Spartacus? My name is. . . 56 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,774 No one gives shit to who you were, Thracian. 57 00:06:40,192 --> 00:06:42,985 l give no shit to who he is. 58 00:06:45,072 --> 00:06:46,781 What is this place? 59 00:06:47,199 --> 00:06:49,075 The afterlife, friend. 60 00:06:49,910 --> 00:06:51,994 Or at least outside its rusted gates. 61 00:06:52,079 --> 00:06:55,372 You're now an honoured guest of Batiatus, 62 00:06:55,916 --> 00:06:58,876 master of the greatest ludus in Capua. 63 00:07:01,088 --> 00:07:02,254 Ludus? 64 00:07:03,090 --> 00:07:04,215 A school of training 65 00:07:04,549 --> 00:07:07,051 where men are forged into gods, 66 00:07:08,095 --> 00:07:12,139 blood their ambrosia, the arena their mountaintop! 67 00:07:15,268 --> 00:07:16,644 Gladiators. 68 00:07:17,312 --> 00:07:18,979 The truest of brotherhoods! 69 00:07:21,358 --> 00:07:23,275 Live the next few days, 70 00:07:23,777 --> 00:07:27,446 you and the other recruits will count yourself among us. 71 00:07:28,198 --> 00:07:29,824 And bear our mark. 72 00:07:31,701 --> 00:07:34,703 ln the mean, can we fetch you something? 73 00:07:35,372 --> 00:07:36,997 Food? Water? 74 00:07:37,958 --> 00:07:40,626 Maybe some scented oils for your feet? 75 00:07:41,962 --> 00:07:43,129 Water. 76 00:07:49,970 --> 00:07:52,054 Oh, he's slow, this one, isn't he? 77 00:07:52,139 --> 00:07:54,223 What do you expect from a Thracian? 78 00:07:55,559 --> 00:07:57,726 Smells like fresh shit. 79 00:07:59,146 --> 00:08:00,312 Oh, they all do. 80 00:08:00,897 --> 00:08:02,815 Except for their women. 81 00:08:03,191 --> 00:08:07,570 They smell like piss and shit. 82 00:08:11,658 --> 00:08:13,367 What are you, then? 83 00:08:13,994 --> 00:08:15,911 l'm a Gaul, little man. 84 00:08:16,329 --> 00:08:20,749 The greatest of my kind. Crixus, the Undefeated ! 85 00:08:21,418 --> 00:08:22,668 A Gaul. 86 00:08:25,088 --> 00:08:28,924 That explains why you smell like a woman. 87 00:08:39,102 --> 00:08:41,353 Oh, you tend to your wounds. 88 00:08:42,272 --> 00:08:44,356 Eat. Rest. 89 00:08:45,358 --> 00:08:49,361 When you gain your strength, we'll revisit that remark. 90 00:09:31,821 --> 00:09:32,988 Weak. 91 00:09:33,740 --> 00:09:34,823 Weak! 92 00:09:36,493 --> 00:09:39,495 Pile of shit. Not a cock among them. 93 00:09:40,163 --> 00:09:43,332 Well, then you should join them, you little cunt. 94 00:10:07,857 --> 00:10:10,192 What is beneath your feet? 95 00:10:14,114 --> 00:10:15,322 Answer! 96 00:10:16,116 --> 00:10:18,284 What is beneath your feet? 97 00:10:21,788 --> 00:10:22,955 Sand? 98 00:10:25,292 --> 00:10:27,876 Crixus! What is beneath your feet? 99 00:10:27,961 --> 00:10:29,878 Sacred ground, Doctore! 100 00:10:30,297 --> 00:10:32,506 Watered with the tears of blood ! 101 00:10:33,300 --> 00:10:35,551 Your tears. Your blood. 102 00:10:35,635 --> 00:10:38,512 Your pathetic lives, forged into something of worth. 103 00:10:39,347 --> 00:10:40,639 Listen. 104 00:10:40,724 --> 00:10:41,890 Learn. 105 00:10:42,392 --> 00:10:45,227 And perhaps, live. As gladiators. 106 00:10:46,688 --> 00:10:48,480 Now, attend your master! 107 00:10:56,698 --> 00:10:57,990 You have been blessed, 108 00:10:58,742 --> 00:11:01,035 each and every one of you, 109 00:11:01,703 --> 00:11:03,412 to find yourselves here, 110 00:11:03,538 --> 00:11:06,540 at the ludus of Quintus Lentulus Batiatus! 111 00:11:06,875 --> 00:11:10,210 Purveyor of the finest gladiators in all of the Republic! 112 00:11:12,839 --> 00:11:15,257 Prove yourselves in the hard days to follow. 113 00:11:15,550 --> 00:11:18,093 Prove yourselves more than a common slave. 114 00:11:18,219 --> 00:11:19,553 More than a man. 115 00:11:20,096 --> 00:11:21,764 Fail, and die. 116 00:11:22,515 --> 00:11:26,268 Either here where you stand, or sold off to the mines. 117 00:11:26,936 --> 00:11:31,106 Succeed, and stand proud among my titans! 118 00:11:31,191 --> 00:11:34,234 Batiatus! Batiatus! Batiatus! 119 00:11:44,579 --> 00:11:48,082 A gladiator does not fear death. 120 00:11:48,625 --> 00:11:50,793 He embraces it. Caresses it. 121 00:11:51,252 --> 00:11:52,294 Fucks it. 122 00:11:57,425 --> 00:11:59,718 Each time he enters the arena, 123 00:12:01,304 --> 00:12:04,431 he slips his cock into the mouth of the beast. 124 00:12:05,809 --> 00:12:09,812 And prays to thrust home before the jaws snap shut. 125 00:12:12,899 --> 00:12:17,403 None of you stray dogs would last a fleeting moment. 126 00:12:21,741 --> 00:12:23,117 Except one. 127 00:12:26,621 --> 00:12:29,456 This sad, battered Thracian 128 00:12:29,916 --> 00:12:31,834 stood against four in the arena. 129 00:12:32,085 --> 00:12:33,168 Condemned to die, 130 00:12:33,503 --> 00:12:36,672 given nothing but a sword to wager his life upon. 131 00:12:38,174 --> 00:12:39,800 They came at him ! 132 00:12:43,847 --> 00:12:46,932 Again and again and again ! 133 00:12:56,484 --> 00:13:01,321 He defied death ! Fate! The gods themselves! 134 00:13:15,587 --> 00:13:19,840 Spartacus! Spartacus! Spartacus! Spartacus! 135 00:13:21,426 --> 00:13:24,178 Gaze at this man ! Study him. 136 00:13:24,888 --> 00:13:26,180 And realise 137 00:13:27,682 --> 00:13:28,891 he is nothing. 138 00:13:30,602 --> 00:13:33,520 A coward. A deserter from the Auxiliary. 139 00:13:33,897 --> 00:13:36,940 His victory in the arena? As hollow as his courage. 140 00:13:37,233 --> 00:13:40,861 He fought against the ill-trained men of Solonius, 141 00:13:40,945 --> 00:13:42,571 your master's rival. 142 00:13:42,697 --> 00:13:46,033 Had Spartacus entered the arena with any gladiator here, 143 00:13:46,117 --> 00:13:48,702 his head would have left well in advance of his body! 144 00:13:54,375 --> 00:13:56,251 The Thracian disagrees. 145 00:13:57,420 --> 00:13:59,046 A demonstration, perhaps? 146 00:14:03,051 --> 00:14:04,218 Crixus! 147 00:14:04,761 --> 00:14:05,886 Practise swords. 148 00:14:16,940 --> 00:14:18,941 Prove us wrong, Spartacus. 149 00:14:28,826 --> 00:14:29,993 Pick it up. 150 00:14:35,416 --> 00:14:36,458 Spartacus! 151 00:14:44,092 --> 00:14:45,801 That is not my name. 152 00:14:54,602 --> 00:14:56,979 Your name, your life, 153 00:14:57,647 --> 00:14:59,314 is what we decide. 154 00:15:20,628 --> 00:15:25,632 Perhaps the coward requires advantage to still his trembling knees. 155 00:15:27,343 --> 00:15:28,385 Gladius! 156 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:45,360 Pick it up. 157 00:15:50,408 --> 00:15:51,700 l can do nothing with this one. 158 00:15:52,493 --> 00:15:54,202 Send him to the mines. 159 00:16:07,717 --> 00:16:08,759 Feeling rested, are we? 160 00:16:21,022 --> 00:16:23,357 An attack must be grounded in proper footing. 161 00:16:24,567 --> 00:16:27,569 He attempts to press before regaining balance. 162 00:16:34,118 --> 00:16:35,202 Crixus! 163 00:16:56,933 --> 00:17:00,310 Allow advantage to your back and you are dead. 164 00:17:30,842 --> 00:17:35,303 Become entangled with a more powerful opponent and you are dead. 165 00:17:57,493 --> 00:18:01,496 Hurl your sword in the arena and you are dead, again. 166 00:18:17,805 --> 00:18:19,681 Your foolishness has cost a life. 167 00:18:20,516 --> 00:18:24,186 But yours may yet be redeemed. Two fingers. 168 00:18:24,687 --> 00:18:26,938 A sign of surrender. A plea of mercy 169 00:18:27,023 --> 00:18:28,690 to the editor of the games! 170 00:18:35,198 --> 00:18:37,073 Beg for your life, little rabbit. 171 00:18:41,704 --> 00:18:43,371 Bash his skull in. 172 00:18:43,873 --> 00:18:45,040 Crixus! 173 00:18:49,879 --> 00:18:51,880 -Dominus. -Continue training. 174 00:18:56,552 --> 00:18:59,888 He tries to kill your best man and yet you let him live? 175 00:19:00,389 --> 00:19:02,224 Glaber visits tomorrow. 176 00:19:02,558 --> 00:19:05,519 His intention towards the Thracian may include blood. 177 00:19:05,603 --> 00:19:09,439 Until his patronage is secured, l intend to keep it warm and flowing. 178 00:19:10,274 --> 00:19:12,067 God, the heat! 179 00:19:13,236 --> 00:19:15,946 Enough to boil the tongue from the head ! 180 00:20:34,650 --> 00:20:35,859 Eat it. 181 00:20:56,005 --> 00:20:59,174 Shit-fucking slaves and criminals, the lot of them. 182 00:21:01,010 --> 00:21:02,677 Are we the better? 183 00:21:03,262 --> 00:21:05,597 You survived your own execution. 184 00:21:06,015 --> 00:21:07,223 Twice, if you mark the Gaul over there 185 00:21:07,350 --> 00:21:10,018 not introducing your brains to the sand. 186 00:21:11,228 --> 00:21:13,688 You are of a difference, Thracian. 187 00:21:14,523 --> 00:21:16,775 Above this unfortunate collection. 188 00:21:16,901 --> 00:21:18,026 And you? 189 00:21:19,528 --> 00:21:20,695 Varro. 190 00:21:22,239 --> 00:21:24,074 The worst of the lot. 191 00:21:24,533 --> 00:21:27,202 A free man consigned by his own hand. 192 00:21:29,038 --> 00:21:31,456 Why would a man willingly condemn himself to this? 193 00:21:31,540 --> 00:21:34,417 A small matter of debt, grown large. 194 00:21:35,544 --> 00:21:38,046 The repaying of it proves difficult. 195 00:21:38,965 --> 00:21:44,552 lf the concern was only to me. . . 196 00:21:43,469 --> 00:21:45,303 A family? 197 00:21:45,304 --> 00:21:46,888 Wife and child. 198 00:21:48,391 --> 00:21:49,557 A boy. 199 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:54,062 Two years in the arena. My winnings will keep them fed. 200 00:21:54,897 --> 00:21:55,981 Winnings? 201 00:21:56,065 --> 00:21:58,692 Fight well, and you're rewarded with coin. 202 00:21:58,776 --> 00:22:01,736 Enough even to balance what l owe, the gods be fortunate. 203 00:22:02,571 --> 00:22:03,822 The gods. 204 00:22:06,242 --> 00:22:07,242 You are a fool. 205 00:22:08,077 --> 00:22:09,786 And in good company, by the judging. 206 00:22:12,957 --> 00:22:14,499 They're the best l could do at the moment. 207 00:22:14,583 --> 00:22:15,667 One or two show promise. 208 00:22:15,751 --> 00:22:17,419 But the rest, my own mother would have them in the arena. 209 00:22:17,503 --> 00:22:18,628 You have no mother. 210 00:22:18,754 --> 00:22:20,171 You were belched from the cunt of the underworld. 211 00:22:20,256 --> 00:22:22,507 -That's why l favour you. -Were there no better offerings? 212 00:22:22,591 --> 00:22:25,635 Better, yes! Within the reach of my purse, no! 213 00:22:25,761 --> 00:22:27,137 You stand questioning and complaining, 214 00:22:27,263 --> 00:22:28,930 instead of setting yourself to the task! 215 00:22:29,515 --> 00:22:32,600 l press to honour you, Batiatus. And this ludus. 216 00:22:33,269 --> 00:22:36,062 Legatus Glaber visits tomorrow. With him, hope of renewed fortunes. 217 00:22:36,147 --> 00:22:39,482 Till then, these men are all the straw afforded. 218 00:22:39,942 --> 00:22:42,694 Bake them to brick or crumble them to the mines. 219 00:22:43,029 --> 00:22:44,446 Your will. My hands. 220 00:22:49,827 --> 00:22:52,495 Ovidius! Apologies for the delay! 221 00:22:52,621 --> 00:22:54,706 Accepted, if made with coin. 222 00:22:56,500 --> 00:22:57,667 Three months of grain, 223 00:22:57,793 --> 00:22:59,794 the payment standing past due. 224 00:22:59,879 --> 00:23:01,546 -Three, is it? -To the day. 225 00:23:05,009 --> 00:23:06,718 The Games of the Vulcanalia approach. 226 00:23:06,802 --> 00:23:08,470 lf l could carry the debt till then. . . 227 00:23:09,138 --> 00:23:10,472 Principal plus 30%. 228 00:23:11,515 --> 00:23:12,724 Thirty? 229 00:23:13,392 --> 00:23:16,352 Or settle the debt as it stands. 230 00:23:18,022 --> 00:23:20,690 Principal plus 30 after the Vulcanalia. 231 00:23:20,816 --> 00:23:21,983 The day after. 232 00:23:41,170 --> 00:23:42,712 l could have taken him. 233 00:23:42,838 --> 00:23:44,005 Crixus? 234 00:23:44,924 --> 00:23:46,841 The shit would be running down your leg. 235 00:23:46,926 --> 00:23:49,260 l wouldn't have ended up in the dirt, fucked like a dog. 236 00:23:49,345 --> 00:23:53,014 Without training, the Gaul would have bested any of us, Kerza. 237 00:23:53,099 --> 00:23:55,558 Speaking otherwise is bloated air. 238 00:23:55,684 --> 00:23:58,770 l pray not to face Crixus in the final test. 239 00:23:59,605 --> 00:24:00,855 Nothing to worry. 240 00:24:00,940 --> 00:24:03,149 You'll never make it that far, cock hole. 241 00:24:03,234 --> 00:24:06,528 All can make it to the test. And beyond. 242 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:09,364 Freedom. 243 00:24:09,949 --> 00:24:12,033 One day. lf you fight well. 244 00:24:12,368 --> 00:24:13,618 Freedom. 245 00:24:13,702 --> 00:24:16,037 lt's piss without the money to keep it, Varro. 246 00:24:16,122 --> 00:24:17,789 Win the hearts of the crowd in the arena 247 00:24:17,873 --> 00:24:19,958 and you'll be blessed with both. 248 00:24:22,753 --> 00:24:24,045 You fought the gladiators there. 249 00:24:25,381 --> 00:24:27,715 What do you think of our chances? 250 00:24:31,595 --> 00:24:33,555 You're all going to die. 251 00:24:41,397 --> 00:24:42,438 Up! 252 00:24:44,066 --> 00:24:46,067 You will sleep when you prove yourselves men. 253 00:25:07,923 --> 00:25:08,965 Keep pace! 254 00:25:19,101 --> 00:25:20,435 lt's late. 255 00:25:21,770 --> 00:25:22,937 lt is. 256 00:25:23,939 --> 00:25:25,523 Return to your dreams. 257 00:25:25,608 --> 00:25:26,983 ln a minute. 258 00:25:29,653 --> 00:25:30,945 We need better wine. 259 00:25:31,030 --> 00:25:32,280 We need many things. 260 00:25:33,699 --> 00:25:35,617 We'll have them again. 261 00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:39,746 The arrangements are set? 262 00:25:39,830 --> 00:25:41,789 l've taken care of everything. 263 00:25:41,874 --> 00:25:43,958 Cannot fall short tomorrow. 264 00:25:44,460 --> 00:25:45,877 lf l can secure Glaber's patronage. . . 265 00:25:45,961 --> 00:25:47,170 You will. 266 00:25:49,089 --> 00:25:50,840 How are you certain? 267 00:25:53,093 --> 00:25:57,013 We've done everything we can. lt's in the hands of the gods now. 268 00:26:01,977 --> 00:26:03,144 Come to bed. 269 00:26:04,813 --> 00:26:06,814 And bring that awful wine. 270 00:26:09,318 --> 00:26:10,652 l beg you. 271 00:26:11,528 --> 00:26:13,321 Do not fuck me. 272 00:26:43,769 --> 00:26:44,852 Halt! 273 00:26:45,521 --> 00:26:47,480 The day's training will begin shortly. 274 00:26:48,232 --> 00:26:49,274 Eat. 275 00:26:53,153 --> 00:26:54,612 Jupiter's cock. 276 00:26:54,905 --> 00:26:56,698 Now we train all day? 277 00:27:00,536 --> 00:27:03,705 Still believe every man will live to see the test? 278 00:27:07,042 --> 00:27:08,251 Mostly. 279 00:27:09,378 --> 00:27:10,420 Yet the fool, then. 280 00:27:13,716 --> 00:27:15,425 Batiatus paid for these men? 281 00:27:15,509 --> 00:27:17,885 Very little, by the look of them. 282 00:27:18,304 --> 00:27:21,806 The Roman way. Lives for coins. 283 00:27:22,599 --> 00:27:24,892 Some deserving more than others. 284 00:27:25,394 --> 00:27:28,604 l've heard a certain Thracian was quite the price. 285 00:27:29,606 --> 00:27:32,233 l would see the cost rise higher still. 286 00:27:42,494 --> 00:27:45,580 l recall the hardship of the March when l was a recruit. 287 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,041 You must be mad with hunger. 288 00:27:49,126 --> 00:27:50,543 Fill your bellies! 289 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:05,725 Shit. 290 00:28:12,691 --> 00:28:14,442 Wake me when it's time to die again. 291 00:28:24,328 --> 00:28:27,246 Apologies for the porridge. Barca finds the jest amusing. 292 00:28:28,165 --> 00:28:31,959 Least he didn't piss in it this time. Adds an unpleasant bite. 293 00:28:32,336 --> 00:28:35,088 The days will be hard without food. 294 00:28:38,008 --> 00:28:39,634 -More so. -You would give me your bread? 295 00:28:41,345 --> 00:28:43,471 Mine, no. 296 00:28:44,723 --> 00:28:46,599 l move things from here to there, this hand to that. 297 00:28:46,683 --> 00:28:48,976 Even from outside these walls. 298 00:28:49,561 --> 00:28:52,230 Whatever your needs, Ashur provides. 299 00:28:53,357 --> 00:28:54,816 l owe no man. 300 00:28:57,361 --> 00:28:59,320 l ask nothing in return. 301 00:28:59,905 --> 00:29:03,616 My only concern is your strength and well-being in the coming day. 302 00:29:04,451 --> 00:29:05,743 Come to plain words. 303 00:29:07,788 --> 00:29:09,539 Simply stated, then. 304 00:29:10,707 --> 00:29:13,543 ln addition to other services, l offer odds. 305 00:29:14,086 --> 00:29:16,963 Will this man live? That one die? How fast? How slow? 306 00:29:17,047 --> 00:29:21,634 On what day or hour? Games to pass the time. And the coin. 307 00:29:21,718 --> 00:29:23,136 And how am l fixed? 308 00:29:23,220 --> 00:29:24,887 Twelve to the one, favouring the mines. 309 00:29:25,347 --> 00:29:27,348 Higher towards your death. 310 00:29:28,559 --> 00:29:31,644 Crixus stands to lose a sum if you defy the numbering. 311 00:29:33,188 --> 00:29:34,564 l would see it so. 312 00:29:48,078 --> 00:29:49,245 Do not think me friend. 313 00:29:50,747 --> 00:29:52,039 The thought is well removed. 314 00:30:11,101 --> 00:30:12,310 How did you manage this? 315 00:30:13,479 --> 00:30:14,645 By playing the odds. 316 00:30:17,316 --> 00:30:19,609 l fear they're about to worsen. 317 00:30:52,351 --> 00:30:53,434 Glaber. 318 00:30:53,519 --> 00:30:56,229 You will address me by title of Legatus. 319 00:31:01,485 --> 00:31:04,987 Yet the animal. The mark of your kind. 320 00:31:05,739 --> 00:31:06,781 Where is she? 321 00:31:06,865 --> 00:31:07,907 Who? 322 00:31:10,494 --> 00:31:11,744 That little wife of yours? 323 00:31:11,828 --> 00:31:14,288 -Where? -Wherever l please! 324 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,046 She served you no grievance. 325 00:31:24,591 --> 00:31:27,343 None. But you. . . 326 00:31:28,512 --> 00:31:31,556 You have grieved me. Stirring the Auxiliary to desertion. 327 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,140 Calling my command into question, 328 00:31:33,225 --> 00:31:35,810 imperilling my standing with the Senate. 329 00:31:37,521 --> 00:31:41,649 And then in the arena you grieve me again by not knowing when to die. 330 00:31:42,651 --> 00:31:46,654 My life, then. ln exchange for hers. 331 00:31:46,738 --> 00:31:48,864 Your life is no longer yours to bargain ! 332 00:31:51,535 --> 00:31:54,370 lf l wish it ceased, l have but to whisper, 333 00:31:54,454 --> 00:31:56,872 and good Batiatus will command it! 334 00:31:57,291 --> 00:31:59,709 Then tongue the words in his ear. 335 00:32:03,714 --> 00:32:05,715 You mistake me, Thracian. 336 00:32:06,842 --> 00:32:11,137 True, l once sought death in repayment for your slights. 337 00:32:12,264 --> 00:32:14,599 But l see the error of that now. 338 00:32:15,142 --> 00:32:17,977 Wishing for an end too quick. 339 00:32:20,689 --> 00:32:23,232 No. My desires have turned to blood. 340 00:32:23,984 --> 00:32:27,570 Spilled by the drop, over time, until you are drained. 341 00:32:29,114 --> 00:32:31,282 l told you Rome's shadow was vast. 342 00:32:31,366 --> 00:32:33,826 And you will yet die under it, sliver by sliver, 343 00:32:33,910 --> 00:32:35,911 to the roar of the crowd. 344 00:32:46,048 --> 00:32:49,634 A parting kindness to bind us. 345 00:32:56,683 --> 00:33:02,063 l took it from her thigh to preserve the scent. 346 00:33:03,940 --> 00:33:06,692 Before my men stained it with their own. 347 00:33:08,362 --> 00:33:09,403 No! 348 00:33:10,614 --> 00:33:12,698 She was a savage amusement. 349 00:33:14,117 --> 00:33:17,036 And when the fight finally left her eyes, 350 00:33:17,537 --> 00:33:20,790 l sold her to an unpleasant Syrian for half a coin. 351 00:33:28,173 --> 00:33:31,759 You see, the Thracian finally learns his place before me. 352 00:33:34,763 --> 00:33:36,222 On his knees. 353 00:33:43,689 --> 00:33:46,399 Your visit with the Thracian was satisfying, then? 354 00:33:46,483 --> 00:33:48,484 The man is of no more concern to me. 355 00:33:48,568 --> 00:33:52,071 No, none whatsoever! We've prepared a feast in your honour! 356 00:33:52,155 --> 00:33:54,824 -l leave for Rome. -Rome? Now? 357 00:33:56,076 --> 00:33:58,202 Something for your trip, then? 358 00:34:02,457 --> 00:34:05,584 You really shouldn't have gone to the trouble, Lucretia. 359 00:34:05,669 --> 00:34:08,754 These common dishes leave my stomach unsettled. 360 00:34:09,923 --> 00:34:12,758 Some wine, perhaps, while we wait for your husband? 361 00:34:12,843 --> 00:34:14,093 Sestian? 362 00:34:14,177 --> 00:34:16,554 No, but something of equal taste? 363 00:34:17,097 --> 00:34:18,514 Water, then. 364 00:34:21,977 --> 00:34:25,896 The heat and the dust. Will it ever rain again? 365 00:34:26,648 --> 00:34:28,357 We can only pray. 366 00:34:28,442 --> 00:34:30,151 Can't place foot on street in Capua 367 00:34:30,235 --> 00:34:33,904 without hearing someone pleading to the heavens for a sprinkle. 368 00:34:33,989 --> 00:34:36,282 And the gods yet ignore us. 369 00:34:37,701 --> 00:34:40,619 Perhaps we've done something to offend them. 370 00:34:42,664 --> 00:34:45,207 l try to do a little something every day. 371 00:34:46,334 --> 00:34:47,918 So you're the cause, llithyia. 372 00:34:48,462 --> 00:34:50,337 l'd stand a bit away. 373 00:34:50,422 --> 00:34:52,798 Jupiter could hurl a bolt at any moment. 374 00:34:53,759 --> 00:34:56,302 He'd have to choose between targets. 375 00:34:58,513 --> 00:35:02,558 And l thought l was in the presence of a proper Roman woman. 376 00:35:03,477 --> 00:35:07,563 Proper is a word forged by men who would seek to enslave us with it. 377 00:35:09,816 --> 00:35:12,109 Kerza, ground yourself! 378 00:35:40,722 --> 00:35:43,224 Have you ever been inside a ludus? 379 00:35:43,892 --> 00:35:46,727 No. l've always wanted to. 380 00:35:47,395 --> 00:35:49,438 But Father would never allow it. 381 00:35:49,523 --> 00:35:51,482 You obey his commands? 382 00:35:51,566 --> 00:35:54,485 Not all of them. Or my husband's. 383 00:35:55,570 --> 00:35:57,488 How do you live with the noise and the smell 384 00:35:57,572 --> 00:36:00,157 surrounded by these animals? 385 00:36:01,743 --> 00:36:03,702 Yes, they are wild and savage, aren't they? 386 00:36:04,496 --> 00:36:06,622 Something out of a fever dream. 387 00:36:07,624 --> 00:36:09,083 lsn't it a worry? 388 00:36:09,167 --> 00:36:12,670 What if they went insane all at once, clamouring for blood? 389 00:36:12,754 --> 00:36:15,339 This ludus has been in my husband's family for generations. 390 00:36:15,423 --> 00:36:16,799 And yet it stands. 391 00:36:17,509 --> 00:36:21,095 What about your children? Do you let them play with them? 392 00:36:23,223 --> 00:36:25,015 l'm without children. 393 00:36:27,352 --> 00:36:31,272 Oh. Apologies. l just thought a woman of your age. . . 394 00:36:36,778 --> 00:36:40,823 -Come. We leave for Rome. -So soon? 395 00:36:40,907 --> 00:36:42,366 Can't we stay awhile? 396 00:36:43,201 --> 00:36:45,452 l want to watch the gladiators. 397 00:36:45,537 --> 00:36:47,246 Another time. Come. 398 00:37:21,907 --> 00:37:23,073 Kerza! 399 00:37:26,453 --> 00:37:27,995 Pair with Spartacus. 400 00:37:28,079 --> 00:37:29,580 Yes, Doctore. 401 00:37:30,582 --> 00:37:32,249 Recruits! Attend ! 402 00:37:33,418 --> 00:37:35,461 Show the Thracian what we've learned in his absence. 403 00:37:47,891 --> 00:37:49,600 Form one. Attack! 404 00:38:03,323 --> 00:38:04,949 Form two. Attack! 405 00:38:33,937 --> 00:38:39,316 Spartacus! 406 00:39:30,744 --> 00:39:33,287 The gods haven't pissed on me enough for one day? 407 00:39:33,371 --> 00:39:37,374 Legatus fucking Glaber spurns me like a common slave, but no! 408 00:39:37,459 --> 00:39:40,335 Let's add shit to the piss, let's pour it in his mouth ! 409 00:39:40,420 --> 00:39:43,630 lf word gets out that Batiatus can't control his own men. . . 410 00:39:43,715 --> 00:39:44,798 l warned you of their quality. 411 00:39:44,883 --> 00:39:48,010 You warn me nothing ! You counsel, and make promises to the air! 412 00:39:48,094 --> 00:39:49,928 "My hands, your will." 413 00:39:52,057 --> 00:39:54,600 The Legatus, barely beyond my fucking gates! 414 00:39:54,684 --> 00:39:57,144 -The Thracian is unpredictable. -Then school him to our standards. 415 00:39:57,228 --> 00:39:58,812 Rod and lash fall unnoticed. 416 00:39:58,897 --> 00:40:00,814 He's an animal, best unleashed in the mines. 417 00:40:00,899 --> 00:40:04,151 No. The rest to the gods, they were of little cost. 418 00:40:04,944 --> 00:40:07,488 Spartacus is more highly valued, 419 00:40:07,572 --> 00:40:10,532 his worth well exceeding their entire sum. 420 00:40:10,617 --> 00:40:12,409 l will have return. 421 00:40:12,494 --> 00:40:15,662 lf not from the Legatus, then from the man himself. 422 00:40:15,747 --> 00:40:18,082 Even though he is unpredictable. 423 00:40:19,375 --> 00:40:22,544 He is but passionate, and he stirs the same in others. 424 00:40:22,629 --> 00:40:26,799 A boon to the crowds, if we can but divine the instrument of his taming. 425 00:40:29,177 --> 00:40:31,804 He struggled to retain this bit of fabric, 426 00:40:32,555 --> 00:40:34,181 even as the guards beat him. 427 00:40:34,265 --> 00:40:36,475 lt may bring you some service. 428 00:40:37,811 --> 00:40:41,396 l noted this in the hand of the Legatus upon his arrival. 429 00:40:50,115 --> 00:40:52,116 Bring him to my chamber. 430 00:40:52,450 --> 00:40:54,451 l'll press to discovery. 431 00:41:07,298 --> 00:41:10,217 Why are you here? ln this place. 432 00:41:10,301 --> 00:41:12,261 Under my hospitality. Do you know why? 433 00:41:12,971 --> 00:41:15,514 Because l trusted in the honour of a Roman. 434 00:41:16,307 --> 00:41:19,518 You are here because of my grandfather. 435 00:41:21,146 --> 00:41:22,646 He built this ludus. 436 00:41:23,523 --> 00:41:26,525 He believed that no man was without worth. 437 00:41:27,152 --> 00:41:30,487 That even the most vile among us could rise to honour and glory. 438 00:41:30,780 --> 00:41:32,990 He instilled these beliefs in my father, 439 00:41:33,074 --> 00:41:35,492 who in turn passed them on to me. 440 00:41:35,827 --> 00:41:41,748 l am a lanista, like my forefathers, a trainer of gladiators. 441 00:41:42,208 --> 00:41:45,252 l see things in men that they themselves have lost. 442 00:41:46,004 --> 00:41:47,796 A small spark. An ember. 443 00:41:48,131 --> 00:41:51,675 l give it breath, tinder. Until it ignites in the arena. 444 00:41:53,636 --> 00:41:55,554 l burn for no cause but my own. 445 00:41:55,638 --> 00:41:57,848 And what might that be? Money? 446 00:41:58,641 --> 00:41:59,766 You've cost me enough on that front. 447 00:42:00,894 --> 00:42:04,062 No, not so base a cause for this one. Position, then? 448 00:42:04,314 --> 00:42:06,315 Power? Love? 449 00:42:10,862 --> 00:42:12,571 You have a woman, Thracian? 450 00:42:13,072 --> 00:42:14,364 l have a wife. 451 00:42:14,741 --> 00:42:15,866 And do you love her? 452 00:42:17,619 --> 00:42:21,038 Of course you do. l can see it in the eye, tensing of the jaw. 453 00:42:21,414 --> 00:42:24,249 What might be the name of this delicate flower? 454 00:42:26,377 --> 00:42:27,419 Sura. 455 00:42:27,503 --> 00:42:29,713 -Where is she? -He took her. 456 00:42:30,298 --> 00:42:31,840 When he came for me. 457 00:42:32,884 --> 00:42:34,259 Legatus Glaber? He has her? 458 00:42:35,220 --> 00:42:36,803 He sold her to a Syrian. 459 00:42:37,222 --> 00:42:38,847 Well, then how do you know she still lives? 460 00:42:39,933 --> 00:42:42,559 How do you know the heart beats beneath your chest? 461 00:42:43,728 --> 00:42:44,978 Most days, l don't. 462 00:42:45,813 --> 00:42:49,024 l'm just a simple Roman trying to make his way 463 00:42:49,108 --> 00:42:54,446 against the whim of the gods, the politicians, the miscreants, 464 00:42:54,530 --> 00:42:57,991 though often you cannot tell one from another. But you, 465 00:42:58,576 --> 00:43:00,911 you are the most dangerous of animals, 466 00:43:01,204 --> 00:43:03,330 the beast born of the heart. 467 00:43:03,665 --> 00:43:06,208 What would you do to hold your wife again? 468 00:43:06,292 --> 00:43:10,837 To feel the warmth of her skin, to taste her lips? Would you kill? 469 00:43:13,132 --> 00:43:15,342 -Whoever stood between us. -How many men? 470 00:43:15,802 --> 00:43:17,970 A hundred? A thousand? 471 00:43:18,346 --> 00:43:21,431 -l would kill them all. -Then do it in the arena! 472 00:43:22,475 --> 00:43:26,270 Fight for me and the honour of my forefathers! Prove yourself. 473 00:43:26,813 --> 00:43:29,356 Climb to the pinnacle, gain your freedom 474 00:43:29,774 --> 00:43:31,441 and that of the woman you've lost. 475 00:43:32,986 --> 00:43:34,945 l did not lose her. 476 00:43:36,197 --> 00:43:38,031 She was taken from me. 477 00:43:38,616 --> 00:43:40,200 A man must accept his fate 478 00:43:41,202 --> 00:43:42,661 or be destroyed by it. 479 00:43:44,872 --> 00:43:49,876 Why would l place my fate in the hands of another Roman? 480 00:43:51,504 --> 00:43:53,547 Because of what they hold. 481 00:43:57,552 --> 00:43:58,969 Your wife's? 482 00:44:03,349 --> 00:44:06,727 Pass the final test tonight with honour and servitude. 483 00:44:07,186 --> 00:44:08,645 Call me Dominus, 484 00:44:09,147 --> 00:44:11,398 and l will help to reunite you. 485 00:44:23,494 --> 00:44:25,245 The choice is yours. 486 00:45:09,123 --> 00:45:10,290 Cease! 487 00:45:12,877 --> 00:45:14,294 Varro has stood to a draw! 488 00:45:15,046 --> 00:45:16,129 The test is passed ! 489 00:45:27,433 --> 00:45:29,643 Barca! Marcus! 490 00:45:30,728 --> 00:45:32,104 Positions! 491 00:45:33,606 --> 00:45:46,159 Barca! Barca! Barca! Barca! 492 00:45:50,998 --> 00:45:52,124 Begin ! 493 00:46:06,347 --> 00:46:07,973 That's disappointing. 494 00:46:08,433 --> 00:46:09,641 Not every venture ends in climax. 495 00:46:10,476 --> 00:46:12,310 A fact known well to every woman. 496 00:46:25,533 --> 00:46:26,533 Crixus! 497 00:46:28,786 --> 00:46:30,996 Spartacus! Positions! 498 00:46:38,671 --> 00:46:56,146 Crixus! Crixus! Crixus! Crixus! 499 00:47:09,535 --> 00:47:13,205 One final lesson, before l send you to the afterlife. 500 00:47:25,051 --> 00:47:26,218 Begin ! 501 00:47:37,897 --> 00:47:38,939 Fuck. 502 00:47:39,023 --> 00:47:41,733 Expensive and worthless all in a measure. 503 00:47:43,444 --> 00:47:45,445 Fight, you Thracian bitch ! 504 00:47:55,623 --> 00:47:56,790 Tears? 505 00:48:00,628 --> 00:48:03,129 The rabbit is fixed to piss himself! 506 00:48:24,986 --> 00:48:26,278 Skin the rabbit! 507 00:48:45,631 --> 00:48:47,007 Finish him ! 508 00:48:50,678 --> 00:48:51,803 Thracians! 509 00:49:22,126 --> 00:49:24,210 The lesson is well learned. 510 00:49:25,046 --> 00:49:26,379 Spartacus! 511 00:49:29,133 --> 00:49:30,216 Cease. 512 00:49:36,724 --> 00:49:38,892 You have passed the test. 513 00:49:50,029 --> 00:49:51,321 Dominus. 514 00:49:54,158 --> 00:49:56,201 Your life now promises meaning. 515 00:49:56,911 --> 00:49:58,495 Swear it to me. 516 00:49:59,747 --> 00:50:01,748 Recite the Sacramentum Gladiatorum. 517 00:50:04,752 --> 00:50:09,339 l commit my flesh, my mind, my will 518 00:50:10,883 --> 00:50:16,596 to the glory of this ludus, and the commands of my master, Batiatus. 519 00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:24,521 l swear to be burned, chained, beaten, 520 00:50:25,231 --> 00:50:29,567 or die by the sword in pursuit of honour in the arena. 521 00:50:43,124 --> 00:50:44,708 Welcome to the brotherhood.