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Rome, AD 19–20. Tiberius, with Sejanus' help, rules with an iron fist. Only Germanicus prevents total tyranny, but when he dies in Syria under mysterious circumstances, it is widely rumoured that Tiberius is behind it. Germanicus' wife Agrippina accuses Piso, the governor of Syria, and his wife Plancina of murder and treason. At Claudius' suggestion, they are tried in the Senate, so as to avoid any backroom subversion of the courts by Tiberius' agents. Martina, the poisoner, is held in a secret location before the trial by Herod Agrippa and Claudius, but she is found by Livia's agents. She reveals to Livia that Germanicus' own son, Caligula, aided her in bringing about his death by convincing him that he had been cursed. Piso blackmails Livia and Tiberius with evidence that they approved of Germanicus' murder. Livia retaliates by threatening Plancina with Martina's testimony, but the incident is enough to cause a permanent rift in her relationship with Tiberius. Plancina attempts to convince Piso to commit suicide, knowing that she will be spared by such an outcome. When Piso has second thoughts, Plancina stabs him, bringing the trial to an end, and Agrippina and her friends have to be satisfied that at least "some justice" was done. Caligula, after being punished by Antonia for being found naked with his sister Drusilla, sets fire to the family home in retaliation, burning it to the ground.
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00:00To be continued
00:30Oh, my God.
01:00Oh, I shouldn't eat so much at night.
01:11Oh, my God.
01:26Mushrooms.
01:27Oh, my God.
01:29Yes, I'm working too hard here.
01:31Too much work.
01:33I must get it all done.
01:35Now I must finish.
01:37Now, where was I?
01:41Augustus died.
01:45Uncle Tiberius took his place.
01:49But he didn't want it.
01:53Not then.
01:55Waited too long.
01:57A strange man.
02:01Silthy brute.
02:03All power corrupts.
02:09Only one man kept him in check.
02:12Germanicus, my brother.
02:16My dear brother, Germanicus.
02:20Tiberius sent him to Syria to take command.
02:24And then...
02:28I have to say that.
02:39But I will not be able to go away.
02:44But I will not be able to go away.
02:48let his body be laid in the marketplace of Antioch so that the people may see
03:02the marks of poison and witchery on his body let word be sent to Rome Germanicus
03:09is dead Germanicus is dead oh nothing stands now between Rome and her imperial destiny
03:39oh
03:46oh
03:48oh
03:50oh
03:52oh
03:54oh
03:56oh
03:58oh
04:00oh
04:02oh
04:04oh
04:14thus my children does your father come home to you ashes in an urn
04:25look at him remember him remember all your days how your father returned to you
04:34care
04:35care
04:36care
04:37care
04:38care
04:39care
04:40care
04:41care
04:42care
04:43care
04:44care
04:45care
04:46care
04:47care
04:48and his children and avenge his death
04:54my babies my parents what have they done to you
05:01and Claudius dear Claudius you i know loved him
05:06it was dearer to me than anyone
05:10nobody had such a brother
05:12Where is the emperor?
05:17And where is Livia?
05:21Too stricken with grief to appear in public.
05:25And your mother?
05:28Same.
05:30Oh, is their grief greater than ours, then?
05:34All along the way in every town and village,
05:36the people flooded to pay their respects to its ashes as we passed.
05:39The air was filled with cries and lamentations.
05:44Look at the faces of these people here.
05:47It's as if they've lost a son or a father of their own.
05:51Yet the man he called father
05:53and the woman who was his grandmother
05:55do not come out to greet us.
05:58I ask again, is their grief greater than ours?
06:06Put the ashes on the hearse
06:08and let us journey on to Rome.
06:22There's a hundred thousand people out there.
06:26Mars Field is ablaze with torches.
06:28The funeral will be over soon.
06:30The crowds will disperse.
06:31Why did they admire him so?
06:33When you're not the emperor,
06:34you've always got the emperor to blame.
06:36My husband was emperor for 40 years
06:38and he was admired by everyone.
06:41Ah, well.
06:42I wasn't preferring gods.
06:45When Augustus died,
06:46the troops on the Rhine would have made Germanicus emperor
06:48if it agreed to it.
06:49Manicus didn't believe in emperors.
06:51He'd have done better if he had.
06:54There's a lot of bad feeling out there.
06:55It's all directed at me.
06:57What do they want of me?
06:59They always preferred him to me.
07:02Why?
07:03You just don't have a lovable nature.
07:05It's unfortunate,
07:06but even your own son doesn't care for you much.
07:08I think I'm loved by a great many people.
07:10Oh, you're loved all right,
07:11but you're not well loved.
07:12And you are, I suppose.
07:13Well, as to that, I couldn't say,
07:15but unlike you, I don't worry about it.
07:16Well, at any rate,
07:17if he's profoundly loved,
07:19he's also profoundly dead.
07:20There's no harm in loving the dead.
07:22Everybody's loved when he's dead.
07:24I wouldn't count on that if I were you.
07:26What is it you want, Mother?
07:28I'm told that your son, Custer, and Agrippina
07:31intend to prosecute Piso and Pansina
07:34on charges of treason and murder.
07:37They have no proof.
07:39Well, I dare say they could tell a pretty tale.
07:41A pretty tale isn't proof.
07:43That's a different story
07:44from the one you've been telling for the last five years.
07:47You've buried more men with your pretty tales
07:49than anyone I know.
07:51Where is he now?
07:52My last report said he'd taken ship from Illyria.
07:54He was on his way to Rome.
07:57I won't have him tried.
07:58Better to have him tried and cleared
08:00than live forever under a cloud.
08:01Well, I won't trouble Piso to live under a cloud.
08:03I wasn't thinking of Piso.
08:05I was thinking of you.
08:10Has it ever occurred to you, Mother,
08:12that it's you they hate
08:14and not me?
08:15There is nothing in this world
08:17that occurs to you
08:18that has not occurred to me first.
08:20That is the affliction I live with.
08:27I can't believe it.
08:30Dearly as I love my son,
08:33I can't believe what you're saying.
08:34Piso, yes.
08:36We all know his record.
08:38But type...
08:39Governor of Syria.
08:40There were others he could have chosen.
08:42Well, it wasn't a good choice, I grant you.
08:46But don't ask me to believe
08:47that an emperor of Rome
08:49would stoop to such methods.
08:50Oh, those are his methods.
08:51He doesn't need to stoop.
08:53Yes, I'm sorry, Custer,
08:54but I will say it even though he's your father.
08:56Oh, say it.
08:57Say it.
08:58You can say nothing against my father
09:00that I've not already said myself.
09:01It's not for us to accuse the emperor.
09:03We have no proof of his involvement.
09:05Proof?
09:05The people won't need proof.
09:07The people know.
09:08They're not fools.
09:09I've instructed the prosecutor
09:11to prepare charges against Piso and Plancina.
09:14On what grounds?
09:16Treason.
09:17And murder.
09:18Is there really proof of murder?
09:20And of witchery.
09:22Is it possible?
09:24Barbarian Jew that I am,
09:25I find it incredible
09:27that the most sophisticated people on earth
09:29believe in witchery.
09:30Oh, scoff all you like, Herod,
09:31but you judge for yourself.
09:34On our return to Syria from Egypt,
09:36Germanicus fell ill
09:38and suspected that Plancina
09:41had bribed her way into our kitchens
09:43and was having his food poisoned.
09:44But why?
09:45Because Germanicus had dismissed her husband,
09:48Piso.
09:50So I prepared all his food myself,
09:52but he was able to eat very little.
09:55He complained that there was a smell of death
09:58in the house
09:59and began to believe
10:01that Plancina was using witchcraft against him.
10:05He made a propitiating sacrifice
10:07of nine black puppies to Hecate,
10:09which was the proper thing to do
10:11when being victimized.
10:13And the very next day,
10:15a slave who was washing the floor of the hall
10:18noticed a loose tile.
10:20Lifting it up,
10:21he saw beneath it
10:22the naked and decaying corpse of a baby,
10:25its belly painted red
10:27with horns tied to its forehead.
10:30We made an immediate search in every room
10:32and equally gruesome finds were made.
10:35The corpse of a cat
10:36with rudimentary wings growing in its back,
10:40the head of a negro
10:41with a child's white hand stuck in its mouth,
10:45the skull of an ass
10:45with the word Germanicus written across it.
10:49Oh, cock's feathers smeared in blood
10:51were found among the cushions.
10:53the word Rome written upside down
10:56and the number 17.
11:00Now, only I knew
11:02that the number 17 upset him dreadfully.
11:08Plancina must have had accomplices at the house.
11:10And I tell you,
11:11there could not have been a woman
11:12dabbles in witchcraft.
11:14Go on, Pina.
11:17One of the things that upset him most
11:19was the appearance of his name.
11:20Each day shortened by a letter.
11:24It would appear quite suddenly
11:26without explanation
11:27in rooms to which the servants
11:28had no access
11:29and where the windows were too small
11:31for a man to climb through.
11:34He told me he was doomed.
11:36But I told him,
11:37no, not as long as you have
11:39the green jasper charm of Hecate with you.
11:41He felt under his pillow
11:42and he found it
11:43and that comforted him
11:44because he knew
11:45as long as he had
11:46that talisman safe
11:47nothing could happen to him.
11:49That night
11:50while he was asleep
11:51he felt a tiny movement
11:54under his pillow.
11:56He turned on his side
11:57and fumbled for the charm.
12:00It was gone.
12:03Tell me, Herod,
12:05how did it disappear?
12:07Nobody but myself
12:08was allowed in that room.
12:09Who could have taken it?
12:12Who?
12:16Caligula, darling.
12:17What are you doing out of bed?
12:19I've had a bad dream, Mother.
12:20Oh, my poor baby.
12:22Come here.
12:24What did you dream?
12:25A horrid dream.
12:27I dreamt there were bats
12:28sitting along the shelf
12:30in my room.
12:31Then they flew down
12:32and sat on me
12:33until I was all covered with them
12:35and no one could see me anymore.
12:36My poor baby.
12:38You shouldn't eat so much
12:39before you go to bed.
12:40Oh, Mother,
12:40he's been through so much.
12:42He stuffs himself
12:43with all manner of things.
12:44Perhaps he'd like to sleep with
12:45Ursillas.
12:46You be company boy.
12:48Would you like that, darling?
12:49Would you like to sleep
12:49in your cousin's room?
12:50I'd rather sleep with Drusilla.
12:53Drusilla?
12:53Your sister?
12:54A boy of your age?
12:55What is the world coming to?
12:57Oh, he doesn't mean anything by it.
12:58He's been too long in the East.
13:00He should have been left here in Rome.
13:01Syria is no place
13:02to bring up a Roman child.
13:03I don't like it here.
13:05Well, you'll have to get used to it
13:07then, won't you?
13:08What was so wonderful
13:09about the East, hmm?
13:13Herod Agrippa is talking to you, child.
13:16Oh, it was full of strange
13:18and mysterious people and things.
13:20Syrians made a great fuss of him,
13:21I'm afraid.
13:22Half the time we never saw him.
13:24He wandered all over Antioch.
13:25The house slaves took him everywhere.
13:27He's had more freedom
13:28than is good for him.
13:29Oh, I don't think so.
13:30His father was very strict with him.
13:33Now, would you like to sleep
13:34in your cousin's room
13:35as Uncle Claudia suggests?
13:36I'll go back to my own room.
13:38Yes, I'll take him back.
13:39Say good night.
13:40Good night.
13:46He's very overwrought.
13:47Now, what about the trial?
13:51Do you really think you can prove a charge of poison?
13:54We have a witness.
13:55A woman called Martina.
13:56She's a notorious poisoner,
13:58well known in the province.
13:59She was seen many times with Plansina.
14:01Where is she now?
14:01On her way to Rome.
14:03She's being kept hidden in different places along the route.
14:06We must find a place for her when she arrives.
14:08Sir Janus agents are out looking for her even now.
14:11Oh, I know a place.
14:13The house of a merchant friend of mine.
14:15Good.
14:16I've applied for permission to prosecute in the courts.
14:19Oh, I think that's not a good idea.
14:22Well, it's better to have it tried in the courts
14:24than in the Senate by my father.
14:25Your father can fix the courts behind the scenes
14:28if he's tried in the Senate by him.
14:30Oh, I'm curious we'll be on trial too.
14:36Oh, clever.
14:37Clark, Clark.
14:39He's right.
14:41He'll be better off in the Senate.
14:44Then we'll move for a trial in the Senate.
14:46In the Senate?
14:49Well, I mean, what's wrong with the courts?
14:51I tried to get the case heard in the courts
14:53but my son and his friends pressed for a hearing in the Senate.
14:55I couldn't oppose them.
14:56I had no grounds.
14:58Well.
14:58Well, I mean, if it's the Senate, it's the Senate.
15:02I mean, why should I be concerned?
15:06I'm no stranger to the Senate.
15:08And if my enemies have friends there,
15:11so have I.
15:12They'll find that out soon enough.
15:14And you will be hearing the case yourself.
15:17Of course.
15:18Well, then,
15:19what better guarantee of justice have we?
15:22And justice
15:23is all Plant Cedar and I came home for.
15:25We've done nothing to be ashamed of.
15:27Except that it makes me ashamed to have to say so.
15:31That was very well put.
15:33I couldn't have put that better.
15:34But that shame, you mark my word, will be theirs at the end.
15:38Certain people will come to
15:39to rue the day
15:41they so wantonly accuse
15:42Niasculpanius Piso and his wife of murder.
15:45They're arraigning you on a charge of treason as well.
15:49Treason?
15:50Oh, it's treason now, is it?
15:55What will they think of next?
15:59That I caused a plague of moths?
16:01Or it is I who am polluting the timer?
16:05I mean, there was a drought on in Syria when I left.
16:09Perhaps I caused that as well.
16:11I should prepare your defence well.
16:13I shall prepare my defence.
16:15That will take me no time.
16:16But treason, where is the treason?
16:18I mean, I had certain disagreements with Germanicus,
16:22but I was not sent there to be his houseboy.
16:24They were very cold to us, you know.
16:27Germanicus and Agrippina.
16:28From the very start, they snubbed us.
16:31Well, naturally, they knew why I was there.
16:34They knew I had not been made governor of Syria
16:36to follow like a small dog behind a parade.
16:39I was there as watchdog for my emperor,
16:41and they knew it.
16:42Oh, the insults we bore at their hands.
16:45Even members of his own command were ashamed.
16:48At official banquets, we were seated on the third couch.
16:52And as for Agrippina, well, she gave herself such airs.
16:56She might have been queen.
16:58And they accused me of treason.
17:02Oh, don't talk to me of treason.
17:04Not to me.
17:06What has my whole life been but one of service to Rome
17:08and to my emperor?
17:09My sons, too.
17:11Let the jackals howl.
17:12I have nothing to fear.
17:14I come home with my head held high.
17:16I am ashamed of nothing.
17:18I gave orders not to be disturbed.
17:20My lord, the commander of the guard has an urgent report to make.
17:28Wait here.
17:36He says very little.
17:37He neither agrees nor disagrees.
17:39Oh, you can tell nothing from that.
17:40Well, he already plays the judge.
17:41The judge how?
17:42Well, he listens, but not with sympathy.
17:44No, it's just his way.
17:45He's a very cold fish.
17:46You can tell nothing from that.
17:47I don't like it.
17:48It's not what I expected.
17:54Each one written in his own handwriting.
17:57Quote, I have the utmost faith in you.
18:00Quote, any steps taken to check disloyalty will be looked on kindly by the Senate and the citizens of Rome.
18:06Now, what did he expect me to make of such phrases?
18:08I'm not a fool, neither is he.
18:09They are his tacit agreement for every move we make.
18:12But they bear his seal.
18:13No power in Rome will allow a letter bearing the imperial seal to be read in public.
18:18I don't need it to be read in public.
18:22They will be beside me in the Senate.
18:24Mute but eloquent.
18:26They will plead our case better than Cicero could have done.
18:28I mean, there isn't a senator who won't understand the meaning of those letters and vote the way he believes his emperor wants to be.
18:39Who is the woman, Martina?
18:43Martina, she's the widow of the Roman soldier who settled in Antioch.
18:48We knew her slightly.
18:49Did you know that she was notorious as a poisoner in the province?
18:53Poisoner?
18:54She ever been convicted of poisoning?
18:56Anyway, what of her?
18:57Sir Jaina says that she has been brought secretly to Rome to be a witness.
19:01Where is she?
19:03His agents haven't found her yet.
19:05Do you have anything to fear from this witness?
19:08Not if she speaks the truth.
19:09But, if she is to be held in Communicata, I mean, who knows what they may not persuade her to say?
19:21Well, let's hope we find her first, then.
19:26I love this room.
19:28It was my life.
19:30But you won't mind letting it to us.
19:32Who can afford to keep an empty room, but you've got to pay in advance?
19:35My friend will pay.
19:37Are you taking the room?
19:38Yes, you'll like it.
19:41It's got a very fine view over the river.
19:43If you stand on a box, you'll see.
19:46It's hot for me.
19:47It's...
19:48Oh, my mother.
19:49Oh.
19:51Well, it's not very comfortable.
19:56What's about those soldiers?
19:57I'm not letting a barracks.
19:59No questions, Gershom.
20:00She's being locked up here.
20:02Locked up?
20:03What kind of a son are you?
20:05Oh, no, thy father, thy mother...
20:07Do you want us to look elsewhere?
20:08Of course I want you to look elsewhere.
20:10Since it's grace, where do you think I run here?
20:12A jail?
20:19I have enough.
20:20If I were proved of what you're doing, it would be enough.
20:23But since you're offending against the Mosaic law...
20:26It's Roman law here, Gershom.
20:30It's Roman law everywhere, that's the trouble.
20:33But one day...
20:34With that kind of son, you've got to be lucky with your daughters.
20:43Like everyone else,
20:46I grieve for Germanicus.
20:49But apart from the charge of murder,
20:52we must consider the question of treason.
20:55Did Nias Calpurnius Piso incite his troops to mutiny and rebellion?
21:03Did he bribe them to support him?
21:07Did he make war to regain his province?
21:11The case against Nias Calpurnius Piso may now be heard.
21:18If it please the Emperor, my father,
21:23I have been asked to open the case against the accused.
21:28In the matter of murder,
21:30we shall be bringing before the house clear evidence of poisoning.
21:35In the matter of treason,
21:37we shall show that after Germanicus' death,
21:39Nias Calpurnius Piso raised the troops in a rebellion
21:43against the newly appointed governor of that province.
21:46No, let go of me!
21:48Let go of me, old German woman!
21:53What's this?
21:54I hate you!
21:55What's the matter?
21:57He is disgusting!
21:59What has he done?
22:01Mother, what has he done?
22:02That child is a monster!
22:04I'm not you, old German woman!
22:06I'll burn your German out!
22:08Stop it! Stop it!
22:09Get him!
22:10Get him here!
22:10What is all this German?
22:13He calls everything German that he doesn't like.
22:15He is a monster!
22:15What has he done?
22:16He knows what he's done!
22:17I didn't do anything!
22:18I didn't, I didn't!
22:20Honestly, Uncle Gorgias,
22:21I didn't do anything.
22:22I swear, it was only a game.
22:24I found him in Drusilla's bed,
22:26naked, the pair of them.
22:27He is revolting, and so is she.
22:29I've locked her in a room.
22:31And you're a blackhead if you believe his lies!
22:33Where are you taking him?
22:34To the cellar to lock him in.
22:36Please don't let her take me.
22:37Please, Uncle Gorgias.
22:38I hate the cellar.
22:39I'm afraid.
22:39Yeah, well, you know, you leave him here with me.
22:41I'll talk to him.
22:43He needs a good whipping, not a talking to.
22:46Oh, Gorgias, you are such a fool!
22:48I've no patience with you.
22:49It should have been you who died,
22:51not Germanicus.
22:52What use are you to anyone?
22:53Now, don't you know
23:05that you shouldn't play
23:07games like that with your sister?
23:09Hmm?
23:10Don't you know how
23:11a kid it is?
23:13Why?
23:14Why?
23:17Because it is.
23:19Why?
23:19Now, look, don't you answer me back
23:21or I'll couch you around the head.
23:23Now, you listen to me.
23:26Now, a sister
23:27is a sister
23:28and she's
23:29darn to be
23:30paid with
23:31ever.
23:33Do you understand?
23:34You can't
23:35pay with her
23:36and you
23:37can't
23:38paddy her.
23:40But she wanted
23:41I don't care what she wanted.
23:44You're disgusting, the pair of you.
23:45And I shall talk to
23:46Scylla later.
23:51What's the matter?
23:52Martina's disappeared.
23:54What?
23:54We took an escort
23:55and went to fetch her.
23:56She was gone.
23:57The guard outside
23:57had been overpowered
23:58and the room was empty.
23:59But you...
23:59Oh, Scylla, who else?
24:02That man spies
24:03are everywhere.
24:05Thick as flies
24:06in summer.
24:07You've lost her.
24:08He's witnessed it.
24:09That won't save the pair of them
24:10and if Tiberius thinks
24:11it will, he's mistaken.
24:12What's he doing here?
24:13He's being
24:14very naughty.
24:15Mother was going to
24:16crash him.
24:17Oh, why can't people
24:18leave him alone?
24:19Hasn't he been through
24:19enough already?
24:20When I heard
24:24of the death of Germanicus,
24:26I was on the island of Kos.
24:29In fact, on my way back to Rome
24:30to report my dismissal
24:33to the emperor.
24:35Yes.
24:36And complain about it.
24:37I make no bones about that.
24:41Now, my accusers say
24:42that I entered temples
24:44and made sacrifices
24:46in an orgy of celebration.
24:48So you may.
24:50One you and a goat.
24:53What orgy?
24:55And why?
24:56To celebrate the birth
24:57of a grandson.
24:58Celebrate the birth
24:59of a grandson.
25:01The living had their rights
25:02as well as the dead.
25:03You would have done the same.
25:05Why did you return to Syria?
25:07Why didn't you go on to Rome?
25:09Because I was still
25:09governor of Syria.
25:10Run it!
25:12We have the written instructions
25:15of Germanicus
25:16ordering you
25:17to leave the province.
25:19Sertius had been
25:19made governor of Syria.
25:21Illegally.
25:22That governorship was mine.
25:24And the man
25:25who had unfairly removed me
25:26was dead.
25:28I had my appointment.
25:31I had my instructions.
25:36I knew where my loyalties lay.
25:38We paid them out.
25:40We paid them out.
25:41We paid them out.
25:43We paid them out.
25:44I have no need to read them.
25:47My defence will stand
25:49on its own merit.
25:54I said I have no need
25:56to read them.
25:57Unless order is maintained
25:59in the house,
26:01I shall adjourn.
26:04If Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso's argument
26:08is to rely upon instructions,
26:10this house has the right
26:12to know what's in them.
26:17These letters
26:18bear the imperial seal.
26:21No one
26:21has the right
26:22to read them.
26:27The emperor
26:28may consent
26:29to having them read.
26:31They have no bearing
26:32on the case.
26:32Then why produce them?
26:33They are not produced
26:34in evidence.
26:35They are merely
26:35here among my papers.
26:37If it please the emperor,
26:44I move that any instructions
26:46received by the accused
26:47from Rome
26:47be entered as evidence
26:49pertaining to his guilt
26:51or innocence.
26:51I second that motion.
26:52those letters
26:59bear the imperial seal.
27:01The seal
27:02of the god
27:02Augustus himself.
27:04There is no precedent
27:05for making their contents
27:07public.
27:08I will not create
27:09such a precedent.
27:11The motion
27:12is denied.
27:13Denied!
27:14Denied!
27:15Denied!
27:15Denied!
27:16Denied!
27:17Well, they are more
27:18than they bargained for, eh?
27:19They thought they had
27:21a rabbit in the Senate.
27:22It turns out
27:23they had a tiger.
27:25Eh, Pansina?
27:28Oh, leave us, my friends.
27:30Pansina is tired.
27:31After such a day,
27:32a good night's rest,
27:33a little peace and quiet
27:33will work, medicals.
27:34You'll see.
27:36Our enterprise will prosper
27:37again tomorrow.
27:37You'll see.
27:38Good night, my friends.
27:38Good night.
27:49What's the matter, Pansina?
27:55Oh, I don't like it.
27:57It didn't go the way
27:58it should.
28:00I thought it went
28:00very well.
28:01And you shouldn't have
28:02used those letters.
28:03That was a mistake.
28:04What do you mean, mistake?
28:05Well, you saw the look
28:06on his face.
28:06He'll never forgive you.
28:08We were carrying out
28:09his orders.
28:10Well, he's not to thank you
28:11for reminding him of it.
28:12I don't want his thanks
28:14as long as he remembers.
28:15He'll never forgive you.
28:17Never.
28:17I'm not asking his forgiveness.
28:19He should be asking me
28:20for mine.
28:21A trial should never
28:21have taken place.
28:22Why has he allowed it?
28:28He had to give them
28:29a show.
28:30Germanicus has
28:31powerful friends.
28:33He can't just
28:33thumb his nose at them.
28:36So he gives them
28:37a trial.
28:40A trial is one thing.
28:42A conviction, that's another.
28:43That he'd never allow.
28:44Because if we're guilty,
28:45so is he.
28:45And so is his mother.
28:46He knows that
28:46and the Senate does.
28:48We did what we were asked to.
28:50Harrison provoked
28:50Germanicus into showing
28:51his hand.
28:52But did that include
28:53bringing about his death
28:54as well?
28:55Yes, well, that was
28:56your idea.
28:59My idea?
29:00Yes.
29:02Oh, what does it matter?
29:05It turned out to be
29:06an additional bonus
29:07for them.
29:07They're not complaining.
29:08What do you mean?
29:09It was my idea.
29:10Well, I mean, wasn't it
29:11you who came to me
29:11and said it could be managed?
29:13Well, that's wonderful.
29:15I'm to blame then, am I?
29:18Of course not.
29:19I can just see
29:19the way your mind is working.
29:21I'm going to be sacrificed.
29:22Oh, stop it.
29:23What are you talking about?
29:23What are you going on about?
29:24I'm going to be sacrificed
29:25at the temple.
29:26Well, I won't be.
29:26I won't be.
29:27Stop it.
29:27Control yourself.
29:28I came to tell you, sir,
29:55that I've had guards
29:56placed all around the house.
29:59Why?
30:00I have guards of my own.
30:02Yes, of course.
30:03But the crowd is very large.
30:04It seems to be in an ugly mood.
30:06Oh, what's their mood to me?
30:08I go where I please in Rome.
30:09Nobody stops me.
30:10The Emperor requested it
30:11for your safety.
30:16Well, I mean,
30:17if it's for our safety.
30:19We're very pleased, eh, Plansina?
30:21I understand their chief witness
30:24against me has
30:25disappeared.
30:27So it seems.
30:29Perhaps they never had one
30:31in the first place.
30:32Oh, I think they had one,
30:33but unaccountably
30:34she's disappeared.
30:40Oh, by the way,
30:41the Emperor asked me
30:43to ask you
30:43for the letters.
30:49The letters?
30:50Since they're documents
30:51of state,
30:52they should be placed
30:52in the archives.
30:54After all,
30:54they might get stolen
30:55or fall into the wrong hands.
31:04As a matter of fact,
31:05I was just about to
31:07send them around.
31:09We were just talking about it.
31:10Eh, Plansina?
31:20Here they are.
31:32Give them to the Emperor.
31:33Tell him
31:34I will never forget
31:36the things he wrote.
31:37I treasure in my mind
31:42every word.
31:45The Imperial Guard
31:46will escort you
31:47to the Senate tomorrow.
31:49You needn't worry
31:49about the crowds.
31:56Tell the Emperor
31:57I am grateful.
31:59Tell him
31:59I'm always of service.
32:00Tell him,
32:03Gnaeus Capernaus,
32:03Pino,
32:04is his humble servant
32:05and always will be.
32:07You'll have to sacrifice them.
32:09The mob
32:10will not have them acquitted.
32:11They're dragging
32:12Piso's statues
32:13down to the Tiber now
32:14and smashing them.
32:15It's as though
32:15they already have
32:16the meat hooks
32:17under his chin.
32:18What are they saying
32:19about me?
32:20That Piso and his wife
32:21had your approval
32:22for everything they did.
32:24If you let them go now,
32:24they'll be convinced of it.
32:26But above all,
32:28they praise Agrippina.
32:30The glory of her country,
32:31they call her.
32:32The only true descendant
32:33of Augustus.
32:35Did he give you
32:36the letters without a complaint?
32:37He expects you
32:38to save him,
32:39but you must not.
32:48I've come to tell you,
32:50Tiberius,
32:50that I and all of Rome
32:51hold you responsible
32:53for my husband's death
32:54and will do so
32:54until you prove
32:55your innocence.
32:57We know too
32:57that you've taken
32:58that woman who was
32:58our witness,
32:59but it will avail you
33:00nothing.
33:01Emperor you may be,
33:02but justice is emperor
33:03over all.
33:04The fact that you are
33:05not queen, my dear,
33:06is that the greatest
33:07injustice of all?
33:08Vengeance, Tiberius!
33:09Walk down into the
33:10marketplace.
33:10The people are crying
33:11for it on every corner.
33:12Rome will not rest
33:13until you give it to them.
33:16And neither shall I.
33:25Where is the woman,
33:27Martina?
33:28We don't know.
33:31Then find her.
33:37Am I to be blamed
33:38for everything?
33:39How are you going to get
33:40a conviction
33:41if you don't find her?
33:42Find her!
33:43She must be somewhere!
33:44And what other
33:47poisons do you use?
33:48Have you ever tried
33:49aconite, for instance?
33:51Aconite?
33:52Now, what's that?
33:53Well, the roots look
33:55very like horseradish,
33:57but it'll do more
33:57than clear your head
33:58if you eat it.
33:59Oh, yes.
34:02Bless you, lady.
34:02I know the one you mean.
34:04You mean Wolfsbane.
34:06Well, that's what we call it.
34:07It came originally from India.
34:09Yeah, I never knew that.
34:10I bet you didn't know
34:12it's antidote either.
34:14Morphe?
34:15You have made a study of it.
34:18Of course, I don't worry
34:19too much about antidotes.
34:21Oh, well, you never know.
34:22Sometimes some fool
34:23of a slave will get
34:24the bowls mixed up.
34:26I can see you've read a lot.
34:27It's a pity, in a way,
34:30you don't get a chance
34:30to practice.
34:32You'll be very good.
34:36Tell me now,
34:37what do you use
34:39on my grandson, Germanicus?
34:41Ah, Bella Donna.
34:43Ah, that accounts
34:44for the red rash.
34:45It nearly always
34:46leaves that mark.
34:47That's why I didn't
34:47want to use it,
34:49but Plansina insisted.
34:51I warned her,
34:52but she'd been told
34:53by know-it-alls
34:54how tasteless it was.
34:56You know what people
34:57are like.
34:58Amateurs.
34:59But you used
35:00witchcraft as well.
35:03Oh, I wouldn't say that.
35:05All I did was
35:06arrange some apparitions.
35:09Your grandson
35:10was more superstitious
35:11than any man living.
35:12I just frightened him
35:13to death.
35:15If a man believes
35:16he's going to die,
35:17he'll die a lot quicker
35:18than if he doesn't.
35:21How did you gain access
35:22to that house?
35:24You remember when
35:25Germanicus went to Egypt?
35:27He took Agrippina with him
35:28but left little Caligula
35:30behind as a punishment.
35:31Oh, that child
35:33was never out of mischief.
35:35You know,
35:35he hated his father.
35:36They fought like cat and dog.
35:38See, you told me
35:39how superstitious
35:40his father was.
35:42Well,
35:43they left him
35:43in the care of a tutor,
35:45a Greek,
35:45whom I knew.
35:47He took the child
35:48for walks all over the city
35:49and each day
35:50he brought him to see me.
35:52Oh,
35:53that child's a strange one.
35:56He told me once
35:57he was born a god
35:58and such was the conviction
36:00with which he said it
36:01I believed him
36:02and I said I did.
36:04It was then
36:05I suggested
36:06that he played
36:07the death game.
36:09I said a god
36:09shall be able
36:10to frighten a man
36:11to death
36:12and he shouted
36:13tell me how
36:14and I'll show you.
36:15So I told him.
36:17Are you telling me
36:18that that child
36:19was responsible
36:20for poisoning
36:21his own father?
36:23Shocking, isn't it?
36:25He's not a god
36:26he's a monster.
36:27You try telling him.
36:30Hey.
36:32What's the matter?
36:34I don't know.
36:34I...
36:35I've got a pain.
36:45Oh, come.
36:48It's wind,
36:49that's all.
36:50I have it all the time.
36:52Do you seriously think
36:53if I wanted to dispose of you
36:55I'd stoop to doing it myself?
36:58What?
37:00What's going to happen to me?
37:03I don't know.
37:05I'll do the best I can for you.
37:07It's lucky for you
37:08that my agents found you
37:09before my sons did.
37:11If they hadn't
37:12you wouldn't be sitting here
37:12complaining about wind
37:13I can tell you.
37:20The trial of
37:21Nias Comperius Pisa
37:22and his wife Plansina
37:23is now resumed.
37:25We understand
37:26that the principal witness
37:28in the charge of poisoning
37:29has not been found.
37:31In her absence
37:32the prosecution
37:33have no case
37:34and we request
37:36that the charge
37:37be withdrawn.
37:38No!
37:38Request denied.
37:45Hooray!
37:49If it please the emperor
37:51the wife of Nias
37:53Calpurnius Piso
37:54has asked
37:55that from now on
37:56her defense
37:57be conducted separately
37:59from her husbands
37:59and that she be tried
38:01independently
38:02from him.
38:05Why?
38:06Why did you do this
38:09to me?
38:12Don't you see
38:13what they'll think?
38:16Do you want me to die?
38:18They've made up
38:19their minds.
38:21There's nothing
38:21you nor I can say
38:23will change them.
38:26The emperor
38:27has abandoned you.
38:29He's given you up
38:30to the mob.
38:31There's nothing
38:34on earth
38:35can save you
38:36now.
38:41What about you?
38:46I'll go to Livia.
38:48She at least
38:49stands by
38:50her friends.
38:51Oh Piso
39:07listen to me
39:09there's the honor
39:11and wealth
39:12of our family
39:13to be saved
39:14our sons
39:15our daughters
39:16our grandchildren
39:18what of them?
39:19if
39:24if you
39:27take your life
39:28now
39:28if you
39:34take your life
39:35there's a chance
39:36and a good one
39:38that an honorable death
39:40will preserve
39:40the family wealth
39:41well execution
39:44means only one thing
39:45destruction
39:47for all
39:48we've built
39:48fall on a sword
39:57is that what you want
40:01for me
40:01your husband?
40:06is that to be the end
40:07of Nias
40:08Copernicus Piso?
40:08hmm?
40:14no
40:14there is another way
40:18you go
40:19Olivia yes
40:19tell her I have a letter
40:22another letter
40:23she'll remember the one
40:25she wrote
40:25it's in her name
40:27and his
40:27but it bears
40:30but it bears no seal
40:31tell her no power
40:34on earth
40:34will prevent me
40:34reading it in the senate
40:35aloud tomorrow
40:36unless I have
40:38assurances of acquittal
40:39you're bluffing
40:46no
40:49tell her
40:52she'll remember
40:56tell her I intend to read it
40:59aloud in the senate
41:00tomorrow
41:02well don't look at me
41:04as if I just told you
41:05I was pregnant
41:06he's got a letter
41:09and it's very incriminating
41:11and he'll read it
41:12unless we do something
41:13about it
41:14you wrote a letter
41:18in my name
41:20and yours
41:20without even using
41:22the seal
41:22you're away
41:25and anyway
41:26you don't let me
41:26use the seal
41:27who's emperor here
41:29you or I
41:30I used Augustus's seal
41:32I had the free use of that
41:33I am not
41:35Augustus
41:36no you're not
41:37otherwise this situation
41:38would never have arisen
41:39I think I shall go mad
41:41you will drive me insane
41:44will you stay out
41:47of my affairs
41:48your affairs
41:49you wouldn't be emperor
41:51if it weren't for me
41:52well what's done
41:53can be undone
41:54Plansina isn't the only one
41:56with letters
41:56I've got plenty
41:58from Augustus
41:59saying exactly
41:59what he thought about you
42:00and don't think
42:01I won't have them
42:02circulated if I have to
42:03what do you want
42:06I don't want
42:09that letter read
42:09in the senate
42:10you'd be a fool
42:12if you allowed it
42:13you want my assurances
42:16that they'll be acquitted
42:17of course I do
42:18they should be acquitted
42:20and if you had any backbone
42:21you'd get them acquitted
42:22I'll tell you
42:24what I'm gonna do
42:24it's your letter
42:26you stick to it
42:28and if it's read
42:30in the house
42:31I'll deny all knowledge
42:32of it
42:33and excuse you
42:34on the grounds
42:35of mental incompetence
42:37brought on
42:38by extreme
42:40old age
42:41and you can tell
42:42your friend
42:43Plansina
42:44that there will be
42:45no deal
42:46what a spineless
42:51miserable
42:53mean-spirited
42:55creature
42:56you are
42:57he won't have it
43:03he won't acquit
43:08your husband
43:08there is too much
43:11feeling against him
43:12and what about me
43:13well
43:16I was a little
43:18more successful
43:19there
43:19in exchange
43:22for the letter
43:23he will allow
43:25your husband
43:26to take his own life
43:27rather than
43:28face execution
43:29then
43:30he will see to it
43:31that you are spared
43:32and that your family
43:34and your estates
43:35do not suffer
43:36and if my husband
43:39refuses
43:40well I would see
43:42to it that he
43:42doesn't refuse
43:43if I were you
43:44it shouldn't be hard
43:45appeal to his sense
43:46of honour
43:47men find that
43:48irresistible
43:48and what guarantee
43:50do I have
43:51that your son
43:52will get me acquitted
43:53well you see
43:55I have Martina
43:58but he doesn't know
44:00that
44:01now his chances
44:02of convicting you
44:04without her
44:04are remote
44:05on the other hand
44:09if that letter
44:11is read
44:12I shall be compelled
44:14very reluctantly
44:17to produce
44:19he won't help us
44:31he has abandoned us
44:33oh that
44:40that miserable
44:42cur
44:42I shall read
44:45this letter
44:46the senate
44:47will see
44:48what sort of
44:48emperor they have
44:49and what sort of
44:49bitch gave him birth
44:51and calls himself
44:51mother of the nation
44:52oh no
44:53wait
44:54wait
44:54please listen to me
44:55we can't fight them
44:56they're too powerful
44:57and anyway
44:59there's the children
45:00and the estates
45:02is the whole family
45:04to be destroyed
45:05because of us
45:06oh I can't believe it
45:09it's not right
45:11I won't allow it
45:12we've lived together
45:18we'll die together
45:21too
45:21oh there's comfort
45:25in that
45:25isn't there
45:26you would
45:32die with me
45:35I couldn't live
45:39without you
45:40we'll leave the letter
45:54for Livia
45:55she'll help the family
45:58when we've gone
45:59I know that
46:00yes you're right
46:05tired of it all
46:10to have everybody
46:14against you
46:14all you've done
46:17is your duty
46:17there's no
46:25gratitude anymore
46:27no
46:30no honour
46:32the hell with Rome
46:41I'm done with it
46:44how shall we do it
47:01open a vein
47:02let them find us lying together
47:04shall we let them
47:10find us lying together
47:11let them start
47:15oh they're bluffing
47:45they wouldn't dare have that letter read would you rather have an executioner sword on your neck like a common criminal never come to that oh you coward well i'm made of stern stuff i'll show you how a roman should die they've never had that letter in pancina they've never read
48:15so
48:22oh
48:28Yes, Pizzo is dead.
48:58But Plansina goes free and you call that justice?
49:03Well, it's some justice, I suppose. Better than none.
49:07Oh, yes. Some justice.
49:10Tina, can't we let it rest now?
49:12I have sons to think about. Their father is dead because Tiberius hated him.
49:18Oh, let's not deceive ourselves about that.
49:20And if he hated their father, will he love them any more?
49:24I worry about my boys, Nero.
49:28Tiberius, dear little Caligula asleep in his bed. What's to become of them?
49:33It's Sejanus. My father listens to everything he says and Sejanus plays on his fears.
49:40Can anyone smell burning?
49:41Hmm? I can smell them.
49:46Something.
49:47Mr. Mr.
49:48Get your little Caligula sent fire to the house.
49:51It's burning the whole top floor of the place.
49:53John!
49:55Oh, my God.
49:56Oh, my God.
49:58He's dead in his head.
49:59Zed in his head.
50:00Oh, my God.
50:00Oh, my God.
50:03Oh, my God.
50:06Look.
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