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Rome, AD 23–29. Claudius is invited to a dinner where the hostess, Lollia, unexpectedly confesses she was forced to prostitute herself to Tiberius, and then stabs herself. Tiberius now only lives for his perversions, in which Caligula is only too happy to join. Sejanus effectively rules the empire, overseeing continual treason trials of notable citizens and seizing their property for the crown. He is having an affair with Livilla, who becomes so enamored of him that she poisons her husband, Tiberius' son Castor to be able to marry Sejanus. Sejanus manipulates Claudius into marrying his adopted sister Aelia, after telling him that his wife is pregnant by another man. Unexpectedly, Claudius receives an invitation to dine with his now-elderly grandmother Livia, who has not spoken to him in years. Anticipating her coming death, Livia reveals to Claudius that an unpublished Sibylline prophecy claims that both he and Caligula will each one day become Emperor, and makes each of them promise to make her a goddess so that she can escape eternal torment for her many misdeeds. Claudius agrees on the condition that she reveal to him the full scope of her crimes, which she does. On her deathbed she receives a visit from Caligula, who rescinds his promise and reveals that he plans to become the greatest god the world has ever known. Claudius, however, renews his promise to her, and Livia dies peacefully.
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00:30When you find her we saw her first in Antioch a year ago.
00:59a year ago when Titus was on duty there. we thought her so superb that Titus paid
01:04for her to tour through the provinces. and now my dear friends the
01:09entertainment is over. she was wonderful and a beautiful dinner. thank you
01:14Claudius but I wasn't inviting a compliment. it's just that I have
01:18something to perform and I brought you here as some of our dearest friends to
01:22be with me when I do it. what's this lolly a surprise for me too? yes my
01:27dear it is. she never tells me anything. very naughty my dear to plan a surprise for
01:32our guests and not tell your husband. you know that I love you very much. now I'm
01:38really worried this is going to cost me a fortune. what have you bought? how much have you spent?
01:42nothing. for once I've spent nothing. you may remember that a week ago tonight we
01:49went to a dinner at the palace given by the Emperor. of course. you may also
01:53remember. though perhaps you didn't notice that Tiberius was fascinated by our daughter.
01:58I must admit I saw him looking at Camilla once or twice. what you don't know is that
02:06she received a summons to the palace the next day. a summons? you never told me.
02:11no I thought it best not to put you in a position where you'd object. what is this lolly? what are you
02:17telling me? a summons to the Emperor is not something to be refused. but naturally I
02:23wouldn't let my daughter go alone knowing his reputation. so I went with her. we were
02:31admitted into a room I imagine he keeps for such receptions. I'd never been into
02:37that room before. nor met anyone who had. walls were hung with what I suppose the
02:44Emperor imagines is erotic art. they depict scenes of incredible beastliness. not fit
02:53for anyone to look at. let alone a young girl. lolly what's the matter with you?
02:57why are you telling me this now in front of all our friends? these are not just
03:01friends. they're all in their different ways important people in Rome. that's why
03:07they're here tonight. he took Camilla up to the wall to show her the paintings and
03:13talked about them as if they were works of art. when I objected and told him he
03:20should be ashamed of himself trying to corrupt a young girl he simply smiled and
03:25said. and what about an old one? no Titus please. then he clapped his hands and a
03:34slave appeared from another room carrying a tray of wine. the slave was naked and
03:45while Tiberius spoke to her he stroked the slave. I suppose in his twisted way he
03:55thought it might inflame my daughter's passions but Camilla burst into tears and
04:01begged to be allowed to leave. he then pretended to be upset and complained that
04:08she'd given him a different impression on the night of the dinner. he then turned to
04:14me and told me to go home. I won't have you repeat anymore. no Titus please. no enough!
04:18let me finish! if I'd had this with me then I'd have used it on him.
04:30instead I begged a moment with him alone. he granted it.
04:37and there I offered myself in my daughter's place.
04:44yes Titus my husband. to save my daughter I offered myself in her place. and he accepted.
04:55my dear that was nothing for me to save her.
05:02I took her to the gate. and warned her not to say anything to anyone.
05:10and then returned. Lollia please please don't go. I've nearly finished.
05:16I said that to prostitute myself for my daughter was nothing. what wouldn't we do to save our children?
05:23I should have gone to the gate.
05:27into the room. out again.
05:32no one would have been the wiser.
05:37I did go into that room. I was there subjected to acts of such an abominable filth.
05:58to bestial obscenities.
06:04with him and his slaves of both sexes.
06:08that mere prostitution seems like a blessed state compared to him.
06:16you must forget Lollia.
06:18you must put it from your mind. you've saved your husband and your daughter. that's enough.
06:23no Agrippina. that is not possible.
06:27if there'd been just one part of me befouled by his lust I should have come home and cut it out.
06:34with this knife.
06:38and I can't live with the memory of what he did to me.
06:43nor can I get into my husband's bed again.
06:47nor have his arms round me.
06:49nor feel the love he's had for me all these years.
06:52without
06:54without the memory of
06:57that
06:58beast
06:59and his
07:00beast
07:01coming between us.
07:06if
07:08I
07:09could
07:10cut
07:12from my mind
07:14make way there!
07:39move aside to the emperor!
07:41Don't block the road!
07:43Make way there! Stand aside!
07:46Clear the road to the emperor!
07:48Make way!
07:50Make way there!
07:52Well, well.
07:55Is it my son who greets his mother with such affectionate eagerness?
08:00Good day, Mother.
08:01In a hurry, are you? What is it? Another treason trial?
08:04Who is it today?
08:06There are no trials today, Mother.
08:07Slipped up, have you?
08:08Run out of people to prosecute or perhaps you'll have more time to spend with your mother.
08:13There is no need to shout I'm not deaf.
08:15You've been deaf to me for years.
08:17Why did you refuse the ambassadors from Spain permission to erect a temple to me?
08:22I will not discuss such matters in the street.
08:24Good day, Mother. Move on. Good day.
08:27It's my birthday next month.
08:29What are you going to buy me?
08:31I heard about Lollia. Disgusting.
08:34Your brother Drusus was worth ten of you.
08:37Drusus! Where is that damned astrologer?
08:42Coming, excellency. Coming.
08:44I want you to cast my mother's horoscope.
08:46Your mother's? What for?
08:47Because I want to know how much longer I have to put up with her. That's what's for.
08:51Do you know the exact time of her birth?
08:53Of course I don't.
08:54Then I can only do a rough calculation.
08:56Why don't you ask her? It's her birthday soon.
08:58You could tell her her son wants to make her a present of her horoscope.
09:01Oh, yes. She's like that.
09:03She's had a great admiration for you ever since you prophesied that she'd outlive her husband.
09:06That was obvious. I could see she had every intention of doing so.
09:10Still, I'll go and ask her for an interview.
09:15What is she? Leo! That's hopeful. There's a bad time coming up for Leo soon.
09:20I'll go and see.
09:23Try to stay in Rhodes.
09:26I wish I'd never returned.
09:29Someone must govern.
09:32Rome is fortunate that she has you.
09:36Yes.
09:38And I am fortunate in you, Sir Janus. You are my eyes and my ears if it wasn't for you to relieve me of some of my burdens.
09:45What have we here?
09:46Verbatim reports of conversations taken down by my agents.
09:49Some are merely vicious. Others are treasonable.
09:52Doesn't anybody in this city ever say anything that isn't either vicious or treasonable?
09:56The last two years we've had more treason trials than the whole of the previous ten.
10:00There is one I think you should look at.
10:08Silly as Cecina.
10:13Wasn't he the corps commander on the upper Rhine?
10:16That's the point.
10:21Had it not been for the way I handled my four regiments, they would have mutinied too.
10:26He said that?
10:27At a dinner party.
10:29What did he mean by it?
10:30What he went on to say, that if his regiments had joined the mutiny,
10:34Tiberius would not be emperor now.
10:37He implies, of course, that you owe your position to him.
10:40Oh, well, he'd have too much wine.
10:43You know what these old soldiers are like.
10:45They like to fight over all their old battles after dinner.
10:48I think there may be more to it than that.
10:51But perhaps it's not important.
10:52What do you mean?
10:54Only that he went on to say, as you'd have seen lower down,
10:56that the regiments that did mutiny were the ones that had been under your command for so long.
11:00But he probably only said it because Agrippina was there.
11:03And after it in a compliment to her late husband, whose regiments, of course, remained loyal.
11:09Agrippina was at the dinner.
11:10Uh-huh.
11:11Agrippina.
11:12Agrippina was at the dinner of Gaius Caligula to see the emperor.
11:14What do you want?
11:15Can't you see that I'm busy?
11:19I brought you a present.
11:21Present?
11:22What sort of a present?
11:24Took me a year to find it.
11:26When I heard about it, I said,
11:28that is for my great uncle Tiberius.
11:34Happy anniversary.
11:35What of?
11:37Well, what difference does it make?
11:38Can't you think of something?
11:42that's nothing. wait till you see the others. where did you get this?
11:53Elephantus. a merchant I know who travels between Egypt and Rome told me
11:58about and I asked him to get it for me. it cost quite a lot. to tell the truth it
12:04cost so much I had to borrow part of it from Uncle Claudius. it's 200 years old.
12:12it was very thoughtful of you. I knew you'd like it. in fact I'd like to borrow it
12:21myself sometime. I mean when you're not using it. I would like you to examine the
12:29evidence to see if there's a case for impeaching Silius Cecina in the Senate.
12:33on a charge of treason? yes. for insulting references towards the Emperor? why not?
12:42well I agree why not but blasphemies against Augustus have been held to be
12:46treason but against Tiberius there's no precedent for it. the Emperor's noble son
12:52Tiberius Drusus Caesar. Castor how nice to see you. welcome back. I'm Castor to my
12:58friend Sejanus. I had hoped you would count me among your friends. perhaps you will
13:03one day. that seems to me unlikely. your father doesn't wish to be disturbed.
13:09announce me you filthy German pig or I'll have you flogged and sent back to the
13:15mud huts from which you came.
13:19never mind precedent. I want Silius Cecina impeached on a charge of treason. he has a great war record and he has powerful friends. the Lady Acropena for one. would you prefer I found someone else to prosecute him? then you will take the case.
13:31of course. I was to some extent just clearing my mind. Germanicus was never your enemy. I tell you he was my enemy. I know what his ambitions were. I have the proof here in the files. and I know how his widow conspires.
13:43against me now. from Sejanus? from Sejanus? yes from Sejanus. and he at least unlike my son keeps me informed of what goes on in this city. oh father open your eyes. the man is using it.
14:01you. you know nothing he doesn't want you to know and you see no one he doesn't want you to see. he is the partner of my labors. yes and soon he'll be your colleague but even that won't be enough for him. that man has an appetite for power unknown to you and me. envy. envy. envy. envy.
14:19you envy him because for years he worked. while you and that Judean friend of yours Herod spent your days and nights whoring around the city. he worked to relieve me of some of my labor. that's true. but if you think he's working for you you're mistaken. he's working for himself and how hard he worked.
14:47have you finished? no I have not finished. his statue is now to be seen in pompey theater and replicas of it are to be found all over Rome. he's built a network of spies that have spread like an infection through the city.
15:03well don't you see? he's building a prison here stone by stone and one day when you're gone we'll all wake up and find the doors locked and the boats down.
15:14did you have a report to make on the coastal defenses?
15:17yes. well then make it!
15:21he's interested in nothing nowadays except treason trials and pornographic books. you know he had one with him. i think caligula had bought it for him. they seem to get on well those two.
15:39that young man gives me the shudders. how germanicus and agrippina could have ever produced him i don't know.
15:44did you quarrel with your father?
15:46we had an argument over sejanus. he's blind to that man's ambition.
15:51don't you think you're exaggerating? no.
15:54well what can he aspire to? a commander of the guard?
15:57i sometimes think he aspires to sit where my father sits.
16:02he doesn't realize how much he's grown to depend upon him.
16:05he seeks his advice on everything.
16:10why don't you go to sleep?
16:13i don't know why i'm so tired.
16:15you've had a long journey.
16:17i came to say good night father.
16:23good night.
16:25i'm glad you're back.
16:27i'm sorry i was so tired. i really can't keep awake.
16:30you'll feel better in the morning.
16:32good night mother.
16:33good night helen.
16:35she's becoming very beautiful.
16:37yes.
16:39her skin's not all that it should be though.
16:42you two are looking beautiful.
16:44thank you.
16:46why don't you stay?
16:48not tonight.
16:49you're tired.
16:51you'll sleep better alone.
16:53yes, you're right.
16:55i really can't keep my eyes open.
17:02did you sleep?
17:03yes.
17:04is he fast asleep?
17:05yes.
17:13quick!
17:15now wait.
17:16don't be in such a hurry.
17:18much better if you wait.
17:24did you do as i said?
17:25yes.
17:26put it in his wife?
17:27yes it worked.
17:28he'll sleep too.
17:29i thought you'd never get here.
17:40well.
17:41what are we going to do?
17:53do?
17:54we're going to make love.
17:55for the last time.
17:57for the last time?
17:59no.
18:00no.
18:01no.
18:02no.
18:03i couldn't bear it.
18:04i couldn't bear it.
18:05he'll go away again.
18:07it's too much of a risk.
18:08be sensible.
18:09if we go on like this we're bound to be discovered.
18:10it's too dangerous.
18:11be sensible.
18:12how can you be sensible?
18:13how can you be sensible?
18:14i don't think you love me.
18:16not really.
18:17i love you too much to risk exposing you to a charge of adultery.
18:24don't tempt me my darling.
18:26help me.
18:32we could still meet.
18:33how?
18:34i could do what i did tonight.
18:35drug his wine?
18:36he'll begin to grow suspicious if he falls asleep every night.
18:40besides his body will grow accustomed to it.
18:42it'll gradually cease to have any effect.
18:44and then my darling.
18:47one night in your eagerness to see him asleep.
18:50you might kill him.
19:05would a large dose really kill him?
19:08what are you saying?
19:09i can't live without you.
19:11i can't.
19:13i can't.
19:15i can't.
19:16i think i'd die if you didn't come into my bed every night.
19:21it's such little step to take from making him sleep at night to making him sleep forever.
19:26then you'll need something stronger.
19:28something that can be used in small doses will never be detected.
19:30get it for me.
19:31be sure.
19:32yes.
19:33yes.
19:34yes.
19:35are you.
19:36if you are.
19:37and afterwards.
19:38i'll divorce my wife and we'll get married.
19:40and then i'll have you all to myself.
19:43and all love is for you then.
19:47you'll have to behave.
19:50and if i don't.
19:53i don't.
19:54you don't.
19:55and then i'll lock you in a room without any clothes.
19:58and i'll visit you three or four times a day.
20:02perhaps you'll be too tired.
20:03perhaps you'll only manage once.
20:05then i'll send my guard to stand in for me.
20:09would you really?
20:10yes.
20:11how many?
20:12three or four.
20:13i might not let them.
20:14you'll be forced.
20:15against my will?
20:16yes.
20:17while you were there.
20:18yes.
20:19i'd struggle and scream.
20:20but no use.
20:21you'd like that.
20:22i'd struggle and scream.
20:25but no use.
20:26you'd like that.
20:28i'd struggle and scream.
20:32but no use.
20:35you'd like that.
20:38wouldn't you?
20:58glorious!
21:04what's your hurry?
21:06look at this.
21:08it came this morning.
21:09lady liby augusta expects her dear grandson.
21:12abiris called his drusus to dine with her on the occasion of her birthday.
21:15she hopes that he's in good health.
21:17what could it mean?
21:19well it says i imagine.
21:20i should take her own wine if i were you.
21:22don't joke herod.
21:24i'm very nervous.
21:25i mean she never invites me.
21:27i haven't even spoken for seven years.
21:29did you know the last time she spoke to me was when caligula burned the house down.
21:33and then all she said was if you haven't got a bucket piss on you.
21:37i remember.
21:38your family are all lunatics who know that don't you?
21:41well in that case why don't you go back to your own family?
21:44you dear.
21:45i prefer the lunatics i know to the ones i don't.
21:47where are you off to now?
21:48i must look for a present for grandmother.
21:51well.
21:53what about one of these?
21:55oh.
21:56i know that face.
21:58who is it?
21:59he knows that face.
22:01wonderful.
22:02claudius people know that face better than they know their own.
22:06sejanus.
22:07it's a replica of the head of the statue they've erected to him at pompey theater.
22:11everyone's buying them.
22:12everybody had better buy them.
22:14well.
22:15here.
22:16have one.
22:17oh.
22:18oh thanks.
22:19i've got nowhere to put it.
22:20oh.
22:21don't be obvious herod.
22:22you're very tedious when you're obvious.
22:24i must go.
22:25curse that you're not looking well.
22:27no.
22:28i don't feel well.
22:29i've not been well since i returned.
22:30well.
22:31how's my sister?
22:32i invited her to a public reading of my work while you were away.
22:35but she never came.
22:36well.
22:37the villa's day has never been littered.
22:38well.
22:39you never came either.
22:40ah.
22:41well.
22:42that's because mine always were.
22:43herod.
22:44you're talented.
22:45but.
22:46dull.
22:47i must go.
22:48the dear divine fool my cousin is.
22:50and how nervous everyone makes.
22:52well.
22:53if i'd been asked to dinner with your grandmother i'd be nervous too.
22:55he's right you know.
22:57you really don't look well.
22:59oh.
23:00it'll pass.
23:01why do you worry so much?
23:03i think.
23:04it should be good.
23:05hold.
23:06cilia syscina?
23:08oh.
23:09what's this?
23:10i'm to be arrested.
23:11it seems.
23:12by whose order?
23:13by.
23:14Halt!
23:18Silius Aicina?
23:20What's this?
23:22I'm to be arrested, it seems.
23:24By whose order?
23:26By order of the State Senate.
23:28On what grounds?
23:30On the grounds of treason.
23:32Gaius Silius Aicina is to be impeached before the Senate.
23:35It seems I made some defamatory remarks about your father.
23:40I don't recall them.
23:44Now this must be some sort of joke, Varro.
23:47You'll be laughed out of the house.
23:50I don't think so.
23:53Please stand aside, sir.
23:55I'm on state business and may not be interfered with,
23:59even by the Emperor's son.
24:07Forward!
24:14Oh, divine Augustus.
24:23Take these offerings I beg, poor as they are,
24:25and help me, your unworthy successor, to rule wisely in your place.
24:29And help me too, oh my father, divine ruler of the world,
24:33to calm the raging spirit inside me,
24:36and lighten the dark shadows of my soul,
24:40and bring me peace.
24:43Peace.
24:44Hypocrite?
24:46Hypocrite?
24:49You sacrifice to Augustus, but you persecute his grandchildren.
24:53Grandchildren of Augustus do I persecute that he himself did not persecute?
24:58I'm not talking of my brother Posthumus.
25:00I'm talking of me.
25:02Of me?
25:04All my friends, one by one, you either banish or you charge them with treason.
25:09And their only crime is friendship for me.
25:12Even Lollia, whom you could find nothing against you,
25:15degraded and humiliated till she took her own life.
25:19And now you've arrested Cilia Cecina.
25:21And if you are not queen, my dear, have I done you wrong?
25:24Oh, why do you persist in this childish belief that I want to be queen?
25:28Is it because you need to find reasons for the way you treat me?
25:32And how do I treat you?
25:34You persecute me!
25:36I will not be screamed at even by the granddaughter of Augustus!
25:39Cilius is seen and is charged with treasonable utterances!
25:44Utterances?
25:46What brings the emperorship into disrepute?
25:49Undermines the foundations of the state!
25:56Tiberius!
25:58Perhaps I do you wrong in thinking you persecute me because of my friends.
26:04But you too do me wrong in thinking me ambitious.
26:10I'm tired.
26:13Since Germanicus died, I've hardly known what to do with myself.
26:18All I want is to be left alone.
26:22And...
26:24And?
26:27Be good to my children.
26:30Have I not been good to them?
26:31Oh, too calicular perhaps.
26:33But Nero and Drusus, you're cold and never inquire after them.
26:38Oh, Tiberius.
26:40Let's not fight one another all the time.
26:45As for your children,
26:47they are guiltless of any crime.
26:50I will look upon them as friends.
26:52As for you,
26:56I will never forget what you made me do to Piso.
27:00Tiberius, Claudius, Drusus, Nero, Germanicus.
27:15Happy birthday, grandmother.
27:18Oh, is that for me?
27:23Yes.
27:25It's ours.
27:27From India.
27:28Ah, very pretty.
27:30And from such a distant place.
27:32It's a pity we never got that far.
27:34So many fine things we could have picked up cheap.
27:37Sit down, my dear, and eat something.
27:38Regular.
27:40Uncle.
27:50You.
27:52Come on, mother.
28:08Come on.
28:25Staking everything on one throw, Uncle Claudius.
28:27Hold your tongue.
28:29It was a very polite gesture of confidence in me
28:31and was much appreciated.
28:34Have you had some lovely presents, grandmother?
28:37Several, my dear.
28:38And Trusillus has drawn me the most detailed horoscope for my birthday.
28:42Such work has gone into it. Amazing.
28:45A horoscope full of incident and prophecy.
28:47I was amazed at it myself.
28:49It was a present from Tiberius.
28:50Wasn't that nice of him?
28:52Of course, what he really wants to know
28:53is how much longer I'm going to live.
28:55Are you sure you...
28:56Oh, shut up.
28:57It's a foolish mother who doesn't know her own son.
29:00Did he find out?
29:02Oh, yes. Yes.
29:03I shall die soon.
29:05Next year sometime.
29:06My son will be relieved.
29:08I shall tell him nothing.
29:09It would be an unforgivable breach of professional ethics.
29:12You're a liar.
29:13Like all good astrologers, you're a liar.
29:17You can go now.
29:19They tell the truth about the future,
29:21but they lie their way out of the present.
29:23Lady, let me reassure you, I could be wrong.
29:26If your mother was mistaken over the exact time of your birth,
29:29by so much as a fraction,
29:31it could mean another ten years of life.
29:33You see, they can't resist it.
29:36They're all so insecure, these astrologers.
29:39They all so want to be loved.
29:41Go away, Trusillus.
29:42You'll get no love here.
29:43What are you grinning at, monster?
29:46You are a monster, aren't you?
29:49Whatever you say, great-grandmother.
29:51Did you know your nephew was a monster, Claudius?
29:53Oh, was he old enough to have acquired that title?
29:56Oh, he started very young, didn't you, monster?
30:01I searched his room one day and I found a little green talisman
30:05that told me a very remarkable story.
30:09Or rather confirmed one I'd heard from another quarter.
30:12A green talisman? Like my brother wore?
30:16The one your brother wore.
30:19Do you think it's safe that Uncle Claudius should be told my secret?
30:22Or are you going to poison him?
30:25Oh, he's quite safe.
30:28And remember this, monster.
30:31Your Uncle Claudius here is a phenomenon.
30:34He's so old-fashioned
30:35that because he's sworn to protect his brother's children
30:38he will never harm you.
30:40And remember this, too.
30:42Trusillus has prophesied that he will avenge your death
30:45so you cannot harm him.
30:48I didn't think much of that prophecy.
30:50Never mind what you thought about it.
30:51just remember it.
30:53Now you may kiss me and go.
30:55I want to talk to Claudius in private.
31:21Good night, great-grandmother.
31:30Good night, Uncle.
31:33My body fascinates him because it's so old.
31:37You'd think it would repel him, wouldn't you?
31:39Why do you allow him such barbarity?
31:43Because it pleases him.
31:46And because he will be the next emperor.
31:51You don't believe me, do you?
31:55If you say so, grandmother.
31:57You know, I don't concern myself with high politics.
32:01But still, what about Castor?
32:04And Caligula has two older brothers.
32:06Castor is ill and Trusillus says he won't recover.
32:09He also says that Tiberius will choose Caligula to succeed him.
32:14Why?
32:16Vanity.
32:18Tiberius wants to be loved,
32:21at least after his death, if not before.
32:24And the best way to ensure that...
32:25Is to have someone worse to follow him.
32:28Yes, naturally.
32:29Well, he's certainly no fool.
32:31He's the biggest fool in my family.
32:32I always thought that that was you.
32:36That I think now I was wrong.
32:43Grandmother, after all these years,
32:45you didn't invite me to dinner just to tell me this.
32:48Why, and it's made you bold, hasn't it?
32:50You said you kept in with Caligula because he was to be the next emperor.
32:54Lost your stutter too, I see.
32:55But if by then you're dead, what difference can it make to you?
32:59Oh, it makes a lot of difference.
33:05And that's really why you're here.
33:10I want to be a goddess, Claudius.
33:15Trusillus says he's sure I will be, which means he's not sure at all.
33:19He just thinks I will.
33:21Why are you so anxious to become a goddess?
33:24Oh, don't you understand?
33:25Claudius, do you believe that the souls of great criminals suffer eternal torment?
33:31Certainly.
33:33But that the immortal gods, whatever crimes they have committed,
33:35are free from any fear of punishment?
33:37Of course.
33:38Jove deposed his father, killed one of his grandsons,
33:41and incestuously married his own sister.
33:43He's the greatest god of all.
33:45I've done many terrible things, Claudius.
33:52Well, no ruler could do otherwise.
33:55But I've always put the good of the empire above all else.
34:00But who saved Rome from civil war again?
34:03I did.
34:04Augustus would have plunged us into it time and again with his ridiculous favoritism.
34:11He set Agrippa against Marcellus, Gaius against Tiberius, Tiberius against Posthumus.
34:17There was no end to his follies.
34:20And it fell to me to remove them, one by one.
34:26Don't say you'll never suspect it.
34:30That's why I tolerate Caligula.
34:34He's sworn if I keep his secret,
34:38he'll make me a goddess as soon as he becomes emperor.
34:43Now, you two must swear that you'll do everything you can to see that it happens.
34:48Well, don't you see?
34:51If he doesn't make me a goddess, I'll be in hell.
34:54Hell.
34:56Suffering torments day and night, year after year after year after year after year after year.
35:03Please, don't decide.
35:06Of course, I'll do what I can.
35:09On one small condition.
35:11There's so much I want to know.
35:14I'm an historian and I want to know the truth.
35:18See, when people die, so much dies with them.
35:20And all that's left is just pieces of paper that tell lies.
35:25Lies, lies.
35:27He wants to know the truth and he calls it a small condition.
35:31Come on.
35:33Who killed Marcellus?
35:40I did.
35:42The Empire needed Agrippa more than it needed Marcellus.
35:46And then I poisoned Agrippa later.
35:51Because I knew that his wife was in love with Tiberius.
35:55And if Tiberius married her, Augustus would make him emperor.
35:59My son botched that up, of course.
36:01And Julia's sons by Agrippa.
36:05How did they die?
36:09Gaius I had poisoned when he was in Syria.
36:15You have a long reach.
36:17The Empire is very large. I need one.
36:20Lucius was drowned in a boating accident arranged by his friend Plotius.
36:25And...
36:28Posthumus.
36:31You were very fond of him, weren't you?
36:33Yes, Grandma.
36:35He was useless.
36:37I had to get rid of Posthumus. He was a threat to Tiberius.
36:40Besides, he knew I'd had his mother banished.
36:42What about my father, who was your son?
36:48And Germanicus, who was my dear brother.
36:51Did you poison him?
36:53No.
36:56Your father died of his wound.
36:59And Plancina poisoned Germanicus without instructions from me.
37:04But I'd marked them both down for death.
37:08Why?
37:09Why?
37:11They were both infected with that infantile disorder known as Republicanism.
37:17So was I.
37:19Yes, but you didn't count.
37:22If I ever had the opportunity, the...
37:25Do you know the first thing I'd do?
37:27Would be restore the Republic.
37:29Then you are a fool, after all.
37:34What about Orcasters?
37:35Did you poison him?
37:37Yes.
37:39Yes, I did.
37:41I smeared the poison on the figs while they were still on the tree.
37:43I had no choice.
37:44He would only eat them if he'd picked them himself.
37:45Took me all night to do it.
37:46How could you have done that, car mother?
37:47You lived with him for so long.
37:48Yes.
37:49That was hard.
37:50Very hard.
37:51Very hard.
37:52And you lived with him for so long.
37:53Yes.
37:54That was the hardest thing I ever had to do.
37:55That was the hardest thing I ever had to do.
37:56That was the hardest thing I ever had to do.
37:57You lived with him for so long.
37:59and you lived with him for so long.
38:02Yes.
38:05That was hard.
38:06Very hard.
38:08That was the hardest thing I ever had to do.
38:09for so long.
38:11Yes.
38:14That was hard.
38:16Very hard.
38:20That was the hardest thing I ever had to do.
38:28Oh, you made me tired with all your questions.
38:32You must go away.
38:34Take this.
38:42Read it sometime.
38:44That is a collection of Sibylline verses rejected from the official book.
38:50Why?
38:52Because it's prophesied there that you will one day be emperor.
39:04Yes.
39:06You.
39:08Yes.
39:09I feel very few days here, grandmother.
39:14You won't forget your promise.
39:16No, I won't.
39:18If I can become emperor, you can certainly become the queen of heaven.
39:28The noble Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus.
39:32Claudius!
39:33My dear fellow, how nice to see you.
39:35I was on my way to see Pastor.
39:37I'm told he's very bad.
39:39Yes.
39:40But he'll recover, I'm sure.
39:42Your sister is taking such good care of him.
39:44Actually, I wanted to have a word with you.
39:49What about?
39:51This may seem an odd question to put to a husband.
39:54But did you know your wife was pregnant?
39:57I know.
39:58Well, it's, I think, to do with me.
40:10We haven't even spoken for a long time.
40:13You'll have to divorce her now.
40:15What for?
40:16Well, you can't be married to a woman who's going to bear someone else's child.
40:19What an eccentric fellow you are.
40:21Your uncle will expect you to divorce her.
40:23Oh.
40:24Oh.
40:25Well, of course, I'm...
40:28Evorcer.
40:31Whom will you marry?
40:33Marry?
40:34I'm just...
40:35Evorcer.
40:36Yes, but you won't want to live alone, will you?
40:38Well, I was just living alone all the time I was married.
40:41Well, then it doesn't matter whether you marry or not.
40:45I'd rather not.
40:46Nonsense.
40:48I have just the woman for you.
40:51She's beautiful.
40:53Independent.
40:54She'll leave you alone as much as you like.
40:56Who...
40:57Who is she?
40:58My sister.
41:00Aelia.
41:03Well, she wouldn't want to marry a...
41:06...time...
41:08...like me.
41:10Oh, she wouldn't mind.
41:11Besides, you're the emperor's nephew.
41:13That's a good alliance for my family.
41:15And on your side, you'll be my brother-in-law.
41:19I've spoken to the emperor.
41:21He's given his consent.
41:23Oh, in that case, anything you say, Sir Janus?
41:27Good!
41:28Well, that's settled then.
41:30Very decent of you, Sir Janus.
41:32Thanks a lot.
41:37He's dying.
41:39Dying.
41:49Bro...
41:55He's dying.
41:56He's dying.
41:57No...
41:59No, he's dying.
42:01He's dying.
42:02I'm gonna wash...
42:03He's dying.
42:04I'm gonna wash his hands.
42:05He's dying.
42:06Amen.
42:07You just didn't hear it.
42:08He's dying.
42:09He's dying.
42:10You just didn't hear it.
42:12You just didn't get Jahren.
42:13He's dying.
42:15I asked to see the Emperor to convey my sympathies on the death of his son he
42:30sent word he never wanted to see me again a nod is as good as a wink from
42:34that direction where were you oh we had a back to you dear no no to Edom my
42:41grandfather Herod the Great came from there it was your father lady Mark
42:45Antony who made him king of the Jews he did them no favor believe me on the
42:50other hand he did my grandfather no favor either for the Jews are a quarrelsome
42:53people and drive all their rulers man what will you do in Edom I understand
42:57there's nothing there oh my grandfather's domains were divided among his three
43:05surviving sons whether he had three left is a miracle for he murdered all the rest
43:09I can only think he overlooked them he sounds a colorful character if black is
43:13colorful he was colorful from there I shall decide which of my three uncles is
43:20the safest touch and make my plans accordingly you must marry Herod I have
43:25someone in mind a Roman no lady we Jews believe in marrying only among ourselves
43:30then you're a very arrogant people well practical there's so many things we can't
43:35eat no gentile woman would stand it for a moment and what's this Claudius about a
43:41marriage for you but Claudius I he's already married but he's getting a divorce to
43:46marry Sir Jane her sister isn't that right
43:50is this true is this true well
43:57well my wife
44:04Oginalilla is apparently having a baby and it's not mine I shouldn't think it is
44:09you never see her well that's the point so Sir Jane has suggested I divorce her
44:15and marry his sister I've never heard anything so monstrously wicked in all my
44:23life you are an even bigger fool than I thought
44:27what difference does it they make to me I can't be seeing her either you're a fool
44:32Claudius and Germanicus would have had no patience with you can't you see the
44:37vile ambition that drives that man can't you see it's just another step on the way
44:41by this marriage he relates himself to the imperial family and then what Levilla
44:46does he plan to marry her Levilla what is he to do with Levilla he's her lover
44:50but Sir Janus is married and has two children for heaven's sake what kind of world
44:54you think we're living in
44:57I'm sorry I'm upset
45:03Custer's dead
45:06Cillius has seen her committed suicide this morning even before the trial had ended
45:11one by one my friends vanish
45:14where will it end
45:18you've betrayed us
45:21why did you agree to it well he asked me is that all you can say
45:35you blockhead no he's not a blockhead it's we who are the blockheads if Sir
45:47Janus had come to us with a proposal like that we'd have given him his marching
45:51orders but Claudius knows better
45:55Claudius sways and bends with each little wind that blows by which you mean
46:00he's weak and coward perhaps but at least he's still here
46:06but at least he's still here
46:09yes still here and they've all gone every one of them
46:16it's like a dream dreamed by Livia sleeping fitfully down in hell
46:25no
46:27Livia is dying
46:30dying
46:32Livia is dying
46:41she's sent for you
46:43she wants to see you
46:45why I can't imagine
46:47dying
46:49yes
46:51but it was only a cold
46:54it's settled on her lungs she's sinking fast
46:56and she's asked to see you
46:58well
47:01are you going to sit there all night
47:04I hear you're dying great-grandmother
47:09you won't forget your promise
47:13will you
47:15to make you a goddess
47:17and what makes you think that a filthy smelly old woman like you could become a goddess
47:23I don't need you anymore you see great-grandmother
47:28my secret will die with you
47:30my secret will die with you
47:32you're going to stew in hell forever and ever
47:36let me tell you something
47:40Thrasilus has made another prophecy
47:53told Tiberius
47:55he said one who is going to die soon will become the greatest god the world has ever known
48:01no temple to be dedicated to anyone but him in the whole Roman world
48:07not even to Augustus
48:10do you know who that one is
48:14me
48:18me
48:20I shall become the greatest god of all
48:24and I shall look down on you
48:26suffering all the torments of hell
48:28and I shall say
48:30leave her there
48:34leave her there forever and ever and ever
48:36leave her there forever and ever and ever
48:48goodbye great-grandmother
48:52how are you grandmother
48:54don't cry
49:00he was here
49:04he was here
49:08Caligula was here
49:12he said
49:14he would
49:16make me a goddess
49:20I'll see that he does
49:22I love it
49:24he said
49:26he said
49:28he said
49:30he'd leave me to stew in hell
49:32I want to be a goddess Claudius
49:38I deserve it
49:40you should be the queen of heaven
49:44I promise you
49:46I promise you
49:48really
49:52I can't
49:54go on
49:56playing the fool
49:58Claudius
50:00stay with me
50:04till I go
50:06put a coin in my mouth
50:12to pay the ferryman
50:14for the journey
50:18for the journey.
50:48Goodbye, Grandmother.
50:52Safe journey.
51:18To be continued...
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