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Rome, AD 47–48. Claudius leads his troops in an invasion of Britain. Messalina's sexual excesses lead her to challenge the well-known prostitute Scylla to a contest to see who can take the most men in an evening; Messalina wins easily. Claudius returns in triumph, but is devastated to learn that Herod has organized a rebellion in the eastern provinces against his rule. Herod believes that he is the Jewish Messiah, but dies before completing his plans, begging Claudius to forgive him. Messalina takes Gaius Silius as her lover. They divorce their respective spouses and marry, thinking that Rome will rally around them and proclaim them rulers. Forced to act, Claudius' servants Pallas and Narcissus enlist Calpurnia to tell the Emperor the truth. Claudius believes them, and the conspirators are arrested and killed. As Claudius mourns the fact that all whom he cared for are gone, he learns that the Britons have dedicated a temple to him in Colchester, making him a god.
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00:00Satsang with Mooji
00:30Does it hurt?
00:58Of course it hurts.
01:00Do you think I'm made of wood?
01:08I didn't mean to scratch so hard.
01:10And I'm on stage today.
01:13No one will see your back.
01:15You'll have your clothes on.
01:16But I'm doing Ulysses and Circe.
01:18When I'm washed up on the beach, my dear,
01:20I'm naked, to the waist.
01:22That's not in the play.
01:24It is when I perform it.
01:26Where are you going?
01:30To the theatre.
01:32Stay here.
01:34Look, I have a performance to give.
01:37You can give it here, just for me.
01:39I've already performed for you.
01:41Don't be insolent.
01:50No, no, no.
01:50You shouldn't hit my face.
01:53I am an actor.
01:56And that's all you are.
01:57Just remember that.
01:58I don't know why I put up with you.
02:03You put up with me because you're bored
02:05and because I make you laugh.
02:07Do you think I'm bored?
02:08Oh, unbelievably.
02:10I think there are times when you would
02:11crack the universe open if you could,
02:13just to see what would happen.
02:15Well, you may be right.
02:16You know, you ought to have accompanied
02:18the Emperor on his invasion of Britain.
02:21They say the men there are so savage
02:23that the women live in a permanent state of ecstasy.
02:27I should have been an actor.
02:29Or a sculptor.
02:31They never seem to get bored.
02:34They have their art.
02:36But what do I have?
02:37You have your lovers.
02:39Oh, my lovers.
02:41When I make love,
02:46I reach for something that men never dream of.
02:50Oh.
02:51What's that?
02:54I don't know.
02:57But it's there.
02:59Always just out of reach.
03:04Sometimes I feel as if I could take on
03:08the whole of Rome in a night.
03:09I'd be no worse for it in the morning.
03:12Oh, why don't you?
03:16You'll mock me once too often some day.
03:18No, I'm not mocking you.
03:19I'm serious.
03:21Why, we could stage the greatest night of love
03:24the world has ever seen.
03:26A tournament of sex.
03:28We could challenge the Guild of Prostitutes
03:30to provide a champion to compete with you.
03:34Who would last the longest?
03:36The Interminable versus the Inexhaustible.
03:45You're mad.
03:49There's no one who could compete with me.
03:51Oh.
03:52No.
03:55What about that Sicilian woman?
03:57What's her name?
03:58Scylla.
03:59Huh?
03:59Well, don't underestimate her.
04:02They say she boards a ship at Ostia,
04:04works the whole crew,
04:05and then walks off steadier than any one of them.
04:10Are you serious?
04:13Why not?
04:15Why not?
04:16What a spectacle it would make.
04:18Two tidal waves of male passion
04:21dashing their fury against two timeless rocks of love.
04:25Who will be the first to yield?
04:28Who will be the first to break?
04:30Why, it would be unprecedented.
04:35Copulation on a cosmic scale
04:37to set the universe ringing to the cheers of the gods.
04:41Do you think I'd win?
04:42Well, who can tell?
04:44That Sicilian woman, they say.
04:47She's formidable.
04:48But I am more so.
04:56Now I know why I put up with you.
05:00Bring on your Sicilian.
05:04And let her look to her laurels.
05:11Well, they've taken 8,000 prisoners
05:13and counted nearly 5,000 corpses.
05:15Caractacus has left Colchester
05:16and fled to the west.
05:17Hourless has taken the 9th Cavalry
05:19in pursuit of him.
05:20And our losses?
05:21Oh, insignificant.
05:23There are 380 killed
05:25and 600 wounded.
05:27Britain is almost subdued.
05:28The Emperor's on his way home.
05:39If he's on his way home,
05:41it solves our problems.
05:44About Messalino?
05:45Well, it solves the problem
05:49of whether we should write to him.
05:51Whether we should tell him
05:52when he gets back
05:52is another matter.
05:53And it becomes the same problem
06:01we had before he left.
06:04The golden hair that Gala wears
06:11is hers.
06:12Who would have thought it?
06:14She swears it's hers.
06:16And true she swears
06:18for I know
06:19where she bought it.
06:22You ask me
06:31how my farm
06:32can pay
06:33since little
06:34it will bear.
06:35It pays me thus
06:36tis far away
06:38and you are never there.
06:43The woman's sinner
06:44president of the Guild
06:46of Prostitutes.
06:47Oh, glory.
06:50Oh, glory.
06:51At last.
06:53Permit me to introduce myself.
07:03My name
07:04is Minister.
07:05I am an actor.
07:07Most people
07:07have heard of me.
07:09My name is Scylla
07:10and I'm a whore.
07:12Everybody's heard of me.
07:15Allow me to introduce you
07:17to the Lady Messalina,
07:19your challenger
07:20and the Emperor's wife.
07:23This is Scylla the Sicilian
07:25and anybody's wife.
07:27I am honoured.
07:29You are most welcome.
07:31They said you were beautiful
07:32but their praise
07:33did you small justice.
07:36You are most generous.
07:38And it was sporting of you
07:39to accept the challenge.
07:41Sporting?
07:43I see.
07:44There's no money in it.
07:46You're here for the honour woman
07:47and to defend your reputation.
07:49Would you defend yours
07:50for nothing, Greek?
07:53Lady, I'm a professional.
07:55I work for money.
07:56The honour I gladly leave to you.
08:00What impudence?
08:01She expects to be paid
08:02and in this company.
08:05The difference between you and me,
08:07actor,
08:08is you're a snob
08:09and I'm not.
08:10And the difference between
08:11this great lady and myself
08:13is that my work
08:15is her hobby.
08:15my hobby
08:17happens to be gardening
08:18for which I don't expect
08:19to be paid.
08:22You shall have your money.
08:25Shall we say
08:26five?
08:28Three gold pieces ahead?
08:31Ahead?
08:32Seems an odd way
08:33to describe it.
08:35Win or lose, of course.
08:39That seems satisfactory.
08:41Satisfactory?
08:42You've never earned so much
08:43in a whole year.
08:45This Greek will drive me
08:46to distraction.
08:48Nothing I say pleases him.
08:49Let us begin.
08:52Which side of the bed
08:54do you prefer?
08:56Left or right?
08:58Lady,
08:59give me a support
09:00for my back
09:01and let the games
09:03begin,
09:03as they say.
09:08Let the games begin!
09:11You know what's going on
09:12at the new palace
09:13at this moment?
09:14The emperor's wife
09:15is competing
09:15with a prostitute
09:16to see who can wear out
09:17the most men.
09:18Oh, they've been at it
09:18since noon.
09:19Well, that is shocking.
09:21I can hardly believe it.
09:22I've had my suspicions
09:23of what's been going on
09:24there for weeks,
09:24but this is the final slot.
09:26It's outrageous now.
09:27Something must be done.
09:28Have you discussed this
09:29with anyone else?
09:30Only my immediate superior.
09:32Colonel Rufrius?
09:34Yes.
09:34When did you discuss it
09:35with him?
09:36A week ago
09:36when I had good grounds
09:37for my suspicions
09:38but no proof.
09:38And he advised you
09:40to do nothing,
09:41wait for the emperor's return?
09:42Yes, and I did wait
09:43but this is too much.
09:45That's why I've come to you.
09:46I think you must write
09:47to the emperor at once.
09:49I don't think you can put
09:51that sort of thing
09:52in a letter.
09:54I see.
09:56Well, maybe you can't
09:57but I can!
09:59Justice!
10:00I think you have been
10:02immensely foolish.
10:06Are you threatening me?
10:07No, but did you not know
10:09that your superior,
10:10Colonel Rufrius
10:11was one of the Lady
10:12Messalina's inner circle
10:13of friends?
10:16If you have confided in him
10:18he has most certainly
10:20confided in her.
10:22I should think she's
10:23already applied to the emperor
10:24for a warrant for your execution.
10:27My execution?
10:30Serious?
10:30On what grounds?
10:31Does it matter?
10:33Conspiracy.
10:35Emperors are very nervous
10:36when away from their capitals.
10:37They'll sign anything.
10:39If I'm any judge,
10:40that warrant's already
10:41on its way back here
10:42at this very moment.
10:42What do you mean?
10:49What are we to do?
10:51You must help me.
10:52You must back me up.
10:53You must!
10:54I will choose my own time
10:55when to tell the emperor
10:56not yours
10:57or anyone else's.
11:00I have learned
11:01to tread very carefully
11:02in a burning building.
11:04What am I to do?
11:16What can a dead man do?
11:20Go and get buried.
11:23The men in victory
11:25have conceded me!
11:27The queen is dead!
11:29Long live the queen!
11:31I love you all!
11:32It must finish!
11:34Oh, thank you.
11:36Thank you!
11:37Your friend's eyes
11:38must be made out
11:39of old armies.
11:42The money!
11:44Where's my money?
11:45Here, lady.
11:47Here.
11:48Three gold pieces per head.
11:50Will you take them?
11:51Or shall I have them sent?
11:53I'll take it.
11:54Amateurs!
12:05Amateurs!
12:05Ah-ha!
12:35Ah-ha!
12:36Ah-ha!
12:37Ah-ha!
12:38Ah-ha!
12:39Ah-ha!
12:40Ah-ha!
12:41Ah-ha!
12:42Ah-ha!
12:43Ah-ha!
12:44Ah-ha!
12:45Ah-ha!
12:46Ah-ha!
12:47Ah-ha!
12:48Ah-ha!
12:49Ah-ha!
12:51Ah-ha!
12:52Ah-ha!
12:53Senators,
12:54we have re-established Britain as a province of Rome.
12:59One hundred and eight years after the divine Julius left it,
13:04not very well secured.
13:06It has again become part of the Roman world.
13:10When I left, Caractacus, our principal enemy, was in full flight.
13:16We had won a great victory.
13:23A Roman triumph is seldom granted,
13:25but they granted one to me.
13:27Me, Claudius the idiot, the stammerer, the fool.
13:31But what life gives with one hand,
13:33it takes back with the other.
13:36I would gladly have forgotten my triumph
13:38for the tragedy that was about to unfold.
13:42Shortly before I left for the invasion of Britain,
13:45Marsus Vibius, my governor of Syria,
13:48had written to me, giving me the startling news
13:51that my old friend Herod Agrippa was fortifying Jerusalem.
13:56I had hastily written to Marsus Vibius,
13:59asking him to find out more
14:01and report to me personally on my return.
14:04And you think this is directed against us?
14:07Yes, Caesar.
14:08But there's more.
14:10Before I left, I learned that he was organizing a secret meeting
14:13with certain neighboring kings.
14:15He is plotting a revolt against Rome.
14:16That is certain.
14:17But why?
14:18Why?
14:19Well, does it matter what his motives are?
14:21Well, it does to me.
14:24Listen, I'll tell you something, Marsus.
14:26Before I left, I had a letter from Herod's uncle, Antipas.
14:30It was full of gossip, as usual,
14:32but in the course of it,
14:33he said he was convinced Herod believed himself
14:36to be this Jewish messiah
14:39whose coming has for so long been prophesied.
14:41Yes.
14:42Well, others have thought that too.
14:44Your nephew Caligula, for one.
14:46Yes.
14:48Perhaps it was him.
14:50No.
14:51Oddly enough,
14:52Caligula filled the requirements of the prophecy
14:54in many respects,
14:55except he did not die in the year foretold
14:58by Thrasilus, the astrologer.
15:00And Thrasilus was never wrong about dates.
15:03When was this messiah supposed to die,
15:06according to Thrasilus?
15:08In the same year as my grandmother, Xavier.
15:10Well, if the messiah is already dead,
15:13it can't be Herod Agrippa.
15:14But Herod is a Jew.
15:16He wouldn't believe anything Thrasilus said.
15:19Well, where does all this speculation get us?
15:22If he is planning a revolt against Rome,
15:24what difference does it make? Why?
15:26He's my dearest friend.
15:28If he becomes my enemy, I want to know why.
15:32Now, how much do you know about this messiah
15:35in the literature of the Jews?
15:36Well, very little, but I can find out and make a report.
15:39I have Jewish agents in Jerusalem.
15:45Am I interrupting?
15:46No, no, come in.
15:47Master Vibius was just reporting the very grave situation in Jerusalem.
15:52Yeah, well, we'll meet again later and talk some more.
15:54See, sir.
15:55There it is.
16:03Are you worried?
16:04Hmm?
16:05Oh.
16:06Hurt.
16:07That my old friend should...
16:09Ah, well, there may be nothing in it.
16:10I missed you so very much while I was away.
16:14And the children...
16:16I never rested properly a single night thinking about you.
16:20What would I do without you?
16:23Yeah, when you wrote to me about the inter-justice affair,
16:26I thought, thank heavens, Messalina's there to take care of things.
16:32Well, do you, um, want something specially?
16:35Only to say that if I slipped into your room tonight,
16:40would I find you alone in bed?
16:42I love!
16:44Shh!
16:45I'm not asking for details.
16:48Only that I shouldn't find the little Calpurnia in my place.
16:52Oh, I know that she sometimes visits you.
16:55Well, she's an old friend.
16:59I don't mind a bit.
17:01It's very good for your health.
17:03Oh, but sometimes I feel a great desire to have your arms about me.
17:09And I should hate to embarrass you.
17:11Oh, come tonight, please.
17:15I should be so grateful.
17:18Be alone, then.
17:24Oh!
17:26There is one thing.
17:28There...
17:29Oh, anything?
17:31I wish you would speak to Minister.
17:34He's got so big-headed lately and insolent.
17:37During your absence, he was very rude to me.
17:40Always making excuses for not putting on this play or that,
17:43which my friends wanted to see.
17:45Well, couldn't you have banished him yourself?
17:48I didn't want to do that.
17:49Well, he's a great favourite with the crowd,
17:51and they might have held that against you when you returned.
17:54Oh, I shall speak to him.
17:57Just tell him that when I ask him to do something,
18:00he is to do it and not make a fuss.
18:04I was her slave.
18:06Is there anything so foolish as an old man in love?
18:10Well, I spoke to Minister.
18:12Listen, little Greek, I said.
18:15If the Lady Messalina tells you to do anything, you will obey.
18:20Do you understand?
18:22Anything? he asked.
18:24Anything, I said to him.
18:28I played, as usual, into Messalina's hands.
18:32She had fallen maniacally in love with Gaius Silius,
18:36the consul-elect and the handsomest man in Rome.
18:40Knowing Minister to be on close terms with the family,
18:43she had asked him to bring Silius to see her.
18:46Minister had refused out of respect for Silius' wife.
18:50Hence Messalina's complaints to me.
18:53Like a fool, I secured for her what she most wanted.
18:58He was not an easy victim of her passion, but she was clever.
19:03She did not talk at first of love, but of politics.
19:08Tiberius had executed his father, and she played on that,
19:12telling him I was more corrupt even than Tiberius.
19:15Before he realized it, he was comforting her.
19:21Before he realized it, he was making love to her.
19:26He was as much her abject slave as I was.
19:31Claudius, Claudius, you go too fast.
19:35Too fast.
19:37More grave news of the situation in Jerusalem was hurried to me,
19:40by Marsus from his agent, Catullus.
19:44But what exactly is this messiah?
19:49A king, Caesar, who is to come and redeem Israel of all its sins.
19:54Philo, their greatest living scholar, has declared
19:57that he must be descended from King David
20:00and born in a village called...
20:03Ah.
20:04What?
20:10Bethlehem.
20:12Bethlehem?
20:13Yes.
20:15In what year?
20:17Well, opinions differ, as of course they always will in events of this kind.
20:21Well, have there been any candidates recently?
20:23No, not recently.
20:24The last one I heard from a learned Jew died about 15 years ago.
20:29Fifteen?
20:30Yes.
20:32Is that significant?
20:38Who was this man?
20:40His name was Joshua Bar Joseph, a native of Galilee.
20:45He had a large following amongst the uneducated
20:48and used to preach to gatherings by the lakeside.
20:51He was also called Jesus by the Greeks.
20:54And was he born in...
20:56Bethlehem?
21:01Bethlehem?
21:03Well, it's not precisely known.
21:05There was some scandal concerning his birth.
21:08A Greek soldier was supposed to have seduced his mother,
21:11who was a tapestry worker in the temple.
21:16What happened to this Joshua?
21:20Well, he tried to form a new religion out of Judaism,
21:22but of course he lacked the authority.
21:25He then began identifying himself with this Messiah.
21:28He was executed as a heretic.
21:30Did you find out what King Herod thought of him?
21:32Well, not very much, I imagine,
21:34for he recently executed one of his followers,
21:36a man called James.
21:37He's looking for another one called Simon.
21:39Ah, he has followers then?
21:40Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.
21:41It's a cult.
21:43There are always cults.
21:53Well, all this is most interesting for you, Caesar,
21:55with your fascination for strange religions.
21:58But what more does it tell us of King Herod's intentions?
22:02I will tell you, Pallas.
22:04King Herod's mother was on her way to Jerusalem
22:07for a lying inn when she was overtaken by her pains
22:09in a small village.
22:11King Herod was born there.
22:12The name of the village was Bethlehem.
22:16There is no doubt in my mind.
22:18My friend Herod believes himself to be this Messiah,
22:21and worse, many others believe him to be this Messiah.
22:25His intentions are clear.
22:26Born on this great wave of religious fanaticism,
22:30he intends to free the East from the dominion of Rome.
22:33He intends to make war on us.
22:36Marsus is right. If we don't move quickly,
22:38Herod will seize the Eastern Empire,
22:40and we shall lose Egypt.
22:43My friend has become my enemy.
22:51What are you doing with that?
22:56The mistress told us to take it down, lady.
22:59But why? Where are you taking it?
23:00If there's a mark on it, when it arrives, I'll have you whipped.
23:03Where is it going?
23:04Hurry up with it.
23:06I'm giving it to someone as a present.
23:08To Silius.
23:09Yes.
23:11Iris!
23:12I want my hairdress!
23:16But that was a present from your husband.
23:18I know that.
23:20Silius fell in love with it, so I'm giving it to him as a surprise.
23:23And if he comes here and finds that it's gone?
23:25He doesn't come here.
23:26And if he does, I'll tell him I've put it somewhere else.
23:29Have you taken leave of your senses?
23:33Have your wits deserted you entirely?
23:36You have lavished gifts on that man from all directions.
23:40Half of them from the palace.
23:44Are you so much in love that you have lost all sense of discretion?
23:48Yes.
23:50I am in love.
23:53Child, you've been in love before, but you've never imperiled your life.
23:55I shan't imperil my life.
23:58But all Rome knows that you visit him openly at his house.
24:03And take him gifts.
24:05And that his wife complains bitterly about it.
24:08He's divorcing his wife.
24:10Divorcing her? For what reason?
24:12For no other reason than he loves me.
24:15Well, you'll have to give a better reason than that.
24:17They're not married in the strict form.
24:19It only requires a declaration.
24:21But you are married. You can't marry him.
24:23So why is he divorcing his wife?
24:27Because I can't bear the thought of him sharing that woman's bed every night when he gets out of mine.
24:32I heard nothing.
24:35Not a breath of the scandal that was known to everyone else in Rome.
24:39Even the slaves.
24:41Even the slaves.
24:48They're laughing at me.
24:50Still.
24:52After all these years.
24:55Still laughing at me.
24:58Herod.
25:03Trust no one, my friend.
25:06No one.
25:09Yes, Caesar.
25:11Dead.
25:12Herod Agrippa is dead.
25:16How?
25:18Tell me.
25:19Tell me.
25:20Tell me.
25:21Tell me.
25:22What happened?
25:23Well, he had come up from Jerusalem to Caesarea for the festival to be held in honor of your birthday.
25:28But really to meet with the kings with whom he had formed his alliance.
25:32Yes.
25:33Only Phoenician Tyre and Sidon had stood outside the alliance and now they had decided to join.
25:38Their formal submission was to be made to King Herod upon their arrival.
25:44Did Herod truly believe himself to be this Messiah?
25:49This anointed one?
25:51Oh, yes.
25:52Yes, he had revealed himself to the high priests.
25:55Now he was to reveal himself to the nation.
26:00Well, go on.
26:02Well, when he arrived in the amphitheater, the whole audience rose.
26:07He was wearing a royal robe of silver tissue that flashed in the sun so brightly that it tired the eyes to look at it.
26:16The whole audience shouted,
26:17O king, live forever.
26:19But this was not enough for the men of Tyre and Sidon.
26:22They groveled at his feet and said,
26:25We repent of our ingratitude.
26:28We see now that you are superior to mortal nature.
26:32Tyre and Sidon, he replied, you are forgiven.
26:35And they answered,
26:36It is the voice of God.
26:40Thou shalt have no other gods but me.
26:43Isn't that what the God of the Jews has said?
26:49Yes, Caesar.
26:51But evidently Herod had forgotten that.
26:55He was about to give the signal for the ram's horn to be blown when he stopped.
27:00An owl flew into the arena, which had been blinded by the sunlight,
27:05perched on his throne,
27:07hooted five times, and then flew off.
27:10An owl, yes.
27:13An owl was always an ill omen for Herod.
27:17Well, he groaned.
27:20He seemed to feel stabbing pains in his chest when he cried out,
27:22I am ill, carry me out.
27:25They carried him out.
27:28And the ram's horn never blew.
27:31The crowd set up a wail.
27:33The festival was over before it had begun.
27:36And within five days he was dead.
27:39His body racked with pain and rotted into an unrecognizable mass of sores.
27:46The kings departed and the crowds went home.
27:51The storm passed without a single drop of rain.
27:54And the Messiah?
27:55Who, then, is this Messiah?
28:00Who, then, is this Messiah?
28:04Who knows?
28:06Perhaps the Jews must wait a little longer.
28:10Perhaps.
28:12Mamoset, I am dying.
28:21My body is full of maggots.
28:25Forgive me.
28:28Forgive your old friend who loved you dearly, yet secretly plotted to take the East away from you.
28:34I have failed.
28:37I played too dangerous a game.
28:43Little Mamoset, you are a fool, but I envy you your folly.
28:48Do not weep for me.
28:51My punishment is just.
28:53I offended against the only living God.
29:04Farewell, my friend.
29:07Whom I love more truly than you suppose.
29:11Farewell, little Mamoset, my schoolfellow.
29:14And trust no one.
29:17No one.
29:20Your dying friend,
29:22Herod Agrippa.
29:27I was alone.
29:29For the first time in my life, I was alone.
29:33They were all gone now, those friends of my youth.
29:38Germanicus, Posthumus, Castor.
29:42Herod.
29:44All gone.
29:46There was no one now I could turn to except Messalina.
29:50Yes, she helped me.
29:53How she helped me.
29:55She persuaded me to let her use the duplicate of my seal.
29:59Say fool, Claudius, fool.
30:03I know it. I know it.
30:05But she was clever.
30:09I also began this most strange history of my life.
30:13Which you shall read and find, I promise you.
30:16But now you shall see how my ignorance of my own domestic affairs came to an end.
30:21I said I would tell all, and I shall.
30:26Her adultery with Silius had gone so smoothly that she was becoming bored.
30:31Not with him, but with their situation.
30:33While he, on his part, began to feel that the longer it went on,
30:37the greater the danger of their being discovered.
30:39Divorce him.
30:41Why not?
30:43And marry you.
30:45Wouldn't you rather be my wife than my mistress?
30:48Your wife?
30:52Oh, Gaius.
30:54More than anything in the world.
30:58But how?
31:00Divorce is simple enough.
31:01You just send your freedman to your husband's house and you tell him.
31:04I know that.
31:05I meant how do we do it and survive?
31:08We have gone far enough with concealment.
31:10Now sooner or later he will find something out and we shall be taken unprepared.
31:15No.
31:17It's safer to stay as we are.
31:20We can wait until he dies of old age.
31:23I am tired of waiting.
31:24I am tired of waiting.
31:27Gaius.
31:29Don't you think that I am tired of waiting too?
31:34Oh, don't turn your back on me, please.
31:39Nothing would please me more than to be your wife
31:44and belong to you entirely for everyone to see.
31:49But we've made a long-term plan.
31:52Let's keep to it.
31:54Only innocent people can afford long-term plans.
31:57Well, I think of myself as innocent.
32:00Don't you?
32:02Are you innocent of adultery?
32:04What?
32:06Of unbridled promiscuity.
32:08Of taking bribes.
32:10Of judicial murder.
32:12Gaius!
32:14We are guilty!
32:16Now stop deluding yourself with these childish notions.
32:18We are guilty!
32:20And I don't care.
32:21I love you.
32:23You are everything to me.
32:25But guilt needs daring.
32:27Look at me!
32:29I am without a wife.
32:30I am ready to marry you and adopt your children to be at your side always.
32:33Your power will remain undiminished.
32:37But we will never have any peace of mind until we put an end to this farce.
32:40And if we marry, what then?
32:46We have friends.
32:48Powerful friends.
32:50They share our danger and they look to us for peace of mind.
32:55If we marry open and publicly, all Rome will see how Claudius is abandoned.
33:02All Rome will see the contempt in which you hold him.
33:04We'll declare the Republic restored and people will flock to our cause.
33:09When?
33:11Tomorrow.
33:13Tomorrow I go with him to Ostia to examine the new harbour works.
33:16Like when you return then?
33:18No.
33:20Tomorrow.
33:22Let him go on his own.
33:24I'll have a headache.
33:25He's used to my headaches.
33:28While he dallies in Ostia, we'll marry in Rome.
33:32By the time he returns to the city, it'll belong to us!
33:37I went down to Ostia.
33:40She was supposed to come with me, but at the last moment she had one of her headaches.
33:44I was disappointed, but it was too late to change my plans.
33:48By the time I arrived in Ostia, they were already married.
33:52It will seem incredible, I know, that in a city where nothing escapes notice or comment, they could have felt themselves so secure.
34:14And yet they did.
34:15And I was perhaps the only man in Rome who knew nothing of it.
34:20Scandalous!
34:22It's scandalous!
34:24While all of Rome trooped in and out of her bed, we said nothing.
34:28We closed our eyes and ears and said nothing.
34:30But this is different.
34:31This is utterly and unbearably different.
34:34This...
34:35This puts the Emperor's life in danger.
34:40And if it puts his life in danger, it puts ours.
34:44And I say that's a very different bowl of fish.
34:47But has she divorced him or not?
34:49She's divorced him.
34:50She sent a freedman with her declaration here to his chamber.
34:52But the Emperor wasn't here to receive it.
34:54What do you think she didn't know that?
34:56Is the marriage bigamous or not?
34:58What do you think she cares?
35:00Don't you see?
35:02The marriage is a public declaration that the Emperor's wife has abandoned him as being too old, too corrupt and too stupid any longer to govern Rome.
35:11That she has chosen the consul-elect as her husband is a clear indication and an invitation to the Senate to restore the Republic.
35:19And in view of Messalina's known viciousness when it comes to getting her own way, the Senate will take the hint and put them both at the head of it.
35:35Well...
35:38He must be told.
35:40This time he must be told.
35:42But how?
35:44He won't believe a word said against her.
35:47It's the old problem from the moment we tell him, time's on her side, not ours.
35:53Well, then from the moment we tell him, we must keep her away from him.
35:57We must ensure she never sees him.
35:59She must be eliminated without a hearing.
36:02Yes, well, that's taken for granted.
36:03But how do we tell him?
36:06Whom will he most readily believe?
36:08There is...
36:09There is someone...
36:15There is someone who's been his friend for years.
36:19A little prostitute, Calpurnia.
36:25Oh, Calpurnia.
36:27Oh, what is this?
36:29Notes rust into my hands?
36:31Grave danger to...
36:32Home, come to my house?
36:34Hmm?
36:35I hope this isn't some silly, Irish prank.
36:38You've quite alarmed me.
36:41Especially if the ram I was sacrificing in the temple turned out to be the most...
36:45...unprecious place I've ever seen.
36:48Then trails were awful.
36:52Why are you trembling?
36:54What's the matter?
36:56Oh, Caesar!
36:57What's the matter?
36:58Calpurnia, get up! Get up!
36:59You know, I hate people groveling.
37:02Oh, Caesar!
37:04Will you please tell me what you have to say?
37:09I shall tell you because nobody else dare tell you.
37:12But when I do, you will have me tortured and flogged.
37:15Calpurnia, dear as you are, you're making me angry.
37:19Do you still trust me?
37:20In my life, I've trusted three women.
37:24My mother, Messalina, and yourself.
37:26Oh, why must you include your wife in that list?
37:29Messalina?
37:30I trust her with my life!
37:34She has just married Gaia Silius.
37:37And the wedding party is still going on in Rome!
37:41Are you mad?
37:43Oh, wicked! Or boats!
37:44They're married.
37:46Your wife and Silius.
37:47Everyone in Rome knows!
37:49But I've left her in bed with a headache!
37:52And now she's in bed with Silius!
37:53Oh, don't you understand?
37:55He's her lover!
37:57I thought you knew.
37:59Everyone assumed you knew.
38:02Else, why have you slept apart all this time?
38:05I wouldn't have told you even now, but they're married.
38:15And I've seen the wedding party.
38:17You haven't been to Rome?
38:18Yes, yes, I've been.
38:20Now, sisters came and fetched me.
38:21I've been to Rome and back today.
38:22The garden of the palace is decorated with fine leaves and ivy.
38:28Bunches of grapes.
38:30Wine vats and presses.
38:32They're all dancing about like wine, so God...
38:36I don't believe you!
38:38I refuse to believe you!
38:42It's true, Caesar.
38:47Every word she says is true.
38:53Caesar, how else could you have been told?
38:57When have you been prepared...
38:59When have you been prepared to listen to the slightest criticism of your wife's excesses?
39:04Excesses?! What are you talking about?!
39:07Caesar, her adulteries are as numberless as the sands on the shore!
39:13And that is no figure of speech!
39:15When you were away in Britain,
39:17She competed with a prostitute to see who could wear out the most lovers in a day!
39:23Half of Rome saw it!
39:26If you have any doubt about Silius, go to his house!
39:29It will seem like home to you!
39:31All your most expensive furniture is there.
39:34Paintings, tapestries, statues...
39:36Even imperial slaves!
39:40But that is nothing!
39:41Do you know you are divorced?
39:47Nation and Senate have witnessed her wedding to Silius.
39:53Act now, or her new husband controls Rome.
39:59I can't believe it.
40:00I can't believe it.
40:09My dear, you must.
40:11And you must act quickly.
40:13Or you're being indemnious all to death.
40:16She's right, Caesar.
40:18We must return to Rome and arrest them all at once.
40:21Am I...
40:23still Emperor?
40:25Some officers of the guard may have been seduced, but the soldiers are devoted to you.
40:28I'm certain of it.
40:37Yes, arrest them.
40:39Hurry back to Rome and arrest them.
40:43All.
40:45Go!
40:47Go!
40:49Go!
40:51Go!
40:52Oh!
40:54Oh!
40:55Go!
40:57Go!
40:59Go!
41:01Go!
41:03Go!
41:05How are you?
41:06I need to turn this off.
41:11I don't make friends!
41:36Melista, what do you see?
41:47I see a cloud in the shape of Claudius rising over Ostia.
41:52Is he drifting this way?
41:53He was, but he just farted and blew himself out to sea.
41:59Out of the way!
42:02Help me up.
42:03What is it, Melista? What do you see now?
42:07I see a troop of guards climbing the hill towards us.
42:11Spend it, wave them in and give them wine.
42:15I think not, Gaius Tilius.
42:18Their swords are drawn, every one of them.
42:20The guards! The guards are coming to arrest us!
42:28The emperors in Rome, they're arresting everybody!
42:33Roar! Roar!
42:41Where is the emperor?
42:42In his study. We've arrested nearly 200 people.
42:44Silius was taken in the marketplace.
42:46The lady Miss Alina has not been found.
42:47She is not to be allowed to see the emperor without first consulting me.
42:51You understand?
42:56Hmm.
42:57Where is he?
43:03Where is my husband?
43:05Where is my husband?
43:10He doesn't wish to see you.
43:20Out of my way, you Greek!
43:22You dare stand between me and my husband?
43:24Which husband, you whore?
43:26Which one?
43:27Out of my way!
43:28Get out of my way!
43:28Get out of my way!
43:29Let it go!
43:30Let me go!
43:31Get out of here!
43:32Get out of here!
43:33Get out of here!
43:34Help!
43:35Help!
43:36Help!
43:37Help!
43:38Help!
43:39Help!
43:40Help!
43:41Let me see him!
43:42Claudia!
43:43Claudia!
43:44How dare you stop her?
43:46She is the emperor's wife and the mother of his children.
43:49But is he the father?
43:53Who knows whose litter they are?
43:55Liar!
43:56Liar!
43:57Liar!
43:58Here's a list of your adulteries.
43:59Do you want to read it?
44:00Hundreds!
44:05And you call her a mother?
44:10Take her home.
44:11Let her wait there.
44:12No!
44:13No!
44:14No!
44:15No!
44:16No!
44:17No!
44:18No!
44:19No!
44:20No!
44:21No!
44:25Arrests have been made all over the city.
44:27Silius has been taken.
44:29Thank heaven most of the guard proved loyal.
44:32Poor woman.
44:35What happened to do such things?
44:40How unhappy she must have been.
44:42How unhappy she must have been.
44:49You must sign these, Susan.
44:51They are the charge sheets.
44:54We need your signature urgently.
44:56No.
44:57Yes, do you, Clare.
44:58No.
44:59No.
45:04No!
45:05No.
45:06No!
45:07No!
45:08No!
45:09No!
45:10sleep Caesar sleep you need your rest save yourself for Rome
45:28here's the warrant for her execution hurry thank you offer her the dagger first no if she takes her
45:43own life it will save us having to show him the warrant in the morning take it to the palace
45:54tell no one that you have it only that you want to see your father now hurry when he reads it
46:00you'll forgive your mother you'll see hurry hurry
46:06he must see me he must oh how could you child how could you is that all you can say
46:33why don't you do something
46:38why don't you see him on your own
46:48he's coming he's coming to see me
46:55what do you want your life lady your husband's orders
47:07oh he wouldn't do that my husband wouldn't do read it it has his signature
47:17I'm to offer you the dagger first if you'll have it and then to cut off your pretty head and put it
47:33on a spear
47:34no
47:37no
47:41no
47:41no my head
47:43no my head
47:46child
47:46child
47:48your life is done
47:50take the dagger and use it
47:54don't let them take my head
47:59no
48:01no
48:02oh
48:17oh
48:19no
48:20he wouldn't do that
48:25not glorious
48:29use it
48:31use it
48:32use it
48:33use it quickly
48:33I can't
48:43I can't
48:46I can't
48:47no
48:48not my head
48:50not my
48:52I'll see my wife now
49:15she was executed
49:19last night
49:21at your orders
49:23Caesar
49:23here is the warrant
49:26there is a dispatch from Britain Caesar
49:41the temple
49:42the temple that was to have been dedicated to the god Augustus in Colchester
49:46has been dedicated instead to you
49:48Aulus Plautius writes that Augustus means nothing to the Britons but they are more than happy to worship you as a god
49:53he regrets having taken the decision without first consulting you
49:57but feel sure you understand that it was politically correct
50:02the temple is known as the temple of the god Claudius
50:09when he witnessed it
50:14he was coming from the top of the kingdom of the man who went in with his army
50:17and he looked in the Holy Spirit
50:19he was not an issue
50:19they were talking to our people
50:21and they were not that bad
50:22he was not the one
50:23and he was having done the same time
50:23and he felt like
50:24the madman
50:25and the two
50:25and
50:27he left
50:28the
50:28and
50:29the
50:30in
50:30I don't know.
51:00I don't know.
51:30I don't know.
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