0:00:58 > 0:01:00(Is he dead?)
0:01:00 > 0:01:01Yes.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04Yes, he's dead.
0:01:04 > 0:01:05Then...
0:01:05 > 0:01:08I am emperor.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10Yes.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12- Whee-ee!- Ssh!
0:01:15 > 0:01:17YOU are emperor.
0:01:17 > 0:01:21Everything I ever dreamed of has come true.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Emperor!
0:01:24 > 0:01:27I am emperor of Rome!
0:01:29 > 0:01:31- I feel sorry for him. Don't you?- No.
0:01:31 > 0:01:32No? No, neither do I.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35- Let's announce his death.- Not yet.
0:01:35 > 0:01:40First, we shall put out a bulletin to say that he's as well as can be expected.
0:01:40 > 0:01:42- Considering he's dead!- Yes.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44Then we must find the will.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47It will be in his study.
0:01:50 > 0:01:51Come!
0:02:02 > 0:02:04What a mess!
0:02:06 > 0:02:09He'd never let anyone touch it, that's why.
0:02:10 > 0:02:12It will be here somewhere.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15You look over there. I'll look here.
0:02:54 > 0:02:58"Write no more, Claudius. Write no more."
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Have you found it, Mother?
0:03:02 > 0:03:05Oh, what is it?
0:03:05 > 0:03:07It looks like a history.
0:03:07 > 0:03:08Of what?
0:03:08 > 0:03:10Of our family.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12Does it mention me?
0:03:13 > 0:03:15Oh, where does it begin?
0:03:15 > 0:03:18With the death of his last wife, Messalina.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22- That should be interesting. What does it say about me?- Oh, be quiet!
0:03:22 > 0:03:25How can I tell you if you keep talking to me?
0:03:26 > 0:03:29"The frog-pool wanted a king.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32"Jove sent them Old King Log.
0:03:32 > 0:03:38"I have been as deaf and blind and wooden as a log.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40"My chief fault...
0:03:40 > 0:03:42"I have been too benevolent.
0:03:42 > 0:03:46"I repaired the ruin my predecessors spread.
0:03:46 > 0:03:51"I reconciled Rome and the world to monarchy again.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56"By dulling the blade of tyranny I fell into great error.
0:03:56 > 0:04:00"By sharpening that blade I might redeem that error.
0:04:00 > 0:04:05"Violent disorders call for violent remedies.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09"Yet I am, I must remember...
0:04:09 > 0:04:12"Old King Log.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16"I shall float inertly in the stagnant pool.
0:04:18 > 0:04:23"Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25"Yes...
0:04:27 > 0:04:33"..let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out."
0:04:35 > 0:04:37She did not please you, Caesar?
0:04:38 > 0:04:40No, I can see she did not.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43It was a mistake having her here.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47A beautiful woman, though.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49Yes, a beautiful woman.
0:04:49 > 0:04:54Whoever marries her will be a fortunate man.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56She's married already.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58Really?
0:04:58 > 0:05:00To the drummer.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03And has three children.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06Oh, I envy him.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09He tells me she's a shrew.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Well, then, I envy him his nights...
0:05:11 > 0:05:13but not his days.
0:05:14 > 0:05:18Unfortunately, in marriage one can't have one without the other.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23You see, Caesar,
0:05:23 > 0:05:28how even vagabonds and gypsies like those recognise the virtues of marriage and a family.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30Life.
0:05:32 > 0:05:33Caesar?
0:05:33 > 0:05:35Are you well?
0:05:36 > 0:05:39Is something the matter?
0:05:45 > 0:05:47"Let all the poisons...
0:05:47 > 0:05:50"that lurk in the mud...
0:05:50 > 0:05:53"hatch out."
0:05:54 > 0:05:57If you will allow us, Caesar, to raise once again
0:05:57 > 0:06:00the subject of your remarrying...
0:06:00 > 0:06:03There are so many good reasons for it.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06But chiefly, your children need a mother.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08And Rome needs a mother.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11It's not right for an emperor to be alone.
0:06:11 > 0:06:16Your Uncle Tiberius was alone too long. I'm sure it affected his mind.
0:06:16 > 0:06:20It doesn't follow that because your three previous marriages were a tragedy
0:06:20 > 0:06:22your fourth shouldn't be a triumph.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26I've given this matter a great deal of thought
0:06:26 > 0:06:29and there is someone I'd like to recommend.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32- You never mentioned that to me. - I only thought of it this morning.
0:06:32 > 0:06:36Caesar, the one woman in Rome who would be a perfect wife
0:06:36 > 0:06:38is Lollia Paulina.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41Lollia Paulina?!
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Are you mad?
0:06:44 > 0:06:45She's ideal.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47She is the daughter of an ex-consul.
0:06:47 > 0:06:51She has lost none of her looks with age and she is still childless,
0:06:51 > 0:06:55which will make her a good stepmother to Britannicus and Octavia, and they need a mother.
0:06:55 > 0:07:01- That's more important than anything. - More than the fact she's the stupidest woman in Rome?
0:07:01 > 0:07:06- The emperor has had clever ones before that have done him little good.- She's an absurd choice.
0:07:06 > 0:07:11- She walks about like a jeweller's shop.- The emperor needs a wife...
0:07:11 > 0:07:14The emperor needs a wife capable of helping him.
0:07:15 > 0:07:19..Caesar, I have submitted many names in the past for your consideration.
0:07:19 > 0:07:23I confess, I've been less than enthusiastic about most of them.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25It didn't prevent you putting them forward.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28It was not I who was to marry them.
0:07:28 > 0:07:33- One can recommend with less enthusiasm than when one marries. - Caesar...
0:07:33 > 0:07:35As I was about to say, Caesar!
0:07:44 > 0:07:49One name comes to me now with all the force of divine revelation.
0:07:49 > 0:07:53The lady in question has been in front of us all the time,
0:07:53 > 0:07:56so close, in fact, that we've not noticed her.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59I refer to the Lady Agrippinilla.
0:07:59 > 0:08:04The Lady Agrippinilla?! Are you mad? She's the emperor's niece.
0:08:04 > 0:08:08The union would be incestuous. The senate would never allow it.
0:08:08 > 0:08:13100 years ago, first cousins couldn't marry. Now it's done all the time.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16When it's put to the senate, they will agree. ..Now, Caesar...
0:08:16 > 0:08:19she's in every way suitable.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21She's a woman of powerful intelligence.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24She's the daughter of Germanicus.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27And she would bring with her the grandson of Germanicus.
0:08:27 > 0:08:32Nero, a boy worthy in every respect of imperial fortune.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35But the emperor loathes Nero, a hideous boy.
0:08:35 > 0:08:39You are speaking of the emperor's grand-nephew.
0:08:39 > 0:08:44I speak the emperor's own words. And his mother is the most corrupt woman in Rome.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47- Even Caligula said so, and he was her brother.- How dare you!
0:08:47 > 0:08:49How dare you!
0:08:50 > 0:08:54Narcissus, you may consider our friendship at an end.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57From this moment - at an end!
0:08:57 > 0:08:58Caesar!
0:08:58 > 0:09:04Caesar, I cannot support these monstrous calumnies against the daughter of Germanicus.
0:09:04 > 0:09:09- Caesar...- In my opinion, your niece is the finest woman in Rome.- Oh!
0:09:09 > 0:09:15An emperor should have a wife who is both good-looking and of outstanding intelligence.
0:09:15 > 0:09:19- Now, she has both.- She is... - I beg you to consider her.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22It would be the Lady Messalina all over again.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25Worse! It'll be the Lady Messalina with brains.
0:09:25 > 0:09:29That's a combination more deadly than all the tribes of Germany put together.
0:09:29 > 0:09:34And as for her son, she won't be married ten minutes but she'll want him adopted into the family.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37Caesar! Caesar, I beg you...
0:09:38 > 0:09:41Caesar, an uncle does not marry his niece.
0:09:41 > 0:09:45The union will be incestuous. The gods abominate incest.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48It will bring ruin and destruction on all Rome.
0:09:51 > 0:09:57Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud...
0:09:58 > 0:10:00..hatch out.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03Caesar?
0:10:05 > 0:10:08Let all the poisons...
0:10:08 > 0:10:11that lurk in the mud...
0:10:12 > 0:10:15..hatch out.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33I would marry my niece.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36Bring her to me.
0:10:50 > 0:10:51KNOCK ON DOOR
0:10:52 > 0:10:54Come in.
0:11:04 > 0:11:05Well?
0:11:09 > 0:11:11He's agreed.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14He has agreed.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18He wants to see you.
0:11:19 > 0:11:20Now?
0:11:20 > 0:11:21Yes.
0:11:21 > 0:11:25It was so easy I could hardly believe it.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29He'll marry me?
0:11:29 > 0:11:31He said he'd marry me?
0:11:31 > 0:11:33Yes.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35What did he say?
0:11:37 > 0:11:39"I will marry my niece.
0:11:39 > 0:11:40"Send her to me."
0:11:41 > 0:11:43That's all?
0:11:44 > 0:11:45Nothing else?
0:11:45 > 0:11:48No arguments? No opposition?
0:11:48 > 0:11:49Only from Narcissus.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51Ah!
0:11:52 > 0:11:54What did HE say?
0:11:54 > 0:11:56I shan't repeat it. What does it matter? He lost.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58It was only sour grapes.
0:11:58 > 0:12:02I'll sour all his grapes before I'm done.
0:12:04 > 0:12:08And Claudius? He said nothing about my being his niece?
0:12:08 > 0:12:09Nothing.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13Nothing about incest?
0:12:13 > 0:12:14Nothing.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21Perhaps he fancies the idea.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23I wouldn't blame him.
0:12:23 > 0:12:28I shan't like it, though, the thought of you in his bed.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31I'm beginning to have regrets already.
0:12:31 > 0:12:36I told you I'd find it hard when it came to it to suggest you.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39It didn't stop you, though, did it?
0:12:39 > 0:12:41No.
0:12:41 > 0:12:45Your ambition always burned more brightly than your passion.
0:12:45 > 0:12:49Have you ever found my passion wanting?
0:12:49 > 0:12:50No.
0:12:52 > 0:12:57But in my case, passion and ambition are beautifully combined.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59Aren't they?
0:12:59 > 0:13:03I'm beginning to have regrets already.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06My regrets are mounting.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08I hope...
0:13:08 > 0:13:10- when you are married... - Don't be silly!
0:13:13 > 0:13:15Oh, I've hurt you.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19And I shouldn't have.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21Don't worry.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24I'll make it up to you.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30Now! Make it up to me now.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35- He's waiting for me. - It won't take long.
0:13:35 > 0:13:41You see, for once, my passion burns brighter than my ambition.
0:13:43 > 0:13:44Hurry, then.
0:13:44 > 0:13:48I imagine his passion is burning too.
0:13:50 > 0:13:54And at his age the flames don't last very long.
0:13:54 > 0:13:55KNOCK ON DOOR
0:14:00 > 0:14:01Uncle.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04Pallas tells me you wanted to see me.
0:14:04 > 0:14:05Yes.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10- He said that you had decided to marry again.- Yes.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14And that you had chosen me.
0:14:15 > 0:14:17Would you like to marry me?
0:14:17 > 0:14:20Oh, Uncle!
0:14:23 > 0:14:28You have made me the happiest woman in the world.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30Yes, I thought I might.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32How could you have known that?
0:14:32 > 0:14:34How could you have known
0:14:34 > 0:14:38that I've loved and respected you all these years above all others?
0:14:38 > 0:14:42I just guessed it, my dear. Just guessed it.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45I shall be such a good wife to you.
0:14:45 > 0:14:49You'll see. And I shall be a mother to Britannicus and Octavia,
0:14:49 > 0:14:52just as I am to my own dear Nero.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54They shall be to me...
0:14:54 > 0:14:56as if they were my own.
0:14:56 > 0:15:00And there may be more. Why not?
0:15:00 > 0:15:03I'm still capable of bearing children.
0:15:04 > 0:15:08And, you, such a vigorous man.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11Such firm flesh.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13Who would have thought it?
0:15:14 > 0:15:18You shall have more sons, I promise you.
0:15:18 > 0:15:22And more love than you have ever had.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24Yes...
0:15:24 > 0:15:29love, Uncle, such as you have never known before.
0:15:31 > 0:15:36Oh, it makes my head reel to think of it.
0:15:41 > 0:15:45Does it not worry you, my dear, that you will be committing incest?
0:15:45 > 0:15:50Oh, but you've done that so many times before, haven't you?
0:15:50 > 0:15:52With your brother Caligula.
0:15:52 > 0:15:58We all did things during the reign of my mad brother that we might not otherwise have done.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00That's true. That is true.
0:16:00 > 0:16:05Only, some of us did them a little more willingly than others, didn't we?
0:16:05 > 0:16:08I'm not blaming you. I'm only asking.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12Since you ask, the answer is no.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16Such incest would be technical only.
0:16:16 > 0:16:20- It doesn't disturb me but if it disturbs you...- No, I'm teasing.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Don't be offended.
0:16:22 > 0:16:27As a matter of fact, the question of incest is somewhat academic.
0:16:27 > 0:16:31- What does that mean?- It means that, beautiful as you are,
0:16:31 > 0:16:34your body's of less interest to me than your mind.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38I'm marrying you for your head, my dear, not your heart
0:16:38 > 0:16:41of which I suspect you have very little.
0:16:41 > 0:16:43Well, then, that suits me.
0:16:43 > 0:16:47Though not the sort of lover one dreams of.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50Certainly not the sort that YOU dream of.
0:16:50 > 0:16:54Still, I won't discuss your dreams, not on a full stomach.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57I'm marrying you because I am tired of ruling alone.
0:16:57 > 0:17:02And there are so many things an emperor's wife could do that others can't.
0:17:02 > 0:17:06But I need a woman with a mind. Does that appeal to you?
0:17:06 > 0:17:08Admirably.
0:17:08 > 0:17:12But I shan't be a cipher, I can tell you that.
0:17:14 > 0:17:18If you give me power, I shall use it.
0:17:18 > 0:17:22Now, why else do you imagine I'm giving it to you?
0:17:25 > 0:17:26Well?
0:17:28 > 0:17:29We are to be married.
0:17:31 > 0:17:32But why?
0:17:32 > 0:17:34Why?
0:17:34 > 0:17:36He doesn't want me to share his bed.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38He doesn't even like me.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40He says he wants me to help him rule.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43- All the better.- No.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45No, there's something odd.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49What did he say when you suggested me?
0:17:49 > 0:17:51- I told you.- Nothing more?
0:17:51 > 0:17:56- Well, there was something but it made no sense.- What? What did he say?
0:17:56 > 0:17:57Uh...
0:17:57 > 0:18:01"Let all the poisons that... are in the mud hatch out."
0:18:01 > 0:18:03Or something like that.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09Perhaps his mind's going.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15Maybe he won't last long after his marriage.
0:18:16 > 0:18:22No. We must keep him alive long enough for my son to come of age.
0:18:28 > 0:18:29Senators...
0:18:29 > 0:18:35years ago, I undertook the conquest of the island of Britain.
0:18:35 > 0:18:39It has taken until now to complete it.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42One man, and one man alone, has been responsible
0:18:42 > 0:18:45for the enormous losses...
0:18:45 > 0:18:48"The war in Britain finally came to an end
0:18:48 > 0:18:52"and King Caractacus was brought in chains to Rome.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54"The senate called for his death
0:18:54 > 0:18:58"as punishment for his long and protracted resistance to our arms.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01"But while his family cowered before us,
0:19:01 > 0:19:03"Caractacus did not."
0:19:03 > 0:19:05I'll tell you this -
0:19:05 > 0:19:10if the sword is all that you're prepared to show us Britons,
0:19:10 > 0:19:14then be prepared to carry it for ever in your hand.
0:19:14 > 0:19:18And sleep with it for ever by your side
0:19:18 > 0:19:19at night!
0:19:19 > 0:19:23For you will NEED it.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27APPLAUSE
0:19:30 > 0:19:34"His courage and his dignity won the hearts of the senate.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36"He was granted a pension
0:19:36 > 0:19:40"and allowed to live with his family in the city.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42"I am near the end of my story.
0:19:42 > 0:19:46"I've been married to Agrippinilla for five years
0:19:46 > 0:19:51"and she has turned out as loathsome as I thought she would.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55"As has that slimy son of hers...
0:19:56 > 0:19:59"His mother has plans for him.
0:20:00 > 0:20:02"She thinks I do not know.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04"But I do.
0:20:05 > 0:20:07"And I have my own plans."
0:20:13 > 0:20:15Very beautiful.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17Yes.
0:20:18 > 0:20:22I wonder, Britannicus, that you don't take lessons.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26I'm not interested in music.
0:20:26 > 0:20:27Pity.
0:20:27 > 0:20:30You could play duets together.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33That would be very unlikely...
0:20:33 > 0:20:36Lucius Domitius being so gifted.
0:20:36 > 0:20:40I wish you would stop addressing him as Lucius Domitius.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43He has adopted the name of Nero.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45I forgot.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48No, you do not forget.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50I think you do it deliberately.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52I tell you, I forget.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56Well, you have been reminded,
0:20:56 > 0:21:00which I think calls for a correction and an apology.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02Oh, that isn't necessary, Mother.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04I think it is.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Well?
0:21:10 > 0:21:13I shall not apologise.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16I think you will.
0:21:16 > 0:21:20Claudius, I insist that you order him to apologise.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23Apologise to Nero, Britannicus.
0:21:23 > 0:21:28You've hurt his feelings. You know how sensitive he is.
0:21:30 > 0:21:35You side with them. You take her side and his against me all the time.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39I shall NOT apologise!
0:21:39 > 0:21:43You'll apologise or you'll be punished.
0:21:43 > 0:21:44What will you do?
0:21:44 > 0:21:48Have me executed as you did my mother?
0:21:49 > 0:21:51I detest you all.
0:21:51 > 0:21:52ALL of you.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59I'm sorry to have been the cause of that.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02It's not your fault. Anyone could see that.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04Nevertheless, I'll go and see him.
0:22:04 > 0:22:07..Come, Octavia. Let's go and find your brother.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10Perhaps we can pacify him.
0:22:10 > 0:22:14- I think you're very kind.- There's far too little kindness in the world.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22Have you noticed how fond they are of each other?
0:22:22 > 0:22:24Everyone's commenting on it.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27Nero simply adores her.
0:22:33 > 0:22:39- There's something I've been wanting to speak to you about for a long time.- Yes.- It concerns...
0:22:39 > 0:22:41Pardon?
0:22:41 > 0:22:46- The answer is yes.- But you don't know what I'm going to ask.
0:22:46 > 0:22:51Aren't you going to suggest that I marry Octavia to your son?
0:22:51 > 0:22:54Yes.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56The answer is yes.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59Don't you wish to discuss it?
0:22:59 > 0:23:01What is there to discuss?
0:23:01 > 0:23:03They'll be well matched.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09Nero's very fond of you, you know.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12He thinks of you as a father.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14He said to me the other day,
0:23:14 > 0:23:19- "You know, I think of him... - "as a father."
0:23:22 > 0:23:27- It's just occurred to me that since he will now be marrying... - The answer once again is yes.
0:23:27 > 0:23:32Will you let me finish? You don't even know what I'm going to say.
0:23:34 > 0:23:39- You and your cups! You've had too much wine again.- Oh, my dear,
0:23:39 > 0:23:44I thought you were going to suggest that I adopt Nero officially as my son...
0:23:44 > 0:23:48make him and Britannicus joint heirs.
0:23:48 > 0:23:52Of course, if that is not what you were going to say...
0:23:52 > 0:23:54Yes.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57Yes, it was.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59It was.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01I just wish you'd let me finish.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03Your manner's very strange.
0:24:03 > 0:24:07I just wanted to save a lot of unnecessary discussion.
0:24:08 > 0:24:12You see, this is the success of our marriage, my dear.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16I read your mind so quickly.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18Think of the time it saves!
0:24:20 > 0:24:21Good night.
0:24:25 > 0:24:26Oh!
0:24:26 > 0:24:28Put him to bed!
0:24:34 > 0:24:37You should have consulted me. I would've talked you out of it.
0:24:37 > 0:24:41- I would never have let it happen. - That's why I never discussed it.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44But do you think that's right?
0:24:44 > 0:24:47- Am I not your principal advisor on matters of state?- Yes.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50Well, then, why do such a thing without consulting me?
0:24:50 > 0:24:54- Do you think SHE makes a move without consulting Pallas?- No.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56You know that they're lovers, don't you?
0:24:56 > 0:24:59- You know that he's switched his interests from you to her?- Yes.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01Then why did you do it?
0:25:02 > 0:25:05Can't you see what you've done?
0:25:05 > 0:25:08By marrying Nero to your daughter and adopting him as your son,
0:25:08 > 0:25:10you've signed your death warrant.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15Your wife has got everything she wanted out of marrying you.
0:25:15 > 0:25:19- She doesn't need you any more. - I shall die soon anyway.
0:25:19 > 0:25:24- How do you know?- Balbillus told me. - Balbillus!- He read my horoscope. - You didn't need HIM.
0:25:24 > 0:25:29By your own actions you've numbered your days more accurately than any horoscope!
0:25:29 > 0:25:34But why did you do it? Why?! Did you not at least think of Britannicus?
0:25:34 > 0:25:36I thought principally of him.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39But...do you not see how this will hurt him?
0:25:39 > 0:25:41Do you not know how you've hurt him in the past?
0:25:41 > 0:25:43Yes, I know.
0:25:43 > 0:25:47You realise, don't you, you've numbered his days as well?
0:25:47 > 0:25:52Do you think they'll let him live once you've gone? To say nothing of me. What made you do it?
0:25:52 > 0:25:56Nero is destined to rule after me, not Britannicus.
0:25:56 > 0:26:00It has been foretold thus. Nothing can alter it.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02Foretold? By who?
0:26:02 > 0:26:06- By the Sybil.- Nero may become emperor. You've seen to that.
0:26:06 > 0:26:10But SHE will rule, your wife Agrippinilla, through him,
0:26:10 > 0:26:12- as Livia ruled through Tiberius.- No.
0:26:12 > 0:26:16Nero will kill his mother. That too has been foretold by the Sybil.
0:26:16 > 0:26:20- What Sybil? I've seen no such prophecy.- No, nor has anyone...
0:26:20 > 0:26:22except me.
0:26:28 > 0:26:33- Where did you find this? - It was given to me by Livia just before she died.
0:26:33 > 0:26:37She gave a birthday dinner. She invited me. That was unusual.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40But her purpose became clear toward the end of the evening.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43She found this curious book among Augustus' papers.
0:26:43 > 0:26:48You...You won't understand it. It's written in a very archaic language.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51It frightened Augustus. He kept it hidden.
0:26:51 > 0:26:55Or perhaps he just didn't understand it. But Livia did.
0:26:55 > 0:26:59- What does it prophesy? - Amongst other things,
0:26:59 > 0:27:02it prophesied Caligula's reign and his death.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04It prophesied mine.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07And it prophesies Nero's.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09It is written, Narcissus.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12Nothing you or I can do will stop it.
0:27:16 > 0:27:20Is that why you chose the Lady Agrippinilla for your wife?
0:27:20 > 0:27:25Yes. All my life I wanted to see the republic restored.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27Yet I let myself be made an emperor.
0:27:27 > 0:27:30That was written too. But I made a mistake.
0:27:30 > 0:27:36I tried to rule wisely and justly, blunting the edge of monarchy, reconciling the people to it.
0:27:36 > 0:27:41In doing that, I was helping monarchy. Now I shall destroy it once and for all.
0:27:41 > 0:27:45Or rather, Nero will destroy it. He's as mad as my nephew Caligula.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48We're all mad, we Caesars.
0:27:48 > 0:27:53And when we are gone the people will finish with monarchies once and for all,
0:27:53 > 0:27:55return to the sanity of the republic.
0:27:55 > 0:27:58- And Britannicus?- He's my instrument.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00HE will restore the republic.
0:28:00 > 0:28:01If he lives.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04I have a plan that will save him.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07But I must leave you to make the arrangements.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10Tell me what to do.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13Well, let me rest for an hour.
0:28:13 > 0:28:17Then come to my bedroom and we'll talk some more.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20- Can I tell Britannicus?- No!
0:28:20 > 0:28:23- Not yet.- It grieves me to see how much you've hurt him.- Yes.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25I killed his mother.
0:28:25 > 0:28:29I've been less than a father to him ever since.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33And I am tired and I'm not well.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36- We must do it now.- It won't be easy.
0:28:36 > 0:28:39Narcissus watches him like a hawk.
0:28:40 > 0:28:46- Every morsel of food your husband takes is tasted first by someone else.- We shall need proper advice.
0:28:46 > 0:28:48That shouldn't be hard to get.
0:28:48 > 0:28:50- Well, there is someone...- Ah!
0:28:50 > 0:28:52A woman, Lucasta.
0:28:52 > 0:28:54She's very skilled.
0:28:54 > 0:28:56- I'll go and see her.- Yes.
0:28:56 > 0:28:58And do it soon.
0:29:01 > 0:29:03He's very unpredictable.
0:29:03 > 0:29:08He's preferred my son to his own at every turn. I don't understand it.
0:29:08 > 0:29:12- And he could just as easily change his mind tomorrow.- Yes, it's strange.
0:29:12 > 0:29:15I feel he's playing some sort of game.
0:29:15 > 0:29:19- But I can't guess what it is. - Neither can I but it worries me.
0:29:19 > 0:29:22I remember that before Tiberius struck Sejanus
0:29:22 > 0:29:25he raised him higher than he'd ever been before.
0:29:25 > 0:29:28There's something else that worries me.
0:29:31 > 0:29:33How sure are you of your son?
0:29:36 > 0:29:39You may leave my son to me.
0:29:39 > 0:29:41Even now that he's married?
0:29:43 > 0:29:46I know you've had a very great influence on him.
0:29:46 > 0:29:48But he's no longer a child.
0:29:48 > 0:29:49And when he's emperor...
0:29:49 > 0:29:51who will control him?
0:29:51 > 0:29:53KNOCKING ON DOOR
0:29:53 > 0:29:55Who is it?
0:29:55 > 0:29:56NERO: It is I, Mother.
0:29:58 > 0:29:59Come in.
0:30:04 > 0:30:06Oh. It doesn't matter.
0:30:06 > 0:30:08No, I'm just going.
0:30:09 > 0:30:11My lady.
0:30:14 > 0:30:16I don't like that Greek. >
0:30:17 > 0:30:22- That Greek runs this empire.- Do you have to receive him in your bedroom?
0:30:24 > 0:30:27- What is the matter with you? - Nothing.
0:30:27 > 0:30:33- Then why aren't you in bed? Where is Octavia?- She's locked herself in her bedroom. She won't let me in.
0:30:33 > 0:30:34Did you quarrel?
0:30:35 > 0:30:39- Yes.- Well, why can't you sleep alone? - I don't feel like it. I feel...
0:30:39 > 0:30:42Oh, I don't know.
0:30:42 > 0:30:47She won't lock me out when I'm emperor. She won't tell me what to do. I shall do as I please.
0:30:50 > 0:30:53It was very naughty of Octavia to lock you out.
0:30:53 > 0:30:54Very naughty.
0:30:54 > 0:30:57But she's only a child.
0:30:57 > 0:31:00She doesn't understand how you feel.
0:31:02 > 0:31:06Would you like me to find a pretty house girl for you?
0:31:06 > 0:31:08Shall I find one
0:31:08 > 0:31:11and send her to you?
0:31:11 > 0:31:14- Is that man your lover? - No, of course not.
0:31:14 > 0:31:19I don't like him. He has no business in your bedroom. I won't allow it when I'm emperor.
0:31:28 > 0:31:30I won't see him here again.
0:31:31 > 0:31:33Oh.
0:31:33 > 0:31:36My poor baby.
0:31:36 > 0:31:40It's not fair, is it, to lock you out of your room?
0:31:42 > 0:31:45And you...the emperor elect.
0:31:47 > 0:31:48But then...
0:31:48 > 0:31:50she's only your wife.
0:31:51 > 0:31:55She doesn't feel for you as a mother would.
0:31:57 > 0:31:59A mother knows how her baby feels.
0:32:00 > 0:32:01Yes.
0:32:03 > 0:32:05She wouldn't let him be unhappy.
0:32:07 > 0:32:08No.
0:32:09 > 0:32:11No.
0:32:12 > 0:32:13Never.
0:32:15 > 0:32:16Never.
0:32:19 > 0:32:21Oh.
0:32:23 > 0:32:26I'm so sleepy.
0:32:38 > 0:32:39Senators...
0:32:40 > 0:32:43..you see me here for the last time.
0:32:44 > 0:32:47I shall not come again.
0:32:49 > 0:32:52This is in the nature of a...
0:32:52 > 0:32:55farewell speech.
0:32:55 > 0:32:57SENATORS: Oh, no!
0:32:57 > 0:33:00I am too old and not well enough.
0:33:01 > 0:33:06I don't think you need my presence here any more.
0:33:07 > 0:33:10I sometimes wonder if you ever did.
0:33:10 > 0:33:12SENATORS GROAN
0:33:12 > 0:33:14As you know...
0:33:14 > 0:33:18the soldiers dragged me from behind the curtain
0:33:18 > 0:33:20and made me emperor.
0:33:20 > 0:33:22I...
0:33:22 > 0:33:26never wanted it. I think it was a mistake.
0:33:26 > 0:33:29SENATORS: No!
0:33:29 > 0:33:31Be that as it may,
0:33:31 > 0:33:34soon I shall retire behind another curtain,
0:33:34 > 0:33:36the final one,
0:33:36 > 0:33:41the one the gods draw over all of us in the end,
0:33:41 > 0:33:43great and small.
0:33:44 > 0:33:48I shan't be sorry to see that final curtain.
0:33:48 > 0:33:52- SENATOR: May you live for ever, Caesar!- Oh, thank you.
0:33:52 > 0:33:55But I've no wish to, even if I could.
0:33:56 > 0:33:59What you will say...say about me...
0:33:59 > 0:34:02when I'm gone
0:34:02 > 0:34:03I can only guess at.
0:34:03 > 0:34:09I hope it won't be as cutting as the things you've said when I was here.
0:34:09 > 0:34:13- LAUGHTER - Not to my face, of course!
0:34:13 > 0:34:15That's not an emperor's privilege.
0:34:16 > 0:34:22But what is said about us in our lives is not always what history says.
0:34:22 > 0:34:27And doubtless history will have its say, as it always does.
0:34:28 > 0:34:31And about that, I have done something.
0:34:31 > 0:34:34Not something that need concern you.
0:34:35 > 0:34:37But something.
0:34:39 > 0:34:40You see...
0:34:41 > 0:34:45..in the course of my life I have known many people...
0:34:45 > 0:34:48great people...
0:34:49 > 0:34:53..people who have made Rome what she is today.
0:34:55 > 0:34:56Yes.
0:34:57 > 0:35:00And one day they will all live again.
0:35:02 > 0:35:05The dead will come to life.
0:35:07 > 0:35:10The man who dwells by the pool...
0:35:10 > 0:35:13will open graves...
0:35:14 > 0:35:17..and deliver Rome up again.
0:35:20 > 0:35:24She shall be seen for what she truly was.
0:35:28 > 0:35:30ECHO OF CHEERING CROWDS
0:35:36 > 0:35:38SILENCE
0:35:40 > 0:35:42CHEERING
0:36:18 > 0:36:20Well done, Claudius.
0:36:20 > 0:36:22Emperor after all.
0:36:22 > 0:36:25Who'd have thought it?
0:36:28 > 0:36:30You're a fool, boy.
0:36:30 > 0:36:32You always were.
0:36:32 > 0:36:35People say it's not your fault.
0:36:35 > 0:36:38But if it's not YOUR fault, whose fault is it?
0:36:38 > 0:36:40Huh.
0:36:42 > 0:36:45And your nose is still running, Claudius.
0:36:45 > 0:36:47It's still running.
0:36:51 > 0:36:54Just a minute. Just wait your turn.
0:37:06 > 0:37:07Shall a doctor be brought?
0:37:08 > 0:37:11It wasn't murder, was it?
0:37:11 > 0:37:13I could have told you that.
0:37:15 > 0:37:17Uncle Claudius...
0:37:17 > 0:37:19I wasn't the messiah after all.
0:37:19 > 0:37:22Would you believe it?
0:37:22 > 0:37:26You could have knocked me over with a feather when they told me.
0:37:26 > 0:37:29CHEERING FADES
0:38:29 > 0:38:32< Senators, let us continue with the business of the day.
0:38:36 > 0:38:38Leave us, Narcissus.
0:38:40 > 0:38:42I...I will send for you.
0:38:44 > 0:38:48- Father, you wanted to see me? - Yes. Listen to me, my son.
0:38:48 > 0:38:51I have something very important to tell you, so listen carefully.
0:38:51 > 0:38:55No-one must know of it. That's why I sent for you at this hour
0:38:55 > 0:38:58so that no-one in the palace will know that we've been talking.
0:38:58 > 0:39:02Now, I intend to alter my will in favour of Nero.
0:39:02 > 0:39:07- And I want to explain to you exactly why I am doing so.- That's very considerate of you, Father(!)
0:39:07 > 0:39:10- Britannicus, listen... - Why the sudden need to explain?
0:39:10 > 0:39:12You haven't felt it before.
0:39:12 > 0:39:16You adopted him as your son, you married him to my sister,
0:39:16 > 0:39:19made him consul elect and city warden without one word to me.
0:39:19 > 0:39:21You owe me nothing.
0:39:21 > 0:39:22Don't speak like that.
0:39:22 > 0:39:24That's nothing to what I could say.
0:39:24 > 0:39:27I may be only a child, but I'm not blind.
0:39:27 > 0:39:29And I'm not a stone.
0:39:29 > 0:39:33Do you think I haven't seen how you've preferred him to me?
0:39:33 > 0:39:35It was for a reason.
0:39:35 > 0:39:38You've never loved me.
0:39:38 > 0:39:41You've never been as a father to me, never!
0:39:41 > 0:39:45Time without number, you've shown the world what you thought of me
0:39:45 > 0:39:48and I shall never forgive you for it. Never!
0:39:48 > 0:39:50And you killed my mother.
0:39:50 > 0:39:54I shall never forgive you for that either.
0:39:54 > 0:39:56I hate you.
0:39:56 > 0:39:59Oh, you listen to me.
0:40:00 > 0:40:02Yes, it's true.
0:40:02 > 0:40:04For a long time...
0:40:04 > 0:40:08after I discovered what your mother had been...
0:40:08 > 0:40:12how she had deceived me every day of her life,
0:40:12 > 0:40:15I could not find it in my heart to love you.
0:40:15 > 0:40:19But you must understand, you must be a man.
0:40:19 > 0:40:23Try to understand a father's weaknesses.
0:40:25 > 0:40:28I don't believe you are my son.
0:40:28 > 0:40:32I believe you are... Caligula's son.
0:40:32 > 0:40:35But what difference does that make?
0:40:35 > 0:40:38You do not have his nature.
0:40:38 > 0:40:44I tell you this only to explain why for a time I could not find it in my heart to love you.
0:40:44 > 0:40:48Was it my fault, then, whose son I was?
0:40:48 > 0:40:50- Was- I- to be punished?
0:40:50 > 0:40:54And does a child choose his parents?
0:40:54 > 0:40:57Don't cry, Britannicus. Please!
0:40:57 > 0:40:59- May I go?- No. Come here.
0:40:59 > 0:41:02- Please!- Come here. Come here.
0:41:03 > 0:41:04Come here.
0:41:08 > 0:41:09Oh, Father.
0:41:09 > 0:41:13- Father.- I have something very important to tell you,
0:41:13 > 0:41:14so listen carefully.
0:41:14 > 0:41:18First, no matter who your father may have been,
0:41:18 > 0:41:22you are now MY son and I love you...
0:41:22 > 0:41:24more than anyone in the world.
0:41:24 > 0:41:28Second, Nero is destined to follow me as emperor.
0:41:28 > 0:41:32- Why?- I'm not going to argue. It is written. Nothing can alter it.
0:41:32 > 0:41:39When I am gone, he will try to kill you, and that is why I have treated you as I have,
0:41:39 > 0:41:42kept you out of the public eye all this time.
0:41:42 > 0:41:43I have a plan to save you.
0:41:43 > 0:41:45Narcissus has arranged it all.
0:41:45 > 0:41:50The world is now wholly Roman. There is nowhere you can fly to to be safe
0:41:50 > 0:41:52except the remotest part of Britain.
0:41:52 > 0:41:55Nero will not be able to touch you there
0:41:55 > 0:41:57for there is no-one to give you up.
0:41:57 > 0:42:02I shall allow some of Caractacus' young men to return to northern Britain and you will go with them.
0:42:02 > 0:42:06In disguise, you will stay at the court of Queen Cartimandua.
0:42:06 > 0:42:09Only she and Caractacus' son will know your real identity.
0:42:09 > 0:42:11From there, she will send you north
0:42:11 > 0:42:15into regions where no Roman foot has ever trod
0:42:15 > 0:42:18- but where she has friends. There you will wait...- Please!
0:42:18 > 0:42:20Nero is mad. He will destroy the empire.
0:42:20 > 0:42:23His excesses will demand the return of the republic
0:42:23 > 0:42:25and YOU will return to restore it.
0:42:25 > 0:42:28The republic will live again.
0:42:32 > 0:42:33No!
0:42:33 > 0:42:35No, I won't do it.
0:42:35 > 0:42:38- It's not honourable.- Britannicus.- No!
0:42:39 > 0:42:44Do you think that I, a Claudian, will paint my face blue
0:42:44 > 0:42:48- and go and hide among Barbarians? - There's no shame.
0:42:48 > 0:42:49No, I won't do it.
0:42:51 > 0:42:53I'm not afraid of Nero. Nero is a coward.
0:42:53 > 0:42:56I can protect myself.
0:42:57 > 0:42:59Let me put on my manly gown.
0:42:59 > 0:43:04Once I'm officially a man, I'll match Nero in everything he does.
0:43:06 > 0:43:08I don't believe in the republic.
0:43:08 > 0:43:11No-one believes in the republic any more.
0:43:12 > 0:43:14No-one does, except you.
0:43:15 > 0:43:17You're old, Father...
0:43:17 > 0:43:20and out of touch.
0:43:22 > 0:43:25I want my chance to rule...
0:43:25 > 0:43:27and rule Rome as it should be ruled.
0:43:29 > 0:43:31If you love me...
0:43:31 > 0:43:33give me that chance.
0:43:35 > 0:43:37Yes...
0:43:37 > 0:43:42Yes, I should have known that would be your answer.
0:43:44 > 0:43:46Well, so be it.
0:43:47 > 0:43:50I've done all I could.
0:43:51 > 0:43:54And you shall have your wish.
0:43:55 > 0:43:57May the gods protect you.
0:44:00 > 0:44:02Britannicus...
0:44:04 > 0:44:07..perhaps you will confound the prophecies.
0:44:07 > 0:44:10Perhaps you will.
0:44:14 > 0:44:16"Write no more, Claudius.
0:44:16 > 0:44:19"Write no more.
0:44:19 > 0:44:21"I have told it all
0:44:21 > 0:44:26"as I said I would and as the Sybil prophesied.
0:44:26 > 0:44:28"I have told the truth.
0:44:28 > 0:44:31"I have set the record straight.
0:44:31 > 0:44:35"It is all here for remote posterity.
0:44:37 > 0:44:41"Come, Death, and draw the final curtain.
0:44:42 > 0:44:44"I am tired.
0:44:44 > 0:44:47"Oh, so tired."
0:44:58 > 0:45:01So much for posterity.
0:45:03 > 0:45:07Where's the rest of it? It must be here. Find it!
0:45:14 > 0:45:15This looks like it.
0:45:15 > 0:45:17This! This is it all right.
0:45:19 > 0:45:22What a Herculean labour!
0:45:22 > 0:45:24It must have taken him years.
0:45:25 > 0:45:26Years.
0:45:26 > 0:45:29We'll burn the lot.
0:45:29 > 0:45:31All that work.
0:45:31 > 0:45:33HE GIGGLES Good grief!
0:45:33 > 0:45:35We must find the will.
0:45:49 > 0:45:52What a pretty thing a fire is!
0:45:56 > 0:45:58BRITANNICUS: Did they murder him?
0:45:58 > 0:45:59Yes.
0:46:01 > 0:46:03Yes, they poisoned him.
0:46:04 > 0:46:06But how?
0:46:07 > 0:46:09How did they do it?
0:46:12 > 0:46:14Why didn't you protect him?
0:46:16 > 0:46:18They were clever.
0:46:18 > 0:46:20Very clever.
0:46:20 > 0:46:25They tried several times to tamper with his food and get at the slaves who prepared it
0:46:25 > 0:46:27but I always stopped them. Always.
0:46:27 > 0:46:31I built a wall around him they couldn't breach.
0:46:34 > 0:46:36How, then, did she do it?
0:46:36 > 0:46:38I will tell you...
0:46:38 > 0:46:41for I see now how it was done.
0:46:43 > 0:46:47Unable to poison HIS food, she must have poisoned her own.
0:46:48 > 0:46:51Yes, poisoned hers...or part of it.
0:46:51 > 0:46:55It was in a dish of mushrooms, which she loved
0:46:55 > 0:46:58and out of which she'd been eating.
0:46:58 > 0:47:02He'd finished his own and was calling for more, which he often did.
0:47:02 > 0:47:06It was then that she offered him hers out of her own dish.
0:47:07 > 0:47:09At first, I thought nothing of it.
0:47:09 > 0:47:12When you're used to seeing someone eat from a dish,
0:47:12 > 0:47:16it doesn't occur to you it may contain something different in just one part of it.
0:47:16 > 0:47:20And then she lifted the mushroom onto her fork
0:47:20 > 0:47:22and held it out for him to take.
0:47:23 > 0:47:27I knew then there was something different about it.
0:47:27 > 0:47:31I knew as certainly as I had ever known anything
0:47:31 > 0:47:34that he was suddenly in the gravest danger.
0:47:34 > 0:47:37And I knew, too, as certain as I knew that,
0:47:37 > 0:47:40that HE knew.
0:47:40 > 0:47:42He knew it was poisoned.
0:47:42 > 0:47:46He knew that his end was there on that fork
0:47:46 > 0:47:49and that he didn't care...
0:47:50 > 0:47:52..that he welcomed it.
0:47:56 > 0:47:59He died in the night...alone.
0:48:02 > 0:48:06I knocked on his door soon after dinner but he sent me away.
0:48:08 > 0:48:13I believe he wanted no-one... to see him die.
0:48:26 > 0:48:29- WHISPERING: - You must go away. They will kill you.
0:48:29 > 0:48:33- No, I shall stay.- Go now! - I have put on my manly gown.
0:48:33 > 0:48:36I can take care of myself.
0:48:38 > 0:48:39Poor Father.
0:48:40 > 0:48:43He never could.
0:48:47 > 0:48:48Oh, I don't know.
0:48:48 > 0:48:52He didn't do badly, when you come to think of it.
0:48:54 > 0:48:56DOOR CLOSES
0:48:59 > 0:49:03WOMAN: Well, Old King Log?
0:49:03 > 0:49:06Poisons all hatched out?
0:49:08 > 0:49:10Is that you, Sybil?
0:49:10 > 0:49:12Yes, it's me.
0:49:12 > 0:49:14Where are you?
0:49:14 > 0:49:15Here.
0:49:20 > 0:49:22Why are you laughing?
0:49:24 > 0:49:26I cheated them again.
0:49:27 > 0:49:29They all think I'm dead.
0:49:29 > 0:49:32But you ARE dead, you fool.
0:49:32 > 0:49:35You're as dead as anyone can be.
0:49:35 > 0:49:37Oh.
0:49:37 > 0:49:40Well, you can't survive them all.
0:49:40 > 0:49:42No, not even you.
0:49:43 > 0:49:45It's time to go.
0:49:45 > 0:49:49Wait! Britannicus, what will happen to him?
0:49:49 > 0:49:51Nero will kill him.
0:49:51 > 0:49:53And Narcissus?
0:49:53 > 0:49:55Agrippinilla will kill him.
0:49:55 > 0:49:57Then Nero will kill her.
0:49:57 > 0:50:00It sounds depressingly familiar.
0:50:00 > 0:50:02Yes, isn't it?
0:50:03 > 0:50:05And the empire?
0:50:05 > 0:50:09Oh, that will go on, as Livia said it would.
0:50:09 > 0:50:13But there'll be no more Claudians after Nero. He'll be the last.
0:50:13 > 0:50:17But the emperors won't be a bad lot after him.
0:50:17 > 0:50:20Well...give or take a few.
0:50:23 > 0:50:26Quite a story, wasn't it?
0:50:29 > 0:50:31They burnt your book, you know.
0:50:31 > 0:50:33All of it.
0:50:33 > 0:50:36CLAUDIUS LAUGHS
0:50:38 > 0:50:39SYBIL JOINS IN
0:50:39 > 0:50:44Lucky for you, you made a copy and buried it!
0:50:47 > 0:50:50It's time to go, Claudius.
0:50:50 > 0:50:54- The ferry man is waiting. - There is one thing more...
0:50:54 > 0:50:58You can't put it off. You can't stay here for ever.
0:50:58 > 0:51:01No, I suppose not.
0:51:02 > 0:51:04Now...
0:51:04 > 0:51:06close your eyes.
0:51:11 > 0:51:14It's but a short step to the boat.
0:51:14 > 0:51:17A short pull across the river.
0:51:18 > 0:51:20And then?
0:51:21 > 0:51:23And then, I promise you...
0:51:23 > 0:51:28you'll dream a different story altogether.
0:51:33 > 0:51:34Farewell...
0:51:34 > 0:51:38Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus,
0:51:38 > 0:51:41god of the Britons,
0:51:41 > 0:51:44one-time emperor of the Roman world.
0:51:45 > 0:51:48Farewell.
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