0:00:08 > 0:00:13This programme contains some scenes of a sexual nature.
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0:00:55 > 0:00:57Beautiful, Lollia. Where did you find her?
0:00:57 > 0:01:01We saw her first in Antioch a year ago when Titus was on duty there.
0:01:01 > 0:01:06We thought her so superb that I just paid for her to tour through the provinces,
0:01:06 > 0:01:10and now, my dear friends, the entertainment is over.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13She was w-w-wonderful, and a beautiful dinner.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16Thank you, Claudius, but I wasn't inviting a compliment.
0:01:16 > 0:01:21It's just that I have something to perform, and I brought you here
0:01:21 > 0:01:24as some of our dearest friends to be with me when I do it.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26What's this, Lollia? A surprise for me, too?
0:01:26 > 0:01:28Yes, my dear, it is.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30She never tells me anything.
0:01:30 > 0:01:34Very naughty, my dear, to plan a surprise for our guests and not tell your husband.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37You know that I love you very much.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40Now I'm really worried. This is going to cost a fortune!
0:01:40 > 0:01:43- What have you bought? How much have you spent?- Nothing.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45For once I have spent nothing.
0:01:45 > 0:01:51You may remember that a week ago tonight we went to a dinner at the palace given by the Emperor.
0:01:51 > 0:01:56- Of course.- You may also remember, although perhaps you didn't notice,
0:01:56 > 0:01:59that Tiberius was fascinated by our daughter.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03I must admit I saw him looking at Camilla once or twice.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05What you don't know
0:02:05 > 0:02:09is that she received a summons to the palace the next day.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11A summons? You never told me.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15No, I thought it best not to put you in a position where you would object.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18What is this, Lollia? What are you telling me?
0:02:18 > 0:02:22A summons to the Emperor is not something to be refused.
0:02:22 > 0:02:27But naturally I wouldn't let my daughter go alone, knowing his reputation.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29So I went with her.
0:02:30 > 0:02:35We were admitted into a room I imagine he keeps for such receptions.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38I'd never been into that room before,
0:02:38 > 0:02:41nor met anyone who had.
0:02:41 > 0:02:48Walls were hung with what I suppose the Emperor imagines is erotic art.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50They depict scenes of...
0:02:50 > 0:02:52incredible beastliness.
0:02:52 > 0:02:56Not fit for anyone to look at, let alone a young girl.
0:02:56 > 0:03:00What's the matter with you? Why are you telling me now in front of all our friends?
0:03:00 > 0:03:06These are not just friends, they are all in their different ways important people in Rome.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08That's why they're here tonight.
0:03:09 > 0:03:13He took Camilla up to the wall to show her the paintings,
0:03:13 > 0:03:17and talked about them as if they were works of art.
0:03:17 > 0:03:22But when I objected and told him he should be ashamed of himself for
0:03:22 > 0:03:27- trying to corrupt a young girl, he simply smiled and said, "And what about an old one?"- He...
0:03:27 > 0:03:29No, Titus, please.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33Then he clapped his hands
0:03:33 > 0:03:37and a slave appeared from another room, carrying a tray of wine.
0:03:40 > 0:03:41The slave was naked.
0:03:44 > 0:03:49And while Tiberius spoke to her, he...
0:03:49 > 0:03:52stroked the slave.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55I suppose in his twisted way he...
0:03:55 > 0:03:59thought it might inflame my daughter's passions.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02But Camilla burst into tears and begged to be allowed to leave.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06He then pretended to be upset
0:04:06 > 0:04:10and complained that she'd given a different impression on the night of the dinner.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15He then turned to me and told me to go home.
0:04:15 > 0:04:20- I won't have you repeat any more. - No, Titus, please.- Enough! - Let me finish!
0:04:23 > 0:04:27If I had had this with me then, I'd have used it on him.
0:04:30 > 0:04:34Instead, I begged a moment with him alone.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36He granted it.
0:04:39 > 0:04:40And there,
0:04:42 > 0:04:45I offered myself in my daughter's place.
0:04:46 > 0:04:50Yes, Titus, my husband,
0:04:50 > 0:04:54to save my daughter I offered myself in her place.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56And he accepted.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00My dear, that was nothing for me to save her.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05I took her to the gate
0:05:06 > 0:05:09and warned her not to say anything to anyone.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13- And then return. - Lollia, please, please...
0:05:13 > 0:05:15I've nearly finished.
0:05:17 > 0:05:21I said that to prostitute myself for my daughter was nothing.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24What wouldn't we do to save our children?
0:05:26 > 0:05:28I should have gone to the gate.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33Into the room and out again.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38No-one would have been the wiser.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42I did go into that room.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46I was there subjected to...
0:05:50 > 0:05:51..acts of...
0:05:53 > 0:05:56..such...
0:05:56 > 0:05:57abominable filth.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03To bestial obscenities.
0:06:04 > 0:06:09With him and his slaves of both sexes,
0:06:09 > 0:06:15that mere prostitution seems like a blessed state compared to...
0:06:17 > 0:06:21You must forget, Lollia, you must put it from your mind.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24You've saved your husband and your daughter, that's enough.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27No, Agrippina, that is not possible.
0:06:27 > 0:06:33If there had been just one part of me befouled by his lust I should have come home and cut it out.
0:06:35 > 0:06:36With this knife!
0:06:39 > 0:06:41I can't live with the memory of what he did to me.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46Nor can I get into my husband's bed again.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49Nor have his arms round me.
0:06:49 > 0:06:55Nor feel the love he's had for me all these years without...
0:06:55 > 0:06:57Without the memory of...
0:06:57 > 0:06:59that beast
0:06:59 > 0:07:03and his beast coming between us.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09If I... could...
0:07:09 > 0:07:13cut...
0:07:13 > 0:07:14from my mind...
0:07:21 > 0:07:23THUD
0:07:23 > 0:07:25Lollia!
0:07:29 > 0:07:31Lollia!
0:07:33 > 0:07:35LOUD CROWD NOISES
0:07:37 > 0:07:43Make way there! Move aside for the Emperor. Don't block the road!
0:07:44 > 0:07:46Make way there. Stand aside.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48Clear the road for the Emperor.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51Make way.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56Well, well,
0:07:56 > 0:08:00is it my son who greets his mother with such affection and eagerness?
0:08:00 > 0:08:03- Good day, mother. - In a hurry, are you?
0:08:03 > 0:08:06What is it, another treason trial? Who is it today?
0:08:06 > 0:08:11- There will be no trials today, mother.- Slipped up, have you? Run out of people to prosecute?
0:08:11 > 0:08:15- Perhaps you'll have more time to spend with your mother.- There is no need to shout, I'm not deaf.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18You've been deaf to me for years.
0:08:18 > 0:08:23Why did you refuse the ambassadors from Spain permission to erect a temple to me?
0:08:23 > 0:08:27I will not discuss such matters in the street. Good day, mother. Move on. Good day.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29It's my birthday next month.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32What are you going to buy me?
0:08:32 > 0:08:35I heard about Lollia - disgusting!
0:08:35 > 0:08:38Your brother Drusus was worth 10 of you!
0:08:38 > 0:08:39Thrasyllus!
0:08:39 > 0:08:41Where is that damned astrologer?
0:08:43 > 0:08:46- Coming, Excellency, coming.- I want you to cast my mother's horoscope.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48Your mother's... What for?
0:08:48 > 0:08:51I want to know how much longer I have to put up with her, that's what for.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54- Do you know the exact time of her birth?- Of course not.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Then I can only do a rough calculation.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59Why don't you ask her? It's her birthday soon.
0:08:59 > 0:09:03- You could tell her her son wants to make her a present of her horoscope. - She'd like that.
0:09:03 > 0:09:07She's admired you ever since you prophesised she'd outlive her husband.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10That was obvious. I could see she had every intention of doing so.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13Still, I'll...go and ask her for an interview.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17What is she? Leo!
0:09:17 > 0:09:22That's helpful. There's a bad time coming up for Leos soon.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24I'll go and see her.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27Wish I'd stayed in Rhodes.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29I wish I'd never returned.
0:09:29 > 0:09:31Someone must govern.
0:09:32 > 0:09:36Rome is fortunate that she has you.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38Yes.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41And I am fortunate in you, Sejanus, you are my eyes and ears.
0:09:41 > 0:09:45If it wasn't for you to relieve me of some of my burdens...
0:09:45 > 0:09:49- What have we here? - Verbatim reports of conversations taken down by my agents.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52Some are merely vicious, others are treasonable.
0:09:52 > 0:09:57Doesn't anybody in the city ever say anything that isn't either vicious or treasonable?
0:09:57 > 0:10:00The last two years we've had more treason trials than the whole of the previous 10!
0:10:00 > 0:10:03There is one I think you should look at.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11- Silius Caecina?- Mm.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16Wasn't he the commander on the Upper Rhine?
0:10:16 > 0:10:17That's the point.
0:10:21 > 0:10:27"Had it not been for the way I handled my four regiments, they would have mutinied, too."
0:10:27 > 0:10:30- He said that?- At a dinner party. - What did he mean by it?
0:10:30 > 0:10:38What he went on to say - that if his regiments had joined the mutiny, Tiberius would not be Emperor now.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41He implies, of course, that you owe your position to him.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44Well, he'd have too much wine.
0:10:44 > 0:10:48These old soldiers like to fight over all their old battles after dinner.
0:10:48 > 0:10:51I think there may be more to it than that.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54- But perhaps it's not important. - What do you mean?
0:10:54 > 0:10:58He went on to say, as you'd have seen lower down, that the regiments that did mutiny
0:10:58 > 0:11:01were the ones that were under your command.
0:11:01 > 0:11:06But he probably only said it because Agrippina was there, an after-dinner compliment to her late husband
0:11:06 > 0:11:08whose regiments of course remained loyal.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10Agrippina was at the dinner?
0:11:10 > 0:11:12- Uh-huh.- Agrippina?
0:11:12 > 0:11:15- The noble Gaius Caligula to see the Emperor.- What do you want?
0:11:15 > 0:11:17Can't you see that I'm busy?
0:11:19 > 0:11:21I have brought you a present.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24Present? What sort of a present?
0:11:24 > 0:11:26It took me a year to find it.
0:11:26 > 0:11:32When I heard about it, I said, "That is for my great uncle Tiberius."
0:11:34 > 0:11:35Happy anniversary.
0:11:35 > 0:11:40- What of?- What difference does it make? Can't you think of something?
0:11:46 > 0:11:48That's nothing.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50Wait till you see the others.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53Where did you get this?
0:11:53 > 0:11:56Elephantis. A merchant I know who travels
0:11:56 > 0:12:00between Egypt and Rome told me about it and I asked him to get it for me.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03It cost quite a lot.
0:12:03 > 0:12:07To tell the truth, it cost so much I had to borrow part of it from uncle Claudius!
0:12:08 > 0:12:10It's 200 years old.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16It was very thoughtful of you.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19I knew you'd like it.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22In fact, I'd like to borrow it myself some time.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24I mean, when you're not using it.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30I would like you to examine the evidence to see if there's
0:12:30 > 0:12:33a case for impeaching Silius Caecina in the Senate.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35- On a charge of treason?- Yes.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38For insulting references towards the Emperor?
0:12:40 > 0:12:42Why not?
0:12:42 > 0:12:47Well, I agree, why not, but blasphemies against Augustus have been held to be treason, but against
0:12:47 > 0:12:50Tiberius, there's no precedent for it.
0:12:50 > 0:12:54The emperor's noble son Tiberius Drusus Caesar.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57Castor, how nice to see you. Welcome back.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00I'm Castor to my friends, Sejanus.
0:13:00 > 0:13:04I had hoped you'd count me among your friends. Perhaps you will one day.
0:13:04 > 0:13:05That seems to me unlikely.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Your father doesn't wish to be disturbed.
0:13:10 > 0:13:14Announce me, you filthy German pig, or I'll have you flogged and sent
0:13:14 > 0:13:17back to the mud huts from which you came!
0:13:31 > 0:13:36Never mind precedent, I want Silius Caecina impeached on a charge of treason.
0:13:36 > 0:13:42He has a great war record and he has powerful friends, the Lady Agrippina, for one.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44- Would you prefer if I found someone else to prosecute him?- No, no...
0:13:44 > 0:13:45Then you will take the case.
0:13:45 > 0:13:49Of course. I was to some extent just clearing my mind.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51Germanicus was never your enemy!
0:13:51 > 0:13:53I tell you, he was my enemy.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55I know what his ambitions were.
0:13:55 > 0:14:01I have the proof here in the files, and I know how his widow conspires against me now.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03Proof, from Sejanus?
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Yes, from Sejanus.
0:14:05 > 0:14:09And he at least, unlike my son, keeps me informed of what goes on in this city.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11Oh, Father, open your eyes!
0:14:11 > 0:14:13The man is using you.
0:14:13 > 0:14:18You know nothing he doesn't want you to know and you see no one he doesn't want you to see.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20He is the partner of my labours.
0:14:20 > 0:14:24Yes, and soon he'll be your colleague, but even that won't be enough for him.
0:14:24 > 0:14:29That man has an appetite for power unknown to you and me.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31Envy. Envy!
0:14:31 > 0:14:36You envy him because for years he worked while you and that Judean friend of yours,
0:14:36 > 0:14:42Herod, spent your days and nights whoring around the city, he worked to relieve me of some of my labour.
0:14:42 > 0:14:46That's true, but if you think he's working for you, you're mistaken.
0:14:46 > 0:14:50- He is working for himself, and how hard he works!- Have you finished?
0:14:50 > 0:14:52No, I have not finished!
0:14:52 > 0:14:57His statue is now to be seen in Pompey theatre and replicas of it are to be found all over Rome.
0:14:57 > 0:15:02He's built a network of spies that have spread like an infection through the city.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Don't you see?
0:15:04 > 0:15:09He's building a prison here, stone by stone, and one day when you're gone,
0:15:09 > 0:15:13we'll all wake up and find the doors locked and the bolts down.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17Did you have a report to make on the coastal defences?
0:15:17 > 0:15:19Yes. Well then...
0:15:19 > 0:15:21Make it!
0:15:28 > 0:15:33'He's interested in nothing nowadays except treason trials and pornographic books.'
0:15:33 > 0:15:37He had one with him. I think Caligula had bought it for him.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40- They seem to get on well, those two. - Yes, that young man gives me the shudders.
0:15:40 > 0:15:44How Germanicus and Agrippina could have produced him, I don't know.
0:15:44 > 0:15:49- Did you quarrel with your father? - We had an argument over Sejanus.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53- He's blind to that man's ambition. - Don't you think you're exaggerating?
0:15:53 > 0:15:55No. What can he aspire to?
0:15:55 > 0:15:57A commander of the guard?
0:15:57 > 0:16:02I sometimes think he aspires to sit where my father sits.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05He doesn't realise how much he's grown to depend on him.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07He seeks his advice on everything.
0:16:10 > 0:16:14- Why don't you go to sleep? - I don't know why I'm so tired.
0:16:14 > 0:16:16You've had a long journey.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22I came to say goodnight, Father.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25Goodnight.
0:16:25 > 0:16:29- I'm glad you're back. - I'm sorry I was so tired. I really can't keep awake.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31You'll feel better in the morning.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34- Goodnight, Mother.- Goodnight, Helen.
0:16:35 > 0:16:37She's becoming very beautiful.
0:16:37 > 0:16:38Yes.
0:16:38 > 0:16:42Her skin's not all that it should be, though.
0:16:42 > 0:16:46- You, too, are looking beautiful. - Thank you.
0:16:46 > 0:16:47Why don't you stay?
0:16:47 > 0:16:50Not tonight. You're tired.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52You'll sleep better alone.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55Yes, you're right.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57I really can't keep my eyes open.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03'Is he asleep?'
0:17:03 > 0:17:04- Yes.- Is the fast asleep?- Yes.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Quick!
0:17:14 > 0:17:16No, wait.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18Why are you in such a hurry?
0:17:18 > 0:17:20It's much better if you were...
0:17:23 > 0:17:25- Did you do as I say?- Yes.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28- You put it in his wine?- Yes, it worked. He'll sleep until morning.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39I thought you'd never get here.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54- What are we going to do?- Do?
0:17:54 > 0:17:56We're going to make love...
0:17:56 > 0:17:58For the last time.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00- Last time?- Mm.
0:18:01 > 0:18:06No! I couldn't bear it. I couldn't bear it if you go away again.
0:18:06 > 0:18:10It's too much of a risk. If we go on like this we're bound to be discovered.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12It's too dangerous. Be sensible.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14How can you be sensible?
0:18:14 > 0:18:17I don't think you love me, not really.
0:18:18 > 0:18:24I love you too much to risk exposing you to a charge of adultery.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26Don't tempt me, my darling.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28Help me.
0:18:31 > 0:18:33- We could still meet.- How?
0:18:33 > 0:18:36- I could do what I did tonight. - Drug his wine?
0:18:36 > 0:18:40He'll begin to grow suspicious if he falls asleep every night.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42Besides, his body will grow accustomed to it.
0:18:42 > 0:18:47It'll gradually cease to have an effect. And then, my darling,
0:18:47 > 0:18:50one night, in your eagerness to see him sleep,
0:18:50 > 0:18:52you might kill him.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07Would a large dose really kill him?
0:19:07 > 0:19:11- What are you saying? - I can't live without you.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14I can't.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18I can't. I'd die if you didn't come into my bed every night.
0:19:21 > 0:19:26Such a little step to take from making him sleep at night to making him sleep forever.
0:19:26 > 0:19:30You'll need something stronger. Something that's used in small doses will never be detected.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32- Get it for me.- Are you sure?- Yes!
0:19:32 > 0:19:36- Yes! Are you?- If you are.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39- And afterwards?- I'll divorce my wife and we'll get married.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42And then I'll have you all to myself.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48No lovers for you then.
0:19:48 > 0:19:49You'll have to behave.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53And if I don't?
0:19:53 > 0:19:56If you don't?
0:19:56 > 0:19:59I'll lock you in a room without any clothes.
0:19:59 > 0:20:03And I'll visit you three or four times a day.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05Perhaps you'll be too tired.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08Perhaps you'll only manage once.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11Then I'll send my guard to stand in for me.
0:20:11 > 0:20:14- Would you really?- Yes.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16How many?
0:20:16 > 0:20:18Three or four.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21I might not let them.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23You'd be forced.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26- Against my will?- Yes.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29- While you were there?- Yes.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33I'd struggle and scream.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35But no use.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38You'd like that...
0:20:40 > 0:20:42..wouldn't you?
0:20:57 > 0:20:59Claudius!
0:21:05 > 0:21:08- Castor!- What's your hurry?
0:21:09 > 0:21:12Look at this. It came this morning.
0:21:12 > 0:21:16Lady Livia Augusta expects her dear grandson Tiberius Claudius Drusus
0:21:16 > 0:21:20to dine with her on the occasion of her birthday. She hopes he's in good health.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23- What could it mean? - What it says, I imagine.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25I'd take your own wine, if I were you.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28Don't joke, Herod, I'm very nervous.
0:21:28 > 0:21:29She never invites me.
0:21:29 > 0:21:32We haven't even spoken for seven years.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35The last time she spoke to me was when Caligula burned the house down.
0:21:35 > 0:21:39Then all she said was, "If you haven't got a bucket,
0:21:39 > 0:21:41- "piss on it."- I remember.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44Your family are all lunatics. You know that, don't you?
0:21:44 > 0:21:47In that case, why don't you go back to your own family in Judea?
0:21:47 > 0:21:50Because I prefer the lunatics I know to the ones I don't.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53- Where are you off to now?- I must get a present for grandmother.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58Well, what about one of these?
0:21:59 > 0:22:02I know that face. Who is it?
0:22:02 > 0:22:05He knows that face! Wonderful!
0:22:05 > 0:22:10- Claudius, people know that face better than they know their own. - Is it Sejanus?
0:22:10 > 0:22:14It's a replica of the head of the statue they've erected to him at Pompey theatre.
0:22:14 > 0:22:18- Everyone's buying them. - Everybody had better buy them.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20Here, have one.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23No, thanks, I've got nowhere to put it.
0:22:23 > 0:22:24Don't be obvious, Herod.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27You're very tedious when you're obvious. I must go.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29Castor, you're not looking well.
0:22:29 > 0:22:32I don't feel well. I've not been well since I returned.
0:22:32 > 0:22:38How's my sister? I invited her to a public reading of my work while you were away but she never came.
0:22:38 > 0:22:42- Livilla's tastes have never been literary.- You never came either!
0:22:42 > 0:22:44That's because mine always were.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47Herod, you're talented but dull.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50I must go.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53What a dear, divine fool my cousin is.
0:22:53 > 0:22:59- How nervous everyone makes him.- If I'd been asked to dinner with your grandmother, I'd be nervous, too!
0:22:59 > 0:23:01He's right, you really don't look well.
0:23:01 > 0:23:03Oh, it'll pass.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05You worry so much.
0:23:17 > 0:23:18Halt!
0:23:20 > 0:23:23Silius Caecina?
0:23:23 > 0:23:24What's this?
0:23:24 > 0:23:27I'm to be arrested, it seems.
0:23:27 > 0:23:31- By whose order? - By order of the state senate.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33On what grounds?
0:23:33 > 0:23:35On the grounds of treason.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38Gaius Silius Caecina is to be impeached before the senate.
0:23:38 > 0:23:43It seems I have made some defamatory remarks about your father.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45I don't recall them.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49This must be some sort of joke, Varro.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52You'll be laughed out of the house.
0:23:52 > 0:23:56I don't think so.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58Please stand aside, sir.
0:23:58 > 0:24:05I'm on state business and may not be interfered with, even by the emperor's son.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11Forward!
0:24:23 > 0:24:25Oh divine Augustus,
0:24:25 > 0:24:28take these offerings, I beg, poor as they are, and help me,
0:24:28 > 0:24:32your unworthy successor, to rule wisely in your place.
0:24:32 > 0:24:36Help me too, oh my father, divine ruler of the world,
0:24:36 > 0:24:39to calm the raging spirit inside me
0:24:39 > 0:24:42and lighten the dark shadows in my soul.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44And bring me peace...
0:24:46 > 0:24:46peace.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49Hypocrite.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52Hypocrite.
0:24:52 > 0:24:56You sacrifice to Augustus but you persecute his grandchildren.
0:24:56 > 0:25:01Grandchildren of Augustus do I persecute that he himself did not persecute?
0:25:01 > 0:25:04I am not talking of my brother Postumus, I'm talking of me.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06Of me!
0:25:06 > 0:25:11All my friends, one by one, you either banish or you charge
0:25:11 > 0:25:15them with treason, and their only crime is friendship for me.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18Even Lollia, whom you could find nothing against you,
0:25:18 > 0:25:21degraded and humiliated till she took her own life.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24Now you've arrested Silius Caecina.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26If you are not Queen, have I done you wrong?
0:25:26 > 0:25:31Oh, why do you persist in this childish belief that I want to be Queen?
0:25:31 > 0:25:36- Is it because you need to find reasons for the way you treat me? - And how do I treat you?
0:25:36 > 0:25:39You persecute me!
0:25:39 > 0:25:43I will not be screamed at even by the granddaughter of Augustus.
0:25:43 > 0:25:48- Silius Caecina is charged with treasonable utterances.- Utterances?
0:25:48 > 0:25:51What brings the emperorship into disrepute...
0:25:51 > 0:25:55undermines the foundations of the state!
0:25:58 > 0:26:00Tiberius...
0:26:00 > 0:26:06perhaps I do you wrong in thinking you persecute me because of my friends.
0:26:06 > 0:26:10But you too do me wrong in thinking me ambitious.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15I'm tired.
0:26:15 > 0:26:20Since Germanicus died, I've hardly known what to do with myself.
0:26:20 > 0:26:25All I want is to be left alone.
0:26:25 > 0:26:26And...
0:26:26 > 0:26:28And?
0:26:29 > 0:26:32Be good to my children.
0:26:32 > 0:26:34Have I not been good to them?
0:26:34 > 0:26:36Oh, to Caligula perhaps.
0:26:36 > 0:26:41But to Nero and Drusus you're cold and never enquire after them.
0:26:41 > 0:26:46Oh Tiberius, let's not fight one another all the time.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50As for your children,
0:26:50 > 0:26:52they are guiltless of any crime.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54I will look upon them as friends.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59As for you,
0:26:59 > 0:27:03I will never forget what you made me do to Piso.
0:27:14 > 0:27:18Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus.
0:27:18 > 0:27:22Happy b-b-birthday, grandmother.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26Oh, is that for me?
0:27:26 > 0:27:30Yes. It's a...vase.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32- From India.- How very pretty.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35And from such a distant place.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37It's a pity we never got that far.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39So many fine things we could have picked up cheap.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41Sit down, my dear, and eat something.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43C-C-Caligula...
0:27:43 > 0:27:45Uncle.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55T-T-To you, grandmother.
0:28:26 > 0:28:31- Staking everything on one throw, uncle Claudius?- Hold your tongue.
0:28:31 > 0:28:37It was a very polite gesture of confidence in me and was much appreciated.
0:28:37 > 0:28:41- Have you had lots of lovely presents, grandmother? - Several, my dear.
0:28:41 > 0:28:45And Thrasyllus has drawn me the most detailed horoscope for my birthday.
0:28:45 > 0:28:47Such work has gone into it, amazing.
0:28:47 > 0:28:50A horoscope full of incident and prophecy.
0:28:50 > 0:28:53- I was amazed at it myself. - It was a present from Tiberius.
0:28:53 > 0:28:58Wasn't that nice? Of course, what he really wants to know is how much longer I'm going to live.
0:28:58 > 0:28:59- Are you sure...?- Oh, shut up.
0:28:59 > 0:29:02It's a foolish mother who doesn't know her own son.
0:29:02 > 0:29:04- And d-d-did he find out?- Oh yes.
0:29:04 > 0:29:07Yes. I shall die soon.
0:29:07 > 0:29:09Next year sometime.
0:29:09 > 0:29:10My son will be relieved.
0:29:10 > 0:29:15I shall tell him nothing. It would be an unforgivable breach of professional ethics.
0:29:15 > 0:29:19You're a liar. Like all good astrologers, you're a liar.
0:29:19 > 0:29:21You can go now.
0:29:21 > 0:29:26They tell the truth about the future but they lie their way out of the present.
0:29:26 > 0:29:28Lady, let me reassure you, I could be wrong.
0:29:28 > 0:29:32If your mother was mistaken over the exact time of your birth
0:29:32 > 0:29:36by so much as a fraction, it could mean another 10 years of life.
0:29:36 > 0:29:39You see? He can't resist it.
0:29:39 > 0:29:42They're all so insecure, these astrologers.
0:29:42 > 0:29:47They all so want to be loved. Go away Thrasyllus, you'll get no love here.
0:29:47 > 0:29:49What are you grinning at, monster?
0:29:49 > 0:29:52You are a monster, aren't you?
0:29:52 > 0:29:56- Whatever you say, great-grandmother. - Did you know your nephew was a monster, Claudius?
0:29:56 > 0:29:59Is he old enough to have acquired that title?
0:29:59 > 0:30:02Oh, he started very young.
0:30:02 > 0:30:04Didn't you, monster?
0:30:04 > 0:30:12I searched his room one day and I found a little green talisman that told me a very remarkable story.
0:30:12 > 0:30:17- Or rather confirmed one I'd heard from another quarter.- Green talisman?
0:30:17 > 0:30:19Like my brother wore?
0:30:19 > 0:30:22The one your brother wore.
0:30:22 > 0:30:26Do you think it's safe that uncle Claudius should be told my secret?
0:30:26 > 0:30:29Or are you going to poison him?
0:30:29 > 0:30:30Oh, he's quite safe.
0:30:30 > 0:30:36And remember this, monster - your uncle Claudius here is a phenomenon.
0:30:36 > 0:30:43He's so old-fashioned that because he's sworn to protect his brother's children, he will never harm you.
0:30:43 > 0:30:44And remember this too.
0:30:44 > 0:30:50Thrasyllus has prophesied that he will avenge your death, so you cannot harm him.
0:30:50 > 0:30:53I didn't think much of that prophecy.
0:30:53 > 0:30:56Never mind what you thought about it, just remember it.
0:30:56 > 0:30:57Now, you may kiss me and go.
0:30:57 > 0:31:00I want to talk to Claudius in private.
0:31:27 > 0:31:28Goodnight, great-grandmother.
0:31:32 > 0:31:35Goodnight, uncle.
0:31:35 > 0:31:40My body fascinates him because it's so old.
0:31:40 > 0:31:42You'd think it would repel him, wouldn't you?
0:31:42 > 0:31:45Why do you allow him such f-f-familiarity?
0:31:45 > 0:31:48Because it pleases me.
0:31:49 > 0:31:51And because he will be the next emperor.
0:31:53 > 0:31:55You don't believe me, do you?
0:31:57 > 0:32:01If... if you say so, grandmother.
0:32:01 > 0:32:05You know I don't concern myself with high politics.
0:32:05 > 0:32:06But still, what about Castor?
0:32:06 > 0:32:09And Caligula has two older brothers.
0:32:09 > 0:32:11Castor is ill and Thrasyllus says he won't recover.
0:32:11 > 0:32:17He also says that Tiberius will choose Caligula to succeed him.
0:32:17 > 0:32:19Why?
0:32:19 > 0:32:20Vanity.
0:32:20 > 0:32:26Tiberius wants to be loved, at least after his death, if not before.
0:32:26 > 0:32:28And the best way to ensure that...
0:32:28 > 0:32:32Is to have someone worse to follow him, naturally.
0:32:32 > 0:32:34He's certainly no fool.
0:32:34 > 0:32:36He's the biggest fool in my family.
0:32:36 > 0:32:39I always thought that that was you.
0:32:39 > 0:32:42But I think now I was wrong.
0:32:46 > 0:32:52Grandmother, after all these years, you didn't invite me to dinner just to tell me this.
0:32:52 > 0:32:55- Wine has made you bold, hasn't it? - You said you'd kept in with Caligula
0:32:55 > 0:32:57because he was to be the next emperor.
0:32:57 > 0:33:02- Lost your stutter too, I see. - But if by then you're dead, what difference can it make to you?
0:33:02 > 0:33:05Oh, it makes a lot of difference.
0:33:08 > 0:33:10And that's really why you're here.
0:33:13 > 0:33:15I want to be a goddess, Claudius.
0:33:18 > 0:33:22Thrasyllus says he's sure I will be, which means he's not sure at all.
0:33:22 > 0:33:24He just thinks I will.
0:33:24 > 0:33:27Why are you so anxious to become a goddess?
0:33:27 > 0:33:29Oh, don't you understand?
0:33:30 > 0:33:35- Claudius, do you believe that the souls of great criminals suffer eternal torment?- Certainly.
0:33:35 > 0:33:40But the immortal gods, whatever crimes they've committed, are free from any fear of punishment?
0:33:40 > 0:33:46Of course. Jove deposed his father, killed one of his grandsons and incestuously married his own sister.
0:33:46 > 0:33:48He's the greatest god of all.
0:33:50 > 0:33:55I've done many terrible things, Claudius.
0:33:55 > 0:33:57Well, no ruler could do otherwise.
0:33:57 > 0:34:02But I've always put the good of the empire above all else.
0:34:02 > 0:34:05Who saved Rome from civil war again?
0:34:05 > 0:34:13I did. Augustus would have plunged us into it time and again with his ridiculous favouritism.
0:34:13 > 0:34:16He set Agrippa against Marcellus.
0:34:16 > 0:34:19Gaius against Tiberius. Tiberius against Postumus.
0:34:19 > 0:34:22There was no end to his follies.
0:34:22 > 0:34:25And it fell to me to...
0:34:25 > 0:34:27remove them,
0:34:27 > 0:34:30one by one.
0:34:30 > 0:34:33Don't say you never suspected.
0:34:33 > 0:34:36That's why I tolerate Caligula.
0:34:36 > 0:34:40He's sworn that if I keep his secret,
0:34:40 > 0:34:46he'll make me a goddess as soon as he becomes emperor.
0:34:46 > 0:34:51Now you two must swear that you'll do everything you can to see that it happens.
0:34:51 > 0:34:53Don't you see?
0:34:53 > 0:34:57If he doesn't make me a goddess I will be in hell.
0:34:57 > 0:35:03Hell. Suffering torments day and night, year after year
0:35:03 > 0:35:04after year.
0:35:04 > 0:35:08G-G-Grandmother... please, don't distress yourself.
0:35:08 > 0:35:12Of course I'll do what I can.
0:35:12 > 0:35:14On one small condition.
0:35:14 > 0:35:17There's so much I want to know.
0:35:17 > 0:35:20I'm an historian and I want to know the truth.
0:35:20 > 0:35:27When people die, so much dies with them. And all that's left is just pieces of paper. They're lies.
0:35:27 > 0:35:29Lies, lies!
0:35:29 > 0:35:33He wants to know the truth and he calls it a small condition!
0:35:35 > 0:35:37Grandmother, who killed Marcellus?
0:35:41 > 0:35:43I did.
0:35:44 > 0:35:49The empire needed Agrippa more than it needed Marcellus.
0:35:51 > 0:35:54And then I poisoned Agrippa later,
0:35:54 > 0:35:58because I knew that his wife was in love with Tiberius.
0:35:58 > 0:36:02And if Tiberius married her, Augustus would make him emperor.
0:36:02 > 0:36:05My son botched that up, of course.
0:36:05 > 0:36:08And Julia's sons, by Agrippa,
0:36:08 > 0:36:11how did they die?
0:36:11 > 0:36:15Gaius I had poisoned when he was in Syria.
0:36:17 > 0:36:19You have a long reach!
0:36:19 > 0:36:21The Empire is very large, I need one.
0:36:23 > 0:36:28Lucius was drowned in a boating accident arranged by his friend Plautius.
0:36:31 > 0:36:32And Postumus?
0:36:34 > 0:36:36You were very fond of him, weren't you?
0:36:36 > 0:36:39- Yes, I was.- He was useless.
0:36:39 > 0:36:43I had to get rid of Postumus, he was a threat to Tiberius.
0:36:43 > 0:36:46Besides, he knew I'd had his mother banished.
0:36:49 > 0:36:56What about my father, who was your son, and Germanicus, who was my dear brother? Did you poison them?
0:36:56 > 0:36:58No.
0:36:58 > 0:37:01Your father died of his wound,
0:37:01 > 0:37:06and Plancina poisoned Germanicus without instructions from me.
0:37:08 > 0:37:11But I had marked them both down for death.
0:37:11 > 0:37:13Why?
0:37:13 > 0:37:20They were both infected with that infantile disorder known as republicanism.
0:37:20 > 0:37:21So was I.
0:37:21 > 0:37:27- Yes, but you didn't count. - If I ever had the opportunity,
0:37:27 > 0:37:29do you know the first thing I'd do?
0:37:29 > 0:37:32It would be to restore the Republic.
0:37:32 > 0:37:34Then you are a fool after all.
0:37:36 > 0:37:39What about Augustus?
0:37:39 > 0:37:41Did you poison him?
0:37:46 > 0:37:47Yes.
0:37:49 > 0:37:51Yes, I did.
0:37:53 > 0:37:58I smeared the poison on the figs while they were still on the tree.
0:37:58 > 0:38:00I had no choice.
0:38:00 > 0:38:03He would only eat them if he picked them himself.
0:38:05 > 0:38:07It took me all night to do it.
0:38:07 > 0:38:10How could you have done that, grandmother?
0:38:10 > 0:38:14You lived with him for so long.
0:38:14 > 0:38:16Yes.
0:38:16 > 0:38:19That was hard.
0:38:19 > 0:38:20Very hard.
0:38:22 > 0:38:25That was the hardest thing I ever had to do.
0:38:31 > 0:38:36Oh, you've made me tired with all your questions. You must go.
0:38:41 > 0:38:42Take this.
0:38:44 > 0:38:47Read it some time.
0:38:47 > 0:38:52That is a collection of Sibylline verses rejected from the official book.
0:38:52 > 0:38:55Why?
0:38:55 > 0:38:58Because it is prophesied there
0:38:58 > 0:39:00that you will one day
0:39:00 > 0:39:02be emperor.
0:39:06 > 0:39:09Yes.
0:39:09 > 0:39:12You.
0:39:12 > 0:39:14You're making it easier, grandmother.
0:39:16 > 0:39:18You won't forget your promise?
0:39:18 > 0:39:20No, I won't.
0:39:24 > 0:39:29If I can become emperor, you can certainly become the Queen of Heaven!
0:39:31 > 0:39:34'The noble Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus.'
0:39:34 > 0:39:35Claudius!
0:39:35 > 0:39:38My dear fellow, how nice to see you.
0:39:38 > 0:39:42I was on my way to see Castor. I was told he is very bad.
0:39:42 > 0:39:44Yes, but he will recover, I'm sure.
0:39:44 > 0:39:48Your sister is taking such good care of him.
0:39:48 > 0:39:50Actually, I wanted to have a word with you.
0:39:52 > 0:39:54What about?
0:39:54 > 0:39:59This may seem an odd question to put to a husband, but did you know your wife was pregnant?
0:40:01 > 0:40:04No.
0:40:04 > 0:40:07N-n-no I d-d-didn't.
0:40:07 > 0:40:10- How do you know?- I know.
0:40:10 > 0:40:13Well, it's nothing to do with me.
0:40:13 > 0:40:16We haven't even spoken for a long time.
0:40:16 > 0:40:18You'll have to divorce her now.
0:40:18 > 0:40:22- Why?- You can't be married to a woman who's carrying someone else's child.
0:40:22 > 0:40:24How eccentric you are!
0:40:24 > 0:40:26Your uncle will expect you to divorce her.
0:40:26 > 0:40:29Oh!
0:40:29 > 0:40:31O-o-of course I'll divorce her.
0:40:34 > 0:40:36- Whom will you marry?- M-m-marry?
0:40:36 > 0:40:38I'm just getting d-d-divorced!
0:40:38 > 0:40:40Yes, but you won't want to live alone, will you?
0:40:40 > 0:40:43I was living alone all the t-t-time I was married.
0:40:43 > 0:40:47Then it doesn't matter whether you marry or not.
0:40:47 > 0:40:49I'd rather not.
0:40:49 > 0:40:51Nonsense.
0:40:51 > 0:40:54I have just the woman for you.
0:40:54 > 0:40:59She's beautiful, independent, she'll leave you alone as much as you like.
0:40:59 > 0:41:01W-w-w-who is it?
0:41:01 > 0:41:03My sister.
0:41:03 > 0:41:04Aelia.
0:41:06 > 0:41:09Would she... Would she want to marry
0:41:09 > 0:41:11a...
0:41:11 > 0:41:14- fool like me? - Oh, she wouldn't mind.
0:41:14 > 0:41:18Besides, you're the Emperor's nephew. That's a good alliance.
0:41:18 > 0:41:19On your side,
0:41:19 > 0:41:22you'll be my brother-in-law!
0:41:22 > 0:41:26I have spoken to the Emperor and he has given his consent.
0:41:26 > 0:41:28Oh, in that case,
0:41:28 > 0:41:30yes, Sejanus.
0:41:30 > 0:41:33Good, well, that's settled, then.
0:41:33 > 0:41:35Very decent of you, Sejanus.
0:41:35 > 0:41:37Thanks a lot.
0:41:39 > 0:41:42Ti?
0:41:42 > 0:41:43Ti?
0:42:29 > 0:42:32..to see the Emperor to convey my sympathies on the death of his son.
0:42:32 > 0:42:35He sent word he never wanted to see me again.
0:42:35 > 0:42:38A nod is as good as a wink from that direction.
0:42:38 > 0:42:42Where will you go, Herod? Back to Judea?
0:42:42 > 0:42:46No, to Edom. My grandfather, Herod the Great, came from there.
0:42:46 > 0:42:50It was your father, lady, Mark Antony, who made him king of the Jews.
0:42:50 > 0:42:52He did them no favour, believe me!
0:42:52 > 0:42:55On the other hand, he did my grandfather no favour either,
0:42:55 > 0:42:59- for the Jews are a quarrelsome people and drive all their rulers mad.- What will you do in Edom?
0:42:59 > 0:43:01I understand there is nothing there!
0:43:01 > 0:43:03Oh, I shall... you know?
0:43:05 > 0:43:09My grandfather's remains were divided among his three surviving sons.
0:43:09 > 0:43:12That he had three left is a miracle, for he murdered all the rest.
0:43:12 > 0:43:14Can only think he overlooked them.
0:43:14 > 0:43:16Sounds a colourful character.
0:43:16 > 0:43:19If black is colourful, he was colourful.
0:43:19 > 0:43:26From there, I shall decide which of my three uncles is the safest touch and make my plans accordingly.
0:43:26 > 0:43:29- You must marry, Herod. - I have someone in mind.
0:43:29 > 0:43:31- A Roman?- No, lady.
0:43:31 > 0:43:34We Jews believe in marrying only among ourselves.
0:43:34 > 0:43:37- Then you're a very arrogant people. - Well, practical.
0:43:37 > 0:43:42There are so many things we can't eat, no gentile woman would stand it for a moment.
0:43:42 > 0:43:45And what is this, Claudius, about a marriage for you?
0:43:45 > 0:43:48Claudius? He's already married.
0:43:48 > 0:43:51He is getting a divorce to marry Sejanus's sister. Isn't that right?
0:43:54 > 0:43:57< Is this true?
0:43:57 > 0:44:00Well...
0:44:00 > 0:44:02C... C... C... Sejanus...
0:44:05 > 0:44:06Oh, get it out!
0:44:06 > 0:44:11Well, my wife is apparently having a baby and it is not mine.
0:44:11 > 0:44:13I shouldn't think it is. You never see her.
0:44:13 > 0:44:21That is the point, so Sejanus suggested I divorce her and marry his sister.
0:44:21 > 0:44:27I have never heard anything so monstrously wicked in all my life.
0:44:27 > 0:44:30You are an even bigger fool than I thought.
0:44:30 > 0:44:32What difference does it make to me?
0:44:32 > 0:44:34I shan't be seeing her either.
0:44:34 > 0:44:37You're a fool, Claudius and Germanicus would have had no patience with you.
0:44:39 > 0:44:42- Probably.- Can't you see the vile ambition that drives that man?
0:44:42 > 0:44:45Can't you see it's just another step on the way?
0:44:45 > 0:44:48By that marriage he relates himself to the imperial family.
0:44:48 > 0:44:50And then what, Livilla? Does he plan to marry her?
0:44:50 > 0:44:54- What is he to do with Livilla? - He's her lover!
0:44:54 > 0:44:56But Sejanus is married and has two children!
0:44:56 > 0:44:58For heaven's sake, what kind of world do you think we're living in?
0:45:03 > 0:45:05I'm sorry.
0:45:05 > 0:45:08I'm upset.
0:45:08 > 0:45:10Castor's dead.
0:45:10 > 0:45:15Silius Caecina committed suicide this morning even before the trial had ended.
0:45:15 > 0:45:18One by one, my friends vanish.
0:45:19 > 0:45:22Where will it end?
0:45:22 > 0:45:25You've betrayed us!
0:45:25 > 0:45:27Oh...
0:45:27 > 0:45:29Why did you agree to it?
0:45:32 > 0:45:35Well, he asked me.
0:45:35 > 0:45:37Is that all you can say?
0:45:39 > 0:45:41You blockhead!
0:45:41 > 0:45:43No.
0:45:43 > 0:45:47He's not a blockhead.
0:45:47 > 0:45:49It's we who are the blockheads.
0:45:49 > 0:45:54If Sejanus had come to us with a proposal like that, we'd have given him his marching orders.
0:45:54 > 0:45:56But Claudius knows better.
0:45:57 > 0:46:02Claudius sways and bends with each little wind that blows.
0:46:02 > 0:46:04By which you mean he's weak and cowardly.
0:46:04 > 0:46:07Perhaps, but at least he's still here!
0:46:08 > 0:46:12Mm, but at least he's still here.
0:46:12 > 0:46:15'Here, still here,
0:46:15 > 0:46:19'and they've all gone, every one of them.
0:46:19 > 0:46:21'It is like a dream.
0:46:21 > 0:46:26'Dreamed by Livia sweeping fitfully down into hell.
0:46:30 > 0:46:34'No, Livia is dying.
0:46:34 > 0:46:37'Dying.
0:46:37 > 0:46:40'The mother of the nation is dying.'
0:46:43 > 0:46:45Livia is dying.
0:46:45 > 0:46:47She sent for you.
0:46:47 > 0:46:49She wants to see you.
0:46:49 > 0:46:52Why, I can't imagine.
0:46:52 > 0:46:53Dying?
0:46:53 > 0:46:55Yes.
0:46:55 > 0:46:57But it was only a cold.
0:46:57 > 0:47:00It settled on her lungs. She is sinking fast
0:47:00 > 0:47:02and she's asked to see you.
0:47:04 > 0:47:05Well?
0:47:05 > 0:47:08Are you going to sit there all night?
0:47:08 > 0:47:11I hear you're dying, great-grandmother.
0:47:13 > 0:47:15You won't forget your promise,
0:47:17 > 0:47:19will you?
0:47:19 > 0:47:20You mean to make you a goddess?
0:47:23 > 0:47:27And what makes you think that a filthy, smelly old woman like you could become a goddess?
0:47:29 > 0:47:33I don't need you any more, you see, great-grandmother.
0:47:33 > 0:47:36My secret will die with you.
0:47:36 > 0:47:39You are going to stew in hell for ever and ever.
0:47:42 > 0:47:44Let me tell you something.
0:47:52 > 0:47:56Thrasyllus has made another prophecy.
0:47:56 > 0:47:58He told Tiberius.
0:47:58 > 0:48:04He said one who is going to die soon will become the greatest god the world has ever known.
0:48:04 > 0:48:09No temples will be dedicated to anyone but him in the whole Roman world.
0:48:10 > 0:48:12Not even to Augustus.
0:48:14 > 0:48:16But you know that one is?
0:48:17 > 0:48:19Me.
0:48:21 > 0:48:22Me!
0:48:24 > 0:48:28I shall become the greatest god of all.
0:48:28 > 0:48:33And I shall look down on you suffering all the torments of hell and I shall say...
0:48:36 > 0:48:37leave her there.
0:48:38 > 0:48:41Leave her there for ever and ever and ever.
0:48:52 > 0:48:53Goodbye, great-grandmother.
0:48:55 > 0:48:57How are you, grandmother?
0:49:02 > 0:49:04Don't cry!
0:49:07 > 0:49:09He was here.
0:49:11 > 0:49:13Caligula was here.
0:49:15 > 0:49:16He said...
0:49:18 > 0:49:21..he wouldn't make me a goddess.
0:49:23 > 0:49:28I will see that he does, grandmother.
0:49:28 > 0:49:30He said...
0:49:31 > 0:49:32He said...
0:49:32 > 0:49:37he would leave me to stew in hell.
0:49:38 > 0:49:41I want to be a goddess, Claudius.
0:49:42 > 0:49:45I deserve it.
0:49:46 > 0:49:48You shall be queen of Heaven.
0:49:50 > 0:49:53I promise you.
0:49:53 > 0:49:54Really?
0:49:54 > 0:49:57Yes.
0:49:59 > 0:50:03Go on playing the fool, Claudius.
0:50:07 > 0:50:09Stay with me...
0:50:09 > 0:50:11till I go.
0:50:14 > 0:50:17Put a coin in my mouth...
0:50:17 > 0:50:20to pay the ferry man.
0:50:21 > 0:50:22For the journey.
0:50:51 > 0:50:53G-Goodbye, grandmother.
0:50:55 > 0:50:58Safe journey.
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