:24:03
[Knocking on door]
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Having servants who are deaf and mute...
:24:22
at least ensures I live a little longer.
:24:26
LUCILLA: They're arresting scholars now.
:24:28
Anyone who dare speak out.
Even satirists and chroniclers.
:24:33
GAIUS: And mathematicians.
:24:36
And all to feed the arena.
:24:39
The Senate did not approve martial law.
:24:42
GAIUS: This reign of terror
is entirely the Praetorians.
:24:46
GAIUS: I'm afraid to go out after dark.
:24:48
You should be more afraid
of your activities during the day.
:24:51
The Senate is full of his spies,
led by that whore master, Falco.
:24:57
But what is in his mind?
That's what I trouble myself with.
:25:02
He spends all his days
singularly obsessed...
:25:05
planning the festival to honour your father.
:25:08
He neglects even the most fundamental task
of government.
:25:12
So just what is he planning?
:25:14
GAIUS: And what pays for it?
:25:16
These daily games are costing a fortune,
yet we have no new taxes.
:25:21
The future.
:25:23
The future pays for it.
:25:27
He's started selling the grain reserves.
:25:30
GAIUS: This can't be true.
:25:32
LUCILLA: He's selling
Rome's reserves of grain.
:25:35
The people will be starving in two years.
:25:38
I hope they're enjoying the games...
:25:40
because soon enough
they'll be dead because of them.
:25:43
- Rome must know this.
- And how?
:25:46
He's going to dissolve the Senate.
:25:49
And who will tell them before it's too late?
You, Gracchus?
:25:54
LUCILLA: You, Gaius.
:25:55
Will you make a speech on the floor
of the Senate, denouncing my brother?
:25:59
And then see your family in the Colosseum?