: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?
:26:02
Who'd dare?
:26:06
[Solemn instrumental music]
:26:13
LUCILLA: I have been living
in a prison of fear every day...
:26:16
because my son is heir to the throne.
:26:20
[Sobbing]
:26:23
He must die.
:26:29
GAIUS: Quintus and the Praetorians
would simply seize control for themselves.
:26:33
No. Cut off the head
and the snake cannot strike.
:26:36
GRACCHUS: Lucilla, Gaius is right.
:26:39
Until we can neutralise the Praetorians,
we can achieve nothing.
:26:44
So we do nothing?
:26:46
GRACCHUS: No, child. We keep our counsel.
:26:49
We prepare.
:26:51
As long as the people support him,
we are voices without steel.
:26:57
We are air.