:47:01
Rich matrons pay well
to be pleasured by the bravest champions.
:47:05
I knew your brother would send assassins.
:47:08
I didn't realise he would send his best.
:47:12
Maximus, he doesn't know.
:47:15
My family was burnt and crucified
while they were still alive.
:47:18
- I knew nothing...
- Don't lie to me!
:47:26
I wept for them.
:47:28
As you wept for your father?
:47:32
I have been living in a prison of fear
since that day.
:47:36
To be unable to mourn your father
for fear of your brother.
:47:40
To live in terror
every moment of every day...
:47:43
because your son is heir to the throne.
:47:48
I have wept.
:47:51
My son was innocent.
:47:54
So is mine.
:47:58
Must my son die, too,
before you'll trust me?
:48:02
What does it matter if I trust you or not?
:48:06
LUCILLA: The gods have spared you.
Don't you understand?
:48:09
Today I saw a slave become more powerful
than the emperor of Rome.
:48:12
The gods have spared me?
:48:14
I am at their mercy,
with the power only to amuse a mob.
:48:18
LUCILLA: That is power.
:48:20
LUCILLA: The mob is Rome.
:48:21
And while Commodus controls them,
he controls everything.
:48:25
Listen to me.
:48:27
My brother has enemies,
most of all in the Senate.
:48:30
But while the people follow him...
:48:32
no one would dare stand up to him
until you.
:48:36
They oppose him, yet they do nothing.
:48:38
There are some politicians
who have dedicated their lives to Rome.
:48:42
One man above all.
:48:44
If I can arrange it, will you meet him?
:48:48
Do you not understand?
:48:50
I may die in this cell tonight,
or in the arena tomorrow. I am a slave!
:48:54
What possible difference can I make?
:48:57
This man wants what you want.
:48:59
Then have him kill Commodus!