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[Solemn instrumental music]
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JUBA: Can they hear you?
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- Who?
- Your family, in the afterlife.
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MAXIMUS: Yes.
JUBA: What do you say to them?
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To my boy...
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I tell him I will see him again soon...
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and to keep his heels down
when he's riding his horse.
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To my wife...
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that is not your business.
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[Chuckles]
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And now they love Maximus for his mercy.
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So I can't just kill him,
or it makes me even more unmerciful.
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The whole thing
is like some great nightmare.
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FALCO: He is defying you.
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His every victory is an act of defiance.
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The mob sees this, and so do the Senate.
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Every day he lives, they grow bolder.
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- Kill him.
- No.
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I will not make a martyr of him.
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[Tense instrumental music]
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When I went to the Senate today...
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I purposefully told them about using
the grain reserves to pay for the games.
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And did you note what happened?
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- Nothing.
- Exactly. Nothing.
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COMMODUS: Not a single word of protest.
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Even the insolent Senator Gracchus
was silent as a mouse.
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Why?
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I have been told of a certain sea snake...