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00:00:28The
00:00:29Seeing you in these commoners' threads
00:00:31Surely there are safer ways to travel than this charade
00:00:36I am the Queen of Egypt
00:00:39I don't need jewels and silks to make me who I am
00:00:44The Roman Senate confirmed Silas an hour ago
00:00:47The celebration at his villa will begin the moment we dock in Rome
00:00:55Seven years of work
00:00:56And Silas is finally where he belongs
00:00:58He'll be the greatest senator Rome has ever seen
00:01:01But while we celebrate the new senator
00:01:04The House of Antony is making a move
00:01:12And he requests that I sponsor 50,000 troops to aid his war effort
00:01:17They want a war chest of 100 million gold pieces
00:01:21From the Queen of Egypt's treasury
00:01:23To buy the eastern trade routes
00:01:35I want to meet their leader before I decide if he's worth the investment
00:01:41We need the funds approved by the Queen of Egypt
00:01:46If the Queen of Egypt is as difficult as the rumors say
00:01:49I'll be begging in the forum by winter
00:01:54The Queen isn't difficult, General
00:01:56She just has a low tolerance for Romans
00:01:59Who can't read a map
00:02:03Move your cavalry to the high ground
00:02:06The marshes will swallow them by noon
00:02:09And what does a scholar know of military logistics?
00:02:13Stick to your scrolls, girl
00:02:19I'd drink quickly if I were you
00:02:23The sea pressure is shifting
00:02:24The gods of the deep are waking up
00:02:33Now you're a weather reader?
00:02:35Now you're a weather reader?
00:02:53Christ!
00:03:21Your highness!
00:03:23Are you harmed?
00:03:25That man
00:03:27Why is he calling you your highness?
00:03:31You are practically a servant
00:03:34So why does he look at you like a queen?
00:03:36As if you're the only thing left in the world worth saving
00:03:43Well, who are you really?
00:03:59Sir
00:04:00The gods didn't drown us
00:04:02But your grandmother, the Empress Julia, will
00:04:06She secured the alliance with the House of Cicero with a marriage to Lady Octavia
00:04:10I don't need a marriage into the House of Cicero to make me powerful
00:04:15Perhaps if you return with a wife, the Empress Julia's contract will be void
00:04:20But unless you plan on marrying a seagull
00:04:31I am Mark Antony
00:04:33Head of the House of Antony and General of the Great Roman Empires' army
00:04:38I have a personal income of five million gold pieces per year
00:04:42Only five, you must be having a slow year
00:04:48I'm in need of a wife
00:04:50Not a real one
00:04:51But a shield
00:04:53Someone smart enough to navigate my grandmother's den of vipers
00:04:58Just give me one year
00:05:00In exchange, I will give you a waterfront villa in Rome
00:05:03And a monthly staping of 100,000 gold pieces
00:05:07You can remain a scholar
00:05:08But to the world, you wear my ring
00:05:11You must really hate the woman they are forcing you to marry
00:05:19We'll hit the docks by dawn
00:05:21My offer stands
00:05:23All you have to do is look pretty at dinner
00:05:25And pretend I'm the smartest man in the room
00:05:27That might require a significant raise in my allowance
00:05:32You've got a lethal tongue for a woman with no shoes
00:05:35Why the hesitation? I offer you a fortune
00:05:38Because I'm already promised to a man I've spent seven years investing in
00:05:43Seven years, by the gods, that's not an investment
00:05:46That's a hostage situation
00:05:48Careful, General
00:05:49You might find that I'm much more expensive than 100,000 gold pieces
00:05:53I've always had a taste for luxury
00:06:08Antony wants 100,000,000 from the Egyptian treasury
00:06:12If you want to be the most powerful family in the empire
00:06:15You're going to have to think bigger
00:06:28Last chance
00:06:30Villa or the streets
00:06:35A word of advice
00:06:37When you present that role to the Queen of Egypt
00:06:39Don't be afraid to know your worth
00:06:44What in the name of Mars is this?
00:06:47You did this
00:06:48100,000,000,000 gold pieces
00:06:51And 2,000,000,000 soldiers
00:06:53The Queen of Egypt will think I'm a fool
00:06:55I'm a general of Rome
00:06:57Not a common beggar with a delusional dream
00:06:59You were a beggar the moment
00:07:01You asked for only 100,000,000 gold pieces
00:07:04The Queen of Egypt doesn't respond to small requests
00:07:07You've ruined me
00:07:09If I present this to the Queen of Egypt
00:07:11She'll laugh me out of the empire
00:07:16Deliver this to the Queen of Egypt
00:07:23No, you've ruined me
00:07:27Then maybe it's good we aren't actually getting married
00:07:33After seven years
00:07:34I finally get to see the man I love
00:07:41Don't just join the Senate
00:07:42Own it
00:07:45The orphans in the province need me
00:07:51How did you get this?
00:07:55Must you leave me for seven years?
00:08:03Fine
00:08:04Seven years
00:08:05And then you will come to Rome
00:08:07And I'll be a senator
00:08:09And your husband
00:08:24You've done what you set out to do
00:08:25Now we get to celebrate your triumph together
00:08:29I will finally reveal my true identity to you
00:08:43It appears Silas has put my money to good use
00:08:54The help enters through the back
00:08:56Girl, there'll be no begging of scraps from my son's table
00:08:59If only she knew the very robe on her back was bought with my coin
00:09:11Silas
00:09:11I've traveled across the world to celebrate your success
00:09:16Why are you here, Cleopatra?
00:09:17You're making a scene
00:09:20Isn't it obvious this leech smelled the gold?
00:09:23You wasted years building mud huts for orphans
00:09:26But now he's a senator
00:09:28And you want his gold
00:09:33My mother is right, Cleopatra
00:09:35You shouldn't have come
00:09:36Whatever bond we had
00:09:38Whatever youthful promise was made
00:09:40It is severed
00:09:41I have a legacy to protect now
00:09:43The greatest house in Rome is sponsoring me
00:09:46The house of Antony
00:09:49The house of Anton is making a move
00:09:56She thought a man of the Senate could love a street rat
00:10:00Silas brings home a million gold coins in a year
00:10:03How much does a beggar make?
00:10:06You truly believe that because the house of Antony gave you a seat at their table
00:10:10You're untouchable
00:10:12The house of Antony is nothing compared to the power I wield
00:10:18You're delusional
00:10:19Only the queen of Egypt trumps the house of Antony's influence
00:10:26You want to know why Antony gave you that Senate seat, Silas?
00:10:29It wasn't your talent
00:10:31Someone with even more authority than Antony vouched for you
00:10:36And that someone
00:10:38Was me
00:10:57Sir, a response from the queen of Egypt
00:11:00You won't believe it
00:11:01What?
00:11:02Did she put a price on my head for requesting such an insulting amount of money?
00:11:05Sir, the queen just approved the entire aid request
00:11:14One hundred billion gold pieces
00:11:16And two million soldiers
00:11:19It's the move of the queen of Egypt
00:11:21No one has seen her face in a decade
00:11:23And she hasn't touched Roman soil in her life
00:11:26But she chose you
00:11:28Because you know your worth
00:11:31Don't be afraid to know your worth
00:11:33The scholar
00:11:33She knew how to bargain with the queen of Egypt
00:11:36Felix
00:11:37Find that girl from the shipwreck
00:11:39Search every library
00:11:40Every slum
00:11:41Every back alley in Rome
00:11:41I don't care what it costs
00:11:42Or how many men you have to bribe
00:11:44I've never been challenged like that in my life
00:11:46I'm not letting her go
00:11:48Forget the fake marriage
00:11:50I want to marry her for real
00:11:56You
00:11:57Vouched for him
00:11:58Who do you think you are?
00:12:01You were a glorified servant
00:12:03Who read him silly stories
00:12:05While he prepared for greatness
00:12:11You aren't upset about the breakup
00:12:13You're just angry about the gold you wasted on my education
00:12:18Let me make it easier for you
00:12:19I will pay you back
00:12:21On your investment
00:12:27One hundred thousand gold pieces
00:12:29More than you'd see in ten lifetimes
00:12:32Take it and disappear
00:12:38Fine
00:12:38Three hundred thousand gold pieces
00:12:41Don't be greedy, Cleopatra
00:12:42It's not a good look for a beggar
00:12:44And how did a beggar afford Silas' tutors and travel
00:12:48Unless
00:12:49You were selling your body in the streets
00:12:52Take your money and leave, you slut
00:13:01Silas
00:13:02How can you be so heartless?
00:13:04For seven years I gave you everything
00:13:07I built you
00:13:16You are the past
00:13:18Lucia will give him a future
00:13:19She is the daughter of Gaius
00:13:21The great general Antony's deputy
00:13:23You were just a filthy stain
00:13:25He's finally ready to erase
00:13:32Lucia is on her way here now to celebrate my appointment
00:13:36Trust me, Cleopatra
00:13:37You don't want to be here when she walks in
00:13:40Because the moment you see her
00:13:42The moment you see what a real Roman woman of power looks like
00:13:46You'll finally realize how pathetic you are
00:13:50Now get out
00:14:12So
00:14:13This is the girl that Silas throws aside
00:14:17You're not a rival, darling
00:14:20You're a rented mule he's sent back to the stables
00:14:26So
00:14:27This is the girl that Silas throws aside
00:14:30You're not a rival, darling
00:14:33You're a rented mule he's sent back to the stables
00:14:37I am Lucia
00:14:38Daughter of the deputy of the House of Antony
00:14:41Get out of here before I have the guards drag you out like the street rat you are
00:14:44You're right
00:14:45Your father is powerful
00:14:48But you, Lucia, have nothing of your own
00:14:51Unlike you, I don't need a man to be powerful
00:14:53An insult to the deputy's daughter is a death warrant
00:14:57What is this disturbance?
00:14:59This is a celebration of the Republic
00:15:01Not a gladiator match
00:15:10Senator Silas discarded this Egyptian trash years ago
00:15:13Yet she persists in soiling his victory feast with her presence
00:15:18Senator Silas was hand-selected by Mark Antony himself for this role
00:15:22You are vastly out of line
00:15:24Look around, these are the men who run the world
00:15:26They are the architects of the Republic
00:15:29And you
00:15:31You're no better than a street rat with no future
00:15:33Oh, I have a future
00:15:35I am building a world you aren't capable of imagining
00:15:45You were so thirsty for Roman life, weren't you?
00:15:48You wanted to taste the power
00:15:50Here, drink the drags of our history
00:16:07Take it
00:16:08It's the closest you'll ever get to wearing a noble's colors
00:16:14You will pay for this
00:16:17I would never marry you
00:16:19You are a delusional girl who mistook a business arrangement
00:16:22For a romance
00:16:23For seven years
00:16:25I sent Egyptian gold across the sea to you
00:16:28This is how it ends
00:16:30With you playing king in a palace
00:16:32I brought for you
00:16:36How dare you
00:16:48Leave you whore
00:16:50Before I have you thrown into the river with the rest of the trash
00:17:00Don't just stand there, Silas
00:17:03Let's show the people of Rome what happens to gold dickers who try to buy their way into the Republic
00:17:20Guards, secure this woman
00:17:22She is a threat to the senator's safety and the dignity of this house
00:17:27I tried to warn you, but you wouldn't shut up
00:17:30You think you are so special
00:17:34We will hold a grand parade and see what Rome thinks of you
00:17:59Behold the queen of scammers
00:18:01She tried to buy a Roman senator with Egyptian lies
00:18:05See her for the filth that she is
00:18:13You think you are walking me to my end, Silas
00:18:16You are just escorting me to my throne
00:18:23Stop, Egyptian slut
00:18:25The people haven't finished looking at you
00:18:29You are a joke
00:18:31I was going to let you scrub my floors for old times sake
00:18:34But I have a better idea for you
00:18:36Fetch the Sarphicus of Hoth
00:18:38The Egyptian slut is going to see how we handle foreign snakes
00:18:49Many have tried and failed to kill me
00:18:51We will see who the gods truly favor
00:19:00Sir, they put her in a cage
00:19:02She has been sentenced to death in the Sarkarikov of Hoth
00:19:07If they harm so much as a hair on her head
00:19:09I will burn this city to the gods' damned ground
00:19:23Let me go, Seaside! Let me go, Seaside!
00:19:45You travelled across the world for a place in the house of Antony, didn't you, little liar?
00:19:49You wanted a seat at our table
00:19:55I'm feeling generous today
00:19:57I will give you two choices, Cleopatra
00:19:59Death by the Sarphicus of Hoth
00:20:02Or simply kneel before me
00:20:04Death! Death! Death! Death!
00:20:07Kneel! Kneel! Kneel! Kneel! Kneel! Kneel! Kneel!
00:20:10I would rather face a slow death by a thousand snakes
00:20:14Than kneel before a snibbling serpent like you
00:20:20Death it is then, you haughty bitch
00:20:30Too late to kneel now, you stupid girl
00:20:41The general, Mark Antony, has entered the forum
00:20:45Perfect timing
00:20:47Let the general see how I have cleared the trash from his streets
00:20:50You'll spend the rest of your life begging the gods to let you forget this moment
00:20:55You're more of an idiot than I remember
00:21:09I'm going to enjoy this
00:21:17Silas!
00:21:23I will kill you
00:21:34I will kill you
00:21:35What's the name?
00:21:38Tolga
00:21:43Putting back, you get a drop晚上
00:21:44Let's
00:21:44over
00:21:54don't
00:21:5412上
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00:22:04General, you don't understand.
00:22:06This girl, she's a fraud, a commoner.
00:22:14This woman is the queen of my heart and the partner of my soul.
00:22:31She is the empress of the House of Antony.
00:22:34Is that high status enough for you, Senator?
00:22:39Or do I need to explain it with my steel?
00:22:54They did this to you.
00:22:57Careful, General.
00:22:58I don't recall accepting your proposal on that boat.
00:23:02That may be so, but I can still destroy the idiots who hurt you.
00:23:08And who is this?
00:23:09Another one of your investmentsments, Cleopatra?
00:23:12He certainly has the manners of a slave.
00:23:15Look at him, covered in sea salt and shouting at his betters.
00:23:20Is this the empire you promised, Silas?
00:23:23A common centurion who thinks a red rag makes him royalty?
00:23:27God, arrest this man for threatening a senator and impersonating General Antony!
00:23:37Run along, soldier.
00:23:38Before I have my father strip those stolen medals off your chest.
00:23:42Rome doesn't belong to men who smell of Muir.
00:23:46It belongs to us.
00:23:53The crest on the chariot.
00:23:55That scar on his neck.
00:23:56It's Antony.
00:23:58The very person who can sign her death warrant.
00:24:03You've snuck behind my son's back and married this... this soldier.
00:24:09For what, Cleopatra?
00:24:10Did you think a man with a sword could shield you from the fact that you're a fraud?
00:24:15He is ten times the man your son will ever be.
00:24:22Please.
00:24:24You clearly paid for this man's loyalty.
00:24:27What is he?
00:24:28A gladiator you plucked from the pits?
00:24:30Or just a high-priced escort you dressed in gold to save face?
00:24:35Cleopatra probably used the last of her stolen Egyptian gold to buy a knight with a general's look-alike.
00:24:41Tell me, soldier, what's your rate?
00:24:43You play the part well, but the costume doesn't make the man.
00:24:47They called the heir to the house of Antony, a male sex worker.
00:24:51They're dead. We're all dead.
00:25:03Lucia, you don't understand. This is-
00:25:05Quiet! You've always been too soft on the help.
00:25:08If this man wants to play husband to a street rat, he can perform for us first.
00:25:15I want to see if his performance is as sturdy as his armour.
00:25:25If a beggar like Cleopatra can afford your services, the Senate of Rome can certainly pay better.
00:25:32Name your price, mercenary. Whatever she promised you, I'll triple it.
00:25:36I have a room full of guests who need entertainment.
00:25:40How much to strip for the room, soldier?
00:25:43Or perhaps you'd like to dance for your supper, general.
00:25:50You're shaking my own coin at me, fool!
00:25:54You're shaking my own coin at me, fool.
00:25:59My lady-
00:26:00Hush! If you speak again, I will have your title stripped.
00:26:04And thrown in prison!
00:26:08Neither of you has any idea what you are doing.
00:26:10Your mockery will be your downfall.
00:26:14Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
00:26:17Dimash, you think this piece of fill is gonna hurt us?
00:26:21He's nothing but a donkey and lipstick.
00:26:36My turn.
00:26:40My turn.
00:26:47I told you.
00:26:53How dare you?
00:26:55Gods!
00:26:56My son is a Senator of a Republic!
00:26:59You've assaulted a man of the state!
00:27:02I'll have you...
00:27:03I'll have you executed for this.
00:27:20Are you out of your mind?
00:27:21That is the seat of the general.
00:27:24Get out of that chair, or I'll have you flayed alive and fed to the pigs.
00:27:29You are a dead man.
00:27:30You insist on digging your own grave.
00:27:34No one can help you now.
00:27:40I don't know, Lucia. I think this chair suits me.
00:27:45Rufus, you've seen me in a few different settings.
00:27:48Tell the lady, do you think I belong in this chair?
00:27:57Yes, sir.
00:27:59Of course you do.
00:28:00You belong exactly where you sit.
00:28:03Have you lost your mind, Rufus? He is a nobody.
00:28:07Guards, seize them.
00:28:09I want them on their knees, groveling.
00:28:12You two are nothing more than filthy animals.
00:28:15Dogs, bark for your senator.
00:28:18Bark for the republic you tried to steal.
00:28:25You're playing with fire, you spoiled girl.
00:28:28No, I am the fire.
00:28:30And I'm going to enjoy watching a slut like you burn.
00:28:48Are you mad, striking the daughter of a deputy?
00:28:50That is a crime beyond measure, you bitch.
00:28:54My lady, for the love of the gods, stop.
00:28:58Stop and apologize.
00:28:59Now!
00:28:59Apologize to her?
00:29:01I'll have her tongue...
00:29:02You're poking a god, Lucia!
00:29:05Look at the ring on his thumb.
00:29:07Look at the crest on the cloak.
00:29:10That isn't a mercenary.
00:29:11That is Mark Antony.
00:29:13And you just asked the master of Rome to bark.
00:29:24Apologize to this Nile filth.
00:29:26I will see her skin turn into a rug for my foyer!
00:29:33Fetch my father.
00:29:35Fetch the deputy.
00:29:36Tell him the Senate has been invaded by barbarians.
00:29:43You've done it now, you stupid girl.
00:29:46My father-in-law is Gaius.
00:29:48He is second only to Mark Antony himself.
00:29:52You and your escort are nothing.
00:29:56General Gaius arrives!
00:30:09Who is pitting my daughter in my Senate?
00:30:35Father, she struck me.
00:30:37That Egyptian maniac.
00:30:39She dragged in a common thug to impersonate General Antony.
00:30:43Sir, please.
00:30:45The situation is...
00:30:49Silence!
00:30:51You allowed this circus to stoil the house of Antony!
00:31:08You, in the chair.
00:31:10Look me in the eye.
00:31:13I want to see the face of the fool who thought he could play God in my house.
00:31:23Cleopatra hired this rat from the docks to impersonate the great Mark Antony.
00:31:28She should be hanged.
00:31:29Relax, Cornelia.
00:31:32I'll have both their heads on a spike before the sun sets.
00:31:38Look at him.
00:31:39He won't even look up.
00:31:41Too chicken to show your face now that a real man is in the room?
00:31:44Escort?
00:31:45Does your queen not pay you enough to die with dignity?
00:31:58I said look at me.
00:32:03I want to be the one to see the look on his face when he realizes he's lost.
00:32:08I want to be the last thing this filth sees.
00:32:13Don't do this, Silas.
00:32:15Once you've all looked into his eyes, your lives are over.
00:32:18All of you.
00:32:19There is no coming back from what you're about to see.
00:32:22I've led legions from Galt to Syria, girl.
00:32:26I've never had a silly girl threaten me in my own city.
00:32:32If you won't show your face to a deputy, perhaps you'll show it to the gods.
00:32:44Don't make it quick, Lord Deputy.
00:32:47Let Rome see what happens when the help forgets its place.
00:32:51Boil him alive, perhaps.
00:32:53Silas, use your blade.
00:32:55Lift his chin so we can see the eyes of the man who dared to sit in an ivory throne.
00:33:01Antony, are you ready to show them who you are?
00:33:04Yes.
00:33:05They shall finally see the face of their master.
00:33:08That's not the voice of a beggar.
00:33:10It's the sound that has led me into a thousand battles.
00:33:17No, Silas, stop!
00:33:24Dear gods, it's General Antony.
00:33:31Why have you stopped, father?
00:33:33This street filth is still breathing.
00:33:36Call the guards.
00:33:37Have them dragged out by his hair.
00:33:39You wanted to see me, Gaius.
00:33:42You had a great deal to say about my spine, while my face was hidden.
00:33:48Come.
00:33:48Step closer.
00:33:50Tell me more about the escort you're sending to their death.
00:33:55Father, don't let this stranger intimidate you.
00:33:59He's a good actor, nothing more.
00:34:01The real Mock Antony will be here in a moment to execute these beggars.
00:34:05You have one more chance to flee, before the real master arrives.
00:34:09When he cuts your throat, we will all smell the stench of your common blood.
00:34:14My blood was royal before this city had a name, Silas.
00:34:19It is a river of gold and ancient kings.
00:34:23My blood is the only reason you have anything.
00:34:26I'm tired of listening to your lies.
00:34:28Shut up, or I'll fill your mouth with the contents of this morning's chamber pot!
00:34:35Silence, woman.
00:34:36For the love of the gods, Lucia, shut your mouth.
00:34:39Look at him.
00:34:41My father is so angry, he's trembling.
00:34:44Father, kick them out.
00:34:46Call the executioner.
00:34:51He isn't shaking from anger, Lucia.
00:34:54He's shaking because he finally realizes whose house he's standing in,
00:34:58and whose wife he just allowed to be dragged through the mud.
00:35:05Wife, just because she paid you for a night in your bed doesn't make her your wife.
00:35:10Father, are you going to deal with this filth or not?
00:35:19I'm not dealing with them, you idiot!
00:35:22I'm dealing with you!
00:35:24You!
00:35:28You blind, arrogant fool!
00:35:31Do you have any idea what you've done?
00:35:46Apologize, now!
00:35:48Before he burns the roof down over our heads!
00:35:55I, I, I'm a senator of Rome.
00:35:58You can't strike a senator.
00:35:59A senator?
00:36:00You are nothing more than a worm, Silas.
00:36:03You're standing before your master.
00:36:10Gaius, no!
00:36:13That is the symbol of my son's triumph!
00:36:16There is no celebration without this man.
00:36:20Look at him.
00:36:21Look at the crest on the breastplate that you mocked.
00:36:25No!
00:36:27This messes him.
00:36:28Behold Mark Antony, master of the house, lord of the legions, and the man who owns your lives.
00:36:44General, please, I have served you in a dozen campaigns.
00:36:49Will you show mercy to a father of fools?
00:36:53Mercy I don't know, Cleopatra.
00:36:56I've heard mercy is reserved for people of high status.
00:36:59What do you think?
00:37:04This is a trick!
00:37:06It's a staged play!
00:37:08He's a paid actor!
00:37:10A gladiator Cleopatra bought with her last coin!
00:37:14My father has been bewitched by Egyptian sorcery!
00:37:17Silence!
00:37:19Kneel, you arrogant girl!
00:37:21Kneel both the general and his wife before I take your head myself!
00:37:29You have never feared a thing.
00:37:32But you fear this man and his wench.
00:37:40Could this be the truth?
00:37:46You're lucky I don't raise a hand to women, Lucia.
00:37:49But you, Gaius, your daughter is a cancer on this republic.
00:37:56Perhaps the deputy should resign his staff if he cannot govern his own house.
00:38:11She is nothing to me.
00:38:13As of this moment, she is disowned.
00:38:17She is a stranger to my name.
00:38:19She does not represent the house of Gaius.
00:38:21I see you found an untouchable titan to hide behind.
00:38:26Even in his shadow, you're still a beggar.
00:38:28You will never be more than a street rat!
00:38:32You're wrong, Silas.
00:38:34I didn't find a titan.
00:38:36I found a partner.
00:38:38One who isn't scared of powerful women.
00:38:44You lived off my gold, my resources, and my brilliance for seven years.
00:38:50And never once thought to ask who I really was.
00:38:53The House of Antony revokes our support.
00:38:56Your assets are seized.
00:38:58Your name is disgraced.
00:39:03Please.
00:39:05No, we will do anything.
00:39:07I beg of you.
00:39:11Beg for General Antony's forgiveness, boy.
00:39:14Our future depends on it.
00:39:33Grandmother, I didn't expect you back from the north so soon.
00:39:37Do not dare call me Grandmother Marcus.
00:39:40You have gone too far.
00:39:42You have turned the sacred Senate of Rome into a circus for a foreign girl.
00:39:47You may have a sword, Marcus, but you are a fool.
00:39:51I am the only one with real power here.
00:39:58The Empress gave you a command, brother.
00:40:01You were to marry Lady Octavia of the House of Cicino.
00:40:05Instead, you chose a beggar from a shipwreck.
00:40:07You don't command me, Severus.
00:40:10You're just a coward who stayed in Rome while I bled on the battlefield.
00:40:15Careful, General.
00:40:17You command the legions, but the Empress holds the final seal on all family assets.
00:40:22Without her signature, the House of Antony and your word are powerless.
00:40:28As the designated heir, I declare that Antony has no authority to fire Gaius.
00:40:33The deputy remains.
00:40:35And Silas remains.
00:40:37Now they've been a foolish one.
00:40:40He thought too much of himself and now he has fallen low.
00:40:44That's Severus.
00:40:45The Empress prefers him.
00:40:46We have been saved.
00:40:49Enough!
00:40:51We have a guest arriving tomorrow for the feast.
00:40:54The Queen of Egypt seeks an intelligent Roman man to oversee her military might and investments.
00:41:00Silas, you will be the golden boy we will present to the Queen.
00:41:06We may have lost the battle, but we will not lose the war.
00:41:14The choice is simple, Marcus.
00:41:16Marry Octavia by sunset tomorrow or lose the House of Antony forever.
00:41:21I will strip your title and your gold.
00:41:25You will be as penniless as the girl you brought home.
00:41:29Then start stripping my name off of every Skrull, Grandmother.
00:41:33I'm marrying Cleopatra.
00:41:36Fine, then, you stupid boy.
00:41:39My decision is final.
00:41:40This man just met me.
00:41:42And now he is losing everything for me.
00:41:55This must be the Egyptian treasury I've been awaiting.
00:42:00Tell Titus that the House of Antony's proposal is approved, by my own hand, the Queen of Egypt.
00:42:07Should we notify General Antony, my lady?
00:42:14I'm going to give my husband the surprise of his life.
00:42:21The Queen of Egypt isn't on her way to Rome.
00:42:24She's already here.
00:42:28Marriage is not a matter of the heart, boy.
00:42:31It is strategy, same as any battle.
00:42:34Marrying Octavia is our only path to the Queen of Egypt.
00:42:38Do not pretend to know what the Queen of Egypt prefers, Empress.
00:42:42And you do.
00:42:44You're just a lowly whore.
00:42:46Guards, throw her into the Tyva!
00:42:48She stalked me across three provinces because she couldn't handle being replaced!
00:42:56Don't, Antony.
00:42:57He isn't worth the stain on your knuckles.
00:43:01When General Antony and I met on that ship, I was pretending.
00:43:05Not completely honest about who I was.
00:43:09Finally, she admits to being an imposter.
00:43:11A fake marriage for a fake Queen.
00:43:14It was fake.
00:43:17But now?
00:43:18Now it's the only real thing in this room.
00:43:26Mark Antony, you offered me your name when I had nothing.
00:43:31Now, I am asking for your heart.
00:43:34Will you marry me for real this time?
00:43:46Do you hear this, Lucia?
00:43:48The Empress of the Gutter thinks she can charm a respectable man into social suicide.
00:43:54You really think he'll marry a street rat, darling?
00:43:57He'd sooner burn his own house down than be seen with a woman who spreads her legs for her dinner.
00:44:05Listen to me, Marcus.
00:44:07If you say yes to this girl, you lose the name Antony.
00:44:11You lose your rank, your gold, and your seat in this chamber.
00:44:16You will lose everything.
00:44:18When I proposed on that ship, I had a fortune, a fleet, and a future.
00:44:22And you turned me down.
00:44:25Now I have nothing but the dirt on my boots, and you're saying yes.
00:44:29I'm not saying yes to the general, Antony.
00:44:32I'm saying yes to the man who held me when the world turned on me.
00:44:35I'm saying yes to the general, Antony.
00:44:39I'm saying yes to the general, Antony.
00:44:42Are you going to marry me for your life?
00:44:43Yes.
00:44:44I will marry you, Cleopatra.
00:44:53I will marry you, Cleopatra.
00:44:55She is my wife now.
00:44:57Does anyone in this room have a problem with that?
00:45:04A touching performance, brother, truly.
00:45:07You've traded the might of Rome for a handful of Egyptian sand.
00:45:11You are suspended from all duties, Marcus.
00:45:13Your accounts are frozen. Do not call me family.
00:45:16Do not step foot in my home. I am done with you.
00:45:20Your marriage to Lady Octavia is the only reason we were invited to the feast for the Queen of Egypt.
00:45:28Now, you won't even be allowed in the same building as the Queen to ask for your investment.
00:45:33I don't need Octavia. My investment has already been approved by the Queen of Egypt herself.
00:45:39I have her word. Her word.
00:45:44In Rome, if it isn't written in blood and stamped with a seal, it's a fairy tale.
00:45:50Unless you have a signed contract from the Queen of Egypt in your hand right now,
00:45:53you have nothing but a beggar for a bride.
00:45:58You think you've won a general girl. You've won a shell of a man.
00:46:02You have no idea the hell you've just raised.
00:46:06I know exactly what I've done, Cerberus.
00:46:08It's you and your family who should worry about my wrath.
00:46:15Cheer up, Silas.
00:46:17Since my brother has gone mad, there is a vacancy in our family.
00:46:23You're joining us for the Queen's feast tomorrow.
00:46:25Oh, Lord Cerberus.
00:46:27You are too kind.
00:46:29My Silas is exactly the kind of man the Queen of Egypt is looking for.
00:46:34The Queen of Egypt has a soft spot for scholars and self-made men.
00:46:38If Silas places cards right, the Queen might fund the House of Antony under his name.
00:46:43We'll leave Marcus to rot in the streets while we build a new empire.
00:46:48Felix, tell me the official contract from the Queen of Egypt arrived.
00:46:56Nothing, General. We haven't received the signed scroll yet.
00:47:01A nobody like Antony thinks he can get gold from the Queen of Egypt.
00:47:05Good luck, Master.
00:47:07While you're outside looking for scraps, I'll be inside, sitting at the Queen's right hand.
00:47:13Trust me, Antony. You'll get what you need exactly when it hurts them the most.
00:47:34Cleopatra, listen to me. The feast will be a snake pit.
00:47:38Between the Empress, Severus, and Lady Octavia, they will try to tear you apart piece by piece.
00:47:43They want to humiliate you until you break.
00:47:45I will do whatever it takes to keep you safe.
00:47:48Relax, Antony. I've handled worse than a few Roman snobs and some spilled wine.
00:47:54You don't need to worry about me.
00:47:55I believe in you.
00:47:58But this is a lot to handle.
00:47:59I will find a way to sign that contract, secure the gold, and silence them all.
00:48:03Keeping you safe is my only job now.
00:48:05Where is that cocky general from the shipwreck?
00:48:08The one who told me he owned the world and every wave in it.
00:48:14That man died the moment he saw you bleed on these steps.
00:48:17Now, there is only your husband.
00:48:20Come, my wife.
00:48:22Come, my wife.
00:49:01The scrolls are prepared for your final seal.
00:49:04Everything is ready for the feast.
00:49:07All of Rome is waiting for the Queen of Egypt.
00:49:13Good.
00:49:15I want to see the look on Silas' face
00:49:17when he realizes the servant he threw away.
00:49:21Is the most powerful woman in the world.
00:49:32How go the preparations for the feast?
00:49:35Has the Roman elite begun to swarm the gates like the locusts they are?
00:49:40Everything is ready, my lady.
00:49:42The billion gold contract for the House of Antony
00:49:44has been finanized and secured within the vault.
00:49:47Ensure the contract is tight, Titus.
00:49:50The gold is for Mark Antony alone.
00:49:53Not the Empress, not Severus, and certainly not Silas.
00:49:56If they cast Antony out of their house,
00:49:59the money follows him.
00:50:00Let them find out what a desert feels like
00:50:03when the well runs dry.
00:50:04It shall be done.
00:50:05Two of your most loyal allies have crossed the sea
00:50:08to pay tribute and request a private audience,
00:50:10Prince Xerxes and General Varam of the Persian Highlands.
00:50:14Bring them in.
00:50:15I have missed the company of men who understand the weight of a crown.
00:50:25Your majesty,
00:50:27your light reaches even the furthest corners of the east.
00:50:30It is dull world when you are not in it.
00:50:32The Desert Lioness returns.
00:50:34It is an honor to stand in your shadow once more, my lady.
00:50:38Without you, our own empire would be in ruin.
00:50:40You have saved our people and our homes.
00:50:43We are forever in your debt.
00:50:46Are you both attending the feast tomorrow?
00:50:49Rome is a city of fools.
00:50:51They need to see what true power looks like.
00:50:56I cannot attend the feast, my lady.
00:50:58Things have grown tense between the house of Cersei and my men.
00:51:01We assumed you had authorized their expansion into our trade routes,
00:51:04so I did not intervene to crush them.
00:51:06I did not wish to offend your interests.
00:51:09I authorize nothing of the sort.
00:51:12The house of Cersei is overstepping.
00:51:14They believe they are the masters of the Mediterranean,
00:51:16but they are about to learn they are merely tenants.
00:51:20And their lease just expired.
00:51:23Well then,
00:51:25tomorrow should be quite entertaining.
00:51:27To the fall of fools.
00:51:31I will get vengeance for us, husband.
00:51:34I promise.
00:51:53I know the sea took everything you owned.
00:51:56I cannot replace your history.
00:51:58But I can ensure that tomorrow,
00:52:01Rome sees you as I do.
00:52:02The most beautiful man in the entire empire.
00:52:06Wear these,
00:52:07and walk with me.
00:52:09I can buy every bolt of cloth in the empire,
00:52:12but the man who has lost everything
00:52:14seeks to clothe me in riches.
00:52:22Titus,
00:52:23tell me the Queen of Egypt has signed our contract.
00:52:26If not,
00:52:27my family will see me crushed by sunrise.
00:52:30The Queen of Egypt is not receiving petitionates today,
00:52:33General.
00:52:34Not even those of your standing.
00:52:37Without that signature,
00:52:38I am walking into that feast with a target on my back.
00:52:42And I have no armor.
00:52:44Do not let your heart falter,
00:52:45General.
00:52:46The Queen believes in you.
00:52:48You will have your answer at the feast.
00:52:51And not a moment sooner.
00:52:54The Queen of Egypt is not distributed in the kingdom.
00:52:54Just for me depending on your camp,
00:53:13Without thatania has the célèmium.
00:53:13I will have some of my head and see our battles,
00:53:14Don't revert me now.
00:53:15You will have one more secret to configure your friend.
00:53:16You will have a benefit of the spirit.
00:53:18if we can feel free to get united,
00:53:19we are here and finding enough Severus
00:53:21I will need to make faith
00:53:21If Octavia largely
00:53:22has harmed you she shall feel every bit of my wrath don't just ruin her general erase her
00:53:29is that the voice it couldn't be clear the way by order of the magistrate
00:53:44no it's impossible
00:53:59lady octavia has done us a favor silas she has secured us an audience with hector the master
00:54:05of this house and the wealthiest merchant in the republic if you want to meet a queen
00:54:10you cannot look like a clerk
00:54:15spare no expense lord silas the queen of egypt is a creature of legend
00:54:22she must see you as the absolute pinnacle of roman status the only man worthy of her investment
00:54:34listen to me my son this queen of egypt is more influential than lucia and wealthier than the
00:54:39empress herself if you play your cards right you could woo the queen of egypt with her hand in
00:54:46marriage you would rule more than a house you would rule the world
00:54:56don't touch that i won't have your filthy hands contaminating my wardrobe this silk costs more
00:55:01than you'll see in a lifetime go find a ragsailer near the docks this boutique is for people with
00:55:06names a name is just a sound lucia quality is something you can't buy and this silk it's been
00:55:15over dyed it will stain your skin by midnight you have a lot of nerve coming here general
00:55:22you threw away my sister octavia for this street rat
00:55:29tell me marcus
00:55:31how does it happen did she hook you with that scholar's tongue
00:55:34or is she simply more generous in bed than a highborn lady like octavia
00:55:40careful boy you aren't a general anymore you're just a beggar in a borrowed robe throwing a tantrum
00:55:47where you don't belong
00:55:51let him rage while he's counting coppers my silas will be the one to wed the queen of egypt
00:55:58he is the only man in rome with the pedigree and the intellect to handle a queen's fortune
00:56:08oh so now you think he can do better than me
00:56:11the queen of egypt is the most powerful woman in the world
00:56:15a marriage to the queen of egypt might have been possible once cornelia
00:56:20but now it will never happen
00:56:22you're still talking who are you to speak for the queen of egypt
00:56:28you want to know who i am
00:56:30you've spent seven years spending my bold and never once looked at the face on the coin
00:56:36i am the queen of egypt
00:56:48the queen of egypt a clean cloak doesn't make you a queen
00:56:52my god the humiliation has finally snapped her mind
00:56:56cleopatra stop don't use that name not even as a joke
00:57:01the queen of egypt has spies in every shadow
00:57:03she will have you executed for such a lie
00:57:06and even i cannot protect you from her reach
00:57:11deliver this to titus
00:57:13tell him i want to buy everything the circe family owns
00:57:16wipe them out of every bolt of silk and grain of spice
00:57:20put it all in my name
00:57:22the girl's brain has rotted in the heat
00:57:24boy
00:57:26get that ivory toy out of here before i charge her for the air she's wasting
00:57:31you're pathetic
00:57:33you think a fancy bit of bone makes you a queen
00:57:35all you've ever been good for is sucking men drive their dignity and patience
00:57:44if you touch her
00:57:46if you even breathe in her direction again
00:57:48you're dead
00:57:50i don't care about the senate
00:57:51i don't care about the law
00:57:54i will end you
00:57:56sir
00:57:56master hector
00:57:58a message from lady octavius courier
00:58:00the queen of egypt has just executed a hostile takeover
00:58:03they bought every warehouse from the docks to the hills
00:58:06the queen of egypt
00:58:07she now owns everything
00:58:09every brick
00:58:10every bolt
00:58:10every debt
00:58:12we are done
00:58:19you heard the man hector
00:58:21leave this building immediately
00:58:23or my guards will throw you into the mud where your manors belong
00:58:27you
00:58:29you can't
00:58:32octavia will have your head for this
00:58:34this is a roman establishment
00:58:36if you say one more word
00:58:38i will blacklist your name from every trade guild in rome
00:58:42you won't be able to sell a loaf of bread in this republic by sunrise
00:58:45now
00:58:46get out
00:59:11could it be
00:59:12could that peasant
00:59:13could she really be the queen
00:59:15no
00:59:16think about it lucia
00:59:17she's a scholar
00:59:19she likely met the queen while she was slumming it in the nile
00:59:23the queen of egypt is known for her
00:59:25charity
00:59:26towards the poor
00:59:28he's right
00:59:29she's a fraud using the queen's sympathy to settle a petty grudge
00:59:34she stole that ivory seal
00:59:36i'm sure of it
00:59:37she's playing a dangerous game
00:59:40tonight
00:59:40at the feast
00:59:41the real queen of egypt will be there
00:59:44i will expose that street rat in front of the entire senate
00:59:48i'm going to watch her burn
00:59:51cleopatra
00:59:52i have seen men use many tricks to survive
00:59:55i have seen spies use stolen seals and beggars play at being kings to avoid the noose
01:00:01you're not seriously telling me you're the real queen of egypt
01:00:10i can't tell him
01:00:11not yet
01:00:12i need the master to stay on until the very moment they think they've won
01:00:18i'm sorry antony
01:00:19i didn't mean to scare you
01:00:20i'm not the queen
01:00:21but i did know her
01:00:23years ago she came to visit an orphanage
01:00:25we struck up a friendship
01:00:27she gave me that ivory seal as a gift of protection
01:00:32an orphanage of course
01:00:35that makes so much more sense than a scholar being a monarch
01:00:40if the queen is truly your friend
01:00:42then we have a chance
01:00:43but cleopatra
01:00:45listen to me
01:00:46you stood by me on that ship
01:00:48and in that senate chamber
01:00:49when even my own blood turned cold
01:00:52my only job now
01:00:54my only purpose
01:00:56is to be your shield
01:00:58i don't care about gold or the titles
01:01:01i just want to get you through tonight alive
01:01:04i have been surrounded by kings and princes my whole life
01:01:07the only thing they've ever seen is the crown
01:01:11antony is the first man to ever value the woman beneath it
01:01:16i've been dying for the whole world to know you are mine
01:01:19i'm tired of the whispers
01:01:21i'm tired of the shame they tried to pile on you
01:01:24don't worry antony
01:01:25after tonight
01:01:27they won't be talking about anything else
01:01:40finally
01:01:41the real leader has been put in charge of the house of antony
01:01:46while my brother was playing war in the mud
01:01:49i was securing our future
01:01:53thanks to the unparalleled influence of lady octavia
01:01:57the queen of egypt
01:01:59has already opened her vaults to me
01:02:01tonight
01:02:03the queen of egypt doesn't just fund a house
01:02:06she funds
01:02:08a dynasty
01:02:36you have a lot of nerve showing up to a villa you no longer own
01:02:39brother
01:02:41guards
01:02:42why is there a stranger standing in my hall
01:02:45seize him
01:02:51i am still a lord of this house severus
01:02:54i have every right to stand in this hall
01:02:56a hall my campaigns paid for
01:02:58while you hid in the shadows
01:03:01your rights were stripped the moment you turned your back on your duty
01:03:04you should be standing
01:03:06at lady octavia's side
01:03:08begging for her forgiveness
01:03:10not parading this gutter trash around
01:03:12like she's a prize
01:03:15mind your tongue
01:03:17this is my wife
01:03:18you will address her with the respect her title demands
01:03:24title what title
01:03:26professional parasite
01:03:27scholar of the sheets
01:03:29look at him friends
01:03:30the great mark antony
01:03:31the lion of rome
01:03:32caught in the web of a common gold digger
01:03:34who traded a few books for a general's name
01:03:41go back to the docks egyptian
01:03:44does she charge by the scroll
01:03:46or by the hour
01:04:00since you love roman hospitality so much
01:04:03why don't you make yourself useful
01:04:05serve the guests
01:04:06pour the wine
01:04:08queen
01:04:10and try not to spill any on the real nobility
01:04:15doesn't that make you feel pathetic marcus
01:04:17you used to be the most powerful man in rome
01:04:21and now you're just her lapdog
01:04:24watching her serve the men who used to fear you
01:04:37shut your mouth severus
01:04:39one more word about my wife
01:04:42i won't just take your life
01:04:44i'll take your tongue
01:04:47the lion still thinks he has claws
01:04:50how quaint
01:04:51crawl back to octavia marcus
01:04:53beg her to let you sleep at the foot of her bed
01:04:55maybe then you'll eat tonight
01:05:21let him go anthony
01:05:25i want to see exactly how far the new master of rome will take this
01:05:30i want to see if there's a man beneath all that false pride
01:05:35enough
01:05:40severus doesn't have the authority to exile you from this house marcus
01:05:46but i do
01:05:52i will ask you one last time in front of the gods and the senate
01:05:57will you put aside this desert trash
01:06:00and marry lady octavia to save the house of anthony
01:06:06no
01:06:07he's a fool grandmother
01:06:08octavia is our only bridge to the queen of egypt
01:06:12without her favor
01:06:13we are locked out of every egyptian vault
01:06:15he's bankrupting us for a girl who should have drowned in the ionian sea
01:06:23you call that strategy severus
01:06:27selling your own blood for a shot at garnering the favor of a queen
01:06:30you're not a leader
01:06:32you're a treasonous coward
01:06:37parasate egyptian witch
01:06:38she's bleeding him dry
01:06:40throw her to the dogs
01:06:54you speak of egyptian vaults in favor as if they are gifts octavia can give you
01:06:59her name is worthless in the court of the queen of egypt
01:07:03now you dare to curse the name of octavia
01:07:06you'll stop at nothing
01:07:08you're a drowning rat
01:07:10trying to take the finest ship in rome down with you
01:07:13it's tragic really
01:07:14she's so desperate to stay relevant that she's hallucinating
01:07:17let her bark lucia
01:07:20it's the last thing she'll do before the guards drag her back into the streets
01:07:24where she belongs
01:07:25you mock my origins while you pray for my coins
01:07:29to keep your roofs from collapsing
01:07:31and your legions from deserting
01:07:34your coins
01:07:35you have nothing but the dress my brother bought you
01:07:38you are draped in antony's charity girl
01:07:41even with his name you are nothing
01:07:44she's lost her mind
01:07:45why are we listening to this
01:07:46have her removed
01:07:51if the house of antony wants the gold
01:07:53you don't need octavia
01:07:56you need me
01:07:59she's a thief empress
01:08:01a common criminal
01:08:03she's trying to dismantle the cersei legacy
01:08:06by stealing their merchandise
01:08:09she's using the queen's name
01:08:11to settle a petty grudge
01:08:13it was the queen's doing silas
01:08:18the queen of egypt
01:08:19executed the takeover
01:08:21if you were half as smart as you think you are
01:08:25you would see that you are outmatched
01:08:28and how exactly would the queen of egypt even know you exist at all
01:08:33because she was a servant empress
01:08:35a kitchen drudge in the backwaters of the nigh island
01:08:39the queen visited an orphanage to hand out bread the poor
01:08:42and this scavenger happened to be holding the basket
01:08:44she's been riding the importance of that one charity moment ever since
01:08:48she's a parasite feeding on the queen's good graces
01:08:51you spend so much time looking down
01:08:53that you've missed the ground falling away beneath your feet
01:08:56i am not the enemy
01:08:58the house of cersei has been bleeding your family for years
01:09:02you shouldn't be screaming at me
01:09:03you should be on your knees asking for my forgiveness
01:09:22forgiveness from a slave who hasn't even learned to bow
01:09:25you have a vivid imagination little street rat
01:09:30it's almost a shame i have to crush it
01:09:40it's a fascinating little play you've staged beggar
01:09:43taking my husband taking my family's merchandise
01:09:47you've been quite the busy little thief
01:09:50it's a pity really
01:09:52all that effort to steal a name and yet you still smell like rotting fish
01:09:56rome doesn't reward ambition in the lowborn girl
01:09:59it punishes it
01:10:01octavia is a goddess of the republic
01:10:03you are a stain on the name antoni
01:10:12antoni let go
01:10:14you're assaulting a daughter of rome
01:10:17you will never lay a finger on my wife
01:10:21not today
01:10:22not ever
01:10:24your wife
01:10:26look at the room marcus
01:10:33even your allies are laughing
01:10:35now both of you
01:10:38kneel
01:10:41kneel and beg for the house of cersei to show you mercy
01:10:44or i will ensure you spend the rest of your lives in a cage
01:10:54you speak of pedigree octavia
01:10:56but you don't even know where your father's money ends and you begin
01:11:00and once i strip away your father's stolen gold
01:11:03i suspect there won't be anything left of you to see
01:11:09octavia's money bought the very air you're breathing
01:11:13every thread on her back is worth more than your life
01:11:16then she should have checked the weaver's mark
01:11:20this is an egyptian design octavia
01:11:23it is designed with a single master knot
01:11:26to signify the loyalty of the garment to its true owner
01:11:30what nonsense is this
01:11:32she thinks she's a seamstress now
01:11:35end this octavia
01:11:37have the guards remove this lunaturk
01:11:49octavia
01:11:50you
01:11:51you
01:11:52cover yourself
01:11:53don't bother silas
01:11:54you can't hide the truth with more cloth
01:11:56you look more yourself now octavia
01:11:59small
01:11:59vulnerable
01:12:00without your father's wealth to hide behind
01:12:03you're just another girl in the dark
01:12:06you
01:12:07should be the one kneeling
01:12:16rome wanted to see the queen of egypt
01:12:19look closely
01:12:20because i'm the only one
01:12:22in this room who isn't wearing a costume
01:12:34guards
01:12:34strike her down
01:12:36kill her
01:12:38kill anyone who stands with her
01:12:55enough of this madness
01:12:56you've assaulted a daughter of rome and stripped her of her dignity in her own hall
01:13:00the game is over street rat
01:13:03she's a fraud
01:13:04a thief
01:13:05she used foreign magic to ruin a lady
01:13:09empress
01:13:10look at the chaos this woman brings
01:13:12she is a rot in our house
01:13:14i side with the house of cersei
01:13:16for the sake of the republic
01:13:18this parasite must be answered for
01:13:22punish her
01:13:23punish her
01:13:25punish her
01:13:26punish her
01:13:27punish her
01:13:28punish her
01:13:28punish her
01:13:29punish her
01:13:30punish her
01:13:31punish her
01:13:31punish her
01:13:32you think you can threaten me with steel and slander
01:13:37you think you're going to send me to hell for taking what is mine
01:13:42i have the blood of the gods
01:13:51don't be a martyr anthony
01:13:52you chose a side and it was the losing one
01:13:55let the general watch
01:13:57let him see what happens to the girl who thought she could mock the house of cersei
01:14:02you only breathe because i allow it witch
01:14:05you're a bug under my heel
01:14:07and i'm tired of the noise you make
01:14:10guards
01:14:11finish her
01:14:27prince axis
01:14:28general bahram
01:14:29perfect timing
01:14:31my family has been expecting you
01:14:33help me take out this trash and clear the room of this
01:14:38egyptian infestation
01:14:39we are not here for you little girl
01:14:41we are here because we were called
01:14:46and you have your steel against the throat of the only reason you're still breathing
01:14:58called?
01:14:59by whom?
01:15:01this is a roman feast
01:15:02lady octavia is the one who secured your audience
01:15:05general you're mistaken
01:15:06the girl
01:15:07she's a fraud
01:15:08tell your men to seize her before she escapes
01:15:13if a single drop of her blood touches this floor
01:15:16i will burn this city until the tiber runs red with your names
01:15:20drop
01:15:21your
01:15:22steel
01:15:23steel
01:15:23now
01:15:36forgive the delay my lady
01:15:39the roman streets are as congested as their mines
01:15:43We received your message at the villa. The fleets are ready, and the gold is moved.
01:15:52The lady you threatened is not a commoner. She is the sovereign of the Alexandria treasury.
01:15:58She is the queen of Egypt herself!
01:16:05A lie! It's all a staged lie!
01:16:08You bought these men, didn't you? You used the last of your stolen gold to hire actors to play at
01:16:14being queen!
01:16:16He's right. I demand proof. No one becomes a queen in a knight.
01:16:21If she is the queen of Egypt, let her prove it with more than just a few kneeling foreigners.
01:16:26Prove it, or I'll have the guards rip the skin from her back!
01:16:39Stop! Step away from the Lararium, girl!
01:16:43That fire is sacred. Any outsider who spills blood on that hearth will be struck down by the gods before
01:16:50they can leave this room!
01:16:51It will be your execution.
01:16:53Let her do it, Grandmother. Let the gods do the guards' work for them.
01:16:58No peasant survives the touch of the ancestral fire.
01:17:02If her blood is common, the flames will turn to ash, and her life will follow.
01:17:07Cleopatra, don't! You don't have to prove anything to these vultures.
01:17:12The fire...
01:17:13It's ancient.
01:17:15It's killed men for less.
01:17:17Please, don't gamble your life on a Roman superstition.
01:17:20Go on then, street rat! Do it!
01:17:23Spill your common, muddy blood on the hearth of the Antoni.
01:17:26The second that drop hits the coal, the curse will rip the breath from your lungs.
01:17:31You aren't a queen.
01:17:32You're just a girl about to find out how much it hurts to burn.
01:17:38Power isn't something you steal, Sinus.
01:17:40It's something you are.
01:17:43Trust me, Marcus.
01:17:45I have walked through hotter fires than this.
01:18:21The curse...
01:18:22The curse...
01:18:23It didn't take her.
01:18:26The fire...
01:18:27It accepted her.
01:18:29No, it's a trick.
01:18:30It has to be a trick.
01:18:31The fire only burns the unworthy, Sinus.
01:18:35To the rest of the world, I am a stranger.
01:18:38But to the flame, I am the only one in this room who is truly home.
01:18:47You wanted to see my status, Julia.
01:18:50Your own gods have answered.
01:18:52I am one of them.
01:19:00Now, who wants to talk about strategy?
01:19:12The queen...
01:19:13She is the queen of Egypt.
01:19:15We mocked a woman who could buy the Tiber and turn it to gold.
01:19:20My lady, forgive the exuberant welcome.
01:19:23We were testing your resolve.
01:19:25A woman of your stature surely understands the need for Roman vigilance.
01:19:29The deal, the investment Octavia spoke of, it is still on the table, of course.
01:19:35With your gold and my leadership, the House of Antony will rule for a thousand years.
01:19:41Read it, Severus.
01:19:43Every word.
01:19:50This, this isn't right.
01:19:52The queen of Egypt grants one billion gold coins, but only to the individual, only to Marcus Antony.
01:20:00What are you saying?
01:20:02It's not for the family.
01:20:03It's not for the house.
01:20:05The gold is legally bound to Antony alone.
01:20:07If we ouced him, if we exile him, the money vanishes.
01:20:13We don't get a single copper unless we bow to him.
01:20:16In our rush to strip Antony of power, we have built a cage with no key.
01:20:21You didn't just fund him.
01:20:23You locked us out of our own inheritance.
01:20:36My queen!
01:20:38My sovereign!
01:20:39If I had known!
01:20:40If I had only seen the truth of your radiance!
01:20:43I was misled.
01:20:45Octavia poisoned my mind.
01:20:46She forced me to participate in this charade.
01:20:49Get up, Silas.
01:20:50You're staining my sandals.
01:20:52You didn't have to know I was a queen to treat me with dignity.
01:20:55You just had to be a man of integrity.
01:20:58You failed the only test that mattered.
01:21:03My letter of appointment to Senator.
01:21:06I gave you the world, and you threw it away for greed.
01:21:10I revoke my word.
01:21:12You are nothing.
01:21:13You are nothing.
01:21:20We always knew there was something celestial about you, my lady.
01:21:24Octavia lied to us.
01:21:26She said you were a commoner.
01:21:28She's the one who should be punished.
01:21:36You, you snakes.
01:21:38You were wearing my jewelry an hour ago, Lucia.
01:21:42I paid your father's gambling debt.
01:21:45Cornelia, I gave you the seat next to the Empress.
01:21:48You gave us nothing but a front-row seat to your own insanity, Octavia.
01:22:04It's my hall.
01:22:05My gold.
01:22:07My robe.
01:22:08You're all just reflections.
01:22:11You aren't real.
01:22:12I'm the only one who's real.
01:22:21If I can't own the world, then I'll take the world with me.
01:22:36Let that be the last debt paid tonight.
01:22:52Cleopatra, my lady, please.
01:22:56I know things were said, but I always cared for you.
01:22:59You were like a daughter to me.
01:23:01A daughter.
01:23:02Ten minutes ago, I was a parasite.
01:23:04Twenty minutes ago, I was desert trash who should have drowned in the Ionian.
01:23:08You didn't care for me, Cornelia.
01:23:10You only care for yourself.
01:23:13I am done with all of you.
01:23:16Guard.
01:23:17See these traitors to the gates.
01:23:19They are never to stand in my presence again.
01:23:27It seems I was mistaken about your choice, Marcus.
01:23:30You have brought the greatest treasure in the world to our doorstep.
01:23:34Come take your seat at the head of the table.
01:23:36The House of Antony has never been stronger.
01:23:40No, Grandmother.
01:23:42I am no longer a man of the House of Antony.
01:23:45I watched you and Severus sharpen your knives the moment you thought I was weak.
01:23:49I am not your soldier.
01:23:51And I am not your pawn.
01:23:58I didn't fall for the Queen.
01:24:00I fell for the woman who wouldn't let me give up.
01:24:04Will you build this new world with me?
01:24:12You would give up Rome for me, Marcus.
01:24:16You would walk away from your seat at the Senate.
01:24:19I've sat on the seats of the Senate, Cleopatra.
01:24:22They're cold.
01:24:23I'd rather walk through the fire with you.
01:24:27And let the old world burn.
01:24:30We have a new one to build.
01:24:34Yes, Marcus.
01:24:35A thousand times, yes.
01:24:46Hail to the General!
01:24:48Hail to the Great Queen!
01:25:05What happens tomorrow?
01:25:08Tomorrow, we rule.
01:25:11But tonight, tonight we just breathe.
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