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00:00:31Unsettling, seeing you in these commoners' threads. Surely there are safer ways to travel than this charade.
00:00:39I am the Queen of Egypt. I don't need jewels and silks to make me who I am.
00:00:46The Roman Senate confirmed Silas an hour ago. The celebration at his villa will begin the moment we dock in
00:00:52Rome.
00:00:57Seven years of work, and Silas is finally where he belongs. He'll be the greatest senator Rome has ever seen.
00:01:04But while we celebrate the new senator, the House of Antony is making a move.
00:01:15And he requests that I sponsor 50,000 troops to aid his war effort.
00:01:19They want a war chest of 100 million gold pieces from the Queen of Egypt's treasury to buy the eastern
00:01:27trade routes.
00:01:37I want to meet their leader before I decide if he's worth the investment.
00:01:43We need the funds approved by the Queen of Egypt.
00:01:48If the Queen of Egypt is as difficult as the rumors say, I'll be begging in the forum by winter.
00:01:56The Queen isn't difficult, General.
00:01:58She just has a low tolerance for Romans.
00:02:02Who can't read a map.
00:02:05Move your cavalry to the high ground.
00:02:08The marshes will swallow them by noon.
00:02:11And what does a scholar know of military logistics?
00:02:15Stick to your scrolls, girl.
00:02:21I'd drink quickly if I were you.
00:02:25The sea pressure is shifting.
00:02:27The gods of the deep are waking up.
00:02:35Now you're a weather-reader?
00:02:37Now you're a weather-reader?
00:02:54No!
00:02:55No!
00:02:57No!
00:02:58No!
00:03:02No!
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00:03:17No!
00:03:17No!
00:03:20No!
00:03:24That's what I got.
00:03:24Your Highness! Are you harmed?
00:03:28That man, why is he calling you Your Highness?
00:03:34You are practically a servant.
00:03:36So why does he look at you like a queen, as if you're the only thing left in the world
00:03:40worth saving?
00:03:45Well, who are you really?
00:04:02Sir, the gods didn't drown us, but your grandmother, the Empress Julia, will.
00:04:08She secured the alliance with the House of Cicero with a marriage to Lady Octavia.
00:04:13I don't need a marriage into the House of Cicero to make me powerful.
00:04:18Perhaps if you return with a wife, the Empress Julia's contract will be void.
00:04:22But unless you plan on marrying a seagull...
00:04:34I am Mark Antony, head of the House of Antony and General of the Great Roman Empires' army.
00:04:40I have a personal income of five million gold pieces per year.
00:04:44Only five, you must be having a slow year.
00:04:50I'm in need of a wife.
00:04:52Not a real one.
00:04:54But a shield.
00:04:55Someone smart enough to navigate my grandmother's den of vipers.
00:05:00Just give me one year.
00:05:02In exchange, I will give you a waterfront villa in Rome and a monthly staping of 100,000 gold pieces.
00:05:09You can remain a scholar.
00:05:11But to the world, you wear my ring.
00:05:13You must really hate the woman they are forcing you to marry.
00:05:22We'll hit the docks by dawn.
00:05:24My offer stands.
00:05:25All you have to do is look pretty at dinner and pretend I'm the smartest man in the room.
00:05:30That might require a significant raise in my allowance.
00:05:34You've got a lethal tongue for a woman with no shoes.
00:05:38Why the hesitation?
00:05:38I offer you a fortune.
00:05:40Because I'm already promised to a man I've spent seven years investing in.
00:05:46Seven years by the gods.
00:05:47That's not an investment.
00:05:48That's a hostage situation.
00:05:50Careful, General.
00:05:52You might find that I'm much more expensive than 100,000 gold pieces.
00:05:55I've always had a taste for luxury.
00:06:10Antony wants 100 million from the Egyptian treasury.
00:06:14If you want to be the most powerful family in the Empire, you're going to have to think bigger.
00:06:31Last chance.
00:06:32Villa or the streets?
00:06:37A word of advice.
00:06:39When you present that role to the Queen of Egypt, don't be afraid to know your worth.
00:06:47What in the name of mass is this?
00:06:49You did this.
00:06:51One hundred billion gold pieces and two million soldiers.
00:06:56The Queen of Egypt will think I'm a fool.
00:06:58I'm a general of Rome, not a common beggar with a delusional dream.
00:07:02You were a beggar the moment.
00:07:03You asked for only 100 million gold pieces.
00:07:07The Queen of Egypt doesn't respond to small requests.
00:07:10You've ruined me.
00:07:11If I present this to the Queen of Egypt, she'll laugh me out of the Empire.
00:07:18Deliver this to the Queen of Egypt.
00:07:25No, you've ruined me.
00:07:29And maybe it's good we aren't actually getting married.
00:07:35After seven years, I finally get to see the man I love.
00:07:43Don't just join the Senate.
00:07:45Own it.
00:07:48The orphans in the province need me.
00:07:54How did you get this?
00:07:57Must you leave me for seven years?
00:08:05Fine.
00:08:06Seven years.
00:08:08And then you will come to Rome, and I'll be a senator.
00:08:11And your husband.
00:08:26You've done what you set out to do.
00:08:28Now we get to celebrate your triumph together.
00:08:32I will finally reveal my true identity to you.
00:08:46It appears Silas has put my money to good use.
00:08:57The help enters through the back, girl.
00:08:59There'll be no begging of scraps from my son's table.
00:09:02If only she knew the very robe on her back was bought with my coin.
00:09:13Silas, I've traveled across the world to celebrate your success.
00:09:18Why are you here, Cleopatra?
00:09:20You're making a scene.
00:09:22Isn't it obvious this leech smelled the gold?
00:09:25You wasted years building mud huts for orphans.
00:09:28But now he's a senator, and you want his gold.
00:09:35My mother is right, Cleopatra.
00:09:37You shouldn't have come.
00:09:39Whatever bond we had, whatever youthful promise was made, it is severed.
00:09:44I have a legacy to protect now.
00:09:46The greatest house in Rome is sponsoring me.
00:09:49The house of Antony.
00:09:51The house of Anton is making a move.
00:09:58She thought a man of the Senate could love a street rat.
00:10:03Silas brings home a million gold coins in a year.
00:10:05How much does a beggar make?
00:10:08You truly believe that because the house of Antony gave you a seat at their table, you're untouchable.
00:10:15The house of Antony is nothing compared to the power I wield.
00:10:20You're delusional.
00:10:22Only the Queen of Egypt trumps the house of Antony's influence.
00:10:29You want to know why Antony gave you that Senate seat, Silas?
00:10:32It wasn't your talent.
00:10:34Someone with even more authority than Antony vouched for you.
00:10:38And that someone...
00:10:40was me.
00:11:00Sir, a response from the Queen of Egypt.
00:11:02You won't believe it!
00:11:03What?
00:11:04Did she put a price on my head for requesting such an insulting amount of money?
00:11:08Sir!
00:11:09The Queen just approved the entire aid request.
00:11:17One hundred billion gold pieces and two million soldiers.
00:11:21It's the move of the Queen of Egypt.
00:11:23No one has seen her face in a decade and she hasn't touched Roman soil in her life.
00:11:28But she chose you because you know your worth.
00:11:33Don't be afraid to know your worth.
00:11:35The scholar.
00:11:36She knew how to bargain with the Queen of Egypt.
00:11:38Felix, find that girl from the shipwreck.
00:11:41Search every library, every slum, every back alley in Rome.
00:11:44I don't care what it costs or how many men you have to bribe.
00:11:46I've never been challenged like that in my life.
00:11:49I'm not letting her go.
00:11:50Forget the fake marriage.
00:11:52I want to marry her for real.
00:12:00You vouched for him!
00:12:01Who do you think you are?
00:12:03You were a glorified servant who read him silly stories while he prepared for greatness.
00:12:13You aren't upset about the breakup.
00:12:15You're just angry about the gold you wasted on my education.
00:12:20Let me make it easier for you.
00:12:22I will pay you back on your investment.
00:12:30100,000 gold pieces.
00:12:32More than you'd see in 10 lifetimes.
00:12:34Take it and disappear.
00:12:40Fine.
00:12:41Three hundred thousand gold pieces.
00:12:43Don't be greedy, Cleopatra.
00:12:45It's not a good look for a beggar.
00:12:47And how did a beggar afford Silas' tutors and travel?
00:12:51Unless you were selling your body in the streets.
00:12:54Take your money and leave, you slut.
00:13:03Silas, how can you be so heartless?
00:13:07For seven years, I gave you everything.
00:13:09I built you.
00:13:19You are the past.
00:13:20Lucia will give him a future.
00:13:22She is the daughter of Gaius, the great general Antony's deputy.
00:13:26You were just a filthy stain he's finally ready to erase.
00:13:35Lucia's on her way here now to celebrate my appointment.
00:13:38Trust me, Cleopatra.
00:13:40You don't want to be here when she walks in.
00:13:43Because the moment you see her,
00:13:44the moment you see what a real Roman woman of power looks like,
00:13:49you'll finally realize how pathetic you are.
00:13:52Now get out.
00:14:15So, this is the girl that Silas throws aside.
00:14:19You're not a rival, darling.
00:14:22You're a rented mule he sent back to the stables.
00:14:35I am Lucia, daughter of the deputy of the House of Antony.
00:14:43Get out of here before I have the guards drag you out like the street rat you are.
00:14:47You're right.
00:14:48Your father is powerful.
00:14:50But you, Lucia, have nothing of your own.
00:14:53Unlike you, I don't need a man to be powerful.
00:14:56An insult to the deputy's daughter is a death warrant.
00:15:00What is this disturbance?
00:15:01This is a celebration of the Republic,
00:15:04not a gladiator match.
00:15:12Senator Silas was hand-selected by Mark Antony himself for this role.
00:15:24You are vastly out of line.
00:15:26Look around.
00:15:27These are the men who run the world.
00:15:29They are the architects of the Republic.
00:15:31And you, you're no better than a street rat with no future.
00:15:36Oh, I have a future.
00:15:37I am building a world you aren't capable of imagining.
00:15:47You were so thirsty for Roman life, weren't you?
00:15:51You wanted to taste the power.
00:15:52Here, drink the drags of our history.
00:16:09Take it.
00:16:11It's the closest you'll ever get to wearing a noble's colors.
00:16:16You will pay for this.
00:16:20I would never marry you.
00:16:21You are a delusional girl who mistook a business arrangement.
00:16:26For seven years, I sent Egyptian gold across the sea to you.
00:16:31This is how it ends?
00:16:32With you playing king in a palace, I brought for you!
00:16:38How dare you!
00:16:51Leave, you whore, before I have you thrown into the river with the rest of the trash.
00:17:03Don't just stand there, Silas.
00:17:06Let's show the people of Rome what happens to gold-dickers who try to buy their way into the Republic.
00:17:23Guards, secure this woman.
00:17:25She is a threat to the senator's safety and the dignity of this house.
00:17:30I tried to warn you, but you wouldn't shut up.
00:17:33You think you are so special.
00:17:36We will hold a grand parade and see what Rome thinks of you.
00:18:01Behold the queen of scammers!
00:18:04She tried to buy a Roman senator with Egyptian lies!
00:18:08See her for the filth that she is!
00:18:15You think you are walking me to my end, Silas.
00:18:18You are just escorting me to my throne.
00:18:25Stop, Egyptian slut!
00:18:27The people haven't finished looking at you.
00:18:32You're a joke.
00:18:34I was going to let you scrub my floors for old time's sake, but I have a better idea for
00:18:38you.
00:18:39Fetch the Sarphicus of Hoth.
00:18:40The Egyptian slut is going to see how we handle foreign snakes.
00:18:51Many have tried and failed to kill me.
00:18:54We will see who the gods truly favor.
00:19:02Sir!
00:19:03They put her in a cage.
00:19:05She has been sentenced to death in the Sarkarikov of Hoth.
00:19:09If they harm so much as a hair on her head, I will burn this city to the gods' damned
00:19:14ground.
00:19:15They put her in a cage.
00:19:47You travelled across the world for a place in the House of Antony, didn't you, little liar?
00:19:52You wanted a seat at our table.
00:19:57I'm feeling generous today.
00:20:00I will give you two choices, Cleopatra.
00:20:02Death by the Sarphicus of Hoth, or simply kneel before me.
00:20:06Death! Death! Death! Death!
00:20:09Kneel! Kneel! Kneel! Kneel! Kneel! Kneel! Kneel!
00:20:14You would rather face a slow death by a thousand snakes, than kneel before a snibbling serpent like you.
00:20:22Death it is then, you haughty bitch!
00:20:32Too late to kneel now, you stupid girl.
00:20:43The general, Mark Antony, has entered the forum.
00:20:48Perfect timing.
00:20:50Let the general see how I have cleared the trash from his streets.
00:20:53You'll spend the rest of your life begging the gods to let you forget this moment.
00:20:57You're more of an idiot than I remember.
00:21:11I'm going to enjoy this.
00:21:25I will kill you.
00:21:30Theμ
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00:21:38Theائy!
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00:22:07General, you don't understand.
00:22:09This girl, she's a fraud, a commoner.
00:22:16This woman, is the queen of my heart, and the partner of my soul.
00:22:33She is the empress of the House of Antony.
00:22:36Is that high status enough for you, Senator?
00:22:42Or do I need to explain it with my steel?
00:22:57They did this to you.
00:22:59Careful, General.
00:23:01I don't recall accepting your proposal on that boat.
00:23:04That may be so, but I can still destroy the idiots who hurt you.
00:23:10And who is this?
00:23:12Another one of your investments, Cleopatra?
00:23:15He certainly has the manners of a slave.
00:23:17Look at him, covered in sea salt and shouting at his betters.
00:23:22Is this the empire you promised, Silas?
00:23:25A common centurion who thinks a red rag makes him royalty?
00:23:29God, arrest this man for threatening a senator and impersonating General Antony.
00:23:39Run along, soldier, before I have my father strip those stolen medals off your chest.
00:23:45Rome doesn't belong to men who smell of muir.
00:23:48It belongs to us.
00:23:55The crest on the chariot, that scar on his neck, it's Antony, the very person who can sign her death
00:24:02warrant.
00:24:06You've snuck behind my son's back and married this, this soldier.
00:24:11For what, Cleopatra?
00:24:13Did you think a man with a sword could shield you from the fact that you're a fraud?
00:24:17He is ten times the man your son will ever be.
00:24:25Please.
00:24:26You clearly paid for this man's loyalty.
00:24:29What is he?
00:24:30A gladiator you plucked from the pits?
00:24:32Or just a high-priced escort you dressed in gold to save face?
00:24:38Cleopatra probably used the last of her stolen Egyptian gold to buy a knight with a general's look-alike.
00:24:43Tell me, soldier, what's your rate?
00:24:46You play the part well, but the costume doesn't make the man.
00:24:50They called the heir to the house of Antony, a male sex worker.
00:24:53They're dead.
00:24:54We're all dead.
00:24:58They called the heir to the house of Antony, a male sex worker.
00:25:02They're dead.
00:25:03We're all dead.
00:25:06Lucia, you don't understand.
00:25:07This is quiet.
00:25:08You've always been too soft on the help.
00:25:11If this man wants to play husband to a street rat, he can perform for us first.
00:25:18I want to see if his performance is as sturdy as his armor.
00:25:27If a beggar like Cleopatra can afford your services, the Senate of Rome can certainly pay better.
00:25:35Name your price, mercenary.
00:25:37Whatever she promised you, I'll triple it.
00:25:39I have a room full of guests who need entertainment.
00:25:43How much to strip for the room, soldier?
00:25:46Or perhaps you'd like to dance for your supper, general?
00:25:53You're shaking my own coin at me, fool!
00:25:57You're shaking my own coin at me, fool.
00:26:01My lady...
00:26:02Hush!
00:26:03If you speak again, I will have your title stripped.
00:26:07And thrown in prison!
00:26:10Neither of you has any idea what you are doing.
00:26:13Your mockery will be your downfall.
00:26:20Dimash, you think this piece of fill is gonna hurt us?
00:26:23He's nothing but a donkey and lipstick.
00:26:39My turn.
00:26:50I told you.
00:26:55How dare you!
00:26:58Guards!
00:26:59My son is a senator of a republic!
00:27:02You've assaulted a man of the state!
00:27:04I'll have you...
00:27:05I'll have you executed for this.
00:27:22Are you out of your mind?
00:27:24That is the seat of the general!
00:27:26General, get out of that chair!
00:27:28Or I'll have you flayed alive and fed to the pigs!
00:27:31You are a dead man!
00:27:33You insist on digging your own grave.
00:27:36No one can help you now.
00:27:43I don't know, Lucia.
00:27:44I think this chair suits me.
00:27:48Rufus, you've seen me in a few different settings.
00:27:50Tell the lady, do you think I belong in this chair?
00:27:59Yes, sir.
00:28:02Of course you do.
00:28:03You belong exactly where you sit.
00:28:06Have you lost your mind, Rufus?
00:28:08He is a nobody!
00:28:09Guards!
00:28:10Guards!
00:28:10Seize them!
00:28:11I want them on their knees, groveling!
00:28:14You two are nothing more than filthy animals!
00:28:18Dogs, bark for your senator!
00:28:20Bark for the republic you tried to steal!
00:28:28You're playing with fire, you spoiled girl.
00:28:31No, I am the fire.
00:28:33And I'm going to enjoy watching a slut like you burn.
00:28:51Are you mad?
00:28:52Striking the daughter of a deputy?
00:28:53That is a crime beyond measure, you bitch!
00:28:57My lady!
00:28:58For the love of the gods, stop.
00:29:00Stop and apologize.
00:29:01Now!
00:29:02Apologize to her!
00:29:03I'll have her tongue...
00:29:04You're poking a god, Lucia!
00:29:07Look at the ring on his thumb.
00:29:09Look at the crest on the cloak.
00:29:12That isn't a mercenary.
00:29:14That is Mark Antony.
00:29:15And you just asked the master of Rome to bark.
00:29:27Apologize to this Nile filth!
00:29:29I will see her skin turn into a rug for my foyer!
00:29:36Fetch my father!
00:29:38Fetch the deputy!
00:29:39Tell him the Senate has been invaded by barbarians!
00:29:45You've done it now, you stupid girl.
00:29:48My father-in-law is Gaius.
00:29:51He is second only to Mark Antony himself.
00:29:55You and your escort are nothing.
00:29:58General Gaius, arrive!
00:30:12Who is hitting my daughter in my Senate?
00:30:18Who is hitting my daughter in my Senate?
00:30:38Father, she struck me.
00:30:40That Egyptian maniac.
00:30:41She dragged in a common thug to impersonate General Antony.
00:30:45Sir, please.
00:30:47The situation is...
00:30:52Silence!
00:30:53You allowed this circus to stoil the house of Antony!
00:31:11You, in the chair.
00:31:13Look me in the eye.
00:31:15I want to see the face of the fool who thought he could play God in my house.
00:31:26Cleopatra hired this rat from the docks to impersonate the great Mark Antony.
00:31:30She should be hanged.
00:31:32Relax, Cornelia.
00:31:35I'll have both their heads on a spike before the sun sets.
00:31:40Look at him.
00:31:41He won't even look up.
00:31:43Too chicken to show your face now that a real man is in the room?
00:31:47Escort?
00:31:48Does your queen not pay you enough to die with dignity?
00:32:01I said look at me.
00:32:06I want to be the one to see the look on his face when he realizes he's lost.
00:32:10I want to be the last thing this filth sees.
00:32:16Don't do this, Silas.
00:32:18Once you've all looked into his eyes, your lives are over.
00:32:21All of you.
00:32:22There is no coming back from what you're about to see.
00:32:25I've led legions from Galt to Syria, girl.
00:32:28I've never had a silly girl threaten me in my own city.
00:32:35If you won't show your face to a deputy, perhaps you'll show it to the gods.
00:32:46Don't make it quick, Lord Deputy.
00:32:49Let Rome see what happens when the help forgets its place.
00:32:53Boil him alive, perhaps.
00:32:55Silas, use your blade.
00:32:58Lift his chin so we can see the eyes of the man who dared to sit in an ivory throne.
00:33:04Antony, are you ready to show them who you are?
00:33:07Yes.
00:33:08They shall finally see the face of their master.
00:33:11That's not the voice of a beggar.
00:33:13It's the sound that has led me into a thousand battles.
00:33:20No, Silas, stop!
00:33:23No!
00:33:26No!
00:33:26No!
00:33:26No!
00:33:27No!
00:33:28No!
00:33:29It's General Antony!
00:33:34Why have you stopped, Father?
00:33:36This street filth is still breathing.
00:33:38Call the guards.
00:33:39Have them dragged out by his hair.
00:33:41You wanted to see me, Gaius.
00:33:45You had a great deal to say about my spine
00:33:47while my face was hidden.
00:33:50Come.
00:33:51Step closer.
00:33:52Tell me more about the escort you're sending to their death.
00:33:58Father, don't let this stranger intimidate you.
00:34:01He's a good actor.
00:34:03Nothing more.
00:34:03The real Mock Antony will be here in a moment to execute these beggars.
00:34:07You have one more chance to flee before the real master arrives.
00:34:11When he cuts your throat, we will all smell the stench of your common blood.
00:34:16My blood was royal before this city had a name, Silas.
00:34:22It is a river of gold and ancient kings.
00:34:25My blood is the only reason you have anything.
00:34:29I'm tired of listening to your lies.
00:34:31Shut up!
00:34:32Or I'll fill your mouth with the contents of this morning's chamber pot!
00:34:37Silence, woman.
00:34:39For the love of the gods, Lucia, shut your mouth!
00:34:42Look at him!
00:34:43My father is so angry, he's trembling.
00:34:47Father, kick them out.
00:34:49Call the executioner.
00:34:53He isn't shaking from anger, Lucia.
00:34:56He's shaking because he finally realizes whose house he's standing in
00:35:01and whose wife he just allowed to be dragged through the mud.
00:35:08Wife, just because she paid you for a night in your bed
00:35:11doesn't make her your wife.
00:35:13Father, are you going to deal with this filth or not?
00:35:22I'm not dealing with them, you idiot!
00:35:25I'm dealing with you!
00:35:27You!
00:35:31You blind, arrogant fool!
00:35:34Do you have any idea what you've done?
00:35:49Apologize!
00:35:50Now!
00:35:51Before he burns the roof down over our heads!
00:35:58I am a senator of Rome!
00:36:01You can't strike a senator!
00:36:02A senator?
00:36:03You are nothing more than a worm, Silas.
00:36:06You're standing before your master!
00:36:13Gaius, no!
00:36:16That is the symbol of my son's triumph!
00:36:19There is no celebration without this man.
00:36:22Look at him.
00:36:24Look at the crest on the breastplate that you mocked.
00:36:28No!
00:36:31Behold Mark Antony,
00:36:34master of the house,
00:36:37lord of the legions,
00:36:39and the man who owns your lives!
00:36:46General,
00:36:48please,
00:36:49I have served you in a dozen campaigns.
00:36:52Will you show mercy to a father of fools?
00:36:56Mercy I don't know, Cleopatra.
00:36:59I've heard mercy is reserved for people of high status.
00:37:02What do you think?
00:37:07This is a trick!
00:37:09It's a staged play!
00:37:11He's a paid actor!
00:37:13A gladiator Cleopatra bought with her last coin!
00:37:17My father has been bewitched by Egyptian sorcery!
00:37:20Silence!
00:37:22Kneel, you arrogant girl!
00:37:24Kneel both the general and his wife
00:37:26before I take your head myself!
00:37:32You have never feared a thing.
00:37:35But you fear this man and his wench.
00:37:42Could...
00:37:43Could this be the truth?
00:37:49You're lucky I don't raise a hand to women, Lucia.
00:37:52But you, Gaius,
00:37:54your daughter
00:37:55is a cancer on this republic.
00:37:59Perhaps the deputy should resign his staff
00:38:02if he cannot govern his own house.
00:38:14She is nothing to me.
00:38:16As of this moment,
00:38:17she is disowned.
00:38:19She is a stranger to my name.
00:38:22She does not represent the house of Gaius.
00:38:24I see.
00:38:25You found an untouchable titan to hide behind.
00:38:28Even in his shadow,
00:38:30you're still a beggar.
00:38:31You will never be more than a street rat!
00:38:34You're wrong, Silas.
00:38:37I didn't find a titan.
00:38:39I found a partner.
00:38:41One who isn't scared of powerful women.
00:38:47You lived off my gold,
00:38:49my resources,
00:38:51and my brilliance for seven years,
00:38:53and never once thought to ask who I really was.
00:38:56The House of Antony revokes our support.
00:38:59Your assets are seized.
00:39:01Your name is disgraced.
00:39:03No!
00:39:06Please!
00:39:08No, we will do anything.
00:39:10I beg of you!
00:39:14Beg for General Antony's forgiveness, boy.
00:39:17Our future depends on it.
00:39:36Grandmother, I didn't expect you back from the north so soon.
00:39:39Do not dare call me Grandmother Marcus.
00:39:43You have gone too far.
00:39:45You have turned the sacred Senate of Rome
00:39:47into a circus for a foreign girl.
00:39:50You may have a sword, Marcus,
00:39:52but you are a fool.
00:39:54I am the only one with real power here.
00:40:01The Empress gave you a command, brother.
00:40:04You were to marry Lady Octavia of the House of Cicino.
00:40:08Instead, you chose a beggar from a shipwreck.
00:40:11You don't command me, Severus.
00:40:13You're just a coward who stayed in Rome
00:40:15while I bled on the battlefield.
00:40:18Careful, General.
00:40:20You command the legions,
00:40:21but the Empress holds the final seal on all family assets.
00:40:25Without her signature,
00:40:26the House of Antony and your word are powerless.
00:40:31As the designated heir,
00:40:32I declare that Antony has no authority to fire Gaius.
00:40:36The deputy remains.
00:40:38And Silas remains.
00:40:40Out of the initial order.
00:40:43He thought too much of himself,
00:40:45and now he has fallen low.
00:40:47That's Severus.
00:40:48The Empress prefers him.
00:40:49We have been saved.
00:40:52Enough!
00:40:54We have a guest arriving tomorrow for the feast.
00:40:56The Queen of Egypt seeks an intelligent Roman man
00:40:59to oversee her military might and investments.
00:41:03Silas,
00:41:04you will be the golden boy we will present to the Queen.
00:41:09We may have lost the battle,
00:41:11but we will not lose the war.
00:41:17The choice is simple, Marcus.
00:41:19Marry Octavia by sunset tomorrow,
00:41:22or lose the House of Antony forever.
00:41:24I will strip your title and your gold.
00:41:28You will be as penniless as the girl you brought home.
00:41:32Then start stripping my name off of every Skrull, Grandmother.
00:41:36I'm marrying Cleopatra.
00:41:39Fine, then, you stupid boy.
00:41:41My decision is final.
00:41:43This man just met me,
00:41:45and now he is losing everything for me.
00:41:58This must be the Egyptian treasury I've been awaiting.
00:42:03Tell Titus that the House of Antony's proposal is approved.
00:42:06By my own hand,
00:42:08the Queen of Egypt.
00:42:09Should we notify General Antony, my lady?
00:42:15No.
00:42:16Announce it at the feast tomorrow.
00:42:18Make it loud.
00:42:20I'm going to give my husband the surprise of his life.
00:42:24The Queen of Egypt isn't on her way to Rome.
00:42:27She's already here.
00:42:31Marriage is not a matter of the heart, boy.
00:42:34It is strategy, same as any battle.
00:42:37Marrying Octavia is our only path to the Queen of Egypt.
00:42:41Do not pretend to know what the Queen of Egypt prefers, Empress.
00:42:45And you do.
00:42:47You're just a lowly whore.
00:42:49Guards, throw her into the Tiber!
00:42:50She stalked me across three provinces
00:42:52because she couldn't handle being replaced!
00:42:59Don't, Antony.
00:43:01He isn't worth the stain on your knuckles.
00:43:04When General Antony and I met on that ship,
00:43:06I was pretending.
00:43:08Not completely honest about who I was.
00:43:12Finally, she admits to being an imposter.
00:43:14A fake marriage for a fake Queen.
00:43:17It was fake.
00:43:20But now?
00:43:21Now it's the only real thing in this room.
00:43:29Mark Antony,
00:43:30you offered me your name when I had nothing.
00:43:33Now, I am asking for your heart.
00:43:37Will you marry me for real this time?
00:43:49Do you hear this, Lucia?
00:43:51The Empress of the Gutter thinks she can charm a respectable man into social suicide.
00:43:57You really think he'll marry a street rat, darling?
00:44:00He'd sooner burn his own house down than be seen with a woman who spreads her legs for her dinner.
00:44:08Listen to me, Marcus.
00:44:10If you say yes to this girl, you lose the name Antony.
00:44:14You lose your rank, your gold, and your seat in this chamber.
00:44:19You will lose everything.
00:44:21When I proposed on that ship, I had a fortune, a fleet, and a future.
00:44:25And you turned me down.
00:44:28Now I have nothing but the dirt on my boots, and you're saying yes.
00:44:32I'm not saying yes to the general, Antony.
00:44:35I'm saying yes to the man who held me when the world turned on me.
00:44:46Yes.
00:44:47I will marry you, Cleopatra.
00:44:58She is my wife now.
00:45:00Does anyone in this room have a problem with that?
00:45:07A touching performance, brother.
00:45:09Truly.
00:45:10You've traded the might of Rome for a handful of Egyptian sand.
00:45:14You are suspended from all duties, Marcus.
00:45:16Your accounts are frozen.
00:45:17Do not call me family.
00:45:19Do not step foot in my home.
00:45:21I am done with you.
00:45:23Your marriage to Lady Octavia is the only reason we were invited to the feast for the Queen of Egypt.
00:45:31Now, you won't even be allowed in the same building as the Queen to ask for your investment.
00:45:36I don't need Octavia.
00:45:37My investment has already been approved by the Queen of Egypt herself.
00:45:42I have her word.
00:45:44Her word.
00:45:47In Rome, if it isn't written in blood and stamped with a seal, it's a fairy tale.
00:45:53Unless you have a signed contract from the Queen of Egypt in your hand right now, you have nothing but
00:45:57a beggar for a bride.
00:46:01You think you've won a general girl.
00:46:03You've won a shell of a man.
00:46:05You have no idea the hell you've just raised.
00:46:09I know exactly what I've done, Cerberus.
00:46:11It's you and your family who should worry about my wrath.
00:46:18Cheer up, Silas.
00:46:20Since my brother has gone mad, there is a vacancy in our family.
00:46:26You're joining us for the Queen's feast tomorrow.
00:46:28Oh, Lord Cerberus, you are too kind.
00:46:32My Silas is exactly the kind of man the Queen of Egypt is looking for.
00:46:37The Queen of Egypt has a soft spot for scholars and self-made men.
00:46:41If Silas plays his cards right, the Queen might fund the House of Antony under his name.
00:46:46We'll leave Marcus to rot in the streets while we build a new empire.
00:46:51Felix, tell me the official contract from the Queen of Egypt arrived.
00:46:59Nothing, General. We haven't received the signed scroll yet.
00:47:04A nobody like Antony thinks he can get gold from the Queen of Egypt.
00:47:08Good luck, Master.
00:47:10While you're outside looking for scraps, I'll be inside, sitting at the Queen's right hand.
00:47:16Trust me, Antony. You'll get what you need exactly when it hurts them the most.
00:47:37Cleopatra, listen to me.
00:47:39The feast will be a snake pit.
00:47:41Between the Empress, Severus, and Lady Octavia, they will try to tear you apart piece by piece.
00:47:46They want to humiliate you until you break.
00:47:48I will do whatever it takes to keep you safe.
00:47:51Relax, Antony. I've handled worse than a few Roman snobs and some spilled wine.
00:47:57You don't need to worry about me.
00:47:58I believe in you.
00:48:01But this is a lot to handle.
00:48:02I will find a way to sign that contract, secure the gold, and silence them all.
00:48:06Keeping you safe is my only job now.
00:48:08Where is that cocky general from the shipwreck?
00:48:11The one who told me he owned the world and every wave in it.
00:48:17That man died the moment he saw you bleed on these steps.
00:48:20Now, there is only your husband.
00:48:23Come, my wife.
00:48:27Come, my wife.
00:49:04The scrolls are prepared for your final seal.
00:49:07Everything is ready for the feast.
00:49:10All of Rome is waiting for the Queen of Egypt.
00:49:16Good.
00:49:17I want to see the look on Silas' face when he realizes the servant he threw away is the most
00:49:25powerful woman in the world.
00:49:35How go the preparations for the feast?
00:49:38Has the Roman elite begun to swarm the gates like the locusts they are?
00:49:43Everything is ready, my lady.
00:49:45The billion gold contract for the House of Antony has been finanized and secured within the vault.
00:49:50Ensure the contract is tight, Titus.
00:49:53The gold is for Mark Antony alone.
00:49:56Not the Empress, not Severus, and certainly not Silas.
00:49:59If they cast Antony out of their house, the money follows him.
00:50:03Let them find out what a desert feels like when the well runs dry.
00:50:07It shall be done.
00:50:08Two of your most loyal allies have crossed the sea to pay tribute and request a private audience.
00:50:14Prince Xerxes and General Varam of the Persian Highlands.
00:50:17Bring them in.
00:50:18I have missed the company of men who understand the weight of a crown.
00:50:28Your majesty, your light reaches even the furthest corners of the east.
00:50:33It is dull world when you are not in it.
00:50:35The Desert Lioness returns.
00:50:37It is an honor to stand in your shadow once more, my lady.
00:50:41Without you, our own empire would be in ruin.
00:50:43You have saved our people and our homes.
00:50:46We are forever in your debt.
00:50:49Are you both attending the feast tomorrow?
00:50:52Rome is a city of fools.
00:50:54They need to see what true power looks like.
00:50:59I cannot attend the feast, my lady.
00:51:01Things have grown tense between the House of Cersei and my men.
00:51:04We assumed you had authorized their expansion into our trade routes, so I did not intervene to crush them.
00:51:09I did not wish to offend your interests.
00:51:12I authorize nothing of the sort.
00:51:15The House of Cersei is overstepping.
00:51:16They believe they are the masters of the Mediterranean, but they are about to learn they are merely tenants, and
00:51:24their lease just expired.
00:51:26Well then, tomorrow should be quite entertaining.
00:51:30To the fall of fools.
00:51:34I will get vengeance for us, husband.
00:51:37I promise.
00:51:56I know the sea took everything you owned.
00:51:59I cannot replace your history, but I can ensure that tomorrow, Rome sees you as I do.
00:52:05The most beautiful men in the entire empire.
00:52:09Wear these, and walk with me.
00:52:12I can buy every bolt of cloth in the empire, but the man who has lost everything seeks to clothe
00:52:18me in riches.
00:52:26Titus, tell me the Queen of Egypt has signed our contract.
00:52:29If not, my family will see me crushed by sunrise.
00:52:33The Queen of Egypt is not receiving petitionants today, General.
00:52:37Not even those of your standing.
00:52:40Without that signature, I am walking into that feast with a target on my back.
00:52:45And I have no armor.
00:52:47Do not let your heart falter, General.
00:52:49The Queen believes in you.
00:52:51You will have your answer at the feast.
00:52:54And not a moment sooner.
00:52:58In the middle of the Rifle.
00:53:00In the middle of the Rifle.
00:53:08In the middle of the Rifle.
00:53:19The Queen, Colosse.
00:53:19The Queen of Egypt.
00:53:21In the middle of the Rifle.
00:53:23The Queen.
00:53:23The Queen.
00:53:24If Octavia has harmed you, she shall feel every bit of my wrath. Don't just ruin her, General. Erase her.
00:53:32Is that the voice? It couldn't be.
00:53:36Clear the way! By order of the Magistrate!
00:53:46No. It's impossible.
00:54:02Lady Octavia has done us a favor, Silas. She has secured us an audience with Hector, the master of this
00:54:08house and the wealthiest merchant in the Republic.
00:54:12If you want to meet a queen, you cannot look like a clerk.
00:54:18Spare no expense, Lord Silas. The Queen of Egypt is a creature of legend.
00:54:25She must see you as the absolute pinnacle of Roman status. The only man worthy of her investment.
00:54:37Listen to me, my son. This Queen of Egypt is more influential than Lucia and wealthier than the Empress herself.
00:54:44If you play your cards right, you could woo the Queen of Egypt.
00:54:48With her hand in marriage, you would rule more than a house. You would rule the world.
00:54:59Don't touch that! I won't have your filthy hands contaminating my wardrobe. This silk costs more than you'll see in
00:55:05a lifetime.
00:55:06Go find a ragsailor near the docks. This boutique is for people with names.
00:55:10A name is just a sound, Lucia. Quality is something you can't buy. And this silk, it's been over-dyed.
00:55:19It will stain your skin by midnight.
00:55:22You have a lot of nerve coming here, General. You threw away my sister, Octavia, for this street rat.
00:55:32Tell me, Marcus. How does it happen? Did she hook you with that scholar's tongue? Or is she simply more
00:55:39generous in bed than a highborn lady like Octavia?
00:55:43Careful, boy. You aren't a general anymore. You're just a beggar in a borrowed robe, throwing a tantrum where you
00:55:50don't belong.
00:55:54Let him rage. While he's counting coppers, my Silas will be the one to wed the Queen of Egypt.
00:56:01He is the only man in Rome with the pedigree and the intellect to handle a queen's fortune.
00:56:10Oh. So now you think he can do better than me? The Queen of Egypt is the most powerful woman
00:56:17in the world.
00:56:18A marriage to the Queen of Egypt might have been possible once, Cornelia. But now it will never happen.
00:56:25You're still talking. Who are you to speak for the Queen of Egypt?
00:56:31You want to know who I am? You've spent seven years spending my bold and never once looked at the
00:56:37face on the coin.
00:56:39I am the Queen of Egypt.
00:56:51The Queen of Egypt, a clean cloak doesn't make you a queen. My god, the humiliation has finally snapped her
00:56:59mind.
00:57:00Cleopatra, stop. Don't use that name. Not even as a joke. The Queen of Egypt has spies in every shadow.
00:57:07She will have you executed for such a lie. And even I cannot protect you from her reach.
00:57:14Deliver this to Titus. Tell him I want to buy everything the Cersei family owns. Wipe them out of every
00:57:20bolt of silk and grain of spice. Put it all in my name.
00:57:25The girl's brain has rotted in the heat. Boy! Get that ivory toy out of here before I charge her
00:57:32for the air she's wasting.
00:57:34You're pathetic. You think a fancy bit of bone makes you a queen. All you've ever been good for is
00:57:41sucking men dry of their dignity and patience.
00:57:47If you touch her, if you even breathe in her direction again, you're dead. I don't care about the Senate.
00:57:55I don't care about the law. I will end you.
00:57:59Sir! Master Hector. A message from Lady Octavius Currier. The Queen of Egypt has just executed a hostile takeover. They've
00:58:07bought every warehouse from the docks to the hills. The Queen of Egypt. She now owns everything.
00:58:12Every brick. Every bolt. Every debt. We are done.
00:58:23You heard the man, Hector. Leave this building immediately. Or my guards will throw you into the mud where your
00:58:30manors belong.
00:58:32You... you can't... Octavia will have your head for this! This is a Roman establishment!
00:58:39If you say one more word, I will blacklist your name from every trade guild in Rome. You won't be
00:58:46able to sell a loaf of bread in this Republic by sunrise. Now, get out.
00:59:02No, no! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!
00:59:14Could it be? Could that peasant? Could she really be the queen? No.
00:59:19No. Think about it, Lucia. She's a scholar. She likely met the Queen while she was slumming it in the
00:59:26Nile.
00:59:26The Queen of Egypt is known for her charity towards the poor.
00:59:32He's right. She's a fraud using the Queen's sympathy to settle a petty grudge.
00:59:37She stole that ivory seal. I'm sure of it!
00:59:40She's playing a dangerous game.
00:59:43Tonight, at the feast, the real Queen of Egypt will be there.
00:59:47I will expose that street rat in front of the entire Senate.
00:59:52I'm going to watch her burn.
00:59:55Cleopatra, I have seen men use many tricks to survive.
00:59:58I have seen spies use stolen seals and beggars play at being kings to avoid the noose.
01:00:04You're not seriously telling me you're the real Queen of Egypt?
01:00:13I can't tell him. Not yet.
01:00:15I need the mask to stay on until the very moment they think they've won.
01:00:21I'm sorry, Antony. I didn't mean to scare you. I'm not the Queen.
01:00:25But I did know her.
01:00:26Years ago, she came to visit an orphanage.
01:00:29We struck up a friendship.
01:00:30She gave me that ivory seal as a gift of protection.
01:00:35An orphanage, of course.
01:00:38That makes so much more sense than a scholar being a monarch.
01:00:43If the Queen is truly your friend, then we have a chance.
01:00:47But Cleopatra, listen to me.
01:00:49You stood by me on that ship, and in that Senate chamber, when even my own blood turned cold.
01:00:55My only job now, my only purpose, is to be your shield.
01:01:01I don't care about gold or the titles. I just want to get you through tonight alive.
01:01:07I have been surrounded by kings and princes my whole life.
01:01:11The only thing they've ever seen is the crown.
01:01:14Antony is the first man to ever value the woman beneath it.
01:01:20I've been dying for the whole world to know you are mine.
01:01:22I'm tired of the whispers.
01:01:24I'm tired of the shame they tried to pile on you.
01:01:27Don't worry, Antony.
01:01:28After tonight, they won't be talking about anything else.
01:01:43Finally, the real leader has been put in charge of the House of Antony.
01:01:50While my brother was playing war in the mud, I was securing our future.
01:01:57Thanks to the unparalleled influence of Lady Octavia, the Queen of Egypt has already opened her vaults to me.
01:02:05Tonight, the Queen of Egypt doesn't just fund a house.
01:02:10She funds a dynasty.
01:02:13A dynasty.
01:02:39You have a lot of nerve showing up to a villa you no longer own, brother.
01:02:44Guards!
01:02:46Why is there a stranger standing in my hall?
01:02:48Seize him!
01:02:54I am still a lord of this house, Severus.
01:02:57I have every right to stand in this hall.
01:02:59A hall my campaigns paid for, while you hid in the shadows.
01:03:04Your rights were stripped the moment you turned your back on your duty.
01:03:08You should be standing at Lady Octavia's side, begging for her forgiveness.
01:03:13Not parading this gutter trash around like she's a prize.
01:03:18Mind your tongue.
01:03:20This is my wife.
01:03:21You will address her with the respect her title demands.
01:03:27Title?
01:03:28What title?
01:03:29Professional parasite?
01:03:31Scholar of the sheets?
01:03:32Look at him, friends.
01:03:34The great Mark Antony, the Lion of Rome, caught in the web of a common gold digger who traded a
01:03:38few books for a general's name.
01:03:44Go back to the docks, Egyptian!
01:03:47Does she charge by the scroll, or by the hour?
01:04:03Since you love Roman hospitality so much, why don't you make yourself useful?
01:04:09Serve the guests, pour the wine, queen.
01:04:14and try not to spill any on the real nobility doesn't that make you feel pathetic marcus
01:04:21you used to be the most powerful man in rome and now you're just her lapdog
01:04:27watching her serve the men who used to fear you
01:04:40shut your mouth severus one more word about my wife i won't just take your life i'll take your tongue
01:04:50the lion still thinks he has claws how quaint crawl back to octavia marcus
01:04:57beg her to let you sleep at the foot of her bed maybe then you'll eat tonight
01:05:26let him go antony i want to see exactly how far the new master of rome will take this
01:05:33i want to see if there's a man beneath all that false pride
01:05:38enough
01:05:44severus doesn't have the authority to exile you from this house marcus
01:05:49but i do
01:05:56i will ask you one last time in front of the gods and the senate
01:06:00will you put aside this desert trash and marry lady octavia to save the house of antony
01:06:10no he's a fool grandmother octavia is our only bridge to the queen of egypt without her favor
01:06:16we are locked out of every egyptian vault he's bankrupting us for a girl who should have drowned
01:06:22in the ionian sea
01:06:27you call that strategy severus
01:06:30selling your own blood for a shot at garnering the favor of a queen
01:06:34you're not a leader
01:06:36you're a treasonous coward
01:06:40parasite egyptian witch
01:06:41she's bleeding him dry
01:06:43throw her to the dogs
01:06:57you speak of egyptian vaults in favor as if they are gifts octavia can give you
01:07:02her name is worthless in the court of the queen of egypt
01:07:06now you dare to curse the name of octavia
01:07:10you'll stop at nothing
01:07:11you're a drowning rat
01:07:13trying to take the finest ship in rome down with you
01:07:16it's tragic really
01:07:17she's so desperate to stay relevant that she's hallucinating
01:07:21let her bark lucia
01:07:23it's the last thing she'll do before the guards drag her back into the streets
01:07:27where she belongs
01:07:28you mock my origins while you pray for my coins
01:07:32to keep your roofs from collapsing
01:07:34and your legions from deserting
01:07:37your coins
01:07:38you have nothing but the dress my brother bought you
01:07:41you are draped in antony's charity girl
01:07:44even with his name you are nothing
01:07:47she's lost her mind
01:07:48why are we listening to this
01:07:50have her removed
01:07:54if the house of antony wants the gold
01:07:56you don't need octavia
01:07:59you need me
01:08:02she's a thief empress
01:08:04a common criminal
01:08:06she's trying to dismantle the cersei legacy
01:08:09by stealing their merchandise
01:08:13she's using the queen's name
01:08:15to settle a petty grudge
01:08:17it was the queen's doing silas
01:08:21the queen of egypt
01:08:24executed the takeover
01:08:25if you were half as smart as you think you are
01:08:28you would see that you are outmatched
01:08:31and how exactly would the queen of egypt even know you exist at all
01:08:36because she was a servant empress
01:08:38a kitchen drudge in the backwaters of the naiar
01:08:42the queen visited an orphanage to hand out bread the poor
01:08:45and this scavenger happened to be holding the basket
01:08:47she's been riding the importance of that one charity moment ever since
01:08:51she's a parasite feeding on the queen's good graces
01:08:54you spend so much time looking down that you've missed the ground falling away beneath your feet
01:08:59i am not the enemy
01:09:01the house of cersei has been bleeding your family for years
01:09:05you shouldn't be screaming at me
01:09:07you should be on your knees asking for my forgiveness
01:09:26forgiveness from a slave who hasn't even learned to bow
01:09:29you have a vivid imagination little street rat
01:09:33it's almost a shame i have to crush it
01:09:43it's a fascinating little play you've staged beggar
01:09:46taking my husband taking my family's merchandise
01:09:50you've been quite the busy little thief
01:09:54it's a pity really
01:09:55all that effort to steal a name and yet you still smell like rotting fish
01:09:59rome doesn't reward ambition in the lowborn girl
01:10:02it punishes it octavia is a goddess of the republic
01:10:07you are a stain on the name antoni
01:10:15antoni let go
01:10:18you're assaulting a daughter of rome
01:10:20you will never lay a finger on my wife
01:10:24not today
01:10:25not ever
01:10:27your wife
01:10:30look at the room marcus
01:10:36even your allies are laughing
01:10:39now both of you
01:10:42kneel
01:10:44kneel and beg for the house of cersei to show you mercy
01:10:48or i will ensure you spend the rest of your lives in a cage
01:10:58you speak of pedigree octavia
01:11:00but you don't even know where your father's money ends and you begin
01:11:04and once i strip away your father's stolen gold
01:11:07i suspect there won't be anything left of you to see
01:11:13octavia's money bought the very air you're breathing
01:11:17every thread on her back is worth more than your life
01:11:20then she should have checked the weaver's mark
01:11:23this is an egyptian design octavia
01:11:26it is designed with a single master knot
01:11:30to signify the loyalty of the garment to its true owner
01:11:33what nonsense is this
01:11:36she thinks she's a seamstress now
01:11:38end this octavia
01:11:40have the guards remove this lunaturk
01:11:53octavia
01:11:53you you cover yourself
01:11:56don't bother silas
01:11:57you can't hide the truth with more cloth
01:11:59you look more yourself now octavia
01:12:02small vulnerable
01:12:04without your father's wealth to hide behind
01:12:06you're just another girl in the dark
01:12:10you should be the one kneeling
01:12:19Rome wanted to see the queen of egypt
01:12:21look closely
01:12:24because i'm the only one in this room
01:12:26who isn't wearing a costume
01:12:37guards strike her down
01:12:40kill her
01:12:41kill anyone who stands with her
01:12:58enough of this madness
01:12:59you've assaulted a daughter of rome
01:13:01and stripped her of her dignity in her own hall
01:13:04the game is over street rat
01:13:06she's a fraud
01:13:07a thief
01:13:08she used foreign magic to ruin a lady
01:13:12empress
01:13:13look at the chaos this woman brings
01:13:15she is a rot in our house
01:13:17i side with the house of cersei
01:13:19for the sake of the republic
01:13:21this parasite must be answered for
01:13:26punish her
01:13:27punish her
01:13:29punish her
01:13:30punish her
01:13:31punish her
01:13:32punish her
01:13:32punish her
01:13:33punish her
01:13:35you think you can threaten me with steel and slander
01:13:40you think you're going to send me to hell for taking what is mine
01:13:45i have the blood of the gods
01:13:54don't be a martyr anthony
01:13:55you chose a side
01:13:57and it was the losing one
01:13:58let the general watch
01:14:00let him see what happens to the girl
01:14:02who thought she could mock the house of cersei
01:14:05you only breathe because i allow it witch
01:14:09you're a bug under my heel
01:14:11and i'm tired of the noise you make
01:14:14guards
01:14:14finish her
01:14:30prince exis
01:14:31general bahram
01:14:33perfect timing
01:14:34my family has been expecting you
01:14:36help me take out this trash
01:14:38and clear the room of this
01:14:41egyptian infestation
01:14:42we are not here for you little girl
01:14:45we are here because we were called
01:14:49and you have your steel against the throat of the only reason you're still breathing
01:15:01called?
01:15:03by whom?
01:15:04this is a roman feast
01:15:06lady octavia is the one who secured your audience
01:15:08general you're mistaken
01:15:09the girl
01:15:10she's a fraud
01:15:11tell your men to seize her before she escapes
01:15:16if a single drop of her blood touches this floor
01:15:19i will burn this city until the tiber runs red with your names
01:15:23drop
01:15:24your
01:15:25steel
01:15:26now
01:15:40forgive the delay my lady
01:15:42the roman streets are as congested as their mines
01:15:46we received your message at the villa
01:15:49the fleets are ready
01:15:50and the gold is moved
01:15:56the lady you threatened is not a commoner
01:15:59she is the sovereign of the alexandria treasury
01:16:01she is the queen of egypt herself
01:16:09a lie
01:16:10it's all a staged lie
01:16:12you bought these men didn't you
01:16:14you used the last of your stolen gold
01:16:16to hire actors to play at being queen
01:16:19he's right
01:16:20i demand proof
01:16:21no one becomes a queen in a night
01:16:24if she is the queen of egypt
01:16:26let her prove it with more than just a few kneeling foreigners
01:16:30prove it
01:16:31or i'll have the guards rip the skin from her back
01:16:43stop
01:16:44step away from the lararium girl
01:16:46that fire is sacred
01:16:48any outsider who spills blood on that hearth
01:16:51will be struck down by the gods
01:16:53before they can leave this room
01:16:55it will be your execution
01:16:57let her do it grandmother
01:16:58let the gods do the guards work for them
01:17:02no peasant survives the touch of the ancestral fire
01:17:04if her blood is common
01:17:06the flames will turn to ash
01:17:08and her life will follow
01:17:11cleopatra don't
01:17:12you don't have to prove anything to these vultures
01:17:15the fire
01:17:16it's ancient
01:17:18it's killed men for less
01:17:20please don't gamble your life on a roman superstition
01:17:23go on then street rat
01:17:25do it
01:17:26spill your common muddy blood on the hearth of the antoni
01:17:29the second that drop hits the coal
01:17:31the curse will rip the breath from your lungs
01:17:34you aren't a queen
01:17:36you're just a girl about to find out how much it hurts to burn
01:17:41power isn't something you steal simus
01:17:44it's something you are
01:17:46trust me marcus
01:17:48i have walked through hotter fires than this
01:17:56cool
01:18:11get out of here
01:18:16nobody WAIT
01:18:17he is
01:18:17he doesn't
01:18:29the fire only burns the unworthy silas to the rest of the world i am a stranger
01:18:41but to the flame i am the only one in this room who is truly home
01:18:51you wanted to see my status julia your own gods have answered i am one of them
01:19:04now who wants to talk about strategy
01:19:15the queen she is the queen of egypt
01:19:19we mocked a woman who could buy the tiber and turn it to gold
01:19:24my lady forgive the the exuberant welcome we were testing your resolve
01:19:29a woman of your stature surely understands the need for roman vigilance
01:19:33the deal the investment octavia spoke of it is still on the table of course
01:19:38with your gold and my leadership the house of antony will rule for a thousand years
01:19:44read it severus every word
01:19:53this isn't right the queen of egypt grants one billion gold coins
01:19:59but only to the individual only to marcus antony
01:20:04what are you saying it's not for the family it's not for the house the gold is legally bound to
01:20:10antony alone
01:20:10if we oust him if we exile him the money vanishes we don't get a single copper unless we bow
01:20:19to him
01:20:19in our rush to strip antony of power we have built a cage with no key
01:20:24you didn't just fund him
01:20:27you locked us out of our own inheritance
01:20:40my queen my sovereign if i had known if i had only seen the truth of your radiance
01:20:47i was misled octavia poisoned my mind she forced me to participate in this charade
01:20:52get up silas you're staining my sandals
01:20:55you didn't have to know i was a queen to treat me with dignity
01:20:59you just had to be a man of integrity
01:21:01you failed the only test that mattered
01:21:07my letter of appointment to senator
01:21:09i gave you the world and you threw it away for greed
01:21:13i revoke my word you are nothing
01:21:23we always knew there was something celestial about you my lady
01:21:27octavia lied to us
01:21:29she said you were a commoner
01:21:31she's the one who should be punished
01:21:39you you snakes
01:21:42you were wearing my jewelry an hour ago lucia
01:21:45i paid your father's gambling debt
01:21:48cornelia i gave you the seat next to the empress
01:21:52you gave us nothing but a front row seat to your own insanity octavia
01:22:07it's my hall
01:22:09my gold
01:22:10my robe
01:22:11you're all just
01:22:13reflections
01:22:14you aren't real
01:22:15i'm the only one who's real
01:22:24if i can't own the world
01:22:26then i'll take the world with me
01:22:39let that be the last debt paid tonight
01:22:56cleopatra
01:22:56cleopatra
01:22:57my lady
01:22:58please
01:22:59i know things were said but i always cared for you
01:23:02you were like a daughter to me
01:23:04a daughter
01:23:05ten minutes ago i was a parasite
01:23:07twenty minutes ago i was desert trash who should have drowned in the ionian
01:23:11you didn't care for me cornelia
01:23:14you only care for yourself
01:23:17i am done with all of you
01:23:19guard
01:23:21see these traitors to the gates
01:23:23they are never to stand in my presence again
01:23:30it seems i was mistaken about your choice marcus
01:23:33you have brought the greatest treasure in the world to our doorstep
01:23:38come take your seat at the head of the table
01:23:40the house of anthony has never been stronger
01:23:44no grandmother
01:23:46i am no longer a man of the house of anton
01:23:48i watched you and severus sharpen your knives the moment you thought i was weak
01:23:53i am not your soldier
01:23:54and i am not your pawn
01:24:01i didn't fall for the queen
01:24:04i fell for the woman who wouldn't let me give up
01:24:08will you build this new world with me
01:24:16you would give up rome for me marcus
01:24:19you would walk away from your seat at the senate
01:24:22i've sat on the seats of the senate cleopatra
01:24:25they're cold
01:24:26i'd rather walk through the fire with you
01:24:31then let the old world burn
01:24:34we have a new one to build
01:24:37yes marcus a thousand times yes
01:24:50hail to the general
01:24:51hail to the great queen
01:24:55ha ha ha ha ha ha
01:24:58ha ha
01:24:58ha ha ha ha ha
01:24:58ha ha ha
01:24:58ha ha ha ha
01:25:03ha ha ha
01:25:04ha ha ha ha ha
01:25:09what happens tomorrow?
01:25:12tomorrow we rule
01:25:14but tonight we just breathe
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