Our agreement called for repayment of your debt, plus 30 percent, to be delivered the day after the games of the Vulcanalia. Ovidius: I had expected them laid earlier. And you may yet feel your wife's touch again. Fight there and survive, and you will fill both our hands with coin. In a place where you needn't follow rules, because none exist. Spartacus: There must be a way for me to fight. Batiatus: You shit on honorable agreements and press for fresh demands? Tell me, Thracian - how will you pay for her release if found? Hmm? Her transport? Do you shoot magic coins out of your ass? If so, squat and produce! Spartacus: I shall fight in the arena, my winnings- Batiatus: No one wishes to see you fight! The crowd's favor, like the wind, is fleeting. The Thing In The Pit Spartacus: You must keep searching for her. Legends Lucretia: Darling, you must spend coins to receive coins. Your wife's? Pass the final test tonight with honor and servitude, call me Dominus, and I will help to reunite you. Spartacus: Why would I place my fate in the hands of another Roman? Batiatus: Because of what they hold. Batiatus: A man must accept his fate, or be destroyed by it. Prove yourself, climb to the pinnacle, gain your freedom, and that of the woman you've lost. Fight for me, and the honor of my forefathers. Batiatus: How many men? A hundred, A thousand? Spartacus: I would kill them all. You are the most dangerous of animals, beast born of the heart.īatiatus: What would you do to hold your wife again, to feel the warmth of her skin, to taste her lips, would you kill? Spartacus: Whoever stood between us. So often you can't tell one from the other, but you. I'm just a simple Roman trying to make his way against the whim of the gods, the politicians, the miscreants.
I see things in men that they themselves have lost, small spark, an ember, I give it breath, tender, until it ignites in the arena.īatiatus: Well then, how do you know she still lives? Spartacus: How do you know the heart beats beneath your chest? Batiatus: Most days I don't. Like my forefathers, a trainer of gladiators. He instilled these beliefs in my father, who in turn passed them on to me. That even the most vile among us could rise to honor and glory. He believed that no man was without worth. Batiatus: You are here because of my grandfather. Sacramentum Gladiatorum Batiatus: What, the gods haven't pissed on me enough for one day?! Legatus fucking Glaber spurns me like a common slave, but no, let's add shit to the piss! Let's pour it in his mouth!īatiatus: Why are you here, in this place, under my hospitality? Do you know why? Spartacus: Because I trusted in the honor of a Roman. Batiatus: The way he fights like the legend of the Thracian king of old, Spartacus he was called. Glaber: Dead, all of them.Īlbinius: What name does the man carry? Glaber: I never cared to ask. If we are to align with Rome, the purpose must be clear. Each time we have pushed them back, only to see them return. Spartacus: And how is it to be measured? The Geti have raided our villages in the past, raped our women, and killed our children. Spartacus: To what end, to what end? Glaber: Victory. Glaber: Align yourself with Rome, pledge your service the auxiliary, and join us in our campaign. What am I to do without you in our bed? Spartacus: Lift your dress (She does, he ties a piece of his cloak arond her leg) keep me close to your thighs. Not the Geti, not the Romans, not the gods themselves. Nothing will keep me from returning to your arms. Sura: And if it isn't? Spartacus: I gave my word, Sura. Spartacus: The Geti worship the mountain wolf. If you go to war you are destined for great and unfortunate things. Spartacus: What meaning did you take from it? Sura: A warning. Spartacus: What did they show you? Sura: My husband on his knees, bowing before a great red serpent, the life draining from his veins. Spartacus: Were? Sura: The gods came to me last night, in my sleep. Spartacus: I thought we were in agreement. Sura: She rose early to pray that her husband would stay with her. Spartacus: I woke expecting my wife beside me. If one night is all we have, I should make the most of it. Sura: When do you leave? Spartacus: First light. Sura: What would my husband do without it? Spartacus: Grow crops, raise goats, make children. Spartacus: Once the Geti are driven from our lands there will be no reason to ever pick it up again. Sura: I've asked the gods to bless your sword. Season 1 The Red Serpent Sura: The council has decided? Spartacus: We go to war.