:48:02
Don't lie to me!
l've heard who put them up to it.
:48:05
There isn't a man in Rome who'd dare.
Butyou'd dare, Messalina.
:48:08
You'd dare anything. Deny it!
:48:11
- Deny it, l said!
- Sire, l didn't!
:48:13
l'll give you witnesses to your treachery.
You, you'll swear she's guilty.
:48:17
- Yes, sire.
- And you! And you! And you!
:48:20
You hear?
:48:21
l deny nothing, sire. But what l said
was falsely reported to you.
:48:26
Do you deny saying that l aspire to be a god?
:48:29
l said you are a god.
:48:32
lsis herself revealed it to me in the temple.
:48:36
lsis?
:48:38
That l'm a god?
:48:40
She said the gods themselves
look upon you as one of them.
:48:43
l spoke of this wonder in the court, but
your faithful courtiers laughed in my face,...
:48:48
- ..the same who have accused me.
- ls this true?
:48:51
- ls it true?
- (all) No, sire.
:48:53
Liars! Traitors!
:48:56
So, you deny that l am a god.
:48:59
l'll hang your heads in the Senate House!
l'll have you torn to pieces!
:49:03
Kneel.
:49:04
Kneel!
:49:06
Kneel!
:49:07
Kneel to your god!
:49:16
Some wine. There on the table.
:49:20
Now you've seen it. Now you know.
:49:23
Do you wonder that l behave as l do?
That we're all a little mad here?
:49:27
Many innocent people
know what it is to be accused.
:49:30
lnnocent? Who said l was innocent?
:49:32
Caligula was right.
l put those two up to it and they bungled it.
:49:36
Oh, if l were a man... lf l were Claudius,
l'd have killed Caligula long ago.
:49:40
l'd have won the guards to my side
and taken the empire for my own.
:49:43
But he's no better than the rest of them.
:49:45
Where was he tonight when l needed him?
l had only my wits to save me.
:49:49
And not for the first time.
:49:57
l don't want another night like this.