:26:02
because your son
is heir to the throne.
:26:08
Oh, I have wept.
:26:11
My son...
:26:13
was innocent.
:26:16
So is mine.
:26:20
Must my son die, too,
before you'll trust me?
:26:26
What does it matter
if I trust you or not?
:26:31
The gods have spared you.
Don't you understand?
:26:34
Today I saw a slave become more powerful
than the emperor of Rome.
:26:38
The gods have spared me?
:26:41
I am at their mercy,
with the power only to amuse the mob.
:26:45
That is power.
:26:48
The mob is Rome, and while Commodus
controls them, he controls everything.
:26:54
Listen to me.
:26:56
My brother has enemies,
most of all in the senate.
:27:00
But while the people follow him...
:27:03
no one would dare stand up to him
until you.
:27:07
They oppose him,
yet they do nothing.
:27:11
There are some politicians
who have dedicated their lives to Rome.
:27:15
One man above all.
:27:19
If I can arrange it,
will you meet him?
:27:23
Do you not understand?
:27:25
I may die in this cell tonight,
or in the arena tomorrow.
:27:28
I am a slave!
:27:30
What possible difference can I make?
:27:34
This man wants what you want.
:27:37
Then have him kill Commodus!
:27:43
I knew a man once...
:27:46
a noble man,
a man of principle...
:27:50
who loved my father...
:27:53
and my father loved him.
:27:58
This man served Rome well.