:15:03
The whole thing
is like some great nightmare.
:15:08
FALCO: He is defying you.
:15:10
His every victory is an act of defiance.
:15:14
The mob sees this, and so do the Senate.
:15:18
Every day he lives, they grow bolder.
:15:22
- Kill him.
- No.
:15:26
I will not make a martyr of him.
:15:28
[Tense instrumental music]
:15:35
When I went to the Senate today...
:15:37
I purposefully told them about using
the grain reserves to pay for the games.
:15:43
And did you note what happened?
:15:45
- Nothing.
- Exactly. Nothing.
:15:50
COMMODUS: Not a single word of protest.
:15:52
Even the insolent Senator Gracchus
was silent as a mouse.
:15:55
Why?
:15:58
I have been told of a certain sea snake...
:16:02
which has a very unusual method
of attracting its prey.
:16:06
It will lie at the bottom of the ocean
as if wounded.
:16:10
Then its enemies will approach...
:16:13
and yet it will lie quite still.
:16:16
And then its enemies
will take little bites of it...
:16:20
and yet it remains still.
:16:26
So...
:16:29
we will lie still...
:16:31
and let our enemies come to us and nibble.
:16:35
Have every senator followed.
:16:54
Cicero, my old friend. I thought perhaps
I'd seen you for the last time.
:16:58
CICERO: I thought you were dead.
MAXIMUS: Close.