Spartacus: Gods of the Arena · Season 1, Episode 3
“Paterfamilias” · Season 1, Episode 3
In this episode: Melitta (2), Quintus Lentulus Batiatus (1), Titus (1), Lucretia (1), Oenomaus (1)
I know this is not what you wished for.
And yet here I stand. Elevated.
As you deserve.
For taking a life? For betraying hand that forged the man before you? There was no betrayal in what you did.
Some acts cannot be avoided, when stripped of choice.
I will be a vision of demure obedience and propriety. On the outside, at least.
I secure the primus, and he acts as if I shit upon the name Batiatus.
Oh, you raise it, beyond anything he can imagine. He will see this, and bitter tongue will turn to praise.
He would sooner bite it off, than have it betray him so. I had forgotten the feeling. This sudden abyss, as he sets disapproving eye upon me.
Your return lifts the heart, Dominus.
Only for those who yet possess one.
[to Diona] Do you know why I chose this man? So crudely etched? The smell of shit hot upon his breath? Because this world is filled with the grotesque. And the divine. They exist together, two sides of a coin. You cannot have one absent threat of the other. Yet words do not convey the true nature of this. It must be experienced. It must be felt. And never forgotten.
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