Romulus (2020–…): Season 1, Episode 9 - Debellare - full transcript
Yemos manages to break free and flees to Gabi, where he finally finds Wiros. Amulius and Ilia, left alone, prepare for the last decisive battle.
Come here, let's push it out.
Spur those horses on.
It's not moving, it's stuck!
Again! Harder!
Come on, push!
All together!
Get him out of the wagon!
We'll continue on foot.
I'll tell Amulius
that you died like your brother.
Like a pig.
Look at me!
I am Yemos.
The legitimate king of Alba.
And son of Rumia.
I dreamt of him again,
I'm sure he's alive.
I hope so as much as you.
In the dream, he told me
that everything that we're doing
will help to bring him home.
Once all was war in these lands.
The Thirty Kings
were enemies to each other.
One day,
a white sow appeared
to the Thirty
and with her were the offspring
she had given birth to.
There were 30 of them.
It was a sign from the Gods.
The Thirty Kings
were 30 brothers
and the king of Alba
was to be their leader.
It is the will of the Gods
that keeps them united.
The same will that will return
Yemos to the throne.
Sicanus,
Capys,
welcome.
Leave your weapons and men
behind.
Numitor awaits you.
We are here for the remembrance
of your father, King Ertas.
He believed in the innocence
of Yemos.
We will listen and then decide.
Numitor's words
will convince you.
You speak as though
we were already on your side.
I like to believe
in what I want.
But without your support,
we are already dead.
Lausus and Numitor sent messages
from Gabi to all the kings.
They're seeking allies
to support the cause of Yemos.
Of the Thirty Kings,
many refused the invitation,
but others have already left
with their entourage.
I want to know
the will of the Gods.
Do you doubt your right
or your strength?
My father doubts nothing!
Yemos is a prisoner
and will soon be here.
The Gods allowed Numitor
to take the city of Gabi,
and I need to know.
If it is right to destroy the
ancient alliance of the Thirty.
I want a sign.
We will choose
the sacred birds tonight.
Tomorrow you will know.
It was my fault.
I promised to find Numitor.
You had few men
and you were defeated by deception.
You are not to blame.
Even if
they all united against us,
our army
will be able to destroy them.
So what are you afraid of?
I'm not afraid of anything.
You don't want to embrace me
and my father?
I will when I'm sure you didn't
give birth to a fratricide.
If my son were guilty,
the Gods
wouldn't have smiled on us.
They wouldn't have sent us
this man with his people...
Was it you
who defeated Amulius's men?
What's your name?
And what people do you command?
My name is Wiros,
and I command my brothers.
Not a people,
but a pack of wolves.
Rumia's children.
Is this your hope?
The Lady of the Wolves
and her children?
Wiros knew my son Yemos
and supports his claim
to the kingdom.
Have you met Yemos?
- Yes.
- Is he alive?
He is only waiting
to get his throne back.
He told me Amulius is a killer
and that he killed Enitos
by treachery.
How do you know
that Yemos wasn't lying to you?
If you ask me this,
it's you who doesn't know him.
Do you want to
be the thirty-first king?
No.
- What do you want, then?
- My people...
He fights for me.
If you decide to trust me,
you will trust him as well.
Wiros has sworn
to respect our laws.
They gave you a hut.
As though you were
the equal of the Latin kings.
I didn't ask for it.
The Latins respect you
and are afraid of you.
They know that one day you will
be more powerful than anyone,
and that the queen of Alba
will choose you as her son.
What's wrong?
She already has a son.
Do you think he's still alive?
I want that more than anything.
I wish all the others
were alive as well.
The way things were before.
The way things were before...
will never be again.
If we want to live
we have to forget,
and find a new home.
You're as white as snow.
What's the matter with you?
See for yourself.
Yesterday at sunset
they were alive.
Nobody approached the cage.
What does this mean?
The Gods aren't answering you.
Whatever you want to do,
you will have to do yourself.
You're lying.
You poisoned these birds
to force me to surrender.
If you believe that,
order your men to execute us
as the law demands.
You think you're scaring me,
don't you?
Do you think you scare me?
Whether you're scared or not
doesn't matter now.
Even if you have us killed,
the Gods
will continue to say nothing.
Yemos has escaped!
Those who saw the chariot
and the dead soldiers
say that Spurius had his chest...
Silence!
Your trembling voice
is unbearable.
Where has your fury gone?
Are you afraid of a murderer?
If you're afraid
I don't want you beside me.
Because I need your anger
and not your fear.
Out!
Out now!
You're still alive!
Embrace me...
as the living do.
You stink like a goat, brother.
You too, brother.
Like ten goats.
The others...
Spurius killed them all.
We will avenge them.
I've already avenged them.
The king of Velia
is food for the wolves.
I stayed alive
to give this back to you.
Now it is yours.
What happened to you?
I became a man.
I knew it! I knew all along!
Yemos?
It's sad not to see the light
of such a happy day.
There will be other
and happier days.
If the Gods saved you,
the kings will take this
as a divine sign.
I'm safe thanks to a Goddess
whom you fear.
Rumia protected me.
She saved me.
Did you see them die?
Yes.
What did they do to them?
What does that matter?
The She-Wolf is dead,
our comrades are dead,
doesn't any of this
matter to you?
Why do you need
to know how they died?
Why suffer over again?
What matters
is what they have left.
Death leaves nothing.
They're alive,
they're with us,
I can feel them.
The She-Wolf spoke to me,
she gave me
the courage to survive.
You speak
as though you were our king.
I want to help you find
what you have always sought.
Wiros is our king, not you.
Yemos is the king of Alba.
He is alive
to allow us have our city.
When we will have
what was promised to us,
he will be king to all.
My city will be your city.
Don't you want to tell me
what you think?
I'm happy. Nothing else.
Eat now.
I can't see you,
but I can feel how you breathe.
- You're afraid.
- Yemos is my son.
I'm not afraid of him.
But you know that the Thirty
won't fight for a king
who speaks of a foreign Goddess.
The Thirty won't listen to
anything that might offend them.
If they don't support us,
it will not be
because of our words.
16 of them
accepted the invitation.
My father will speak for you,
and I'll be with him.
You think I don't know
how to convince them?
You scorn them,
and nobody fights willingly
for those who scorn them.
They believed in Amulius
and turned their backs on me.
But for this I can forgive them.
But what if some of them,
like Spurius,
were in agreement with him
from the beginning?
I will not be able
to forgive him for that.
There are things
it is better not to know.
You'd accept assistance from
those who helped kill your son?
To see you be king
I'd accept anyone's assistance.
You'll never know what
the Thirty hide in their hearts.
Some of them
will hate you in secret,
and others will support you
because it suits them now.
Greetings, Sicanus.
I'd lost hope of meeting you
again in friendship.
It's early
to speak of friendship.
I have nothing against you,
and I hope you feel the same.
The kings know
that you killed Spurius.
Spurius conspired
against my brother...
Tell him to shut up. He's still
a fratricide and a liar for us.
This is just,
I cannot impose my presence
on you.
I'll talk to you later,
when you have decided
in line with justice.
Go with him, please.
Thank you for coming.
Now I will let Numitor speak.
Why are you here?
Let me stay here tonight.
I know I was wrong,
I violated the orders of the God,
I left this shrine,
I was in too much of a hurry
and I was presumptuous.
The Lord of Battles
has no need of your tears.
You know I wanted justice,
Attus.
But now my mother is dead.
Yemos is free,
our enemies plot against us,
and the haruspex...
The haruspex say
the Gods have abandoned us.
Let me stay
in the house of the God.
So that he might visit my mind,
and grant me a true vision.
You had your chance, Ilia.
The God won't talk to you,
he doesn't know pardon or pity.
- Now it's too late.
- Help me!
You are not a daughter of Mars.
But you are
the daughter of a king.
Ask for help
from those who really love you.
Didn't they believe you?
To believe they want proof,
and we have no proof.
Forgive us.
We didn't find the right words.
Don't cry.
We will return to Alba,
even if we have to fight alone.
My Lord,
a man is asking for you.
Who?
Bring him in.
My Lord...
Why are you here?
I know you were waiting for me.
The Gods
have stopped talking to you
and now you're afraid.
But there are still those
who can help you.
Can you take me to them?
I will know how to reward you.
I promise.
I'm not doing it for reward,
but because
I can see the torment...
in your eyes.
If you have courage,
the dead
will answer your questions.
Enitos?
Why have you forgotten me, Ilia?
I...
I don't know who I am any more.
You swore to avenge me, Ilia.
You swore.
Where's my father!?
Where's my father!?
Come, son of Proca.
Don't be afraid.
From here on, you will go alone.
When you reach the bottom,
the dead
will tell you your destiny.
Where are you?
The Gods are silent
because I offended them,
but what about you?
Won't you dare talk to me either?
Everything I've done
was for the city!
I would never have killed Enitos!
Never!
If the Gods hadn't deceived me.
Am I unclean for this reason?
Am I unclean for this reason?
Yes!
I'm unclean and I confess it.
I hated my brother
and I wanted to be king.
That's why I killed him.
That's why I killed him.
Get up.
It's over, Yemos.
Over.
Look into my eyes as you say it.
I convinced everyone
to follow me.
I spoke
as though Rumia had chosen me
as king for her children.
And now look where I've led them.
You led them where I am.
That's enough for me.
No, Yemos.
I led them into a trap
where hundreds of men will come
to kill them one by one.
- They won't die!
- Yes, they will.
I told you they won't die!
The kings are still here.
We have until tomorrow
to convince them,
and you know
how to convince people.
Me?
A slave with the mark of Rumia.
A slave who has now became king.
I don't know
what you did for them,
but Herennèis,
Tarinkri and Deftri
would follow you anywhere.
Do the same with the Latin kings.
Talk to them.
They didn't listen to Numitor,
they didn't listen to Lausus.
There is no man in the world
who could convince them!
You know how to convince men.
Come with me.
We have as long as the night lasts.
Is that you, Ilia?
Or is it the dead who sent you?
You were seen leaving the city
during the night.
I followed your traces.
What are you looking for among
the dead?
The Gods have cursed me
and I was seeking comfort here.
The Gods are with us, Father!
I was destined to die,
the Lord of Battles saved me...
The Lord of Battles?
It was me who saved you, Ilia.
For six days you were buried,
and I gave myself no peace.
Hidden from everyone, I brought
two horses to your tomb.
I forced it, and let air in.
And then I left.
Because you weren't meant
to see me either.
You're my blood, Ilia.
My blood!
This is why the Gods are silent.
Because you deceived them.
There is nothing now.
We've been left alone,
me and you.
You violated
the will of the Gods,
you challenged them
to protect me.
Nothing can scare you.
We know what's right,
Father.
With the Gods
or without them...
You and I,
we will kill Yemos.
She gave birth here,
right where your son slept.
Today as well,
as at the start of our alliance,
the wonder is repeated.
Tonight a sow
gave birth to 30 piglets
in front of your hut.
Forgive us if we doubted.
It is a sign from the Gods.
From now on,
like 30 brothers, the Thirty Kings
will fight together
and our armies
will fight Amulius, since you're
the true, rightful king of Alba.
In the name of justice
and truth.
Long live Yemos!
Long live Yemos!
The armies of the Thirty
are united against us.
We will see them
on the horizon soon.
They say I lied.
That I killed.
That I violated
the most sacred laws.
If any of you doubt me,
I want you
to leave the city now.
You.
You.
If you don't doubt me,
I won't doubt you.
Now go,
talk to the soldiers
and prepare them for battle.
Then arm the others as well...
the old,
the children and the women.
Because if Yemos
wants to enter Alba,
I tell you,
he will first have to climb
over a mountain of corpses.
Mars is with us!
Mars is with us!
- Mars is with us!
- Mars is with us!
- Mars is with us!
- Mars is with us!
Mars is with us!
Spur those horses on.
It's not moving, it's stuck!
Again! Harder!
Come on, push!
All together!
Get him out of the wagon!
We'll continue on foot.
I'll tell Amulius
that you died like your brother.
Like a pig.
Look at me!
I am Yemos.
The legitimate king of Alba.
And son of Rumia.
I dreamt of him again,
I'm sure he's alive.
I hope so as much as you.
In the dream, he told me
that everything that we're doing
will help to bring him home.
Once all was war in these lands.
The Thirty Kings
were enemies to each other.
One day,
a white sow appeared
to the Thirty
and with her were the offspring
she had given birth to.
There were 30 of them.
It was a sign from the Gods.
The Thirty Kings
were 30 brothers
and the king of Alba
was to be their leader.
It is the will of the Gods
that keeps them united.
The same will that will return
Yemos to the throne.
Sicanus,
Capys,
welcome.
Leave your weapons and men
behind.
Numitor awaits you.
We are here for the remembrance
of your father, King Ertas.
He believed in the innocence
of Yemos.
We will listen and then decide.
Numitor's words
will convince you.
You speak as though
we were already on your side.
I like to believe
in what I want.
But without your support,
we are already dead.
Lausus and Numitor sent messages
from Gabi to all the kings.
They're seeking allies
to support the cause of Yemos.
Of the Thirty Kings,
many refused the invitation,
but others have already left
with their entourage.
I want to know
the will of the Gods.
Do you doubt your right
or your strength?
My father doubts nothing!
Yemos is a prisoner
and will soon be here.
The Gods allowed Numitor
to take the city of Gabi,
and I need to know.
If it is right to destroy the
ancient alliance of the Thirty.
I want a sign.
We will choose
the sacred birds tonight.
Tomorrow you will know.
It was my fault.
I promised to find Numitor.
You had few men
and you were defeated by deception.
You are not to blame.
Even if
they all united against us,
our army
will be able to destroy them.
So what are you afraid of?
I'm not afraid of anything.
You don't want to embrace me
and my father?
I will when I'm sure you didn't
give birth to a fratricide.
If my son were guilty,
the Gods
wouldn't have smiled on us.
They wouldn't have sent us
this man with his people...
Was it you
who defeated Amulius's men?
What's your name?
And what people do you command?
My name is Wiros,
and I command my brothers.
Not a people,
but a pack of wolves.
Rumia's children.
Is this your hope?
The Lady of the Wolves
and her children?
Wiros knew my son Yemos
and supports his claim
to the kingdom.
Have you met Yemos?
- Yes.
- Is he alive?
He is only waiting
to get his throne back.
He told me Amulius is a killer
and that he killed Enitos
by treachery.
How do you know
that Yemos wasn't lying to you?
If you ask me this,
it's you who doesn't know him.
Do you want to
be the thirty-first king?
No.
- What do you want, then?
- My people...
He fights for me.
If you decide to trust me,
you will trust him as well.
Wiros has sworn
to respect our laws.
They gave you a hut.
As though you were
the equal of the Latin kings.
I didn't ask for it.
The Latins respect you
and are afraid of you.
They know that one day you will
be more powerful than anyone,
and that the queen of Alba
will choose you as her son.
What's wrong?
She already has a son.
Do you think he's still alive?
I want that more than anything.
I wish all the others
were alive as well.
The way things were before.
The way things were before...
will never be again.
If we want to live
we have to forget,
and find a new home.
You're as white as snow.
What's the matter with you?
See for yourself.
Yesterday at sunset
they were alive.
Nobody approached the cage.
What does this mean?
The Gods aren't answering you.
Whatever you want to do,
you will have to do yourself.
You're lying.
You poisoned these birds
to force me to surrender.
If you believe that,
order your men to execute us
as the law demands.
You think you're scaring me,
don't you?
Do you think you scare me?
Whether you're scared or not
doesn't matter now.
Even if you have us killed,
the Gods
will continue to say nothing.
Yemos has escaped!
Those who saw the chariot
and the dead soldiers
say that Spurius had his chest...
Silence!
Your trembling voice
is unbearable.
Where has your fury gone?
Are you afraid of a murderer?
If you're afraid
I don't want you beside me.
Because I need your anger
and not your fear.
Out!
Out now!
You're still alive!
Embrace me...
as the living do.
You stink like a goat, brother.
You too, brother.
Like ten goats.
The others...
Spurius killed them all.
We will avenge them.
I've already avenged them.
The king of Velia
is food for the wolves.
I stayed alive
to give this back to you.
Now it is yours.
What happened to you?
I became a man.
I knew it! I knew all along!
Yemos?
It's sad not to see the light
of such a happy day.
There will be other
and happier days.
If the Gods saved you,
the kings will take this
as a divine sign.
I'm safe thanks to a Goddess
whom you fear.
Rumia protected me.
She saved me.
Did you see them die?
Yes.
What did they do to them?
What does that matter?
The She-Wolf is dead,
our comrades are dead,
doesn't any of this
matter to you?
Why do you need
to know how they died?
Why suffer over again?
What matters
is what they have left.
Death leaves nothing.
They're alive,
they're with us,
I can feel them.
The She-Wolf spoke to me,
she gave me
the courage to survive.
You speak
as though you were our king.
I want to help you find
what you have always sought.
Wiros is our king, not you.
Yemos is the king of Alba.
He is alive
to allow us have our city.
When we will have
what was promised to us,
he will be king to all.
My city will be your city.
Don't you want to tell me
what you think?
I'm happy. Nothing else.
Eat now.
I can't see you,
but I can feel how you breathe.
- You're afraid.
- Yemos is my son.
I'm not afraid of him.
But you know that the Thirty
won't fight for a king
who speaks of a foreign Goddess.
The Thirty won't listen to
anything that might offend them.
If they don't support us,
it will not be
because of our words.
16 of them
accepted the invitation.
My father will speak for you,
and I'll be with him.
You think I don't know
how to convince them?
You scorn them,
and nobody fights willingly
for those who scorn them.
They believed in Amulius
and turned their backs on me.
But for this I can forgive them.
But what if some of them,
like Spurius,
were in agreement with him
from the beginning?
I will not be able
to forgive him for that.
There are things
it is better not to know.
You'd accept assistance from
those who helped kill your son?
To see you be king
I'd accept anyone's assistance.
You'll never know what
the Thirty hide in their hearts.
Some of them
will hate you in secret,
and others will support you
because it suits them now.
Greetings, Sicanus.
I'd lost hope of meeting you
again in friendship.
It's early
to speak of friendship.
I have nothing against you,
and I hope you feel the same.
The kings know
that you killed Spurius.
Spurius conspired
against my brother...
Tell him to shut up. He's still
a fratricide and a liar for us.
This is just,
I cannot impose my presence
on you.
I'll talk to you later,
when you have decided
in line with justice.
Go with him, please.
Thank you for coming.
Now I will let Numitor speak.
Why are you here?
Let me stay here tonight.
I know I was wrong,
I violated the orders of the God,
I left this shrine,
I was in too much of a hurry
and I was presumptuous.
The Lord of Battles
has no need of your tears.
You know I wanted justice,
Attus.
But now my mother is dead.
Yemos is free,
our enemies plot against us,
and the haruspex...
The haruspex say
the Gods have abandoned us.
Let me stay
in the house of the God.
So that he might visit my mind,
and grant me a true vision.
You had your chance, Ilia.
The God won't talk to you,
he doesn't know pardon or pity.
- Now it's too late.
- Help me!
You are not a daughter of Mars.
But you are
the daughter of a king.
Ask for help
from those who really love you.
Didn't they believe you?
To believe they want proof,
and we have no proof.
Forgive us.
We didn't find the right words.
Don't cry.
We will return to Alba,
even if we have to fight alone.
My Lord,
a man is asking for you.
Who?
Bring him in.
My Lord...
Why are you here?
I know you were waiting for me.
The Gods
have stopped talking to you
and now you're afraid.
But there are still those
who can help you.
Can you take me to them?
I will know how to reward you.
I promise.
I'm not doing it for reward,
but because
I can see the torment...
in your eyes.
If you have courage,
the dead
will answer your questions.
Enitos?
Why have you forgotten me, Ilia?
I...
I don't know who I am any more.
You swore to avenge me, Ilia.
You swore.
Where's my father!?
Where's my father!?
Come, son of Proca.
Don't be afraid.
From here on, you will go alone.
When you reach the bottom,
the dead
will tell you your destiny.
Where are you?
The Gods are silent
because I offended them,
but what about you?
Won't you dare talk to me either?
Everything I've done
was for the city!
I would never have killed Enitos!
Never!
If the Gods hadn't deceived me.
Am I unclean for this reason?
Am I unclean for this reason?
Yes!
I'm unclean and I confess it.
I hated my brother
and I wanted to be king.
That's why I killed him.
That's why I killed him.
Get up.
It's over, Yemos.
Over.
Look into my eyes as you say it.
I convinced everyone
to follow me.
I spoke
as though Rumia had chosen me
as king for her children.
And now look where I've led them.
You led them where I am.
That's enough for me.
No, Yemos.
I led them into a trap
where hundreds of men will come
to kill them one by one.
- They won't die!
- Yes, they will.
I told you they won't die!
The kings are still here.
We have until tomorrow
to convince them,
and you know
how to convince people.
Me?
A slave with the mark of Rumia.
A slave who has now became king.
I don't know
what you did for them,
but Herennèis,
Tarinkri and Deftri
would follow you anywhere.
Do the same with the Latin kings.
Talk to them.
They didn't listen to Numitor,
they didn't listen to Lausus.
There is no man in the world
who could convince them!
You know how to convince men.
Come with me.
We have as long as the night lasts.
Is that you, Ilia?
Or is it the dead who sent you?
You were seen leaving the city
during the night.
I followed your traces.
What are you looking for among
the dead?
The Gods have cursed me
and I was seeking comfort here.
The Gods are with us, Father!
I was destined to die,
the Lord of Battles saved me...
The Lord of Battles?
It was me who saved you, Ilia.
For six days you were buried,
and I gave myself no peace.
Hidden from everyone, I brought
two horses to your tomb.
I forced it, and let air in.
And then I left.
Because you weren't meant
to see me either.
You're my blood, Ilia.
My blood!
This is why the Gods are silent.
Because you deceived them.
There is nothing now.
We've been left alone,
me and you.
You violated
the will of the Gods,
you challenged them
to protect me.
Nothing can scare you.
We know what's right,
Father.
With the Gods
or without them...
You and I,
we will kill Yemos.
She gave birth here,
right where your son slept.
Today as well,
as at the start of our alliance,
the wonder is repeated.
Tonight a sow
gave birth to 30 piglets
in front of your hut.
Forgive us if we doubted.
It is a sign from the Gods.
From now on,
like 30 brothers, the Thirty Kings
will fight together
and our armies
will fight Amulius, since you're
the true, rightful king of Alba.
In the name of justice
and truth.
Long live Yemos!
Long live Yemos!
The armies of the Thirty
are united against us.
We will see them
on the horizon soon.
They say I lied.
That I killed.
That I violated
the most sacred laws.
If any of you doubt me,
I want you
to leave the city now.
You.
You.
If you don't doubt me,
I won't doubt you.
Now go,
talk to the soldiers
and prepare them for battle.
Then arm the others as well...
the old,
the children and the women.
Because if Yemos
wants to enter Alba,
I tell you,
he will first have to climb
over a mountain of corpses.
Mars is with us!
Mars is with us!
- Mars is with us!
- Mars is with us!
- Mars is with us!
- Mars is with us!
Mars is with us!