Victory

Spartacus: War of the Damned

Season 3 Episode 10

& Crassus: The passing of years hardens a man to the simple joys of life. Until all that is left is a thing of stone, cold and unforgiving.

& Laeta: You will not fall in battle against Crassus.
    Spartacus: You now hold power to pierce future’s uncertain veil?
    Laeta: I hold but faith. In a man like no other.

& Gannicus: I have had my fill of words and tearful farewells. I desire blood, and cries of our enemy.
    Spartacus: Let us make it so.

& Spartacus: Whatever happens to my people it happens because we choose for it. We decide our fates. Not you. Not the Romans. Not even the gods.

& Spartacus: There is no justice. Not in this world.
    Crassus: At last. A thing we agree upon.

& Spartacus: When we again meet, I will kill you.
    Crassus: No. You are going to try.
    Spartacus: It is all a free man can do.

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& Spartacus: You once questioned how victory can be defined. I thought answer held in Roman deaths.
    Gannicus: A position no longer taken?
    Spartacus: Life is what defines it. Not the death of Romans. Nor ours, nor those that follow us into battle.

& Gannicus: What would you have me do?
    Spartacus: The impossible.

& Spartacus: We stand in the shadow of greater might! As their Republic cast across the lives of every man... every woman... And every child... condemned to the darkness of slavery! Forced to toil and suffer, so that those of coin and position can see their fortunes grow beyond need or purpose!.. Let us teach them, that all who draw breath are of equal worth! And that those that seek to place heel upon the throat of liberty... Will fall to the cry of freedom!

& Crassus: Raise command for ballistae and catapults!
    Caesar: You would rain death upon our own men?
    Crassus: I would end this fucking war!

& Crassus: Would that you had been born a Roman... And had stood beside me.
    Spartacus: I bless the fates... that it was not so.

& Crassus: Legends are but bone and meat of dreams. Rotting in the harsh sun of reality.

& Caesar: You forever speak of the future.
    Crassus: The past cannot be altered. The present holds but regret and loss. It is only in the days to come that a man may find solace... When memory fades.

& Spartacus: Spartacus... That is not my name.

& Spartacus: Do not shed tear. There is no greater victory... than to fall from this world... a free man.

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Σ The End

The Dead and the Dying

Spartacus: War of the Damned

Season 3 Episode 9

& Gannicus: Was his end as he had always dreamed? In glorious battle?
    Naevia: In battle, yes. Though robbed of glory.

& Tiberius: I shall stand as my father, unforgiving in command.
    Crassus: ... Was it so short a span, when he stood uncertain boy?
    Caesar: Such days have faded from memory. He stands a man now. And I wish for him all that he deserves.

& Naevia: If Crassus had fallen that night, then Crixus would yet be of this world.
    Kore: I am moved by your loss. Yet I cannot be held for it.
    Naevia: We are all held for our actions. The choices we make. The things that we do. And those that we should have.

& Kore: We cannot reverse the sun. Nor relive days past.
    Naevia: No. We can but brace against uncertain future. And when moment presents, balance scale against those who have most deeply wounded heart.

& Tiberius: Honored Pompey. My father sends regret that he could not...
    Spartacus: The regret is mine. I had hoped to embrace the Imperator himself. Yet fate delivers mere shadow of the name Crassus.

& Naevia: Games?
    Spartacus: To honor the fallen. And give comfort to those left in death’s wake.

& Spartacus: The past is seldom as we would have it. The future yet to be known. Embrace the present, and strike all else from concern.

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& Sibyl: I have never laid eyes upon the games.
    Gannicus: They are but dim reflection of their glory...
    Sibyl: You speak as if heart yearns for such days.
    Gannicus: To return to shackle and lash, no. To stand upon the sands again... To know a clear purpose of who you are and what must be done... That is a thing that calls to all of my kind.

Ω Impressive fight.

& Spartacus: Gannicus! Take position!
    Gannicus: Two Romans seem to deliver no contest! Send three, so that I may deliver proper tribute!

& Laeta: Gannicus seeks to best you?
    Spartacus: Gladiators seek to best all. It is the only way to survive in the arena.

& Caesar: You mad bitch! Do you know what you have done?!
    Kore: I have balanced fucking scale.

& Kore: Marcus...
    Crassus: From this day forth... you shall address me as Dominus.

& Spartacus: All those who are able shall make final stand against Rome. And this I promise you. We will live free... or join our brothers in death!

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Σ Shall final countdown begin.

Separate Paths

Spartacus: War of the Damned

Season 3 Episode 8

& Crixus: We cannot run for an eternity. One day soon we will once again have to stand and fight.
    Spartacus: One day.

& Spartacus: We cannot turn from any slave wishing freedom.
    Agron: Then let her be free to starve with the rest of us.

& Crixus: The child is born into a life of piss and shit.
    Naevia: He is free.

& Crixus: Crassus’ army pushes from the south. If we were to turn west we would be at the gates of Rome before his legions could turn to defend the city.
    Spartacus: You would strike at Rome itself?
    Crixus: And would see it tremble.

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& Crixus: Do you really believe that Crassus will stop once you crest the mountains? That the Republic will let us quietly slip away? We have shown them vulnerable. We have shown them that a trembling hand can become a fist. We have challenged the idea that a slave must always know his place, accepting rod and lash because he was taught to accept it. We built their mighty Republic! With our hands and our blood and our lives. And we can see it fall, at equal cost. You opened my eyes to this, Spartacus... Do not ask me now to close them.

& Spartacus: It was simpler between us. When the bond stood only as hate.
    Crixus: Those days are sadly past.

& Spartacus: It is a wonder. We have not yet killed each other. Would that we could reverse the years, towards better footing.
    Crixus: I would not see it different. We have done the impossible.

& Spartacus: Batiatus once warned me that a man must accept his fate...
    Crixus: ...or will be destroyed by it. The fucking cunt said that to everyone.

& Caesar: You cannot take my life and see my body from encampment absent notice. I am Julius Fucking Caesar...
Ω I’d rather you did not say that.
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Mors Indecepta *

Spartacus: War of the Damned

Season 3 Episode 7

& Spartacus: You have known pain. And loss. A misfortune shared by many among us.
    Laeta: How do you move past it?
    Spartacus: That’s a question I’ve asked many times. Live. And help provide answer.

& Crixus: What is carved upon his flesh?
    Spartacus: (*) Death... is undeceivable.

& Caesar: I need no reminder of past generosity. I merely offer suggestion.
    Crassus: And I merely give command. As I commanded your placement behind city walls to move as my instrument. I took this city. As I shall take Spartacus’ life, with my son close at hand.
    Caesar: And where shall honored Caesar find himself in the midst of such glories?
    Crassus: At equal distance. If he but removes himself from his own path.
He falls to command, Imperator.

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& Tiberius: Here we stand. Title restored to me. And you... beneath heel.
    Caesar: You mind your step, boy. Many a giant has tumbled to the afterlife, believing himself too big to fall.
    Tiberius: ... Assemble the men. As commanded.

& Spartacus: Few among us stand as gladiators. They do not pray for a glorious death.
    Crixus: No. They pray to be led!
    Spartacus: I will not march my people to the afterlife!
    Crixus: And I will not die with a Roman sword in my back!

& Crassus: It is not punishment, but gift.

& Kore: He has proved bitter disappointment in the past, has he not?
    Crassus: It is true that Tiberius fell to grievous error. And I to wrath threatening to shake the heavens. Yet we now stand as one, and I know in deepest heart there is no misstep that would see father withhold forgiveness from treasured son.

& Kore: Yes, Marcus. Everything is very clear to me now.

& Gannicus: I have warned you. To stay far from men of my kind.
    Sibyl: You ask the impossible.

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Spoils of War

Spartacus: War of the Damned

Season 3 Episode 6

& Crixus: You would have us run?
    Spartacus: I would have us live.

& Gannicus: I will cause distraction, and gain needed time.
    Spartacus: By what means?
    Gannicus: I have no fucking idea.

& Gannicus: He is a troublesome man to kill. I have attempted it myself upon occasion.
    Sibyl: The gods favor him. And bless us as well.
    Gannicus: They piss upon us and you welcome it as cooling rain.

& Crassus: We shall honor Caesar as the victor.
Tiberius: There is no love lost between us. Surely there must be more fitting service that I might...
    Crassus: A shrewd man turns rival to valued ally. Caesar is blessed with storied name, and shall one day rise to shame the very sun. Make peace, and bask in glorious light.

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& Crassus: Many a boy may enter a war. Yet at it’s end, only a man will emerge.

& Crassus: It warms my heart to see you become one.
    Tiberius: I am what you have made me.

& Laeta: He is not consumed by a thirst for blood. Perhaps he stood as such once, yet now... he fights for what he believes is just.
    Crassus: There is no cause more dangerous.
    Laeta: He will not stop. I do not believe he could, even if he so wished it.
    Crassus: Then he and I stand the same. Each believes himself the hero, the other villain. It is for history to decide who is mistaken. Until such a day... we shall play our parts upon fortune’s stage. As each of us must.

& Metellus: What of the Aedile’s wife?
    Crassus: She has left these walls, never to return.
    Metellus: You would claim entire fucking city for yourself?
    Crassus: A wise man does not fight for glory alone.

& Gannicus: How is such a thing possible?
    Spartacus: Nothing is beyond reach for the richest man in the Republic. Crassus.

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Blood Brothers

Spartacus: War of the Damned

Season 3 Episode 5

& Lugo: Oh, you must learn our tongue. You know what cruses she rains upon you.
    Gannicus: I prefer the bliss of ignorance.
    Lugo: As all men should, huh.

& Metellus: I seek ... only answer to singular question, why did the Senate granted you an army only for it to stand idle half day’s march from Sinuessa?
    Crassus: The Senate did not grant me an army. They granted command. Every horse, every sword, every man your eye lays upon was purchased with coin from my own vaults. Shall be set to purpose by the will of Marcus Crassus alone.

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& Crassus: Spartacus will not be put to grass by brute force... He’s a man of keen intellect, and must be dealt with in kind.
    Metellus: You speak as though you admire the man.
    Crassus: He came from humble beginnings, and now even the Senate trembles before him. I find no greater cause for admiration.

& Gannicus: It is a mad fucking plan... The sort I most favor.

& Agron: You fucking traitor!
    Caesar: No, a fucking Roman.

& Caesar: Now would be time to run.

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Decimation

Spartacus: War of the Damned

Season 3 Episode 4

& Spartacus: Gratitude for assistance.
    Caesar: There is no greater glory... Than the death of your enemy.

& Crassus: One must appear as wolf to be welcomed by the pack.

& Spartacus: Coin holds little worth upon the field of battle.
    Laeta: What of a mind keen enough to amass it?

& Laeta: You have struck fear into the very heart of the Republic. Imagine the glory that awaits... the man who defeats you.

& Tiberius: What punishment would you have me inflict?
    Crassus: One to stand warning. That death at the hands of Spartacus pales against the wrath of the House of Crassus. ....
    Sabinus: Decimation?! Not since the days of Marius has savage ritual been so commanded.

& Tiberius: Fifty men. Fifty stones. Five stained with the promise of death. Draw well and live. Draw poorly...

& Laeta: Embrace what you have. All can change in sudden moment.

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& Nemetes: What have you done, you mad fuck?!
    Caesar: I set her free. As I would all Romans yet held by Spartacus.
    Nemetes: You truly do stand one of us. Come, brother. Let us see it done.

& Tiberius: Father, I would have word...
    Crassus: I am not your father in this. I am your fucking Imperator! I have too long considered you a child, Tiberius... Apologies. You stand a soldier now, and deserve to be treated as any other. Join your men. Fall to command.

& Spartacus: Does it lie within possibility, what I seek to do?
    Heracleo: All dreams are possible... it is but effort and cost that keeps it from waking grasp.

& Crixus: Take her life, brother. And in the act let us become as one again.
    Spartacus: A thing deserved. Yet I will not see us become the very thing we fight against.
    Crixus: There are many who question your mind in this.
    Spartacus: I question mind as well... placing faith in you as a leader.

& Naevia: The man has helped us more than anyone. Yet I now doubt path he travels.
    Crixus: Then perhaps the time has come, to forge our own.

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Σ Bloody business.

Men of Honor

Spartacus: War of the Damned

Season 3 Episode 3

& Spartacus: Swords born from shackles... Your hands turn miracle, Attius.
    Attius: Then perhaps you would bless them with additional coin, in reward for such divinity.
    Spartacus: Knowing effort serves higher purpose is reward enough?

& Crixus: Do you desire blood?.. Then let us have proper contest! Bring swords!
    Gannicus: We fall to fucking games now?
    Naevia: The Romans forced you and Crixus to such, for their amusement. We but return favor.

& Heracleo: You are Spartacus?
    Spartacus: I stand so named.
    Heracleo: The same fiend that brought down the arena in Capua? Defeated Glaber at Vesuvius? Wrought untold suffering upon the Republic and its people?
    Spartacus: All deeds claimed with pride.
    Heracleo: Then I call you fucking brother!

& Spartacus: Return when sun gives way to moon. And discover if there stands cause to share cup.
    Heracleo: As you command, King Spartacus... As you command.

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& Tiberius: The time for words has ended. Break camp, and return to my father with news of Spartacus.
    Caesar: He gave order to remain at your side.
    Tiberius: I am the word and the will of Marcus Crassus! You are not at my side, Gaius. You serve beneath me.
    Caesar: .... I fall to command.

& Spartacus: Aid..., and you and your people will share equal portion from what we gain in bargain with the Cilician.
    Laeta: I would have freedom as price. For all of us.

& Laeta: Am I to trust your word?
    Spartacus: The reason is simple... You stand absent choice.

& Heracleo: You would entreat Poseidon... to shun robes and present ass!
    Spartacus: If he stood before me. Yet he does not.

& Gannicus: What fucking piss does Heracleo offer?
    Attius: Absinthe, by name. I once drained six cups, and found myself in heated argument with imaginary cat.
    Gannicus: Then let us drain seven, and finish argument before you strike from Roman shores.

& Laeta: It surprises, how such small a weight bears such heavy burden.

& Laeta: Heracleo spoke the truth, at least upon one subject... You are not the man one expects.

& Gannicus: You feel you owe debt Sibyl?
    Sibyl: I owe you everything!
    Gannicus: Then see it repaid... by staying far from my presence. And men of my kind.

& Heracleo: What are your thoughts?
    Spartacus: That I stand the fool. For laying trust in a man absent honor.

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Wolves at the Gate

Spartacus: War of the Damned

Season 3 Episode 2

& Laeta: Show an animal kindness and it will give loyalty until the heavens fall. Show it nothing but the lash... and wonder not why it bears teeth.

& Crassus: You hold revered name of the Julian clan. Sired from the bloodline of Venus. Divine mother of Aeneas, forbearer of Romulus, exalted founder of Rome...
    Caesar: I require no lesson in my fucking heritage!
    Crassus: Then perhaps one in mine. I am descendant from no god. Nor man of lofty note. I’m tolerated within the Senate solely for the wealth I have amassed through labor and dealings those with “proper” lineage deem beneath them.
    Caesar: And you believe this singular cause why they hate you, hmm?

& Crassus: You possess name absent wealth.
    Caesar: And you possess wealth absent name.
    Crassus: Imagine what could be wrested from highest perch, were Crassus and Caesar to align themselves.
    Caesar: My name has remained constant since falling from my mother’s womb. You have been heavy with gold for equal years. Why now suggest the pairing?
    Crassus: Opportunity to seize laurels and the gratitude of the Republic presents itself. And with it, first stone upon the road to greater glories...
    Caesar: What would you have me aid you in, to see such a day hastened?
    Crassus: Bring end to slave rebellion... And death of Spartacus.

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& Spartacus: I was told you hold no love for the Republic.
    Attius: Tell me you have not brought the Bringer of Fucking Piss and Shit to my very door?
    Crixus: Your legend precedes you.

& Kore: I was attending Caesar as commanded...
    Tiberius: Caesar?
    Sabinus: Gaius Julius Caesar?
    Kore: He laid hands upon me.

& Crassus: To bring Spartacus to ground I must have a wolf at my side.
    Caesar: Hmm. And let us turn gleaming fang towards moon of full purpose, and see blood and gore matted upon fur.

& Attius: I cannot aid you in this. It would mean my life.
    Gannicus: You have forged weapons for Spartacus himself... If we are discovered with your craft clutched in hand, then they will send you to the afterlife all the same.
    Attius: Fuck the gods. What would you have of me?

& Laeta: You! You aid Spartacus?
    Spartacus: No. I stand the man himself.

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Enemies of Rome

Spartacus: War of the Damned

Season 3 Episode 1

& Naevia: We have won the day.
    Spartacus: We have won nothing.
Ω Such an intense start of the season.

& Metellus: How could a handful of errant slaves continue to vex us? ... Such chaos and death at the hands of a fucking slave.

& Spartacus: Double our sentries in surrounding hills. I would not be caught unaware.
    Agron: You give those shits credit beyond due.
    Spartacus: Underestimating your opponent is a Roman trait, Agron. Do not fall prey to it.

& Crassus: The time for words has ended. Spartacus must fall... and I shall set upon what path I must to see day hastened. For the glory of Rome.

& Nasir: I am forever in Spartacus’ debt, for parting veil.
    Agron: A debt shared equally by all. One we shall repay with Roman lives.

& Spartacus: I could not save my wife. And I can fight to see a day when no innocent life is so easily disregarded. A day when the Romans and their cruelty are but distant memory.

& Gannicus: Let us share wine and women, and set aside such heavy fucking thoughts.
    Spartacus: The offer is much appreciated.
    Gannicus: Then I will drink and fuck in your name. Fight when called upon. The very steps to the Roman Senate if that is where your madness leads.

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& Tertulla: He deserves position of note, worthy of the name he bears.
    Crassus: He does not yet hold the years for the title of Tribune.
    Tertulla: Coin and persuasion would see such rules set aside...
    Crassus: He has not earned it. Tiberius has shown great promise as a soldier. Yet he falls from target in strategy and discerning mind.
    Tertulla: Then lend instruction.
    Crassus: My lessons never cease. It is for him to apply them.

& Spartacus: Did you expect freedom to come absent cost?
    Diotimos: No. Yet absent fucking plan to be clothed or fed we must take matters into our own hands. Or risk early grave waiting for the Bringer of Fucking Rain to bless us with much needed shower.

& Diotimos: You are Spartacus?! Apologies, I-I did...
    Spartacus: Still tongue. You may not always have full belly or warm cloak, but while I draw breath you have freedom to speak your heart. Even against the great man upon the hill.

& Soldier: You there! What is your purpose so near rebel encampment? Who else is with you? Find fucking tongue! Who is with you?
    Naevia: .... Death.

& Gannicus: I stand your equal with sword. Yet you have me by fucking spear.

& Spartacus: Gannicus, Crixus... I would have you at my side.
    Agron: I am to stand idle, with arm up fucking ass?

& Naevia: If. A word forever casting shadow.

& Tiberius: You waste hour sparring with a common slave.
    Crassus: Was Spartacus not also once thought of as such? Would you dismiss him so casually as well?
    Tiberius: No. Yet for all his victories Spartacus is still a slave.
    Crassus: He’s a man. No better or worse than any sharing title.
    Tiberius: You would place him upon equal footing with a Roman?
    Crassus: In some regards, he’s proven to stand even higher.

& Crassus: You believe wealth and position grant you advantage over those beneath you?
    Tiberius: I believe we tower above a slave in all things, no matter what name he bears.
    Crassus: Then couple words with actions, and prove belief.

& Crixus: We do not know how many await inside.
    Gannicus: Let us pray they are not too few.
    Crixus: I am encircled by mad fucks. And begin to count myself as one.

& Gannicus: The gods favor us.
    Crixus: Spartacus holds no belief in them.
    Spartacus: I pray this night they prove me wrong.

& Hilarus: Dominus. None stand more worthy of respect than you.
    Crassus: Then see it given. Come at me. As you would an opponent in the arena, absent thought of mercy.
    Tiberius: Father!..
    Crassus: We all have lessons that must learned. I would have this my final test. And in its completion, knowledge that I am readied to face those trained in your arts upon field of battle.
    Hilarus: You ask me to kill you.
    Crassus: I command you to try.

& Hilarus: You were waiting... for me to think you’d made misstep I warned you of...
    Crassus: Knowledge and patience. The only counter to greater skill.
    Hilarus: You have been well schooled.
    Crassus: Know that your service will not pass unremembered. The coin I promised had you bested me shall be set towards monument to the storied gladiator Hilarus.
    Hilarus: It has been the greatest of honors to have served you, Dominus.
    Crassus: The honor was mine.
Ω And so Spartacus’ champion was born.

& Cossinius: Name terms of surrender, and let us be done with this.
    Spartacus: There are none I would trust a Roman to honor.

& Metellus: Let us move from clouded past and turn eye towards pressing future. Sole command and charge to bring Spartacus to deserved end is now yours. Along with title of Imperator, if you so wish it.
    Crassus: I serve the glory of Rome.
    Metellus: As do we all.

& Tiberius: How did you know Spartacus would make attempt on their lives, instead of fleeing when knowledge was gained of your army advancing from Rome?
    Crassus: Because it is what I would have done.

& Crixus: There is not a villa in all the lands that could hold so many of us.
    Spartacus: No, there is not. Only a city could hold us now. And we shall tear one from the flesh of Rome, and salt mortal wound with blood and death.

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