Rome (TV Series)

The Ram Has Touched the Wall (2005)

Max Pirkis: Gaius Octavian

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• [Pullo and Octavian are interrogating Evander] 

  Gaius Octavian : Evander, move forward. Your life is over. The only question is, how do you want to die?

  [Evander hesitates, but keeps silent] 

  Gaius Octavian : We need to hear the truth. If you persist in lying to us, we'll torture you. You'll die only after many hours of agony and horror. You give us honesty now, and you'll go swiftly, painlessly.

  Evander Pulchio : Please!

  Gaius Octavian : Evander, tell the truth.

  [Evander hesitates, but keeps silent] 

  Gaius Octavian : Torture him.

  Titus Pullo : Juno's a cunt, but you're salty! And I was worried about bringing you!

  Gaius Octavian : Go on, then.

  Titus Pullo : [Hesitates]  I've never actually tortured anyone. I don't know how.

  Gaius Octavian : You don't know how?

  Titus Pullo : They have specialists!

  Gaius Octavian : Why not cut of his thumbs?

  Titus Pullo : That's good enough. It's a start.

• [On Caesar and Servilia's affair] 

  Gaius Octavian : Calm yourself, mother. You're over-reacting. Who cares who he beds, it is trivial.

  Atia of the Julii : You take after your father, simple as milk - and it isn't "trivial", if Caesar were not in bed with that witch he'd be chasing down Pompey - they republic is at stake!

  Gaius Octavian : Since when do *you* care about the republic?

  Atia of the Julii : I care *deeply* about the republic.

  Gaius Octavian : It would not be wise to interfere with this...

  Atia of the Julii : Of course! It doesn't matter away; affairs like these tend to ruin themselves anyway.

• Titus Pullo : I've seen you kill. There's plenty of soldier in you.

  Gaius Octavian : It's not the killing. It is the waving about of swords I find tedious. I dare say I can kill people readily enough, as long as they're not fighting back.

• Titus Pullo : Young Dominus... I need your advice on a delicate matter, if you'd be willing.

  Gaius Octavian : I am.

  Titus Pullo : Suppose you saw something which made you suspect something. Something terrible. Would you tell the husband of the suspicious article?

  Gaius Octavian : Suppose suspicion of what?

  [Pullo leans in and whispers conspiratorially] 

  Titus Pullo : Another man.

  Gaius Octavian : Ah. We are speaking of Vorenus and his wife, I presume.

  Titus Pullo : I never said that.

  Gaius Octavian : It seems to me that suspicion alone is not enough to speak. Once spoken out, the suspicion of such depravity is real enough to do the work of truth. And what if you are mistaken? Then Vorenus is dishonored by error. Facts are necessary. Without facts, you must remain silent.

  [Pullo smiles] 

  Titus Pullo : I knew you'd hit the jugular.