A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
[soldiers clamoring faintly]
[Segestes] He's trying to lure you into an ambush.
[Pelagios speaking Latin]
And that rotting head out there...
[Pelagios speaking Latin]
That's not Folkwin Wolfspeer's head!
Arminius lied to you, Varus!
Folkwin is alive!
Here in the camp as a slave!
[Pelagios speaking Latin]
[speaking Latin]
[in Latin] It's true.
I'm going to betray you, Father.
Segestes is absolutely right.
I'll lure three Roman legions or more...
15,000 men into an ambush, and surround them
with 500 of my barbarian friends.
Me...
a knight of the Roman Empire.
That's exactly my plan.
And of course, Father...
I never brought you the head of Folkwin Wolfspeer.
Instead, I brought you one that looked like him.
And, naturally, the real one is living here as a captured slave.
How could the truth be any different?
[chuckling]
[laughing]
German!
If you repeat these lies about my son again,
I will personally stick your head on a pike
and set it next to Folkwin Wolfspeer's.
[in English] No, no, no! Please! Varus, please, don't make any mistake!
[in Latin] Leave us!
[in English] If you don't believe me, then put us both in chains!
Put us both in chains,
and on the way to Vetera, you will see which one's a traitor!
Don't make any mistake! Varus!
Varus!
Rome will fall!
[Varus in Latin] On the way back to Vetera,
we will teach these barbarians a lesson in the Teutoburg Forest!
Just as Arminius suggested.
Dismissed.
[dramatic music playing]
My son...
I doubted you for a moment.
Please forgive me.
It must be these damned Germanic tribesmen.
-Damned Germans. -[both chuckling]
[indistinct chatter]
Dismissed.
[in English] Look away.
You really took your time, didn't you?
I thought you were dead.
I'm not interested in what you thought. Get me out of here.
She's coming, too.
Not now.
We're tearing down the camp.
We attack on the road to Vetera. Hold on.
-[in Latin] Prepare to move out. -As you command, dominus.
[in English] Pack everything. The summer campaign is over.
Did Varus go along with it?
We'll find out.
[dramatic music playing]
[horse neighing]
We can't count them.
Romans up to the horizon.
Like a river of steel.
I've never seen a force like that.
[footsteps thundering]
[dramatic music playing]
[Thusnelda] Mother of Blood...
Mother of Fire...
Sister of Wrath...
please give me certainty...
and grant me the gift...
to perceive what's to come.
Are you on my side?
I'll sacrifice anything.
-[wings flapping] -[trees creaking]
[gasps softly]
So my bride is a great seer?
Did you forget that I'm married?
I can see how much you want power.
We will rule over both our peoples together.
You're the only reason I'm here.
I won't let you fall in battle with Arminius.
And the arrangement with your father holds. You are my wife.
I send my men into battle for you.
And when this is over, you're coming with me.
[breathes deeply]
We've got some time until then.
[Thusnelda screams] No!
[grunts]
-No! -[grunts]
No!
[yelling]
You're going to be the widow of a traitor!
Your men are waiting for you.
[grunts]
[indistinct clamoring]
[soldier in Latin] Halt!
This is it, Father.
Legion, to the left.
[soldier repeating command]
[soldiers clamoring]
What is your command? Secure the flanks, as always?
[Varus] Ride ahead with your troops and secure the path.
And then the empire will teach these peasants a lesson.
I know I can count on you, my son.
[tense music playing]
[Talio] Arminius!
[vomiting]
A present from the emperor.
This is the symbol of a Roman knight.
A sign of strength, battle, and the might of the empire.
I'm sure you will earn one of your own someday.
[Talio] Arminius?
[breathing heavily]
-[in English] You want to abandon us? -No, Aldarich.
I am a good reik,
and I refuse to have my men die for nothing.
Certainly not for a Roman traitor and his whore.
[crowd murmuring]
[Hadgan] And if you're wise...
then you'll leave, too.
While you still can.
-[crowd muttering] -[spits]
[Rurik] We are retreating!
[Aldarich] Yes.
We were already too few.
Without Hadgan's men, we can't do it!
I only fight if I can win.
You have misgivings?
Arminius is risking his life to bring the legions into the forest...
where our gods live.
And you have misgivings?
[crowd murmuring]
The father of the gods has seen what's coming.
Because he sacrificed his eye.
It's proof you want?
[breathing heavily]
[loudly] It's proof you want?
[yelling] It's proof you want?
[screaming]
[gasps]
[breath trembling]
I see a long battle.
I see fire.
And water.
And I see men...
covered in blood.
Romans.
Ravens gorging on their bowels.
Reik Rurik.
Those who come after won't forget what you did for them here.
Reik Aldarich.
Roman gold will be your prize.
Reik Golmad.
For your courageous feats will Donar smile.
I hear a song.
A song about your bravery.
And until the end of time, it will be sung aloud.
[rhythmic thudding]
And the world will forever know...
-of our victory! -[all cheering]
[yelling]
[dramatic music playing]
[Arminius] This is the Roman army in formation.
And this...
is the Roman army amid our forests and swamps.
The snake will be so long then
that when we cut off the head, the tail won't notice.
And we hack it to bits, little by little, by little.
[tree cracking]
[all shouting]
-[tree cracking] -[soldiers shouting]
[trees thudding]
[soldiers shouting]
-[soldier 1 in Latin] We're under attack! -[soldier 2] Shields up!
[wind whistling]
[suspenseful music playing]
[grunts]
[soldier] Take cover!
[soldiers grunting]
[soldier screaming]
[barbarians chanting]
[yelling]
[all yelling]
[horn blowing]
[soldier] Retreat!
[all clamoring]
[yells]
[screaming]
[soldiers screaming]
[shouting]
Arminius!
[in English] Kill them all.
[all yelling]
[Segestes] Hadgan!
I'm here because I know how to get the biggest prize.
Find a tree and nail him up.
We both hate the same man, Arminius.
When it's clear that the legions of Rome are winning,
we'll betray Arminius.
And all that belongs to Arminius will be yours.
And we'll lead the tribes.
[soldier in Latin] Halt.
Caius Aurelius, 19th legion.
We've been attacked. The vanguard is destroyed.
This was well-planned.
We must turn back immediately and restore order.
Arminius did say there were rebels here.
That's exactly why we've come this way.
And where is Arminius?
He's supposed to be securing our flanks!
He's probably caught up in the fighting.
We can't continue through the woods with our flank exposed.
We have to return to open ground.
Turn around!
[soldier] Quick march to open ground!
[horn blowing]
[soldiers screaming in distance]
[in English] I'm all right.
Folkwin and I... I've...
[Thusnelda] We'll avenge his death now.
[horn blowing in distance]
They're turning back.
Is everything ready?
Exactly as you wanted.
[dramatic music playing]
[Arminius] Everything I know about fighting...
I know from you.
What do we fight for?
I often asked you that.
[somber music playing]
Some fight for what used to be...
and others, for that which is to come.
[yelling] You are an army of the dead!
[Arminius] We fight for love.
[soldiers clamoring]
[in Latin] Shields up!
[Arminius in English] We fight for honor.
[shouting]
[Arminius] We fight for glory.
[all clamoring]
We fight for our freedom.
Where's your whip now?
Some fight for their children.
Some fight for their gods.
The crucial point is that we can only win
when we're in complete control of our feelings.
Have a crystal-clear strategy.
That you must maintain order in your ranks and destroy theirs.
[yelling]
[soft piano music playing]
[Arminius] But whatever we're fighting for...
we pay the price in blood.
[melancholy music playing]
[yelling]
We all must die.
The guilty...
and the innocent.
[groans]
[grunts]
[yelling]
[Thusnelda] Folkwin...
[groans]
And you'll still need
help from those above when it goes wrong.
[thunder rumbling]
[Arminius] Your impregnable armor became your biggest burden.
But the most important thing is...
recognize your enemy's greatest weaknesses,
and bring all that you have to that exact spot.
[melancholy music continues]
[yelling]
[dramatic music playing]
[in Latin] Take my armor.
Are you sure, dominus?
[Varus] You are a free man.
Get out of here.
[melancholy music playing]
[Arminius in English] And your biggest weakness...
was your trust in me.
I ask myself...
what were you fighting for?
And was it worth it?
[bittersweet music playing]
[in Latin] Father.
[inaudible]
[in English] You never understood...
that some want to live differently than you.
To worship and to feel
differently than you do.
[dramatic music playing]
[all clamoring]
[Segestes] Into the fray!
Better to be on the winning side!
[soldier groaning]
-Look who showed up. -We barbarians have to stick together.
Oh, please. You were just waiting for a winner.
[spits]
[Segestes grunts]
Look!
[all cheering]
Rome has fallen.
[cheering continues]
[fighting continues faintly]
[Thusnelda] He was just using you.
I know exactly what that's like.
You want your father's love so badly
that you'll believe anything and do anything.
Like a dog begging before his master.
But we're not dogs.
We... have won this fight, Ari.
And you've won more than the fight.
You have won the hearts of your warriors.
They'll be calling your name.
Folkwin won't.
You knew he hadn't been killed.
You can rule as their king, Ari.
You already are.
Do you hear me?
You'll be their king.
And I'll rule with you as your queen.
[all shouting and cheering]
[laughing]
Roman testicles!
I'll train my dogs to go for them.
-Here. -[Rurik] For your dogs?
[all laughing and cheering]
[all chanting] Thusnelda!
[cheering]
I thought you were dead.
And I bet that was convenient for you.
-Folkwin, things are different now. -Yeah.
[sniffs]
With him, you can rule.
Is that what you want?
Come to me when you've decided.
-[all cheering] -[drums beating]
[Arminius] You don't want to share in the spoils?
You deserve it more than anyone.
And you believe everyone gets what they deserve?
You're the only one who I can rely on.
If and when I end up ruling...
I want you to be the first lord of mine.
If and when you end up ruling...
I'll be the first to kill you.
[tense music playing]
[Runa] Your path is dangerous.
Will the gods punish me?
[sniffing]
[Runa] Oh...
it's been growing a while.
And it isn't the child of your king.
The gods have their own special ways of punishing us.
[ominous music playing]
[inaudible]
[dramatic music playing]