Rome (TV Series)
The Spoils (2005)
Ray Stevenson: Titus Pullo
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Quotes
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[In his cell, awaiting execution, Pullo catches a single cockroach and holds it up to the sky]
Titus Pullo : Janus, Gaia and Dis, I humbly beg you accept this creature as my offering, and if it pleases you, I ask you to give Eirene long life... and same for my friend Lucius Vorenus and his family, if it's not too much. And let Eirene know, I'm sorry for what I did.
[crushes the cockroach]
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Titus Pullo : Don't you talk the thirteenth!
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[Marched into the arena, Pullo tosses down his sword and sits on the sand. The crowd boos]
Gladiator #1 : Stand up and fight!
Titus Pullo : I don't want to.
Gladiator #1 : That's not how it works. You're supposed to resist.
Titus Pullo : Not if I don't want to. I just want to die, all right? So go ahead and kill me and be done with it.
Gladiator #2 : Bollocks!
[pokes Pullo with his spear]
Gladiator #2 : Move!
Gladiator #1 : What's wrong with you? Where's your dignity?
[No response]
Gladiator #2 : Hey, soldier, wake up! Why don't you come here and suck my cock?
[No response]
Gladiator #1 : Look, just hold your sword. Just stand up and hold it, that's all, you don't have to run about or anything.
Gladiator #2 : You're naught but a bloody molly! You and the whole Thirteenth! Naught but bloody mollys!
Titus Pullo : [looks up] Don't talk the Thirteenth.
Gladiator #2 : Eh?
[laughs]
Gladiator #2 : I piss on the Thirteenth!
Gladiator #1 : [laughing] Pigspawn, all of them.
[Picking up on the theme, the crowd laughs derisively]
Gladiator #2 : Why don't you and the whole Thirteenth all line up and suck my...?
[Pullo grabs his spear and goes berserk]