Writer:	Jack Pullman
Director:	Herbert Wise
Star:	Kevin R. McNally (Castor),  Patricia Quinn (Livilla),  John Hurt (Caligula),  Siān Phillips (Livia),  Margaret Tyzack (Antonia),  Derek Jacobi (Claudius),  Patrick Stewart (Sejanus),  George Baker (Tiberius),  Fiona Walker (Agrippina),  James Faulkner (Herod Aggripa)
Guest Star:	Michael Stock (Guard),  Isabel Dean (Lolia),  Karin Foley (Helen),  Edward Jewesbury (Titus),  Kevin Stoney (Thrasyllus),  Neil Dickson (Guard),  Aubrey Richards (Varro),  William Bond (Usher),  Peter Williams (I) (Silius Caecina)

This episode is set about the year 26 A.D. Tiberius is emperor. (edit)

Tiberius:{To Agrippina}: As to your children - they are guiltless of any crime. I will look upon them as friends. As for you, I will never forget what you made me do to Piso. (edit) Herod: Claudius sways and bends with each little wind that blows.
Agrippina: By which you mean he's weak and cowardly.
Herod: Perhaps. But at least he's still here! (edit) Herod: My grandfather's domains were divided among his three surviving sons. That he had three left was a miracle for he murdered all the rest. I can only think he overlooked them.
Antonia: Sounds a colourful character.
Herod: If black is colourful, he was colourful. (edit) Claudius: If I ever had the opportunity, do you know the first thing I'd do would be to restore the Republic.
LIvia: Then you are a fool, after all. (edit) Livia: Gaius I had poisoned in Syria.
Claudius: You have a long reach.
Livia: The Empire is very large; I need one. (edit)

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Toward the end, Caligula tells Livia of a prophecy that one who is to die soon will become the greatest god ever known with no temples to be dedicate to anyone else in the whole Roman world. He takes this to mean himself but it could easily be interpreted as the death of Christ, which takes place several years after this episode, and the eventual Christianization of the Roman Empire under Constantine. (edit)