Roman Mysteries (TV Series)

The Dolphins of Laurentum (2007)

Francesca Isherwood: Flavia

Quotes 

• [Jonathan revives the half-drowned Lupus with artificial respiration] 

  Flavia Gemina : How did you do that?

  Jonathan Ben-Mordechai : I breathed my spirit into him.

  Nubia : Do you not lose your spirit?

  Jonathan Ben-Mordechai : God will fill me up.

• [Lupus is playing with a stick] 

  Flavia Gemina : Where did you find that?

  [giggles] 

  Flavia Gemina : Lupus, I know you lived on the street before coming here, but...

  Gaius Flavius Geminus : [o.s]  Flavia! Where's the sponge stick?

  Flavia Gemina : [calls]  Sorry, Uncle Gaius! Do you need a fig leaf?

  Gaius Flavius Geminus : [grumbles]  I'll get it myself!

  [Lupus looks at the stick, and realizes] 

  Jonathan Ben-Mordechai : You guessed it, Lupus. One of the many wonders of the Roman civilization: the bottom wiper.

• [Flavia and Nubia are shoving their prized possessions through a secret passage to hide them from the debt collector] 

  Flavia Gemina : Scuto, get out of the way!

  Nubia : Is not dog property?

  Flavia Gemina : Good boy, Scuto! That's it, through the hole!

• Mordecai Ben-Ezra : Captain Geminus, the sores on your feet are infected. Soon the flesh will blacken, and I will have to amputate.

  Nubia : What is "amputate"?

  Flavia Gemina : [pale]  Cut off. Please, Dr. Mordecai, you can't!

  Mordecai Ben-Ezra : There is another way.

  [He uncovers the dish he is holding to reveal a wriggling cluster of...] 

  Flavia Gemina : Maggots!

  Mordecai Ben-Ezra : I have used this method before. These creatures will clean your wound. They eat only the rotten flesh. Will you trust me?

  [Marcus looks at the maggots, then looks up at Mordecai and nods weakly]