Quotes
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Queen Diana : I understand you had a productive day.
Pasolinus : I'm still empty-handed.
Queen Diana : Then maybe you're looking in the wrong place. Maybe I can help.
Pasolinus : You're good at offering services, aren't you, Diana Metellus? Your story I know - ambitious beauty from Thrace travels to Rome; quick study, quick tongue. Uses her talents the best way she knows. Finds work in a brothel. Climbs the ladder, such as it is, until she is the queen... of whores. Nice work
Queen Diana : Well, I feel my secret's in good hands.
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Longinus : I know better than anyone what happened that day on Golgotha.
Pasolinus : How?
[Longinus' suddenly ages to appear as a 400-year-old man]
Longinus : I was there. Just a humble soldier who did his duty.
[grabs Nilus by the throat]
Longinus : Shall I show this one the mercy I did the Christ?
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Pasolinus : Well, finally I get to meet the Counsel Longinus, rumored to be the genius behind many prospering men... and women. No enemies... alive.
Longinus : Reputation is everything.
Pasolinus : But what about the truth? Who are you? What do you seek at the far edge of the empire?
Longinus : I could ask you the same question.
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Longinus : I understand you're writing the story of the empire. This wouldn't include the story of the Christ?
Pasolinus : I will neither confirm nor deny anything.
Longinus : Of course not, but if you were writing such a tale... The story of the Savior fascinates me. I'm curious. How did he actually die? His last breath?
Pasolinus : He was suffering on the cross, close to his moment and their came a centurion who finished him off with a spear. Imagine how that pathetic creature felt the next day.
Longinus : If was an act of mercy.
Pasolinus : Mercy? You're talking heresy.
Longinus : He was sent to break the Christ's bones, but instead he chose to use the spear to end his agony. The truth is, he was already dead.
Pasolinus : Perhaps *you* should write the history.
