SFX: A heavy, rhythmic clock ticking. Tick-tock. Tick-tock. Tick-tock.

VOICE 1 (O.S.)
Something is coming.

SFX: The ticking accelerates, blending into a low, melodic hum.

VOICE 2 (O.S.)
Something believable. Clear as day. Something you don't dare impede upon—the frost-bane in the face of a mountain of orchestration.

VOICE 1 (O.S.)
He is listening to me.

VOICE 3 (O.S.)
I have fought many warriors in my time. Release my son.

VOICE 2 (O.S.)
You are far stronger...

VOICE 1 (O.S.)
That’s it. Avenge you.

VOICE 3 (O.S.)
...than all of us put together. And they died. Amen.

VOICE 2 (O.S.)
I am the Lord. I am the Law.

VOICE 1 (O.S.)
They died facing enemies. I will use my declarations... and the gods taketh from me, and this is your retribution.

VOICE 3 (O.S.)
You threaten me.

VOICE 1 (O.S.)
Gay fathers. This has been an insurrection and a stall of progress. Show me who you are. Show me Vincent.

VOICE 2 (O.S.)
My sisters know everything I know.

MUSIC: A sweeping orchestral swell rises beneath the dialogue.

VOICE 1 (O.S.)
Show me my myth-real. Show me my hidden mission. I will use everything on Earth that I owe you. Everything I sacrificed. Everything I suffered will not be amusing.

VOICE 3 (O.S.)
If he dies, I will unleash you.

VOICE 2 (O.S.)
Get out. No reason. I will find your dirty flaws.

VOICE 1 (O.S.)
I presume nothing. This is it. I will Zeitgeist.

Eternal youth. My eternal fable. I have seen the end.

VOICE 3 (O.S.)
If you return, we do so, my brothers and sisters. This ends.

VOICE 2 (O.S.)
Ultimate liar.

VOICE 1 (O.S.)
Return my body of work. My soul. We will follow the ultimate word. Ultimate self.

My youth is flawed. Do you want to play God?

VOICE 3 (O.S.)
Odin, I know not yet.

VOICE 1 (O.S.)
You know not yet how I saw the Lord. I spoke more softly. You caused me pain, and now I wolf them.

Chase that woman who made me feel safe—the ones who left me years in vulnerabilities of false witness.

Save that woman that saved me.

I am Maximus.

SFX: A final, solitary Tick-tock. Tick-tock. Cuts to silence.