The Last Days of Pompeii, Part Four: Danger, Love and Death
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As Mount Vesuvius threatens to destroy Pompeii, a murder trial unfolds where Marcus Aurelius Rufus faces death charges, but a blind slave girl fights to prove his innocence by tracking down a witness who can expose a corrupt high priest, even as angry mobs fill the streets and a kidnapped girl might be trapped in the priest's temple when the volcano finally explodes.
Pompeii's looming doom shadows the trial of Marcus Aurelius Rufus, accused of murder but defended by a blind slave girl, who finds a reluctant witness to implicate a powerful high priest, while the crowd turns ugly and a missing girl may be the priest's captive in the temple of Isis as Vesuvius erupts.
The crowd in the arena cheers when the king of beasts slinks back into its cage without harming Marcus. The blind slave girl Lydia rushes onto the sand to tell the senators that Marcus did not kill Orianas brother. The real murderer, the Egyptian high priest Arbaces, does his best to convince the crowd hes innocent, but they wont listen.
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