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The series concludes with six Brits (two of them women) crossing swords as Roman gladiators at a restored Roman fort in Britain that was built around A.D. 60, during the reign of Nero. As the six are taught the fighting skills they'll need in training sessions, narrator Henry Strozier relates gladiatorial factoids. (For instance: "clowns" fought comic battles between the life-and-death contests; wild animals brought in to maul prisoners often had to be coaxed into action.) Then it's time for the combatants to pair off and square off. Says one, Royal Marine Alan Roberts: "I have one desire. I want to walk in and walk out of there [as] Russell Crowe."