Smiley""s.He was involved in a dysfunctional marriage o his obsessive-compulsive, judgmental, disrespectful, perfectly bitchy wife Carolyn Burnham (Annette Bening)...They won""t pay their taxes in a rational resentment of Rome...then there""s religion.I""ll tell you, they""re drunk with religion, smash the statues of our gods, even those of the Emperor.The Negro told them: "We""re a peaceful people.We don""t kill our enemies.We get our enemies to kill each other." The telepathic mutant used his powers on the two men, forcing them to fight each other to the death.After she was clothed, Mathayus told her he was hired to assassinate her, but was in position where she was more use to him alive (as hostage-bait to get at Memnon), adding: "Don""t make me change my mind." When the witness is hesitant about identifying the cold-staring Handley, he fingers his collar / tie as if knowing that identifying him would be suicide (his telltale gesture is similar to what the short narcotics dealer suspect in the lineup did who attempted suicide using his necktie he night before - adjust his shirt collar).