Moments after Caesar's murder, Mark Antony emerges from the Senate in a state of shock, only to face Quintus Pompey and his thugs, who immediately set off after him. Brutus returns home shaking, his [...]

Moments after Caesar's murder, Mark Antony emerges from the Senate in a state of shock, only to face Quintus Pompey and his thugs, who immediately set off after him. Brutus returns home shaking, his mother already plotting for him to fill Caesar's shoes. "Our name is redeemed," she tells him. "The Republic is saved." Back inside the Senate, Posca weeps over Caesar's body.

In the courtyard just below their apartment, Vorenus cries over the limp body of Niobe. When young Lucius approaches, he lurches for the boy, just as his two daughters return with their aunt Lyde and catch sight of their ashen mother. "Whose child is this?!" Vorenus demands, hoisting the boy in the air as if ready to hurl him over the gates. As Vorena the Elder reaches for the boy, he smacks her to the ground, then lets the boy go, redirecting his anger. "I curse you!" he says, pointing a crooked hand at his kids before stumbling out of the courtyard, leaving them to weep over their mother's corpse.