And while all this is happening, alliances begin to form in the shadows because not everyone in Rome supports Commodus, including his own sister Lucilla who sees the madness growing in him and fears for her son’s future, and when she realizes who the gladiator really is, she begins to hope that maybe he can be the one to stop Commodus, and together with a few loyal senators they start planning a way to overthrow the emperor, but it’s risky and fragile because one mistake means death for all of t