But things get worse because the emperor’s son, Commodus, is not the kind of man who accepts being pushed aside, and when he finds out his father doesn’t trust him to rule, something inside him snaps in the most disturbing way, and in a moment that feels almost unreal he embraces his father like a grieving son but then tightens his grip and suffocates him slowly, whispering his pain while taking his life, and just like that the old emperor is gone and the power shifts instantly, and now Commodus