- Clerk: These being the words of Marcus Tullius Cicero: When I was a young man, I defended the State. As an old man, I shall not abandon it. I give sincere thanks to Mark Antony, who has generously presented me with the most promising theme imaginable. I address you directly, Antony. Please listen as if you... as if you...
- [sees something offensive in the scroll]
- Mark Antony: Go on...
- Clerk: ...please listen, as if you were sober and intelligent, and not a drink-sodden, sex-addled wreck.
- [the Senators stand and begin to leave]
- Clerk: You are certainly not without accomplishments: it is a rare man who can boast of becoming a bankrupt before even coming of age. You have brought upon us war, pestilence and destruction. You are Rome's Helen of Troy. But then... but then...
- Mark Antony: [fuming] Go on... GO ON!
- Clerk: ...a woman's role has always suited you best.
- [Antony screams in anger and beats the clerk to death with the scroll and looks that the Senate Hall is empty]
- Newsreader: In Gaul, the renegade Mark Antony has laid siege to the city of Mutina. But salvation is at hand. The Senate sends an army led by the generals Hirtius and Pansa the noble patriot, young Caesar Octavian, joins our generals with his own legions to crush the rebels.