Lucilla (Connie Nielsen)’s Timeline and Summary
- Lucilla arrives in Germania with Commodus.
- She encounters Maximus in the courtyard shortly after his chat with Marcus Aurelius. She can sense that something's up, but Maximus doesn't tell her.
- She realizes that Commodus's a bad guy, and that he is somehow responsible for their father's death. She slaps him. (Go, Lucilla.)
- Lucilla intercedes between Gracchus and Commodus and ensures that the list of issues he has to deal with as new emperor will be handled.
- She talks to Commodus about the dangers of dissolving the Senate, and then explains to him that Rome is an "idea," a "vision." This has the unintended effect of getting Commodus thinking about grad spectacles and, ultimately, gladiator games.
- She prepares a tonic for Commodus, and then converses with him. He's contemplating dissolving the Senate.
- Lucilla watches Maximus' first battle, and then visits him later that night. She tries to get him to meet with her friend from the Senate, but he won't. He tells her never to come back, and to forget she ever knew him.
- During his conversation with Falco, Lucilla's nearby and overhears Commodus' plan to "lie still" and his order to have every senator followed.
- While on a ride through Rome, Lucilla receives a message from Cicero: Maximus will meet her politician.
- Lucilla meets with Maximus and Senator Gracchus. Shortly thereafter Gracchus is arrested, and Lucilla visits Maximus and tells him they have to carry out the plan that night.
- After Lucius lets something slip, Commodus forces Lucilla to tell him what the plan is. She relents because Commodus threatens to kill her son.
- She cries as Commodus tells her that he'll kill her son if she looks at him the wrong way or tries to kill herself. She'll also be required to give Commodus an heir.
- Lucilla watches the final battle, and rushes to the arena floor soon after Commodus is killed and just as Maximus is collapsing. She's distraught, but glad Maximus is going back to his family. She says Maximus was a soldier of Rome, and demands that he be honored as such.