However their ebullient mood changes to horror and sadness when they are followed by a group of a dozen gladiators from Thrace who are ordered to kill each other until one man is standing.

A man named Chimbro offers to buy the survivors for his own use and mollifies the manager by not only the price paid but promising that they will suffer lifelong torment instead of an easy death.

The hungry gladiators travel through the countryside where they stop an attack by bandits on a group carrying the Patrician woman Livia who promises her rescuers a reward from her wealthy father.

Rocca and his men offer to capture Spartacus and bring him to justice, with Varro believing that the ten have the capability that Chimbro and his 50 soldiers did not.

Rocca and his men offer to make an offer from Spartacus that he will pay the ransom of him and all his escaped slaves to Varro once they escape from Rome by sea, but the treacherous Varro imprisons Rocca and his men and raids the camp of Spartacus.