 Atia and Mark Antony have resumed their affair in "A Necessary Fiction", and Octavian's darker side emerges further when he discovers this betrayal (and the fact that Octavia is involved with his friend, Marcus Agrippa).He commands Antony to leave Rome indefinitely, or be publicly shamed with Octavia's adultery, and sentences Atia and Octavia to house arrest (under armed guard).Antony manages a goodbye at Atia's doorstep with guards keeping them from embracing, and promises that when the time is right he will send for her.