Epilogue:
All four men realize they have nothing to live for, and simultaneously realize that their theatrical run–conducted for a God in whom they do not believe–is not yet complete.
They arrange to meet in a remote glade with their servants, and drink hemlock, as symbolically appropriate. As they toast one another, they all proclaim “To Truth and Honor”. They have asked that their servants hang them on crosses facing one another when they are dead, place clown’s masks on their faces, and plant a hedge around the place to conceal their bodies, but they simply leave them where they die. Five years later nothing is left of them but the scars they inflicted on the world, and souls suffering in ways none of us can imagine.