In this short scene, Alcibiades delivers a soliloquy in which he assures the audience that he is a professional swordsman and that he will kill anyone who tries to stop him. He tells his audience that there is an urgent situation at the battlefield and asks the emperor to make sure that the emperor sees the situation for himself. He also tells the audience not to worry about the future because the emperor cares more about the present than about his own future. He says that no matter what happens in the future, he will be on the emperor's side