Titus’s two son’s are being draged off to their execution, while their father is desparatly pleding for their lives. Even after the judges and officals have left he continues to pled. Lucius now enters and states that he has just been banished for trying to set his brothers free. After they have a conversation Marcus enters followed by Lavinia, Lucius is horrified by the site and does not believe this is his once beutiful sister. Titus then tries to comunicate with her (with not much succssess) but understands and can comunicate better with her then the other two.

Aron the enters and anounce’s that Saturninus will spare Titus’s son’s for the price of a hand. Titus, Marcus and Lucius then immediately start to argue about which one shall give up their hand. Finally Titus agrees that he won’t give up his hand, in response to this the other two run off to find off an axe, but while the two of them are away Titus get Aaron to chop off his hand. Aaron then starts to make his way off stage laughing, then he anounces to the audiance that there is infact no deal from Saturninus. Marcus and Lucius then return to find Titus with one hand, then a messenger arrives bringing Titus his hand back and the heads of his sons (Martius and Quintus). Titus then bursts out laughing, he picks up a head and tells Marcus to take the other and Lavinia to take his hand. Lucis then goes to the Goths, to raise an army to rage war on Rome.