" On the way out of Yelburton""s office, Gittes requests a business card, but pockets a bunch of the deputy""s cards with sleight-of-hand - to be opportunistically used at some future time.The young men who will soon become the central characters of the film are introduced.Seven naive boys (including Paul Baumer (21 year old Lew Ayres in a star-making role) and his friends Kropp, Leer, and Kemmerick), each young and impressionable, are recruited and trained to fight for the glory of the fatherland.Later, in the film""s finale, after Cleopatra has unsuccessfully attempted to have Octavian spare Antony""s life in exchange for Egypt""s crown, she witnesses Antony""s death (he has fallen on his own sword, believing that she has betrayed him): "I am dying Egypt, dying.They rode out of the desert into a lush green area close to Ape City, where they found throngs of gorilla-ape soldiers cheering in an open-air arena where speeches were being delivered by ape-men (Brent: "My God! It""s a city of apes!").