Max Highfield sits in a large Winnebago on a film set, dressed as a Roman centurion and rehearsing from a thick yellow script with the film’s director. The speech is grand and violent, but Max decides he would rather cut most of it and simply say, “Death to Caesar!” while relying on his expression to carry the scene.

A runner knocks and enters with a bouquet of flowers for Max. Still staying half in character, Max treats the delivery theatrically, and the conversation turns comic when the runner offers coffee and Max questions whether a Roman centurion would drink it. After the director backs the idea, Max orders a soy milk latte and tells the runner to hurry.

Once the runner leaves, the mood shifts. Max opens the card attached to the flowers and finds a blunt message: YOU’RE DEAD. What arrives as a routine on-set gift is revealed to be a direct death threat.