Ruggeri and the OVRA agents are stopped as they are about to arrest Grandi in the Chamber because the Duce has changed his mind and wants to understand who else thinks like him. The Americans are getting closer to Rome and Mussolini seems to have lost control of the situation. Grandi, after trying to encourage the King, goes to the Southern Armed Forces Command to convince Umberto II to remove Mussolini by using the army but the Prince quickly liquidates him. Edda Mussolini tries to convince her father of Clara Petacci's bad intentions and of the cheating carried out by her brother Marcello but the Duce does not want to give up his lover and puts her in line.

Feltre, 19 July. The harsh discussion between Mussolini and Hitler is interrupted by Giuseppe Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo who announces that Rome has just been bombed and therefore the Duce immediately returns to the capital also ordering that Clara Petacci be banished from Palazzo Venezia. Meanwhile Grandi tries to leverage Maria Josè to help him convince Umberto II to remove the Duce but the princess does not want to support him because he is a fascist. Meanwhile, Mussolini calls the Grand Council because he wants to face the traitors and Grandi is surprised.