It is so often the «last task of love» that is so healing. (nakedpastor.com)
The battle won and Germania subdued, Maximus wishes to retire to a life of farming in Spain, but reluctantly agrees to one last task on behalf of his infirmed emperor and father - figure Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris)- to restore the Roman Republic by overseeing the transfer of power to the Senate (a mostly benign body of legislators, simultaneously patrician and of the people, in this fiction anyway). (dvdtalk.com)
You'll see Nikolai as he undertakes one last task involving acquiring a precursor artifact for the Assassins, before abandoning the brotherhood and escaping with his family from the Bolshevik revolution. (igcritic.com)