We rejoin Mark Antony just after his navy's gotten its ass kicked at the Battle of Actium, and now it's all over but the crying. And man, is there a lot of crying. Octavian demands the unconditional surrender of Antony and Cleopatra, who are holed back up in their palace in Alexandria and trying to figure a way out. A drug-addled Antony hits on the brilliant idea of challenging Octavian to single combat to settle things, but of course nobody was still doing that even two thousand years ago. Octavian makes a secret, side offer to Cleopatra: give up Antony, and she and her kids get to live and retain the Egyptian throne. She sends a suicide note to Antony, who makes a heroic Emmy bid before falling on his sword -- which is held, of course, by Vorenus. And then Cleopatra turns out to not be dead after all, because she's decided to take Octavian's deal. But then she meets Octavian, realizes she's been had, and decides to kill herself after all, asp-to-the-boob style, while sitting next to Antony's cooling corpse. However, she did make arrangements for her kids. The two by Antony will return to Rome under Octavian's protection. Caesarion's a little trickier, since everyone knows that Octavian can't let another "son of Caesar" live. So Cleopatra entrusts Caesarion to Vorenus, and the two of them disappear incognito into the Egyptian desert. Pullo follows Vorenus's instructions to meet up with them, and the two old friends try to get Caesarion out of Egypt alive. The little brat gets them pinched, naturally, and in the ensuing fracas, Vorenus is mortally wounded. His dying wish is to be brought home to see his children one more time. One month later, everyone's back in Rome. Octavian informs Julii Cooper that Antony is dead, and is relieved to see her keep any grieving to herself, because she's now a defeated shell of a woman. He hands off Antony's children to Octavia, and throws himself a triumph. At which Julii Cooper finds new purpose in life by starting a feud with her daughter-in-law that we'll never see play out. Pity, as she might say. Vorenus makes it home without dying, although it seems to me that if you can hang on for a month of hard travel, then you might as well recover. Instead he dies in his bed, reconciled with his children. And speaking of our heroes' children, Pullo goes to Octavian and reports that he found and killed Caesarion. He collects the reward and leaves, and the credits roll just as he's about to tell Caesarion who his father really is. And that's the end of Rome.