Ashes To Ashes
Updated 2007-01-20 16:00:00
Caesar is dead and Marc Antony is in trouble. Well, he would appear to be, but since the dude is made of some kind of ancient Roman Teflon, he escapes multiple attempts on his life while barely breaking a sweat. Brutus is a little shaken up from his role in murdering Caesar, but Mommy Dearest, Servilia, has his back. Meanwhile, Vorenus hasn't even heard about any of this. He goes to his dead wife, Niobe, who he was going to kill himself before she beat him to it, and clutches her to him, covering himself -- not for the last time in this episode -- in blood. His children arrive to see the deed done and he lays a curse on them all. As if he wasn't already looney enough, when he finds out that Caesar is dead, he goes all the way around the bend. Poor Vorenus: the Eeyore of Rome. Antony gets bitchy and first forms a plan to leave the city with Atia's family and Calpurnia and raise an army to come back and destroy his enemies. Calpurnia refuses, however, and insists that Antony stay to hear Caesar's will read. The will declares Octavian his sole heir, and though it means nothing since Caesar's killers will ignore it, Octavian forms a plan to stay in Rome and work out a deal with Brutus and the Gang. Antony convinces them that if Caesar is declared a tyrant, all his appointments will be null and void, thus all the senators will lose their posts and have no power. But, if they declare his death natural, everyone gets to stay in charge and no elections will have to be held. They reluctantly agree, which they later regret when gives a rousing speech at the funeral and makes them leave the city. Pullo gives Eirene a "sorry 'bout that" apology for killing her man, and cheerily asks her to marry him. She accepts, especially when he promises "I won't beat you, or anything." The two of them go to help Vorenus, who is a mess. Apparently, Erastus has taken his children, violated them, and killed them. Wrong move, on his part. Vorenus and Pullo killâ¦everybody in his house, and finish him off, good and proper.