Shall I Loot A Peach?
Updated 2007-02-22 16:00:00
This here's a bloody one. To consolidate their expected victory, Octavian and Mark Antony make up an extensive enemies list, and assign Vorenus and his crime boss buddies to carry out the hits. Cicero is first on the list, and Pullo suggests bringing along the family, maybe a picnic, make a day of it. Not even kidding. Before Pullo kills him, however, Cicero gets wind of the plot and dispatches a letter to Brutus warning him of Octavian and Antony's alliance. But the letter gets lost among the picnicking Vorenii, as documents of historic import so often do. Vorenus has big plans for the future of the Collegia, but Memmio's plotting something that involves a greasy dude and Vorena the Elder, so we'll have to wait and see how that turns out. Watching the legions depart Rome, Pullo gets nostalgic for his army days until Eirene informs him that she's "preglant." Aw, a half-brother for little Caesarion. Timon and his brother are sharing common interests now, so Timon's thuggishness combined with Levi's political activism equips them to crack some kingmaking skulls. See if Herod gets to rule Judea now, eh? Octavia's friend Jocasta, whose family got put on Octavian's enemies list at Julii Cooper's request, shows up at her front door, and now Julii Cooper has no choice but to take her in. And just when she was feeling so smug about figuring out that Octavia and Agrippa are totally doing it, too. Finally, Brutus, Cassius, and their fourteen legions meet Octavian, Antony, and their nineteen legions at Philippi, Greece. It goes about the way you'd expect, except that we actually get to see some of the fighting. Cassius is killed, and Brutus goes down swinging in ironically Caesar-like fashion, leaving Antony and Octavian alive and victorious. I'm sure they'll be fighting each other again soon.