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In the season - and series - finale About Your Father, we take another small time warp, this time until we near the end of the war. Antony has just heard that his navy has been defeated, and that means that he's about to lose and lose badly. There's only one thing left to do: Orgy.

So that is just what he and Cleopatra do. Inside this fancy party palace, seemingly accessed only by "flying chair" that lifts you into the chamber, the two of them throw the party to end all parties. I just want to know - how does the last guy get down? Or the first guy get up? It's all great until the details start being questioned.

On a throne at the front of the orgy, Antony decides that he'll challenge Octavian to a duel. I'm no expert on duels, but when the drug-addled brain of Antony has trouble defeating a simple slave, I'm thinking it's a pretty bad idea. Still, he decides that it will be good to follow through, for somewhere inside that thick skull of his, he thinks it will work.

Before this can happen, Octavian sends a note to Cleopatra, asking her to give up Antony. If she does, then she will get to live, and they can retain the throne in Egypt. Naturally, she makes a big fuss about all this, but then she and Antony decide to make a pact where they will go out together.

The next morning, however, Antony receives a note that she has decided to go ahead without him, for royalty needs to die alone. So he goes through a rather lengthy and boring suicide, killing himself, at which point we see Cleopatra enter the hall. Psyche! About then, she meets Octavian, and realizes just how sneaky the little rat is, so she decides that she'd rather be dead with Antony than alive with Octavian, and before you know it, she's on her way.

About that time, Octavian thinks that something is up, so he heads back, to find that he has two dead Egyptian monarchs on the throne, and the young Caesarion is missing. Vorenus took it upon himself to spirit himself out of the city before the boy could be killed, but luckily Octavian doesn't know that, so he sends Vorenus out to find him. What a deal - hide him and get paid for finding him. Nice.

Pullo gets the secret message about "his son" (remember way back in Season 1?), and meets Vorenus in the dessert, and gets to see his son. Then they have to try to keep a low profile, but the snotty aristocrat gets them caught, which in turn gets Vorenus a lovely sword in the gut. To his credit, he manages to stay alive all the way back to Rome, in order to see his real family.

Back in Rome some time later, the announcement is made that Antony is dead, and Octavia gets two more kids - Antony's - to go with her own. She seems so happy. Atia isn't happy with the news, but now she gets to be grandma to three brats, not just the one, so she has to get over it.

Vorenus makes it back to see his kids, who genuinely seem happy to see him, and Pullo tells the young Caesarion that he has something to tell him about his father, as the series fades to black...

Frankly, I'm glad to see it end, though it's amazing that so little time passed in the first few episodes this season and so much time in the last few episodes. But there was some decent content in there, if only you didn't have to dig for it so badly.