Rome Recap: Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus
Talk about your wacky titles. I hear tell that it means "No God Can Stop A Hungry Man", but take that with a grain of salt, because it may not mean anything like it. Regardless of the meaning of the title, this episode shows us again that the series has little regard for time, because we are suddenly shown Egypt, and Antony has apparently been there long enough to crank out a couple of kids with Cleopatra. I mean we're talking several years since A Necessary Fiction. It would be nice if they at least said "a few years later" or something.
Nonetheless, things aren't going well in Rome, for they are hungry, and it seems that Antony holds all the cards. Or at least the grain. For he's trying to hold back the shipments of grain, in hopes that this will lead, somehow, to his triumphant return to power in Rome. Octavian, ever the strategist, sends Atia and Octavia to Egypt to meet with Antony, but it's just a power play. Either he gets the grain, or the women are dishonored, and the people of Rome now hate Antony.
Octavian gets what he really wanted: Antony completely disregards the women, which means that Octavian can safely move on Antony, and it's time for war! Before the women leave, however, Posca and that slut Jocasta sneak onto the ship to return to Rome. As if things weren't bad enough for Atia, now she has to put up with Jocasta all the way back home.
Upon their return home, Posca gives Octavian a wonderful gift - Antony's will. It reads not only that he is the husband of Cleopatra, but that he declares himself as a god, and that he will leave her Rome and the West. It's better than he could have hoped. It's really time for war.
Octavian grabs Pullo from the Aventine for help bargaining with Vorenus, but Pullo says that he has to take care of some business first. Presumably that is to say goodbye to his new lover (Gaia), but before he can do that, the tongueless wonder Memmio manages to escape from his prison and deliver a fatal blow. This is too much for Gaia, and she has to confess to Pullo that she is the one that delivered the death blog to Eirene.
That's about all Pullo needed. He gets ready to head back to war.
