Duro taking the sword for Agron. Agron and Duro continue killing Roman soldiers in the courtyard. Having apparently cleared the area, they stop and clasp each others' arms in brotherhood and triumph. However, a soldier rushes to kill Agron from behind, but Duro pushes Agron out of the way and takes the sword meant for his brother through the stomach. Agron beheads the soldier, and Duro falls into his arms and weakly exclaims "I saved you this time, brother" and dies.
Agron screams in agony due to the loss of his brother, burning with hatred for the Romans from that moment on. Inside of the Villa, the Romans are terrified due to the chaos as Batiatus tries to calm them down, though he is extremely angry because Spartacus attempted to kill him.
Lucretia commands Ilithyia to gather her men, and Ilithyia slyly tells her she will see her properly attended and gives her a kiss her before going off.
Batiatus continues to calm the other Romans, but the Gladiators enter in the Villa the gate of the Ludus havng been opened by Mira and slaughter all in their path, except fellow slaves. Batiatus, Lucretia, Numerius, Aurelia and Domitia escape together.
The rest of the Romans quickly find themselves trapped between a sealed door and the raging gladiators. Ilithyia had commanded her men to seal the doors, and allow none to escape- clearly as an act of revenge against Lucretia. There, in the doorway, the gladiators kill all the Romans they find. Oenomaus finds Ashur and confronts him, saying that he had infected the honor of the house. Ashur tells him that if he would kill a defenseless man, he would lose his honor, so Oenomaus throws him a sword.
They engage in battle, but Oenomaus easily bests him. Ashur tells him that even if he dies, his mark on the house will remain as he boasts upon his machinations, much to Oenomaus' horror. Oenomaus says the house only bears Ashur's treachery, not his name. Ashur replies that because of mockery from Oenomaus and the other gladiators, he endured to become what he is now. He strikes again at Oenomaus, who disarms him and throws him to the ground, saying he received what he deserved and his path ends now.
Ashur then begs Oenomaus to at least allow him to die as a Gladiator. Oenomaus agrees to give him this "parting kindness" and gets into proper position. When he is about to deliver the killing blow, Ashur stabs him in the leg with a concealed object and runs to escape, but Oenomaus manages to slash his right arm.
Oenomaus chases after him but fails to find him, so he goes up to the Villa. Ashur hid himself among the bodies of the Roman Soldiers. Meanwhile in the Villa, Batiatus and the others find a Roman soldier in agony, who tells him that Glaber's men had sealed the doors. But a gladiator appears and kills Domitia. Batiatus grabs a sword and clashes with the gladiator, managing to kill him.
He orders his wife, Numerius, and Aurelia to escape while he goes off to confront his gladiators. Lucretia tells Aurelia to take Numerius and conceal themselves. She will go to her husband and see to the death of Spartacus.
While trying to find him, she stumbles upon Crixus. He demands to know where Naevia is, but Lucretia does not tell him, and reminds Crixus that she bears their child. Crixus tells her that he would rather see it dead than know it suckled her breasts. He backs her into a column and stabs her in the belly, killing the baby, and critically wounding Lucretia. Crixus then walks away, giving her a final look of disgust.
Crixus wounding Lucretia and killing the child. At the same time, Aurelia , remembering Spartacus' words, asks Numerius if it. Aurelia killing Numerius. Numerius tells her that Varro deserved to die because he was nothing. Aurelia tells him all the good things Varro had done for her and their child , telling him that he was not a perfect man, but he was hers.
She then violently and repeatedly stabs the boy in the neck several times, killing him. Spartacus soon appears and stops her, saying that it is done. Doctore appears, nodding to Spartacus to indicate that they are on the same side- but at the same time is horrified by the massacre.
Spartacus tells him to look over Aurelia. Doctore frantically asks Spartacus "Is this not enough?! How many more must die?! Lucretia arrives, and falls to the ground, dying.
Batiatus attempts to go to her but Spartacus appears. Lucretia stabbed by Crixus and left to die with Batiatus. To feel the warmth of her skin? The taste of her lips? How many man would you kill? A hundred? A thousand? There stands but one between you and her! Batiatus gets up and pleads for Oenomaus for help revealing his true name to the gladiators , but he does not follow the command. It was perfect that Spartacus won their final battle, even wounded, only to be struck from behind.
But dying knowing he was free, knowing others he promised to help made it to safety, and with the memory of his beloved wife in his uppermost thoughts, was heart-wrenching, sad, and fitting. Crassus was ready earlier this season to sentence his son to a horrible death to prove a point about discipline. When Crassus forgave his beloved slave for killing his son, I felt for him, as if he was someone trapped in a bad situation doing the best he could.
He clearly loved Kore and she loved him back. He probably believes he did the only possible thing by crucifying Kore for even temporarily joining the rebellion. And it drove home the point that no matter how beloved a slave, there is no safety without power. Agron and Nasir were the only couple to make it out of the episode alive and free, probably causing a happy dance Nagron shippers all over the globe, myself among them. It was a hopeful sign for their future.
Certainly not me. I hoped beyond hope for a happy ending for the gladiator who claimed no cause was his own, especially since he finally became a leader. It was not to be and his being crucified was as tough a moment as there has been on the show.
I know someone had to lose. At least we could see he found peace in his final moments. But, still, I wanted him to live or at least die on the field of battle.
Saxa, Naevia, Lugo…they all went down fighting and took many enemies with them. Saxa even made a joke to Gannicus as she died in his arms. I had hoped Naevia would survive but she seemed at peace, hoping perhaps to join Crixus in the next left. The end credits were also a nice gesture to all the great cast members from all the seasons of the show.
Love this article, I have just watched Spartacus on Netflix from the beginning of the first season to the end of the fourth season. Endings are a tough business in the television world. Lost, Battlestar Galactica and The Sopranos went out leaving many unsatisfied — but Spartacus's denouement is hard to fault although this is just the end of the first season rather than the entire show.
The finale even managed to match up to its title: Kill Them All. Apart from a few stragglers that's exactly what they did: with characters getting their due in often spectacular and rewarding fashion. It was a bloodbath — or perhaps more accurately, as the nice water feature in Batiatus's home ran red, a bloodpond.
One of television's luxuries when it comes to storytelling is running time. Instead, we've spent some time with the big lug and yes he's incredibly brutal and often bullying — but heck, he can also be quite likeable and principled.
His chat with Spartacus — where each agreed to disagree, admitted their hard-won respect for each other and made promises to honour the victor's wishes after their fight to the death — was surprisingly moving; more moving than you may have expected given that it basically comprised two muscly men sitting around in their undies.
Doctore, who had always been a believer in the rules of the Ludus , has also had some great moments — appearing at first monstrously harsh, but soon revealed to be deep and honourable. His pursuit of the duplicitous Ashur was a standout moment in an episode that provided a banquet comprised totally of just deserts. Varro, too, was properly avenged at long last.
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