Contains spoilers for this episode and earlier episodes.
Caesar receives a conciliatory response from Pompey's camp but refuses to let the negotiations end his campaign. He treats Pompey's failure to meet him personally as an insult, keeping a reason to pursue the war. Atia, meanwhile, resents the time he spends with Servilia. She has obscene drawings of their affair spread around Rome, humiliating Calpurnia and forcing Caesar to choose between his lover and his wife's support. He ends the relationship with Servilia, who discovers Atia's part in her disgrace and turns her anger towards both of them. Her response is to prepare curses and begin seeking revenge.
Vorenus loses the income he expected from selling captives when disease kills most of them. He tries working for Erastes Fulmen, only to discover that collecting debts means participating in torture and murder. Unable to accept the work, he returns to Antony and takes the military post he previously refused, pledging lasting loyalty. Pullo becomes Octavian's tutor and draws him into his suspicions about Evander and Niobe. Together they seize Evander, torture him and learn that Niobe's supposed grandson is her own child. Pullo kills him, while Octavian insists that Vorenus must never hear the truth. Caesar finally leaves Rome to pursue Pompey, entrusting Antony with the city, but finds that his rival has escaped to Greece.