"I wish I had power to seize memory and with hands strip it from life," Crixus tells her, but Naevia would ask only that he stand by her side.Īnd later, following her attack on Attius – in which she first accuses him of aiding the prisoners and conspiring against Spartacus – all the pain she's suffered brings forth a rage not dissimilar to the one unleashed upon Ashur atop Vesuvius, last season. And although Crixus (Manu Bennett) has been able to give Naevia the strength and skills to prevent such things from ever happening again, he's unable to heal the wounds caused by past trauma. This, of course, is in addition to the atrocities done to her in the mines she was rescued from during Vengeance. It's somewhat open as to what the man's intentions were, but the incident leads to a heavy scene in which Naevia recounts yet another horror in her life where she was tortured by someone who, for as much as his family or anyone else knew, was an honorable man. Then, to further concern as to where Spartacus' army will draw the line, the bread maker's hand is nearly severed by Naevia (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) after she assumed the man moved toward a sword, rather than the bread he'd just killed a man for. This leads to a troubling turn of events where the pregnant woman's husband (a bread maker, coincidentally) and another man are pitted against one another by Crixus (Manu Bennett) for the enjoyment of the rebels. While Spartacus searches for a solution to the food dilemma, Nemetes (Ditch Davey) bides his time by collecting as much coin as he possibly can - in one instance, offering a pregnant woman's husband a loaf of bread in exchange for information on where he kept his money. Naturally, this led to the decision to take the city and wait out the coming winter with sufficient food and shelter, but now his concern is split not only between worry over the lack of supplies in Sinuessa en Valle, but also the army that now resides within the city's walls and those unlucky enough to have survived the initial attack. His first encounter with the now deceased Diotimos (Kelson Henderson) exposed certain faults in his management namely, the lack of adequate food, shelter and clothing for everyone. The taking of Sinuessa en Valle has put Spartacus (Liam McIntyre) in a peculiar position, where his army grows restless waiting for the next phase of their campaign against Rome and the surviving citizens (now in chains) begin to pay the price for their captors' idleness.Īs it was in the season premiere, Spartacus is occupied with leading an army thousands strong, so things slip by his normally watchful eye. It's a nice moment that might have been even better had Spartacus not made mention of it, but the notion of those chains being turned against the enemy looms large over the episode, as it becomes clear many in Spartacus' impressive army are still burdened by the suffering they endured as slaves. 'Men of Honor' begins with a great bit in which Attius (Cohen Holloway), the blacksmith who never met a coin he could refuse, is working to forge the rebels' new swords from the repurposed metal of chains and shackles. After successfully taking Sinuessa en Valle - an episode last week that wisely placed the burden of setting the course for the season early on - Spartacus: War of the Damned distances itself somewhat from the need to move various pieces around the board in anticipation of what will come next, and focuses a bit more on that very action.
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