Leo has gone home to Vinci to find his newly discovered
sister Sofia and the Leafy Page. And hallucinations. This show always has
hallucinations
He also finds Cosmo and several other Labyrinth guys who want to convert him by flogging and torture. This is not a convincing argument. Sophia arrives to the rescue and to tell him that mummy is dead – because this show simply doesn’t have enough angst.
Leo then fights Cosmo and despite his many injuries which
left him barely able to stand he does quite well and after much rolling around
in the mud, he kills the other man.
There can now be sibling rivalry – and telling Leo that
his precious Lucrezia is now imprisoned by her dad, Gedik and the Sons of
Mithras. Also he totally doesn’t want to encourage her to be all vengeful but
they totally need to murder these people
Together they start to read the page and go on a nature
walk while discussing Leo’s many fortune telling hallucinations. And Sofia has
Leo’s genius mannerisms – they could bounce off each other well. They use the
page and have mutual shiny hallucinations which leads to a shiny shiny
invention.
I think they just discovered electricity – or a dangerous
Tesla coil.
Riario is still on a guilt trip and has decided to tell
the slightly unhinged Lorenzo that he killed Clarice. There are probably easier
ways to commit suicide. It’s the battle of the Manpains! Laura pleads for him,
throwing around the word “tyrant” a lot, which is amusing when we consider she
serves the pope. She goes to try and convince Riario not to throw his life away
because Twu Lub while Vanessa tries to tip-toe around Lorenzo’s temper. Which
she’s much much better at.
Nico and Zoroaster have managed to teleport all the way (got
to love how people can zoom up and down Italy in days in this show) to
Wallachia to see Vlad. They’re plan is comically awful “Hi Vlad, please don’t
kill us!” It sort of works so we get to enjoy more of Vlad’s awesome decorating
style while commenting on how not dead the very very scary man is – given that
they killed him before. Of course that means they now have to rely on Vlad
forgiving and forgetting that
Vlad doesn’t forgive or forget, even if he hates the
Turks. He’s also very inventive and a fan of the Saw films. Thankfully
Zoroaster is better at chess and after a few blade games and LOTS AND LOTS of creepiness.
Also Vlad totally wanted to join the crusade anyway because he really does hate
the Turks – and he has a HUGE amount of special invulnerable armour.
This is the whole episode of sexy men being tormented
while shirtless. Riario and Leo’s torment seemed almost fetishised. With bonus
mud wrestling.
I may think the whole Vlad storyline ridiculous – but I
have to admit the actor playing him is so very very very very creey and does it
so excellently well.
I do like that they’ve given Sofia’s Leo’s mannerisms and
brilliance – but that would have been fun if she’d been introduced, say, in the
last season (rather than the silly detour to South America). They could have
bounced off each other with mutual genius joy and been all shiny
Vanessa is.. curious. I expected her to be completely
sidelined when Lorenzo came back but she hasn’t been…. But she’s still kind of
turned from a powerful woman to a care taker, caregiver and general confidant
and support for a man – Lorenzo. I wouldn’t be surprised if they ended up in a
relationship.
