Plot

When the rebels receive news of someone they care about, Spartacus must decide whether saving one person is worth risking the lives of many.

To impress his influential father in law more then far more prestigious colleague-praetor Varinius, who is allowed to preside over the latest games, and local magnate Seppius, whose privately recruited men are presently hunting Spartacus, general Glaber is desperate to catch the runaway gladiators, who pillage the region bloodily. Ashur promises to find them by torture-questioning Oenomaus, a daunting task give his pain tolerance, but finally outsmarts the disgraced instructor. Agron reports a captured Roman knew where Naevia died miserably, but his new Syrian protégé Nasir can't stand how that mentally wrecks Crixus and ends up revealing she's actually in the Lucanian mines, a slow death by sordid toil. Spartacus overrules Agron's refusal to risk the whole revolt for a single loved one, so they impersonate liberated fresh slaves and slain slavers to intrude the mine. Time runs out when Ashur arrives with Glaber's soldiers and quickly spots a few runaways, the others seem hopelessly trapped in mine corridors.—KGF Vissers

As Spartacus and his battle-tested band of former gladiators keep moving south, liberating slaves along the way, a trusted brother-in-arms decides to take matters into his own hands, convinced that the rescue mission jeopardises everyone's lives. In the meantime, with Oenomaus suffering in the name of honour and loyalty, Lucretia brings a well-kept secret to light, unwittingly revealing the Rebels' intent. But when the unforgivable fabrication is revealed, it is already too late: Spartacus and his men find themselves trapped in the dark bowels of the Roman Mines of Lucania, with Praetor Glaber's soldiers hot on their trail. Can Spartacus accept a noble sacrifice for the life of Naevia, the woman with the Domina's mark on her shoulder?—Nick Riganas