It's Easter and Alexander makes plans for a celebration to end his pious fast even as Della Rovere's assassin ascends to the position of the Pope's taster; Lucrezia's lover asks for her hand in marriage but her father dismisses him and his request; Juan's
wild behavior threatens the life of Lucrezia's child, forcing Cesare to make a chilling decision about his brother.
While he tries to maintain his cover as a deaf mute and stay on the straight and narrow, the nuns» increasingly
wild (and totally sacrilegious)
behavior threatens to send him over the edge.