Master Poisoner: Difference between revisions

* Livia, and later Agrippina, from ''[[I, Claudius]]''. Livia's simple "Don't touch the figs" will send ''chills up your spine''.

** A one-scene wonder has Livia talking shop - [[Don't Explain the Joke|by which we mean multiple murder by chemical means]] - with Martina, another Master Poisoner, played by the same actress who portrayed the cheerfully insane Nursie in [[Blackadder]]. The two debate the relative merits of different poisons and their antidotes over dinner, only for Martina to go white with fear at the sudden thought that Livia might have poisoned her. Livia laughs it off, but the viewer expects Martina to drop dead at any moment, and her ultimate fate is left unspecified.