TEXT: [PREVIOUSLY_ON] Is that my husband's child? Lola: You were engaged to Bash. If you tell Francis, I essentially become his. Greer: You're a servant. Nothing can ever happen between us. Remember this as the moment that you threw your happiness away. So let's have that drink now. Father, my evening took the loveliest turn. Guard: The king is dead! Long live the king! Guard 2: The king is dead! Long live the king! Tell me your darkest truth, and I will tell you mine. Lola is giving birth. You are the father of her child. The time is now. We need to think like queens. Mary: You are going to a village which has likely been exposed to plague. You can't leave. Your friend, my child. Perhaps my only child. Listen to your heart and you will hear it as clearly as I do. (horse neighs) (crows cawing) (horse neighs) [SCENE_BREAK] Mary : It is upon us now, an old and faceless foe. We have confirmed reports that the Black Death has returned once more to plague our lands. Catherine: You needn't fear. Only take care. Man: Where is our young king? Mary: King Francis is safe. He is protected in a private home. You are all protected. I have ordered the castle be made secure to prevent the arrival of infection. Man: What if the plague's already here? Catherine: Anyone who is sick will be treated with dignity and kindness. Kenna: Catherine's being too nice. What she'll really want is the sick rooted out or turned in by their neighbors. Catherine: But if you should feel unwell, we urge you to seek our expert care. Mary: There are early signs. Nostradamus: Fevers. The expulsion of blood. But more commonly, aches, pains, bulbous sores that will burst. The blackening of extremities. Contact with others spreads the disease. Greer: Aloysius, is that your daughter with Leith? Are they together? It can't be. I'm
SUMMARY:
Queen Mary and Queen Catherine have the castle locked down, but "the plague" manages to enter. Mary and Catherine clash when powerful noble Eduard Narcisse (Kjartan Hewitt) demands they throw his rival Pierre Voland in with the sick. Queen Mary refuses, so Eduard has Voland's entire family poisoned with diseased water; Yvette dies as well since she was staying with the Volands. In response,Queen Mary has Eduard thrown in the dungeon with plague victim bodies. Outside the castle, King Francis II finds Lola and their newly-born son, and they are aided by Francis's cousin, Louis of Condé ( Sean Teale ). Louis offers to send Lola and her baby away on a boat, headed for the Netherlands, but King Francis refuses, as he wants to keep his son close to him. Bash is exposed to the plague, and although he doesn't fall sick, he sees the ghost of a young Voland girl ( Ella Ballentine ), who warns him that the others who have died are angry and that there will be a "reckoning". Lady Kenna tries to protect Pascal, but he is exposed to the Black Death and is claimed by it.