TEXT: (After leaving the castle, Mary and Bash are being chased by the King's guards through the woods on horseback. Bash leads them to a clearing in the woods) BASH: This way, Mary, quick. (That clearing leads off the side of a cliff facing a large body of water) BASH: We're trapped. There's no way around. MARY: We have to go back. The king's guards... BASH: Will intercept us. We'll never outrun them in the woods anyway. MARY: We'll be captured and dragged back to French court. The king wants England; he won't give up. If we're found... (The king's men are catching up to them quickly. The hooves of the horses sound like they have arrived) BASH: Get down, quickly. I'm going to get you back to Scotland. MARY: How? GUARD' (alerting' 'the other men 'to their location): This way. (Bash starts taking off his heavy armor and sword) MARY: Bash, what are you doing? BASH: Just trust me. Can you swim? This is the only way out. MARY: Are you mad? We'll never survive it. BASH: You can do this. GUARD: Stop! In the name of the king! Seize them! (Mary and Bash told hands and jump off the cliff, into the water) BACK AT THE CASTLE: GUARD: We've checked every outbound ship from Dunkirk to Bayeux, Your Majesty. The Scottish Queen and your son must still be in France, but... KING HENRY: They didn't just disappear. Bash has many talents, but magic isn't one of them. Find them! Go. QUEEN CATHERINE: They've been gone for more than a week. You'll never find them. Francis is back from his own search. I tell him it's pointless, they're long gone, but he persists. KING HENRY: What did you expect? Mary's his fiancée. They were hours from being wed
SUMMARY:
Queen Mary and Bash are captured by King Henry's men after a week of being on the run together. They are brought back to the castle, where Queen Mary tells a disbelieving Prince Francis about Nostradamus's prophecy. King Henry threatens to execute Bash if Queen Mary won't marry Francis. Queen Mary counter-proposes that Bash be legitimized as King Henry's new heir and she marry him instead; if King Henry agrees, Queen Mary will claim the English throne as King Henry wants. As this would require an annulment of King Henry and Queen Catherine's marriage, and would turn Prince Francis and his two younger brothers into bastards. Queen Catherine sends an assassin to kill both Queen Mary and Bash. King Henry II has the assassin killed before he can complete his task, and Queen Catherine is imprisoned. King Henry II agrees to Queen Mary's terms and leaves for Rome to seek the Pope's approval for Bash's legitimization. Clarissa is chained in a cell by Nostradamus as punishment for killing Aylee, but she stabs him and escapes.