At the beginning of the episode Catherine and Mary are on the castle balcony watching Henry ride off with his army to a small battle involving peasants, talking about Francis and Olivia sleeping together and how Mary is handling the situation so well. Mary gets ticked off by the issue because she's not aware of the problem and goes stomping off to go find Francis. Catherine does everything to prevent Mary from marrying Francis because Catherine still believes in Nostradamus' foreshadow.
Mary finds Francis in his chambers with Charles messing around and Francis tells her about the Italian Count coming to France to visit and that he must be greeted by a king or dauphin or else that would be an insult to his people. Mary tells Francis that he'll have more time to spend in bed and that she's quite pissed about how Francis is "parading" Olivia around court while Catherine crows over her. Francis' excuse is that he just needed some time to get away from her so that he can forget that he can't have her.
Catherine and Francis are then seen in front of the hall preparing to greet the Count as he;s arriving; Catherine then attempts to straighten Francis' hair, as the Count comes in and Catherine and her so greet him, and soon Mary joins them and they have wine and discover the Count's motives for visiting. The Count had planned on holding the castle and everybody in it hostage until he receives satisfaction after he reveals that his so was held hostage by France, released but then he died on his journey home. The Count discusses with Catherine that they will negotiate: one Italian to another, meaning someone close to her will die.
Francis and Catherine negotiate with the Count by offering him 10 times the money he paid to have his son released, but the Count isn't interested. Francis then decides to offer himself as ransom by saying that the Count and his men can leave that night with the heir to France as their hostage. Catherine tells Francis that he's crazy, but the Count surprisingly agrees to the offer. Mary then wanders the tunnels under the castle looking for a safe way out; later she enters into Catherine's chambers and Catherine tells Mary that the Italians plan to take Francis and they don't intend to return him alive or even at all. Catherine tells Mary that there is a secret way out with loose stones, pitfall and are a death trap to anyone who doesn't know the safe way out; however Mary reveals that she does. Catherine then says that she will stay in place of Francis and encourages Mary that once they are safely out don't come back to look for her. She says that she will over herself as a sacrifice and that since she's the Queen of France no one would suspect anything out of the ordinary. Mary then begins to question Catherine about her being trustworthy or not. Catherine's immediate reply is that she is willing to go threw hell to get her son out of the place right now and Mary agrees.
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