Reign "Hearts and Minds" (Part 1)

Last time where we left off on Reign, Bash was sent to save and aid several companies Francis ordered him to protect for Mary and as a result of trying to help Francis, Bash was stabbed in the ribs and was gravely injured riding his horse back to the castle. Francis told Mary that there was going to be no other option to help save Scotland and her crown, so her only choice was to accept Tomas' marriage proposal and head back to Portugal with him and wed him.
                                     
                                      

In the beginning of the episode we are watching Francis and Tomas in an archery contest most of us would predict that Francis would be fairly good at shooting arrows, but to our surprise Tomas wins. At first my response was that oh Tomas was just really lucky to beat Francis, but then I realized that we don't really know Tomas' background very well so we don't know how good his archery really is.

During the contest one of Mary's uncles tells her to go on a stroll with him and during that stroll he mentions to her that it doesn't look very good for a king that his allies walk away freely from their treaties and that she should be begged to be release from the engagement with Francis. She tells him that it doesn't look good for her as a queen to beg to be released from her engagement to Francis so that she could marry Tomas. To be brief, if I were Mary I would hate to be in an engagement to Tomas because of his personality after she promises to be his wife and how he's really possessive and abusive to his subjects, but since the marriage is for their country's alliance she really doesn't have a choice.
                                        
Meanwhile Lola is sent by Mary to go visit Bash in Nostradamus' chambers. Nostradamus tells Lola that the wound is healing, but the illness is so bad that it could kill him. At this point I really don't want Bash to die, but let's think rationally here for a minute, he probably won't die because he's a brave and long lasting character so I don't have to worry about him. Anyways back to Nostradamus tells Lola to leave, but Bash insists that she stays and that looking at her will make him feel better.
Throughout this episode, Tomas does many different deeds to Mary to help strengthen their engagement and one of the kind efforts he does for her is him offering Mary a flower and at the same moment Francis sees him doing that. Tomas asks Francis if he has offended him by doing that and Francis assures him that he isn't offended at all. Mary accepts the flower and says that she's honored.

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