During those few days that castle plans a mask party celebration for the execution of Simon, the English envoy. Since he was know to be the bad person behind all the events recently they planned to execute him at French Court, or at least until they find the person in charge of be the bad person. Little does anybody know about Tomas taking his assistant Miguel to the game fields, possibly boiling up plans to kill him before anyone can talk to him about the slaughter, Bash and Francis ride out to see if they can't intervene and Mary goes after Judith who manages to run down while leaving town with a new cloak.
Judith confirms with Mary that the seal of the man who tipped off the English is white, not red like Simon's , and that she would be able to recognize him if she saw him in person. Bash and Francis get to the game fields just in time to stop Tomas from killing off Miguel. Tomas ends up shooting an arrow at Miguel, but he ends up living and has a sword encounter with Bash. Bash ends up reopening his wound and begins to bleed. It's up to Francis to save them and ends up killing Tomas with a dagger in the heart. He brings Bash and Tomas' body back to the castle.
With Simon's execution approaching, Kenna begins to negotiate with the king hoping to kill off the time in hopes of Francis and Bash returning on time and for the evidence to be presented. King Henry tells her that justice cannot always wait and that Catherine tells him waiting makes him look like less of a king. Kenna counters by saying on the contrary, patience and grace is extremely what good kings are made of. Just in the nick of time Francis and Bash bring back the corpse of Tomas for evidence and say that Miguel and Judith can testify.
Simon ends up being freed and a position as English envoy to Portugal for his silence on Tomas' role in the ambush. Simon thanks Mary for acknowledging the mistake, an action that not many royals would be willing to take for fear of retribution and embarrassment. Mary's treaty and engagement would be reinstated, but instead of going along with the previous terms, she uses the fact that Scotland saved France from a ton of embarrassment and staved off war with the increasingly strong English to get France to begin holding up their side of alliance with Scotland.
She receives a visit from Francis later that night thanking him for all he did to prove Simon's innocence. Mary tells him that his hear is right more often than he knows, as he was the one who pulled back during their lakeside encounter. Francis tells her that she will make a true queen one day, though his head and heart still differ on where they stand. In the night Mary leaves the seal for Clarissa and tells the her that she hopes she doesn't feel alone any longer.
Mary gets into bed and goes to sleep, not knowing that Clarissa is laying under the bed and not in the stone passageways.... OOOH SO CREEPY HEHEH! Be sure to continue watching Reign.
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