Reign "Snakes in the Garden" (Part 2)

Back in Mary's bedroom she sees a woman trying on her dresses, once she sees Mary she begins to apologize and as she's doing that she screams and says that the dress is poisoned. Mary begins head out the door screaming for her guards to help this woman. Once she finds her guards she leads them straight to the bedroom, only to find out that there was nobody in her bedroom anymore. She tells Francis that there wasn't any possibility for her escaping because it was only in a matter of couple of minutes before her returning to the room with the guards. She then starts talking to herself and asks if it was possible in that short amount of time that she could've slipped through the passage door behind her bed and ran through the tunnel before she returned. Francis then reassures her that she will be protected and sends guards to protect and secure the castle grounds.
                                          
Meanwhile Mary is still very frightened of the scene she just witnessed that she decides to see for herself if there was anyone in the secret passage tunnel. She rolls marbles to get Clarissa to answer a few of her questions and to see if she was hurt or ok. Mary rolls the marbles to get Clarissa to answer her if Catherine was behind this mystery and if she had any ties with the English for wanting her head. Both times Clarissa rolled the marbles back as if the answer to her question was a yes. Clarissa leaves a key to a door after she runs down the dark tunnels and Mary happens to then go exploring seeing which door the key she gave her leads to. To her surprise she ends up opening the door to Simon, the English envoy's room and in that room there was the girl who was burning up in the dress. She finds out from Simon that the girl in the dress was a threat to scare her out of France and tell her to move back to Scotland.

Later in the bloodwood, Bash is still in the search of finding Collin. As he's passing by trees he feels blood dripping down and sees that Collin is hanging from the tree upside down with his neck slit. He then hears sounds of tree branches cracking and decides that it's best for him to hide and slowly draws out his sword. He sees Francis and lets a sigh of relief and then he hears another sound and pagan worshippers draw near to them and Bash kills them and tells Francis that he must bring Collin's body back with them so they quickly head out of the forest.
                             
After Francis returns, he and Mary have a talk and Mary tells him that she is no longer safe in the castle and that she must return to Scotland. While finishing their talk Francis goes and talks to his mother and tells her that he knows she's behind all this and if he finds out that she has more plotted against Mary he will never forgive her.

At the end of the episode it shows Nostradomus cleaning the dungeon doors and talks of a red X mark being painted on the wrong door and he's referring to Collin's innocent death. At the same time in Catherine's bed chambers as she's getting ready for bed there lays a red X on her bed...



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