Agravaine (Nathaniel Parker) asks for a map from a man but he didn't get it. Eoghan (Tom Meredith) could be arrested but he can't betray his master's trust. Agravaine knocks him out and once more gets away with his dastardly plan. Then gallivants off to Morgana (Katie McGrath) telling her he hasn't got the plans. Anyway, what makes Agravaine so sure Morgan won't dispose of him too after she's finished with him. Couldn't Morgana use her magic to get the plans.
The plans are for the siege tunnel which is protected. Morgana asks why he can't take the risk himself. Helios (Terence Maynard) dresses Gwen up and she tells him her actual name, ugh, why? He's her abductor, not her friend. He needs new recruits and she's 'no one.'
Mithia arrives at court and Arthur is taken aback by her when she removes her veil. Why'd she ride up on the horse like a bride? She says he's "more handsome in person." So what was she sent a painting of him, ha. Why didn't Arthur know what she looks like, he was prepared to marry someone without seeing them first. He has a feast prepared to welcome her, no not another joust thank goodness. Agravaine dumps Eoghan's DB outside the castle and plants a letter on him. Morgana visits Helios and leaves. She's so busy strutting around, she didn't notice Gwen pass her.
She's building an army to attack Camelot (which is always attacked in the final two episodes of the season, as in season 3.) Morgana's still harping on about being crowned queen, but she already was. Leon (Rupert Young) finds the DB and thinks he fell. Gaius should find the COD. Merlin asks if it's Arthur's fate to marry Gwen. Could he do anything about it? Gaius sounds arrogant. He surmises he broke his neck. He should have sustained more injuries from such a height, but there are none.
Agravaine mentions the siege plans to Arthur and he should check the vaults, so Agravaine can take the map now. Everything is there. Morgana burns a copy of the map using magic, oh she can do that then. If she's been at Camelot so long, how come she doesn't know where the siege tunnels are located and what they consist of, etc.
Merlin uses magic to ensure Arthur spills soup on him to make him look bad and Arthur asks her to breakfast, for what another demo of his ineptness, ha. Mithia loves hunting. Morgana gives Helios a map and tells him it's from Agravaine. Gwen whilst listening in clumsily loosens a rock. Then runs prompting Morgana to see her tunic. Like she's the only one who wears that. Merlin makes Arthur burp and Mithia does the same.
Gaius looks at the note and claims something's not right. Mithia tells Merlin she likes Arthur and he values Merlin's opinion, but won't admit it. Morgana spots the smoke from Gwen's fire, again why not use magic to locate Gwen? Then knocks her out. The hunt takes place in the same part of the woods where Gwen is and Morgana removes Arthur's ring from her neck and drops it there. Before she turns Gwen into a deer, all ripe for the kill.
Merlin spots Gwen in the deer's eye and causes Arthur to misfire the arrow but he neglects to do the same for Mithia's arrow. Well he wasn't much help. Arthur finds his ring. Merlin finds Gwen and removes the arrow form her leg, healing her. Morgana enchanted her. Agravaine gave them the plans. Merlin must tell Arthur everything himself as she can't see him again after she betrayed. Arthur finds the map there. Oh man, here we go again, first Arthur mentioned her betrayal and now she mentions it herself.
Agravaine gets away with it as usual. Arthur asks how he can love someone who betrayed him or loves another. He asks Merlin what he should do? Merlin says no one should make a sacrifice, more for Arthur than Gwen. Arthur offers up the land of Gedref to Mithia and her people, he has no desire for war. Arthur can't offer anything more. Arthur says Gwen is "no one and everyone" even if she is a blacksmith's daughter. Mithia would give up her own kingdom for such a love. Merlin knocks over Arthur's chamber pot to show he's still clumsy. Arthur wonders if Merlin's really wise or a fool. Merlin replies he's Arthur, he knows all. Merlin says he will find Gwen.
An episode where Arthur tries to move on from Gwen and settles for a marriage to bring peace to his kingdom. Yet Morgana, unwittingly brings it all back to him and sets up Arthur and Gwen's reunion, the fool! Arthur was quickly enamoured with Mithia for someone whose heart has been broken, did he really think he could ever forget Gwen so easily, being his destiny.
Eoghan was stabbed but no one noticed, not Gaius and not Leon either, and where was all the blood on his clothes. Surely a stab wound can't be hidden from sight. The person in the eye of the deer ploy has been used twice already, once in 1.1 The Dragon's Call and in 3.8 The Eye of the Phoenix. Where the deer's mirrored reflection shows the real person. Merlin calls Arthur: "the once and future king." Gwen has already been referred to as the once and future queen, in the episode of the same name in 2.2.
Janet Montgomery was a cast member of 5th Disconnected (2008) movie to appear in Merlin. Bradley James was in it, as was Kyle Redmond-Jones who played Sir Owain; Caroline Faber as Hunith and Holly Grainger as Sophia. Janet Montgomery was also in season 2 of Human Target and in Made in Jersey.
In 3.6 The Changeling, Uther pressures Arthur into an arranged marriage and in 1.7 The Gates of Avalon, Arthur announces his intention to marry Sophia, who is really a Sidhes. She must sacrifice the heart of a prince to cross the gates of Avalon, where the Sidhes (an immortal race akin to fairies) belong.
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