A woman is robbed of her jewels, who turns out to be Henrietta Marie (Olivia Poulet) Louis's (Ryan Gage) sister and Queen of England, as she's in France raising funds to fight Cromwell in the civil war, but can't do that now until she gets her jewels back. The task given to the Musketeers. Sylvie (Thalissa Teixeria) is angry that Athos (Tom Burke) has to find them whilst the poor people can't even feed their own children, but those are his orders. Which puts a dampener on their impending relationship, which really seems to be based on mutual attraction (lust) rather than anything meaningful. He can't condone what she's doing as she still continues with her meetings advocating liberty and egalite which the Musketeers see as sedition and treason. However she doesn't and still continues with it. She wants him to attend a meeting but he can't do that and put himself in the middle of it all. His allegiance is to king and country. She finds it difficult that she can't get to know him until he gets to know her. Also he has to leave before they get to be together.
Porthos: "Only an idiot would stay in Paris after robbing the king's sister."
D'Artagnan: "Two words: needle, haystack."
Athos: "...move now."
Aramis: "I've got two better ones: coitus interruptus."
They find that the thief is Emile Bonnaire (James Callis) who they give chase to through the marketplace and find him in a wagon carrying the dead, where he dumps his pouch. Having to go on a jewel hunt with him as he's sold the jewels to several people. The first one is a rich woman who as D'Artagnan finds out plaits the jewels into the tail of her horse who is named Serena, after she's introduced all her daughters to him, he asks if she has anymore and is slapped. A bit like the scene were the prince searches for Cinderella using the slipper. They have to ensnare the horse and get the jewels out of the tail, but none of them can manage it. Athos suggests they shoot the horse and D'Artagnan stops him and puts the rope around his neck, forgetting he used to be a farmer, which is what I said. Bonnaire cuts the hair from the tail and Porthos (Howard Charles) throws a diamond into the field where the poor workers are toiling, saying they'll find it.
Henrietta is ungrateful as it's not much and she has to meet the Dutch financier, Van Laar (Allan Corduner). Louis suggests Feron (Rupert Everett) go instead and tell him she's been delayed, where he hatches his own plot to get a loan for himself under Louis's name, saying he wants to buy Anne (Alexandra Dowling) a necklace, as Feron has his own debts to contend with. The next set of jewels aren't so easy to gather and the man isn't very reputable. Bonnaire has a plan to use some English phrase if things go awry. Which they do and we have the Musketeers having to fight for the jewels. D'Artagnan is gotten the better of after the man's stabbed and thrown Bonnaire out of the window. But manages to fire a shot saving D'Artagnan.
They take him before Louis after Porthos tends to his wound and he escapes his chains, after telling Constance (Tamla Kari) he was a gardener and he loves his wife. He asks Henrietta not to kill him cos he can double her money, which Louis thinks is a good idea, as he has the money he was paid for the jewels. This means her money's doubled already and she finds out that Caroline (Sarah Smart) is his wife, Henrietta's Lady in Waiting. He'll get the money if she agrees to let them go, which she does, as long as he never returns to France. Yes but this isn't her country now and she's not ruler of it to send him into exile. At the pit where the bodies are buried they find his pouch and each of the Musketeers must decide if they will let him go and they do.
Aramis (Santiago Cabrera) meets someone, Pauline (Laura Haddock) he used to know from his past, as she's with another man on the street. She hands out money to a former soldier and says they must if they can.
D'Artagnan: Once day you [Aramis] will write your memoirs and there will be a woman's name on every page." And Pauline's name will be on the first page as he tells him.
She's engaged to St Pierre (Paul McGann) and later she tells Aramis that she's being blackmailed. He tells Constance that Pauline was a prostitute, just like his mother and they grew up together, who did her best for her children. Telling Constance that his mother, was his mother and nothing less. She takes him back to meet St Pierre and to find the blackmailer, telling her fiance Aramis is going to give her away. Aramis spots the stable boy as the blackmailer and tries to reason with him. But he's protecting St Pierre.
Pauline refuses to come clean about her past and doesn't listen to Aramis. As the others arrive to retrieve the blue diamond which is still missing and is given to Pauline in a ring, by St Pierre. He refuses to give it up. She later kills the stable boy and still wants Aramis to give her away with blood on her dress, as they realize what she's done. It was all so pointless really and hiding her past too, having to resort to murder now.
Pauline gives them the ring as Aramis tells Athos not to order him to take it cos he won't follow orders, Porthos walks off to let them sort it out and Athos says Aramis is his penance, with Porthos agreeing, he's his penance too.
Feron and Grimaud (Matthew McNulty) still plot some more as Grimaud sneaks around the place, Feron calling him "a serpent in the night." As he also tried to give money to Sylvie for her cause and for the people. Telling her he knows what it's like to have nothing, but she refuses to take it. Was that another way of getting into her good books, or just a way to trap her for what she's doing, like I said she gets around. Don't; think Grimaud has it in him to give away money out of the 'goodness' of his heart, no good and no heart! Ha.
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