The Musketeers are on the trail of Grimaud (Matthew McNulty) and interrogate an innkeeper, with Aramis (Santiago Cabrera) shooting a bottle off his head as he refuses to speak of his whereabouts. Then D'Artagnan (Luke Pasaqualino) gets the notion to use cadet Brujon (Tom Morley) to shoot an apple off his head instead, he pretends to have a shaky hand and he finally relents and tells them he's heading east. The cadet fires the gun and the innkeeper is surprised, D'Artagnan adding he is a cadet but a Musketeer cadet. Athos (Tom Burke) was losing patience with him, especially since he wants Grimaud more than anyone. He says he's well enough to ride after being injured in the shootout. They ride out when they see a child in the forest and naturally they must follow her, Porthos (Howard Charles) and D'Artagnan are caught in a trap and shout for help. The women have the others too. They know all about the soldiers in the forest and how they came to their village and took everything.
They have built this new place hidden away and Aramis and his comment about always being tied up by a woman didn't really help them any. "I've been tied up by women too but it's only ever been recreational."
Juliette (Fiona O'Shaugnessy) doesn't want to help them, but one of the women, Theresa (Meera Syal) says they should and it's only for one night. They meet some other women and one of them, Elodie (Lily Loveless) is pregnant, her husband is away fighting and she asks for any news about his regiment. Porthos tells her they only know they were headed to another place. They also have a man in their midst, Bastien (Howard Melling) who says he was made fun of by the soldiers since he's a cripple, knew he was lying. They feed them and Juliette tells them that she knew Grimaud's mother when she was little, as Theresa also tells them that he was here and he's probably in a cabin in the woods.
They are raided by men and one of them kills a woman, as they realize they're looking for something. The women fend them off as best they can and Aramis asks for a poultice and bandages for Athos but Juliette refuses him, cos they don't have much and can't spare it. They head after the remaining soldiers the next day as they invade their camp again and D'Artagnan tells Athos to continue on his own, as he heads back to the camp. They capture one man, Robert ( and find out that they're deserters but they're also criminals. He tells them they were taken by the soldiers to fight and calls them cannon meat. He ran away and he may be a thief but he isn't a murderer of women and children. He thinks he's going to be killed and tells him to shoot already.
D'Artagnan: "we're all afraid of dying, the trick is to just find something worth dying for." Much the same as what Porthos said to Elodie about being afraid in the battle. As he later says, "...fear has no power over you." That's why he returned to his men.
Athos finds the cabin and is caught off guard as he's hit and is barricaded inside by Theresa who tells him she knew Grimaud's mother. She was barely a child and was mistreated by the soldiers. She could hardly look after herself let alone a baby and she rescued him when she left him in the river and brought him up as her own, well she didn't do a very good job of it. Athos tells her she should've left him in the river. She tells him he's better than him and much cleverer, er, don't think so, he may keep getting away but that's just what you'd expect from a sewer rat! ha. Sorry. Athos manages to get out and runs after her but she poisons him instead, oh no a woman got the better of him. The others find him and bring him back to camp. Er, one point, when he ran out of the cabin he didn't have his sword with him, but when he's found his sword is by him. He wouldn't have been able to go back for it though, would he?
Elodie tends to him and tells them there's no antidote, if he makes it he makes it. Porthos talks with her and tells her about her husband and that there were casualties, he's probably dead. She's left alone now and he says his mother brought him up alone too and he turned out all right. She hopes she's having a son and he also admits he was afraid in the war. He even left one day and got a few miles away cos of what fear does to you, but then thought of his men and came back. There's another raid and Juliette slits the throat of one of the men. They're after gold and Bastien is behind it. See the weasel was obvious! They take her and leave a note for the gold. Athos has nightmares and dreams of Grimaud and of Sylvie (Thalissa Teixeira) as Aramis later tells everyone, after he recovers.
Athos tells Aramis to meet by the blacksmith's place and they lay traps for the men and fight them. The women help and eventually they are victorious. Juliette tells Bastien she used the gold for the women and this place as he tries to kill her, Aramis shoots him. Porthos tells Elodie he can stay here and help her if she wants but she tells him that France needs him more than her or her daughter. There last ep Porthos was speaking of not having a family and this ep he could've had a ready-made family of his own.
At court, Anne (Alexandra Dowling) tells Louis (Ryan Gage) to a name her regent and she'll look after their son and Louis doesn't want any part of it. He later watches her play with the dauphin and Treville (Hugo Speer) tells him he should make peace with her. He asks her for a drink with him and tells her he will name her regent as she promises to write history with the dauphin as his heir and how he may be Aramis's son by blood, but Louis taught him everything. He will never be known as his son. Admitting she slept with Aramis once, well once was enough wasn't it. Aramis also acknowledging to Juliette that he has no children of his own either. He couldn't exactly tell her could he.
Anyway this ep seemed more like a filler, rather than one where they find Grimaud and Gaston. Even though Louis doesn't want to believe that Gaston is in on the plot to raise an army. He thinks Gaston could've been taken as a hostage. He lost Feron and he doesn't want to lose another brother. As Treville tells Louis he can't have a state funeral since he was a traitor, Louis adding that a traitor wouldn't have saved him. Theresa vanished too so she probably knows where Grimaud i,s a wonder he didn't turn on her either, when she nursed him.
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