Contains spoilers...
As Gaston (Andre Flynn) and Lorraine's (Robert Glenister) army stands poised at the outskirts of Paris, the news spreading that Louis (Ryan Gage) has died having seen his son once and for the last time, they rush to help, but he's gone. In a meeting with the council Treville (Hugo Speer) is told Louis took back making Anne (Alexandra Dowling) his regent and he is now the regent. Which the council agreed to, but even Treville didn't know of. Treveill has Athos (Tom Burke) take away the dauphin to a safe place since it's too dangerous for him at the palace. Anne demands to see him but Treville won't tell her where he is. She's also upset that she's no longer regent as they are at war.
Athos takes him to Constance (Tamla Kari) at the garrison and they didn't even bother changing his clothes until later, but also stupidly left them behind. She and Sylvie (Thalissa Teixeira) take the dauphin to Christophe's old house, but he doesn't remain there for long, as Sylvie leaves him alone and he goes out. Here he picks some fruit from the stall and the woman makes a commotion even after Constance pays for what he took. She wants the guards to arrest them, as they leave. It was a bit of a cat and mouse and hide and seek story in the ep, didn't know whether to laugh or what as everything that could've gone wrong did and it was predictable. .
Athos doesn't tell anyone what he's done, but it would've been easy for anyone to guess where they would've taken him. Treville gives the order to disband the Red Guard and the Musketeers must enforce it. Athos tells Marcheaux (Matt Stokoe) that they can't have traitors in their midst. As they fight, Porthos (Howard Charles) dislocates Marcheaux's arm and he still tries to fight them. Gaston is impatient and wants to march into Paris now and become the heir, or leave the dauphin on the throne for a while, where he can then have an unfortunate riding accident. Lorraine also wants his lands restored to him, so they share a common goal. However Marcheaux and Grimaud (Matthew McNulty) have other ideas, they can let them have the palace, he just wants the gold and wealth. Also Grimaud has the gold to pay the army. Smarmy Grimaud still can't be taken care of.
Treville sends Aramis (Santiago Cabrera) and Porthos out to get Gaston as he has an offer for him. He can have the villa that he likes and will have an income. Gaston thinking Louis's left him a legacy. Treville plans to divide and conquer. He also has a plan to find a boy who resembles the dauphin and D'Artagnan goes in search of one. Anne still demands to see her son and when Aramis returns with Gaston, she asks if he knows where he is. Aramis also asking Athos what happened to
"all for one." Gaston spies D'Artagnan taking the boy into the carriage and Aramis watches him take the bait.
Treville and Porthos ride out to meet with Lorraine as Treville offers him back his lands independent of France, which is what he wanted. Grimaud isn't a party to this, but he knows the men won't march without Lorraine leading them. Also concluding that the dauphin wouldn't leave Paris, that Treville would find it too risky. So he sends Marcheaux and his men to search for the boy. Constance takes him to her house and he rests there. She must find Athos to tell him and finds Anne at Treville's office. She agrees for her to see her son at the church, which was silly cos Treville was her regent now and not Anne, so she couldn't really order her to do anything.
Sylvie tells her she can't do that but she does anyway and Sylvie finds Aramis to tell him, but Marcheaux overhears her cos she shouts out the location. Which was stupid so much for keeping him under the radar. Marcheaux heads there with his men , as Athos and Aramis must fight the guards. Treville says he should get Gaston anything he wants, increase the offer of money and offer him joint leadership of the army too. As Gaston tells Lorraine he was offered nothing, there wasn't any deal or legacy. As Treville finally agrees with Lorraine he will give him back his lands definitely, if he agrees to move his men back as a goodwill gesture, which he does. But takes him a long time to sign the treaty.
At the church Marcheaux's men try to take the dauphin, but Aramis arrives in time and they have to get the boy away. He tells Anne she's in too much danger here. Athos finally says he should've told them what was really happening, since when did they do that and why start now, it's a little late in the final series, ha. D'Artagnan finds Constance at the laundry and the woman agrees to hide the dauphin there but she doesn't want money, only the garrison's laundry. She and Sylvie leave, as D'Artagnan hides under the floorboards. The woman tells the others to act naturally, which was a joke, as the men search and find nothing, she breathes a sigh of relief, alerting Grimaud that all's not as it seems. What she couldn't wait until he left. Thus he puts his sword through the floorboards, yeah cos he's so clever. Finally stabbing D'Artagnan as he gives a shout in pain. He could've moved from there, but he had to protect the dauphin.
They're both taken to the camp and Grimaud tries to stop Lorraine from signing, he does sign the treaty, but he stabs him repeatedly and Gaston escapes as the others arrived. Treville and Porthos hold them off as best they can with D'Artagnan. But Treville is shot by Grimaud, why didn't Athos just shoot Grimaud instead of charging at him with his sword, it would've been easy. He's done that in the past, but Grimaud gets away and lives to fght another day in the series finale. As they stand over Treville, who dies. Think it would've been better to either keep the dauphin in the palace or have him hide out somewhere else instead. Still plenty set here for the finale, as Grimaud surely must be taken care of once and for all. He's gotten away with too much for too long and it's always Athos who manages to miss him. Wonder if we'll get a happy finale or one of some emotion and will our Musketeers all survive. Silly question really, they have to have a happy ending seeing as it's the last ever ep and also they've had way too much deaths already. Well, aside from Grimaud whose luck must run out.
A niggle was Milady (Maimie McCoy) Treville hired her as an assassin, but she hasn't done much of anything lately, let alone any assassinating. Will she come back in the finale and assassinate Gaston or will we not see her again. She's meant to have a showdown with Constance though, at least, so things can be put right, to a degree, but as this is a different adaptation to the books, probably this won't happen, then again...
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