Porthos (Howard Charles) celebrates his birthday by getting drunk what else, and shoots a jug off Aramis's (Santiago Cabrera) head. They leave and Porthos leaves later on and is attacked. He wakes to find himself with a dead man nearby. He's arrested by the guards and the judge orders a swift sentence of execution immediately. Treville (Hugo Speer) wants to appeal to Louis (Ryan Gage) which he's entitled to do and he orders the Musketeers to distract them. Howevrr Porthos is kidnapped by some masked assailants. D'Artagnan shoots at one of them and he turns out to be a criminal. Aramis says he knows where they're headed. As they find the inn, the woman asks if it's "raining Musketeers outside?"
Aramis; "I'm guessing you saw my friend here."
Woman: "Tall, better looking than you."
Aramis: "There's no accounting for taste."
The Cardinal (Peter Capaldi) and Louis plan on making a new and better modern France and to this end they must clear out the criminal quarter, known as the Court of Miracles,as Athos (Tom Burke) explains to D'Artagnan (Luke Pasqualino) it's where miracles can happen. D'Artagnan thinks Porthos may have shot him cos he was drunk, but Aramis tells him it's Porthos. They head to the court but have to run back as the people don't want them there. Athos will return later disguised and is met by Porthos's childhood friend, Charon (Ashley Walters) who gives him a message for Porthos, that they haven't given up on him, but of course, he doesn't convey it to him. Porthos meets up with his former lover, Flea (Fiona Glascott) as well, who wanted him to stay but he wasn't right for this place and left to become a Musketeer.
Treville tells them to investigate the dead man and they go to the morgue where they find he was shot at close range, Aramis saying it was murder. D'Artagnan takes his key and a necklace, the inscription bears his name. Aramis: "killing is not an exact science, but a messy business and as soldiers, it is our business." Treville tells them he was a man from a great family and they search his place where his father, Emile de Mauvoisin ((Anton Lesser) told him he had gone to live. Here they find letters and leaflets from a Hugonet church and also a half burnt letter which bears the dead man's name, Jean, having both barrels of stolen gunpowder. Ye olde gunpowder plot repeated in season 3. After giving chase and shooting at a masked man, how could Aramis have missed that shot.
The cardinal plots with Emile to blow up the court and Charon plans a celebration for the people, with expensive bottles of the king's wine. They find out that the gunpowder stored at the church wasn't put there by Jean nor was he planning to blow it up, as Pastor Ferrand (Michael Jenn) tells them, it's not his writing on the letter. Which just leaves Emile (common name in this show) their family was Hugonet but became Catholic as it was more lucrative, but they're bankrupt.
Porthos relives his youth here and spends a night with Flea, which Charon knows about and he plans on getting Porthos to escape Paris. As he's shot he asks if the bullet was meant for him, then why not Porthos, yeah cos who exactly knows he's here aside from the people of the court. Charon tells Flea to pack as they want to leave here and Porthos finds the gunpowder barrels wired to explode.
The Musketeers foil their plans and Flea is shot saving Porthos from Charon. They find Charon and he fights with Porthos and tries to stab him, Aramis finishing him off and saving his brother. Treville gets a confession from Emile and asks for his pistol as he's still a gentleman, shooting himself. Porthos is pardoned and goes back with the others, asking if any of them doubted he did it, D'Artagnan replying not for a second. They also ask if he didn't think they'd come after him and help him. Some backstory on Porthos showing where he grew up as an orphan and how he doesn't know when his birthday is but just picked a date as a child.
Seems in this frst series everyone is guilty of something or suspected of it at least and is sentenced to execution, D'Artagnan, then Athos and now Porthos, seems Aramis hasn't been, not yet anyway. But he's too busy with women to get into nay sort f trouble, though his mistress Adele was killed by the cardinal for her dalliance with him. Porthos's account of what he did as relayed to the judge: took a walk and "admired the beauty and the serenity of Paris after dark." Was hardly believable.
Aramis: "religion without art is so much less...seductive." So what art will he find when he leaves and becomes a monk at the abbey later. He usually has the conversation about religion and also how men have killed for less? More so than the others. More religious than the others and also as the queen gave him her cross.
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