Porthos (Howard Charles) learns of his father from Treville (Hugo Speer) and ends up going to see him. Here he reveals himself with Aramis (Santiago Cabrera) and they find two girls being beaten relentlessly by a man by a gate. He says Belgard (Liam Cunningham) doesn't see anyone but Porthos enters anyway. He says he's his son and he finally gets to see him. Telling him that it was de Foix and Treville who lied and took Porthos from him. Belgard introduces Porthos to his half sister, Eleanor (Emma Hamilton) and her husband Anton (Steven Cree) who are both perturbed by him being here just for his inheritance. At dinner he accuses him of being a blackman out for wealth and Porthos is spat at by him too and he fights him, beating him down. Aramis asks about the girls but doesn't get much out of them.
Eleanor tells him the dead girl was struck by a horse and he doesn't believe her, she'll send her back to her parents. Aramis then follows the other girl to a large house and gets in, saying he's here early for the entertainment. She doesn't want to leave with him and Eleanor gets back anyway, saying he can't afford the entry of 20 livres. He returns to the garrison and tells the others of what's happening here and he sends in Athos (Tom Burke) and D'Artagnan (Luke Pasqualino) as potential clients, as girls are paraded for the highest bidder. Athos says he bids "nothing." Then gets the girls to leave as a fight ensues and they manage to leave. She tells them what they've done and they think maybe Belgard might be involved too.
Belgard is glad that he finally has a son who will defend him against his son in law and daughter and he shows him a photo of his mother, who he says was beautiful. She was a servant and he married her but his father objected, and Treville and de Foix were colluding with him, taking them both away from him. Porthos asks Treville what happened and he says Belgard isn't being honest with him. Porthos hands him his Musketeer sleeve and leaves. At the house he noses around and doesn't find anything and then hears knocking outside. Here he finds a chained girl and Belgard tells him Anton is nothing but a pimp and needs to be taken care of. As the others arrive in time to help Porthos with him and Eleanor.
Porthos tells Belgard he knows he's lying cos that woman isn't his mother, he recalls his mother's face even though he was young and he can't believe him. Treville said they swear on a blood oath but he thought he had to keep it, they took him and his mother and left them at the court of miracles, but later he went back to find them and he was gone. When he did find him, he made him a Musketeer. As they leave Belgard alone, Porthos tells Athos his place is much bigger than his. As Aramis hands him back his Musketeer sleeve. Doubt Porthos would've wanted to be a part of that family and his Musketeer family is all he needs, no backstabbing and fighting there to get one better over each other.
Constance (Tamla Kari) mourns Bonacieux and tells D'Artagnan she's not ready for him yet. He tells her to decide quickly or she'll find he's no longer around. Though he was unable to understand that she could be in mourning especially since she'd decided she wanted to leave him, but he remarkably wasn't very comforting towards her. No matter what he thought of him, or she of Bonacieux too, he was her husband for a number of years and wasn't really a wife beater until that one moment in the last ep. She did have a good life with him. As she said maybe she shouldn't have married him. Le May (Ed Stoppard) offers a marriage proposal to her since she intrigued him and he was impressed withe her resolve and attitude in general. However she tells him she loves another and with some convincing from Anne (Alexandra Dowling) who tells her true love is very hard to find and she can be with D'Artagnan, she can even arrange for them to be at court. As Constance goes off to change her clothes and ended up dressing like Alice in Wonderland, at least I thought so!
Rochefort (Marc Warren) in his madness and stupidity confronts Anne about the cross that he gave her when he was her tutor and expected some sort of feelings from her in return. She replies she was only 14 and he tells her she gave it away to another man and to Aramis. She tells him to leave but he doesn't and instead he forces himself on her, as she tries to resist him, Constance enters before he stops and Anne stabs him with her hair pin, taking out his eye, for which he now has to wear a blindfold. It's easy to understand with his actions how Milady (Maimie McCoy) claimed that Thomas also tried to force himself on her, if such a vile man can try to take advantage of none other than the queen, so shamelessly.
Milady searches for Athos and tells him for a price, she'll reveal information about Rochefort which will help them. He says she should tell him anyway for France and have his respect, as well as being able to redeem herself a little. Of course she doesn't tell him since she needs some way to make a living. Constance finally tells D'Artagnan he's the only one for her and that she loves him, before he tells her to shut up and kiss him.
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