As Rochefort (Marc Warren) sports his new eye patch he is visited by Milady (Maimie McCoy) who tries to subtly let drop she knows who he really is and that his eye patch isn't very fashionable. He grabs her neck and threatens to strangle her then and there unless she begs for his forgiveness and mercy, clearly a nasty piece of work, mad and a misogynist too, as his plan to oust the king and get Anne (Alexandra Dowling) for himself is still unfolding. Milady heads to the garrison and tells them she will let them know about Rochefort, Treville (Hugo Speer) assuring her she will be paid. That he's a Spanish agent. However they need proof of this. Marguerite (Charlotte Salt) still has to help Rochefort and he won't let her go. As Lemay (Ed Stoppard) prescribes some medicine for Louis's (Ryan Gage) headache, he's still at a dilemma of what to do with Anne. He thinks he should see her and forgive her, but is dissuaded by Rochefort. Who later brings in another bottle and substitutes it for the one Louis was prescribed, as Marguerite still does nothing and even lets Louis drink it. He ends up poisoned by him and is saved by Rochefort.
Rochefort accuses Lemay of being behind the plot and of Constance (Tamla Kari) helping him too. However he states he only administered a slight opiate for the headache. Marguerite lies saying he and Constance were both intimate and planned this together. As Rochefort sentences them to death. He forces Constance to watch Lemay being killed and says she will have until dawn to think of this and to help him. Aramis (Santiago Cabrera) tells the others of his great transgression with Anne, well, Athos (Tom Burke) speaks for him and up pops the treason again. It is shocking for them to think that his son is the future king of France. Aramis telling Porthos (Howard Charles) he didn't want him to be a part of it so he didn't tell him.
They fear Anne is in danger and take her out of the palace to the convent, where they decide what they will do. Catherine (Marianne Oldman) makes an appearance at last and follows Milady in the marketplace, finally taking her to an abandoned building in the market. Knew Milady already sensed she was around, suppose they had to take care of that business somehow, but it just didn't seem to fit in, how for one did they know Catherine was around. She asks about Thomas and Milady tells her he really did force himself on her, as she stares at the noose she has waiting for her. Athos may have let her go, but she won't, as he enters to save her. She asks if he felt anything at all for her and doesn't answer.
As Athos and Milady break into Rochefort's office to find proof of his treason and lies. They find nothing and are almost caught as she hides them in the cardinal's secret bookcase. Where they passionately kiss, as they can't get beyond that, and their past, no matter how many times they say it. Rochefort senses something amiss as the candle still smokes but they are saved when he hears cries from Louis.
As they leave, Athos takes Rochfort's seal and rides out to the convent. They hatch a plan whereby Vargas will be tricked into coming out into the open and into France, where they can use him for their own purposes. But they can't forge his writing. However Sister Teresa (Hara Yannas) helps them as she's been reproducing copies of the texts. Porthos will ride alone to deliver the message and has a shoot out with Vargas, until the others arrive to take him back. At the palace Rochefort orders everyone to leave and convinces Louis to sign a death warrant for Anne, it's the only way he can be free of her and after the letters that she wrote to Phillip asking for help. As he refuses to believe it was when he was lost and presumably dead, she wrote them to save the dauphin. To which Constance also agreed.
At the convent Aramis is told that Anne regrets nothing of that time here, but she also wants to return to Paris and convince Louis. As she does she, Athos tells D'Artagnan (Luke Pasqualino) to see Constance whilst he still can and he speaks to her through the bars, telling each other they love one another and D'Artagnan is beaten for his troubles. Aramis is arrested by Rochefort for treason and as he whispers to him about sleeping with Anne, whilst his guards can overhear him, he was just uptight cos he wasn't the one who got Anne and she wanted and wants nothing to do with him.
Rochefort rising in the ranks and using any and every means open to him, including people easily disposable, blinded by love and deceit on the other side. Withe Marguerite as his tool who was so willingly able to help him, forget about his threats, but it seemed at times she was doing this out of being scorned and spurned by Aramis, declaring her love for him, when he was just using her to see the dauphin. Yet she too easily plummets the depths of despair as she can't find a way out of it and instead of coming clean, which would've been too easy, all she does is warn Aramis to save himself, something he won't do and won't leave Anne in danger again. Rochefort: "I am your god now." As deluded as ever and proved even more dangerous than the cardinal.
Milady expressing some more home truths to Athos about not lying to him about his brother and she couldn't tell him who she really was or he wouldn't have married her, so she became the cardinal's paid assassin cos she had nothing else to live for. "Why not become the woman you believed me to be." Lots going on to provide an explosive series 2 finale.
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