VOICE: Previously on "Robin Hood."
[horse neighing]
[screaming]
I apologize for my lateness.
I believe you arrived just in time.
Mother, I come bearing gifts.
My Lord.
I did not know.
Maid Marian of Locksley,
you will swear your fealty to me
and serve as lady in waiting.
What brings you here, my son?
Father's days are numbered. It is my intention
that I take his place.
Blood does not make a proper king.
My path is decided.
-And it will be the throne. -John would defy anything
that doesn't serve John.
I must know his mind. His methods.
-His endgame. -How am I to do such a thing?
Make yourself visible. Be a rose.
Not a lily.
EARL MARSHAL: I came to speak with you about Priscilla.
I would like your permission to court her.
Any hurt done to her by you
shall be repaid a thousand-fold.
Tell me what you know of the forester Hugh of Locksley.
ROBIN: Aronne was a horrible accident.
-It was all an accident. -I-- I didn't mean for
any of this to happen, Marian.
It doesn't matter what you meant.
I never want to see you again.
-ROBIN: I made a deal. -JOHN: With who?
Eleanor, she wants to stir the rebellion.
-To what end? -To force the King
-to come here. -And you get what?
She will release Marian from her charge.
-[groans] -[battle-cry]
Time to settle accounts.
I would kill you, but leaving you
with no gold is a far crueler fate.
SHERIFF: Robin Hood has robbed Baron Warick.
I am holding you, the leaders
of the Saxon community, responsible.
You will be jailed until Robin Hood comes forward,
and submits himself to Norman justice.
ROBIN HOOD
Your presence is requested.
[keys jingling]
Robin Hood has once again evaded justice.
I can only suspect the Saxon people
have had a hand in it.
I have tried reasoning with you.
Offering civility, breaking bread.
Now it seems a more direct approach
is in order.
So...
one of you will be freed
to deliver Robin Hood a message.
If he does not surrender by week's end,
the rest of you will hang
as traitors.
It is time Hood learned the true price of his defiance.
[dramatic music]
If you value the lives of the others,
you will get my message to Hood.
You truly believe Robin Hood will surrender?
I hope not.
If he did, he'd ruin my plans.
[chuckling]
Feels different, doesn't it?
The air, thicker with influence.
Sharper with ambition.
Is that what that smell is?
You're nervous.
You belong here, Priscilla.
You've always known how to navigate any room
and turn it in your favor-- Westminster's no different.
Wilderness of its own,
complete with predators and prey.
Sounds like my kind of jungle.
[soft chatter]
So, I see he's brought a pet from Nottingham.
I give her a week.
Perhaps less.
[soft chatter continues]
She won't last.
[soft music]
Soon...
all of Westminster will be introduced
to Lady Priscilla of Nottingham.
Marshal, it's beautiful.
You must be properly adorned.
[sighing]
It feels good to be here.
Away from Nottingham.
Far away from that devil Robin Hood.
What's the tide bringing today?
A ship from the east.
[eerie music]
John.
It's been some time.
I was beginning to think you died.
Not for lack of trying.
This is Tuck. Rob.
Rob?
Not Robin Hood?
Is this not the name you were given?
Not by my father.
By my enemy.
Then it will be the one that endures.
The name your enemy curses
is the one history will write.
Ibrahim... Al-Rashid.
"Al-Rashid."
"The rightly-guided."
A name fitting for a man with instincts,
a man such as myself.
Where did you learn Arabic?
Oh, I don't know it, it's just that name,
it was from a book my mother made me read.
She was a good mother then.
She was.
Word of your exploits has reached London.
Stealing from Norman lords.
Infuriating Nottingham's crusader... the Sheriff.
-It's impressive. -I'm not here to be admired.
Do you have what we need?
[soft thump]
ROB: Steel.
We'll take these.
Those are more.
-How much more? -Fifty ducats.
We didn't bring that much gold to the city.
But we have more hidden.
I can have that brought to you in the next week.
I don't know, John.
I have never failed to pay.
You never faced what you are facing.
You're not taking on drunken soldiers in a tavern.
You are challenging the Sheriff,
and a man like that collects his debts in blood.
I think you are going to die.
He won't die.
He's too big to die. Look at him.
You ask much of me, Hood.
We will make good on our debt.
And more than gold, we'll owe you something greater.
What is that?
Loyalty.
[horse nickering]
TUCK: Something's changed.
A few nights ago, your ambitions ended
at the borders of Nottingham.
Now here we are in London,
making alliances with Saracens.
What aren't you telling me?
Time for ale.
It's a long ways back.
And we must be properly... satiated.
[chuckling]
Not for me. You go on.
I have something I need to do.
Come on.
IBRAHIM: I can get you to the traitor's gate.
No further.
The woman you want,
her quarters are in the east wing.
That's all I was told.
That's all I need.
MARIAN: [echoing] Rob...
[echoing laughter]
Marian...
Rob... for pity's sake,
what are you doing here? Leave!
I need you to do something for me.
What are you talking about?
Deliver this to the Queen.
And tell her it came from Robin Hood.
You dare speak that name in front of me.
And you have the gall to ask anything of me.
Leave, Rob, now.
I-- I will.
I only need you to tell me one thing,
and that's you don't love me.
You say it, and you'll never see me again.
Love has nothing to do with it.
Love has everything to do with it.
What else is there?
There's all the rest of it.
There's my brother, he's dead!
And there are your lies!
The question is not whether I love you or not.
The question is, do I want to love you?
And the answer is no, I don't.
[door slamming]
What's wrong with you, Nottingham?
Nothing.
MARSHAL: Prince John seeks an audience with the Pope?
Then he's after papal endorsement.
It's a requirement for any noble
who wants to ascend the throne.
It won't be easy.
The path to His Holiness is never straight.
It's a political dance.
He'll need to sit with the cardinals first.
Navigate their ambitions
and egos just to get near His Holiness,
and even then,
the Pope's blessing will not come cheap.
-John doesn't have any funds. -No.
But from what I understand, he's seeking patrons.
[scoffing]
I still have reliable agents in Rome?
You do.
Write to them and tell them I want their full attention
-to this matter. -And beyond that?
Nothing. We wait.
We set the board, and then we make a move.
John's proving smarter than I gave him credit for.
Well...
he is my son, after all.
[door closing]
[gentle music]
[birds chirping]
[horse hooves clopping]
[horse nickering]
Where is he?
-Who? -Robin Hood.
Where do they hide?
Don't lie to me. I know you foresters can find him.
-The palace suits you. -Of course it does.
Have you seen who I'm here with?
The measure of a woman isn't whose arm she's on.
You told me that once.
Did I? Huh.
Well, that was before said arm belonged
to the Earl Marshal of Pembroke.
You're different with him. In a good way.
He's like no other man I've ever known.
He doesn't try to shrink me.
He doesn't want to.
You love him, don't you?
Yes.
I'm happy for you, Priscilla.
You're thinking about Rob again, aren't you?
I would've thought you moved on to something better by now.
Someone less impossible.
I'm trying.
It's just...
well, last night, I was unavoidably reminded of him.
Marian!
What do you think a life with Rob would look like?
You'd be hunted, to the ends of the earth.
Is that your dream?
To ruin yourself for a man who can't even save himself?
No, of course not.
Sweet Marian.
Nothing will change what Rob has become.
The man you loved is gone, beyond gone.
Condemned.
I know.
And I accept it.
[ominous music]
[door opening]
Elder Gamewell, Sire.
He has an entreaty to make.
Let us hear it then.
Hanging the others will only stoke the fire
between Saxon and Norman.
If a man must die for Rob's actions...
let it be me alone.
A selfless act, and admirable, Gamewell, but...
ultimately meaningless.
The law must be upheld,
or this land would slide back into the anarchy it once knew
before Norman rule brought order.
What you call order, Sire, is but a cudgel wielded
by the elite to strip Saxons of their birthright.
[chuckling]
The same tired grievance.
Not tired.
True, Sire.
Levies that break the backs of honest men.
Laws that serve the privileged alone.
If a Saxon cannot pay, he starves.
If he resists, he hangs.
You speak of justice, Gamewell.
Justice?
Was it justice that hung Hugh Locksley?
I tried to help Locksley.
I offered him a station of honor,
head forester, he spat on it.
Defied the very law he swore to serve.
-He knew the penalty. -He was a good man.
[chuckling]
And yet one of your own testified against him.
A Saxon?
Alwin, the forester.
It was his word that condemned Hugh Locksley.
I didn't start these troubles, Gamewell.
In fact, I did everything in my power to prevent them.
I sought peace.
But my hand was forced.
So, here we are.
Robin Hood will pay for his crimes,
just as his father did before him.
The rope will tighten.
And the world will move on.
Except for anyone who gets between myself and the boy.
I read you wrong, Marian.
I'd've thought a woman of ambition
would prefer the courts of men to the fields of God.
I prefer beauty, wherever I find it.
Beauty is an interesting thing, isn't it?
It requires both patience and control.
Control?
Doesn't beauty flourish best when left untamed?
Well, that depends.
Some things left to grow wild become magnificent.
Others become weeds.
Perhaps that is the burden of the gardener,
to know the difference.
Unfortunately, Your Highness,
today I feel more a weed than flower.
Now that, Marian, is the first thing
you've ever been wrong about.
[chuckling]
Hm, gardens here should be grander.
Like at Fontainebleau, have you been?
I'll take you someday.
That is, if you stop disappearing.
-Disappearing? -You always seem to find
a reason to slip from my soirées,
just before they get interesting.
Your mother's presence tends to complicate matters.
Well, she won't always be here.
When she's gone, much will change.
New rulers, new alliances.
Perhaps even a new queen one day.
A new queen?
Who would dare wish for such a thing?
It's not a wish, Marian.
It is an inevitability.
Time ends all things.
And all people.
Tell me, don't you ever wish for something greater
than what you were given?
Sometimes, yes.
Of course you do.
A woman like you isn't meant to simply exist.
She's meant to have...
whatever she wants.
And you shall, Maid Marian.
All you must do...
is speak it.
[soft music]
[horse neighing]
ELDER: A curse upon you.
Because of you, good Saxons will hang,
your uncle among them.
What are you talking about?
Your uncle and four more, the Sheriff took them.
Punishment for what you did to Baron Warick.
And he'll hang them all, unless you turn yourself in.
My uncle is guilty of nothing.
He did everything
to live by their customs.
He respected their laws, he paid his taxes.
Sent his only son to court and this is his repayment?
Betrayal... execution.
What if we bargain?
Offer them gold for Gamewell's life?
Sheriff's a kingsman, not a merchant.
What I'd do is return the gold to Warick and hang him anyway.
Then I'll turn myself in.
No, you won't.
He'll make you watch the others die and then kill you.
He's out to make a point.
ROBIN: There's no way around it.
We will ride to Nottingham to free them.
Mm, a fight, a language I understand.
Assaulting a Norman castle is suicide.
We've done it before and we're all still here.
They didn't know we were coming then.
Well, what do you suggest, Tuck? We just leave them to die?
No, no, that's not what I'm suggesting.
But if you go head-on...
you will all die.
You, your uncle, everyone.
And you know another way, hm?
Saxons built that castle.
I bet that castle holds secrets.
It does. First day I was locked up,
I shared a wall with a stonemason.
He kept on about escaping through a sally port.
What's that?
It was a bit of a secret entrance,
as I understand it.
Built for slipping out during a siege.
He's right. Lightly tucked along the eastern wall,
closest to the tree line.
If the Sheriff was ever to run, that's where he'd go.
Even if we get in,
we'd still be blind.
MILANGE: No.
I know every passage.
Every stairwell. The halls for servants.
I can lead us through.
You sure?
I'm sure.
Then we go.
At night, in and out.
Before the Sheriff realizes his cage is empty.
[dramatic crescendo]
[birds chirping]
Hiding?
No, thinking.
I missed you.
While you were gone.
You kissed me.
Did you like it?
I did.
Then why did you stop?
Why didn't you take me to bed?
It wouldn't've been right.
Why?
You still love her.
I can make you forget her.
Let me.
[gentle music]
No more being noble.
We could die tonight.
But if we don't,
you will take me to bed.
[gentle music]
CELENE: You look as though you've taken a wrong turn.
A little far from Nottingham, I suppose.
I'm looking for the east wing.
Earl Marshal's chambers.
The east wing?
I think you'd be more at home in the south.
-The south? -The servants' quarters.
You...
must be Celene de Fitzou,
servant to the Queen.
Always at Eleanor's heels, as I hear.
From Nottingham, you hear much.
I suppose gossip travels quickly in such small circles.
Oh, I don't gossip. I listen.
It's how I decipher the meaningful
from the meaningless.
And yet, it seems,
you still haven't found your way.
Perhaps you've been listening to the wrong people.
Perhaps you speak
with more confidence than knowledge.
A common flaw amongst those that serve.
Do enjoy your stay, Lady Priscilla.
You'll find where you belong eventually.
The palace has a way of sorting people
into their proper place.
[bugs chirping]
[walking stick thumping]
Priests say...
rushing wind is the breath of God.
Ah, well, Saxons say it's the wind.
[Tuck chuckles]
You're troubled.
We do what must be done.
Still, it will be difficult.
Mm, yes.
Assaulting a Norman castle is a bold attack.
So bold, in fact, it may even
reach the ears of the King in France.
You've been speaking to Little John?
Only because you are keeping something from me.
That wasn't hard to see.
You're leading them all toward danger.
Perhaps death.
Do you know why?
To save our elders.
My uncle amongst them.
You want to keep your bargain with the Queen?
This has nothing to do with that.
Are you so sure?
Of all the lies a man can tell,
none more dangerous than the ones he tells himself.
You're complicating it, Tuck.
I fight tonight because someone has to.
If not, innocent men will die.
Everybody's ready, Rob.
[Rob sighing]
We move fast, quiet,
we don't stop until our people are free.
Let's go kill some Normans.
And save some Saxons too, God willing.
[suspenseful music]
[whispering] Guard, guard, guard, guard...
Are you sure you can find it?
I already have.
All right, you make your way to the stables
and loose the horses. To the dungeons, Milange.
Uh, Rob...
don't die.
[suspenseful music]
[groaning]
[distant thud]
-To the right. -Rob!
Uncle!
You shouldn't have come.
But then who would keep you from the noose, old man?
Rob.
Bless you, my boy.
All right, all right.
We've bought ourselves minutes, not hours,
-so let's not waste them. -This way.
[suspenseful music]
-Their guard-- -We can go through this way.
-Straight across. -What?
-Everyone in. -Get the elders.
[soft overlapping chatter]
Get across, straight across, straight across there.
[grunting]
Robin Hood, I presume.
Did you really think you could slip in here so easily?
I suppose I did.
At best, you're half the man your father was.
Still just a boy.
John.
Get everyone out the front, I'll distract the Sheriff.
Kill them.
Now.
[grunting]
[battle-cry]
[groaning]
[battle-cries]
Henry, get out!
[attack efforts]
[grunting]
They're coming!
[groaning, gurgling]
No, no, no, no, no, no...
-No-no-no-no. -No, go.
[groaning, gurgling]
-Go! -[John screaming]
[soft music]
SHERIFF: Locksley!
Locksley!
[tense music]
[battle cry]
[screaming]
[attack efforts]
[screaming]
[John screaming]
[all screaming]
[battle-cries]
Okay, horses.
[grunts]
This doesn't count as stealing.
[dramatic music]
Where did you think you could run?
I'm not running, Sheriff.
I came for you.
[hollering]
[battle-cries]
[dramatic music]
[grunts, groans]
-[screaming] -Hurry up, men!
It's over, Locksley.
Do what your father could not.
Admit your crimes.
Pay the penalty.
Not today!
Then you'll die like your father did,
alone, beaten, already forgotten.
SOLDIER: Get after him!
-We jump! -What?!
[hollering]
[screaming]
Ready?
Rob! Get on!
Uncle, get on!
-John! -TUCK: Quickly, quickly!
TUCK: We need to go now!
-[Ralph grunts] -Get on!
-Get on! Get on! -No! No!
-Go, Tuck, go! -We can't leave Henry.
Go!
[tense music]
[horse neighing]
[Sheriff exhaling]
No sign of them.
They vanished into the forest like spirits.
Unfortunate.
It would have been cleaner had Hood died here.
And the others?
The outlaws freed them.
-All of them? -Every last one.
Good.
I now have eyes and ears in Robin Hood's camp.
[chuckling]
[soft chatter]
A finer theater than Nottingham, isn't it?
And yet I find all the players much the same.
What do you make of them?
Small.
Then I suppose it's only fair you remind them of their place.
And how would one do that, My Lord?
You are Lady Priscilla of Nottingham.
Mm-hm.
Daughter of the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Goddaughter to the King.
And you're on the arm of the Earl Marshal of Pembroke.
Let them see you.
[fire crackling]
Mud... and worms.
No memory, no meaning.
Just dead and gone.
ROB: He didn't die for nothing, Ralph.
He died fighting for something that matters.
We shouldn't have left him behind.
ROB: We had to.
This isn't a farewell.
This isn't honoring Henry.
This is pageantry.
Smoke and ceremony.
I know how you feel now, Rob.
I see it now.
I see why you are the way you are.
And I want what you want.
I want blood.
[dramatic music]
[ominous music]
[claps]
His Lordship, Earl Marshal of Pembroke,
and Lady Priscilla of Nottingham
will now perform the Lovers' Dance.
[gentle melody]
[music continues]
[tempo rises]
[clearing throat]
[soft chuckle]
Standing on the edge of life doesn't suit you, Marian.
[soft chuckling]
Come, dance with me.
[scoffs]
Surely there are others here
more deserving of Your Grace's attention.
Yet I stand before you, not them.
[applause]
If a prince asks me to dance,
who am I to refuse?
[soft chuckle]
ELEANOR: "All your victories abroad
will count for nothing
if you tarry any longer.
England waits.
But your enemies do not wait idly.
The crown isn't merely worn, Richard,
it must be guarded and defended.
In your absence, lesser men set their eyes upon it.
Even now, there are those whispering your name less
and John's more.
You must return.
If you don't...
you'll find yourself king of nothing
but distant memories and hollow victories.
I remain Eleanor,
Queen of England, by the grace of God."
[dramatic music]
-[wincing] -I told you it would sting.
You'll have to live with it for a while until it heals.
I've lived with worse.
[chuckle]
I was wrong.
You've built something here.
A home, a cause.
A place where Saxons and those cast aside
can stand together.
When I told you to leave, I didn't understand that.
Now I do.
There's something else.
The Sheriff spoke to me of your father's death.
Told me a heinous truth.
It was a Saxon who betrayed him.
A Saxon.
Who?
Alwin.
You were in the castle the night my father was condemned.
-Yes. -Who was there?
Um, just...
the Sheriff, the Bishop,
Earl Huntingdon...
and another man.
A forester, I think.
-He had a hood. -Was he tall?
-Red of hair? -Yes.
[melancholy music]
[dramatic music]
[horse neighing]
You, take her!
[cattle bleating]
[hollering]
ALWIN: No! No!
No, Rob, no! No! Stop!
[groaning]
He's gone mad, help me!
Rob, what are you doing?
He's gone mad, help--
This man conspired against my father
with the Sheriff of Nottingham.
He betrayed him to the death,
and now he will receive his just rewards.
-Wait, Rob, please-- -Deny it!
I didn't mean for it to happen!
I didn't know he would be hanged!
How was I to know?
The Normans...
they poison men like you...
to turn against your own,
to protect their thrones,
their power, their gold.
You let them.
You turned on us all.
Robert.
[soft music]
[coughing, gasping]
[thud]
[ominous music]
ROB: He did this to himself.
This is what betrayal earns.
[mournful music]
[ethereal whispers]
[dramatic music]