Reign (2013–2017): Season 1, Episode 13 - The Consummation - full transcript

they all need
something to hold on to

they all mean well

you could never
feel my story

it's all you know... Oh!

Previously on reign...
Mary: Nostradamus

Had a vision of your death,
brought about by me, if we wed.

I will marry you son,
but not francis... Bash.

Legitimize him and make him
the next king of France.

You are throwing away everything
we had for superstition.

We can't. Mary.

Is no longer
a part of my life.



Maurice:
The king plans to behead her within the week.

Francesca:
He's accused you of adultery.

Clarissa, dear, listen to me.
I'm your mother.

Let yourself
be loved.

It'll take us hours
to dig her a grave.

There's no one around
to check us.

Catherine:
Make the blow sure and quick.

Remember I've paid you extra.

I don't want my children

To see you hacking at me.

Don't break the clasp.

I've promised this
to one of my ladies.

Prawns?

My youngest daughter
can't eat them.



The flowers.

Full vases,
cascading bouquets...

Where are they?
We were told by the king to save them

For the actual day.

I need to see their placement.

What about the wine?

100 casks, flowing freely.

The nobles will expect it.

Yes, let them drink
and swim in my blood

And wonder
who among them is next

Once that bastard sebastian
takes the throne.

Come in, please.

I'm nearly ready.

No rush. They're bringing
the horses around.

No rush?

I feel awful we stopped at all.

You swear you didn't
do it for me.

Because I'm a terrible rider.

We've gained time on horseback

We never would have achieved
by carriage.

But we needed rest.

The horses were about
to drop as well.

And, in truth,
it may not matter.

My mother might already be dead.

Don't say that.
You might think

She deserves it
after all she's done. To mary.

I think even mary would say
that's in the past.

It will be soon

If I can convince my father
to spare her life.

It's unbelievable, really.
What?

If all goes well,

Bash begins his life with mary
and I get exile.

And my mother.

Not for long.

I'll set her up somewhere,
far away, with my brothers

And then...
I'll be on to the next.

Where will you go?

I was thinking morocco.

You don't think you'd
stand out in morocco?

Sweden then.

Perhaps it's a land
you'll visit one day,

Walking along a frozen river,

A displaced prince
will appear in front of you.

Well, I hope I never
see you again.

Because you're safe, settled.

Married with children
of your own.

I hope the same for you.

Francis, when you see mary...

We ran into each other
at a chateau outside of...

Traveled with each other
for a day,

And that is all.

I know you live your life in service to her.
Mary is my friend.

Nothing we did will change that.

That was lovely.

I think you should go now.

Don't do this to yourself.

I won't leave you.

I need to know
you're all right.

If it comforts you.

Why do you do it?
Sometimes, when one is given a gift

And worries they've lost it,

They must return
to its source...

The giver itself.

And for me...

...That is death.

Or as near death as
I dare to venture.

Stop it, please!

The vision... I wasn't done.

You saw something?

This changes everything.

I will die for this.

The queen will kill me herself.

What a show.

She's going out in style.

must I do everything?

Shall I catch my head
in my own hands, too?

When can we talk about my tomb?

A florentine sculptor?
20 tons of marble?

I can't afford it.
After the 100 musicians,

The dozen ships made of silver and gold...
Symbolic of my journey

To heaven.

I'm not asking for a fleet.

You're not headed
for heaven either.

You're dragging
this out.

You have to wait
for final word

On bash's legitimization anyway.

Why kill me if the line of
succession reverts to my sons?

You're a treasonous adulterer.

Then I'll continue
with the seating chart.

Mary, the feast
will be held there.

Choose your place of honor.

You are going to die.

What they write about
your execution won't matter.

It will to my children.

50 musicians.

I'll reduce the gold inlay
on my tomb.

What is that?

There's a royal visitor.

French court has gone to hell.

but I'm here now, dear.

Mother.

So I sent you here
to wed a king

And find you engaged
to a bastard.

My darling,
your engagement

To francis was a careful
negotiation set in place

When you were six.

And now you tell me

That you threw it all away
because of a prophecy.

One I believe, mother.

I did this and bash went along
with it to save francis's life.

From a fate
a magician predicted.

Mother, it's all very...
Complicated.

And we haven't been together
in so long.

I came to the convent
for your 11th birthday.

Half the ship's crew
died along the way,

But I was there.

Gift in hand.

I only meant to say that...
I've missed you.

And I wanted to talk to you
about this, about francis,

About bash,
a-about everything.

Please don't make light
of nostradamus's warning

Or my choice.

I make light of nothing
concerning you

Or our country's future.
Perhaps if you met bash.

He's-he's kind
and-and selfless and brave.

Do you love him?

I'm beginning to.

It all happened so fast.
Good.

Perhaps there's still time
for you to see things

With a clear mind.

I've wanted to be
with you as well,

But there is
trouble at home.

Scotland is in peril.
The english, I know.

It's worse.

Our country is on
the knife's edge

Of falling into protestantism.

And we are catholic rulers.

You need France, a catholic
country, at your side now.

Marry its next king,

And the protestants will
scurry into the darkness.

Marry francis.

Not some bastard who
someday might be king.

His name is sebastian.

Has the same ring to it.

Well, I have no choice

But to support you,

As I rule scotland
but you are

Actually its queen.

And my daughter.

So headstrong.

So loving.

So you'll be patient?

Yes.

Mary.

Are you all right?

Is all well with your mother?

Yes. She's just as
I remember her,

In ways that I often thought
I had imagined.

I used to love the smell
of her perfume,

The-the tenor of her
voice... Even now,

When she lied to me.

She doesn't want us
getting married.

She will stop it.
We have to elope.

Today. Now.

Bash: There's a church just east
of the old village, by the quarry.

I wish that I could come with you.
Let me get it

All arranged.
It might take a few hours,

And if we're both missing,
people will notice.

If I'm not back by midday,
we have our priest.

Get on a horse and meet me
at the church before sunset.

Don't plan on sleeping
this night, wife.

Marie:
At least you're moving about

Freely now.

Guarded, but
with the mobility

Required to plan my death.

How was
the dungeon?

Were there fleas?

Were you paraded
through the town, mocked?

Hmm. I was in the tower.

I realize you're not happy with
the turn events have taken,

But must you paint
a bleaker picture of my fall?

I trusted you
with mary's life.

Not just her survival,

Though I hear you
threatened that, too.

I gave up every moment of being
a mother to my own child,

Based on your word

That you would raise her
to be francis's wife.

What did you think,
when you traded a child

For the protection of France?

That we would put her welfare
above ours?

Lord knows you didn't.

You gave her away
to secure your rule.

I had an infant,

A girl, not even a week old
when my husband died,

And she was crowned queen.

I met unexpected horrors
and tragedy

And I faced them with courage.

You...

One charlatan scared you
by whispering in your ear

About your son's death...

A future no one could know...

And you changed
the course of nations.

Nostradamus's accuracy
is an inarguable feat.

Here's a feat:

Women like you and me,
surviving in this age.

I have sold my soul,
and my child,

To protect myself
and my nation.

Mary may be
scotland's queen

But I am its king.

Has scotland noticed
that its king

Has rather overexposed breasts?

It is beginning to.

Ah.

Now that mary's come of age,
they look beyond me,

They want her, and I want
her protected by France.

France's true king.

Not some bastard they can
knock off the throne,

Whose life only took form

Because you couldn't keep your
husband's interest in bed.

I am defeated.

If you want to fix this,
do it yourself.

Ah, here it is.

My mother had it packed
deep in one of my trunks.

Well, it's beautiful,
but will it be warm enough?

This isn't for your journey
to the chapel.

It's for you to cover your face

As you and bash stand before god
and profess your love.

Is that lola?

Why is she with francis?

Lola:
Mary.

Kenna, greer.

Your grace.

You're back.

Both of you.

Uh, your carriage,

Why didn't they announce
your arrival at the gate?

We ran into each other
at a chateau near angers.

You came back together?

We rode.

There were floods.
The carriage I leased

Was swept away in the night.
Can you imagine?

Kenna:
Along the river.

You were at
the chateau de martin?

You know it? Yes.

dirty your hands

tearing my heart
I'll get settled then.

into pieces
so happy to be back.

Yes, we're happy
to have you back.

if this is the end

then we whisper the wind
and release it...

You heard about your mother.

I'm so sorry.

I'm back to plead with my father
for her life.

I'll be gone from court
once I have my answer

And the matter is settled,

And you and I will never
see each other again.

I don't mean that
to sound cruel or angry.

I understand.

You don't want to be seen
as someone lying in wait

To reclaim your throne.

Or anything else that now
belongs to my brother.

They brought this back,
after clarissa's death.

I thought you might want
to have it,

As you were more parent to her
than I.

They buried her in
an unmarked grave

Near the lake,

Where the north road ends.

I asked them to mark
it with a cross,

But it's unhallowed ground.

What will become of her soul,

I wonder?

Did she know any happiness
in her miserable life?

When she was young.

The villagers who raised her
for a time were kind.

How do you know that?
She spoke of them.

Of their games.

A song they'd sing
to calm her to sleep.

Sometimes, I'd hear her sing it
softly, to herself.

How lonely.

And haunting.

Yes.

I'm going to tell you something
that might enrage you.

Since mary's arrival, I've had
visions of francis's death.

Violent images.

They vary, but they were always
tied to mary.

But they stopped completely
when clarissa died.

I have beckoned them,
every way I know how,

Because I had to be sure.

Sure of what?

That francis might live
with mary.

How can that be possible?

I warned you that francis,
your firstborn,

Would die because of mary...

You were very clear.

...Before either of us knew
clarissa was your firstborn.

The blood that has been spilled,

My blood yet,

Was because of what you foresaw.

It's not a science,
it's a gift.

Sometimes I hear voices,
other times it's a feeling,

A certainty as solid as stone.

And this new feeling?

It came to me today.

I saw their life together,
and it is happy.

After dinner, and your usual
game of catch with anne,

James is going to want your attention,
too, with his reading.

I'll have him work on it.

You promise.

Promise me, I mean it.

They have children,
as he is alive.

Children?

You see them years
beyond their union?

Yes.

Use this to save yourself.

Tell henry you've had
a change of heart.

That you won't stand in the way
of their union.

This has gone so far beyond me
standing in the way of anything.

I am convicted of adultery!

Of treason!

Mary is with sebastian.

And my son francis...

Has returned to court.

You are brave
to come to me with this.

Because if I can't convince mary
to wed francis,

If I can't undo your mistakes,
I will lose my head.

But not before I watch
you burned to death.

I promise you that.

Catherine:
Francis!

Mother.

Ah, it's true!

You're back!

Oh, thank god.

They tell me father's
out hunting pheasant

Beyond the south keep.

I'm going to find him,

Get him to see reason,

And I'll get you away from here.
No, no, francis.

There's something
else that you must do.

Everything I did, I did for you.

You needn't remind me.

I need you to forget all of it.

What?
Everything I warned you of.

The warnings I gave mary.

Go to her,
tell her that I believe

The two of you can be wed.

I don't understand.

Your fate has changed.

Oh, what does it matter?

You never believed

That nostradamus had the power

To see the future anyway.

What matters is
that you love mary.

I did love mary.

You destroyed that.
Nonsense.

She's with bash now,
but she loves you.

You don't know that.

I don't know that.

What matters is
what you want.

Is it mary?

Is it to save my life?

Is it the throne of France?

Is it the safety
of your brothers?

Say it, say it!

I know it's true!
Yes.

Yes, of course,
I want all those things.

Then tell mary I will cause
her no harm ever.

And that she will
cause you no harm

By loving you.

By marrying you.

Go to her.
Marie: But do it quickly.

I see your son's return
has restored your will to live.

It's because he will live.

Your magic has changed.

How silly and marvelous.

You don't believe
in prophecies, do you?

No, I never did.

You're...

Marie de guise.

Your future mother-in-law,

If you so desire.

If you get on your horse,
and stop mary

From making the biggest mistake
of her life.

Where is she?

Heading for a church
near a quarry.

The servants talked
about a village

Nearly destroyed by the plague.

Yes, I bribed them.
He may as well know

Who I am, if we're to be kin.

I know the place.
Then hurry.

His hands on everything
you want.

Your majesty,
a messenger has arrived.

He said there's news regarding
the line of succession.

About sebastian?

He awaits you
in your throne room.

Brother?

Francis.

I'm going
to tell you something.

And it will hurt.

I know you're here
to elope with mary.

You don't need to.

All that nonsense
about the prophecy,

It's gone now.

My mother's let it go

For reasons she can explain.

I'm going to tell mary.

She'll talk to my mother,
to nostradamus.

She'll be convinced.

She won't trust catherine.

I don't trust catherine.

You don't want things
to change, to revert.

You're going to play
on mary's fear.

She came to me willingly.
And she will stay with me.

She turned to you
because she had to.

It was only a marriage
of convenience.

And what was yours?
It went beyond that.

You know it.
And now you know

Ours did, too.

You're lying.

You entitled son of a bitch.

You.

You're nothing.

Stop!

Francis! Bash! Stop!

Stop! Please, stop!

You don't have
to marry him!

It's all over!

My mother, nostradamus,

They say we can be wed.

What do you mean?

There is no prophecy
keeping us apart.

Please, listen...

Does it matter?

Mary, nothing
needs to change.

We can still be wed.

What do you mean, no prophecy?

Even nostradamus
will tell you.

Your fate is your own when
it comes to who will you marry.

Him or me.

I knew he would get
to you in time.

Did your seer tell you that,
too? Is this a game to you?

Nostradamus told me the
prophecy was fulfilled.

With clarissa's death.

How can I believe you
when you have so much to lose?

oh, god, what are you doing?

Do nothing, and I will die.

Watch me,
if that's what it takes

To convince you
I'm not putting

My life ahead of my son's.

I never have.
Stop this.

I'll be beheaded if you don't
choose francis anyway.

I'd rather die today

To show you that I mean
every word that I say.

Is this some kind of trick?

Test me.

Ask nostradamus
to explain

How the future
he sees for you and francis

Has altered
since clarissa's death.

Oh, yes. Be sure.

Be very sure.

I would want
every certainty, too.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure
about anything.

I believe you, but...

You don't know what you want.

I love them.

I love them both.

Begging your pardon,
your majesties,

But the king demands
your presence.

A messenger has arrived
with news

About the line of
succession of England.

Their queen... Is dead.

And she has named me
her successor?

After all her deliberations,
they say she died

Suddenly...
In the night.

But England is yours
by bloodline, by right.

You must claim
it immediately,

Or your cousin elizabeth
will seize it from your grasp.

You risk everything
if you don't act now.

If you want the vatican's
righteous support

For anything you do,
for the rest of your life,

You will claim England now.

If you want
France as an ally,

You will claim England now.

If you want to take
England, you will need

The next king of France
by your side.

And you will wed

One of my sons tonight.

I will take my life
in my own hands.

And I will not be
bullied by you.

Lady kenna requests a
visit, your majesty.

No.

She requests that I inform you
that she's naked under her robe.

Send her in.

It's nice to see
you're still on your feet.

What does that mean?
I watched you

Take it lying down
for weeks now,

From all the women
in your life.

You don't like
being bossed around

By a girl, do you?

Is this meant to arouse?

I was wrong to blame
and demand things of you.

I should have blamed
you, absolutely.

I also should have offered
you more of what you'd like

For what I'd like.

You're offering me sex
for a husband?

I could get sex anywhere.

Not from me.

How little it
would take for you

To write me an introduction
or two.

You're not exactly
inspiring me to send you away.

What if I offered to
stay here at the castle,

Even if I were married,

At your beck
and call?

You'd have diane.

I'd have my station,

My position.

Find me a rich noble

Who treats me right,

And I'll treat you right,
as well.

You've learned
many skills at court.

Teach me more.

One suitor a week
until I choose.

Agreed?

Agreed.

No. No more.

I'm in charge now.

Have you found my mother?

I need her now, more than ever.

They said she's with the king.

Trying to wring more
out of henry

Before I'm married
to anyone, no doubt.

But who will you marry?
Have you spoken with bash?

No.
Francis?

Catherine:
Could we have a moment?

What an eventful day.

Francis's return,

News of

The queen's death... And this.

News from the vatican.

If this letter confirms
sebastian's legitimization,

It should take away
any reservations

You have about a bastard
at your side instead of a king,

As bash will be
king one day.

If it denies his legitimization,

How could bash blame you
for returning to francis?

I know you think
you love them both.

While that may be true,

I argue that you love one more.

I am afraid.

Open it.

Now you're free

To go to the man you love.

I can't marry you.

Yes, you can.

Don't let your mother
put ideas in your head

About my ability to protect you,
because I will be king.

We can force the pope's hand.

I know that.
With me,

You are free and wild.

You can be
who you are,

And I will always put you first.

Please, don't.

Say that you love me.

Say it to me once,
because I know that you do.

I love you, I do.

Say it.

Say the rest.
I need to hear it.

I love francis more.

What's this?

Open it.

It's blank.

it's nothing.

She let me decide.

It's odd, isn't it?

That your mother
was the one

To show me what was
truly in my heart.

You.

It's you.
It's always been you.

Does this mean you'll marry me?

Yes.

We must protect
sebastian.

There are those
who will punish him

For reaching
for the throne.

Of course.

I'll make sure of it.

I am sorry for the
way things have gone.

But the outcome is this.

You need to
leave here

And never come back.

You've reached
for the crown,

And you failed to get it.

You'll be seen
by many as a threat.

The crown was never in my grasp,

But I had mary,
and it galls you.

I was going
to disappear in exile.

That's your goal now,
if you want to survive.

My guards will take you
south of here

To a ship set
for the southern coast of Spain,

And from there,
you should keep going.

You needed to vanish

Because you would have been
a displaced king.

But I'm just a bastard.
In time,

A very short time,
if you'd accepted my presence,

The nobles would, too,
and I'd be safe.

If you were so inclined.

I'm not so inclined.

Well, there it is...

The truth between us
at last.

Make sure what's between us,
brother, is distance.

If you want to survive.

Marie: So, we'll do
another ceremony for you

At notre dame,
so that all of France

Can celebrate your marriage.

And what of queen catherine?

She's been pardoned
for her adultery?

Yes.

It was all to legitimize bash.

Now henry looks
benevolent, forgiving.

Your father gave me these.

Make some heirs
quick as you can.

It's a queen's sons
that give her power after all,

Though we've handled

The misfortune
of your sex, haven't we?

Brave girls are we.

Greer said you were upset.

I came to your room last night
to cheer you with hot cocoa,

But your servant said
you were meeting with the king.

So?
It was very late.

If you're back with him,
I think it's a mistake.

I know the château
you claim to stay at in angers

Where you ran into francis.

It burned down last year.

I don't know
what happened

Between the two of you,
but I can guess,

So please don't counsel me
on mistakes.

Come along, girls,
be of service to your queen.

Girl:
oh, my sweetest child

god's smile
behind your eyes

in his hand, in our arms

you will find
no harm.

Who are you?
Why are you singing that song?

I was told to
sing it near you.

By who?

I was paid by another
who was paid by a girl...

I don't know who.

She's dead.

That girl is dead.

It's impossible.

The messenger
who delivered the news

Of the english queen's death
isn't here.

I suppose he knew
he'd served his purpose

And that your invitation
was a mere courtesy,

A thanks for giving us both
what we want.

You bribed him
to bear false news.

To get the job done,

As you failed
in that task completely.

You can thank me later.

the power of love

a force from above

cleaning my soul

flame on, burn desire

love with tongues of fire

purge the soul

make love your goal

I...

hmm...

the power of love

a skyscraping dove...

flame on, burn desire

love with tongues of fire...

Clarissa.

She's alive.

I'll be kind
if you'll be faithful

you be sweet
and I'll be grateful

fortune teller
said I'd be free

and that's the day
you came to me

mmm, mmm

came to me

mmm, mmm

da-da-de-dah-dah

da-dum-da-da-dum

come to me,
my sweetest friend

can you feel my heart again?

I'll take you back
where you belong

and this will be
our favorite song

come to me with secrets bare

I'll love you more,
so don't be scared

and when we're old
and near the end

we'll go home
and start again

mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm

mmm, mmm, mmm,
mmm, mmm, mmm.

You missed the wedding.

I thought it best.

I've been thinking
about what's best

For all of us as well.
I'm leaving.

You needn't worry.

And yet I do.

So you won't be
leaving us just yet.

I have some news to share.

Turns out the english queen
isn't dead after all.

The english queen is alive?

But I would keep
the news to yourself.

You did this.

To see me married.

The messenger's news was flawed.

No one could blame
that on me.

Or you.

Everyone needs a little
push on occasion.

Even queens.

Even France.

All happiness comes
with a price.

And you paid yours
with another's broken heart.

Sebastian...

Will survive.

It's time for the consummation.

A moment, please.

Get out.

Get out of my life.

Get out of France.

But you have everything
you ever wanted.

And more power than you.

I'm your mother.

I am ruling scotland

For you...

Do that.

And mind me, do it well.

When I return to scotland,
to our home,

It will either be
because you have failed,

Or because you are dead.

Mary: After dinner,
your usual game of catch

With anne,
james is going

To want your attention, too,
with his reading.

I'll have him work on it.

You promise?

Promise me, I mean it.

Promise me you'll try.

One year of marriage,
it isn't enough.

Fight, francis, please.

I will give you children.

Don't give up on our dreams.

On the life we could have.

Such a beautiful dream.

no.

No, francis,
don't leave me.

Catherine:
So many years before them.

I know I threatened you.

In truth, I'm so glad

You had the courage to tell me

How their fate had changed.

Yes.

They will be together.

For many years.

I do this not out of any
malice, as you are my son,

But to ensure peace.

So that should you return,

You have seared into your memory

What is yours
and what is not.

my

baby

wide-eyed

pretty

you're a body

I

can hold

I'm a good

man

too.

You're not a very
trusting fellow, are you?

I was a lot more trusting
before you took my weapons.

You'll get those back
as soon as you leave us.

They say you're
a threat to the realm.

But your family
wants you safe.

Alive.

Yes.

You're not thirsty?

I have my own, thanks.

Who paid you to kill me?

The queen or my brother?

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Girl:
Oh, no.