Reign (2013–2017): Season 2, Episode 3 - Coronation - full transcript

Previously on reign...
Catherine: For god's sake, go to him.

Is the king all right?

Guard:
The king is dead!

I remember holding you in my
arms when you were this little.

Who are you talking to?

Don't you recognize
your own father?

What did you just say?

Did I say something, your grace?

As a royal, you're given
your position by birth,

Or marriage,

But your power
comes from nobles.



Eduard: Villagers are burning
the homes of the infected.

Those are the holdings
you were counting on.

I think you know
who was really responsible

For your son's death.

You are. And you will learn
never to cross me again.

Catherine:
A banquet for 1,200,

A military parade
all with new uniforms

Featuring blood red
satin sashes of my own design.

Now, as for entertainment,

Dancing elephants
were proposed.

I thought that was
a bit excessive.

We went with a
golden-horned unicorn.

What? You look
displeased.

We just came through a plague



That decimated
the region's populace.

Famine follow plague,

And people are dying
of starvation every day.

We spent a fortune
on father's funeral.

We have massive war debts
from father's campaign,

Much of it owed to our guests.

Hmm, so you're saying my
preparation for your coronation

Is in poor taste?
No, I'm only saying...

It's not just
poor taste.

It's grotesque,

Unaffordable
and shameful.

Excellent.

That's precisely the
effect I was aiming for.

Your coronation is not
about affordability.

It's about survival.

Leaders from 50 countries
will be here this week,

Staying in those pavilions.

They are lions,

Studying our every move
for signs of weakness.

If we economize, if we dither
about expenses in any way,

We look like the wounded gazelle
we truly are,

Begging our foes to
align with our enemies,

Test our borders,
challenge our interests.

From there, it is a short slide

To our severed heads
riding on pikes.

What good does it do us
to pretend

To be strong if it bankrupts us?

Truly, francis, I don't know why

She's even in this conversation.

Didn't you promise the
nobles you'd muzzle her?

Muzzle?
That is what you told lord narcisse.

The man controls 90%
of the grain in the region.

In a famine,
that is not just wealth.

That is power.

What grain?

Lord narcisse has delivered
nothing but excuses.

A new one every day.

I imagine he might've
be more cooperative

Had you not murdered his son.

What I did was justice,
not murder.

All right, the both of you,
enough.

Mary understands that
she needs to take a step back

Until after the coronation.

Mary understands?

Doesn't look that way to me.

Mary willingly played along
to fool narcisse.

She will continue
to "know her place"

Until we have
gotten his grain.

And if he offers nothing
but more delays,

I have another plan.

I'm negotiating with young
lord ducasse for his harvest.

You've been busy.

And behind narcisse's back.

He won't like it.

Lions study our every move.

What better time than
my coronation to show them

That we can feed our own people?

One way or another,
that is what I'll do.

Mary?

Francis, I understand
you need me to play the part.

The pretense will help
keep narcisse quiet

And give us a better
chance at his grain.

And it won't hurt
to show the nobles,

Many twice my age, that if
you obey me, they can, too.

Are all powerful men
so insecure?

A few.

Many.

Most.

Summoner:
Quiet outside.

I need quiet.

The dead do not shout.

I cannot tell you their words

If I cannot hear them.

Is there some spirit
you're expecting to hear from?

Francis?

Is anything wrong?

Nothing.

I must find lord ducasse to
discuss our deal for his grain.

He promised me
an answer soon.

Coronation day.
A new king.

And the king's child
publicly claimed.

Land and title both.

You must be so happy.

I suppose I must be.

Will you visit your summer
home before the chill?

Hope to.

It's beautiful this
time of year.

Lady lola will visit
her new château, of course.

The little baron will
be so happy there.

Lady kenna, what about you?

Poor thing...
lost her home in one of those

Horrid plague fires.
That's no fun, is it?

Not really, no.

I did not think I'd ever
wear a gown again.

Three days until
the coronation,

And a dress for
every occasion.

It's not fair.
Where's our new château?

You are the king's deputy.

I love lola like a sister,
but the idea that unnamed baby

Has been granted vast holdings.

Since when was there
any land available?

There isn't.

Not within two days'
ride of the job

You begged me
to take at the castle.

Yes, but don't forget the title
that comes with it.

Do you know what a title like
that would've meant to me?

Baron sebastian instead
of bastard sebastian?

In other words, we cannot
begrudge lola and her child

Any gifts they may receive,
if it makes life easier

For them than it was
for you and your mother.

In those words exactly.

Still,

What does a baby need with
all that land anyway?

When do we get what
we deserve? Hmm?

Is that?
It is.

The prince of conde.

Here for the coronation.

We should make him welcome.

Hello.

Louis, I don't believe
I've had the pleasure.

This is my new friend.

We only just met.

Why don't you wait
for me at my pavilion.

I'll be there in a moment.

Majesty. Greer.

Have you come here
to make me feel welcome?

I believe you've quite
managed that on your own.

Is that judgment in your tone?

Mary:
Uh, I'm sure she intends

Only admiration.

You've moved on quite adroitly
from your lady friend

After she shipped off
to amsterdam.

What was her name again?

Lady doutzen, I think.

So much admiration
from you both.

I think it's more
than I can bear.

Majesty.

She's a courtesan.

I know.

Did you notice her eyes?

One was blue and the
other was green.

It's a shame about lord conde.

I thought he might make
a suitable match for lola.

He's pleasant enough to look at,
but I think lola prefers a man

Who doesn't measure love
by the hour.

Lola:
Francis.

You're the king,

So I suppose you can dismiss
people as you please,

But I wish when it's one of our
nannies you'd consult me first.

Caroline was my favorite.

Such a gentle touch
with the baby.

I'm sorry, but when
I visited the nursery,

I found the baby alone.

Caroline was nowhere
in sight.

That doesn't sound
like her.

She's devoted to the child.
Lola, forgive me,

I don't have time to discuss
household arrangements.

But...
Later. Please.

Did you talk to lord ducasse
about his grain?

No. He postponed his arrival
until tonight.

Narcisse:
Your majesty.

Lord narcisse.

I didn't hear back from you
and expected an answer.

I had no idea. About what?

My grain, really, if your
promise is still good.

Yes, well, that's a sad story.

Still?
Hmm.

A workforce decimated
by the plague.

And those who can work,
forever making excuses not to.

They're too hungry
to work.

Too sad from the loss
of their families and friends.

It's pitiful, really.

So many different words

To describe simple laziness.

I'm sorry to hear it.

France is starving, and surely
we all feel a duty

To help make the suffering end.

Can you give me a date,

A specific date, when I can
expect the first shipment?

Soon, your majesty.

Very soon.

How dare he?

He calls men lazy
while they starve?

While they grieve?

Take his land
and be done with it.

And in taking it, I would anger
every french nobleman

Two days before they gather here

To help put the crown
on my head.

Mother was right
about one thing.

Narcisse wants revenge
for his son's death,

And withholding grain
is how he's getting it.

Please tell me you're going
to hear from ducasse soon.

We can't wait for
help much longer.

Stop him! Stop!
Stop the thief!

Thief!
Stop this man!

Thief! Don't let
him get away!

Stop! Stop him!
Stop that man!

He was just trying
to feed his family.

We can't wait.

♪

I can't stop thinking
about that poor man.

The guards thought
he attacked that noblewoman.

They were wrong, but...

He didn't deserve to die.

Not for a chicken
and some bread.

Your majesties?

Lord ducasse.

The title still
seems strange to me.

But given with good reason.

You served my father well
at the southern border.

Your majesties,

Allow me to present
my wife monique,

My son guy.

And how old are you, guy?

Six, ma'am.

Your majesty.

"ma'am" is fine.

Your grain is ready
for shipment?

Yes. All prepared.

It's just...

What's wrong?

Was my offer not fair?

Very fair, majesty.

But... There's a reason
other nobles

Make excuses when asked
for their grain.

Lord narcisse.

Ducasse:
I'm recently titled,

But not so recent

He has brought down far more
powerful men than me.

I am king.

You have nothing to fear
from narcisse or anyone else.

Did you find out
what I asked?

Lord montgomery left court
after he was pardoned

For killing our father
at the joust.

Found work as a habsburg
mercenary in bohemia,

And hasn't been back since.

And the list I gave you?
There's no connection

Between him
and anyone on it.

I believe lola's nanny,
caroline, was listed.

Yes, but she arrived
after montgomery left.

Why would montgomery
have anything

To do with lola's nanny?

What are you after?

I asked you to handle
this because I trust you.

I trust you not to ask
questions I can't answer.

♪

Your majesty.

Herr schuler, welcome.

We're so glad to have you.

We know that
you're a long way from home.

I know that there has been

Some bad blood
between protestant germany

And catholic France.

Francis does not want
to continue

The old battles.

Give us the chance
to prove it to you.

Here is your chance.
I seek the release

Of protestant prisoners
jailed by king henry.

Men whose only
crime was to make

A new relationship
with god, as I do.

I knew nothing of this.

Then release them.

What better way
to herald a new era?

France is sick
with famine.

I come from a region
rich in german grain.

If the new king will release
the prisoners to me,

I will give him
the grain he needs.

Help me, please,
I beg you.

You're the king's deputy,
my last resort.

My husband was murdered.

No one believes me,
but it's true.

My husband is dead, and I cannot
find him, and he did it.

Who did it?

Lord barnard!

He thinks he can kill any man
and get away with it!

Come with me.

Narcisse:
It must be hard.

Once a queen,
now queen mother.

Decorative like an
expensive vase,

And not a great
deal more relevant.

I'm not the only one.

There's a new day coming,
and you are on the wrong side.

Am I? Hmm?

Francis and mary see
the world differently.

They are moral.

They care about the people.

More than they care about money
or power... Or men like you.

Time will teach

Francis to think
like his father.

I wonder about that.

But you didn't come here
to discuss the future, did you?

Francis double-deals
behind my back.

Reaching out to other
french nobles for grain.

Despite the long-term
relationship

I have with the crown.

Is that the relationship

Where you promise vital goods
that never arrive?

They might arrive

Faster if your husband's
debts to me were repaid.

Don't pretend
this is about money.

You have all the money you need.

You want power.

You want revenge.

But how could I possibly
help you?

I'm irrelevant.

Lady kenna?

Have we met?
In the tent city.

Noble wives bragging about their
summer homes at your expense.

They are preening pea hens
with empty heads.

Are they not your friends?

I prefer friends
with more between their ears

Than chiffon
and puff pastry, don't you?

I prefer friends I can trust.

Especially now, I imagine,

With your husband's position
so sensitive.

Is any man closer to the king?

I can't imagine all the gifts
and tribute you must receive.

Every noble eager to curry favor
with an important man like that.

No gifts, no land.

No tributes of any kind,
actually.

Must be doing something wrong.

Nobles are like geese.
They fly in flocks.

If one does something,
the others will follow.

But perhaps I can help.

How?

My husband is helping
dispose of estates

Left without owners
after the plague.

Some are rather expansive.

Unless you'd rather avoid the
bother of managing property.

No, not at all. That...
That sounds lovely, actually.

Oh.

I spoke to the german duke,
schuler.

The dour protestant?

He didn't just come here
for the coronation.

He came to make a deal.

He has grain.

What kind of deal?

The protestant prisoners
your father jailed.

He offers grain in exchange
for their freedom.

It's a good deal,

And one that you're
in dire need of.

And german dukes aren't afraid
of lord narcisse.

Asking you
to know your place

Is like asking the sun
not to shine.

I know it's not part of the
plan, but schuler approached me.

If only it weren't a solution
that made more problems.

A deal with a protestant duke

Would anger every
catholic noble.

This is not the week
for that.

Lord ducasse's grain
will put an end to the crisis.

Your majesty?
We found the nanny.

She took a room
in the village.

Thank you.

You're looking
for a nanny?

One of lola's?

I dismissed her, but lola wants

To pay the woman
the money she's owed.

Oh.

Please explain to me
why my son disappears,

And then your man comes to
my suite to invite me here.

Where is he?

Guy:
Papa!

I found your boy playing alone
in a castle corridor.

He should have been asleep,
but he's safe with me.

Guy: It's cold out here.
Can I come in now?

Man:
Not now.

Look at the stars.

I know what it's like
to lose a son.

I lost my son,

My heir, during the plague.

I feel his absence

Every minute
of every day.

I hope you never feel
pain like that.

It would destroy you.

But what happened? Why did
ducasse change his mind?

He didn't give a reason,
but he suddenly claims

Not to have the grain
that he promised.

Narcisse is behind this.
He may well be, but it makes no difference.

There's no deal.
But there is.

With schuler, the german duke.

He offered to exchange grain
for the protestant prisoners.

I can't release prisoners
without knowing their crimes.

They might be dangerous
men or usurpers.

There's too many
protestants determined

To put one of their
own on my throne.

Until I find out, keep
the german duke in place.

Two days until the coronation.

Then schuler will leave court
and go home.

Tell that to the people
starving outside our walls.

I heard the news.

Your grace.
Young lord ducasse's

Sudden desire
to keep his grain for himself.

It's funny how that worked out.

Yes.

You want
to teach my son a lesson

About who holds
the power in France.

The lesson is this.

You will pay
for my son's death.

You can't put a price
on such a loss,

But your son needn't
have died in vain.

You need a friend
at court.

You?
Mm.

What do you want?

Grain... Sold to me
if you won't sell it to francis.

Corn if you have it.

And in exchange, you
will convince francis

To put my friend lord robuchon
on his privy council.

I won't corrupt
my son's council.

I'm here to make francis a
stronger king, not a weaker one.

An advisor of my choice, or
regrettably, there is no deal.

I shall get my grain
elsewhere.

You didn't come here
because your heart bleeds

For your starving
countrymen.

What are you hiding?

Well, perhaps
I'm hiding a bleeding heart.

Your majesty?
The meeting is arranged.

We can escort you to the tent
city when you have the time.

Now. Let's go now.

Mary:
Herr schuler!

Good news about the exchange
we discussed last night.

I'm listening.

The king is intrigued
by the prospect,

But more so by
the new alliance it ratifies.

The king is intrigued?
He needs time to consider?

Yes, but...
Maybe I should have spoken to the king.

You may deal with me directly.

Very well. I'm telling you
that I'm going home. Now.

If peace is a thing
you need to consider,

I have no interest
in dealing with you or the king.

My husband simply wants
to confirm

What the men were
imprisoned for.

The word of a german duke
is not enough?

I told you.

My friends were jailed
for their faith, nothing more.

The coronation is in
just a few days. If...

I came here to free my friends.

I didn't come to watch rome
prop up a new puppet king.

Your majesty, it is a great

And unexpected honor
to sit with you.

I have little time,
and none of it for flattery.

What can I do for you?

I'm told
that you speak with the dead.

There is much
to learn from them.

I suppose that might be true
if I thought it were possible.

Then why are you here?

There's a woman
I want you to meet.

She acts

As if she is possessed.

I want you to tell me if
she is deceiving me on purpose,

Or if she is in the grip
of some madness.

But what if it's neither?

What if her possession
is real?

I don't believe in ghosts.

Mm.

Undertaker's apprentice.

He was a good man, your master?
Yes,

My lord.
And the dead are listed here?

Them that was removed
from the pit.

"unknown woman, died of plague.

Unknown child, plague."

Are you familiar
with lord doisneau?

Do you know the name?

Lord barnard?

Boy. You are
under my protection.

Do you understand?

Tell me what
you know.

Lord doisneau was
kind to everyone.

And barnard?

No one's good enough for him.

There's rumors he wants the coal
under lord doisneau's land.

His wife insists he's dead, but

The name "doisneau"
isn't in here.

Wait.

Lady doisneau said

They were
recently titled.

And if they were given title,
they were given name.

There it is.

Doisneau's patronym.

My lord?

The name he was born with.

Bouchard.

It's here.

His throat was slit.

Greer: You're going to do
this before we find francis?

Mary. Are you sure?

A villager killed
his neighbor this morning

Fighting over
a rancid potato.

People are starving and dying,
and there will be more.

Didn't francis say he wanted
to rule on the bargain himself?

He wants his people to eat.

I'll do what I have to
to feed them.

Can't it wait till we find him?

We've been looking
for him everywhere.

The germans are packing
to leave as we speak.

They hold the only grain
we can get on short notice.

We're out of other options.

Herr schuler.

Thank you for your hospitality,
but we are leaving now.

The kingsguard
have been ordered

To accompany you
and your men to the garrison

Where the protestant
prisoners are being held.

It's a short ride.
Once there,

They will be handed over
into your custody, as agreed.

This is good news, your grace.

I'm surprised... Pleased
that the king has agreed...

You'll have your prisoners.

And you will have your grain.

France thanks you.

And my husband the king
thanks you.

I still don't understand
what I'm doing here.

I don't remember any of
what the king talked about.

There's nothing to fear.
I will guide you.

Just relax your mind.

This mesmeric elixir,

The rarest metals reduced,

Summons spirits

Of the dead.

Which you may host.

Your grace,

Please understand
there's no guarantee that...

Weakness is a fatal flaw
in a king.

Leave us. Now.

Go.

Is it you?

What's your name?

I'm henry.

Where were you born?

Château
de saint-germain-en-laye.

That's a funny

Question.
And your father... where was...

He died on my birthday.

28 candles on my
birthday cake.

I died, too.

I don't want to talk about that.

But I did not
rise up afterwards.

Something seems to hold me.

Why am I here?

What holds me?

Perhaps your sins.

I don't remember them.

They were many.

But I remember my death.

I feel the horse
beneath me...

A joust and I
cannot lose.

Montgomery rides against me,

But he never rode like that...

The way he held
the lance,

Aimed at my head
and not my shield.

I should've seen it.

I should've
known.

It was not
montgomery,

It was some other man.

Oh, my god. It's you.

You changed.

I saw it
before I died.

The way you looked at me.

Plots and plans

And plots
and plans.

Could you?

Would you dare

Raise a hand
against your...

Stop. Please.

Leave me alone.

I've been looking
everywhere for you.

Mary, please, not
now. I need sleep.

It's about the german duke.
Francis, I ordered the

King's guards to accompany
him to the garrison

To free the
protestant prisoners.

Without consulting me? Why?

We had an agreement.
There was no time.

Two days was
more than enough time.

I told you I would look into it.

Schuler was leaving court

And I couldn't find you.

Mary, I warned you.

Provoking french noblemen,
taking on narcisse.

Hours before my coronation.
He offered a fair deal.

The only deal that
could keep France

From the famine. German
grain. A new alliance.

Every ruler at court
will hear how

I lacked the power
to make my own nobles

Deliver a simple commodity.

They will hear how I couldn't
control my own queen.

Tell them a different
story, then.

Tell them how you
faced down your nobles,

Forged an alliance
to feed your people.

But the king didn't do that.
The queen did.

In the king's name.
I don't see how this does any harm. Mary,

This is not about my vanity.
This is about my legitimacy.

I am a new king,
trying to fill the shoes

Of a man those people feared.

I don't need their fear,
but I need their respect.

How can I ask them for it
if I can't even get it from you?

You don't think I respect you?
Not enough to obey me.

Let me prove it, then.
Let me help them see...

No. I'll have no more help

From you. I've had more
than enough already.

Kenna:
You're awake.

Good news.

Apparently.

I met a noble lady and the noble
lady's very rich husband

Wants to curry favor
with the king's deputy,

So the very rich husband
is giving us a gift.

What sort of gift?
A beautiful château.

Not far,
modest in size,

But more than an adequate
replacement for what we lost,

And the noble is willing to sell
us title to the land for a price

That we can easily afford...
next to nothing, really. I don't understand.

Who would do such a thing?
How did this happen?

It's all thanks to my
new friend, lady barnard.

She seems very nice.

Generous to a fault.
Oh, kenna.

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

I'm investigating
her husband for murder.

M... Perhaps the man
you're investigating

Is some other barnard?

No, it's
the same man.

I had no case against him
until I found proof

That doisneau was murdered.

And now this bribe
is confirmation.

I'm closer to proving his guilt
than I thought.

You tricked me.

Your husband is a criminal
and you are nothing

But a deceitful... I am a loving
wife trying to protect my husband

From false accusation.
He is innocent.

Bash will determine who
is guilty and who is not.

He is the most honest
man I've ever known.

Which is more than
I can say for you.

It's good to love one's husband.

I appreciate your devotion.

But if you don't stop

Your husband's
investigation into mine,

Your devotion will be
to a dead man.

The nobles already hate him
for trying to usurp the throne.

That wasn't bash's intent
nor his doing.

The two of you hang
from the thinnest of threads:

Francis' and mary's
inexplicable devotion to you.

It keeps you at court,
but it won't save you.

It won't save your husband.

It's the german duke.

I have been ill-used, lied to.

Verraten.

Herr schuler,
what has happened?

What's wrong?
We rode

To the garrison as instructed

To release the prisoners,
as promised.

But the prisoners
were not there.

They'd been removed

Two days
before.

Impossible.
How did this happen?

You are no more or less
than the son of your father.

And it was your father who threw
innocent men into prison

For no other reason
than the way they worship god.

A prison
where they were tortured.

Do not forget you are speaking
to the king of France.

Show them.

Knee crusher,

Cat's paw,
rat's cage.

This is not our doing.

Come.

We'll find the prisoners
ourselves.

Not with weapons, you won't.

You're on french soil.

Guards.

Francis:
Herr schuler, please...

You lie to your guests
and then you threaten them

With violence?
We will not be treated this way.

That is enough!

Every man here will lower
their weapon!

protestant germans

Threatened by catholic frenchmen

When they are our guests,

Each side reminded of the hate
they felt for the other,

And none of it
had to happen.

I spent the last hour
convincing the germans

We weren't
deliberately humiliating them.

There's still time to fix this.
How?

The deal with germany
is up in smoke, we have

No grain and the prisoners
who were under my protection

Have vanished.

Then let's find them.

Mary, I thought
I was clear.

You cannot be a part of this.

I won't talk to a single
nobleman or foreign diplomat.

Not narcisse
or the germans,

No one who knows
or cares who I am.

But-but what will you...

You have a delicate peace
to maintain.

That is a king's work.

And I have a mess to clean up.

And that is, if you ask
your nobles, a woman's work.

But this time,
since I got you into this,

I don't mind doing it.

I'm sorry.

Then it's true?

I dragged lord barnard
into my offices,

Presented him with the
evidence in this ledger.

But the proof
of doisneau's murder,

The page was torn out.

And it was obvious that
barnard knew about this

Before he ever
entered the room.

Give it to me.

I can't. I burned it.

I didn't do it for the bribe.
I won't take anything

From them.
I did it to save your life.

Barnard's wife
swore

That you would be killed if her
husband were ever prosecuted.

Kenna, we are better people
than the barnards.

We have
to be.

We just need the courage
to fight.

Not if fighting means dying.

I won't risk
the loss of you.

I can't.

I can't blame you
for wanting your husband alive.

I should love you for it.

I do.

But there's something you
need to understand about me.

This role that I now have,

It matters to me.

I will always fight
for what I believe,

Risk or not.

You were the guards

Stationed at the garrison
where the protestant prisoners

Were being held.
And yet

You were absent
when they were taken.

We stopped
at a tavern before.

Like we always do.

Them prisoners been
there for years

And nothing ever happened
when we left before.

How long were you
at this tavern?

Well, there was a woman.

A whore.

She offered
herself to us.

One after
the other.

She was so beautiful.

A face you could never forget.

And why is that?

Her left eye was blue.

Her right eye was green.

And she kept 'em open
the whole way through.

Mary: It was you.
You took the prisoners from the garrison.

With the help of
a beautiful woman.

One eye green,
the other blue.

Why?

I put my lover on a ship
to amsterdam.

But the ship was commandeered
in german waters,

All aboard taken captive.
So you took

The protestant prisoners
to make a deal

With the german
duke yourself.

When I learned why the german
duke was coming to court,

I knew it was the best and
only way to ransom my friends.

I took the prisoners, yes.

But do you know
why the ship was taken?

Old hates between protestant
germany and catholic France.

Hates inflamed
by henry's intolerance

And prodded by his bankers
in rome.

And your husband, despite
all talk of new beginnings,

Has ruled no differently.

You have it wrong about francis.

Do I?

On the day nostradamus
was nearly drawn and quartered,

Francis sided with narcisse.
And at your expense.

I am

A man of France.
But I'm also a man of my word,

And I promised
to get lady doutzen to safety.

Even if doing so condemns
innocent men and women,

Children to starvation?

And you call
narcisse

A killer who hides
behind skirts.

I think that you're a better man
than that.

Prove me
right.

Deliver the prisoners
back to the castle.

What kind of man wouldn't do
everything in his power

To bring back the woman
he loved?

The kind of man
who puts country before love.

A king.

Well...

I'm only a prince, not a king.

Thank god for it.

Francis:
What is it you want me to see?

It's conde with
the prisoners.

We don't need
narcisse anymore.

He'll see he needs us.

Lord narcisse.

Your majesty.

It's a great day today.

And made even better
by good news.

Mary, why don't
you tell him?

The protestant prisoners
have been located.

We have traded
their liberty

For some much needed grain,

A boon to a
hungry France

And to the cause
of religious tolerance.

Is that all?

No. I understand

That you'd like
to teach me how to rule.

Let me tell you
what I have learned.

A king needs to know
who his friends are

And keep making new ones
all the time.

Luckily, there are so many
to choose from.

Without betraying his old ones,
I trust.

I don't think my husband needs
a lecture from you on betrayal.

Do you accuse me of something?

Oh, many things, I'm sure.

But let's start

With the betrayal of promises.

Unless
somehow

Your grain has arrived
beneath our notice.

She speaks for you in this?

"she" is my queen.

And, yes, she
does. In this

And most things.
You'd do best to remember it.

Unless you want your king to
look elsewhere for friends.

Because the time will come,
most unexpectedly,

When you will need one,
I can assure you.

Yes, majesty.

Majesties.

Oh,
and I'm pleased

To inform you
that I've just learned

Deliveries of my grain
will arrive here. Today.

Thank you for returning
those prisoners.

Why did you do it? I suppose I
wanted to be the man you saw in me.

The better man.

You will have
your german alliance?

Not an alliance just yet
but an understanding.

And as part of
that understanding,

Lady doutzen and her household
will be returned home.

Herr schuler was very helpful.
You're a wonder.

Queen, diplomat,

White knight.

Francis dealt with
herr schuler directly.

It was his doing.

He's a good man, you know,
and he'll make a good king.

Your opinion is enough for me.

And your lover,
lady doutzen,

When will she
return to you?

She won't.
But I thought...

I didn't trade those prisoners
to bring her back to me.

Lady doutzen was en route to her
husband when my ship was taken,

A destination she will now
reach, thanks to you.

She has children.

He's a good and loving father.

There's a powerful bond
between parents that...

A bond you'll discover when
you have children with francis.

Soon.

Yeah.

Francis.

If I'm bothering you...
Bother?

Never. He's your son.

Francis, I-I know
you have bigger problems,

But I asked the other nannies
about caroline

And none of them saw anything
like what you described.

Is there something you're
not telling me? Some...

Indiscretion of hers?

Not an indiscretion.

No. I can't tell you about
caroline except to say that...

...She reminds me of someone.

Someone and
something

I need to forget.

Can we leave it at that?

I was wrong.

What I asked of you,
the backwards step.

You must know,

I want the same
world as you do,

The better one.

And the only way to
build it is together.

We do greater things
when we act as one,

When we trust each
other as equals.

This is not a
coronation for a king.

It is for a king and queen.

♪ we built these walls
of stone ♪

♪ and then they crumble back
to dirt ♪

♪ we spin these tales of love

♪ out of trust and hope
and hurt ♪

♪ underneath our wounds

♪ where our demons
have their hold ♪

♪ the truth can be exposed

♪ there's a strength
in letting go ♪

♪ oh, oh, oh, oh

♪ oh...

♪ oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

♪ oh, oh, oh...

All:
Long live the king!

♪ hey, hey, hey

♪ hey, hey

♪ here's to life

♪ hey, hey, hey

♪ hey, hey

♪ here's to life

♪ oh, oh, oh, oh

All:
Long live the queen!

♪ oh...

♪ oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

♪ oh, oh, oh

♪ oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

♪ oh, oh, oh

♪ oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

What are you
doing out here?

There's a party inside to
celebrate the new king.

And queen.

Her, too.

And what do you want?

You bought grain with your
medici money after all.

Just not from me.

True, it was a small amount,

Hardly enough to solve
your son's problems, but...

You weren't thinking
about your son, were you?

Now you're going to tell me
what I think.

There's a village in the north,
not far, not near.

Your grain was delivered there.

Compliments of
catherine de medici.

Hmm.

I hear the townspeople
are toasting your name...

Their savior.

But they're not the first
to benefit from your generosity.

A church rebuilt,
a new well dug.

And each town more grateful
to you than the last.

I do what I have to do.

For the people.

You do it for yourself.

To ensure that you're loved,
protected,

By at least some
within the realm.

For when francis and mary
produce an heir,

And all your other children
move to the back of the line,

And you with them.

I don't see that happening
any time soon.

Because mary hasn't fallen
pregnant yet?

It can happen
in the blink of an eye.

It hasn't been that long,
and they're both young.

Just getting started.