Despite a commoner disguise, Louis is captured by general Renaude while trying to flee France with forged travel papers ha got from Mary. Akers surprise-rescues Louis with soldiers, informing him that Elizabeth still wishes to marry him, but only to seize the crown of weakened France for them, so Akers helps Louis prepare a Protestant rebel army to attack Francis. Mary realizes the ramifications of her treasonous help to Louis and tries to reconcile with bitterly disappointed Francis. Claude catches Leith trying to steal a relic from the crown to buy an annulment trough greedy cardinal Desjardin and blackmails him to disobey Catherine, but finds her forbidden lover since youth, now baron Lyon Desrochers, too pragmatic to commit to her. Seeing Leith truly loves Greer, Claude gives him her priceless diamond earrings. Narcisse dislikes being forced to prove his loyalty to conspiratorial lover Catherine by publicly humiliating naive 'rival' Lola. Leith proposes to Greer now he can afford the annulment, but she refuses, saying she wants to keep her new independence. Kenna finds Renaude in the brothel, where he compensates his malcontent mercenaries, and they have sex.
—KGF Vissers