Protestant radicals take hostage the schoolboys in a monastery hostage in retaliation for Francis's sending troops to Scotland, but Bash and general Renaude"'s mercenaries overpower them with limited bloodshed. Catherine and Narcisse trying to frame Louis for the hostage situation, Louis asks Mary to leave to Scotland with him. When she refuses to abandon France, Louis feels no longer safe in France, so approached by English envoy Lord Akers, he accepts Elizabeth's proposal and Louis immediately takes part in a secret proxy wedding, making him King consort of England and a traitor to France. The day after, all participants in the ceremony aside from Louis and Akers are mysteriously killed and evidence of the wedding destroyed. Akers, uncertain whether the marriage is still valid, abandons Louis to return to England for instructions. Mary learns about the wedding and is heartbroken. Lola and Kenna visit Greer's brothel and are surprised by her success. Bash seemingly having moved on to another woman, Kenna and Renaude grow closer. Catherine and Narcisse's sexual relationship continues, but learns that Narcisse still flirts with Lola, Catherine demands he dumps her by an unforgivable 'anonymous' public exposure of her nude portrait at court.
—KGF Vissers