After Mary's ship sinks in a storm, she, Narcisse and Bash are washed ashore in northern Scotland. Mary and Narcisse narrowly escape being killed by the local McFee clan, badly wounded Bash is taken by druids to be healed. Leith and Claude are happy, helping Charles plot against Catherine's regency. Narcisse leaves for England after helping reunite Mary with Bash and warning her she needs to learn the truth about her barbaric country. Charles, hoping to assume full kingship, plans to stop the Red Knights with a network of noble knave spies, but is betrayed by one of them, set up as accomplice and captured by angry town-folk. The McFee attack and slaughter the druids, so Mary and Bash pretend to be sibling merchants to survive, but agree to travel with the McFee, hoping to meet their leader and exact revenge on the clan behind the fatal attack on Francis. Elizabeth and Lola entertain the pretentious prince Magnus of Denmark, a potential suitor for Elizabeth who badly needs Danish oxen for her agriculture, but barely avoid an international mishap due to Lola's quick thinking. Elizabeth learns of Mary's shipwreck and, assuming Mary dead, invites Lola to join English court permanently.
—KGF Vissers