A shocking death reignites Mary and Elizabeth’s royal rivalry
Well, Royals, we did it!
We made it to the end ofReigns season 3.
Do you remember where we started?
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My how things have changed mostly for the better.
I will never get over it.
So, because I have no self-control, were starting this whole shebang in England.
Lola secretly meets with Narcisse to hand off John to him.
She says she needs a few more days before she can leave for Scotland.
You couldve been king, guy!
Things are not looking good for Marys last remaining lady-in-waiting.
But at no point does anyone talk about calling this execution off.
Well, except for one lowly recapper yelling it from her couch.
But no one listens to her.
This is really happening, people!
Lola is led out to the executioners block as the crowd that contains both Elizabeth and Narcisse looks on.
Liz gives the nod AND LOLA IS BEHEADED.
Up until the very moment the executioner swung his ax, I didnt believe it would actually happen.
Lola is dead, and now Narcisse is locked up in English prison and mad as hell.
Hide your rats, Lizzy!
Theres some unfortunate news out of France, as well.
Leith swoops in and takes them both down with a bow and arrow.
These two are so stinkin cute that everything has to work out for them, right?
Well, not if Martel de Guise has anything to do with it.
Martel de Guise sends some of his men to assist, but by assist he means to stab.
Leith takes a big one to the gut and is left to bleed out in the snow.
Why,Reign, why?
Ill never let go, Leith!
He and Thierry escaped into the snowy forest, only for Thierry to be captured by the Red Knights.
Charles had to hide in silence as his friend was tortured and killed.
The entire ordeal has forever changed the young king.
YEAH RIGHT IN WHAT WORLD?
Catherine is mad, people.
She wants to remind Charles that he is completely replaceable, should something, you know, everhappento him.
French court should be so fun next season!
Meanwhile, in Scotland:Mary is trying her hardest to unify her people.
Shes a foreigner to them.
Mary presses on, though.
Mary has bigger problems that John Knoxs misogyny at the moment, anyway.
First, shes informed by her brother James that some Catholics in a small village massacred their Protestant neighbors.
The Catholics fled, and only the town priest survives.
This isnt great for Mary, whose plan was to preach complete religious tolerance.
She has James go find the priest if hes guilty, he will be held accountable.
Who should be at the helm of this motley crew but one Gideon Blackburn.
Mary and Gideon waste no time in returning to Make Out City.
Before it goes too far, however, Mary stops to talk business.
Shes a badass and she cant help it.
All of that talk about peace with England is going out the window.
Things just got very personal.
Hes pitting them against one another so that theyll destroy one another and hell come out on top.
Yup, hes still The Actual Worst.
Marys coming for Elizabeths throne and nothing is going to stop her this time.
The Queens Corner of Harsh Lady Truths:
Bash: Where are you going?
Mary: To show John Knox that queens do not bow to their subjects.
It is, in fact, quite the other way around.
Its incredible, really.
I march to my execution very soon and yet, you are the one to be pitied.
Lola, speaking the truth until the very end.
…This is our land!
And though they may spill our blood, they will never take the Scotland that pounds in our veins!
We get it, Mary.
You give good speech.
Of course she would wear red to an execution.
