Reign Recap S1E6: Chosen

Bash is haunted by his past, by the task that he's been given. Mary finds a pagan necklace. Olivia stalks Francis, missing his company. She apologizes for her forwardness, aka that time she offered to be his mistress, but Francis tells her he appreciates her forwardness. Francis is wallowing in pity feeling all betrayed by Mary's little kiss with Bash. Olivia reiterates her offer.

The Queen checks on Olivia's progress, urging her ahead. If Olivia were really a smart girl she would know that if the Queen is endorsing her, then its a bad plan. But the idea of being Queen is too big for Olivia to pass up.

Kenna dresses to impress, she's obviously excited for the King's return. Mary urges Kenna caution, but the pretty girl won't hear any of it. I dearly hope the King breaks her heart, and leaves her ruined, something to knock her off the pedestal she's currently looking down her nose on everyone from.

Mary and an awkward talk with Bash about the kiss. Their regrets are remarkably different. Bash does not regret the kiss only the circumstances they're in. Mary only brought up the incident because of the necklace, one that Bash did not bestow on her. Bash certainly recognizes it, but Mary runs off to Francis, who is very distance. She thinks he's angry over her tantrum about Olivia, without a clue that he saw her and Bash.

Kenna is overjoyed to see the king, but her joy is quickly dashed away when his lovely mistress steps out of the carriage behind him. Kenna cannot understand why Diane is back, and Bash asks for an audience with Francis and Mary. He tells them of the butcher boy's final words, that he owed them for interrupting too many blood sacrifices, that if he didn't make a sacrifice of his own, that they choose one for him, and they've chosen Mary as a way to hurt him. Francis makes plans to have Mary better guarded, and tells Bash to find out more about the Pageans. Bash tells him that he would have never cut the bodies down if he had known this would happen, and rather than clearing the air, Francis acts like a petulant child alluding to the secrets between them.

Mary questions her maid about suspicious people in her chambers and the necklace. The maid, Sara knows of no such people or of the necklace.

Kenna storms in on the King's chambers. Upset that the King did not do as he told her and broken things off with his mistress Diane, but he insists that having the king behind her, and on his knees is more important. He insists that things are over with her, that he's moving her into the cottage as a courtesy and that he's only with Kenna. She allows him to tumble her.

Bash wonders how the pagan's think that he could kill an innocent. Diane asks Bash if he would be willing to kill for Mary. They may be catholic now, but his mother wasn't always. It was a different time, the religion was different. She tells him not to covet his brother's future wife, that Francis will find a way to protect her and that their past is enough to get them killed, but his choices are few. Kill an innocent or someone else will kill Mary. Bash isn't one to sit on his hands, especially not where Mary is concerned.

Poor Mary, ever in danger. And speaking of Mary, she is awaken to blood dripping down on her, and a slaughtered stag head above her bed. Talking to Francis, she tells him that she feels woozy, and drugged. Francis takes Bash aside, and presses him to fix this. Bash tells him the alternative, and neither wants to go down that road. The Queen wonders how this could have happened under her roof, and Mary is practically accusatory. The Queen finds that Mary and her guard were drugged with poppy. Mary suggests an alliance between herself and the Queen. The heretics make the Queen more than worried, they make her downright angry.

Kenna shares with her friends he new status. they're less than enthusiastic about the path she's chosen, bombarding her with  the  truth, but all she can focus on is the sex and seduction. Dumb twit, the king may be able to turn up the heart, but Lola is right, not only does Diane have history with the king, she bore his favorite son, and their love is literally written in stone.

The Queen and Mary hold court, speaking with the common people pleading with them for answers. No one steps forward, and Queen Katherine is less kind than Mary is. When good cop doesn't work, bad cop issues an ultimatum. Either someone steps forward or she begins burning down their houses.

Bash searches for an alternative solution.

Kenna throws a fit over some tiles. The King doesn't see what the big deal is, trying to comfort her. She points out that diane is redoing a 15 room cottage, and he's not batting an eye, and yet he won't replace a few tiles for her. She refuses to be his latest flavor, tossed aside easily.

Bash takes a man out to the woods. Don't do this Bash, there has to better way.

The gils watch the festivities, and wonders over the King's whereabouts. Kenna gets her big gesture, all lit up in fireworks. She runs into his arms.

Mary's questioning has lead to no answers, and Francis tells her what he's found as well. Bash used his power and money to take a prisoner, and warned that he would not return. He also tells her that he saw their little kiss, that he's been burned more than once by Mary's actions, and now his brother is paying the price for her too. Life at court pretty much sucks for Mary, she can't win for anything, and did francis forget that he kissed another girl too?

Queen Catherine watches her king's display for his new mistress with disgust. Rather than looking for  the heathens running amuck within the palace walls he's catering to Kenna. A kitchen maid comes in with news, just before the burning hour is to occur. She points the finger at a guard, with little else, but its enough for the Queen to figure out a suspect, her own guard Robert. She sounds the alarm for him to be captured.

Bash prepares his prisoner for his death show, and his pleas get no mercy from Bash. Someone comes from the shadows, and Bash makes sure that this simple death will suffice. The cloaked figure tells  any death offering will work, and Bash draws his blade on  the cloaked man. Bash and the man square off, the heretic claiming that he and Bash so different. Bash runs him through, and the man tells him that the bloodlust is now in him.

King Henry comes to see Diane. He's not happy with the mess that Kenna is making of his life, wonders when he'll learn. Diane promises to take care of things around the cottage so the king doesn't have to worry about them, and he wishes Kenna were as self-sufficient. Diane doesn't have a bad thing to say about Kenna, bearing no ill will towards her. And why should she? It seems that she's not nearly as displaced as the king led Kenna to believe.

Mary worries over Bash. She urges Sara to come sit with her, to distract her, and Sara lets something slip. She's a heretic as well.

Bash takes back the thief, who is still a little on edge. He tries to comfort Bash, telling him that blood doesn't always matter. Ultimately he knows too much, and Bash throws him from a cliff.

Francis updates Mary on her maid and the guards fate. Bash tells them that the price is paid. Francis makes a fancy speech, breaking Mary's heart, telling her its the best option. That they have to think of only their countries, that when the time comes if their marriage  is the best alliance, then he will be by her side, but until then they have to keep their distance. She can have anyone, but not his brother, The line in the sand has been drawn, but no one is happy about it. Francis immediately runs too Olivia's open arms, with no promises, only sex.

Mary watches the guard and maid's burning on the stake, and so do Bash and Diane. he tells her of his brother trying to rule his life, and she tells him to heed the advice. But Bash learned something more, that some are more important, and some are to be forgotten. She vows to make sure he's remembered.