![]() “Have you heard of the King’s Devil?” Marion asks quietly. (I was expecting this scheme to involve the Sheriff’s father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate, but it turns out I was just overcomplicating the whole thing…) Marion has called Huntingdon there to warn him, as her servant has a brother who works in Nottingham Castle, and now the Nottingham servant has warned the Leaford servant to tell Marion that the Sheriff’s hatching a plan which might expose the Hooded Man. Then a man approaches her, and quickly, she pulls him into her room before he can be glimpsed once inside, the torches reveal him to be Huntingdon, who’s risked coming to Leaford in response to her summons. Marion watches them pass with a look of deep concern, already awake and seemingly aware that this dangerous duo is up to no good: The haze of bluefilter indicates early morning in Leaford Grange, and if you squint, you can discern two men rolling by on a cart – an unfamiliar bald-pated fellow and a Nottingham guardsman holding a crossbow: –who now must discover the leadership-legitimizing secret of: Huntingdon’s about to blurt out BUT I’M NOT– until Little John’s expression warns against the correction, because it’s to everyone’s benefit that their new leader be known to all as– “Bless you, Robin Hood!” the latter cries, reaching out his still-intact hands to clasp his rescuer gratefully: Finally, Huntingdon kills a forester who’s whipping some peasants and then saves a poacher from punishment. Then the outlaws run from Nottingham guardsmen and foil them by climbing up a hill, since the soldiers are carrying spears for some reason and can’t clamber up after them. What fun! It’s like nobody’s starving at all! ![]() ![]() Then they throw silvers to Wickham’s children and laugh joyously while the kids scramble to retrieve the coins: First, the Merries stop a prosperous-looking traveler and send him on his way after exacting a sizeable “toll”: We begin with a musical montage, depicting the many delights of outlawing. ![]()
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