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The Angel of Death

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2x04
The Angel of Death
Season

2

Episode

4

Airdate

27 October 2007

Written by

Julian Unthank

Directed by

Matthew Evans

Produced by

Jane Hudson
Nick Pitt

Starring

Jonas Armstrong
Lucy Griffiths
Richard Armitage
Keith Allen
Gordon Kennedy
Sam Troughton
Joe Armstrong
Harry Lloyd
Anjali Jay

Preceded by

"Childhood"

Followed by

"Ducking and Diving"

"The Angel of Death" is the fourth episode of Season 2 of Robin Hood and the 17th episode of the series as a whole.

Plot[]

Will’s father Dan and brother Luke come to Sherwood to try and take Will with them to Scarborough. Will refuses and argues with his father. The next day the gang goes to Nottingham and while they are there, it is announced that pestilence has come to the town and that Pitts Street will be quarantined. After seeing a sick child, Jess, Dan does not believe that the illness is pestilence and speaks out against the Sheriff. He gets killed by one of the Sheriff’s men for this, and the other outlaws have to hold Will back to stop him from doing anything reckless.

Edward has been put into the dungeons to punish Marian, who is forced to read the Sheriff’s announcement to earn food for her father. She later hears from a servant that the Nightwatchman supposedly took food to the people of Pitts Street the previous night, which raises Marian’s suspicions. She trades clothes with the servant with the intention of sneaking out.

Will seemingly calms down and claims to take his brother back to Scarborough. He and Luke make it to the city walls, but Will tricks Luke into climbing down so that he won’t be in Nottingham for what he is about to do next. Will sneaks into the castle and runs into Marian, but he doesn’t say anything and runs off instead.

The ”pestilence” is in reality an illness caused by poison. It was developed by Joseph, a man hired by the Sheriff. The previous night Joseph dressed up as the Nightwatchman and gave the people pies, so now he pretends to get caught in the quarantine zone to make observations for his research. He pretends to help the outlaws treat the sick, but is discovered after Marian recognises him, and he escapes into the castle.

Robin has written a letter to King Richard, explaining everything about the Sheriff’s plans. While the other outlaws are in the quarantine zone, Allan is meant to take the letter to Roger of Stoke. Before he does so, he informs Gisborne of it, and after Allan has left the letter with Roger, Gisborne has Roger killed.

Will manages to find Joseph’s poison in the castle and dresses up as a servant to serve poisoned wine to the Sheriff and Joseph. Meanwhile John comes up with the idea to use belladonna – another poison – as an antidote. It works, and after Marian reveals to the others that Will is in the castle, they all realise what he is about to do. They make it out of the quarantine zone and into the castle, where they split up to find Will. Djaq is the first to find him and shows him the antidote, but he locks her in a cupboard. He is then found by the others, and Robin pretends to drink the poison.

As Will leads the others to Djaq, Robin goes to the Sheriff, who is suffering due to the poison, and forces him to announce through the window that there is no pestilence. The others show up, and Will administers the antidote. The other outlaws escape, but Joseph, upset that his perfect poison has an antidote, attacks Robin, and the two fall out of the window. Robin manages to hang onto a tapestry, but Joseph falls to his death. The outlaws leave Nottingham as the people cheer. In the forest, Luke and Will make a memorial for their father.

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