With Robin outlawed and the abbot who used to live in it ded, Sir Guy of Gisbourne has been given his house to live in. Robin and his Merry Mannys have a new house - a secret studio set which Friar Tuck found hidden under Sherwood Forest.
One of the Sheriff of Nottingham's henchmannys reports having seen Robin in the forest, causing the Sheriff to make an 'oh noes' face because he thought Robin was still captured by the monks from part two.
Prince John wants the Sheriff to capture Robin alive so that he can talk to him "privately" - which I suspect is code for something naughty, based on the way this series has gone so far. He says he admires Robin for defying the king, something he has so far only been prepared to do secretly.
Robin hears about another outlaw, John Little, who already has the nickname "Little John" because, having spent a full third of its duration on Robin's backstory, the series has no time to waste on anybody else's. Robin makes friends with him in the traditional manner - by having a fight with him until they both fall in the river and get wet.
While they probably didn't enjoy getting wet, they certainly enjoyed the next bit where they got to dry off together while topless. This really is something of a theme for this series, isn't it?
One of the new Merry Mannys that joined along with Little John is a fake, and he betrays Robin to Sir Guy so that Robin gets captured (again). From the tower where he is imprisoned, Robin sees Marion and she sees him. She sneaks in to see him disguised as a servant, and smuggles a knife in for Robin and a message out for Will Scarlet.
With help from the knife and from the real servant, Robin escapes from the tower. Thanks to the message, the Merry Mannys are waiting outside the castle for him and he is able to leap to freedom.
The Sheriff's henchmanny chases them, but he gets covered in noms while they get away. While this is an amusing bit, it gets even funnier in the next scene when the henchmanny is still covered in the noms while Sir Guy does the traditional angrily-calling-him-a-fool-then-saying-he-wants-Robin-found bit, lol.
Robin knows he was betrayed, but not by whom. Little John tells him that one of their mannys was found ded that morning, and from this he deduced that this was how the manny was rewarded by Sir Guy for his treachery.
Little John also tells Robin about a madwoman who lives in a cave, and from this Robin and Tuck deduce where the next bit of plot is. Tuck persuades the madwoman to tell them her story, about how every other manny from her village was captured by the Sheriff's henchmannys and taken to do W-word in a silver mine. Oh noes!
Of course they all have to be topless while they do it, like Blake and Vila in Horizon. I can't imagine why Prince John (who turns out to be in charge of the mine) would insist on that, mew...
The Merry Mannys rescue the prisoners, and Robin confronts Prince John. This is so that Prince John knows who did the rescuing. As one John (Little) helps Robin steal the silver, the other John (Prince) shouts threats at Robin about what he will do to him when he catches him. These are along the lines that he wants Robin to be well hung. Mew.
When Robin doesn't hang around (so to speak) to listen to him, the prince has to resort to addressing his threats directly to the camera - an oddly effective way of demonstrating his impotence in the present situation. It is upon this moment that the episode ends.
While part two was always going to be a hard act to follow, this is definitely a big letdown, with a minimal appearance by the Sheriff and a plot that wouldn't have been out of place if used as filler 4 episodes into a 13-part serason - suffice to say this seems much worse when it forms part three of an only six-part series.
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