The Musketeers
A modern version of the classic story from Alexander Dumas about a team of soldiers of duty doing everything that they can to protect their country from any harm. They also have to make sure to protect the royal family of their country from any enemies.
- Metascore69
- 2014-2016
- 3 seasons
- BBC America
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
- TV-14
A modern version of the classic story from Alexander Dumas about a team of soldiers of duty doing everything that they can to protect their country from any harm. They also have to make sure to protect the royal family of their country from any enemies.
Season 3 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2016
Episode 1
Spoils of War
Sat, May 14, 2016 58 mins
Athos, Porthos and d'Artagnan have been at war, while Aramis has been at the monastery caring for the children left orphaned. Missing munitions brings the three to the monastery where the bad guys have taken refuge. As they scheme to stop the stolen munitions from being sold to the Spanish and save the Monks and the children, Aramis is forced back into battle and has to decide where he truly belongs.
Episode 2
The Hunger
Sat, May 14, 2016 55 mins
Feron and Grimaud engineer a food shortage in Paris to fool the king into giving them money allegedly to buy more grain. They blame the theft from the grain store on refugees fleeing the wars with Spain and when D'Artagnan joins the protesters he is jailed along with them. A fair magistrate refuses to try the so-called culprits without evidence, giving the three musketeers the time to trace the stolen grain and its immediate thieves, helped by Sylvie, the daughter of a campaigner against injustice. Feron's plan is thwarted and the innocent are released but the musketeers have yet to discover Grimaud's duplicity.
Episode 3
Brothers in Arms
Sat, May 14, 2016 55 mins
King Louis orders the Musketeers to bring his exiled brother, the Duke of Orléans, back to Paris. On the way, the Duke gets robbed of dangerous letters which could destroy Orléans. The Duke informs the corrupt Governor of this, and the Governor's Red Guard must race the Musketeers in the hunt for the thief.
Episode 4
The Queen's Diamonds
Sat, May 14, 2016 55 mins
On her journey to Paris the queen of England, Henrietta Maria, also the sister of King Louis is robbed of the crown jewels, which has to be sold in order to finance England's armed forces. The Musketeers quickly discover the thief to be Émile Bonnaire, a flamboyant but pathetic criminal they encountered previously. Athos, Porthos and D'Artagnan pressure Bonnaire into leading them to the diamonds' buyers to recover them. Aramis on the other hand, reconnects with Pauline, a childhood friend he grew up with in a bordel where their mothers lived and worked. She is set to marry a French nobleman but is being blackmailed by someone threatening to reveal the circumstances of her childhood, and Aramis tries to resolve the situation peacefully.
Episode 5
To Play the King
Sat, May 14, 2016 55 mins
The musketeers join the Red Guard in controlling a mass prison break, unaware that it has been engineered by Feron and Grimaud to spring petty thief and locksmith Victor Joubert whom they intend to coerce into robbing the treasury or else they will kill his blind wife Annabelle. The musketeers save Annabelle and thwart the heist but D'Artagnan has unwittingly helped another escapee, Borel, a madman who believes himself to be the rightful monarch, and whom the musketeers must prevent from killing the queen.
Episode 6
Death of a Hero
Sat, May 14, 2016 55 mins
Feron forges a letter supposedly from Treville sending the four musketeers on an errand, intending that they will be murdered on the way but before they set out Athos survives an attempt on his life by Grimaud, who also springs Gaston from jail, whilst the king asks Aramis to accompany him on a pilgrimage to his father's grave. On their own Porthos and D'artagnan must weather an attack until their comrades rescue them after which the normally obtuse king, having realized the Dauphin's parentage, nonetheless joins with Aramis and the other musketeers to defeat his would-be killers, including Feron. However Grimaud escapes with Gaston, whom he intends to crown king as he believes Louis to be terminally ill.
Episode 7
Fool's Gold
Sat, May 14, 2016 55 mins
The musketeers pursue Grimaud and find themselves in a forest community peopled by women, led by the fearsome Juliette, who have also taken in the wounded Bastien, whom the musketeers identify as an army deserter. When other, disaffected ex-soldiers lay siege to the village the musketeers defeat them, learning what their attackers were seeking whilst Athos discovers a link between one of the women and Grimaud. In Paris, following Feron's death, the king and queen get closer.
Episode 8
Prisoners of War
Sat, May 14, 2016 55 mins
With the king taking to his bed as dying the queen asks Aramis to help broker a peace treaty with her brother, the Spanish king and he sets out to meet the ambassador but is captured by Grimaud. The court then receives an ultimatum - the return of Aramis in exchange for captured Spanish soldiers, a ploy engineered by Grimaud, Gaston and the Duke of Lorraine to discredit the queen as an appeaser. Facing popular acrimony the other musketeers have the prisoners released and set out for the rendezvous, along with D'Artagnan's cousin Espoir, whom he has saved from the gallows and acquits himself well in the gun-battle. Aramis is freed but Grimaud escapes to use the queen's sponsorship of a literacy scheme for the poor against her and Athos's new love Sylvie whilst an old enemy of the musketeers returns to the court.
Episode 9
The Prize
Sat, May 14, 2016 55 mins
When the king dies of tuberculosis the appointed regent Treville sends the dauphin into hiding with Constance to protect him from the rebel armies of Gaston and Lorraine, gathering outside Paris, along with Grimaud, who plans to take over the Red Guard. To avoid bloodshed Gaston is pardoned and given property in Paris much to the queen's annoyance. However he is not satisfied and whilst the honourable Lorraine agrees to a pact with Treville, leading to Gaston's arrest, the musketeers must foil Grimaud's attempt to kidnap the dauphin - and avenge the murder of a good friend.
Episode 10
We Are the Garrison
Sat, May 14, 2016 55 mins
Following Treville's funeral the musketeers survive an attempt by Grimaud to kill them when their garrison is torched, leaving many casualties, and gunpowder and weapons stolen. To lure the musketeers into a trap Grimaud takes hostages including Sylvie but the four comrades stage a rescue, and the queen and Dauphin are restored to the palace with Milady as the royal spy master, her first task being to take care of Gaston. However the mortally wounded Grimaud escapes and the musketeers must stop him from blowing up the city with the stolen gunpowder.