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3 Episodes 2000 - 2000
Episode 1
91 mins
After Marguerite's death, Percy's mourning makes him reluctant to take up as the Scarlet Pimpernel again. But a woman whom he recently rescued from the guillotine is determined to save her parents with or without help. Will helping this mademoiselle be just the thing to rescue him from his own ennui?
Episode 2
94 mins
Percy's disinterest in science and chemistry takes a sudden turn when he learns that a French scientist is being imprisoned in France under threat of the guillotine until he can develop a bomb that he and his sister were experimenting with. His sister, on the run, has the very notes explaining the process that are being sought by Robespierre and his general. She seeks the Scarlet Pimpernel to help save her brother, but unfortunately a traitor amongst the league of the Scarlet Pimpernel threatens the rescue and the lives of everyone involved. Will Percy be able to prevent the plans from falling into evil hands and discover the traitor as well?
Episode 3
90 mins
A case of mistaken identity results in Lord Sidney, oversensitive aristo poet, being kidnapped as the Pimpernel and spirited to Paris, where the Mob bay for his blood. Claudette, recently rescued by the Pimpernel and ergo in love with Lord Sidney, attempts to free him cunningly disguised as a boy. Both face certain death at the Guillotine if the real Pimpernel fails to save both them and his reputation... Except Claudette is not an aristo, but adopted: her real mother having been knocked up by The Incorruptible himself in their youth. Faced with this shattering revelation, Robespierre tries in vain to rescue his own daughter from the claws of the Revolutionary Tribunal (a tense and desperate courtroom scene, which leaves him exhausted and emotionally desolated). But the deadly Libersac, a snake of a man vying for Robespierre's power, aims to use this new weakness to expose him. An unlikely truce between the Damned Elusive and the Incorruptible is needed to save the day...