The Musketeers - 'Keep Your Friends Close'

"You have a son, your majesty. It's totally the result of faith and not me
getting knocked up by a Musketeer at all."

As one door closes, another opens, and so even as Cardinal Richlieu is buried, having died between series of an offer of a starring role in the BBC's flagship SF series, Queen Anne gives birth to the Dauphin Louis (no sign of a twin as yet) and a new adversary arrives at court in the form of the Cardinal's former agent in Spain, the intense and brooding Comte de Rochefort (Marc Warren.)

Captain Treville drops the ball by refusing the King's offer of a position as his close adviser, leaving the way open for the returning viper Rochefort to take up his master's place, with the added twist that he is revealed to be working for the Spanish Ambassador (Patrick Malahide, looking pretty damned spruce compared to Game of Thrones.) Rochefort then leads the Musketeers on what he hopes will be a suicide mission to rescue a former fellow prisoner, General de Foix.

I have no idea why you might think I was evil.

With the loss of Peter Capaldi to the lure of the TARDIS, Rochefort is our new lead villain. He is instantly thrown in with an opposite direction by establishing him as a confidante of the Queen, whereas Richlieu was her particular enemy, and  personal rather than political beef against the Musketeers. He is also much more direct, and even in this one episode kills a lot of people (Athos identifies him as an assassin.)

Aramis has some angst-filled moments as he tries to get some face time with his unacknowledged son, with Athos having to be the voice of reason: "The Dauphin is not your son, Aramis. He can never be your son unless you confess to an act of treason and take the Queen down with you." Meanwhile Constance is appointed as the Queen's official confidante, and d'Artagnan acts like a complete dick because she wouldn't leave her husband, which given that she has just found him making out with de Foix's sister at the time is pretty fucking rich.

On the plus side, she has something to brood over now.