She slips him a knife, with which he later manages to set himself free, aided by his men who shoot the castle guards.īack in the outlaws' cave, Robin suspects he was betrayed by Little John as there was a price on his head. He tells her he did not desert the king but was kept prisoner. Robin contrives to signal his presence to Marion, who is in the castle. Robin turns up at Huntingdon Castle in disguise and with a horse and cart but is caught and thrown into a cell. Little John tells Robin that Marion is about to be married to Sir Guy of Gisborne. The famous staff fight on the river ensues the two become friends. Robin seeks out Little John to warn him to leave the outlaws in peace. The sheriff and Guy of Gisborne decide Robin must be killed: not only has he made his pursuers look foolish, he also overheard the abbot's confession about the plot against king Richard. Two of Robin's men, carrying a poached animal, are attacked and beaten by Little John and Roland, his bloodthirsty companion.
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The sheriff's men turn up but are sent scurrying away by Tuck's claim that the pit in front of his cave is full of vipers. In the forest, the outlaws meet Friar Tuck, who invites them to set up their headquarters in his cave. He hints to Marion's father, Sir Kenneth Neston, that king Richard might die on his crusade to the Holy Land. Sir Guy of Gisborne has taken over Robin's Huntingdon Castle, is plotting to acquire his earldom and is about to marry Lady Marion. Robin Hood, who has taken to the forest, is being chased – unsuccessfully – by three of the sheriff's men. Rather than reinstate Robin as earl and annul his outlawry, the king, still angry, tells Robin to absent himself, adding crytically (and prophetically) that perhaps he can find a way to serve him in England while he is away on crusade.
A guard is told to search the intended assassin and kill him should a dagger be found on his person.
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Set free by his men, Robin reveals to Richard I the details of the plot to kill him. Robin is immediately dispossessed and outlawed. In anger, the king finally grants Sir Guy leave to marry Marion. Producing Robin's signet ring in evidence and in order to further his own marriage plans, Guy of Gisborne tells Richard I that Robin renounces his allegiance and declines to follow his king to the Holy Land as he finds the notion of crusading "misguided". Robin is taken prisoner by the sheriff who has had him under surveillance. Dressed as a monk, Robin at the monastery overhears the abbot of Grantham dying from a stab wound reveal the plot to his confessor. Shortly before embarking on the crusade, Robin, made squire to Richard I, receives news about the plot from the outlaws who have been spying on the abbot of Grantham. The plot, lead by the sheriff of Nottingham and backed by Sir Guy of Gisborne and the abbot of Grantham, has as its object to have Richard I killed by a monk onbooard his ship enroute to the continent and subsequently put an initially less than enthusiastic Prince John on the throne. Walter, a tenant of the Earl of Huntingdon and father of young Much, has been hanged by the sheriff of Nottingham to prevent him from revealing a plot he has accidentally got wind of. Later the queen decides to go to her native Aquitaine while her son is on crusade. Her son, Richard I, about to go on crusade, decides to leave his potentially disloyal brother Prince John in England, well provided for with the income from several counties and an exchequer of his own. Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine expresses some sympathy for the unhappily betrothed Marion during a brief interview. He subsequently helps the outlaws retrieve Robin's possessions from the soldiers guarding the barn where the abbot has stashed the loot. At the castle Robin and Scarlet are introduced to a hung over Friar Tuck, left behind fast asleep in the wine cellar by the abbot.
On Robin's resinstatement as earl, the Abbot of Grantham has left Huntingdon castle completely empty. The leader of the outlaws turns out to be Will Scarlet, son of the former steward of the manor of Huntingdon.
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