The Tudors Dynasty podcast. Hello, dear listeners, welcome back. I know that I am happy to be back for our

episode six recap of the Star series Becoming Elizabeth. Before we start, I do want to thank Katie from

Queen's podcast for stepping in last week and being my voice. She did a fantastic job

and truly saved the day. This next episode in the series is entitled What Cannot Be Cured. And of course,

now we know the end of that statement is, what cannot be cured must be endured.

And we were left with a cliffhanger last week showing that Elizabeth was either going to be

arrested or, at the very least, questioned in the aftermath of Thomas Seymour's attempted

kidnapping and or murder of King Edward

the 6th. We open on Thomas in the Tower of London now. His accommodations actually look fairly nice,

but later, of course, Bishop Gardner steps in and reminds us that no one is actually truly

relaxed when they are in the tower. But Thomas has some nice accommodations. Somerset, his brother,

comes to visit, and he makes an attempt to sort of level with his brother. He needs to know the truth

of what happened, and now he is using the threat of torture. In this period of history, we know

it is filled with tales of torture and very creative methods. Shows like the tutors or even Borges have depicted a handful of

especially terrible methods, and we know the Inquisitions of Spain and Rome were also barbaric.

Earlier in the season, Catherine Parr even detailed the torture of anne askew so in short this is not a threat i would take lightly

if i were thomas it's about to get pretty brutal if he doesn't spill some details about this break-in and his ultimate intentions for King Edward.

But Thomas being Thomas at this point is still under the impression that he will receive a trial.

So he's trying to keep his story to himself.

Now, does that mean he has a different story?

Does that mean, obviously, in the context of the show, he's trying to come up with a good story? I don't really know what his motivation is here, but he has decided to be tight-lipped. Then, King Edward and Somerset are shown out falconing. We've talked about this a little

bit because of the stag, Elizabeth and her scene with the stag. So falconing is essentially hunting,

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