Does Hugo’s family save Arnau from Marta?
Marta keeps Arnau away from Guerao, claiming the boy is sick. She sees Arnau every day to secretly give him his “medicine.”
Guerao knows she’s lying about caring for the child. He comes to Hugo’s tavern to tell them the countess is poisoning Arnau. She’ll end up killing him before Bernat returns.
He says he can help kidnap and hide the child until he gets better. That night, he sneaks Hugo and Mercé into the palace, where they find Arnau and carry him out.
Caterina seduces a guard and leads them inside to clear the path. She later meets them back at the tavern, shaken.
Arnau is transported to Arsenda by a friend of Barcha’s. Mercé begs her to care for him as her own.
How does Marta react to the kidnapping?
The parents of Marta, who had been missing for two days, showed up at the police station with guards to accuse Mercé of kidnapping their daughter. They could not find Arnau, but they still arrested Mercé so they could torture her for a confession. ..
Geurao is taken to the palace and put in a noose. Marta demands to know where Arnau is. When he gives her nothing, she hangs him. Marta spreads the idea that Guerao took his own life, tormented by his betrayal of Bernat.
Does Bernat go after Arnau?
Marta tells Bernat that she saw her brother, Geurao, betray her father and leave for the city. Bernat is skeptical, but Marta insists that her brother did it on purpose to get his hands on the family’s wealth. Bernat decides to take matters into his own hands and goes into battle with Hugo and his family. If he doesn’t find his son in a few days, he will kill them all.
Arsenda mostly keeps a distance from her grandson. But one day, he sneaks away and joins her in prayer. She reaches out to take his hand.
Bernat visits Mercé in jail and she cries, asking why he didn’t defend her. She claims Marta poisons Arnau and murdered Guerao. Bernat asks again where Arnau is, and the next scene sees him riding furiously to the convent. ..
Arsenda opens the door, but refuses to let Arnau go with Bernat. He will wait outside until she is more willing. ..
Do Hugo and Bernat reconcile?
Hugo visits the convent at night and whistles for Arsenda like he used to. They embrace, and she apologizes to him for her hateful actions. Hugo wants to sneak Arnau out without Bernat noticing, but Arsenda tells him he won’t be able to live in peace until he resolves his conflict with Bernat. ..
“Dear friends,” Arsenda begins, “I have something to tell you. I am not the woman you thought I was. I am not the woman who left you to marry that man. I am someone else.”
Does Bernat defend Mercé to the queen?
We next see Barnet ride off with Arnau, while Hugo departs on his own. Bernat approaches guards to demand Marta’s arrest, but her father pleads before the queen on her behalf.
The queen next sees Bernat. She tells him to stop threatening Marta and try to seek an agreement with her family. Bernat refuses.
He urges the queen to release Mercé, but she knows her as the devil’s daughter. The queen says Mercé can be tried by ordeal by the cardinal. God will decide her innocence or guilt.
When Bernat assures her he will kill Marta and the Destorrents, the queen dismisses him as the admiral of the navy. This still doesn’t change his mind.
What is the trial by ordeal?
Mercé’s challenge is to walk across burning coals.
Hugo worries about Mercé’s trial by ordeal. He asks a priest if anyone has passed this test before. The priest simply tells him to have faith (that surely means “no”).
Mercé walks across the coals, challenging Destorrent and his men. As she makes it to the end, she kisses the cardinal’s cross. Just as she completes her impossible test, Bernat is struck through by a foe’s sword.
Does Bernat die?
He falls to the ground before a statue of the Virgin Mary, holding his bleeding side. Hugo, Caterina, and Mercé run toward him. “The Virgin. You see her smiling,” he says to Hugo. “Yes Bernat,” he responds. “She’s smiling at you.”
Bernat says he knows Mercé will take care of their son. “I forgive you,” he says before taking his last breath.
How does Heirs to the Land Season 1 end?
Hugo and his family learn that Bernat settled his affairs before his death. He appointed Arnau his heir and Mercé their son’s guardian.
Hugo was given the right to buy the vineyards that belonged to Jucef and his family, but he didn’t give Marta the minimum amount of money required by law.
The first season of Heirs to the Land ended with a happy family reunited. Hugo and Caterina married and claimed the vineyard as their own. Mercé slowly starts to get to know Arsenda. ..
In the last scene, Hugo gives Arnau a model of Bernat’s ship. He speaks of the bravery of the boy’s father and grandfather, and of their adventures on the seas. He says they will make the ship sail again, and the two of them walk through the vineyard together.
The Episode Review
The finale of Heirs to the Land drops the interesting thread of church corruption in order to simplify all the religious conflict into a determination of Mercé’s innocence or guilt. Previously pressing concerns of the clergy repeatedly assaulting nuns are only pitifully addressed through Arsenda’s unconvincing denial of Mercé’s ‘devilish’ origins. ..
The other major plotline in Season 5 of “The Crown” fails to compel. The show has repeatedly attempted to push this idea that Bernat and Hugo are somehow connected through Bernat’s father and Hugo’s promise to avenge him. The sense of connection remains faint and poorly executed, and it makes for an underwhelming conclusion to make the season finale largely about the reconciliation between two men who weren’t exactly ever even friends.
The last scene of the episode felt unsatisfying because it was all about Bernat’s actions and not what the characters were trying to achieve. The finale seemed to be trying to say that Arnau will carry on the legacy of his family, but it didn’t feel earned.
