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Is that vague enough for those who have stumbled across this recap before watching the episodes?
THE ELEPHANT IS MY FAVORITE.
WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?
Okay, no, its fine, I am fine.
Were going to get through this.
HUZZAH, she wept into her tea.
A littletoorelatable, yknow what I mean?
Theyre also making effigies of Catherine, then defiling them.
Archie brings her one, and she has it brought to her apartments for some reason.
Peter is so excited (A big Catherine doll!
He does make a run at get Peter to punch himself in the face, but fortunately Peter demurs.
Hugo is really bummed about this not-being-king thing.
I guess I get it.
Exactly like being an eighteenth-century monarch.
Archie is really jazzed about his plan and thinks it will go perfectly, so you know its not.
I would also have these goals if I were Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
She does this by setting her sofa on fire.
Marial is a good friend.
In this case, a good friend to Archie and not Catherine.
But theyhavebeen friends longer.
Velementov has been especially endearing this season, possibly because hes dying.
I hope he gets to bang Agnes someday.
She seems into it, despite it being part of her Secret Plan.
I cant tell what her plan is here exactly.
To make Velementov drunk and late to his meeting with Catherine about the Pugachev situation?
Its probably to get Velementov fired.
Petrov is in charge of capturing Pugachev now, and Velementov is retired.
And so the Swedish plan comes together!
Hugo proposes to Velementov and Peter that they secretly take back Sweden.
Peteragrees to do thisand tells Catherine hes going hunting for a week.
Surely this will go well.
In the next episode, Ice, my heart is broken.
But first, Hugo and Peter argue about cooking fish in the snow.
Just trust that theyre off-camera somewhere.
The fish is cooked next to a vast frozen river, and across its banks are Catherine and Grigor.
They both want Peter back and for this ludicrous expedition to end.
The percentage I care about male actors is close to zero, but Nicholas Hoult.
Oh, and how did Elizabeth find out Archie was behind it?
Because his letter drawer was empty.
Okay, here I go, feet dragging back to the frozen river.
Peter rides his horse across it to talk to Catherine.
He immediately calls Grigor disloyal, and Grigor iswounded.
Catherine is furious that Peter stole her army and is trying to secretly invade Sweden, which is fair.
His counterpoint is that they dont do many things together, and the marriage advice book says they should.
He just wants the same from her.
Catherine still doesnt want him to go.
Peter and his horse walk halfway across the ice.
Peter turns and says, Actually, I and the ice cracks and PETER AND HIS HORSE FALL IN.
Grigor runs and we watch him from the shore as Catherine stands stuck in one spot.
At the palace, Elizabeth suddenly has to sit down.
We see Peter in the water, frozen.
Peter is the greatest thing about this show and I refuse to believe he is gone.
And thats the end of the episode, I guess!!!
Where do we go from here?
