Robin Hood: Walkabout Episode

The Sheriff is dreaming of the pact he has lost. It changes from one place to the next quickly and with no real reason and when the Sheriff awakens, he is in the forest. Gisborne comes to the Sheriff’s room to find a man he has never seen before there. He is the liaison of Prince John who comes every other week to see the Sheriff for his seal that all is well. If it is not well the Prince will send troops to destroy Nottingham. And the man has already sent the message that all is not well and tells Gisborne the troops are on their way.
The Sheriff has apparently slept walked out of the castle, which includes riding on a horse and telling a gate guard to open the gate. He fights off a vagabond only to be chased off from another part of the forest by a woman and her three children. Meanwhile Gisborne sends Alan to find the Sheriff, to no avail. Marion convinces Gisborne to let her try and bring Robin to the castle to help find the Sheriff since she tells Gisborne he would not want Nottingham burned to the ground either. Gisborne consents reluctantly.
Robin and the gang return to camp to find Alan in it with the ring Robin gave Marion to know that he is not lying. Alan tells of their plight and Robin says they will leave immediately. No one is happy about going in, even as a guest. Robin goes to see Gisborne and Marion, and Marion explains the situation. Robin delights in this and makes Gisborne ask for his help. Robin tells everyone what to do but makes Will promise that Marion will survive if no one else does.
The Sheriff realizes he needs shoes and sees a man heading toward him. When the man bypasses him, he follows and robs him. The Sheriff then goes back to the woman who ran him off and entices the four of them to help find Robin Hood’s secret hideout so they can get money to survive and he can retrieve his pact. Of course he doesn’t tell her what the paper is he wants. The liaison tells Gisborne that his cousin will get the job to rebuild Nottingham when it is burned to the ground so any bribe he tries to give him is worthless.
Munch and Robin track The Sheriff’s horse and Robin tells him about his proposing to Marion and her saying yes. Meanwhile The Sheriff is helping the woman and her children come up with an idea to make Robin give them some of his money. Djaq and Little John are counting food in the forest. John wants to find more for the more and more families that are turning into beggers every day. They walk off to give the food to those who need it, instead of looking for The Sheriff, which Djaq objects too. While walking through they find the woman, the Sheriff, and the children acting as if they are dying and grieving over the loss of a child. Of course they do not know who any of them are.
Gisborne wants Marion to leave to be safe and she tells him he didn’t leave her when she was kidnapped so she will not abandon him. So the castle prepare for the troops arrival. Will and Alan exchange words about Alan’s betrayal and walk different directions. Robin and Munch find the tracks again and Munch tries to take a break. Robin says there is no time because the sun is moving across the sky and if they do not find the Sheriff soon, all will be lost.
The group trying to get to Robin’s camp act even worse for John and Djaq. When Djaq wants to get medicine, John says they need to take them all back to the camp instead. Djaq tries to refuse and conceeds when John says they will blindfold everyone that can see, which does not include the Sheriff since he is acting blind.
Gisborne finds out he will be allowed to pass freely since he is a black knight. When he finds out family only, he tries to convince the liaison to let Marion survive. He is informed that is not possible unless she marries him before dusk. Marion herself tries to convince the liaison to let the women and children go and he refuses. The troops arrive and Gisborne says to arm all the peasants in the castle since the guards are all out searching for the Sheriff. Alan and Will make up since they have to be on the same side to survive.
Robin and Munch find the man the Sheriff traded clothes with and when he tells them the rags would help this man find important papers in the forest, they realize he is going to the camp for the pact. They rush to catch him.
Gisborne proposes to Marion, telling her it is the only way to save her. She hesitates, due to her promise to Robin, but tells Gisborne it is because she can not abandon the people. He tells her they must be married by sundown and leaves.
When Djaq tells John she will be back shortly, the woman, Sheriff, and children make their move. Robin shows up as they are looting. The Sheriff says he will not go back to the castle and that Robin can not shoot him or risk Nottingham being destroyed. John, cut free by Djaq, comes up behind the Sheriff and knocks him out.
Gisborne makes one last effort to get Marion to marry him and then prepares to leave. He changes his mind howeverand goes back to fight and die next to her. Robin is racing on horseback with the Sheriff to save Nottingham. As Gisborne asks her one last time to marry him before they die, they hear the Sheriff scream for Gisborne. He puts his seal ont he liaison’s book and tells them to leave right away. The Sheriff says to let Hood go because he has the pact and then realizes that he does not and is furious. John apologizes to Robin for disobeying but Robin says that someone who cares for the fellow man the way John does has nothing to feel bad about.