Blood in the Water

“	Keeping your promise because you want to be good and honorable isn't the same as keeping your promise because you truly love someone.	”
	— Catherine to Claude

Blood in the Water
Production Information
Air Date	June 9, 2017
Writer	Drew Lindo Wendy Riss
Director	Charles Binamé
Ratings Information
Viewers	0.67
Episode Guide
Previous	A Bride. A Box. A Body.
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Blood in the Water is the fifteenth episode of Season Four and the seventy-seventh episode of Reign overall. It aired on June 9, 2017.

Plot

MARY'S LIFE HANGS IN THE BALANCE - Childbirth threatens to take Mary's life, which leaves her and her unborn child's safety in jeopardy. Elizabeth discovers that someone in her inner circle was the cause of the death of someone close to her.

Cast

Main Adelaide Kane as Mary Stuart Celina Sinden as Greer Castleroy Megan Follows as Catherine de' Medici Rachel Skarsten as Elizabeth I Will Kemp as Lord Darnley Adam Croasdell as Lord Bothwell Ben Geurens as Gideon Blackburn

Recurring Craig Parker as Stéphane Narcisse Rose Williams as Claude de Valois Spencer MacPherson as Charles IX Dan Jeannotte as James Stuart Jonathan Goad as John Knox Megan Hutchings as Jane Guest Anastasia Phillips as Elisabeth de Valois

Gallery

Trivia

• Mary's Scottish greyhound, Stirling, makes an appearance. He has not been seen since Wedlock.
• Lord Darnley is revealed to be suffering from syphilis.
• The future James VI and I is born.