Rumors ! courtesy of Chaumichele
I heard there was going to be sequels to the A&E/BBC Scarlet Pimpernel miniseries. Do you know if this is true?I asked.
Ah, yes! I don't know HOW many more (at least another set of three, for certain) Marguerite dies in childbirth, Chauvelin disappears, Percy gets a new enemy (like MY Chauvelin isn't good enough? HAH! Stupid old A&E Percy! Of course, A&E Chauvelin is stupid too, so I probably shouldn't be complaining...) and Percy gets a new love interest.
Here's what I've heard:
Tony returns ("I shall return...to haunt you...mwahahahaha!") and slowly begins to destroy the League, heck-bent on revenge!
Marguerite dies giving birth. As she's being buried, Chauvelin appears and tells Percy that the child is his (no doubt conceived during the seperation in Episode Three!) Percy's heartbroken, fighting like mad to keep this one last part of his dear, departed Mole...err...Margot. Andrew, ever the rational one, suggests a paternity test! And so darling Suzanne (who is a brilliant bio-chemist and medical technician in her spare time--I didn't mention that?) whips out her trusty DNA testing device and concludes that... the child is Chauvelin's. Chauvelin disappears with the child.
Percy is now.... ::wiggles eyebrows in a suggestive manner,mentally-elbowing Jennuerite:: A freeeeee man. And so, with the little black book Lord Tony bequeathed unto him, Percy begins looking for a NEW Lady Blakeney.
In the meantime, Tony is slowly destroying everything Percy holds dear.
(Yes, my friends. Tony has... ::gasp:: Killed Percy's favorite tailor!)
Poor Andrew. I haven't mentioned him yet, have I? You see, there's this chance cricket accident during the League Cricket Tournament (The Frenchies whomped the Leaguers almost 10-1! How sad!) and Andrew gets a good boink in the head. No longer able to function as a semi-normal human being (and I say semi-normal because was A&E Andrew ever completely normal?), Suzanne has him institutionalized. Hey, don't feel sad! She visits on Sundays! And brings him chocolates!
Ah, but how sad! All of the lovely ladies (I'm being kind and calling them ladies--any other suggested terms?) in Tony's black book can not fill the void in Percy's empty heart! (::fake sniffle::) Like a mad man, he begins wandering the moo--wait, wrong movie. Sorry. Back in England, he finds an ally in the form of the lonely Suzanne Ffoulkes....
It all wraps up neatly with Percy haunted by Marguerite's ghost. Or, rather, as we discover--the real Marguerite. The woman who gave birth to Chauvelin's child was Marguerite's Evil Twin Sister, Antoinette. Marguerite, all this time, has been held prisoner by Lord Tony who finally relinquishes her. Not because he receives a ransom. Or fights Percy to the death. But rather, he's seen and heard enough of her acting to last several lifetimes...
Darn that A&E! That's where they wrap up! It annoys me. What of Lord Tony's Revenge? And what happens when Marguerite discovers that Percy and Suzanne have (secretly) married? And poor gibberish-speaking Andrew....
I guess we'll have to stay tuned!
Sir Percy flares his impeccable nose at all of this
(Image courtesy of Blakeney Manor)