Walsingham's capture and racking of Francis Throckmorton exposed the full invasion conspiracy — implicating Guise, the French and Spanish ambassadors, and Mary Queen of Scots — and hardened Burghley and Walsingham's determination to eliminate Mary at any cost.

56:55red-handed. >> Yeah. Encoding a letter to Mary. >> Coding a letter and they arrest and they burst in and arrest him. >> Yeah. And so he's taken to the tower where he is put to the rack. Um he's very brave. He refuses to speak. I mean he suffers excruciating torture. But Walsingham, he says, notwithstanding the great show that he hath made of a Roman resolution. I, in

57:18other words, he's prepared to suffer death rather than speak his mind. Wingham says he will. He suffered too much pain. You know, he one of the more chilling things about Walsingham, he understands the psychology of pain. And he's right because three days later, you know, by which time Throm Morton's been given time to recover, the prisoner is led back to the rack and the sight of it, you know, he just gives way. He

57:42falls to his knees. Um he he makes his confession and all the details of the plot come out. The involvement of geese of Castellnau in the French embassy of Mendoza in the Spanish embassy and crucially of Mary Queen of Scots and it's the last confession the confession that Mary has been corresponding in treasonous tones with him that uh causes thrott Morton the most agony. So he cries out, "Now I have betrayed her who

58:10was dearest to me in this world. And since I have failed my faith towards her, I care not if I were hanged." And that's just as well because he is hanged. >> Well, more than hanged. I mean, it's worse than hanging, right? >> Yeah. So he he's tried in May 1584 and he does retract his confession and he says, you know, I only made it because I I'd suffered such pain, but it

58:33doesn't help. He is convicted for treason, of course, and so therefore he suffers at traitor's fate. He's hung, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on the 10th of July, and he dies refusing to ask for the queen's forgiveness, which traditionally people would do because then their their relatives and heirs would be treated better. He refuses to do that. From Wolsingham's point of view, it's, you know, it's been

58:53brilliant. It's been a completely triumphant feat of Spycraft, and it has massive, massive consequences. So let's look at the consequences and let's go through the various people who were involved in the plot as it were the Ayatollah Mikl Gorbachoff and so on and and what the consequences are for them. So let's start with the Duke of Geese. So this is the Mads Mickelson character. So he at first after Throm Morton's um

59:19unmasking that doesn't throw him. He continues with his planning doesn't he? >> Yeah. So Mary, Queen of Scots, manages to get a letter through to him and she is very keen that the plot should carry on and she, you know, she had been queen of France and so um she kind of has investments left from her diary and she says, "Well, you could use money from that to help continue fund the plot." Um

59:41and you know that's what Geese wants to hear. So he says, "Fine, okay, we'll carry on." But then the plot does get knocked on the head and it's nothing that Walsingham or the English do. It's the fact that on the 10th of June 1584, the Duke of Onu, so Elizabeth's frog, you know, this guy who'd been courting him, the guy who had had messed up being the lord of the Netherlands, he dies