Contains spoilers for this episode and earlier episodes.
More remains in the Tower rather than take the oath Henry demands. Cromwell offers him ways to comply without changing his private beliefs, but More refuses to separate the spoken promise from his conscience. Fisher faces the same machinery of punishment, and his execution comes before More's trial and death. Their resistance makes the king's supremacy a demand with lethal consequences. At court, Anne is dealing with a miscarriage and with the pressures her family places on her ability to produce a son. Henry's affection has not vanished, but the miniature he once treasured now brings irritation as well as love when he looks at it.
Mary Boleyn arrives pregnant after marrying William Stafford, a commoner. Her father responds with anger, and Anne sends the couple away rather than welcome a marriage that the family sees as damaging to its standing. Meanwhile, More is convicted and condemned. Henry changes the sentence to beheading, sparing him a more brutal death while still allowing the execution to proceed. More prays, says goodbye and approaches the scaffold with calm, even offering encouragement to the executioner. Henry remains at Whitehall, waiting through the appointed time in silence before his grief breaks out. The man who once advised him as a friend dies because he will not make the promise the king now requires.