Sacre Bleu!

**Sacre Bleu!** is the seventh episode of Season 4 and the forty-third episode of Escape the Night.

## Episode Description

Sacre bleu! History is corrupted further and forever by the purgatory museum of the dead as the Eiffel Tower is ablaze! As Paris burns, it's time for the guests to face Marie Antoinette, who demands them to help her hunt for Napoleon Bonaparte! Will this hunt lead you all to get a good slice of cake, or a bitter taste in your mouth, as another of our own falls at the hands of the museum's endless terrors and horrors? Let's find out, in this chapter, before a soul takes a quick French leave.

## Episode Summary

After the guests discover that Paris is burning, the guests then decide that they needed to investigate, discovering from the map that "blood is thicker than water". After Valeria asked Akmal for help with braving the flames, Akmal provides the guests heat resistant cloaks for the guests to wear. The guests then don their cloaks, and head out to the exhibit, avoiding the fire, before they hear Marie Antoinette crying from nearby. Payton and Deklan rush in despite the other guests' warnings and get trapped in the burning building. However, the duo manage to barely escape with Marie from the burning building. The guests then question her about the key, and she reveals to them that her husband, Louis XVI, had a key, however he had passed away. She then revealed that Napoleon had revolted, and the others had fought back, leading to the burning city's state.

They hear Napoleon's guards approach as they hurry to hide Marie behind rubble, before the group are eventually found and cornered by the guards, due to the saber Monica had recovered. Napoleon admires Monica's sword which she found in the Chinese Exhibit, revealing to them that it was his own, before threatening to bring them all to the Curator. As Marie is dragged away by Napoleon's guards, Payton rushes at him and strikes Napoleon in the leg. the distraction then allows the others to fight off the guards, before Payton gets her hand severed off. The guests then fight back while Val and Deklan carry Payton to safety.

By the time the guests manage to find safe haven by the half-burnt Eiffel Tower, Payton's still bleeding out from her bloody stump, despite Val, Chris, and Josh's efforts to stop the bleeding. This prompts Valeria to suggest they cauterize the wound, Val and Chris holding Payton and comforting her while Josh cauterizes the wound. Afterwards, the guests start to formulate a plan. Jordan Winchester then suggests one group distract the guards while the others search Place de la Concorde for the key, electing Val and Alex as team leaders, due to their abilities to speak French. Alex's group (Alexander, Joshua, Alehandro, Jordan Winchester and Deklan) begin the distraction as Josh suggests a firework display with Alex's fireworks. They begin fighting the guards together before reaching the Seine, where they continue knocking guards into the water, Josh shooting them over the ledge to make sure they stay down.

Meanwhile, Val's group (Valeria, Payton, Monica, Christopher, Akmal) rush to Place de la Concorde after the firework display goes off, leading to a confrontation with Napoleon himself. The group begin searching for the key while Valeria, Chris and Jordan fight off Napoleon. Payton find a key in the rubble as Val eventually gets Napoleon in a chokehold. The group then confront Napoleon over the Queen's location, but he refuses to say, prompting Payton to cut off his hand in revenge for him cutting hers off. As Napoleon continues to refuse to say where the Queen is despite the group demanding and violently attacking hima, Jordan Winchester and the others return, before the former searches the general's pockets. Napoleon then dies from his wounds, before Payton puts her anger out at the corpse. Jordan then comforts the sobbing inventor, before the guests continue on into the night.

After the guests learn the Queen is being held by the Arc de Triomphe and arrive there, reunited as a group. Lafayette, holding Marie hostage, then reveals the one Payton found was a fake, before he orders them to vote on two for a sword fight to repay for the life they took, otherwise they won't get the Queen or the key back. The Savant then sighed and suggests they vote themselves, which angers a few guests at the idea of the vote. Silvano then uses his immunity gem to protect Monica from the voting. After all the votes are put in, Akmal draws Josh and Chris, the two lovers, and they are put into the challenge. Joshua then proposes to Chris on the spot, and they then deny each other's pleas to live, so the other would die.

The two lovers reluctantly battle on Lafayette's orders, but Josh refuses to fight, despite Chris' pleas. Eventually, Josh pretends to be injured when Chris attacks him, using a syringe filled with Napoleon's blood to fake the bleeding, and trick Lafayette. Wounded, Josh approaches the general who goes to kill him, before Josh grabs Lafayette, throws the key to Chris, and reveals a firework hidden in his jacket. He tells Chris that if one of them doesn't die, the Curator will get revenge, so he must die. He then tells Chris he never got an answer to his proposal, before Chris tells him that he'd marry him. Josh tells him that's all he needs to hear, before blowing himself and the general up and killing them both. Chris then mourns his fiancé, before he then stabs Lafayette's lifeless cadaver, ending his anger with crushing the general's skull under his boot. Angry, he then left the challenge arena.

Chris then stormed away as he passed the other guests, leaving the group defeated and saddened by Joshua's death. Jordan Carpenter then departed the group, Silvano following him to comfort the broken Savant. At the Eiffel Tower, the former Reporter then talked Jordan out of his broken thoughts before they then eventually returned to the lounge, where they notice holes in the walls, presumably because of Chris. In the aftermath, Chris and Jordan argue over Josh's death, the Zoologist blaming the Savant, which is ultimately cooled down by Val and Monica. After returning the Queen to safety, Chris approached the vault with the key and reluctantly turned it in the lock for Josh, before they heard the loud stomping of their next threat.

A minotaur.

## Characters

* Jordan Carpenter
* Joshua Blackwood
* Alehandro Mercix
* Monica Castillo
* Payton Hawthorne
* Valeria Pierre
* Alexander Boucher
* Deklan Knox
* Christopher Shaw
* Arthur Rove
* Silvano Lupo
* Savannah Ashworth
* Jordan Winchester
* Napoleon Bonaparte
* General Lafayette
* Akmal Prasetyo

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