Channel 4's Camelot starring Jamie Campbell Bower

The series begins with Morgan talking to her father, King Uther Pendragon. She offers him forgiveness for cheating on her mother and for sending her away for 15 years. Uther dismisses Morgan and says he no longer has a daughter. Morgan swears he will pay. Morgan kills her father and promptly banishes his wife, Igraine, inviting her father's most powerful enemy, King Lot to Camelot to formalise an alliance in the process.

Episode 2 - The Sword and the Crown

Arthur meets Guinevere, the woman of his dreams. Morgan and King Lot conspire to attack Camelot and take the throne. Merlin has Arthur reclaim the legacy sword in the stone, known here as the sword of Mars, to prove his worthiness as king. It is hinted at that Merlin has rigged the contest in advance.

Episode 3 - Guinevere

Kay and Leontes seek out a trusted new warrior to join them. Arthur and Merlin accept an invitation to join Morgan at her castle for dinner. Arthur and Guinevere struggle with their relationship as she readies for her marriage to Leontes. Merlin suspects Arthur's infatuation with Guinevere. Arthur is forced to concede defeat in his pursuit of Guinevere.

Episode 4 - Lady of the Lake

Merlin sets off on a journey to find a sword suitable for a king by seeking out a legendary sword-maker, Caliburn, giving him details about Arthur's physique and fighting style to ensure that the sword is suited to him. After the sword is crafted, Merlin accidentally kills the sword-maker. His daughter, Excalibur, runs and rows out to the middle of a lake into which she plans to throw the sword as revenge. Merlin casts a spell causing the surface of the water to freeze and walks out to her.

Episode 5 - Justice

Arthur intervenes in a murder investigation convinced that the killer may have had an honourable motive. Morgan tries to cultivate political favour by promoting herself as a champion of justice while framing a local mercenary for the beating of the nun who raised her.

Episode 6 - Three Journeys

This episode interweaves three stories: Guinevere's journey to her parent's home where her father is dying, accompanied by King Arthur, Kay's journey (at the bequest of Merlin) to his deceased father's home to retrieve his library, and a woman who comes to Morgan for justice claiming that the nun who helped raise Morgan in a convent and now lives with her has caused the death of her daughter as result of deliberately setting fire to the convent.

Episode 7 - The Long Night

Morgan le Fay invites Arthur and his regiment of soldiers over for an evening's entertainment and an overnight stay. During this time, she sets up a series of intrigues and hoaxes which include a faked attack on the castle. At the end of the episode, Morgan has shape-shifted to look like Igraine and rides back to Camelot with Arthur in Igraine's form.

Episode 8 - Igraine

Igraine is held prisoner at Morgan's castle, Pendragon, while Morgan, magically disguised as Igraine, roams the halls of Camelot plotting intrigue. As Igraine, she reveals to Leontes that Arthur had a tryst with Guinevere in the morning before their wedding. The real Igraine eventually escapes Morgan's castle and travels back to Camelot only to run into Morgan who is still in Igraine's form.

Episode 9 - The Battle of Bardon Pass

Morgan convices Igraine that she is just hallucinating and escapes Camelot now in her (Morgan's) form. When Merlin and Igraine confront Morgan at her castle about this, she and her followers arrest them. She then anonymously stages a raid at Bardon Pass, hoping that Arthur will be inadequate to stop it, positioning her to become acknowledged as the better ruler of Camelot, and proceeds to travel to Camelot with her new prisoners, Merlin and Igraine.

Episode 10 - Reckoning

Morgan's plan to overthrow Arthur is exposed. However, the nun Sybil takes credit for Morgan's treasonous schemes, claiming she planned everything and Morgan knew nothing about it. Sybil is executed, and while the public accepts this story, Arthur and Merlin are not deceived. Leontes dies protecting Arthur at Bardon Pass and Igraine is killed by Morgan.

Channel 4 drama Camelot starring Jamie Campbell Bower

The legend of King Arthur and Camelot

Starring Jamie Campbell Bower, Joseph Fiennes, Eva Green, Tamsin Egerton and Claire Forlani.

Photograph of Jamie Campbell Bower in character as King Arthur for Channel 4's 10-part drama Camelot