Colonel Montoya plots to kill The Queen when she attempts to find missing peasants he is using in a gold mine.

Dr Helm arrives in Santa Helena and makes an impression on Tessa and meets the captured Queen of Swords.

[1] Colonel Montoya has a secret goldmine under the supervision of Captain Grisham and Sergeant Alonzo and is using peasant labor arrested under various false charges.

Captain Grisham arrives to report the miners are sick, but Montoya insists he needs the gold to buy cannon from the expected supply ship.

The Queen's pursuit of the wagon leads into a narrow ravine where she is ambushed by Captain Grisham's men firing rifles from above.

Running from the rifle fire, she makes her way up a hill engaging in swordplay with the soldiers until she reaches the top of the cliff overlooking the sea.

In the square below Vera is telling Marta the Queen is dead, shot and she threw herself from a cliff and was swallowed by the ocean.

Returning home, the Queen finds a distraught Marta, who is angry with Tessa that she had nearly been killed and she is too weak to go to Montoya's party.

Into the square come Louisa and a courtage with a cart carrying the dead body of her husband discovered by soldiers claiming he had fallen.

Helm is shocked at the turn of events and tells Mendoza the Queen is bleeding and will die before Captain Grisham arrives and he should treat the wound.

At the entrance, she fires the gunpowder trail with a torch and dives to the ground and in the ensuing explosion that destroys the mine makes her escape.

The supply ship arrives and everybody is happy with the fresh produce and bolts of cloth, but Colonel Montoya's plans to buy cannon have been thwarted which secretly pleases Grisham.