On the other side are French General Calvet (John Benfield) and Sharpe's nemesis, Ducos (Féodor Atkine), who is in charge of Napoleon's treasury.
Infuriated, Jane is persuaded by her friend Lady Molly Spindacre (Connie Hyde) to run away to London to spend some of her husband's money.
Sharpe is brought before a military tribunal and jailed pending the arrival of a purported witness, Colonel Maillot (Stéphane Cornicard), the officer in charge of the treasure's escort.
Sharpe's friends Sergeant Patrick Harper (Daragh O'Malley) and Captain Frederickson (Philip Whitchurch) break him out of prison and all three head off to find Maillot.
Sharpe is wounded by Maillot's widowed sister, Madame Lucille DuBert (Cécile Paoli), when she mistakes him for one of her brother's killers.