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| - Robin of Locksley, a noble, returns with his freed servant Much to Nottingham, only to discover that the new Sheriff, Vaisey, has been terrorizing everyone for the past three years. He confronts Vaisey, which only angers the Sheriff. Vaisey decides to humiliate Robin and ensure Locksley's loyalty by having him read the sentence of Will and Dan Scarlett and Allan A Dale at their hanging. However, Robin stops reading the sentence and rescues the trio, who escape the castle. The Sheriff brands them outlaws, and now wants Robin Hood killed. In "Sheriff Got Your Tongue?" Vaisey tries to lure out Hood for capture by cutting off villagers' tongues one by one until he reveals himself. Robin is forced to give himself up to the Sheriff by Little John, an outlaw who has captured Hood, and Hood is taken to Nottingham Castle for interrogation. However, Much, Allan A Dale and Will Scarlett convince Little John and his men to help free Robin. Eventually Robin is freed with the help of Marian, his love interest, and he threatens the Sheriff, saying he will kill him. The Sheriff does not believe him and tries to have Robin and his gang, who have recently arrived only to find Hood already freed by Marian, killed. However they escape, and the gang comes under the wing of Robin. By now most of Robin's gang against the Sheriff has been assembled: there is Robin himself, Allan A Dale, Will Scarlett, Much and Little John. The Sheriff is desperate to have these outlaws killed, as he knows they will threaten his goals. In "Who Shot the Sheriff?" a spree of murders occurs, which the Sheriff blames on Robin to turn the people against him, despite the fact that he knows it's not him. The Sheriff also has people killed by his own men in order to turn everyone against Robin even more. However, when it is discovered that the Sheriff is a target of the unknown assassin, he makes a deal with Robin to capture the murderer. Soon after, the Sheriff, tying in with his and Hood's plan, visits a village publicly in order to draw out the assassin. The assassin is discovered and stopped by Robin and Marian, who Robin has found out is the Nightwatchman, a previously unknown entity who leaves food for the poor. The pair take pity on the assassin, whose wife died under the Sheriff's evil regime, but he is killed by Guy of Gisborne under the Sheriff's orders anyway. During "Parent Hood" the Sheriff captures a more minor member of Robin's gang, Royston White, and tells Royston to kill Robin Hood for him. Royston refuses at first but then the Sheriff reveals that he has Royston's mother hostage, whom Royston cares about deeply. The Sheriff's threat is this: if Royston doesn't kill Hood, then he will have his mother killed. Royston agrees and is sent away, and tries to assassinate Hood. The attempt fails, however, and the gang are angry, until Royston tells them why he done it. They then decide to go and free Royston's mother, and though they do so, the Sheriff's men manage to kill Royston violently, thus striking an emotional blow to Hood and his gang. In "Turk Flu" the Sheriff opens a mine and forces villagers to work in it. When the villagers revolt, they are quelled by the Sheriff easily, but he fires them all anyway, as he has a batch of Saracen prisoners on the way who he can force to work. When the Saracen workload is intercepted by Hood, the mine is compromised and eventually destroyed by Hood's gang, who gain a new member in the Saracen woman Djaq. The Sheriff had also hosted an archery competition to lure Hood out that day, but when a man wins the Silver Arrow, the prize, the Sheriff suspects it is Hood and has him investigated. It turns out to be a young boy whose father was killed by the Sheriff for refusing to work in the mine. However, this is a deception by Robin. He did in fact win the Silver Arrow but switched places with the boy so that it would look like he had won it. In the end the Sheriff is forced to give away the Silver Arrow, something he'd never intended to do. In "The Taxman Cometh" The Sheriff takes in a nun who appears injured at the request of Guy of Gisborne. However, it turns out the nun is a fake and steals the Sheriff's money which he has locked up in the chapel. Additionally, Robin and his men have been captured by a tax collector, whom the Sheriff rewards. However, Robin escapes and it turns out that the nun and the tax collector were working together to scam the Sheriff. In the end, Robin steals the money they stole from the Sheriff to give to the poor. During the events of "Brothers in Arms" Allan A Dale is reunited with his brother, who is then captured by the Sheriff. When Robin and the gang try to rescue Allan's brother and his friends at their hanging, the Sheriff reveals tat he has brought forward the event an hour, and that Allan's brother is already dead. This, again, strikes an emotional blow at the gang, Allan in particular, and at the same time, Marian is forced to tell Guy that she will marry him when King Richard returns from the Holy Land. In "Tattoo? What Tattoo?" the Sheriff captures Djaq and tries to force her to create an acid chemical that could be useful as a weapon for the Sheriff. Elsewhere, Robin remembers that when he was in the Holy Land a man with a tattoo tried to kill the King. He discovers that Guy of Gisborne has exactly the same tattoo and is therefore the assassin, and captures him. When Hood hears of Djaq's capture he eventually decides to exchange Gisborne for the girl. When the Sheriff and Robin meet to do this, the Sheriff burns off Gisborne's tattoo (and therefore the proof that he was the assassin) with some acid he got from Djaq and escapes with Guy. A scientist named Lambert shows the Sheriff some very dangerous and explosive black powder and says he will sell it to Vaisey as long as he doesn't use it as a weapon in "A Thing or Two About Loyalty". However, Lambert does not trust the Sheriff and tries to escape but is captured. Eventually he is killed by the Sheriff's men and the Sheriff discovers that Robin Hood has found out the location of Lambert's book, which contains the formula for the powder. However, the Sheriff is unable to retrieve it and his remaining store of black powder is destroyed, leaving him without the weapon he wanted. In "Peace? Off!" the Sheriff has a plan to make lots of money. He has the Saladin's (the leader of the Saracens in the Holy Land) nephew hostage. However, the nephew, Prince Malik, believes that he is in Nottingham to meet Prince John and make peace. He is captured by Hood's gang who let him go when they see who he is, but then Hood finds out that the Sheriff's real intentions behind having the Prince here. The gang discover a group of women who Djaq tells them are Saladin's finest assassins. They reason that the assassins are here to kill the Prince, who has went against Saladin's orders, as Saladin does not want peace. They go to the castle to save the Prince and in doing so are forced to help the Sheriff. Once they are holed up in the Great Hall with the Prince and the Sheriff, a battle ensues between the gang and the assassins. During this, Vaisey is forced to fight with the assassins, which he does quite effectively, and the women are defeated. Despite the fact that he has helped Hood (although only for his own means) Vaisey warns Robin that it is "business as usual" tomorrow. During "Dead Man Walking" the Sheriff decides to host a "Festival of Pain" during which he will have all of his prisoners tortured for fun in the Great Hall. However, he is unaware that Little John of Robin's gang is a prisoner and Robin comes to save him and his family. When Hood interrupts the Sheriff's festival, Vaisey attempts to hold Little John hostage with a dagger, but is thwarted and left to live. In "The Return of the King" Robin finds new proof of Gisborne's attempted assassination of the King in the physician Pitts, who covered for Gisborne by eating his meals and telling everyone he was ill during his absence. However, Marian is fatally wounded in her guise as the Nightwatchman and is taken to a cave to recover. However, Pitts betrays their location to the Sheriff and Gisborne, who close in on the gang with a contingent of soldiers. In the final episode of series one, "A Clue: No", the Sheriff is thwarted in his attempt to kill Hood at the cave. and Marian is saved. However, he then announces that the King is returning from the Holy Land and is visiting Nottingham. In the castle, the King has the Sheriff arrested for treason upon his arrival, and orders that anyone with evidence against the Sheriff should go to a room to present it. However, it turns out this is a trap and the King is an imposter under the employ of Vaisey, who is in fact waiting in the designated room to kill anyone who comes in to give evidence against him and therefore kill his enemies. However, Robin Hood discovers this plot and puts an end to it before Marian's father, the former Sheriff Edward, is killed.
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