Malcolm of Locksley, portrayed by Dean Lennox Kelly, is the father of Robin Hood and Archer. It is revealed in "Bad Blood" that Archer is an illegitimate son produced by an affair with Guy of Gisborne's mother Ghislaine many years prior to the series. Malcolm was thought dead in a fire after Ghislaine's husband Roger caught them together, but it is revealed that he escaped the fire and had been searching for his other son for years for Ghislaine. He sought out Robin and Gisborne to get them to rally together and rescue their half-brother because Malcolm was too sick and dying to do it himself.