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Who Shot the Sheriff?

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the Sheriff. Robin and Much find the Nightwatchman and discover that it's really Marian. She tells them that the real assassin is Lacey (who lied to Marian about why he was on duty), and then Marian leads them to him. Lacey tells Robin that the Bailiff and the Sheriff allowed his sick wife to die, and that he killed the Bailiff out of revenge, and that he accidentally killed the young boy while trying to kill the Sheriff. Robin and Marian threaten to shoot him if he doesn't put the bow down, but Lacey shoots the Sheriff anyway, and Lacey is himself shot in the arm by Robin and Marian at exactly the same time. It turns out that Lacey killed the Deputy (incidentally the Sheriff's lookalike), and then the real Sheriff has Gisborne kill Lacey.
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the young boy, just to get all the villagers against him; although the Sheriff also tells De Fourtnoy to find the real assassin. The Sheriff later orders De Fourtnoy to kill 3 more innocent people, to blame on Robin, who is with his gang being chased by Gisborne and his hunting dogs. Marian meets with Joe Lacey again, and they talk about the past. She also finds out from him how to actually fire an arrow from a bow, properly.
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literally kicks Robin right out of the carriage, and Robin then runs into the forest with his gang. Gisborne kills De Fourtnoy on the Sheriff's orders, to silence him about what the Sheriff asked him to do, which also benefited Gisborne from having no more competition to being the master-at-arms. Robin has Little John open up the mill, and Robin regains the trust of the villagers.
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previewed "Who Shot The Sheriff?" on the day of transmission, with reviewer Jonathan Wright giving the episode a generally positive assessment, feeling that the more serious tone of the episode compared to the first two worked well. "If the change of pace initially jars, it ultimately works thanks to
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The Sheriff sends De Fourtnoy, the master-at-arms, to spread the word all around that Robin was the killer of the Bailiff. But when a young boy is also shot dead, the Sheriff realizes that Robin isn't the killer of either of them, but anyway tells De Fourtnoy to spread the word that Robin also killed
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A Bailiff is assassinated by a mysterious archer. The villagers suspect Robin Hood is the culprit, and the Sheriff of Nottingham uses this to turn the people against the outlaws, while Robin suspects the mysterious Nightwatchman, who leaves food and medicines for the poor. Marian finds her friend Joe
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Robin makes a deal with the Sheriff to catch the assassin, who is after the Sheriff, in exchange for calling off the dogs. Robin then visits Marian, and she tells him that she suspects De Fourtnoy for the killings. The next day, the Nightwatchman witnesses a castle guard (Joe Lacey) trying to kill
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Robin immediately realizes that Lacey wasn't behind the later 3 killings, but the Sheriff was, and Robin confronts him in his carriage. He threatens to kill the Sheriff if he doesn't own up, but the Sheriff ironically uses this to say that "no one will ever know" that Robin wasn't the killer, and
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magazine's previewer David Butcher had mixed feelings on the episode. While accusing it of having a "subtle-as-a-thumbscrew subtext" and accusing the central character of being "the first swashbuckler in history who never hurt a fly and shies away from a fight whenever he can." However, he did
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comment on "some nicely charged encounters" between Robin and the Sheriff, and his overall verdict was that "It's lacking in tension (there's a blindingly obvious twist) but not in enjoyment, as
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Butcher, David (21–27 October 2006). "Today's Choices – Saturday 21 October".
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Lacey, who says he had been called out of retirement to work as a castle guard.
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The Sheriff orders De Fourtnoy to carry out more killings.
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