World Without End Season 1 Episode 6

Caris returns to Kingsbridge with the King's grant to stop Godwyn's house and build her hospice. The Black Death has broken in Europe, robbing Merthin of his family, and he returns home to his old flame. Caris rejects him in the knowledge that Prior Godwyn would hang her as a witch if she were to leave the convent but they grow closer as they struggle together to rid Kingsbridge of the pestilence. Godwyn flees the town but Sir Thomas Langley stays behind. Kingsbridge is ravaged by the Black Death which takes many lives, Sister Cecilia among them. Caris becomes a Prior. Before dying, Merthin's mother confesses an old secret to Caris. Petranilla, affected by the plague, uses her sickness as a means for revenge and sends a gift to Earl Roland. Philippa, now a widow, refuses to marry Ralph who has been knighted by the King. Gwenda and Wulfric can barely make ends meet and when Ralph refuses to help them, they fall apart. Tired of her scheming, King Edward III sends his mother into exile.