Steed investigates a firm named WormDoom, whose proprietor, a businessman widely thought a bit of a rotter, is killing off his business competitors, all experts on timber decay.
Robin realizes with the impending winter that there'll be a shortage of honey for the Merry Men. He decides to join Tuck on a journey to Canterbury in order to locate a reliable supply of honey and allow Tuck to complete his religious pilgrimage.
The Black Knight, holding a boy hostage, challenges Robin to a duel.
Robin comes to the aid of a surgeon who is a bound serf. He is one day short of reaching a year and a day that means he would be now a free man.
In Ireland, Robin discovers a band of arsonist "leprechauns."
