Edmond hesitates when it comes to pouring the poisoned wine into Charlotte's cup, but he does it anyway. During his first night as steward, Edmond pours the poison into a wine jug, however, he doesn't anticipate Charlotte joining Prince Charming and Snow White for dinner, as the couple are bidding her farewell since she is returning home to tend to her ill mother. He becomes curious about why she wants them dead, particularly since they've been kind to him, but the Queen chastises him for asking and reminds him of what he'll get out of this deal. ("A Bitter Draught")Įdmond returns to the Queen, who gives him a vial of poison from Agrabahn Vipers to use on Prince Charming and Snow White. The couple decide to bring Edmond with them to their castle and employ him as a wine steward. Edmond insists on getting back at the Queen for his ruined village, but Snow reasons that the best revenge is to find happiness elsewhere. When Snow White's handmaiden, Charlotte, helps apply a salve to his hand, Edmond is surprised by the girl's eyes, which remind him of his dead fiancée's eyes. Prince Charming and Snow White come to his aid, in which Edmond tells them that the burns on his hand are a result of him putting out the fire in the village. Edmond consents to the deal, and goes on to masquerade as a surviving peasant of a village that the Queen's knights destroyed. She agrees to give it to him if he pretends to gain the trust of her enemies, Prince Charming and Snow White. After all the guests have fled, only the Evil Queen remains, offering a scroll to Edmond, which lists the names of the others who were working with the Baron. When the Baron refuses to say and instead suggests Edmond won't get any justice out of killing him, the latter plunges the sword into him, hissing that revenge has always been what he wanted. Edmond then pulls out his sword and points it at the Baron's throat as he demands to know who else was involved in bringing him down. He holds a ball at his home, with one of the guests being Baron Danglars, who is clueless about the Count's real identity until he reveals himself to him. More than a decade later, Edmond has risen in ranking, power, and riches, by reinventing himself as the Count of Monte Cristo. At some point following this, he escapes and swears to get revenge on those who wronged him. Edmond Dantès lost everything after Baron Danglars and some unnamed accomplices burnt down his house, squandered his money, murdered his fiancée, and imprisoned him in a dungeon.
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