 Rumours are spreading through Nottingham that Robin Hood is back from the dead with a vengeance and that the scattered band of outlaws are once again operating in Sherwood. Suspecting that the Lady Marion might try to communicate with her old friends if they are back in Sherwood, The Sheriff decides to have her home of Leaford Grange watched, thinking that she might help him discover how this miraculous recovery of her dead husband might have taken place.