Edward Longshanks prepares to invade France and levies many Scots into his army against their will. Bishop Wishart of Glasgow, sees and seizes an opportunity to rally the disenfranchised nobles of the realm to drive the English usurpers army out of Scotland. But first he must send a deputation into England with ransom monies, to free Andrew Moray the younger and bring him home to Scotland. William Wallace attends the deputation, and the two young friends are reunited once again. Upon the ransom deputations return to Scotland, Wishart plans to take advantage of the popularity of Wallace and Moray amongst the common folk of the realm, to foster national discontent, but his plans are seriously thwarted by a series of unexpected and cruel events in the town of Lanark, when the son of the English Sherriff, Arthur de Hazelrigg, becomes besotted with the wife of Wallace, Marion Braidfuite. Wallace, while returning to Lanark to be with his wife, is informed that the English baggage train of Sir Henry de Percy will be passing the nearby Loudoun hill, being led by Lord Fenwick, the English knight personally responsible for the heinous murder of his bond uncle Sir Malcolm the year before. Wallace now knows that should he make this move to exact revenge, there is no turning back… it is now the time for him to claim, “the Blood Tax…”