Season 2, Ep 27: Hail Virgin! Measure for Measure Act 1

The word 'nun' is Elizabethan slang for 'whore,' so you can see where there might be some confusion ahead. Isabella is a novice and hoping to be inducted into the Order of St. Clare, an extremely strict sect of nuns. She needs to be shut away from the world, for reasons we may discover as we go along. But just before she can take those vows Lucio comes to enlist her aid in speaking to Angelo on behalf of her brother who's been condemned to death for fucking. Rough times.

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