'Vikings' Season 3 Spoilers, Plot Recap: Ragnar's Warriors Get Set to Attack Paris

Last Thursday's Episode 7 of "Vikings" Season 3 on the History Channel saw the people of Paris gripped by fear at the sight of the invading Viking fleet on the city's doorstep.

The guards on top of the city's walls spotted Ragnar and his men landing on the beach and immediately rang the alarm bell. The people on the streets started panicking as French forces began taking defensive positions.

Count Odo rushed to King Charles to inform him of the looming invasion, pleading for the King to leave the city for his personal safety. But the king's daughter Princess Gisla urged her father not to leave the city, saying he should stay and protect his people.

King Charles decided that he should stay and help defend the city. Count Odo begged the King to at least ask help from his brothers. But the King refused, saying he needed to prove that he was a worthy successor of Charlesmagne. He then ordered Count Odo to lead the French army in repulsing the invaders from the North.

Ragnar and his fighters began setting up camp on the shores of Paris. Rollo and his men tried to climb the walls of the city but were met with a hail of arrows from the French defenders.

In Wessex, King Ecbert asked his son Aethelwulf about how he was getting along with his wife Judith after he fathered a child with another woman, Athelstat. Aethelwulf reassured his father that he had no problem with Judith, saying a marriage was a marriage.

Ecbert then confessed to his son that he planned to overthrow Judith's father so that he could become the king of all kings of England.

Back on the shores of Paris, Ragnar called Floki and told him he missed Athelstan. Ragnar then ordered Floki to lead the attack on Paris. Floki gathered his commanders and began planning a two-pronged offensive on the city. While meeting his commanders, Floki revealed to Helga that he was the one who killed Athelstan.

In Wessex, guards arrived with a badly bruised man who had just left Mercia. The man said Queen Kwenthrith had violated the contract she made with Ecbert and wanted to rule Mercia alone and was trying to cut ties to Wessex.

Ecbert summoned Aethelwulf and ordered him to go to Mercia to order Queen Kwenthrith to beg for his forgiveness for what she had done. Aethelwulf did not want to speak to the queen after she killed six of their nobles. Ecbert told his son that if Kwenthrith refused to beg for his forgiveness, he must warn her that she faced gruesome death where her body would be ripped apart.

Ecbert visited Judith and promised her that "at long as there is blood in his body he will protect her and her son Alfred." Then to Judith's utter surprise, he kissed her.

Aethelwulf went to Mercia and immediately confronted Queen Kwenthrith. She tried to sweet-talk Aethelwulf, telling him that he should not be his father's errand boy. She tried to seduce him as she went to her bedroom.

Aethelwolf woke up a few hours later surrounded by the queen's guards who brought him to Kwenthrith. Holding a baby, the queen said the child was Ragnar's baby and that Ragnar would be back to protect her and the baby.

On the beach, Floki told Ragnar that he and his men were ready to attack Paris using a device he made that would enable his men to successfully climb the walls of the city.. As night fell, they stood on the beach with torches, chanting and vowing to launch a ferocious attack on the city the following morning.