User blog:It's Good to be the Queen/Proposed Season 5 episode - Morgana's trial

The writers for season 5 said "Merlin" is suppose to be darker. I would love to see Morgana stand trial for treason and other high crimes and misdemeanors. The drama with the Crown making its case and Morgana in the dock justifying her actions should be riveting.

Possible plot twists:

Morgana going nuts in the Council Charmbers as she sees QUEEN Guinevere sitting in judgment of her.

The prosecution's star witness - two can play at necromancy. Merlin, as Dragoon, summons AGRAVAINE's shade and command him to recall his past life. In doing so the shade rats out Morgana and tells in detail the plots the two of them cooked up to bring down the House of Pendragon. That includes framing Guinevere for adultery. The shade names co-conspirators as well, introducing new villains for the season.

WILD CARD: it comes out at trial Morgana is NOT a Pendragon after all. Some Arthurian legends have said Uther is not her biological father. The show has used dramatic license with the legends so anything is possible.

Morgana is found guilty and sentenced to death by beheading. She doesn't get burned as a witch because her powers are gone. (We don't know at this poin if Aithusa restored them.) Because she was born a noble through her mother she gets the headsman's axe.

The last day of her life Morgana is confronted individually by the people she has hurt the most: Arthur, Guinevere, Gaius, Merlin. Morgana will put up a front and get her digs in, but once alone it sets in that it will be all over by sunrise. All the other major characters will be dealing with Morgana's execution in various ways.

The next day - one swing of the axe and Morgana is no more. As the body and head are being disposed the facial appearance changes from Morgana's to another woman's.  MORGANA stands over the body. A glamour was used to have that woman stand trial and be executed. With all of Camelot seeing with their own eyes Morgana's end, she lives to plot another day.