While the French Revolution brews, Sir Percy Blakeney (Richard E. Grant) is leading a double life: By day, he's just another foppish British aristocrat; by night, he becomes the legendary Scarlet Pimpernel, a "caped crusader" who saves the innocent from the guillotine -- and soon gets caught in a sinister web of danger and intrigue. This is A&E's lavish adaptation of the swashbuckling adventure written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy.