From Hostage to Hegemon - Episode 12

At an execution, a captured man pleads 'You can't kill me,' invoking the Wheel Rule that those shorter than the wheel cannot be killed. The king's council clashes: obey the rule to avoid united retaliation from the Eight Lords, or punish the culprit now to prevent future raids. They present an eight-feet wheel to satisfy the law; the captive accuses them of hypocrisy over past smaller wheels. Reluctantly the monarch orders him freed for Ystravia's sake. A defiant courtier then intervenes and attacks, and a cry — 'the wheel is taller than you?' — leaves the man's fate uncertain.