YMMV / Merlin S 02 E 07 The Witchfinder

• Complete Monster: Aredian, the titular Witchfinder, is a charlatan out solely to profit off King Uther's hatred of sorcery. Aredian frames innocents as witches and sorcerers, planting evidence and breaking them through physical or psychological torture in order to obtain confessions before seeing them burnt and moving on. Framing the court physician Gaius, Uther lies to him that his closest loved ones, Merlin and Morgana, will be safe should be confess, only to gloatingly reveal he makes no bargains with "sorcerers", even forcing others to assist him on threat of burning them as well.