Ed Helms

They couldn't positively ID the king unless there was someone that they could verify knew the king.

There was one instance of somebody sort of seeing his likeness on a piece of money, I believe, a coin, and that was sort of a hint, like –

We think it's the king because he resembles this piece of money.

Eventually, they got someone they knew had visited the king.

And I believe this person was a loyalist to the king, but they brought him in to Positively ID.

And

You know, you would think this guy showing up would be – if he liked the king, he'd be like, oh, I don't know.

Maybe it's not the king.

Yeah, how would I know?

But when they brought him in, he was so overcome by seeing the king in the flesh that he actually bowed down on one knee and, like, immediately gave it away.

So they were like, yep, we got him.

We got the king.

He's positively ID'd.

The irony, of course, being that –

This is the treatment he'd been hoping for from all of his country folk the whole time.

But this is game over.

This is it.

So when the royal family was caught in Varennes, they were held until revolutionary soldiers arrived to drag them back to Paris.

Descriptions of their return to the city of Paris are very dramatic.

Apparently, it was just dead silent, like the mobs were out, but it was dead silent.