0:00:02 > 0:00:05I must go. Make your way to the prison. Free Dwight, bring him home.
0:00:05 > 0:00:06What could be simpler?
0:00:08 > 0:00:10He's dead.
0:00:10 > 0:00:12In truth, I expected to die,
0:00:12 > 0:00:15surrounded by men I was unable to save.
0:00:15 > 0:00:17LAUGHTER
0:00:19 > 0:00:21You will receive a favourable answer
0:00:21 > 0:00:22within the month.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25I should marry a man I do not love?
0:00:25 > 0:00:26George is cruel.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29His axe will fall. Not on you, but on the boy.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31Give him up, my dear.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34I was flattered by your attentions into thinking I felt love.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37But I do not. I hope you can forgive my mistake.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44Do you really intend to leave us?
0:01:44 > 0:01:46As soon as my wound heals.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50There be nothing here for me now, sister.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52I must find a new purpose.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54A brush with death can have that effect.
0:01:54 > 0:01:56And you, brother?
0:01:56 > 0:01:59Will our rescue of Dr Enys be your last act of derring-do?
0:01:59 > 0:02:02Unless visiting Aunt Agatha falls into that category.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05But, yes...
0:02:05 > 0:02:06that's the intention.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19Where have I've heard that before?
0:02:33 > 0:02:34I wish you'd speak to Tom Harry.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36He's so heavy-handed.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Any more of it and I'll make him enlist.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46Will the war last long, do you think?
0:02:46 > 0:02:48With any luck, another 20 years.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50It's tripled our income.
0:02:50 > 0:02:51How?
0:02:51 > 0:02:55My dear, do not trouble yourself to understand the business.
0:02:55 > 0:02:59The sun has risen, the day is fine. I've invited Osborne to visit.
0:02:59 > 0:03:00We promised Morwenna more time.
0:03:00 > 0:03:04Which she has had, but there is now more urgency.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07Thanks to Ross's lucky rescue of Lord Falmouth's nephew,
0:03:07 > 0:03:10he now has entree into the aristocracy. And I do not.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13Until we're allied to the Godolphins.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15So Morwenna be wed to Osborne...
0:03:16 > 0:03:17..and soon.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28Well, nephew!
0:03:28 > 0:03:33You've certainly set the tongues wagging. Prison breaks!
0:03:33 > 0:03:37Roasting the Frenchies! Whatever next?
0:03:37 > 0:03:41A less perilous venture, Aunt. Clearing the long field at Nampara.
0:03:41 > 0:03:42Dull.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Not for our starving miners.
0:03:44 > 0:03:48When George closed Wheal Leisure, many lost everything.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51If I can gift them the land, at least they can eat.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53George'll be disappointed.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57Perhaps you should inform him on your way out.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59He's here? Returned last week.
0:03:59 > 0:04:00And you didn't think to tell me?
0:04:00 > 0:04:05Why would I? You're a Poldark. This is a Poldark house.
0:04:05 > 0:04:07Thank you, Aunt.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10But I fear I must now devise another escape from enemy territory.
0:04:10 > 0:04:11KNOCK ON DOOR
0:04:14 > 0:04:16Come in.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19Oh! Captain Poldark. Miss Chynoweth.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23It appears my visits here must cease.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27Can I rely on you to see my aunt is cared for?
0:04:27 > 0:04:31Of course. Is Drake...recovering?
0:04:31 > 0:04:34Slowly. He acquitted himself bravely.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38Would you like me to convey a message?
0:04:38 > 0:04:39Yes. I...
0:04:41 > 0:04:42Thank you.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45No.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58BABY CRIES
0:05:03 > 0:05:06CROAKING IN DISTANCE
0:05:06 > 0:05:09What is that...sound?
0:05:12 > 0:05:13Surely not?
0:05:22 > 0:05:25LOUD CROAKING
0:05:25 > 0:05:27I ordered them cleared!
0:05:28 > 0:05:30Where the deuce is Tom Harry?
0:05:36 > 0:05:37HE CHUCKLES
0:05:45 > 0:05:48What is this place? Where am I?
0:05:48 > 0:05:50ECHOEY SHOUTING
0:05:52 > 0:05:55Will you take almond biscuits? Or shall send to Truro for marzipan?
0:05:57 > 0:06:00My love, I've no appetite. When I'm hungry, I'll eat.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05Shall we go for a drive in the carriage?
0:06:05 > 0:06:08Or make a four at quadrille? Caroline, please.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12I hope I'm not intruding?
0:06:12 > 0:06:14Not at all! You've saved Dwight from his worst nightmare,
0:06:14 > 0:06:16cards!
0:06:16 > 0:06:17How does the patient?
0:06:17 > 0:06:20Very IM-patient. And often delirious.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23Keeps babbling about rejoining the Navy. That is my profession.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25And when I'm recovered... Scold him, Demelza.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27As if he were not needed here by his wife.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29And has not earned a life of quiet luxury.
0:06:30 > 0:06:34To be enjoyed to the full once our marriage becomes public.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37Is Drake recovering?
0:06:37 > 0:06:40Too quick. When he's mended, he means to leave us.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43I understand. His love is lost.
0:06:43 > 0:06:44A clean slate seems the only option.
0:06:44 > 0:06:48But in your case, my love, it was a dreadful mistake.
0:06:48 > 0:06:49See what it led to.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52And hope is never as dead as one fears.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55Nor marriage between two classes impossible.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58You and Ross, Dwight and I, are we not all proof of that?
0:07:07 > 0:07:09Gentlemen, ladies...
0:07:10 > 0:07:13..I give you our new mine captain, Mr Zacky Martin.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16Truly,
0:07:16 > 0:07:20I feel the honour keenly, knowing who stood here before me.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33You'll miss it here.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37Yet I must go.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40When hope's gone, 'tis as well to know. If it is gone.
0:07:42 > 0:07:43My suspicion is that nothing's lost...
0:07:45 > 0:07:46..till we say so.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56She can't mean for I to try again?
0:07:56 > 0:07:58She'd give anything for 'ee to stay.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01In truth...so would I.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11Are the gardeners mistaken?
0:08:11 > 0:08:15Has Ross Poldark been making regular visits in my absence?
0:08:15 > 0:08:17To see Aunt Agatha, yes.
0:08:22 > 0:08:26That woman has conspired with Ross against me
0:08:26 > 0:08:28and has clearly been abetted.
0:08:28 > 0:08:29By whom?
0:08:31 > 0:08:34You surely don't suggest Geoffrey Charles is to blame?
0:08:35 > 0:08:38But clearly, someone must be held responsible.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44I did know of Captain Poldark's visits to Miss Agatha,
0:08:44 > 0:08:47but felt it was not my place to question them.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49Did you ever meet him here?
0:08:50 > 0:08:51Aside from this morning?
0:08:55 > 0:09:00Do you mean to tell me he was here under my very nose?
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Am I master here or not?
0:09:09 > 0:09:12You will prepare yourself to meet Mr Whitworth.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15I've invited him here and expect you to give him a warm reception.
0:09:15 > 0:09:16Oh, but...
0:09:17 > 0:09:20..I'd hoped for more time. Miss Chynoweth,
0:09:20 > 0:09:23if you had any idea of the agony he suffers whilst awaiting your answer.
0:09:23 > 0:09:27He is quite distraught and hardly knows what to do with himself.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38I thought you'd be wed by now.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40The delay is deuced awkward.
0:09:40 > 0:09:44A man has needs, and if they remain unfulfilled by a wife,
0:09:44 > 0:09:47he must satiate them elsewhere.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53And, er, your intended?
0:09:53 > 0:09:56Do she have a sturdy or a gentle nature?
0:09:56 > 0:09:58What's that to you?
0:09:58 > 0:10:00Or me, for that matter...
0:10:01 > 0:10:03Mm...
0:10:13 > 0:10:15Oh!
0:10:15 > 0:10:17Good day to you both. Captain, Captain...
0:10:17 > 0:10:20You find me about God's holy work.
0:10:20 > 0:10:24I'm sure it's much needed hereabouts.
0:10:24 > 0:10:25Indeed.
0:10:26 > 0:10:30Yes! It is my mission to bring fallen women to God.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32We all have our cross to bear.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41GEORGE RANTS IN DISTANCE
0:10:41 > 0:10:43Should you be venturing downstairs, ma'am?
0:10:43 > 0:10:45Let me help you back to your room.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47What, and have me miss the entertainment?
0:10:47 > 0:10:49SHE CHUCKLES
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Were you not instructed to clear the pond,
0:10:51 > 0:10:53down to the very last specimen?
0:10:53 > 0:10:55An' so we did.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59So I can't imagine how they came to return.
0:10:59 > 0:11:00You will set about the task again,
0:11:00 > 0:11:05and this time I want no trace of the loathsome objects.
0:11:05 > 0:11:09When Francis and Ross were boys, they loved toads!
0:11:09 > 0:11:12Ross especially. He would never have had them killed.
0:11:12 > 0:11:16But then, he was not for mindless destruction.
0:11:16 > 0:11:20Much prefers a rescue mission!
0:11:20 > 0:11:22In France he beat 20 men single-handed.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25I believe the reports were exaggerated.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28And how do we know he didn't send in his men
0:11:28 > 0:11:30while he himself waited outside?
0:11:30 > 0:11:33You're not a soldier, George. You wouldn't understand.
0:11:43 > 0:11:48Such an honour, to be allowed to walk along with such a man!
0:11:48 > 0:11:50To bask in his glory.
0:11:51 > 0:11:55What you did was no more lawful than breaking Jim Carter out of Bodmin,
0:11:55 > 0:11:56but then you were a felon.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58Now you're a hero.
0:12:00 > 0:12:02The irony has not escaped me.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05And how was Caroline?
0:12:05 > 0:12:06And Dwight?
0:12:06 > 0:12:08I don't know. There's something...
0:12:08 > 0:12:10It seems to me they're ill at ease.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12Dwight's...far away.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14And Caroline just talks.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16I suspected as much.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19In some ways, bringing Dwight home was the easy part.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25There! LAUGHTER
0:12:25 > 0:12:28Drake's toads from last summer must have bred.
0:12:28 > 0:12:29I hope not.
0:12:29 > 0:12:33But he did it for us, Wenna. To make us laugh!
0:12:33 > 0:12:35GEOFFREY LAUGHS
0:12:35 > 0:12:36You especially.
0:12:36 > 0:12:37I?
0:12:37 > 0:12:40He told me he thought you looked sad sometimes.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43And that he'd do anything to make you smile.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46Did he really say that?
0:12:46 > 0:12:47Do we doubt it?
0:12:48 > 0:12:52If we see a chance to give or take pleasure in this world...
0:12:54 > 0:12:56..ought we not to seize it?
0:12:57 > 0:13:01But...surely we've no right to expect happiness?
0:13:01 > 0:13:03All we can do is our duty.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07I believe 'tis our duty to find happiness...
0:13:08 > 0:13:11..in great things, or small. Like toads!
0:13:16 > 0:13:18Master Geoffrey!
0:13:18 > 0:13:20I'll return directly.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37You shouldn't have done it.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40Did you laugh when you saw 'em?
0:13:40 > 0:13:41A little.
0:13:41 > 0:13:42Then it was worth it.
0:13:44 > 0:13:48Please don't attempt it again. Some things are not worth the risk.
0:13:48 > 0:13:49Some are.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57Why have you come?
0:13:59 > 0:14:01I sent you away. And I went.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Meaning to put you behind me.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08But all I could think of was you.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13Day and night...
0:14:14 > 0:14:16..sun and moon,
0:14:16 > 0:14:19sleeping, waking, working, dreaming...
0:14:19 > 0:14:21My life is naught without you.
0:14:23 > 0:14:24I think you should go.
0:14:27 > 0:14:28Tell me you wish me to go, then.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33For I can't believe the words till I know they've come from the heart.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36Drake, why do you suppose this has anything to do with the heart?
0:14:37 > 0:14:39That is not how the world works.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42But we are in the world, and must keep to its rules!
0:14:42 > 0:14:44Must we? Yes!
0:14:44 > 0:14:46And if you don't know that by now...
0:14:46 > 0:14:49I don't know anything, Morwenna, except for what you tell me.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51So look me in the eyes and tell me you don't love me.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16I must go.
0:15:17 > 0:15:18Will I see you soon?
0:15:21 > 0:15:22I'll send word.
0:15:22 > 0:15:23And I'll send more toads.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27If you were caught...
0:15:27 > 0:15:30I shan't be! Just to know it made 'ee smile.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46Oh!
0:16:17 > 0:16:18My love?
0:16:20 > 0:16:21Shall we to bed?
0:16:23 > 0:16:26Forgive me. I'm so accustomed to being awake at all hours
0:16:26 > 0:16:29of the night. I barely know how to sleep these days.
0:16:29 > 0:16:30I was not suggesting sleep.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43I think I'll go downstairs and read a while.
0:16:45 > 0:16:46There's much work to catch up on.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01Do you think Dwight and Caroline are ill-suited?
0:17:03 > 0:17:05I think Caroline is in love with Dwight.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08Or rather, the idea of Dwight.
0:17:09 > 0:17:13But I don't think she'll ever know him. Especially now.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16Now?
0:17:16 > 0:17:18War takes a man places where no-one can follow.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25But if a man's wife cannot help him, who can?
0:17:34 > 0:17:40CROAKING
0:17:43 > 0:17:46Where is Tom Harry?
0:17:47 > 0:17:50He did it again, Wenna! He did it again!
0:17:50 > 0:17:52LAUGHTER
0:17:58 > 0:18:00Well, Ross, should we be off?
0:18:00 > 0:18:02I think I know who can help Dwight.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12Is there no end to your incompetence?
0:18:12 > 0:18:16Begging your pardon, sir. These're not the toads we got rid of before.
0:18:17 > 0:18:21These're ordinary toads, as live in the ponds of Marazanvose.
0:18:21 > 0:18:22So?
0:18:23 > 0:18:27So...maybe they walksed here.
0:18:29 > 0:18:31Or maybe they've been brought.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Why would anyone do that?
0:18:34 > 0:18:36Aye. There's a mystery!
0:18:36 > 0:18:40The name Warleggan being so popular in the district...
0:18:42 > 0:18:43Of course!
0:18:46 > 0:18:49Who else knows of my aversion?
0:18:49 > 0:18:52Who else would take the trouble to antagonise me in this way?
0:18:54 > 0:18:57Ross? But that's so childish!
0:18:57 > 0:19:01But typical of his scheming and malice.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04I want five men on guard from tonight. Cancel all other duties.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07The person responsible will be caught red-handed.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11SHE MUTTERS
0:19:14 > 0:19:16Did you laugh?
0:19:16 > 0:19:17We tried not to...
0:19:18 > 0:19:19SHE GIGGLES
0:19:19 > 0:19:23..but really, the croaking was deafening.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25And Mr Warleggan angry?
0:19:25 > 0:19:26I left before he was up.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29But he will be furious.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31Cousin Elizabeth told me he's had an aversion to toads
0:19:31 > 0:19:33ever since school.
0:19:33 > 0:19:34There was an incident.
0:19:36 > 0:19:37Involving Captain Ross?
0:19:37 > 0:19:38I suspect so.
0:19:40 > 0:19:41Then I can't stop now!
0:19:41 > 0:19:44Drake, you must! 'Tis not worth the risk!
0:19:46 > 0:19:48And did we not agree...
0:19:50 > 0:19:51..some things are worth it?
0:19:56 > 0:19:59SHE WHISTLES A CHEERFUL TUNE
0:20:07 > 0:20:11JIG ON RECORDER
0:20:16 > 0:20:17Shall we begin?
0:20:19 > 0:20:21The sooner we clear, the sooner we plant.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28'Tis a generous thought, Ross.
0:20:28 > 0:20:32But should 'ee not better keep this meadow for your children?
0:20:32 > 0:20:33How much land does a man need?
0:20:35 > 0:20:37And besides, people have to eat.
0:20:39 > 0:20:40No Drake?
0:20:40 > 0:20:42Alas. He be fallen into sin.
0:20:42 > 0:20:46Nay, brother. I believe what he be feeling be more akin to love.
0:20:46 > 0:20:47But not holy love, sister.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49Carnal love be damned in the eyes of the Lord.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52Then mayhap the Lord should open his eyes wider and see the beauty
0:20:52 > 0:20:53of the thing.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56But the soul, sister?
0:20:56 > 0:20:59This so-called love may spoil it for the life to come.
0:20:59 > 0:21:03And the life that's now? Where I stand, there's much that's pure
0:21:03 > 0:21:05and good and beautiful.
0:21:05 > 0:21:10And I'd sooner worship that than fret about the next life.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12And so, I venture, would Drake.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25Stick more. See that line? Very good.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34Good boy.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52You seem feverish, Morwenna. Are you unwell?
0:21:52 > 0:21:56Oh! No, sir, but the air was so bracing today.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58You recollect Mr Whitworth is to visit us soon?
0:21:58 > 0:22:01I know you'll consider the benefits of the match,
0:22:01 > 0:22:04not only to yourself, but also to your mother and sisters.
0:22:04 > 0:22:08A life of penury, from which you yourself have been saved.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11Yes. Should I choose to wed Mr Whitworth.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22ECHOEY SHOUTING
0:22:22 > 0:22:25Am I dead, is this hell?
0:22:26 > 0:22:28We're all in hell now.
0:22:28 > 0:22:29Caught you!
0:22:31 > 0:22:33What's the matter?
0:22:34 > 0:22:36Dwight?
0:22:36 > 0:22:38HE SOBS
0:22:39 > 0:22:40What is it? Tell me!
0:22:42 > 0:22:46Come, my love, you never used to be so girlish.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49Shall I be forced to prescribe heart thorn?
0:22:49 > 0:22:52Opium is more effective.
0:22:52 > 0:22:53For what?
0:22:55 > 0:22:56Inducing oblivion.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13What's happened to my husband?
0:23:13 > 0:23:16I've brought someone who may help you find him.
0:23:25 > 0:23:30Beg pardon, ma'am. Is Drake Carne here? I've a message for him.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32He may be in danger.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39But you're not a surgeon. How can you help him?
0:23:41 > 0:23:43Armitage!
0:23:45 > 0:23:46Excuse me.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48LAUGHTER
0:23:49 > 0:23:52You have no idea how glad I am to see you.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56I don't understand. He's safely returned to his wife and home.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58Why is that not enough?
0:23:59 > 0:24:01Be patient with him.
0:24:27 > 0:24:31Crooked little mite, isn't he? Rickets is a cruel disease.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33No sign of it yet, of course.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35It'll be later when he goes to school
0:24:35 > 0:24:38and can't run fast enough to escape the bullies.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40Boys can be cruel, can't they?
0:24:40 > 0:24:44Especially to one that gives himself heirs.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47Especially to one who's grandfather was a blacksmith,
0:24:47 > 0:24:49as your nephews never ceased to remind me.
0:24:49 > 0:24:55Georgie, it was not your grandfather they mocked, but your pitiful
0:24:55 > 0:24:59attempts to deny him. That's what you never understood.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11This time next year we'll be harvesting oats and barley.
0:25:11 > 0:25:12By the grace of God.
0:25:20 > 0:25:23I'm away home to put the children to bed.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25Take my share of the vittles?
0:25:25 > 0:25:27In exchange for my share of ale?
0:25:27 > 0:25:28A proper day's work.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31Good ale, licky pie!
0:25:31 > 0:25:33What more could a man want for?
0:25:42 > 0:25:45Note brought for Mr Drake.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48Master Geoffrey couldn't find him at the cottage, so left it here.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50But why would he write to Drake?
0:25:56 > 0:25:58What do he mean, "George has set a trap
0:25:58 > 0:26:02"to catch whoever is filling the pond with toads"?
0:26:04 > 0:26:05Do he think it's Drake?
0:26:08 > 0:26:10Is it Drake? Very like.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12Judas! Then he's walking straight into it!
0:26:12 > 0:26:15I must go and stop him! Nay, maid. Not a word to Ross!
0:26:17 > 0:26:20CROAKING
0:26:28 > 0:26:29SHE CRACKS HER WHIP
0:27:38 > 0:27:41That way! After 'em!
0:27:52 > 0:27:54Argh!
0:28:24 > 0:28:26Prudie shouldn't have told you.
0:28:26 > 0:28:30Of course she should. You young fool!
0:28:30 > 0:28:32Suppose you'd been recognised?
0:28:32 > 0:28:33Or your sister?
0:28:33 > 0:28:35I wasn't thinking.
0:28:35 > 0:28:38You cannot imagine how delighted George would be to have you,
0:28:38 > 0:28:40or me, in his power.
0:28:41 > 0:28:43What the hell are you playing at?
0:28:43 > 0:28:44Toads.
0:28:47 > 0:28:49Toads?
0:28:49 > 0:28:51I was filling his pond with them.
0:28:54 > 0:28:56Continuing a family tradition.
0:28:57 > 0:28:58How?
0:29:01 > 0:29:03When we were at school...
0:29:04 > 0:29:06..I used to fill his breeches with them.
0:29:15 > 0:29:17You let them escape and failed even to identify them?
0:29:19 > 0:29:21But of course it was Ross. I'm not an idiot!
0:29:21 > 0:29:24There's no-one else would go out of their way to vex me in this manner.
0:29:24 > 0:29:26LAUGHTER
0:29:31 > 0:29:33Did I mention I've good news from Harrow?
0:29:33 > 0:29:36Geoffrey Charles is to start there next term.
0:29:41 > 0:29:42Oh.
0:29:43 > 0:29:45A fine thought, is it not?
0:29:45 > 0:29:48A new home and new friends.
0:30:05 > 0:30:06Master Geoffrey!
0:30:11 > 0:30:14Oh!
0:30:14 > 0:30:16Did I hurt you?
0:30:16 > 0:30:18My wound from the rescue of Dr Enys.
0:30:18 > 0:30:20Not from carrying toads, then?
0:30:21 > 0:30:24Uncle George had men on guard all night
0:30:24 > 0:30:26and still they couldn't catch you!
0:30:26 > 0:30:29Well, fancy that. It was you, wasn't it?
0:30:31 > 0:30:34Lord, I'll miss you! Uncle George is sending me away to school.
0:30:36 > 0:30:38Then I'll miss 'ee, too.
0:30:38 > 0:30:40And Miss Morwenna.
0:30:40 > 0:30:42What'll she do with herself when ee've gone?
0:30:42 > 0:30:46Oh, she'll have no time to think of me once she's wed.
0:30:46 > 0:30:48Wed? To who?
0:30:49 > 0:30:53Oh, a clergyman, I think.
0:30:53 > 0:30:55Uncle George arranged it.
0:30:55 > 0:30:56A Mr Whitworth?
0:30:57 > 0:30:59What do Miss Morwenna say?
0:30:59 > 0:31:03Oh, I don't believe she's overly keen, but Mama said it's a
0:31:03 > 0:31:07great match, so I expect she'll come around soon enough.
0:31:12 > 0:31:17You've been a great friend to me, Drake, so I've brought you a gift.
0:31:17 > 0:31:20Oh, no, Master Geoffrey, 'tis enough to have had your friendship.
0:31:21 > 0:31:24You can open it later if you'd rather.
0:31:25 > 0:31:27I'll be offended if you don't take it.
0:31:29 > 0:31:30On one condition.
0:31:31 > 0:31:34That you carry a message to Miss Morwenna.
0:31:34 > 0:31:35Of course.
0:31:49 > 0:31:51So the boy will go away to Harrow?
0:31:52 > 0:31:53Yes.
0:31:54 > 0:31:57And if it takes a fortnight there and back, what of it?
0:31:59 > 0:32:00A fortnight?
0:32:00 > 0:32:04Two weeks' travelling means two weeks less at home.
0:32:04 > 0:32:06Which is surely the intention?
0:32:06 > 0:32:10The intention is to provide my stepson with the best education
0:32:10 > 0:32:11money can buy.
0:32:11 > 0:32:16And there was I thinking it was to get him away from his mother,
0:32:16 > 0:32:18so the crooked mite can take his place.
0:32:33 > 0:32:34Call Tom Harry.
0:33:04 > 0:33:06Is it your wound?
0:33:06 > 0:33:10Nay. That laggard Tom Harry catched I such a clout.
0:33:12 > 0:33:13Let me see.
0:34:07 > 0:34:08So you know.
0:34:11 > 0:34:12I'm to be wed.
0:34:16 > 0:34:18Why've you kept it from me?
0:34:18 > 0:34:22Oh, Drake. For so long I've tried to keep it from myself.
0:34:23 > 0:34:26You must know I've no love for any man except...
0:34:28 > 0:34:30What's the use in saying it?
0:34:31 > 0:34:34We can never be together. Why can't we?
0:34:36 > 0:34:37Cos I'm low-born?
0:34:39 > 0:34:44Cos I bring nothing? Not money, not a home, not a good name.
0:34:44 > 0:34:45Do you think I care about that?
0:34:47 > 0:34:49Suppose I did ask you to wait...
0:34:52 > 0:34:56..till I've made a goodly living, till I could provide for 'ee proper?
0:34:57 > 0:34:59Say nothing now.
0:35:02 > 0:35:06Go home. Consider all I've said.
0:35:06 > 0:35:07Give me an answer when you're ready.
0:35:11 > 0:35:13Soon, then.
0:35:13 > 0:35:15I will give it soon.
0:35:44 > 0:35:48Be it sacrilege to say so, I believe there be miracles after all.
0:35:48 > 0:35:50Of what nature?
0:35:50 > 0:35:53Miss Morwenna's to refuse Mr Whitworth and give her hand to you.
0:35:53 > 0:35:54Can it be so?
0:35:54 > 0:35:57When I've earned enough to provide for her.
0:35:57 > 0:35:58Ross and I could help you.
0:35:58 > 0:36:01Are you sure Miss Chynoweth has the strength to stand up to George?
0:36:01 > 0:36:03She did say so.
0:36:03 > 0:36:05And I think, if she truly love Drake,
0:36:05 > 0:36:07there's naught that could sway her.
0:36:10 > 0:36:12Are you out of your mind?
0:36:12 > 0:36:14I beg you will forgive me.
0:36:17 > 0:36:19I cannot accept Mr Whitworth's hand.
0:36:31 > 0:36:34It's not as if there's any urgency to be rid of her.
0:36:34 > 0:36:37Keeping her means we can delay sending Geoffrey Charles
0:36:37 > 0:36:39away to school. My dear, you forget one thing.
0:36:39 > 0:36:42The desirability of aligning ourselves with the Godolphins.
0:36:43 > 0:36:46And are we now to be thwarted by some nonsensical ideas
0:36:46 > 0:36:48of girlish sentiment?
0:36:48 > 0:36:49DOOR OPENS
0:36:52 > 0:36:53Well?
0:37:02 > 0:37:04Morwenna!
0:37:04 > 0:37:06Perhaps you can clarify something?
0:37:06 > 0:37:08How long have you been meeting with Drake Carne?
0:37:12 > 0:37:13I...
0:37:14 > 0:37:18Er... Six months? A year?
0:37:18 > 0:37:19I've questioned the servants.
0:37:19 > 0:37:21It appears you've been seeing him regularly,
0:37:21 > 0:37:25and have embroiled Geoffrey Charles in your deceit.
0:37:25 > 0:37:29It was Geoffrey Charles who first took a liking to him, and I thought,
0:37:29 > 0:37:33because he was a Poldark relative, what harm could there be?
0:37:33 > 0:37:38What harm in fraternising with a relative of my sworn enemy?
0:37:38 > 0:37:41I was glad to see Geoffrey Charles so happy.
0:37:41 > 0:37:45And, yes, I entered into that happiness
0:37:45 > 0:37:48and allowed Drake to become fond of me and...
0:37:48 > 0:37:50I of him.
0:37:50 > 0:37:54And as a consequence, now refuse the impeccable match we've arranged,
0:37:54 > 0:37:57instead have given yourself to an illiterate miner.
0:37:57 > 0:37:59I have not "given myself"! Nevertheless,
0:37:59 > 0:38:03it's plain that our family is now tainted by its association with you.
0:38:03 > 0:38:07Mr Whitworth must of course be released from his obligation.
0:38:07 > 0:38:09And you must be sent home to your mother
0:38:09 > 0:38:10as soon as it can be arranged.
0:38:14 > 0:38:15I understand.
0:38:25 > 0:38:28She does not appear at all dismayed.
0:38:47 > 0:38:49I thought Caroline was different.
0:38:50 > 0:38:52I thought she had imagination,
0:38:52 > 0:38:56yet she seems incapable of imagining what it's like to come home
0:38:56 > 0:38:59to a life which is utterly vacuous.
0:38:59 > 0:39:02My mother's no different.
0:39:02 > 0:39:06She tries to tell me of the latest intrigues, the newest fashions.
0:39:06 > 0:39:08Does that not infuriate you? All the time.
0:39:10 > 0:39:15And then I remember that she has not lived as I have lived.
0:39:17 > 0:39:19As we have lived.
0:39:25 > 0:39:28For my birthday I want a new gown.
0:39:29 > 0:39:32Let Mistress Trelask come and take measurements...
0:39:32 > 0:39:34Preferably for your coffin.
0:39:34 > 0:39:38..and have the date marked in the family Bible
0:39:38 > 0:39:46as proof that I outlasted any Poldark afore me.
0:39:50 > 0:39:52Oh, Geoffrey, that reminds me.
0:39:52 > 0:39:55This morning I noticed your Bible was not in its place beside the bed.
0:39:55 > 0:39:56Has it been moved?
0:40:10 > 0:40:14CLUCKING 'Tis good of 'ee to help, sister.
0:40:14 > 0:40:17I must make the most of it. Someone else may be here next year.
0:40:24 > 0:40:26What business have 'ee here?
0:40:26 > 0:40:29You stay here and keep guard.
0:40:29 > 0:40:31You can't go in there. That's trespassing!
0:40:31 > 0:40:33You can't just...
0:40:33 > 0:40:34What do 'ee want?
0:40:34 > 0:40:35What do 'ee think to find?
0:40:35 > 0:40:38This be a God-fearing, law-abiding house.
0:40:40 > 0:40:44You can't take that. 'Twas a gift from a friend.
0:40:44 > 0:40:47Drake Carne, I have orders to take 'ee to Truro jail.
0:40:47 > 0:40:48On what charge?
0:40:48 > 0:40:52The theft of a valuable Bible from the house of Mr George Warleggan.
0:40:52 > 0:40:54Bible? I've never even opened it to see what it was.
0:40:58 > 0:41:02Judas! I'd no idea 'twas such a fine thing.
0:41:02 > 0:41:07Why would he give it me? Its worth must be... Upward of 40 shillings.
0:41:07 > 0:41:09This is a mistake. This Bible was a gift.
0:41:10 > 0:41:12Take him away!
0:41:13 > 0:41:16'Ee have no proof it were theft.
0:41:16 > 0:41:17I tell you, 'twas freely given!
0:41:23 > 0:41:25TOM HARRY CHUCKLES
0:41:29 > 0:41:31Describe it to me.
0:41:31 > 0:41:34Leather, very ornate, with a silver clasp and buckle.
0:41:36 > 0:41:40Tom Harry said its worth could be upward of 40 shillings.
0:41:40 > 0:41:43Oh. Damn it. What?
0:41:43 > 0:41:46Theft of goods worth 40 shillings or more is a capital offence.
0:41:48 > 0:41:49Capital?
0:41:49 > 0:41:51What, you mean Drake could hang?
0:41:53 > 0:41:54We must tell them there's been a mistake!
0:41:54 > 0:41:56Drake's not the sort to steal, Ross.
0:41:56 > 0:41:58I'll go and plead before the magistrate myself.
0:41:58 > 0:42:00A good plan, but for one thing.
0:42:01 > 0:42:02The magistrate is George.
0:42:03 > 0:42:05What?
0:42:05 > 0:42:07Why else do you think he's arranged it this way?
0:42:07 > 0:42:09Not only will your pleas fall on deaf ears,
0:42:09 > 0:42:12he'll be all the more vicious with the sentencing. Judas, Ross!
0:42:12 > 0:42:15Why could you not have been magistrate?
0:42:15 > 0:42:17Why did you turn down the chance when 'twas offered?
0:42:17 > 0:42:19The thought has occurred to me.
0:42:21 > 0:42:22So what's to be done?
0:42:45 > 0:42:48DOOR SLAMS, KEYS JINGLE
0:43:20 > 0:43:22GEORGE MUTTERS TO HIMSELF
0:43:39 > 0:43:42Ah, the hero of Quimper!
0:43:44 > 0:43:47How dull it must seem to be home.
0:43:47 > 0:43:48On the contrary...
0:43:49 > 0:43:52..since your decision to prosecute my brother-in-law.
0:43:52 > 0:43:54You admit the connection?
0:43:54 > 0:43:56Should I be ashamed of it?
0:43:56 > 0:43:58To be related to a thief?
0:43:58 > 0:44:02He is no such thing, as you well know. Geoffrey Charles...
0:44:02 > 0:44:05..is a child whose emotions are easily played on.
0:44:05 > 0:44:08Your brother-in-law insinuated himself into his affections,
0:44:08 > 0:44:12into this household, where he contrived to steal a valuable
0:44:12 > 0:44:15family item, hoping no doubt to turn it into ready money.
0:44:15 > 0:44:18He's a Methodist. How likely is that? Furthermore,
0:44:18 > 0:44:21he callously engaged the affections of an impressionable young girl,
0:44:21 > 0:44:24and finally, deliberately polluted my grounds
0:44:24 > 0:44:27on several occasions this summer.
0:44:27 > 0:44:28With what?
0:44:32 > 0:44:33A type of...
0:44:35 > 0:44:36..amphibian.
0:44:41 > 0:44:42That was wrong of him.
0:44:47 > 0:44:52George, my brother-in-law appears to have a deep attachment
0:44:52 > 0:44:55for Geoffrey Charles and Morwenna, and they for him.
0:44:55 > 0:44:59His attempt to gain influence over two naive young gentlefolk
0:44:59 > 0:45:00is an intolerable presumption.
0:45:00 > 0:45:02Because of the disparity in station?
0:45:02 > 0:45:04But have you yourself not so presumed...
0:45:05 > 0:45:07..in marrying Elizabeth?
0:45:08 > 0:45:10Get out of my house.
0:45:10 > 0:45:11One moment.
0:45:13 > 0:45:15I ask you to consider
0:45:15 > 0:45:18whether we can achieve a settlement out of court,
0:45:18 > 0:45:20if only for the sake of our wives.
0:45:20 > 0:45:22Your wife is no concern of mine,
0:45:22 > 0:45:24and Elizabeth has no interest in the matter.
0:45:24 > 0:45:26Nor her cousin, Miss Chynoweth?
0:45:26 > 0:45:28When this case comes to court, her involvement will be known
0:45:28 > 0:45:31at considerable harm to her reputation. Miss Chynoweth has
0:45:31 > 0:45:34indeed compromised herself, so is being sent home to her mother.
0:45:34 > 0:45:36Her engagement to Mr Whitworth is at an end,
0:45:36 > 0:45:38likewise her association with this family,
0:45:38 > 0:45:41so you can dismiss any thoughts of blackmailing me into submission.
0:45:45 > 0:45:46Let him go, George.
0:45:49 > 0:45:51The boy is charged. There's nothing more to say.
0:45:59 > 0:46:00Very well.
0:46:09 > 0:46:12There's unrest in the district.
0:46:12 > 0:46:15There's always unrest in the district. But more so.
0:46:18 > 0:46:20Since the fencing of common land...
0:46:21 > 0:46:23..taking back a meeting house...
0:46:25 > 0:46:28..shutting down a mine while still in profit.
0:46:30 > 0:46:34Only my influence has prevented a repetition of the attack
0:46:34 > 0:46:36which occurred on your house last year.
0:46:38 > 0:46:40If Drake Carne hangs, the people will rise up
0:46:40 > 0:46:42and I will be powerless to stop them.
0:46:43 > 0:46:44Idle threats.
0:46:48 > 0:46:49Are you sure?
0:47:10 > 0:47:12You make me ashamed, Armitage.
0:47:14 > 0:47:17You are the navigator, I the physician,
0:47:17 > 0:47:19yet you have found the cure.
0:47:19 > 0:47:25Not the cure, but a direction by which we may come at a cure.
0:47:28 > 0:47:31And if that doesn't work, there's always poetry.
0:47:52 > 0:47:54HORSE BRAYS
0:47:58 > 0:48:00So Drake will hang?
0:48:00 > 0:48:01Not if I can help it.
0:48:01 > 0:48:03Where are you going?
0:48:03 > 0:48:07To engage an attorney, to discover who else is on the bench
0:48:07 > 0:48:09so I may throw myself on their mercy.
0:48:10 > 0:48:13And to ask Dwight Enys and Hugh Armitage to plead on Drake's behalf.
0:48:17 > 0:48:19God forgive me.
0:48:19 > 0:48:21I've failed. No, Sam.
0:48:21 > 0:48:24All these years I spent trying to snatch souls from the foul fiend,
0:48:24 > 0:48:26but I can't save my own brother from the noose.
0:48:31 > 0:48:34Of course I'll testify. Do you think it will do any good?
0:48:34 > 0:48:36I have no idea.
0:48:37 > 0:48:39But I can't let him die without a fight.
0:48:40 > 0:48:42You're a good friend, Ross.
0:48:43 > 0:48:46I won't forget what you did for me.
0:48:47 > 0:48:49I wish there was a way to repay you.
0:48:50 > 0:48:52There is.
0:48:52 > 0:48:54Tell Caroline.
0:48:54 > 0:48:55What?
0:48:56 > 0:48:59How it stands with you now.
0:48:59 > 0:49:01She'll never understand.
0:49:01 > 0:49:03Try her.
0:49:17 > 0:49:20I wonder, my dear, is there a better way?
0:49:20 > 0:49:24Of course I endorse your right to see the boy punished.
0:49:24 > 0:49:26But Ross was very clear about the consequences.
0:49:26 > 0:49:28Are you afraid of him?
0:49:28 > 0:49:32I only mean that, if there was a way to compromise,
0:49:32 > 0:49:33without seeming to yield...
0:49:33 > 0:49:36IN DISTANCE: I need no announcing. Of course they'll see me!
0:49:49 > 0:49:52I'm here to inform you that there are now several other parties
0:49:52 > 0:49:55clamouring to become Mrs Whitworth.
0:49:55 > 0:49:58And since Miss Chynoweth seems blind to the advantages
0:49:58 > 0:50:02of our proposed match, I must beg to be released from my obligation.
0:50:04 > 0:50:07Of course, if you wish. One moment, sir.
0:50:14 > 0:50:17Would you excuse us for five minutes?
0:50:17 > 0:50:18By all means.
0:50:29 > 0:50:30Is this not good news?
0:50:30 > 0:50:33Now we need not tell him of Morwenna's disgrace.
0:50:33 > 0:50:35It is excellent news.
0:50:36 > 0:50:37But not for that reason.
0:50:41 > 0:50:42Ah...
0:51:06 > 0:51:08You know, do you not, that we wish only the best for you?
0:51:10 > 0:51:13'Tis a pity such kindness extends no further.
0:51:13 > 0:51:15For then an innocent man would not lie in jail.
0:51:15 > 0:51:19You seem very sure he's innocent. I would stake my life on it.
0:51:20 > 0:51:24And what, I wonder, would you stake to see him acquitted?
0:51:31 > 0:51:33Come on, boy. Let's be having you.
0:51:40 > 0:51:42I only hope my testimony will be as much use to Drake
0:51:42 > 0:51:44as it was for Ross in Bodmin.
0:51:44 > 0:51:46You're an escaped prisoner of war and a hero.
0:51:46 > 0:51:48If they don't heed you...
0:51:48 > 0:51:51Let us pray, sister. 'Tis all we can do.
0:51:53 > 0:51:55Save your breath.
0:51:55 > 0:51:56It may not be needed after all.
0:52:05 > 0:52:07I can't believe they let you go!
0:52:07 > 0:52:10The charge was just dropped. Lord knows why.
0:52:10 > 0:52:13Truly, he move in mysterious ways!
0:52:13 > 0:52:16What will 'ee do now, Master Drake? How will 'ee celebrate?
0:52:16 > 0:52:20By accepting my offer to find him a share in a profitable business
0:52:20 > 0:52:23so he may go and ask for the hand of a certain young lady.
0:52:23 > 0:52:24Oh, is she free?
0:52:24 > 0:52:28Sent home to her mother in disgrace. The engagement's off.
0:53:10 > 0:53:13Ross told me I must tell you...
0:53:15 > 0:53:16You're leaving me.
0:53:18 > 0:53:19No.
0:53:22 > 0:53:27My desire to return to the Navy is not for want of love for you,
0:53:27 > 0:53:30but for want of knowing how to live in this world.
0:53:32 > 0:53:37This place, lovely as it is, now seems alien to me.
0:53:37 > 0:53:42Accustomed to the cries of wounded men, the quiet appals me.
0:53:44 > 0:53:47I have slept so long on filthy straw
0:53:47 > 0:53:49that soft linen seems wanton luxury.
0:53:52 > 0:53:55Having lived in the shadow of the firing squad,
0:53:55 > 0:53:58the least noise makes me scream.
0:53:58 > 0:54:01And every breath I take makes me feel guilt...
0:54:05 > 0:54:09..that I am here and others are not.
0:54:11 > 0:54:15You think me ungrateful
0:54:15 > 0:54:19if I decline an invitation or some delicacy you've prepared.
0:54:19 > 0:54:24But in truth, I've no appetite for food or society.
0:54:27 > 0:54:31All I wish is to hide away until the world no longer seems strange to me.
0:54:36 > 0:54:38Is that why Ross sent for Hugh Armitage?
0:54:42 > 0:54:43There is a...
0:54:45 > 0:54:49There is a kind of bond between men who have seen atrocities
0:54:49 > 0:54:52and survived, a need to talk...
0:54:53 > 0:54:54..until all the horror is talked away.
0:54:56 > 0:54:59I will not have you hear such things, but till Hugh came...
0:55:00 > 0:55:01..I knew not how to be rid of them.
0:55:03 > 0:55:05And are you now rid of them?
0:55:12 > 0:55:13It's...
0:55:13 > 0:55:15It's a beginning.
0:55:19 > 0:55:20Can you bear with me?
0:55:24 > 0:55:27I can bear anything now that I know I've not lost your love.
0:55:43 > 0:55:47I think congratulations are in order.
0:55:49 > 0:55:52One stone, many birds.
0:56:05 > 0:56:08A boatyard, maybe... Or a smithy...
0:56:08 > 0:56:10..with its own cottage... Not as it need be grand.
0:56:10 > 0:56:11Miss Morwenna have no airs and graces.
0:56:11 > 0:56:15Nay, I believe she'd be content with a sty if she have you alongside her!
0:56:15 > 0:56:17A note just come from Trenwith.
0:56:21 > 0:56:22It's Aunt Agatha's hand.
0:57:48 > 0:57:49Truro lacks an MP.
0:57:49 > 0:57:52Change is long overdue with the right man in place.
0:57:52 > 0:57:54Captain Ross Poldark!
0:57:54 > 0:57:55I will not have that man in my house.
0:57:55 > 0:57:59Surely, on her 100th birthday, we can grant her this request?
0:57:59 > 0:58:03I never knew you had ambitions to be a political wife. Nor DO I.
0:58:03 > 0:58:06But you, your influence is great. There's much good you could do.
0:58:06 > 0:58:09Why, sister, would you agree to marry that man?
0:58:09 > 0:58:11Is he unkind to you? He's a monster.
0:58:11 > 0:58:13Don't make me strike you! So help me I will!
0:58:13 > 0:58:16Lieutenant Armitage was most attentive to your wife.
0:58:16 > 0:58:18What do you want, Demelza?
0:58:18 > 0:58:21That was no eight-month baby, George.
0:58:21 > 0:58:25So maybe somebody got there before ye!
0:58:57 > 0:58:59BIRDSONG