0:00:02 > 0:00:04He bought some land and he bought a wife.
0:00:04 > 0:00:05Nootka was my mother's tribe.
0:00:05 > 0:00:09This small piece of land will be incredibly valuable to the Americans.
0:00:09 > 0:00:12Sell this land for a reasonable price.
0:00:12 > 0:00:14Nootka Sound is not for sale.
0:00:14 > 0:00:16I have something of great value to your nation,
0:00:16 > 0:00:19something the British are trying to kill me for.
0:00:19 > 0:00:22Someone has been brought to London to try and kill me,
0:00:22 > 0:00:24and I will need your eyes and ears from now on.
0:00:24 > 0:00:26You used to straighten your skirts
0:00:26 > 0:00:29and march away like nothing had ever happened.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32And what exactly is it that my father owed you?
0:00:32 > 0:00:35All that is due from a husband to a wife.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37This widow will have sole claim on Nootka
0:00:37 > 0:00:39in the event of Delaney's death -
0:00:39 > 0:00:42an event which may be imminent.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45THRUST OF A BLADE
0:00:48 > 0:00:52This programme contains very strong language
0:00:52 > 0:00:58This programme contains scenes which some viewers may find upsetting
0:02:04 > 0:02:06Over there, a body.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11Try her pockets.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14It's a man.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18The fishes ate his heart out.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21Maybe the fishes, maybe not.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24The silver tooth is mine.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28Who has a blade for the dentistry?
0:02:45 > 0:02:47THRUST OF A BLADE
0:02:51 > 0:02:53Relax, Mr Delaney.
0:02:54 > 0:02:58You're in safe hands. Your devil saved you.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05I had you followed.
0:03:05 > 0:03:09My agent said that he saw some unspeakable acts.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11THRUST OF A BLADE
0:03:12 > 0:03:14I had to give him the day off.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17Your man's in the river.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20The British want you dead.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24We want you alive though. That's something, huh?
0:03:29 > 0:03:31You take pain like a stone.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34Is that something you picked up in Africa, maybe?
0:03:35 > 0:03:38How many more are left?
0:03:45 > 0:03:47I gave your name to our friend.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50He said something about a piece of land up there in the Pacific.
0:03:51 > 0:03:55He said that you've been swaggering all around town with it in your hat
0:03:55 > 0:03:57like a peacock feather.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04Well, you don't appear to be swaggering now.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08I need to speak to Carlsbad himself.
0:04:09 > 0:04:13I need him to take a message to Thomas Jefferson
0:04:13 > 0:04:15and the President of the United States.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19In Ponta Delgada, Colonnade told me
0:04:19 > 0:04:24that he would find me an emissary to Thomas Jefferson.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27So just tell me what you want to say to Carlsbad,
0:04:27 > 0:04:30and I'll stitch you up and set you loose.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35No?
0:04:39 > 0:04:42Interesting knife they used to carve you up.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47Is that Chinese, you think?
0:04:47 > 0:04:48Or Malay?
0:05:00 > 0:05:05When you came in here with bits of a man's flesh between your teeth...
0:05:06 > 0:05:08..we kind of had a silent deal.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12I stitch you up and you give me information.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16Tell me what you want in return for Nootka.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19What's your price?
0:05:19 > 0:05:22I don't have a price.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32So what do you want?
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Tea.
0:05:37 > 0:05:41- Tea? - You tell Carlsbad that I want tea.
0:05:44 > 0:05:48Carlsbad said, "You know, Delaney might just be crazy enough
0:05:48 > 0:05:51"to take us all on - the King, the Company and the free fifteen."
0:05:52 > 0:05:53Huh?
0:05:53 > 0:05:55Maybe she was right.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59Well, you tell Carlsbad...
0:05:59 > 0:06:01from me...
0:06:01 > 0:06:05that I will cede sovereignty of Nootka Sound to whichever nation
0:06:05 > 0:06:07offers me their monopoly...
0:06:08 > 0:06:11..on the trade of furs for tea
0:06:11 > 0:06:15from Fort George to Canton.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18A monopoly.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21That's what I want.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24All the tea in China.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31You should have said that from the start.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35Could have saved yourself a lot of pain.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48And you just said...
0:06:49 > 0:06:51.."she"...
0:06:51 > 0:06:54didn't you, when you said Carlsbad?
0:06:57 > 0:07:00So now I know I'm looking for a lady.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12- Big berry, popping balls. - MIMICS GUNFIRE
0:07:12 > 0:07:16And spitting fire, what, and she will glide over Lake Ontario
0:07:16 > 0:07:18and blow kisses across the temporary border
0:07:18 > 0:07:21until they learn to toast the King once more.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23- Your highness.- Ah, Coop.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27Your highness, I have people within the East India Company.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29Oh, no, no, no.
0:07:29 > 0:07:33I'm in too fine a mood to discuss the East India.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35James Delaney, a private individual,
0:07:35 > 0:07:38has recently inherited a piece of land -
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Nootka Sound.
0:07:40 > 0:07:44Now, this piece of land naturally affords the possibility
0:07:44 > 0:07:48of a direct trade route with China.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53If you care to look more closely,
0:07:53 > 0:07:55you will see that the piece of land in question
0:07:55 > 0:07:59lies along the line of our disputed border with the Americans.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02- Oh...- No, no, no, God's work. Good fortune.
0:08:02 > 0:08:06If the land lies on the border, it is an issue for the Crown.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09An issue of war.
0:08:09 > 0:08:13- And who is this man? Is he loyal? - Erm, well, we think not.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16A republican?
0:08:16 > 0:08:19An adventurer of very poor repute.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22Stories of madness, savagery,
0:08:22 > 0:08:25theft and worse.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28Then, Mr Coop...
0:08:28 > 0:08:33he is a man that you will be able to do business with.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44You slept in a bird's nest.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50We need a carpenter.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53Yeah, the door gets stiff in winter.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55Shave it and it'll be loose in the summer.
0:08:58 > 0:09:00- Oh...!- Dear God.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03We have business at the river, you and I,
0:09:03 > 0:09:06but first I need to put a fresh dressing on this.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10- Give me brandy and bandages. - Who did this?
0:09:10 > 0:09:14A Malay with a knife and then an American with his needles.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17Brandy and bandages, man.
0:09:36 > 0:09:37HE GROANS
0:09:54 > 0:09:57- They'll try again. - Who, for God's sake?
0:09:57 > 0:10:02So, when the carpenter comes, tell him I want all the windows boarded up
0:10:02 > 0:10:05and that river hatch, I want that closed too.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07So...we are besieged.
0:10:07 > 0:10:11I suppose I can use the same carpenter to board up the windows
0:10:11 > 0:10:14that your father used when he was under siege
0:10:14 > 0:10:17and he can put the same old nails in the same old holes.
0:10:18 > 0:10:22You can sit there with the same old gun cocked on your lap.
0:10:22 > 0:10:26And when you sit there with that same look of defiance on your face,
0:10:26 > 0:10:28I will ask you the same old question -
0:10:28 > 0:10:31for what do you risk your life?
0:10:36 > 0:10:40Can you loosen up these bindings so that I may move?
0:10:40 > 0:10:42Get up. Come on.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44Up. Up!
0:10:52 > 0:10:54Bill, what are you doing?
0:10:54 > 0:10:56- Here, take this.- Yes, boss.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11No reason we can't laugh at each other just cos we're now partners.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13I didn't say that you were my partner.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18The word along the Wapping Wall is you cut up an assassin
0:11:18 > 0:11:20and ate his giblets.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Did you bring me my guns?
0:11:25 > 0:11:27Don't trust the snake.
0:11:28 > 0:11:3010-bore Richardson Man Stoppers.
0:11:30 > 0:11:34Same power as a musket but you can hold one in each hand.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37Good. Better, better.
0:11:40 > 0:11:44- All right.- So if we ain't partners, what are we?
0:11:44 > 0:11:48Well, I'm a merchant, you're my victualler.
0:11:50 > 0:11:54You can also be my ferryman. I can't use the roads...
0:11:54 > 0:11:56not for now at least.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59You see the heathen?
0:11:59 > 0:12:01He's my brother-in-law.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04He says the best bit of a man to eat is this.
0:12:04 > 0:12:05It's tender.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08- Did you bring me salt beef?- Pork.
0:12:08 > 0:12:10- No.- Fresh from a sloop from somewhere cold.- No pork.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13- Short notice.- We don't eat pig! - All right, all right.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16The stuff he's brought has been on the dock for ages.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19Yes, probably, but I trust him, so please pay him. Thank you.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Who are you?
0:12:25 > 0:12:27French Bill.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30Aargh!
0:12:31 > 0:12:34- You all right?- No.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36Look, may I suggest Tilbury while you heal?
0:12:36 > 0:12:38No, I'm not leaving London.
0:12:38 > 0:12:42- Atticus, talk sense to him. - No, I'm not leaving London. Go home.
0:12:42 > 0:12:43- What's that?- A boat.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46- I know it's a boat. Does it float? - Yeah, yeah, of course.
0:12:46 > 0:12:49- How many will it take?- Us. Where are we going?- Lincoln's Inn.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51- Lincoln's Inn.- What the hell for?
0:12:55 > 0:13:00There is a hand-written note on my desk in the attic.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03I need you to deliver it to the secretary of His Majesty the King.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05Hand deliver it.
0:13:05 > 0:13:06Today, Brace!
0:13:14 > 0:13:17- There's a Mr James Delaney, Sir. - Oh, God.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20He's with some men with guns and apparently a cannibal, Sir.
0:13:20 > 0:13:21Tell him I'm dead.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24He says he wants to make a will.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03KNOCK ON DOOR
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Fuck off.
0:14:06 > 0:14:07Sir, I have news.
0:14:07 > 0:14:11I said, "Fuck off!"
0:14:12 > 0:14:14News of James Delaney, Sir.
0:14:15 > 0:14:16Come.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23Oh, my God!
0:14:23 > 0:14:26The whipped hounds with their apologies.
0:14:28 > 0:14:32The assassin we sent to kill Delaney is...
0:14:32 > 0:14:33dead.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36Delaney lives, Sir.
0:14:36 > 0:14:40That's not news, Mr Pettifer. I was aware of that by first light.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45This, however, is news.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48Delivered by hand from Thoyt an hour ago.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50Read it.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59"This is the last will and testament of me, James..."
0:15:03 > 0:15:06"In the event of my death, all of my possessions and landholdings
0:15:06 > 0:15:08"will be bequeathed..."
0:15:08 > 0:15:11In severalty and in perpetuity
0:15:11 > 0:15:15to the sovereign nation of the United States of America.
0:15:16 > 0:15:21So, now we know, the savage boy is cunning too.
0:15:24 > 0:15:28And when peace comes and this border is drawn,
0:15:28 > 0:15:30it will not be by soldiers
0:15:30 > 0:15:33but by more fucking lawyers...
0:15:34 > 0:15:37hundreds of them, from both sides.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39And every scratch and claim staked
0:15:39 > 0:15:42will be cited as legal precedent.
0:15:42 > 0:15:47And not only can we not resolve this disaster by killing Delaney,
0:15:47 > 0:15:51it is now in our urgent interest to keep the bastard alive.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00Get four nails and a wooden board
0:16:00 > 0:16:04and a man called Solomon Coop into this room by tomorrow at noon.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06Can you manage that?
0:16:12 > 0:16:14By midday, Mr Pettifer.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23LOUD BANGING
0:16:29 > 0:16:33I do what I can with the rotten dock trash Atticus brings,
0:16:33 > 0:16:36so the least you can do is sit before you refuse it.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41And if that sickly youth on the doorstep is there to protect you
0:16:41 > 0:16:43from East India assassins,
0:16:43 > 0:16:46know that by 2:00am he's easily distracted by whores.
0:16:47 > 0:16:51Well, you needn't worry about the East India Company.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53No need to worry about the Crown...
0:16:54 > 0:16:56..any longer.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58For now I'm only in danger from the Americans
0:16:58 > 0:17:02but I reasoned that they are the lesser of the three adversaries,
0:17:02 > 0:17:04wouldn't you agree?
0:17:13 > 0:17:16I've been searching every fucking room in this house
0:17:16 > 0:17:19but not the cellar, so I must beat the tide.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22I must beat the tide.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26Hello?
0:18:29 > 0:18:31Winter, what are you doing here?
0:18:33 > 0:18:35This is where I come to sleep sometimes.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40You sleep here?
0:18:42 > 0:18:44I saw you.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47I saw you do for the Malay.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50And like a wolf you tore out his heart,
0:18:50 > 0:18:53and then threw him into the river.
0:18:53 > 0:18:54Splash.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56And down he floats...
0:18:56 > 0:18:59directly into Winter's arms.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05So I cut out your spoils.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07Take it.
0:19:07 > 0:19:08It's for you.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18Teach me about magic.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22I want to be a wolf, too,
0:19:22 > 0:19:24or a bird so I can fly.
0:19:25 > 0:19:26The bird on your neck...
0:19:27 > 0:19:29..I know what it is -
0:19:29 > 0:19:31the Sankofa.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39Now, you go home to Helga...
0:19:40 > 0:19:43..because you are not safe here.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58BIRD SQUAWKS
0:22:17 > 0:22:20Your eggs and coffee are getting cold, Sir.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32When was my mother last in this room?
0:22:36 > 0:22:38When she was sick.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40Sick?
0:22:45 > 0:22:46For the purpose of restraint?
0:22:47 > 0:22:49No.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51For her own protection.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53What's that?
0:22:58 > 0:22:59That mark.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02Did she make it?
0:23:02 > 0:23:04What mark?
0:23:16 > 0:23:18In the later days she did things...
0:23:19 > 0:23:21..no-one understood.
0:23:22 > 0:23:23In the later days,
0:23:23 > 0:23:29when she wasn't allowed to walk the streets, nor show her face in public,
0:23:29 > 0:23:34nor speak in English, nor her savage tongue because she was a mad woman.
0:23:34 > 0:23:35James.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37No.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40Explain this.
0:23:41 > 0:23:44I have the very same mark on me...
0:23:45 > 0:23:48..from when I was taken prisoner in Africa.
0:23:56 > 0:23:57What is it?
0:24:00 > 0:24:02You tell me.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08You don't speak but you do have answers.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11You do.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14And you will give me answers.
0:24:26 > 0:24:27SCREAMING
0:24:27 > 0:24:29LAUGHTER
0:24:31 > 0:24:33It's unconsecrated ground.
0:24:33 > 0:24:34It's for heathens, pagans
0:24:34 > 0:24:37and those damned by suicide.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40They're clearing Bedlam out now.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42Won't be anyone left here before long.
0:25:11 > 0:25:12Mr Solomon Coop, Sir,
0:25:12 > 0:25:15private secretary to His Majesty King George.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Thank you, Godfrey.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28Unless we find common cause.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32Well, none of the King's causes are "common"
0:25:32 > 0:25:35and at the moment one only has to say "the Company"
0:25:35 > 0:25:39with a certain degree of disgust to get his undivided attention.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41Forget India.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43Tell him to put India to one side.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45The King will not move on India.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48The Regent does what you and your coven say.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50You seriously underestimate him.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54I underestimated Delaney.
0:25:55 > 0:25:56Look at this.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58He's written a will.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04- You knew?- You have 104 spies in London...
0:26:05 > 0:26:08and we have 202.
0:26:08 > 0:26:12So who the hell do you have in Thoyt's chambers?
0:26:12 > 0:26:13They're all mine.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15Don't spoil the bloody game, Stuart.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19I just know everything. Always assume I just know.
0:26:19 > 0:26:23Then you know we have a problem
0:26:23 > 0:26:27that cannot be solved with a musket or a knife.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29You have a problem - the King really does not.
0:26:31 > 0:26:35I received a letter from Delaney this morning.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39I suppose you would call it a pincer movement.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42He says he's happy for the Nootka trading post, the smoke house
0:26:42 > 0:26:44and the tanning factory
0:26:44 > 0:26:47to be incorporated into the territory of the British Crown,
0:26:47 > 0:26:50but only if we give him a monopoly on the trade
0:26:50 > 0:26:52in smoked sea otter pelts from...
0:26:52 > 0:26:55Vancouver coast to Canton.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57Canton?
0:26:57 > 0:27:01Curiously, the word "tea" does not appear in the letter.
0:27:01 > 0:27:04So you'll write back to him and tell him to go to hell.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06Well, perhaps, before I write to Delaney,
0:27:06 > 0:27:07we should speak about India.
0:27:10 > 0:27:14You'll allow this savage to determine our American policy?
0:27:14 > 0:27:16Our American policy is simple -
0:27:16 > 0:27:18restitution of all lands taken by force.
0:27:18 > 0:27:20West of Michigan,
0:27:20 > 0:27:23the line of the border will be determined by lawyers,
0:27:23 > 0:27:27which means almost certainly that Delaney can give us Vancouver.
0:27:28 > 0:27:32And, in return, you would sell out the East India?
0:27:32 > 0:27:36Settle your dispute with the King regarding Bombay and we can talk.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39It all seems rather neat and terribly simple to me.
0:27:39 > 0:27:43You do realise this whole business is about revenge.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48And why would James Delaney hate the India so?
0:27:51 > 0:27:54What the hell did you do to him, Stuart?
0:27:55 > 0:27:57Always assume I just know.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01Then know this.
0:28:05 > 0:28:10Delaney will as easily sell Nootka to the Americans
0:28:10 > 0:28:12if they offer him the same monopoly.
0:28:14 > 0:28:18Now, there, the King and the Company may be able to find
0:28:18 > 0:28:20our common cause.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24My spies tell me there is a widow.
0:28:28 > 0:28:32My Lady, I am so sore to have to bring you this news.
0:28:32 > 0:28:37The death of my father was not the work of fate but of one man.
0:28:38 > 0:28:42The cursed dwarf Frenchman with a bullet head.
0:28:42 > 0:28:43Napoleon!
0:28:43 > 0:28:46CROWD BOO
0:28:46 > 0:28:49..that shames the hearts of a weary nation.
0:28:49 > 0:28:52- Their heads cut away... - Fuck the French!
0:28:52 > 0:28:53Fuck Napoleon!
0:28:53 > 0:28:56..like carcasses into the Seine.
0:28:57 > 0:28:59And out in the streets...
0:28:59 > 0:29:05there are still those that say that only a beast can tame a beast.
0:29:05 > 0:29:11And that to avenge the death of the good people, like my dear father,
0:29:11 > 0:29:15we must find our own monster and call him Napoleon!
0:29:15 > 0:29:17God save the King!
0:29:17 > 0:29:20# God save our gracious King
0:29:20 > 0:29:22# Long live our noble... #
0:29:22 > 0:29:25Begging pardon, Sir, the show is almost done.
0:29:25 > 0:29:28Should any girl in the chorus have taken your eye, Sir,
0:29:28 > 0:29:30they're sixpence each for one hour.
0:29:31 > 0:29:33Any girls who spoke are a half crown.
0:29:34 > 0:29:38There are boys in the chorus too, Sir, if you prefer.
0:29:39 > 0:29:42The unfortunate lady whose father was...
0:29:42 > 0:29:44somehow killed by Napoleon.
0:29:44 > 0:29:47- What of her?- Her name is Lorna Bow.
0:29:47 > 0:29:51Yes, well, I'm afraid Miss Bow is unavailable.
0:29:51 > 0:29:52Always or tonight?
0:29:52 > 0:29:56Always, Sir, on account of her being a fussy, stuck up bitch, Sir.
0:29:58 > 0:30:01I am here on behalf of His Majesty the King.
0:30:02 > 0:30:04Give it to Miss Bow
0:30:04 > 0:30:06and only Miss Bow...
0:30:07 > 0:30:10..on pain of execution.
0:30:32 > 0:30:34You bad, bad man.
0:30:35 > 0:30:38- Keep doing that.- Tickle, tickle!
0:30:38 > 0:30:40# I gave it to a bonnie lad
0:30:40 > 0:30:43# A bonnie lad, a bonnie lad
0:30:43 > 0:30:45# I gave it to a bonnie lad
0:30:45 > 0:30:48# For just as good again
0:30:49 > 0:30:51# How can I keep my maidenhead...? #
0:30:51 > 0:30:53Spoken for, Sir.
0:30:53 > 0:30:56# How can I keep my maidenhead
0:30:56 > 0:30:58# Among so many men? #
0:30:59 > 0:31:00Dear, God.
0:31:02 > 0:31:05# The boring out, the riving out
0:31:05 > 0:31:07# But, oh, the double driving out
0:31:07 > 0:31:10# Oh, for the Lord again... #
0:31:14 > 0:31:17HOWLS OF PAIN AND PLEASURE
0:31:21 > 0:31:23Spoken for, Sir.
0:31:23 > 0:31:25You haven't changed a bit, Godders.
0:31:25 > 0:31:27Ah, I need to speak to you.
0:31:28 > 0:31:33Your secret won't remain a secret for very long in the East India Company.
0:31:34 > 0:31:36- Blackmail?- Yes.
0:31:36 > 0:31:40But between friends, so where's the harm?
0:31:47 > 0:31:50Now, you take the minutes, don't you, of every meeting
0:31:50 > 0:31:54and you also hear everything they say when they raise their hand?
0:31:56 > 0:31:58I want that information.
0:32:00 > 0:32:02I will pay you for it.
0:32:02 > 0:32:05I'll pay you a pound every month.
0:32:07 > 0:32:10How did you know about me?
0:32:10 > 0:32:14Because I have eyes and ears everywhere throughout the city
0:32:14 > 0:32:17in many places, much like the Company itself.
0:32:22 > 0:32:25I honestly mean you no harm, Godders.
0:32:25 > 0:32:28- If I were caught...- What?
0:32:28 > 0:32:31If I were caught passing company secrets to a Delaney...
0:32:31 > 0:32:35You're not going to get caught because I will protect you.
0:32:39 > 0:32:42You know, at the seminary, I was in love with you.
0:32:44 > 0:32:46Of course you do.
0:32:47 > 0:32:48Of course.
0:32:50 > 0:32:53And there was I thinking that we were just brothers in arms.
0:32:56 > 0:32:59Didn't we share a bed sometimes in the great hall?
0:33:00 > 0:33:02It was torture.
0:33:03 > 0:33:04Exquisite.
0:33:05 > 0:33:07Mm.
0:33:08 > 0:33:10So you can trust me...
0:33:11 > 0:33:13..and I will protect you.
0:33:26 > 0:33:29Your work starts now.
0:33:29 > 0:33:30Oh, God.
0:33:30 > 0:33:33How fair is the split between the East India and the King?
0:33:33 > 0:33:36I'm a little drunk for business.
0:33:36 > 0:33:39Have they found common cause or are they still divided?
0:33:41 > 0:33:43Talk to me, for fuck sake.
0:33:48 > 0:33:50'Dear, Sister...
0:33:50 > 0:33:53'I am restoring our father's offices
0:33:53 > 0:33:55'I have registered the Delaney Trading Company
0:33:55 > 0:33:58'with Lloyds of London and I will ready my ship
0:33:58 > 0:34:03'so that when the time is right and the Company has fallen
0:34:03 > 0:34:05'we can leave.
0:34:05 > 0:34:08'I am accruing a band of loyal servants,
0:34:08 > 0:34:10'none of whom have any value to me
0:34:10 > 0:34:14'beyond the facilitation of this greater good.
0:34:14 > 0:34:17'When I left England, I was just a boy.
0:34:17 > 0:34:19'Now I am back, much has changed.'
0:34:19 > 0:34:24'Your leaving England was the click of the hypnotist's fingers.
0:34:24 > 0:34:28'I woke from a trance and realised the depth of our sin.
0:34:28 > 0:34:31'I have found forgiveness in God and in my husband,
0:34:31 > 0:34:35'and I want no part in your plans or your future.'
0:34:35 > 0:34:37'But we are the future.
0:34:38 > 0:34:40'Your husband is already passed
0:34:40 > 0:34:43'and you can see that by the way that he follows you.
0:34:45 > 0:34:47'You should let him go, poor soul.
0:34:47 > 0:34:49'You torture him.
0:34:51 > 0:34:54'There is enough treachery already surrounding us
0:34:54 > 0:34:57'that there is no need for us to add to it.'
0:34:57 > 0:35:00'The arrival of letters at this address does not go unnoticed.
0:35:01 > 0:35:05'My husband is harsh and is a Christian. I welcome it.
0:35:05 > 0:35:07'I deserve it.'
0:35:08 > 0:35:11'Your husband is also a fool.
0:35:11 > 0:35:13'He cannot see all that you are.
0:35:14 > 0:35:18'I have sailed to places where there is no damnation.
0:35:19 > 0:35:23'We used to talk to each other without words in dark corners.
0:35:23 > 0:35:26'Your curiosity and hunger for all that is possible out there
0:35:26 > 0:35:29'could never be tethered by base religious morality,
0:35:29 > 0:35:32'ship insurance and new china.'
0:35:33 > 0:35:37'Please understand that from this moment I will burn your letters
0:35:37 > 0:35:39'without opening them.'
0:35:39 > 0:35:42'Then I will visit you in your dreams, my love.'
0:35:42 > 0:35:45'Please. I'm your sister.
0:35:45 > 0:35:47'Let all else lie.'
0:36:00 > 0:36:03There is a woman here to see you and I swear the only way
0:36:03 > 0:36:06I could have stopped her would have been to use the pistol you gave me
0:36:06 > 0:36:09and don't think I would be loathe to use it because she's mad
0:36:09 > 0:36:12- and she claims she is my mistress. - Your mistress?
0:36:12 > 0:36:14She says she owns this house.
0:36:15 > 0:36:16Right.
0:36:23 > 0:36:27I have engaged the services of the best lawyer in London.
0:36:31 > 0:36:33Is that your lawyer?
0:36:34 > 0:36:38My lawyer assures me that, as Horace Delaney's widow,
0:36:38 > 0:36:42by natural law of the land, this house is therefore half mine.
0:36:45 > 0:36:48- It's a copy.- It's now kindling.
0:36:49 > 0:36:52My servant wants to shoot you in the face.
0:36:52 > 0:36:54Your servant is also now half mine.
0:36:56 > 0:37:01So did I just burn advice or did I burn speculation?
0:37:01 > 0:37:04You actually burnt a letter of intent.
0:37:04 > 0:37:07Ooh! And what do you intend to do...
0:37:07 > 0:37:09with my house?
0:37:10 > 0:37:12Firstly to change those awful boards.
0:37:12 > 0:37:14- Miss Bow...- Mrs Delaney!
0:37:14 > 0:37:18Miss Bow, do you know why there are boards on the windows of this house?
0:37:18 > 0:37:20So the fortunate people outside
0:37:20 > 0:37:23can't see inside of the state of this place, I imagine.
0:37:23 > 0:37:26No, because there are wicked men out there who would wish me dead.
0:37:28 > 0:37:31However, neither the East India or the King will kill you
0:37:31 > 0:37:33because of your will.
0:37:33 > 0:37:36The only people who would benefit from your death are the Americans,
0:37:36 > 0:37:39but you're already in negotiations with the Americans,
0:37:39 > 0:37:43so surely once the boards have gone we could put curtains up.
0:37:43 > 0:37:46You seem to know such a lot for somebody who knows so very little.
0:37:47 > 0:37:50You should know that I am a very dangerous man.
0:37:50 > 0:37:52I was told that, too.
0:37:54 > 0:37:56And who keeps telling you all this shit?
0:37:56 > 0:37:59I was told the details of your situation by a representative
0:37:59 > 0:38:01of his Majesty The King, George.
0:38:01 > 0:38:04And indirectly it was the King who financed the drawing up of
0:38:04 > 0:38:07that very expensive piece of paper, which you just burnt.
0:38:07 > 0:38:10As a rule, the King's council very rarely makes business
0:38:10 > 0:38:14with an actress unless it's up the back alley of Maiden Lane.
0:38:15 > 0:38:18The piece of paper you just burnt also states that,
0:38:18 > 0:38:19as Horace Delaney's widow,
0:38:19 > 0:38:22I also own half the trading post at Nootka Sound
0:38:22 > 0:38:25and I believe Nootka is of value to you
0:38:25 > 0:38:26and to the King.
0:38:28 > 0:38:32So, as you can see, it's a very simple swap, Mr Delaney.
0:38:32 > 0:38:36Your half of the house for my half of a piece of land
0:38:36 > 0:38:39that I have no interest in or use for.
0:38:39 > 0:38:42I also have a trunk full of your father's belongings,
0:38:42 > 0:38:47letters to you, to your father from your mother.
0:38:48 > 0:38:50Paintings of Nootka, drawings...
0:38:51 > 0:38:52No! No!
0:38:52 > 0:38:54Brace!
0:38:54 > 0:38:55Brace!
0:38:56 > 0:39:00- Do I fetch the pistol?- No. Make this woman a room up right now.
0:39:04 > 0:39:06- I'd like a river view.- Granted.
0:39:09 > 0:39:12Go on now. Make her a fire in my mother's old room immediately.
0:39:21 > 0:39:24I hate to see these things caged up.
0:39:25 > 0:39:29If you are in contact with the King then you are already in grave danger.
0:39:30 > 0:39:33You may stay here whilst we work out our business.
0:39:35 > 0:39:37Good evening, Miss Bow.
0:39:55 > 0:39:56I was passing,
0:39:56 > 0:39:58from Greenwich.
0:39:59 > 0:40:01I have business.
0:40:02 > 0:40:03Hm.
0:40:28 > 0:40:31- I see in the Gazette you now have a ship.- Mm-hm.
0:40:31 > 0:40:34At 7:00am every day I read the Gazette.
0:40:34 > 0:40:37My wife eats toast.
0:40:39 > 0:40:41I look for newly purchased ships.
0:40:44 > 0:40:46- I underwrite for Lloyds.- Coffee?
0:40:47 > 0:40:49No.
0:40:49 > 0:40:52I'm willing to take care of the insurance of your ship.
0:40:52 > 0:40:55I can make sure the hull is tarred properly -
0:40:55 > 0:40:58they don't miss a layer and pocket the change.
0:40:58 > 0:41:01The salt and worms will get through and you'll sink off Africa.
0:41:02 > 0:41:06Ah, but my business is not in Africa, it's out west.
0:41:07 > 0:41:10That letter there is from my carpenter.
0:41:12 > 0:41:15In my profession, we believe in luck.
0:41:15 > 0:41:19In the business of ship insurance, luck is the Goddess of Profit.
0:41:19 > 0:41:22Your luck, Mr Delaney, is poor.
0:41:22 > 0:41:24Your record is poor.
0:41:24 > 0:41:27You sink ships.
0:41:28 > 0:41:30You're as good as a hole in the hull.
0:41:31 > 0:41:33I did check the records.
0:41:33 > 0:41:36You were aboard a ship that sank off Africa.
0:41:37 > 0:41:38A slave ship?
0:41:43 > 0:41:46I believe that a man is capable of change...
0:41:47 > 0:41:53..and I also believe that that is of no consequence to you.
0:41:56 > 0:41:58And whilst you're here,
0:41:58 > 0:42:00this document will show you...
0:42:01 > 0:42:05..that my ship is already insured by an insurance broker
0:42:05 > 0:42:06by the name of Cope.
0:42:08 > 0:42:10And, if you look very closely,
0:42:10 > 0:42:13you will probably recognise my handwriting.
0:42:30 > 0:42:33I wonder, does the offer of coffee still stand?
0:42:34 > 0:42:36Mm.
0:42:48 > 0:42:50You know...
0:42:51 > 0:42:53..it excites me,
0:42:53 > 0:42:54the thought of it...
0:42:55 > 0:42:58..when I realise the woman beneath me...
0:42:59 > 0:43:01..is capable of what she did.
0:43:03 > 0:43:06She can seem so cold,
0:43:06 > 0:43:08at least, she used to.
0:43:09 > 0:43:11Now I know the secret in her head.
0:43:14 > 0:43:16And it makes me so hard...
0:43:16 > 0:43:18and so angry.
0:43:21 > 0:43:22Mm.
0:43:22 > 0:43:24And she likes it.
0:43:26 > 0:43:31Since you came back, our fucking has become almost murderous.
0:43:32 > 0:43:34It exhausts us.
0:43:34 > 0:43:37To think I have this wicked...
0:43:38 > 0:43:43..wicked thing beneath me and it's my lifelong duty to punish her.
0:43:46 > 0:43:48It exhausts us both.
0:43:50 > 0:43:52A beautiful exhaustion.
0:43:53 > 0:43:56And in the morning I read the Gazette
0:43:56 > 0:43:58and she eats her toast...
0:43:59 > 0:44:01..like a sweet little bird.
0:44:09 > 0:44:12I didn't come to sell you insurance, Mr Delaney.
0:44:14 > 0:44:16I came to thank you.
0:45:13 > 0:45:15You summoned me.
0:45:16 > 0:45:18I am here now. What do you want?
0:45:24 > 0:45:26Shall we pray?
0:45:32 > 0:45:35I used to think we were the same person.
0:45:35 > 0:45:37We are.
0:45:38 > 0:45:39We're not.
0:46:06 > 0:46:08Now...
0:46:09 > 0:46:11..I never want to see you again.
0:46:12 > 0:46:14We will speak again.
0:46:14 > 0:46:16No, we won't.
0:46:16 > 0:46:18Oh, but we will.
0:46:58 > 0:47:02- Madam.- Mrs Delaney. - Do you drink wine?
0:47:03 > 0:47:06- Not before a performance. - There'll be no performance tonight.
0:47:06 > 0:47:10There will be a performance or there will be a riot in Covent Garden.
0:47:10 > 0:47:13Until the necessary arrangements have been made,
0:47:13 > 0:47:15I advise that you go absolutely nowhere.
0:47:15 > 0:47:18As of now, you are a weakness.
0:47:18 > 0:47:20These fantasies elude me...
0:47:20 > 0:47:25If you go outside, they will find you and they will find a use for you.
0:47:25 > 0:47:27I am seldom used.
0:47:28 > 0:47:31There is no "they" and there will be a performance.
0:47:32 > 0:47:34Are you armed?
0:47:35 > 0:47:38Get me a carriage to Drury Lane, would you?
0:47:40 > 0:47:42You have to get that woman out of this house
0:47:42 > 0:47:45or I swear I will kill her and her bloody canary.
0:47:49 > 0:47:51Brace...
0:47:52 > 0:47:54..get two carriages.
0:48:05 > 0:48:08I see that you're bleeding again.
0:48:09 > 0:48:11I saw blood.
0:48:12 > 0:48:14How?
0:48:15 > 0:48:18Where? You searching the laundry?
0:48:18 > 0:48:20It is equally my business.
0:48:23 > 0:48:26It seems that jointly we are unable to stop the moon from rising.
0:48:26 > 0:48:30Could you fetch some oranges? I would like some oranges.
0:48:37 > 0:48:41Is it the goose or the gander who has bad sauce?
0:48:53 > 0:48:56Do you know we can't even afford new china?
0:48:56 > 0:48:58So that's your reason for not taking.
0:49:00 > 0:49:04The dock boys I pay in pennies have litters of children -
0:49:04 > 0:49:07I just get blood.
0:49:21 > 0:49:22My dearest Zilpha...
0:49:23 > 0:49:26..I apologise...
0:49:27 > 0:49:29..that I am not related to you.
0:49:30 > 0:49:34But you could allow your cunt to swallow the work of an honest man,
0:49:34 > 0:49:37who will promise to buy you the finest china...
0:49:38 > 0:49:44..if you just agree to stop fucking bleeding.
0:49:44 > 0:49:47- Oranges, madam. - She doesn't want fucking oranges!
0:49:52 > 0:49:54We all know what she wants.
0:50:05 > 0:50:09How like you the young German, the Duke of Saxony's nephew?
0:50:09 > 0:50:12Very vilely in the morning when he's sober
0:50:12 > 0:50:15and most vilely in the afternoon when he's drunk.
0:50:15 > 0:50:16LAUGHTER
0:50:16 > 0:50:19When he's best he's little worse than a man,
0:50:19 > 0:50:23and when he's worst he's little better than a beast.
0:50:24 > 0:50:26- Hurry up!- Vestris!
0:50:26 > 0:50:28Vestris!
0:50:28 > 0:50:31Hey! Hey! If you're here just for a wank,
0:50:31 > 0:50:33pull your pudding and get it over with
0:50:33 > 0:50:36and let the rest of us enjoy Shakespeare!
0:50:37 > 0:50:40You can't fetch up until you bring Vestris!
0:50:40 > 0:50:41Vestris!
0:50:41 > 0:50:45- CROWD:- Vestris! Vestris! Vestris! Vestris! Vestris!
0:50:45 > 0:50:47Hey! Hey!
0:50:47 > 0:50:50CHEERING
0:51:37 > 0:51:39Lorna Bow?
0:51:40 > 0:51:42I am an admirer of your work.
0:51:42 > 0:51:44Please, share my carriage.
0:51:48 > 0:51:50Come, come.
0:51:57 > 0:52:00If you could take me to Old Street, I'll find a cab.
0:52:01 > 0:52:03You looked to be fleeing from someone.
0:52:04 > 0:52:06You were following me?
0:52:07 > 0:52:10You have many suitors among the rabble, I imagine,
0:52:10 > 0:52:13and I, for the longest time, have been one of them.
0:52:17 > 0:52:20I am a lady of particular tastes.
0:52:22 > 0:52:26An admirer from the darkness and from on high.
0:52:29 > 0:52:30Ooh...
0:52:30 > 0:52:32I'm sorry...
0:52:32 > 0:52:35but you'll have to remain in the darkness.
0:52:35 > 0:52:37Why have we turned?
0:52:37 > 0:52:39We were given your name.
0:52:39 > 0:52:41The price was two sovereigns.
0:52:41 > 0:52:44I'm not a courtesan.
0:52:44 > 0:52:48But we are here and there is a room with a bed and fire.
0:52:48 > 0:52:51Now this gentleman is a Duke.
0:52:51 > 0:52:55He asked for you particularly and he was told by your theatre manager
0:52:55 > 0:52:56you would comply.
0:52:56 > 0:52:59He will pay to be in the room with us while we play.
0:53:02 > 0:53:05- Then you were given the wrong name. - There she is.
0:53:06 > 0:53:08Give her to me.
0:53:10 > 0:53:11Very well.
0:53:13 > 0:53:17Your manager sold me the costume you wore
0:53:17 > 0:53:20when you played The Little Princess.
0:53:20 > 0:53:22You will wear it for me tonight.
0:53:25 > 0:53:26GUNSHOT
0:53:27 > 0:53:30There appears to have been a misunderstanding.
0:53:30 > 0:53:33Somebody has given you the wrong name.
0:53:33 > 0:53:35I'm the fucking Duke of Richmond.
0:53:35 > 0:53:37That bitch is dead.
0:53:39 > 0:53:42That bitch is on the gallows...
0:53:42 > 0:53:44before Mass!
0:53:46 > 0:53:48Down there.
0:53:51 > 0:53:53Perhaps now you will listen to me.
0:53:54 > 0:53:56This diamond...
0:53:56 > 0:53:57this is yours.
0:53:58 > 0:54:01I have a man that will take you to Paris
0:54:01 > 0:54:03and you will stay there until this business is done.
0:54:04 > 0:54:07You are a weakness.
0:54:21 > 0:54:23She's just come back.
0:54:23 > 0:54:25She went straight up to bed.
0:54:25 > 0:54:29I didn't light the fire in her room, so she can dry in the draught.
0:54:31 > 0:54:34How many people know that she's here?
0:54:34 > 0:54:36Apart from me and the canary, no-one.
0:54:37 > 0:54:39What's wrong?
0:54:40 > 0:54:42Delivery boys, hmm?
0:54:43 > 0:54:44Only Atticus delivers.
0:54:45 > 0:54:48She's only ever taken one coach. Why?
0:54:49 > 0:54:53Because tonight she stabbed the Duke of Richmond.
0:54:53 > 0:54:54For what reason?
0:54:54 > 0:54:56Because that was their plan.
0:54:56 > 0:55:00They knew that she was not a whore and that she would fight back,
0:55:00 > 0:55:02and now they have a good reason to come for her.
0:55:05 > 0:55:07And they will come.