0:00:02 > 0:00:04This programme contains some strong language from the start.
0:00:04 > 0:00:06- What are you looking for? - Nootka Sound treaty.
0:00:06 > 0:00:09I may need to prove the land was acquired by treaty, not conquest.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11Pettifer said if Delaney wanted to trade with the Indians at Nootka,
0:00:11 > 0:00:14the only merchandise you could possibly use would be gunpowder.
0:00:14 > 0:00:17- Where the fuck are we? - My new factory.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19I have a theory that the introduction of several
0:00:19 > 0:00:22barrels of saltpetre can cut the leaching stage down to four weeks.
0:00:22 > 0:00:26There is only one place where one can find refined saltpetre.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28The warehouse of the East India Company at Wapping Wall.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30And I'm planning a robbery.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34- You tell Carlsbad my name. - And who's Carlsbad?
0:00:34 > 0:00:36Carlsbad is the head of
0:00:36 > 0:00:39the American Society of Secret Correspondence in London.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42At all times, your life is in our hands.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44As is your name in mine. Carlsbad.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47If they invited us both, then they probably know.
0:00:47 > 0:00:48Who knows?
0:00:48 > 0:00:52I challenge James Delaney to a duel, to the death.
0:00:52 > 0:00:53- YELLS:- Do you accept?!
0:00:53 > 0:00:56This programme contains some strong language,
0:00:56 > 0:00:59scenes which some viewers may find upsetting
0:00:59 > 0:01:02and some scenes of a sexual nature.
0:03:37 > 0:03:38Good morning.
0:03:41 > 0:03:46The Gypsy woman owns this island between two parishes.
0:03:46 > 0:03:50It is tradition she offers duellists a little token of good luck.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53Three shillings each for heather and goose feathers.
0:03:53 > 0:03:54This is not a fairground.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58Gentlemen,
0:03:58 > 0:04:01a slight has been perceived
0:04:01 > 0:04:03and one of you seeks satisfaction.
0:04:03 > 0:04:04Which?
0:04:05 > 0:04:07Here is my pistol for inspection.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12This is my second, Mr Hope of Trinity Lane.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15May I see your pistol?
0:04:20 > 0:04:24Can we please get on with it? This fog is pestilential.
0:04:28 > 0:04:29Where is your second?
0:04:29 > 0:04:31I don't have one.
0:04:31 > 0:04:32The code requires you have a second.
0:04:32 > 0:04:33I don't have one.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37Let's just say this woman is yours and she is late.
0:04:41 > 0:04:45Could you not find a boat like a normal person?
0:04:45 > 0:04:48I was bored and I've never seen a man shot before.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54Why don't you go and stand over there by the fire and keep warm?
0:05:00 > 0:05:03Duellists, stand apart with the attorney between you.
0:05:06 > 0:05:11No lack of faith in either party, but I need payment in advance.
0:05:12 > 0:05:18On my instruction, the duellists will take up position at the points.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Anyone firing a l'outrance will be fair game to be shot.
0:05:26 > 0:05:27You will duel to first blood...
0:05:27 > 0:05:28To the death!
0:05:30 > 0:05:32To first blood.
0:05:33 > 0:05:37According to the Irish code of 1777,
0:05:37 > 0:05:41any man wounded will be tended by the doctor.
0:05:41 > 0:05:45And no second shot will be fired by either gun.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56Gentlemen, take up your positions.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59The aggrieved party, at the nearest point.
0:06:15 > 0:06:21When I drop this handkerchief, you will walk towards each other.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23And, at a time of your choosing,
0:06:23 > 0:06:26there will be a polite exchange of bullets.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39SHE GASPS
0:06:52 > 0:06:55Dear God, have mercy on my soul.
0:07:14 > 0:07:15Satisfied?
0:07:18 > 0:07:20My apologies.
0:07:22 > 0:07:23That was an excellent shot.
0:07:27 > 0:07:31I can only assume that your second is a Company man.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33Since he failed to load a ball in your pistol.
0:07:40 > 0:07:41Dear God!
0:07:50 > 0:07:53It would appear that my life is more precious than yours.
0:07:57 > 0:07:58Good day.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05HE COUGHS
0:08:15 > 0:08:17FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
0:08:29 > 0:08:31SHE GASPS
0:08:45 > 0:08:48DOOR OPENS, CLOSES
0:08:59 > 0:09:01You have ash on your hands.
0:09:06 > 0:09:07Where is the maid?
0:09:09 > 0:09:10I sent her out.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24For champagne?
0:09:24 > 0:09:26Or potatoes?
0:09:26 > 0:09:28Or both?
0:09:35 > 0:09:38So, how did it resolve itself? Did you both see sense?
0:09:38 > 0:09:40No.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43I shot him.
0:09:43 > 0:09:44Between the eyes.
0:09:45 > 0:09:49And a host of devils flew out of the hole in his head and down the river.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55In that event, it would be potatoes, wouldn't it?
0:09:55 > 0:09:56Simple sustenance.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Life goes on.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Before you drink any more, could you tell me what happened?
0:10:07 > 0:10:09But in the event...
0:10:10 > 0:10:13..of a messenger coming to tell you
0:10:13 > 0:10:16that he had killed me,
0:10:16 > 0:10:19well,
0:10:19 > 0:10:20champagne!
0:10:21 > 0:10:23All the wild possibilities.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32In truth, neither is the case.
0:10:34 > 0:10:35It was void.
0:10:38 > 0:10:39How?
0:10:43 > 0:10:44Go and wash your hands.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47No need for any more questions.
0:10:49 > 0:10:53Not when half of London will be retelling the story anyway.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55So I shall hear through gossip?
0:10:57 > 0:10:58As I hear about you.
0:11:09 > 0:11:10So, how was the party?
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Well, it was entertaining.
0:11:13 > 0:11:15And how did you end up in the duck pond?
0:11:15 > 0:11:18She was legless. She tried to catch a salmon with her feet.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23If he stayed to eat the eggs I boiled for him...
0:11:25 > 0:11:28..he would hear MY story of last night.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32Soldiers in red. Soldiers in blue.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34Running by the window.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37Out there on the foreshore.
0:11:37 > 0:11:41Stopping the river traffic and searching every barge going east.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46You see, Miss Bow, last night there was a robbery.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48From the East India Arsenal.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Ingredients for making gunpowder,
0:11:54 > 0:11:56stolen from under the Company's noses.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04Insurrectionists, they say.
0:12:04 > 0:12:05Frenchmen.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11Though not one of them spoke French.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18The Company have already stated those involved will hang.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24The lady and I will take our breakfast on the foreshore
0:12:24 > 0:12:26this morning, thank you.
0:12:26 > 0:12:31And, when they come, let them in. You can open every door.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35We have nothing here to hide.
0:12:39 > 0:12:41HE CHUCKLES SOFTLY
0:12:43 > 0:12:45You will hang.
0:12:47 > 0:12:49They will catch you and hang you.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55I need you to bring me the trunk with my father's belongings today.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57Explain how you will not hang.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02Explain to me why you crossed a river to watch me get shot.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08It was shallow and I needed a better view. Your turn.
0:13:10 > 0:13:14The saltpetre we stole had already been sold to the Royal Navy.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20So it belonged to the Crown.
0:13:20 > 0:13:24So therefore, the Prince Regent has an excuse to prosecute the Company
0:13:24 > 0:13:27for negligence, as the powder was in their charge at the time.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31The Company can cause me a lot of difficulties,
0:13:31 > 0:13:34but only the King can have me hanged.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36The Crown will choose to make a deal.
0:13:37 > 0:13:38So I will not hang.
0:13:43 > 0:13:48Look, I'm very happy to admit that I don't want James Delaney to die.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52But can you also admit that you don't want James Delaney to die?
0:13:52 > 0:13:55You'll get me my trunk today. That's your business.
0:13:55 > 0:13:56All right?
0:14:09 > 0:14:12I don't want James Delaney to die either.
0:14:13 > 0:14:14Who are you?
0:14:14 > 0:14:16I'm Winter.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19They say he's the devil,
0:14:19 > 0:14:20but not to me.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24He promised to take me to America.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28Yeah, if he lives beyond sunset.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32SHOUTS: Check the barrels! All of them!
0:14:32 > 0:14:35There's got to be something here.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37Search everywhere!
0:14:37 > 0:14:40Move! Come on! Search the boat. Come on!
0:14:40 > 0:14:43Get them off! Come on!
0:14:43 > 0:14:46Check below. You, check the bilges.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51- There's nothing. - Well, it can't have just vanished.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53What's this?
0:14:55 > 0:14:58Cellar empty. Apart from rats and river water, sir.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00Keep looking!
0:15:00 > 0:15:01Carry on.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19HE SCREAMS IN PAIN
0:16:31 > 0:16:32You've had a fall.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37You probably don't remember who you are, so let me remind you.
0:16:37 > 0:16:41You've been following me, haven't you?
0:16:41 > 0:16:46Now. Are you King or are you Company? Hm?
0:16:48 > 0:16:50It doesn't matter.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57Now there is nothing up that road for you apart from death
0:16:57 > 0:16:58and anybody like you.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00So you run along and tell your friends
0:17:00 > 0:17:02how you almost lost your heart.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08HE SCREAMS
0:17:41 > 0:17:42Love thy husband,
0:17:42 > 0:17:45look to thy servants, cherish thy guests.
0:17:46 > 0:17:51Now, Hal, to the news at court, for the robbery lad.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53How is that answered?
0:17:56 > 0:18:00How is it answered, Mr Delaney?
0:18:02 > 0:18:04The Company is looking.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07I think the Prince may be amused.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11Hm.
0:18:11 > 0:18:12All these chemicals I ingest...
0:18:14 > 0:18:17..chase lines of Shakespeare out of me sometimes unbidden.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24Which brings me to that rather delightful woman
0:18:24 > 0:18:26you were at the party with.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28An actress, she told me.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32Is she yours or...
0:18:34 > 0:18:36..could a chemist call upon her?
0:18:38 > 0:18:39For tea or something?
0:18:45 > 0:18:46Show me the cargo.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06Brace!
0:19:08 > 0:19:10Brace, can you come and help me?
0:19:13 > 0:19:15What the hell happened here?
0:19:15 > 0:19:17Bloody soldiers raided the house.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21Did you hear me shouting?
0:19:22 > 0:19:23Can't you see I'm busy?
0:19:29 > 0:19:31Where's James?
0:19:31 > 0:19:32How the hell should I know?
0:19:42 > 0:19:43Brace...
0:19:45 > 0:19:47..what's the matter?
0:19:51 > 0:19:54I thought he'd burned that damned trunk on the foreshore along
0:19:54 > 0:19:56with everything else.
0:19:58 > 0:20:00It would float.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03Slip it into the ebb tide and let the river take it.
0:20:06 > 0:20:07Or it could burn.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11- Do you know what's inside it?- Aye.
0:20:11 > 0:20:12The truth.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17If it was up to me, I'd burn it.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21Less chance the river might bring it back.
0:20:27 > 0:20:30I've asked the Weasel for some sailcloth
0:20:30 > 0:20:31to cover it against the rain.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36I've already breakfasted on a little of it.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39The quality's exceptional.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42Almost as good as the bat shit distillations of Burma.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47Why don't you just fix the roof?
0:20:49 > 0:20:52Because a canvas sheet would protect the powder perfectly well
0:20:52 > 0:20:53and be much cheaper.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58And you think she's beautiful?
0:20:58 > 0:20:59Who?
0:21:01 > 0:21:02The actress.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04Hm!
0:21:04 > 0:21:07Not only is she among the large number of women I would sleep with,
0:21:07 > 0:21:09she's also among the much smaller group of women
0:21:09 > 0:21:11I would masturbate over.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Well, this is fun, isn't it?
0:21:23 > 0:21:26So, can I call on her or not?
0:21:26 > 0:21:28No.
0:21:28 > 0:21:29So she is yours?
0:21:34 > 0:21:36Given the quality of the saltpetre,
0:21:36 > 0:21:38how long will it take to make gunpowder?
0:21:38 > 0:21:41Four weeks, and I'll need an assistant.
0:21:41 > 0:21:42Hm.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59DOOR OPENS
0:22:17 > 0:22:18I need you...
0:22:19 > 0:22:22..to fetch me a ship's sail to cover my delivery.
0:22:32 > 0:22:33Go.
0:22:33 > 0:22:34Stay.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Sit. Sit there.
0:22:50 > 0:22:55I haven't told that boy anything. I didn't think it safe.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04The sacks of saltpetre in the barn were stolen.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06Why burden him?
0:23:06 > 0:23:10They were stolen from the Honourable East India Company.
0:23:10 > 0:23:11All right?
0:23:11 > 0:23:16Now anybody who knows of its whereabouts but does not report it
0:23:16 > 0:23:18is liable to hang.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26So, you are now one of us.
0:23:44 > 0:23:45Your apprentice.
0:23:56 > 0:23:57Lick.
0:23:59 > 0:24:00Lick your finger.
0:24:32 > 0:24:36Now, gentlemen, before I go on the subject of confidence...
0:24:36 > 0:24:38and betrayal,
0:24:38 > 0:24:43I hear that the Company are offering £10 for any information.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45Hm?
0:24:45 > 0:24:52I also know that one of you has already considered collecting.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57Let me be very clear.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00I know which one of you it is.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03And I want you to know that there will be
0:25:03 > 0:25:08no place for that man on my ship when we sail to the New World.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13Because he will be of no use to me.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17He will be of no use.
0:25:21 > 0:25:22For he will have no thumb.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28HE SCREAMS
0:25:28 > 0:25:29Hm?
0:25:29 > 0:25:32HE CONTINUES SCREAMING
0:25:36 > 0:25:38I am inside your heads, gentlemen.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43Always.
0:25:56 > 0:25:59£2 for broken doors and smashed windows.
0:25:59 > 0:26:00Hm.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05Damn soldiers! You owe me Delaney!
0:26:07 > 0:26:09Now...
0:26:09 > 0:26:12They have reports that say that some of the robbers were women.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16But only the Company are aggrieved,
0:26:16 > 0:26:20so no-one can take you to the clink or to the poultry tower.
0:26:20 > 0:26:25So, if a Company man comes calling,
0:26:25 > 0:26:27they have no legal jurisdiction.
0:26:29 > 0:26:30So you get word to me.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37And I will deal with it. In my way.
0:26:39 > 0:26:40And in return...
0:26:44 > 0:26:45..you choose.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03Ah!
0:27:03 > 0:27:06James Delaney is laughing at us.
0:27:06 > 0:27:12The Crown, Coop, the Prince, all sniggering at us.
0:27:14 > 0:27:20Talk of prosecutions for negligence, investigations...
0:27:21 > 0:27:24..talk of complicity,
0:27:24 > 0:27:29and all the while, sniggering behind our backs.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32Can you hear it? Coming from down from Regent Street?
0:27:32 > 0:27:35Well, we know who. We know why.
0:27:35 > 0:27:39We just have to find out where.
0:27:39 > 0:27:44And we can use every resource we have. Every resource.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46We are richer than God.
0:27:46 > 0:27:52I blaspheme with impunity because the Company is at my heel.
0:27:55 > 0:27:59Now, we've screwed Maharajas, we've screwed moguls,
0:27:59 > 0:28:00and this man...
0:28:00 > 0:28:04this man is merely a London mongrel.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07So...
0:28:11 > 0:28:14Come on! Ideas?
0:28:22 > 0:28:23GRUNTING
0:28:29 > 0:28:31Who's helping Delaney?
0:28:32 > 0:28:34Quick, Bill! It's Pearl.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37Where's he making the powder?
0:28:41 > 0:28:42He'll be East fucking India.
0:29:04 > 0:29:06Let it be known along the Wapping Wall,
0:29:06 > 0:29:09it was the work of the devil Delaney.
0:29:59 > 0:30:02Ready? Good boy.
0:30:12 > 0:30:14What the hell are you doing here,
0:30:14 > 0:30:16at whatever the hell time of night it is?
0:30:18 > 0:30:20I thought I heard an explosion.
0:30:21 > 0:30:23No.
0:30:24 > 0:30:25All is well.
0:30:29 > 0:30:30Be careful.
0:30:35 > 0:30:39Making gunpowder and being careful are good bedfellows.
0:30:49 > 0:30:51What? What do you see?
0:30:57 > 0:30:58He's just scared of you.
0:31:01 > 0:31:03Everybody's scared of you.
0:31:06 > 0:31:07Thankfully.
0:31:12 > 0:31:15Did you find out how much the Company are offering as reward?
0:31:17 > 0:31:19Work faster.
0:31:27 > 0:31:28Steady as we go.
0:31:32 > 0:31:33Good boy.
0:32:18 > 0:32:19What the hell are you doing?
0:32:22 > 0:32:25No!
0:32:25 > 0:32:28The letters your father wrote to you are beautiful.
0:32:28 > 0:32:31Oh. How would you know that?
0:32:31 > 0:32:34Because I read them. Have you even looked at them?
0:32:34 > 0:32:35No.
0:32:37 > 0:32:40Pictures and paintings from all over the world.
0:32:42 > 0:32:45The oil in the paint is burning very nicely, thank you.
0:32:49 > 0:32:53I am looking for a particular document.
0:32:53 > 0:32:56A treaty. That is all.
0:32:56 > 0:33:02A treaty between my father and the Nootka Indian tribe.
0:33:02 > 0:33:07A treaty in which Nootka land was bought for gunpowder...
0:33:07 > 0:33:09and lies!
0:33:11 > 0:33:12Along with my mother.
0:33:16 > 0:33:17His first wife.
0:33:20 > 0:33:22Who he bought for beads.
0:33:30 > 0:33:34And when his wife would not play the Spanish princess
0:33:34 > 0:33:37or the Italian countess,
0:33:37 > 0:33:39whatever it was she refused to play...
0:33:42 > 0:33:44..he had her sent to Bedlam Insane Asylum.
0:33:49 > 0:33:50Ohhh...
0:34:06 > 0:34:09Have you never bought a soul for beads?
0:34:55 > 0:35:00I'm told Your Majesty has some paperwork regarding the East India?
0:35:00 > 0:35:01Ah!
0:35:03 > 0:35:05Some little Scotsman in the War Office
0:35:05 > 0:35:07who wants to crawl up my arse
0:35:07 > 0:35:09dug it up and brought it to me.
0:35:11 > 0:35:15In time of war, a failure to secure His Majesty's gunpowder against
0:35:15 > 0:35:20the enemy is a criminal offence, and the same goes for saltpetre.
0:35:20 > 0:35:23- You wish to charge the East India with negligence?- Worse.
0:35:23 > 0:35:26We could allege potential complicity within the organisation.
0:35:26 > 0:35:30Then we can send in inspectors. We need to shake the impasse.
0:35:35 > 0:35:38Why do you always look down your nose at my plans?
0:35:38 > 0:35:43I'm not. We should prosecute over the lost saltpetre.
0:35:43 > 0:35:45HE CHUCKLES
0:35:45 > 0:35:48You are jealous of the little Scotsman.
0:35:52 > 0:35:53No, Your Highness.
0:35:53 > 0:35:54So...
0:35:54 > 0:35:57Improve on the little Scotsman.
0:35:57 > 0:36:04Oh. A charge of negligence would be action against the Company.
0:36:04 > 0:36:08And Strange would be able to accommodate it
0:36:08 > 0:36:11or allocate blame as he chooses.
0:36:11 > 0:36:14A warehouseman or two would hang.
0:36:15 > 0:36:19I have begun to believe that it might be more effective
0:36:19 > 0:36:22if we went after Sir Stuart himself.
0:36:25 > 0:36:28The night of the robbery I...
0:36:28 > 0:36:30I found these...
0:36:30 > 0:36:32in a bottom drawer.
0:36:42 > 0:36:44HE GRUNTS
0:36:46 > 0:36:48Who the devil is George Chichester?
0:36:52 > 0:36:54The Sons of Africa?
0:37:02 > 0:37:04Excuse me, sir. Sir!
0:37:04 > 0:37:06No-one is allowed in here.
0:37:06 > 0:37:08There's been an outbreak of cholera.
0:37:08 > 0:37:11I am immune.
0:37:11 > 0:37:14Tell your doctor I'll be waiting for him downstairs.
0:37:18 > 0:37:20FOOTSTEPS ON STAIRS
0:37:27 > 0:37:32Personally, I question the miasmatic theory of cholera,
0:37:32 > 0:37:34but even so, it's wise to take precautions.
0:37:34 > 0:37:37I'm assuming this disease is of your own making?
0:37:39 > 0:37:43So many soldiers and Company men treading heavily in your footsteps,
0:37:43 > 0:37:47I thought I'd make this place a little less attractive to them.
0:37:47 > 0:37:49That's why we've also moved down here.
0:37:53 > 0:37:55I'm busy. What do you want?
0:37:57 > 0:37:59You have something I need.
0:38:02 > 0:38:06The blockade at Sligo, running short of gunpowder.
0:38:06 > 0:38:09The Irish are being prevented from running fishing boats.
0:38:13 > 0:38:15The bellmen and the newspapers tell me there's a new source
0:38:15 > 0:38:17of prime-grade powder in town.
0:38:17 > 0:38:19No royal charter required.
0:38:21 > 0:38:23I'm afraid I don't have any powder.
0:38:26 > 0:38:29You ride the Hendon road three miles.
0:38:29 > 0:38:31There is a pond called The Source.
0:38:31 > 0:38:33Beyond that, an area of low land.
0:38:33 > 0:38:38Hatchett's Ground they call it. A tannery.
0:38:38 > 0:38:39A windmill.
0:38:39 > 0:38:44And hidden just behind that, a cattle farm with a water wheel.
0:38:47 > 0:38:49No organisation is watertight, James.
0:38:50 > 0:38:52You're just lucky it's our pot
0:38:52 > 0:38:55the informant pissed in and not the Company's.
0:38:55 > 0:38:57Though, we do offer better rewards.
0:38:59 > 0:39:02Our guns will fall silent in ten days.
0:39:02 > 0:39:04We need powder in eight.
0:39:04 > 0:39:06- That's not possible.- Yes, it is.
0:39:08 > 0:39:09Ask your chemist.
0:39:10 > 0:39:12Mr Cholmondeley.
0:39:13 > 0:39:15Ask him about the French experiment.
0:39:21 > 0:39:23The French experiment was - how can I put it? -
0:39:23 > 0:39:26entirely French in conception and execution.
0:39:26 > 0:39:29And therefore a total disaster.
0:39:29 > 0:39:33It was John Company, I think, and the King who'd just attacked
0:39:33 > 0:39:36Mauritius, and the French needed powder in a hurry.
0:39:36 > 0:39:40So the foolish fucking French added chlorate to the mix.
0:39:43 > 0:39:44And?
0:39:45 > 0:39:48Well, viewed purely from the standpoint of making gunpowder
0:39:48 > 0:39:51very fast, it was a wild success.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57However, if you add chlorate,
0:39:57 > 0:40:00you have to stir and stir
0:40:00 > 0:40:03and stir, and not stop stirring
0:40:03 > 0:40:05round the clock.
0:40:05 > 0:40:07You need shifts. And men.
0:40:07 > 0:40:11And even with the constant, careful stirring,
0:40:11 > 0:40:15even then, even if you do everything correctly to the finest degree,
0:40:15 > 0:40:17still, potentially...
0:40:17 > 0:40:19boom!
0:40:22 > 0:40:23As in your premonition.
0:40:26 > 0:40:29The French, blew Mauritius
0:40:29 > 0:40:30almost in half.
0:40:35 > 0:40:36And where do we get this chlorate?
0:40:36 > 0:40:39HE LAUGHS No, no, no.
0:40:39 > 0:40:41You need to ask a far more important question,
0:40:41 > 0:40:44which is, where will you get a chemist insane enough to work
0:40:44 > 0:40:47for you if you decide to add fucking chlorate to these vats?
0:40:49 > 0:40:52We either get the chlorate, or we will all hang in about eight days.
0:41:02 > 0:41:05You'd risk the life of your son for chlorate?
0:41:08 > 0:41:09He is, isn't he?
0:41:12 > 0:41:13Mm-hm.
0:41:15 > 0:41:19They have your name, Mr Cholmondeley.
0:41:21 > 0:41:23They have your name,
0:41:23 > 0:41:26and you will be first on the list of their conspirators.
0:41:28 > 0:41:30How do they know so much?
0:41:32 > 0:41:33Hm.
0:41:35 > 0:41:37Get the chlorate.
0:41:37 > 0:41:39Yes?
0:41:39 > 0:41:40I will get you men.
0:42:00 > 0:42:01DOOR OPENS
0:42:11 > 0:42:13James...
0:42:17 > 0:42:19SHE BREATHES HEAVILY
0:42:32 > 0:42:33You said his name!
0:42:35 > 0:42:36In your sleep.
0:42:37 > 0:42:39You said his name.
0:42:41 > 0:42:44YOU said his name!
0:42:44 > 0:42:46Get him out.
0:42:46 > 0:42:48I want him out.
0:42:48 > 0:42:52Out! Get him out. Out!
0:42:56 > 0:43:01That's right, good girl. Spit him out, spit, spit, spit him out...
0:43:15 > 0:43:18No, no! No!
0:43:18 > 0:43:20SHE SCREAMS
0:43:22 > 0:43:24No, no, no!
0:43:24 > 0:43:26Ah!
0:43:43 > 0:43:46You need a priest, my dear.
0:43:47 > 0:43:49SHE GRUNTS
0:43:58 > 0:44:00Come.
0:44:00 > 0:44:02Mr George Chichester, Esquire.
0:44:18 > 0:44:19I don't.
0:44:19 > 0:44:21In the day?
0:44:21 > 0:44:22Or the night.
0:44:42 > 0:44:44For nine years, Mr Chichester,
0:44:44 > 0:44:48you have been writing to my office on an annual basis.
0:44:49 > 0:44:53Every year, July 10th.
0:44:53 > 0:44:55July 20th is the anniversary of the sinking...
0:44:55 > 0:44:58Of the sinking of the sloop The Influence.
0:44:58 > 0:45:01Not the ship's real name, of course.
0:45:01 > 0:45:06Its name was changed and papers altered when it took on human cargo
0:45:06 > 0:45:08in the port of Cabinda.
0:45:10 > 0:45:12280 souls.
0:45:14 > 0:45:16120 men,
0:45:16 > 0:45:20- 84 women....- Yes, yes, and what is it...?- And...
0:45:20 > 0:45:21What is your...?
0:45:21 > 0:45:24And, sir...
0:45:26 > 0:45:28..76 children.
0:45:31 > 0:45:33All lost.
0:45:33 > 0:45:34Drowned.
0:45:37 > 0:45:40And what is your interest in the sinking?
0:45:40 > 0:45:43Did you have relatives aboard?
0:45:43 > 0:45:45HE LAUGHS
0:45:47 > 0:45:49Mr Coop,
0:45:49 > 0:45:51even though I am black,
0:45:51 > 0:45:55I am not related by blood to every slave stolen from Africa.
0:46:04 > 0:46:08So, The Sons of Africa. You write on their behalf.
0:46:08 > 0:46:10I write on behalf of humanity.
0:46:12 > 0:46:15As a man concerned with injustice.
0:46:15 > 0:46:16Against your people.
0:46:16 > 0:46:18Against people.
0:46:21 > 0:46:24For nine years, you have been campaigning for a Royal Commission
0:46:24 > 0:46:32to investigate the drowning of these 280 slaves,
0:46:32 > 0:46:34which you say was done deliberately.
0:46:35 > 0:46:40It is my belief that some very powerful men in London
0:46:40 > 0:46:44were involved in an illicit shipment of slaves for personal profit...
0:46:45 > 0:46:48..were complicit in the deaths of those slaves
0:46:48 > 0:46:50and in the subsequent concealment of the facts.
0:46:50 > 0:46:54And you believe that those men are senior directors
0:46:54 > 0:46:57within the Honourable East India Company?
0:46:57 > 0:46:58Yes, I do.
0:47:01 > 0:47:04Well then, Mr Chichester, I have some good news for you.
0:47:10 > 0:47:12From the Prince Regent himself.
0:47:33 > 0:47:35HE SIGHS
0:47:38 > 0:47:39Wilton!
0:47:39 > 0:47:41To be continued, gentlemen.
0:47:42 > 0:47:46Did you receive the box of bananas I sent you...
0:47:47 > 0:47:49You will improve your game.
0:47:49 > 0:47:52You have to improve your fucking game!
0:47:54 > 0:47:56Those bastards at the palace
0:47:56 > 0:48:01have opened a royal commission into the sinking of The Influence.
0:48:01 > 0:48:03The-The-The Influence? Why?
0:48:03 > 0:48:07Well, it's a personal campaign. A stab in my ribs.
0:48:08 > 0:48:10Now, you will deal with it.
0:48:10 > 0:48:14Hm? You and the Africa Desk. Hm?
0:48:14 > 0:48:18A commission is not the King, so they can't subpoena,
0:48:18 > 0:48:22so you will deal with it and treat them with disbelief.
0:48:23 > 0:48:28They have appointed some educated blackamoor to prepare the evidence.
0:48:28 > 0:48:31Now, you take your coat off,
0:48:31 > 0:48:35go into your office and you write to him.
0:48:35 > 0:48:38Offer him "full and unfettered co-operation"
0:48:38 > 0:48:41on behalf of the Honourable East India.
0:48:41 > 0:48:46No, no, no. "Full and willing cooperation."
0:48:46 > 0:48:48Yes, sir.
0:48:48 > 0:48:53And then...I will tell you which papers to burn.
0:48:54 > 0:48:56Sir.
0:49:06 > 0:49:08KNOCK ON DOOR
0:49:11 > 0:49:13There is a Mr Delaney to see you, madam.
0:49:13 > 0:49:17He's come from the river. He's in the garden.
0:49:18 > 0:49:23If it's someone you fuck, please check if he came from east or west.
0:49:23 > 0:49:24In the east, there is cholera.
0:49:24 > 0:49:26You can catch it from fucking.
0:49:26 > 0:49:30It isn't. And there isn't.
0:49:30 > 0:49:31And you can't.
0:49:43 > 0:49:45I will have your gunpowder in eight days.
0:49:46 > 0:49:48Powder?
0:49:48 > 0:49:49Yes.
0:49:49 > 0:49:52Dumbarton said the need was very urgent.
0:49:54 > 0:49:57Then it must indeed be urgent.
0:49:57 > 0:49:58Hm.
0:49:59 > 0:50:02If your business is not gunpowder, what is it?
0:50:02 > 0:50:04My business is the deal.
0:50:04 > 0:50:06I sent word of your offer,
0:50:06 > 0:50:08with my own recommendation that we accept.
0:50:08 > 0:50:10Accept what?
0:50:10 > 0:50:14Nootka landing ground in return for the tea trade to Canton.
0:50:14 > 0:50:16Hm.
0:50:16 > 0:50:18And safe passage through your blockade.
0:50:20 > 0:50:23But you must assign the treaty before you leave London.
0:50:23 > 0:50:26Hmm! Well, that would require me to trust you.
0:50:28 > 0:50:31Based on mutual self-interest.
0:50:33 > 0:50:34Trust requires a little time.
0:50:40 > 0:50:42Something we have very little of, Mr Delaney.
0:50:55 > 0:50:56What's this?
0:50:59 > 0:51:02- A book from a Mr Cholmondeley for Miss Bow.- Hm.
0:51:02 > 0:51:04It came by post, with a letter.
0:51:08 > 0:51:11- She obviously has an admirer.- Hm.
0:51:14 > 0:51:17She asked me a lot of questions today.
0:51:17 > 0:51:19And did you give her a lot of answers?
0:51:22 > 0:51:23I told her nothing.
0:51:25 > 0:51:27And yet, you have so much to tell.
0:51:27 > 0:51:28FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
0:51:28 > 0:51:32Oh, we need some more coal for my fireplace. It's freezing!
0:51:32 > 0:51:36Why would we do that? This is the Delaney household.
0:51:36 > 0:51:37We have no warmth here.
0:51:41 > 0:51:43Mr Cholmondeley is not a suitable man for you.
0:51:43 > 0:51:47Oh, no, no absolutely not. He's...
0:51:49 > 0:51:52You must keep him all to yourself.
0:51:53 > 0:51:55I shan't hinder your advances.
0:52:16 > 0:52:19Zilpha. My love. My love.
0:52:23 > 0:52:27This is a holy man of God.
0:52:27 > 0:52:32He's practised in removing and discouraging demons.
0:52:33 > 0:52:37Your husband reports a Barbason has been visiting you.
0:52:37 > 0:52:39There is a ceremony of exorcism
0:52:39 > 0:52:42which can eradicate the Barbason.
0:52:42 > 0:52:45It's a very short process. And quite inexpensive.
0:52:45 > 0:52:47I told the Priest how he visits you.
0:52:50 > 0:52:52No.
0:52:52 > 0:52:54- He visits you.- No, no... - He visits you.
0:52:54 > 0:52:55No! No! Don't touch me.
0:52:55 > 0:52:59- Will you at least acknowledge that...?- YELLS: Go to hell!
0:52:59 > 0:53:02Goodness. A slight thing she is, but fearful!
0:53:04 > 0:53:06Yes, I see it. I see it.
0:53:06 > 0:53:09Is there somewhere we can pin her down?
0:53:09 > 0:53:10Stop! Stop!
0:53:10 > 0:53:13- SHE SCREAMS - Exi ergo, transgressor.
0:53:13 > 0:53:16Exi, seductor, plene omni dolo et fallacia.
0:53:16 > 0:53:18E virtutis inimici, innocentium persecutor. Eda locum,
0:53:18 > 0:53:20dirissime, da locum, impiissime Eda locum Christo,
0:53:20 > 0:53:26in quo nihil invenisti de operibus tuis -
0:53:26 > 0:53:32qui te spoliavit Equi regnum tuum destruxit,
0:53:32 > 0:53:37qui te victum ligavit,
0:53:37 > 0:53:44et vasa tua diripuit.
0:53:44 > 0:53:49You see those blemishes?
0:53:49 > 0:53:52It is the evil coming to the surface.
0:53:56 > 0:53:57It's almost done, my love.
0:53:57 > 0:54:01Exi ergo, transgressor.
0:54:01 > 0:54:04Exi, seductor, plene omni dolo et fallacia, virtutis inimici,
0:54:04 > 0:54:06innocentium persecutor.
0:54:06 > 0:54:11Da locum, dirissime, da locum, impiissime.
0:54:11 > 0:54:14In nomine Patris,
0:54:14 > 0:54:16et Filii,
0:54:16 > 0:54:19et Spiritus Sancti.
0:54:28 > 0:54:30Amen.
0:54:31 > 0:54:32Amen.
0:54:38 > 0:54:40Can we untie her now?
0:54:41 > 0:54:43Leave her a few moments.
0:54:44 > 0:54:48Let her reflect...and recover.
0:55:33 > 0:55:34Will you come to bed?
0:55:35 > 0:55:38Yes, of course. I'll be up in just a moment.
0:56:07 > 0:56:08Teach me.
0:56:14 > 0:56:15Guide me.
0:56:28 > 0:56:29Zilpha?