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00:00:15Previously...
00:00:15I mean, you don't intend to live your life in order to please other people's expectations.
00:00:19May I call you by your Christian name?
00:00:21By...
00:00:22Yes.
00:00:23It's Elspeth.
00:00:25And I'm Claire.
00:00:26All I'm asking is that you contact this Claudel fellow and encourage him to meet with me.
00:00:30I'll consider it.
00:00:32You think Frank is torturing you?
00:00:33I just don't know what's real or not anymore.
00:00:36Well, Cameron, he read my gate for time travel by accident.
00:00:39No one on the ridge.
00:00:40Kens of this Gord's existence.
00:00:42Can I let them find out?
00:00:43Daddy's book warns of a battle coming to the backcountry.
00:00:46We're going to need a lot more than just a few hunting rifles and Savannah is the place to get
00:00:49them.
00:00:50Lord John Grey included a letter of safe passage with his invitation.
00:00:53You're raising a loyalist militia.
00:00:55On my land.
00:00:56I am sorely mistaken.
00:00:58If you think I will allow it.
00:01:03I have reconsidered your plan to get guns to arm the ridge.
00:01:06It'll still be dangerous.
00:01:08Randall's book says the battle to end the siege of Savannah will be on the 9th of October.
00:01:13Continentals will fail.
00:01:15The battle will be bloody, but...
00:01:17It will not reach the center of the city, so if you wait out the fight in there, you should
00:01:20be safe enough.
00:01:21As will Fergus, Marsley.
00:01:23And the children can stay here with us, of course.
00:01:26Take this to Lieutenant Colonel Francis Marion.
00:01:29Book says he'll be with the Continental Army in Savannah.
00:01:33He's a great deal of experience with militias.
00:01:35Might be keen to arm men from the backcountry.
00:01:38So we're starting our own militia?
00:01:40What's that?
00:01:41Or we join Benjamin Cleveland and his overmountain men.
00:01:45I'll be damned if I'll report back to that murdering bastard.
00:01:49I think he'll at least have the decency to shine, like in a film.
00:01:59What about bandits?
00:02:01Do you want to make it into musket balls like you did the last time?
00:02:04No.
00:02:05There's no time.
00:02:06But I do have an idea.
00:02:15Sing me a song of a lass that is gone
00:02:23Say, could that last be I?
00:02:32Mary of soul, she sailed on a day
00:02:37Over the sea to sky
00:02:47Billow and breeze
00:02:50Islands and seas
00:02:53Mountains of rain and sun
00:02:58All that was good
00:03:01All that was good
00:03:05All that was me
00:03:07Is gone
00:03:13Sing me a song of a lass that is gone
00:03:19Say, could that lass be I?
00:03:25Mary of soul, she sailed on a day
00:03:31Over the sea
00:03:39To sky
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00:03:54Oh, my God.
00:04:19What is that abominable smell?
00:04:21It's a wee gift from Jamie and Claire.
00:04:23It's sauerkraut.
00:04:26Oh.
00:04:42Magnifica.
00:04:44The whiskey, my distinction.
00:04:46Star's idea.
00:04:47Perfect hiding place.
00:04:55Gold.
00:04:56It's for muskets.
00:04:58Jamie's former militia,
00:04:59and there's an officer in the Continental Camp,
00:05:02Francis Marion,
00:05:03who's been known to arm backcountry patriots.
00:05:07We thought it best to leave this minor detail
00:05:10out of our letter to you.
00:05:12I don't imagine you're turned to traipse
00:05:14into an army camp with the king's ransom and bullion.
00:05:17No.
00:05:19I don't want to invite any trouble.
00:05:22Nor do I expect Marion will have crates of guns
00:05:25just lying around the camp that he can readily part with.
00:05:29Arrangements will have to be made.
00:05:31So, we were hoping you could...
00:05:34Hi.
00:05:35Of course you can leave the Cove bus.
00:05:37Vargas has got plenty of hiding places.
00:05:39Yeah.
00:05:39Well, I wouldn't be surprised if you found the crown jewels.
00:05:42It shouldn't be fun long.
00:05:43It's no trouble.
00:05:44Now, can we please seal these barrels tightly
00:05:46until I can find some Germans who will...
00:05:49I need this.
00:05:50Let us secrete the gold and drink to our reunion.
00:05:53It's been too long since I've tasted Moulot's divine elixir.
00:05:57That's for sure.
00:06:02To be safe,
00:06:03do you think you should leave for the camp now?
00:06:06I don't know, Fash.
00:06:08There's plenty of time to find Marion
00:06:10and be back before the battle.
00:06:16I think Trammell will speed me on my way.
00:06:37Cunningham wasn't exaggerating.
00:06:38I was collecting rents trying to ascertain the loyalties of the settlers.
00:06:42That arousing suspicion.
00:06:45Most of the families here are loyal to the crown.
00:06:47But those who aren't would be reluctant to join a militia that oppose it.
00:06:52I can only try to recruit them without risking it.
00:06:56Getting back to Cunningham.
00:06:58Surely the odds me a man will fight when it comes to it.
00:07:01Yeah.
00:07:02Of course.
00:07:03And a few others, but it will only be enough.
00:07:05Only to recruit men from further afield.
00:07:09I leave today with Ian and Josiah.
00:07:14They can the outposts that have cropped up while we're away.
00:07:17Well, you can't keep Cunningham waiting forever.
00:07:20I mean, he's going to realize that you've no intention of joining him.
00:07:25Wouldn't it be simpler to just evict him and be done with it?
00:07:29If I evict him or even tell him someone will replace him or come to avenge him?
00:07:33No, it's better if I have him close so I can keep an eye on him.
00:07:40He told me his commander is Major Patrick Ferguson.
00:07:46Frank wrote to the man.
00:07:49He's the one that formed the loyalist militia that fight at King's Mountain.
00:07:54I'm still not sure of Frank's motives in writing that book.
00:07:58Aye, but what he wrote is happening before our eyes.
00:08:00I met Cleveland and now Cunningham speaks of Major Ferguson.
00:08:04But that's not proof that you fight.
00:08:07He could be lying.
00:08:08The book says that Major Ferguson is vicious.
00:08:12Ruthless on the battlefield and off.
00:08:15Burning the homes of rebels without warning, forcing their allegiance.
00:08:21I'm not certain I will fade clear, but if Cunningham is forming a militia, we need to be ready.
00:08:29Regardless of the book.
00:08:35To muskets, liberty, and cell crowd.
00:08:46Strange for a minister and his wife to smuggle guns, no?
00:08:50That was Brianna's idea, actually.
00:08:53The last people anyone would ever suspect.
00:08:55And once we get back to the ridge, well, our family is a doctor, a soldier, a minister.
00:09:02Thought we needed an armourer.
00:09:03Ah, there's me thinking you came all this way to visit us and paint a wee picture for Lord John.
00:09:09If it happens, I recently received a letter from his lordship.
00:09:12He suggested I meet with one of his associates.
00:09:15Percival Beauchamp.
00:09:16Are either of you familiar with this man?
00:09:19No.
00:09:20He claims to have information that will be of great interest to me.
00:09:23But Lord John says he can be a slippery fellow.
00:09:26I must make up my own mind whether what he says is trustworthy.
00:09:30You know our mother's maiden name was Beauchamp?
00:09:32Well, I mean, obviously the English pronounce it Beauchamp, but that's quite a coincidence.
00:09:38Merde.
00:09:40Merde.
00:09:52Cowers!
00:10:05Are you two all right?
00:10:07I'm, I'm, I hear you.
00:10:09Yeah, I did not bother to put a note on it this time.
00:10:12This time?
00:10:13What, this has happened before?
00:10:15Ah, with some horrible threatening letters.
00:10:17Filth.
00:10:17Bag full of dead rats.
00:10:19Another with a serpent.
00:10:20The bastard escaped.
00:10:26Wait, what is going on?
00:10:27These days, when people don't like the news, they tend to blame the printer.
00:10:32If someone discovers you're patriots, Jamie mentioned you'd been printing for the cause.
00:10:37The culprit is as likely to be a patriot as not.
00:10:41While privately we print pamphlets for the rebels, publicly we take a more impartial approach.
00:10:46Yeah, and trying to not anger one side, you end up angering both sides.
00:10:51Just the life of a news printer in these troubled times.
00:11:14Have you, uh, any weapons?
00:11:15Aye, just the one rifle twixt the three of us.
00:11:22Not well na' do.
00:11:23Not in war.
00:11:25Nor hunting.
00:11:26Wouldn't I think we'd tell.
00:11:28Doesn't a matter.
00:11:29I'm expecting a shipment shortly.
00:11:32When the time comes, you'll each have your own musket and shop.
00:11:38Who rides me and Mr. Fraser?
00:11:40Excellent.
00:11:41Josiah, I'll take down your names.
00:11:43What's your name?
00:11:43Miller.
00:11:47Uncle.
00:11:49What is it, lad?
00:11:52Maybe it's nothing.
00:11:54We've recruited three more men.
00:11:56There's this Scottish fellow over yonder.
00:12:00When he heard I was from Fraser's Reggie, he mentioned he was heading there himself.
00:12:05That he can't, Roger and Brianna.
00:12:09From Scotland.
00:12:12He says you're looking for them.
00:12:13Cameron.
00:12:15Hey.
00:12:32James Fraser.
00:12:34I understand you're acquainted with my daughter, Brianna McKenzie.
00:12:38I am.
00:12:39Aye.
00:12:41You're Robert Cameron, then.
00:12:44Christ, no, man.
00:12:46No Rob Cameron.
00:12:49My name is William Buckley McKenzie.
00:12:53Come to tell Roger and Brianna that Cameron won't be bothering them again.
00:12:59And to return, Roger's wee book.
00:13:06Don't want to fall in the wrong hands a second time.
00:13:08Don't want to fall in the wrong hands a second time.
00:13:16Welcome, Mackenzie.
00:13:20You remind me of your father.
00:13:27Perhaps when you've finished painting Lady Grey, you could paint a portrait of Marcelie and me.
00:13:32You'd be happy to.
00:13:33I'll paint the whole family.
00:13:34Oh, we need to send to Philadelphia for a canvas big enough.
00:13:39Don't linger at the Continental Camp.
00:13:42Talk among the merchants is that a battle is imminent.
00:13:45I'll return as soon as I'm able.
00:13:48We'll see you.
00:13:49See you soon.
00:13:51With any luck, I'll see you both soon.
00:13:53Good luck.
00:14:14Do you think houses are a life?
00:14:16That was the win.
00:14:21But yes.
00:14:23I think places that people live in for a time absorb a little bit of them.
00:14:32I often think that houses affect the people living in them.
00:14:37So why wouldn't it work both ways?
00:14:43So, do you think Amy Lindsay's still in her cabin, wanting it?
00:14:49I don't know about her cabin exactly.
00:14:55When people die, naturally the people they leave behind sense them.
00:15:02In a sense that a part of them is still with them in a way.
00:15:07I don't know that I would call that haunting though.
00:15:10It's more like a memory.
00:15:13I wish Jane would want me.
00:15:22I wish Jane would want me.
00:15:22Fanny.
00:15:28You won't forget her.
00:15:31And she won't forget you either.
00:15:36You know, talking about the people we've lost
00:15:41can make it seem as though they're still with us.
00:15:48Jane used to whisper goodnight, Marcelli.
00:15:53Before we went to sleep.
00:15:58She's big French.
00:16:00A little.
00:16:02She said that's what our mother used to call me.
00:16:06Marcelli.
00:16:08Jane used to tell me about our parents before bed.
00:16:16She was trying to help you keep the memory alive.
00:16:20She would tell me good things.
00:16:23Or funny things.
00:16:25But we would never talk about anything serious.
00:16:30She'd talk to the other girls at the brothel.
00:16:32I know she was trying to protect me.
00:16:34Sometimes I wish she hadn't.
00:16:44I'd better go close that window.
00:16:46I don't know.
00:17:04And your little dog, too.
00:17:06What did you say?
00:17:10Mrs. Cunningham's coming.
00:17:12Could you show her into the parlour?
00:17:14I'll be right there.
00:17:14She's probably come for the slippery elm powder I promised her.
00:17:20Good evening, Mrs. Cunningham.
00:17:21Do you want to weigh in the parlour, please?
00:17:23I most certainly will not weigh in.
00:17:26I need help.
00:17:31Frances' chair.
00:17:35Go get some whiskey, please.
00:17:38What happened?
00:17:41Fell.
00:17:42Tripped over the scuttle like a fool and fell on my shoulder.
00:17:46Don't worry.
00:17:47I can fix it.
00:17:48I wouldn't have staggered two miles through buggering brambles if I didn't think you could.
00:17:55And where is your son?
00:17:58He's away.
00:18:12As I thought, dislocated.
00:18:21Fanny, hold her tight here.
00:18:27That's it, Elspeth.
00:18:29This is going to hurt.
00:18:42All right.
00:18:45Ready?
00:18:53Gras-cumming son of a buggering salt!
00:19:05What, child?
00:19:07It's been a long time since I've heard language like that.
00:19:11Well, if you have to do with soldiers, young woman, you acquire their vices as well as their virtues.
00:19:18Where am I asked did you hear language like that?
00:19:21I lived in a brothel.
00:19:23Indeed.
00:19:26Well, I suppose whores also have their virtues as well as their vices.
00:19:32I don't know about the virtues, unless you count being able to satisfy a man in two minutes by the
00:19:38clock.
00:19:39Oh, I think that would be classed as a skill rather than a virtue.
00:19:45Then a useful one, I dare say.
00:19:47I'm sure everyone has their strong points.
00:19:50Fanny, would you go to the kitchen and make up a plate for Mrs. Cunningham?
00:19:57You know, I have always wondered about the term grass-combing.
00:20:03Is it actual bad language?
00:20:05Or is it just descriptive?
00:20:08Well, it usually applies to someone who is either idle or incompetent.
00:20:13But why combing grass should invoke either attribute is unclear.
00:20:19But it isn't actually bad language, unless the term bugger is applied.
00:20:25I've never actually heard it without bugger.
00:20:30You must have heard much more if you were travelling with the army.
00:20:34Oh, it's worse than you think.
00:20:37My first husband was a sailor.
00:20:41Well, I believe you've shocked Fanny.
00:20:45Not with the actual language, but that it came from a respectable woman such as you.
00:20:51Oh, well.
00:20:53Women tend to be freer in their speech, and there aren't any men present.
00:20:58She's a remarkable child.
00:21:01But you must try to persuade her not to...
00:21:03She knows not to talk like that in public, as I'm sure do you.
00:21:07But you're free to say anything you like here tonight,
00:21:10as I'm not letting you go back to your cabin in your condition.
00:21:13Well, by my condition, whether you mean injured or inebriated,
00:21:18I'm not sure, but in other cases, thank you.
00:21:40I am.
00:21:41Bloody hell, it's you.
00:21:47William, would you like to invite our guest in?
00:21:50She's had quite a long journey.
00:21:51Forgive me, Mrs. McKenzie.
00:21:54The unexpected pleasure of seeing you again has caused me to forget myself.
00:22:06I was delighted when you accepted my invitation, my dear.
00:22:09I was beginning to fear I'd never see you again.
00:22:12It feels like a lifetime since we all met.
00:22:15Allow me to introduce Amaranthus, Viscountess Grey, my late nephew's widow.
00:22:21With a pleasure.
00:22:23I'm sorry for your loss.
00:22:26Lord John mentioned he'd sent for a portrait painter.
00:22:29Didn't realize it would be a woman.
00:22:32You must be very skilled for him to ask you to come.
00:22:35Where is it you traveled from?
00:22:36North Carolina.
00:22:38Surely you did not undertake a journey alone.
00:22:40I was under the impression that your husband would be accompanying you.
00:22:44Ah, he did.
00:22:45But he's currently attending to an errand outside the city.
00:22:49It's time for Trevor's bedtime feed.
00:22:52It was a pleasure, Mrs. McKenzie.
00:22:58Yes.
00:23:00Well, various important matters require my attention, so I will leave you two to become reacquainted.
00:23:18You came from North Carolina.
00:23:20Last we met, you were on your way to Boston.
00:23:23These are dangerous times.
00:23:25We thought it best to be with family, so we returned to Fraser's Ridge.
00:23:29You must have met Fanny, then.
00:23:32Is she well?
00:23:32Yes, she is.
00:23:34My mother has taken quite a liking to her.
00:23:38So has my father.
00:23:41Well, I mean, our father.
00:23:51Did you know, the day we met in Wilmington, did you know what we were to each other?
00:23:59I did.
00:24:01I wanted to tell you.
00:24:04Roger and my husband was with me.
00:24:06He was just around the corner at the inn.
00:24:09And my children, Jem and Mandy.
00:24:13I really wanted you to meet them.
00:24:17Even if you didn't know we were, well, yours.
00:24:25Mine.
00:24:27I should probably say something polite, like, only if you want us, but that's...
00:24:32A bit late for that.
00:24:34It's a lie, but the truth, I mean.
00:24:37I do apologize.
00:24:39For not telling you.
00:24:41But Lord Jonandar felt so strongly.
00:24:47It wasn't my place.
00:24:51I accept your apology.
00:24:54Though, in all honesty, I'm glad you didn't tell me.
00:24:58I wouldn't have known how to respond to such a revelation at the time.
00:25:04And you do now?
00:25:06And no, I bloody don't.
00:25:10But I haven't blown my brains out.
00:25:12When I was 18, I might have.
00:25:16I apologize.
00:25:18I didn't mean that with any derogatory reference to you or your family.
00:25:22Your family, you mean?
00:25:37Thank you for coming, Monsieur Fraser.
00:25:39Allow me to send for wine.
00:25:40Oh, no thank you.
00:25:42I came to hear what you have to say, but I must get back to my work.
00:25:46Very well then, sir.
00:25:49I'll get right to it.
00:25:53I wish to acquaint you with the facts of your birth.
00:25:58Facts I think you do not know.
00:26:02Have you heard of a man by the name of Le Comte Saint-Germain?
00:26:08Why?
00:26:10You are his son.
00:26:15I'm sure you'll have an explanation as to how you came to this preposterous conclusion.
00:26:23As he may have surmised, I am not French myself.
00:26:26I have, however, married into a prestigious French family.
00:26:31My wife is the sister of the Baron Amandine.
00:26:34And as with any old dynasty, there is a sordid family secret.
00:26:42Many years ago, my wife's older sister began a torrid affair with the Comte,
00:26:46and not long after, disappeared.
00:26:48Fled into the night with her jewels, and they supposed, into the arms of another lover.
00:26:54I take it you wish me to believe I'm the result of this tryst?
00:26:59Perhaps the name of the woman in question will convince you.
00:27:04Amélie Levine Beauchamp.
00:27:10I've met a young girl who's called Amélie, but she's dead for a long time.
00:27:15Yes.
00:27:16Yes, she is dead.
00:27:19You may continue.
00:27:21A few years ago, I uncovered the truth from one of the Comte's servants.
00:27:27Amélie did not run away with a lover.
00:27:29The Comte simply grew weary of her, and, learning she was pregnant,
00:27:33lured her away from home, drugged her with opium, and sold her to a brothel.
00:27:40Maison Élise.
00:27:41That is where she gave birth to a child.
00:27:45You.
00:27:50Et Monsieur Le Comte?
00:27:52He was last seen more than thirty years ago.
00:27:54And while no body was found, the circumstances of his disappearance were so mysterious that a magistrate declared him deceased.
00:28:02His estate is currently held in trust by a solicitor in Paris.
00:28:07But it would undoubtedly be released should a petition be filed by his heir.
00:28:17Unless the law in France is changed if later.
00:28:20Bastard cannot inherit properties.
00:28:23Clodin.
00:28:26If I may use your original name.
00:28:35You may not, sir.
00:28:38Very well.
00:28:40I found this.
00:28:42Hidden in the pages of a dusty family Bible.
00:28:45I'm quite certain I'm the only one living who knows of its existence.
00:28:52It is a contract of marriage.
00:29:13It appears Amelie relinquished her virtue at a high price.
00:29:18By demanding the Comte marry her in secret before welcoming him to her bed.
00:29:29Allow me to congratulate you, sir.
00:29:32You are not a bastard.
00:29:36Assuming the document isn't forged.
00:29:39Plainly, you have something you want out of this.
00:29:43Something Monsieur Le Comte might accomplish for you.
00:29:46Le Comte Saint-Germain owned his estate.
00:29:49It still does own a majority of the stock of a syndicate investing in land in the New World.
00:29:53The main asset of which is a large parcel in what is known as the Old Northwest.
00:30:00Some interests of mine in Paris believe that while Britain is preoccupied with this rebellion,
00:30:07there is an opportunity to establish a French colony on the land with French settlers.
00:30:15Unfortunately, Le Comte's solicitor refuses to sell the stock at any price.
00:30:25But if a legitimate heir were to appear, the land would become his.
00:30:30And my associates would pay said heir a significant sum for said land.
00:30:37A significant sum.
00:30:49Have I done something to offend you?
00:30:52Simply trying to enjoy my literature in solitude.
00:30:55Should you require company, perhaps Mrs Mackenzie will oblige you.
00:31:00Lady Grey, are you jealous?
00:31:02Don't be absurd.
00:31:05Though anyone with eyes can see that there's a history between the two of you.
00:31:11I suppose you're right.
00:31:12She is a person of some significance in my life, but...
00:31:15Please.
00:31:16I thought we'd...
00:31:20It doesn't matter.
00:31:21It's foolish.
00:31:25Miss Mackenzie, Brianna, is my sister.
00:31:34You told me you didn't have any siblings.
00:31:41I'm a bastard.
00:31:43Well, I'm not legally a bastard, since the Eighth Earl of Ellsmey and my mother were married when I was
00:31:48born.
00:31:49But the Eighth Earl was not my father.
00:31:54The man who sighed me was...
00:31:58is...
00:31:59Brianna's father.
00:32:04Well...
00:32:04Whoever he was, he must have been a...
00:32:09a very striking gentleman.
00:32:13He is.
00:32:16Has he acknowledged you?
00:32:18Not publicly, no.
00:32:20Nor will want him to.
00:32:22He owes me nothing.
00:32:25I'm only telling you this because you asked.
00:32:31Because I enjoy your company.
00:32:35May I be so bold as to presume you enjoy mine?
00:32:43That is bold.
00:32:48Though perhaps not incorrect.
00:32:53Well...
00:32:53I think it's only fair...
00:32:56one comprehends a person whose company one is enjoying.
00:33:02I am not the Ninth Earl of Ellsmeyr.
00:33:06Not really.
00:33:08I never was.
00:33:11Of late, I've found myself wishing I could renounce the damn title altogether.
00:33:15Though English law makes that all but impossible.
00:33:19Well, you may not be able to renounce it, but you could hand it on.
00:33:23Abdicate in favour of your heir, I mean.
00:33:26I don't have an heir.
00:33:28Well, you could marry me and give it to our firstborn.
00:33:33I'm a widow, after all.
00:33:35So we could retire into private life and breed Dachshunds.
00:33:44I can't imagine anything more tiresome.
00:33:46Surely you don't mean to imply that being married to me would be tiresome, William.
00:33:52Might just possibly enjoy it.
00:33:57Thank you, Amorathus.
00:34:00For not thinking less of me.
00:34:05As I've told you,
00:34:08I'm the daughter of F. Cowden, bookseller.
00:34:12That's all my father is to the world.
00:34:16I thought I would be a merchant's wife.
00:34:20But now I am Viscountess Grey.
00:34:25My son will be the Duke of Pardlow.
00:34:29Well, you may disagree.
00:34:31I believe a title is something you simply have.
00:34:35Not something you are.
00:34:37By law, you are the Earl of Ellesmere.
00:34:40That's all the world needs to know.
00:34:49But to you, not only that, William.
00:34:52Not to me.
00:34:57How's the pain?
00:34:59In my shoulder or my head?
00:35:02Both, I suppose.
00:35:04Bearable.
00:35:06Though I wish the girl would refrain from slamming doors.
00:35:09Well, that's not Fanny.
00:35:12She's taking milk of Devon Lindsay's.
00:35:16Then who?
00:35:17Ours make sounds, Elspeth.
00:35:19All I know is that when the wind is in the east,
00:35:22ours makes that particular noise from the attic.
00:35:25Why build an attic in the first place?
00:35:29Because my husband is the Fraser of Fraser's Ridge.
00:35:33If there should ever be any kind of emergency
00:35:36that causes our tenants to have to leave their home,
00:35:38well, then they can take refuge.
00:35:41Here with us.
00:35:42And what kind of an emergency might that be?
00:35:53Your son, do you believe what he says about?
00:35:58My grandson's death.
00:36:00Yes.
00:36:01I do believe him.
00:36:03It is a comfort.
00:36:06I was thinking specifically about what he said to him.
00:36:12That he, your grandson, would see Charles again.
00:36:15In seven years' time.
00:36:17Do you believe that?
00:36:20I only know that he believes it.
00:36:30Good day, Mrs. Fraser.
00:36:32I'm here to collect my mother.
00:36:35I'll help her get her things.
00:36:37No need.
00:36:38I'll do it myself.
00:36:44You'll find her through here.
00:36:49Mother, are you well?
00:36:51I heard that you were injured.
00:36:52Yes, my shoulder.
00:36:54But Mrs. Fraser was able to heal it quite satisfactorily.
00:36:58She's been most hospitable.
00:37:00I've enjoyed the company.
00:37:02Her husband's away at the moment, on business.
00:37:05Is he?
00:37:06I had wondered.
00:37:08He's a hard man to pin down, your husband.
00:37:10We had been meaning to talk.
00:37:13Or so I thought.
00:37:17He's anxious to speak with you, too.
00:37:20But this business couldn't wait.
00:37:24Well, I thank you, ma'am, for the care you've shown my mother.
00:37:29She should be fully recovered within a week or so.
00:37:32But here are some herbs that should ease her discomfort.
00:37:40You have a very fine home.
00:37:43It must feel very empty with him away and you here all alone.
00:37:56I'm fine.
00:37:58I can assure you.
00:38:02I expect him home at any moment.
00:38:04I'll let him know you stopped by.
00:38:11Charles, did you bring the cart?
00:38:13Of course, mother.
00:38:15Mother.
00:38:20Until next time, Mrs. Fraser.
00:38:33Do you think he's telling you the truth?
00:38:35Be very well, maybe.
00:38:38Emily, I knew her, but I...
00:38:43I didn't know she was my mother.
00:38:47There are many children born in a brothel.
00:38:50The little ones, they would call any whore, ma'am, or anyone who would feed them.
00:38:55And if a whore had to attend a customer and her child was hungry, she'd just hand him to another
00:38:59jeune fille.
00:39:02Emily, they called her the badoness for a haughty manner.
00:39:09Even then, I knew the name was cruel, but until today, I didn't realise how cruel.
00:39:23Well, she came to you.
00:39:25She detested all of the children of the brothel, but...
00:39:30Me, most of all.
00:39:34I understand now.
00:39:36I was the spawn of the man who took everything from her.
00:39:40Her love.
00:39:42Her freedom.
00:39:45Even her family.
00:39:51I think I was maybe six years old when she died.
00:39:54She contracted the morbid sore throat.
00:40:00I remember she summoned me to her chamber.
00:40:04What did she say?
00:40:07Sois un bon garçon.
00:40:10Be a good boy.
00:40:22It wasn't fair if I had to blame you for what happened to her.
00:40:27I wouldn't expect fairness from one whose life was filled with so much cruelty.
00:40:32At the hands of such a villain.
00:40:36The concierge of mine in France, he tried to kill m'lady.
00:40:40And now to learn that he sired me.
00:40:43You are not him.
00:40:46I know that better than anyone, my love.
00:40:49But if you are truly his heir,
00:40:51then you can use what he has left you for good.
00:40:55If you take this Beauchamp up on his offer...
00:40:57That man is a whore.
00:40:59I should know.
00:41:01He's likely been one all his life.
00:41:03Monsieur Beauchamp is told to sell his arse, of course,
00:41:05but he would sell himself.
00:41:07From necessity.
00:41:08All he's asking, though, is that you sell him some land, no?
00:41:13Land that you have a right to, by birth.
00:41:15Yes, but why?
00:41:18What effect will that have,
00:41:19selling it to these interests in Paris?
00:41:22He wants to install a French colony on American soil,
00:41:25but...
00:41:26we've devoted ourselves to the Patriot cause.
00:41:31We're not fighting to be free of a British king
00:41:33just to become servants of a French one.
00:41:36You don't care, I'll come to that.
00:41:40You don't know that it won't?
00:41:43That isn't everything.
00:41:45Again, you Vegas Fraser.
00:41:48Why is this offer so difficult to consider?
00:41:52To claim this inheritance,
00:41:55this land,
00:41:58I must publicly acknowledge
00:42:00that le Comte Saint-Germain was my father.
00:42:04Monsieur Beauchamp told me
00:42:06whatever he often wants to hear,
00:42:08that I'm the son of a great man.
00:42:16But I'm already the son of a great man.
00:42:35Do not worry, my dear.
00:42:37A French warship that Treat
00:42:38has taken to firing her cannon on occasion.
00:42:42Dreadful nuisance.
00:42:45She's anchored on the far end of Hutchinson Island,
00:42:47out of range to do any damage here in town.
00:42:53I assure you,
00:42:54you're perfectly safe.
00:42:58Oh, glad to hear it.
00:43:02So,
00:43:04why didn't you tell William I was coming?
00:43:08B-because, um,
00:43:11because I didn't know how he would react.
00:43:15It seems William's husband, um,
00:43:18lost
00:43:19since he learned the truth of his parentage.
00:43:22But, um,
00:43:24you and he share a rather unique experience,
00:43:27discovering that James Fraser is your father.
00:43:31So that's why you invited me here.
00:43:34Not to paint a portrait of Amaranthus.
00:43:36You think I can help William?
00:43:38No, I-I-I do think
00:43:40that a portrait of his grandchild
00:43:42and daughter-in-law
00:43:43will do my brother the world of good,
00:43:44but...
00:43:45Yes.
00:43:48If there's anyone who can talk some sense
00:43:50into William about his present difficulties,
00:43:53it's you.
00:43:55You could have just told me the truth, you know.
00:43:58I would have come anyway.
00:44:00I don't believe you've been entirely truthful with me either.
00:44:03Or should I ask precisely what, um,
00:44:06errands your husband has outside the city?
00:44:09Does it perhaps have something to do with the
00:44:12Continental Army encampment there?
00:44:17I-I could have been
00:44:20more direct
00:44:22about my
00:44:23intentions for this visit,
00:44:25but
00:44:27I couldn't take the chance
00:44:28you'd rebuff me now.
00:44:31Even if there's one
00:44:33trait
00:44:34that James Fraser has
00:44:36successfully passed to all his children,
00:44:40it's
00:44:41stubbornness.
00:44:41Right, it-it's exceedingly difficult
00:44:44to get you to do anything
00:44:46you don't want to do.
00:44:48William-
00:44:50William is the same.
00:44:55My late wife, Isabel,
00:44:57told me that
00:44:58William was lost once
00:44:59on his
00:44:59estate in Hellwater.
00:45:02He was, um,
00:45:04three
00:45:04or so.
00:45:06He was wandering
00:45:07alone
00:45:08in a fog
00:45:09on the fells.
00:45:13Timber.
00:45:14Sometimes I see that.
00:45:16Sometimes
00:45:24other things.
00:45:26You see those things
00:45:27when you're a parent?
00:45:31Yes.
00:45:36I can't make any promises but I will see what I can do thank you thank you my dad
00:46:24Jem and Mandy were a delight Rodney and wee Claire can't wait for their next
00:46:29what do they call it a sleepover well I'm glad they weren't a nuisance never every child's a miracle
00:46:42you're right Rachel yes he's right of course Lizzie every child is a miracle
00:46:48though in Augie's case the miracle is how long he can scream without drawing breath
00:46:52sometimes he sounds just like a catamount well we've all been there
00:47:01come on they're coming quick quick quick they're certainly happy to see their granddad
00:47:08who's that with them I have no idea
00:47:20children come here
00:47:24come here where are you
00:47:27Paddy look it's your cousin
00:47:28Buck it's Buck
00:47:29Sarsenach may I introduce to you William Buckley Mackenzie
00:47:33your freezer
00:47:35the reputation precedes you
00:47:37as does yours you must have had a very long journey indeed
00:47:42longer than I can help you explain
00:47:45I've told him he's welcome to stay on the ridge as long as he likes
00:47:47of course your family come along come inside
00:47:52I'm sure you both must be starving
00:47:55aye you don't happen to have any of those uh peanut butter sandwiches do you
00:48:10what's troubling you Buck here
00:48:13there was a massacre
00:48:15up north
00:48:18Mohawk leader
00:48:19Joseph Brandt
00:48:20and a loyalist captain led a raid on a rebel town
00:48:25Ken Joseph Brandt
00:48:29the continentals retaliated
00:48:31by sending an army after him
00:48:39Patriot army
00:48:40hushed along the Susquehanna river
00:48:43raising
00:48:44three Indian village
00:48:46confined
00:48:47forty villages were left in flames
00:48:50and
00:48:50countless scalps were
00:48:54Christ
00:48:55is that not where Shadow Lake lies
00:48:59where they form a wife
00:49:01we are away
00:49:04they
00:49:07and my son
00:49:10the Yorgasne Dodis
00:49:13Sriftus of Lizards
00:49:16Rachel
00:49:21Musco North
00:49:26I need to know what happened to them
00:49:30of course you must go
00:49:37Doggy and I will come with thee
00:49:49I'm going to miss this little catamount
00:49:53you're going to be so much bigger by the time you return
00:49:59is it really nothing I can say to convince you and Obby to stay
00:50:02I thank thee Claire but
00:50:04no
00:50:05thee let thy husband travel alone
00:50:07seven hundred miles to rescue his first wife
00:50:09you make a good point
00:50:18I pray that we find Emily and her children safe
00:50:22when he sees them
00:50:24I want to be by his side
00:50:27so he doesn't forget the life he has here
00:50:33does that make me wicked
00:50:34no Rachel
00:50:39that makes you human
00:50:44here
00:50:52come
00:50:56Rachel says you mean to stop in Philadelphia
00:50:59so she can go to a proper meeting
00:51:01aye
00:51:02she's missed it
00:51:04I'd like you to go to the brothel there
00:51:06the one Francis left with her sister
00:51:08speak with some of the lasses
00:51:10a brothel?
00:51:14it's not enough I'm going to find my first wife
00:51:16it's to do with Francis
00:51:19ask him about Jane
00:51:20anything she said about her family
00:51:23we'd like Francis to get more about them
00:51:26I'll find out what I can
00:51:47I must say one more thing to you
00:51:49before you go
00:51:55you ken the book Brianna brought back
00:51:58the one written by her other father
00:52:02aye
00:52:03she told me
00:52:05Frank Randall
00:52:08it's about Scots in America
00:52:12about what they
00:52:14what we will do
00:52:16in the revolution
00:52:19there's mention of a
00:52:20battle in the backcountry
00:52:22at a place called King's Mountain
00:52:24I've heard of this place
00:52:26Frank says I fight in it
00:52:29when will it happen?
00:52:31October next
00:52:33so he says
00:52:35Claire thinks he's bending the truth
00:52:36but
00:52:39I'm more and more convinced he's not
00:52:49I'll be there with you uncle
00:52:51there'll be time enough
00:52:52for me to do whatever needs to be done
00:52:54in the north
00:52:54and make it home
00:52:57aye
00:52:57I don't know if Ash
00:53:00but I may be gone
00:53:03but I'll guard you left
00:53:04in his stead
00:53:08thank you lad
00:53:29may you be safe
00:53:30on your journey
00:53:37I'll be there
00:53:40I'll be there
00:53:41I'll be there
00:53:45I'll be there
00:53:46I'll be there
00:53:47I'll be there
00:53:48I'll be there
00:53:50I'll be there
00:53:52I'll be there
00:53:53I'll be there
00:53:54I'll be there
00:53:55I'll be there
00:53:56I'll be there
00:53:57I'll be there
00:53:57I'll be there
00:53:58I'll be there
00:53:59I'll be there
00:54:00I'll be there
00:54:01I'll be there
00:54:02I'll be there
00:54:06I'll be there
00:54:30Good afternoon, Colonel Marion.
00:54:33I'm Reverend Roger McKenzie.
00:54:35I apologize for interrupting you, but...
00:54:37Well, you're a difficult man to find, and my request is urgent.
00:54:42You're a volunteer?
00:54:43The Continental Army isn't choosy.
00:54:45Though I have to say, the occasional minister we do get doesn't usually wear his best clothes to fight in.
00:54:52No, sir.
00:54:54I've come to request your assistance.
00:54:59My father-in-law owns 10,000 acres in North Carolina.
00:55:03A British major named Patrick Ferguson has been stirring up trouble in the backcountry raising loyalist militias.
00:55:09And as we are patriots, we've decided to assemble a militia of our own.
00:55:14But we need weapons.
00:55:16I believe you've helped arm others like this before.
00:55:19Mm-hmm.
00:55:21I can pay you.
00:55:23I think we could possibly reach an agreement.
00:55:27Uh, well, I have a letter from my father-in-law with the particulars.
00:55:39Your father-in-law is General James Fraser?
00:55:43Aye.
00:55:44A fellow who abandoned his troops at Monmouth to tend his wife.
00:55:49Aye.
00:55:52James Fraser is an honorable man, sir.
00:55:55And a very brave soldier.
00:55:57The battle was already won when his wife was shot.
00:56:00Is it true?
00:56:00He signed his letter of resignation on the back of a corporal in mud.
00:56:05Actually, he wrote it in his wife's blood.
00:56:07But aye.
00:56:09He didn't have a choice.
00:56:12She was wounded when General Lee ordered him to leave her side, which...
00:56:15I'm sure the circumstances were quite extraordinary.
00:56:17The fact remains that if it had not been for Lee's trial and Lafayette's good word,
00:56:21Fraser would have been court-martialed after Monmouth, perhaps even hanged.
00:56:25Sir, our people are in danger.
00:56:28Our circumstances here are quite dire as well.
00:56:30We have precious few resources, even with the assistance of our new French allies.
00:56:35I can't afford to give what I do have to someone who's already lost the Continental Army's trust.
00:56:40Surely has years of service and sacrifice to the cause.
00:56:44My answer is no, Reverend Mackenzie.
00:56:46And it's fine.
00:56:52Then I'll take my leave, sir.
00:56:54That's not possible, I'm afraid.
00:56:57I beg your pardon?
00:56:57We assault the city in a few days' time.
00:57:00General Lincoln has ordered centuries to detain anyone leaving camp
00:57:03in an effort to prevent the deserters from warning the British.
00:57:07You can't leave.
00:57:08I've come to ask for your help in fighting the British.
00:57:11Surely you don't think that I'm going to leave here and assist them?
00:57:14I have my orders, Reverend Mackenzie.
00:57:17Sir, my wife is in the city.
00:57:20I promised I'd return.
00:57:24Every man here has made such a promise to his wife, his mother, his son.
00:57:30Many will not live to honor them.
00:57:33You mind?
00:57:35I can find a safe place for you to wait out the battle.
00:57:37Unless you want to fight, I can give you a good rifle.
00:57:43No.
00:57:44No.
00:57:47Stay here and wait, then.
00:57:49Things go wrong.
00:57:51You can help bury us.
00:57:58Sir, wait.
00:58:05I'm no good with a rifle.
00:58:10But if you can give me a sword, I'll fight with you.
00:58:22You.
00:58:41Been
01:00:12He has earned his execution.
01:00:15Don't go.
01:00:15We have a plan.
01:00:17Plans fail.
01:00:20I think I will be an evil knight.
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