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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?
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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
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00:02:58All that was good
00:03:01All that was good
00:03:05All that was me
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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
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00:07:40he told me his commander is major patrick ferguson frank wrote to the man he's the one
00:07:50that formed the loyalist militia that fight at king's mountain i still not sure of frank's
00:07:56motives in writing that book i know what he wrote is happening before our eyes i met cleveland and
00:08:02now cunningham speaks of major ferguson but that's not proof that you fight he could be lying
00:08:08the book says that major ferguson is vicious ruthless on the battlefield down off
00:08:15burning the homes of rebels without warning forcing their allegiance
00:08:21i'm not certain i will fight cleveland if cunningham is forming a militia we need to be ready
00:08:29regardless of the book
00:08:35to muskets liberty and sell
00:08:38hmm strange for a minister and his wife to smuggle guns no one that was brianna's idea actually
00:08:53the last people anyone would ever suspect and wants to get back to the ridge well
00:08:57our family is a doctor soldier minister thought we needed an armor oh there's me thinking you came
00:09:05all this way to visit us and paint a wee picture for lord john if it happens i recently received
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00:09:10letter from his lordship he suggested i meet with one of his associates
00:09:15percival bushon are either of you familiar with this man no he claims to have information that will
00:09:22be of great interest to me but lord john says he can be a slippery fellow i must make up
00:09:27my own mind
00:09:28whether what he says is trustworthy you know our mother's maiden name was bushon i mean obviously
00:09:33the english pronounce it beecham but that's quite a coincidence
00:09:38here
00:09:39man
00:09:59man
00:10:06are you two all right
00:10:08um hi are you yeah i didn't bother to put a note on it this time
00:10:11this time what this has happened before
00:10:15oh it was some horrible threatening letters filth
00:10:17bag full of dead rats another 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 your 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 i'm 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
00:11:14you're in your weapons yeah i just the one rifle twixt the three of us
00:11:22that will not do nor in war nor hunting would not think we'd tell
00:11:28doesn't matter i'm expecting a shipment shortly
00:11:31when the time comes you'll each have your own musket and shop
00:11:38who'll ride with you mr fraser excellent
00:11:41josiah take down your names what's your name miller
00:11:47uncle
00:11:49what is it lad
00:11:52maybe it's nothing
00:11:54i've recruited three more men
00:11:56there's this scottish fellow
00:11:59over yonder
00:12:00when he heard i was from fraser's reggie
00:12:02he mentioned he was heading there himself
00:12:05that he kent roger and brianna
00:12:09from scotland
00:12:11he says he's looking for them
00:12:14camera
00:12:15hey
00:12:32james fraser
00:12:34i understand you're acquainted with my daughter brianna mckenzie
00:12:37i am
00:12:39aye
00:12:41you're robert cameron then
00:12:43christ no man
00:12:45no rob cameron
00:12:49my name
00:12:50is william buckley mckenzie
00:12:53come you tell roger and brianna that cameron
00:12:57won't be bothering them again
00:12:58won't be bothering them again
00:12:59and to return
00:13:01roger's wee book
00:13:06don't want it falling in the wrong hands a second time
00:13:16welcome mckenzie
00:13:17welcome mckenzie
00:13:20you remind me of your father
00:13:27perhaps when you finish painting lady grey you could paint a portrait of marceley emmy
00:13:32you'd be happy to
00:13:33help it 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 may bow
00:14:13do you think houses are alive
00:14:16that was the wind
00:14:21but yes
00:14:23i think
00:14:24places that people
00:14:26live in for a time
00:14:29absorb
00:14:29a little bit of them
00:14:32i often think that houses
00:14:35affect the people living in them
00:14:37so why wouldn't it work both ways
00:14:43so
00:14:43do you think amy lindsey's still in her cabin
00:14:47haunting it
00:14:49i don't know about her cabin exactly
00:14:54when people die
00:14:57naturally the people they leave behind
00:15:00sense them
00:15:02sense
00:15:04that a part of them is still with them in a way
00:15:07i don't know that i would call that haunting though
00:15:09it's more like
00:15:11a memory
00:15:13a longing
00:15:18i wish jane would want me
00:15:22fami
00:15:28you won't forget her
00:15:31and she won't forget you either
00:15:36you know talking
00:15:38about the people we've lost
00:15:41can make it seem as though they're still with us
00:15:48jane used to whisper
00:15:51goodnight marshallie
00:15:53before we went to sleep
00:15:58she spoke french
00:16:00a little
00:16:02she said that's what our mother used to call me
00:16:06marshallie
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
00:16:27anything 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
00:17:03and your little dog too
00:17:05what 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
00:17:16i promised her
00:17:20good evening mrs cunningham
00:17:21do you want to wait in the parlour please
00:17:23i most certainly will not wait
00:17:26i need help
00:17:31france's chair
00:17:35go get some whiskey please
00:17:37what happened
00:17:40fell
00:17:42tripped over the scuttle like a fool
00:17:44and fell on my shoulder
00:17:45don't worry
00:17:46i can fix it
00:17:48i wouldn't have staggered two miles through buggering brambles
00:17:52if i didn't think you could
00:17:55and where is your son
00:17:58he's away
00:18:11as i thought
00:18:13dislocated
00:18:20fanny
00:18:21will hold her tight
00:18:24here
00:18:25that's it
00:18:28elspeth
00:18:29this is going to hurt
00:18:41all right
00:18:44ready
00:18:54grass-cumming son of a buggering salt
00:19:05what child
00:19:06it's been a long time since i heard language like that
00:19:10well if you have to do with soldiers young woman
00:19:13you 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
00:19:27i suppose whores also have their virtues as well as their vices
00:19:32i don't know about the virtues
00:19:35unless you count being able to satisfy a man in two minutes by the clock
00:19:39oh
00:19:40i think that would be classed as a skill rather than a virtue
00:19:45than a useful one i dare say
00:19:47i'm sure everyone has their strong points
00:19:50fanny
00:19:51would you go to the kitchen and make up a plate for mrs cunningham
00:19:57you know i have
00:19:58always wondered
00:20:00about the term grass-cumming
00:20:02is it actual bad language
00:20:05or is it just descriptive
00:20:07well
00:20:08it usually applies
00:20:09to someone who was either idle
00:20:12or incompetent
00:20:13why combing grass
00:20:15should invoke either attributes
00:20:18is unclear
00:20:19but it isn't actually bad language
00:20:22unless 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 traveling with the army
00:20:34oh it's worse than you think
00:20:36my first husband was a sailor
00:20:41well i believe
00:20:42you shocked fanny
00:20:45not with the actual language
00:20:47but
00:20:48that it came from a respectable woman
00:20:50such as you
00:20:51oh well
00:20:53women tend to be freer in their speech
00:20:55and 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
00:21:05as 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
00:21:14whether you mean
00:21:15injured or inebriated
00:21:17i'm not sure
00:21:19but
00:21:19in other case
00:21:20thank you
00:21:39hi
00:21:40bloody hell it's you
00:21:47william would you like to invite our guest in
00:21:49she's had quite a long journey
00:21:51forgive me mrs mackenzie
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
00:22:12feels like a lifetime since we all met
00:22:15allow me to introduce amaranthus by countess gray
00:22:18my late nephew's widow
00:22:25lord john mentioned he'd sent for a portrait painter
00:22:29didn't realize it would be a woman
00:22:31must 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 the journey alone
00:22:40i was under the impression that your husband would be accompanying you
00:22:44ah he did but he's currently uh
00:22:46attending to an errand outside the city
00:22:49it's time for trevor's bedtime fee
00:22:51it was a pleasure mrs mackenzie
00:22:58yes
00:22:59well
00:23:00various important matters require my attention
00:23:04so 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
00:23:27so we returned to fraser's rich
00:23:29you must have met fanny then
00:23:31is 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
00:23:42our
00:23:44father
00:23:51did you know
00:23:52the day we met in wilmington
00:23:54did you know
00:23:55what 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
00:24:06just around the corner at the end
00:24:08and my children
00:24:10jem and mandy
00:24:11i
00:24:13really wanted you to meet them
00:24:17even if you
00:24:18didn't know we were
00:24:21well
00:24:23yours
00:24:25mine
00:24:27i should probably say something polite
00:24:30like
00:24:30only if you want us
00:24:32but that's
00:24:32a bit late for that
00:24:33to lie but the truth i mean
00:24:37i do apologize
00:24:39for not telling you
00:24:41but
00:24:42lord john and da felt so strongly
00:24:47it wasn't my place
00:24:51i accept your apology
00:24:54though in all honesty
00:24:55i'm glad you didn't tell me
00:24:58i wouldn't have known how to respond
00:25:00to such a revelation
00:25:01at the time
00:25:04and
00:25:05you do now
00:25:05and no i bloody don't
00:25:09but i
00:25:10haven't blown my brains out
00:25:11when i was 18 i might have
00:25:16i apologize
00:25:17i didn't mean that
00:25:19with any derogatory reference
00:25:21to you or your family
00:25:23your family
00:25:24you mean
00:25:37thank you for coming
00:25:38monsieur 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
00:25:43but 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 to you
00:25:54with 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
00:26:09you are his son
00:26:16i'm sure you'll have an explanation as to how you came to this
00:26:20preposterous conclusion
00:26:23as you may have surmised
00:26:24i am not french myself
00:26:26i have however married into a prestigious french family
00:26:30my wife is the sister of the baron amandine
00:26:34and as with any old dynasty
00:26:37there is a sordid family secret
00:26:41many years ago
00:26:43my wife's older sister began a torrid affair with the comte
00:26:45and 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
00:27:04amelie levin beauchamp
00:27:10amelie levin beauchamp
00:27:14yes
00:27:16yes she is dead
00:27:19you may continue
00:27:21a few years ago
00:27:22a few years ago i uncovered the truth from one of the comte's servants
00:27:27amelie did not run away with a lover
00:27:28the 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 elise
00:27:41that is where she gave birth to a child
00:27:45you
00:27:50et monsieur le comte
00:27:51he was last seen more than 30 years ago
00:27:54and while no body was found
00:27:56the circumstances of his disappearance
00:27:58were so mysterious that a magistrate declared him deceased
00:28:02his estate is currently held in trust
00:28:04by a solicitor in paris
00:28:07but
00:28:08it would undoubtedly be released should a petition be filed by his heir
00:28:16unless the law in france is changed of later
00:28:19bastard cannot inherit properties
00:28:23claudel
00:28:26if i may use your original name
00:28:35you may not sir
00:28:38very well
00:28:41i found this
00:28:43hidden in the pages of a dusty family bible
00:28:46i'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
00:29:22before welcoming him to her bed
00:29:29allow me to congratulate you sir
00:29:33you 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 conseil might accomplish for you
00:29:46le conseil saint-germain owned his estate
00:29:49still 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
00:30:24but if a legitimate heir were to appear
00:30:28the land would become his
00:30:30and my associates would pay said a significant sum for said land
00:30:37a significant sum
00:30:48have i done something to offend you
00:30:52simply trying to enjoy my literature in solitude
00:30:54should you require company perhaps mrs mckenzie will oblige you
00:31:00lady gray are you jealous
00:31:01don'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
00:31:15please
00:31:16i thought we
00:31:19it doesn't matter
00:31:21it's foolish
00:31:25miss mckenzie
00:31:26brianna 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
00:31:45since the eighth earl of elsmair my mother were married when i was born
00:31:49but the eighth earl
00:31:51was not my father
00:31:54the man who sighed me was
00:31:57is
00:31:59brianna's father
00:32:03well
00:32:05whoever 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
00:32:27because
00:32:27you 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
00:32:52well
00:32:54i think it's only fair
00:32:55one comprehends
00:32:57person whose company one is enjoying
00:33:02i am not
00:33:03the ninth earl of elsmair
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 can hand it on
00:33:23abdicate in favor 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
00:33:43i 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 i'm rather
00:34:00for not thinking less of me
00:34:06as 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 gray
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 ellsmere
00:34:40that's all the world needs to know
00:34:49but you're 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
00:35:10that's not fanny
00:35:12she's taking milk of devon lindsay's
00:35:16then who
00:35:16houses 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
00:35:26why 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 that causes our tenants to have to leave their home
00:35:38well then they can take refuge here with us
00:35:42and what kind of an emergency might that be
00:35:53your son
00:35:55do you believe
00:35:56what he says about
00:35:58my grandson's death
00:36:00yes
00:36:02i do believe him
00:36:03it is a comfort
00:36:06i was thinking specifically about
00:36:10what 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
00:36:36no need
00:36:38i'll do it myself
00:36:44you'll find her through here
00:36:49mother are you well i heard that you were injured
00:36:52yes my shoulder but 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
00:37:17well
00:37:17he's anxious to speak with you too
00:37:20but this business couldn't wait
00:37:23well
00:37:25i 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 uh here are some herbs
00:37:35that should ease her discomfort
00:37:40you have a very fine home
00:37:43it must feel very empty with him away and
00:37:46you 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
00:38:10you
00:38:11charles did you bring the cart
00:38:13of course mother
00:38:20until next time mrs fraser
00:38:33do you think he's telling you the truth
00:38:35be very well maybe
00:38:38amelie 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
00:38:49the little ones they would call any hole maman
00:38:52anyone who would feed them
00:38:55and if a hole had to attend a customer and a child was hungry she'd just hand him to another
00:38:59jean phib
00:39:02amelie they called her the baderness for a haughty manner
00:39:09even then i knew the name was cruel but until today i didn't realize how cruel
00:39:23was she came to you she detested all of the children of the brussel
00:39:28and me most of all
00:39:31i understand now i was the spawn of the man who took everything from her
00:39:39i love her freedom
00:39:45even her family
00:39:51i think i was maybe six years old when she died she contracted the morbid sore throat
00:40:00i remember she summoned me to her chamber
00:40:04what did she say
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 con saint germain in france he tried to kill m'lady
00:40:40and now to learn that he sired me
00:40:44you are not him
00:40:46i know that better than anyone my love
00:40:49but if you are truly his heir then 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 i should know he's likely been known all his life
00:41:02so beauchamp is told to sell his arse of course but 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 selling it to these interests in paris
00:41:21he wants to install a french colony on american soil but
00:41:26we've devoted ourselves to the patriot cause
00:41:31we're not fighting to be free of a british king just to become servants of a french one
00:41:36you then again it'll come to that
00:41:40you don't know that it won't
00:41:43that isn't everything again you vegas fraser
00:41:48why is this offer so difficult to consider
00:41:52to claim this inheritance this land
00:41:58i must publicly acknowledge that the comte saint-germain was my father
00:42:04monsieur beauchamp told me whatever 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 um a french warship that treat has taken to firing her cannon on occasion
00:42:42a dreadful nuisance
00:42:45she's anchored on the far end of hutchinson island
00:42:48out of range to do any damage here in town
00:42:53i assure you you're perfectly safe
00:42:58oh glad to hear it
00:43:03so why didn't you tell william i was coming
00:43:08because um because i didn't know how he would react
00:43:15it seems william's husband um lost since he learned the truth of his parentage
00:43:22but um you and he share a rather unique experience discovering 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
00:43:38i i i do think that a portrait of his grandchild and daughter-in-law will do my brother the
00:43:43world of good but
00:43:45yes
00:43:48if there's anyone who can talk some sense into william about his present difficulties
00:43:53it's you
00:43:55could 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 errands your husband has outside the city
00:44:09does it perhaps have something to do with the continental army encampment there
00:44:17i i could have been more direct about my intentions for this visit but
00:44:27i couldn't take the chance you'd rebuff me now
00:44:32if there's one
00:44:34trait that james fraser has successfully passed to all his children
00:44:39it's stubbornness
00:44:41i mean it's exceedingly difficult to get you to do anything you don't want to do
00:44:48william
00:44:50william is the same
00:44:55my late wife isabel told me that william was lost once on his estate in hellwater
00:45:02he was um three or so he was wandering alone in a fog on the fells
00:45:13sometimes i see that sometimes
00:45:24other things
00:45:26you see those things when you're a parent
00:45:31yes
00:45:36i can't make any promises
00:45:41but i will see what i can do
00:45:44thank you
00:45:48thank you
00:45:48thank you my dad
00:45:53thank you
00:46:24Jem and Mandy were a delight.
00:46:27Rodney and wee Claire can't wait for their next,
00:46:29what do they call it, a sleepover?
00:46:33Well, I'm glad they weren't a nuisance.
00:46:36Never.
00:46:37Every child's a miracle.
00:46:42You're right, Rachel.
00:46:44Yes.
00:46:45Dee's right, of course, Lizzie.
00:46:47Every child is a miracle.
00:46:49Though in Augie's case,
00:46:50the miracle is how long he can scream without drawing breath.
00:46:52Sometimes he sounds just like a catamount.
00:46:54Well, we've all been there.
00:46:56Mandy, look.
00:46:57Granda!
00:46:58Granda!
00:47:01Come on.
00:47:03Come on, they're coming.
00:47:03Quick, quick, quick.
00:47:05They're certainly happy to see their granda.
00:47:09Who's that with them?
00:47:10I have no idea.
00:47:16Mark!
00:47:21Children!
00:47:21Come here!
00:47:26How are you?
00:47:27Paddy, look, he's your cousin!
00:47:28Buck, it's Buck!
00:47:29Sir Sennach, may I introduce to you William Buckley McKenzie.
00:47:34Your father.
00:47:35The reputation precedes you.
00:47:37As does yours.
00:47:39You 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.
00:47:48Your family.
00:47:50Come along.
00:47:51Come inside.
00:47:52I'm sure you both must be starving.
00:47:55Aye.
00:47:56You don't happen to have any of those peanut butter sandwiches, do you?
00:48:10What's troubling you, McCree?
00:48:13There was a massacre.
00:48:15Up north.
00:48:17There was a Mohawk leader, Joseph Brandt, and a loyalist captain led a raid on a rebel town.
00:48:25Ken Joseph Brandt?
00:48:28The Continentals retaliated by sending an army after him.
00:48:39Patriot army hushed along the Susquehanna River, raising three Indian village confined.
00:48:48Forty villages were left in flames, and countless scalps were...
00:48:54Christ.
00:48:56Is that not where Shadow Lake lies?
00:48:59Where they form a wife?
00:49:02We are away.
00:49:04They.
00:49:07And thy son.
00:49:10The Yorgasne Dodis.
00:49:13Surf the sublisabs.
00:49:16Rachel.
00:49:21Maskunor.
00:49:26You 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 no.
00:50:05Thee let thy husband travel alone 700 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.
00:50:22But when he sees them, I 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?
00:50:36No, Rachel.
00:50:40That makes you human.
00:50:44Here.
00:50:53Come.
00:50:56Rachel says you mean to stop in Philadelphia so 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 before you go.
00:51:55You ken the book Brianna brought back.
00:51:58The one written by her other father.
00:52:03Aye.
00:52:03She told me.
00:52:05Frank Randall.
00:52:08It's about Scots in America.
00:52:12About what they, what we will do in the revolution.
00:52:19There's mention of a battle in the backcountry at 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.
00:52:37But I'm more and more convinced he's not.
00:52:49I'll be there with you, uncle.
00:52:51There'll be time enough for me to do whatever needs to be done in the north and make it home.
00:52:57Aye.
00:52:58Don't know, Vash.
00:53:00But I may be gone.
00:53:03But I'll guard you left in his stead.
00:53:08Thank you, lad.
00:53:29May you be safe on your journey?
00:53:31Johnny.
00:53:38May you be safe on your journey?
00:53:45May you be safe on your journey?
00:53:48May you be safe on your journey?
00:53:50May you be safe on your journey?
00:53:52May you be safe on your journey?
00:53:55May you be safe on your journey?
00:53:56May you be safe on your journey?
00:53:56May you be safe on your journey?
00:53:57May you be safe on your journey?
00:54:17Let's go.
00:54:30Good afternoon, Colonel Marion.
00:54:33I'm Reverend Roger McKenzie.
00:54:35I apologize for interrupting you, but...
00:54:38You'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.
00:54:54If I'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 honourable 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.
00:56:25Uh, sir, our people are in danger.
00:56:28Our circumstances here are quite dire as well.
00:56:30We have precious few resources.
00:56:33Even with the assistance of our new French allies.
00:56:35Yes, I can't afford to give what I do have to someone who's already lost the Continental Army's trust.
00:56:41It really has years of service and sacrifice to the cause.
00:56:44My answer is no, Reverend McKenzie, and 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 McKenzie.
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 might.
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.
00:58:05No, I'm no good with a rifle.
00:58:10But if you can give me a sword, I'll fight with you.
00:58:13I'll tell you again.
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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