Jamestown (2017–…): Season 1, Episode 3 - Episode #1.3 - full transcript

We are building a new world.

There may be some irregularities.

Embezzlement in the colony?

He might have us removed from office.

If you make enemies of men of power here,

- they will turn against you.
- A more devoted woman, a more obedient

and reverend maid
I could not have wished for.

Every man will receive 100 acres.

It was not lust it was hatred.

Silas!

Perhaps you'd be so kind as to allow
me to call on you, Mistress Kett?



I owe my loyalty to the Sharrows.

_

Meredith?

Meredith!

Meredith!

Where are you?

Indians.

Don't let them take me, ma'am,
don't let them take me.

Help! Help! Meredith!

- Meredith, help me!
- Aye! Coming. Coming.

Get back!

Back up!

Draw here!

Here!



Jesus wept!

Oh! God! He's cut me, he's cut me.
Get back, you cowards.

You stay down! Stay... down!

Meredith, come and help me.

- They...
- Help me, Meredith.

They were gonna kill me,
I had to fight them off.

- Take his hands. Take his hands.
- Get him up!

- Oi! He surrendered.
- I will show you!

Look what we've got here! Indians! Eh?

There were dozens of 'em, dozens of 'em.

Huh?

Huh?

Keep moving! Keep moving!

- You can't kill him!
- Come on.

He's coming to dancing.

Come on!

We've got you now.

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He were coming at me
with a knife the size of my arm.

Two of 'em. Four, four of 'em.

You must have fought
very bravely, Meredith.

When you see a woman so a-feared,
you don't think of your own safety.

What were they doing in the
settlement, Dr Priestley?

You ask me, they came to take women.

But we ain't going to let them, are we?

- Not while there's fight in a man.
- Is that true, Doctor?

If that's what they wanted,
they would have taken you, Verity.

The Pamunkey have been known
to take tools from the settlement

but that was before the peaceful
times we live in now.

But...

Well, they didn't have no tools.

So why were they here?

You see what they think of us?
We let them mock us.

They come into our settlement
and take our own weapons from us.

He didn't steal it. It was sold to them.

The musket went missing from Master
Massinger's store six weeks ago.

- Did you not find the thief?
- Nothing was reported, sir.

Any man who sells weapons to them
is guilty of treachery

- and that is a hanging offence.
- Only one reason Pamunkey want

muskets, that's to use 'em against us.

Here, take it.

Does Chief Opechancanough
know you are here?

Did he send you?

It is more likely, Governor,
that these men are rogues,

come to show their manliness,

to show they're better than us
by stealing into the town.

No, you! You're waiting, aren't you?

Preparing for a time
when you can attack us.

Who do we have can talk to the captive?

Silas.

Are you going to plant corn and tobacco?

Both, sir.

- Mostly tobacco.
- Four acres your first year?

I was hoping to work ten acres, sir.

- Are you thinking of taking on men?
- Nah, can't afford that, sir.

- Me and Pepper'll tend to the fields.
- I ain't afraid of land work.

It will take you years to farm

just a portion of this plot.

So I thought we could trade.

I'll let you have some of my men,
you give me a piece of your land.

I'm thinking about 50 acres.

We waited a long time
for our own piece of ground.

We ain't keen to give it up.

You've got two plots
since your brother died.

There's sense in my proposal
and you know it, Sharrow.

He's not here to help us.

50 acres will never satisfy him,
he'll always want more.

It's as he said, Alice.

We need to work the land.

He treats you as if
he's still your master.

You aren't tenured to him no more.

You have a plantation and so does he.

If you submit to him now

- he will always master you.
- Silas!

Silas! Governor Yeardley says
you are to come now, Silas.

They have a captive, a Pamunkey.

And he has a weapon.

All right.

I am grateful for your offer
Master Massinger, sir,

but it's not what I want.

Come on, lad!

How long have you been here, Mercy?

I ain't so good with
months and years, ma'am.

What I do is, I have one day

and when that is finished,
I have another day.

But you've been here long enough
to know previous attacks by Indians?

They've been known to kill folk, ma'am.

That's why, when I see them,
I clutched onto you

with the mightiest
clutch I could clutch.

Perhaps you might tell me, Master Read?

Diseases killed more men than Indians

but... there have been battles.

But I'm sure if they see that we
bring a superior way of life,

which we're willing to share with
them, they will not take up arms.

Our... superior way of life,

that weren't too much use to us
when they had to feed us.

The Indians know our
intentions better than we do.

The more of us that keep coming,

the more trouble there will be.

Then all hail the man
who might create peace.

Did you come here...

to steal shot and powder for your gun?

Do you know what we do to thieves,
you ugly beast?

- What did he say?
- Sir, Chacrow advised

that you do not look into the water.

- Yes.
- Tell him what we do with thieves.

Governor, if we do this,
it will put the peace at risk.

We have women amongst us now.

Consider what this will do to our
relations with the Pamunkey.

Tell him a thief forfeits both hands.

Why behave as fools?

What value am I to you with no hands?

Stop!

I want to know who sold you that weapon.

Gentlemen!

It is clear to me now
who stole my musket.

Who is it speaks the language?

Who is it that went up river
for several days

for no good reason that I can see?

What man amongst us

needs funds and provisions
to set up his plantation?

The Sharrows were good workers,
reliable men.

But they always had
a defiance about them.

They thought themselves
as good as their masters.

Master Massinger, did you
believe they took your musket?

I did but I could prove nothing.

Thank you, sir.

You went up river, Silas Sharrow,
with your brother. Why was that?

To trade for corn, sir.

But you returned with no corn.

Because of the accident,

because of what happened
to my brother, his death.

I wanted to return home.

You speak the Indian
language well, Sharrow.

When we first came here,
the Pamunkey gave us food,

they showed us
how best to work this land.

You talk like a man who regards
these savages as our equals.

They are our neighbours.

This musket was taken
from your master's store

and is now in the hands
of "our neighbours".

- No! No-one can believe I would...
- You said that you went up river

for corn, what did you propose
to give the Indians in turn?

It was my brother.

My brother had planned, Henry's...

I don't know, sir.

You went miles into Indian territory

without knowing
what you were to offer 'em?

In truth, sir, we weren't after corn.

- Then you lied to us.
- Marshal, sir,

my brother insisted that we go and
that is as much as I can tell you.

Guards, put Silas Sharrow
in the garrison

with the Indian until he can be tried.

I saw your face at that hearing,
James Read.

I believe you know something.

What's there to know?

I wasn't there when
the musket was stolen, was I?

But you know Silas is not the kind
of man that could be guilty of this.

Do I? God knows what
come about up that river?

But it was not innocence that I saw

in Silas Sharrow's face
when he returned.

When he's gone,

your eye might see
that I'm the better man.

That day will never come.
I won't let it.

Are you willing to let Silas hang
for something he did not do?

Perhaps there's justice in it.

Massinger came to speak with me.

If I agree to his terms,

he'll tell the marshal
that I didn't steal the musket.

You must not give him any land, Silas.

Trading weapons is a hanging offence.

What other choice do we have, Alice?

Well, there must be someone else
who can speak the language.

He can tell them it was not
you gave him the musket.

They don't believe me.

So, why would they believe
Chacrow's word against Massinger?

Well then, we'll prove
to them that it wasn't you.

It is impossible.

I will get you out of here.

What did he say?

There used to be a time
when we could count

you people with marks on a stick.

Now we see you keep coming.

Now women.

Now we see...

...is it true,
there are as many of you...

...as there are stars in the sky?

Mm.

He had a knife,
a knife at my throat, right?

He were like this, I just...
I just laughed at him.

I said, "Go on, see if you dare!"

I'd thank the stars if I had
a man like you, James Read.

Oh, Lordy!

You do love Alice Kett with all
your living soul, don't you?

Henry Sharrow.

Davie?

Davie McDurran?

Your face is a mess, man.
What happened to you?

My boat caught fire.

Davie, you were reported
dead four year ago.

Was it that long?

Davie McDurran, a deserter?

I saw the truth.
Starve in the settlement

or risk being burned alive out here.

I made the best choice for Davie McD.

They adopted me.

There ain't many reasons English
come this far up the river.

What's yours?

Burns like that,
why ain't you a dead man?

Marshal Redwick is determined
to create a war, I am certain of it.

Why must you let him when you
might offer a better solution?

What benefit is there in that?

If he defeats the Chickahominy
then there are the Patawomeck.

And if he defeats the Patawomeck then
he must surely face the Pamunkey.

And on and on.

It is not the battle out there
that Redwick wishes to win

but the one in here. If he can put
us under siege, he can convince

the Company we should return
to being a military garrison.

Was ever a woman so utterly
abandoned? I might weep.

I have been listening to you
and what seems clear to me

is that the captive presents
a most timely opportunity.

- An opportunity?
- If we return him to his people,

would that not to show goodwill,
Christian decency?

- It is a rather clever notion.
- Yes.

Shrewd.

You'll speak to the governor,
Samuel? Say that you will.

No, no, no. Every day
since those women arrived,

I see this settlement
lift its skirts and whimper.

Why must we behave like
jelly-kneed little girls?

We are surrounded by, let us call
them what they are, enemies!

Thank you, Marshal.

Your enthusiasm to protect the
settlement is most comforting.

But we live in an age
of political solutions.

I must govern by the will
of the Virginia Company.

And they wish us
only to conquer the land

so that we might send its
benefits back to England.

So you insist on returning
the captive, Governor?

I insist on creating a colony
where farmers might prosper.

Marshal, prepare a troop
of militia to make the trip.

Might I suggest, that if
our newly appointed governor

were to lead the party
to return the captive,

hand him over to
Chief Opechancanough himself,

such a gesture would surely reap
the rewards that you deserve.

I met Chief Opechancanough
when I was captain of the guard.

Now that he is king and I am
governor, of course we should meet.

It was you, wasn't it,
who put the idea in Yeardley's head

to return the bastard to his tribe?

Because you are the recorder,
that is your place.

To record not to meddle.

What is so wrong with wanting
peace for the settlement?

This is the last of your
politicking, Castel.

We are going up river
and you will stay here in Jamestown.

Tell that wife of yours
to tame her ambitions.

Or I'll make a gift to her
of your balls on a platter.

He will.

Suppose when he get close
to the Pamunkey village,

our prisoner tries to escape,
tries to steal more weapons.

If he was killed, what might happen?

If we have 50 armed men with us,

it could turn to a bloody mess.

And wouldn't that be
a prize worth having?

Samuel, if you do not
accompany the governor,

then I do not see the point of the trip.

The point, Jocelyn,

is that some good might come of it

for the settlement, for the Indians,

so that everyone
might live without fear.

He will listen to you, dear Christopher.

Samuel must go. Redwick and Farlow
were bitterly opposed to the idea

and now they're going,
does that not make you suspicious?

The governor trusts
Samuel's sound judgment,

so a gathering
as important as this one...

Precisely. So you will tell him?

No, Jocelyn. I will not say a single
word to Samuel on the matter.

- But why?
- Because you want me to.

Because I have never
met a woman quite like you.

And if I concede to you now,

I will do your bidding every day.
I will belong to you.

And I do not want to belong to you.

I have to resist you.

Oh, dear.

And I thought we were to be friends.

How did your boat catch fire?

I had been sleeping.

There was gunpowder on the boat.

I was smoking.

You came this far up river on your own?

Yes, I did.

- You have brothers, don't you?
- Two of them still alive.

Pepper and Silas.

Won't they want to know you're alive?

There's time.

Woah! Woah!

Gabbon.

Gabbon!

Come here!

Gabbon saw the brothers
taking the musket,

sneaking away at night.

Why has this man spoken up now
after so long?

We will try the matter with
the witness when we return

from our meeting with the Pamunkey.

They have a witness,

a man who is willing to lie.

James, I've only known you a short while

but I can't believe you'd stand aside

- as an innocent man is condemned.
- Just leave me alone.

No, I won't because Verity
told me you're a good man,

a man of true conscience.

It's a fool who stands against Massinger.

If I thought it was fear
stopped you from telling me

what you know about Massinger,
I might forgive you.

But Verity says
you're afraid of nothing.

Do you think you know this place, woman?

Let it be, will you?

I know that if a true man
such as you hides his head

when he could save a life.
It will be a torment to him.

I owe no debt
to Silas Sharrow or to you.

It's your own soul will curse you,
James Read, not me.

It seems to me that such
a momentous encounter,

our new governor confronting
the Pamunkey chief,

should the occasion
not be properly recorded?

What do I know of such things?

Of course Samuel
must accompany us on the trip.

He seems strangely resistant.
I fear you must persuade him.

- I will insist he's by my side.
- Thank you.

But you will not tell him that
I spoke with you about it?

He's rather over-sensitive
of my support of him.

If a wife cannot speak up
for her husband, then who can?

Am I allowed to tell our governor
that he is a dear darling man?

And handsome too!

You seem to have captivated
my husband, Mistress Castell.

It is not so difficult for a woman

to seize a man's attention,
Lady Yeardley,

if she has the capability.

You have dirt on your face.
Here, allow me.

There. That's a start...

You spoke with Governor Yeardley,
didn't you, Jocelyn?

Well, I see him all of the time.

It's such a small community we live in.

You went to persuade him

to take me to the meeting
with the Pamunkey.

Your voice fills my heart with fright
when you speak to me that way.

- Please be more gentle, my darling...
- Answer me?

My darling.

Your best tunic is pressed
for your journey, sir.

You'll be the most
pleasingly dressed man

an Indian ever set his eyes on.

What can I do to make you stop?

Is the master unhappy
with his tunic, ma'am?

There was a lad who worked for
Massinger called Donovan Hamble.

He was... a rag of a lad.

It wasn't easy to like him.

He was a whipping post for Massinger.

When the musket was stolen,

Hamble disappeared soon after.

So you have to suppose
he stole the weapon.

What happened to him?

Any man who knows
Massinger can picture it.

He lashed that boy

till there was nothing left of him.

How do you know this, James?

I've said all I want to say.

But that won't set Silas free, will it?

I've told you what I know.

But who else knows?

- You can't be the only one.
- No-one knows.

I'm saying this to help you
but don't ask me no more.

Well, if no-one else knows
that means you were there.

- Why won't you let it be?
- Because...

I love Silas.

I saw Massinger bury that lad.

Where?

You won't make me tell you that.

I've proved myself to you
and now we are done.

Samuel...

...you must take me to see
the captive in the morning.

Why would you want that?

Silas.

I didn't steal
Master Massinger's musket, sir.

Massinger will have to provide evidence
that you took the weapon, Silas.

To come into the settlement,
he must know he might well be caught

and killed,
why would he do such a thing?

It is not reckless to seek honour,

to outwit these men.

For a Pamunkey, such things as iron hoes

bring them great social advancement.

This man, my husband,

this is the man who has
arranged to have you taken home.

Jocelyn, what are you doing?

- Ma'am, I cannot tell him that.
- This is the man.

Tell him!

Samuel is so modest,

how will he ever advance
unless I promote his endeavours?

Lady Yeardley, good morning.

You are from Banbury in Oxfordshire,
aren't you, Mistress Castell?

Somewhere near there, yes.

Excuse me, Lady Yeardley.

Woah! Woah! Woah!

What are you doing, woman?

What are you looking for?

Donovan Hamble.

You know why I'm looking for him.

You know why he disappeared.

I will dig until I find him.

Get back to work, you. Get in there.

There, land the boat there.

I never liked the darkness

but with the menfolk gone
the darkness is darker.

I wish there weren't so much night.
Why can't there be more day?

Darkness is so full of things
that aren't there.

And some that are there.

Mercy, you must fetch
Dr Priestley for me.

Yes, ma'am.

Do you mean now, ma'am?

Tell him Mistress Castell
needs his attention.

Yes.

Christopher.

I am so glad you did not resist.

Forgive me for calling you out
late at the night, Christopher.

- Did you call me?
- Isn't that why you're here?

I am here Jocelyn because
I wish to speak with you.

I just couldn't bear to be alone.

The darkness seems darker.

Even with the door bolted,
I fear every wisp in the wind.

Jocelyn, the captive...

When I was afraid as a child,
I used to dance.

I don't know why but
it always seemed to soothe me.

Would you dance with me,
Christopher, please?

I spoke with Silas

to ask why he was so reluctant
to translate what you said to Chacrow.

Jocelyn,

for a Pamunkey to be given back to
his own people, it is humiliating.

He will be considered defeated, a coward.

To return him
is an insult and a disgrace.

He would have to show
his strength by killing

the man who would
do such a thing to him.

What have I done?

We will shake him awake.

Take him to those trees,
shoot him in the back.

Shoot, man!

He is escaping!

Who's been hit?

- What the hell happened?
- The Indian escaped.

As soon as we got
close enough to his village,

he must've intended it.

Then I have nothing to offer
to Opechancanough now.

- Is that what you planned, Marshal?
- What I had planned was to feed

the thief's hands to the dogs
but you stopped me.

Governor, please, please.
Opechancanough will learn

that you brought the captive
back here to return him.

Now surely that is enough.

Surely you would not consider
turning back now?

There will be no turning back.

What will we do
if the master dies, ma'am?

It is the most terrible thing.

Most terrible. Most.

We must pray, ma'am.

Pray and pray and then pray some more.

- Mercy.
- Yes.

Pray for God's mercy.

We came here, Chief Opechancanough,

intending to give back to you
this man, Chacrow, as a sign

that we English value the peace
between us and the Pamunkey.

But you do not give Chacrow to us.

He escaped.

Mmm!

We wanted to know if Chacrow
and the other men

came into our settlement with a weapon...

...by the authority of their king?

We would prefer if you
traded with us honourably.

As we know that the Pamunkey
are an honest people.

You told us when you came here
that you did not intend to stay.

When we first came, we had no
idea the land would be so kind.

Our intentions have changed.

- There are many women in the town.
- Yes.

It is good for a man to take a woman.

We hope so.

They've been alone a long time.

Then more women will come?

We hope so.

They will have children.

Bloodlines. English bloodlines.

You take our land. Our bloodlines.

Our honour.

What kind of friends are we?

Alice!

What's this madness?

Stop it! Stop it! Do you hear me?

What else am I to do?
Answer me that, James.

They will find Silas guilty of a
crime he did not commit hang him.

So I must go on digging...

and one day I will find that body!

I don't know if this woman of yours
is brave or just mad, Sharrow,

but you tell her to stop
digging outside my plantation...

...and I will drop
these charges against you.

Silas.

Silas, what happened?

They set me free.

Massinger spoke with the marshal.

He told them that he checked his records

and I wasn't on the plantation
the day the musket was taken.

He had a map with two
gold mines pricked down on it.

Word of the map's existence

did not emerge until
after De La Warr was buried.

Who among us chose this moment
to dig up a man's body?

I shall not touch one drop
for the whole of a month.

Isn't it time you two were to be married?

- I love you.
- We need a spy in her household.

You have put me in danger.

Do you hear me? Get out of my house!

You laid blows onto
the head of our colony.

That is an offence punishable by hanging.

Gold is so much more thrilling,
don't you think?

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