Taboo (2017–…): Season 1, Episode 7 - Episode #1.7 - full transcript
A tragic event leads to the betrayal of Delaney, who must use all of his wits and strength to salvage his plans.
Your father was poisoned.
I would say heavy doses
over a short period.
Brace, what's the matter?
The truth.
Those bastards at the Palace...
have opened a Royal Commission
into the sinking of the Influence.
You are now one of us.
You'll risk the life
of your son?
Zilpha.
What have you done?
I killed him.
James, this powder is not ready
to be moved because it is unstable.
We are leaving because
we have been betrayed.
Sir Stuart just wants
you to know... it's war.
The gloves are off.
James, what are you doing?
Go away. I'm not fit
to be near you now.
Dear Lord, we are gathered in your presence
here today on this most sorrowful occasion...
to say farewell to Winter.
Cured of her love
of the world...
untouched...
pure, commended to God...
She will not be covered
in earth as corrupted flesh...
but instead will be
sent to you, O Lord...
aboard a sunrise...
- Helga, I can't read the next word.
- Sent to you aboard a sunrise...
along the road of the river
that she loved, as if it were her father.
Along the road of the river she loved,
as if it were her father.
_
What's this?
A package
for Mr. Delaney.
I believe this one is a ward of your master,
who asked me specifically to deliver him...
in person to this house today.
He's not in.
What a surprise.
Mr. Cholmondeley?
Miss Bow.
What's going on?
A bastard.
I thought, in all your charity,
you might extend some sustenance
and some shelter to this poor,
unfortunate boy.
What's your name?
- Robert.
- It's Robert.
- You know James Delaney, do you?
- Yes.
Come into the house, we'll find you
something to eat and somewhere to sleep.
Thank you.
Take into your loving arms
this purest flake of snow...
my daughter...
my light...
my love...
my Winter.
I thought I might
find you here.
A gentle soul...
taken from us all too soon.
You've a heart, at least.
I'm just looking for a ship.
Watching what comes and goes.
Raise her up to your heavens
and set her free by your light.
Amen.
Amen.
I know you didn't do it.
And how would you know that?
Hm?
I very well may have.
You might have done.
But I do know you
cared for her.
You were kind to her.
She told me.
The boy Robert's arrived.
Oh!
You OK?
Hello.
Did you know Winter?
Was she your friend?
No. No, no, no!
No, wait!
Do you think that this
will be enough to sink her?
I've committed many bodies
to the deep in this way.
None have returned to London.
I'm sorry for your loss.
You will find a place where the current
will take her to the wide ocean.
It's where she wanted to be.
The river will only take
her body.
I will keep her soul.
There's no certainty
it was James that did it.
There's no certainty
that he did not.
I'm getting scared, James.
Too many bodies in the river.
Can I sleep
under your house tonight?
No. Go away, I'm not fit
to be near you now.
James!
You're among them now,
aren't you?
The ones who used
to sing to me.
Hm.
Was it my hand...
Brace!
God's sake.
I received a message that you
wished to speak with me.
After you have
eluded me so long.
May I sit?
Hm.
I need to know
why you're seeking me?
First, I must tell you that I already
know many things about you.
I need to be clear that you're
not a spirit, like the others.
No.
I'm a rationalist.
I'm carrying out an investigation
as part of a Royal Commission.
I heard that you don't drink...
that you don't fuck
whores and, erm...
that you're squeezing Sir Stuart
Strange on behalf of the King.
- On behalf of justice.
- Oh, justice. Hello.
You believe in justice?
I do.
And yet you're a rationalist.
What kind of rational
man believes in justice?
I'm investigating the sinking
of a sloop called the Cornwallis,
renamed the Influence, off the coast
of Cabinda in July 1804.
Mr. Delaney...
I have strong reason to believe that you
were aboard the ship the night it sank.
An example of the
kind of nail you used...
to nail down the hold of the East
India Company ship, the Cornwallis,
when she ran aground...
in July 1804.
Hm.
"Aye, aye, Captain," I said.
I'm aware you were
following orders.
No, I happen
to like driving in nails.
Takes your mind off the rain
and off of a sinking ship.
Mr. Delaney, perhaps I should
come back during daytime.
Oh, no, no,
there's no use. I am always like this.
Please, carry on.
You travelled to the Volta...
as a slave...
- Hm.
- ...and then began to deal slaves.
You stole diamonds from a fellow
slaver and then returned to London.
I have done much
worse things than...
stealing diamonds.
Yes.
I know this, too.
Ah...
What do you want?
As far as I can ascertain...
you are the only surviving member
of the crew of the Cornwallis.
I want you to write an account,
naming Sir Stuart Strange
as the man who organised the loading
of the Cornwallis with slaves...
bound for a sugar plantation in Jumby Bay,
Antigua, owned by his own brother.
In return...
the Royal Commission will offer
you a full pardon for your crime.
For crime...
it is.
I have an alternative
suggestion.
In.
Ah-ha.
I have a use for you.
For the safe.
Mm-hm?
Go.
Murderer!
Murderer!
Do you know who blew
up your ship?
I've been thinking a lot
about what happened, and...
and I think we were right.
There wasn't
the time for such...
- And we have plenty of time.
- No.
No, we don't.
When you first came back,
you told me you loved me.
- I would never have thought...
- But you don't think. Do you?
I know you.
- I know your nature.
- I know you. No.
I believed once that
we were the same person.
We are.
- We are not.
- We are.
Not any more.
Hm.
Perhaps you should
thank your God for that.
No.
No, James.
No.
No, you can't do this.
Not now.
- It is done.
- Please...
For your widowhood.
Now...
I have work to do,
so please excuse me.
No fires within these walls.
I'm sorry.
We're not moving
the powder today, are we?
So what's so urgent I had to dismount
from a porky little Chinese?
This is where
they kept my mother.
Hmm.
Something for your book.
The lioness will fiercely protect her cubs,
regardless of the consequences.
Even if that means
her certain death.
Helga.
Is that who you mean?
That woman will betray us.
She knows about the division
with the Americans.
That's high treason! That's you,
me and my lot feeding the ravens of London
- for at least a month.
- You will not harm her.
She is harmed enough already.
Well, she'll go to the Company.
Yes.
It is inevitable.
Hm?
Fix the roof.
Gunpowder and water don't mix.
Where's Brace?
In his room.
He's been there all day,
either mad or sick or drunk.
We knocked.
He won't answer.
Brace, you are not sick
and you are not dead yet.
Come out, or I will come
in there and drag you out.
Talk to me about the rats.
- Every house has rats.
- Hm.
But after you bought
so much arsenic...
from the apothecary
in Rotherhithe...
Pinch after pinch...
after pinch.
It's a great deal of poison.
Still, we have rats.
What's that?
Your father's buttons...
from his dress coat.
I kept them.
It was a kindness.
For who?
We couldn't go on, James.
But you did.
You were dead.
Everyone was at his throat.
He was burning his own flesh!
He had no need to go on.
Nothing left to live for.
Hm.
So you did him a kindness.
I put an end to his pain.
You did him...
a kindness.
I killed him!
You came back too late!
For both of us.
You are wanted
urgently downstairs.
Mrs. Delaney is destroying the kitchen.
She's about to ruin a duck.
Your ten o'clock
is 20 minutes early, Sir.
Oh, good.
Then my 12 o'clock can be my 11.30,
my one o'clock can be my 12,
and before you know it, the day
will be over before it's begun.
Send him in.
It's a woman, Sir.
Actually, two women, Sir.
Let me get this clear.
You were witness to the
division of gunpowder and you
heard with your own ears,
that a proportion of this said powder
was to be sold to a citizen
of the United States of America?
Not sold, but given.
On direct instruction
of James Delaney himself, Sir.
And you witnessed this, too?
- She will have to say it, sir.
- Yes, yes. Ssh.
You'll have to say it out loud.
You witnessed the
division of the gunpowder
and you heard its destination.
Yes, I did, Sir.
And you were both being
paid for your services by...
James Keziah Delaney himself?
In gold.
And silver.
And you're a British citizen?
German by birth,
British by marriage.
And you?
I'm from Dulwich, Sir.
Dulwich?
Very good.
Gentlemen, we have two witnesses willing
to testify that Delaney gave gunpowder
to an enemy of the Crown within
the confines of the City of London...
compassing the death
of His Majesty the King.
Well, it's...
treason.
High treason.
We have him.
We fucking have him!
We have Delaney,
we have Nootka,
we have the China trade.
We have opium, tea and powder.
He'll be cut to pieces.
A piece each, Gentlemen.
- Gentlemen.
- Sir?
Can we go now?
Go?
No, no, no, no.
You are far, far too
precious to go anywhere.
And as accessories for
a crime against the Crown,
there will be due process.
Take them.
You'll be held
in a secure place...
until your pardon can be exchanged
for your testimony in court.
What?
- Ugh! Get off me!
- Don't hurt them! - Get off me!
Where is he?
They would not be denied, Sir.
This is the Prince's house. You should
have dragged them out on their arses.
- Stuart Strange is a Knight of the Realm,
I could not lay a hand on him.
- Ssh, ssh, ssh.
What the hell do you
think you're doing?
We have some rather
good news...
for British patriots
everywhere.
James!
James!
You are betrayed!
Two women came to Leadenhall...
I know.
Where are they now?
A safe house.
I have the address.
I have a use for you.
There's someone
I need you to see.
"In the event of a
conviction for high treason,
compassing the death
of our Lord the King,
then the law
of 'Corruption of Blood'
will take precedence
over all other.
All land, property, chattels
and investments of the guilty party
will pass without hindrance
to the Crown.
And by dint
of 'Corruption of Blood',
all family members
of the guilty party
will be deemed corrupted...
and any claim to land, property,
chattels or investment...
will be null and void."
So... you've not only
delivered us Delaney,
it appears you've delivered
Nootka Sound to the King.
Why?
Well, as loyal subjects of the Crown,
we feel it is our duty
to expose disloyalty
and treason in time of war.
- However...
- Go on.
The Ladies...
who are to give the crucial
evidence against James Delaney
are now in the protective custody
of the East India Company.
Their whereabouts are...
known to just a handful
of trusted directors.
So, to ensure
their safe delivery,
we humbly suggest
you assign a monopoly.
The trade in sea
otter pelts for tea
between Nootka and China.
In favour of the loyal and...
Honourable East India Company.
The King gets the land.
You get the tea trade.
You got lucky
with a whore, Stuart.
Well, there was an element
of fortune.
And an element of God's grace.
And an element of strategy.
So get to it.
Arrest the bastard.
Thank you, Madam.
Mr. Chichester,
this is the man I told you about...
Michael Godfrey.
George Chichester.
Goodness, your hand is cold.
I have been on the heath.
I'm not sure I can go
through with this.
Let us at least sit and talk.
You lead a very
interesting life.
- James, if he is religious and scornful...
- I am scornful of those who judge.
I myself am only concerned with men's minds.
Clothes are of no interest to me.
- We can talk with purpose or without.
- Godders...
no gin.
Your account of the sinking
of the Cornwallis changes everything.
Is there no world in which I could
offer my account anonymously?
A Royal Commission cannot
accept anonymous testimony.
I would be reporting things
said from a raised hand...
- Yes.
- ...by the most senior directors
of the East India Company.
Yes.
How long have you worked
for the East India Company?
I have only been clerk
for 12 years.
I have no idea how many
years it was going on for...
No, but you were present
during the meeting when Sir Stuart
concealed the facts about
the sinking of the Cornwallis.
Would you agree to testify?
Mr. Chichester, would you please
allow me a few moments alone?
Now, listen here, Godders,
I'm going to sail away, all right?
And all of those who have use
to me will sail along with me.
And on my ship, there will be no
rules and there will be no judgment.
We're sailing to a new world
and that is the plan.
James...
you are a fool.
They are going to hang you.
No.
No, their case will flounder.
They can't.
And we can make this happen.
You and me.
And the best of it...
you will never have to testify.
My ship will sail long
before the commission even sits.
All you have to do
is make-believe...
to this man here.
All right?
Now, you can do that,
can't you?
Right.
Right.
Hm.
We're good.
Mr. Godfrey has decided
he will do the honourable thing.
Your testimony will be
with you within the week.
- Signed?
- And sealed.
And if required,
he will stand up in court?
Let the good Lord be
my witness...
I will yell out the truth
to the four winds.
Until that happy resolution...
I bid you good day, gentlemen.
Mount up!
To the Molly House!
I cannot pack up my
entire life in five minutes.
Well, you can pack it up
or you can lose it.
This is ridiculous.
What about you?
I'm being followed.
The Crown have soldiers searching
for me everywhere, so it ends here.
- Here?
- Yes.
When?
- I don't know.
- Jesus Christ!
Are you just going to sit?!
Well, what's the use in hiding?
I need a ship and passage.
James, they're not going to give you
a ship, they're going to hang you!
No, no, no.
Look...
Go to this address, all right?
There will be a man with markings
on his face to meet you...
he will take you
to my friend Atticus.
Tell my friend Atticus
where Helga is.
Write your account... he will secure
it and keep you safe.
Safe?
Safe!
When my ship is ready,
- I will send for you.
- James, for God's sake,
you don't have a bloody ship!
No.
Not yet.
Right, ladies, you might
want to leave this place.
There are soldiers coming.
Soldiers?
Then surely we should stay!
- You're almost out of wine!
- I know! That wine's gone to my head!
Oh, here he comes.
Who said that?
Me.
Right.
I suggest that you
leave very quickly...
and very, very quietly...
or you can stay...
for the extreme violence
that is coming your way.
- Your choice.
- Come on, Ladies.
Hm.
Go!
He must be taken alive...
by order of His
Majesty King George!
In here, Captain!
James Keziah Delaney, you are hereby
charged with high treason,
compassing the death
of our Lord the King!
Dr. Dumbarton!
Dr. Dumbarton!
A merchant has been
arrested for high treason.
In league with Americans.
You must clear out.
When my reds are red
and my whites are white
and my blues are blue...
then I will clear out.
All right.
You bastard!
You traitor!
Get up!
- Where's Temple?
- He's not coming!
Don't he want his share?
- Hurry up, Temple!
- Come on, Temple!
Hello.
I've been looking for you.
I want her to forgive me.
For what?
You know it's a sin not to tell
the truth in a sacred place.
Brace?!
Brace? Brace, where's James?
I need to talk to him.
Brace, I spoke to a witness.
It wasn't James that killed the girl, it was
the Company, it was the East India Company.
I need to tell James.
Arsenic is gentle.
It was mercy.
Horace was no longer
a Christian soul.
I only wish I'd killed
James, too.
Give him a kind death.
Protect him from himself.
Instead, they've got him.
What do you mean?
Where is he?
They took him to the Tower...
Where no-one will be kind
enough to feed him arsenic.
Mr. Delaney...
His Majesty seeks information.
I really have no
taste for this,
so perhaps we can conduct
this business like Gentlemen.
They will allow
no easy escape...
to death.
Since it is imperative
that we keep you alive
until after your
conviction for treason,
the doctor is here
to help and assist Mr. Arrow,
who will do most
of the necessary work.
Although, for some tasks, he will need
helpers with strong hands.
And together, they will walk
you along a tightrope.
A line between life...
and death.
We need the names of all the people
who helped you manufacture the gunpowder...
move the gunpowder,
but most pressingly of all,
we need the names of all the members
of the Society of Secret
Correspondence...
that you have dealt with.
The Americans.
The places you met.
Code names, signals.
The location of the powder
you gave them.
Now, if you can
give me all that...
and what you tell us
is corroborated, then...
then these people
won't be needed...
and you will await trial in the same
cell that Thomas Moore occupied,
with not an unpleasant
view of the River Thames.
So...
I will give you all the information
that you request...
but in return,
I will need a single meeting with
Sir Stuart Strange of the East India Company.
Here...
in a cell...
and in private.
News of my arrest
will already be spreading.
Those people that you seek...
they will already be fleeing London.
You allow me my meeting
with Stuart Strange and perhaps,
perhaps you will catch your Americans
before they reach the ports.
How long do you
think it'll take?
One...
- maybe two hours.
- Well, in that case, Mr. Delaney,
Sir Stuart Strange is busy.
Give us the Americans
and then we'll stop!
Sir!
What did you say?
Mr. Delaney,
what did you say?
Sir Stuart Strange...
Caddy...
if you've lost your master,
go to the clubhouse and ask.
Thank you.
Don't stand there gawping.
I have no Master, Sir.
Well, you're not a player.
No.
Not of this game.
Look, do you mind?
I've got a shot to make.
So make it.
Who the hell are you?
My name is George Chichester.
And when you have taken your shot,
I'd like to talk to you.
I have nothing to say to you.
You should know that I have testimony
from a reliable witness...
I've told you,
I have nothing to say to you.
...someone who will swear
on oath that it was you
who organised the loading of human cargo
onto the Cornwallis bound for Antigua.
If your witness is Delaney,
I think you should know that, even now,
he is being held in the Tower of London...
charged with treason.
Your "reliable witness" is a plotter
against the life of the King!
No.
I have another witness.
Where exactly are we going?
Fuck!
We are aware
that you have a certain...
capacity for pain...
which is why
we've invited Dr. Ling.
His unearthly potions...
alter perceptions.
The ducks will be flying.
All the coaches to Bath and Southampton
are being searched, Your Highness.
For what?
For whom?
We have no idea who they are,
who they pretend to be. It's been 12 hours!
He will break!
No, he won't.
Goddamn it...
where are you?
The Lady at his lodging said she hadn't
seen him since this morning, Sir.
- Oh, fuck.
- It seems there is much
about our friend Godfrey
that we didn't know, Sir.
What?
I went into his room.
Half of his clothes
were women's clothes.
He was a Molly, Sir.
Delaney was arrested
at the Molly House.
Delaney will have put
Godfrey up to this.
He'll have hidden him in the dark
places where Delaney is King,
where giving
up Delaney is treason.
Mr. Delaney?
Do you have anything
to say to me?
Mr. Delaney, do you have
anything to say to me?
Stuart Strange.
Give him what he wants.
This is absurd.
My God, look at you.
Well, your plan worked...
you in a cell, me on a hook.
I'm here.
What do you want?
I have a use for you.
I would say heavy doses
over a short period.
Brace, what's the matter?
The truth.
Those bastards at the Palace...
have opened a Royal Commission
into the sinking of the Influence.
You are now one of us.
You'll risk the life
of your son?
Zilpha.
What have you done?
I killed him.
James, this powder is not ready
to be moved because it is unstable.
We are leaving because
we have been betrayed.
Sir Stuart just wants
you to know... it's war.
The gloves are off.
James, what are you doing?
Go away. I'm not fit
to be near you now.
Dear Lord, we are gathered in your presence
here today on this most sorrowful occasion...
to say farewell to Winter.
Cured of her love
of the world...
untouched...
pure, commended to God...
She will not be covered
in earth as corrupted flesh...
but instead will be
sent to you, O Lord...
aboard a sunrise...
- Helga, I can't read the next word.
- Sent to you aboard a sunrise...
along the road of the river
that she loved, as if it were her father.
Along the road of the river she loved,
as if it were her father.
_
What's this?
A package
for Mr. Delaney.
I believe this one is a ward of your master,
who asked me specifically to deliver him...
in person to this house today.
He's not in.
What a surprise.
Mr. Cholmondeley?
Miss Bow.
What's going on?
A bastard.
I thought, in all your charity,
you might extend some sustenance
and some shelter to this poor,
unfortunate boy.
What's your name?
- Robert.
- It's Robert.
- You know James Delaney, do you?
- Yes.
Come into the house, we'll find you
something to eat and somewhere to sleep.
Thank you.
Take into your loving arms
this purest flake of snow...
my daughter...
my light...
my love...
my Winter.
I thought I might
find you here.
A gentle soul...
taken from us all too soon.
You've a heart, at least.
I'm just looking for a ship.
Watching what comes and goes.
Raise her up to your heavens
and set her free by your light.
Amen.
Amen.
I know you didn't do it.
And how would you know that?
Hm?
I very well may have.
You might have done.
But I do know you
cared for her.
You were kind to her.
She told me.
The boy Robert's arrived.
Oh!
You OK?
Hello.
Did you know Winter?
Was she your friend?
No. No, no, no!
No, wait!
Do you think that this
will be enough to sink her?
I've committed many bodies
to the deep in this way.
None have returned to London.
I'm sorry for your loss.
You will find a place where the current
will take her to the wide ocean.
It's where she wanted to be.
The river will only take
her body.
I will keep her soul.
There's no certainty
it was James that did it.
There's no certainty
that he did not.
I'm getting scared, James.
Too many bodies in the river.
Can I sleep
under your house tonight?
No. Go away, I'm not fit
to be near you now.
James!
You're among them now,
aren't you?
The ones who used
to sing to me.
Hm.
Was it my hand...
Brace!
God's sake.
I received a message that you
wished to speak with me.
After you have
eluded me so long.
May I sit?
Hm.
I need to know
why you're seeking me?
First, I must tell you that I already
know many things about you.
I need to be clear that you're
not a spirit, like the others.
No.
I'm a rationalist.
I'm carrying out an investigation
as part of a Royal Commission.
I heard that you don't drink...
that you don't fuck
whores and, erm...
that you're squeezing Sir Stuart
Strange on behalf of the King.
- On behalf of justice.
- Oh, justice. Hello.
You believe in justice?
I do.
And yet you're a rationalist.
What kind of rational
man believes in justice?
I'm investigating the sinking
of a sloop called the Cornwallis,
renamed the Influence, off the coast
of Cabinda in July 1804.
Mr. Delaney...
I have strong reason to believe that you
were aboard the ship the night it sank.
An example of the
kind of nail you used...
to nail down the hold of the East
India Company ship, the Cornwallis,
when she ran aground...
in July 1804.
Hm.
"Aye, aye, Captain," I said.
I'm aware you were
following orders.
No, I happen
to like driving in nails.
Takes your mind off the rain
and off of a sinking ship.
Mr. Delaney, perhaps I should
come back during daytime.
Oh, no, no,
there's no use. I am always like this.
Please, carry on.
You travelled to the Volta...
as a slave...
- Hm.
- ...and then began to deal slaves.
You stole diamonds from a fellow
slaver and then returned to London.
I have done much
worse things than...
stealing diamonds.
Yes.
I know this, too.
Ah...
What do you want?
As far as I can ascertain...
you are the only surviving member
of the crew of the Cornwallis.
I want you to write an account,
naming Sir Stuart Strange
as the man who organised the loading
of the Cornwallis with slaves...
bound for a sugar plantation in Jumby Bay,
Antigua, owned by his own brother.
In return...
the Royal Commission will offer
you a full pardon for your crime.
For crime...
it is.
I have an alternative
suggestion.
In.
Ah-ha.
I have a use for you.
For the safe.
Mm-hm?
Go.
Murderer!
Murderer!
Do you know who blew
up your ship?
I've been thinking a lot
about what happened, and...
and I think we were right.
There wasn't
the time for such...
- And we have plenty of time.
- No.
No, we don't.
When you first came back,
you told me you loved me.
- I would never have thought...
- But you don't think. Do you?
I know you.
- I know your nature.
- I know you. No.
I believed once that
we were the same person.
We are.
- We are not.
- We are.
Not any more.
Hm.
Perhaps you should
thank your God for that.
No.
No, James.
No.
No, you can't do this.
Not now.
- It is done.
- Please...
For your widowhood.
Now...
I have work to do,
so please excuse me.
No fires within these walls.
I'm sorry.
We're not moving
the powder today, are we?
So what's so urgent I had to dismount
from a porky little Chinese?
This is where
they kept my mother.
Hmm.
Something for your book.
The lioness will fiercely protect her cubs,
regardless of the consequences.
Even if that means
her certain death.
Helga.
Is that who you mean?
That woman will betray us.
She knows about the division
with the Americans.
That's high treason! That's you,
me and my lot feeding the ravens of London
- for at least a month.
- You will not harm her.
She is harmed enough already.
Well, she'll go to the Company.
Yes.
It is inevitable.
Hm?
Fix the roof.
Gunpowder and water don't mix.
Where's Brace?
In his room.
He's been there all day,
either mad or sick or drunk.
We knocked.
He won't answer.
Brace, you are not sick
and you are not dead yet.
Come out, or I will come
in there and drag you out.
Talk to me about the rats.
- Every house has rats.
- Hm.
But after you bought
so much arsenic...
from the apothecary
in Rotherhithe...
Pinch after pinch...
after pinch.
It's a great deal of poison.
Still, we have rats.
What's that?
Your father's buttons...
from his dress coat.
I kept them.
It was a kindness.
For who?
We couldn't go on, James.
But you did.
You were dead.
Everyone was at his throat.
He was burning his own flesh!
He had no need to go on.
Nothing left to live for.
Hm.
So you did him a kindness.
I put an end to his pain.
You did him...
a kindness.
I killed him!
You came back too late!
For both of us.
You are wanted
urgently downstairs.
Mrs. Delaney is destroying the kitchen.
She's about to ruin a duck.
Your ten o'clock
is 20 minutes early, Sir.
Oh, good.
Then my 12 o'clock can be my 11.30,
my one o'clock can be my 12,
and before you know it, the day
will be over before it's begun.
Send him in.
It's a woman, Sir.
Actually, two women, Sir.
Let me get this clear.
You were witness to the
division of gunpowder and you
heard with your own ears,
that a proportion of this said powder
was to be sold to a citizen
of the United States of America?
Not sold, but given.
On direct instruction
of James Delaney himself, Sir.
And you witnessed this, too?
- She will have to say it, sir.
- Yes, yes. Ssh.
You'll have to say it out loud.
You witnessed the
division of the gunpowder
and you heard its destination.
Yes, I did, Sir.
And you were both being
paid for your services by...
James Keziah Delaney himself?
In gold.
And silver.
And you're a British citizen?
German by birth,
British by marriage.
And you?
I'm from Dulwich, Sir.
Dulwich?
Very good.
Gentlemen, we have two witnesses willing
to testify that Delaney gave gunpowder
to an enemy of the Crown within
the confines of the City of London...
compassing the death
of His Majesty the King.
Well, it's...
treason.
High treason.
We have him.
We fucking have him!
We have Delaney,
we have Nootka,
we have the China trade.
We have opium, tea and powder.
He'll be cut to pieces.
A piece each, Gentlemen.
- Gentlemen.
- Sir?
Can we go now?
Go?
No, no, no, no.
You are far, far too
precious to go anywhere.
And as accessories for
a crime against the Crown,
there will be due process.
Take them.
You'll be held
in a secure place...
until your pardon can be exchanged
for your testimony in court.
What?
- Ugh! Get off me!
- Don't hurt them! - Get off me!
Where is he?
They would not be denied, Sir.
This is the Prince's house. You should
have dragged them out on their arses.
- Stuart Strange is a Knight of the Realm,
I could not lay a hand on him.
- Ssh, ssh, ssh.
What the hell do you
think you're doing?
We have some rather
good news...
for British patriots
everywhere.
James!
James!
You are betrayed!
Two women came to Leadenhall...
I know.
Where are they now?
A safe house.
I have the address.
I have a use for you.
There's someone
I need you to see.
"In the event of a
conviction for high treason,
compassing the death
of our Lord the King,
then the law
of 'Corruption of Blood'
will take precedence
over all other.
All land, property, chattels
and investments of the guilty party
will pass without hindrance
to the Crown.
And by dint
of 'Corruption of Blood',
all family members
of the guilty party
will be deemed corrupted...
and any claim to land, property,
chattels or investment...
will be null and void."
So... you've not only
delivered us Delaney,
it appears you've delivered
Nootka Sound to the King.
Why?
Well, as loyal subjects of the Crown,
we feel it is our duty
to expose disloyalty
and treason in time of war.
- However...
- Go on.
The Ladies...
who are to give the crucial
evidence against James Delaney
are now in the protective custody
of the East India Company.
Their whereabouts are...
known to just a handful
of trusted directors.
So, to ensure
their safe delivery,
we humbly suggest
you assign a monopoly.
The trade in sea
otter pelts for tea
between Nootka and China.
In favour of the loyal and...
Honourable East India Company.
The King gets the land.
You get the tea trade.
You got lucky
with a whore, Stuart.
Well, there was an element
of fortune.
And an element of God's grace.
And an element of strategy.
So get to it.
Arrest the bastard.
Thank you, Madam.
Mr. Chichester,
this is the man I told you about...
Michael Godfrey.
George Chichester.
Goodness, your hand is cold.
I have been on the heath.
I'm not sure I can go
through with this.
Let us at least sit and talk.
You lead a very
interesting life.
- James, if he is religious and scornful...
- I am scornful of those who judge.
I myself am only concerned with men's minds.
Clothes are of no interest to me.
- We can talk with purpose or without.
- Godders...
no gin.
Your account of the sinking
of the Cornwallis changes everything.
Is there no world in which I could
offer my account anonymously?
A Royal Commission cannot
accept anonymous testimony.
I would be reporting things
said from a raised hand...
- Yes.
- ...by the most senior directors
of the East India Company.
Yes.
How long have you worked
for the East India Company?
I have only been clerk
for 12 years.
I have no idea how many
years it was going on for...
No, but you were present
during the meeting when Sir Stuart
concealed the facts about
the sinking of the Cornwallis.
Would you agree to testify?
Mr. Chichester, would you please
allow me a few moments alone?
Now, listen here, Godders,
I'm going to sail away, all right?
And all of those who have use
to me will sail along with me.
And on my ship, there will be no
rules and there will be no judgment.
We're sailing to a new world
and that is the plan.
James...
you are a fool.
They are going to hang you.
No.
No, their case will flounder.
They can't.
And we can make this happen.
You and me.
And the best of it...
you will never have to testify.
My ship will sail long
before the commission even sits.
All you have to do
is make-believe...
to this man here.
All right?
Now, you can do that,
can't you?
Right.
Right.
Hm.
We're good.
Mr. Godfrey has decided
he will do the honourable thing.
Your testimony will be
with you within the week.
- Signed?
- And sealed.
And if required,
he will stand up in court?
Let the good Lord be
my witness...
I will yell out the truth
to the four winds.
Until that happy resolution...
I bid you good day, gentlemen.
Mount up!
To the Molly House!
I cannot pack up my
entire life in five minutes.
Well, you can pack it up
or you can lose it.
This is ridiculous.
What about you?
I'm being followed.
The Crown have soldiers searching
for me everywhere, so it ends here.
- Here?
- Yes.
When?
- I don't know.
- Jesus Christ!
Are you just going to sit?!
Well, what's the use in hiding?
I need a ship and passage.
James, they're not going to give you
a ship, they're going to hang you!
No, no, no.
Look...
Go to this address, all right?
There will be a man with markings
on his face to meet you...
he will take you
to my friend Atticus.
Tell my friend Atticus
where Helga is.
Write your account... he will secure
it and keep you safe.
Safe?
Safe!
When my ship is ready,
- I will send for you.
- James, for God's sake,
you don't have a bloody ship!
No.
Not yet.
Right, ladies, you might
want to leave this place.
There are soldiers coming.
Soldiers?
Then surely we should stay!
- You're almost out of wine!
- I know! That wine's gone to my head!
Oh, here he comes.
Who said that?
Me.
Right.
I suggest that you
leave very quickly...
and very, very quietly...
or you can stay...
for the extreme violence
that is coming your way.
- Your choice.
- Come on, Ladies.
Hm.
Go!
He must be taken alive...
by order of His
Majesty King George!
In here, Captain!
James Keziah Delaney, you are hereby
charged with high treason,
compassing the death
of our Lord the King!
Dr. Dumbarton!
Dr. Dumbarton!
A merchant has been
arrested for high treason.
In league with Americans.
You must clear out.
When my reds are red
and my whites are white
and my blues are blue...
then I will clear out.
All right.
You bastard!
You traitor!
Get up!
- Where's Temple?
- He's not coming!
Don't he want his share?
- Hurry up, Temple!
- Come on, Temple!
Hello.
I've been looking for you.
I want her to forgive me.
For what?
You know it's a sin not to tell
the truth in a sacred place.
Brace?!
Brace? Brace, where's James?
I need to talk to him.
Brace, I spoke to a witness.
It wasn't James that killed the girl, it was
the Company, it was the East India Company.
I need to tell James.
Arsenic is gentle.
It was mercy.
Horace was no longer
a Christian soul.
I only wish I'd killed
James, too.
Give him a kind death.
Protect him from himself.
Instead, they've got him.
What do you mean?
Where is he?
They took him to the Tower...
Where no-one will be kind
enough to feed him arsenic.
Mr. Delaney...
His Majesty seeks information.
I really have no
taste for this,
so perhaps we can conduct
this business like Gentlemen.
They will allow
no easy escape...
to death.
Since it is imperative
that we keep you alive
until after your
conviction for treason,
the doctor is here
to help and assist Mr. Arrow,
who will do most
of the necessary work.
Although, for some tasks, he will need
helpers with strong hands.
And together, they will walk
you along a tightrope.
A line between life...
and death.
We need the names of all the people
who helped you manufacture the gunpowder...
move the gunpowder,
but most pressingly of all,
we need the names of all the members
of the Society of Secret
Correspondence...
that you have dealt with.
The Americans.
The places you met.
Code names, signals.
The location of the powder
you gave them.
Now, if you can
give me all that...
and what you tell us
is corroborated, then...
then these people
won't be needed...
and you will await trial in the same
cell that Thomas Moore occupied,
with not an unpleasant
view of the River Thames.
So...
I will give you all the information
that you request...
but in return,
I will need a single meeting with
Sir Stuart Strange of the East India Company.
Here...
in a cell...
and in private.
News of my arrest
will already be spreading.
Those people that you seek...
they will already be fleeing London.
You allow me my meeting
with Stuart Strange and perhaps,
perhaps you will catch your Americans
before they reach the ports.
How long do you
think it'll take?
One...
- maybe two hours.
- Well, in that case, Mr. Delaney,
Sir Stuart Strange is busy.
Give us the Americans
and then we'll stop!
Sir!
What did you say?
Mr. Delaney,
what did you say?
Sir Stuart Strange...
Caddy...
if you've lost your master,
go to the clubhouse and ask.
Thank you.
Don't stand there gawping.
I have no Master, Sir.
Well, you're not a player.
No.
Not of this game.
Look, do you mind?
I've got a shot to make.
So make it.
Who the hell are you?
My name is George Chichester.
And when you have taken your shot,
I'd like to talk to you.
I have nothing to say to you.
You should know that I have testimony
from a reliable witness...
I've told you,
I have nothing to say to you.
...someone who will swear
on oath that it was you
who organised the loading of human cargo
onto the Cornwallis bound for Antigua.
If your witness is Delaney,
I think you should know that, even now,
he is being held in the Tower of London...
charged with treason.
Your "reliable witness" is a plotter
against the life of the King!
No.
I have another witness.
Where exactly are we going?
Fuck!
We are aware
that you have a certain...
capacity for pain...
which is why
we've invited Dr. Ling.
His unearthly potions...
alter perceptions.
The ducks will be flying.
All the coaches to Bath and Southampton
are being searched, Your Highness.
For what?
For whom?
We have no idea who they are,
who they pretend to be. It's been 12 hours!
He will break!
No, he won't.
Goddamn it...
where are you?
The Lady at his lodging said she hadn't
seen him since this morning, Sir.
- Oh, fuck.
- It seems there is much
about our friend Godfrey
that we didn't know, Sir.
What?
I went into his room.
Half of his clothes
were women's clothes.
He was a Molly, Sir.
Delaney was arrested
at the Molly House.
Delaney will have put
Godfrey up to this.
He'll have hidden him in the dark
places where Delaney is King,
where giving
up Delaney is treason.
Mr. Delaney?
Do you have anything
to say to me?
Mr. Delaney, do you have
anything to say to me?
Stuart Strange.
Give him what he wants.
This is absurd.
My God, look at you.
Well, your plan worked...
you in a cell, me on a hook.
I'm here.
What do you want?
I have a use for you.