Jamestown

This blood is English blood.

Each new generation will bring endless expansion across this country.

You take our land, our bloodlines.

What kind of friends are we?

I will not be owned, possessed, confined or determined by wedlock.

I would own the land and the profit from its yield,

and you will be my secret partner.

It is the judgement of our governor to compensate the widow Castell

by the granting of all lands that belonged to Master Massinger.

Every week she grows in strength and position.

Then we must cut her down.

A fire.

What a splendid spectacle to welcome the widow

into the world of being a landlord.

I was told by the Chickahominy,

Silas Sharrow gives information to the Pamunkey.

They'll blame you for this, they know you aided the naturals. Go.

You must forget about me, Alice.

Everything is broken.

Silas Sharrow...

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Here, like this.

I believed I would never know true beauty...

till I set my eyes on my own Virginia.

Thank you!

What news have you brought, James Read?

- There ain't no news for you, Alice. - I'm not asking you.

- I know you will not lie to me, James. - I saw Silas.

- How is he? - He is Pamunkey now, Alice.

- But you did bring a message. - He wants to meet with Henry.

- I'll go with you. - He didn't ask to bring you.

Would you prevent me from going to the husband

I've not seen for many months?

Suppose the sight of you is a torment to him,

did you think of that?

I want him back.

Silas gave English secrets to the naturals.

If he comes here, they'll cut his throat.

Don't you ever bow to what's done, Alice?

No. Never.

Dear Christopher, what a treasure it is to see you returned.

Do you have it?

Ah, Jocelyn... I have missed your glorious self-seeking.

Yes, I have brought what you asked for.

Don't you want to comfort me after such an arduous journey?

- Don't you want to know my news? - Of course... of course.

England is raw-cold, oppressed with debts, and I am to marry.

Oh...

In the time I was away, Lettice has grown into a woman.

Oh...

- And will Lettice come to live here? - Or I might return to England.

- It is yet to be decided. - Lettice, Lettice...

The little Wonderling spared your heart, Christopher.

Be careful you do not trip over your own giddy step.

Was ever a mortal more contrary to nature?

Master Crabtree has a bent back, sir.

It is no more than human affliction.

Where's your courage gone, woman?

If you let this moment pass, and not ask him to speak to Silas,

then... it's time you gave him up for good.

How...

Wasn't I this minute standing by the river?

How is it I'm home?

He often thinks he's been away and back again.

I'm married to a man with dust beneath his skull.

Alice, you must find a reason for Henry to take you with him.

Of the territories that we took from the naturals over the past years,

Arrohattoc, Quiyoughcohannock,

Nansemond, Paspahegh and Warraskoyack,

those newly taken will be granted by the company...

Will it be our governor's true heart that parcels them out?

Well, none will be sold to you, Sharrow.

We may as well give the land back to the Pamunkey as do that.

Mistress Costello, you cannot interrupt the Burgesses.

Sir, I'm not here to disrupt. I'm here to join you.

I am a landowner, a working, prospering farmer, as each man is here.

Ha. A windmill.

I simply wish that a woman came and showed you leaking kettles

what progress truly looks like.

Widow, if you insist on remaining then we shall leave.

It is not possible to conduct governance under the whiff of perfume.

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When I sleep I have such...

...night visions.

I dreamt I found a key,

and then when I woke...

It is no more than coincidence, Maria.

You must put aside such devil-touched thinking.

You are Christian now.

I do not know how,

but I believe it is the key to your house in Jamestown.

Maria, come help a man that has lost his shoe, eh?

Lady Yeardley,

I saw in my sleep the Governor with an axe held in one hand,

and a human head held in the other.

I dreamt that the fields tended themselves,

as we sat in the shade and drank and laughed all day long.

Madame, my ancestors bring this to me to warn me of what is coming.

Such things cannot be true. Hush, Maria, hush! Do you hear me?

Try it. See if it is true.

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It is our bounden duty to deliver the naturals from eternal damnation

by bringing them to God's truth.

But we have found that Silas Sharrow

has made a heathen of himself and lives like a beast.

Henry, any word of your brother?

You don't need me to assist you gentle sirs,

since you have your own informers.

And will your own child soon be baptized?

Your affection for my baby is most welcome, Secretary.

But I don't need your prodding to take her to church.

Sharrow, you have means of passing a message to the Pamunkey.

Let your brother know that since he stands in the way

of our Christian purpose, I will have his head on a spike.

My hope is for Lettice to come to Virginia.

Thank you...

- Stop... - Mercy.

Has Pepper ever discussed marriage with you?

No, ma'am. Never. Not a word of it. Only in whispers.

It is not possible, do you understand?

When she takes a position, a maid marries herself into service.

- Yes, ma'am. - You must tell him.

Make clear to Pepper you are never to be married.

Do it quickly, so he carries no hopes about him.

Yes, ma'am. I will.

I want a father for my son.

You have as many suitors as any woman might wish for.

I promised the Lord I would love the man I married in that church.

Did Silas not commit treason against our settlement, Alice?

Suppose Silas was baptized again,

before the eyes of every soul here.

Would that not be a service to our country,

an advantage to the Governor?

Silas would be an example to the Pamunkey

that they might renounce their religion, join the Christian faith.

Why do you bring your scheme to me?

I do not believe you wish to see your husband

put my husband's head onto a spike.

I have a promissory note for you, Nicholas. A handsome profit.

I have proven myself a farmer can build a fortune from ashes.

You are a little too public for my rather secretive tastes, Jocelyn.

Oh, but, sir, isn't the risk of making a pigeon of our governor

the most appealing part of the entire enterprise?

Why must you rile and rattle him so?

I know it was he who had my crops burned to the ground.

He shames me for remaining unmarried.

He sits upon this colony like a cruel Caesar.

Hmm.

Let our governor build the first windmill.

You do wish to return to his good regard, then?

I'm not the one offering this gift. You are.

Tell him you confiscated it from me.

As I came into the Burgesses, I heard of new land to be distributed,

and I want some of it.

Yeardley would never grant it to me,

but he might to you, if you please him.

We must disguise any possibility of conspiracy between we two,

so I will present to you another opportunity to attack me.

Maria, did you take the key to my house and pretend you had found it?

Why do you ask this when you do not believe that I am deceiving you?

My whole faith demands I cannot believe you... but I must.

Have you seen such visions before, Maria?

Because you have dreamt this, is it certain to happen?

Was it Silas Sharrow's head that you saw?

I do not know if it can be stopped, ma'am.

Everything I tell you is true.

Lady Yeardley, please do not tell the Governor.

- He will punish Maria. - We will build a windmill, Temperance.

The plans were gained for me by Secretary Farlow.

He claims he commanded them from the widow.

Do we believe he conquered her so easily?

My dear, suppose you could turn

Silas Sharrow's pagan beliefs to your advantage...

...so that he might help to convert the naturals to Christianity.

Every corner of my eye sees enemies, threats, conspiracies.

Is it any wonder that my mind is in constant alert?

Perhaps you might find one path to peace.

Will you speak with Alice Sharrow?

It is an ample trade

that you have already with the farms upriver, sir.

Willmus Crabtree, respected and venerated factor, sir.

Permitted by the Company to market goods at swollen prices.

Secretary Farlow, if a man wished

to open a trading post here on the settlement,

how might he achieve it?

The proposal must go first through the Burgesses, then the Governor.

You misunderstand me, sir.

I meant we settle it, here and now, between you and I.

Suppose some of the best goods I ship here

catch your eye, master.

It might please me to please you.

Over a cup of sack, sir, you could suggest to me a suitable premises.

Secretary Farlow...