Jamestown

We are building a new world.

That is why I bring with me maids to make wives.

When I found you on that wharf, Silas, that changed everything.

We'll be married in a week.

If Samuel is to advance here it will require influence.

I had a look at this place and I decided it's not for me.

I paid for your passage.

- - I think I've got myself a good wife!

What if these men have been on their own so long

- they're not men any more? -

She's mine to do with as I please.

Silas!

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A woman might weep for the lack of dancing.

No wonder so many souls perish here, they expire from tedium.

Samuel, what is it you're doing with those ledgers night after night?

Governor Yeardley has asked me to...

Let us say, inspect certain transactions.

- Inspect for what? - There may be some irregularities.

Here?

- Embezzlement in the Colony. - I didn't say it was corruption.

We are marooned a thousand miles from any civilisation.

If I thought my own husband kept himself from me,

- I could not bear it. - It is delicate Company business.

I would lay awake at night tormented with anguish that the only reason

that you do not share the nature of your assignment with your wife...

is that you might be placed in danger by it.

The Virginia Company struggles to make a credible profit,

yet the last Governor, Argall, went back to England a wealthy man.

You must promise me you will not utter a word of this.

- How could you think so little of me? -

Where are you going?

Look at how she speaks to her husband.

She delights in humiliating any man she sets her eyes upon.

Master Castell!

Marshall.

I wish to address your wife.

Then why ask him, when I am right in front of you with ears of my own?

I possess the grace and courtesy

to respect your husband's dominion over you.

I would advise that you do the same...

to all men who demand your obedience.

Perhaps you speak as a man who has not yet appreciated the delights

- of marriage, Thomas? - I speak as the Marshall.

This settlement rests on order.

We will have it, or there'll be consequences.

Do not underestimate my husband, Secretary Farlow.

He is a curious man. He has a inquiring mind.

Mistress Castell has a fine taste in enemies.

Oh. So it would seem.

It was a terrible sorrow for us all

to lose Henry Sharrow in such a way.

Yes.

A man is granted all the land he could wish for,

his was the prettiest wife to step off that ship.

We weren't married, sir.

A sorrow for you, then.

To be robbed of the man you were to marry.

I have work and shelter.

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

I'm grateful for the consideration of your kind heart,

Master Read, but I owe my loyalty to the Sharrows.

A "no" wrapped in roses is still a "no".

Consequences? How dare he say such a thing on the street

for the entire town to hear?

If you make enemies of men of such power here,

- they will turn against you. - But don't you see, Samuel?

You have the Governor's favour.

Redwick and that plumed worm Farlow

fear that you might expose them, so they are determined to destroy you.

Jocelyn, please, you cannot speak of these things so carelessly.

You must take them on, Samuel.

They may be uglier than vultures, Jocelyn,

but their position means they cannot be openly challenged.

Well, if Redwick is not stopped, he will strike again.

One moment, my dear, and we will start home.

He ain't sober but five minutes a day...

the time it takes him to get from his morning bed to his bottle.

Well, if you did as you were told, woman, and fetched me my beer,

I wouldn't have them five minutes of misery.

Ain't that a picture of a man before us, huh?

Lying on his bed craving his grog, like a babe after the tit.

Mistress Castell said,

"You underestimate my husband at your peril.

"He is conducting an investigation."

Castell would only do such a thing on the Governor's instructions

But his wife is altogether a different creature.

Cunning drips from her tongue.

The manner in which she cocks her head, I can't abide it. She's so...

feminine.

We must bring her to heel.

Yeardley would not permit it.

Not a woman in her position. Not yet.

There was an incident,

in the tavern.

Rutter's wife.

Mocking him, ridiculing him.

Before every man in there

she described him as "a babe after the tit."

If you were to arrest this Verity Rutter...

subject her to correction...

then she will serve as a warning to Mistress Castell

of what we could do to her.

What is it keeping you from your bed, ma'am?

Thoughts, Mercy.

Leave me alone with them.

Ma'am...

you have Belladonna.

Just to relieve some pain.

Be careful, Belladonna can poison. What pain?

How can I sleep when there is pain in the house?

Hush your voice, girl.

I have taken it before. Now go back to bed.

Ma'am, if you have pain then I have pain thinking about your pain.

Mercy!

- Meredith! Rutter! - Oi. Hey.

- Rutter! - Oi!

I have a petition to put before the Marshall, if I may.

Henry Sharrow bought himself a maid for marrying.

Since Henry's no longer here to wed her, I am willing to pay for her

transportation and take her on.

Marshall, I wish to marry Mistress Kett.

Are you prepared to meet the cost of her carriage to Virginia?

That fee's already been paid.

Your brother borrowed £150 of tobacco from Master Massinger.

- That debt's not been repaid. - I presumed I might take on the loan.

Do you presume that you might do with

Master Massinger's assets as you see fit?

I have here a Promissory Note.

No!

I did not invite a woman to address the hearing.

The women are provided by the Company.

I must consult with their agents before I make my ruling.

Verity Rutter!

You scolded your husband, demeaned him with foul tongue.

Sir...

if to say that a man loves the tit is to dishonour him,

then I fear I must slander every man of this world.

Ma'am...

What are we to do?

You were kind to me on the ship, Alice.

Women like yourself and Verity are helpless here. I am not.

So perhaps I can be of benefit to you now.

Any woman who sees fit to mock her betters

will receive this same fate.

You have been brought here as the property of your husband,

and you will behave accordingly.

Marshall,

I appear to have found your glove.

Allow me to return it to you.

Women are new to this place, Alice.

Redwick wants to teach you all to be meek and obedient. That's all.

Marshall will see in James Read's favour.

I cannot marry him.

Let us take our vows now.

Reverend Whitaker would never defy Redwick.

I will refuse.

Let me speak with James Read.

Yes, he is a reasonable man.

I will curse that man every day of my life

until he dies in the mire he deserves.

Hush, Verity. You've said enough.

I am done with the beatings of men.

Do you hear me? Huh?!

I curse the Marshall's vile soul!

Verity!

In the beginning was the Word...

You were one of the first here, Marshall.

...and the Word was with God.

- You have good appetite. And the Word was God.

The same was in the beginning with God.

I heard the maid put a curse upon you, Marshall,

as she was removed from the stocks.

Reverend, let us take a care not to suggest that this sickness

has been caused by charms and spells.

You deny that he was struck down the very night this wretch was punished?

The same woman does not attend church.

Let me try to treat the sickness, to seek out its cause,

before you make such accusations.

Marshall...

- How did this affliction come upon you? - The room,

the room did seem to move about me.

A room itself turns about and you attempt, Doctor,

to explain it away with medical blasphemy?

Women.

We've let the wickedness in amongst us.

James.

I would speak with you, concerning Mistress Kett.

You may speak as much as you wish, Silas Sharrow,

it's not you who'll decide.

Have we not known each other these past eight years?

The harsh times we've lived through together,

does that not bind us here in brotherhood?

- Brotherhood? - Fellowship.

So that we might resolve our difficulties between us,

- with consideration. - Look at my face.

Look at my hands.

I'm not a man of fine words.