Frontier

You go north, I go south.

Inside the tent, there's one, maybe two men.

I'll distract them and you take the bundles out the back.

We should use this to build more, focus on our trade.

Why trade when we can steal?

- Why would I hire him? - He's a hard worker.

- He's a drunk. - But he functions through it.

The Marquis De Beaumont is quite smitten with you.

And we need your help to entice him into a business deal.

Should we do something?

Not much more we can do.

Would you like me to take over?

Have at it, boy.

Benton's been taken into custody.

He's on a ship bound for London.

You have the unmistakable laugh of a woman.

Join me, I need people I can trust.

Congratulations, Grant.

You've bought yourself Carruthers and Company insiders.

Your alehouse operates by license

and with my blessing.

I'll be right back.

Christ!

What the hell!?

I got you.

Harp!

- You're alive! - Come here, boy.

What the hell are you doing sneaking up on us?

Well, took me a long time to find you, Michael!

- Sokanon. - Sokanon...

Lovely to see you again, sweetheart.

- Whoa... - Hey!

Sokanon.

Touchy!

Oh yeah, I forgot. She hates you.

Well, I'm Michael.

Go find your pants, Michael.

Aye.

_

Bow out, Lordship, before you lose a hand.

A gentleman never yields.

- Oh! - Oh...

Aye!

Yes! Where's the good money?

Mr. Benton, sir,

present your flippers!

This is for the loss of the good

game "able-whackets".

And one more for the same!

Funny, lash you put me to

didn't feel like a soaked string.

It's only a game.

If it will salve your wounded pride, Everton, have at.

Bit more sporting, don't you think?

You'll break his hands!

Stop!

You wanna fight me, sailor?

You touch my friend again,

I'll do more than fight you.

Never underestimate friends in low places, Everton.

Once I tell Lord Fisher of your crimes,

your new friends can come to your hanging.

Back to work!

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What happened to you?

Well, we've had success hitting HBC outposts and taking furs.

So the Black Wolf are thieves now?

When Dimanche left, most of the men left.

When you disappeared, it was just me and Sokanon.

We had a job to convince a few of the men to rejoin us.

We needed capital.

So we took a few loans from the HBC. I thought you'd approve.

Throw straight, not hard.

You and Sokanon belong together.

She trusts you.

Just remember. She's family.

So, what now?

You tell me, Michael.

I think we should keep hitting outposts,

we can hit York boats when they portage.

We could end up with a thousand pelts.

I don't think that's really gonna hurt the Company.

Is our goal to rebuild the Black Wolf

- or to undermine the Company? - I want both.

Sold! To the man with one ear!

What the hell is going on here?

They're selling all our stock.

Bloody ingrates.

Explain yourself.

You are in arrears, Mrs. Chesterfield.

Authentic military heirloom!

Can I get bid two guineas?

Two? Three?

Ten guineas.

Sold!

That hat belongs to my father.

It is not for sale.

Actually, Governess,

it belongs to your husband.

In fact, this whole place

became my property

when you married me.

The ale was licensed by Governor Threadwell

to my father.

Show me the license.

That's what I thought.

Another item, these fine tankards!

Be reasonable, Grace.

Come home.

Shall I put you on the block, dearie?

I bet you'd fetch a fair price, aye...

Don't you dare speak to her like that.

What's that?

Oh, it's...

It's just a wee bit of rubbish.

There's no need to dirty yourself.

It's not proof.

We were sabotaged.

Without witnesses, we'll be just dismissed

as another woman and her Negro servant

who can't handle business.

Nitric acid.

Mix it with quicksilver and it's used in carroting.

Mix too much and you spoil the fur.

I'll wager that Samuel Grant is behind this.

Chin up.

Mr. Grant.

Pay up.

Happily.

You've done the impossible, my dear. You've proven me wrong.

Extend our invitation to Beaumont.

Then I'm lady enough for your toff?

That toff happens to be the richest felt buyer in Europe,

Miss Dolan.

Well, just so we're clear...

I'll wrap him 'round my finger, but I'll not...

I don't care what you do with your finger,

as long as you secure an exclusive agreement

with Mr. Beaumont.

And if you don't,

you'll find your own way back to London.

Just so we're clear.

One night, ten thousand pelts.

We're going to rob Fort James.

Ten thousand pelts? Are you out of your mind?

We're wanted men. It's not easy to move around Fort James.

- But it can be done. - How?

Michael's working on a plan.

Excuse me.

Ten thousand pelts with a handful of men?

They're keen.

In a fight. But...

McTaggart is unpredictable.

I know you don't like McTaggart.

But he's crazy, and we need crazy.

I don't even know the other one.

Benton is gone. And the only way to get him back

is if we gut the entire Hudson's Bay Company.

You don't start a war to kill one man.

What you call war, they call business.

Stealing their furs won't stop that.

If we rob a fort, they reinforce every fort.

More men, less profit.

It doesn't matter how many lives I take.

Only the gold that I cost them.

Coin for blood is Benton's way.

We can fight them without becoming them, Sokanon.

So Michael, what's your plan?

How do we get the pelts out of Fort James unnoticed?

Season's haul will be in one place:

the Company storehouse.

There only is one way in or out.

That door faces the centre square,

which is bordered by the ale house,

the blacksmith's shop and the west gate.

Which means a lot of people.

Yes, but tucked behind the storehouse

is this root cellar.

So we're gonna dig a tunnel.

We take the bundles from the root cellar,

through the woods, and to the river.

Assuming we could do this out of sight and at a steady pace...

it'll take us about a week.

And there'll be about a foot and a half of masonry

in the foundation to blow through.

We're gonna need an explosives expert.

Jack. That mad bastard.

A friend of yours?

Ah, he can get through the rock. How do we get out?

With a mountain of fur and no ship to transport it?

If we had a bunch of canoes at the river,

and men who can guide them upriver at night,

then it could actually work.

Well, we know someone who can deliver canoes.

Wahush.

Another friend?

Then all we need is a buyer in Montreal.

I'll take care of that. It's settled.

You really think we can do this?

I know we can.