Jamestown

...building a new world.

That is why I bring with me maids.

To make wives.

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

We'll be married in a week.

Silas!

If Samuel is to advance here, it will require influence.

I will be a good wife to you. But you will be a good husband...

- Aah! - ...to me.

You speak the Indian language well, Sharrow.

You are my eyes and ears here, Samuel.

You are asking me to spy on our governor.

One day, you're going to be governor here.

We did not underestimate her husband, but we did miscalculate her.

Men, elected to make laws.

The burgesses will serve our colony well.

I'm going to have a child.

Massinger has bought himself some slaves.

Abraham took slaves. We have fields to plant and harvest.

He tells me that he's fond of the Low Countries.

But, er... there's old potato fingers, always too sleep-eyed to go!

No! The baby!

Alice!

Help! Help!

Alice. Alice. I am here. I am here with you.

Scream the sky down if you need to.

I'm coming! I'm coming!

Maria, help me!

Silas, fetch some wood.

We'll sleep the night here.

Heeeeeeeeh!

- Chacrow. - So.

Oh, you have yourself a Sharrow boy!

The master ain't here. And neither will he be.

Nor if he was, would I open the door.

If it weren't already open.

Mercy?

You may tell my husband that he might join me for breakfast.

He's gone, ma'am. Fishing, ma'am.

Before I so much as woke. With Dr Priestley, ma'am.

Fishing?

It's Master Castell.

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- Come on. - Here, up, you see.

I'm telling you, lads, if the company treats us settlers fairly,

then I'm a pigeon's cock.

You find fault with the company's business, Rutter?

Oh... If I slander, Marshal Redwick, sir, it's no fault of me own, sir.

Me... I talk vomit. Me words have a mind of their own!

Sir!

Is the news from company all congratulations, Governor?

Tobacco trade thriving, peace with the Indians, and wives.

Surely our mission is to be garlanded

for making a king's colony out of mud and cow men.

Look at 'em. We brought 'em here as slave labour,

they move among us as free men.

God would not allow us to keep a man baptised in chains, Marshal.

Ah, Christopher. You are returned.

But where is Samuel?

- Returned? - Look at how Jamestown fares.

I counted nine ships alone this month.

Returned from your fishing expedition.

Uh, the master told me so, ma'am.

As I laid my head down on my pillow. I'm certain of it, truly. Fishing.

- Ma'am! - Jocelyn!

- Sir... - It's all right.

Come on.

Oh!

I might wonder if it was the Indians killed Samuel Castell.

The Recorder drowned.

He weren't the first man to misjudge the river.

The savages pretend to be at peace with us, but...

all the while we expand, they detest our every footstep.

Sir, the Recorder was a friend. He spoke most often on our behalf.

We knew that.

You've brought in a lot of hides of late, Sharrow.

This is why we're here, in't it?

To make no end of coin by the... merry dance of trade.

The men who make profit in this town want to rustle themselves in silk,

but you look more like a barbarian every day, Sharrow.

If the Indians see what they know, they trust it.

Trust is good for trade.

Hey.

Be careful you don't grow too friendly with them, Sharrow.

We might wonder whose side you're on.

Silas Sharrow, there you are, man.

Get yourself home to your wife. She's waiting for you.

- With your child! - Is it a boy?

No, it's a painted maypole. Get yourself home, you big lump!

Whoo!

Is Alice well?

She will be.

What do you have there, Pedro?

Poesy, Governor.

I was returning them to Recorder Castell.

Why do you possess them?

He was teaching me.

"Virginia's purpose, we repair

"Each man shall have his rightful share

"A house and garden plot receive

"We pray the blessed so achieve

"Men once vagrants, grant so well

"No want, and no conditions ill"

You can read that.

Not yet, sir. Soon.

I learnt it from poor Master Castell's mouth.

He told me there was beauty in these words.

And promises.

I should get you back to your master. He'll be wondering where you are.

Dear Jocelyn, I could not bear the thought of you going abroad

without mourning dress.

Black.

How long will I...

To show my devotion to the master,

I shall wear nothing but black for the whole year.

A widow's life is short, Jocelyn.

It is not possible for a woman to remain here unheaded.

Unheaded?

My husband has died, and it seems as though my head has been cut off.

Without a husband, a woman simply has no position in Virginia.

Then I do believe that I must make a place for myself.

When will you learn, Massinger,

that beatings are not the best way to master them?

Well, with this one, it's the only way.

Tell our governor what you think of tobacco farming, Pedro.

In Congo, this is women's work.

And what do you say about the English here?

Englishmen such as you, sir, are my brothers.

These men...

they do not wash.

They do not speak gently.

Tell Governor Yeardley who you are, Pedro. Huh?

My blood is Mwishi Congo.

I am noble warrior blood.

Sir, Master Castell promised me he would speak with you.

Did he ask you, sir, if you would buy me from Master Massinger?

"Virginia's purpose, we repair

"Each man shall have his rightful share

Perhaps you'd like to disburden yourself

of such an upstart, Massinger.

I'll pay handsomely for him.

I could sell him to you, and rid meself of this...

monstrous bulk of ingratitude,

but... I have a duty.

A duty to the colony, to tame him.

Huh?

Yeah?

Widow Castell, I have the papers

concerning your late husband's estate.

You are cast adrift now, Widow.

And soon, you'll taste the cost of that.

What a pity you did not marry a farmer.

At least, then, you might have inherited a means by which to live.

Do you believe that poverty places me

at the mercy of the king and queen of shadows?

Tonight, you might indulge what grief your shallow soul allows.

At sunrise, you must discharge yourself and all your possessions

from company property. The house you live in

was supplied in part payment for Master Castell's duties.

A new recorder has been appointed,

and he will want to take possession of it.

At dawn, you will find yourself on the street.

Sir, you may cut me down.

But not so low that my nails cannot reach your eyes.

Moon.

Sky.

Virginia.

This is my son, and he belongs here.

I do believe the moon smiled upon him.

God promised me a man such as you, Silas.

This is why I came here.

Mm.

This is the terriblest thing.

Oh... Where shall we go, ma'am?

I... I've never lived on the street before!

It is wondrous news, Maria.

Alice's child is God's gift to our new world.

Thank you, Maria.

For helping with Alice.

When the Portuguese captured me,

my girl was one year.

My sons, a little older.

You can have more babes, Maria.

Here, in Virginia.

Hey, that Pedro's taken a liking to you.

I must go home to them.

They will be waiting for their mother to return.

You know, I was bought, like you.

Made a life for myself here.

Show me.

I have no brand on me. And you know it.

This will never be my home.

He ain't your child, Henry.

I know it.

I made a crib for him.

Sh, sh, sh, sh, sh.

He ain't yours, neither, Alice.

Belongs to the whole colony.

First born to the maids that came over a year ago.

You'll see what becomes of that.