Characters:
Brianna Randall Fraser (Sophie Skelton)
Roger MacKenzie Wakefield (Richard Rankin)
Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser (Duncan Lacroix)
Stephen Bonnet (Ed Speleers)
Lizzie Wemyss (Caitlin O'Ryan)
Governor Tryon (Tim Downie)
Bryan Cranna (Martin Donaghy)
Edmund Fanning (Samuel Collings)
Margaret Tryon (Melanie Gray)
George Washington (Simon Harrison)
Martha Washington (Elizabeth Appleby)
John Frohock (Jack Reid)
Tom (Nolan Willis)
Malachi Fyke (John Mackie)
Gotarzes (Tom Hardwicke)
Vardanes (Tim Barrow)
Lysias (Kieran Baker)
Surgeon at Play (Iain Wotherspoon)
Roger is in Wilmington showing the drawing of Brianna (from the Scottish Festival) to various people. "Pardon me, ladies. I'm looking for this woman."
"No."
"All right. Thank you."
"No, sorry."
"I don't."
"Thank you."
John Gillette (Edwin Flay),
owner of the Wilmington Gazette, asks, "My establishment offend you in some way, sir?"
Roger replies, "No, no. It's only that ... I'm looking for this lady. She recently arrived on the Phillip Alonzo. I-I've made inquiries, but no one's seen her."
"I haven't either."
"Have you completed your inventory?"
Fergus (César Domboy)
says, "Yes, sir. We'll need 12 more composing sticks come Thursday."
(SIGHING) All right.
Roger asks Fergus, "Sir, have you seen this lady?"
Fergus replies, "I'm sorry, I haven't."
Fergus enters a room and asks
Marsali (Lauren Lyle)
"Where's the bairn?"
She chuckles and says, "Go see for yerself."
He goes into another room and sees
Claire (Caitriona Balfe)
Claire
holding his child.
Jamie (Sam Heughan)
is standing next to her.
Fergus exclaims, "Milady. Milord. I'm so glad you could come for a visit.
Please -- Is Ian not with you?"
Jamie answers, "Uh, he'll be along tomorrow. He's gone to Brunswick to fetch casks for our whisky. The governor has invited us to join him and his wife at the theater."
Claire clarifies, "Summoned us to join him."
Fergus asks, "You came all this way for a play?"
Claire answers sincerely, "No, we came all this way to see you. And Germain.Shall I put him down?"
"Mm." from Marsali.
Jamie adds, "The governor's eager to introduce me to one of his right-hand men, Mr. Edmund Fanning. A right-hand man with both his hands dipped in the treasury Or so Murtagh would tell us."
Claire asks, "Marsali, shall I help you get the rest of lunch?"
Marsali smiles, "Yes."
Claire inquires, "So, how are you all coping You and Fergus with the baby?"
Marsali answers, laughing softly, "Bein' a mother to a wee bairn My heart is so full o' love it's fit to burst (LAUGHS) But...
"Is something the matter?"
"No, 'tis only wi' Germain bein' so precious, I look at him and I ken I'd have a knife through my gut before seein' him hurt or in sorrow. If anything should ever happen to him ..."
Claire understands, "That's the hardest thing about being a parent I'm sure. Though you know you would die trying, you can't protect them from everyone and everything."
Roger is frustrated, in the Willow Tree Tavern looking at the artist sketch of Brianna. He takes a sip of his drink and spills some of it on the sketch. "Ah, for Christ's sake."
Then he overhears a conversation and recognizes a familiar voice.
Brianna says, "Excuse me."
The
Tavern Keeper (Edward Fulton)
says, "Yes, lass?"
Brianna asks him, "Do you know where I might be able to buy passage to Cross Creek? I'd like to leave tomorrow."
"The Sally Ann is in port. It makes the journey every week or so. You can ask Captain Freeman."
"Thank you."
She sees Roger and they approach each other. "Brianna? It's you. Oh, thank God. Thank God I found you."
"Hi. Oh, my God. What are you doing here?"
"Looking for you. At no small risk to life and limb, I might add. You weren't supposed to come here. That wasn't the plan."
"What, and you call tearing off into bloody nowhere a plan?"
"No, I would've told you. I just I didn't know where we stood after the last time we talked."
"What do you mean, you didn't know where we stood? You didn't know how I felt about you? Let's go outside."
"Roger, wait. How did you even know where I was?"
"I spoke to Gayle. She told me you were going to visit your mum. So I went to find you in Inverness"
"You read my letter."
"Of course I read your letter. And that's all I got? A letter? You could have called me."
"I wanted to call you, but I didn't know how to tell you that I love you, and I thought that if I told you I was coming here, you'd try to stop me."
"Did you just say you love me? Come with me."
He takes her into a nearby building.
Brianna orders, "Close the door."
They're kissing in ernest now.
She pulls away, "Mm wait. Stop."
"What?"
"Stop. Are you sure?"
"Do you not know how badly I want you?"
"But we're not engaged. That seemed to be very important to you. At the festival, you said ..."
OK, now he understands what's happening. "I said ... I said I would have all of you or none at all."
She asks, "Have you changed your mind?"
"No."
"Well, then You have all of me."
"You'll marry me?"
"How could I say no to a man who pursued me for 200 years?"
"Oh I don't have a ring."
"I still have the bracelet you gave me."
"It's the gemstone you used to come through the stones. I have an idea. D'ye know what handfasting is? It's, um it's sort of a temporary marriage. In the Highlands, where, uh Where folk are a long way from the nearest minister, a man and a woman in this time can be promised to one another for a year and a day. At the end of that time ..."
"Let's do it."
"Really?"
"Yes."
Governor Tryon says to Jamie and Claire, "Very pleased you could join us, Mister and Mistress Fraser. This play is said to be quite exceptional. Indeed, it was written by a native son of Wilmington. Ah, Fanning! Come, come. Come. I must introduce you to a friend. Mr. Fanning, may I present Mr. James Fraser of Fraser's Ridge. Mr. Edmund Fanning, my dear friend and colleague."
Jamie says, "A pleasure, sir. My wife, Claire Fraser."
The Governor continues, "Mr. Fanning sits on the Assembly and is my public register of deeds. He's also, I might add, leader of the Orange County militia and judge of the superior court in Salisbury, in your county."
Jamie sums it up, "A man with many strings to his bow."
Edmund Fanning says, "His Excellency speaks highly of you as well, Mr. Fraser, especially in the light of our current grievances in the western counties."
Jamie asks, "The Regulators?"
Gov. Tryon cuts in, "Do not dignify those insurgents with that name. I would be ashamed to declare anyone save the Lord above a 'regulator' of all things."
Mr. Fanning is grunting and clutching his middle. Claire asks, "Are you in pain, Mr. Fanning?"
"Oh, I am afraid I injured myself standing against the mob which assembled in Hillsborough last May. Quite literally standing, mind you. I am an object of jest. In an attempt to appease the insurgents, I carried rum to the river where they were encamped, meaning to persuade them against their lawlessness."
SOMEONE says, "A noble deed One which preserved the lives of many, I'm sure."
Fanning continues, "As I turned to leave, my boot stayed in the mud, and I must have wounded myself. I've a strange protrusion. The least movement now sends me into paroxysms of pain. My physician assures me it will go away in time."
Claire says, "Not if it is what I think it might be. If I were to examine it, I could know for sure."
Jamie explains proudly, "My wife is a healer, Mr. Fanning."
"Ah."
Gov. Tryon dismisses her with, "Well, let us defer to Mr. Fanning's physician, shall we?"
Claire adds seriously, "Well, if the pain gets worse, you may need to see a surgeon."
Governor Tryon charges on, "Mr. Fraser, uh, allow me to introduce you to some of my acquaintances. My wife will present Mistress Fraser to the wives."
"Please. Ah the society of the wives."
Margaret Tryon laughs, "Indeed. But fear not I will help you navigate these waters. Ah, there. You've heard of the face that launched a thousand ships. Well, here's a lady who could fill as many with tobacco if she so chose. Wit and wealth aplenty."
Claire observes, chuckling, "Her husband seems to have captured the attention of the crowd as well."
Mrs. Tryon says, "That's Colonel Washington."
Clearly Claire is surprised, "I'm sorry, who?"
"Colonel George Washington. He's a former soldier with the Virginia Regiment."
Claire seises the opportunity, "Well, I should love to meet them both."
Governor Tryon says, "Mister and Mistress Fraser recently settled their own estate 10,000 acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The parcel that Mr. Washington surveyed for me last year."
George Washington adds, "Yes, I remember. A magnificent stretch of wilderness."
Jamie says, "Aye, good land So generously granted to us by His Excellency."
Martha Washington observes, "Hitherto unprecedented generosity. 10,000 acres the governor must be quite fond of you."
The Governor confirms this. "Of course I'm fond of him. Mr. Fraser is a loyal man A former soldier, you know."
Martha Washington asks, "Oh? Were you with us against the French?"
"No but I've heard tales of your husband's exploits in those wars. I fought at Culloden in '46."
George Washington states, "I do not recall that battle. I spent my youth in Virginia."
Claire chimes in with a popular myth, "Chopping down cherry trees"
Of course, that WAS a myth so George Washington looks confused by her words. Realizing her mistake, Claire adds, "Is what a-a young boy would do. Figure of speech."
A bell rings and the host announces, "Ladies and gentlemen, the play will soon begin."
Martha Washington says, "Let us be seated."
Brimming with excitement, Claire tells Jamie privately, "George Washington He will be perhaps the most famous American to ever live."
Jamie asks, "What does he do to gain such notoriety?"
"Well, he's the man who wins the war against the British, and he'll be the first leader of this country. But he won't be a king. He'll be called a 'president,' elected by the people. Oh, if Brianna were here, she'd have a hundred questions to ask him."
Roger tells Brianna, "Uh, yeah I think we're supposed to kneel. I, Roger Jeremiah Do take thee, Brianna Ellen, to be my lawful wedded wife. With my goods I thee endow, with my body I thee worship, in sickness and in health, in richness and in poverty, so long as we both shall live, I plight thee my troth."
It's Brianna's turn: "I, Brianna Ellen, take thee, Roger Jeremiah, to be my lawful wedded husband. With my goods I thee endow, not that there's much of that. With my body I thee worship, in sickness and in health, in richness and in poverty, so long as we both shall live."
Roger reminds her of the last part, "The plight."
"Right. I plight thee my troth."
"By the power vested in this unusual Scottish tradition, I I now pronounce us"
Both finish by saying together, "Man and wife."
They begin to undress each other.
Back at the tavern, Lizzie asks the Tavern Keeper, "Has my mistress returned?"
"No, still off with that man."
Lizzie asks, "The man of wanton morals?"
The Tavern Keeper just shrugs.
Back at the theater people are taking their seats. Claire is sitting with Mrs. Tryon and Mrs. Washington, and in the row behind them, Governor Tryon sits with Jamie to his left, Fanning next to him, and George Washington to Fanning's left. Fanning is obviously in pain.
Governor Tryon states, "The Regulators mean to deprive me of my home. They refuse to see their taxes apportioned for the construction of my palace. Well, let's hope my men put on a good show tonight."
This perks Jamie's interest, "I'm sorry?"
Governor Tryon quotes, "'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances.' Shakespeare, you know."
Never goes out of fashion.
Jamie chuckles and eggs him on to try to get more information. "Aye, but it's not Shakespeare we're seeing tonight, Your Excellency."
Tryon continues, "Indeed not, but we are at a theater of His Majesty the King in all its glory, made possible through taxes, not something those insurgents would ever comprehend."
Jamie prods, "A night to remember. But what has this to do with yer men?"
Tryon spills the beans! "The insurgents I have a spy in their camp. They mean to rob a carriage carrying tax monies to the treasury at New Bern Tonight, as it leaves Wilmington. They're here, gentlemen, encamped upon the road to New Bern. My redcoats are going to arrest them."
Hiding his worry, Jamie asks, "Do ye, uh, ken who these men are?"
Tryon lets it all out excitedly! "Oh, yes, and they have a leader among them, Murtagh Fitzgibbons."
Jamie offers casually, "Hmm. If ye'd like, I could ride out and join yer men."
"Oh, I appreciate your offer, but I have it in hand. Enjoy the performance."
Jamie's mind is whirling but he's hiding it. "Aye."
The play, "The Prince of Parthia" begins with applause.
Two actors are on stage playing Gotarzes and Phraates. Gotarzes starts, "He comes ..."
The tax wagon is travelling at night. Murtagh is standing in the road waiting for it.
Roger and Brianna are about to consummate their marriage. Roger, kissing her body, observes solumnly, "Your skin is so soft. You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen."
He picks her up and carries her to the sailcloth bed he's made up.
Brianna says softly, "I've wanted this for so long."
Roger warns her, "If I take you now, it's for always."
"Yes Yes, please."
She's moaning. He grabs her hand and places it on his heart, saying, "Feel my heart. Tell me if it stops."
He makes his move and she cries out. Before long though, he stops. She's confused, thinking something's wrong. "What?"
He reassures her, "Just I want to make this last. I've been wondering for a while what color your hair is down here."
"It's ..."
"Shh, shh. I'm gonna find out for myself."
Back to the play. Lysias says, "And what's that name"
Someone from the audience says, "What splendid robes."
Without skipping a beat, Lysias says, "Thank you, sir." People laugh.
Lysias continues, "Ambient air, and weary gracious heaven with ceaseless bellows?"
Another audience interruption, "Your ceaseless bellowings." The audience laughs again.
Lysias continues again, "Vardanes sounds with equal harmony, and suits as well the loud repeated shouts of noisy joy. Can he bid Chaos Nature's rule dissolve?"
Another audience member interrupts, "I know what's going to happen."
Lysias keeps going. "Can he deprive mankind of light and day, and turn the seasons from their destined course?"
Governor Tryon yells, "Such poetry."
Another man yells, "What poetry?"
Lysias continues the play, "Say, can he do all this and be a god?"
Murtagh is still waiting for the treasury wagon, but decides to head back to the rest of his men, saying, "Patience, lads."
Brianna and Roger are laying together afterwards, and she asks, "Can I ask you something?"
"Anything."
"Was it all right? Did I do it right?"
Roger is surprised by that, chuckling, "Oh, God"
"It was all right, then?"
"Christ, yes. What could possibly make you think otherwise?"
"Well, you didn't say anything. You just lay there like someone had hit you over the head. I thought maybe you were disappointed."
"No. No. God, no. Behaving as though you've had your spinal column removed is a fair indication of male satisfaction. Can I ask you something?"
"Of course husband."
"Did it hurt? The first time?"
"Yes but I liked it."
"Hm. Oh, when I thought of our wedding night, I always pictured clean sheets, champagne, a bed."
Brianna chuckles, "I have those things. Not this. I don't think I've ever been so happy."
She kisses his lips sweetly, then moves her kisses downward.
Surprised and groaning, Roger says "Bree" and then she puts her finger over his mouth to shush him accepting her attention...
Lysias continues the play, "What dares he, Vardanes dares not? Blush not, noble prince."
An audience member yells out, "Have pity."
Lysias goes on, "I'd loud proclaim the merit of Vardanes."
Fanning is feeling a great deal of pain right now, clutching his belly. Jamie notices, and a plan is forming ...
Vardanes states, "Brother, my soul endures him not, and he's the bane of all my hopes of greatness."
Martha Washington says, "Artless verse."
And the actor replies, "No rhyme intended" and continues the play, "Like the sun, he rules the day, and like the night's pale queen"
Fanning is groaning softly.
Vardanes says, "My fainter beams are lost when he appears. And this because he came into the world a moon or two before me. What's the difference?"
Jamie surrupticiously elbows Fanning's belly and he yelps in pain.
Jamie says, "Christ, forgive me." And then he bumps him again, yelling, "This man needs a surgeon! Colonel, please help me. Apologies, ladies and gentlemen. Uh, players, I'm sorry. This this man is in distress."
Jamie and Claire lock eyes, and she knows something's up.
Colonel Washington and Frolock help Fanning up.
Governor Tryon yells, "This man is dying! Is there a surgeon present?"
Claire says, "Here."
Jamie tells Tryon, "Well, my wife is a surgeon, Your Excellency."
Tryon is confused, "You said she was a healer. I mean, herbs and potions are one thing, but this ..."
Claire orders Washington, "Bring him into the lobby. Lay him flat on his back. Now, please."
"Yes, mistress." I think this is Washington.
Claire is urgent, "Now! Now!"
Jamie tells everyone, "I'm sorry."
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Claire pulls Jamie aside and asks quietly, "What on Earth is going on?"
He says, "I havena killed the man, have I?"
"No, if he's suffering from what I think he is, you may have just saved his life by forcing me to operate."
Jamie explains, "Governor Tryon is gonna arrest a gang of Regulators tonight, here in Wilmington. Murtagh's among them."
"Arrest them for what?"
"Robbery a hanging offense. I must go warn Murtagh, but Tryon canna ken I've gone. Will ye keep him occupied?"
"I'll buy you as much time as I can, but be careful."
She follows the rest into the lobby where they've put Fanning. She starts her examination and makes a quick diagnosis, "Inguinal hernia. His intestines have moved and the blood flow may be cut off. I need to operate immediately. You, go behind the stage and find me a needle and thread. And you, sir, go next door and fetch me a small, sharp knife, some liquor, and some linens Lots of linens."
The governor orders, "Frohock, for God's sake, find us a surgeon."
Chaire tells Tryon, "I am a surgeon, Your Excellency, and it cannot wait. Now, if you would be so kind as to assist me"
Tryon asks, "Should we not undertake this somewhere more private? We'll have him carried to the inn."
Clair asserts forcefully, "If I don't act quickly, this man will die. Mr. Fanning, I need you to take a long drink and hope that it knocks you unconscious."
Outside, Mr. and Mrs. Washington are about to leave by coach. He sees Jamie and asks, "How is the patient?"
Jamie declares, "Uh, my wife will do her best to help him. She's very skilled."
He says, "Excellent news."
Jamie asks, "Ye're leaving?"
Martha Washington affirms, "We are indeed. What a lugubrious performance."
George Washington observes, "You are leaving as well?"
Quickly, Jamie conjures up an explaination for why he's outside. "Well, I must fetch my wife's surgical tools from our residence."
That worked! Both of them are nodding.
Then George Washington offers to help, "May we offer you transport?"
"Aye."
Back inside, a
Young Man (Dylan Blore)
brings the supplies that Claire asked for. "Here you are, mistress. I brought you this as well." He hands her an apron which she ties over her beautiful dress.
Claire says, "Thank you. Put them down. No, we don't need more rum. It's already taken effect."
Someone says, "He looks so pale."
And another woman says, "He's at death's door."
Claire urgently yells, "Where is the needle and thread?"
Someone brings them to her and she says, "Thank you."
Claire prepares the patient for surgery. Governor Tryon is alarmed and asks, "What are you doing?"
She calmly answers, "I'm cleaning the area where I'm going to make an incision.
I need four men to hold down his arms and legs and keep him still while I work. The rum can only do so much. He's likely to come in and out of consciousness with pain. I can't do this without your help. Please."
Governor Tryon snaps his fingers summoning helpers. Only three volunteer, so Claire enlists the Governor himself as the fourth man. "You're his colleague, Your Excellency. If he wakes, it would do him good to see a friendly face to keep him calm. You have a kerchief?"
"Um, yes."
"Well, if he wakes, let him bite down on it."
The carriage with the Washingtons and Jamie comes to a stop in town. The driver orders the horses, "Whoa there, now."
Jamie exits the carriage and explains, "I, uh, I'll borrow a horse onwards from here. Thank ye for aiding a fellow soldier."
George Washington asks, "Is there a war I'm not aware of?"
"Aye. Aye, there is, sir."
Claire orders, "Hold him steady."
People observing this spectacle gasp, and a woman says, "Oh, my."
Claire says to her patient, "There. You must keep calm, Mr. Fanning."
He's groaning and whimpering, obviously in a lot of pain.
Claire orders, "Governor Tryon, talk to him. Distract him from the pain."
Tryon tries, "Now, if you lie still, Fanning, when all this is over, I'll dip my hands into the treasury and have a house built for you with the finest brick exterior you've ever laid your eyes upon. Impenetrable as a fortress, - safe from those insurgent mobs."
Claire gets down to business, "All right. Hold him."
Fanning screams, and Tryon stuffs his kerchief in his mouth.
Claire says, "Well done, Governor."
Tryon replies, "I must admit that was all rather exciting. He, uh, he won't remember what I said, will he?"
The surgeon who was called finally arrives, "Make way. Let me through. What hath hell wrought?"
Claire has things well in hand. "I've just begun to close the opening."
"You've butchered him, madam. All he needed was tobacco smoke up through the rear." That's how they used to treat hernias back then.
Tryon dismisses him, "No need of you. The lady has it in hand."
The coach approaches and a man orders, "Stop! Will you stop?"
Inside the coach, soldiers ready their pistols.
Murtach says to the Regulators, "Let's take our money back."
Finished, madam?
Claire says, "Thank you, gentlemen. I'll see him home."
Tryon is impressed, "Believe you may have saved his life. I see now why your husband claims he cannot live without you in the wilderness."
Claire sees Jamie in the crowd and goes to him. "You certainly left that to the last moment."
"He didna seem to notice."
"I think he's going to be all right. Did you manage to reach Murtagh in time?"
Jamie replies, "I hope so."
A man says, "Good evening."
"Oh, it's cold out. What the..."
"It's me, Fergus. The governor knows of your plan and intends to have you arrested."
Murtagh asks, "Fergus? Is that you?"
"Milord sent me to warn you Do not rob the coach."
They signal the man at the coach with a bird whistle to abort their mission.
"May I help you?"
"Apologies, sir. We've had a bottle or two this evening. I thought you might tell us if this is the road to Wilmington."
The coachman answers, "Aye, it is. You must be on your way. It's not wise to linger on these roads at night."
The Regulator replies, "Ah, we'll We'll be doing just that. Be well, sir. Thanks. Appreciate it."
"Come on, come on."
"Up here."
"Have a good night."
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
"We've been found out. Come on."
"Clear out."
Fergus says, "You have a spy in your camp."
Murtagh answers, "I suppose I must. My godson couldn't be troubled to come here and tell me himself, eh?"
Fergus says, "He is at the theater."
Murtagh asks, "The theater? (CHUCKLES) Just as well. There's no other man I'd rather see."
ROGER: We should start looking for gems to get back through the stones after we help your parents.
BRIANNA: Yeah. It's just so frustrating not knowing the exact date of the fire. I know I have time. I just don't know how much.
(SIGHS)
ROGER: I could kill that printer.
(CHUCKLES) When I met him, I was tempted to tell him off, but
BRIANNA: Who? The printer who smudged the date. How did you know? Hmm? I just told you about the obituary today. How could you have known about the smudged date or who the printer was? Unless y Unless you already knew.
(SIGHS)
ROGER: Don't be angry, but I did know. I found the same obituary.
BRIANNA: After I left?
ROGER: No. Before.
BRIANNA: And you didn't tell me?
ROGER: I almost did. But (SIGHS) You were so happy when I told you that your parents found each other. I couldn't bear making you sad again.
BRIANNA: You found out my mother died, and you didn't think that I should know that?
ROGER: At first, I did. I wanted to tell ye. Brianna there was no point breaking your heart. Even Fiona agreed
BRIANNA: Fiona? You talked to Fiona about this? About my mother and time travel?
ROGER: That's how I found the obituary. Fiona had it, or her granny did. She was a caller for the dancers at Craigh na Dun. Fiona already knew about time travel, and she agreed that if I told you about the fire, it would do more harm than good.
BRIANNA: Oh, she did, did she? She's the one you consulted about this and not me? And then the two of you decided that I shouldn't know that my own mother was dead?
ROGER: She was already dead. You knew she was dead. She's been dead for 200 years. What could you do?
BRIANNA: This. Roger, I could do this. But you didn't want me to.
ROGER: Brianna, we have this gift, but we cannot be the arbiters of who lives and who dies, or we'd save all our loved ones.
BRIANNA: That was my decision to make. I would never have done that to you, Roger. How dare you take that choice away from me?
ROGER: I didn't want to break your heart!
BRIANNA: No, you wanted me to be happy so I'd marry you.
ROGER: Yes! Yes. Pardon me for wanting you to be my wife, which, by the way, you are now, so maybe it's time you listened to me.
BRIANNA: What? I'm your wife, so now I have to do what you say? Is that how it's gonna be? You make all of my decisions for me so I don't have to worry my pretty little head?
ROGER: You're twisting my words. I nearly died coming after you!
BRIANNA: Well, I didn't ask you to come.
ROGER: Oh, that's right. You just left. You left without saying a word Just a note I was supposed to receive a year later, after ye'd died or got stuck. Maybe I should just go back.
BRIANNA: Maybe you should.
ROGER: Is that what you want? For me to leave and return through the stones?
BRIANNA: Turns out Lizzie and I do pretty well on our own.
ROGER: Brianna, you told me about your last words to your father and how you've never forgiven yourself for leaving him like that
BRIANNA: Don't you dare bring my father into this.
ROGER: It's the same thing. Can't you see that? Right when it matters, you're pushing me away.
BRIANNA: Screw you! I was just a kid.
ROGER: Well, you know what? You still are. You're acting like a child.
Maybe this was a mistake.
BRIANNA: Fine. If you really believe that, then you should go.
(SOMBER MUSIC)
ROGER: Look me in the eye and tell me, because if that's what you really want I will go.
BRIANNA: No one's stopping you.
(DOOR CREAKS OPEN, CLOSES) (SOBS)
The insurgents must have received word of my plan.
- Someone alerted them? -
TRYON: Obviously.
STILL WORKING HERE TO END:
I told both of you about it, as well as Fanning and Colonel Washington, but you were all in my company.
No.
I saw him leave the play.
Who? Colonel Washington, Your Excellency.
I saw him and his wife putting on their coats as I ran to fetch the surgeon.
- The two of them? - Yes.
The two of them together.
Never trust a Virginian.
Washington's day will come.
Back at the tavern, a man laughs, saying, "Losing your courage, man?"
Stephen Bonnet says, "I may have lost 20 shillings, but I still have my soul."
Someone says, "A soul is as rare as hen's teeth around here."
Bonnet pulls a ring off his finger and says, "How about something with a little more earthly value, then?"
"You'll need a lot of luck to pull this one off, Bonnet."
"Yes, I will." Brianna walks past him and Bonnet holds out the ring to her saying, "Blow on it, will ye, darlin'? Perhaps ye'll change my luck."
Brianna is shocked to see her mother's wedding ring, the one Jamie gave her, and asks him, "Where did you get this?"
"Why do you ask?"
"It looks like one my mother had."
"Does it now?"
"Is she alive? It's bad luck to wear the jewelry of the dead."
"I cannot say I've noticed that effect myself, but I can assure you, your mother was both alive and well when I left her."
"Where is she?"
"Afraid I don't know. My time with the lady was some while ago, though pleasant. But if you'd like to return it to her perhaps an agreement could be reached."
"Fold."
Brianna asks, "You'll sell it to me?"
"Come now. I never haggle in public. This lot will learn my tricks."
The men in the room laugh as Bonnet pulls Bree into an adjacent room and closes the door.
Brianna is wary but asks, "How much money do you want for it?"
"I've enough money. Well, perhaps you could earn it."
Alarmed, she starts backing away, "I think you've mistaken me."
I Oh, no, I think you've mistaken me. No! Please, just let me go. Please!"
He knocks her down and she's screaming for help.
"You want to play games, do you?"
"No! No! Somebody! Somebody, please!"
The door slams, and the other people playing cards just ignore the ruckus, contniuing their game. "Two pairs."
"Fold."
We can't see her, but Brianna yells, "Get off of me!"
The men keep playing, "Queen high."
Off camera, "Somebody help me! Please, somebody help me!"
Men are laughing. "Pair."
Brianna is struggling, crying, fighting Bonnet, but it's no use.
Afterwards, Bonnet says to her, "I've had livelier rides. You know I thought ye might've been a virgin But that wasn't your first time, was it? Forgot something, didn't you?" He hands her Claire's ring, saying, "I pay for my pleasures. I'm an honest man for a pirate. If you find your mother, give her my regards."
Brianna takes the ring, gathers her strength and leaves the room, in shock.
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