1 00:00:15,550 --> 00:00:16,640 Previously... 2 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:17,930 Now that your father has passed, 3 00:00:18,060 --> 00:00:19,430 there are plenty of folk more than eager 4 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:21,480 to see the demise of Clan MacKenzie. 5 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,520 'Tis a time for celebration, is it not? 6 00:00:24,690 --> 00:00:26,650 Ye ken she loved Da more than most. 7 00:00:26,770 --> 00:00:28,610 And wi' him gone, she's lost her power. 8 00:00:28,770 --> 00:00:29,780 Have you seen Ellen? 9 00:00:29,940 --> 00:00:32,320 Some saw her going off with Malcolm Grant. 10 00:00:32,450 --> 00:00:34,160 Dougal, have ye lost yer way? 11 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:35,910 We must make amends without delay. 12 00:00:36,070 --> 00:00:37,910 Where in God's name have you been? 13 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:39,120 What does that matter? 14 00:00:39,290 --> 00:00:41,540 On principle alone, I will not tell you. 15 00:00:41,660 --> 00:00:43,040 Give Ellen to Malcolm Grant. 16 00:00:43,210 --> 00:00:45,290 How is it you came into the service of the Grants? 17 00:00:45,460 --> 00:00:48,090 Met Malcolm in Inverness, asked me to be their bladier. 18 00:00:48,250 --> 00:00:49,960 Ah, thereby hangs a tale. 19 00:00:50,130 --> 00:00:51,550 You have to be unseen. 20 00:00:51,710 --> 00:00:52,760 Ah! 21 00:00:55,890 --> 00:00:58,140 Sweetheart? 22 00:01:06,060 --> 00:01:09,980 ♪ Long the way ♪ 23 00:01:10,150 --> 00:01:14,280 ♪ O'er the bridge I crossed ♪ 24 00:01:14,450 --> 00:01:17,410 ♪ For my love ♪ 25 00:01:17,530 --> 00:01:22,500 ♪ For my love that's lost ♪ 26 00:01:22,660 --> 00:01:26,080 ♪ By the brae ♪ 27 00:01:26,250 --> 00:01:29,040 ♪ In the verdant moss ♪ 28 00:01:29,210 --> 00:01:33,090 ♪ Where I watch Where I wait ♪ 29 00:01:33,260 --> 00:01:38,340 ♪ For my love that's lost♪ 30 00:01:53,650 --> 00:01:57,360 ♪ Hi from ♪ 31 00:01:57,530 --> 00:02:01,410 ♪ Another female from ♪ 32 00:02:01,580 --> 00:02:04,160 ♪ Hi from ♪ 33 00:02:04,330 --> 00:02:09,080 ♪ Fair a leo fair a lè ♪ 34 00:02:09,250 --> 00:02:12,880 ♪ Hi from ♪ 35 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,630 ♪ Another female from ♪ 36 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:19,800 ♪ You are my run You are my love ♪ 37 00:02:19,970 --> 00:02:26,520 ♪ And my pride from ♪ 38 00:02:44,540 --> 00:02:46,910 Go! Go! Move, move! 39 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,460 Come on! 40 00:03:08,810 --> 00:03:10,980 Where's Private Charlton? 41 00:03:11,100 --> 00:03:13,560 Who was the last man to see Private Charlton? 42 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:16,230 Captain! 43 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:18,240 Captain, one of my men hasn't returned. 44 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:19,990 That's unfortunate, Lieutenant. 45 00:03:20,150 --> 00:03:22,950 Sir, he's young, sir, and bloody brave. 46 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:25,330 Please, I can go back. I can-- 47 00:03:25,490 --> 00:03:27,160 I'm sorry. 48 00:03:27,330 --> 00:03:28,250 Sir... 49 00:03:29,250 --> 00:03:30,540 I made a promise to the men 50 00:03:30,710 --> 00:03:31,960 that I wouldn't leave anyone behind this time. 51 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:33,750 - Please-- - You did make a promise-- 52 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:35,290 to follow orders in His Majesty's Army. 53 00:03:35,460 --> 00:03:39,720 Your order is to stand down. Am I understood? 54 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:41,180 Sir... 55 00:03:41,300 --> 00:03:43,760 I think I could do it, sir, if you'd just let me try. 56 00:03:43,930 --> 00:03:47,390 I said stand down. Do you hear me? 57 00:03:52,770 --> 00:03:54,980 Two, three. 58 00:04:01,650 --> 00:04:03,530 Two, three. 59 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:07,660 Beauchamp! 60 00:04:37,690 --> 00:04:39,070 Easy. 61 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:45,820 Easy now. Easy. 62 00:04:45,990 --> 00:04:47,910 Make room. Make room. 63 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:50,490 All right, Willie, lad. All right. 64 00:04:50,660 --> 00:04:52,790 Let's have a look. 65 00:04:57,920 --> 00:04:59,460 It's just a Blighty wound, Willie. 66 00:04:59,590 --> 00:05:00,670 You mean enough to send me home? 67 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:03,300 That's right, Private. That's right. 68 00:05:07,010 --> 00:05:08,390 This is for my mother. 69 00:05:10,970 --> 00:05:14,730 I wanted to say sorry for joining up. 70 00:05:17,190 --> 00:05:19,690 Can you help me get it to her? 71 00:05:19,860 --> 00:05:20,770 Certainly not. 72 00:05:20,940 --> 00:05:22,900 You can give it to her yourself, all right? 73 00:05:23,070 --> 00:05:25,450 - Good man. - Beauchamp. 74 00:05:27,700 --> 00:05:30,080 You just rest, Willie. 75 00:05:34,790 --> 00:05:37,370 You disobeyed a direct order, Beauchamp. 76 00:05:37,540 --> 00:05:40,170 I'd be quite within my rights to shoot you. 77 00:05:45,670 --> 00:05:46,880 But if I did, 78 00:05:47,050 --> 00:05:49,090 I fear the regiment would run me through. 79 00:05:50,970 --> 00:05:53,180 His mother deserved to have him home, sir... 80 00:05:54,220 --> 00:05:55,560 one way or the other. 81 00:05:56,020 --> 00:05:58,100 Indeed she does. 82 00:05:59,690 --> 00:06:02,440 In the future, Lieutenant, if you have one... 83 00:06:03,610 --> 00:06:05,110 try to restrain yourself. 84 00:06:06,900 --> 00:06:08,490 You have my word, sir. 85 00:06:09,450 --> 00:06:10,780 As you were. 86 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:23,630 "To whom it may concern, 87 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,090 I write to you from hell on Earth-- 88 00:06:26,260 --> 00:06:27,930 the Western Front. 89 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,640 Here I have learned a thousand different ways to suffer, 90 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:34,310 countless different ways to die. 91 00:06:34,430 --> 00:06:37,230 I've lost more friends than I care to remember, 92 00:06:37,390 --> 00:06:39,520 but even death itself is kinder 93 00:06:39,690 --> 00:06:42,230 than some of the things that I have seen, 94 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:45,280 things that I wish I could erase from my mind 95 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:47,990 with every fiber of my being. 96 00:06:49,070 --> 00:06:50,200 All around me, 97 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,780 brave souls cling to their last shreds of dignity, 98 00:06:53,950 --> 00:06:56,540 and men who once laughed and loved 99 00:06:56,660 --> 00:06:58,750 lie alongside boys 100 00:06:58,910 --> 00:07:01,290 who have barely had time to do either, 101 00:07:01,750 --> 00:07:05,090 buried in some bloodied bit of foreign soil." 102 00:07:08,130 --> 00:07:09,340 Corporal. 103 00:07:09,510 --> 00:07:12,430 "It is possible to withstand physical pain, 104 00:07:12,590 --> 00:07:16,680 but an injured mind is, I fear, irreparable, 105 00:07:17,220 --> 00:07:20,690 particularly one bearing the immortal wounds of war. 106 00:07:21,060 --> 00:07:22,810 I find myself destined, perhaps, 107 00:07:22,980 --> 00:07:24,150 to join the hordes of men 108 00:07:24,310 --> 00:07:27,570 who are aching for peace and waiting for death, 109 00:07:27,690 --> 00:07:29,860 not fearing it as such, 110 00:07:30,030 --> 00:07:32,990 not the when or the where of it, 111 00:07:33,450 --> 00:07:36,080 not even the how, but the why. 112 00:07:37,290 --> 00:07:40,080 And so, before that time comes, 113 00:07:40,660 --> 00:07:44,210 I write not just as a soldier but as a witness 114 00:07:44,380 --> 00:07:46,380 to the tragedy that's unfolding daily 115 00:07:46,550 --> 00:07:48,380 in this infernal place 116 00:07:48,550 --> 00:07:50,670 to let you know that we are trying, 117 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:53,430 holding on to sanity as best we can, 118 00:07:53,590 --> 00:07:56,050 holding on to a dwindling hope. 119 00:07:56,220 --> 00:07:59,770 But fear is a powerful poison." 120 00:08:19,370 --> 00:08:21,620 You're the only person I know who'd take a break from reading 121 00:08:21,790 --> 00:08:23,210 to read even more. 122 00:08:23,370 --> 00:08:26,840 What is it today? Botany? Physics? Chemistry? 123 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:28,250 Biochemistry. 124 00:08:29,210 --> 00:08:30,840 Well, when your break is over, 125 00:08:31,010 --> 00:08:32,590 have a look at the new work assignments. 126 00:08:36,140 --> 00:08:37,390 Oh, goodness me. 127 00:08:37,550 --> 00:08:39,930 - Blimmin' trolley! - Oh, my goodness, sorry. 128 00:08:40,060 --> 00:08:41,890 You can barely make out a word. 129 00:08:43,310 --> 00:08:45,440 - Have that, Julia. - Oh, thank you very much. 130 00:08:47,690 --> 00:08:49,360 Think I can remember. 131 00:08:50,190 --> 00:08:52,240 Uh... 132 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:56,490 Uh, Broodseinde, 133 00:08:56,660 --> 00:09:00,120 Regiments 4 and 9 on Desk A, 134 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:03,870 uh, Poelcappelle, Regiments 8 and 11 135 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:06,040 on Desk E, 136 00:09:06,170 --> 00:09:07,880 and Passchendaele, 137 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,090 Regiments 6, 12, and 99 138 00:09:11,210 --> 00:09:13,630 on C and J. 139 00:09:14,130 --> 00:09:15,380 I have no idea how you do that, 140 00:09:15,550 --> 00:09:17,510 but it certainly makes my life easier. 141 00:09:18,260 --> 00:09:20,390 I'll take Passchendaele, then. 142 00:09:22,060 --> 00:09:25,560 "Living through these incredibly uncertain times, 143 00:09:25,690 --> 00:09:28,810 is it not enough of a thrill for you?" 144 00:09:28,980 --> 00:09:30,610 You need to be careful, Julia. 145 00:09:30,770 --> 00:09:33,360 All this civil-disobedience stuff. 146 00:09:33,530 --> 00:09:36,200 I remember the hunger strikes 147 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:38,990 and that woman who died jumping in front of the king's horse. 148 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:40,700 - Emily Davison? - Mm. 149 00:09:40,870 --> 00:09:42,080 Well, things are different now. 150 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,250 We're turning the tide of public opinion in our favor 151 00:09:44,410 --> 00:09:46,120 - with our war work. - "We"? 152 00:09:46,670 --> 00:09:48,080 I'm very proud of the work we do. 153 00:09:48,250 --> 00:09:49,580 I just hope that one day, 154 00:09:49,750 --> 00:09:51,500 like many of the highly educated women involved, 155 00:09:51,670 --> 00:09:53,170 that I'll be admitted to university 156 00:09:53,340 --> 00:09:54,550 and eventually earn a degree. 157 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:57,260 They're never going to award women a degree, surely. 158 00:09:58,010 --> 00:10:00,010 The first matriculated female undergraduates 159 00:10:00,180 --> 00:10:04,140 at a British university were the Edinburgh Seven, 1869. 160 00:10:04,310 --> 00:10:06,100 Yes, they may not have been permitted to graduate... 161 00:10:06,270 --> 00:10:07,310 I knew it. 162 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,230 ...but there have been many since- remarkable women. 163 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:13,190 You have a memory like a bloody steel trap. 164 00:10:13,780 --> 00:10:15,240 There's one here about a soldier 165 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,280 who had to have both arms amputated because of gangrene. 166 00:10:18,950 --> 00:10:21,490 Says his comrades nicknamed him Octopus. 167 00:10:21,660 --> 00:10:24,580 It's awful, isn't it? 168 00:10:25,290 --> 00:10:27,830 If we didn't laugh, we'd sob for all of eternity. 169 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:31,420 I thought I'd start to feel numb to it after three years. 170 00:10:31,590 --> 00:10:33,130 I don't think I'll ever get used to the fact 171 00:10:33,300 --> 00:10:35,130 that so many of them are so very young. 172 00:10:36,550 --> 00:10:39,630 Come on, then, they'll be waiting for us to finish. 173 00:10:42,220 --> 00:10:44,720 Mother, I hope this short note finds you well. 174 00:10:44,890 --> 00:10:46,220 My dearest daughter Phyllis... 175 00:10:48,020 --> 00:10:49,980 I hope this short note finds you well. 176 00:10:50,150 --> 00:10:51,770 I'm sending all my love. 177 00:10:54,730 --> 00:10:57,070 Weather has been... 178 00:10:57,240 --> 00:10:58,820 I am so very weary... 179 00:10:58,990 --> 00:11:00,610 Terrible feeling... 180 00:11:02,450 --> 00:11:03,450 I must close now. 181 00:11:03,620 --> 00:11:04,700 Keep me in your prayers. 182 00:11:04,870 --> 00:11:06,080 Please remember me... 183 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:25,140 "I suppose I could have written this letter 184 00:11:25,260 --> 00:11:26,470 to my brother, 185 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:29,060 but I realized that every man in Passchendaele 186 00:11:29,180 --> 00:11:30,640 is a brother of mine. 187 00:11:30,810 --> 00:11:34,230 Only here, you see, brother slays brother 188 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:39,150 in a world where their father, God Himself, is dead. 189 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:41,780 So, instead, this is an open letter 190 00:11:41,950 --> 00:11:46,870 to ask quite sincerely what is there to live for? 191 00:11:50,210 --> 00:11:53,250 - Passchendaele. - Yes. Yes, of course. 192 00:12:26,580 --> 00:12:30,080 "If God is not dead, then He has forgotten us. 193 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:32,460 And I am starting to forget, perhaps, 194 00:12:32,580 --> 00:12:34,540 not what we are fighting for 195 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:37,090 but what we are dying for. 196 00:12:38,090 --> 00:12:41,670 Yours, Lieutenant Henry Beauchamp." 197 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:45,840 "Dear Lieutenant Beauchamp, 198 00:12:46,390 --> 00:12:48,050 you asked a difficult question, 199 00:12:48,220 --> 00:12:50,390 to which there is no easy answer, 200 00:12:50,560 --> 00:12:53,060 but I feel compelled to reply. 201 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:55,770 My name is Julia Moriston, 202 00:12:55,900 --> 00:12:58,690 and like you, I often wonder why. 203 00:12:59,230 --> 00:13:01,820 Why must we live through this abominable war? 204 00:13:01,990 --> 00:13:03,150 I do not know. 205 00:13:03,570 --> 00:13:06,110 But the naturalist in me finds comfort 206 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:08,120 in the arms of Mother Nature. 207 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:10,700 Nature always finds a way. 208 00:13:11,330 --> 00:13:13,080 I'm reminded of the raindrop- 209 00:13:13,250 --> 00:13:15,330 never too small or insignificant 210 00:13:15,500 --> 00:13:16,630 to make a difference, 211 00:13:16,790 --> 00:13:18,960 beautifully volatile, evaporating, 212 00:13:19,090 --> 00:13:20,630 falling as precipitation, 213 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:23,760 joining the rivers until it becomes the ocean. 214 00:13:24,130 --> 00:13:27,050 There is a certain alchemy to it. 215 00:13:27,550 --> 00:13:30,970 We, too, are shaped and changed by our suffering 216 00:13:31,140 --> 00:13:33,350 until we are strong enough, like water, 217 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:35,980 to carve our way through rock. 218 00:13:36,980 --> 00:13:39,560 I've known suffering and grief. 219 00:13:39,980 --> 00:13:41,070 When my parents died, 220 00:13:41,230 --> 00:13:43,030 I was determined to carry on doing 221 00:13:43,190 --> 00:13:44,900 what I knew would make them proud. 222 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:48,410 I paused my studies to make my own small contribution 223 00:13:48,530 --> 00:13:49,950 to the war effort. 224 00:13:50,620 --> 00:13:53,330 So I know what it is to feel alone 225 00:13:53,500 --> 00:13:55,500 and to ask why. 226 00:13:56,500 --> 00:13:57,580 When all else fails... 227 00:13:57,750 --> 00:13:58,580 Beauchamp. 228 00:13:58,750 --> 00:13:59,710 ...take a deep breath 229 00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:02,590 and remember England is still here. 230 00:14:03,510 --> 00:14:05,510 Do not give up, Lieutenant. 231 00:14:05,670 --> 00:14:08,050 And if you need to confide in someone, 232 00:14:08,590 --> 00:14:10,050 you may write back to me. 233 00:14:10,220 --> 00:14:13,810 And, perhaps boldly, I shall expect a reply." 234 00:14:18,100 --> 00:14:20,980 Gas! Gas, gas, gas! 235 00:14:44,550 --> 00:14:45,710 "Dear Julia, 236 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:49,220 I hardly know where to begin, but you are right. 237 00:14:49,380 --> 00:14:52,010 There was profound magic in your words, 238 00:14:52,430 --> 00:14:53,890 some strange alchemy 239 00:14:54,060 --> 00:14:56,270 that produced in me a glimmer of hope." 240 00:14:56,430 --> 00:14:57,600 "Dear Henry, 241 00:14:57,770 --> 00:15:00,270 remember that our very existence itself 242 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:01,940 is miraculous. 243 00:15:02,110 --> 00:15:04,270 As human beings, we have a profound capacity 244 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:05,610 for love and goodness." 245 00:15:05,730 --> 00:15:07,990 "Julia, I have been devouring your letters. 246 00:15:08,150 --> 00:15:10,320 I so hope you got my last ones in order. 247 00:15:10,490 --> 00:15:12,070 Tuesday's might arrive after Wednesday's." 248 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:14,370 "Henry, have you heard from your brother Lam? 249 00:15:14,870 --> 00:15:17,580 Has he uncovered a new Egyptian pharaoh?" 250 00:15:17,750 --> 00:15:19,620 "I can't wait to hear what you've been up to, 251 00:15:19,790 --> 00:15:21,540 what you've been reading this week. 252 00:15:21,670 --> 00:15:23,000 You still in your Scottish phase?" 253 00:15:23,170 --> 00:15:26,840 "I adore Scotland- the flora and the fauna, 254 00:15:27,010 --> 00:15:28,420 the landscape, the archaeology, 255 00:15:28,590 --> 00:15:31,930 something inescapably romantic about all of it. 256 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:35,260 Folklorist J.F. Campbell writes of a man 257 00:15:35,430 --> 00:15:36,560 who joins the circle dance 258 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:38,560 of a faerie ring in the Highlands. 259 00:15:38,730 --> 00:15:40,940 When he comes out, he feels as though 260 00:15:41,060 --> 00:15:42,900 he's only been gone for a moment, 261 00:15:43,060 --> 00:15:45,190 but, really, it's been years. 262 00:15:45,730 --> 00:15:47,730 That's how our letters feel to me. 263 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:52,110 I could spend an eternity in the dance of our words." 264 00:15:53,030 --> 00:15:55,080 "The poet John Donne writes, 265 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:59,290 "More than kisses, letters mingle souls." 266 00:15:59,870 --> 00:16:02,040 I think you know by now that I find in you 267 00:16:02,170 --> 00:16:05,460 a kindred spirit, a soulmate. 268 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:07,460 But just to be on the safe side, 269 00:16:07,630 --> 00:16:10,420 I'm sealing this letter with a kiss." 270 00:16:14,300 --> 00:16:16,100 "I'll raise you some Robert Burns 271 00:16:16,260 --> 00:16:18,180 for your John Donne. 272 00:16:18,350 --> 00:16:20,520 "My heart's in the Highlands. 273 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:22,310 "My heart is not here. 274 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:25,770 My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer." 275 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:30,820 Or it would be, if it wasn't on the battlefield with you." 276 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:32,570 "Should I be worried? 277 00:16:32,740 --> 00:16:35,530 Are you going to run off with some handsome Highlander? 278 00:16:35,910 --> 00:16:36,990 I've never made the journey, 279 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:39,580 but I've always longed to visit Scotland. 280 00:16:39,740 --> 00:16:42,580 Sounds as if I might have to start packing, 281 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:46,380 if only to stay in this faerie dance with you. 282 00:16:47,460 --> 00:16:48,590 As it happens, 283 00:16:48,750 --> 00:16:50,710 I am trying to convince my commanding officer 284 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:52,840 to allow me my leave in the coming month. 285 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:55,720 Not enough time for a trip all the way up north, 286 00:16:55,890 --> 00:16:57,600 but London, perhaps." 287 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:27,460 "That would be wonderful. 288 00:17:28,170 --> 00:17:30,840 Did you know that my greatest fear is not death 289 00:17:31,420 --> 00:17:34,090 but us never having the chance to meet?" 290 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:35,970 Bailwick. 291 00:17:38,050 --> 00:17:39,220 Bellam. 292 00:17:42,020 --> 00:17:43,680 - Beauchamp. - Yes. 293 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:46,900 Whoo-hoo! Lefty has another one from his Betty. 294 00:17:47,020 --> 00:17:47,940 Hook, line and sinker. 295 00:17:48,100 --> 00:17:50,270 He's not even seen-- 296 00:17:53,110 --> 00:17:55,070 Help! Help! 297 00:18:03,290 --> 00:18:06,000 Get me out! 298 00:18:14,130 --> 00:18:17,840 "Julia, I have decided to call you my hope, 299 00:18:18,340 --> 00:18:20,090 for that is what you are to me. 300 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:22,510 Fingers crossed my leave will come through." 301 00:18:33,270 --> 00:18:35,280 "Hope springs eternal. 302 00:18:38,740 --> 00:18:40,820 I've never heard your voice, Henry, 303 00:18:40,990 --> 00:18:43,160 but the silence is deafening. 304 00:18:43,910 --> 00:18:46,830 It's been two weeks and a day since your last letter. 305 00:18:47,540 --> 00:18:51,250 I won't despair just yet, since "hope" is our byword, 306 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:54,090 but I am frightened, Henry." 307 00:19:06,100 --> 00:19:08,270 Is he still intending to take his leave? 308 00:19:08,430 --> 00:19:11,350 Last I heard, if reinforcements arrive. 309 00:19:11,900 --> 00:19:13,860 And if he's still... 310 00:19:15,110 --> 00:19:17,530 You might have to brace yourself, my dear. 311 00:19:50,690 --> 00:19:52,600 Hope springs eternal. 312 00:19:59,690 --> 00:20:01,070 Henry? 313 00:20:03,700 --> 00:20:04,950 Julia. 314 00:20:22,430 --> 00:20:23,970 My hope. 315 00:20:56,250 --> 00:20:57,630 Oh, I don't know what I'm doing. 316 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:02,880 Ah. Wait, wait, wait, wait. 317 00:21:03,050 --> 00:21:04,760 You're not worried that we're not married yet, are you? 318 00:21:04,930 --> 00:21:07,640 "Yet"? Not exactly up there with the proposals 319 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,260 of great literary masterpieces. 320 00:21:10,430 --> 00:21:12,480 But, yes, I accept. 321 00:21:14,350 --> 00:21:16,400 Mm. 322 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:17,900 Blasted thing. 323 00:21:21,030 --> 00:21:25,280 You know, I thought I'd have to put away my dreams 324 00:21:25,450 --> 00:21:26,660 to go to war, but... 325 00:21:26,820 --> 00:21:29,080 oh, here you are. 326 00:21:31,950 --> 00:21:34,040 - Oh. - Oh. Oh, God. 327 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:37,330 Oh, stay still. Stay still! 328 00:21:37,500 --> 00:21:41,380 For God's sake. 329 00:22:16,870 --> 00:22:18,500 Oh, what was it we promised each other, again? 330 00:22:18,670 --> 00:22:21,590 For richer or poorer, for better or worse. 331 00:22:21,750 --> 00:22:24,260 Through doors wide and narrow. 332 00:22:24,420 --> 00:22:27,260 Yes, my darling, something like that. 333 00:22:27,430 --> 00:22:29,640 - Oh. - Oh, I can't believe we did it. 334 00:22:30,220 --> 00:22:32,890 I'm so very glad the priest was able to fit us in. 335 00:22:33,060 --> 00:22:34,470 So am I. 336 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:37,060 Well, welcome home, Mrs. Beauchamp. 337 00:22:37,980 --> 00:22:40,190 I love you, Henry. 338 00:22:50,490 --> 00:22:52,870 Henry, my darling, are you still awake? 339 00:22:56,750 --> 00:22:58,460 I don't like to blow my own trumpet, 340 00:22:58,620 --> 00:23:01,380 but it seems I am quite the horologist. 341 00:23:07,050 --> 00:23:07,970 Henry? 342 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:20,270 Henry. 343 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:21,980 No! Oh, God! 344 00:23:22,110 --> 00:23:25,730 There's gas everywhere! There's gas! There's gas! 345 00:23:25,860 --> 00:23:27,820 - It's okay. Come back to me. - Oh, God! Oh, God! 346 00:23:27,990 --> 00:23:29,950 - Come back to me. - Oh, God! Oh, God! Oh, God! 347 00:23:30,110 --> 00:23:32,030 You're in a flat in London with me. 348 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:33,530 Oh, God. Oh. 349 00:23:33,700 --> 00:23:37,080 You are here. 350 00:23:39,790 --> 00:23:43,330 Dear Lieutenant Beauchamp, my name is Julia Moriston, 351 00:23:43,500 --> 00:23:47,760 and like you, I often wonder why. 352 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,060 Julia. Julia. 353 00:24:00,430 --> 00:24:01,980 My hope. 354 00:24:16,530 --> 00:24:18,080 Yes, my darling. 355 00:24:19,290 --> 00:24:21,120 Hold on to your hope. 356 00:25:01,120 --> 00:25:02,330 My ring. 357 00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:04,460 Oh, no. 358 00:25:54,340 --> 00:25:55,470 Henry? 359 00:25:57,130 --> 00:25:58,550 Henry! 360 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:01,470 This isn't funny! 361 00:26:07,850 --> 00:26:09,110 Henry! 362 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:24,660 Henry! 363 00:27:07,790 --> 00:27:09,170 Excuse me. 364 00:27:09,870 --> 00:27:11,250 Excuse me. 365 00:27:14,050 --> 00:27:15,550 Excuse me. 366 00:27:16,340 --> 00:27:17,470 Have you... 367 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,720 have you by any chance seen a man on this road? 368 00:27:21,050 --> 00:27:23,220 Wavy hair, blue eyes? 369 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,440 We had an accident in our motorcar, 370 00:27:33,610 --> 00:27:36,780 my husband and I, and somehow we were separated. 371 00:27:42,620 --> 00:27:45,330 Oh, uh, I-I don't know Gaelic, I'm afraid. 372 00:27:45,830 --> 00:27:47,580 Do you speak any English at all? 373 00:27:47,700 --> 00:27:49,250 Ah, Sassenach. 374 00:27:50,410 --> 00:27:51,920 Please, can you help me? 375 00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:54,590 Perhaps- perhaps you could- 376 00:27:54,750 --> 00:27:56,880 you could ask the authorities in Inverness, 377 00:27:57,050 --> 00:27:58,550 uh, to- to send help? 378 00:27:58,880 --> 00:27:59,840 Inbhir Nis? 379 00:28:00,010 --> 00:28:02,760 Inverness, yes, yes, yes. Yes, that's right. 380 00:28:03,090 --> 00:28:04,930 Oh, I'd be ever so grateful. 381 00:28:08,890 --> 00:28:11,390 Inbhir Nis. Inverness. 382 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:16,480 Oh, no. 383 00:28:16,650 --> 00:28:20,030 See, I have to stay here to look for my husband. 384 00:28:20,570 --> 00:28:21,780 What are you-- 385 00:28:21,950 --> 00:28:22,780 No! 386 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:24,820 Get off of me! 387 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,370 No! No! 388 00:28:27,490 --> 00:28:28,950 Let me-- 389 00:29:39,060 --> 00:29:40,150 Julia! 390 00:30:26,820 --> 00:30:28,240 Feeling a wee bit better, dearie? 391 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,370 What- what are you doing? 392 00:30:30,820 --> 00:30:33,080 Just trying to help, if you'll let me. 393 00:30:33,870 --> 00:30:35,040 Where am I? 394 00:30:36,830 --> 00:30:38,170 Castle Leathers. 395 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:40,710 I'm Mistress Porter, housekeeper. 396 00:30:43,170 --> 00:30:44,710 And the people that brought me here? 397 00:30:45,380 --> 00:30:46,920 The Connors've gone, lass. 398 00:30:47,590 --> 00:30:48,550 Done their part. 399 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:52,050 I don't understand. 400 00:30:52,220 --> 00:30:54,180 Delivered ye here as payment for their debts. 401 00:30:55,220 --> 00:30:56,640 They owed a fair amount. 402 00:31:07,950 --> 00:31:09,860 Get--ah! 403 00:31:10,030 --> 00:31:11,620 No! Get your hands off me! 404 00:31:11,780 --> 00:31:14,120 My, my, my, a Sassenach! 405 00:31:14,290 --> 00:31:16,080 And a fiery one. 406 00:31:17,710 --> 00:31:20,580 You can't keep me here like some sort of prisoner. 407 00:31:20,750 --> 00:31:23,460 I hope you didn't speak to your last master this way. 408 00:31:23,790 --> 00:31:24,880 "Master"? 409 00:31:25,380 --> 00:31:26,420 Mistress Porter, 410 00:31:26,590 --> 00:31:30,590 a maidservant needs more suitable attire. 411 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:31,890 Yes, m'laird. 412 00:31:32,470 --> 00:31:34,220 I am not your maidservant. 413 00:31:34,390 --> 00:31:36,680 I am Julia Beauchamp of Hyde Park, London. 414 00:31:36,850 --> 00:31:38,600 I think you'll find that you're now the property 415 00:31:38,770 --> 00:31:41,270 of Simon Beaufort Fraser of Leathers. 416 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:43,650 Lord Lovat. 417 00:31:58,950 --> 00:32:00,870 Father. 418 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,250 We should press for the Connors' coin instead. 419 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:07,500 And why on earth would I do that? 420 00:32:08,670 --> 00:32:12,050 The coffers are dwindling. The house is in need of repair. 421 00:32:12,590 --> 00:32:15,350 That may be, but I have my own particular needs 422 00:32:15,470 --> 00:32:16,760 to think of as well. 423 00:32:24,060 --> 00:32:26,770 Please. 424 00:32:44,210 --> 00:32:47,590 Excuse me. Excuse me, gentlemen! 425 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:51,300 Sassenach. 426 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,180 Sassenach? 427 00:32:55,300 --> 00:32:56,550 What on earth? 428 00:33:12,780 --> 00:33:14,320 Oh, Julia... 429 00:33:14,740 --> 00:33:16,660 what has happened to us? 430 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,720 Excuse me, sir, I'm, uh- I'm looking for a lady. 431 00:33:41,890 --> 00:33:44,560 - Uh, dark hair, blue eyes. - A lady? 432 00:33:44,730 --> 00:33:47,150 Oh, you'll not find one of those in here, sir. 433 00:33:47,310 --> 00:33:48,480 There's a few bonnie, uh-- 434 00:33:48,650 --> 00:33:50,400 bonnie faces right enough, Sassenach. 435 00:33:50,570 --> 00:33:53,650 But, uh, all of them have bollocks. 436 00:33:59,450 --> 00:34:00,450 Forgive me. 437 00:34:00,620 --> 00:34:02,040 Aye, what are you having? 438 00:34:04,330 --> 00:34:07,460 Yes. I'll have a, uh- a pint of ale, please. 439 00:34:07,620 --> 00:34:08,880 Ale it is, then. 440 00:34:09,540 --> 00:34:11,550 Well, sir, I am rather urgently looking for a lady 441 00:34:11,710 --> 00:34:13,510 by the name of Julia Beauchamp. If... 442 00:34:16,380 --> 00:34:20,640 Uh, sorry, I don't seem to, uh, have any, um... 443 00:34:23,770 --> 00:34:24,930 You owe me. 444 00:34:26,230 --> 00:34:27,600 As I was saying, Mr. Grant, 445 00:34:27,770 --> 00:34:30,310 the terms we're proposing are quite generous. 446 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,360 Three dwellings on fertile land that borders Grant land 447 00:34:33,530 --> 00:34:35,320 in exchange for monies owed. 448 00:34:36,610 --> 00:34:39,570 Ah, a surprisingly generous offer from the Campbells. 449 00:34:41,620 --> 00:34:43,990 - Do you think so? - Aye. 450 00:34:45,370 --> 00:34:46,580 I can assure you, Mr. Grant, 451 00:34:46,710 --> 00:34:49,290 of the good condition of the properties mentioned. 452 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,250 You'd be able to house a fair few families. 453 00:34:53,590 --> 00:34:55,920 Aye, I think your da will approve. 454 00:34:56,720 --> 00:34:59,640 Do hope they brought the deeds to those properties, hmm? 455 00:35:00,430 --> 00:35:02,050 What in God's name did he just say? 456 00:35:10,150 --> 00:35:12,310 Wait! 457 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,190 Ah! 458 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,400 How dare you involve yourself in clan matters? 459 00:35:16,570 --> 00:35:18,780 I'm sorry! Look, please, I meant nothing by it. 460 00:35:18,900 --> 00:35:20,610 Should have kept your mouth closed, then. 461 00:35:20,780 --> 00:35:22,660 Wait! 462 00:35:23,910 --> 00:35:25,620 Maybe slit his throat first. 463 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:27,370 Hold. 464 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,380 Now, what were you saying in there? 465 00:35:36,550 --> 00:35:38,720 You were kind enough to pay for my ale. 466 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,680 I was merely pointing out what I'm sure you already noticed. 467 00:35:42,590 --> 00:35:45,010 Please, I don't want to be involved. 468 00:35:45,180 --> 00:35:46,810 Too late for that now. 469 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,770 Tell me what you meant by what you said. 470 00:36:08,830 --> 00:36:10,460 You'll tell that to my father. 471 00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:23,090 You'll begin with the washing and mending 472 00:36:23,260 --> 00:36:24,550 and windows and stairs. 473 00:36:25,050 --> 00:36:26,560 The chamber pots need emptying as well, 474 00:36:26,720 --> 00:36:28,720 and you'll assist the cook, of course. 475 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,230 Please, ma'am. 476 00:36:32,270 --> 00:36:33,480 Mistress Porter. 477 00:36:33,650 --> 00:36:35,940 Mistress Porter, I don't belong here. 478 00:36:36,570 --> 00:36:39,030 I came to the Highlands with my husband on holiday. 479 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:40,650 Holy day? 480 00:36:41,110 --> 00:36:42,360 Which holy day would that be? 481 00:36:42,530 --> 00:36:44,530 He had business in Edinburgh, so we thought we'd turn it 482 00:36:44,660 --> 00:36:45,990 into a longer trip, but... 483 00:36:46,740 --> 00:36:48,950 I cannot explain it. I-I lost him. 484 00:36:51,710 --> 00:36:53,420 How long has it been since his passing? 485 00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:55,710 No, he hasn't- he hasn't passed away. 486 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:56,960 He's alive. 487 00:36:57,710 --> 00:36:59,170 And he must be looking for me. 488 00:36:59,960 --> 00:37:01,760 Well, he hasna found ye yet, has he? 489 00:37:02,590 --> 00:37:04,430 If it's been more than a fortnight, then... 490 00:37:05,590 --> 00:37:07,470 I doubt he's coming for you now. 491 00:37:11,890 --> 00:37:14,560 What- what day is it now? 492 00:37:15,020 --> 00:37:16,770 Must have knocked the sense out of you. 493 00:37:16,940 --> 00:37:18,190 It's a Saturday. 494 00:37:18,820 --> 00:37:19,900 Saturday. 495 00:37:21,570 --> 00:37:22,900 Saturday when? 496 00:37:24,240 --> 00:37:25,660 Next, you'll be asking me what year it is, 497 00:37:25,820 --> 00:37:28,330 or who sits upon the throne. 498 00:37:30,410 --> 00:37:31,950 K- King George V. 499 00:37:33,410 --> 00:37:35,080 King George I... 500 00:37:36,460 --> 00:37:39,210 in the year of our Lord 1714. 501 00:37:40,710 --> 00:37:42,010 Goodness me. 502 00:37:45,260 --> 00:37:48,220 No, it--it--it can't be. 503 00:37:48,350 --> 00:37:49,390 I... 504 00:37:49,810 --> 00:37:51,640 I have a husband. 505 00:37:52,180 --> 00:37:54,560 I have- I have a daughter, Claire. 506 00:37:55,230 --> 00:37:57,810 I-I need to get back to them. I must. 507 00:37:57,980 --> 00:37:59,610 I'm sorry for you, lass... 508 00:38:00,070 --> 00:38:03,030 but you've been sold to us, and here you'll stay. 509 00:38:03,490 --> 00:38:04,570 But I have no patience 510 00:38:04,740 --> 00:38:06,990 for impertinence or disobedience, mind you, 511 00:38:07,530 --> 00:38:08,870 and neither does the laird. 512 00:38:13,790 --> 00:38:16,000 And one last thing... 513 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:18,380 on occasion... 514 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,250 our laird can be most attentive. 515 00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:24,920 Try not to linger in his presence. 516 00:38:31,140 --> 00:38:33,310 Now, wash that look off your face 517 00:38:33,470 --> 00:38:35,890 and come and find me in the kitchen. 518 00:40:01,900 --> 00:40:03,980 Our laird, Isaac Grant, 519 00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,070 I present Mr. Henry Beauchamp. 520 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:10,780 My son says you have something to tell me. 521 00:40:11,820 --> 00:40:13,410 It was merely an observation. 522 00:40:14,450 --> 00:40:15,740 "An observation"? 523 00:40:17,290 --> 00:40:18,080 I've been trying to get 524 00:40:18,250 --> 00:40:20,410 what the Campbells owe me for months, 525 00:40:20,580 --> 00:40:22,420 so I do hope that what you have for me 526 00:40:22,580 --> 00:40:25,540 is more than an observation, Sassenach. 527 00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:31,470 Yes, well, in- in my experience as a solicitor, 528 00:40:32,010 --> 00:40:34,220 you know, uh, a lack of legal paperwork 529 00:40:34,390 --> 00:40:36,350 is never a good sign when it comes to property. 530 00:40:39,310 --> 00:40:40,350 That's it? 531 00:40:42,100 --> 00:40:43,270 Uh... 532 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:53,360 Well... 533 00:40:54,240 --> 00:40:56,830 it seems you're unfamiliar with how we conduct our affairs 534 00:40:56,990 --> 00:40:58,450 here in the Highlands. 535 00:40:59,620 --> 00:41:02,120 A man's word is his bond. 536 00:41:02,790 --> 00:41:04,000 And quite right. 537 00:41:04,790 --> 00:41:07,960 And I shan't trouble you any further. 538 00:41:08,670 --> 00:41:11,170 If you'd just kindly let me go, I could, uh-- 539 00:41:11,340 --> 00:41:13,050 Tell him what you told me at the well. 540 00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:19,350 Well, I mean, judging by what I heard, 541 00:41:19,510 --> 00:41:20,930 you know... 542 00:41:21,100 --> 00:41:23,810 ...um, if you were to accept 543 00:41:23,980 --> 00:41:26,100 the properties that the other party are offering-- 544 00:41:26,230 --> 00:41:27,400 The Campbells. 545 00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:29,690 The Campbells, uh, were offering, 546 00:41:29,860 --> 00:41:32,190 um, there would be no guarantee 547 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,070 of ownership on the land on which they sit. 548 00:41:34,240 --> 00:41:35,280 You see, the written contract 549 00:41:35,450 --> 00:41:36,660 must state that you would own the land 550 00:41:36,820 --> 00:41:39,910 and collect the rents, not the, um- the Campbells. 551 00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:42,200 Told you, Da. 552 00:41:43,370 --> 00:41:45,210 He has an eye for the particulars. 553 00:41:45,330 --> 00:41:46,500 Well, with all due respect, 554 00:41:46,670 --> 00:41:48,250 it wasn't the particulars that drew my attention, 555 00:41:48,420 --> 00:41:49,670 it was your advisor. 556 00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:52,920 Pádraig Druiminn is my bladier. 557 00:41:54,050 --> 00:41:55,510 Apart from my son here, 558 00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:57,720 he's my most trusted counsel 559 00:41:58,140 --> 00:42:00,060 and my right hand in all matters. 560 00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:03,680 What observation do you have to make about him, then? 561 00:42:05,850 --> 00:42:07,060 Uh... 562 00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,030 He was misrepresenting you. 563 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:18,660 Why don't you search this most trusted of bladiers 564 00:42:18,780 --> 00:42:20,870 for a sack of coins? 565 00:42:21,910 --> 00:42:23,500 Not his usual purse. 566 00:42:27,460 --> 00:42:28,580 Mr. Bug. 567 00:43:04,910 --> 00:43:06,250 You're canny... 568 00:43:08,500 --> 00:43:10,290 ...for a Sassenach. 569 00:43:34,820 --> 00:43:36,780 How would you like to be my new bladier? 570 00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:43,200 - What about the other fellow? - Never mind him. 571 00:43:46,830 --> 00:43:48,200 Well, unfortunately, 572 00:43:48,330 --> 00:43:50,670 there are other matters occupying my time. 573 00:43:51,500 --> 00:43:54,040 See, I'm actually urgently searching for someone. 574 00:43:55,170 --> 00:43:57,210 Our business would take you all across the Grant lands 575 00:43:57,380 --> 00:43:58,300 and beyond. 576 00:43:59,380 --> 00:44:02,970 An opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, perhaps. 577 00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:08,220 I'm afraid, as much as I would like to accept-- 578 00:44:08,390 --> 00:44:10,270 Well, you're not obliged, of course. 579 00:44:11,140 --> 00:44:12,850 You're free to continue on your own. 580 00:44:14,190 --> 00:44:15,570 And good luck to you. 581 00:44:16,570 --> 00:44:17,570 But... 582 00:44:18,570 --> 00:44:19,820 an Englishman... 583 00:44:20,860 --> 00:44:24,030 alone in the Highlands... 584 00:44:24,620 --> 00:44:26,120 without protection... 585 00:44:26,950 --> 00:44:29,750 You would have all this at your disposal, 586 00:44:31,210 --> 00:44:34,040 and the strength of the Grant name behind you. 587 00:44:39,300 --> 00:44:40,300 I see. 588 00:44:43,180 --> 00:44:44,760 Well, very well, then. 589 00:44:45,890 --> 00:44:47,350 I'd like to accept. 590 00:44:48,060 --> 00:44:49,520 Let's have a dram. 591 00:46:56,770 --> 00:46:58,480 What are you doing in here? 592 00:46:59,730 --> 00:47:01,900 Oh, forgive me, sir. I-I was dusting. 593 00:47:02,070 --> 00:47:02,980 I'll leave you to your work. 594 00:47:03,150 --> 00:47:05,360 Oh, there's no work that cannot wait 595 00:47:06,150 --> 00:47:08,780 when there's a bonnie English rose before me. 596 00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:12,280 You are too kind, sir. 597 00:47:12,450 --> 00:47:14,870 Oh, how very observant of you. 598 00:47:15,750 --> 00:47:16,910 Kind. 599 00:47:17,500 --> 00:47:19,170 Handsome, some might say. 600 00:47:19,330 --> 00:47:22,000 The perfect gentleman. 601 00:47:24,750 --> 00:47:26,260 Well, I'm- I'm finished in here. 602 00:47:26,420 --> 00:47:28,300 I have some mending to do for Mistress Porter, so I-- 603 00:47:28,470 --> 00:47:29,430 Ah, ah. 604 00:47:31,340 --> 00:47:32,640 I'm the laird... 605 00:47:34,260 --> 00:47:36,060 and you'll do as I say. 606 00:47:38,940 --> 00:47:42,110 Oh, here I am, Mistress Porter. 607 00:47:43,860 --> 00:47:44,730 Oh. 608 00:47:44,900 --> 00:47:46,360 Could have sworn I heard her calling me. 609 00:47:48,610 --> 00:47:49,530 Very well. 610 00:47:50,570 --> 00:47:51,950 Not this time. 611 00:48:29,110 --> 00:48:31,240 You've enough there for a long journey. 612 00:48:31,780 --> 00:48:32,740 Please, sir. 613 00:48:32,910 --> 00:48:34,660 Brian. Fraser. 614 00:48:35,240 --> 00:48:38,620 Mr. Fraser, I believe your father is the laird. 615 00:48:38,750 --> 00:48:40,250 I don't belong here. 616 00:48:40,410 --> 00:48:44,130 I'm trying to find my husband. Please let me go, I beg you. 617 00:48:46,460 --> 00:48:47,670 That may be true, 618 00:48:48,590 --> 00:48:50,050 but you'll no' find him tonight. 619 00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:52,180 There's a storm coming. 620 00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:54,300 A Highland storm's unforgiving. 621 00:48:54,430 --> 00:48:56,640 If you're caught out here, you'll soon be humbled 622 00:48:57,350 --> 00:48:58,850 or suffer a fate much worse. 623 00:48:59,020 --> 00:49:00,770 I've weathered many a storm. 624 00:49:00,930 --> 00:49:03,390 I appreciate your concern, but I will take my chances. 625 00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:04,810 My da willna. 626 00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:07,570 He'll send his man Balloch here after you. 627 00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:09,980 A matter of pride. 628 00:49:13,910 --> 00:49:15,160 Please. 629 00:49:19,330 --> 00:49:20,910 Balloch! No! 630 00:49:22,330 --> 00:49:23,830 No! Please! 631 00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:25,710 Get your hands off of me! 632 00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:27,210 You- no! 633 00:49:27,340 --> 00:49:29,300 Let me- let me go! 634 00:49:29,460 --> 00:49:31,460 No! No! 635 00:49:32,010 --> 00:49:34,760 Let me go! No! 636 00:49:37,850 --> 00:49:39,510 What have you to say for yourself? 637 00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:41,850 I have told you, I do not belong here. 638 00:49:41,970 --> 00:49:44,140 I am no one's prisoner or servant, for that matter. 639 00:49:44,270 --> 00:49:46,940 I was doing what anyone in my position would have done. 640 00:49:49,690 --> 00:49:51,280 Twenty should be lesson enough 641 00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:53,150 to temper that insolence. 642 00:49:53,990 --> 00:49:56,660 Father, it wasna her. 'Twas me. 643 00:49:57,910 --> 00:49:59,410 Ask Balloch, here. 644 00:49:59,870 --> 00:50:01,870 I aided her in her attempt. 645 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:04,830 I heard her pleas to you, and... 646 00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:07,710 well, I convinced her to go. 647 00:50:11,090 --> 00:50:12,670 Mistress Porter, 648 00:50:13,170 --> 00:50:14,800 take our new maidservant to her quarters 649 00:50:14,970 --> 00:50:17,300 and make sure that she's secured for the night. 650 00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:25,520 Give him the twenty, then. 651 00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:27,560 - No. - No. 652 00:50:29,150 --> 00:50:32,230 Don't make me say it again or you'll both be joining him. 653 00:50:44,500 --> 00:50:47,750 Dinna fash, Ma. 'Tis only a few lashes. 654 00:50:57,220 --> 00:50:58,680 Would you like to count? 655 00:51:00,890 --> 00:51:02,050 Or shall I? 656 00:51:21,030 --> 00:51:22,660 The bladier's quarters. 657 00:51:23,410 --> 00:51:25,200 I think you'll find it to your liking. 658 00:51:25,580 --> 00:51:27,250 If not, you can sleep in the barn 659 00:51:27,410 --> 00:51:29,000 with the other beasts. 660 00:51:31,580 --> 00:51:33,170 You don't like me much, do you? 661 00:51:34,210 --> 00:51:37,130 Dinna ken you well enough to have formed an opinion. 662 00:51:40,550 --> 00:51:41,720 Ah... 663 00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:44,310 your predecessor. 664 00:51:45,260 --> 00:51:48,310 Now, him, I didna like much at all. 665 00:52:26,720 --> 00:52:29,180 I must apologize for the conduct 666 00:52:29,350 --> 00:52:31,140 of the younger MacKenzie. 667 00:52:31,890 --> 00:52:33,940 Since the death of his father this past month, 668 00:52:34,110 --> 00:52:35,690 he's not been himself. 669 00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:38,820 No, I'd say that his fisticuffs spoke quite clearly 670 00:52:38,990 --> 00:52:40,820 to the younger Grant's face. 671 00:52:41,860 --> 00:52:43,200 Hmm? 672 00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:48,540 The laird is not pleased. 673 00:52:49,870 --> 00:52:52,960 What can I do on behalf of the MacKenzies 674 00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:56,500 to make things right with the Grants? 675 00:52:56,670 --> 00:52:59,380 I'm not sure that there is anything you can do. 676 00:53:02,260 --> 00:53:04,800 Perhaps you might consider an offer... 677 00:53:06,850 --> 00:53:08,220 ...a betrothal 678 00:53:08,810 --> 00:53:13,140 between our Ellen MacKenzie and Malcolm Grant, 679 00:53:13,310 --> 00:53:14,980 their marriage come harvest time. 680 00:53:15,150 --> 00:53:16,770 A- a gesture of peace and an alliance 681 00:53:16,940 --> 00:53:19,730 that will benefit both clans. 682 00:53:22,490 --> 00:53:23,910 The laird... 683 00:53:25,110 --> 00:53:27,450 he wants Dougal MacKenzie's head, 684 00:53:27,620 --> 00:53:29,120 not his sister's hand. 685 00:53:32,580 --> 00:53:35,120 You're still a stranger in these parts. 686 00:53:35,580 --> 00:53:38,000 Not been with the Grants long at all. 687 00:53:39,170 --> 00:53:41,960 Here at the gathering, I couldn't help but notice 688 00:53:42,130 --> 00:53:43,930 that you've been asking for a woman. 689 00:53:46,050 --> 00:53:49,680 There are plenty to hand, but none to your liking? 690 00:53:52,140 --> 00:53:53,180 No. 691 00:53:54,190 --> 00:53:55,390 I have, um... 692 00:53:57,730 --> 00:53:59,190 particular tastes. 693 00:54:00,070 --> 00:54:01,940 Perhaps we could help each other. 694 00:54:03,780 --> 00:54:06,820 You bring an offer of a betrothal to the Grants, 695 00:54:06,990 --> 00:54:08,820 and I will... 696 00:54:09,410 --> 00:54:10,450 offer my assistance 697 00:54:10,620 --> 00:54:13,450 in satisfying your particular tastes. 698 00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:23,010 I will put your offer before the laird. 699 00:54:56,660 --> 00:54:58,210 "My dearest Henry, 700 00:54:58,370 --> 00:55:01,920 my last memory with you was at the circle of stones. 701 00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:05,800 There was a deafening sound, like an angry swarm of bees, 702 00:55:06,420 --> 00:55:08,050 and then you were gone. 703 00:55:09,010 --> 00:55:10,430 Or perhaps I was. 704 00:55:13,930 --> 00:55:15,560 Perhaps I am dead. 705 00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:19,730 Perhaps I've lost my mind. 706 00:55:21,690 --> 00:55:24,110 Have I fallen through the looking glass?" 707 00:55:25,860 --> 00:55:27,780 "My dearest Julia, 708 00:55:28,450 --> 00:55:31,200 everywhere I turn, I search for your face, 709 00:55:31,370 --> 00:55:33,410 but it remains elusive. 710 00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:36,500 Each day, I am forced to play a role, 711 00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:40,880 to wear a mask of bravery that feels foreign to me. 712 00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:44,840 The memory of you and Claire is my only solace- 713 00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:48,760 the single thread keeping me tethered to hope. 714 00:55:51,430 --> 00:55:54,390 Without you, I am adrift, 715 00:55:55,140 --> 00:55:58,310 a man lost in a sea of uncertainty 716 00:55:58,480 --> 00:55:59,850 and longing." 717 00:56:00,900 --> 00:56:02,940 "I am the same as I ever was- 718 00:56:04,270 --> 00:56:05,820 mad with love for you, 719 00:56:06,610 --> 00:56:09,780 our beautiful Claire, and our unborn child. 720 00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:19,790 But my circumstances have changed. 721 00:56:27,380 --> 00:56:29,720 There are some unfathomable obstacles 722 00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:31,220 in our path. 723 00:56:35,260 --> 00:56:38,020 I don't know how this letter could possibly reach you. 724 00:56:39,100 --> 00:56:42,440 Perhaps it will simply be a record of my thoughts." 725 00:56:45,730 --> 00:56:49,860 "I vow to you with every fiber of my being 726 00:56:50,030 --> 00:56:52,910 that I will find my way back to you. 727 00:56:53,660 --> 00:56:57,620 No matter the distance or the time that separates us, 728 00:56:57,790 --> 00:57:01,750 I will not rest until we are reunited." 729 00:57:06,460 --> 00:57:09,760 "You are surely home by now with our darling girl. 730 00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:11,760 I must believe that you are. 731 00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:14,180 How could I bear this otherwise? 732 00:57:14,720 --> 00:57:16,300 Kiss her for me. 733 00:57:16,470 --> 00:57:18,140 Tell her I love her. 734 00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:21,390 I promise to find a way to both of you. 735 00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:23,810 Just as your first letter found me, 736 00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:26,690 I'll find a way back to you." 737 00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:30,570 "You are my anchor, my love, 738 00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:34,360 and my reason for enduring this madness. 739 00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:38,410 Sealed with a kiss, 740 00:57:38,780 --> 00:57:40,080 Henry."