1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:02,100 I cannot marry Mr Whitworth. 2 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:03,850 Suppose I did ask 'ee to wait? 3 00:00:05,100 --> 00:00:07,850 We have an invitation from Sir Francis Basset. 4 00:00:07,900 --> 00:00:09,550 I trust we have things in common? 5 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:11,050 You refused the offer? 6 00:00:11,100 --> 00:00:13,650 As magistrate you could have done so much good. 7 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:15,750 My son has rickets?! 8 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:17,550 Crooked little mite, isn't he? 9 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,550 How could I have foreseen that a month ago today I'd be a free man? 10 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:24,650 - You take full advantage of it. - Believe me, ma'am, I intend to. 11 00:00:25,100 --> 00:00:28,050 Drake Carne, I have orders to take you to Truro Jail. 12 00:00:28,100 --> 00:00:29,550 You mean Drake could hang? 13 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,800 And what, I wonder, would you stake to see him acquitted? 14 00:01:45,500 --> 00:01:48,950 Evening! Salute your new gravedigger! 15 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:50,950 Would that not be grave robber? 16 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,950 Speak no ill o' the living, 17 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:55,950 'specially 'fore their own flesh 'n blood! 18 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,950 Yes, sir, daughter of him. Though I hope I take not after him! 19 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,000 Chance'd be a fine thing! 20 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:04,950 Do 'ee not dance? 21 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,950 The Lord do consider it sinful. 22 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,950 Oh, well, the Lord do sound a proper spoilsport! 23 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:14,950 What's the occasion? 24 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,950 It's the first harvest of the land gifted by Captain Ross. 25 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,950 Giving away your own acreage? Are 'ee mad? 26 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,950 If so, 'tis a madness sent by the Lord in whom we trust. 27 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,950 Trust Ross. You'll get a better return. 28 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,950 True. 29 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,950 We must stiffen security at all our grain stores. 30 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,950 These types would have no compunction about feeding 31 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:57,300 their faces at my expense. 32 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,950 Sir Francis! Ah. 33 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:03,950 I assume you've heard the news? 34 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,950 My elevation to the rank of Burgess? 35 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,000 I assume you've not heard the news? Sir Piers Arthur is dead. 36 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Most distressing. 37 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,000 And the best news I've had all year. 38 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,000 Enough, wife. You must know the book of prayer by heart now. 39 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:44,950 Is it not my duty to set an example to your daughters? 40 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,950 You have a duty to your husband 41 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,000 which at present is more pressing. 42 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Go and join your sister. 43 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,950 I wish Drake and Sam would find contentment. 44 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,000 Have you found it? 45 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,000 In this moment I have. 46 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,000 I wish it may last. 47 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,950 A hundred years old next week! 48 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:26,950 You call this Flemish lace? I look like a desiccated bat! 49 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:28,950 Mind that pin! 50 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,950 I don't wish to be bled like a stuck pig. 51 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,950 - Sorry, ma'am. - Add these names to the list. 52 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:39,950 George Venables, Laurence Trevemper, 53 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,000 Randolph Pentire. 54 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:45,950 They're dead, Aunt. Remember? 55 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,000 Let me see. Who's coming then? 56 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,950 Trevaunance? Bodrugan? 57 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,950 Poldark, that's better. 58 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,000 People I actually like! 59 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,950 I will not have that man in my house! 60 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,950 In fairness, it's Agatha's house, too. 61 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:11,950 Surely, on her 100th birthday, 62 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:13,950 we can grant her this one small request? 63 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,950 By hosting a frivolous event which delivers to us no personal benefit? 64 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,000 What benefit should we seek? 65 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,950 At least the Penvenen wedding will provide opportunity. 66 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:27,950 For what? 67 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,950 For me to further my acquaintance with Lord Falmouth. 68 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,950 Sir Piers Arthur is dead. 69 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,950 Truro lacks an MP. 70 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,950 And the man who instructs the burgesses to 71 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:40,950 vote for his candidate of choice? 72 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:42,000 Lord Falmouth. 73 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,950 I fear Drake still hankers for Morwenna. 74 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:55,950 I rue the day she ever crossed his path. 75 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,950 For giving George the chance to injure you through them? 76 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,950 And to think I attempted to negotiate with him! 77 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:03,950 Well, those days are over. 78 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,950 No more playing the game, no more seeking terms. 79 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,950 As for Drake, I've been making enquiries. 80 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:13,000 And? 81 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,950 The old smith died last month. 82 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,950 It has a cottage, a stable, 83 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:22,950 and some land besides. 84 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:27,950 And you have some skill in smithying, you're a quick learner. 85 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:29,950 An' not a farthing to my name. 86 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,000 It's yours. Already purchased. 87 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:36,950 No, brother, 'tis too much. 88 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,950 I like indebtedness no more than you. 89 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:41,950 You saved my life in France. 90 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,000 The obligation is now discharged. 91 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,950 It's so quiet here without Geoffrey Charles. 92 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,950 Happily, Valentine makes up for his absence. 93 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,000 Not happily, so it seems. 94 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,950 I'm not at all convinced by Dr Choake's treatment. 95 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:21,950 Darkened rooms, legs in splints, 96 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,950 odious tinctures which make him vomit... 97 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,950 I confess, his recovery is taking longer than was promised. 98 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,950 You should dispense with Choake altogether. 99 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,000 And do what? 100 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,950 Elizabeth Warleggan requests me to attend on her son. 101 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:42,950 Will you? 102 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:44,950 Since I cannot yet return to sea, 103 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,000 I can at least make myself useful on land. 104 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,950 I know what I'd advise -- get rid of the splints 105 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:56,950 and the swaddling and put him out in the fresh air! 106 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:58,950 Dr Enys does not subscribe to old wives' tales. 107 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,950 In this case he does. Splints and swaddling have no efficacy, 108 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,950 and rickets is exacerbated by lack of light. 109 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,950 Give him plenty of fresh fruit, vegetables, 110 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,950 mother's milk and sunlight. You will see an improvement within days. 111 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,950 So no tinctures, powders? Dr Choake prescribed... 112 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,950 Dr Choake's prescriptions 113 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:17,950 often serve his purse rather than his patients. 114 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,000 So my son will not be deformed? 115 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,200 Follow my instructions and you have every reason to be hopeful. 116 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,950 So, your dire predictions were unfounded. 117 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,950 He was born under a black moon. 118 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:40,950 He may avoid rickets but he cannot escape his parentage! 119 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:45,000 I should know, I've been on this Earth for nigh on a century. 120 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,000 So, husband dear, shall we depart for our wedding? 121 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,950 You've been petitioning the Admiralty again? 122 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:14,950 No. Why would I? 123 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,950 I'm considered unfit to resume my duties. 124 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:19,950 As yet. 125 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,950 For your sake, I'm sorry. 126 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:24,950 Don't be. 127 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,950 I dare say I can bear to convalesce here a while longer. 128 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:30,950 May I escort you to church, Miss Penvenen? 129 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,950 Finally, we may end our pretence of courtship. 130 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,000 Pray do, Dr Enys. 131 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:05,000 I think, wife, before the reception, I shall avail myself. 132 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,950 No, I beg you -- I'm not recovered from last night. 133 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:13,950 Don't make me strike you! 134 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:15,950 SO HELP ME I WILL! 135 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,950 In the words of St Paul, 136 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:46,950 "Wives, submit yourselves 137 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:52,000 "unto your husbands as unto the Lord." 138 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,000 And Lieutenant Rosewall. 139 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:10,950 Captain Poldark and Mistress Poldark. 140 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,000 Dwight Enys. I never thought I'd see the day. 141 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,000 Mr and Mrs Charles Tragoine. 142 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:39,950 She do bless you daily for bringing him home. 143 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:44,000 The Reverend Osborne Whitworth and Mrs Whitworth. 144 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:47,950 Morwenna looks pale. 145 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,950 Doubtless the brat is making her nauseous. 146 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,950 Or possibly her husband? 147 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,000 Lord Falmouth and Mrs Gower. 148 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,950 - Congratulations, my dear. - Thank you. 149 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:08,000 To wield such power... And my conduit to Parliament. 150 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,950 Come, my dear, let us not pretend we would not enjoy like status. 151 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:16,950 Mr and Mrs Lilycoat. 152 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:18,950 My Lord Falmouth. 153 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,950 My lords, ladies and gentlemen. Forgive me. 154 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,950 I promise to be brief in my words but profuse in my thanks. 155 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:30,950 To Caroline, for making me the happiest of men. 156 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:32,950 To all of you, for joining our festivities. 157 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:36,950 But, above all, to one man, to whom it is entirely due that 158 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,950 Caroline and I stand here today as man and wife. 159 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,950 May I ask you to raise your glasses to the noblest, 160 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,000 bravest man I've ever known. 161 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,950 Captain Ross Poldark. 162 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,000 Captain Ross Poldark! 163 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:57,950 If you'll permit me? 164 00:14:58,000 --> 00:14:59,950 Just a few words. 165 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,950 Saving your blushes, Captain Poldark, 166 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,950 but I too must express gratitude to the Hero of Quimper 167 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,000 for saving my nephew, Lieutenant Hugh Armitage. 168 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,000 I second that. 169 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,950 The Hero of Quimper! 170 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,000 The Hero of Quimper! 171 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,950 My Lord, may I present my wife, Demelza? 172 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,950 Your husband is a reluctant hero, ma'am. 173 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,950 Yet he cannot avoid the fame attaching to his exploit. 174 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,950 I only hope it will not go to his head and induce him 175 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,950 to embark on another! 176 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:54,950 It is a novelty to find a wife so eager to keep her husband at home. 177 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,950 But England may yet have need of him. 178 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,950 Then, sir, I believe neither of us will be lacking. 179 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,000 You must come and visit us some time. 180 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,000 Thank you. 181 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:11,950 You see what I'm up against? 182 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,950 The man is a braggart, his wife is a trull! 183 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:16,950 This whole event is a waste of time. 184 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:18,950 You're no admirer of Lord Falmouth? 185 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:20,950 What man of principle could be? 186 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:22,950 Not content with running half of Cornwall, 187 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:24,950 he must also be Lord of Truro! 188 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,950 How can it be that the corporation is treated as a rich man's chattel? 189 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,950 Does it not make you all a laughing stock? 190 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,950 It does. Hence the growing discontent among the burgesses. 191 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,950 And yet my experience in France has taught me 192 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:39,950 that discontent alone is no solution. 193 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,950 - Unless a worthy alternative is offered... - A worthy politician? 194 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:44,950 Is there such a thing? 195 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:46,950 Change will not be easy, 196 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:51,950 particularly while Falmouth holds sway, nor its advocates popular. 197 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,950 But you believe the right candidate exists? 198 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,000 I've made it my mission to find him. 199 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,950 You not dancing, sir? Or do you prefer observin'? 200 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:21,950 I used to. 201 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,950 But since I was in France, my eyesight has declined. 202 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:25,950 But it will mend? 203 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:29,950 So Dr Enys assures me. But where is Captain Poldark? 204 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,950 Oh, he's hiding so he may avoid dancing. 205 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:34,950 With you as a partner? Is he mad? 206 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,000 I've often thought so. 207 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,950 Do I hear you've been gifting land to out-of-work miners? 208 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:47,950 I recommend it, sir. 209 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,950 Much good can be done with even the smallest effort. 210 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,950 My own exertions have been directed towards a higher goal -- 211 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,950 overturning our old, corrupt political system. 212 00:17:58,000 --> 00:17:59,950 To what end? 213 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:02,950 So that justice and equity may filter down to those in most need. 214 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,000 I applaud your intentions, sir... 215 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,500 .. without holding out much hope of their success. 216 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:30,000 Morwenna, how are you? 217 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,000 When do you expect? 218 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,000 I do not know. 219 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:39,950 Mama never spoke of such things. 220 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,950 I did not know what to expect, 221 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,950 what the... obligations of marriage would be. 222 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,000 Is he unkind to you? 223 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,000 He is a monster. 224 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:07,000 Ah, you've escaped. Excellent. Can we go home? 225 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:18,950 You noticed how Falmouth avoided me? 226 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,950 Did he? 227 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:22,950 Nothing I do seems to gratify him. 228 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:26,950 - I've tried invitations, compliments, small gifts. - Yes. 229 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:31,950 I do wonder if it's wise to be seen... trying so hard? 230 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:36,950 How else will he even notice me? Am I so beneath him? 231 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,950 Yet the Bassets pass muster, 232 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:41,950 and their wealth comes from mining and banking. 233 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,950 And is longer standing, so society has grown used to them. 234 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,000 Well, that may now be the better route. 235 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:50,950 Basset. 236 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,950 The Truro seat is vacant. 237 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,950 Lord Falmouth has always dictated appointments by exerting 238 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:58,950 pressure on the burgesses to vote his way. 239 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,000 Sir Francis believes such corruption must be stopped. 240 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,950 He intends to spearhead a campaign of reform 241 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,950 and put up his own candidate to challenge Falmouth's. 242 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,950 - And that candidate would be? - We'll see. 243 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,950 We really will be off to hell in a hand-cart 244 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,000 if George Warleggan goes to parliament! 245 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,950 If a hand-cart is your preferred mode of transport, 246 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,000 it can swiftly be arranged. 247 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:55,950 I was disappointed in Killewarren. No chintz, no gilding. 248 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:00,000 But the scale of the establishment puts our humble household to shame. 249 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,950 I think you should have a companion 250 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,950 to share the chores and assist you with the children. 251 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,950 I shall write to your sister. 252 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,950 Your mother will be glad to have another daughter off her hands. 253 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,000 And doubtless that sister will come to love me as you do. 254 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,000 Goodnight. 255 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,950 I don't love you. 256 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:43,950 I love Drake Carne. 257 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:54,000 I love Drake Carne, I love Drake Carne. 258 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,550 I love Drake Carne... 259 00:21:59,500 --> 00:22:01,000 I love Drake Carne... 260 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:14,950 Shall we pretend this is our wedding night? 261 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:19,000 No pretence needed. Every night is our wedding night to me. 262 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,950 Lieutenant Armitage was most attentive today. 263 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:40,950 - To whom? - Your wife. Perhaps overly attentive. 264 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:42,950 Did you not notice? 265 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,000 I confess I did not. 266 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:50,950 Perhaps I imagined it. 267 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,950 Quite possibly. 268 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,000 Not every man in Cornwall is besotted with you. 269 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,950 See, brother, 'ee need fret no longer, 270 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,950 for I've goodly work to keep me fed an' clothed. 271 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,950 'Tisn't the body I fret for, but the soul. 272 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,950 For I think 'ee still pine for the girl who be lost to thee. 273 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:25,950 Yet the time may come when 'ee seek elsewhere 274 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,950 for a wife o' the Methodist connection, sweet an' pure... 275 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,950 Wheelwright Carne, a job for ee. 276 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,950 Missing a crook on the end. Can 'ee fettle it? 277 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,950 It looks simple enough. Will 'ee come back tomorrow? 278 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:40,950 If I've naught better to do. 279 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,950 Sister, how's your soul? 280 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,950 Are 'ee a stranger to divine things? 281 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:51,000 No, lug. I get my fill of 'em daily! 282 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,950 Will 'ee not join our meetings where 283 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:58,950 we read the gospel an' open our hearts to each other? 284 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:04,000 Cock's life! Tell yer fables to them who be simple as babies! 285 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,000 Be that the kind of maid 'ee had in mind? 286 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:15,000 G'day sister. 287 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,950 What brings 'ee here? 288 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,950 News of Morwenna. 289 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:24,000 Good news? 290 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,000 She's with child. 291 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,000 I can only pray the child will be a comfort to her. 292 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,000 In my heart I know I must now let her go. 293 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,000 Yes, brother, you must. 294 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,950 Search the attics, cellars, all store-rooms and cupboards. 295 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,950 The item was packed away when I first took up residence here. 296 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,950 It belongs to old mistress Agatha. 297 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:00,950 Find it. 298 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,000 Yes, sir. 299 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:13,950 I think he's already showing an improvement. 300 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,000 No doubt your aunt will claim the credit. 301 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:21,950 But it matters not, 302 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:23,950 so long as he is improved. 303 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,950 Did Dwight mention he'd been called to Trenwith? 304 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,000 No. Why would he? 305 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,950 The child has rickets. 306 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:48,000 Valentine. 'Tis said he may end up lame. 307 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,000 Surely that's no concern of ours? 308 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,000 No, Ross. 309 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,000 I'm away to see Pascoe. I'll be back before supper. 310 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,000 Yes, Ross. 311 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:55,950 As requested, I've had prepared the deed of gift for your land. 312 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,950 You should be aware of some news which has just reached me. 313 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,950 The Warleggans and the Bassets have formed an accommodation. 314 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:08,950 - A merger? - Not exactly -- but an arrangement with each other's banks 315 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:09,950 whereby they will work together. 316 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,950 I suspect this scheme has less 317 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,950 to do with business ambition than political. 318 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,950 Mr Pascoe. 319 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:18,950 Sir Francis. 320 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,950 Captain Poldark, you vanished from the wedding before I had chance 321 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,950 to invite you and your charming wife to dinner. 322 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:26,950 We seldom stir abroad, sir. 323 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,300 Then I hope you will make this the exception. Shall we say Saturday? 324 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,950 Your wife will be gratified. 325 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,950 I believe she enjoys high society these days. 326 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,950 She has no spurious fame to contend with. Whereas I am only too aware 327 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,950 it's the sole reason for my sudden popularity! 328 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,000 Take her. What harm could it do? 329 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,000 - I've missed you, sister! - Rowella! 330 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:26,950 You're not well. 331 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,950 Yes! Quite well! I've no complaint. 332 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,950 I should think not! 333 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,950 Your sister is most blessed amongst women. 334 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,000 Yes, Osborne. 335 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,950 In private, you may call me Mr Whitworth. 336 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,950 In public, you will address me as "Vicar". 337 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,000 Yes, Vicar. 338 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,950 The blessed Virgin an' the Holy Child? 339 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,000 Oh, brother, it do gladden the heart to see 'ee turn to God again. 340 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:16,000 Yes, brother. 341 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,000 I believe this be the item in question. 342 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,950 Yes! 343 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,950 You seem excited. Is there good news? 344 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,950 There is. And soon, I hope, there will be better. 345 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,950 Am I permitted to know? 346 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,950 Let us say that if my visit to Tehidy goes well... 347 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,950 Tehidy? Did Sir Francis invite? 348 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,950 He did not, but I know him to be at home today and we are now 349 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,000 on such terms as to render formal invitations unnecessary. 350 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,950 The key is to strike while the iron's hot. 351 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,950 The door is ajar. Sir Francis is open to persuasion. 352 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:51,950 All he requires is a little push. 353 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,950 Take a week, Georgie. 354 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,950 I shan't be upset if you miss my party. 355 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,950 Thanks for the reminder, ma'am. 356 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,000 We will discuss that very subject when I return. 357 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,950 I can think of a hundred more useful things I could be doing. 358 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,950 For shame, Ross, you're becoming a misanthrope! 359 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,950 I sympathise. I'm no lover of company these days. 360 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,950 With the exception of my wife's. 361 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:22,950 Sometimes Ross do make no exception. 362 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,950 Well, if I have my way... 363 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:26,950 Which you frequently do! 364 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:31,000 .. this will be our last excursion for the foreseeable future. 365 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:43,000 Why, sister, would you agree to marry that man? 366 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,000 To save the life of the man I loved. 367 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,000 And still love? 368 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,000 Till my dying breath. 369 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,000 Tell me of him. Tell me everything. 370 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,950 Now we have an unexpected addition to our party. 371 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,950 He got wind of your invitation and insisted on joining us. 372 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,950 Who can guess at his motives! 373 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:10,950 His uncle and I cannot abide each other. 374 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,950 Our ways of doing business are wholly at odds. 375 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,950 But I have a certain fondness for the nephew. 376 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:21,000 So I trust you'll forgive me for inflicting him upon you! 377 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,950 Armitage! Are we never to be rid of you? 378 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:29,950 You'll be sorry you ever saved me! 379 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,950 I regret the venture daily! 380 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,950 I'm sure Dwight does! Now he's my prisoner instead of the Republic's! 381 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,000 And from that there can be no release! 382 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,950 If you knew the pains I took to get myself invited today... 383 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,950 Why did you so? 384 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,000 Can you not guess? 385 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,950 [.. then you are very much in the minority, my Lord.] 386 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,950 The young general who crushed the counter-revolution in Paris -- 387 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:23,950 I believe we'll be hearing a good deal of him in future. 388 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,950 - You mean Bonaparte? - He's now in charge of the French army in Italy. 389 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,950 Cleared the streets of Paris with cannon. Fired on his own countrymen. 390 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,950 - Such a man is to be reckoned with! - And their Directory of Five, 391 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,950 who deposed the other blood-stained tyrants? 392 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,950 They're criminals, in every sense of the word! 393 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,950 My Uncle Falmouth would be relieved to hear you say so. 394 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,950 He speculated that in dining with so prominent a Whig, I'd hear talk 395 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:45,950 of peace and views favourable to the revolution. 396 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,950 Then your uncle should know better. 397 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,950 The true Whig is as patriotic as any Tory in the land. 398 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,950 And what form might Lord Falmouth's plans for Truro take? 399 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,950 Who will be the next MP? You, perhaps? 400 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,950 I'm not sufficiently biddable! Too much of a rebel! 401 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,950 I would have thought that made you the ideal candidate -- 402 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:04,950 if revolution is your aim. 403 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,950 Which it is not. I know my limitations. 404 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,950 At sea I'm a passable navigator, on land an average poet 405 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:13,950 and an indifferent artist. 406 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,950 You've been sketching? May we see? 407 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,100 By no means. I've failed miserably to do justice to my subject. 408 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,950 Mr Warleggan is here to see you, sir. 409 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,950 Advise him I am engaged and may be some time. 410 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:40,000 I have taken the liberty of providing some small entertainments. 411 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,000 Shall we adjourn? 412 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,000 I shall await his pleasure here. 413 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:21,950 Your turn, I think. 414 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,950 So navigation, I think you said, at sea? 415 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:30,000 At sea. Yes. Which is where I presently find myself. 416 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,000 Wholly disorientated. 417 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,000 Shipwrecked. Lost. 418 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,950 It must seem strange to return to the comfort an' safety 419 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,950 of home after the horrors of prison. 420 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,950 I know Dwight also struggled. 421 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,950 My struggles are of a different kind. 422 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,000 So different that I dare not even name them. 423 00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,950 - And you will not ask me to. - 'Tis hardly my business. 424 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,000 I wish that were true. 425 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,000 Blooms from the Garden of Eden! 426 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,000 But where lurks Eve? 427 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,000 And where the snake? 428 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,950 I've taken note of your suggestion. 429 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,950 Gifting land to the deserving poor. 430 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,950 And the undeserving poor? 431 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,950 Let us begin by helping those who help themselves. 432 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,000 When do we begin? 433 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:04,950 Do you believe in equality? 434 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,950 I believe in opportunity. I believe that industry should be rewarded 435 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,950 and the misuse of power punished. 436 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,000 We appear to be of one mind. 437 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:20,950 Shall you return to the navy? 438 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,950 Once my eyes have mended. The fault is entirely my own 439 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,950 - for scribbling away in semi-darkness. - Letters home? 440 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,950 Sketches. Attempts at verse. It was all that kept me sane. 441 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,000 - You were sketching today. - May I show you? 442 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:49,950 I'm no Leonardo, 443 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,000 but you are surely Mona Lisa. 444 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:58,950 I... do not know these people. 445 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:02,950 Forgive me -- my attempt at a compliment. 446 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,950 Perhaps I should stick to verse. 447 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,000 Especially with such inspiration before me. 448 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:13,950 - No-one's ever written me poetry before. - Not even your husband? 449 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,950 Ross has been called many things 450 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,000 but "poetic" is not one of them! 451 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:22,950 May I see you again? 452 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,000 And Ross, too, of course. 453 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,000 I will ask him when would be convenient. 454 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,950 Let us suppose that the burgesses are sick of being forced to 455 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,950 cast their votes at Falmouth's command. 456 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,950 Should we also suppose that they're sick of the favours they enjoy, 457 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,950 the business that comes their way in exchange for those votes? 458 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:49,950 In the coming Truro by-election, 459 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:53,950 many have indicated their willingness to defy Falmouth. 460 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,950 And instead of voting for his candidate, vote for yours? 461 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:57,950 We both agree change is long overdue. 462 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,000 - With the right man in place... - The right man? 463 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,950 I believe that you are the man to lead this revolution. 464 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,950 If elected, you will serve our borough in parliament. 465 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,100 And I'd be expected to vote as you directed. 466 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,950 Since you and I think along similar lines... 467 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,000 it can surely be no hardship to vote likewise? 468 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,950 Truly, I believe that if you and I walked into a room, 469 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:35,950 all the men would look at me, 470 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,950 but within five minutes they'd all be clustered around you. 471 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:40,950 I'm not sure that's a compliment. 472 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:45,000 It is! But not one I think Ross would appreciate. 473 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,000 If he even noticed. 474 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:19,000 Back already, Georgie? I told you we could manage without ye. 475 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,950 Remind me, what is your age, ma'am? 476 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:36,950 You know fine well I shall be a hundred years old on Monday. 477 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,950 When I was last at Sawle Church, 478 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,950 I had occasion to glance at the parish register. 479 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:46,000 I could find no record of your baptism in 1695. 480 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,950 Of course, I was not content to leave it there, 481 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,000 for baptisms do not always instantly follow births. 482 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,950 So yesterday I had the servants comb the house 483 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,950 until they found the old Poldark family Bible. 484 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,000 And? What of it? 485 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:08,200 Let me read you an entry. 486 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,950 The ink is faded but I suppose it to be your father's handwriting. 487 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:17,950 "Born to us this autumn morn, our first child, 488 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,950 "a daughter, Agatha Mary. 489 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:26,000 "September 14th, 1697." 490 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,950 So you see, old crone, 491 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:33,950 on Monday you will be but 98. 492 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,000 'Tis a lie. A scabby lie! 493 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,000 My dear? How went the visit to Tehidy? 494 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,000 We will discuss it another time. 495 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,000 Well? 496 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,000 I regret I must decline. 497 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:11,950 Your reason? 498 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,950 I cannot be another man's puppet -- not even one I admire 499 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:20,000 nor whose views are so similar to my own. 500 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:23,950 You cannot ignore the way the world works. 501 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,950 If you dislike the system, change it from within. 502 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,950 - There is sense in what you say. - But? 503 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,950 But the noble impulse which impels a man to enter politics 504 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:35,950 often falls by the wayside. 505 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:41,000 Power is pursued for its own sake rather than the good it can do. 506 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:44,950 Who am I to claim exemption from these failings? 507 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:46,950 Will you not even try? 508 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:51,950 I cannot believe I would emerge from this process with my soul intact. 509 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:53,950 Your soul? 510 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:55,950 Your stubbornness! 511 00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:59,000 It will be your undoing, Poldark. 512 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,000 This shoe does pinch my toes. 513 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:33,950 See how easy it is to be rid of him? 514 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:38,000 Shh! Do not jest about it. 515 00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:43,950 He is my husband till death do us part. 516 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,000 Amen, sister. 517 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:55,000 I think it was a mistake to refuse Sir Francis. 518 00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,950 I never knew you had ambitions to be a political wife. 519 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:01,950 Nor do I. 520 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,950 But you, your influence is great -- there's much good you could do. 521 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:06,950 And is not Sir Francis a goodly man? 522 00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:10,950 Yes, but he too uses his power for his own ends 523 00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,000 and he would use me if I would let him. 524 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:21,000 But I will not. 525 00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,950 Come in, Lucy Pipe, idle girl! 526 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,000 Where's my supper?! 527 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,000 There will be no supper, old woman. 528 00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,950 There will be no party. 529 00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,950 I'll have letters sent to all your guests informing them 530 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,950 that you made a mistake, that you are 97 not 99, 531 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:06,950 and a new invitation will be issued in two years' time. 532 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,000 If you're still above ground then. 533 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:15,950 But...'tis all prepared, 534 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:16,950 food ordered, 535 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,950 my old topaz ring altered to fit. 536 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:21,950 A pity. 537 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:26,950 My birthday's on Monday, 98's a good age. 538 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,950 I've been looking forward to this party for so long, 539 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:33,000 no-one need know I'm not a hundred. 540 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,000 I'll not live two year more. You know that. 541 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:49,000 Who'd guess if you said naught? 542 00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,000 I'll not cross ye again, George. 543 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:04,000 Let me have my party. 544 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:20,000 There will be no party. 545 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:29,950 Wait! 546 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,950 You do this to me, 547 00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,950 may you rot in hell! 548 00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:39,950 You and your nasty uncle and your little, twisted son, 549 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,950 born under a black moon, and warped already! 550 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,950 Little Valentine, 551 00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:47,950 the so-called Warleggan heir. 552 00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,000 Or is he? 553 00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:56,950 That was no eight-month baby, George. 554 00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:01,950 Early babes be weak and wrinkled -- no hair, no nails. 555 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:05,950 But that babe was lusty and smooth 556 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:11,000 and strong as a full-term child! 557 00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:16,000 So maybe you didn't wait for the wedding? 558 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:19,950 Or maybe somebody 559 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,000 got there before ye! 560 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:12,000 George? 561 00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:14,000 Are you unwell? 562 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,000 That old woman... 563 00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,950 .. will have no party. 564 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:31,000 What do you mean? Has she given orders to defer it? 565 00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:42,000 Sir Francis Basset is here, sir. 566 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:47,000 What the devil can he want? 567 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:26,000 You called to see me today. 568 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:31,950 I did, sir. But you were otherwise engaged 569 00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:35,000 and now I fear the moment has passed. 570 00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:38,950 Not necessarily. 571 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,000 Was there something you wanted to discuss? 572 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,950 - Change. - Yes? 573 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:53,950 That is what you seek. But it's not easy to achieve. 574 00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,950 Nor its advocates popular. 575 00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:57,950 Go on. 576 00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,950 The right man would not need to be popular. 577 00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:02,950 He would only need to be capable 578 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:08,000 of achieving the task in hand, by whatever means necessary. 579 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:11,950 My party, my birthday, my birthday... 580 00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:15,950 Aunt? 581 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:19,950 - My party... - What has happened? - My party, my party... 582 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:22,950 George won't allow my party. 583 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:24,950 Be calm, dearest aunt. 584 00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,950 Tormented me, he did. 585 00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,950 Took my hope, took my home. 586 00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:32,100 Do not exert yourself. 587 00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:40,000 Yet... I should not have said what I did. 588 00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,950 Elizabeth... 589 00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:47,950 will never forgive me. 590 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:49,000 Forgive you? 591 00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:55,000 I should not have told him. 592 00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,000 Told him what? 593 00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:03,000 Aunt? 594 00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:06,000 Told him what? 595 00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:11,950 Aunt? 596 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:14,000 Told him what? 597 00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:38,950 Well, ma'am, I hope we can count on your support in our newest venture? 598 00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:40,950 A candidate to challenge Lord Falmouth in the coming 599 00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,950 by-election has been found. 600 00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:45,950 Is this true? 601 00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:48,950 It is a fine thing for young Valentine 602 00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:50,950 to have an MP as a father. 603 00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:53,000 Indeed. 604 00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:58,950 Forgive me. My great aunt... 605 00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:00,000 is dead. 606 00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:06,000 My sincere condolences. I will detain you no longer. 607 00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:13,950 I trust, when you have grieved for the departed, 608 00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,000 that there will be time for celebration. 609 00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:57,950 'Ee be like unto the lost sheep, brother, 610 00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:00,000 thy thoughts all pure again. 611 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,000 My thoughts are not pure, brother. 612 00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:13,000 Mine neither. God forgive me. 613 00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:24,950 ? Every button cost a crown Harvey Darvey turn around 614 00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:29,950 ? Heel to heel and toe to toe Turn around and off we go. ? 615 00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,950 Sir Francis is right. You are stubborn. 616 00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:34,950 - Pragmatic. - Pig-headed. 617 00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,950 Would you prefer naive or sentimental? 618 00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:40,950 Sometimes, Ross, yes, I would. 619 00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:42,500 This just come from Trenwith. 620 00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:51,000 What is it? 621 00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:55,000 Aunt Agatha's dead. 622 00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:58,000 Ross... 623 00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:00,950 I should have been there. 624 00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:02,950 Poor 'ole cooter. 625 00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:04,950 To think of 'er on 'er death-bed 626 00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,000 with no Poldark kin to ease 'er departing. 627 00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:12,950 Shh, shh, shh, shh... Prudie. 628 00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:15,950 She be last of the Trenwith Poldarks. 629 00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:17,950 There's still Geoffrey Charles. 630 00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:21,200 Doubtless George'll find a way to part him from his inheritance. 631 00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:26,000 Judas! 632 00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:39,000 There was more to George's note than the news of her death. 633 00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:44,950 Funeral arrangements? 634 00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:47,000 - Not a word. - What, then? 635 00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:52,950 "I hope you and Demelza will rejoice in 636 00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:56,950 "the news that I have been selected by Sir Francis Basset to be 637 00:54:57,000 --> 00:54:57,950 "the candidate to oppose 638 00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:01,950 "Lord Falmouth's in the Truro by-election." 639 00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:02,950 Well, there it is. 640 00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:05,950 Yes, an' you could've prevented it! 641 00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:06,950 No, I couldn't. 642 00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:10,950 Will you never learn? How long do you think you can do as you please? 643 00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:13,950 - Plough your own furrow regardless of anyone else or I? - Demelza... 644 00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:17,950 Not once have you asked my advice or harkened to my opinion! 645 00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:21,000 - Not once! - What do you want, Demelza? 646 00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:24,950 A man who will lie down, roll over, 647 00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:27,000 sit up and beg for you? 648 00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,000 Well, if so, you've married the wrong man! 649 00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:34,950 'Twould appear so! 650 00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:38,000 Perhaps you should look elsewhere for a pet. 651 00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:42,000 Perhaps I should! 652 00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:48,000 Perhaps I won't have to look too far. 653 00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:43,000 Is that it? 654 00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:46,950 No family? 655 00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:48,950 No ceremony? 656 00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:50,950 'Twas ordered a quick and secret burying. 657 00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:53,000 'Tis all I could do to get word to thee. 658 00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:58,000 She was a Poldark. 659 00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:01,100 My most beloved aunt. 660 00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:04,950 George will pay for this. 661 00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:06,950 Nay, 'tis my task. 662 00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:10,950 She was a great lady and a rare spirit. 663 00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:14,000 It's the least I could do to honour her. 664 00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:37,950 Basset is the new order. 665 00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:39,950 I am the old. He seeks to overthrow me. 666 00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:42,950 - And? - I would like you to help me prevent him. 667 00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:44,950 And how would I do that? 668 00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:46,950 Dear Lord, my wife is unsuited to this life. 669 00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:49,950 Guide thou my footsteps towards a suitable... replacement. 670 00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:51,950 The woman I love more than life 671 00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:55,000 is married to the man to whom I owe my life. 672 00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:58,950 Since Aunt Agatha's death there's scarce been two words between us. 673 00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:02,950 - Elizabeth is not a Poldark. - She was. And so is her son. 674 00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,950 Agatha's grave? And what did you find there? 675 00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:07,950 I met Elizabeth. 676 00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:10,000 I love her, Demelza.