Tom Hardy's Sherlock-esque character experienced his first desperation within the sixth episode...
Episode 6 was full with the corpses and funerals and it was the most striking one in the series so far. We have seen so many people died; Winter, Thorne Geary, Ibbotson...
Let's start with Thorne Geary, the obsessive husband of Zilpha, the duel opponent of James and the only handicap before Delaney, so his sister... I had said in the previous episode's recap that Thorne couldn't cure Zilpha from James' magic but caused her to plant the seeds of revenge with his meaningless solutions. And so, Zilpha did it. She killed her husband, the chains are broken now. She is free... In the middle of a night, under a heavy rain, with her crazy eyes, she confessed it to James. The man didn't seem like he was happy or unhappy about the things that he just heard. He just set off to clean up. He was like 'What's done is done'.
Thanks to his allies, Thorne Geary's death was made it look like a cholera epidemic. Zilpha wore her crime weapon ( a hat pin ) again with those crazy eyes. The striking scenes, placed one by one, came in line. Shortly after digging Thorne's grave with his own bare hands, James ended in half-sister's house. The man who had zero facial expressions with the death of his brother in law, was seeking a passionate sex in Zilpha's bed.
The people who had waited for this moment must have been disappointed about it, right? (me for example) It was a very short moment to witness this forbidden love's natural reveals. I couldn't feel the emotions between the couple who had suffered so much and missed each other after all those years. I have expected an explosion which would flow through the TV screen towards the audiences, a joy of happiness, a cry of longing, a storm of passion... But instead, a mother appeared in the delusions of Delaney within the warmth of that moment of reunion.
Oh, mother of nightmares... James has been told that his mother had tried to drown him when he was a baby boy. Because of this, his father had sent her to Bedlam Hospital, according to Brace's story-telling. James didn't want to believe this old servant, but it may be true even though Brace has nothing to prove it except some forgotten memories. The proof we are required to focus might be in James' horrific delusions that clearly represents her mother (Salish) in a river. On this episode, we have seen James is still haunted with his mother's look alike. He was nearly being drowned by a thing that resembles to his mother. We know James doesn't care much for his father but mother. He feels himself closer to her with every possible way. His witchcraft, skin colour, opinions about religion seems like shaped around only his mother-figure. Following the path of taking revenge, James is also questing for a pay-back to the person who gave a birth of him....
Through the rumours of cholera, Delaney and his comrades found a way to deliver the gun powder. As you remember; thanks to the chlorate, our brilliant chemist, Cholmondeley, with the rented assistants, finished the production of gunpowder in time. Ibbotson, one of the corpses of this episode, unable to stand with the stage which seemed like a scene from hell, went for the confessional. The priest who was supposed to be silent about his confession, couldn't isolate himself from the prize of EIC, 25 pounds for whom to deliver the knowledge of stolen saltpetre's place of detention...
Ibbotson ended up in the confessional with severed tongue. After the betrayal of this guardian of his estranged son, James Delaney experienced his first desperation. His unprotected escape ship was sunk by the Company. It was unprotected because someone betrayed him, again! The background of this incident had two possibilities as Atticus mentioned just before throwing up... And I believe, it is 'Witchcraft'. Our James Delaney isn't called as African Devil for no reason, right?
Benjamin Wilton was there to say 'Hi'. So the war actually began now...
And the first victim was Winter...
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