The audiences witnessed a long-awaited wordy warfare within this episode...
"I have a use for you."
He said as it was an ordinary request without distrupting the tranquility.
At long last, we could taste that James had given Sir Strange a task as if EIC's leader was a common employee. The epilogue has left a lovely glory feeling inside us, I assume...
Even after twelve hours of torturing (scraping skin, feeding with a serum which causes hallucinations and much more) by Solomon Coop's men, James didnt surrender to pain. Did we surprise? No.... With the death of poor Winter, he had already seemed in pain due to the guilt and regret for his young mulatto friend. The pure evilness of Company had simulated James's killing methods on Winter's last breath as ripping out her heart.
While Helga's innocent daughter was being sent for her final journey on a scene, reminding the beautiful landscape paintings from 18th century, the bonds; supposed to be unbreakable, established through the agency of money, started to break off. The revenge theme that dominates the whole idea of 'Taboo' wasn't only bestowed to James Delaney, and now Helga was after it. She, seeking to cool her heart as a mother of a dead daughter, knocked the door of Company... She confessed her crimes against the Crown, bringing the stolen saltpetre's fate and location into open. There were so much to tell... Having a great gunpowder fund which can make a state win the war alone with it... Collaborating with Americans and selling gunpowder to them... Commiting suicide against the Prince and his crown as assisting the enemy during a war... All the acts of treason were clearly there. Sir Strange's bloody hands had done the right moves this time. Trapped birds spoken, testimonies objectified... Now it was the hour to take over the enemy.
So, where was James Delaney?
With one more dead on his shoulders, one more spirit before his delusions, Delaney was in the middle of another collaboration. George Chichester was a guest of The Delaney Household. The campaigner had an excellent grasp of everything that happened to the sunken ship named Influence (formerly Cornwallis). It was a very long and heartbreaking story for the Sons of Africa... and for James who was trying to deal with his own demons.
The slave ship had illicitly departed with 280 slaves nine years ago, under the command of Sir Stuart himself. As missing the required crew on purpose, it was heading to Strange's brother's farm in the West Indies. The things went wrong and all the slaves were sealed in that sinking ship to cover this illegal trade with their death. James was also there as a slave, to seal the other slaves...sadly...
After that tragic incident, our gone-rogue anti hero Delaney offered a new agreement to Mr. Chichester which he couldn't refuse... Godfrey, madly in love with James, accepted to testify in person to prove the crimes against the humanity that were committed by Sir Strange atrociously.
The mind games, put forward one after the other ended up in homosexuals' location with the acceptance of James of course. Godfrey's calling him mad while he was planning to leave London with a ship the day after even though he had no that ship to escape to New World was a clever gesture of writer's thoughts about the character of James Delaney, the man of crazy affairs...
On the back stories, James seems he left behind his passion with Zilpha. The sister, convinced that she killed her husband at the request of James, is lefted alone along the shadowy figure of her widowhood. I started to think that James used Zilpha only for an ambition. The man who run after his half sister from the beginning of the series, treated her as if she was just a bibelot tended to be forgotten in a rusty cupboard... I guess, what can we expect from the same man who learns his father's killer (old man, Brace) and does nothing about it?
Maybe he lost his kindness after all the things he saw... He experienced every kind of human behaviour but so little of kindness within them. James asked the same questions so many times if you remember on the scene with Brace's confessing.
"So you did him a kindness." James said.
"I put an end to his pain." replied Brace while crying in depression.
The new master continued to talk with his irresponsive voice; "You did him a kindness."
Now only one episode left...
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