Abe bonds with Rogers but is betrayed by his own blood
It is time to choose sides.
Its also time for AMC viewers to choose: will they watchTurnor not?
This is the story showrunner Craig Silverstein promised an 18th-centuryThe Departed and its make-or-break time.
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Everything is likely riding on the next 10 episodes.
Turnhas always acted confidently.
A death sentence of hanging awaits them, though the charge will not be treason, but counterfeiting.
The other man will hang tomorrow.
Thats called motivation, but Bradford and Hickey offer only blank looks.
They dont know, Washington correctly concludes.
My aim was to kill Washington!
And any other officers I…
The executioner cuts Hickey off mid-sentence, and his death by hanging is gruesome.
His head literally snaps off.
Was it mercy for Bradford?
Or a simple desire to abbreviate a bungled operation before alienating more onlookers?
NEXT: A noose of a different kind
Abe finds himself in a noose of a different kind.
As Abe and Mary retreat upstairs for bed, the Judge even asks about his missing pistol, i.e.
Once in private, Mary is alarmed by the choke marks around Abes neck.
He never mentions his difficulties with Rogers.
But their shared secrets have clearly brought them closer together than ever.
With Arnold stationed there as military commander, conflict between the two proud and ambitious men was inevitable.
All the furniture he ordered is still under sheets, in sharp contrast to his instructions.
Andre can barely look at Simcoe while quoting his commanding officers praise for the Rangers.
But at least Simcoe is a useful tool for the most brutal and devious of tasks.
His next assignment: head back to Setauket and locate Samuel Culper, the spy working with Benjamin Tallmadge.
But this is mostly just a ruse to get back out there and arrange Eastins body just so.
Grant me the strength to do what I must, he asks his deceased wife.
I can [kill you] and I will just not yet, he purrs.
Youre nothing to me but bait, boy.
And live bait is better than dead.
But Abe plays his only card the truth.
Thats some serpentine shite there, boy, says Rogers, who gets all the best lines.
You and I are going to have a grand time together.
But the more weight that the drama piles on this star-crossed relationship, the less convincing it feels.
At least Peggy Shippen has some Marion in her.
Shes no patriot; she just wants any way out of the relationship.
A copy of the charges has been sent to Washington himself!
One probably shouldnt get married when hes fighting corruption charges.
At least thats what Peggy hopes.
But news of her engagement has finally reached Andre.
Perhaps shes waiting for Akinbode to return so they can head to Canada together and who would blame her?
If the British lose the war, most slaves and former slaves lose, too.
They dont trust each other, but they might like each other.
They refused to treat me like an equal.
That will be my declaration before I leave these colonies: that they were never better than me.
There are so many British officers who deserve Rogers blade tipped with these bitter sentiments.
But not necessarily themiddle-class Andre, and therein lies the looming tragedy.
Abe and Rogers finish their gruesome work just in the nick of time.
The letter is planted on Eastin just as a trio of redcoats come across the body.
Because today is the day the Judge finally declares his paternal valediction.
Im shocked, shocked, that there is gambling at this establishment!
Presumably, that ambivalence is gone, and Hewlett will crack the whip.
How will Anna react if she has to choose between the two most important men in her life?
