All roads lead to Yorktown
The penultimate episode ofTurnwitnessed a birth.
In New York, Peggy Arnolds pregnancy reached a premature but joyful conclusion.
Hundreds of miles south, on a battlefield in Yorktown, Virginia, a new nation was born.
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Would the Setauket gang survive it, though?
But the calculus has changed apparently.
Ben goes one step further to cloak American intentions.
Until now, I cant say the two childhood friends have ever really flirted convincingly with each other.
Rather, theyve seemed like siblings, quarreling as equals in a time when the genders were anything but.
Are you sure its convincing?
Anna playfully asks him, eager for a glimpse of the draft herself.
Convincing enough, he says, without offering her a peek.
Does he really love Anna?
Or is this just the shows way to tie up two loose character threads in the series finale?
Mary gives the letter to Ann, who brings it directly to Clintons New York headquarters.
The British general believes the letter is authentic since it coincides with his own thinking.
Hewlett knows better of course, but he never tells his boss what he knows.
Id want my intelligence chief at my right hand, always, but especially before a pitched battle.
In Virginia, Caleb doesnt locate Abe immediately.
But Caleb doesnt need the extra assistance; he locates Lafayettes warship and frees Abe.
Youremy cause, Abraham, is her quick reply.
I wont abandon you either.
Weve come too far to go back now.
Anna is there, too, but shes left to congratulate Caleb on a job well-done.
The other Setauket reunion is not as joyous.
Flee, he tells them.
Hide, he urges them, and then drift back to your old American units when tempers have subsided.
Later, he wakes the injured Ranger up out of his sleep, dagger in hand.
I had a horse once… he says softly, stuffing a full apple into Simcoes mouth.
Brought low with a poison apple.
Though weak and helpless, Simcoe is not one to cry mercy.
It is time to tend the garden again, Hewlett suggests.
We must create a new world from the old world, and our feud is part of the old.
As the Battle of Yorktown unfolds, a more primordial conflict is taking place in New York.
She loathes him completely, and its not enough that hes far away, risking his life in battle.
Then Ill be rid of him once and for all.
But alls well that ends well.
The Yorktown fighting is full of heroics.
Washington leads from the front, inspiring his men.
The American victory is totalbut the casualties are severe.
And what was the meaning of his vision of two Thomases?
The surrender ceremony was a parade of dress-up, best appreciated by historians and Revolutionary War reenactors.
The war is won, if not entirely settled.
But what of Abes health?
What of Akinbode and Cicero?
And what the heck… what of Ben and Anna?
